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Category Archives: Take Me Seriously
Blatant self-promotion
My attempt to take outspoken Rovio CEO Peter Vesterbacka to the woodshed over his comments about Angry Birds and the “death of the console” is up at Infendo.
Lord Convenient
Shorter Richard Garriott: Zynga is awful and oh by the way I have this new game coming out that fixes everything they’re doing wrong in social gaming today.
I’d say it’s good to be the king, but last I checked, that was Zynga.
Lessons not learned
The video game industry at large would be wise to read—and hopefully learn from, although I’m not optimistic—this GQ article called “The Day the Movies Died.”
Video game sales numbers are down, you see, and there are a heck of a lot of numbers in the “hotly anticipated” titles set to launch in 2011.
Name game
Square Enix calls Final Fantasy XIII-2 a number of things in this article. “Worth playing” doesn’t seem to be one of them.
Big boy pants
Nintendo goes black for “adult” titles in Japan. Weren’t they the ones who always claimed there were no hardcore gamers or casual ones, just people who played video games?
As an aside, what the hell is Sam Fisher really doing to that bad guy on the Splinter Cell 3D box art?
Musclehead
Either Sony has learned nothing about what the majority of people want from their handhelds and consoles, or they’re positioning the upcoming PSP 2 as a high-powered enthusiast’s device not meant for the masses.
Savant
Honestly, I’d love to get my hands on the little bag of Scrabble tiles from which Pachter draws his profound predictions about the games industry.
Gran façade
IGN calls Gran Turismo 5 the “king” of driving simulators in the same review that says the game is sterile, lifeless at times, and not much of an update over the 4th installment, which came out over six years ago.
Then, an 8.5 review score. Seriously, why even bother to have reviews anymore?
Game of the Year
If the GotY is not Donkey Kong Country Returns, and it is, say, Black Ops or something, the industry has all but confirmed it is happy being the adolescent boys club it’s been for the past decade, and will never change.
That’s fine, and obviously very lucrative for certain titles and developers, but you know what they say about things that refuse to change…