Ramaniscence

Right? I tried to do a cultural victory and avoid putting money into military at all costs, and fricken Ghandi of all people kept testing my borders. I never attacked except to defend myself, I regularly caved to requests and gave gifts to keep people happy with me, but by the end everyone hated me anyway.

I'll agree that the miss use of mature things can reduce the overall quality, however you can't discount the adult themes in the storyline of these games. Games like Assassin's Creed, Max Payne, Red Dead Redemption couldn't exist at all without having an M rating. Games like Mass Effect and Catherine perhaps could, but the experience would be cheapened without it. I don't think we should arbitrarily kick up the blood and violence as an excuse to make games more mature, but I don't think we should avoid the opportunity to add blood, death, sex, etc, tastefully and respectfully to add a mature level of depth.

Nobody said anything about solely, but they definitely gravitate to it. Because picking flowers, and solving problems with your friends might speak to an adult on a basic level, dealing with love, loss, sex, mortally, etc are things that we relate to on an adult level. Another great list of examples is: Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, Breaking Bad, Desperate Housewives, Sex in the City, It's Always Sunny, How I Met Your Mother, Community, Arrested Development... And that's not to say that things created to be acceptable for children don't also incorporate subtle mature/adult situations to make them desirable by general audiences (Spongebob, Adventure Time). How is it unreasonable to say that adults gravitate toward entertainment that they can relate to on an adult level?

Saints Row is a bit satirical and ridiculous, I'll give you that, but GTA is a good example of a game with truly mature content like what you'd see in a rated R movie. Harsh dialogue, a lot of complex adult situations, there's a lot of tongue-in-cheek humor in there, and that's OK. Some other games with mature ratings: Halo series, BioShock series, Assassin's Creed Series, Crysis series, Max Payne series, The Last of Us, Spec Ops: The Line, the Metal Gear Series, The Elder Scrolls series, all the Guilty Gear games, most of the Shin Megami Tensei series, Borderlands, Gears of War, Red Dead Redemption, Mass Effect series, Parasite Eve, Diablo series, Catherine, L.A. Niore, Dragon Age series, Prince of Persia series, Fallout series, Heavy Rain, Nier... These games have adult themes and yes, blood, gore, sex, and some adult humor. I enjoy these deeper themes where people die, you feel actual consequence, etc. Because I am an adult, and my gameplay experience goes beyond games with little or no dialogue, little to no plot, where things of not much circumstance happen, etc etc etc. Some titles can pull off mature stories without having an M rating, some can't, and some don't even try. That's ok. but... A) If you think that most rated M games are all for gratuitous blood and gore (with no actual substance), you're lying to yourself. If you don't think adults want games with adult themes...well...I don't know what to tell you.

Excuse me? Most M rated games? Surely you're joking.

Because I am an adult, and sometimes I want games that I can relate to on an adult level about mature things. That said, down with this: http://www.joystiq.com/2013/07/17/phoenix-wright-dual-destinies-rated-m-due-to-various-crimes-a/ (which is not an Nintendo title, I know)

This thread suggests it's just not what it used to be. I also found which helped out a lot, but I'm still having some slowdown. I have had no problems with Brotherhood or Revelations.

My 560 has been going strong for awhile, but I loaded up Assassin's Creed III last night and it was automatically set to lowest settings...this shit is unacceptable.

I see what you did there.

Looks like I got... DmC: Devil May Cry (ROW) Sid Meier's Civilization V: Gold DLC Only Reus Castle Crashers 4-pack Dust: An Elysian Tail Kerbal Space Program Fallout New Vegas: Gun Runners' Arsenal Fallout New Vegas: Lonesome Road DLC Fallout New Vegas: Old World Blues DLC Fallout New Vegas: Courier's Stash Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition FTL: Faster Than Light Ys I and II Chronicles Bully: Scholarship Edition XCOM Enemy Unknown (ROW) Just Cause 2 Bit.Trip.Runner 2 + Soundtrack + Good Friends Character Pack Scribblenauts Unlimited Skyrim Hearthfire Skyrim - Dawnguard

Well, I mean...metacritic exists: http://www.metacritic.com/game/pc/dmc-devil-may-cry General consensus seems to be "Pretty good gameplay, but not what we wanted as a DMC title."

For each level you have to get the same 10 cards. So once you get all the cards, make a badge, get a background, emote, another card, maybe other stuff depending on the level, and then you just keep going. If you get duplicates you can trade, or sell the cards. If you sell them you can usually just rebuy cards you actually need (exchange rate is like ~$0.20. Alternatively you can sell all the cards and that money you make goes toward other purchases.

They do allow for a small amount of customization. It's not an incredible amount, but it's a nice touch. Like Kenogu said, there's a lot more cards than are available through the summer sale. Also: cards can be sold. It's obviously something they're monetizing (business and all) but really though I think, more than anything, cards are a way to get people who buy games on Steam to actually play them. The majority of cards have to be accessed through actual game play, and how many Steam games collect dust is kind of a plague on the community.

Wikipedia says: That said, I bought a GameCube at launch and enjoyed it more than I enjoyed my Wii.

Soo basically just like a DVD player that plays nearly exclusively Disney movies.

Quite the contrary. I'm actually still playing it on-and-off and haven't yet beaten it because I find it very meh. But yes, I don't think Nintendo is any worse than EA, and I can agree to disagree.

Yes. Absolutely I am. Because Nintendo has blurred the line enough to where I no longer feel that any of them offer a unique experience. 100%. And that's my personal opinion, I know, but clearly I'm not the only one either.

Listen, I'm not going to sit here and try to convince anyone otherwise, because some people like it, and that's fine, but my main point is: How is Nintendo better? Everyone makes an exception for Nintendo. Why? There were 6 Halo titles for XBOX360 over the course of 10 years. Between the 3DS and the Wii U we're going to have 4. The first being Super Mario 3D Land that was released at the tail end of 2011, the most recent being Super Mario 3D World to be release before the end of this year. Surely we'll at least see a Super Paper Mario Wii U or 3D. So that's just my point: I don't think Nintendo is any worse than any other developer doing that, but I certainly don't hold them at a higher respect because they're Nintendo; Not anymore. I'm about as excited for Super Mario Bros 3D World as I am for the Fast and the Furious 6.

People enjoy Call of Duty and FIFA and Madden and Halo and Battlefield. All they ever do is add a small amount of new features, polish up the graphics, and preserve most of the core gameplay mechanics. How is that anything different from what Nintendo is doing at all? How is Nintendo better and more innovative? Because they added Z Axis (something not new to Mario) and simultaneous multiplayer (something not new to Mario) into the same game? C'mon.

I mean, you guys can paint it any way you want, but Mario, Mario Kart, Zelda, Metroid, Wario Ware, Smash Bros...they're becoming the new CoD/FIFA of Nintendo. Sure a lot of those earlier titles were great, but they're cranking out Mario titles so fast now they're practically disposable. I know I'm the minority, but I'm still not in love with Super Mario 3D Land's play style more than Super Mario World, Super Mario 64, and even Super Mario Galaxy and Sunshine to a less extent. The whole experience feels cheapened. Sure we were light on story and narrative before, but now we have no story at ALL. No dialogues, no hubs, nothing just. "Get to the end and get the flag GO!" The objective is always the same. Point A to Point B by any means necessary GG. They make Mario games in such excess now they've just diluted the whole thing. Shit, in Super Mario 3D Land 90% of the stages are moving platform, falling bricks, run and jump. They rarely (but do) throw in something new like a top angle stage, a water stage, or a snow stage; the Koopa Kids have 2 models (male or female) their mechanics rarely change... In Mario Galaxy 1/2, Super Mario World, Super Mario Bros 3, and Super Mario 64 we had whole different "themed" zones: Plains, deserts, forests, mountain tops. We progress through a world, got to explore, followed a story. We don't get that anymore. And that sucks. You mean besides New Super Mario Bros Wii and New Super Mario Bros Wii U?

Not to get too far off topic, but the NES was huge. It was the Playstation of it's generation. It completely trounced all of the competition, had a massive library, and single-handedly turned the entire industry around. The NES was released in the same year as the Atari 5200 and the Commodore 64 to give you some perspective on that. They were ALL the same generation of console. It was then followed up immediately by SNES. If anything was the "Golden Age" for Nintendo, it was NES to SNES, or maybe NES to N64, but seeing as N64 got 0 Metroid Titles and 1 flagship Mario title followed up by like 8 Mario Partys, I'd say the former.

Maybe this was the plan all along?

Doesn't remove all the weird Kinect privacy stuff but...

I just feel like...there are so many LEGITIMATE reasons to not like the system...hardware just doesn't seem like one of them, AND THAT'S OK. It's still a piece of crap.

That doesn't answer the question as to how we know the specs. That's a picture of a guy servicing a PC. No one has proven anything. All we have is a guy who tweeted a picture, and a Tumblr post. We don't know what that PC is, we don't know the specs of the PC. What the hell confirms any of this? Is there an HP desktop that looks with that with those specs? Edit: So the source is a tumblr post, that says it's a rumor, and a blurry photo. Gotcha. Sounds legit.