The Academy of Interactive Arts Sciences hold a Interactive Achievement Awards during DICE final night, and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim took home a Game of a Year prize, among 4 other awards. The diversion also won RPG of a year, and superb achievements for story, gameplay engineering, and gameplay direction.
There are no thoughtful ads in Video Games, EA. Leave them be.
I think the only type of games that can gets away with it would be sport games, having those sponsors ads on the side like on real life.
But don't put freaking Doritos ads in Star Wars or something, it breaks the immersion. If it is a pop-up ads, then big no.
EA coming back for the crown of being perceived as the worst company in gaming.
One of my favorite series is the THPS franchise, and it was packed with ads, but it didn't bother me. Posters for skateboard companies, JEEP, and Nokia phones. It did sort of fit in with the game world, but that was the past, these days ad would be intentionally intrusive or unskippable loading screen type of imagery. Ugh, I know EA would do it in a horrible fashion. Screw them.
EA senior staff has been investigated for sexual misconduct involving female coworkers, and these said people have been named publicly.
Aye just call Phil, i mean he somehow made Bobby Kotick's scandal disappear and gave him a few million dollar high five on the way out.
Microsoft did, Phil Spencer played a minor part. He instigated the buyout that led to Kotick escaping all his controversies while getting a golden handshake.
Someone on Twitter calculated that the people hired in Tango and Arkane Austin could get a decent salary for roughly 17 years for the money Kotick was paid.
Yeah some thing tells me Kotics $ was already guaranteed before MS made the deal. As for the studios... Let's be honest here... none of those studios made system sellers.
EA about to go down like Activision and then Phil saves the day saying.this is good for the industry and consolidation will help create competition. /s.
Then they shutdown Codemasters and studio behind Jedi Survivor.
Atleast they could hardly do much damage that EA hadn't allready done. EA has shut down most of their studios by now.
What's up with all these horny creeps. You gon be horny, fine. Just not at work take care of that shit before you go in. Rub one out if you have to. Don't be a creep at all. ESPECIALLY at work. But don't be one AT ALL.
You think deviants care where they are? Work sometimes makes it an even better situation for them because they can abuse their power.
"it seems that according to EA, given the events transpired outside of work between two adults, and the fact that once investigation has started that the alleged perpetrators didn’t do it again, the investigation is considered closed. [...] The victim still has to work with the people that harassed her."
Yep, EA is disgusting.
I mean the fact stuff happened outside of work puts EA in quite a difficult position legally. These women don't seem to have reported the matter to the police which kinda ties EA's hands on what they can do. If they don't file reports of the crimes then yeah from EA's perspective it is stuff that happened outside of work. The only exception is the guy that apparently referenced things in the slack channel for work, spending on what he said proving it may be very hard and he may well be able to get away with plausible deniability. I don't like EA and I think these people need to be dismissed but without any legal action being taken, EA can't really do much without risk of being sued themselves for unfair dismissal etc.
Interview with Stephen Russell, Actor for (Nick Valentine, Codsworth, My Handy) in Fallout 4 which is a vast open world role playing game set in the apocalyptic wastes of Boston, the Commonwealth. The career goes further with other Bethesda games from Starfield to Prey to The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
so? my game of the year was radiant historia. Does that make my opinion any less valuable than theres or different?
"Academy of Interactive [Arts Sciences]" isn't that an oxymoron?
Also, these three things simply do not apply to skyrim: "story, gameplay engineering, and gameplay direction."
The story was rubbish, compared to a whole load of other RPGs, the gameplay is horridly engineered (if by that, they mean programming - which is what software engineering is but I wouldn't expect artsy fartsy types to have any idea about that even when they see bugs break the game first hand), and there is no "direction" on purpose in Skyrim... I guess because the people giving out the award are not gamers they just followed the hype and say Skyrim is fantastic without really understanding why lol (it is a fantastic game, but only a gamer will be able to realise that and compare it to other gaming experiences - if one of them happens to be morrowind though they will hate skyrim lol). Surely SWToR is a superior RPG in nearly every way? Especially the 3 categories which they awarded Skyrim for... oh wait it isn't multiplat so that instantly means it can't be great does it?
Anyway, I can't (or, don't want to) view the full article because apparently gameritto.com is a phishing site (herp derp?) so I will do what I usually do anyway and pick holes in the summary lol. I just hate artsy fartsy idiots talking about games, because they only ever talk about the big mainstream titles or little hipstery (well, they make them hipstery by going on and on and on about them trying to be cool) titles like braid and minecraft.
Well earned
Just release a broken game and voila goty.
Skyrim is good but it's sad that the more consolized the Elder Scrolls series becomes, the more awards and the more popularity it gains.
I remember being able to craft my own freakin' SPELLS in Morrowind. SPELLS! I remember getting my stats so high that - with a bit of help from a potion - I could jump from rooftop to rooftop, sniping guards with my bow while they searched for me. Can your precious Fus Roh Dah do that?