Reminds me of the Teracotta Warriors outside Xian.
I regret the time I put into Dragon Age II, now that the image above caused me to think on it.
What?
Sure, but the point is that people like me aren't playing games on the way to work anymore. I'm online on the phone, reading articles, listening to podcasts, reading ebooks. There's just so much tech on smartphones that I now hardly play any portable games while commuting, and the iOS selection is enough to entertain me for 5 mins at a time in a pinch. And I'm not the kind of peson you want to lose; I buy more or less everything!
No, it's Sony's loss. There will be people like you, especially people with long commutes, who play portables a lot. But there's not nearly enough of you. The point is they'll lose a lot of people who bought the DS or PSP or both (like me, and Totilo) but used them less and less as convergence got better on phones etc. If people like us don't buy it, Sony won't make money and developers won't make games. The fear is that this will go the way of the PSP: a decent system, with some great games, that ultimately was not the success it wanted to be.
Well, it just excludes the possibility of career game voice actors. Given how sick I am of Nolan North playing every second male lead, I would not bemoan that decline. What tech do you think is better suited to it? I love uncharted as much as the next man, but I wouldn't say the faces are very convincing.
Yeah but that's because they had to be exaggerated for gameplay mechanic purposes, so you could see the lies. Surely we can all agree the tech is amazing?
I guarantee that, whatever you played instead of Shadow of the Colossus, you made a bad choice! Ico still has more heart, but I have rarely played a game as affecting as SoTC. It's stunning. Enjoy experiencing it for the first time. I'm a little jealous I can't do that!
That you have the attention span of a wombat? You could skip almost all the driving, by the way.
So, this trailer seems to confirm retention of the only two things I didn't like about the Preview code: the cut scenes and the Barrett Boss fight. The game looks good, but the cutscenes look awful. It would be so much better rendered in-engine as the transition is jarring and awful, and the CG isn't identical to the in-game stuff nor does it look better; if anything it looks worse.
Secondly, the Barrett boss fight was awful. Spent the entire game on silent take downs and subtle evasion, and then I'm supposed to have a gunfight with some kind of quasi-invincible aug? Terribly jarring and very annoying.
It was, otherwise, sensational. Can't wait to get my hands on it... Just wish they'd tweak it.
Secondly, the Barrett boss fight was awful. Spent the entire game on silent take downs and subtle evasion, and then I'm supposed to have a gunfight with some kind of quasi-invincible aug? Terribly jarring and very annoying.
It was, otherwise, sensational. Can't wait to get my hands on it... Just wish they'd tweak it.
Too late to grovel, I'm afraid. The Witcher 2 showed quite how far bioware fell with this game. It was really a terrible blemish on their record. Maybe I'll come back for Dragon Age 3, but it would want to be an awful lot better.
It is unconstitutional. You cannot put the continuance of speech at the behest of a committee that reviews complaints on a case-by-case basis. That would be a non-content neutral time, place and manner restriction and would attract strict scrutiny under the court's first amendment jurisprudence. There are at least 4 cases almost directly on point that say you can't. You may do this all the time, I'm just telling you that if someone takes you to court, you lose. Trust me, I studied the First Amendment with one of America's foremost experts.
Here, it would be borderline, as it's questionable as to whether a politician weighing in is state action, but it's not unprecedented. I just think it's interesting is all.
Here, it would be borderline, as it's questionable as to whether a politician weighing in is state action, but it's not unprecedented. I just think it's interesting is all.
I read the article. It's not self regulating for complaints. It's self-regulating for content to that would be illegal to sell to minors. Read it again. After today it's not illegal in California, which makes the argument more interesting. I hate being told to read the article by people who clearly haven't read it properly or carefully.
No, laws like that have frequently been found unconstitutional. You have to lay out time, place and manner restrictions in advance in the law so that they are not reviewed case by case by some board. That would be censorship in the purest sense, and give those who complain a heckler's veto. Even with TMP restrictions, there is a limit and they can't be too onerous. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad this came down, just not wild about the way it happened. Would be fine if they DNF people agreed their ad was terrible and the placing inappropriate, but I wouldn't expect that from people who came up with an ad campaign that juvenile.
That's not how I read it; I read it as a company being contacted by a public official (admittedly to pass on private complaints) which could be argued to be State action, not private action. And it was only voluntary for the billboard owner; the DNF people may, or may not, have agreed with it, and it's primarily their speech. The billboard owner surely doesn't care and will always have an incentive to cave to public pressure, especially with a politician involved!
The only code I read about in the article is based on the product being illegal for sale, which it is now not, thanks to the Supreme Court, though it was at the time! The code says nothing about complaints.
The reason I get concerned about these things is that just cause things are offensive doesn't mean they should be banned, and if you want to keep things like this away from schools, you should do it through a law that regulates it in a manner compliant with the first amendment. Some people complaining, and a politician getting on the case, is not how it should work, as that discriminates against some ads, not others.
The only code I read about in the article is based on the product being illegal for sale, which it is now not, thanks to the Supreme Court, though it was at the time! The code says nothing about complaints.
The reason I get concerned about these things is that just cause things are offensive doesn't mean they should be banned, and if you want to keep things like this away from schools, you should do it through a law that regulates it in a manner compliant with the first amendment. Some people complaining, and a politician getting on the case, is not how it should work, as that discriminates against some ads, not others.
Wonder what the law is on this? Does Los Angeles have an ordinance about advertising standards near schools? They could, of course - it would be a time, place and manner restriction on speech and would probably not offend the first amendment. My question is whether or not they did. Cause I don't really like informal censorship by means of pressure from City Councilmen. You really have to have rules to do shit like that. But hey, I'm a speech nut.
In other news, I hate DNF, this inane ad campaign, and this whole misogynistic mess. May the game be buried and never seen again.
In other news, I hate DNF, this inane ad campaign, and this whole misogynistic mess. May the game be buried and never seen again.
McNamara comes across like abysmally in that article. Probably a bad idea to give an interview for it; if you try to play down plausible, mass testimony of what is essentially abuse of employees, you are never going to come across well. Baffling that he can be that callous and detached and have no idea of what an ass he's being. It really does taint LA Noire for me; I really enjoyed the game, but it's not worth this.
I think Ocarina is the perfect illustration of the power and pitfalls. Like Miyamoto said, cut scenes look great, as does Hyrule Field, so I always flick it on for exploring and riding around on Epona. Dungeons, I usually turn it off, cause aiming with the gyroscope is fun, but I always tilt rather than move the controller, losing the focus. I'm happier it's there, cause it's a great addition when it works, but that doesn't mean the entire game has to be played in 3D.
I was still meh on the hardware, having bought it at launch, but Zelda and the prospect of Mario have won me over completely. VC Link's Awakening and free Excitebike helped too!
I was still meh on the hardware, having bought it at launch, but Zelda and the prospect of Mario have won me over completely. VC Link's Awakening and free Excitebike helped too!
Wondering the same thing... Update the PS Store! FFS Sony! Want more LA Noire.
Yeah, not exactly sure your methods are sound there, buddy! Not exactly lab science you're carrying out. Without comparing the comments and seeing the articles it related to, making sure they were of a very similar nature, the reader numbers were similar, the comments were contemporaneous with the piece etc. (and even then, I'd be dubious about the merit) I think we should steer away from this sort of evidence. The fact that you went into it with the hypothesis that Xbox fanboys were the more prevalent may have subtly influenced the comments made, for an example of just one of the ways the evidence is dubious.
Anecdotally, I think there's fairly even flaming going on. Except from Nintendo fanboys, who don't really put their back into it! The reason I'm dubious about your claim is because I can think of no reason that this site would attract Xbox fanboys and not others. The coverage of MS on Kotaku is hardly fawning. Seems fairly balanced. Why would one group gravitate here and not others? Just doesn't make sense to me.
But as for the other part of my original question, is there any site that is not fairly infested with fanboys? Maybe some small outlets. Kotaku used to be a better sort of crowd. But then it got big and popular and that was the end of that. Ah well.
Anecdotally, I think there's fairly even flaming going on. Except from Nintendo fanboys, who don't really put their back into it! The reason I'm dubious about your claim is because I can think of no reason that this site would attract Xbox fanboys and not others. The coverage of MS on Kotaku is hardly fawning. Seems fairly balanced. Why would one group gravitate here and not others? Just doesn't make sense to me.
But as for the other part of my original question, is there any site that is not fairly infested with fanboys? Maybe some small outlets. Kotaku used to be a better sort of crowd. But then it got big and popular and that was the end of that. Ah well.