The point is- single player in these games is an afterthought and as a predominantly single player gamer myself I dislike that this is now their official stance for the future.

It's just EA, their single player offerings are hack anyway.

But as it stands, it's already their policy, so what difference does it really end up making?

It's already an afterthought, sometimes non-existent, and otherwise almost always shit.

Theres plenty of independ developers who will keep making kick ass single player FPS games like Daikatana, so don't worry.

Bought Madden and I scored a few touchdowns with Stevan Ridley to win the game, but I marked the hell out when....

Today's News:
1) Based on early reports, launch sales for The Wonderful 101 are pretty poor with the game failing to debut in the Top 20 chart for the UK while only a little over 5000 copies were sold in Japan. The game has yet to be released in North America (September 15) for comparisons.
http://www.destructoid.com/the-wonde...r-260892.phtml

2) Valve announces the next batch of games approved from their Steam Greenlight service is around 100 games in total.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-latest-batch/

3) Square Enix states they have temporary halted digital sales for Final Fantasy 14: A Realm Reborn due to their servers currently being unable to handle the high demand for the game. They won't offer the digital version for sale until after they've increased and expanded the amount of servers for the game.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/fina...ve-been-halted
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...y-put-on-hold/

I disagree. Mass Effect, Dragon Age, Mirrors Edge, Burnout, Need for Speed all had great single player experiences.

That said, some of those had multiplayer without suffering for it, so it's whatever.

Today's News:
1) Layoffs - EA currently expected to be laying off around 300 employes right before PAX 2013 starts while Sony Online Entertainment has laid off a part of their staff from their DC Universe Online game.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/a...-pax-2013.aspx
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-in-workforce/

2) Crytek announces they are porting their free-to-play PC game of Warface to the Xbox 360 and will be released by early 2014.
http://www.joystiq.com/2013/08/28/cr...x-360-in-2014/

Greenlight sale going on right now. A lot of the games look meh to bad, but there's a few that look decent.

Today's News:
1) Majesco Entertainment announces NASDAQ has granted them an extra 180 days to improve their stock value or face being delisted from them. NASDAQ originally gave them until August for the deadline but now have until February 2014 to reach the $1 minimum needed to stay on their index.
http://www.polygon.com/2013/8/30/467...sdaq-delisting

2) Some Xbox related news as Rainbow Six Vegas and Magic the Gathering 2013 are rumored to be September's free games for Xbox Live Gold members while Microsoft states the Xbox Live Marketplace has been renamed to Xbox Games Store as part of the recent changes made to the Xbox brand.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...athering-2013/
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...x-games-store/

3) According to EA, they have dropped both Criterion and Black Box studio from the Need for Speed series in favor of having their new Ghost Games studio become the sole developer for future games.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...eed-franchise/

EA doesn't care about NFS anymore.

I thought NFS fans hated Criterion's installments.

Anyway, hopefully this means a Burnout game in the near future. Some other stuff, too, but it's been too long since Burnout, dammit.

Criterion's NFS games were the best era of the series. A perfect fit.

I prefer the SHIFT games, but I'm guessing we're not going to be seeing any more of those.

Is that your opinion, or a general consensus?

Never really liked racing games unless they were in the arcade with the real steering wheel, breaks and stuff. Also Burnout because of how cool it was just to cause serious damage with a car.

People really liked the combination, though I think the return of Burnout would be just as celebrated.

Go to Kickstarter and look up Mighty No. 9 right fucking now.

Never!

...I already did, for the record.

Fucking awesome.

I am never paying for games on something like Kickstarter- no way I will pay 2 to 3 years in advance for a product I may not even want at that point.

How often is it 2-3 years?

Also, I can't imagine not wanting this game in 2 years. Unless, of course, a nuclear holocaust happens or something like that and I'm hunting giant radioactive rats for food in a destroyed city.

...and if that's the case, I doubt I'll be worried about dropping 20 bucks on the investment.

Made a connected franchise in Madden for 360.

Name: TPWW
password: triplea

Today's News:
1) According to early sales at least for the UK region, Rayman Legends so far has sold around 20% better than Rayman Origins did during the same period while the Wii U version sold the most for platforms.
http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=211298

2) Keiji Inafune, creator of Mega Man, believes the gaming industry in Japan has become a lot worse than before due to the growing hardships both indie and small studios are experiencing in regards to both getting proper funding needed and securing the rights to IPs they develop from big publishers. He stated this was the main reason he turned to Kickstarer to help fund his Mighty No. 9 project which recently reached its goal.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/pax-...rse-developers
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ays-remaining/

So Mighty No. 9 is a new megaman game.

Except not.

SOLD

Getting Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate today. So yeah, that's gonna be my fighter until GTA5 takes my soul.

Holding off on DOA5U with GTAV being just 2 weeks away. Might buy a couple cheap old N64 games to pass the time. Any suggestions from anyone? I've got a few ideas for nostalgias sake but I'm open to others.

I imagine you already have everything worth a damn.

Pretty much. Missing Conkers Bad Fur day because £90 is asking too much.

Thinking of getting Killer Instinct Gold, along with a couple of others.

Don't think KI Gold aged well.

Probably not. I can't really think of anything else I'd really like to try get besides KIG and Conker. Fighters Destiny was cool at the time but I can't remember if it was 1 or 2 that had the cow. That's the one I played. Briefly played Body Harvest as a kid but not enough to remember anything about it.

I love Fighter's Destiny (1). Very interesting system.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_tr...at=0&_from=R40


Works on the 360 backwards compatibility too.

I hear that that version is censored and changed in certain places. I'd rather have the original N64 version.

Thanks for looking it up, though.

Snag a ROM in that case?

Not into the ROM scene. I do things legitimately or go without.

Mischief Makers

Totally forgot about this game but think I'll pick it up as I recall it being pretty good.

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