I adore Dragon Age: Origins. It's butchered on consoles though. Seriously, you base your game around tactical camera and pausing and then take those out for console users? That's like taking shooting out Halo. Sure you can throw grenades and hit people, but it's not the same!
I think I am somewhat the same, in that I Silent Hill has meh gameplay but I love those games. Most JRPGS suck at gameplay, but I don't mind some of them. I guess the Narrative has to be REALLY strong to make me overlook really shitty gameplay.
As a question, do you think we should have a different name for other interactive experiences? We have visual novels, which some people view as games (because some kind of are), virtual art installations like Proteus and stuff. Should we label these something else? And should we change the name from game to something like interactive experience for when we want to talk about all of them?
I've only played the second one, and it was fantastic. I might have to revisit this one.
Eh. I think it's always been this way. Teenagers are still a huge demographic, and teenagers are fragile people who are constantly emotionally abused by societal pressures. They're at that age where they think they're supposed to be mature, but don't quite know what maturity is.
When I was a teenager, I was really into anything that was dark, violent, or looked like what adults would be into. Call of Duty is constantly trying to be controversial, so to some young ones it could be that "adult" experience they are looking for.
It could also be that for the first time video games are acceptable enough that teenagers can openly talk about their hobby - but with the catch that they can only play the popular games. When I was at high school, popular kids played games, but they were a select group of games. It was either Halo or Grand Theft Auto. You were allowed to play those games without being considered a freak. Anything else? You're a nerd and a social pariah.
Nice. Well then, welcome I guess? I also came from 1up, but I wasn't around for as long as you haha.
Both really. I've seen enough cheesy American football movies that I sort of know the rules, and the stuff that surrounds it is kinda entertaining. Also - the culture. We don't have fantasy football leagues or anything over here.
I don't actually care. I'm not actually sick of them at all. As far as sports go NFL seems like one of the less boring ones to read about :)
Holy shit. That looks awesome!
It was a joke?
