How would you like to win yourself a copy of Dante’s Inferno on PS3 or Xbox 360? And a copy of the book of the game of the poem? Here’s how.
UPDATE: Today’s draw is now closed. Try again from 9am Wednesday.
Dante’s Inferno is the new action adventure from EA and Visceral Games, the guys responsible for Dead Space and The Godfather. It’s based on the Divine Comedy, the classic work of 14th century Italian literature written by Dante Alighieri depicting the poet’s journey into the afterlife and through the nine circles of Hell.
You can find out from producer Jonathan Knight just how Visceral reimagined Dante’s Inferno, from poetry to playability, in our interview.
We’ve got eight copies of Dante’s Inferno – four Xbox, four PS3 – and eight copies of the book to give away this week. Each day, from today until Friday, we’ll be offloading two prize packs: one with the 360 version and book, the other with the PS3 version and book.
To win, we want to know your picks for the Seven Deadly Sins of Gaming. Dante’s description of Purgatory contained his interpretation: pride, envy, wrath, sloth, avarice, gluttony and lust.
But what for you are the most objectionable vices in video gaming? Don’t just give us a list, explain your choices.
Leave your entry in the comments below along with your console preference (don’t say both). You must also include a valid email address or use Facebook Connect. Entries close at midnight EDT tonight and the two daily winners will be announced tomorrow when the new draw opens.
Good luck!
Garrick Bortignon
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 2:29 PMIm gonna take this as the 7 sins that will land you in a gamers hell and the punishements for each.
1. Releasing a Buggy Game – There is no excuse to released a half cooked game, give it 100% or dont try.
Punishment – To be a game tester on a game that is never bug free or finished.
2. Elitism – No gamer should think they are superior to another for no good reason, and no gamer should treat others as if they are lesser.
Punishement – Always having slightly worse items, equipment or skill and being on Xbox Live chat without a Mic with 12 yr olds.
3 .The “Leeroy Jenkins” – Being a jerk and ruining a game for everyone else, just because you can.
Punishment – Always being stuck in a loading screen.
4. Sore Loser – No need to lose your dignity when you lose a game.
Punishment – Being spawn camped…..for eternity
5. Limited save spots/check points – Dont punish a gamer for getting killed by a stone to the face when he just successfully killed 3 dragons, a demon and jesus.
Punishment – A check point that is ALWAYS out of reach, like an oasis in a desert.
6. Shameless clone – Just because Halo is awesome doesnt mean you can clone it, change the name and think you are a genius.
Punishment – Every original idea you have has already been done.
7. Retailers overcharging for games – “RRP” of $110 at one retailer and $89 at another, dont rip of people who arent as savvy as some.
Punishment – Always having $1 less than you need to buy everything, forever.
Console: PS3
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Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 2:50 PMBehold, the Seven Deadly Sins of the Online Gamer:
1: Lag. If thou hath a crappy internet connection, or art clogging thy bandwidth using the Torrent of the Bits, you shalt be unable to frag your fellows. Thou shalt also screw up the game of all other players. Pick a new match or get better Tubes.
2: Camping. Should you be such a player that finds the nooks and crannies of a map, take thy shot. Then leave. Be not the player who stays in one place and will not leave, lest ye draw the wrath of those who would knife you from behind to end your cheap kills.
3: Spawn Killing. The killer of the newly spawned player is lower than the lowest slug in Hell, and all points earned as such shall be taken from you thrice times thrice when your final Game is Over.
4: Glitching. Exploit not the code the programmers hath wrought, for whilst it may contain more holes than a n00b in the open, it pleaseth not the Gods of Gaming. To the Gods, to use the glitches is to sully their gifts from up high.
5: Flaming. It is written that conversation elevates man from the beasts. This truth is inverted whenever one calls their opponent a fag!1, mocks the console of your enemy or fills the Chat of the Game with cruelty, stupidity or CAPS.
6: Mic Spam. The side of thy mic has a button. This machination allows for one to temporarily stop the flow of sound to your fellows. Your recordings of minstrels, thy crying babe, even the electric telephone – all can remain thy own business, and not the business of your teammates.
7: The most deadly of sins – Hax. This dark, insidious power is the focus of many evil covens, whom seek to use the power of ones and zeros to terrible consequences. Should a gamer be tempted by the Beast and enhance their weapons, their battlefield knowledge or their power, they should be taken afar and dismemebered. Their thumbs should be severed, their Mountain Dew be dispersed and their Gamerscore or Trophycount be smote down to Zero.
Thus are the Seven Deadly Sins of Online Gaming, as recounted to me by the Gods of Gaming themselves. Read them and tremble, and may the Server Mods protect you from the Darkness.
(console: PS3)
Palstran
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 11:15 PMhahahaha I love it.
Mr Explody
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 2:50 PM1. Ramboism – I don’t care how awesome you are, you need to work together. If you run off you will die, then your team will die, then your team mate(s) will hit you over the head with their controller(s)
2. Redundancy Collecting – You’ve got 300 bullets, your team mate has 20. They may be shiny, but they’re not for you.
3. Glitching – Everyone in the game is there for fun, you are, they are. Everyone also watches YouTube. That doesn’t mean that performing the glitch you saw on YouTube is fun for everyone.
4. DJism – Man, I really dig that new Lady Gaga vs George Michael remix track aswell! Hearing it played through your microphone mid-game? Not so much.
5. Karaoke – Similar to DJism, except Lady Gaga and George Michael get paid to sing.
6. Text-to-Speech – The use of internet terms such as ‘LOL’ are there for short hand when you don’t have a lot of time to type. That doesn’t mean you should use them in spoken sentences. I can hear you, I know you’re not Laughing Out Loud.
7. Pot Publicity – Really? You just smoked a joint?! Man, smoking pot is great! You know what you should do? You should keep talking about pot and how awesome it is! You’re a real rebel, and people should know about it!
Mr Explody
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 2:55 PMConsole Preference: Xbox360
Bruce Abdul-Raouf
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 3:02 PMThe Seven Deadly sins.
Shagging
If you are the Sheppard thou shalt not fornicate with the flock without MASSive EFFECT 2 it
Fragging
Thou shalt not heft thy nades without knowledge of their destination
Bagging
Thy Tea bag shall be dipped in porcelain and not the open maw of a downed opponent.
Lagging
Only through prayer in the name of thy ISP, the holy son, shall thou ensure the constant and stable connection with the god of the interwebs
Bragging
Thy kill cam portrays enough.
Nagging
Thou shalt accept thy game as is… Developers work in mysterious ways and DLC rewards the patient man
Fagging
Thy Gayness is dependant on thyne actions in the bedchamber and not the interwebs…
PS3
Chuloopa
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 3:49 PM+1 for keeping me giggling all the way along
+2 for rhyming
-1 for almost painful mass effect 2 slip in
however very entertaining overall
Mike A
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 3:03 PMThe version I would want would be a ps3 copy.
The 1st vice in video games to me would be to would be re-enacting real life tragic events. Games such as “Super Columbine Massacre RPG” and the upcoming “Six days in Fallujah” have you re-living horrible events in the comfort and safety of your sofa. Why make a game where you control someone who murdered innocent fellow students and better yet why play them. There should be a certain level of respect for such tragedies and making a game on it just takes away the seriousness of the subject matter. And the latter game I mentioned, its not the 1st time a battle re-enactment has been in a video game but this battle happened just years ago and its too soon to put that in the game. It really takes away of the soldiers who sacrificed their lives, to be playing as them really makes you forget the seriousness of it all. There really shouldn’t be games based on such horrible moments.
Another deadly sin would be too much sex and nudity. There’s just no need for this. There was never a game that needed sex to advance the story in anyway. Games like Dante’s Inferno and even my favorite game god of war fall victim to this silly sin. Most of the time it feels forced just to get attention and sell more copies. Some people like me go to games to get away from the stress and temptations of this world and sex is something that is everywhere. I would like to relax and play a game and not see nudity for once in my life. I have a girlfriend and don’t need to see all this sex in games ; they have porn sites and dvds that show plenty of nudity, hell they even have some pretty intense sex scenes on tv in a little show called “niptuck”. Developers need to realize that its pretty meaningless and ditch this trend.
Excessive violence and torture is a vice that’s very common in today’s games. The problem with this is that it kind of glamorizes and makes you enjoy what would normally be considered as taboo. Games like manhunt where u suffocate your prey and then smash their head in with a bat or a game like ninja gaiden where the blood and gore is so over the top is just so damn fun that you don’t even realize that your slowly becoming a bloodthirsty button pusher. It just seems like games try to put as much violence and blood as possible and that’s where the problem lies… to always want more of something. Stabbing someone isn’t enough, theses days you gotta chop off limb by limb from your enemy to finally kill him or it.
4th vice in the gaming underworld is online cheating or glitching. While your workin your ass off trying to get a killstreak the proper way, theres always some douche who just has to resort to unfair techniques. Not only is it disrespectful to the other gamers but its also disrespectful to the developers who made the game to be played a certain way in which everyone has a fair shot. It kind of discourages you when you finish the day on MW2 with a kill / death ratio of 5:1 the right way and then you look at the leaderboard and you see thousands of people above you with inhuman stats, like 1,000,000 kills and 100 deaths. That’s a slap in the face and they need to stop and work to be on top just ike most people.
Motion Control is also a thing that should not be when talking about games. I’ve had enough of seeing 50 “fitness” and “Interactive” sports games coming out every week that have absolutely zero innovation. And what bothers me even more is how people are eating this whole “motion gaming” era up. Sony and Microsoft are now seemingly being forced to try to put this in their systems because of how many people are buying those types of games. True gamers don’t wanna swing our arms around like a kid swinging a fake lightsaber, we wanna sit down and enjoy a game’s story and truly connect with the protagonist. Its an experience deeper than what motion controls can give.
6th vice is religion. It always seems to draw so much negative attention when any form of religion, no matter how small, is somehow connected with a video game and this can be good publicity but it can also backfire horribly. It’s a very personal and touchy topic that I think should be avoided all together. Religion is something that goes deeper than just good and evil so its hard to center a game around creed effectively and make it fun.
And finally the last vice, the syndrome of trying to make a game to realistic. A game in essence is supposed to be a simple thing but lately the amount of stuff the developers add to make a game more life-like is ridiculous. Some games benefit from this but in most games its just a nuisance and useless. One of the games that fails at this is GTA 4, do I really want to go to a coffee shop just to check my email for a mission, do I have to constantly check my phone inbox to make sure I didn’t miss an important call?? No I don’t because I deal with all these things in my actual life so why do I want to do these annoying things in a game that I play to escape my stress filled life.
Larfin_Man
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 3:19 PMHealth – Playing for hours a day on a large TV in a small room will make your eyes feel like they’ll start to bleed. Then there’s the lack of ergonomics for some controllers, or maybe my hands are too big… Not to mention being too indulged in a game to not get lunch or even water.
Wealth – We all love games. We don’t have much money. When we DO get money, we buy a game, and we’re back to having no money.
Hype – Every game to be released is “the best” and introduces “all new gameplay mechanics”. We play them and discover they’re just overpriced collaborations of past popular games.
Ratings – For us Aussies, this system is making everything screwed up. Teens are playing games they shouldn’t be, adults are blocked from games they should be allowed to play, and games are being banned when worse games have been accepted.
Hardware – New games are constantly amazing, offering ground breaking visuals or innovative gameplay. When delivered, we must buy new hardware, whether it be a new console or new video card, we gamers MUST have them.
Success – We’ve seen it all the time. When a game is hugely successful, clones and rip-offs are usually inevitable.
Lies – We want our cake.
Xbox 360 (Preference)
Lucas
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 3:22 PMI present to you, THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS OF GAMING!!! (You must read it in an evil voice)
1- Treachery: Team killing will send you to the first hellish circle. A land of utter horror as visions of your closest companions torture your very soul.
2- Teabag: For all the tea baggers of gaming; one only prays he does not end up in this circle. An eternity of tea bagging for your sins.
3- Cheat: Here you will never escape the hurt your screen cheating and cheat codes have caused.
4- Rigs: All those whom have come across the beast of gaming itself; Big Rigs. All those dammed to this circle suffer an eternity of terrible physics and grammatical errors.
5- Theft: For those who have purchased pirated games in their lifetime. Yes, it may feel great to have all the games you ever wanted for a fraction of the cost, but that will not help you in the fifth circle of hell as you ‘burn’ (get it) til’ the end of time.
6- Trade: The sixth circle of hell offers a cozy seat to all those whom have participated in any trade in deal at EB games. The punishment?! You have just traded in your soul to the devil…. For $20 off your next console purchase.
7- Atkinson: The deepest and most hellish circle of them all. For all those whom have supported Michael Atkinson suffer an eternity of Wii tennis with the devil of gaming himself.
PS3 user. Thanks
proj
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 3:36 PM7 deadly sins of gaming…
pride – your gamerscore.
envy – someones higher gamerscore which you MUST beat at ALL costs…
wrath – Rage quitting then screaming at players on vent in anger.
sloth – turning on your console and sitting down on your couch to realise that your girlfriend has been playing a different game to the one you left in your machine… but you play it anyway because you cant be stuffed getting off the couch again…
avarice – modern warfare 2
gluttony – mass consumption of imported candies/soft drink…
lust – Lara Croft.
Dan
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 3:39 PM1.Red ping rate in online gaming – Australia needs get out of the stone age with it’s internet speed and catch up to the rest of the world, I’m sick of having to shoot someone three times before I kill them (and thats if I’m lucky)
2.Dodgy “special edition” game merch – For example; Street Fighter 4 – Two crappily painted figures and a supposed “mini strategy guide/art book,” 4 pages of shit that looks like it could have come out of a cereal box all for an over inflated price, (the dvd was cool though ^_^)
3.Having to pay 800 microsoft points to change your online handle on xbox live – pretty self explanatory, used to squeeze more cash out of poor saps who quickly chose a username so they could start their online play
4. Censorship – Thanks to our old pal Michael Atkinson, some old scare mongering douche who wants to tell us what we can and can’t play as adults, making Australia the joke of the world gaming community (Go G4C by the way!)
5. Trade in rates at game stores – for anyone thats ever traded in a game knows that it’s fucking highway robbery
6. No publisher for No More Heroes Paradise in Australia, I mean come on, that is blasphemy!
7. Bad movie tie in games – Everyone knows that movie games generally suck and are usually just a marketing ploy to dupe ignorant gamers out of cash using there love of a movie against them
Console: Xbox 360
Dylan Burns
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 3:54 PM360 version please
1. Not owning Ico or Shadow of the Colossus: two titles that any self-respecting gamer should have in their collection. Taking one or both to cuddle in bed is optional.
2. The cut scene that won’t pause: The stress this causes is immense, as interruptions such as visitors, a phone call or just a call of nature will always happen JUST at a cool cut scene moment.
3. Multiplayer-only achievements: No, Mr. Developer, I don’t have any friends. I don’t like playing online with 8 minutes of lag, so please ditch all those MP achievements so I can get hard over my 1000/1000 games.
4. Nolan North: for Pete’s sake get someone else to voice characters.
5. The industry’s pitiful fear of memory space: 20gigs? Really? Or like 13 that you can actually access. This is slowly getting better, but is a sin nonetheless.
6. Australian voice-overs: part of the reason that I play games is to escape reality, not to hear some vowel-widening character who sounds like the Telstra computer voice lady.
7. Massive demos: there’s nothing worse than taking nine hours to download a 2GB demo, just to find that it only lasts for three minutes. And all you got to see was the tutorial.
Khanh Le
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 3:54 PMIn terms of the Call of duty Franchise
Gluttony: Thanks to Infinity Ward, we had WWII games left right and center, with BFBC,Medal of Honor, expect an over saturation of Modern Warfare games.
Lust- Thanks to MW2,the lust for a nuke has come to the point where objective games should be called “Team Death match with flags and unlimited time”.
Greed- Remember the ol’ care package? Well thanks to MW2, it should be called “noob bait”.
Sloth- Remember the said “noob-bait”? Yeah, well thanks to MW2 there is more the reason to kill team mates in Hardcore Team deathmatch.
Wrath- Thanks to Cod4,Waw and MW2, killing campers couldn’t of been any harder, as we try to end their killing-streaks, they laugh in our face as they cut off all avenues to their death with Bouncing Betties+Claymores.
Envy- Thanks to MW2, Even 13 year olds can look like bigshots and have other 13 year olds envy them, with a title like “Chick Magnet” and an emblem of marijuana, who wouldnt?
Pride- “It’s just a game”, we always hear this nice saying, but thanks to CoD Multiplayer, the saying is no more, watch your pride as a gamer deteriorate as you scream endlessly into the mic whether it is against a 14 year old saying how he “did ur mumma” or telling off the clueless American’s explaining that we do not ride on Kangaroo’s.
An Xbox 360 version would be nice :)
Mike Armendáriz
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 3:57 PMI dont remember if I left my email in my last comment but it’s xarmendarizx@ymail.com
nick
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 4:08 PMpride – charging into battle like rambo instead of following the rest of your team’s plans
envy – comparing e-penis… I mean gamerscores
wrath – mercilessly spawn camping newbies
sloth – boosting for achievements instead of earning them legitimately
avarice – wasting $150 on collector’s editions that have content with a value of $1.50
gluttony – buying every crappy kids game ever made just to get more achievements
lust – sending friend requests to someone b/c their gamertag has a girly name and their gamerpic is that chick from perfect dark
nick
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 4:09 PMsorry forgot to mention – xbox360
Brad S
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 4:10 PMSeven deadly sins of Video Gaming,
WoW – This would fit into the greed category, Apart from churn out WoW expansions what has Blizzard done for us, Where is my Diablo III!.
Duke Nukem Forever – I think this would go into every category in some way.
Bioware – Lust, Pride and Envy, For being the masters of RPGS and sucking all the spare hours of my life away.
Halo – Sitting nicely in Pride but also Sloth, Greed and Gluttony.
Grand Theft Auto – As with Duke Nukem fit’s into all categories but at least it’s actually out.
ET on the Atari 2600 – Wrath, being the worst game ever created
Pacman – Gluttony is obvious but also mixed with Pride and Envy
Brad S
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 4:18 PMForgot to put preference : Xbox360
DerangedStoat
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 4:50 PMPride: My platform is best
Envy: The game is being released on other platforms but not mine
Wrath: My feeling on the game not coming to my platform of choice
Sloth: Reason for why the game isn’t coming to my platform
Avarice: Motive behind the blatant misuse of a classic.
Gluttony: The reason I want this game to come to my platform
Lust: My feeling towards the platforms that are getting this game.
Oh, you want my platform preference? PC…
Jim
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 4:55 PM7 sins of my experience of Army of Two: The 40th Day
Lust: The desire to play another game that doesn’t only have 2 sweaty, male characters.
Gluttony: Eating the popcorn I was throwing at the TV in disgust when I beat the game.
Greed: Letting an evil Russian rape a young woman by taking the $40,000 bribe.
Sloth: The slackness of the enemy A.I who can’t bother moving when I’m right in front of them.
Envy: Seeing my friends online playing Mass Effect 2 while I’m stuck with this crud.
Pride: Figuring out that you have to shoot the back of the chain-gun guy to kill him.
Wrath: Killing the Shanghai civilians who sold me the faulty Playstation.
Jim
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 5:35 PMforgot to say, 360 version
Brendan Keogh
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 5:04 PM(Preference: 360)
Daniel spends all night playing Modern Warfare 2 on Steam. He loves it. He totally hit that fa***t in the eye with his knife on purpose. At two am he falls asleep to the drumming of Modern Warfare 2’s menu music. But his sleep is disturbed by strange dreams. He is in a desert. He is standing at attention. He is guarding something, but he isn’t sure what. His legs do not seem to be working.
“Hey David.” It’s the Sergeant. “We gotta talk.”
“What is it, sir?”
“Some of the boys say you were playing MW2 online last night.”
“Yessir. I totally killed this fa***t motherf****r with a leet knifethrow.”
“It says in your profile that you joined five separate “Boycott MW2 on PC!” communities on Steam. Is this true, soldier?”
“Well all my friends were joining them and…”
“This is totally unacceptable, soldier. Your entire Steam game library is banished to gaming hell! Also, you’re still gay, right? Don’t worry. Don’t ask don’t tell, right?”
Dave wakes with a scream. He checks Steam. Sure enough, his library is empty. Except for one game:
Gate of Gaming Hell.exe
Dave double clicks and finds himself thrust into Gaming Hell, where he must traverse the seven sins of gaming, each with their own circle in gaming hell, before he can reclaim his game library and return to the land of the living where he can frag those noob f****ts. The tortured bleeps Dreamcasts and Virtua Boys, the ghostly echoes of noob in headsets and perpetual damnation, surround him as he travels through:
1. Crate: The damned gamer is surrounded by wooden crates of all shapes and sizes. He hits them with his crowbar. Some break easily, but some take up to twenty swings. He has no way of knowing when any one crate will give in, but he breaks them all, one after the other, just in case this one has ammo, just in case that one has health. Two crates look the same. After what feels like a lifetime and bloodied, blistered hands, Daniel decides one is invincible. He continues, but it nags at his mind. What if it just needed one more hit…
2.Black or White: Daniel is told he must go left or right. But he can see a simpler path straight ahead, down the middle. “No!” screams an ominous, infamous voice. “There is no middle ground! You can only choose completely, utterly this way, or completely, utterly that way!”
3.Unmapped Sandbox: Daniel next finds himself in a vast, fantastical land, as large as a medieval country. He finds a map, but it is as small as a thumbnail. It doesn’t even tell him where he is.
4.Silence, Protagonist!: Daniel eventually finds a land of cute villagers (demonic villagers in disguise, no doubt!). He tries to ask for directions, but he finds he cannot speak. They ask him who he is. When he doesn’t answer, they decide he is the strong silent type. They ask him rhetorical questions, forcing him to give unspoken answers he would never agree to. He does things that he would never admit to, things he is ashamed of. But the villagers are so cute, so witty in their rhetoric, how can he refuse? Only his pain can be heard.
5.Cutscene, Cutscene, Cutscene: Daniel takes a step into the next level, but is forced to stop until he watches what feels like a lifetime of exposition. “A lifetime of exposition?!” he claims, re-discovering his voice. “Yes, a lifetime of exposition, he is told.” He cannot find a way around the film. It just keeps going, no matter how much he desires to progress. Eventually it is over. He takes a step, only to be hammered by a nearly identical film. “A nearly identical film?!” Yes, Daniel, damned gamer, a nearly identical film.
6.Unbalanced Volume: In the next circle, Daniel’s ears bleed, they feel like they are shredded, as gunfire and explosions roar around him. He turns down the volume and continues, comfortable for a while. Then a man, perhaps the sergeant from his dream, appears beside him, tells him something. But he cannot hear. The volume is too low. And then the vision is gone. Was it real? Did what he say matter? Daniel will never know.
7.Checkpoint: There! As he enters the next level, Daniel can see his game library, right in front of him. But he is impatient. He takes a step and plummets into the crevasse. He screams as he falls.
Then he awakens, surrounded by crates, back in the first circle. He never saved his progress.
Daniel screams, but the crates don’t have ears, only nails.
Joshy206
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 5:09 PMThe 7 Sins of Multiplayer Video Games:
1. Team Killing: Thou must not look a gift horse in the ass. Neither must thou should them in the back.
2. Screen Cheating: Thou shalt not cheat by reading others’ screens, for thy shall be put to death for doing so.
3. Playing Music over Microphone: Thou shalt not demean others with thy crap.
4. Idling: Whether thou are idling for items, or just AFK, thou must not stay in game for over a minute unmoving without good reason.
5. Porn Sprays: Thou must not spread thy fetishes. Pervert.
6. Refusing to go through Puberty: Thou must not squeak and scream profanity for killing thyself.
7. Hacking: Thou shalt obey the rules, not rewrite them.
Joshy206
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 11:11 PMApologies for the accidental ommission, however I would prefer PS3 (but I do have both consoles).
Lee
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 5:12 PM1. Sequels/Prequels/Sidequels/Franchises – The idea of recapturing the experience of a great game is very alluring, but the powerful franchise may suck the soul from even the best titles, and often at the expense of fresh and new experiences.
2. Fad Technology – the allure of 3D and Motion Controlled gaming is strong for companies, but do gamers really want to fling themselves around their living room or wear a silly pair of glasses and invest in an expensive new monitor to play?
3. Tiny Text – Sure, most people have HD TV’s and monitors now, but what about those people who dont?
4. The minigame – a great way to simulate activities like hacking or unlocking, but too much repetition can be painful.
5. Mediocre movie tie ins – The opportunity to create some truly rich and memorable gaming experiences to complement a good film is so often wasted due to rushed titles.
6. Sparse save points – Unfortunately most of us don’t have an infinite amount of time to play. If a gamer needs or wants to stop playing, they should be able to do so without having to wander around for another hour or so (Lost Odyssey I’m looking at you).
7.Day-after-release DLC – Trying to sell me something that could have been easily put in the game in the first place is bad business.
Lee
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 5:20 PMAnd since I have goldfish memory I forgot to put my preference. 360 :). Terribly sorry.
Silk
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 5:32 PMThe seven deadly sins of gaming:
1. Dark Sector
2. Dark Messiah Might and Magic: Elements
3. Perfect Dark: Zero
4. Alone in the Dark
5. Darkest of Days
6. Operation Darkness
7. Dark Void
They may look tempting. The imagery that the word ‘dark’ conjures up in your mind may be seductive. They may be a prequel to one of your favourite games. Be warned; if you ever see them on the shelf, even at a reduced price, leave them alone for your soul will be forfeit if you succumb…
Preference: Xbox 360 please.
Glenn Althor
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 5:42 PMGluttony – Thou shall not sit in the one throne for an eon with World of Warcraft, eating chicken.
Lust – Thou shall not fiddle thine diddle during hours of Bayonetta play.
Greed – Thou shalt not create ISK market crashing schemes in Eve Online.
Sloth – Thou shalt not let thine kingdom be surrounded by empty Jolt vials and Dominoes containers.
Wrath – Thou shalt not hammer toss thine controller at thine telemachineamatron.
Envy – Thou shalt not covert thy fellow gamer, no matter how royale his ‘Season 8 Arena gear’ appears.
Pride – Thou shalt not dance in the Orgrimmar town square in thine ‘Season 8 Arena gear’.
Glenn Althor
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 5:53 PMerm PS3 or 360 is fine! ^_^
Kane K
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 5:48 PMPride: I happen to think Chou Aniki is a pretty decent game.
Envy: The R&D involved in making a game like Rapelay
Wrath: Coming from Atkinson and governemnt when they see my first 2 entries.
Sloth: Dude, I play Video Games, that’s Sloth/Frowned upon enough as it is.
Avarice: Must carry 6,000,000 plus souls to reach final level 750 somthing is Demon’s Souls.
Gluttony AND Lust: Playing Dead or Alive Extreme. “wanna play volley ball”?
SURE!
“Wanna jump on floaties and see some awesome Ingham Chicken Breast Fillet…I mean Physics”??
Hells YEAH !!
“Wanna head over to the Casino??”
Hells NO !
Kane K
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 5:48 PMSorry, On PS3 thanks.
Abdul Elmasri
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 6:02 PMPride: “F**k yes, did you see me shoot that guy?! right in the NADS! Did you? Did you see it!?”
Envy: “Man, I wish I had that ATI Radeon HD 4870 in MY pc.”
Wrath: “DID YOU F***ING SEE THAT BULLSH*T?! THERE WAS NO WAY HE COULD HAVE DODGED THAT! HACKER, HACKEEERRR! RAAAAAGGGEEEEE!”
Sloth: “MUM, BATHROOM! BATHROOM!”
Avarice: “I did just win a new shield… but that 2H would look SO good on me!”
Gluttony: “OMNOMNOMNOMNOM WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA WAKKA OMNOMNOMNOM RUN GHOSTS, RUN!”
Lust: “Why does everything she wear instantly turn into a bikini?”
Console – Xbox360
Ethan Iacobozzi
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 6:12 PMGluttony – Buying a $100 Wii shovelware of Puzzle Bobble just because you have the money. As my brother did.
Lust – Marrying a video game character. It’s sad, and only in Japan.
Greed – MODERN WARFARE 2 NO BETA GLITCH-FILLED HELLHOLE BUT WHO CARES WE’LL GET US$1 BILLION MONEY MADE OFF CALL OF DUTY 4′S FAME LOL
Sloth – Not making a game for fifteen years *coughDukeNukemForevercough*
Wrath – A game so addictive or competitive that you would stab somebody over it, like the two men over Age of Conan.
Envy – Holding up a game store in a armed robbery, facing a long stretch in jail… just for some Call of Duty 4 that you don’t have.
Pride – Spending three months of your life farming Achievements such as Gears of War 2′s Seriously 2.0… and then thinking you’re the best player on the planet for being a boosting douche.