@malokevi Nobody said the original NES takes discs. I said I have hundreds of games, and none of them have a scratch on them. Nothing fails harder than trying to arrogantly correct somebody on the internet, only to be proven wrong.
And as your digital 'library' - google 'Amazon 1984 recall'.
Poetically, Amazon sold digital copies of 1984 (and Animal Farm), only to have the publisher suddenly decided to pull the e-book.
They DELETED IT FROM BUYER'S KINDLES. That's right. They forcibly refunded the money and deleted the book from people's devices.
In 10 years, you are going to be totally unable to play any games from your 'library', because your current XBOX will be nothing but a brick, and publishers will simply pull the games from their servers. Your 'library' doesn't help if the company doesn't have the game on their servers anymore.
Meanwhile, I will still be able to pop in any one of my games in and play them.
I want a physical copy, not only because I like collecting them, but because in 10 years I want to be able to GO BACK AND PLAY IT AGAIN.
This 'always online' crap is bull!##%. In 10 years the console is going to be nothing more than a brick. You won't even be able to play single player games at that point.
@malokevi I have literally hundreds of games, all the way back to the original NES. Not a single one has a scratch on it. I just popped in the original Homeworld CDs and played it a a month ago, still a fantastic game 14 years later.
Maybe if you should just take better care of your games.
Zergling reconstitution and the Tarrasque are actually some of the WEAKEST upgrades you can choose.
Reconstitution is OK early on - but you only get the zerglings if they died, so the only thing you're doing is replenishing losses. It doesn't really give you an advantage on the offensive - which is where most of the campaign is. It basically boils down to saving you 250 minerals every 30 seconds, IF you are taking losses.
The Tarrasque is a VERY weak upgrade. It only helps you if you're winning - because if it dies out front (where it SHOULD be), the AI guns down the egg incredibly quickly. By contrast, the Infected Ultralisk deals constant AOE damage (amazing against Marines), and can spawn clouds that deal decent damage to enemy groups.
You would have been much better suited to talking about the Vile Roach - 1 hit and any enemy unit (including bunkers!) takes a 75% attack speed penalty. A group of Vile Roaches is almost unstoppable early game - and they're still AMAZING late game, if you are half-decent at micro targeting.
Or you could have talked about the Raptor. It's leaping ability aside - +2 damage to zerglings? Pile that on top of the mutation that gives you +50% attack speed and you are looking at a stunning 110% increase in damage.
@zappobubble You're cherry-picking a couple games that don't have strong female characters.
Assassin's Creed - Set in basically the Middle Ages, and claims that you are going back in time to watch history. Ergo, it is near impossible to actually have a female protagonist at all. That's history - if you don't like it, invent a time machine to change it.
Hitman Absolution - The plot of the game is basically Hitman goes around killing people. Plot has always been fairly lose in the Hitman series - the 'save the girl' excuse plot is just as good as any other.
Nicole - Uh, you do realize that her waiting for Isaac to 'rescue' her is the Marker playing with his head right? She ACTUALLY just sadly said she wanted to see him again - before killing herself. Her distress is simply the Marker trying to get Isaac to do what it wants. You have to read more into it.
And by the way, you conveniently leave out Kendra, who successfully manipulated Isaac into doing exactly what she wanted the entire game without letting on her true goals.
The fact of the mater is that there are certain genres that the genders and ages play significantly more than the other gender.
If you make a first person shooter, you are targeting a young male audience. When you make SimCity, you are targeting a much broader range of potential customers.
Hell, with the advent of games like Mass Effect half the games these days you don't even have a specified gender for your character anymore.
There's more to this story that they're not telling us. There are PLENTY of female protagonist games that have been very successful.
BloodRayne, Final Fantasy XIII-2 (hell FF XIII itself arguably had Lightning as the main protagonist), Tomb Raider.
This guy probably got rejected by a tiny publisher that isn't worth anything ANYWAY, and is now trying to cash in on it to generate free publicity for his game.
Once again, it is pretty obvious that Laura Parker has not, and will never, play Mass Effect from start to finish. This debate about the endings boils down to very, very simple concept: we were promised a product that was not delivered. The entire tagline of the Mass Effect series was that choices you make throughout the series have consequences, and for the most part, that was sort of true - there were plenty of side quests and whatnot based on decisions you had made, and there were a number of events that could change depending on what you chose in the first game (the Turian-Geth war outcome for instance).
What PISSES PEOPLE OFF about the endings is that absolutely NOTHING you did makes a difference. THAT is what people are mad about (that and the fact that the ending made almost zero sense in established canon of the universe). I could play a Paragon FemShep from the beginning of the first game all the way through to the end, and get the EXACT SAME ENDINGS as playing a Renegade Male Shepherd starting from the 3rd game.
This was nothing but a VERY poorly executed attempt to salvage what became PR disaster for Bioware. They first went with, "Pfff, you just don't UNDERSTAND art!" Then they realized how big of a fallout was happening, and they've frantically switched to damage control - too little, too late.
Most likely it will be the same as Wings of Liberty - you have to sign in to your battle.net account, but then you can play offline, but if you want achievements you have to be connected.
Yes.... a random person (who loses massive credibility points for having Death in his name, even MORE for Death AND Raider, and EVEN MORE for having an avatar pic of vampire fangs) on an internet forum is qualified to comment on the balance of a game that is still being heavily playtested, and being release by a company FAMOUS for not only releasing extremely well balanced games, but for continuing to balance tweek YEARS after release.
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