Drew A of VideoGameOlogists.com writes:
"Over the years there’s been a trend in the development of video games, one that I have no understanding of why it’s even happening. As it stands now, many games that have boss battles seem to have very uninteresting ones. This is a complete 180 from ten to fifteen years ago, however. Deus Ex: Human Revolution, to name one, had some of the most disappointing boss battles this year. It’s a great game, don’t get me wrong, I played the hell out of it. But the boss battles, especially the beat down on Yelena Fedorova, were exceptionally dull and closed off in terms of freedom. Then I started to look back. Mass Effect 2 suffered from a similar problem, as is shown by the suicide mission, where you fought the half-finished reaper. Assassins Creed, Batman: Arkham City (I’m going to get hell for that one), most Halo games, and some premium MMOs (due to their extremely repetitive nature), these games suffered from what I’d like to call “Boss Battle Blues.” Where they tried to do something creative and challenging and fun, but failed to do it very well."
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.
