I think we are on the same page here. Damn internet conversing. :)

Claude Comair from Digipen (and by extension, Nintendo) really believed that a game should be valued at about $1 an Hour. If you charge $50, you should get 50 hours of play. That said, I don't expect to get 100 hours of Portal just because I can get 100 hours out of Fallout. Just like I am ok with films, comedies…

This "feedback" isn't always useful. If someone is bitching to bitch, and someone from PR or Marketing takes notice and pushes the developer to switch focus then what good is that doing? People will still bitch, and it will be like a constantly moving target.

I always think of this Banksy piece whenever I hear the quote these days.

In the end it doesn't matter much when 1 screen supports 3d and the other doesn't. Now if the original DS came out and had both screens lined up like that it would be a different story, but I don't think Nintendo ever imagined developers would span the game across both screens when they originally made it.

That is true, they may look like crud now. Unfortunately subjectivity is very broad and some people have horrible taste, and sometimes those people are in charge of decisions on big projects like games and movies. So chances are if their sex scenes look like crud there is a fair chance lots of other things look like…

I don't know Luke. I still haven't seen a good handshake in a game with 3d models (so holding hands may not be better than love making in terms of puppetry), but I don't think that's any reason not to try. Video games, 3d animation, and even 2d animation to a degree have always been an attempt at trying "grounded in…

This amazing. I followed the link and looked at a few others, and there is some great stuff.

I hate that too. That's why Baja 1000 is awesome despite not being a great racing game. It's a crappy-dink racer with no online achievements, and it was intentional to make people just like you happy. You're welcome.

No one sets out to make a bad game, or a bad mode in any game, and regardless of the result no developer/publisher should stop themselves from trying to do something they feel will be good. Someone higher up at a place like Infinity Ward could have said "Well Halo 3 is going to have a lot of people playing their…

Ok, this is pretty rad. It was rad to see that 3/4 ended all at the same time, but SMB1 was long done. I wonder if he could have gotten all 4 to end near the same time, would have been uber rad instead of just rad.

"The true work of an artist is not putting the idea on the canvas, it is coming up with the idea to begin with."

Well put.

A lot of games have to take this into account, and usually devs will tune numbers on any bright explosions and whatnot until it can pass the epileptic requirements. But it sounds like Ubisoft is using a 3rd party software which needs to eat up processor power from the regular game. 3rd party software solutions…

Very good point. Ugh, such a deep topic.

Michael, I am so glad you posted this. I remember when Snyder made 300 the reviews said the same thing. It actually kind of shocks me how common of an insult "video game" is for current action films. It is being used as some kind of blanket term, as if all the non-game playing masses are on the same page and it…

I'm actually shocked by the number of people saying "Capcom" considering the relatively bad releases of Bionic Commando, Dark Void, and (arguably) Lost Planet 2. Nowadays as companies like Capcom, EA, and Ubisoft are focused more on publishing titles out of house on tight deadlines, and less on internal development…

I think the idea is really neat, but the execution looks a little sloppy; crooked and all over the place, the bill is at a different angle than the feet or even the wings.

Here here!

This reminds me of Winback for the N64. It was like being able to play MGS in 4 player split screen. Once you got used to the mechanics of the cover system it was integral and really fun. I'm pleasantly surprised by what this game is and I'm looking forward to trying it out. Kudos to 5th Cell for trying something…