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If electrons can travel through time though... that does mean one thing to me... Computers that will have done shit before you tell them to already did it!

I heard that BF3 is going to be the first AAAAA game. Seriously, what a load of rubbish. I thought "triple A" was a ridiculous enough "110%" style of saying your game is great, but now we have "quadruple A"? Give me a break.

Pretty much agree with Yante. Games are goal oriented. Get a high score, get to the end of the level, save the girl, etc. If you can add smaller goals along the way you sustain the players interest. Being rewarded is great, having an achievable reward just around the corner is even better. I can't count the number of times I've played one more round to get the last 500, 1,000, 100,000 exp needed to get the next upgrade, unlock or what have you.

It does.

Ummm... so like, it's all infinite goods right, and I don't even like half the games I play to completion, and this one time I downloaded a game to demo it and finished it inlike 6 hours, but I didn't get all the collectibles, so no way am I paying for that. I mean it's exactly like if I buy a car and there's a game in it, and I keep it, does a tree fall in the woods? ITLaPD

:-O I totally said this same thing... stop pirating my thoughts! EDIT: Yeah! Here it is. Brain Pirate! http://forum.pressxordie.com/index.php?showtopic=425&view=findpost&p=62198

Platformers jumped to the top before either of those...

Pacifist Trophy is annoying. I didn't kill anyone, but it seems that someone died by misadventure, while being dragged or something. Lame.

I don't see how you can say "FPS's are neither dumb nor simplistic". The genre itself has no special protection from dumbness or simplicity. Simplistic, dumb shooters are both simplistic and dumb. Just like simplistic dumb rpg's are. There are a great many FPS's made these days, as a result there are more simplistic dumb shooters than there are simplistic dumb RPG's even if the % is the same. It should also be borne in mind that with so many shooters, and the average length of the shooter being far less than an rpg, ideas quickly become stale, while the rpg tends to take longer to build up the mechanics and they often change between iterations. Take for example the FF series where the combat mechanics change greatly from game to game, while Halo has kept the same weapons, enemies, tactics and so forth throughout the 3/4 games in the series. In Halo you used plasma weapons to take down Elite shields, then projectiles to finish them off. You do the same in Halo 3. FPS are seen as dumb because the core mechanics don't change from game to game, there's no (or little) learning curve in a new game. In RPG's the learning curve is more obvious as you start weak and increase from there. You can't start a lvl 1 in an RPG and headshot everything, you can in an FPS.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americentrism?

That comment thread is amazing. Seriously... so much tea...

True, early adoption is a risk, that said, I did ok with my Sony purchases in the past. The PS, PS2, PSP and PS3 all served well (the PS2 lasted the full generation, died just after the PS3 launched and the PS3lasted about 5 years before the ylod). The PSP hardware wise never let me down. Software line up was spotty at first.

That person is an idiot. If you pull the release catch the PSP will eject the disc. Solution? Don't pull the release catch. I bought a PSP on day one, never had this problem, never heard of anyone else who had it either.

"Let Me In" was (according to my sister who has seen both - I've only seen "Let the right one in") a shot by shot remake of the film. The dialogue was identical, in fact about the only thing that did change was the voices and that the boy had blonde hair in the Swedish one and the girl brunette, which was reversed for the American version. It's a remake because it is clearly derived primarily from the other film and not from the source material. I think you'll find Jackson's Hobbit will bring more from the source than there is in the animated film. Mark Kermode (I think he's a bit of a marmite bloke, but I like him) talks about American remakes here: http://www.bbc.co.uk..._right_one.html He also calls it "the most redundant remake of the year." Oh and this... http://www.bbc.co.uk...tive_let_m.html Other things that point to the film being a remake are that Hammer first approached the director of "Let the right one in" to remake it into "let me in". EDIT:- Ummm my post did a remake of itself... purely unintentional.

And with that, the WiiU's USP becomes not so U. At the risk of fan-boy baiting, Sony seem to be getting everything right with the Vita, the hardware seems good, the price is not too steep, the features they are announcing are all a nice progression from the PSP... Nintendo on the other hand, seem to be misstepping all over the place. The only bright side for Nintendo is that if the PS Vita does well and the remote play stuff takes off, third parties are more likely to develop it for two platforms (WiiU and PS3 + PS Vita) than just for the WiiU.

I've got a soft spot for the Legacy of Kain series. Blood Omen 2 wasn't great, but still, wish they'd make another game.

Terribly, terribly pleased that I cancelled my pre-order of this device. I'd have been massively disappointed. I've not learned my lesson though, I'm still clinging on to my Vita pre-order.

Ahh, digital pricing, how I loathe thee. Some companies are still really struggling to work out what the right price is for digital content. Do you stick with retail parity and enjoy a bigger margin while hoping that your consumers will get used to it? Or do you drop your price so that you have the same profit per unit and risk the ire of retailers? Will a customer look at the download price and say "Oh, it's £20 less on here! Purchased!" or look at the retail price and go "Pfffft I'm not buying that in the shops! It's £20 more than the download! No sale!"? If the content is the same on both delivery methods, then should a company charge the consumer less or is it the game itself that is "worth" £45 / $60 / whatever. If you value digital goods at a low price will the game itself be perceived to be lower quality?

Just so long as it doesn't start raining men...

Use "Cheers" as thanks in emails to my transatlantean colleagues all the time, they never seem confused by it. But that could be due to exposure to me.

Farenheiter? Really or just kidding?

Perhaps if they hadn't canned the DLC they would've kept the game in people's hands (and off second hand shelves) for longer and made money on the extra content, but I guess they've just been too busy making... Ummmmm... Making....What exactly have they been doing?

Dropped the phrase "on the up and up" into a conversation today. It seems it is not widely known. If I said it to you what would you think I meant? Answer Below:

Since both are made up, I don't have a problem with it.