OXCGN writes: "With the huge amount of social networking and blogging these days, where everyday people can reach the world, some wonder about the legitimacy of non-commercial sites based on people and people's opinions.
After all, put one way, opinions are like arseholes….everyone has one, most of them stink, and no one wants to hear yours, right?
But are all these blog sites or even some of the more developed sites based on online hosting services like WordPress just 'blowing foul air', or do they really contribute to people's interests and actually engage, entertain, and enrich?"
More after the jump.
Tripwire Interactive's Killing Floor debuted 15 years ago, birthing a critically acclaimed series and a new publishing arm.
They don't make games like this anymore.
Too dated in my book. The AI is way too unpredictable to be acceptable today. It's definitely a game of its time.
Agreed with those sentiments. The quality of the CPU controlled characters make or break a stealth game and they are pretty poor in all the Splinter Cell games by today's standard. This is what led me to playing Spies vs Mercs all the time in later games just to get a better stealth experience from a real person. Arguably Sony are making better stealth games albeit not Tom Clancy stuff.
I had a good time with the game. It is a product of its time. But when it came out it was a must have game for a lot of people. I wish Ubisoft would make another game in the series or at least a reboot.
GB: "With this feature, we will be taking a look at 15 of the most interesting facts about the PS3."
I knew all of those things. I'll add one that many dont know (if you are a hardware person you do). you CAN actually swap bluray drives between systems. The drives themselves are interchangeable but the board that interfaces is not. So anyone who has a dead optical drive can just get a replacement and swap the interface board and be back to reading discs in no time. I've had to do this myself on both a 20gb B01 as well as a 40gb L01 unit.
you can also replace the spinning hdd with an SSD for improved (not life changing) performance as well as quieter and cooler system reliability. The physical spinning drives draw more current and generate heat as a result. Using an SSD means no moving parts and thus will have less current draw and reduced fan noise from not having to spin as much as usual to offset any heat generated by the spinning hdd.
I never even thought of that. If I can ever track down a reasonable true backward compatibility one the first thing I'll do is ssd it up.
Still one of my favorite Playstations next to the Playstations that came before it and after it.
You missed some great games then. Especially the variety. Ps3 lacked compared to before and after.
It had great games but it lacked compared to every other ps system. The variety went out the window. Game budgets got higher that's when developers stopped taking chances. Indies weren't quite going full speed like the ps4 generation. It's my least favorite of all the Playstation. Also jrpgs disappeared like a mf, there were some but sht compared to previous gens.
I like how a lot of the smaller sites/blogs expand on the general news, compared to the cut and paste block of text that some larger sites too..
Many major sites (corp syndications simply share the same news item across the board, in all regions. They have a monoploy on the news media in getting items first, even though generally speaking, they are followed less by the general gamers.
One thing these sites can not do, represent real, daily game playing gamers who spend a great deal of time doing just that - playing and enjoying games for the fun of it, rather than just doing it to get paid each month
You site is same as any other blog too pal, expect a bit more organized.
The thing is sites like Kotaku, and Giantbomb have a great style.
News and than their opinion on the news followed by the source. It's the best way and adds some spice to the news.
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Buy a PC LOL!!!!
I find some of the big sites too repetitive: they state the same facts that are good to read once, but don't seem to elaborate on them at all or suggest possibilities. Half the fun of gaming is the "what if" or "will it be/do" etc. imo.