Ben-DutkaI'm actually looking forward to a slow April…the first quarter was pretty well packed again.
Oh come on, you can't tell me that wasn't hilarious
Duke Nukem Forever 's release date was both shocking and hilarious at the same time. The entire "Did Not Finish" saga has embraced a great many traits and emotions over the years; the most common have been disappointment and amusement. But the latest delay is one of the funniest damn things of the generation. If one really sits and ponders, one might come to the conclusion that Gearbox planned this whole thing from the start. I think Randy Pitchford always wanted to make that "special announcement" trailer; I think they revealed a false release date for that very purpose. Look, it fits. It's perfect. If one were to write the story of DNF (and someone should), the ending wouldn't be appropriate unless the game suffered one final delay.
And it puts a smile on my face to see a studio that plays along. They've been good sports about this from the start, and remember that "Hail to the King" trailer ? "Yeah, but after 12 fu***** years, it better be!" HA! I'm really enjoying this whole pseudo-fiasco.
Heavy Rain's success is our gain
After hearing what Quantic Dream boss David Cage has planned for his next project , I can't help but feel thankful that Heavy Rain sold over 1.5 million copies and nabbed a ton of awards. Prior to the game's release, Cage warned everyone that if the game flopped, the interactive entertainment venue wouldn't take the next step; it wouldn't progress in the area of literary achievement. Granted, it's his own perception of interactive storytelling – and he's quite proud of his team's innovative accomplishment, of course – but I happen to agree with Quantic's direction. That direction should allow the studio to deliver yet another "dark, adult-oriented" story that will hit hard and resonate for years. Although it has a few holes and drawbacks, I know for a fact I won't forget Heavy Rain ; the characters have remained firmly imprinted.
I just can't wait to hear more about this project, and I know I'm not alone in that desire.
Personal gaming update
Well, I'd like to finish the very cool Crysis 2 before getting back to Dragon Age II . And then I'll start a new Career in Top Spin 4 , which I've been avoiding so I could finish DAII. There's plenty left to do so I'm glad there isn't much in April I really need to play (I'm not a heavy MK fan). The next title that sits atop my most-wanted list is L.A. Noire , which won't be here until May 17. And as interested I am in DNF, that has now been moved to June 14…only a week after inFamous 2 . I also have to get started on the new Dissidia for the PSP; that review should come early this week.
By the way, I plan on giving away a copy of that Dissidia game, along with a couple other mystery titles. I'll think of how to do it tomorrow and post up the giveaway info for Monday. It'll be designed for JRPG fans, certainly. 🙂
It should be settled now; I only see the ad once when I visit the site.
Let me know if it's still an issue.
thank you, it does seemed to have settled down.
yeah, that "announcement" made me laugh when i watched it. however, i'm really not interested in DNF that much. i mean i'll get it some time later on the cheap. i want to get interested in it but i havent played the other duke nukem games.
Heavy rain was amazing. one of the few games that i couldnt predict the plot at all. thats what surprised me the most. pretty much everygame i could guess the outcome. when i finished the game, all i had to say was WOW. too bad the 360 isnt really worth it now or i wouldve played alan wake already.
PGU: this past week i tried to platinum yakuza 3. i'm 3 trophies away from it, stupid minigames, they're all i need to finish. i'll forget about getting platinum for yakuza 3 for now. i'm going to move on to yakuza 4 now. I've also tried socom 4 beta and its become a day 1 buy for me now.
so for this year, all i'm getting is crysis 2, socom 4, infamous 2, battlefield 3, and uncharted 3. since i havent found a job yet, i'll need to pass on littlebigplanet 2, marvel vs capcom 3, fight night champion, and resistance 3. but once i find another job then all hell breaks loose and that backlog is just going to keep on growing.
Good luck with the job search!
And passing on resistance 3 is gonna be tough! I hope for your sake among many other reasons besides R3 you find a job! 🙂
PGU:
So my mate got a copy of RE5 which I decided to pass on after the demo.
Smashed through the game on split-screen and to be honest, I had fun with it.
The Stop-aim mechanic sure is making life harder but with enough practice that won't be a problem at all.
But that doesn't mean it sit up there among the best game I've played this gen.
Yea, while RE5 was a terrible Resident Evil game, it was quite fun blazing though it as fast as you can with a friend.
That's how I feel about it too. Not a good RE, but a dang good game to play with a friend! I througjly enjoyed the game outside of thinking it's a RE game. Played through it again with MOVE which was also a blast!
i agree with jawk that it was not a very good re game. he mentioned to me some interesting concepts they dropped from the game like the sunlight affecting your stamina, and vision. there was some fun to be had in the game, but i just didn't like single player campign very much. the only boss battle i enjoyed was u87. the rest of that tentacle crap was nonsense. who can forget about the roided out chris? did not like what they did to him.
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The biggest flaw of the game is that we have people using machine gun on us while we're moving like a tank.
agree aswell jawknee r5 was a good game in itself but just not resi……its was just an action game i didnt ever feel like it was a survival horror
it was not hilarious!
i got the email from gearbox linking the youtube video.
read some of the comments while waiting for the vid to load.
thought hang on, why are people whining about a delay?
oh, never mind its started.
went from a sinking worried feeling, to a kettle boiling, to a head popping, to a scream so loud all the windows in the house shattered, to a horse throat.
to hopping onto the DNF forums, and reading all the posts in denial hoping it was some crude joke.
oh randy how could you do this to us?
they better give us a big a$$ demo soon to tide us over!
this completley f*cks me up now, DNF was the only game coming out early may so i had a good 2 weeks to play it and enjoy it till LA Noire comes out.
now i gotta play it, and infamous 2 and RF Armageddon in the same week!
O, plus not to mention i cant wait another week to play this, let alone another 5!
come on, why is it always the games im really looking forward to that get delayed?
why could it not be crappy games that i dont give a 2 hoots about?
glad to see heavy rain get the attention it deserves!
nice to see different unique games out there can be successful, and hopefully this will encourage developers and publishers to stray away from the overdone mindless shooter and do something different!
i swear to god if i see another military shooter release before battlefield 3 im going to scream!
so close to finishing crysis 2, cant believe how long it is!
14 hours, and still not finished!
which is a good thing of course, sick of finishing games in 5 hours!
cough KZ3, cough homefront.
its nice to actually have high expectations for a game, and them be exceded for a change!
normally i either have low expectations for a game and there met or not or i have high expectations for a game and it ends up disappointing me.
so very rare to have really high hopes for a game and them be exceed!
last time that happened was, well, cant remember!
every game ive loved this gen i did not have high expectations for.
infamous, assassins creed 2, R&C, uncharted 2, everything!
nice to finally have a game meet my high expectations then exceed them!
crytek have outdone themselves yet again!
thus proving themselves to still be one of the best development studios out there!
so f*cking cant wait to see what project kingdoms is like!
that's xbox exclusive isn't it? scary to think what crytek can do focusing on 1 console. wished it were the ps3.
one thing i will say is i vote the cryengine in over unreal engine anyday. that's a pretty impressive start for them.
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Well, if what Highlander explained in the Remedy/Alan Wake thread has any truth to it we probably won't see anything better than what we have already seen from them.
that was a great post by highlander in the aw thread. very informitive. crytek strikes me as the kind of developer who will be able to optimize, and make improvement to their code. that was crytek's 1st console game so i have to give them credit for a great debut. i think an exclusive from them will be impressive. again, congrats to crytek for proving all the naysayers wrong, including myself. the cryengine should be the engine of the future for multiplats. unreal had its time. time to put it out to pasture.
Indeed.
of course they will be able to top crysis 2.
crysis 2 they had to work on 3 versions cutting the time to a 3rd, with this they can spend all there time, money and efforts on 1 version.
plus running only for the 360 will help eliminate allot of problems you run into with multiplatform development.
probably will have a higher budget too, this is the last 3rd party exclusive M$ has so they will want to go out with a bang!
3rd party exclusives these days are so rare, so they will put everything into it!
i wish crytek would do a PC exclusive!
if they could do crysis with a older engine and 2007 hardware, and unoptimized code.
imagine what they can do with a new engine, 2011 hardware and optimized code!
us PC gamers did not spend 4K+ on our machines to play watered down console ports!
ATM no one is competing with DICE, battlefield 3 looks like freaking real life!
would be interesting to see if crytek could step upto them and show them a thing or 2.
speaking of DICE, aparently EA are working on a secret TPS which will use the new frostbite 2 engine.
allot of people are saying it will be mercenaries 3.
i hope there right, nothing i want more!
but i think its more likely to be army of two, the guys who are supposedly making this new game are the ones who did the first 2 army of two games.
id love to see a new mercenaries game though!
mercenaries 2 was such a good fun game, shame it was SERIOUSLY buggy!
mercenaries 3 done polished to the T could be one of the industries best games!
Well at least Battlefield 3 has the PC as the leading platform which is rare nowadays.
Not to mention the 64 multiplayers compared to consoles' 24.
Wonder why…..
its a start, but we cant rely on 1 developer to push the PC industry forward!
im really starting to get sick of developers treating there fans like this!
especially PC generated developers like crytek, i mean if it was not for PC gamers they would probably be bankrupt by now!
PC gamers put up with there unoptimized game, no one could play crysis on max settings but we all forgave them because at least they were pushing the system!
and this is how they thank us!?
what is it with companies and biting the hand that feeds them these days!?
PGU: Playing UC2 with Jawknee.
Absolute lagfest 🙁
Really? That sucks! I used to love playing UC2 online! I havnt played it in so long though! I honestly would probably play it more if I had people to play it with. Seems like my roommates buy a game and are done with it in a week.
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Yea it was pretty bad. Couple the lag with the fact I suck now because I haven't played it in so long, it was nothing but frustration from start to finish. I think we went a whole roundof plunder and I only got one kill. 🙁 I'll have to try rebooting my router before we play again Liam. Maybe that'll help.
You can add me BigRailer if you want to play sometime. Jawknee1.
Hehe I found it some what funny watching you in spectator mode, you were shooting people a dozen times without killing them then getting killed yourself. Then it happens to me when I spawn and I'm like >:0
Also its not your internet we just got a bad string of games. That last match was really bad though. So bad it was funny. Hahaha…someone just killed me through a wall! Hah! Fker. lol
Liam is that you?
http://www.youtube.com/user/liamthewhite
Thank you to everybody who bought it because we need more games like that.
I've been down on Crysis 2 because it's been kind of boring with bad pacing and the broken stealth gameplay pissed me off so much. Enemies randomly shoot at you when you're cloaked and aren't suppose to see you, they follow you around while you're cloaked and they always conveniently walk over to the corner your crouched in cloaked. With that being said afters many hours the game just took off, it's so fucking good right now. Graphically, when the night time comes around the lighting effects shine and it looks ridiculous. The visuals ramped up at the same time the game started getting good, Cryengine 3 is a beast. I hope it becomes the go to engine for 3rd party devs, it's much better than UE3.
Come on…lets get a NFS Shift 2 review going! And I still don't find that DNF bit funny…it's just too corny for me and I love corny.
i actually agree with that unless 'm missing some some footage. somebody walks in, and changes a sign behind the guys back. wow. so, funny.
Guys you need to have been apart of the history from day one. If you followed it for 13 years, it's damn funny.
i think i get the history. it has been delayed a lot. so much so it's almost become legendary. gesrbox is lookking forward to releasing on….oops it's delayed again. ha. ha. they jinxed it by using a 360 controler in the foootage.
I know the history of it…it's still not funny. It's Adult Swim weird non-cartoon corny…it's weird and of course (in my opinion) not funny
DNF is my most anticipated FPS game since Timesplitters 2. It's going to absolutely eat all FPS games this year for breakfast, it's going to school this whole generation.
I dislike the majority of FPS games this generation, but DNF is what it's all about. It's exactly what's missing.
A month delay? Whatever, always bet on the Duke.
I'm still tinkering with my RPG on Lbp2. A demo is up and has got great feedback, including comments like "best rpg in lbp2" as you would see in comments section. So excited about that.
Lbp2 is absolutely unbeatable.
Hey, wanna do P4P? My level is Calamity Cavemen =)
Whats the name of your level?
QUEST Of The Crystal Ball
A throwback to the classic Jrpg's of the past, hence it's old fashioned name.
pgu: getting crysis 2 and fifa 10 for my birht day on april 10th. i probably wont end up playing them until may because im gonna be at the beach 24/7 through the easter holidays!!
After no interest up until release, I suddenly really want crysis 2 🙂
However I've now pledged to finish some old games that never got quite finished, listed as follows:
Killzone 2
Endwar
Fallout 3
Chronicles of Riddick
Gears of War
Mass effect
LittleBigPlanet
Final Fantasy XIII
Oh i'm really bad aren't I lol
yes,yes you are
I have played this so called king of graphics (crysis 2)on x360. with my friend last night. eerr really. if anyone thinks it look spectator
needs some eyes check. its not even the best looking multiplatform out there. the game is a joke. it has too many flaws to mention. thank god I am not even remotely interested in it.
I agree it hasn't dethroned U2 or KZ3. But if you weren't impressed by it, it means either you haven't played through the whole game, and/or the TV was no good. Anyone who knows me around here knows me as a Sony exclusive fanboy (what can I say, I am a fan of quality), but even I can attest to how good this game is. It's been in development for something like 5 years, and it shows.
But I agree, that the only reason reviewers like Arthur Gies would say the 360 version is the king of consoles in terms of visuals, is simply because the xbots got nothing to answer the bevy of Sony exclusive this year, and Arthur's got to have something to say to promote the MS brand on the IGN show (that is now being broadcasted on xboxlive). CVG said the same thing and is quoted on the back of the box, but I haven't read from them much.
And the only reason I got C2 on day 1 (besides the awesome deal KMart had on it), was because what Arthur Gies had to say about it. He said the 360 version is the new graphic's king of consoles, but has the same problems as the ps3 version, just less often. So i figured, I'd give him the benefit of the doubt and get a ps3 copy even though I knew he reaked of fanboyism, not because of his preference of the 360 version, but since he didn't even bother to mention U2 or GOW3 in his comparison (he mentioned Gears 2 and KZ3), especially when he mentions lighting, out of all things. I'm still curious to see how the 360 version seems, as even DF said it is the clearer and smoother version (though the ps3 version has no screen tear, better shadows, better ground textures, and suffers less during chaotic moments).
My friend.does playing the rest of the game will magically remove all of the aliasing in the game
or it will remove the severe pops in. or there will be a better backgrounds in the game than that funny and static clouds. or it will fix the funny AI.two of the soliders died before I do anything to them. and the worse thing in the game is the physics. beleive me we laghed hard last night. and the irony is my freind is busy all the day. and he is not with
latest gaming news. and the real joke is when I told him IGN and some other blind people call it the best looking console game to date.
Even RE5 put this game to shame. and we played it on led TV.
When I think about it, some of the game play footage for Rage looks better than Crysis 2 in many ways.
Oh, I'll be getting Rage for sure, Jawknee. I'm sure it will set a new benchmark in multiplatform development.
And Wissam, of course C2 is not w/o it's fair share of issues. But by playing through the latter half of the game, experiencing the epic-scale set pieces, the immersive visuals and sound, the destructible environments, the variety in gameplay, and increase in tempo of action and story, it significantly improved my impression of the game, and more than compensated for it's technical shortcomings.
And yes, even then there are later levels and areas where aliasing isn't nearly as much of an issue. But visuals aside, the game has it where counts: gameplay, even if the AI is glitchy at times. It borrows heavily from all the heavy weights of the genre, yet manages to break the mold of fps's.
What i mean to say is the game should not be avoided or boycotted because of erroneous commentary from a few overzealous xbots in the media. And even if one is not a fan of the genre, I still recommend it to any fan of action adventurers.
You know…first glances always give off a mixed perception of images. KZ3 didn't impress until I realized how detailed everything was and that was after 2 days. But then again, maybe the game just isn't impressive on his TV. Red Dead Redemption looks better on my girlfriends TV, yet on mines…the resolution doesn't look the same. GT5 looks better on my TV than hers. Depends on the TV and depth perception really. Those glithces those…lmao
Can't wait for June. Summer, Duke Nukem, inFamous 2, and E3 all in one month. Its going to be great.
Ha, who didn't see Fox news getting into another one of their BS acts over DNF……..
Fox News Takes on DNF's Capture the Babe Mode
March 28, 2011
How could Fox News resist attacking Duke Nukem Forever? After all it's a game aching to court controversy – for reasons real or imagined. Fox News writers Jeremy A. Kaplan and Patrick Manning get together to take Gearbox to task for the multiplayer mode of the game, "Capture the Babe." They open by describing the multiplayer mode:
"A new videogame that requires you to abduct women and give them a "reassuring slap" if they freak out has gamers and women's rights-groups crying foul. Brace yourself for the awfully sexist world of Duke Nukem Forever."
"Brace yourself", for comments from people who know nothing about the game, save the ten minutes of video they found on YouTube.
The full story here:…..
http://www.gamepolitics.com/2011/03/28/fox-news-takes-dnf039s-capture-babe-mode
No mention of Socom 4 in April?