Remiel Pollard
Devlin Security
Devlin Alliance
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Posted - 2012.11.10 12:09:00 -
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This is CNN we're talking about, right? Have you read the editor's notes?
"Since 2005, Blake Snow has covered video games and other male-interest topics..."
"...male-interest topics..."
Anyone that writes about "male-interest topics" and calls it that doesn't know what they're talking about. ESPECIALLY if they specialise in that.
"...gamers' tastes have evolved to include quick, bite-size gaming sessions..."
This is bulldust - spend five minutes on the Halo Waypoint forums to see how many people spend their whole lives playing the game and doing nothing else. What about Mass Effect 3? How many people finished it inside the first 24 hours? You'd actually have to play it for the ENTIRE 24 hours (or near to it) to finish it in that time.
I don't know where this guy's getting his numbers from... or his information, but this DFC Intelligence group is clueless.
"I don't honestly think that someone who didn't want a 2-D platformer 20 years ago is going to wake up today and buy it on XBLA."
That's where they're very wrong. Retro games have been making a huge comeback in the last decade or so. As a part of a retro gaming community, I can tell you straight up, it ain't small. I've got all the Sonics on XBL EXCEPT the 3D ones (which were all **** - the 2D ones are way better). Original Mario on an original 8-bit NES... I've still never been able to clock that. I don't try as much as I used to, but every now and again I give it another crack. I must be the only retro gamer I know that hasn't been able to beat the original Mario, but even the rest will admit that original Mario was HARD!!! And games today... they're easy, boring, no challenge. There are a few very epic exceptions, but if anything's causing a slump in gaming, it's that so many new releases are being rushed to a deadline for the sake of making money and there's no LOVE in games anymore.
Lots of CGI and special effects - but I tell you what, if they put more of their attention into making a game play well, with a story that works, and less attention into the sound and graphics, I would buy that game. A great example is Ace Combat, which was a PS1 original, continued onto PS2 - it's an arcade flight combat game with a pseudo-simulation feel to it. The stories in those games used to be something REALLY special - but when it came to Xbox from PS2 in the form of Ace Combat 6, it was a storyline disaster. It was short, easy, and empty of any kind of passion. Assault Horizon tried to mend that, and it came close, it came damn close, so I have a little hope that they're mending their ways over there at Bandai.
I am 12 and what is this?? |
Remiel Pollard
Devlin Security
Devlin Alliance
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Posted - 2012.11.10 12:12:00 -
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Akirei Scytale wrote:Beekeeper Bob wrote:http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/09/tech/gaming-gadgets/console-gaming-dead/index.html?hpt=hp_c2
If console gaming is dying, and Dust is exclusive to PS3 Console, do we have a problem?
"Since 2005, Blake Snow has covered video games and other male-interest topics for some of the biggest names in journalism." Stopped reading at the first sentence. 
You noticed this too, huh?
I am 12 and what is this?? |