So the recent PlayStation Vita refund debacle got me thinking, how could we possibly be so dumb to just fail to research what we're throwing money at? If you're unfamiliar with the news the short version is that Sony advertised that the PlayStation Vita would have the ability to stream PS3 games and other nonsense that sounds too good to be true. The result was people buying it with the expectation that they just made their home console pretty much portable and when it wasn't true...there was some kickback and some big names with official sounding...
Thursday, November 27, 2014
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
The Pitfalls of Player Avatars
The word 'avatar' has been getting a lot of use in the modern gaming world as of late. It's primarily used to describe a character that is created at least in part by the player. We see more of them popping up as games take a turn away from established protagonists to the much more flexible avatar heroes. I can see why we're taking this turn, it's easy to get into a character that is literally whatever you want it to be. You appeal to nearly any demographic by having these play-dough heroes and it's hard to do them wrong, they're just a blank slate...
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Western Localization: True Horror.
Localization. I hate that word. It always gets flagged as a reason for why we don't get nice things, a catch-all excuse to not bring an eastern game to the west. I hate it when I see it on an MMO announcement because you can consider it shorthand for "You'll get it in like...two years?" which is just a bad day for everyone involved. We live in such an interconnected world at this point it just shocks me that some of this stuff just gets tossed on the back burner for a hell of a lot longer than it should.
Obviously localization is a necessary part...
