Video Game News and Miscellany

Frank

Frank

1-Up died today.

I've been listening to those podcasts for what is like 6 years.

This is bumming me out way more than it should.

Ziff-Davis, when they sold 1-Up to UGO years ago ushered in the original 1-upocalypse that saw most of their best writers and staff laid off. 1-Up switched hands until it ended up under IGN's wing. Ziff-Davis buys IGN. Lays off most of the 1-Up staff and shuts it down. The second and final 1-Upocalypse again at the hands of Ziff-Davis.
 
Azurephoenix

Azurephoenix

"When the adventure is over, reconnect with your favorite characters from the Mass Effect Trilogy, try your luck at the Citadel’s Silver Coast Casino, blow off steam in the Armax Combat Arena, or explore and furnish Shepard’s own living quarters on the Citadel. With unique content and cinematics featuring your friends and romance interests in the Mass Effect trilogy, Mass Effect 3: Citadel offers one final chance to see the characters you have known for years and rekindle romances.”

WTF is this shit?
 
Frank

Frank

Azurephoenix said:
"When the adventure is over, reconnect with your favorite characters from the Mass Effect Trilogy, try your luck at the Citadel’s Silver Coast Casino, blow off steam in the Armax Combat Arena, or explore and furnish Shepard’s own living quarters on the Citadel. With unique content and cinematics featuring your friends and romance interests in the Mass Effect trilogy, Mass Effect 3: Citadel offers one final chance to see the characters you have known for years and rekindle romances.”

WTF is this shit?
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ARTISTIC INTEGRITY GAIZ
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

Staff member
It'll be over as soon as everybody simply acknowledges the truth of the superiority of the PC as a gaming platform. Simple.
 
Bubble181

Bubble181

I think we're slowly seeing a new separation come into being. The triple-A big publishers who sell "games" that are commodities, online-only, microtransactions, etc; and smaller (not necessarily "indie"as we now know it) actually releasing games as products. At least I hope so...As, in such a scenario, at least there still are some normal games still being released. Blizzard isn't interested in people who just buy a game once anymore, neither is EA, nor Ubisoft. It's as if the prospect of people continuing to pay for something after the initial costs, making it "free money", has really completely and utterly blinded these people?. I'm sure there's a market, and a big one, but...Egad.

Also, Blizz has been reversing a few of their not-so-much-with-the-fan-love decisions lately. Ne management? Did they allow Bob acces to the Blizz HQ for a while?
 
Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh

Frank said:
The console industry is going to crash so hard. This current course cannot hold.
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Slight fix, due to there being plenty of small publishers getting great games out for PC. Kickstarter/Steam Greenlight unfortunately can't really get into the console scene and is still going to be dominated by the idiot big publishers.
 
Cheesy1

Cheesy1

Maybe what we need IS another video game crash like in the early 80's. It could be the clean slate the industry needs to be entertaining and innovative again. Honestly, this last year or so has made me cynical to most gaming in general.
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

Gilgamesh said:
Slight fix, due to there being plenty of small publishers getting great games out for PC. Kickstarter/Steam Greenlight unfortunately can't really get into the console scene and is still going to be dominated by the idiot big publishers.
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Ouya and Steambox might change this, but for now, yeah, there's a big wall around that playground.

Cheesy1 said:
Maybe what we need IS another video game crash like in the early 80's. It could be the clean slate the industry needs to be entertaining and innovative again. Honestly, this last year or so has made me cynical to most gaming in general.
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2012 sucked on the game landscape. Not saying there was nothing good, but overall it was a poor year.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Sony has been surprisingly open to indie developers, with such great games like Retro City Rampage (and soon Hotline Miami) finding their way to PSN network for play on the PS3 and Vita.
 
Gilgamesh

Gilgamesh

Ravenpoe said:
Sony has been surprisingly open to indie developers, with such great games like Retro City Rampage (and soon Hotline Miami) finding their way to PSN network for play on the PS3 and Vita.
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Except 9x out of 10 when an indie game comes to a console and a PC, the PC gets all the updates and the console either never gets them or gets them way past the game's popularity.
 
AshburnerX

AshburnerX

People have been predicting Nintendo would go software only since the Gamecube days. It's not going to happen as long as they can keep their stranglehold on the handheld market.
 
GasBandit

GasBandit

Staff member
AshburnerX said:
People have been predicting Nintendo would go software only since the Gamecube days. It's not going to happen as long as they can keep their stranglehold on the handheld market.
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The most striking quote to me, from that article was:

Apart from his commentary, Cliffy B wants to wait a while before jumping back into the industry. He claims that now would be "the absolute worst time" for such an endeavor
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Translation: "Shit's about to fall apart y'all, ask me again post-crash."
 
Hailey Knight

Hailey Knight

bhamv3 said:
Hey Quotemander Prime, remember how you loved the naval minigame from Assassins Creed 3? Well, Assassin's Creed 4 is apparently going to be a whole lot of naval minigame.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/carolpi...sassins-creed-4-pirates-of-the-assassination/
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Damn you, Ubisoft! I've been so unmotivated playing AC3, going a couple weeks between playing an hour or so, only motivated to unlock naval missions. I was going to make AC3 the last AC game. Looks like that's not the case.
 
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