IGN's review wasn't too bad either. They gave it a 7.8 wich in my brain = 8.
The thing thats great about the review is how the player/reviewer loves the difficulty of the boss fights, and the battle in general. The whole "satisfying to kick ass" thing. I laugh at this becuase this is the same group who says God Hand sucks because its "too hard" and all that other ish.
Heh maybe they just love Suda 51? Even the rouge ship xplay gave it a 5/5! Thats messed up! I mean yeah it sounds great, but shit, its not that good.
IGN was saying the only real weakness the game has is a lackluster free-roam mechanic. And that was brought up in the earlier review from that GTA guy or whatever.
Kitano Smith- 01-23-2008
You people are insane. You're pointing out reviews from gametrailers and friggin' IGN, for frog sake's.
I reckon suda sent them his bitches to grease their poles.
Either than that, not too shabby.
PhasE- 01-23-2008
Suda has a small budget, even if he does send bitches I don't wanna think what they look like.
Pretty happy to see this game getting a good response.
Dalemushashi- 01-23-2008
You people are insane. You're pointing out reviews from gametrailers and friggin' IGN, for frog sake's.
I reckon suda sent them his bitches to grease their poles.
Either than that, not too shabby.
I wouldn't listen to any mainstream reviewers even if I knew their was no foul play. Fuck mainstream reviewers.
Mecha Sonic- 01-23-2008
I wouldn't listen to any mainstream reviewers even if I knew their was no foul play. Fuck mainstream reviewers.
FAGGOT
:lol:
Dalemushashi- 01-23-2008
I wouldn't listen to any mainstream reviewers even if I knew their was no foul play. Fuck mainstream reviewers.
FAGGOT
:lol:
Fuck you too.
True Grave- 01-23-2008
Hahahahahaha good job everybody!
Mecha Sonic- 01-23-2008
Fuck you too.
I'm sorry.
Dalemushashi- 01-23-2008
Fuck you too.
I'm sorry.
I guess you were just joking I'm sorry I jumped on you. I've been a little bitter as of late.
KIRBY 7- 01-23-2008
My opinions about NMH are shaped based on what I know about Suda.
(I have played & own most of his games. Most of them suck ass.)
The one review I always cite is mainly just a review that reinforces the concerns that I had about the game.
(I'd be thinking that Suda would've learned from FSR, that you don't make a big ass setting for people to walk around in if there's nothing to do in the damn game.)
His strongest suit is his narrative, & the attention to detail that goes into his stories.
Suda would make it far as a Manga ka. (I could eat up Suda's stories paired up with the art by the Silver Case artist for life.)
As a game designer he's a bit of a maverick, still looking for his breakout hit.
When he finally finds his breakthrough game. I fear that Suda will become exactly like Hideo Kojima before him.
(Many people have forgotten, but Hideo Kojima was exactly like Suda 51 back when Kojima was only known for his ADV games Sntacher & Policenauts.)
Suda has a small budget, even if he does send bitches I don't wanna think what they look like.
This is Suda 51 we're talking about.
Of course they're going to be hot, lol.
This guy friggin' pimped out the 2002 race queen of Japan just for his Michigan game. Remember how Suda promoted Killer 7 with a Lucha Mask. Suda promoted Michigan by using sexy videos of Yin Ling acting as a character in the world of Michigan.
(Which is why the Euro version of Michigan seems to be misunderstood.
The Euro version deleted the crazy ass machine gun bitch that was based off of Yin Ling.)
This is Yin Ling the former Race Queen that I'm talking about.
So if Suda did want to bribe by sending his bitches. Believe me, he could do it, lol.
And that was brought up in the earlier review from that GTA guy
What GTA guy? That Isomnia.ac guy, Icy Calm is a true critic. I think it's insulting how everybody thinks he has a hard on for GTA.
When in reality he's just telling it how it is.
Most of these mainstream reviews are nothing more than paid lip service.
If you actually spend a couple minutes reading all his reviews. You'd notice that he's quite consistent with his reviews & he pulls no punches.
I used to hate on him myself for giving games that I like a rather poor review.
However when you think it over. Every single fault that he sees in a game is actually true. Since he's not paid off by a corporate sponsor he can get away with telling people the fundamental flaws of a game.
(Most mainstream sites will just say something hypocritical. EX. The Halo 3 reviews.)
You just know Insomnia knows their shit when you see this article he wrote.
http://insomnia.ac/commentary/arcade_culture/
It provides you an insight as to how gaming culture has degraded & stagnated since the days of old.
http://insomnia.ac/commentary/sequel_the_videogame/
I dare you, I double dare you, to find at least one other gaming article on the internet that adequately describes the current situation that we have in gaming now.
Note: By you. I mean everybody who reads this, not just Grave.
Articles that point out the flaws in the current "journalism" of the gaming media.
If there's one thing that I can appreciate about Insomnia.ac is that I know they're not bought off.
Only someone who is not on some corporate sponsored payroll can get away with the type of "truth" that 's contained in the Insomnia.ac site.
Insomnia notices the manufacturing consent that goes on everyday in the gaming industry these days, & they speak out against it.
Just look at the current presidential primaries we have now.
Ron Paul is the only republican who's run is payed for solely by donations from the people.
Since he's not sponsored by some corporate fund.
He too (like Insomnia.ac) can get away with telling people the truth about the grave situation we're currently in.
Why, because he doesn't have to worry about sponsors backing out on him due to his beliefs.
I just think it's quite infuriating how people will scoff at a Insomnia review without paying attention to the context & background of what the website itself represents.
Hard core Gaming. Only a true hardcore gaming website can look pass the dressing of a hentai game, & grade it based off of it's core gameplay alone.
Most other publications would only ignore such a game due to the negative stigmata that comes with it.
(Which is why most gaming publications are full of pussy faced faggots.)
decoy- 01-23-2008
'The Euro version deleted the crazy ass machine gun bitch that was based off of Yin Ling.'
I played the euro version, so i dont know about this bitch, what was there to remove?
The reason? and what stuff?
Do you have pics, was it too nude or what, i wonder why and how they released farenheit with full blown nude sexscene in it.
KIRBY 7- 01-23-2008
Of course you don't know about it. She was removed from the English version.
No I have no idea why. I'm not the dumbass imbeciles who translated Michigan.
Here's a page about Michigan that I wrote back when the game was a japan only release.
http://www.sitesled.com/members/killer7/michigan.html
If you look hard enough. You'll might even see some IGN articles that bring up the Yin Ling / Michigan connection.
In retrospect I should've saved all those Yin Ling promotional videos that were hosted at Michigan, but K7 SIN wasn't anywhere near as big as it is now. Since I was still ninja hopping from server to server.
(By big I mean how memory space the site takes up. Not it's audience.)
I actually agree with Xed's post.
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I've never played Michigan, but it does appear to be satire of the Horror genre when you take into account that Yin Ling of JoyToy played an integral role in the original Japanese release.
Yin Ling herself is pretty much who I would a call the queen of satire.
In her old site she used to have. She had all these funny ass ramblings about how Bush sucks, Communism rules & how she fucking hates japs.
(She's Taiwanese raised in Japan.)
It's funny, because what she was actually doing was parodying how most overseas Asians act when the subject of Japan is brought up.
How irrational some asian people get, because of bs that occurred decades ago.
Her communism rants are hilarious & hypocritical, but I think that's the point.
With Bush. I'm not sure if that's a joke. I think she really does hate him. (Can't blame her either.)
"Bush sucks! He's responsible for the war!"
It was than followed up with a pic of her mooning the president or some shit.
Too bad her rants are no longer up, but the satire theme is still there in full effect.
(This is her new website.)
http://www.k5.dion.ne.jp/~mostsexy/
Not only does she pose as a communist, but she also has many pics pretending to be an S & M queen for the imperial Japanese army.
She depicts herself fucking around with dead bodies.
Which is another punch line directed at most of the claims about what the Imperial army did during WW II.
decoy- 01-23-2008
And it took me long to realize but you know fact is if developers will keep on feeding and delivering just to hardcore people, the gaming industry itself will vanish.
People lack realskills, the ppl with strong gaminskill from oldschool have benn shrinked with time, now poepl want more relaxed , approchable , accessible games.
Masses are like that, its hard to get time from stressfull life and get yourself into stressful hardcore games(like beatemups for e.g).
They want to breeze thorugh and have relaxed slightly challneging experience.
Ask me and i will say in old days even in days of kingpin and halflife, gaming was not real market, now with time it is,and market needs base, consumer base, and if the market will shrink gaming can go to hell altogether.
I as hardcore gamer would say i am not agaist present thing(i have chnaged my mind as i said), if you will realize, we still getting games now and then, not in flow but still besides flow wasnt there in full strentgh even back then.
We do get games to satisfy nice hardcore gaming community, but yes it is bad when these hardcore games get conventional flavor too.
One should also not just completely forbid gaming and isolate himself form all games.
Dont limit to certain nature , and be free and adoptive to accept games , specially realizing the fact the games even in todays conventional no hardcore form, is still ways better than anyother medium.
Individuals like isomnia poster for intance belongs to category who dislike evrything which goes against their nature of interest. And they isolate themselves.
Always moaning and whining
And what the fuck is bad in sequels what the fuck KOFuckers doing since years, their effort was least comparing to other games sequel.
I believe hardcore gamers are too attached with all them and nostalgic feeling of past, and they are too shy to divert form thier attitude, they love oldies to the extent that they still fixate old characters with same detail.
People still like ryu cant get rid of him still want terry, and just want to spend whole life on them.
This is crap thinking, dont limit your mind.
As i said i was not toally happy with RE4, but i liked the refreshing effort, and objectively it was perfect game but subjetively i i loved re outbreak files more, i got my fix in other form, thanks to vast market.
I still will get ico teams next, platinumgames next, next kof and SS 'finally' with new look, and this change is neccesary.
KIRBY 7- 01-23-2008
Did you even read the Insomnia.ac articles? He's not making fun of sequels at all.
Especially not KOF. He friggin' gave KOF XI a 5 out of 5 for fuck's sake.
http://insomnia.ac/reviews/atomiswave/thekingoffightersxi/
That article is basically criticizing gaming journalism & how they'll give a sequel a low rating, but a derivative game with similar game play can garner a high rating. Simply because it's original I.P.
One last thing remains to be explained, before I sign off. Any intelligent person would by now be asking themselves why I am condemning Resistance: Fall of Man as a rehash, whereas I praise The King of Fighters XI as an excellent update. Am I not being a little biased? -- you wouldn't be blamed for wondering.
The answer to this question is a bit delicate, a bit subtle. I'll give it to you straight and let you make what you will of it, though my guess is it will go over most people's heads, and I simply do not feel like explaining it in-depth at the present time, since I've been sitting in this chair now for almost half a fucking day.
Both The King of Fighters XI and Resistance: Fall of Man are games, in exactly the same way that basketball is a game. However, The King of Fighters XI is closer to basketball than Resistance: Fall of Man, in two important ways. It is essentially an issue of depth and evolution. The things that can be done to improve 2D fighting games are rather limited, seeing as the whole point of them is having two sprites slapping each other in two dimensions. You can't evolve them by adding maracas-shaking mini-games or Squeenix cutscenes, or any other random shit. The only way to evolve them is by messing about with their mechanics, which is what designers have been doing for decades, hence the high level of sophistication found in such games. They are, therefore, nearly as evolved and finely-tuned as real-world games, and hence as infinitely replayable and enjoyable. I mean, you won't see anyone play through Resistance: Fall of Man more than a couple of times (well, apart from lamefaqs posters that is, and they do not really count as people), whereas real people have been playing games like 3rd Strike and Battle Garegga for years and years, if not for decades. So the point is that 2D fighting games are freaking awesome because people have been perfecting them for decades (consider that these games have reached such a level of depth and perfection, that those who play them do not even care about the quality of the graphics anymore!), whereas half the FPSes on the market right now stink because their designers are lazy and incompetent, not even daring to dip their foot into the vast ocean of possibilities that are out there waiting to be explored by the kinds of games they are making.
So the Resistance: Fall of Man 3/5 score is not due to me being biased in favor of "old-school, hardcore" games or some retarded shit like that -- it's due to the nature of reviewing, which is necessarily comparative.
Reading comprehension man. It's your friend. Treasure it, I swear.
And what the fuck is bad in sequels what the fuck KOFuckers doing since years, their effort was least comparing to other games sequel.
Do you even understand what makes a fighting game, a fighting game?
Fighting games live & die by how much competition they can breed.
If a fighting game is too broken. The game will be taken less seriously.
Fighting game sequels are all about tweaking the balance between characters. Which is why KOF is better on a mechanical level.
If you consider yourself a fighting game fan, and don't understand that core concept of what makes a fighting game good.
(Balance, games that strive to be tier less.)
Than I just don't know what to say.
Other than play a different genre, because fighting games are bred for competition.
This thing that you're referring to
The same arguments used one day by a movie reviewer to casually dismiss a cheap Hollywood sequel as an uninspired cash-in of no artistic merit, the next day a game reviewer might use to trash the la-*test*-('") King of Fighters.
Is merely commentary about what the current gaming journalists are like.
It's no wonder so mnay people hate on Insomnia. Much of what is said in that site goes over every bodies heads.
You see this part. This is satire. In other words he's making fun of the type of drivel that comes out of the mainstream press.
First, the funny part
Basketball (2007)
A review by Alex Kierkegaard
I was surprised to find that Basketball in 2007 remains pretty much what Basketball in 2006 was, and come to think it what it has always been since I first started playing the game as a little boy. I mean you've got a ball, a court, and a bunch of dudes running up and down trying to stick the ball in the damn baskets. I mean sure, it's fun for a while, especially in multiplayer mode, but now that I've grown up and have money, a car, and a girlfriend, I don't quite see the point. What IS the point of Basketball anyway? Why ARE those big black dudes on TV dedicating their lives to it, and putting so much passion, so much effort in it? I don't get it. Moreover, since I pretty much gave up on Basketball sometime around 1993, and since I took up smoking, drinking and fattening up myself with junk food in the meantime, I am now seriously overweight and quite unable to chase these kids around the court. As a result, I never manage to score and the others never pass the ball to me anymore, which means I just end up running up and down by myself, seriously out of breath. In the end, they even refuse to include me in their games, because, as they explain to me, ''you fucking suck you fucking fat-ass!".
So I've had it with Basketball -- it sucks, and the people who play it suck, and it has always sucked, and if I have some good memories of it from my younger days it's because back then I was wearing "rose-tinted lenses" or some shit. So if you play Basketball in 2007 you are wasting your time, and if Basketball is still around in 2008 and you are still playing it after reading my review then you are stupid. And by the way this also goes for all those big black guys on TV.
ZERO STARS
Now the serious one
Electronic games are above all games, that is to say "activities or con-*test*-('")s governed by sets of rules" (Encyclopedia Encarta). Another way to view them is as experiences of particular scenarios, and yet another way as pieces of software designed to fulfill a specific function. Therefore Virtua Fighter 5 is not a sequel to Virtua Fighter 4 in the same sense as Pirates of the Caribbean 3 is a sequel to Pirates of the Caribbean 2. This is because the essence of books, plays and movies is in the ideas they contain, and hence a rehash of old ideas should be rightfully trashed, especially if those ideas were not that clever, interesting or worthwhile to begin with. But the essence of the Virtua Fighter games is not in the ideas they contain (in fact, they do not contain any ideas whatsoever) but in the experiences they provide. What is the experience the Virtua Fighter games aim to provide? It is the experience of two dudes slugging it out in three dimensions. In fact, Virtua Fighter 5 and Virtua Fighter 4 should not even be regarded as different games, much in the same way as the experience of playing basketball in 2007 could not possibly have been much different to that of playing basketball in 2006. Does the number in the game's title confuse you? Ignore it. Think of Virtua Fighter 5 as "Virtua Fighter Ver. 0.2963b" if you find it helps you see its essence more clearly. Because that's all Virtua Fighter 5 is: a slightly more advanced version of the original piece of code. A piece of code which allows you to experience a particular scenario, and moreover a piece of code which we can keep almost indefinitely improving, much in the same way as the thousands upon thousands of other computer programs mankind uses every day are constantly improved with countless updates.
This is exactly what I was saying when I refer to how people will just write Insomnia off, because they don't understand the context of the site.
All I'm saying is read the fucking article in it's entirety before criticizing it.
It'll make you look less pompous for getting on a soapbox & criticizing a message that was never there to begin with.
Note: By less pompous, I'm not referring to Zenden. I'm referring to everybody who can't seem to comprehend what's written at Insomnia.ac.
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