phantom_leo said:

Just got back from a difficult and long week of work, looking forward to playing a little Scott Pilgrim vs. The World...

...it won't load...

...at all...

...apparently there's a lot of freezing issues with the game.

*sigh!*

I FUCKING HATE this generation of games --AND ESPECIALLY-- buggy, down-loadable, crapp-store games.

Thanks for the buzz-kill Ubi!

Don't forget that it doesn't even have online co-op.

Ubi has been just as bad as Bamco this gen.

ASK_Story said:

Did you guys read IGN's latest article bashing Super Mario with Limbo?

http://xboxlive.ign.com/articles/111/1112171p2.html

Can you believe this guy? He's actually criticizing the Mario games because it doesn't elicit emotions or love like Limbo does! What the hell? It's a freaking' Mario game! It's not supposed to evoke emotions or make us think about the meaning of life! It's supposed to be a game that's fun and entertaining for the whole family, a game where a little kid to an adult can enjoy it without thinking about anything but to have fun!

Limbo has a little boy experiencing a million ways on how to die a gruesome death and Super Mario has talking turtles, a cute dinosaur that lays eggs, and magical mushrooms and he's bashing the Mario games for failing to acknowledge that "love exists?"

Is this guy for real?

What a moronic article.

And one more thing...why is he even comparing Limbo with Mario? They're nothing alike except for the jumping on platforms. Limbo's more like A Boy and His Blob. Why doesn't he compare it to that?

Yeah I thought that was retarded too.

ASK_Story said:

Did you guys read IGN's latest article

 No, I did not read the latest IGN article. I do not read any 'article' from IGN what so ever.

I suggest you do the same. 

Agnates said:

aspro said:

This episode is really informative, going into details as to how Capcom makes their games, the death of the Wii in Japan, Xenoblade "negacam" as well as some detailed looks at various games coming from Japan.

Do you have unicorns too? It's still not being consistently outsold by the PS3 unless there's some boost like the new white color or an anticipated title, and tends to have the same amount or more titles in the top ten every week.

You should listen to their podcast for the context, it's quite interesting.  I won't go into detail, because it's pointless communicating with you.  You just seem to want to be rude.

edgecrusher said:

Yeah I thought that was retarded too.

You can't spell ignorant without IGN.

Iga_Bobovic said:

No, I did not read the latest IGN article. I do not read any 'article' from IGN what so ever.

I suggest you do the same.

Good advice. But the article's title was so stupid, it just had to be read just to see how stupid it was.

Agnates said:

Didn't they also compare Braid to Mario and Splosion Man to Mario? It must have worked out for hits then.

Yup. Bunch of idiots. They actually said Splosion-Man was better than the Super Mario Bros. series I was like, what the hell?

aspro said:

I don't want to reward them with the page view -- who wrote it?

Some dude that I never heard of. Probably a volunteer, intern, or some random editor who writes reviews for movies or the iPhone.

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Limbo is a great game, but comparing it Super Mario Bros. and bashing Mario the way they did is asinine. It's like saying Puzzle Quest is superior to the original Tetris because it added RPG elements to the puzzle genre or Lumines is better than Tetris because it has cool modern techno music while you're solving puzzles.

That Limbo article was actually criticizing Super Mario Galaxy 2 to Limbo. Can you believe that?

It's like the guy who wrote that article proudly boasting, "Hey look at me! This is where all my $70,000 of education money went toward my Literature degree so I could write this article about how Limbo and Super Mario Galaxy 2 taught me about love and the meaning of life!"

Ridiculous!

Ravenprose said:

Yeah. And I flew right into it! And I think that guy who wrote it put in a small spoiler for people who haven't even played Limbo yet.

Amateur.

I read that Super Mario/Limbo comparison yesterday.  Two paragraphs in I was reminded what an old college profressor once told me, "if you talk over everyone's head you'll convince them you're brilliant, even if you've got nothing to say."  

phantom_leo said:

robio said:

I read that Super Mario/Limbo comparison yesterday.  Two paragraphs in I was reminded what an old college profressor once told me, "if you talk over everyone's head you'll convince them you're brilliant, even if you've got nothing to say."  

I understood every, single word this guy had to say.

That was my point here.  For those who read it and understand it there's not much to be impressed by.

He dressed up the now classic and more or less ridiculous arguement of "Mario games are bad because there is no story" with more cerebral spin.  If you look at the most of the positive comments about the article they were left by readers who probably didn't understand what was written. The positive comments talk about how wonderfully it was written, rather than what was written. They talk about how gaming needs more articles like this to be taken serious (another huge pet peeve of mine is people who insist gaming needs to be taken seriously, but that's for another time), rather than agreeing and expanding upon the point.  

And frankly grammar and vocabulary aside I didn't think it was that well written. It's redundant and stretched out way too long in making its' point. Kind of like a kid who wrote a paper that had to be 1,000 words long, but only came up with 750 words and now has to figure out how to expand.  Not to mention he's comparing a demo of an unreleaed game to a full series that's already been picked apart by critics for years. Quite a challenge there.

I'd be very curious to see what our resident English professor thinks about it actually.