Posts by Izuno

  • Wolfenstein Returns?

    I dunno...I liked this trailer :)


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  • A Game of Thrones

    Yep yep and yep.

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    Huge setup with Theon's sister and then what a letdown. I suppose it was to build the ending with Ramsay and Theon (obviously Ramsay is hatching something) but they have to do a better job or else this series will just start meandering.


    Also...

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    I haven't read book 4 yet so I don't know where it is going, but now Dany is sitting on a throne and ruling...her whole story is getting very stale...


    I dunno, I still love the show but they better not go all Lost on us and just drag on. I want epic closures!

  • Gravity

    I finally saw it for the first time. On an airplane. Next to a 4 year old watching Frozen. She asked me to plug her headphones back into her display system...constantly. It was epic.

  • A Game of Thrones

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    First part wasn't what I'd hoped it to be (HBO writers taking big liberties again) and was feeling a bit meh about it all and I was fearing for the worst - then Dinklage came and saved the god damn day.

    Yes.

  • F2P is burning article on polygon

    This is why I post things like this here....always good analysis from multiple angles. The way my colleagues and I view it, we see that the notion that there is a bubble is correct, just not 100% correct. Certainly there are unsustainable practices in F2P, but as you guys have mentioned there are some games doing F2P right, or at least better. We don't see mobile F2P as a giant bubble that will destroy itself, rather we see a lot of shakeout as gamers get sick of the grind that many F2P mobile games become. In other words, Farmville etc. on Facebook was the hot, cute new thing but people got burnt out of it. It will happen again in mobile and it will likely get harder and harder to make big money (by as many companies) in mobile F2P unless the companies simply offer more actual gaming value...which gets harder and harder.


    tl;dr:

    Market forces and competition will hopefully weed out the weak, but that doesn't necessarily mean the thing you hate is the weak. Mobile F2P isn't going to collapse just yet but parts of it may spectacularly flame out. Get the popcorn!

  • Big Budget Games - Input needed

    Investment spend.


    Activision probably looked back at Call of Duty history and realized if they could have somehow invested more earlier on it might have grown bigger earlier. But that strategy has risks of creating quicker franchise burnout. Call of Duty took a few years to peak and has had an amazing run which is still going, just its biggest years are behind it. They just want Destiny to go on a similar run and it's going to take a huge upfront investment.


    Also, if you have to bet on someone, Activision is rationalizing that betting on Bungie is hopefully "safe" even though it too still has risks.


    tl;dr: I understand Activision's thinking but the plan is not without risk.


    Dead horse beating!

  • Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

    Call of Duty: Cynical Premise Based Warfare


    Still...I liked that trailer. I think I can only get into this if the campaign is good, even if standard 5 to 6 hours. The last CoD campaign I really loved was Black Ops...the ones since not as much. Yeah, I feel that franchise fatigue as Mazy was saying but as always I will try to judge this CoD game on its own merits which leaves me, as always, cautiously hopeful.

  • Stalker : Lost alpha

    Yeah I'm biased but still on my top 10 all time favorite PC games...maybe top 5.


    Some of the early builds and vids I saw in 2003 were stunning...just incredible tech for the time. I guess I have to try this one...kudos for the labor of love.

  • So now I'm a dad

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    This.