General gaming news

[fren.]

http://socom.us.playstation.com/post...er-update.aspx

Patch is coming today. Highlights

SOCOM: Confrontation Public Beta 1.10 Patch

* Adds support for European EULAs.
* Adds support for dedicated servers located in Europe and Australia.
* Addresses a number of stability and late joining issues.
* Reduce the volume of the proximity chat by 50%. Yay!

Well shit. I really wanna like this game as its the only one I can play with my old clanmates from years back so hopefully I get a better feel to it.

[BRP]

I'll wait until Disaster: Day of Crisis comes out before I can confirm it hasn't be casualized while we were not looking. They have a tendency of doing that to games they say will appeal to the "core gamers."

[Kyo]

Im glad im not the only person who hates nintendo.

[BRP]

Im glad im not the only person who hates nintendo.

Do you hate Sony and Microsoft just as much? If not, we are not on the same page here.

[Kyo]

Do you hate Sony and Microsoft just as much? If not, we are not on the same page here.

I dont like either companies business model at all, nor do I favor either system, I have both, because well I enjoy playing games.

My biggest problem with nintendo is their constant shoveling of the same old shit every generation, and not giving a fuck about their consumer. Another problem is creating their own system demand, they dont sell the most because its the best, thats quite obvious. They sale more because they create their own product demand by limiting production.

Sony-Cant seem to get their shit together as where they wnat to go with their console, releasing new hard drives with no BC every fucking month

No software support for the PSP, they redisgn the hardware too much with no software.

Microsoft-RROD, plain and simple, the failure rate on sch a money sink is unexcuseable, i cant tell you how many ive taklked to who are on their 3-4th xbxo 360.

So yes overall, I hate nintendo the most, nor did I ever want to or claim to be on the same page as you. All 3 companies have their setbacks, I just think nintendo and their peice of shit wii need to fuck off. "Next Gen" console looks like a goddamn 64

[BRP]

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/54651

fffffffffffuck, what the hell man. FUCK AUSTRALIA. Useless racist shit of a country that doesn't know how do videogames right. Keep that shit over there. Bethesda doesn't need any more reasons for me not to like them. Videogame industry is trying to give me a heart attack.

[Kurp]

Wow, fuck Australia indeed.

[izembo]

that doesnt sound like that big of a deal

[elison]

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/54651

fffffffffffuck, what the hell man. FUCK AUSTRALIA. Useless racist shit of a country that doesn't know how do videogames right. Keep that shit over there. Bethesda doesn't need any more reasons for me not to like them. Videogame industry is trying to give me a heart attack.

Yeah, fuck them for removing real life drug references! Now I'll never get a stiffy thinking about how the main protagonist smokes his crack or how many lines of powdered candy his bitch ass dog companion snorts. This will clearly fuck up my experience with this game in so many ways, it'll become unplayable! Fuck you Bethesda, ARGHHGHGHHHGHGGHHGGH!l>

[Kurp]

Censorship is awesome!!!

[Arachna]

Nobody told them to ship out the censored version to every country, they could have just made a special edited version for Australia and shipped the uncensored version everywhere else but they didn't. It's happened with games like GTA4, I don't see why they couldn't do it with Fallout 3.

[Elcura]

Probably because it was that big of a deal? They're just names, who gives a fuck.

[Maxxthepenguin]

I swear to god, if gamers had to deal with real censorship the world would implode. This Fallout 3 stuff is laughable.


In any case: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3169850
I think the Disaster: Day of Crisis exemplifies what has been so wrong about the Wii games so far. It's not that they don't exist. It's not that they're even bad. It's that Nintendo doesn't seem to care about the hype machine. They could have hyped Disaster so much, but instead we only just recently know that it is actually being released. Now, it's not all Nintendo's fault. The gaming media has really dropped the ball too. For example, look at Tiger Woods 09':
21 reviews on file for the 360 version http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpage...=Tiger%20Woods
5 on file for the Wii version http://www.gamerankings.com/htmlpage...=Tiger%20Woods
It's not a quality disparity: the scores are very close. It's not even a sales disparity, last year's Wii version (which was released 5 months late) sold 20k less than the 360 version and much more than the PS3 version. In that case, there WAS a large score disparity.


In summary: Have you ever heard of Blast Works and de Blob?

[Elcura]

Weren't you the one complaining about hype? Or is it just when things are overhyped?

[Maxxthepenguin]

I hate hype, but it seems that gamers can't justify a purchase without tens millions of dollars behind a marketing campaign.

[Kyo]

Taking the name of real drugs out of the game isnt that bigadeal, that reminds me however that a few countires including Japan banning DeadSpace. It's really comical because well some of the most intensly gory games have come out of Japan. Look at the onichanbara series. The two main characters are cheerleeders who fight zombies half naked cutting peoples heads off with samurai swords and there are much more prime examples, not to mention the constant nudity japan has in everything, anime, comics, manga etc. Germany and China were the other two, dont need to go into much detail except both countries are pretty well cencored and montoried.

[Hiryo]

Um, so in this game your character takes real life drugs and you get rewarded for it?
Never played a Fallout game, never was interested in the first place.
I didnt know people wanted to do that in their games, sorry your game got censored guys.

[Kyo]

From what I saw you can get addicted, had no idea you got rewarded for getting addicted to drugs, seems like a dumb concept to me.

[Kaylia]

I'm just hoping monolith will do another Xeno for the wii, now that they are done with Crisis core. Sure, it wont happen, but I can hope >_>

[Isiolia]

From what I saw you can get addicted, had no idea you got rewarded for getting addicted to drugs, seems like a dumb concept to me.

It was in the older Fallout games as well. Just, they didn't use real drug names. 'course, you could also get addicted to soda...though it was mostly just for a joke.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Addiction