CouchMercenaries.com - TCM's BigSmooth8 puts out an editorial piece on Fanboys and the Console War. "One morning I was sitting at my desk having a cup of coffee and reading an article about the fall and mistakes of the PS3. The article was written by what we now describe as a "Fanboy" and we tend to also identify them with a prefix of the console or brand that they are defending."
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.
I remember growing up, my friend had an Intellivsion, I had a Atari 2600. The idea that one was better than the other never crossed our minds, we were just happy to visit each other and play new games.
Same with Nintendo and Sega. It was great to go over to one friends house and play Zelda, and then he'd come over and play Sonic for hours at my place.
There was always some kid that would say "Genesis is better than crappy Nintendo," but they were usually written off. Who cared? They both had great games.
Now we hit this gen, and for some reason it doesn't matter that all systems have great games - it's now a matter of fanatic pride for some while for me...it always has been and always will be about the games.
Some brand loyalty is due to quality, I think. If you love Zelda, you'll trust Nintendo to make one each gen that makes purchasing the Big N console worthwhile.
And you can't deny genre preference, either. The N64 was the FPS king before Halo blew up on X Box. Games are a "what have you done for me lately?" industry (just ask Nintendo, Sony, Sega, Atari, etc.). And some people are just going to rag on something they view as inferior.
Me? I'm happy with what I have, a Wii, PS2 and PC (a quickly aging PC). And I have a friend with a 360, which gave me a fix for Bioshock.