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Sega getting CoH is horrid for communications with media. They still live in this mindset, that only the mainstream should be allowed to portray the games they publish. Which doesn't mesh well with how Relic used to do things, they loved interviews, showing off builds and allowing people to show-off the game they were working on. They understood how these types of press were free advertising and made their sales go up. Also, it's a bit sad that we'll probably no-longer see any of the Graphics Card deals, with my AMD card I got CoH and Saint's Row for free, even though I've probably bought about 12 copies of SR3 for myself, friends and family who have all loved it.

Like 20 World of Warcraft Podcasts... all at once. But seriously, the good ones I miss, WoWPodcast with Laike (no idea where she ran off too), Epic Dolls (though Lela Turkey and her husband still do alot of off and on shows and interviews), 1UP (because it's fucking 1UP) and ofcourse... The best podcast of them all, Arrow Pointing Down.

I like it, though every time I click on an image I get that Wii-U 'Look at your game pad' type feel when 'Use your keyboard' comes up. I clicked the image... Wouldn't I want to still use my mouse?

Some of you seriously can't read, can you? People pulled out of the project in the last minutes / seconds and some people who wanted to donate, didn't do so fast enough. In the end, the final number fell $28 short. It wasn't a case of the dev not wanting to throw in or being too cheap to fund his own game, or anything like that. At the end of the day, this was an unfortunate circumstance that showed some glaring issues with Kickstarter's policies, and how it can royally screw a dev over if people don't put their money where their mouth is. It's kinda like the Ebay auctions for Twinkies, a bunch of those $300-500 bids were done with fake accounts, probably by some kids that thought it would be funny to say they were the top bidder on the 'last box of twinkies ever', now just imagine if someone did that on Kickstarter? Casually used a paypal account or credit card to pledge $500 to a kickstarter, just to say, 'I helped the gaming industry! Derp!' and then pulled out in the last half-hour? Obviously numbers, projections, hell even the Kickstarter page was glitching out when I was watching it. At one point, it looked like they were $12 away... and then a second later were $112 away and then $48 away... It was insane that the site never said they went over. Maybe the pulling out was less nefarious than I assume and were more along the lines of what Patrick thinks, but regardless, Kickstarter needs to figure out a new way to stabilize the last 15-30mins of a projects campaign.

That said, I think DQ did dodge a bullet by not getting the funding. It would have been the end of the studio en masse. They would have felt obligated to make the game and even if it ever made it out of Alpha, the studio would have been bankrupt by the end of it. So here's to DQ, best of luck, hope you find a niche that'll get funded and make a great game when you do.

@project343 said:

Since when are his reviews ever good? I mean, he gave Halo 4 the same score he gave Call of Juarez: The Cartel.

Eh, duder, did you actually like Cartel? o.O As for the review, it only hurts the egos of the fan boys and the ignorant bigwigs in Microsoft who are going to only look at the bad reviews. The game is more of the same, yet polished and given a bit of a facelift in terms of how some of the mechanics work. It's nothing spectacular, but let's face it, we know what happens when you try to change Halo (ref ODST and Reach). Overall, if you're just coming into the series with number 4, I highly suggest getting 3, one of the side games or even Anniversary Edition to test the waters. If you're a vet, it's going to have everything you've wanted from a Halo game. Spartan Ops seems weird at first, but it was the one thing they tried to change up and I do think it'll take time to see true impressions of how it holds up. Right now we're only seeing the first reactions and as previously noted, Halo fans, tend to hate change... at first. Give it time, people warm up to different things at different times, hell alot of people have even warmed up to ODST now, and having seen the utter hatred being spewed at launch for that, I'm guessing this will be a bit of the same. Overall, it's a good game, has a decent story (from what I've seen thus far) and has great multiplayer, that said, it hasn't improved greatly over previous iterations, isn't innovative by any stretch of the immagination and will still probably win GOTY from 20 different people... because it's table-flippin Halo.

As it usually is, that said, the ideas of 'What a sequel means' has changed a bit. It used to mean 'continuation of story' where now it can mean anything from 'a new adventure with characters x, y and z' or 'we made a new game and slapped an old name on it', which for us the gamers, isn't really a bad thing. New IPs aren't normal at the end of a cycle, but atleast we're still getting games and some damn good ones at that. Sleeping Dogs, Darksiders 2, Torchlight 2 and Borderlands 2 are all excellent games in very different ways.

@dinkys:

There's been a lull? Sleeping Dogs, Darksiders 2, Borderlands 2, Dark Souls (PC), WoW: Kung Fu Panda, Torchlight 2 and that's just what I've seen on PC in the last month. Yeah, it's no Fall line up that we'll get in November, but it's certainly no lull.

@ghostNPC: Money is tight for everyone, especially with the economy and a new console(s) coming out this and next year. Even devs are feeling the heat, it costs alot of money to start designing for a brand new console. The OnLive debacle was just done poorly though :(

Looks like someone needs to update Blizzard's 'Acceptable Use of Social Media' policy. Most people know how to be more professional than this, even in their personal lives, or atleast have the smarts not to post it on a 'private' profile where several of them have accepted nearly every friend request they've received.

He's one of those guys you can't quite get your head around... In certain situations, he's a very nice guy and he seems genuine, but there are also alot of situations that the guy seems like a zealous prick as well. There's certainly a possibility that his partner was an asshole, but there's an equal chance that he himself was the one that started being the egotistical asshat as well. Like he said, he doesn't have a filter at all and sadly, that can make you out to be a dick sometimes. While I don't support people censoring themselves, I do think that there's a certain appreciation for people who can keep their professionalism on the floor and their obscenities in their private time, or atleast use them in an entertaining or constructive sense.