TheManiacsGnome

@Salarn: The year 2000 was a long time ago, and when her last credit is Playboy The Mansion, you should probably stop defending her.

@Anund: He skipped over the part where it's been pointed out that she has worked on TWO Playboy games, which I'm fairly certain were shown at E3.

My lady friend has recently been enjoying LA Noire a unreasonable amount, and has a pretty irrational dislike of mobile phone games, Facebook games and random junk like that. My point? people like what they like and telling people they shouldn't like something because of how you feel about something will never succeed.

@Raven_Sword:

Depends on the resolution, what kind of monitor have you got? I have a GTX 460 and I still run everything except BF3 perfectly smooth.

@RedRavN:

As a life long PC+Console gamer (Or Console+PC, depends on the month) I never understood the "PC gamer Elitism/Entitlement" but this thread seems to demonstrate it well.

It has been pretty much a fact that if you have a successful PC game, it or its sequels will appear on the current crop of consoles or the generation coming. Deus Ex, HL, Tribes, Battlefield (Hell they wanted to shoehorn 1942 onto the Xbox), Thief, Quake, Starcraft, Daikatana(lol) etc etc all landed on consoles in one form or another. What happened 9 times out of 10? The games got smaller and lots of adjustments were made to make the game work, concessions have to made when going from the never ending button monstrosity of a keyboard to a Dualshock. Sometimes concessions need to be made visually (All the time) sometimes it's just a drop in model, texture and other effects and in some cases it's a reworking of maps. Point is, this has been a fact of life for PC games and will continue to be.

Ghost Recon 1 had some really large maps, it also gave you lots of options to complete your objective and was one of the few games that I enjoyed just as much on the console as I did on the PC (Coop is a hell of a drug). The second game, built from the ground up to be a console game threw all of that out. Replaced with a awful looking, poor playing third person shooter. Getting mad and sending letters changed nothing, Advanced Warfighter still came out.

I'm interested in curbing the notion that A) games are much worse then they were throughout the 90's. B) We are in a worse position to make informed decisions when buying games. C) That there is something inherently evil about publishers. D) Don't think you're so important I did this just to come after you and insult a game that I enjoy too. E) I have a copy of the first Shogun, don't assume I'm 15.

The idea that you don't need to purchase CoD is "irrelevant", and yet you'll go ahead and start talking about the 'Substance" of gameplay in one game over the other? IN DIFFERENT GENRE'S! Are you serious!? You know what, scratch all of this. Waste of my time, it's like talking to a wall. FYI, I've only ever met children who repeatedly refer to themselves as "Pro".

@whyareyoucrouchingspock:

The crux of your whole thread, was that Publishers are evil and have found ways to nickel and dime us or... "Subtly" raise prices. My purpose in bringing the DLC argument up about Shogun 2 was that they left out some pretty major stuff. 3 Clans and Blood, all of those things add up to more then 59.99 (I paid 49.99 at launch). Most major publishers will look for ways to monetize gamers after they have purchased the title, it's a business. Thankfully though, you don't need to purchase any of that. Consumer choice, what a concept.

What I've been trying to say since my first post here is that no one has a gun to your head and you have choices. But based on your total stupidity in saying things like "Total War's campaign is this long so it's worth more then CoD's because it's this long" I don't have high hopes for that. Seriously, I would expect a strategy title like Shogun to have a longer campaign. But, surprise surprise you'll find things like BF3 cost far more to produce and require FAR more assets.

Soooo, you're either stupid or a poor troll. A really poor, whiny troll.

Well good fucking luck with that, I'm done here.

Keep the tin foil hat on and continue rocking back and forth, I'm sure it'll all get better soon.

@whyareyoucrouchingspock:

Yeah, the ripple effect. Much like the Domino effect, is not a theory I would put much stock in.

You know Creative Assembly "Withheld" content and released it as DLC for Shogun 2 right? I guess CA and Sega are easily as bad as EA, Ubi and Activision.

@Little_Socrates:

Er...that's really, really your opinion and without a shadow of a doubt your music tastes. I will buy 5 copies of CoD before I give money to Kanye West, I think I would also blow my brains out if I heard someone within ear shot declare that as a once in a lifetime event. Don't tell me what I spend my money on is "Worth it", it's not up to you.

It's really to bad that I'm forced to buy all these titles from the major evil corporations. Sure I technically have loads and loads of choices, but bobby's got a gun and says he knows how to use it.

Also complaining about the retail price of the PC version of CoD is dumb, if you don't want to pay the 10 dollars then don't. Activision isn't obligated to do anything other then sell their product at a price that they see as fair, luckily my brain tells me I can see their pricing scheme as unfair and choose not to purchase it. WOW! Finally-Guild Wars 2, 60 bucks is worth it. Don't complain.