Heh. Cammie Dunaway could be in politics...no new insight of the people she represents and no standing opinion for the topic of a question. Those were "careful" answers, but a bit of a turn off for readers. The rest gave decent answers, though. The most interesting answer for "What's wrong with the industry?" in my opinion, came from Phil Spencer ironicly enough. I totally agreed with the need to push the creative talent to find new way of putting life in the game, the recycled FPS thing had begun to were a little thin a while ago.
The only problem I've had with DRM is when there is an error that ends up locking you out of your own game and there is no other way to fix it than to buy a new copy...I hate it when customer service just shrugs people off.
I think the article makes a good point. The crazy people that kill over games are a result of extreme mental problems, not nessasarily addiction (if an addiction was even a part of their mental troubles...). A lot of people are probably suffering from a video game addiction (yeah, I believe there can be one) but most of them aren't going berzerk and making bloody headline (like most other addictions, actually). Most of the video game addicts probably are more likely to show more social withdraw problems like the article mentions (you know staying in your room alone playing from dawn till dusk on days off, and only really leaving when they need to work or eat). Gradually replacing something real that takes effort to make stimulating with something fake, but more stimulating...I feel sorry for them.
It still bothers me that Zedla does change form to another character that you only see once in another game and doesn't even perform combat, while Ganondorf doesn't change into Ganon his origanal form that's been around forever.
On a personal note I believe a zombie is technically a dead man (or woman) walking around aimlessly eating people. Vampires are not zombies because they still have cognitive abilities and a sense of self awareness. The RE4 guys aren't technically zombies until you kill the host and the parasite has to animate the host's body to continue to pursue you. The "Head Crabs" are only considered zombies while they are using a dead corpse to attack, otherwise they are just aliens. The Flood in Halo are technically zombies if you follow the same logic, true what gets the bodies up and running again is an alien fungus, but technically the corpses are still dead and they are try to mindless turn you into one of them. On the flipside, Gravemind itself is not a zombie in that it can think and reason and is no long confined to a corpse, but it's puppets are, technically making them zombies..... Funny stuff, how people actually must put thought into this before they make the game...
They are totally right. It's funny how many years have gone by and people STILL remember fighting the NES. They missed a few points I would have liked to see though. Save points - Hate 'em, because you never can find one when you want to. Spawn campers - It always sucks when you sit through a game you can even play because you died once and suck in a cycle of continuous re-death every 10 seconds for the next 15 minutes no matter what you do. XBOX live voice masking - seriously...what's the point? No one can understand you anyway even if they what to hear you try to swear for no reason, boost your own ego and sound cool.
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