Glad to see Morgan Webb out of a job. Shame others are, but X-Play was garbage nowadays and Attack was soulless after Kevin left. G4 can't say I'm sad to see you go.
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oh no what will we do without xplay and attack of the show
Wait…wasn't G4 already in the process of going off the air as an entire entity?
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Xplay turned to garbage quite a while before anyway. And Adam already left. Never watched AotS though. But yeah I'm not too sad to see the thing that Xplay had become get canned.
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Glad to see
Morgan WebbBlair Herter out of a job. Shame others are, but X-Play was garbage nowadays and Attack was soulless after Kevin left. G4 can't say I'm sad to see you go.Fixed . But anyway not all that broken up about G4 going out like this, network hasn't been worth watching for a good 5-6 years now and hope the new network fails too.
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Sadly if G4 was still a gaming network today it'd probably be the Call of Duty network anyways.
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^ At least it'd be game centric instead of a cheap knockoff of Spike.
I've often wondered about that myself; seems like being supported by people who only want you there so the world can end in fire (with you going to Hell in the process) would be somewhat off-putting
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OMG OMG OMG. I NEVER EXPECTED THIS TO GET A NEW GAME! ITS LIKE…SUCH A SURPRISE!....
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4 leaked...
http://www.shopto.net/news/41138/Modern-Warfare-4-leaked-by-Captain-Price-voice-actor-
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It's just like real life!
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I doubt that many will remember this title but I for one am hyped that we'll finally get a continuation.
http://www.siliconera.com/2012/11/01/dreamfall-the-longest-journey-is-getting-a-sequel-at-long-last/
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I've tried playing quite a few point and click adventure games. Grim Fandango and the Longest Journey are two of them. I'm terrible at them. I can never figure out what to do without looking at a guide. I've been told to play them though even if I have to play it that way.
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I've tried playing quite a few point and click adventure games. Grim Fandango and the Longest Journey are two of them. I'm terrible at them. I can never figure out what to do without looking at a guide. I've been told to play them though even if I have to play it that way.
Grim Fandango's a bit of a tough starter, though it's my personal favorite game of all time (at the moment). Longest Journey's even worse.
Might consider one of the more true point-and-clicks, like Full Throttle, The Dig, or Day of the Tentacle (which are all fairly easy). Might also consider the more difficult The Secret of Monkey Island (the second has some insanely difficult puzzles). My personal favorite that's an actual point-and-click is Curse of Monkey Island, but much of the humor is lost on non-veterans (and most purists turn their noses up at it).
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So GTA IV cofirmed Spring 2013!!!
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But GTAIV is already out silly.
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Holee shit
It's amazing what some people can pull off with limited resources.
Edit: Just look towards the end of the second video where the guy flings the other guy into an orange stand with a fireball and the oranges go flying everywhere and things are knocked over.
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So apparently Silicon Knights have to destroy some of their games due to legal ruling.
http://shopto.net/news/41246/Silicon-Knight-have-to-destroy-Unreal-games
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Siglemic is doing a 48 hour marathon that just started. Everyone loves watching Siglemic, but is 48 hours straight too much or not enough?
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Never heard of Siglemic, and I frequent Twitch quite a bit. Seems to be ignorance on my part as I look at his viewer stats.
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GameFly is currently giving away a free PC download of BioShock. You have to put credit card info on file to download it but GameFly is a very trustworthy site and you can remove your info after you download.
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Just bought 'God of War Saga', 'Ico and Shadow of the Colossus Collection', 'Infamous Collection', 'Ratchet and Clank Collection', and 'Jak and Daxter Collection' all for 50% off.
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I bought Ratchet, Ico, and Jak. I already own and played through all 3 inFAMOUS games, I have GoW III and Collection and my local GameStop clerk gave me the Origins Collection voucher inside a used God of War Saga for free. That just left Killzone which… doesn't really look any good to me. Oh, and Journey collection... but I don't think it's worth it for the amount of content you actually get even if it does come with a free month of Plus.
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Holy crap, my laptop is running Bioshock perfectly at default settings! I'm not sure how this is possible... sure it's a 2007 game but... it's... beautiful...
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Holy crud, it was actually at max settings and then I cranked the resolution all the way to 1600x900 and it's still running grand! What sorcery is this?!
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It's called optimization. Lots of companies can't do it anymore. Last game I played that was amazingly optimized was Max Payne 3, for all the stuff that it does it runs amazingly.
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Yeah, I figured that's what it was. It's absurd to think of some of the games I can't run on this laptop even at the lowest possible settings.
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http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/11/08/mythic-victory-drop-39-bioware-39-label.aspx
I guess the Bioware brand name isn't as strong as it used to be.
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Well… Considering BioWare has 'sucked the ass' lately, this news doesn't surprise me. (Heck... I'm even willing to admit BioWare has never been that great to begin with; using practically the very same story structure for each and every game).
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Never really played much of a Bioware game. Knights of the Old Republic I got so far and then grew bored of it. And Dragon Age kinda bores me after a brief gaming session too.
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KOTOR was awesome and so was the first Mass Effect. I didn't enjoy ME2 as much as the first one and haven't played ME3. Other than that Bioware hasn't really made any good games, though I haven't played Dragon Age.
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I agree that Bioware was better in the past, Baldur's Gate 2 is still one of the best games ever. I liked ME1 and 2, as well as DA1 and 2. The quality has dipped, but the quality is still there, unlike most other studios these days.
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NEXT GEN ENGINE AND RICOCHET 2 (HALF LIFE 3) NOW IN DEVELOPMENT. ALL ABOARD THE HYPE TRAIN.
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lol
http://www.ign.com/articles/2012/11/14/mass-effect-accidentally-included-with-black-ops-2
Some people that bought Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 on PC are finding that one of the installation discs in the box isn't actually an installation disc. Rather it's a copy of Mass Effect 2. The disc art shows Black Ops, but boots to ME2.
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Considering you can just use the serial number to download the full game installer from the internet, I'd say "Hey! Free Mass Effect 2!!"
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The brand new Grand Theft Auto V trailer was released.
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Considering you can just use the serial number to download the full game installer from the internet, I'd say "Hey! Free Mass Effect 2!!"
To top it off BioWare are rewarding people who got the botched Blops 2 with the complete Mass Effect trilogy set that was just released. Very odd. But it could be good PR.
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I barely played this game, but I'm surprisingly sad to see it go: http://www.polygon.com/2012/11/14/3647584/stylish-social-mmo-glitch-to-close-its-online-world-on-dec-9-tiny
Starting to worry about future of video games in general.
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Never heard of it. Oh well. The internet is flooded with an abundance of free to play MMOs (most of which come from Korea lol) so not a huge loss.
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My Top 5 gaming disappointments of 2012:
(warning, slight spoilers for Mass Effect 3's ending… lol)
! 1.) Mass Effect 3's ending-
We all know it sucks. Some have even tried defending it…. and of course there's the extended patch they released that... well, actually made the ending make some sense. But the bad taste was still there. Sure, the previous success of the series meant high expectations for Bioware... and many agreed that it was gonna be a tough shoe for them to fill.... but instead it ended up being a worst case sort of scenario. Gamers were met with a confusing finish that really didn't reflect much of ANY choices the player made in the previous games. Commander Shepard's quest to save the galaxy ended with a wet, bass-less fart.
2.) Max Payne 3's multiplayer-
Let's just make this clear. The campaign for Max Payne 3 is amazing. It's a good length, full of action, challenge, a well written story, and pretty much achieved the expectations a longtime fan like myself had for the game. On the off hand, the much advertised "multiplayer experience of the summer" was a giant let down. If you liked it, well more power to yah, but I feel the action didn't carry over to competitive play well at all. Clunky movement, confusing burst abilities, and the promise of constant cheap death sorta dissuaded me from actually trying to get good at it. Two types of modes were the choice… either auto lock or free aim. Both was a frustrating pitfall... autolock meant people could hit you across the map with an uzi... and free aim was a promise that more skilled players would make you tear your hair out before you actually got good. Sure you could say I didn't like it cause I sucked... but even when i'd have a lucky good match or two... it just didn't satisfy. I was also a fool and bought the season pass... sigh.
3.) Resident Evil 6-
You probably all know my feelings on this by now, but this will have a place on this list. Before the game came out… I was ultra hyped by the trailer. But then they started showing us gameplay... and then the demo came out... and my wallet thanks me that I payed attention. I know there's some of you who really think this is a good game... and well... we'd be splitting hairs trying to make our points for and against the game... but, well, i'm right and you're wrong. Where do I begin? The story takes some of the series biggest players and has them chaperone some random, unwanted, newbie through a situation that doesn't really add jack shit to the RE saga's mythos. Chris is Chris and Leon is Leon... and that's all they really do. Where the fuck is Jill? Why do I have to know Helana's backstory? I don't care about her! Why is Chris hung up on like... one dead soldier? Why did he lose his memory of Pierce? Why is Pierce so freaking gay? Simmon's wishes he was Wesker. The game is too damn dark (and don't tell me to turn up my TV's brightness... I just got done playing Doom 3... so suck it). The camera sucks. There's no merchant. No gun upgrading. Melee is booty. The character wont STOMP ON THE ZOMBIE'S HEAD!! HE KEEPS KICKING AIR!!! and so on...
4.) Diablo 3's auction house-
The game is good! Let's get that out of the way. But there's something that soiled the experience. And that is the real money auction house. The game is a blast from normal to about halfway through hell difficulty…. theeeeenn it happens. The drop's just start sucking... and your Monk needs better gear. So you take all your hard earned gold to the auction house. And then you realize you cannot afford jack shit.... you're about 2 million short for a pair of boots that will be useless by the end of act 1 inferno. Why is everything so damn expensive? Well that's because by implementing real money for Diablo items... the value of in-game gold has well... decreased exponentially! Not to mention cheaters who pay the gold farmers of the orient like... 12 bucks for 20 million causes inflation too. It's a pretty sobering buzz kill when you realize a rare item you could afford by working for 2 hours at your part time job would take you a good 10 hours of grinding for in game gold. But seeing gamers pay $60+ for a fucking digital belt makes me want to take a few showers...
5.) Street Fighter x Tekken-
Don't hate me… I like this game too. But seriously... when was the last time you played this? And better yet... have you gone back and played Super Street Fighter 4 or MvC3 instead? Yeah... I thought so. The game is good... but there's just something about it that didn't stick. Was it how NOBODY liked the gem system? Was it the on-disc DLC? Whatever it was... the fighting game community has universally passed this game off... It's showing at EVO2012 was weak as hell and got less hype than freaking Soul Calibur V. I can't say the game is bad... but there's just something about this one that just didn't stick with me the way SSf4 does. It lacks that... magical feeling yah know? Plus despite the new unique roster of street-fighterized Tekken characters didn't really prevent everyone and their mom from using nothing but Ryu, Ken, and Akuma online like their lives depended on it. What's the point of paying 60$ just to use a shoto character over and over? jesus...
! Honorable mentions-
-I hear Medal of Honor warfighter was booty
-Day one freezing and performance issues with NBA 2k13
-Madden is still Madden
-Skyrim continuing to be a clusterfuck on the ps3
-Vita being a killer piece of tech… with no fucking games...
-Square-Enix not listening to their fans and making crap no one wants.
-The Kinect sucks. Officially. It's had it's chance... and the results are in... don't waste your fucking money.
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-The Kinect and Move sucks. Officially. They've had their chances… and the results are in... don't waste your fucking money.
When I think of one, I think of the other too. They were both as bad as each other.
-Others I can think of is Nintendo's E3 was disappointing. But not as bad as wasting half of the show to that Wizard Book crap.
- Fifa 13 on the Wii and Vita being a repackaged Fifa 12. Literally. Only change. And yet people still buy it and exclaim its an amazing game.
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Can't think of a game of the gen for me at the moment, but if we're talking multiplayer, Halo 3 easily wins. I've never had so much fun with a game's multiplayer until I bought Halo 3. So many late night sessions with friends in custom games having a blast. I really miss that. It's too bad no one plays it anymore (roughly 2000 people online daily now). Everyone moved on to Halo Reach and Halo 4 but they don't have the same grasp on gamers like Halo 3 had. Casuals will pick those 2 up and leave them in a month, but Halo 3 was fun for everyone, "hardcore" and "casuals" alike. A lot of people who I played with and loved Halo 3 bought Reach and 4 but they stopped playing them. I don't know, Halo 3 just has a special charm to it, I suppose.
I would have chosen TF2 but I started playing it in 2011 and I just got bored with it after a year.
While I did sell my Wii in 2009 I didn't get to play SMG2 or Skyward Sword but even though TP is not an amazing game relative to the other entries in the series, it's still one of my favorite games of this generation. Red Dead Redemption was great, too, as was SMG 1, LIMBO, Arkham Asylum, Bad Company 2. I think overall my favorite single-player focused game of the generation is Assassin's Creed II. I've replayed it countless times and I still think it's better than Revelations and Brotherhood, and probably 3 too (won't even buy that one)
The best cheap game I bought was Battlefield 3 for 30 dollars on Black Friday. Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts was a pleasant surprise and I really wasn't that disappointed with it. Same with Sonic Generations, if only because I was still ever so cautious about Sonic even though I was pretty hyped for the game. I had a lot of fun with GTA 4 and Borderlands too. I loved the first Modern Warfare but I'm so glad I decided to trade in the second one for credit towards Bad Company 2.
Biggest disappointment for me has to be Fallout 3. Bought a GOTY edition for 40 bucks, IIRC, but it was just so ugly to look at and so glitch-ridden I couldn't even get past the first few quests or whatever they are called in the game because of boredom and frustration. Another big disappointment was Halo Wars. Not that the game was bad, I'm just not an RTS guy, and it felt like I wasted 50 bucks on it.
One of my best experiences this gen was finally hooking up my 360 to an HD TV. For a year I had it set to a standard definition TV. I was so flabbergasted by HD graphics. Changed the way I game forever. Never again could I go back to playing on an SDTV regularly.
Overall, 2009 was probably the best year for me. Gears of War 2, Halo 3 (bought it late), Assassin's Creed II, Left 4 Dead, Nuts and Bolts (late, too), Borderlands, Arkham Asylum, Halo 3 ODST, etc. It was the year I played the most videogames, the year I bought the most videogames, and the year I made the most out of my Xbox 360. Early 2010 had gems like Pokemon Soul Silver and Bad Company 2. 2008 was all GTA4, Brawl, and Assassin's Creed for me. My only regret is selling my Wii before Skyward Sword came out, but I had a pretty good run with my Wii, with SMG 1, Twilight Princess, Super Paper Mario, Brawl, and Metroid Prime. I doubt I will ever be as into gaming again like I was this gen. Already it feels like I'm losing interest, only Halo 4 picked some of it back up.
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If we are talking about best games of this gen I'm gonna go with Xenoblade Chronicles, Skyward Sword, Nier and Little King's Story. Rayman Origins and Mario Galaxy series close too.
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Console - Xenoblade, Skyrim, AC2 and Guild Wars 2. Runner-up Nier.
Handheld - FF4 DS, Pokémon Heart Gold and Tactics Ogre - Let us cling together -
I think it's pretty impossible to choose a game of the generation there are so many factors that could change it.
If we talk about trend defining it's definitely call of duty(unfortunately), it's insane how many shooters it influenced (often for the worse).Personally I'd say Dark Souls for outstanding difficulty design and most interesting way of storytelling. Journey for incredibly smart design around emotional response. Heavy Rain for reinventing/defining/refining? the adventure genre or maybe you could even say making new kind of game genre(whatevery strikes your fancy), that nobody else took interest in or tried to imitate.
Uncharted 3 for technological ambition and delivery (boy the ship level still impresses, if we'd only talk about ambition I'd probably go with skyrim or AC2-3) and last but not least the Mass Effect series (despite the ending) for most impressive production feat(It's insane if you think about it that they were allowed to do it and pulled it off) and story moments (I salute you mordin).But at the end of the day this generation isn't over yet it's going to go out insanely like most with things like gta 5, bioshock infinite, last of us or beyond two souls, etc.
Reading Gekko's list of biggest disappointments made me want to make one for myself still haven't thought it through though, so doing it later.
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I think I got more fun out of the Handhelds this generation than the main consoles. So many great games. I was surprised to find that looking back, I used my PS3 way more than the Wii yet overall I've enjoyed the games on the Wii more than the PS3. Nier, Rayman and Tales of Graces aside I'm really finding it difficult to list a game I loved. Which brings me to my next disappointment.
Bethesda as a whole. Now maybe it's because I own a PS3 and not a 360 and don't use my PC for gaming but Bethesday's inability to make pretty much ANYTHING work on the PS3 was a huge disappointment. I really enjoyed the Fallout games. Especially New Vegas. However I just cannot say they're the best of the gen because quite simply, they don't work properly.
Actually considering some other games I'd say the fact that Developers/Publishers releasing buggy or broken games on release itself is a disappointment of this gen. I don't recall things being so bad last gen but it seems now that developers know they can just patch later its an excuse for them to release buggy games.
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I think you should rather specify bethesda game studios, since bethesda quite a bit bigger than the elder scrolls/fallout studio. Given how bad skyrim turned out for the ps3 crowd can't blame you. But to my knowledge it's their only console specific fuckup yet?
New Vegas was Obsidian who are quite known for producing buggy games(doesn't matter what platform) that are carried by their writers who just get how to make morally intriguing stories.
Also gotta hand it to them for making the most ridiculous "hat bug" but yeah their games on release are terrible bug disasters and ask for a lot to put up with.I don't remember any ps3 specific fuckups for fallout 3 though.
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Fallout 3 had pretty much the same problems New Vegas had like the random crashing, huge lag etc. I still recall a deathclaw falling from the sky and killing me at one point. I can see how people blame Obsidian however they were using the same engine that Bethesda used for Fallout and Skyrim (I think) so as far as I'm concerned they were making a game an engine that Bethesda didn't fix. (although I do blame Obsidian to an extent too. Although out of the three I now find New Vegas to be the most stable.)
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PC Exclusive - Stalker games
Console Exclusive - Red Dead Redemption
Multiplatform - Hard to say, I don't want this to be a Rockstar list but Max Payne 3 would be up there. Maybe Spec Ops.
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I think you should rather specify bethesda game studios, since bethesda quite a bit bigger than the elder scrolls/fallout studio. Given how bad skyrim turned out for the ps3 crowd can't blame you. But to my knowledge it's their only console specific fuckup yet?
New Vegas was Obsidian who are quite known for producing buggy games(doesn't matter what platform) that are carried by their writers who just get how to make morally intriguing stories.
Also gotta hand it to them for making the most ridiculous "hat bug" but yeah their games on release are terrible bug disasters and ask for a lot to put up with.I don't remember any ps3 specific fuckups for fallout 3 though.
Fall Out 3 on its own wasn't too bad. If you got the GotY edition, good luck trying to play that. It's probably worse than Skyrim with crashes.
New Vegas wasn't much better. But they eventually got that working, as well as Oblivion, which is easily their best PS3 outing.
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So the Game of the Year nominees for Spike's VGAs have been announced and… they're kinda sad.
Assassin's Creed III
The Walking Dead
Dishonored
Journey
and Mass Effect 3I'm both dumbfounded and disappointed Max Payne 3 isn't on there.
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I'm almost certain Journey'll get it since it's the big artsy game of the year(though it certainly deserves it.), but I voted 'The Walking Dead' since I enjoyed it the most.
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Journey is the only one deserving it. Although I aint played Dishonoured yet. AC3 and ME3 are probably two of my most disappointing games this year.
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The one thing I will admit kinda depressed me was the reaction to 'The Walking Dead' being nominated was a post on another forum going 'It's a fu**ing point and click game!' :(
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I enjoyed Walking Dead enough, I played the first two on my brother's X-box. But I didn't feel anything more for that than I did the Back to the Future games last year.
Hang in there, Kierkegaard.
