LMFAO. A 3DS emulator is not very impressive when it's being used to run an N64 game.
It's not a "deal" at all. It would be a good idea if Sony had BC in their new consoles... but they don't. So it's a great service for new customers, and a slap in the face for existing customers.
Okay. In that case maybe we should write open letters to Nintendo asking them to put SNES and GBA games on the WiiU Virtual Console, because the current offerings are pretty goddamn sparse.
You DO realize that Call of Duty is just as popular in Japan as it is in North America, right?
The "insurmountable cultural differences" between Japan and the West, at least insofar as games are concerned, are pretty damn indiscernible.
Of course it's fake. Hasn't anyone else here ever picked up a box or bag or crate of rocks before? Pretty hard to mistake that for high-end electronics, no matter what the label says.
I always see comments like this, and I've been modding games for 20+ years... and I have no idea what you're talking about. Hyperbole I guess?
If one person can so dramatically derail XSEED's localization plans, to the point where the game is delayed more than a year... yeah, XSEED deserves some blame: they're clearly doing something wrong.
Layton v. Phoenix and MK8 are my two favourite Nintendo games this year.
Weird that something like Beyond Earth would make the list, but not Original Sin or Wasteland 2 or Endless Legend.
And here I thought we all already knew this.
I wish there was a mod that made combat fun.
1. Better writing.
2. Better quest design.
3. Modular quest design.
#3 is probably what bugs me most about Bethesda games, since there's no real reason to expect decent quest design or writing in the first place. I just really hate constantly getting sidequests that require you to travel across the ENTIRE map. Most quests should be fairly self-contained in a particular region. IE, in Skyrim, most of the quests you pick up in Whiterun should only involve lo...
You seem to have forgotten Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen, Soul Reaver, Soul Reaver 2, and Defiance.
Bioware games always have terrible plots (not counting the collaborations with Black Isle, of course)... but plot is only one aspect of a narrative. And Bioware -excels- at characters and dialog, and Mass Effect 2 is probably their greatest effort in that respect.
Maybe North Korea?
...I still need to finish Persona 4. Without getting the bad ending this time. And FES. And Arena. And ArenaU. And Q.
Honestly I think I'm looking forward to the Vita spinoff more than P5. Replaying the RPGs is a real pain in the ass due to all the grinding. And having to sit through all of the same long-ass dialogs again.
Okay... so you don't know what the word "ethics" means.
What you're talking about is disposition... IE how serious or relaxed or open-minded or whatever someone is... and that's not cultural, it's personal. You'll meet just as many uptight, ultraliteral, humorless pissants in downtown New Delhi as you will in Taipe or the Upper East Side.
Travel the world a bit and you'll soon realize that culture is largely affectation, and ...
Wasn't there a WiiU port of X? That might stand a (snowball's) chance (in hell).
I don't really think I know what you're point is.
That cultural attitudes can effect how well a game is received, I guess? But then you say some crap about Americans and bring up ethics... which I don't get at all. Do you think cultural attitudes and ethics are somehow intrinsic? They're not.
"Oh, no, I saved X money when I could have saved Y money" isn't really much of a downside.