IntoTheN1ght

It would be "interesting"? Really? You are basing this off pretty much nothing. Its change just to change things, for no reason.

The reason they went with a colored protagonist in San Andreas was because the source material demanded it, same reason you played as a italian-american in Vice City. Having a white guy run around supposed South Central with his homies would feel fake and phoney. They respect their source material, movies they are inspired by Scarface, Boyz n the Hood etc.

The point is that while their games are silly, they arent Saints Row 3 type silly. They still try to portray the underground world of crime with some accuracy and realism. I just dont see a period or angle where a female lead character could work. Every character and cut scene in SR3 is a joke, its meant to be that. GTA is not like that, its not a comedy rum all the way through.

Own em all

Regret my Wii and to lesser extent 360.

Wii is justified for Galaxy 1 and 2

360 controller is great!....for shooters, everything else is almost unplayable. Recently Tony Hawk HD, even Jeff said this. Playing anything but a FPS or TPS on that controller is a struggle, the Dual Shock just does a far better job.

I think rage over online games stems from people thinking it somehow grades you as a human being. You being great at WoW raiding means you are a awesome and successful person? No, usually hardcore raiders are basement dwelling nerds, the stereotype is there for a reason. How well you play a videogame =/= who or what you are.

Dont let online idiots fool you into thinking that it somehow correlates with you as a person, afterall wouldnt you rather be successful in life and shit at games than the opposite?

It is no different than playing chess, checkers, cards. It is a game, its sole purpose is to entertain you. If you are raging over it then the whole thing has failed. You may aswell chuck your console out the window, you are wasting your time.

1. Starcraft (Brood War)

2. Final Fantasy 7

3. Resident Evil (the original)

Its why i dont buy games on steam unless there is a boxed option available in my country. Because i dont feel like i "own" my so called games on Steam. Thus i buy stuff like Amnesia, ie that isent available (here at least) in physical form.

Mario 64

When i play a Mario game, i am not the type who collects all the coins, goes for all the secrets, smashes every box, 100% OCD, current day achievement/trophy whore.

I played the 2d Marios as if they were Sonic games, held down the run button and ran, to me that made those games very exciting.

That, i assume is the reason i dont like Mario 64, its slow, sluggish, controlling Mario feels like controlling a 9 ton robot. The level design is not go from A to B always and that is annoying in a Mario game, if i wanted puzzles il play Zelda thanks.

Odd then that i love Galaxy 1 and 2, controls are tighter and the levels are far superior, its like playing Mario but in 3d...but with the same spirit of the 2d games.

Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword

There are bad, average, good and great games. Then there is that rare exception when the game feels heavy, like its work. Only MMOs can make you feel that way when you are grinding dailies or heroics you have done 95302532 times. But somehow these 2 latest Zelda games have lost any semblance of "adventure" and feel like absolute work.

Unless you are a massive Zelda zealot with Link bedsheets and a Triforce tattoo on your butt-cheeks, then it is almost impossible to just get through the long, mutha****** looooooooooooooonnngggg tutorial at the beginning of these games. My god does it sap the life out of you in every way imaginable, and after that you are playing a insanely padded game, where the entire world is one giant puzzle. I rather play a notoriously bad game for the irony (Street Fighter The Movie The Game, Big Rigs etc) than play any of these. What happened to Link just waking up in the middle of a rainy night and going out to look for his uncle (LTTP)?

Ofcourse the fanboys proclaimed these 10/10, best game ever on Gamefaqs and other sites full of overzealous and downright insane Zelda fans before the games even came out. They gave hell to Gerstmann for a 8.7 was it? TP didnt even deserve a 6, he actually did them a favour.

Fantastic!

I loved the knee jerk reaction of some males full of guilt and self hatred and the feminazi group that attacked Eidos and the developers, there is a huge thread on Neogaf where white knights gathered their swords and armor and went bravely into battle. Ofcourse that thread has dissapeared since this news came out, anyone who disagreed was deemed a sick, twisted, misogynist hell bent on keeping women down.

And now this. Most of the times when companies finance and create a product, they just want to entertain people in exchange for money, that is how 99% of all products work. Few very have ulterior motives, such as making young men who play videogames hate women! RAWR!

That same group almost went after female tennis players at this years Wimbeldon because "they were making sex sounds" as they were hitting the ball.

People seriously need to chill out

The original PS3 is more loud and produces more heat, if you have/had a regular 360 its kinda like that, where it sounds like a plane is about to fly off from your room.

A new PS2 is pretty cheap these days, so if i were you id get a new PS2 and new PS3, you get a nice guarantee on both.

Here is a tip: CoD games are only worth buying on consoles, even if the PC version is "superior"

All of them have plenty of hacks out that are easy to use and exploit.

In some bizarre world the PS3 version is probably the best version, as it is the absolute cleanest version out there. Ive never seen a maphack or the like for the PS3 version, ive seen some shady stuff for the 360 version.

Half Life, i said it!

The original got insane praise because for once it wasent a "get Blue Key Card" type of borefest that single player of Quake, Unreal, Doom and countless others had. But its multiplayer, which is more often than not the absolute core of a FPS game, it was still a good game but it wasent some "GAME OF THE FOREVER OMG!" after beating HL i went straight back into Quake and Unreal for the multiplayer action.

HL2 was even worse in that it had the annoying driving stages which really took the series down for me. Whereas HL1 was good but not great, then HL2 was average.

I think the love people have for Steam (which i understand) often clouds their judgement on all Valve games, they all get alot more praise than they really deserve, Portal getting GOTY nominations is down right absurd. There are plenty of great puzzle ish games that never even got close to a nomination let alone awards.

Gears of War

The first one got alot of attention because quite frankly it was the first game in current gen that actually looked far and beyond above anything the Xbox, GC and PS2 could do. And that is all there was to it

After that and 2 sequels i don't see the appeal at all, its quite simple: The actual gunplay and overall gameplay is something that will entertain you for 4-5 hours but after that it is constant deja vu. These games simply do not have the depth that most shooters today have. Even the most hated series in gaming today, Call of Duty, requires far more from the player than GoW games do, yet because of their popularity they get alot more hate.