Recent content by kyoodle

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    Oddworld Creator: PS2/3 "Put Half The Dev Community Out of Business"

    So you're ignoring the part where Yoshida agreed with him?
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    Dark Souls 2: Dragons Not Included

    I guess dragons are expensive as later on you get to fight two riders and they don't even get to share a dragon! Or is it art directors that are expensive... I forget.
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    Bad Timing - How Clocks in Games Ruin the Fun

    My least favourite timers are probably from the stalking missions in Assassin's Creed 'ah you looked away from your target for half a second there, have a timer. Oh wait you can see them again let's take it away. No hang on they turned a corner, best hurry or they'll disappear from the face of...
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    Metacritic Scores Show 2013 as Record for Lowest Number of "Great Games"

    I think this is mainly due to reviewers becoming more sensible and not just giving everything 7-10 anymore. That was getting pretty ridiculous over the last few years.
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    The Last of Us Almost Had a Different Ending (Spoilers)

    That is quite a small change, a lot of people (including me) didn't realise Ellie had worked out Joel was lying straight away. That kind of subtle character development is incredibly rare in games and we need a lot more of it.
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    Jimquisition: Xbox One No DRM Emergency Special!

    I'm still not getting one. They have been forced into this reversal by over weeks worth of condemnation from every gaming website and few larger news outlets too. They're still miles behind Sony and Nintendo when it comes to respecting their customers.
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    Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi: We Need To Educate Consumers

    Good lord did he just say they were hoping people won't look into the details of a £429/$499 purchase whilst telling us we need educating? Microsoft's unbridled hypocrisy is sickening, the onion couldn't come up with this stuff.
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    PS+ Not Required For Free-to-Play Online Games

    Very few publishers making free-to-play games are going to restrict their potential audience by making it only available to PS+ users. People need to stop latching onto lines like 'it's up to publishers' and deciding it's always negative without applying it to the situation. That said if...
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    Thief Trailer Asks, "Did You Miss Me?"

    I agree, there's so much negativity surrounding this game it can only end in a load of confirmation bias. The amount of people complaining about how mainstream it is, and even a transformers comparison a little above, has my hipster-o-meter going haywire.
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    Xbox One's Kinect Can Actually Be Turned Off

    Yes I read this: 'The system is designed to have Kinect be an integral part of the experience. It's not the case where you'll be able to remove the camera altogether. But you'll be able to put the system in modes where you can be completely secure about the fact that the camera is off and...
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    Xbox One's Kinect Can Actually Be Turned Off

    You've both missed the point. Yes the system can be completely shut down or it can be removed from the mains. What people have a problem with is that if the Xbox One is on then the kinnect has to be on at the same time.
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    Bioshock Writer Fed Up With Industry

    That's a shame but rather than leaving wouldn't a developer that makes narrative driven, mechanically light games like Tell Tale or Quantic Dream be a better environment for her? Or even better join or form an indie studio so the story can be a part of the game's design from the beginning. I...
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    Survey Says: UK "Underwhelmed" by Xbox One

    So some people must have listed both 'Excited' and 'Underwhelmed'? Interesting. If someone was actually excited by the XB1 reveal I honestly can't imagine a realistic scenario that would disappoint them.
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    Iwata Admits Nintendo Didn't Try Hard Enough To Make Wii U Success

    The term 'killer app' has been around and used for games for at least 20 years. OT: The marketing message for what the Wii U is has been terrible, in Game I heard two customers ask the clerk why the new Wii controller was so expensive. It's going to take a pretty big advertising campaign to...
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    Electronic Arts Suspends SimCity Marketing - UPDATED

    So that would be the third disaster in a few months, did this one sell or are more people unemployed now because of EA?