Posts by Izuno

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' timestamp='1367301336' post='330923']Hey dude, if that post is aimed towards my comment, you should know that I own all current gen consoles, and still buy games for all of them. The fact that I favor PS3 over the Xbox does'nt make me a raging fanboy, and doesn't mean I want Microsoft Gaming division to go out of business. lol

As a game developer, all I want is for ALL platforms and developers alike to thrive and success, with that being said, I'm still entitled to my personal preferences and again, favoring something doesn't necessarily makes him/her a fanboy!

If it isn't... disregard this post!

No...it was not. You actually said you are not an Xbox fan. That is completely different than saying "Microsoft needs to die" because you are honest and have logical reasoning behind it which is totally respectable. The fanboy is an illogical douche who needs attention and has low self esteem.

But on topic:

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/154439-…-killer-feature That is really cool. With my current console setup in my office, I don't see how that would work but if cheap enough I would totally try it. I like how they showed not just shooters and action games. Would actually be really cool with cartoony Nintendo or LEGO games as well. FFTWF!

1) I read the stuff on Kotaku today about Respawn's "Titan" MP-only game as a launch window exclusive on next Xbox, possibly on 360 as well. I haven't looked yet for corroboration because I've been at a conference all day and am totally exhausted. http://kotaku.com/the-next-gen-x…ve-so-484785241

/start rant:

2) Today at the Digital Hollywood conference in LA after a panel I was on, someone came up to me after said panel and for some odd reason started talking to me about the next Xbox and how much they hated Microsoft and the Xbox brand and wanted to see it fail and go out of business. He worked in mobile F2P games for a larger publisher that, yes, also publishes cross platform console games. The guy just unloaded his opinion on me, sort of passive aggressive nerd rage...ALL because I was "a gaming person" on some boring panel about monetization in digital media. Because assault is immoral and illegal I did NOT punch this douche in the face. But goddam it was tempting.

So, here's a public service announcement...

I know personally many people hate [insert your hated console / platform name here] but anyone in gaming should want all major platforms to be successful. The more viable platforms there are the more jobs for developers and everyone else. A rising tide raises all ships and provides more jobs, higher salaries. If you work in this industry, really think hard about the platform hatred you observe from colleagues. Question them on it. Any person who works in gaming and wants an entire platform to die because they think it will somehow save their ass in the long run needs to work in another industry.

tl;dr version: fanboyism is the suq.

/end rant...time for sleep.

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Wonder if this is real, Level Designer friend at IW doesn't talk about anything at all...

One of the other dads at my kid's preschool is a design lead at IW...never says shit either (though I know not to ask) but he does wear a MW2, MW3, IW or other type of T-shirt LITERALLY EVERY DAY. Maybe there is a rule about M3 drivers required to wear shirts of one theme only.

If you hate LEGO and you hate LotR, this may be the stupidest thing ever. If you love both, I present to you:

http://www.theonering.net/torwp/2013/04/…wer-of-orthanc/

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I said "epic looking set pieces" ... I did not say the game was epic or the story was epic. That's becoming a meaningless term in some ways. I just literally meant some of the set pieces or moments in the game were trying to have an epic look/feel to them. I found those attempts somewhat entertaining. That is all.

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I'd like to make snarky comments too, but I'm probably gonna get suckered into buying it...again

To me, CoD serves a purpose: give me roughly 6 hours of highly scripted, highly polished, decently voice acted shooting gallery gameplay with some epic looking set pieces. Is it worth $60 to me? That's a tougher call for me every year. But do I like to play such a game? Sure. On the plus side, it's only six hours long (sp anyway) thus it doesn't take me 50 hours to beat the campaign. And i found Blops2 zombie mode kind of fun. Wish they would do more with that but then you're making a second campaign and that gets real expensive...

CoD isn't the only type of game I like, but it is ONE of the games I like. If the game is good in comparison to Blops2 I'll get it. If it is like CoD:Blops Declassified on Vita which was a fucking disaster (no offense, those involved), no...won't be getting it.

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Update:

http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/22/nor…ssets-for-4-9m/

Nordic Games paid $4.9 million and gets:

- Red Faction

- Darksiders

- MX vs ATV

- Destroy All Humans!

- Marvel Super Hero Squad

- Supreme Commander

- misc

Gearbox Software paid $1.3 million and gets:

- Homeworld

505 Games paid $300,000 and gets;

- Drawn to Life

Good luck, acquiring companies.

This might be the best game trailer I've seen in years.

Good trailer.

I never judge Game of Thrones purely by how much action, but rather the evolution of the characters. Last night's episode was excellent...and then the end

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WHA DAH FUHHHH!???!?!?!?

curious...was this implemented in Tomb Raider in the console version? I thought the game looked great, though the frame rate sure dropped on PS3 at times.

I deal with this issue all the time with both developers and publishers.

If you look at average sales of console games in most genres and compare all games with metacritic scores 90+ against all games with 80 to 89 scores to all games with 70 to 79 scores etc...then yeah, the average sales in the 90+ range are highest, followed by average sales of games in the 80s and so forth.

But then the correlations of review scores to unit sales (again, talking console games where we have reasonably good data) rarely are above 60% and usually much lower, but the genres where it's highest (like T & M rated RPGs on 360/PS3) it gets a little higher, but that's because you have megahits like Skyrim stretching out the scatter plot and making the correlation increase.

But beyond that, in meetings with suits where they talk about metacritic scores of past games as a guide for what kind of game to greenlight I have to constantly bring up examples of games that scored well but sold poorly or scored poorly and sold well to try to get them to understand it is so much more complicated than a linear regression and a number.

Drives me crazy sometimes, but then again I often get paid to explain this to suits so they can sit down, shut up and think through WITH their developer about the game rather than cite some bullshit regression model.

really like that artwork. I haven't played but the map looks nice. I should fire up CS...been tooooo long.

That is pretty damn cool. Lots of possibilities come to mind but especially the potential for new interest in adventure / exploration games.

This just keeps getting better and better.

I'm sure everything Disney has in store for everything that was/is/couldhavebeen Lucasfilm and Lucasarts related will (on paper) delight Disney shareholders in investor meetings and in sizzle reels, such as shutting down Lucasarts.

But otherwise, the writing indeed was on the wall.

pi out of 3.3 izunicles.

And then this http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=10307

I'm much further in...presumably near the end, and I have to say this is becoming one of my favorite games from the past few years, possibly in my top 5 of console games from the this generation. Yeah I found some minor bugs, but nothing that really upset me and the QTE aren't bothering me anymore. It's the sum of all little things in this game that I really like, so I applaud it no sarcasm.