Ah yes. Because internal studios never get shut down, disbanded, or cut in half when they don't perform. We know that you know this and a lot of counter arguments that are quite factual. You're so boring by intentionally disregarding valid points that are brought up. Then you'll probably reply asking me to pain stakingly go through and show all the evidence of you being told a combination of factual contrary or exceptionally strong contrary based on patterns and company histories ...
We have good compression algorithms now. It wouldn't become that much bigger from HD textures. There were a couple games back in the day that had official HD texture packs as an optional download. It normally is a few gigs, just like these modded HD texture packs tend to be for newer games.
I only use disc drives for Bluray movies really. Not so much for games unless it's a really nice physical edition
I don't hear any of the people complaining about the skins for D4 saying they agree with Street Fighter skin prices. Not everyone that complains needs to join the entire brigade and picket the entire act of something. Some are just affected more personally from the particular media that they are into.
D4 is a much larger fanbase and also just released. Of course you're seeing these articles. And, SF6 did get criticism, but the main reason it probably didn't is ...
The gaming world has been starved of a geuinely good and true RPG built with passion. This is what the big developers think they need to stray away from because it's "risky" when the reason their games haven't performed well is they cut corners and don't get creative with it.
A few clicks is supposedly well hidden and out of view? You think users aren't actually navigating their menus aside from going straight to their recent game?
@olMyerslo
You've gotta stop trying to attempt that tactic.. Claiming others are reaching or now using mental gymnastics when it pertains to what you're doing. you're clearly reaching and doing your own mental gymnastics and think being the first to say those words to someone must make you free and clear of doing it. I know some people think pointing fingers first avoids their own criticism but let me explain it to you again. You did address the off-topic and r...
@olMyerslo
So.. you decide to allow yourself to be off topic. Then when you've been corrected you come back to say we should get back on topic. It's a valid point and there is no reaching. Reaching is the defense you're trying to make to say their history isn't clearly showing the criticism to be true, whether you like it or not. And, trying to misuse a word to lessen it's impact and use it to support your bias like it can no longer be used for the contr...
The point that has been made time and again is that everything up to this point proves the controller remark as true. I've been promised many things by otherwise causes of toxic histories. Look at the history and what has been done. Not the promise.
Also, having one or two good games after consistent years of draught and disappointments still doesn't prove the contrary.
You say that like it's sarcasm but it's what's actually been happening for a over decade. Dozens of limited edition controller releases and exceptionally low game output along with disappointing game quality when the games do come.
Most of the time, these types of methods and techniques already exist on a console. So potentially it's already been explored and still isn't what they're looking for
@MontyeKristo
That's the thing. You need to look ahead. A monopolistic practice does not need to be done by the market leader. You don't bale out a poor performer in an industry who has literally no excuse for lack of talent or direction. We know why MS performs so poorly. We all do. You don't get to use your known poor performance to get a boost from the government. The consumers voted with their wallets and that is why XBox is last. Monopoly laws aim to protec...
@CBaoth
I'm not totally knowledgeable about that era of gaming.. But, this topic sounds like the next fairy tale to go around this site to spread FUD about Sony again. Did anyone else per chance read when people kept trying to claim Sony performed terrible monopolistic practices to keep MS out of Japan? This was stated numerous times and I did my research. Turns out Sony did absolutely... nothing to keep MS out of Japan. They simply saw that the market never budged in M...
"Posted this **same** story from IGN and was told it was a **duplicate**. Go figure. "
.. You just explained an actual reason why it wouldn't pass and still complain. You're literally creating your own problem and still blaming it on others.
It clearly must not have a logical reason like this and must be a fanboy pulling the strings in the background.
Exactly. I was saying before that it's completely an obviously lie when MS tried to say CoD wasn't as big of a deal as it is.. while they also knew how damn important CoD was to all the services they signed a contract for where they agreed to host CoD on their service with no profit split for the service. If it isn't so damn important then how can you convince a bunch of services to host your game without taking a dime of the profit? Because it's obviously a system selling gam...
@darth
You confuse "nice guy gloves" with a nice guy mask. He's always had core gamers as his last worry for the three consoles he's been in charge of games for. He has never done one thing that was done directly for hardcore gamers. Not a single thing. Not one big franchise release or passion project for the gaming crowd. Any time there was an actual push for what should have been an epic first party exclusive it's basically always ended up horribly. ...
". Phil said I'll raise you one and just buy the publisher."
Right... Now imagine if this was actually a good argumentative retort to every time there was every a third party exclusive. Microsoft would have ruined a hell of a lot more third party devs if they acquired them because of one or two third party exclusives... Sony has historically done a lot more unique third party games with in house partnership with Sony. MS has unfortunately just stuck to the sto...
Like Redemption said.. The issue is when people come out to try and "clear the air" with the average person like they are trying to get along with people and understand one another. But they are actually trying to make themselves look good and just make up information to act like they haven't done anything that could wrong anyone. MS said they did not remove any games that were being developed for PlayStation and they clearly ended up doing that. Nevermind the fact that any futu...
No.. Phil was in charge of European studios and Kinect implementation since 2008. Those European studios he was in charge of were then full time Kinect developers as he was now in charge of all XBox game studios in 2010. This is why game quality has sucked ever since he was in charge and directly why the legendary Lionhead and the actual Rare devs are not there anymore. Phil is actually more to blame than anyone for the bad game quality and the Kinect push. And especially for the terrible XBo...