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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoCZ07hwoZ4
And now, September's information.
5-week tracking month; Reporting Period 8/28/11 through 10/1/11
Software (New physical retail only, across all platforms including PC)
01. Madden NFL 12 (360, PS3, Wii, PS2, PSP)** Electronic Arts
02. Gears of War 3 (360)** Microsoft (Corp)
03. Dead Island (360, PS3, PC) Deep Silver
04. FIFA Soccer 12 (360, PS3, Wii, PS2, PSP, 3DS) Electronic Arts
05. NHL 12 (360, PS3) Electronic Arts
06. Deus Ex: Human Revolution (360, PS3, PC)** Square Enix Inc
07. Resistance 3 (PS3) Sony (Corp)
08. Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars (Wii, NDS, 360, 3DS, PS3, PSP, PC) LucasArts
09. Call of Duty: Black Ops (360, PS3, NDS, Wii, PC)** Activision Blizzard
10. Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine (360, PS3, PC) THQ
**(includes CE, GOTY editions, bundles, etc. but not those bundled with hardware)
Xbox 360 -- 438,000
3DS -- 260,000
Wii- 240,000
Playstation 3: 364K-374K (Calculations deduced from Sony and MS PR percentages)
Nintendo DS: 145K
Posts
Some fans, others not so much so. I say this as a Metroid layperson/nonfan. 79 sounds about right to me--or at least, the people I know around me.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/17/inafune-messed-up-working-relationship-led-to-bionic-commando/
Good stuff, but then a day later he recognized he had more and wanted to gin up more pageviews. So there's this:
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/19/lets-play-the-blame-game-inafune-on-what-went-wrong-with-capco/
Hooray for no one learning from their mistakes! Also this doesn't exactly raise my hopes for that DMC thing.
Now it feels like every guy in charge at Capcom got some kind of brain damage at once.
I feel like they're still pretty much gold standard. Everyone still drools over all their games.
Street Fighter 4 on each of its platforms, despite some fan bitching, is still widely enjoyed. RE and Monster Hunter on 3DS pushing some pretty good graphics on the thing, and Marvel vs. Capcom at Vita launch (and assuredly MH coming later too).
They make missteps but they're still massively popular and put out great games when all is said and done.
Looking at metacritic, CODblops seems to be around the low-ish 80s too, and we all saw how well that did sales wise
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A positive article about the Wii U and Crytek happy with it themselves?! I think I need to sit down.....
We already knew it was coming, but damn-it Capcom... I guess;
I'll buy it at a low price.
Maybe I'm being dense ... but I don't see what's wrong with that. I played Black Ops and I agree it's a good game (which is what 8/10 feels like to me). I'm not surprised at all that the sales numbers are great, and most gamers seem to be quite happy with that.
Anyway, enough with ratings/reviews, we've beaten that one to death.
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RE4? CAPCOM?
Never!
Like EA Sports, CAPCOM has never met a platform it won't put a high selling series on. Except Xbox.
The rage is more about the butchering of all the Metroid-related story stuff. If that garbage wasn't in there, complete with jaw-droppingly bad writing and cutscenes, I doubt the rest of the game would bother me even if it seems bizarre to have your abilities arbitrarily locked away. But with the story stuff added in, high 70s seems incredibly generous to me; however, I am admittedly harsh on games, especially when they're part of an established series with several quality titles preceding them.
As for Capcom, I can't help seeing them becoming the Activision of Japan. Yeah, they make stuff that gets sold, but they seem to have been bitten by the "make a billion sequels as often as possible" bug. Not only that, but they seem to have some irrational hatred of all the Megaman stuff despite Megaman being an iconic character. Their recent attitude towards Megaman makes no sense especially since they could probably make a killing by going through all the old Megaman games and doing HD/3D remakes.
I think the original point was to find a game that was much worse than 'mid-80ish'. Something absolutely raked over the coals critically and still liked by the players at-large. You could probably find dozens of games that get eights and sell very well. Find one that got a four.
True that. It really seems like any score on the 10 scale never drops below 5-6; such a pain, too, since there are tons of awesome games that get rated around 7-8 and tons of crappy ones that get around there too.
The guy just wants to get onboard with projects that have different methods of development, and he never really got the chance because Capcom has gone bonkers.
I know, let's just coin the term "report card" for videogame scores and it will make sense again.
Only if they also instituted the bell curve. For the lulz.
And as stated earlier, these people are "haters" because they could've literally cost Epic a couple thousand dollars, minimum. They probably did, depending on how early the review came out.
For every one good, thorough, professional reviewer in print or online there are three retards jabbing at their drool covered keyboards or pandering to whatever developer they get the most advertising revenue from.
Cliffy B getting worked up over a clash of opinion? Get the fuck outta town!
I love that guy for shit like this. Isn't he aware of things like Back to the Future 3 not necessarily being better than part 2?
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Didn't he justify himself once by literally saying that?
Well, you've got me there. I haven't actually looked into this case to see what his tone is. I'm basing it on past instances of him going beyond having a disagreement, which would be fine, and instead he seems to lash out.
What's the general consensus on the guy? I actually like Cliff just fine, he's always super polite and nice in interviews. He would be, though, I suppose. But I'm a pro-Pachter guy, so what the hell do I know.
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If this is the track record, it's already better than the news media. Sounds like the game industry is in good shape! :P
Oh shit, y'know what? I was thinking of David Jaffe. I guess I owe Cliffy B some amount of apology.
The art stands on its own. Make it and set it free!
Sterling (one of the 8/10's) wrote a thing about it.
http://www.gamefront.com/gears-of-war-3-perfect-review-scores-by-divine-right/
And Cliffy's specific statement.
http://www.vg247.com/2011/09/16/finishing-the-fight-cliff-bleszinski-on-gears-3-and-the-future/
Euro's review
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-09-14-gears-of-war-3-review
They were called haters because they liked the game, but not enough to give it a 9 or 10.
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I don't buy this as being something unique to this industry though. Isn't "journalism" in general just about always just like this? Whatever you personally follow, be it games or politics or the farming industry, you will hate the journalists that cover the things you are passionate about. All journalists are equally terrible.
I remember a 1UP Yours podcast that he was on in which he retold how he was defending himself and what people were saying about Too Human on GAF and some of the exchanges. Apparently after awhile he got sick of the vast majority of the posters and some of the juvenile attacks against him and just started one last thread in which he told everyone there why they weren't even worth replying to anymore (in so many words) and pointed out all of their faults. Aside from all the "one console future" nonsense I actually started to like listening to the guy after that, although he is a bit full of himself at times.