last-gen zeroes
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PS3 System Updates, You Were The Worst
77You made me angry with my PlayStation 3, if only for a few minutes at a time. Why’d you have to do that?
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Too Many Choices Of The Past Gaming Era Weren’t Choices At All
Great characters are usually at their best when they’re surprising us. A villain who is purely evil is never as interesting as a villain who sometimes expresses kindness. A killer with a code; a monster with a soft spot for kittens. Yet some video games this past generation just didn’t seem to get that —…
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Come On, Guys, The DualShock 3 Sucked
The original PlayStation controller debuted in 1994. The more familiar DualShock was released in 1997. The PlayStation 3 controller you’re using today, well into the 21st century, is almost identical to that 1997 design. Let’s think about that for a second. It’s now 2013, and if you’ve got a PS3, you’re still using a pad…
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RPG Elements Keep Us Playing, For Better And For Worse
You spend time or energy, you gotta get something out of it. Self-improvement. Money, maybe. Experience, at least. This simple idea is so powerful and pervasive that of course games have modelled it — experience points, levels, and skill trees (otherwise known as role-playing game elements) are things that have been around for a while.…