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I disagree... COD is a big name and more than likely garners alot of sales based on that name and the hype it brings. Black OPS (arguably) is not nearly as good as a game as COD4 or even MW2 which was a step back in quality from 4. Treyarch is improving leaps and bounds each game they do (COD3= Doo doo sauce... COD WaW= Pretty decent) but without the COD name and the Activision marketing machine they wouldnt come close to the numbers they put up.
I hope IW wins the lawsuit... they deserve to. They lined Activisions pockets with millions(maybe billions) of dollars and were forced out in shady circumstances. A successful lawsuit against Activision would A. Give them at least a piece of the franchise they built and B. Knock Activision down a notch... perhaps make them a bit more humble.
I doubt a complete victory for IW though...
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/43813/Introducing-the-3DS-Hed-Saver I hate this planet.
Why because somebody is going to market a product that will 'help' people play through the pain? Or that people will buy these things thinking they're a good idea?
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You forgot option 3: the people who use it to 'play through the pain', then try to sue Nintendo when their vision ends up permanently bummed.
Headaches and dizziness are a pretty clear sign you should stop staring at that screen so much.
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I don't see how this is different from movies that have been fleshed out similarly. Look what people did with 6 hours worth of Star Wars.
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You don't understand. Homefront is a shitty, shitty game. And Star Wars...isn't.
So one thing is totally worth mockery!
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My point is that if they really cared about giving the game a fleshed-out, fully realized, engaging setting and story and appealing to people who want that from a game, one would think they might have considered trying to accomplish that in the game itself.
Also, the Star Wars movies were of average length for feature films. Homefront's campaign is pitifully short even by FPS standards. If the Star Wars movies were, say, a total of 20 minutes long, I think your comparison would make more sense.
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Maybe they'll push the translated Metro novels when and if Metro 2034 ever comes out. Then again, considering Metro 2033 was used as a throw-in freebie with Homefront...
PSN is down today.
Stuff like this usually ends well.
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One got expelled for downloading child porn and the rest got banned from the computer labs for piracy.
Good kids.
That isn't an April Fools joke?
More like Sony vs People with Two Week Attention Spans. Sony just has to ignore this and Anonymous will move on to whatever new that chaps their ass.
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From all accounts, Homefront is an average game, not a shitty one.
And, frankly, Star Wars is just above average. I still love it, but saying that it's amazing is a bit far.
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I think you misread what I posted. Try it again.
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Anyone?
No?
Okay then.
Have JUST played through that level last week, I can tell you it's a false "nonlinearity" Basically you explore one area until to find a keycard, which opens up a new area that you explore to find a keycard, which opens up the last area you explore until you find the exit button.
It's not really any superior to the way games do things today, IMO. Just different.
Modern shooters haven't done anything of the sort. Any time you have to go to one place to unlock something elsewhere, that might as well be a key hunt.
Technically games like Dark Forces started eliminating the key hunt, but finding the power generator so you can turn it on and activate an elevator is the same thing. Same thing every time you have to take a detour before you get to go where you need to go.
It just feels slightly less boring because instead of finding the red key card and the blue key card, you're chasing down Jenkins for his security ID and turning on the backup power to open the doors.
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A-fucking-men. Remember playing the old Doom and Quake games... before respawning enemies were chic... you could clear an area of enemies but get stuck trying to find the switch/key/slightly discolored wall and just end up wandering an empty area for god knows how long...
Considering "horrible, repetitive tedium of key hunts" is as much of a exaggeration if not outright falsity than the usual "endless corridors" criticism of modern shooters, yes.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/43811/THQ-has-plans-for-NGP This means jack shit other than that they will eventually make some games for it.
Hey, I love that stuff. I did Dead Space (360), Dead Space 2 (360), Dead Space Extraction (Wii), Dead Space Downfall (movie), Dead Space Aftermath (movie), and Dead Space Martyr (novel). I even watched their little animated comic.
When it's good, it's really good. The movies were a bit lackluster though, but no foul there since I Netflix'd them. The novel was actually well written.
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It can also be argued that the early FPS games felt more open because they added up and down to the movement. So levels were designed to go all over the place.
Over time, however, it's been distilled back to the basic element: Get from point A to point B. Suddenly the games are shorter because exploration has, for good or bad, been removed. The novelty is gone, more or less. But that also means less general frustration when the player cannot immediately figure out where to go for the next plot coupon.
Nostalgia filters everything.
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God I just hope they give it a real name soon. If they end up keeping NGP as the name... ugh.