Vic George 2K3
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And to think that such a piece of furniture history has the honor of holding some pieces of videogame history.
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Hopefully this means BioWare will put some loving care into the product before it's released.
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And the games are bringing to light social issues as well. Like Bioshock's Rapture with its focus on the effects of godless capitalism with no governmental control, and the Dragon Age universe dealing with religious persecution of other groups of people (like elves, mages, Qunari). It's certainly coming a long way from just being mindless entertainment, which there still is a place for when you don't want to play a game that reminds you of the world you live in.
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Sometimes goodness can come from mislabeled products. I remember buying a labeled Q-Bert game for the NES that turned out to be Life Force. I didn't return it, though.
Did you actually buy that new at retail? If not, it's really easy for someone to open two NES carts and swap the PCBs between them.
Yes, I did buy it new years ago. Fortunately it wasn't around $40 when I bought it new.
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Sometimes goodness can come from mislabeled products. I remember buying a labeled Q-Bert game for the NES that turned out to be Life Force. I didn't return it, though.
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My mother sold off the original 4-switch model that my family owned so we could get the ColecoVision with the Expansion Module #1, so no, I don't have it.
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Maiki, what part of "it's NOT your Atari 2600" are you NOT clear on? If someone wants to mod the system so that it can run on a modern TV set without any problems, more power to them for doing that. If you enjoy the purism of playing it on an ancient TV set, then more power to you.
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If parents don't do their own job of parenting their own kids, they shouldn't act surprised if somebody ends up doing the job for them in a way that they may not like -- even if it results in a loss of life.
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Makes me glad I got a Slim. The only fan noise that's in my room is one I use for a sound muffler when I don't even have the system turned on.
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I never said it was beautiful, but it's not like somebody turned it into a sludge factory of carnage and vomit.
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Still playing Dragon Age 2. Managed to finish a playthrough as a female mage Hawke named Phoenix. Currently busy with a second playthrough as a female rogue named Raven Hawke.
One of my guilty pleasures is watching a mage Hawke battling Meredith while listening to Journey's "Be Good To Yourself".
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It may end up being as "classic" as the Atari 2600...in that a lot of crapware gets produced for it.
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The only "offensive" part of it was that somebody needed to stoop to the level of console camp mud-flinging, as if that was necessary to make their system better than it actually is. Can't you just love the system you enjoy playing games on without being such a snob thinking that everyone that doesn't own the same kind of game system is beneath you? I guess not.
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I don't mind if videogames tell stories, as long as there is a game in it that makes you feel that you're part of a story. Then again, not all videogames need good stories (or even ANY story) to be able to sell. Sometimes it's just better to have it all game.
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Well, it's THEIR Atari 2600 units, NOT yours! If they want to wreck it, set it on fire, turn it into an art display, or whatever strikes their fancy, who are we to dictate that they can't?
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You are old and people are laughing at you. You can't collect everything. They don't sell. The news lied no one bought 80 million of Grand Theft Auto. They lied through their teeth and you believed it. Games are for children. They want to see you grow up. Who wants to see me grow up. Them all of them. Who. Everybody. You are so ignorant Scream at you go get a *****life.
I don't know if this is sarcasm or just honestly being a jerk.
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Sounds like Xbox 360 and/or PS3 fangirlism at work.
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I don't see anything ugly about it.
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Not of any recent games, but I am imagining a story based on Dragon Age II with the aftermath of Hawke taking the office of the viscount after he sides with the templars -- how he and he friends cope with events that take place between the Second Battle of Kirkwall and when Hawke disappears.
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To purposely make the gameplay bad and then charge people good money for what eventually becomes a bricked game? That's real shady.
Sounds about normal for the current video game industry to me.
Call it what you want, "shady" is the accurate descriptor for this.
The mark of a good game is its replayability factor, which if it has that, makes it worth owning no matter who ends up owning it after you're through with it. Take replayability out, and you're left with a game that might as well be like a one-night affair. In this case, it might as well be like a high-priced escort service.
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Of course, that makes me wonder: why can't the really bad games have it that you can only play it once and then it's no good afterward?
From the IGN video review, it does seem like that's exactly what Capcom is trying to do. 6.5/10 with no mention of the save issues.
To purposely make the gameplay bad and then charge people good money for what eventually becomes a bricked game? That's real shady.
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Of course, that makes me wonder: why can't the really bad games have it that you can only play it once and then it's no good afterward?
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Doom and Wolfenstein 3D aren't exclusively SNES games...they were originally PC games.
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In Europe, the SNES Smurfs game was released on the GBA as Revenge Of The Smurfs.
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Why is Ken Levine the only developer willing to defend gaming?
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Nothing about games making sociopolitical statements through events in their particular fictional universes?