Being a lowly mag staff the only thing I can do there is post HTML, edit titles of threads and edit my posts without the "edited at time" thing coming up unless I want it to. Moreover although ninjas often aim to have it appear as though their actions were random acts of the universe or the fault of another entirely one sealed their work there and taking credit for that (especially as they are already a bit pissed at me for the whole killing the ninja king business) is not the done thing.
actually posts diarrhea. Which is impossible
Physically yes but diarrhea has been used in a technical context for decades now- see the skull/disease in bomberman that causes you to drop bombs until you run out being known as diarrhea.
Back on topic *stretches* and posts an entirely serious list.
Michael Patcher not only has a clue about what he is talking but some of it might be right and ignoring all he says, assuming you have an interest in the business side of things either in general or to attempt to guess whether something will be expanded or get a sequel, is foolish to an untold degree.
Jim Sterling (some people dislike him right?) usually both does good reviews and makes good points in various shows he does.
The reason you do not like that Zero Punctuation guy is unlike most other reviewers he seems to be of the stance that games have already made it as an entertainment medium and can be accorded merit by similar means to said other mediums (judged by story/immersion achievement/overall experience and compared to other items within the medium) as such as opposed to the more apologist and/or mechanical approach that others take in their reviews. As such requiring scores in the 6-9.9 range and a mechanical assessment/breakdown of abilities of a game makes you a bad person.
Nintendo first party games are not all shining beacons for the world to study and live by
To go further there
Kid Icarus was a hand killing piece of crap and although I am far too lazy to improve level design my first order of business once I have a 3ds that is capable of playing custom commercial ROM images and have done the basic making a cheat and minor asset tweaking is to mod the game to prove that something minor could fix it.
Not every Zelda game is good and I am not even being cute and including the CDi ones/Zelda 2 (apparently this has to be ignored) and for the most part can at best be considered a notable series.
Super Smash brothers is a halfway amusing fighting game but utterly ignorable with the exception of the damage to improve chances of a ring out mechanic even among the novelty fighting game sub sub sub genre.
Holding games up as a competition grade piece of kit is laughable and some of the choices seen there vis a vis banning certain concepts frequently betray competition/contest/game theory. By all means have competitions in a game though but expecting it to be respected by people in general.... yeah.
The likes of phone and web games are not all simple toys* and by virtue of the phones being more powerful and with effective lifetime of a phone being considerably shorter than a handheld if the controller thing can be cracked (see also Kid icarus above) then things could happen. The dedicated handhelds might not go away but much like some of the Chinese knockoff tablets using operating systems originally designed for mobile phones the dedicated handhelds might be something of an amusing novelty in the years to come or even rendered as an additional service/model for said mobile phone/tablet type devices. This might not happen for some time as phones were perhaps orders of magnitude more powerful than the GBA when it was still active and the DS was just an e3 presentation but impossible it is not.
Moreover having the position that the 3ds and Vita might be nice hardware but at best the price/reward ratio once games for the platforms are taken into account makes it a bad investment from the general perspective of a person that enjoys games is something you are going to have a very hard time arguing against.
*even if they were have you seen most of the GB, GBC, GBA and DS library and considered the resulting effect on effective sales volume?
Good things also come of such types of games.
COD and such are almost invariably well polished games.
Achievements, trophies and such do have negatives associated with them (chief among those being how it has played out with cheats) and the lack of inclusion of them with games or platforms as a whole is not only entirely justifiable but maybe even commendable.
Diablo 3 real money auctions is not necessarily a novel concept but for it to happen in a game with the potential mass market appeal of Diablo 3 was not only a justifiable experiment but a commendable one.
Online game playing is at once bad for some games and good for others perhaps even to the detriment of the single player. The exclusion of it though or indeed the inclusion of a bad one can at once mean nothing and it could also mean something but it is not a universal for "any" game/franchise.
Pokemon has effectively not changed in years/almost since the creation of it and considering it was not perfect to begin with that is a serious opening for criticism of it.
Kingdom hearts was an amusing experiment if you are a licensing lawyer/type but could justifiably said to be lacking charm of any sort.
Metal gear solid- a (largely) bad controlling game packed with references with writing that certainly has potential but often fails basic writing technique.
The Japanese games industry, industry being an applicable term as things to get farmed out nowadays to multiple companies*, does seem to be going through a down spot at this point in time which means the output of it has been lacklustre and looking at many of the indicators the new blood or options for the old hands needed to save it/bring it back to form are not there (I do not hold out hope of there being a Japanese game brats movement a la the movie brats movement). As a shorthand "the Japanese games industry sucks" is neither racist nor is it inaccurate and for the former at least if your opinion jumped to the former you are a reactionary/oversensitive bellend.
By similar token industry is an accurate term and auteur (which is to say the putting a name brand designer on a pedestal) design is perhaps a hard to shed human trait but an inaccurate one.
*see also why you do not set up a tech company outside parts of Canada, California, Washington, New York and maybe Texas or New Mexico, the concept of the brain drain or indeed why you do not start a film company outside parts of Canada, New York, Texas, California or maybe Washington.
K-pop is, much like the rest of pop, almost universally terrible and regardless of how good you are live if you use autotune to go robot styley you can be crucified for it. However much like the related category of audiophile if you enjoy it then fantastic but do not expect your mates to agree which is a concept that might want to be expanded a bit further.
Now I have probably used up my supply of essence of pure flamebait and it will take at least three hours for it refill (unless I wander back over to that abortion thread and go science mode again but forego tact this time) I will leave it at that.
