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"'the game industry grows while other media stagnate. Developers continue to innovate while filmmakers languish in creative voids.'
Lets take a look at the busy holiday periods output.
Medal of Honor 12 (yes 12, reboots still count as sequels), Fallout 3.5: New Vegas,,Halo 5, Fable 3, Force Unleashed 2, Rockband 3, Gran Turismo 5, Call of Duty 7, Assassins Creed 2.5, Driver 4, Crysis 2, DJ Hero 2, Fear 3, Max Payne 3. The list goes on.
Original IP? Epic Mickey, a Def Jam Rap game and errr.... yeah I'm struggling.
I like video-games, I really do, but to say they're innovating while movies stagnate when they're both based off exactly the same business model is ludicrous."
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
"Had to turn it off after a while. All the shouting into a set of low-quality earbuds gets pretty tiresome eventually. Did like Raychul's point about the Wii not being Gimmicky, pointing to Nintendo games and then saying they only use it rarely which sounds kinda like a gimmick to me.
edit: Oh and just to throw a point into judging stuff on sales. Is that really what we want to do? Really? Every second auto-tune song seems to sell a buttload so let's just stop the talented singing because thats obviously not what the market wants.
Market wants what market gets. Simple as."
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
"Not to sound like a douche but this just reads like a redacted version of Ellie Gibsons piece on EG from last week with the jokes and the detail taken out."
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
"a user of the site to read rather than write articles, I found this surprisingly eng"
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
"ently I partook in a Professional Studies group. We had to come up with an idea, set it out as a business plan, bust out the cash flow forecast. It ended up with 3 designers who ran the magazine from start to finish (on 14k a year) that would organise everything, sales, marketing, design and then obviously getting it off to print. With a bitmob style writing team (i.e. Don't pay them, user generated content blablabla) it worked out at a £270k turnover with £130k profit. This was a 50 page mag split 50/50 with ads and a run of 5000. My question is, surely this can't be right? If print is dead how can I come up with a plan that makes £130k profit in it's first year? Or is it just that the plan horrendously over-works the 3 designers therefore making the plan not"
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
"identaly clicked post before I could edit it. God damn it. Guess I'll have to cut it short.
Everyone has that one achievement in gaming that they are most proud of. Here is mine:[img]http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/1082/spelunky.png[/img]
So yeah... Spelunky. It's free and it's the game I've played almost everyday since March 30th 2009 when I was introduced to it by a far greater writer than I am. If you're not yet convinced by my words. Let this guy have a go
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/03/30/snake-to-death-the-majesty-of-spelunky/
http://www.spelunkyworl"
Sunday, January 31, 2010
"lunky, a delightful platformer where you go downwards instead of sideways. Each level is randomly generated from a palette based on the area you're in. Beat 5 levels of the Indiana Jones Temple of Doom style area 1; full of snakes, traps and gigantic rolling boulders, go on to go on area 2, a jungle environment full of coin stealing monkeys and carnivorous plants. And so on. Each game starts you off with 5 hearts which you can increase by saving Princess' and stealing a kiss off them or simply visiting the local brothel to get some paid-for kissy, kissy action. There are a variety of different power ups; from a devastating shotgun that'll rip through enemies like my farts rip my boxers to a golden cape allowing you to fall to your death that little bit slower. But these power-ups come and go. The only friends you can really trust are the 5 ropes and the 5 bombs that you start with although the amount of times I've thrown a bomb only to have it bounce off a wall, hit me in the face, knock me to the ground and then explode my tiny Indiana Jones impressionado makes them difficult to describe as friends.
But the true beauty of this game is that you will not see most of this in your first playthrough. Maybe in about 300 playthroughs if you're lucky. You will die in Spelunky, alot. But you will never accuse the game of being cheap. The platforming is so... [i]tight[/i] that every time you die it will be your fault. Not the AI being cheap. Just you being too coc"
Sunday, January 31, 2010
"now it's not really the point of the article but just something I picked up on
[quote]My point is that not everyone lives in a city with a local, independently owned boutique shop that sells games. Much of the country is in the suburbs and the open country, where chain stores are the only option around.[/quote]
Aren't the suburbs and open country exactly where you wouldn't expect a chain? Or wouldn't have if the chain across the road hadn't knocked your Mom n' Pops out of business?
Sorry, it seems my epidermis (read: socialist agenda) is sh"
Sunday, January 24, 2010
"as in there at the beginning after a couple of false starts. I logged off to fix my mic and have a cigarette only never to be able to get in again. Oh well, maybe net"
Friday, January 08, 2010
"Mr. Hsu, neither sarcasm nor ignorance impresses me. I take no pleasure in you applying one or the other to me. I meant a Steam Event (sends everyone in the StreamGroup a message when the games starting) and it seems someone has heeded my advice. Hope my ping hol"
Friday, January 08, 2010
"uessed So"
Friday, January 08, 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_osQvkeNRM&feature=PlayList&p=BF2B4B5423EB7B86&index=0&playnext=1
'The people I know who swear alot tend to have the widest vocabularies.'"