Juno Loire

Nice to see Joystiq refraining from cracking a joke at the expense of the disabled; journalistic responsibility is not to just report the news but to do so without bias and with dignity.

Oh, wait, they -did- crack one. Bravo.

Postscript: Before the knee-jerk defense, you wouldn't expect to see CNN make remarks like that, shouldn't fly for gaming journos either.

The reality is that I feel no nostalgia for EGM. I'd like to echo Neuromancer's comments here in saying there was hardly any "hard hitting" journalism going on, and the magazine was often filled with comedy for comedy's sake. If I'm going to pick up a vidya magazine when news is so much more available on the 'net, I don't want a standup routine, I don't want Seanbaby hyukking it up, I want some professional articles on the mag's subject matter. Reading some guy make fun of reader letters is only funny when you're not paying twenty bucks a year to read it.

...didn't you just say "I know you are but what am I" but in an alternate fashion?

I could let the Konami server thing slide if there were obvious benefits to the consumer, like increased ability to respond to player issues, such as the prevalent glitching issues that have recently been changed, but there aren't. It's a purely selfish reason Konami's made it as they have: Money. They don't want to drop some dimp on a Sony server, so they made their own company-wide infrastructure for their online titles. This works well for Konami: It unfortunately also craps on us.

All that said, I enjoy MGO a great deal, its expansions and level of continuing support even in comparison to PC-giant TF2 (We'll see after the Scout update, hahaha).

Like MGS4 being such a bomb, right? Heck, all those japanese guys couldn't program a thing. Take Super Mario Galaxy and Persona 4, for example. And companies in general? Capcom and Square Enix are both nearly broke from their flops! With all that said, I'd like to ask you:

Get what?

Ocelot can do everything he can in MGS4, I don't see why RaiVamp couldn't do their things. Although I very much doubt you'd enjoy MGO with or without either character judging by your pretentious manner.

When you bought the PS3, why didn't you format the HDD? And I don't mean manually erase every save. You could've just formatted.

@ Shadsy: Much undo hubub has been made of the Konami ID thing, which requires players to make an account subsidiary to their PSN, but otherwise MGO is a fairly deep play barring glitching problems Konami has recently cracked down on. See their site for details on the latter.

@ Deone: I can dig that you're willing to admit that it might be you suck, or preferential, or w/e. It's your opinion versus mine, and I can see that. But I guess I don't understandl how you call out the graphics as shabby. I've honestly never seen a game that has to handle so much from a processing point of view and still manage above-average visuals. I can see Ocelot's age spots in online, damn it.

On the note about it winning a writer's guild award, it's worth nothing a lot of titles aren't eligible (or rather, those titles' writers), as only guild members are eligible. Still, it's a fun romp for a Star Wars game, and the plot is pretty good (barring subpar mainline acting).

And in summary, the PSN will get increasingly more awesome as time goes on. I've already got Lemmings, PJ Eden and Monsters, getting Flower tomorrow. MY WALLET IS BURNING AWAY