hiresdes said:

archangel3371 said:

Well I got my account all set up at Giant Bomb. The site looks pretty cool. I'll probably end up spending the majority of my time there but I'll always still visit and post both here and at Gamespot.

Yeah same, and its not as if Jeff was the only one that jumped ship, Ryan was a damn good reviewer by himself.

Funny thing is, the very best people at Gamespot left a looong time ago. Long before Gerstmann became EIC. That site was on a slow decline from 2003 on. Before that Gerstmann was known as the worst guy there. He just rose to fame through being there so long, after years of shit reviews and viewpoints.

Nice guy. Shouldn't be doing what he does though.

hiresdes said:

Yes, Max Payne was in many ways was a masterpiece and has nearly as high of a criticial reception as Valve's work (unless of course you played the crappy PS2 version). The game had decent sales, but was is regarded by many (like me) as a cult classic. I think Alan Wake will follow a very similar path, and given Max Payne's excellent film-noir style story I have absolutely no doubts that Alan Wake will at least deliver a compelling story. BTW, Remedy also made Death Rally for the PC a long ass time ago, which was pretty badass.

BTW, Alan Wake is going to be at TGS according to this contest board

Not one of the Max Payne's even got to the 90% mark on GR's so that disqualify's the critically. Not to mention the game didn't hold the test of time as well either (I'll assume).

edgecrusher said:

Nintendo dominates the Euro charts.......with a whole lot of lame-ass games. Holy shit on a petrified stick, that chart rivals the worst I've seen from Japan.

LOL, who plays this shit?

Spain
01.   Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)
02.   Wii Play (Wii)
03.   Wii Fit (Wii)
04.   Cooking Guide: Can’t Decide What to Eat? (DS)
05.   Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness  (DS)
06.   Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time  (DS)
07.   Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (PS3)
08.   My Expert on Healthy Living (DS)
09.   My Baby Girl (DS)
10.   Grand Theft Auto IV (PS3)

Germany
01.   Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Wii)
02.   Wii Fit (Wii)
03.   Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Darkness  (DS)
04.   Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time  (DS)
05.   Mario Kart Wii (Wii)
06.   Brain Training (DS)
07.   Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games (DS)
08.   More Brain Training (DS)
09.   Mario Kart DS (DS)
10.   Mario Party 8 (Wii)

My Baby Girl? Spain needs to be invaded like right now.

E3 headed for Extinction:

My question is, why did they ever change E3 in the first place? Everybody liked it just fine when it was the biggest show on Earth. Now everyone wants it dead. Good move E3-show people.

Outside of the U.K. Europe's serious gaming market is all PC, the only people who play console or handhelds are the more casual gamers.

As for E3, it was said to be getting too hectic and losing contact for what it really was about (the pubishers/developers) as most people supposedly saw it as a "circus". What I don't understand is that it seems that Nintendo, SONY, and Microsoft take it far less seriously, or could it be that the E3 holders ask them for less MEGATONS to make it more about the third parties then them? I'm not sure.

Oh and using VGChartz is a horrible source especially for million seller sales. That saying I wouldn't doubt that that game will eventually reach a million.

Triangle chokes.

Fuck you. You just cracked me up at work.

steelattack said:

Triangle chokes.

Fuck you. You just cracked me up at work.

Thrust me, it is not funny when you get your head caught between a man's thighs.

iga_bobovic said:

What?! My crotch will be the last thing you see!

What the hell?

This is why Insert Coin rules.

Capcom officially announces Dead Rising: Chop Til You Drop

edgecrusher said:

That Cammie interview...ugh.

Its getting to the point where I can't even enjoy reading Nintendo interview's anymore. Back when Reggie just started, or even with Perrin, they were at least fun and usually revealing. Now?

Now, all they do is go back and forth with the whole casual/hard-core/core crap, blah blah blah.....shut the fuck up. Man do I miss games just being games, for gamers. Moreover, if the "core" was truly that, you'd think you would have thrown them a bone this year which according to that interview, you aren't.

Bend over Cammie...I'll give you some "core". See if you can smile through this....

I personally never got this core vs casual shit. I mean prior to this generation hardcore didn't refer to shit like Halo or GTA, no hardcore refered to shit like Life-Life Tactical Strategy Shooters, Submarine Simulator's, Psychodically Difficult Shoot-em-ups, Dungeon Crawlers where players had to do a 6 hour marathon just to complete a single dungeon, that use to be hardcore. Now what's hardcore? GTA? Halo? SSB? WTF? Last generation these were the games that were said to be the casual games and now they are some untouchable core God's?

And why do people want their games to be associated with core games in the first place? I mean most core games are pure shit and people only play them to get the challenge. I don't think playing a single dungeon for a quarter of a day is good design, nor is a shoot-em-up that I die because of the games actions and not mine, nor is a shooter where if a go a millimeter off in the wrong direction I get killed with one shot.

I mean WTF happened to games just being games. Last generation I don't remember people saying shit like "Ugh...Katarmari Damachi...is that a core game or a casual game? Should I buy it to support the community?". I can't tell you how many times I've seen people turn down games like BoomBlox or some other stuff because it wasn't "for the community". This shit pisses me off. And to think if companies are going by the usual console cycle this generation is half-done already. Comparing this generation of consoles to the last is there really any comparison to which had the better games and the "core" games? But no this is the generation where core and casual really matter right? Pure shit.  

I remember reading that line on site ads everywhere prior to the game's release.

Chop til you drop.

yodariquo said:

gamingeek said:

iga_bobovic said:

What?! My crotch will be the last thing you see!

What the hell?

This is why Insert Coin rules.

I'm going to have to write a query to count the number of crotch and genetalia references.  I think we're close to a 1:1 ratio.

What? No ass love?

Shame on you, yoda. Shame on you.

iga_bobovic said:

steelattack said:

Triangle chokes.

Fuck you. You just cracked me up at work.

Thrust me, it is not funny when you get your head caught between a man's thighs.

"Thrust me"? A little Freudian slip there perhaps.