• 9Sep 06

  Sorry Europe, they just don't care about you.

  It was in a recent blog that I noticed an angry european, whose cause for anger was the 2nd class treatment of Europeans in the game industry. This is how I followed.
  (I have extrapolated on several points though)
  
  Of course they pay more attention to the US and Japan, both markets only have 1 major language to deal with, and they provide far more income to Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo, and just about every other organization in the game business, even the Creative Assembly guys based out of Britan who produce the Total War Games.
  
  Let's face it, europe is considered the backwaters of the Video Game world, with a hodgepodge of languages, and the smallest market in the world, except mabey the 3rd world.
  
  Europe has been on the forefront of technology for the past 1000 years. The Europeans are an intelligent, innovative, and industrious people who have come out with some of the world's greatest products for some of the world's greatest prices. Europe needs to step up to the plate and do with the game industry what it did with the automitive industry at the advent of Benz, revolutionize and capitolize upon it.  Europe needs it's own next gen system, something that will boast the powers of the other systems, PS3 rediculousness not required, but which will also be economical and practical. They should try to employ all the game developers who have been forced out of business, and try to employ some serious hardware engineers. If they could pull it off, they would be producing a game system which would come out with AAA games for Europe FIRST and which wouldn't make the people deal with black bars and poor programing. IF this happened they could completely wrench the entire game industry out of Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo's hands; leaving them with an entire market missing.
  
  Europeans need to make their own system, then when every major consol developer looses every shred of business in the European market, they will be taken seriously. All in favor of german, french, and all other good European engineering (the Russians obviously wont take much part in this ;-)) say "aye."
  
  -Rob
  
  • Posted Sep 9, 2006 10:14 am GMT
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• 8Sep 06

  Rant: Dead or Alive Xtreme 2

  Why the hell
  do they have to do this? Why the hell do they have to release such a
  game. OK that's not what I'm really mad about, what really pisses me
  off is that the worst softcore porn ever made is able to become such a popular game.
  
  And how a game
  whose entire premise is to beat oversimplified games and use a
  volleyball system that only requires one hand so you can whack it while
  the girls try desperately to play volleyball with your clumsy control
  skills (assuming you're usually a right handed batter) is not exactly
  my idea of entertainment, and this sure as hell isn't art. Team Ninja
  used to put out games that I would spend countless hours playing, sure
  there was always the scandalous edge, but not like this.
  
  Now
  I can't play a Dead or Alive game without feeling like a total pervert.
  And I don't know about you, but my friends wouldn't take to kindly to
  me having a copy of this game around. In fact, the last Team Ninja game
  that I ever felt comfortable playing was Ninja Gaiden. That was
  released two years ago. I haven't been able to pick up a Dead or Alive
  game since DOA 3. And that pisses me off. I love the DOA fighting
  system, I honestly think that it rules. But now I'm restricted to Soul
  Calbur, Tekken, and Virtual Fighter.
  
  I just miss the fluidity
  of the DOA system. I don't own Soul Caliblur, I'm clumsy with Tekken,
  and I never really play Virtual Fighter. Make me a game with all the
  bells and whistles of Dead or Alive 4 without the freaking tit jiggling
  (which by the way increases when you set your age on your Xbox 360 to
  99, don't beleive me, try it) and I will personally kiss the Head of
  Team Ninja Tomonobu Itagaki's ass.
  
  
  I won't lie though, the graphics do look good. And that's about where
  my compliments end. If Team Ninja REALLY want's to make money selling
  things like this. Why don't they just take their multi million dollar
  budget and make what would probably be one of the highest grossing CGI
  pornos of all time. G4 would have a field day, and I assure you they'd
  make a bundle both here and in Japan. And they could stop **** around
  and commit to making a full fledged product like all the other brave
  people in the porn industry (you'd have to be a medal of honor
  recipient to do what some of those people do).
  
  I stand by my words,
  -Rob
  
  Speaking
  of Medal of Honor, when can the damn PS3 come out so I can play my
  friggin Medal of Honor: Airborn? If I evan get a PS3 at this point.
  • Posted Sep 8, 2006 8:20 pm GMT
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