About the AAA it's hard to describe that space, has you just proved, what is a AAA game? You can say it's the size of the budget that makes a AAA experience and sometimes the money it makes that turns a game into AAA status. It's just like the movie industry in the States. There are fewer movies that make money, and most of the dollars are spent on a couple of tent-pole titles with enormous budgets that just keep rising. Waterwold almost destroyed Universal with it's 175 millions dollar budget, and Titanic scared Fox into selling half it's rights to Paramount, with it's 200 million dollar budget. In the 90's these were mammoths with unbelievable budgets that could destroy companies. Today there are dozens of blockbuster films with +200 million dollars budget, from Spider Man, to MIB 3, to the Avengers, The Dark Knight Rises and so on. But these are the movies that bring in the dollars. The middle tear do nothing at the box office. Most 50$ million dollar films are flops. You are divided between small indie and big budget. Just like the games. So AAA isn't going anywhere. It's the meat of the entertainment industry wherever you look.
Valve is now on top but when Steam came out they took a lot of heat. Gamers are prone to turn companies to gods or demons. But it's a stupid mistake to make. Valve only needs to make one or two bad games or sequels to fall from grace. EA has a lot of great games, there is a motive for their success. And as far as innovation you just look at Kingdoms of Amalur, Army of Two, Dead Space, Brutal Legend, The Saboteur, Dragon Age, Dantes Inferno, Shadows of the Damned, Alice Madness Returns, Syndicate, Bulletstorm and many others are new IPS under EA banner. And even the sequels, they have a lot of good ones, Mass Effect 2, the Fifa games are great, Battlefield is great, the Tiger Woods games are good, the Need for Speed franchise is good also, Fight Night is a great boxing franchise. So it's easy to insult EA but you can't forget the good games they do.
And yep... Snake Plissken is a John Carpenter creation! Escape From New York (brilliant) and a less brilliant Escape From LA... The problem with movies based on games is that the thing that makes a film brilliant is quite different from the thing that makes a game great. You can have three thousand hours of good Metal Gear games CGI scenes, but that's not why the games are great, it's because of the game itself, gameplay, pace, setting and so on. That's why most game based movies fall short of expectations. Not holding my breath for a Metal Gear movie...
@Kevin-V Thanks Kevin. I've had a similar problem with my father more than a decade ago. He wrote about television for a newspaper that was owned by a TV station... so...
What did happen with Kane & Lynch? Business decisions? Politics? You speak about something but there are a lot of people that have no idea what is happening...
Really looking forward for Fifa 13. In these types of games I usually buy them every other year, didn't get it last year so wanting to have some soccer action this year. As for the stealth genre, for me the games that really pull me in are the ones that give me choice (or at least the illusion of choice). That's why I love the Elder Scrolls, Dark Souls, the Fallout series, Bioshock and so on. In these games stealth is not always an option (in Dark Souls it isn't at all) but the way in which you engage your enemies in up to you. Choice and consequence. Stealth is one of the fun choices you can have in a game. But while I loved playing Metal Gear Solid on my PSOne, I really do prefer to choose my own path. That's why I'm looking forward to Dishonored and the finally have time to play Deus Ex Human Revolution.
Has for Gamescon and the new Sony games, I've been a Sony fan ever since the first Playstation. And they have never let me down. The games have always came first with them, and the gamers. Of course, the same way I traded Sega for Sony I can as fast trade Sony for anybody else. But until today found no need, so here's hoping they can keep the Vita on track, finish PS3 in style and start PS4 with a bang!
@tomkat69pc What a constructive criticism! WOW! Now you've shown these women how to really do something classy, intelligent and interesting!!! Thank god there are people like you in the gaming community!!!! You make the world a better place to us all! Welcome to this discussion...
@buzzoinks It's portuguese. I live in Portugal. :) There will be non-mmo free to play. But the basic system of payment will be inforced. You can have let's say COD for free, for instance. But the multiplayer will be paid. And if you want to upgrade beyond a certain level you will have to pay even more. Or you will need a subscription to play online.
@buzzoinks If you look at MMO's there is virtually no piracy. In fact the whole idea of the MMO's was rooted in fighting piracy. I didn't understand your second sentence. English is not my native language.
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