How about a MGS4 movie? Oh wait..it WAS a movie!! (JUST KIDDING! I loved playing the game okay!!! Just too many self-indulgent cut scenes!)

We are having fun here after all....

I think having a Guitar Hero movie is just stupid. If a game has the story and atmosphere for a movie, then fine, but if it doesn't don't just make a movie to cash in...

I think some more CGI films or short animated films like the Clone Wars would be a good way to complement some games. View

I don't go out of my way to get an achievement...I just play normally unless one seems like it would be fun to do. View

Do we put the three Resident Evil movies into the good or bad section of the list? Or the two Tomb Raider movies?

I actually thought Resi 1 and 3 were okay and Tomb Raider (1 in particular) were also okay.

Nothing stellar yet though. I have hopes for a good Max Payne.

A movie about a guitar hero strikes me as boring....

Oh and the Bloodrayne movie was pretty dismal.... View

Wasn't he also involved in that 'Falling' song for the Bourne Conspiracy game? I seem to remember seeing him in the 'music video' of the game. View

"• Dirty, Dirty Horde
Survive the first 10 waves of Horde"

That sounds intense.... View

Hopefully an update will fix the little problems....Good summary of the game, though. View

Not sure this is in good taste..... View

I just hope the next gen consoles aren't digital distribution only...EA is still moaning about the second hand game market...and there would be obvious attractions for Sony and MS too. View

I agree that momentum for hardware sales have gone more toward PS3 since the blu ray win but I'd like to see worldwide figures over the last year before I jump to this conclusion.

I do agree that there are still a lot of PS2 fans who WANT to move to a PS3, but can't afford to, who may jump to 360 if they can't wait for a PS3 price drop. View

Yeah and each retailer looks like they may make a 'bundle' too...even if they aren't that attractive, it will look like a price drop of sorts.

I think relying on sales of Resistance 2 and Killzone 2 to push sales of PS3 may not work as the GTAIV release didn't seem to generate too much in the way of hardware sales (both 360 and PS3)here in OZ from what I understand. View

But you see I'd say Uncharted WAS a AAA title, and as I said I play mostly 360 games. I loved it to bits. Yeah it also had some problems but it was a lot of fun and my kind of game. It was better than the new Indiana Jones movie IMO. View

Exactly: the cut scenes were overdone and not all of them were great, and there were too many 'loading' screens but the gameplay was fantastic and very flexible....a top 'AAA' quality game. And I play mostly 360 games... View

Agree with you totally. View

Though I loved MGS4, there was too much 'watch' and not enough 'play'. When I did get to play it was fantastic. View

Actually Too Human may be a good example of a game that some just LOVE and some really HATE. Haze was boring and just crap (okay I'm sure some people liked it...).

Games, like film, or literature will have different people attracted to different types. I enjoyed Pirates of the Caribbean for fun, though it was by no means a great game. I loved MGS4 but hated some of the long-winded preachy run-on cut scenes and the stupid "oh this a blue ray disc you don't have to swap discs" so-called humour rubbish. No you may not have to swap discs you just have huge loads all the time during the game! Still, despite the over-indulgent cut-scenes the game was great.

Halo 3 was criticised for not living up to expectation, but how could it when expectations were so high? So even AAA games are not perfect and will have people who dislike them (look at Gears and Killzone too).

Some games have good ideas but fail (Alone in the Dark and Turning Point) and some have bad ideas and fail but still may appeal to some (Beowulf).

I don't think all games need to be AAA, but they do need to be clean unbroken games. Two Worlds and Alone in the Dark and Turning Point needed polish and fixing badly. View

I really think this highlights a weakness in Live. In our gamercards we have categories like "family" "recreation" "hardcore" "underground" but no levels of policing or segregation if we are online. Never mind my kids hearing the crap that constantly streams from Live (especially by drunk idiots or way too serious team players), I don't like hearing it either all the time. A few "OH s**t" or whatever won't bother me, but some of the stuff out there is horrible.

If we are paying for a service it should be accessible to all and there should be games where those with 'underground' language can go and lobbies where 'family' ones can too.

Oh and if you think getting rid of the headset is the solution, so many games seem team based now (way too many) where commuication is important (way too important) and also I've had negative feedback and aggressive messages left for me when I've done that because "I let the team down by not communicating." View

Hype is good for drumming up interest but then it can really lift expectations: Alone in the Dark and Haze anyone?

How much hype is from the game publishers and how much is from the fans (eg. Killzone, Halo, Resistance, Gears etc.). I do like the games that pleasantly surprise me because they weren't too hyped. View

I consider myself a fairly casual gamer even though games are one of my big hobbies: I play everything from sports to shooter to hack 'n slash. I've owned most consoles since N64. But I hardly ever touch my Wii anymore...too casual. But I'm not the best at games, I never go for the highest difficulty, I don't spend hours and hours playing every day, I'm not an online fan, and have other things in my life that are way more important. So I say I'm a casual.

Yet casual also seems to imply those who don't play games except Wii Sports or NDS etc.

I don't think it is easy to assert "Adapting one (game)to fit everyone just won’t work. " I disagree. You can have different difficulties without ruining the experience for either the most struggling casual or the hot stuff hardcore: look at MGS4: you could play as easy or hard as you chose and that's a good thing. Of course developers want to entice casuals as well as more experienced gamers: it's for money afer all.

Making unintuitive controls for the sake of making it 'harder' for experienced gamers is going to cut out those who don't want a massive frustrating challenge and who don't have the time for one like me. Ninja Gaiden 1 was a good example. I played DMC4 through but not all the way through Ninja Gaiden on Xbox. I don't like wasting my time just so I can say "I passed x on massively hard difficulty; where's my kudos?" Nobody cares. Making games that attract as many as possible while providing fun and challenge for different levels is the ideal. View

Nice to see a positive look at games instead of the doom and gloom 'games are horrible' stuff we hear more often. View

What are you saying: that if you suck at gaming then tough luck? I'd think that publishers and game devs would want as many people as possible buying and enjoying their games, regardless of their gaming skill (it's money after all).

Look at MGS4: you could play it as you liked: if you were hot stuff you could go to the highest difficulty and never kill anyone but bosses, if you sucked you could go to the lower difficulty and instead of sneaking around shoot like you were in COD4. The point is that the game should have as many OPTIONS as possible for both hardcore and casuals to enjoy it. View