I'm having a blast with Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D. The game is fantastic and just a hell of a lot of fun, and as a platformer fan I'm in absolute heaven. I was pleasantly surprised by the 3D effect as well. It's extremely effective considering that the game wasn't originally made with 3D in mind. :)
When I first started it, I managed to get a game over after failing repeatedly on the first level. Then I started to get the hang of Luigi's physics and it all kinda clicked. It's not easy by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm on the fourth world with something like 26 lives, and I've managed to get all three star coins on most of the levels. It's difficult to be sure, but it's doable, and I'm really digging that it's no cakewalk. Especially since the levels are so short...
In the end its a win for consumers to be sure, but to my mind they earned themselves no good will from it. Microsoft claims that it had been aware for some time now that its DRM measures were ill-received by consumers, but it only dropped them after noticing its lower-than-expected pre-order sales numbers. If our complaints about it factored into their decision to do so at all, it was only inasmuch as they put those pre-order numbers into context and informed what Microsoft would have to do in order to reverse the XBox One's fortunes. It certainly wasn't something that they did because they genuinely care about gamers or what we have to say, so I hardly think that it's worth rewarding them for it, y'know?
As for the whole PS3 update mess, I think that the key distinction between it and everything that Microsoft has tried to pull recently is that it wasn't intentional. So I really think that what's going to be most important is how Sony chooses to handle it. If they make good by everyone affected by it, then I don't see why they shouldn't retain the good will that they've managed to generate for themselves amongst consumers.
For some reason I read that as Project A-Ko, which now that I think about it was probably intentional. :P
I hope that I'm not the only one who thinks that it's awesome that you got to meet Scrappy Doo.
Spot-on all the way across the board, Tami! :D
I think that he meant that he cant stand the show Friends. Which I liked. :P
I like this one too, to be honest. I'm not gonna pretend like it's the second coming, but I find the characters interesting enough even as I'm picking out little inaccuracies and whanot. It's just good entertainment to my mind. It's okay that you don't like it though, Blake! I'm not gonna kill you for it...yet. :P
Yeah, I agree. That's some killer stuff. I'd love to see your take on Stephen King's Dark Tower stuff, Chunopo. I think your style would mesh well with it. :)
Now see, that I can dig, Adam. You didn't need to, but I appreciate that you took the time to explain where you're coming from. And y'know, I can't really disagree with any of that.
I don't get that impression myself. In fact while they've had their share of missteps, like Sony and the security breech, or Microsoft with the RRoD debacle, prior to the XBox One DRM kerfuffle none of it struck me as being the result of arrogance or the desire to actively shit on the very people upon whom the companies rely.
What I have seen this generation are folks who fancy themselves fans, but who are only really satisfied for as long as they feel like they're getting what they want. The moment that stops they turn into petulant children, stamping their feet and holding their breath until they are once again given it. I'm not saying that this describes you, but to be honest I do think it informs how a dishearteningly large number of gamers perceive companies this generation. And to be frank, if there's anything that runs the risk of putting me off to gaming altogether once and for all it's that, rather than whatever largely imagined arrogance and hatred that these companies are supposed to be guilty of.
Yeah, it's generally not a good idea to put much faith in shit that gets posted to Pastebin, but it happens that an insider who had been leaking accurate information to NeoGAF for about a decade now confirmed it along with the 60 minute limit. Take that as you will.
Like I said, it sucks that we'll never know for sure, but given how shitty Microsoft has been acting lately I'm inclined to believe it. Again, this is the company that just tried to do its part to kill used games, so it's a great deal more farfetched to believe that they ever intended to let us share our games in full with 9 other people than it is that they'd limit play to a timed demo.
