Posted 07/30/2008 at 09:44:43pm

I've decided that there are some developers that truley care about what their medium is designed to be... an ineractive, cinematic, and entertaining experience that tells a real story.  Having just finished the awe-inspiring experience that was MASS EFFECT I lump Bioware in that group, except for the fact that their next project is an MMO (the very bane of the gaming industry and ultimate sell out and cash cow move).  Blizzard, i feel, is the one company that doesn't care about its fans (no matter how many fan boys it has).  They have made millions on the same game, repackaged (Diablo, War craft, and now starcraft).  Making sequels that add a couple new units, spells, and maps does not make them legendary.  While leaders in each of these games respected genres are often ignored by changing the formula that WC, SC, and C&C started (and are still trying to pound into our brains that its fun... even if it is ten+ years old), such as relic with Company of Heroes and the Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War series or the Supreme Commander series.  Games that involve tactics, not just rushing with the most of the weekest unit you have the fastest.  Or the click-fest that is Diablo instead of RPG's that tell real stories and whose interactivity with the world is more than missions and selling loot (Neverwinter Nights, Mass Effect, Knights of the Old Republic I & II, Vampires the Masquerade: Bloodlines).  I feel the developers behind the Prince of Persia series, Civilazation, and Max Payne all have found their nitch in the record books for storytelling and the rush you get when you land a difficult jump, or drop your first nuke, or take out a where house full of thugs with your sawed off shotty to further interregate your perp.  Then there's the hit or miss Valve who can make me bow and worship (half life 2: episodes I & II, Portal) or scratch my head and wonder (Half Life 2).  Either they reinvent the wheel with new gameplay machanics, epic battles\ new story telling devices, or do what blizzard does and sell me the same thing with better graphics.  All in all you just need to make sure you hitch your horse to the right wagon before you go for the ride, but hopefully more will take their cue from my list above based on fifteen years of gaming.

 Preston Everett Jurinak

Posted 02/04/2008 at 11:06:33am

EA may have really screwed the pooch on their superbowl prediction but the Giants deffinately brought their "A" game a bitch slapped the Patriots. And damn thats alot of money for Yahoo Preston Everett Jurinak

Posted 04/22/2007 at 12:26:37am

I completely agree but it is still a very stylish and slick product... and delivers exactly what it says it will... crappy battery rechargeability and all... Preston Everett Jurinak

Posted 04/22/2007 at 12:21:11am

After the broken port of Halo: Combat Evolved is anyone suprised... and does any PC gamer even care... Most of the "revolutionary steps" that Halo took have been done over and over agiain on the PC for years... Halo bend over and suck me dry Preston Everett Jurinak

Posted 04/17/2007 at 09:44:24pm

I'll never have to delete anything... ever... again... Preston Everett Jurinak

Posted 04/17/2007 at 09:36:21pm

We just got our entire VHS collection moved to DVD, does the entertainment industry really think that everyone is gonna go up and atem for two new fromats just as they make DVD the standard. Screw that... I hope these two go the way of BetaMax and Laserdisc... Preston Everett Jurinak