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Geohot seems like a cool fella...
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At this point we can blame the NFL. Before we could say they didn't know what they wrought, but after all these years...
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The boss at Blizzard has an interesting interview yesterday where he said the main reason Starcraft Ghost was canceled was due to the sudden boom in popularity of World of Warcraft.
Original plan was the create a spin-off game from the Starcraft series that involved stealth and a 3rd person perspective for consoles (PS2, Gamecube, Xbox). At the same time, Blizzard was working on World of Warcraft but still had enough people to work on both projects at once. Then Blizzard started to work on Starcraft II which stretched their resources and couldn't get the time needed to fix the issues with SC Ghost development. When World of Warcraft became a huge success, even more strain was placed on the company so the decision was to kill off SC Ghost while keeping Starcraft II development on schedule. http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/pics/mo...7_expanded.jpg http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/8...stant-success/ ------------------------------------------------ GameFreak has no intentions of ever making a console version of their Pokemon RPG series since they feel the series belongs on a handheld and RPGs have been more popular this generation on handhelds than on consoles (at least in Japan). Nintendo usually leaves GameFreak alone when they make Pokemon games so its very unlikely Nintendo will want to push a console project any time soon. |
New screens for the upcoming Batman Arkham City game show off some characters in the game such as the Joker in this batch.
Also teased is an image with a Black Mask statue which could hint at him being a villain in this game or just a big tease similar to the Riddler in the first game. http://betacache.gawkerassets.com/as..._062_joker.jpg http://kotaku.com/#!5762053/arkham-c...ppy-to-see-you ------------------------------------------------------------- Sega reveals 6 free Sega Genesis games for Playstation Plus members set to arrive in March. The games are free as long as the membership for PS+ is kept or else they become locked. The games are Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog 2, Streets of Rage 2, Golden Axe 2, Comix Zone, and Altered Beast Non-PS+ members can buy the games for $4.99 when they go on sale next month. |
Series creator Lorne Lanning and the team at Just Add Water have announced that an HD remake of Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee is in production. An interview in the March issue of EGM (via Facebook) outlines the plans for the game, nicknamed "Abe HD."
"It's basically Abe's Oddysee being redone in a 3D physics engine as a 2D side-scrolling platformer," said Lanning. "So the way Just Add Water wants to approach it, we thought was very smart; they are not trying to reinvent any wheels. It's like, 'Can we make that experience in a new engine, with new tech, in the old way?'" This is slightly different from the previously announced development of Stranger's Wrath for PlayStation Network. Abe HD seems to be a full remake from the ground up, while Lanning says Stranger is "the same game, but being redone." A version of Stranger's Wrath for XBLA is also ready for release, but Lanning says the game keeps being rejected. It's possible this is due to the size limitations we heard about last year. http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/67336 Awesome. |
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Fuck all you people.
"waaaaaaaah the game gives me motion sickness!" Don't blame the game because you're a pussy. "waaaaaaaah I die a lot!" Don't blame the game because you suck. |
Not even a XBLA sequel made with a inexpensive budget? I was hoping to see what they'd do. Ah well.
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Way to stretch the page so this thread is impossible to read on Ipad.
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Good. You don't need an ipad anyway.
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iPad's such a non-item. At best it's a portable YouTube.
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I forgot to add (mobile post)
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</>You're just mad they cancelled Mirror's Edge 2 (mobile post)
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iPad's are amazing. Can't wait to see what the iPad 2 holds next month or so.
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Anybody use Microsoft ExpertZone? It said I'd be an expert today but when I checked it said I had to do 4000 more points by march to be one. wtf?
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Yes, let's stop developing a somewhat original idea in favour of another sandy, muddy generic army shooter.
It's not like EA doesn't have billions of dollars. They could easily afford to finish Mirrors Edge 2, even if it just became a download only title. I really wish this army shooter bubble would just burst already. How many times can you pay $60/£40 for a "new" game about being a US soldier running through the middle east, shooting people before you realise "Hang on...I've played a game just like this before. 16 times in the last 5 years!" ? If it's not a US army man running through the middle east, it's a US space marine running through another world that looks like ours but painted a greeny-blue. If the developers are feeling really wild they'll throw a jungle style area in the game. I couldn't even look at Red Faction Guerilla after finishing the story because the sight of the bland browny red world had gotten so face-cuttingly dull. The gameplay and story was good but an eviroment like that just put me off eventually. No idea how anyone can play brown/grey shooters over and over and over again and not get sick of the sight of them. |
It's not about them not having money to make it, it's about them being doubtful it will turn a profit.
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In EA's defense I read GameInformer's cover story for Battlefield 3 and if there's one military shooter you should try out for the long haul make it that one. Also Dice, the guys making it, aren't pretentious assholes and they're actually trying to make a fun game out of the military shooter sub-genre.
Shit, Khuntry likes Battlefield, and does he strike you as military FPS guy with a stack of CoD's and Killzones? Battlefield is the shit. My realistic shooter of choice. |
It already has a decent fan base size so that's a few sales right there. I think if they made it a downloadable game, like Kalyx said, and fixed the problems other people had with the game and maybe advertise it a little bit better it could get a good decent profit.
Not all games can explode onto the scene and become classics. I think Mirrors Edge is a slow bloomer. If they stuck with it and just tried to spend as little as possible, which I know would be hard with me suggesting advertising it more, it could do a little better. |
That doesn't change the fact that EA canned one of the more interesting games in recent times, I'm saying some good things are coming out of the military shooter thing.
But they should totally make a download only Mirror's Edge. It'll the edge off, and with the right vision it could make easier profit. |
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Two Worlds getting a sequel, but not Mirror's Edge, makes me pretty fucking furious, tbh.
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EA already said from last year their main goals are to make games that will have multiplayer even if it doesn't need it (ex. Dead Space 2), their main priority is shooters (ex. CoD killer) and sports, and more involvement in the PS3 (#1 in sales for them last year).
Mirror's Edge 1 was pretty successful as a phone game so it might also make sense they couldn't get a good phone version of the game ready with ME 2. EA is also similar to Activision and a few others who want instant mega sales instead of slower burners like Capcom and Nintendo. |
It is also now hard to read on an iPod.
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Video games aren't art, they are toys.
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I know you aren't known for being subtle in your troll attempts BDC, but that's obvious even for you.
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I am not trolling, video games are not art. Occasionally one has a glimmer of artistic merit, but the media as a whole is not art.
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In that case I am not touching this argument with a ten foot pole.
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I have discussed this topic at length on other sites and tried to bring it up here to minimal success in it's own threads. Video games are not art. They can be artistic, but most art isn't fapped to by people who proclaim it as such. I mean literally jerked off too. And i mean Kylax makes threads about which big tittied bitch video game chick is the hottest then turns around and calls it art. Either it is art or it is fap material and toys.
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I am going to save us both a lot of time and say "agree to disagree", because this debate can go nowhere, since we clearly have differing opinions on what art is.
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Art is something that is respected by the makers and consumers. Video games as a whole are not well respected by the makers as it is clear the AAA game industry rather make generic knock offs than original games. And they are not respected by the consumers who for the most part jerk off to the big tits and curse loudly as the kill people they never met over xbl.
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And yes by my criteria I don't consider every movie to be art, nor every song, nor every drawling. I just want to know what you define art as.
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Ex Bungie Employee Spills Some Beans:
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That was one of the things I loved about Mirror's Edge. It was challenging, it was different and I don't know about anyone else but the sense of achievement I got from completing a chapter was amazing. Especially chapter 6. The story was really good too. Something which I think is missing from the majority of games these days. A good story. I was really looking forward to Mirror's Edge. It gave me something to look forward too as TimeSplitters 4 got canned. But seeing as Crytek are "in talks" with publishers now, I guess it's not all bad, but I do have a feeling that TimeSplitters 4 won't happen though. It just annoys me that all the enjoyable, original games don't see the light of day but games that are just mere clones of their predecessors are out yearly. Not counting games like FIFA, Madden or WWE. They fall into a different category of sorts. I guess all we have left to enjoy along with Mirror's Edge, is Mirror's Edge 2D. :( http://www.ea.com/free/mirrors-edge-2d For some reason, the actual Mirror's Edge 2D website isn't working. http://www.mirrorsedge2d.com Bad times. |
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