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Wow. If anyone was going to be revealed as a bot I would have picked DR.

I actually agree with this. My stance that there isn't enough to the arguments he's making is only in relation to Pidescos belief that more harsher reviews would increase innovation in the industry. As reviews they're fine, but take away the fun and the points he's making aren't new, they've been made by other reviews or gamers or developers. I wouldn't want to him to swap vinegar for honey, but then I don't think his goal is to change the industry any more than any other reviewer. The harshness isn't unique, and it isn't why people take more notice of his reviews, it's the humor and delivery and vinegar, and I'd hate to see people copy that because then it would just make that review style boring. The real question, as Nick_i_am pointed out, is whether harsh reviews can translate into lost sales. A review being right if you agree with it and wrong if you don't can apply just as much to developers as gamers. If Random Developer X thinks his design is the best thing ever, and has the fans and sales that agree with him, why would he change? Gabe Newell, for instance, isn't interested in making non-linear games because he believes a player should be able to experience everything the game has to offer in one play through, and many, many gamers are obviously happy with this. Are reviews really so powerful that they can change the way gamers think? I think innovation is something that happens by accident. A developer comes up with a game and if something about it hasn't been done before then it's innovative. It's something that comes from a desire to do something that just happens to be new, rather than a need to do something new because the old is getting harsher reviews.

Yeah, you should just be able to start the game at level 50. This "leveling up" **** is just a waste of time. When I pay good money for a game, I ought to be able to just go straight to the last level, none of this "play through the whole game" bull****.

Yes. They aren't terribly exciting, but they don't deserve all the complaints. Something I like about Dead Rising is that it doesn't go for the bleak art style of the typical zombie/horror game. It looks like a mall in the real world, rather than a mall in a horror game. Way to go against the trend dude, this is a thread for graphics whores. Pretty graphics don't drag down framerates anyway, poorly made graphics or graphics too advanced for your system do.

That's what I'm saying. More reviewers should harsher. I think you misread "not enough to them." as "not enough of them." What exactly is it in his reviews that you think could change the industry if more reviews said the same thing? Would Bioware change their successful formula if they received enough not-quite-so-positive reviews? Do negative reviews really have that much of an impact on sales? Last I heard Kane & Lynch made bucketloads of cash and a sequel is on the way.

His reviews are great, but they're entertainment. This sort of stuff isn't going to "improve the rate of innovation" in the industry, there's simply not enough to them. Really, his reviews are just the same as everyone elses. If you agree with them, he's right, if you don't, he's wrong.

I've got your injection of vitamin D right here, baby... Hmmm, that was disturbing, even for me.

I choose Silent Hill, because Raccoon City gets nuked.

This shall never cease to amuse me.

Stolen from another forum: 1 - Go to Wikipedia's random article page The first article you get is the name of your band 2 - Go to the Random Quotations page The last four words of the last quote is the album title 3 - Go to Flickr's Interesting photo page Third picture, no matter what it is, is your album cover Put it all together to make your album. Either crop it to CD cover size, or just use the raw image itself... the only rule is you're only allowed to add the album title and artist title.

I didn't mean to imply otherwise. I meant that Fallout was the start of the new wave and paved the way for BG (weren't Bio originally going to make an RTS?) which lead to the revivial of the genre as a whole. I don't think Fallout alone could have done it, and BG wouldn't have been without Fallout before it.

BG along with Diablo revived a die'in genre, there hadn't been a noteable release of an CRPG for years until that point, well some people may say M&M was, but meh, it didn't reinvent the genre. CRPG's were well established before this dying off period (see Ultima's, bards tales etc...) but between around 93-97 it was a bleak peroid, where RPG's almost died completely at one point, and what was released was generally extremely poor, BG and Diablo breathed a breath of fresh air into the genre and pushed the bounderies of what found be expected. But it didn't really estalbish the genre, just gave it a jolt. It's like saying WoW was the first established MMO... Everquest and Ultima Online would be better responses and more accurate, WoW is certainly the first widely popular MMO, but it didn't establish them. Ok, so Fallout 1 & 2 never existed? Fallout was the critical success, Baldur's Gate was the commercial success.

Yes, I agree. Anyway, I could link to that TV show where they stuck the words NORTH KOREA to Australia and showed it to random Texans and they were all like, "I didn't realise they were so big", but you know, we already know every demographic has its share of stupid people. got to 3:22

Between this and your weird console ideas you really should see a doctor. You probably have leprosy. At least I hope it's leprosy.

What exactly do you find weird about it?

Real men who like to pretend boys are girls?

I wub you! *kissey kissey* As for my gender... 12 inches of swingin' meat, baby!

Andrzej Sapkowski actually came up with the name, but he let Bioware use it.

"January Eight". Man, what will those wacky Americans thing of next.

Yeah, console gamers love long dramatic titles, like Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer, and Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines.

Since when is 40 - 45 minutes "a little over 20 mins"? Commercial emissions... Commercials bump it up to an hour.

Since when is 40 - 45 minutes "a little over 20 mins"?

Once you visit all cities at least once, you get the option to fast forward to each city from the archway outside Masyaf, so you never have to go through the kingdom again.

Project Origin might not be the graphical leap that Crysis was to Far Cry, or HL2 to HL, but all the screens I've seen do look like an improvement.

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