We're just gonna take away your bubbles.
Here's another one from GameSpot.
but it's the BEST of its kind.
Remember: all those conversations and body languages are INTERACTIVE. The scenes cut back and forth between characters during conversation - as you play the game and choose the dialog options. Playable characters and non-playable characters show the appropriate body language and hand gesture as they talk, as the player play through the dialogue. All those conversations are integrated parts of the gameplay. Unlike Heavenly Sword, they are NOT ...
G4 X-Play's Adam Sessler also came to the defend of Assassin's Creed after E3 2007, when everyone was criticizing the game after a preview of a work-in-progress, buggy version.
His words, not mine:
"Pulling out the GoW: Betrayal banner as a punch on us? I'm sorry, but that's paying for a PS3 for us to PHUCKING GIVE TO YOU! We as writers don't give two sh1ts who puts ads on our site. I don't care if Ubisoft sponsored us with Horsez 2. We'd still give it a sh1t review. I mean, c'mon, we're not IGN."
He's right on one thing. Destructoid is not IGN. I know I can expect profesionalism from IGN editors at all time.
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at least now we know where he stands and is coming from...
Unlike you, Matt Keil is an *industry professional*. He actually works in the industry and has professional credentials -- he has first-hand direct and personal knowledge, experience and contacts in gaming industry.
You do not.
And that's what make HIS opinions worthier than yours (or Destructoid's.) Your opinions count for very little unless you actually have professional credentials to back you up.
plus me, and I'm sure you can count the OP in as well.
Most likely Warner has decided to jump in and join the "casual" craps.
G4 X-Play rarely produces any video reviews for Xbox 360 games, and close to never for Windows games.
Most of G4's reviews are for Sony and Nintendo's games.
a BLOG is not any more reliable and credible than a forum post, especially when the forum post is made by a writer-producer of a major, well-known video game website.
G4 X-Play or its writers, producers, and hosts > Destructoid
Destructoid does not review games. It's not a gaming mag or site.
It's a blog. A gamers' blog. It's a place for the gamers to go blog, rant, shout, sing, and complain.
One of the bloggers got to go the Penny Arcade Expo. He saw a live demo of Mass Effect in a crowd, and he was not impressed. He was more impressed by the pretty girl (booth babe?) who was playing the demo.
Maybe he was distracted by the girl, or maybe the girl turned him down for...
Bioware would have been the perfect developer for Fallout 3. Bioware and Black Isle even worked together back when Interplay was still in business, but Bioware games were always ,ore stable than Black Isle's.
Bethesda's Fallout licensing is only temporary and set to expire in another 3-4 years. If Microsoft has any brain, they would pay big money to grab the Fallout license permanently and let Bioware develop it as Microsoft exclusives.
Do you know the difference between: (a) previewing an incomplete version of a game that's being demonstrated by someone else for 10 to 20 minutes, and (b) reviewing a game after having played it oneself for hours?
Lair and Heavenly Sword received the bad/mixed reviews from the reviewers who have actually played the final version of the games for hours. It's not like they stood and watched someone else played a demos for 15 of 20 minutes.
I trust the consensus of...
until you actually get to play the game (or hear or read it from someone who *has* actually played the game.)
You won't know how the gameplay is until you have actually played a demo or the game yourself, or until you read or hear it from someone who has actually played the game himself.
You won't know how the story is until you actually play the the story, or until you read or hear it from someone who knows what the story is. As of now, Mass Effect's story is...
Bioware games have NEVER not won most major GOTY awards for the year they came out.
Every single one of Bioware games -- MDK, Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, Neverwinter Night, Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic, and Jade Empire -- each and every single one of them has won most of the major GOTY awards for the years they were released.
not a review. The game is still three months away from release.
Halo 3 Preview (Beta) was a huge disappointment. Look at where it is now.
Assassin's Creed got a terrible preview at E3, but it's only a preview.
IF Mass Effect is getting a bad REVIEW like Lair and Heavenly Sword are, then I'd be worried.
You know a Sony exec had said that even if Sony released PS3 with no game, it would still sell 5 million units.
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Well? Has PS3 sold 5 million units yet?
Sony has clearly overestimated its brand loyalty.
Why do you guys keep comparing the console models between 360 and PS3?! It's the GAMES that will determine the outcome of the battle.
You guys have been here. You guys have been reading all the previews and reviews of all the new and upcoming "AAA" titles. Looking at all the review scores that have been coming lately, it should be pretty obvious that 360 will dominate this Christmas.
Halo 3 vs. Heavenly Sword - which one will win?
Mass Effect ...
a reviewer's or magazine's reputation is slowly built up over time. Reputation is earned through time or from credentials, not given to someone automatically. He has no reputation; we don't really know who he is. He's a mystery He could be a shill working for Sony marketing. Not everyone is qualified or credible to be a reviewer or give professional reviews. Change the title to something else, like "A Gamer's Hand-On Review of Lair" or something.