Archangel3371 said:

Well they have to do something to at least slow it down. The numbers from bit torrent sites are reaching some pretty crazy levels.

While at the same time the number and harshness of prosecutions are increasing...Hmmm.

GoNintendo:

That right there is James Burt, the 24-year-old that now owes Nintendo $1.5 million for uploading an illegally pirated version of New Super Mario Bros. Wii. We've heard the story, but now you can put a face to the name. Mr. Burt is not allowed to talk about the matter due to a gag order from Nintendo, but James' dad has spoken on the matter.

"As a parent I can tell you that he's a very quiet lad, he's a fanatical computer game player - to his detriment. It was peer pressure on the internet forums and the blog sites that led him to do a very very silly thing to prove that he'd actually managed to purchase a game before its release date. It was certainly [done] with no malice or intent to make money - he actually bought the game legitimately from a major retailer. Somebody hacked it from the internet once James had put it there and made it work."

So James is smart enough to dump the game onto the net, but he can't figure out a better way to let people know he got the game early? Hmmm...how about taking some pictures of the game and receipt, or taking video footage of the game in action? I think those might have been better ways to prove his point.

I totally agree with the article about there being too many good games these days. Really, there's no possible way to keep up anymore.

Even in the early PS2 era I was able to keep up fairly easily, but late last gen and into this one its just overload man.

It used to suck going long periods with no killer games coming out back in the PS1/N64 days, but then you appreciated the great games more because of it, AND it gave you a chance to go back and replay games more. Hell I played through Final Fantasy 7 probably 10 times. No way in hell I could do that with a game of that scope these days.

Oh, and Mirror's Edge is not a Ubisoft title!

ASK_Story said:

gamingeek said:

This warrants further investigation too:

The demo is on the Nintendo channel in both the US and europe. Checking it out, in a few minutes.

Cool!

But for some reason, I'm not as excited for this one like I was with the previous ones. Maybe it's because it's not Phoenix Wright this time and I didn't like Apollo Justice as much.

Hopefully it gets good reviews.

I'll probably pick it up when I see at the store, though.

I have chronic VGIBD..."Video Game Impulse-Buying Disorder!"

I played the demo. The controls are all over the place, they want the top screen to have the action so you can't really use the touch screen without it feeling a little clumsy. And yet when you want to do some real examining, you have to use the touch screen to make things more intuitive.

Strange seeing characters from the side rather than face on, it makes things less personal.

It has some rejigged gameplay mechanics that are the same old gameplay mechanics masquerading as new.

It's basically Phoenix Wright 5 played from the side, with Edgeworth as the main character. It'll be good if the script is good.

edgecrusher said:

I totally agree with the article about there being too many good games these days. Really, there's no possible way to keep up anymore.

Even in the early PS2 era I was able to keep up fairly easily, but late last gen and into this one its just overload man.

It used to suck going long periods with no killer games coming out back in the PS1/N64 days, but then you appreciated the great games more because of it, AND it gave you a chance to go back and replay games more. Hell I played through Final Fantasy 7 probably 10 times. No way in hell I could do that with a game of that scope these days.

Oh, and Mirror's Edge is not a Ubisoft title!

I think that article was brilliant and 100% true, devs need to slow down, this is ridiculous.

Dvader said:

edgecrusher said:

I totally agree with the article about there being too many good games these days. Really, there's no possible way to keep up anymore.

Even in the early PS2 era I was able to keep up fairly easily, but late last gen and into this one its just overload man.

It used to suck going long periods with no killer games coming out back in the PS1/N64 days, but then you appreciated the great games more because of it, AND it gave you a chance to go back and replay games more. Hell I played through Final Fantasy 7 probably 10 times. No way in hell I could do that with a game of that scope these days.

Oh, and Mirror's Edge is not a Ubisoft title!

I think that article was brilliant and 100% true, devs need to slow down, this is ridiculous.

This is why you see good games going by the wayside. Now people have to have priority lists.

In the old days we were pretty much playing the same games because there were fewer big games, which were an event. Now there are so many 8/10 games - that are wholly worth playing - that just fall by the wayside.

Dvader said:

If they stopped making games for a year I could buy Endless Ocean 2.

Or they could just perform surgery to give you some balls

edgecrusher said:

gamingeek said:

Dvader said:

edgecrusher said:

I totally agree with the article about there being too many good games these days. Really, there's no possible way to keep up anymore.

Even in the early PS2 era I was able to keep up fairly easily, but late last gen and into this one its just overload man.

It used to suck going long periods with no killer games coming out back in the PS1/N64 days, but then you appreciated the great games more because of it, AND it gave you a chance to go back and replay games more. Hell I played through Final Fantasy 7 probably 10 times. No way in hell I could do that with a game of that scope these days.

Oh, and Mirror's Edge is not a Ubisoft title!

I think that article was brilliant and 100% true, devs need to slow down, this is ridiculous.

This is why you see good games going by the wayside. Now people have to have priority lists.

In the old days we were pretty much playing the same games because there were fewer big games, which were an event. Now there are so many 8/10 games - that are wholly worth playing - that just fall by the wayside.

Yeah like I always say, the number of totally revolutionary games has dropped, but the number of good games of high-quality (or as you say, 8/10 games) has increased DRAMATICALLY in the past 10 years.

Its like once the titans of 3D gaming laid the groundwork (Half-Life, Mario 64, Zelda OOT, MGS etc) all these other guys figured it out and have been copying the formula as best they can since. And that's exactly what they're doing; following established formulas.

Plus, there are so many more developers capable of making a great game nowadays....and on top of that you get certain companies needlessly pumping out sequels year after year to 1 or 2 franchises (Insomniac?) that I'm amazed so many games find an audience at all, especially with the way the economy has been for awhile now.

And now you have the downloadable game market reviving old-school styles like Shadow Complex, or more arcade-ish fare. Mindboggling.

I forgot who it was, but some guy from Microsoft talked about this getting out of control back in the day, maybe Ed Fries? He said 'Do we really need 100 games a year? What if we cut that in half and focused on making those fewer games that much better?' and I totally agree.

And I've almost completely stopped buying games and gone back to renting them mostly. There's just too much.

I said it years ago, we need cheaper, shorter games.

If someone buys for instance a Mass Effect 2 and wants to bleed it out for 60 hrs, then that doesn't leave much time, let alone money to play many other titles.

I would rather see shorter games with the same high production values at cheaper prices.