"Our top three games accounted for 93%, 83%, 78% and 59% of our online game revenue in 2008, 2009, 2010, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2011, respectively. "
Not sure if anyone posted this, but did anyone notice they ripped a large chunk of a multiplayer map from UC2 and stuck it into the French Castle area? I was playing through it and was half expecting to see name tags running around.
why criticize if you can't criticize well? See my child's art project reference. Singing is a lifelong art, so is drawing or painting. Criticizing someones artistic efforts without having some thought behind it is a waste a space. You do that in a industry environment, you'd be kicked out the room, not to do with "protecting kids", its polite and professional. but hey that's the internet for you. Without the constructive element, why say anything at all? You obviously want you opinion to be seen, so a thoughtless opinion is a waste of space, not expected from a starred commenter, that is supposed to drive thoughtful discussion.
you like her music because she auto-tunes herself, you would like this more if it was auto-tuned. You don't care if she can sing, as long as she uses auto-tune.
you also like Christine Aguilera out of all the amazing bands out there is the world. My opinion is that you are as immature as your comments on kotaku and your music tastes imply :)
I just find it HIGHLY amusing that you like Ke$ha, who heavily uses auto tune, and you would like this MORE if she used Auto tune. Really just shows you have no appreciation for honest upfront showing of abilities, and would rather people fake talent just to make it sound pitch perfect.
never said you can't have a negative opinion, but i would think you were mature enough to offer some valuable criticism instead of the usual internet troll trash you see. Here i'll give you an example!
"Hey great initiative! I like your passion in expressing your love of a video game in a creative forum. This is more creative that anything I have ever tried. I appreciate you don't want to fake talent with autotune (even though it's grossly overused by "professional singers"), but you should keep practicing your singing if you are passionate about it! Or if you like song writing and editing more as a career, see if you can get a professional signer to help you explore that passion!"
wow, wasn't that hard? though it probably would of taken a bit more of thought than "horrible vocals!"
Firstly, since she's a gamer, and her work made it onto kotaku, she will probably read it.
Secondly, its a brave thing to do to sing for the public if you have had no professional training.
Thirdly, criticism should be constructive at that age, not "it was so bad it made my ears bleed and i didn't even finish listening to it". That is not constructive at all. That's just being an Ass to a pre-teen that should be encourages to keep doing creative things and practice and get better. If my kid wants to learn to draw I'm not going to look at his 1st or 10th or even 50th drawing and say "OH GOD IT SUCKS, show me when you are better!" . That would just make me an asshole.
Fourthly, you have to put skill into context. I'm sure the girl you linked to sounded bad at one point as well. Are you saying if she can't sing that well, she shouldn't expect any sort of praise? Shes actually shows promise and this may encourage her to get into singing and get training. Saying she sucks and you can;t even watch it isn't conducive to skill growth.
Don't hide behind your douchebaggery by saying "wah we shouldn't protect kids!". You are supposed to be supportive and offer encouragement and help, not ball it up and throw it into thier faces. I'm glad you have chosen not to re-produce. You can go back to asking for blowjobs or BF3 beta accounts.
obviously you are not suited for having children. Of course she can't sing perfectly, but that wasn't the point of the video at all. She made up the lyrics, sung them to reasonable effect and edited a video, what freaking more do you want when you click on a video made by a 11 year old? What have you done that is that is even close to being that creative?
I too am interested.. Is it just a really fast quicktime event? Do you have to react to a specific move at a specific time? Do you have to get to a certain unexplained part of the level where you can expose a weakpoint and trigger the attack?
wow.. that looks pretty uninspired. The map screens look bad.. not at all to scale, and elements like the wall are not true at all to the fiction. Hell the mountain range beyond the wall looks like a gentle slope.
I kind of respectfully disagree. If all it takes is relating one game to a handful of others with artful prose, without explanation, then reviews would be pointless. He relates the boss fight in HR to Metal Gears bosses. That is so wrong on so many levels.
HR bosses are horribly done, this is almost universally agreed upon. MG bosses were not frustrating, they were a puzzle to be solved. the entire games centered around them! HR bosses are a buggy mess, that people usually end up having to exploit bad AI to get past. A reviewer can have an opinion, but to make light of large flaws is a issue.
Would a person take away from this review that HR boss fight are like MG boss fights? bad reviewer.. bad!