Sony patents...adverts?

[ShinyLatios]

Super Mario Galaxy?

TBH I'd go with MadWorld or No More Heroes. I enjoyed SMG a lot and their other platformers but they never really left a lasting mark or have become the topic of discussion as much as other games.

Meh, Super Mario Sunshine.

Highly inferior to Super Mario Galaxy. Whoever thought of the FLUDD or whatever it's called should be punched in the face.

I actually liked FLUDD, though it was unfitting for a Mario game. it just didn't feel mario-ey because of it.'
So, the person who thought of FLUDD shouldnt be punched in the face, the person who thought it should be in mario should be punched.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

I actually liked FLUDD, though it was unfitting for a Mario game. it just didn't feel mario-ey because of it.'
So, the person who thought of FLUDD shouldnt be punched in the face, the person who thought it should be in mario should be punched.

The FLUUD is maybe like worth a power-up but making an entire game based around it as a central mechanic is pants-on-head retarded. It made the combat a shitheap (which shouldn't even happen in a game where combat is supposed to be "punch something and it goes boom") and anything else it brought to the table would be a lot better to elaborate on in a power up.

I really consider Sunshine the absolute worst Mario 3D platformer. Although I've heard mixed things about 3D Land but I haven't played it so I won't judge it in that light.

 

[Gahars]

If these ads feature Kevin Butler, Sony can interrupt my games all they want.

 

[ZAFDeltaForce]

It would make sense if that meant paying a much reduced price for the console, much like a Kindle with ads.

It'd be fine if the ads showed up during loading screens, there's nothing much to do or look at while a game loads anyway. Interrupting gameplay with ads is just crossing the line though.

 

[Terenigma]

Remember when youtube didnt have adverts? Then someone said lets put adverts on youtube, noone thought it would happen because that would be silly. Sure enough the little adverts that showed up at the bottom of the youtube video showed up, it was fine tho because you could click the little X in the corner just like on websites and the advert would be gone.

Then they said that they would start showing up before the video, prompting comments from people saying "nah they cant do that" But sure enough they started showing up before the video but that was ok, someone realised you could press F5 and refresh the screen and the adverts disappeared, no problem.

Then they made it so you could no longer F5 to skip it and some adverts had a skippable thing after 5 seconds, others you had to wait a whole 30 seconds. (sometimes to watch a youtube video that is shorter than the advert itself)

Then there was a rumour that they would put adverts in games, interupting the game mid-play to show you an advert. Everyone was like "nah they cant do that, everyone would get mad"

...You know where this is going.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

It would make sense if that meant paying a much reduced price for the console, much like a Kindle with ads.

It'd be fine if the ads showed up during loading screens, there's nothing much to do or look at while a game loads anyway. Interrupting gameplay with ads is just crossing the line though.

Well I doubt you'd be like shooting some guy in CoD only to have an ad for Old Spice take up your whole screen. Odds are, if this patent amounts to anything, they'd be little ads at a part of your screen. Like when you play the free versions of games like Angry Birds.