Man, to me Activision will always be associated with Pitfall, which was so compelling to me as a child, and I loved it.
Everything you just said, Prime, is exactly how I felt. Hell, I was about to say a similar thing before I saw that you beat me to it.
Yes, I used to play Atari games pretty heavily back in the 80's. While Pitfall wasn't my favorite game on the system (that award goes to Adventure, Spider Fighter, and Space Jockey), I do remember enjoying the game and seeing the ACTIVISION logo roll in the corner.
The fact that Activision is still around showed that at least some time in their history, they were doing at least something right. Nowadays, however... ugh.
Ultimately, I'm just disappointed in Activision. Enraged? Perhaps, but the emotional word of the day is most certainly disappointment.
Honestly I'd rather have activision die and free up developers for better causes. They did a great job with the last call of duty in single player, but they f-ed up the multi player so bad it makes me want to cry.
Still its not JUST activision thats dropping the ball with games lately, when last was there a really good game put forward that you could play for more than a month?
Everyone is focused on launch day sales and then support, patches and everything else is abandoned in favour of the next big launch.
Bobby Kotick is like venom, they should have gotten rid of him years ago, now they get bitten by this guy and suffer because they don't want to get rid of him.
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And as you played, there was that awesome Activision logo at the bottom and I loved that.
The Activision logo invokes the same feelings as the Atari logo.
I have trouble reconciling the cool logo and awesome childhood memories with the massive behemoth of crap that the company has become. Sigh.
We have something in common, I see the Activision logo and I instantly think, Pitfall, River Raid, Stampede and Kaboom!
The lead character in Starcraft II? Jim Raynor, not Kerrigan. It's a "save the girl" scenario.
Also, darn you for reminding me of Pitfall!. Here: http://www.tripletsandus.com/80s/80s_games/pitfall.htm
Everything you just said, Prime, is exactly how I felt. Hell, I was about to say a similar thing before I saw that you beat me to it.
Yes, I used to play Atari games pretty heavily back in the 80's. While Pitfall wasn't my favorite game on the system (that award goes to Adventure, Spider Fighter, and Space Jockey), I do remember enjoying the game and seeing the ACTIVISION logo roll in the corner.
The fact that Activision is still around showed that at least some time in their history, they were doing at least something right. Nowadays, however... ugh.
Ultimately, I'm just disappointed in Activision. Enraged? Perhaps, but the emotional word of the day is most certainly disappointment.
Still its not JUST activision thats dropping the ball with games lately, when last was there a really good game put forward that you could play for more than a month?
Everyone is focused on launch day sales and then support, patches and everything else is abandoned in favour of the next big launch.
And she is the antagonist not the protagonist.
Will be Kerrigan in heart of the swarm.
In Starcraft 1 and secially in Brood Wars Kerrigan was the obvious protagonist (with her own campaign and all)