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#1 2beers_in_hand
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I think the atmosphere is great. After the 2nd, I'm waiting for reviews. I need a good campaign this time.Deathtransit
I hope for the sake of the series they go back to having a Narrator. In R:FOM every chapter was tied to gether nicely by the narrator you knew why you were going some where and what was happening. In R2 most of the time you were left scratching your head going what is the purpose of being here again??? Oh look a briefcase let me flesh out the story, or what the hell did the friendly NPC say??? I couldn't here him over the gunfire.

As for Cappelli I think his new character model looks good. Your not going to be all buff and juiced out when food is hard to come by. They average person need at least 2,000 calories a day in order to maintain their average weight. The Chimera have ravaged our world and are on the verge of putting humans on the extinct list. I'm no expert but I think it would be pretty hard to find a Burger stand in post apocalyptic 1950's America.

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Battlefield series. Halo and CoD are garbage in comparison.

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Nice opinion!!! But I would agree BFBC2 is way more fun and tactical then any CoD since 4...

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Blops has a lot of connection issue's even if you have a good connection.

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Nope it's free...

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#5 2beers_in_hand
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[QUOTE="mrmcygan"]

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SAN FRANCISCO - PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George Hotz must allow console-maker Sony to comb through his computer's hard drive and retrieve information "that relates to the hacking of the PlayStation," a federal judge ruled Thursday.

U.S. District Judge Susan Illston's ruled from the bench in Sony's ongoing legal action against the New Jersey hacker, who goes by GeoHot. The lawsuit is in connection tothe 21-year-old being the first to fully hack the 4-year-old console, a jailbreak allowing it to play pirated and home-brewed games.

Hotz posted the code on his website last month, and put a how-to video on YouTube. That landed him in court here on Digital Millennium Copyright Act civil allegations. Among other things, Sony accuses him of trafficking in devices that circumvent controls meant to protect copyrighted works.

In the Thursday hearing, Hotz' attorney, Stewart Kellar, objected to the judge's bench order, saying Sony would be able to "observe" the contents of all his client's files.

And the plot thickens!!! He better hope Sony doesn't find any embarrasing photo's of him on there or worse!!!
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I doubt Activision has that kind of power. It's Blizzard/Activision for a reason. You don't see 2K/Firaxis, EA/Bioware, etc... They're partners - Activision doesn't run Blizzard, and Blizzard knows they have an *extremely* successful business model and haven't seriously tampered with it for almost 20 years. Heck, I'd imagine Activision knows this too...

Besides, Activision effectively built up all three of those franchises and, while it has torn two of them down, they always have other things in the works - CoD isn't their only active franchise, after all. Who knows what they'll push into the spotlight in the future? None of us, that's all I know.

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But Timstuff summed it up pretty accurately when he said that Acti is no longer trying to innovate besides CoD what does Acti have left as a major cash cow??? Prototype is not the answer it didn't sell to the levels that TH, GH or CoD have reached in the past. What other games does Acti have???



Well, here are some links for you:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Activision_games

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activision#Studios

You'll see lists of games they've made or published there and, since 2005, they've been involved with some of the most large scale names in the entertainment world. The potential is undeniably there for making another cash cow.

What's more, seeing as they're incredibly profitable at the moment, they're more than capable of buying promising new devs, putting them to work on IPs of interest, and going wild.

As for Timstuff... He says they "don't have any star franchises left." They essentially had Tony Hawk as a star franchise for a good period of the 2000's, then that started to peter out. They then made Guitar Hero, and that was a big one until it petered out. Now they've got CoD. At any given time, they've only ever really had one big star franchise, and they MADE an up and comer into a star franchise after that. They have promising IPs in their stable, good developers, and who knows what that we aren't aware of? They've got the means, they've got the talent, they've got the IPs - it's all good and fine to speculate, but, Activision is so far away from having nothing left to turn to it's ludicrous that some of you seriously entertain the idea.

There is a difference between building up a franchise and one that is popular from the start. All three of Acti's major cash cows were critically acclaimed and brought some thing new to the table by either creating a new genre or doing something an existinggenre didn't do be for. I could spend hours going over a of Acti's game list but none of them really scream out as equalling what TH, GH or COD has done in terms of sale as those three. And due to all the crap Acti has done with developers like IW or double fine I don't see a lot of company's wanting to hope aboard that ship.

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I doubt Activision has that kind of power. It's Blizzard/Activision for a reason. You don't see 2K/Firaxis, EA/Bioware, etc... They're partners - Activision doesn't run Blizzard, and Blizzard knows they have an *extremely* successful business model and haven't seriously tampered with it for almost 20 years. Heck, I'd imagine Activision knows this too...

Besides, Activision effectively built up all three of those franchises and, while it has torn two of them down, they always have other things in the works - CoD isn't their only active franchise, after all. Who knows what they'll push into the spotlight in the future? None of us, that's all I know.

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But Timstuff summed it up pretty accurately when he said that Acti is no longer trying to innovate besides CoD what does Acti have left as a major cash cow??? Prototype is not the answer it didn't sell to the levels that TH, GH or CoD have reached in the past. What other games does Acti have???

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Just wait till they roll out paying for a premium online multiplayer. I can't wait for Acti to sell this to the masses it should be great.

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#9 2beers_in_hand
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No Acti can create a super genre like I mentioned in the GH thread Call of Tony the Guitar Hero's pro skating Duty... Then They can milk that for 5 to 7 years more. If I was a shareholder of the company I would be a little bit worried with what Acti is doing to there franchises. If Acti rolls out their plan for different teirs of multiplayer and the next Cod is as messed of as BLOPS or MW2 then expect to see the decline start to happen in the next couple of years.

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#10 2beers_in_hand
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Give it a few years and the'll reboot the series so they can start to milk the franchise all over again. I'm worried what fate will be fall NeverSoft??? They were forced to spend all their time on GH when Acti removed them from the series they created Tony Hawk. Are they going to be forced in to developing CoD game's now??? Maybe after Acti kills of CoD they'll can bring back all their dead milked franchise into one super mutated game and create a completely new genre, Call of Tony the Guitar Hero's pro skating duty and then milk that to death for five more years!!!