I thought the general consensus was that the franchise started to "go wrong" with the second game, where it abandoned the whole "horror game" aspect that made the first game such a success in favor of more generic action combat aesthetics.
I gave up on it because after trying to get through it several times, as I'd always reach a point where the 100% guide said I should have X% of the game completed, and I'd only have Y% instead.
I could use a good excuse to play through it again.
You know, since I can't play the disc I own in my PS3, and won't be able to play it in a PS4, either. (Of course, the PS3 version will be unplayable next gen, too).
In two decades of gaming across all platforms, I've had to deal with far more issues on consoles. Crashing, freezing, etc.
Thing is, if something is broken with a PC game, there's the potential to fix it--to work around it. Either on your own, with community help, third party tools, or via developer patching. But with console games? You can really only hope developers fix the issues in a patch, and even then, that's only THIS generation.
Did everyone else go to a stereoptypical 1980s high school?
I almost feel bad that my school wasn't segregated into social classes like that. ~__~
Look everyone: it's a circle-jerk.
This article is hitbaiting garbage. Notice what all the commenters--the ones talking about what a great article this is--have in common? Aside from not having avatars, and only recently making accounts?
Here's a hint: they're all shills Gamerhub.tv. (They only submit Gamerhub stories; only comment on Gamerhub stories).
What, you thought no one would notice this obscene masturbatory nonsense? Cons...
Okay... here's the long and short of it.
Cavia split off from AQ Interactive in 2005 to make games.
Cavia was re-absorbed back into AQ Interactive in 2010.
(AQ Interactive remained as the 'parent company' for Cavia).
In 2011, AQ Interactive merged with Marevelous Entertainment to become Marvelous AQL inc. They produced games like Rune Factory 4 and Fate/Extra CCC.
Drakengard 3 is being developed b...
Not a fan of the Aliens franchise, but it seems pretty obvious to me that the problem is that the Aliens setting works best for survival-horror type gameplay (as humans) and/or stealth hunting gameplay (as aliens).
Shoehorning the setting into generic shooter territory will always fail, no matter who the developer is. Best case scenario for Colonial Marines was a cheap Halo knock-off.
Hopefully this reboot/re-imagining/prequel gets its own sequels. It's hands down awesome.
Hopefully.
Most Japanese developers have much smaller development teams and budgets. This means they have to carefully allocate resources: do they spend X amount of time and money making games look pretty as the expense of gameplay, or Y amount of time and money making gameplay and narrative and sound awesome at the expense of texture resolution, animation quality and visual effects?
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This isn't just a sequel to a niche PS2 RPG series. It's from the same deve...
@xursz: I'm not saying Sony hasn't done good things DD-wise, their DD has been getting worse with each new piece of hardware.
Let's look at the limitations:
Playstation 3:
-Can only view Video files on one PS3.
-Can only play games on five PS3s.
-Downgrade: can only play games on three PS3s.
Playstation Vita:
-Can only link one account per Vita without buying overpriced peripherals.
-Can onl...
I'd cry if Sony started handling Digital Distribution as well as Steam, instead of doing progressively worse with each new piece of hardware.
Tears of ****ing joy.
@omnitool: except it often is personal, as people use the agree/disagree thing incorrectly--specifically, statements of fact.
Just a word to the unwary: don't bother with the article. If they can't manage to get their facts straight in the first sentence, the rest simply isn't worth your time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...
It's objectification of women. That's misogyny.
Sexism is discrimination or prejudice.
Before you accuse someone else of not understanding something, make sure YOU know what the hell you're talking about.
No one knows what the ESRB scale means.
Replace it w/ the movie scale (which I believe is completely analagous) and the problem would vanish.
It's not sexist. It's misogynist. There's a difference.
And is it a big deal? No. Not at all. It's maybe kind of a deal, I suppose, if analyzing misogyny in pop-culture is your thing.
...Well, duh.
With that M rating from the ESRB for every game in the series, it's fairly obvious.
I think Golf games (and Tennis games) are among the only sports games worth anything / the only sports games with the potential of ever being good... because they typically simulate the experience of playing, rather than watching.
So, er, what I'm getting at is that Sports games may have an abyssmal reputation thanks to EA and all the Football/Baseball/Basketball/S occer titles released in the past several decades, but that kind of nonsense doesn't malign every sports...
Vita really needs some content organization options--you know, folders.
Or, at the very least, more tabs. I think the OS limits you to something like 8 tabs, so if you've got a 32GB card and a lot of games (like me), coupled with a rudimentary sense of aesthetic sensibility, you end up running out of space.
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And speaking of folders, was anyone else happy to see Nintendo add folder options in that old 3DS update, but then get really sad...
Remember gamers: if your console is selling well, it has the best games; if it's not selling well, it has zero games and you should be ashamed for owning it.
So, congratulations, Japanese 3DS owners! You're no longer shameful pieces of trash!