Recent content by NukaCola23

The girls that I've introduced to games have been surprisingly open to good game play over flashy graphics or being catered to directly. My girlfriend is hogging my 360 as I type this, playing through Braid, and we'll probably play some Zack and Wiki later.

I enjoyed the couple hours I put into it via Gametap. Unfortunately Gametap got extremely buggy with my laptop and I ended up leaving the service. I may pick up a copy off eBay and install one of the high-res mods I hear about.

I call bullshit on the whole experiment. If the issues with gameplay, bugs, and limited demos were a real issue you would see a decline in console software sales and a rise in piracy there. Those issues exist there as well (plenty of flashy games without depth on the 360, and look at the bugs in...

Knowing Jaffe it could go either way, but it sure is a long way from 1,000 page design docs!

I don't understand the negative backlash towards this. While I do agree saying that one doesn't need a 360 or PS3 to be a hardcore gamer is daft, I don't see having more hardcore games coming out for the Wii could be a bad thing. These gamers complain when all the Wii is getting are casual party...

This goes back to the question of what an MMO should be from a design standpoint. Is an MMO strictly a game, with achievable goals, defeatable enemies, and purely design for gameplay? Or should it be designed to reflect a somewhat believable world, one that may include such situations, immortals...

My only concern is whether or not this game will be a retail success. With the failure of No More Heroes I'm afraid that if this flops too it will make future hardcore games a tough sell to publishers.