Good point, that. Casual gamers don't care enough about gaming to read up on them, least of all hop on the internet and brave over burdened websites to watch broken up chunks of press conferences. If their message at E3 was intended for casual gamers, it missed it's mark.
"Nintendo is going downhill with all this Casual crap. "
I don't think anyone can blame Nintendo for taking this route, it's making them money, and thats the point of being in this business. As a friend at another forum said, you're crazy if you don't think Sony or MS wouldn't press a "Go back in time and make the Wii before Ninty" button in a freaking heart beat if they had one. But it just kinda sucks they found success by abandoning the people who got them this far in the first place. We're the reason they got through the N64, GC, and Virtual Boy. if it wasn't for us, they wouldn't have been in business long enough to make the Wii, and I'd have downloaded Super Mario World and LttP to my 360 by now from the marketplace.
So the feeling of a betrayal is definitely there, rational or not.
Ninja Gaiden Black, was fending off those god forsaken black spider ninja, jumped away in the air after killing one, and by instinct did an on landing UT. Managed to behead three of them at once who had all been right on my tail. That was just too rad. Also, the apartment building sequence in Alone in the Dark, that was a great set piece. Too bad about the rest of the game.
I don't know either way, like I said, Kojima's team made changing two lines for Sunny sound like the end of the world, which I would think was simple as well. So I'd give these developers who do ship games the next few months the benefit of the doubt.
This has been a pretty hot topic on other forums, may as well get it over here too. Is this a problem for you? I know a lot of people will point out that you can change the HDD, but what bums me out is that because of these bloated installs, it's becoming less of a hella cool option, and more of a requirement. Because when you combine that installs with large PSN game libraries, PSone classics, and the installs... well suddenly just two or three of them has you scraping the bottom of the 60GB launch HDDs barrel, so to speak. I plan to get Siren this week, which is said to total out at 9GB if you download them all at once, or over time. So now I'm looking at possibly passing on buying the PS3 version of SC4, because of it's hefty install, unless I upgrade. (and I'd rather not do so)
Considering my HDD is being used for game related things only, thats pretty discouraging. I just don't get how a stellar showcase for the system like Uncharted runs as smoothly as it does with only a temporary cache, while lower quality games in terms of graphics intensity are gobbling up upwards of 5GB of space. You'd think it would be the other way around, right? But anyway, looks like I'll be spending money I don't want to spend whether I like it or not. Which is kinda lame. I would have preferred paying yet more upfront for an even bigger HDD if this was going to start happening, or that Sony make their own PS3 specific ones that are as easy as "pull out old, put in new" with a transfer cable to boot, or something. (as opposed to performing surgery with another one) Bah.
I think just dropping that requirement on people now in the midst of development could be problematic. I mean, I have no idea myself what they would have to go back and change to program in something they started development unsure of. I mean, on that bonus disc that came with MGS4 LE, they made Kojima's request that a few lines from Sunny be redone sound like the end of the world. Thats likely a smaller deal than trophies, too.
They need to be more sensible about going about such updates though, the Stardust HD update was botched. You had to delete your current saved game to download it, but no warning was given that this was the case, so it would just restart the system every time you tried to download it. It was a hassle to figure out, and I don't like idea of starting over again in all my games, at all.
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