Maybe this Spiderman game signals the end of a rut? Anyone buy it?
Maybe this Spiderman game signals the end of a rut? Anyone buy it?
Winter is Coming: Summer 2011.
I played a quick demo and for the life of me couldn't figure out how to swing on a web - that was pretty annoying
I give it a B+
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I should be getting it from Gamefly this week. I hope so, total gaming drought right now. The last one was pretty fun.Originally Posted by Berliner
I played through the Dead Rising 2 prequel a couple of times this weekend. Petty similar to the original, both good and bad. Still forces you to do timed missions, still forces you to save in bathrooms, unfortunately. On the plus side, survivors seem more able to follow you, it's far less frustrating. The combo weapons are pretty fun and funny too. It kept that feeling of fun for sure. The best combo weapon I discovered was the drill bucket. A bucket with a bunch of drills on it that goes on top of heads.
I'm going to be laid up for a few days, eating painkillers (wisdom teeth are getting the fuck out of this here mouth), what are some games I should pick up for this adventure? I'm thinking something meandering, maybe doesn't require a ton of focus. Something like Bully, perhaps? Brutal Legend should be like $5 now, right?
I'm enjoying Brutal Legend now and got if for 12 bucks. Tim Schafer has always been great a creating unique worlds and this is no different. The game changing into a RTS half way through was a little disorienting, but its still a blast and really funny for under 20 bucks.
Pick up Portal (within the Orange Box release). That has to be super cheap now (sequel comes out in the spring) and would be worth a couple days gameplay. Little Big Planet (PS3) is crazy delightful and that should be real cheap since the sequel comes out soon.
By ANNE FLAHERTY
WASHINGTON (AP) - Military bases across the U.S. have banned the sale of a new video game that lets a player pretend to be a Taliban fighter and "shoot" U.S. troops.
"Medal of Honor" by Electronic Arts, a major game developer based in Redwood City, Ca., hits stores Oct. 12.
But after public protests, including one by British Defense Secretary Liam Fox, U.S. military officials decided not to stock the game in any of the nearly 300 service exchange shops on bases across the country.
Gamers are scoffing at the decision, saying that advanced technology has made it commonplace in the gaming world to let a player switch sides and play the bad guy.
I think they are talking about playing as a Taliban fighter, but didn't the most recent COD have some sort of you-as-the-terrorist scenario? That created quite a buzz for a little moment. I guess that didn't rate the same outrage.
DaggerofChrist unmasked
Yeah as a russian terrorist, you systematically (and slowly) kill dozens of innocent, screaming, running bystandards in an airport. It is a little unnerving. It made a splash but then other news items washed over it. This is one of those types of things that if it gets a little airtime, it's everywhere, as if it's the worst goddamn thing in the world. If people just didn't make a big deal out of it, they'd find that "who cares it's a game".
Kind of like (but not really) the Koran burning thing. If that dude and his twenty (or whatever) followers burnt books in the middle of the Gainesville woods, no one would give two shits, but because it was commented on and then subsequently picked up by every news agency in the world, now it's a MAJOR issue with real ramifications. I thought the same thing when the Michael Richards "racist" thing hit the news. If it hadn't been broadcast all over the place as "news" then it would have been just another Saturday night (or whenever it was). I honestly thought to myself; has no one, that is so up in arms over this, ever been to a comedy club? Guess what? Some offensive shit goes flying around these places sometimes, it isn't exactly anything new. You don't think someone has burned the Koran in their backyard for the hell of it? Guaranteed that has happened, but it wasn't splashed all over the place like it's some brand new shocking thing.
I dunno, didn't mean to derail. But if this Taliban thing is "an issue", it won't be in six months and people will move on to the next "horrifying thing happening in this world" as if it's not already happening (whatever that "thing" will be).
I don't know - I just don't get mad anymore when the news picks up on stuff like this. Sure, I get upset over misinformation but news is news, no matter how insignificant. This is a pretty big story - it's no crazy thing to play a villian in a game, but this is based on actual, timely events. I think it should be a news story and a big one at that. This is exactly what the developer had in mind when they decided to go this way. Let's see how it all plays out and where the future of this type of gaming leads.
nathan smart!
http://www.nathansmart.com
Haven't people been able to play as Nazis in these games for years? Not to mention Soviets in a way that depicts the Soviets as heroes.
Winter is Coming: Summer 2011.
On the one hand I'm not sure how much of an outrage it is because they aren't saying service men and women can't own a copy of the game or play it on the base, it sounds like they just won't sell it at the "base retail store-type thing." Sorry to hit everybody with military lingo like that.
DaggerofChrist unmasked
All this political shit is why I can't wait for Dead Rising 2. No one gets offended over killing Zombies, no matter if the Zombies are children, gay, straight, black, white, red, green, purple. Zombies are allowed to get murdered, and I love it.
Ha ha! Yeah, fuck me and my love of zombie killing games!
You're wrong about that.
Speaking of which, that's why Rockstar didn't include kids and animals (dogs, cats, or in the case of San Andreas cows, deer, etc) in the GTA games because they felt it was a bit too much to be running down children in the street or riddling animals with gunfire (something Red Dead fixed - can't help but have animals in the old west!).
Ha! I meant no one SHOULD get offended about killing a zombie.
You cannot kill zombie children in DR2. Children seem to be the taboo no matter what the game. I remember in fallout 3 having to kill everyone in the simulation and all the children would disappear.
There was nothing I wanted to do more than kill those douche bags from Little Lamplight. Except maybe other stuff. But they were really annoying.
A story from IGN on a court ruling that video game publishers might cite in order to stop the sale of used games:
http://games.ign.com/articles/112/1120315p1.html
DaggerofChrist unmasked
Damn this work filter for not letting me view IGN from here...I'll have to check it out on my iPhone at lunch. But WTF, game industry? That would kill a bunch of Mom and Pop video game stores, GameStop, etc. And also wouldn't it have a huge impact on the industry as a whole? Trading games/buying used games has been a staple of this industry for decades...
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