Comments on: Game Overview: GTAIV, Mario Kart Wii, MGS Online Beta

By: Eric Mesa

Eric Mesa — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:54:28 +0000

Now the names of the Giant Bombcast Persona Players are the biggest.

By: Eric Mesa

Eric Mesa — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:53:57 +0000

Hehe…I didn’t want to go there, but I think you’re right

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:48:47 +0000

I think something about it appeals to middle schoolers. It’s not a casual site at all, just an immature one.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:45:26 +0000

Am I the only one who misses when this blog had giant-sized MGS tags in its cloud? I wish that the new game this year wasn’t PSP, because you know I would be covering it much more (even after my disappointment with MGS4)

By: Eric Mesa

Eric Mesa — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:44:34 +0000

Giant Bombcast is definitely awesome. I know I most widely read IGN in middle school. Perhaps something about it appeals to a more casual gamer vs the more in depth stuff that goes on in the podcasts you currently listen to.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:41:16 +0000

1. I only played MGO in beta. After that I was too busy/my PS3 was in MD and I didn’t have the time to play it. It was ok, but not great, which was why I moved on to playing other things.

2. I’m not a member and I find most of their journalism to be suspect and poorly written. I even stopped listening to their podcasts because I found them to be juvenile, redundant, less funny, and less informed that my current favorite, the Giant Bombcast. Beyond that, I’m just not as into their style or the website’s community. I much prefer NGJ like ABDN or thoughtful blogs like some of the stuff at Sexy Videogameland or The Brainy Gamer and I tend to get most of my news from Kotaku and Giant Bomb.

3. If you had an Xbox you’d think that MKW’s multiplayer was even more suspect. We’ll see if their next console has a respectable online presence.

4. GTA IV was more of the same and I’m kind of sorry that I bought it. I guess it was worth playing to be a part of the conversation and really understand where people were coming from, but I don’t feel like it was $60 well spent nor do I think it was as good or as different as everyone hyped it to be.

By: Eric Mesa

Eric Mesa — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:30:37 +0000

Some comments/questions with hindsight.

1) Did you ever play MGO? I don’t remember you talking much about it. But maybe it’s on here and I just forgot because I’m not into Metal Gear.

2) I know your opinion of IGN has changed over time. Are you still am member?

3) Mario Kart Wii was a lot of fun, but I think the multiplayer was/is crap. Especially, after having (finally) used Playstation online play. But, even back when I first played Mario Kart Wii, I was extremely frustrated with the online experience. It’s certainly a lot better than Smash. And, on the whole, it wasn’t that bad. But all the exchanging of numbers, the fact that the second player can’t also be logged in (so if we’re on my account, Danielle doesn’t build any score for hers), and the fact that I knew how it is in the PC world – I was/am disgusted with the way Nintendo has handled this.

4) GTA IV – you were excited about it for a while, but I seem to remember you souring on it later.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:34:59 +0000

Console multi-player has been around for a while, but it really only became a standard in this generation with Xbox Live!

It’s also hard to figure out the multiplayer for GTA, since it can very easily devolve into a clusterf*ck (and probably still will)

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:05:12 +0000

So this is the first true attempt. Strange, given how popular multi has been. However, I can see where they might struggle on a multi game premise for a game like that one.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:22:00 +0000

Yes and no…

The PC version of GTA II had a rudimentary multiplayer mode and the PC versions of GTA III have had fan-made multiplayer modes.

If you want to hear about how bizarre those are, listen to this week’s 1UP Yours podcast.