You do realize that in order to inflate the overall numbers (which helps them) the ESA and others count smartphone and other wireless device players as "gamers" right? From their own numbers: "Top devices most frequent "gamers" use - smartphone(36%), wireless device(31%)" And that's not even touching the issue of free-to-play, browser and social media based games on the PC side of things!
Don't know where LV was coming from. If i had to guess, it's because of the reason for it all, not it itself. Politics and ideology are something many, many, MANY people want nowhere near their entertainment media, their escapism. Then add the fact that this is all at best a cynical PR stunt, and at worst (as more than just a few people perceive it) a maliciously inspired takeover of the franchise for those very reasons. Or at the very least, if not malicious, done in an extremely antagonistic and dismissive way to the previous loyal and devoted fanbase. (a depressingly common underlying theme for political and ideology pushers today it seems) With a little bit of "If you don't like it/are not 100% with us then go ****ing die you horrible subhuman evil POS!!" mixed in as well. (though usually in a thinly veiled, much more subtle and dismissively passive aggressive style/tone. lol)
In the end though, it's a whole lot more to do with why/how than it is who and what.
Note: Not saying I agree with any or all of said views, and not saying I don't. Just pointing them out.
Yup.. I agree 100%. While i don't hold a lot of hope for it... if they were to pull off even 85% of what they want to do. It would be a huge (and looong overdue) leap forward for gaming. And hopefully give us another way to design some kinds of games.. Be able to move past, in part, the 'set piece' (in the physical sense, not literal/literary) style of game building we only have now.
@aproxinate: "I still play the originals on 480p and they run just fine. When did games become all about graphics instead of gameplay and story?"
Yeah, same here. I'd say either right around the time that games went bigtime (mainstream), a/o when the PC masterbator race came onto the scene. It's pretty sad really.
This is what happens when you basically ignore a/o at the very least fail to understand the source material. Then go so far off source that you end up with a classic completely cheap and utterly generic hollywood "save the world/people/*blank* from the evil corporations!!1!" storyline. (and not a very good one at that.) The few small bits of the deeper concepts of the series that the movie tries to take on. It either gets backwards, or not at all.
"the movie had a total budget of $250 million, which includes the $110 million production cost and $140 million for worldwide publicity and advertising."
o___o
Maybe they should have spent more of that on better writers.
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