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106 days 18 hours ago

PC gaming is nose diving into the ground

and this the best they can come up with to save it? This is only slightly better than the music industry deciding to form RIAA so they can sue their customer base. If they really wanted to get a good measure of the piracy problem GTA IV would have been released on the PC as well as the Xbox and PS3. I keep hearing developers complain about downloads but like the music and movie industries they can't point to any reliable numbers. View

107 days 7 hours ago

You have to understand something.............

you being a law abiding citizen ensures you will pay maximium price for everything. In china where piracy is rampant legal versions of movies sell for $2. That's 8 times less than what you pay here for a DVD. So rampant piracy in the U.S. would actually lower your costs. View

107 days 7 hours ago

The price gets me.

$30 a disc ensures I buy nothing in Blu-ray save blockbuster titles with excellent cinematography. 300, Fifth Element, Across the Universe, Sin City, 30 Days of Night. I won't be buying Golden Compass or Super Bad or any TV show in Bluray until the price comes down to that of a DVD.

Sony doesn't care about Blu-ray stand alones. They suckered those people into backing Blu-ray. Sony wants the PS3 to be the defacto Blu-ray player, and it is.

The other two issues the article brings up are non issues. The Bluray encryption will be hacked just like Itunes and DVD most likely from the same kid and the people that want hacked blu-ray discs won't upgrade thier software versions. View

108 days 12 hours ago

Is it time for the weekly

N’Gai Croal self promotion already?

Last time out he said his name three times and had his picture in the first paragraph. He's one upped himself by not only name dropping his own name, but building his own hype and covering himself in his own articles.

He's like the real life dude version of Carmen from GTA.

Another gamers are too hard and need to be even more ridiculously easy, article. I can't remember the last time a game hung me up for even 5 minutes. You want a game to be easier? Hell you might as well watch tv at that point. It has the same difficulty level.

How does this guy claim to be hardcore and want an easier game in the same article? View

108 days 14 hours ago

Oblivion was only buggy on the consoles.

On the PC the fixed 90% of the bugs with patches the rest were covered by unofficial patches. Prey....I didn't say that. Like I said before you call me a hater but I give rockstar tons of credit all through the review except for a few key areas.

Have you played all the GTAs or is this your first one? If it's your first I can see why you would want it to have a higher score. There is a bunch to do in the game no doubt but 70% of it was in the first 5. View

108 days 15 hours ago

name one game better than gta iv?

I'll name 5

Uncharted
Bioshock
Mass Effect
Oblivion
Orange Box

3 origional IP beats 6 time sequel any time
1 massively huge game with huge mod community
5 games for $60 nough said.

I would have given it the same score on a 360 but I couldn't sit through it twice.

What good is a review if it's just telling you what the last guy said? That makes no sense what so ever. View

108 days 15 hours ago

First off

you have to understand that no game is capable of 100. 100 is flawless no game reaches that. Only fan boys think they can. Even the best games will likely get a 10 in only one or two categories. For instance. Spore, Second life, and Unreal 3 for PS3 would get 10s in content. Why? Because they allow user generated content...meaning the sky is potentially limitless. For graphics a ten would be running at max resolution capable for platform at 60 fps...GT5, Cyris..are examples. A good review is realistic. View

108 days 15 hours ago

Never in my review did I say I didn't like it.

So I don't know where you get that from. It's not that I don't like it because everyone else does. It's that a lot of people can't count.

50 out of 100 is middle of the road, not 85 out of 100. View

108 days 15 hours ago

Mainly the controls.........

5 titles across multiple platforms over 8 years, and I'm still targeting civilians in a "Heat" style fire fight?

Go here kill this person, go here grab that still = fetch

All the cool missions that were not fetch based. E.g. gang wars, criminal empire building, etc were the most raved about and most controversial in previous titles. Gone, most likely for fear of lawsuit. View

108 days 16 hours ago

You couldn't have possibly read that

in that short of a time. The only reason you think 75/100 is bad is because your used to seeing games like Assassins creed get 9.8 out of 10 because someone spent a billion in advertising. We don't fall into the "OH MY GOD! I SAW A MILLION BILLBOARDS, COMMERCIALS, ETC,. THAT AUTOMATICLY MEANS IT'S FLAWLESS IN EVERY WAY" Crowd. View

110 days 5 hours ago

I wrote an article about this a year ago.

http://hornymelon.com/?p=22

I think that developers/publishers use this as an excuse as to why thier titles don't sell well.

Free music has ended up helping artists willing to embrace it. It only really hurts those that use a standard top down business model. View

111 days 5 hours ago

This article is not about titles.,

It's about players. View

111 days 20 hours ago

If the PSP had a 7meg camera and phone functions

it would be dominating the portable electronics market. Here's hoping Sony realizes this for the PSP2. View

112 days 17 hours ago

As a Sony fan I have to say I've never been into the

FF series. The only one I enjoyed was FF VII and I know why

I can't identify with 90% of the characters....I am not and have no interest pretending that I am a androgynous preteen. The spunky little kid and its bouncing around and loudness is like finger nails on a chalk board

The story lines are very linear. This problem is compounded by what has become cliche japanese plot lines. Everything is about love, parental/sibling hatred coming of age, etc

Poor titles and stories...take Folklore for example. One would think that it is the name of a fantasy story....similar to the title Fable..nope not in JRPG land it is a physical item.

retarded character/monster/boss/equipme nt designs......the pistol sword instantly turned me off to FF VIII. Or the monster with 40 eyes, 10 tentacles and a wheel for legs.

Unneedly high stats.....strength of 15,000, hit points of 7,897 (and that's low)....stat/special ability interfaces that require decoding..I think this was another FF8 turn off.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head but I know there's more. View

114 days 19 hours ago

You guys actually bought the

limited edition? Why? You know those things are going to be as collectible as pennies right. Now the Fallout Collectors edition, that will have value. View

116 days 6 hours ago

Screw this sissy boxing match crap

I'll fight Uwe Boll in a no gloves street fight or at least a UFC style fight, if it means the end of him destroying video game credibility in film. View

116 days 17 hours ago

The dreamcast was not ahead of it's time.....

it made the same mistake as the 360.

It used hardware that was standard during the designing process but out of date by the time the console launched.

It came with 56k when broadband was becoming big.
It had cds when dvds were becoming big.
It had the useless mini PDA, this was at a time when tamaguchis were popular.
It had hardware problems also

The controller was designed like crap. Microsoft was influenced by it's controller because the same freakin guy made that made the dreamcast made the 360.

I blame Peter Moore and his total lack of understanding how hardware evolves for the dreamcast's demise. View

117 days 17 hours ago

This isn't an article about being a hardcore gamer it's an article about

being an old gamer. Many of those points thought don't have to do with the actual hardcoreness of the gamer.

The reason the console gets turned on less is that the older gamer is not marketed to. We've already killed a universe full of hostile aliens, slayed a million dragons, saved a million damsels, and conquered the world a thousand times over. The crap that is supposed to be new, is only new to the noobs.

You also find that games are not challenging at all. What is the challenge of beating Oblivion to death compared to that of making yourself successfully self employed? Which has the better reward? Who gets excited about Gran Turismo when a real Nissan GTR is within your grasp?

With, FPS reflexes have nothing to do with it. If your playing Unreal 3 your playing quake2 with better graphics. If your playing halo your playing tribes. Who wants to buy the same game over and over for more than 11 years?

If your playing assassins creed you don't know what a good game is.

You avoid playing the wii cause it's gimmicky with shallow game play.

You don't play guitar hero because you took the same amount of time to learn to play an actual guitar. This falls into the greater challenge more satisfying reward category above. View

119 days 4 hours ago

GTA IV is going to be a bigger system pusher for

Sony than Microsoft. Your choices are GTA IV with no downloadable content or GTA IV with downloadable content you may not be able to play due to RRoD. View

120 days 10 hours ago

Screen tearing isn't

the fault of the PS3 or game. It's your TV. It's refresh rate is unable to keep up with the action on the screen. View