Great article, does little about the Mass Effect 3/Steam conundrum but still worth the effort. EA will never see another dime of my money, that's for sure.
Very good article,very true too. EA is not getting any of my business until they quit nickle-and-diming gamers for a full experience. Sadly this includes Mass Effect 3.
It's important to note the accuracy of this statement: "it gives you an idea of where Nintendo places importance. Cutting-edge visuals take a backseat to the latest novelty." Here he hits the nail on the head. While I do enjoy Nintendo's handhelds I am really concerned with their emphasis on gimmicks/novelties and not on producing new, groundbreaking games.
@dalua360 Hardly, I rarely agree with Gamespot reviews these days. Does that mean they're purposely lying to me? I would be very surprised. For the record I agree with you about EA and Activision, but even though I find their games lacking in substance I admit that while they may be catering to the lowest common denominator, they excel in doing so. So would I have given a turd like Modern Warfare 3 an 8.5? No way, but the review will reflect to me that if I were in the mood for a turd then MW3 is about the most polished turd I can buy. Now, since I don't feel like name calling on a game site for the rest of my lunch break, good day sir!
@shadowhunter0 If you really feel like you can't trust the opinion of review website you're free to delete your account and move on, no one here is twisting your arm (believe me, the site would be much more pleasant without comments from people like you). What many people fail to take into account is that reviewers are people and people have these things called opinions. Reviewers just happen to be the lucky few who get paid to share their opinions. So when Gamespot gives Star Wars: The Force Unleashed a 7.5 while I would have given it an 8.5 does that make one of us right? Absolutely not, it means we have a difference in taste. The example I'm sure everyone thought of reading this is the latest Zelda. For many who played this game repetition, awkward controls and lack of innovation didn't warrant a 7.5 from reviewers, yet it was the opinion of the reviewer at hand that they did. He stated the facts, then described how they affected his experience with the game. What he gave was an honest reflection of that personal experience, not a middle finger to fans of the series. Don't like that opinion? That's your prerogative and I will never argue with you on that. Want to show how ahead of the curve you are by saying you don't trust reviewers (on their own site no less)? Then you're doing nothing more than showing yourself to be at best ill-informed, at worst a self-entitled egotist.
Well said sir! AC is still an excellent franchise, it simply needs to regain focus on what makes it so excellent. I'd rather have a few hours less of fantastic core content than a few extra hours of padding that doesn't add anything or, worse, detracts from the main mechanics and story.
@pvrexpress I'm actually gonna go ahead and guess you're a Nintendo pawn (whatever the crap that means). It was indeed an editorial in that he addressed what was, from a software standpoint, a very weak release for what has the potential to be a very strong system. He wasn't going out of his way to say the normal troll fare of "3ds sux, ngp rulez!" but instead backed up his point looking at the reviews. I think the 3ds is and will be a fantastic system but the man is right, the launch titles give a poor first impression.
@GamerGeek87 Couldn't agree more, I very much enjoyed DA2 and didn't mind at all the character-specific armor or more personal plot. The one thing I did mind was the apparent recycling of environments and textures almost ad-nauseum. There was so much variety in the quests that it seemed kind of disappointing to see them all fall into the same stony corridor, mossy cave or hazy beach. And this may have just been a pet peeve, but did anyone else find the wall textures for areas like Hawke's first home or the entirety of darktown to look like some strange, overused hybrid of stone and shag carpet? Haha.
If DLC is going to mean releasing incomplete games at full price then you can count me out. Downloadable games on the other hand, or full expansion packs in the line of Oblvion's Shimmering Isle are a much better use of this unique and potentially awesome means of getting more out of games.
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