I've never been to space, but I have been to space camp. We crashed the shuttle on re-entry when the pilot accidentally deployed the landing gear in the upper atmosphere. If only we'd had this episode to help keep us from dying. Solid episode. Thanks!
@Pawfalcon He has done cyborgs and augmentations, though it was one of the episodes in the very first season of "The What If Machine...", so it may be up for some updating if the tech has progressed at all. I highly recommend tracking it down on youtube. It still stands as one of my favorites for the sheer amount of "Holy crap... they can do that?!"
@ritjos71 @Aletunda It's not gamespot. It's O'Dwyer. I'm sure he has to run his stuff by someone, but The Point is really just a forum for him to get up and say "Hey... hey... I got something to say. Listen to me! Listen to me!" I'm sort of iffy on this particular venture. They're occasionally entertaining, but the whole thing feels really self indulgent to me. At least EFMS and Secret Code conveyed some sort of information. These are just opinion pieces on random topics.
@jimrhurst @FrankZoex2 @Aletunda @BLKCrystilMage Carolyn has reviewed every Rockstar release since LA Noire and has praised them all to high heaven. Of course they gave the review to her. She was the one person on the review staff most likely to write a glowing review, just like how Kevin Van Ord gets every Assassin's Creed game and Chris Watters always gets the Halo releases.
Given that you have to insert the original PS3 disc into your PS4 to activate the option, I would guess not. You need to have the PS4 to plug the disc into in order to get the upgrade option.
@Adenosine Actually, the developers don't get the full $60. That retail price is broken up between the developer, publisher, and distributor so that a developer might get $10 for every game, a publisher gets $25, and the distributor gets $25 (not sure of the actual breakdown, but it's something like that.) And the publisher/developers only get paid for each new copy, which is why they're all so pissy about used games. The profit from those goes solely to the distributor, but the distributor also eats a chunk of their up front money on every unsold copy that eventually drops to $20 six months to a year down the line. So, in that light, sinking $100 million into a game for pretty graphics and another $20 million for bulletin boards and superbowl ads means they don't make a profit unless they move at least 6 or 7 million copies.
But don't get me wrong. I'm not defending Square Enix. Any company that continues to base its entire development philosophy on graphical supremacy where you get a whole lot of photorealistic cut scenes mixed with generally uninspired gameplay needs to seriously reevaluate whether they should stay in the market. And I can't wait until FFXIII-72 kicks them in the buttocks.
I would encourage you to continue with AC3. Yes, the beginning is very slow moving and it's hard to give a flip about Connor at first. But it does pay off, or it did for me at least. Connor's character is easily the most affected of all the assassins by the events in his life and he evolves the most from beginning to end. I wished him off the screen for the first half of the game, but I now have a hard time picking which assassin I like better between Connor and Ezio.
As for the horror SP/Co-op debate, the reality is that, once you know what's coming around that corner, it isn't scary anymore. Get killed three times entering a particular room and that same room becomes more of a problem to be solved than an "ooooh, I'm so scared to go in there!" So, in a way, the co-op option creates more of an opportunity for scares than taking them away. Play through the single player campaign once and you know what's coming, but then you have the opportunity to pick up a partner and play through the campaign again where additional dialogue, scenes, and interactions mean you don't really know what's around that next corner anymore. As G.I. Joe says, not knowing is half the scare... or something.
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