You forgot WRPGs, which have ruined my taste for all JRPGs save Chrono Trigger, which had tons of choices that changed the world. Keep in mind that idea was tried by Chrono Trigger and for some reason abandoned afterwards (likely extremely expensive cinematics and graphics rendering for each other path, see Alpha Protocol by Sega and the crazy development time for an example).
Yet for all the shit WRPG developers talk Chrono Trigger is only second to Fallout 2 in having th...
This myth PISSES ME OFF SO BAD I JUST WANNA HIT SOMEONE AND STEAL THEIR CAR. GOD.
ME2 is not a graphically focused title. It looks very nice but RPGs are so large that you typically don't have the time and money to max graphics on a huge world. Look at Dragon Age - an amazing RPG with worse graphics because there's just so much there. If it all looked like UC2 in Dragon Age or Mass Effect it would take many extra years to make.
Fallout 2 has one of the biggest worlds and most responsive moral choices because it's isometric with few cinematic...
Those older FF characters are great. Remember Locke being called a thief and his reply?
Locke: I *prefer* the term treasure hunting!
Arvis: Ha! Semantic nonsense!
Locke: There's a *huge* difference!
and
Locke: Call me a treasure hunter or I'll rip your lungs out!
"If you had actually played white knight you would know that the story is completely tacked on, and only because having none at all would just cause everyone to bitch even more then they already did."
Yet no one bitches with Mario...because it's not an action RPG.
Maybe tacking on a story that doesn't work is why they gave it such low scores.
"Who isn't pissed that Nintendo shunned the hardcore?"
People with a sense of balance and priorities? Gamers who don't mind 2 of 3 systems catering to the style of games they like?
I don't get 2d mario for 20 years and you cry 1 of 3 isn't doing what you want. I have an xbox and ps3 for "hardcore" games. What I didn't have for decades was 2d SNES/NES gameplay.
white knight chronicles is an RPG that depends on story. hence the term "role-playing game."
mario is a platformer. you jump on blocks floating in mid-air as a test of reflexes, timing, and precision. asking for a story in this type of game is like asking for it in duck hunt.
People who can't afford a playstation, like PC games, like the xbox live arcade, or like FPS? I'm not being flippant. I and one of my friends are the only ones we know who can afford PS3s. I got mine w/Jasper chipset for 100 at a pawn shop for geometry wars.
I play PC games on the xbox cause the port usually goes better. It sees more of them cause it runs on directx (the x in directx is where the x in xbox comes from). Basically I use the xbox for bioware games. ...
Market cap (assets minus liabilities) for sony is $30.52B.
Market cap for MS is $248.89B.
Market cap for Nintendo is $35.65B.
Even nintendo has more assets left after debt than Sony. Proof:
Sony:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?...
MS:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/....
You do know Microsoft has far more assets than Sony? Like multiple times the total assets? And that the xbox is a defense to playstation encroaching on PC territory as a computerized media hub so they'll never ever stop fighting?
MS owns directx, even making xbox hurts opengl on the PC platform cause a directx game can be easily ported to the xbox. They have so many avenues where the xbox overlaps that they will lose money on xbox to protect windows/directx/windows med...
COD has been running on the quake 3 engine for years. It was 10 years old last November. Keeping it for 3 titles is nothing when you consider how old it was when originally adopted.
"Sony is by far the best to stay around the longest.. With Nintendo close second.. "
What?
"After Final Fantasy VII on the Playstation, every Final Fantasy game has been met with fanfare and sales."
And complaints the series is worsening in quality. FF7 is a high point. If you like old fantasy you also like FF3 better (FF7 had a dystopian futuristic environment).
"Were it not for Final Fantasy VII being released as it was, and on the Playstation, we would not care about Final Fantasy."
We would not care about ...
"Someone Tell goFanboy.com Final Fantasy was nothing before PlayStation."
It was nothing but seven games spanning two console generations. Some of them are remade for modern systems, probably to recoup the initial investment. And there's a wii only epilogue to FF6. I doubt it's because the game was successful and often played. They probably had to cut the original game short from lack of funds.
How would it have survived without playstat...
This certainly belongs in the wii section.
Explain the wii in your model. No DVD playback and murdering both contenders? I am intensely curious.
"Wii sports comes with the Wii, so everytime a Wii sell they add 1 sell for Wii sports too"
Most people bought the wii for wii sports. That's why old people play it in nursing homes. What are the sales for wii sports resort? Massive despite the fact you need a peripheral to play it. I think it's top 20 of all time.
What other games are these people playing? Mariokart, NSMB, and Wii sports (resort or not).
"As for M...
This study is about ONLY PS3 PURCHASES. Meanwhile the wii has nearly double the sales due to mario and wii sports.
This is a horrible misstatement of the study that generalizes it to all consoles. It applies to ps3 as that was the only console studied. If you doubt this, note the console with almost twice as many units sold has no features and sells on Mario alone.
If anything this study only suggests people buy ps3 for blueray, not to play games. This a...
remember 3dO? EA was the top shareholder.
"The problem is you have gamers that just play games as a casual thing. They dont know or care about the politics of gaming."
That's why they're the best to combat it. They won't pay for crap shoveled at them because they're not that interested in video games to play whatever comes out. Notice how the "casual market" on wii doesn't buy most of the inane shovelware and instead chooses quality Nintendo games. Or COD Reflex, RE4, De Blo...