^ That is suspicious.
That's kind of screwed up if Fish actually exposed confidential information of his employees himself, just for an excuse to jab at 4chan and gamers.
First the Phil Fish's fiasco, now we got Zoe Quinn sleeping around for the sake of critical reception interests? Cheating on her boyfriend and proving herself to be a total hypocrite? Things are getting pretty heated lately.
This story is pretty disgusting. Shame on her and all the reviewers who took the sexual bribes. Complete lack of integrity going on here.
I don't think the faction system paid off so well. It mostly just amounted to grinding quests or miscellaneous tasks to make them like you. It sometimes posed a roadblock in questline progression that was just best left open. Kind of restrictive and replay-unfriendly.
There was also pretty much no reason align with Caesar's Legion. They were evil, brutal slavers running around in skirts, and being with them made the most prominent faction in the game aggro on you. The...
I thought New Vegas had better characters, speaking overall.
The main quest characters are largely throwaway, uninvesting, and are of no real consequence despite their hype, such as Benny and Caesar. The Burned Man in Honest Hearts was also very disappointingly bland. The personal connection your PC had in Fallout 3 went a long way, even if the writing was quite more shallow. New Vegas lacked that personal connection, and I found it very difficult to care even a little bit ab...
New Vegas has better and deeper writing, as well as refined and expanded gameplay systems. It should be the better game. On the other hand, it's also much more rough around the edges:
- Horrible bugs and freezing/crashing that Fallout 3's launch couldn't even begin compare to.
- Many quests that require a lot of errand boy back-and-forth. With badly placed fast-travel and longer loading screens, exacerbating the issue. These killed the good moment-to-momen...
Really disagree on some of those points, here.
1. Pyramid Head is not an incomprehensible menace. The purpose of his existence and actions are completely understood. In fact, he is actually connected to the cult. His image is that of The Order's attendant angel, Valtiel.
2. I thought The Order was actually pretty interesting, particularly in SH3. They seem to see Silent Hill very differently than James and Heather, and they have internal conflicts within....
"At E3 not a single person was excited"
Sorry for sounding rude, but BS. Reception for the first game was very positive and plenty of people were looking forward to the sequel. The reboot put TR back on the radar in a big, successful way. There wasn't much talk about it at E3 because it didn't do much more than confirm that the game existed, which everyone already knew.
That's why the exclusivity has caused such an outrage; because peopl...
The final puzzle is pretty BS, though.
That said, the BS is the point to this. This a playable teaser, not a demo. And it's purpose it to hide the Silent Hills reveal, and gamers have to work through all the vague and obfuscated crap to get to it.
Sounds like you need to broaden your tastes beyond (J)RPGs.
It's been a great generation. I can easily think of over 50 games that I've enjoyed immensely and have met great critical success on the 360/PS3/Wii.
Agreed. Shield and strafe, and you've already beaten 80% of all Dark Souls content. Dark Souls isn't terribly hard, there's just a learning curve.
That's why I'm looking forward to Bloodborne. With shields gone and faster combat, the player will actually be required to think and react more dynamically in order to succeed.
Less punishing, not less difficult. He doesn't necessarily mean that the game is easier, just less hard on failure.
It could be a good thing. I could do without the long backtracking from bonfires after dying when trying to take take down a boss, for instance. That's not challenging punishment, just annoying.
They're hardly a "shell of their former self" just because their narrative chops aren't great. They seldom have been, actually. They only made Devil May Cry 1, which I think was before they were even Clover. That barely had a storyline at all (not that any DMC has ever had a great story). They also made God Hand, which had a very simplistic and shallow storyline. Same with Viewtiful Joe, although it is a bit more substantial than those. It's hardly all bright spots. Okam...
I'm going to miss shields. >_>
They were bought out. As long as console exclusives exist, this is obviously going to happen sometimes. Consequently, there's going to be some disappointment every now and then. It's not like Sony hasn't recruited their own exclusives.
Am I a bit disappointed? Sure, since PS4 is the superior hardware and I'd like any game to be on it. However, this kind of thing is inevitable and all I can do is accept it. No need to be a drama queen about it, like everyone el...
Never played REmake, so I'm looking forward to this.
You can argue any game RPG isn't finished that way. Bugs? Stupid AI? Balance issues? Small side-features that aren't very useful? A number of short and underdeveloped missions? Literally almost every western-developed AAA RPG and open-world game has every single one of those. Most of which are far smaller and less detailed than Skyrim.
And no, the modding community doesn't mean the game is incomplete. Large communities of modders always add new features and improv...
I'd hardly call an open-ended game (with about a 3-year development cycle) that contains several dozens of hours of free-roam content, without mods or DLC, incomplete.
There are major shortcomings and issues, but the game is well-featured. The main quest is short and anticlimactic, but it is a complete story. (Bethesda has never been big on storylines, really.) The NPCs are unreactive idiots, but they do populate the towns and offer quests and activities, fulfilling their...
Seriously, where is everyone getting these time machines?
Bayonetta 2 has been playable and featured with new content at most major conventions since E3 2013. They've got booths heavily promoting the game and their Treehouse streams have been pretty exciting.
At the moment, their promotion of the game is fine. What's going to matter a lot is how they handle marketing when the game approaches release coming up in September/October.