Riddick: Dark Athena coming early '09, features new 10-hour campaign

While I appreciate your committee instructing me as to what I should believe, I'd prefer greater clarification before I just kowtow to your dogma.

Why, exactly, should I love the Riddick game?

Is it the broken stealth that means you can crouch in the middle of a room and the guards won't see you, even when they're biking their legs against you?
Is it the by-the-numbers shooting in such exciting locales as a sewer! and an abandoned office!
Is it the bland mix of tepid shooting and tepid platforming (although I give them full credit for the 'innovation' that Mirror's Edge took the praise for)?

Just not sure why I'm supposed to love this game, when frankly playing it was such a chore I came nowhere close to finishing it.

@colinbell: What the hell is a "true gamer"? I'm pretty sure that everyone on this site enjoys video games. Time to get off your high horse.

64-bit too!

Dark Athena is coming to PC, too.

The main reason for the remake is the Xbox 360. The original Riddick isn't backwards compatible, and it couldn't be for a number of reasons (I don't know if it was technical or MS just not wanting to spend the time). So Starbreeze being as awesome as they are, decided to make a full remake for the fans. Except now it's a sequel!

Already? It's late as it is.

Keep it mind many people haven't played the original. I wouldn't call it a remake though. It is an enhanced version of the original (now in sparkly HD) and a significant expansion/sequel in one package. An excellent value I might add. If they have additional multiplayer content that would make it even better (original lacked multiplayer).

Shouldn't need 2 blunts. And no, that doesn't look like Luda.

Not if Valve beats them heh.

On the game- if enemies take less than 100 bullets to kill: SOLD!

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Was that rant worth looking like a jackass?

Congratulations. You are the biggest douche. Also, you put -san in your name, so you should probably jump off of a building.

who cares about quality when the quantity being measured is millions of dollars?

I didn't have that problem with Butcher's Bay. Sorry to hear that your Darkness and Riddick experience wasn't AAA (I rhymed :-P). To my knowledge there were one or two large glitches. I must have super console or something: Fable II never glitch'ed on me nor has any other game bar Oblivion. I think if people played the games as tested (and didn't skip every conversation and walk away as in Fable II) they wouldn't experience glitches. They happen for a reason and that reason I would hypothesize is that players don't want to play the game as intended. Not an excuse, but a possible explanation of why they happen.

that's nonsense. there were barely any side missions in The Darkness at all (10 or 15 maybe?). They were utterly short and uncomplicated, but if you did them in a particular order the game didn't like, it crashed the entire main storyline. That has nothing to do with "playing the game in an unintended way" whatever that means...I just simply played the game normally.

Similar thing is happening to some ppl with Far Cry 2 - corrupts ALL your game saves if you happen to have the DLC. The DLC gives you new side missions, but it also corrupts ALL your Far Cry 2 game saves at a certain point. ALL of them. That's garbage. Ubisoft should be punched in the nuts.

Oblivion probably had 100+ side quests, some of which were complicated, some lengthy, with varying ways to complete them. Modifiers to a wide range of things, weapons, abilities, etc further complicate things. I expect a minor amount of Bugs from Bethesda. They get a pass from me.

But not Starbreeze who has a very uncomplicated task at hand. Poor engine, VERY bad game testing...has nothing to do with the gamers...Their games have no where near the complications of complex RPGs with a million different people with different stats, etc. Starbreeze games are basically FPSs with a couple side missions, the end...and they still manage to eff the whole thing up...

I'll bet you a dollar to a donut these new Dark Athena levels have a couple of insignificant side quests that if done in a particular order will crash the entire game...because these idiot Swedes have hired maybe 1 game tester...