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 On 04/08/2013 at 08:06 AM by Blake Turner See More From This User » |
Ah microsoft, you daft buffoons. Have you not been paying attention to anything that has happened in the past two years, or have you just hermitised yourself and been living in your own degenerate filth. You know what happened to Sim City? It bombed. You know what happened to Diablo 3? Everyone hated it. Also, it's a well known fact that the launches of these titles were spectacularly atrocious. So why in god's name have you put always on DRM on a bloody console?
Console gaming is about two things: convenience and affordability. Making it so I can't play a game if I don't have interconnection and running up my bandwidth negates both positives of owning a console in my honest opinion. So, I won't be owning an xbox this generation. I probably wouldn't anyway, since it has sweet fuck all in the way of exclusives. Halo and Gears of Boredom? Please, I'd rather grate my balls off than play those intolerable pieces of dross.
I'm done picking on microsoft. The banks will be doing enough of that soon enough. Anyway, the next target in my rant is Apple. Seriously, fuck you guys. The Iphone 5 requires a different cord, so my it won't connect to anything I previously owned. Nowhere on earth seems to stock cases for the fucking things so I need to order them online, and to top it all off, it offers no new features over the last one I owned. Apple, you guys are dicks. This is on top of my already seething hatred for them. "No games will with religious or political themes will be available on the app store, because video games aren't the same as music or films." Pretty sure Bioshock infinite just proved you wrong fuckwits. Honestly, this isn't really news, as apple seem to have been against games from day one.
Ok, lets talk about something else. Hmm... what do I want to talk about? Oh yeah, the ending of Bioshock sucked. Well it didn't, really. The plot twists and all that were kind of cool, and only really made sense if you explored the world. However, the problem is that the last 20 minutes were so rushed that it made no sense. Their just like: "Here's the twist, now this is how it applies. We aren't going to give you any time for it to sink in and let the emotional kick in the balls resonate, we just want this story to end already." Also, wasn't religion a big theme at the beginning of the game? Why is it not mentioned after the first 2 hours? That seems to be a thing with Infinite: It's talking points don't really do anything. They seem to be their just to say "Hey, look, video games can talk about this too," which would be alright, but it's kind of an immature way to tackle it.
Is there anything positive I can talk about this week? Miasmata is kind of cool. I got really addicted to that game today, and sunk about 5 hours into it. You should play it. Also, I haven't written anything in Plus10damage, so I have nothing to promote, but I just want to let you know once again that this is my rant page, and plus10damage is where my better articles end up. There is generally no swearing in my blogs, and the humour is more intelligent, mainly because I actually think about them before I write stuff. If you guys could please look at the site, even if you do just click onto the page and leave. It gets our traffic up, which means we get ads, which means revenue and new ways to better our site.
Finally... I just want to say Pixlbit is really awesome. Like, seriously awesome. I've still been skeptical, but any negatives I had with the site have been ironed out. It's an awesome community, and the owners of the site actually listen and do the best they can to make sure we're happy. Thanks guys!
My BIGGEST beef with the Microsoft Console's online-only shit is this....
What about the soldiers overseas?
I have a cousin who's always over there, and in their down-time they like to kick back and play a game whenever they're technically off-duty for the day. But without internet, it's going to severely fuck him and all the other guys/gals. That really upset me....
But still.. Dumb decision. I'm not much for Sony, but it's looking like the PS4 will be the way for me to go next-gen.
Wow. That is really terrible. That's something you don't often thing about too. There are people who really can't access the internet. What are they going to do? It also limits the consumers choice, which is like the opposite of what we should be striving for.
I think Orth's dumbass tweets about how somehow vacuum cleaners and cell phones equate with an always-online console are another thing that'll drive me away from XBOX going forward.
I dunno about Orth, but we just bought a new vacuum. It doesn't have to buffer before it does its job.
Lol. It also requires electricity. Consoles don't require the internet. And we've already seen how bad games are with always on DRM. I mean Sim City is still barely playable. How the fuck are they going to support a whole console?
I just don't want my console to have to be online all the time just so Microsoft can supervise me and make sure I'm not stocking my game library from The Pirate Bay. I resent being treated like a thief, for one. You want my money, you'd better not treat me like a thief or my wallet remains in my pocket, closed. The other thing is the connection. I don't live in Dry Hump, North Dakota or some other backwater. That's the problem. My Internet is better than Microsoft's. When Xbox Live is down for me, it's almost always a problem on MS's end, not mine. I remember the Xbox Live outage of 2007 and how pissed people got over that. At least they could still play offline. If I couldn't play at all because MS didn't have its shit together on keeping things open, I'd be super-pissed, and so would lots of other people. Online-only worked wonders for SimCity and everything Ubisoft makes, didn't it?
Exactly. Microsoft needs to learn from the pc world: The more DRM, the less sales. Gamers are extremely vocal, and the majority of them are extremely dedicated to a cause. If you treat them badly, they aren't going to buy your product, it's that simple. Now I've heard they want 24 hour kinect with it too, which is kind of creepy when you think about it.
That's the same issue with everything always on. We can't trust that their servers won't crash. How many people own an xbox? That's going to fuck with your servers if they're all always on.
The WiiU sometimes stalls in loading up because it checks for an online connection to load it's services like miiverse. If there's no internet it still goes into the normal interface and lets you play your games. Just a bit of an annoyance, but it doesn't lock me out entirely.
This is just a guess, but I read recently on the internets that the latest XBOX dashboard is now covered in annoying adverts which I find to be a bit garish? Does Microsoft need their nextbox to be always online so they can throw ads in our face all the time whether we agree to it or not?
Idk. I don't have my xbox connected to live ever because it's not that great a service. I'm thinking it's DRM and anti-used games.
I don't agree with all this online bullcrap. If they do make the next Xbox always online, I can't imagine it having a spectactular launch, or even doing good in the long run lol. I'll never ever buy a system like that. I skipped Diablo 3 for that very reason and sometimes I wish I could play it. Ah well. Torchlight 2 is amazing! Nice rant Blake. I missed your rants lol. 
Annoyingly I have to completely agree with your views on Microsoft, I love the 360 but after witnessing appauling internet speeds here in Australia I must confess that I'm not sure an 'online' only console would even work out here! It really has made me think about my next choice of console a lot harder than I ever have done before.
Apple to me are like a relationship where the magic has revealed its self for what it really is..... a gold digging little shit that only pretends to love you. They literally changed the face of technology with the Ipod, Iphone and Ipad but they seem to think that just because they did something good they can abuse it as much as they want. Its the equivalent of a parent thinking they have the right to beat up their kids because they produced them. What a bunch of douches!
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