I was trying to avoid posting for a long while, but I simply cannot avoid it right now.
What the hell is the matter with you guys? Are you so fucking disconnected from the PC gaming community that you have never seen an ethusiast-level motherboard before? The condescending way you put "enthusiast" in quotes makes it sound as if it's some sort of foreign, exotic term from an uncharted land. Then there is the generally dismissive attitude, as if PC gaming and PC hardware is not interesting to anyone (certainly not your readers, ho-ho!).
What does this show me? It shows me that you do not give a flying fuck about one of the most important sectors of gaming, nor are you in touch with it in any reasonable way. I understand that this is a blog and is not meant to be the most formal of sites, but Kotaku seems happy to blur that line all it likes in order to grab the most hits. Stories like this show that it leans far more towards "uninformed garbage from drooling morons" than it does "credible source for industry news".
Sloppy fact-checking and sensationalist headlines are strikes one and two. Showing that you have no fucking idea of a core demographic is strike three. I'm gone.
I am a waste of oxygen and contribute nothing to your web site but discontent and psychic pain. Please destroy my account and all posts associated with it, and you will be rid of this disease.
@Nero: I am a miserable wretch and deserve nothing but painful death, but this will have to do. Any idea how I can delete my account and all posts attached to it?
@Nero: God dammit, that was dumb of me. I can't fucking believe it. Must I fail miserably at everything I attempt? I'm done polluting this site. Don't thank me all at once.
The art design and overall aesthetic in this game really is quite impressive, and it works perfectly within the confines of the hardware. Nobody knows how to use their hardware to their fullest like Nintendo.
Honestly, I'm disappointed. Very little news save for some release dates, and no new major game reveals. Third parties are totally jumping ship from the Wii and it shows, when the biggest games of the show are titles we've known about for months. My faith in the Wii as a gaming platform is totally destroyed; all I care about are the Nintendo first-party games, and frankly, it's becoming even more tempting to switch to PC gaming entirely. I'm starting to wonder if I'll buy another console again, at this rate.
So basically, this is Nintendo's Kindle competition.
Urg.
@Mancomb Seepgood: You realise that "cracking" only actually works if the game uses DirectX 9, right? Halo 2 runs on DirectX 9 and thus there's no need for Windows 7, but if the game has no DirectX 9 codepath then there is little they can do.
@ThursdayNext: This is Kotaku. You think they cite sources here? Or link to the original high-res versions of their videos? Of course not. You should know better by now.
Oh my god, my eyes. They burn!
Maybe this time around, they'll actually get a story that doesn't make me cringe in agony.
Why must I already own games that go on sale?
Might as well stick a giant TOSE logo on here, since I'm pretty sure Platinum doesn't have anywhere near the resources to do something like this.
Although the new interface is well-designed and looks great (not to mention is faster), there seems to be an issue with Modern Warfare 2 not working. Some people have reported success by verifying their cache files, but it means potentially re-downloading the whole game all over again.
It's really no surprise that the only game with competent writing wins the award, is it? I mean, was that actually the competition? The only other even vaguely applicable game there is Assassin's Creed 2.
Sounds great, though I'm not sure why the PC version has to wait until Thursday. My guess is they want to get the Xbox 360 version out of the way first as a test case, but still seems a bit odd when there are no publisher-imposed limits on when they can release the PC version.
@dLMN8R: Of course not, though it's not a totally foolish idea that one would, if it could be kept secure. It's more the principle of it all - no LAN support is totally idiotic considering how easy it is to add into the game. This is purely about content control and nothing else. They think they can reduce piracy by forcing you to connect to their servers just to play, which, as history has shown, is not at all an effective measure. The lack of an offline mode of any sort means that this game is dead, at least for paying customers, as soon as the servers go down.
Okay, so this game just jumped off the deep end into total non-purchase territory.
@Robotic-Richard-Simmons: That's sort of like saying that Schindler's List needs more Carrot Top.
This game is "grittier and darker" and yet it has tanks shaped like scorpions that fire laser beams from the ends of their tails.
Yeah, okay.
So uh, let's just pretend this game never happened, okay?
