I'll do it when they pay me, since I'll be having to pay my ISP for going over my monthly cap after 2 games. A cap which, incidentally, is continuously going down instead of up.
using Video Games for anything other than entertainment is not reccomended.
I think if Video Games are to be an accepted medium in society like music and movies, they should try to address more serious issues. Now I am not saying all video games should tackle serious issues. But a handful of developers should try their hands in them.
If think about, there is such great opportunity in video games to convey serious topics that no other medium has. It just has to be done right.( which is easier said than done, I know).
People will read a book, or listen to music, or watch movies that deal with a wide variety of topics.
People who play video games will only (on a mass consumer level) buy things where you get to kill stuff.
Can they do it? Yes, as long as the people involved don't mind not making a profit.
I used to love Mortal Kombat back in the Sega Genesis days...today it is irrelevant.
Millions of sales of the last game seems to disagree with you.
Fighting games have lost a lot relevance though.
Just because you're not into EVO and the arcade scene, doesn't make it irrelevant
Although that scene has never really considered Mortal Kombat to be relevant.
I call bs on that one. Mortal Kombat has a good following at EVO. Mortal Kombat was huge in the arcades.
SF4 and Marvel have good followings at EVO. Everything else barely scrapes by.
MK was primarily thought of as a sideshow in the arcades around here. It was bad mechanically compared to its peers and was fueled primarily by people outside of the scene who just wandered in because they'd heard about the spectacle violence. Some of those people stuck around and played other games, but most of them disappeared with Mortal Kombat. MK9 improved things but generally just felt fueled by nostalgia. Killer Instinct has probably already hit a higher peak.
Your best bet is to make a friend there who doesn't mind being immediately fired upon selling you a copy.
well im hoping that if/when i go there that the manager will be the person at the counter because no one will fire him/her so him/her will be most likely to give it to me if they know there is 0 consequences
Gamestop managers are just as whipped as random clerks. We're talking about a company that fires people who get less than 10s in online surveys. A 9 is considered failure.
It's not the branch managers making that policy, it's the head office.
It's $400 here in the US. EVERYTHING in australia is more money, but for the $50 extra dollars you're getting a considerably more powerful console which has a reputation of providing games for more years than xbox consoles. The 360 has been dead for the past 3 years, in that time sony has released multiple game of the years for PS3.
It started at $400 in Canada, and was raised $50 due to the low dollar. The dollar has been low before, and never adversely affected pricing. With MS it has only affected the game prices.
PS3 launch in Canada was $50 more expensive due to the poor dollar... This is nothing new.
Electronics always go up in Canada when the dollar shits the bed, and then they keep it raised for a nice long time even when the exchange rate improves. Microsoft would be doing the same thing if they could afford it, but they can't.
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