That was... unexpected, thought Chaz was trolling a little, but GS front page says the same.

Still, not too bothered, November is already overcrowded with new releases, the game could actually benefit from this, as long as they use the extra time for something useful.

That's cool, Shepard's story is over, and I'd love to see more of ME universe, if done right.

I don't know about the past, but this gen, they aren't an AAA dev.

ND games on GS:

Uncharted: 8.0

Uncharted 2: 9.5

Uncharted 3: 9.0

TLoU: 8.0

Average: 8.625

What a shame... and if you include UC Golden Abyss for the Vita (ND were only overseeing the development), it'd go even lower... :(

I don't know, I just find it painfully average. KZ games are decent FPS, but nothing more. If they weren't exclusive, I think critic reception would've been much colder, they'd quickly get lost in the sea of more competent competitors.

Hm, can't remember ever crying due to emotional investment into plot and characters, but I did shed a few tears of frustration here and there.

For example, I remember some helicopter boss battle in the original Far Cry, on a sinking ship. For days, been trying to beat it but I just couldn't, and I desperately wanted to see the rest of the game without resorting to cheats or anything. It did piss me off a lot, but after countless tries, managed to get through it. That felt pretty good... also, in my later FC replays, never had much problems with it.

Oh come on... you guys really play GoW for those things?

Hell, I had enough of Kratos after the first game credits rolled out... everything turned into a mess later on, unless "RAAAAWAAAHRRRRAAA AMAAAA KILLLLLLLL EVEEEEERRYOOOONEE!" is considered good writing. The combat and overall mechanics saw plenty of improvements, though, the games becoming more polished and ambitious.

Sounds good enough for me, then. GoW narrative went right down the toilet after the first game, when Kratos was reduced to a caricature with huge anger issues. Hardly had any reason to follow it, except for a few laughs.

I wouldn't know, never played it. But GoW 3 was some good fun, and by looking at Ascension, it seems very similar, how could they **** things up?

Still, if I ever get me another PS3, I'll give it a try.

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EDIT: Wow, we can freely say "****" now.

About damn time... **** YEAH! :D

Of course I can't counter the existence of bad PR, never even tried that. I'm just saying it's irrelevant, since ultimately, MS backed down.

Consumers were the ones taking a direct stance against the MS policies, Sony was just being there, capitalizing on it, using it is a powerful marketing tool. I suppose we can say Sony helped to speed up the process of MS backtracking, but I still stand behind my original statement, how it was the consumers who saved the whole situation, and how Sony would've gladly followed in MS' wake if there was no public backlash.

The PR attitude hardly matters, when you take into the consideration MS changed their policies. That's the important stuff, when they saw the consumers aren't willing to put up with their plans, they changed them, in fear of losing money, due to all the bad publicity they were gathering. If we're going to play the PR game, I could find you a whole lot of idiotic statements coming from Sony.

Sony was just here, offering a system considered more acceptable by the consumers, based on the demands coming from the public backlash. Again, with no public backlash, Sony would have no reason not to follow in MS' footsteps.