Last year was a monumental period for the video game industry. With record-breaking sales from "Grand Theft Auto 4," an all but dry summer with "MGS4's" release, and an incredible holiday season, 2008 has become the year to beat. While it's only February, there has been a lot of speculation with regard to the big games of '09, and we'll take a look at what each of the platform giants has up their sleeve.
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
then YES. But Uncharted 2 and Heavy Rain may also be able to do it alone. But its a guarantee that if GOW3 or team ico game come out, then 2009 will be the best year of gaming in the current gen life cycle.<<<<<< <<<<<<<FAC T
Oh yeah! 09 is going to trump 08. Besides the great exclusives for the systems there are things like Prototype, Batman Arkum Asylum, X-Men Origins, CoD:MW2, Ghostbusters, etc.
everyone knows how i just bought a ps3. T_T damn thing already broke. so im taking it back tomarrow to get another one. WTF my 360 lasts over a year with the RRoD issue, my ps3 dies in 4 days. just awesome.
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nvm i put it in the box getting ready to put it away till i could take it back, and went what the heck took it out plugged it back in *this is 30 minutes after wards* and it works fine again. T_T anyone else ever have this issue?
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well its doing it again, my front panel for power off and eject are not working, well they worked when i started it up, now they stoped again. i dont get it. ill just take it back, i already backed all my stuff up to flash drive so it should save me time later.
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AHA i got it, stupid POS dvd, the dvd i tried to watch F-d it up. the sytem couldn't read it and i guess it didn't think there was one in, i tried restarting pushed the button and it worked just fine, just put MGS4 in started up went back to XMB and ejected. so im good now. nvm the crisis has been solved.
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Xbox 360- Halo Wars, Halo ODST, Halo chronicles and................Halo kart?
PS3- Killzone 2, inFamous, Heavy Rain, MAG, The Agency, DC Universe, Yakuza 3, Quantum Theory, Ratchet and Clank future 2, Uncharted 2, possibly God of War 3 and a few other unannounced games.
All i see in 2009 is the PS3...