Mamoulian War

Yes the publisher should make sure, that everything what he wants and desire to be in the game, is indeed in the game before shipping it...

the same could be said about Kottick, just replace bosses with shareholders

i bet we soon see Take 2 sold to EA

The keyword is IF... Even IF they were doing the covering, even then the partial blame is on ACT, because the person who should have controlled them, had absolutely no clue about what he should have controlled... If you put in charge person, who is satisfied with cheap excuses, then it's your own damn fault, that you put some clown with economical degree in a position where it is required minimum of 5 years of heavy programming and application design experience...

Seriously, if you are publisher or producer of any software product, and you do not check the contracted work at regular basis, it's your own damn fault, if it is something different than you have expected when did you signed the contract... when i was working as programmer, my product was checked 2-5 times a week at early/middle phase and twice a day just before the deadline...

I don't think activision (when they publish) is able to go in and actually change the code... But they can tell: IF YOU DON'T ****ING GET OUR ****ING LOGO IN THE GAME, IT WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED!!! but they clearly were more interested in milking the franchise as much as possible before Xmas...

added, but this week will be very tough for me friend came to visit from UK after 3 years, another one has birthday, and i have to learn a lot for CCNA exams :'( not much time for games this week

How dare you to say something like that??? HERESY, BLASPHEMY!!! Internet discussions are SIRIOZ BZNZ!!! No go back to the cage, else at the dusk thou shalt be purgeth by the flame!!!

If you usualy are outraged about any content put in the game, be it sexual or violent in nature, you should read this, and maybe you'll see if you are outraged justly or not http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/04...ntroversies.ars

But they aren't the guys at troika. Plus is hard to work when you aren't allowed in the premises and is actually ACT responsibility to fix them. Am I reading this right... Person makes messed up product for distributor, Messed up product is released to public, Person whistles while the money pours in while the distributor has to take a massive financial hit for the garbage product? I mean, come ON. If Toyota assembles a car that kills somebody, it's not the Daves dealership that gets sued, it's friggin Toyota! If distributor forced them to release the product sooner than it is market ready, it's fault of the greedy distributor... In no other business you can force your workers to put unfinnished product into the market and get away with it... only in software business... something should be done about it, but no one cares and looks like customers have lot of lube ready and realy love to bend over...

*hands Oner a handkerchief*

If the guy farming next to you was Arisen Savant named Mamoulian, than it was me...

Allods Online - F2P MMO... pretty interesting, i like how each class is very different and has different gameplay mechanics, but i absolutely hate crafting :S

Don't forget this argument aswell... So if Rapelay would be RPG where you are playing a giant space hamster, who is gonna save his kidnapped prince from evil ranger and there would be sidequests where you could rape the witches before or after you kill them, it would be ok entertainment, as long as the depiction of the rape would be silly or cartoonish... Because current Rapelay is not cartoonish nor silly, the game should be pointed out as the most amoral thing ever created by mankind in the known history... yeah OK...

So you're comparing a game whose only gameplay purpose is to rape women to a feature in a game that has nothing to do with the actual game? Or are you trying to say that Fallout's gameplay revolves around blowing up kids? Idiotic argument. Lol so if make a game where raping of women with hamsters would be feature that has nothing to do with actual game, but will be only for getting bonus achievement, it will be OK? Nice logic there mkreku...

SC2 collector's edition announced, available only at retailers for $99.99... http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/04...00-worth-it.ars

Just for this fact alone, it deserves 11/10...

There is still the chance that it could indeed hurt another human being. In most games violence and sex are complementary to the objective; which despite the aforementioned, may not be violent. But in RapeLay the main objective is to rape and turn two women into sex slaves, so sex is the main objective. There is still a chance that another human being could be hurt by hot soup... LET'S BAN ALL FORMS OF SOUPS!!! Because someone's main objective might be cooking soups and spilling it on others, during his walk around the friendly neighbourhood!!!

Heh, i stopped to judge anything from trailers, after i've seen few movies, which had put all the worthy scenes into 60 seconds trailers and everything else was yawnworthy

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...

+1

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...