are you really bringing up the f**king ME3 ending BS again?
my god, the only people who wont let the ending go are the people defending it. doom 3 is what this article should have been about, you just shoved ME3 in there in typical troll fashion, like the fresh prince of bel-air song being shoved in the middle of a wall of text.
doom 3 was a deliberate design choice, a limitation that may be nonsensical and many players may not like, but that enhances the game as a whole. ME3 was a last minute change by 2 people after the original ending was leaked, an ending so universally reviled that even its defenders can only come up with "it was all a dream". they are not at all the same. i agree the ending shouldnt be changed, its just answering a mistake with another mistake, but seriously... just f**king stop. stop shoving your fanboy opinions into every single thing tangentially related to ME3's ending. it aint working. it aint going to work. its quite honestly pathetic and reeks of desperation.
its has never been about artistic integrity Mr Sinclair, the only person who cant accept that seems to be you. "clearly the result of bold choices" my ass.
the perspective of the game kind of makes it impossible for graphics to impress, no matter how good they are. everything is so far away, and the static angle greatly restricts the size and shape of any particular element. the only thing you ever really see in detail is the floor, and if nothing else, im certain diablo 3 has very impressive floor graphics.
so is that the final fight of the game? because it was pretty underwhelming.
you know, if its a choice between bosses who pwn you if you dont play by the arbitrary rules of the fight, and bosses who can be made into a joke by grinding, i chose the unfair BS bosses of yester-year over these unfulfilling cakewalks. at least beating those bosses felt like a victory. but really, what can you expect from diablo, it was always a simple hacknslash.
remember when videos of video game bosses being made a mockery of was due to extreme player skill or a hilarious glitch/exploit? now you can do with neither, it seems.
how quickly the light-hearted immaturity that made this series so cathartic turned into an embarrassment for the industry.
this is the purest form of exploitation; after so many stupid, pointless, vapid DLC packs, they finally ran out of actual ideas and resorted to DLC whose only selling point is half-naked women, which the main game already has plenty of.
the over-the-top, childish nature of saints row was meant to hamper the outlook of games like GTA being horrible murder simulators that turn children into criminals by clearly showing how nobody takes this stuff seriously, but that only worked because the real focus of the game was having a whole lot of stuff to do: as in, there were reasons to play the game beyond senselessly murdering people. now with SR3 the game is vapid and empty, and if its only selling point is being wildly immature, then it has become exactly what the first 2 games tried to say didnt exist.
all i see is that they let go of some people for some reason and gave the standard PR response of completely skirting the issue so that investors dont get the idea that the game's profits are going anywhere but up. the thing about MMOs is that they are self-sustaining money piles, so once they are out there a lot of the people who worked on it become dead weight. you just need people to do patches and what not, even expansions dont take nearly as much manpower as making the MMO to begin with. its like being an egyptian slave; you get pulled into one giant project that takes thousands of people, and once its done you get to be buried with the pharaoh because nobody needs you anymore.
you people and your conspiracies, jeez. you dont need to assure anyone that TOR is going to fail, we all know what happens to WoW clones, the only difference with this one is that the star wars/ bioware brand ensures a larger pool of deluded fans who will rant to the death how awesome and financially viable the game is. as tempting as it is, we must remember that arguing with fanboys is like arguing with rocks: no matter how much you try or how much sense you make, its not going to budge.
you know, i dont think we PC players can honestly continue to flaunt our obvious superiority until we stop being such shallow graphics whores... should not the precise aiming of a mouse and the many additional layers of gameplay depth allowed by a keyboard be enough? if the only thing we can do with our fancy hardware is continue to push the over-importance of graphics that has made this generation of games into 5-hour long strolls from pretty cutscene to pretty cutscene, then i dont think we deserve it. dont get me wrong, max payne is an excellent piece of storytelling, but the vast majority of games dont consider the use of visuals to enhance gameplay nearly as much, i dare say LA noire and max payne 3 are the only ones that made use of bleeding-edge graphics for artistic elements. everything that is great about max payne's visuals you can get from the console version, the PC version just has more fluff that hardly justifies a 3000$ rig.
id imagine nobody is making a fuss about it because its embarrassing to all parties involved and seems like another poor attempt to exploit a child's lack of judgment and a parent's lack of parenting. if this actually does end up making them a lot of money... well, then the business probably isnt the problem. if this does become a serious thing that gets put in a bunch of AAA games, then there really is nothing we can do. it would take a real economic depression that leaves millions poor and thousands starving before humanity remembers the value of things at that point.
so, any nietzschean supervillians out there, get cracking!
are you some kind of amateur PR spokesman in disguise? how the hell do you expect to prove someone's intent one way or the other? if tricking people into paying for things that they already own is a necessity of business, than that business can and should suck and die. why are you treating this like a f**king criminal investigation? business is about supply and demand, and it all boils down to money: if we feel cheated, we dont buy. we dont need any f**king evidence. its about what the customer wants, not what the customer can prove in a court of law, and if the customer wants their business to be conducted openly with no tricks or lies or manipulation to get more of their money (as they should), then any good company will adapt to that demand.
what if a business donated half their profits to charity? would you refuse to buy anything from them until someone proved they did it because theyre just that nice and not because it would make for good PR? do you see how stupid this kind of judgment is? they are greedy, manipulative pricks because i say they are, and when enough people agree, the business will do what is necessary to stop looking like greedy, manipulative pricks so people will start buying from them again. games are horribly expensive and generally unprofitable because everyone is trying to copy the success of the major players, the brown, boring shooters that have billion-dollar graphics budgets and take a year to make because they actual game part is shallow and simple to reproduce. publishers lack of creativity and desire to exploit a profitable development model until everyone suffers from it is not my problem. if they cant fix it, then to hell with them: im the customer, and my only role is to decide whether a thing is worth my money or not. they dont need me or you to defend them.
"drag" is definitely the right term to use, because nobody but you wants to go there, mr bleszinksi.
publishers employ underhanded, orwellian, and blatantly greedy tactics to drain you of money. games are simpler, less distinct, more expensive, and come with 500 different pre-order bonuses. the RPG genre has been all but destroyed and can only exist when piggybacked with another genre. shooters over-saturate the market, and online skinner boxes have replaced friendly competition. graphics are the single aspect of gaming that doesnt need any improvement right now.
however you allegedly plan to lower costs and dev time, pushing the already insanely pervasive "graphic whore" mentality only serves to give console players the same jacked up priorities PC players have when it comes to graphical quality. the next-gen needs a shift in developer focus, an influx of creativity (indie games are doing fairly well at this), that draws attention away from the current brown FPS powerhouses everyone rips off and allows more freedom for devs, not more realistic looking dirt.
is it me, or does cliffy B sound like a pompous ass lately? telling japan what to do, declaring himself master of console technology...
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