I'll be honest, i think Enslaved is gonna be my game of the year. From playing the demo 5 times through and really itching to get it first thing tomorrow morning, i can see myself becoming absolutely obsessed with it! Until Fallout, Vanquish, Fable..come out lol
Hey i'm Yoda Shinoda I'm ranked in the Top 600 Gamerscores in the UK with 129,800+ I'm also ranked in the Top 3000 in the world, over 2,000,000 registered profiles, i'd say thats pretty good going! I'm from the UK and i'm 25 My favourite colour is Purple My favourite album EVER is Deep Shadows & Brilliants Highlights by HIM (and no, i'm not emo lol) My favourite games over the years are: Bioshock, Borderlands, Sonic & Knuckles, Conkers Bad Fur Day, Super Street Fighter 4 and Mortal Kombat. I hate Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2..its beyond a joke how popular that has become. I'm an inhouse games tester for Rare & Codemasters.
WilliamRLBaker, apologies, only just noticed that you did indeed put this on here, apologies for the PM..Ursus_Veritas, its nothing like robbing a bank and you have taken my concept and turned it on its head so much that it didnt even make sense, IF Bungie knew it was there and they did know because they told people not to do it, then they have admitted a flaw, admitted that its something that shouldnt happen and needs fixing, they just dont want people doing it..fair do's but removing all credits due to a fault of their own, no matter how small seems alittle OTT. Look at Firefight..you can tweak and customise your own Firefights to harvest about 5/6 achievements..that go towards unlocking armour..now people have used that to there advantage and recieved no such ban, so if the public can find a 'glitch/exploit or bug' that allows them to BUY armour..thats wrong!? Little bit of confusion here i feel guys! Whats right and whats wrong!?
Yeah i agree to some extent with TaliciaDragonsong, just for the record, i'm not one of these people! However if it happened to me, i'd feel that its a suitable punishment, i just guess looking from the outside in, it seems a little harsh when its something Bungie could have rectified before release..or instead of realising their mistake and then warning people not to use it, just put the patch out sooner! Its kinda like having a big bag of sweets and ya little sister really wanting some, so you say, "i'm gonna put these on the table infront of you, but if you touch them, i'll kick you!" You KNOW that its your fault for puttin them on the table, so its your fault if they get eaten, you cant just threaten people with a kick or in this case a credit removal! If it wasn't there in the first place, there wouldnt need to be a patch or action taken. This is my point, that Bungie, on one of their biggest releases, made such a fundemental mistake.
They could have tested the bale in/out thing because on a game i have previously worked on, we had a dedicated team of 15 guys loading up the game, pulling the cable, checking every result against what should and shouldnt happen and different stages, checking XP etc and that game was a comparitivly much smaller release, so i'm more than sure Bungie would have done this on an even larger scale for a game of the calibur of Halo Reach.
Yeah as seeing the Developers most days and how keen they are on the level of quality of their work, its suprising that something so glaringly obvious would be passed over and left un corrected! More than likely it was a situation where they were aware of it and felt it wasnt a major issue and now because its come to light regarding the 'exploit' they've had to take action!
Just been reading about Bungie planning on removing 15,000+ profiles credits, because of the exploit that enables mass credit gathering..now, i work in the games industry as a tester and i know how in depth games are tested these days, even small arcade titles, let alone a massive release such as Halo Reach! How can this have been overlooked!? Surely its not the players that should be punished, even if it losing just their credits! They paid their money, got the game, probably enjoy playing it, they just saw an oppurtunity to gather armour quicker than slogging hours in, so if they wanna make their character stand out and look good, so long as they don't mod the game or their consoles to enable winning every game, they should be allowed to go unpunished using something that Bungie failed to solve before release! 15,000 people out of the 575,000 people who play Halo Reach online, is nothing, its a small percentage and making people, the general public aware of this bug, give Bungie a bad reputation for a simple flaw. They have gotten so big on themselves, that they cannot see the wood for the trees and therefore think it isn't them who have gone wrong, its the consumer. The people who effectively keep them in the business and money in their banks. I'm an Xbox fanboy so please dont think this is an attack on Microsofts flagship title, i'm just shocked that Bungie would do this.
I personally loved Cloverfield, having followed all the internet hype, the viral marketing everyday for 9months prior to its release, the day it came out, i rushed to my nearest cinema to watch it and for me, with all that build up, i loved every second of it! I felt the way it was done, culminated in a wonderful (if not mixed up) 90mins of entertainment! It gave me everything i had expected and with the $20million budget it had, it pulled off quite nicely what it was attempting to do! There isn't really another monster movie thats been filmed in such a way and although some people had issues with the camera shaking etc and the characters being unbelievable..they didn't have to be, due to being everyday Joes, it came together well for me.
Especially as since its release, various references have been made to it in other JJ Abrahms products..Star Trek for example has 'TAGRUATO' branded buildings in the city shots and Slusho (the fictional slushie drink that helped kick start the viral sites - along with being the company Jason was going to work for) is featured in Fringe, Heroes and even Star Trek!!
For me the film was amazing, for others, it wasn't great in the slightest, but what it did amazingly was create a sense of hype, a sense of 'Ooo whats the monster gonna look like!?' and everyone who trolled the IMDB message boards all searched for hidden stuff, helped each other out and made its a really great experience!!
Its very rare that a movie creates that kind of buzz and fanbase these days, something JJ is starting to do again as we speak for 'Super-8' his new movie.
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