I think only the vast, vast minority have an issue with the homosexual options presented in the game. I'm not sure if it falls anywhere near the same scope as either the DLC and multiplayer controversy, or Bioware's new design philosophy. At least I hope it doesn't, as I'd hate to be found guilty of putting too much faith in mankind. Either way, I'm not impressed with having to use EA's useless Origin program just so I'll be able to run the game, or that an important chunk is locked away as 'DLC'. Seems like a battle we can't win, though. As much as consumers hate it, we continue to dance to the pied-publishers tune to play the games we love. And the conditions are only getting worse.
I think the problem is that with all these games hovering around an 8, and most gamers having a finite amount of money in their wallet, we can't play every game that comes along that shows promise in one area or another. There's just too many. So you have a game receiving 6's across the board, and another with 8's or 9's. Both interest you equally. You've paid for your rent, groceries and bills for the month and you have enough left over to pick up a single new game. Which do you put your faith in? Oh, and in the case of NeverDead, as it received a 3.0 from another high profile site, it hardly seems worth my time or hard earned money to give it the benefit of the doubt when a lengthly and so-far-well-received RPG (Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning) is just around the corner.
I don't know who worded that bill, but it has to be one of the stupidest things I've ever read. The ones supporting it are completely oblivious to how it will affect the US society as a whole. Jobs will be lost, companies will shut down or transfer outside of the country, and millions of people will be devastated that a major source of entertainment and information will be crippled.
Surely that must violate some consumer rights law, or something. You can't gut contents from a product and sell it as 'new' to a customer without notice. That's a new low, even for Gamestop.
Finally someone has written an article on this issue. While DLC and subscription services are great when they're done right, too many developers are abusing the system to hold back content from the initial $60 purchase, and charge an additional fee for it. It's a slap in the face to the consumer, and it's getting worse as time goes on.
The trailer is ok, just kind of derivative. The kind of thing you'd expect to see from most of todays action games. Then when you put it next to MW2's, it looks amateur. Of course, we should indeed expect more from the unit shifting, multi-million selling, juggernaut franchise COD seems to have become. I'm neither a fan, nor a hater of the franchise, but as successful as it is, I can see it deserves better than this standard fare trailer.
This article is stupid. We're all mad that Sony didn't keep our personal info secure enough, and it's a serious issue, but what more can they do about it now? It's already been stated that they've made a deal with identity theft protection agencies so that PSN users can apply to their services for free. There's NOTHING Sony can do to completely fix the identity and cc number theft. The free games are an offering for the service being down for so long, not for the info leak, so don't look a gift horse in the mouth and expect the company to bankrupt itself in order to pay back its customers for something that has no realistic solution. tl;dr The free games are to say sorry for PSN being down for 3+ weeks, not for the identity theft. Wisen up, Gamespot editor.
There are games you hope will be awesome, and games you know will be awesome. The question isn't 'Will God of War 3 be incredible?', it's 'Exactly how incredible will God of War 3 be?'
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