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Fulltime Journalist for the daily newspaper "Letzebuerger Journal". Worked as a freelance Videogame 'journalist' for that same newspaper for 2 years beforehand. Also, I'm the former News Editor over at www.Sega-Addicts.com. I also wrote a few frontpage stories here on Destructoid....
I also wrote for several weeks for www.Gamersyndrome.com

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You keep on disappointing me! Not everyone in the industry, mind you, but a select few that make me feel sad on a regular basis create a feeling of distrust and dislike for you as an industry. Maybe I should explain to my dear readers why that is... I'll try to keep this short.

Nintendo's behavior

I have said this several times already, but I think I can say it again, with newly gained trust behind my words: I don't get Nintendo! So, Reggie comes on stage during E3 saying that they'll do everything to get the Hardcore gamers back. Heck, when didn't they make that promise, actually? A few weeks later, there's this Operation Rainfall campaign, so that the Wii can be more than some Netflix-box or an overprized paperweight. I live in Europe, so I shouldn't actually care about this, but still, I think Nintendo's behavior just downright sucks when it comes to releasing games. If that is your attitude when it comes to localization, don't be such dicks and make your consoles AND handhelds region locked! You're just begging hackers to take your systems apart!



And I still want my Fatal Frame 4!

Don't get me started on the 3DS either. Say what you want about the system, it just wasn't ready when it was kicked out of the door! No e-shop, almost no games worth mentioning in the first few months... heck, if you take away the Nintendo-64 ports, it's actually worse than the initial Nintendo DS library! The 3DS is running on ports right now: Street Fighter 4, Dead or Alive, Ocarina of time, Starfox... where are the original games? WHERE?

Sale-figures or 'What the heck are people buying??'



Duke Nukem Forever sold 700k units up until now. Shadows of the Damned 60k. Don't get me started on No More Heroes for the PS3, which is out in Japan and Europe. I'm just wondering what kind of logic operates here. Because, at the moment, I think people want Duke Nukem Forever 2 and Goichi Suda to be a homeless bum. Is 'Quality Control' something that really exists? Or is it just a myth, that you choose what games will be produced by choosing which games to buy right now? I heard a lot of people disliked Duke Nukem Forever and liked Shadows of the Damned. What is going on here? Speaking of games being produced...

Mega Man Legend 3 cancelled...



… and you know what's the sad part about this? The Dev team that worked on that will probably move on to make another Resident Evil or Street Fighter game. Because there aren't enough of those and they aren't totally stagnant by now! It's not only that, but also the fact that after all these months of teasing us and involving fans in the development process, the game just gets canned. What kind of relationship do you have with you fanbase? One coming straight from your local S/M-Club I'd assume...

In Conclusion...

The industry makes me sad, because it constantly disappoints me in so many ways. There are a lot of decisions being taken that don't make much sense or just show that an industry that brought so much magic into my childhood actually just is a huge, money-making machine, run by people who don't really get their target audience...

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The fact that Duke Nukem sold so well surprises me... until I think about how much marketing went into it.

The fact that Shadows of the Damned sold so little surprises me... until I think about how much marketing went into it.

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There was so much hype over Duke Nukem you couldn't go anywhere without reading/hearing about it. Shadows of the Damned I didn't even know existed until reading a writeup about it on here. Money talks. How many great games have been released that haven't got the attention they deserve? (Enslaved for one)

And I still think Nintendo believed the 3DS would sell like hotcakes solely on the basis of the 3D. That's what everyone's pushing now as the new big thing. (Didn't like it much when I was younger, and I still don't.) The Operation Rainfall thing gets me though.
I still can't believe the number of awesome games for the Wii that the US will never officially see come here. Meanwhile, there is NOTHING BEING RELEASED FOR IT. Just bring them here. Even if you don't make much, at least your console isn't completely dead until the WiiU comes out next year.
I'm still waiting for fucking Captain Rainbow.
It sucks, but...Same old shit, really.
As Parappa the Rapper once said, "money money is all you need!"
Yeah man, I'm disappointed also. The games industry is just going through the motions now, while greedy game companies try to line their pockets with as much cash as they can while sacrificing the care, love and magic involved in making a game.

If this keeps up, the industry will crash again. It's just a matter of time.
This is all EA's fault. I don't know how, but it just is.
Nintendo lost me on the WiiU with the graphics being what "Hardcore" gamers want. A real gamer wants a good time without a whole lot of bullshit. Only 1 controller port on the WiiU has killed any chance of a good Four Swords game being released. Coop Mario? Nope. Coop Donkey Kong? Nope. Coop Pikmin? Just another fiber in the "Nope Rope" Nintendo likes dangling in front of me. Online coop ruins the fun of watching another player's reactions to you shoving him/her off a cliff. Even if I can play with a friend offline by using a screenless controller, it will be lacking in the ability to use the screen which is supposed to be one of the selling points.

Crud, this is turning into an anti Nintendo rant. I should save this for another time.

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