I do miss clicky typing.

Iga_Bobovic said:

edgecrusher said:

Yeah Resistance is shockingly drab and boring coming from the same guys that make Ratchet & Clank.

I see a pattern here. Naughty Dog used make Crash Bandicoot and Jax and Dexter they are now making Uncharted.  Sucker Punch used to make Rocket: Robot on Wheels and Sly Cooper they are now making Infamous. They are went from cartoony to more realistic.

True, almost like it was a PS3 mandate from Sony, that to combat Microsoft and Xbox 360 all PS3 developers had to create more Xbox style software, instead of what they normally did. That's the vibe I've always gotten out of it. But at least Uncharted and to a lesser extent Infamous were exciting. Resistance is just cookie cutter.

SteelAttack said:

I do miss clicky typing.

I bought 4 IBM 6326's about ten years ago so I'd always have a big chucnk, clicky keyboard.

Iga_Bobovic said:

edgecrusher said:

Yeah Resistance is shockingly drab and boring coming from the same guys that make Ratchet & Clank.

I see a pattern here. Naughty Dog used make Crash Bandicoot and Jax and Dexter they are now making Uncharted.  Sucker Punch used to make Rocket: Robot on Wheels and Sly Cooper they are now making Infamous. They are went from cartoony to more realistic.

Welcome to five years ago.  Both ND and SP have said (when their current gen games came out) that they were now finally able to make the games they always wanted and that the earlier games were stylized due to technical limitations.  That's what they said at least.

On Resistance, I think it got the opportunity to have sequels simply because it was the only game on the PS3 for about a year.  You had to buy it if you had a PS3 because there was simply nothing else to buy.  I thought the game was pretty average, but the vehicle levels were truly mediocre.

aspro said:

I can tell I'll be playing Morrowind for the rest of the year at this point (or until it kills my XB).

All this game needs is a shotgun and an ATV and it'd be perfect.

Amazing game.

World of Warcraft Subscriptions Continue to Drop

I know that Blizzard has said that its membership has dropped because its players have gotten so good that they play through expansions faster than they can create new ones, but I think there's more to it than just that.  That's an entirely valid point, but ever since WoW hit that 6 year mark they've been on a pretty steady decline. Same way EverQuest did. EQ actually hit on year 5 but EQ also never had the numbers that WoW did, plus there hasn't been a new solid MMO for those players to jump to the way that EQ players jumped to WoW.  But I think we've now seen that the 5 to 6 year mark is about as long as one of these games can really keep a wide audience. I think the only thing that's standing between their current population and a serious crash in it is The Old Republic.

robio said:

World of Warcraft Subscriptions Continue to Drop

I know that Blizzard has said that its membership has dropped because its players have gotten so good that they play through expansions faster than they can create new ones, but I think there's more to it than just that.  That's an entirely valid point, but ever since WoW hit that 6 year mark they've been on a pretty steady decline. Same way EverQuest did. EQ actually hit on year 5 but EQ also never had the numbers that WoW did, plus there hasn't been a new solid MMO for those players to jump to the way that EQ players jumped to WoW.  But I think we've now seen that the 5 to 6 year mark is about as long as one of these games can really keep a wide audience. I think the only thing that's standing between their current population and a serious crash in it is The Old Republic.

Agreed.  Their explanation is a good effort, it's about the best spin you can put on it (people love us so much, that's why we're in deceline").  I bet the pressure is on to get Diablo 3 done and out the door so they can get Titan launched ASAP.  WoW will continue on forever, but if they want to get back to where they were they need a replacement.

Of the critics who have seen and played TOR, I have not heard any excitement whatsoever.  But just being something new may be enough, if EA prices it right.  They've already said they are going to market the crap out of.

Why is there no voice acting in Epic Mickey?!?! Its one of the most iconic voices of all time, its a huge part of his character and you don't hire voice actors. What is this crap. Its part of why this feels exactly like anPS1/N64 era game.

Oh I just found robo Goofy, so cool. But you know what would be better if ROBO GOOFY WOULD FUCKING TALK!

EDIT: OMG Mickey Mousecapade NES carts!

Dvader said:

Why is there no voice acting in Epic Mickey?!?! ...

"There's something about that voice, you know?" Spector said in his best high-pitched Mickey impersonation, before returning to his normal voice. "It's hard to accept that as a really big hero. I wanted people to accept this guy as a hero, and so I kind of made an early decision that we wouldn't have speech in the game."

Then another time he said,

""I made the creative decision that characters wouldn't talk in the Cartoon Wasteland. It was entirely a creative decision because [he begins speaking in a high-pitched Mickey voice] AS SOON AS I START DOING THIS, I'VE LOST MY POTENTIAL AUDIENCE. [resumes natural voice] If I'm trying to re-introduce this character to an audience, there are certain connotations with that voice that I'm going to have a hard time overcoming." - Warren Spector"

It was to save money. Nothing else. Disney and Spector probably figured Nintendo fans are used to having no voice acting anyway, so why spend the $$$$?