Calax

thus far, the biggest revelation I've seen is that the former boss of Naughty Dog is running THQ and trying to save it.

Well, if you're Microsoft what can you do? You get your exclusives, and hardware and not much else because the big three publishers have their own conferences.

*pulls up the GameTrailers feed* why is it I want to punch Geoff Keighly every time I see him? He wanted more Kinect! He said that they knocked it out of the park... WHY!?

"You ever flown one of thses?" "Nope" "Well, F* it, we want to make this into a setpiece"

When is Blops supposed to be set?

I laughed at the XBLA girl (for Wrecked or whatever). She seemed wayyy out of her depth. and we end with Blops 2

they had a full trailer before Matt and Trey came out. And why is Usher performing? WHY!?

Oh joy, "voice controlled" xbox. Because your controller was just to complicated.

Because at the end of the leveling/class stories it's all about parties and raiding like WoW. I mean in terms of how leveling and end game are handled, the only difference between WoW and TOR is that leveling up ToR builds itself around having a very directed story based leveling experiance. While WoW is just kinda like "go into this area and get me 20 bear asses.... oh, and here's a reason too!".

I realy do not understand people playing MMOs who wants to have SP experience from the game... Because more often than not when you're running up to the end game content, you're generally going to be plowing through it alone.

You say that, but one of the known hard line conservatives appointed to the courts by GW Bush, was the one who shot down intelligent design as a non-starter for being put into curriculum and declared it unscientific.Generally once a judge is on the bench their politics don't matter to much... until they get to the Supreme Court where you can basically start trying to figure out wtf the constitution is supposed to be saying in terms of different moral and ethical concerns that wouldn't even be CONSIDERED by those who constructed the document.

Last choice in InFamous 2... and all I have to say to the person who told me different (think it was Tale) on this last mission... You don't get a guarantee that the RFI will work on the plague! Still this is probably the best "moral choice" I've ever seen built into a game

Get an authenticator? The non mobile one is basically un-hackable, and basically only costs shipping.

Infamous 2 again. Honestly there are two major things dragging this down for me.... 1 is something I went over before when I first got this, the other is something that's only really started nagging now. The first is the Nix/Kuo dichotomy. The designer felt it was necessary that your "moral choices" also get a more human face... for some reason. Ant it ends up very shallow. With all of Kuo's options being "good" and all of Nix's being "bad", to a cartoonish extent, except the last choice, but that is an entirely different discussion (that I had a year or two ago). The other is the enemies... or more specifically enemy mechanics. I've been playing on hard because the game auto-set there during the tutorial and I've been to lazy to change it, but I remember many of the enemies being this way on normal too. Basically once you get past the "Militia" section of the game you get two semi-consistant enemy types. Either you're fighting swamp monsters, or Ice soldiers (from south africa!). The issue with these guys is simple, most of their higher level enemies (that have more attacks than "SMACK A GUY!") effectively are the standard boss template of "shoot the spot when it shows, and run around like a ninny the rest of the time", BUT when they're vulnerable they're usually in the middle of an attack (the swamp guys are particularly egregious for this). So when you are fighting them you get in one or two shots then go flyyyying across the screen (with your camera trying to stay with you, getting your view distorted and then you get turned into a giant pasty on the wall). The two worst offenders are the highest level of the Swamp monsters, and the mid-level ice guy. Swamp monster attacks and is wounded with ONE part of his body... his mouth. which leads to the above, so you have to wait until he opens wide, fire four grenades and run like hell. The ice guy is a little different, I've honestly yet to find a "basic" shot that can damage him, and he has attack chains that make it nearly impossible to line something up. He'll throw out a line of ice (a basic line shockwave style ability) then suck up some of that ice using the force, and fling it at you like you were in force unleasehed. If you're unlucky, he'll hit you with a line of ice, then charge you and ALWAYS hit you with the charge. So these non-boss fights quickly turn into "fling as many grenades as fast as you can at the guy, then RUN for the nearest energy point repeat until enemy might be dead or you have to re-do the fight... again"./ I'll post more tomorrow.

The only real trailers I've seen on TV are Blizzard Products, Call of Duty, and Bioware stuff. Admittedly I haven't had TV for about 3 years, but most of the stuff advertised is almost guaranteed to sell in the same way some movies are guaranteed to have good opening weekends

I'm fairly sure that Diablo is going to have a much longer period of existence. Be hard to guess if it'll be quite as vibrant as Diablo 2, the paradigm just feels to different overall. But that's me

So... east side/west side won't just be LA gangsta's vs NYC gangs, but also Cubans vs Mexicans?

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The question to me is "Would Modern Warfare 2 have sold that much, without a PHENOMINAL first game and a MASSIVE pile of hype behind it?" Most of those sales records were set very early, but when you get down to brass tacks, the game would have been laughed out of a gamestop if it didn't have the name recognition and hype machine behind it. It was buggy, unbalanced, and it's single player component was hilariously insane, it's just that with the "Call of Duty" name attached, it was a good seller. I can bet you right now anything from Respawn entertainment will say "From the people that brought you Call of Duty!". Even if only one guy who did the blood splatter animations from CoD was on the project.

We'd need to see the agreement, but I'm more on acti's side when you consider something like "not putting acti's logo in the game" (which is baseline for everything else Acti produces). And the info put out last year when this (and this thread) had their genesis, was exactly what you said, West and Zamp were getting to full of themselves and using the game they were contracted to develop as a bargaining tool to keep money coming in and get the keys to the nuthouse. Were acti entirely justified in what they did? No, but there was reasoning behind it, and the EA E-mails just became an after the fact clincher.

An interview with their lawer... and here are his words about what's happening. Schwartz: Spin - lawyers will spin. I'm fairly certain that if you had an acti lawyer trying to get the exact same facts across his use of words would slant things the exact other way.

My point is that spoilers for diablo is like arguing on the internet, nobody cares because they've done it all before and will do it all again. There are outliers but All things considered, the gender of the big bad isn't a "OMG SPOILERTH!" issue.

Formerly True Crime: Streets Of Hong Kong, or something. In theory it was a sequel to a "GTA from the cops side of things" game set in LA (which was ok... minor tweaks and it would have been great) and later new york (which was crap) but they lost the rihts to the name.

I hardly think Gender is a spoiler either way. And this is Diablo after all, where the entire plot can boil down to "forces of good suck at fighting evil and need a dood to do do their dirty work. Are you bad enough to kill Diablo?"

not really, given that they've got baby-hips and mammary glands in many promo pieces of art. Including in this thread.