Homefront review scores hit, and they’re not great. THQ stock price drops 25% almost as soon as the review scores go live. Analyst Michael Pachter hits the newswire to say the two are related.
“Analysis”
I can do this too. Where’s my Porsche?
I’ll never understand how or why some gamers can get so worked up about an upcoming game when all that’s available are 15 total seconds of scripted game play and pre-rendered cutscene footage that will without a doubt not be included in the actual game.
I mean, for fuck’s sake–most of the shit in this “trailer” is of real, live actors!
With the big spenders are so easily pleased and distracted by flashing lights, no wonder there’s no real innovation taking place in game design outside of the peripherals!
What, no hardcore gamer outcry over IGN’s 8.5 review score for Call of Duty: Black Ops? Did the Internet suddenly grow up when I wasn’t looking?
Is Medal of Honor everything that’s wrong with video games today, all wrapped up in a single title? Seems so:
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NPD is eliminating free video game numbers reports. The sound you just heard were hundreds of video game bloggers crying out in unison, as if their biggest story of each month was suddenly snuffed out of existence. Because it was.
There’s absolutely no truth to the rumor I just started that Peter Molyneux cancelled vaporware title Project Milo so that he could focus entirely on lying and exaggerating about Fable 3′s capabilities.
RIP, Project Milo that never really existed.
Every few years or so Nintendo releases a console. The specs are predictably spartan, and the response from the hardtards is predictably predictable. How do they expect us to take their “artistic” games seriously when they can’t even use the Google to check and see if what they’re attacking Nintendo with is the same exact thing they said about the DS phat?
Video games took a hit this summer. Instead of addressing the fact that all the big titles feature male protagonists firing guns into meat shields without much personality or emotion driving their actions, Michael Pachter blames…console prices.
But hey, Halo Reach is coming tomorrow. Should fix everything.
Why must video game developers continue to bolt on useless multiplayer modes to their great single-player games? Are they that afraid of the vocal minority backlash? Are one player games really that bad?
See also: Bioshock 2.
I think this is a first: I don’t particularly take this personal blog very seriously but even so, I marked an annoying, ill-informed little troll as spam today. I doubt I’ll ever do it again, but this shit was seriously getting worse than any religious fanatic I’ve ever encountered–and it was over a game!