If your carious about purchasing a game but wasn't to sure if it's going to be 'EPIC', So you're waiting for a quick review from one of you're trust worthy sites to help you make that decision. Well what if that game "FLOPPED"? Would you jump on the bandwagon and claim it sucks too just because they reviewed it from their point of view expectation? What if it doesn't "SELL" a bunch of copies? Does that let alone deserve to receive a negative image? Of course not but it sure does lately.
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.
It really depends on the game being reviewed. Like for MAG, the mostly 7s and 8s it received didn't effect my decision at all. The game is awesome and I would score it higher than most of the reviews I read.
Lair
Bought Lair first day, loved it, am in the top 100 world wide for scores *(the last time I checked lol) Animation is organic and realistic for the dragons (as realistic as a mythical creature can be), ground soldiers moved a little robotic, everything else ran pretty great, the story was good, but a little light in terms of conversations. This game is still unmatched in a lot of areans in terms of things buzzing around onscreen, 1080p graphics, and the 60fps (not steady, but shines most of the time)
Too Human:
Went through the entire game. Graphics and configuration is it's strongest points; the best looking game using the Unreal engine that came out that year if I recall correctly... or, at lest the most impressive use of the engine that year. Not a single load screen (first game I know of this gen that was like that), animation was stiff and the controls were unique, but not deal breaking. The horrible story, dialogue, and "modern" look for a Hyborian civilization wrecked it for me. Didn't keep it, but I would recommend a playthrough.
HAZE
Went through the entire game and played some multiplayer. Outside of the Rock-solid controls and a few multiplayer maps, there is no redeeming factor for this game. The levels seemed like various multiplayer maps stitched-together. Graphics were inconsistent in almost all of the areas: some parts of the game looked pretty nice actually, but others looked kinda poor; and they'd be on the same stage, which looked like the game was slapped together. The story was crap, and the dialogue was so lame that it made Too Human's story look like Shakespeare's Hamlet.
I returned it and said it was so bad, I think it gave me AIDS.
At any rate, I like to use my own brain; and nowadays, a lot of stores (where I live, anyways) will let you return it for store cred if you return it (The Gamestop where I live will give you full cred if returned within seven days).
Yes, it does.
Effect is a noun, Affect is the Verb.
is if you're some sheep that doesn't know how to make his/her own decisions. Review scores mean NOTHING to me. I base my opinions of what I play for MYSELF. Not off people playing a game "for me" and then spoon feeding me his/her own opinion.
Sure I can understand when people are afraid to risk $60 on a game. It's not like gaming is cheap. But hey, that's what rental and borrowing from friends is for