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wildmario: Vox Pop Winner June 2012

Posted on Tuesday, July 3 @ 16:48:45 Eastern by Nicholas Tan

Oh, Vox Pop. How I have missed you! Have you missed it too?

wildmario has won the Vox Pop prize for the month of June 2012, with his retrospective review (rant, more like) of Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo in the last six years. He goes on to describe their shortcomings, and how each of them have something to prove with the next-generation of consoles.

I agree that Nintendo needs to show that the Wii U can match the online capabilities of the Xbox 360 and PS3; Microsoft needs to make sure that the next Xbox won't suffer as many red rings as the Xbox 360; and Sony, while showing off the best catalog of games at E3 2012, has the most to prove with the PlayStation 4/Orbis in terms of security and an affordable price point at launch.

Congrats on the win, wildmario! Just send me a PM with a note of whether you want a $20 XBLA, PSN, or Steam code and I'll get that for you!

Of course, we also had two worthy entries this week. Bras commented on the ease of online contests compared to those by mail and phone, while maca2kx warned us that BioWare has set a dangerous precedent of having the Mass Effect 3 ending expanded due to fan reaction. While it's not the first title to receive an ending change (for one, Broken Steel DLC for Fallout 3), the prospect of using patches to fix an ending is not something a developer should ever do lightly. For fans and critics alike will nail them for it.

Want your thoughts featured in Vox Pop? Write a blog via your profile page and you're automatically entered!

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Winner: wildmario
Title: Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft: A Retrospective Review

Excerpt: "The memories made by the gaming industry may be nothing but a stink that won’t go away. What happened? It seems today that gaming companies are taking fewer risks and are focusing more on filling out their wallets with massive profits. It has snowballed greatly and thanks to several major blunders, gamers can’t ignore it anymore and they are making their voices heard."

Runner-Up: Bras
Title: On winning a contest

Excerpt: "It is relatively cheap to do, easy to spread, and people love it. An online contest seems like the most intelligent way to make both your financial department and your target market happy. And what makes it so good is that a consumer like me will most likely participate in it."

Runner-Up: maca2kx
Title: Patches, DLC and Downloadable Fixing

Excerpt: "Patches give them the freedom to take a greater chance with errors, like clipping, non-spawning vital NPCs, and creepy, living dead corpse soldiers, knowing that they can be fixed after release if need be. This is something gamers are used to, but what is unique about Mass Effect-gate is that the game mechanics weren’t patched, the story was."

Related Games: Mass Effect 3 Extended Cut

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Comments

LawnGnome
Joined: Apr 2007

Posted: Jul 3rd, 2012 at 4:56 pm
Congrats all! I think I might need to Vox Pop my cherry sometime soon.....

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danielrbischoff
Joined: Nov 2009

Posted: Jul 3rd, 2012 at 5:53 pm
What? Me beating Persona 3 isn't worth a mention? :-P

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Bras
Joined: Jul 2008

Posted: Jul 3rd, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Congratulations wildmario, you deserve it!

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sliverstorm
Joined: Jun 2007

Posted: Jul 3rd, 2012 at 9:07 pm
Wha--GR announces a contest, and then announces the winner of said contest, on the front page, in a timely fashion? HOW CAN I FIND STABILITY IN THIS TURBULENT WORLD OF CHANGE!?

Thumbs up to all the entrants and to GR for publicly and professionally following through on a contest.

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wildmario
Joined: Jan 2007

Posted: Jul 3rd, 2012 at 10:25 pm
Woo!! Looking back at it now, I DID seem to rant quite a bit, but I guess as long as it's kept professional and clean, it's a rant worth ranting about!

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Bretimus_v2
Joined: Jan 2009

Posted: Jul 4th, 2012 at 8:33 am
Way to go, guys.

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UghRochester
Joined: Jun 2006

Posted: Jul 4th, 2012 at 8:47 am
WTG brb

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wildmario
Joined: Jan 2007

Posted: Jul 4th, 2012 at 1:29 pm
I JUST noticed this bit:

"Microsoft, Sony, and Microsoft in the last six years."

Microsoft is so big they have two companies of the same name? :P

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Nick_Tan
Joined: Jul 2006

Posted: Jul 5th, 2012 at 4:23 am
Good catch. Fixed!

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