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Resident evil finally going back to its roots? I played some recent one and it was more action game than horror one

 

The first Revelations was a return to the series slower paced, atmospheric, claustrophobic roots, this looks to be more of the same, except they're trading in a ship for a prison and Jill and Chris for Claire and Moira (Barry Burton's daughter).  It seems like the "core" numbered series has gone down the action shooter path to stay while the "offshoot" Revelations series will provide the old-school Resi experience.  I'm fine with that as long as they keep making the Revelations series.  

 

Also, I'm super excited to get a game where you play as Claire again.  It's been a really really long time.  What was the last game she starred in?  Code Veronica?  Hopefully they have her Resi 2 and Code Veronica outfits unlockable, as well as her Browning Hi-Power, assuming she doesn't start with that as default.

 

 

I liked Revelations for that very reason.  It was kind of the best of both worlds, for me.  Combined RE's oldschool type horror/atmosphere, but with the newer games' shooting features (which I actually like.  I hated aiming in the old games).  Plus, I'm a Jill Valentine fanboy, so that was good.

 

This one looks cool, too.  Hopefully it's a bit longer.

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Now is it the setting you're excited about? Because I found Champions Online was pretty much City of Heroes, with an additional sense of accomplishment due to the instanced maps reflecting whether you defeated bosses and such.

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I'd sold it as well. Especially for that money. Just think about it... How bad do you need to handle your money in order to run out of that amount again... Can hardly imagine it.

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Bizarre fact:

 

Here are a number of countries that have lower yearly revenues than what Microsoft bought Mojang/Minecraft for:

-Uganda

-Madagascar

-Nicaragua

-Cambodia

-Kosovo

-Monaco

-Afghanistan

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I'd sold it as well. Especially for that money. Just think about it... How bad do you need to handle your money in order to run out of that amount again... Can hardly imagine it.

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Microsoft is optimistic and predicts it will recoup these 2.5B by June 2015, so yeah, for them it's a perceived win/win 

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I know Minecraft is popular (I've never played it personally) but is it REALLY worth 2.5billion? That's more than what LA/SW was bought for. LMAO

 

I thought that was $4 billion

 

or maybe I'm thinking of something different with those initials

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It's confirmed! Microsoft has bought Mojang (Minecraft) for 2.5 billion dollars. The founders of Mojang, including Notch, are leaving the company. Wow! They'll sure get even richer.

 

They purchased a one-hit-wonder company that already has their game on Xbox? Whhhhyyyy?

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Microsoft is optimistic and predicts it will recoup these 2.5B by June 2015, so yeah, for them it's a perceived win/win 

Doesn't mean that they will be able to turn it for a profit but we'll see.

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I'd say the answer to that question is kind of like the answer to "who's the sucker in this poker game?"*

 

*If you can't tell, it's you. ;)

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Madness - Project Nexus 2 Kickstarter has a week to go with $10,000 left remaining for its goal.

 

http://youtu.be/JNrpICfj4BA

 

For those unfamiliar with the Madness series:

 

http://youtu.be/hkYRmCKMCLo

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Microsoft is optimistic and predicts it will recoup these 2.5B by June 2015, so yeah, for them it's a perceived win/win

Doesn't mean that they will be able to turn it for a profit but we'll see.
If minecraft 2 sells half as well as Minecraft did, it will probably have been worth it.

 

And that's not counting merchandise.

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Seriously, Minecraft is a huge property driven by an entire generation of young people.  They aren't going to care that Notch is not involved, and they are going to convince their parents to buy it on every device they can.  Plus the merchandise is huge.  

 

I'm sure the Minecraft Animated Series is dropping any day now.

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It would've been more relevant to print an autopsist's take on "the last of us" so he could give the cause of death of console video games.

 

Who cares what a photographer thinks about a fake bad movie. Jeez.

I'd think the opinion of a guy that ends up in similar situations (eg. wars) on a regular basis is at least somewhat relevant to a game that pretends to attempt to create an immersive experience in a similar setting.

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A War photographer's take on The Last of Us:

http://lightbox.time.com/2014/09/15/war-photographer-video-game/#1

 

I guess a lack of distress about the situations they find themselves in is a fairly typical thing in video games.

In a suprising twist, it's the comments that actually make more sense than the article IMO.

I mean at one point the guy is lamenting that he couldn't make a "refugee-in-bus-window-at-border-crossing image", despite the target being a: not a real person, therefore having scripted expressions b: not a refugee. She's been a survivor for most of her life c: if she didn't have what it takes to survive in that world, she wouldn't be alive at that point (and d: there's no borders either). So he's complaining about something being not there that he expects to be because it messes up his photo fantasy. Talk about being desentisized.

Also, pseudo-sexual neck bite? What?

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It would've been more relevant to print an autopsist's take on "the last of us" so he could give the cause of death of console video games.

 

Who cares what a photographer thinks about a fake bad movie. Jeez.

I'd think the opinion of a guy that ends up in similar situations (eg. wars) on a regular basis is at least somewhat relevant to a game that pretends to attempt to create an immersive experience in a similar setting.

 

Take it from the guy (me) who ends up in these situations (eg. reading bad articles) on a regular basis, cause the article pretends to attempt to create a genuine article experience, but only gives me some random dude's opinion on how making screenshots in video games is different from taking pictures. Video game opinion? Nonexistent and would've been irrelevant either way.

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