I have to say that this is the first MK game in a long time that I feel has a chance of really being genuinely good. Boon seems to be focused on making a serious game this time around. No Puzzle Kombat, no Motor Kombat, no Chess Kombat, no Zombie Lui Kang. Just a serious MK game that goes back to its brutal roots while still modernizing its systems.
Well, it is nearly a 900MB download. Apparantly if Chair had known they could've used as much space as they wanted it would've looked even better.
We'll see what they do for the sequel, but I hope they leave it downloadable, I like the idea of just being able to switch on my 360 and after a few clicks have it coming to me automatically.
So I gather that you're saying that GH has finally jumped the shark.
I have to be blunt. I really don't like X-Play. I've tried to figure out what it is about the show that bugs me, but the best I've been able to come up with is I simply don't like the format of the show. So I generally just stay away from the show and the site. I don't know, I just don't feel engaged when I'm sitting there watching it. That said though, Adam is right on the money there. I think everyone on this site's staff agrees with me too, Fanboys, no matter what flavor, are the reason the gaming community gets such a bad reptation.
Well, with luck you'll get back one of the new ones.
Servers, Routers, Bandwidth, Matchmaking, Rankings, and a lot of other behind the scenes things. What they provide isn't insignificant. Both Sony and Nintendo prvide the same thing for free. But as the old saying goes "You get what you pay for." and that's really true on the Wii, online is a total nightmare. The PS3 has a better experience with a Single Username across all games but with a lot of key features like cross game invites being missing. The only thing that comes close to what Xbox Live offers and is also free is Steam. It has pretty much the same sort of features. Even that's not free, since you do have to buy the games from Steam and the cut that Valve takes on the games pays for the service.
So basically the way that I see things, one way or another, if you want really good online service, you have to pay something.
The point is: do you feel that the price you're paying is worth it? Are you getting value for your money? It's not a matter of who you're paying, or where the money is going.
People pay 15$ a month to play WoW, and that's just one game. Over 12 months that adds up to 180$. I don't think 50$ a year to be able to play any game you want is too much to ask. I honestly don't have a problem with paying that price, because to me I get my money's worth.
Ah Politicians... If they spent half as much time playing games as they did trying to ban them, they might see that there really isn't that much to complain about. As Danreb said, there are plenty of labels on the game cases already that explain what's in the games. Parents and Politicians ought to learn to read those labels that are already there. We don't want our game boxes to start looking like cigarette boxes.
The trouble really is that the PS2 was too successful for its own good. Everyone expects the PS3 to do the same kind of numbers as the PS2 did, but realistically that'll never happen. I don't think the PS3 is doing all that badly, and it's not a bad system either. Let's also not forget that the first couple of years that the PS2 was out were not the greatest years for the system. Much like the PS3, its predecessor had a long lull where there weren't that many games for it. What held it up were DVDs. Sony was hoping that Blu-Ray would prove to do the same thing for the PS3, but it didn't. Part of the reason for that is that many people still find DVD to be "Good Enough" and don't really see a reason to spend extra for it.
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