Ever felt fleeced by the video games industry? Just like in any other business, games publishers and console makers are in it to make money, and sometimes, they cross the line that splits a reasonable profit margin from a consumer-unfriendly rip-off. Everyone's got their favorite stories. These are mine.
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.
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An alright article. What do you expect from a movie game? It's a movie game, of course it's going to be short. Gaming biggest rip off this gen IMO easily goes to PAIN. I really want to kick the devs of that game in the balls for being such assholes. Crap game with nickel and diming at it's best.
while I agree for the most part with all the examples , here is my number 1 .
Let me begin by saying this is a true story . Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent .
A few years ago I had a console wig out and start with the blinky blinky all in red . This couldn't have happened at a worse time , right before the launch of one the most anticipated sequel's of all time . It was the third in the series and i was stoked . Horrified at my predicament I contact the manufacture and plead my case . They tell me it just so happens that they have extended the warranty to cover this specific problem , and that they will replace my console , for free even . Within a week I not only have my game but my new console to play it on . The game was excellent as was the multiplayer .
Here's where it gets bad . While I'm enjoying this gaming masterpiece
I start getting the freeze's and crashes , OH NO ! I take a quick glance at the disc to see that it's clean and what do i find , A huge circular scratch so deep and ugly that it boggles the mind . I look thru the last few games i've played and they all have this same ugly scratch . Only the games i had been playing on the replacement unit were affected . My new system is trying to eat my games !
Well if they fixed it once surely they can do it again , NO DICE . This problem is not covered as it was probably caused by you moving the console while the game was still in it , was the reply I got . NO I DIDN'T , YES YOU DID , NO I DIDN'T !!! The manufacture is not budging on this one and it is gonna cost me to have them fix a faulty unit that they gave me in exchange for the first faulty unit .
this is where me and this company stopped doing business .
I almost got to finish the fight ...............
Sorry for the rant . Damn it feels good to finally get that off my chest ................
Street Fighter IV costumes anyone? Pay $$$ just to unlock data you already purchased...this is the way console games are going and it SUCKS BALLS.
when you pay $200+ and the system scratches your discs and then it breaks.
To many multiplat this gen is to short to be worth the money. Just look at all the fps, they´re like 5 hours long. I find it harder and harder to choose which games to buy this gen because of this.