JTB123

I certainly understand your points but I can't say I agree with all of them. For example, I really wanted to play Killlzone 3 when it was released, but I was neck deep in university work at the time and above all couldn't afford it at £40, so I waited until I saw it cheaper, then picked it up. It sucks, because I really do enjoy the MP and coming into the game 5 months later I didn't have a great time with it, but shit happens I guess.

I can't really relate to the PC problems though, I don't think there is any such thing as a casual PC gamer, but I think it's what best describes me, I built my PC with 3D modelling and rendering in mind, turns out because of that, it's equipped to run games very well too and I do enjoy the benefits of the hardware (better resolution, frame rate, save/load times etc) but I do agree with what you said about PC games. I'd love to see more demos on PC, being able to rent games on consoles eliminates that problem for that platform, maybe Steam will introduce a rental system at some point because that would be great.

@The_LMFAO_Guy said:

I don't know how to pirate games, and don't really care to know how.

Surprised it took this many posts to see this as well, I'm the same, I have an idea how it's done on PC but I wouldn't even know where to start on a console, I feel I'm one of the few that still buy the majority of my PC games on disk, I just like having a box on my shelf and seeing my collection get bigger.

It's not the game parts of Shadows of the Damned that I found the greatest, it was everything else, still made my top ten though.

@Jaded_Racoon: They're going to have to alter the weapons for starters, seeing as the hammerburst is no longer a pick up and the Boltok is considerably more dangerous this time. I can't imagine it will be as bad as overpass though, there were two sniper rifles and two grenade pick ups for the people that spawned at the bottom. It sure does look pretty though and I can't see any major changes from this snap.

Fuck overpass though, that map was complete garbage even before they further messed up the power weapon placement.

Be very interesting to see how they alter Escalation from Gears 1, I really hope they do something with beast mode, seems like that has been forgotten about.

Shadow of Rome would be great, until it was announced I would say DMC, but still.

I agree with what you said but it's the players that suck. I've got back on Gears 3 over the past couple of weeks and when I don't have a team to play with I just play KOTH or CTL, the whole point of TDM is to make every spawn count, it's just too bad that most people take that to mean "as long I get one kill per spawn I'm doing it right". It is pretty annoying seeing people that are 3-10 at the end of the match.

I suppose this bright side is that it keeps your deaths to a minimum :)

B. Purely because this year was amazing for me, and also because Ninja Gaiden 3 and the new DMC don't look too great and they're two of my favourite game series and if they don't sell well enough it's pretty safe to say that will be death of them for a very long time.

Another one of these articles, at least when they're done in this manner you can get a chuckle or two out of them at least.

Bloody Roar, man that game is great fun.

@AlmostSwedish: Those agility orbs seem like the best thing ever until you hit 450+ don't they. I was really stubborn about not using a guide for them, 2 corrupted save files later with 490+ collected (thanks RRoD) and I gave up and used a guide. Still felt awesome to finally get them all though.