Indie games are reigning supreme
over bigger budgeted titles, and the digital space is more accessible to consumers and developers than it's ever been.
Not exact matches
The elimination of men's sports programs — in recent weeks Syracuse announced it will ax wrestling and men's gymnastics at the end of this year, while Michigan State said it will say farewell to men's lacrosse and fencing — has continued
over the last several years in the name of
budget tightening (though not usually in the
biggest -
budget sport: football) and
Title IX compliance.
The lead in Roland Emmerich disaster pic «The Day After Tomorrow» gave him an early taste of bland,
big -
budget (smash hit) spectacle, though he also auditioned to play the
title character in «Batman Begins,» and was briefly lined up to take
over the role of Peter Parker in «Spider - Man 2» when health issues / contract negotiations looked to rule out Tobey Maguire — now there's an interesting what - if scenario.
It's time for the library to have a
big enough of a book
budget to win them and their parents
over with the right digital and paper
titles.
Here's the
big problem, though; for a game that looks, plays and feels like a
budget title it's hard to swallow the full triple - A asking price of around of
over # 50, which is the publisher's recommend amount.
Hack - and - slash fans scarcely need a reason to get excited for a
big -
budget online
title, but for the rest of us there's the compelling argument made in its beautiful graphics and
over a dozen playable characters to pique interest.
Then I remember that I'm very cynical and that so many people become complete (for lack of a better word) assholes when connected to a virtual world and I see no end to advertisements presented as legitimate entertainment, offensive hardcore porn plastered all
over virtual apartments, players who log off when about to lose a game (casual game or actual
big budget title), some players insulting others with crude and racist language, other players attempting to seduce the younger avatars, and the eventual «hack» that allows players to create anatomically correct naked avatars for the sake of harassing others.
Over the years games have seen themselves divided into the
big budget titles with a fairly long development time or the smaller
budget titles with a somewhat shorter time.
Seeing full - retail
titles offered
over the years on the PS3 seems to have created this mentality where any
title that's not a
big budget or household name is just not worth the time to download for free.