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The Wii U may be able to handle current-gen ports, but will anyone actually care?
Monday, July 11, 2011 |
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This fall two juggernauts of the gaming industry are going head to head in all or nothing bout for supremacy, MW3 vs. BF3 will be one for the ages!
Thursday, June 30, 2011 |
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Where was The Last Guardian, Max Payne 3 and whatever Respawn Entertainment is working on?! I ponder these and other game no-shows at E3 2011.
Monday, June 13, 2011 |
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Maturity in gaming has come a long way from the early 8-bit days, but even the most adamant of gamers can tell you that “maturity” in gaming still has a long way to go. Here is a list, in my opinion, of a variety of spectrums of storytelling, human being, and human interaction that gaming needs to strive towards to be taken more seriously as a mature medium of entertainment. At no point do I want anyone to take this list as a “all of gaming must head towards serious content” argument but rather a request that a select few developers and publishers stop pumping insane amounts of money into the Grand Theft Auto and God of War clones of the world and create something new and meaningful from time to time
Thursday, June 25, 2009 |
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PSOne games are pretty ancient now, my picks for the ones that hold up over time.
Sunday, June 21, 2009 |
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Three differing types of motion controls could be major issues for the future of console game development.
Tuesday, June 02, 2009 |
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The Graveyard was a unique and interesting gaming as art attempt.
Sunday, May 31, 2009 |
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"Charles I agree that dissecting the Nintendo audience into two groups is overly simplistic but I do feel that is where the majority lies and that is where Nintendo seems to focus it's attention when presenting their software which is why I presented it that way.
Thanks for the comments!"
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
"n Michael - I think you nailed a very good point. Pixar at the end of the day does need to make a movie that is geared towards a younger audience. And your right, developers need to make a game that at the end of the day is "fun". However, I do think fun can be a pretty broad term, and in fact a better way of saying it, is how much enjoyment are you having or how engaged you are. I really enjoyed "Flower" on PSN and I thought that that game was incredibly mature. I love playing Final Fantasy games but I am not sure how much "fun" I have grinding my way from level x to level y, I do however enjoy the gratification of finally defeating that boss because of the "work" I did. Gaming is a strange beast where your enjoyment level can vary so wildly at any given moment that it's hard to understand "how" one developer can take the same concepts as another developer and create a completely different experience.
Oh and I think Pixar's last two movies (Up and Wall-e) show us that game developers have a long way to go before they can deliver that much emotion and story in only a matter of min"
Sunday, June 28, 2009
"on -Your right Bioware's earlier titles did incorporate choices and dialog options. However, I feel that the general popularity and desire for choice by the gaming audience really didn't hit it big time until KOTOR. Much like how Alone in the Dark may have been the first survival horror game, it wasn't until RE that the genre really came into it'"
Saturday, June 27, 2009
"rge - Awesome comments. I agree that many gamers just want to use video games as an escape or just as a way to have a good time. Certainly pumping more heavy handed story and content into video games will turn people off from it. However, just like movies, we see a small niche audience who search out the heavy and dramatic movies. Meanwhile the rest of the world would rather see Transformers and Wolverine. I enjoyed watching those movies at the time, but a few years down the road I will probably not recall much about the movie. However, I certainly won't forget powerful movies like Hotel Rwanda and Crash. Likewise, I enjoyed my time playing Red Faction: Guerrilla but it certainly won't stick with my like Portal or Braid. There is a place for both, I just want those games that do push for the mature niche audience to really capitalize on what format has to"
Saturday, June 27, 2009
"nds cool, I think I will check i"
Friday, June 26, 2009
"man I completely forgot about Vagrant Story! I focused only on PSN titles for sale, but I hope Square considers printing some more money and releasing Vagrant Story on PSN (maybe after they release FF Tac"
Monday, June 22, 2009
Also, yes the possibility of porting will be short lived. I have heard commenting on podcasts that people think the Wii U will be more of a stop gap system. I don't know, either way I would say Nintendo is an awkward situation. If Nintendo wasn't so amazing with their software, I would say they are in a world of trouble, instead I would just say they are limited in reach."