Duke Nukem is sexist, his games are sexist and so are many other early videogame such as Tomb Raider. Modern games are less inclined to be sexist as they are set in more rounded well established universes. Universes that don't spawn from the mind of a small group of sexist geeks. Women are still portrait unrealistically as in they are often more beautiful, sassy and even smarter then they really are. But the same goes for men in videogames, stronger, faster, bigger, etc. When you're working on an old franchise then naturally you have to bring back the old character threat that is sexism. Duke wouldn't be Duke without it. If someone doesn't like this then don't play it, the trailer certainly shows you what you can expect. Just like why I don't play GeOW, I don't find the meatbrain muscle squad interesting at all. But saying games in general are sexist is just stupid. Perhaps they should bring Mass Effect into the picture, it has a cast of smart, good looking and very useful female party members not to mention that the playable character can be female as well. Fox 'News' ofcourse has a lot of experience with Mass Effect and being compleetly wrong about things so perhaps then they'll learn to shut up.
It is not so much that DA2 is different from DA:O then it is that what DA2 delivers is often of poor quality. New combat system is good, different but good. Same with the style of the graphics, different but not immediatly a bad thing (although I HATE the new darkspawn). Problem is that they've gone for random dungeons, randon enemies, randoom loot and even random side quests. They've created a lot of optional content really fast. I feel tricked by Bioware when I play this content. I've been to this dungeon 4 times before, I've done this kind of quests 5 times already, etc. DA2 is a short game just like Jade Empire. They should have kept it that way, instead they added 20 hours of optional gameplay of horrible quality. This has nothing to do with changing the gameplay, it shows that the developer simply doesnt care for the game or its fans. DA2 is a rushed sequel to cash in on the success of unexpected DA:O. Fans should be disappointed because they deserved a better sequel.
@SipahSalar, well other franchises caught up with Halo (although I havent played Reach so I dont know how that one does) but When Halo 1 was released I was shocked by the things the AI did. From the top of my head: they retreat, team up, charge, use the right weapon at the right time and that was back in Halo 1. Most shooters I've played at that point just had characters run up to you and from a certain distance start shooting. Halo 2/3 still had excellent AI but somewhere between the two the competition caught up and Bungie iddnt come with a new innovation beyond some minor stuff that seemed very scripted anyway.
PC beats 360, 360 beats PS3 and sometimes PS3 beats both. You can look at it from all sorts of perspectives but these are three complex machines all capable of showing amazing graphics. It's not like any of them is the Wii, whatever one you buy/got you got some fantasic looking games to play so why do people even care? @ AttilaFrost, The Witcher has been confirmed for consoles so you can take that of your list.
Is THIS what people have been fighting over? The difference is minimal at best, in some cases I can't even see a real difference. The only game where a difference is obvious is Fallout 3 on PS3 (edges) but I heared that Bethesda just couldn't work with the PS3. Given that other developers can it says more about Bethesda then about the PS3. Really people the differences are hardly noticable so these debates about 360 graphics vs PS3 graphics and how PC destroyes both are rediculous. Just get whatever platform you prefer and let others do the same. P.S. I own a 360 myself in case someone calls me a PS3 fanboy for defending the PS3.
HBOMB29, Its huge in the USA, in other places FIFA is the biggest. I can not comment for most countries but my own while not the biggest football (yes, thats soccer) nation in Europe has FIFA on the number one spot for weeks with atlrast 10 times the amount of sales.
The difference is rediculously small, I can't believe people can actually have discussions over this. The PS2 vs Xbox was something worth discussing since the xbox was released later and had hardware that was much better, and that was pointless since hardware obbiously doesnt make it the better console since PS2 won. But this gen there really isnt anything to compair. Wii looks horrible compaired ot the other two and aims for a different audience and the 360 and PS3's differences are well known already. They are: Price, online fee, controller, Blu-Ray and games. Decide what fits you the most and accept that others have other needs and opinions.
I wished they would have put GTA1 and 2 next to it aswell just for fun. I can't wait for the DLC, GTA4 is great but I felt that the story was unfinished. I always felt that they never really finished the story of some fo the characters you deal with through the storyline, GTA4 has a lot aswell that could benefit from DLC.
Okay, this is bs, Halo 2 DOES NOT look like that on xbox. And I'm not even a fan haven't played it in months. Halo 2 has improved on vista but not that much.
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