A lack of used games better be coupled with lower new game prices. But it probably won't be. I think if I see a ban on used games, which would be a ban on borrowed and rented games, would cause me to take a lot longer to adopt the next Xbox.
Um, is the auction really up to over $10,000? I need to destroy something, but come up with a good story and sell something on Ebay to fix it. I think I'll go crash my car into a tree then blame it on my PS2 since I played GTA on that and ran into many trees.
My question is, what do they do with the extra money? Since the kids caused the damage, which is apparently going to result in a huge windfall, shouldn't the kids get the money? Seriously! It should go in a college fund at least.
My question is, what do they do with the extra money? Since the kids caused the damage, which is apparently going to result in a huge windfall, shouldn't the kids get the money? Seriously! It should go in a college fund at least.
@markussimka: I'm less impressed with it since I played Crush the Castle first.
5 bucks says Angry Birds for the 3DS won't cost a dollar.
"Our judges are all members of the VWC, and thus, professional, working videogame writers. I can't demand that our judges sit down and buy and then devote 80 hours to playing every videogame that comes out at retail... not when they've got jobs and lives to lead and they can read the entire script in 2 hours or less."
What an intellectually dishonest comment:
First: not every game that comes out is 80 hours long, not by a long shot. In fact, you could probably beat ME2, Dragon Age, and RDR in 80 hours easily.
Second: No one can seriously say you have to consider each game that comes out at retail for an award. 95% of all games, if not more, can be immediately removed from any list for an award.
Third: Stop pretending your award is that important. Its not.
What an intellectually dishonest comment:
First: not every game that comes out is 80 hours long, not by a long shot. In fact, you could probably beat ME2, Dragon Age, and RDR in 80 hours easily.
Second: No one can seriously say you have to consider each game that comes out at retail for an award. 95% of all games, if not more, can be immediately removed from any list for an award.
Third: Stop pretending your award is that important. Its not.
@Who wants toast?: Spot on. I don't know how much it would cost, or if its even feasible, to get the required PS2 hardware pieces inside the NGP, but Sony should consider it simply to bring up the nostalgia that many of us have for the Ps2 and its amazing game library.
@indrawnperson: Definitely. I own a PSP but have been sorely disappointed in it based on the software commercially made for it. All games seem half baked and are little fun over the long term for me. For the shooter games it normally comes down to the missing second analog stick, so maybe the NGP can win me over in that regard.
Also, the fact that you know the NGP is going to cost $400 or more out of the box is a put off when it can't even emulate the PS2.
Also, the fact that you know the NGP is going to cost $400 or more out of the box is a put off when it can't even emulate the PS2.
So, the basic point is, the award this year will be meaningless as 3 top games from the year before will be noticeably absent.
Makes me wonder what the guys who send those messages look like. I get impression they look something like the fat guy in the movie "Gamer," except maybe fatter and uglier. I just wonder when it clicked for most of these guys that the internet was a place where they could facelessly and without any real threat of confrontation spout whatever bile they had building up inside them.
(Gamer, actually, was a pretty decent movie if you haven't seen it yet)
(Gamer, actually, was a pretty decent movie if you haven't seen it yet)
@spencerw: We will once we get a real name for the system.
@indrawnperson: If the NGP is as powerful as they are talking about then getting a quality PS2 emulator up and running shouldn't be an insurmountable task.
This especially when for many people PS2 compatibility could be the difference between them buy it or not. I know PS2 compatibility will be the difference between me purchasing this product early or much later, if at all.
This especially when for many people PS2 compatibility could be the difference between them buy it or not. I know PS2 compatibility will be the difference between me purchasing this product early or much later, if at all.
Finally some main stream attention to this idea. I have been posting about how great it would be if the NGP would be fully backwards compatible with PS2 games. It needs to be a simple system that is also a good deal, no more than $10 to $15 a game. Plunkett goes a bit farther with the whole compatibility between systems and all that. I'd just be happy having access to large portions of the PS2 library on the go.
Do it Sony, DO IT!
Do it Sony, DO IT!
I couldn't get into FF XIII for a few big reasons:
1: Many of the characters were annoying.
2: Lack of control with the combat system. Its innovative and interesting, but feels clunky to me.
3: Story sequences went on for too long and were too numerous. I really felt like I was playing a badly acted movie.
In general, it mostly comes down to how different western and JRPGs are currently. The action based western RPG (Mass Effect, KOTOR, Fallout) have simply changed my taste in RPGs. Sorry Square, but whereas I could have been counted on to, and did, buy FFIV-FFIX, I haven't bought one since.
1: Many of the characters were annoying.
2: Lack of control with the combat system. Its innovative and interesting, but feels clunky to me.
3: Story sequences went on for too long and were too numerous. I really felt like I was playing a badly acted movie.
In general, it mostly comes down to how different western and JRPGs are currently. The action based western RPG (Mass Effect, KOTOR, Fallout) have simply changed my taste in RPGs. Sorry Square, but whereas I could have been counted on to, and did, buy FFIV-FFIX, I haven't bought one since.
Who buys fake poker chips? Can you buy anything with the fake poker chips?
@fELIXADER: I've played the zombie maps and I don't see how they are much of anything like Bulletstorm. The similarities end at guns, shooting and points.
@cmoyano: Will a $500 PC last 5-8 years with no further upgrades needed? And its really not about power, its about performance. A $300 Xbox 360 plays any game made for it, a $500 PC won't play everything over its lifetime.
@ElemenopEE: The differences will be negligible. Just get it for whatever system you prefer to play First Person Shooters on, which for me is the 360. For some reason, shooters never felt right on a Playstation controller.
@el.kameleon: $200 bucks gets you a whole console. PC gamers really are a different lot entirely.
@DanBroChill: I heard that playing it with minimum specs made it look like Doom.
@Alex_Mexico: PC gaming just seems too expensive. I'll sacrifice cutting edge graphics and all that for only having to pay $400 for the hardware every 5-8 years instead of $1000+ every 2-3. Plus, I prefer to play games with a controller and playing games on a PC with a controller just seems weird.
