Mamoulian War

Maybe there is a possiblity, that all the other reviews were also based on similar emails...

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/04/asteroids-record/ the oldest record in the gaming industry has been beaten

I stopped to buy and read any reviews, when there started to be common practice, that the text of the review was completely out of touch with final score... When you read review, which is stating in every paragraph that game is mediocre, and you get at the end score of 9/10, you know there is something fishy in the air... nowadays, i just browse for some forums with mature gamers, like this one, where you don't see many diehard fanboys, and i get always the information what i need. I am yet to be burned with the purchase recommened this way...

If the society is judged how deeply it have sunked by the games it produces, than with the games like GTA or Carmageddon we are deeper in **** than Japanese ever was...

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Exactly. I think, keeping things really simple, the Japanese reputation as the nation of perverts amongst internet users & gamers is a bit unfair. re. MamW: virtual killing is much easier to stomach cause we kill other things all the time, just not humans. But we never really go out and rape. In that, you are completely right... I'm pretty sure they wouldn't cos games and manga like this have been made for at least two decades. To be offended now would mean that they lived under a rock and had no idea of the huge sex industry their country has. You're applying your morality to the average Japanese Joe which and its leading you to a broad and inaccurate conclusion. The fact of the matter is that they're used to this sort of stuff and while they won't support it publicly they certainly aren't going to do anything about it. Porn industry started in USA in the era of silent/mute films... And yet many americans are still offended when they see boobs in TV... Your reasoning does not make sense tbh...

How many games are there really out there, where you are a heroic mass murderer, killing because you like to inflict suffering (the "Postal" games are the only ones I know from top of my head). Most other seems to offer some justification, a 'cause' if you want, that to some degree rationalises your violence. I.e. fight this or fight that, liberate something or somebody. "Murder" games, "Rape" games, whatever plays on different emotions and less easy to accept motivations. Edit: I do not count Carmageddon among them, because I enjoy running over pedestrians If I wanted to be very extreme, I would compare some of the justifications of the murdering in somewestern games as appealing as justifications of Soviet soldiers invading at the end of WW2 into Germany and raping their womans... Both has revenge as justification...

It still amazes me, how many people have problems with a rapist as a hero of the game, but mass murderer is ok... both are illegal activities, but one is frowned upon and other is praised by the western media... hypocrisy at it's finest... disclaimer: this does not mean in any way that i condone raping, nor murdering...

I do think that every MATURE person has enough intelligence to judge, if this sort of entertainment is suited for him or not, and does not need any government oversight over his enterntainment decisions. And I do think that every MATURE person has enough intelligence to keep his own children away from such sort of entertainment, and does not need any government oversight over his parental decisions.

when we use some statistical guessing MW sold 5M+ copies (but every single copy has to be connected to Steam to play) 53,238 96,304 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 - Multiplayer 548 864 Assassin's Creed II 538 898 The Settlers 7: Paths to a Kingdom that could theoretically mean that both game sold about 45000 copies on Steam... But not every game has to be connected to Steam... so my non-educated-out-of-ass-pulled guess might be 150K-200K games sold in total for each title... if that is enough sales to justify the cost of maintenance and customer support for the DRM servers i have no clue...

/nelson

Witcher2, FF versus XIII and hopefully Dissidia 2

What is so special with "CECH-2100" model of the PS3? Rumored to have a 45nm GPU. Thus, it will use less current than the previous models? Tall about being frugal If it is true, it will use less power, and is 200g lighter, not much, but with all the stuff i have running in my flat, every move into power-efficiency on my part is worth the wait

Finnished FFVIII replaying FFVII and waiting for PS3 model CECH-2100 release in EU to finaly start playing FFXIII

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/artic...83&site=pcg more about C&C4...

This looks amazing, but with the time how long detailed games like FF XIII have been in development with current technology, i am realy wondering how long would the graphical designers take, to create a single model out of millions of points... not to mention the whole game, whe you would need billions^billions of points to create whole scenery without copy/paste... Creating 1 model and Copy/Paste would look pretty awful imo... So... how... magic... supercomputers ??? i was not talking about machines... but about humans (graphical designers), who have to manualy create the models... When you have to work for a month to create realistic looking model with tens of thousands of polygons how long they would need to create model from millions of points???

This looks amazing, but with the time how long detailed games like FF XIII have been in development with current technology, i am realy wondering how long would the graphical designers take, to create a single model out of millions of points... not to mention the whole game, whe you would need billions^billions of points to create whole scenery without copy/paste... Creating 1 model and Copy/Paste would look pretty awful imo...

In other news, EA is planning to sell you demos of their games for 10-15USD http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/27759/A...me_Launches.php

With little bit effort all they would need is to do the same thing, what they do for free WoW servers... just listen to the network traffics when playing legal game and storing all downloaded content... one playthrough should be enough, but someone had to bother first

You were manipulated from begining by Elone, and only because she wanted to force Laguna to stay with her mother, and make them not die this way... Which ended up impossible to her... Ultimecia was mentioned for the first time on DISC 3 AFAIK... But wasn't Ultimecia looking for Ellone because her power was necessary for Time Compression? And Ellone was at the orphanage run by Edea? Dangit, my brain hurts. Yes Ultimecia was looking for her, and yes she was at the orphanage, but for the 1st time player is noticed about ultimecia is when you for the first time visit White SeeD ship, and IIRC that is on Disc 3, before that not even Elone knows about Ultimecia

You were manipulated from begining by Elone, and only because she wanted to force Laguna to stay with her mother, and make them not die this way... Which ended up impossible to her... Ultimecia was mentioned for the first time on DISC 3 AFAIK...

I played FFXIII for only 30 minutes or so, and i realy liked the combat system, so i think it is worth to give it a shot... About FFXII... it's very hard to recommend or not... my first playthrough i was totaly disapointed and bored... 2 years after i played it for second time and my feeling about the game was totaly opposite... i realy do not know why... I just simply loved it...

I hope it's not true, i would rather see them working on FFXV and FFXVI...

Calax, i couldn't say it better +1

The news, that most of you already know, but whatever ... http://kotaku.com/5496079/command--conquer...softs-awful-drm