Joe Garcia writes "If you look around the gaming landscape these days, you'll see a plethora of great games created by a small army's worth of talented developers.
However even the best developers have to take their lumps along the way to learn the tricks of the trade -- no one makes games like God of War III or Uncharted 2 on their first try. Two reasons are that A) those games are sequels and, mathematically speaking, can't be first tries and B) making great games takes practice, just like anything else."
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.
Funny article. I played all of these except for Spice World. These are some awful games!
Damn, I had no idea Bend studio made Bubsy 3D.
How the hell did THAT happen? Bubsy 3D is by far the worst game I have ever played. Hahaha. It's unbelievably crappy. Though I do enjoy playing it for the laughs. But only for about 5 minutes.
I thought Way of the Warrior was kind of fun, actually, but it was definitely crappy in a low-budget, poor production value kind of way.
♥ :O, Naughty dog made a terrible game. I find that hard to believe with such great games like uncharted.
Edit: OMG. After youtubing that game. Um... I hope and pray they do not make another fighting game ♥
After the disapointing sales of Rings of Power, it's pretty understandable what ND had to go through when following up with WotW.
most of those games are great
guess i have to put /s
Every studio has their black sheep it seems