hurrikenux

@MattyFTM said:

I don't think you're living in the real world. Not everyone has the ability to save up thousands of dollars for "what if..." scenarios. Some people struggle to get by with their kids having a decent standard of living and just can't save money for hypothetical scenarios. Heck, when I was a kid it would be rare for my mother to have more than £100 in her bank account. And she certainly didn't have enough spare cash to save up in case somehow her bank account got accessed and someone took all her money. She spent every penny trying to give me the best standard of living she could. We had an OK standard of living, but if she had saved up money just in case something bad would happen we would have pretty much down to our bare bones. She was a single parent. There wasn't a lot else she could do.

I don't know enough about Susan's situation to make a judgement either way about her financial situation, but saying her kids are fucked just because the family is a little low on money is just flat out dumb.

This is correct, some of us single parents barely make enough to make ends meet and used trade-ins and gift cards to procure an XBOX so that we can have some semblance of a social life. What, do we have to be single neckbeards jacking off into our hands to be able to have an XBOX? Thanks for saying this Matty, although the jerk replied.

@EightBitShik said:

@MattyFTM: Their mom buying Xbox360 games when she doesn't have enough set aside for an emergency is what makes them "fucked" and stupid. If this bitch was working hard everyday and just had a bad job then yeah I can understand it. But don't cry to me about you can't afford to feed your kids when you have a 360. That is a 1st world problem right there "My kids can't afford to eat but holy shit we played Portal 2, Skyrim, Saints row the third, Shadows of the damned" that's my point lol. That is the real world.

It's like me I love the shit out of Giantbomb but I lost my job so I canceled my monthly subscription to the site it pained me but fuck man I wanna eat.

Have you ever been a parent or even know what the hell you are talking about? This "bitch" (I can tell you are forever alone) may have that XBOX because it is hard for her to be able to have a personal life and a parental one. I am a single parent far away from any of my family and the XBOX was a nice way to talk to friends and family in other states while enjoying games after my kid goes to sleep and the housework is done. My budget is tight, so having my XBOX hacked put me at a loss when all I use it for is recreation and I am only able to purchase items for it with the occasional gift card, credit card rewards and eBaying household items. All extra money goes towards my kid having the life I feel she deserves, having money stolen from me WOULD hinder me providing food and care for her on a month to month basis.

This is all the things you never had to worry about while your parents spoiled the shit out of you.

Some people have no class.

Mine says "error set to Private" when it is not, honestly the achievement tracking hasn't worked for XBox or Steam since I signed up.  It works just fine on Playfire and Raptr so the "Private" error is clearly a mistake.

Hacking Bethesda's website is akin to a full-grown man punching an old lady.  Sure, you CAN do it but isn't it a bit beneath you to do so?

Source: http://libcom.org/library/when-it-comes-crunch-unpaid-overtime-games-industry

 
No suprise this development studio suffered this fate. Although blaming the closure down to the dev studio making a poor game isn't such a great response without knowing what went on behind closed doors. Fact is THQ and many other of the big publishers are forcing studios into near permanent crunch period to shell out mediocre quality games for fast profit. This is ultimately the end result in being picked up by the big guns, when the're done with you they leave you out to the garbage.
 
There are plenty of studio's in recent memory that have met the same fate, so you can't be so judgemental in thinking the dev studio is to blame for making a mediocre game with poor sales.

@hurrikenux: Your reply screams "PC gamer" which honestly doesn't mean anything - the method through which a person plays video games doesn't define their sensibilities in the least.  It seems your complaint isn't that COD is bad, but that's it's popular, and that it's popular on home consoles. If that be your beef, then it's not with the game, but the changing nature of the video games market - more people play games on consoles nowadays, COD or no COD.   And that all boils down to a million different factors, such as cost, accessibility, connectivity, changing demographics etc etc.   It seems to me that you're not lamenting the quality of the games, but simply the fact that the majority of people no longer play them the way you do, and that's not likely going to change as consoles move closer and closer to digital-only. My PC-playing friend, you are living in the niche now.

@hurrikenux said:

@SuperSambo said:

Homefront is dire, CoD games are good.

Big difference.

Fanboyism is dire, to each their own but you should be asking yourself if you would buy it no matter the content simply because it says "Call of Duty" on the box. Just like with Guitar Hero, they do not have to do anything ground-breaking feature or content-wise. In addition, PC games get shafted with limited support due to Console gamers that don't seem to know their history (not meant to include quoted poster) buying up anything with a name.

I know what I am going to get with CoD, a decent 6 - 8 hour sp game that is worth playing and a game that my friends will play online. I am not a fan boy, I just enjoy the games.

I won't buy anything with "Call of Duty" on the box, but if people I know are all playing and enjoying a game online then I will buy it regardless of groundbreaking features or content. If I was having a ball playing a game with 1 map and 4 weapons, then it is still worth the money. Games should be judged and entertainment, not features. Sure, they usually go hand in hand, but there are exceptions.

I strayed a little there... But my point still stands. Call Of Duty games are well honed, exciting games that I can easily play 20 hours online without getting bored. It is popular to hate on Call of Duty now, and I can see why some are angry, but as it stands they are great FPS games.