Adam from Awesome Games writes: 'At first, the idea of choosing a particular model which suited your needs seemed like a welcomed and sensible practice. Unfortunately, as this current console cycle has progressed, this relatively new practice has quickly transformed into a shameful, money making scheme which harms the consumer and punishes the early adopters (and sometimes, even the late adopters).'
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
FuRyu revealed on Friday its Exstetra fantasy role-playing game is getting an HD remaster that will launch this summer on Steam.
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.
With the X360, you sure are/was....but them again, you get what you pay for.
As for Sony...
People asking for more, SHOULD pay more. Sony made us pay for a PSOne+PS2+PS3+BD player/media hud in the beggining, and they made it CHEAP (600USD cheap...for all that, it sure was.)
BUt Sony had to make the PS3 cheaper, more affordable, and the culling happend....the same people complaining about the price are the ones complaining about the features being gone...why didnt you forked the 499 or 599 USD WHEN THEY WERE FREAKING THERE?
So stop whining about that....
No gamer should be supportive of the HD-less 360 version because it has restricted games' potential to some extent as devs often design to the lowest common denominator and are only now providing advantages to HD capable machines.
The people that care about sales more than games will defend the Arcade and probably say it hasn't affected game quality.
Both Sony and MS play the multiple SKU card and then say its all about giving consumers a choice. To me there is nothing wrong with having choice as long as you dont get royally screwed on the cost of upgrading.