It's a better game now than at launch.
But still not a very good one.
FFXIV is barely able to maintain a community free-to-play: I find it laughable that they're expecting to bring back the subscription fees when (if) the console version launches.
FFXIV was clearly a (comparatively) low-budget, rushed title when it launched. Most developers would have let it fail quietly. Square Enix, however, keeps throwing money at the problem hopin...
I'm especially fond of how Sony isn't including any internal memory storage, forcing us to use prorpietary memory cards, and then charging through the roof.
Wanna buy a PS Vita? $250.
Wanna buy a PS Vita w/ 3G? Add another $50 + $12/month.
Wanna buy a PS Vita with PSP b/c? Add another $140.
Remember back when everyone thought the PS Vita was competitively priced? I spent $250 on a 3DS... and if I want a Vita that's at all able to p...
Maybe. Maybe not. It's entirely possible the PC version will look exactly like the PS3/360 versions, even on max settings.
Ever wonder why the first mods for bethesda games are always better textures and weather/environmental effects?
Not that I mind, of course. Skyrim actually looks good, as-is. Don't really care much for having to pay $60 for a PC game. Anyone know if the disc version will be the same as Steam version? (Like CivV, where you buy the ...
Rather than unforgiving, I'd say it's difficult... and I'd say that the difficulty is artificial. Most of the "difficulty" comes from the fact that you have so little health--no matter where you are in the game, only 1-3 hits will kill you dead.
So to play the game, you have to play slowly--to notice and avoid enemies and to learn where their hiding spots are. The actual gameplay is very simple, and intuitive (and easy). Something that I would not have e...
Another remake?
Where's my Ys VIII?
*yawn*
Localization, please.
Yeah.
And disappointing info, too.
Particularly the fact that no version of the Vita will include a memory card. And the pricing for memory cards (which, unlike the SD Pro Duo, will ONLY be manufactured by Sony this time around).
So after paying $300 for a Vita, a decent memory card will run another $120.
No one needs to play those games this September. They're old. We should have played them both already.
The lack of Disgaea 4 is far, far more disturbing.
What I'm getting at is that I disagree with your opinion. By quite a large marigin. I found SC2 to be soulless and shallow, and a major disappointment compared to the first to SC games.
As for RTS games today, Total War, Europa Universalis, Rise of Nations, and a thousand other games all would like to have a word.
Very true. PSN+ is completely and utterly worthless. I can't believe there are people out there dumb enough to fall for it.
I don't really see the appeal of minecraft.
Sure, you can build big environments... but the look terrible. Sure, it may be a bit more tedious, but I have a lot more fun building stuff with Google SketchUp.
Kinda like how the 3DS got a half-assed port of SMT: Devil Survivor, but the DS is getting Devil Surivor 2 this Winter?
Yeah, it's backwards, but it's nice to see software support for old platforms not suddenly dying, as has been the case with other (non-Sony) platforms.
Huh. Yeah. That's about Tierkreis' level... would even a simple high-resolution patch and retexture job would still look bad, given the simplicity of the models.
It would pretty much have to be a remake. Though I would expect something more along the lines of P3P--using 2D backgrounds and a zoomed out camera-angle so as many of the old 3D assets could be re-used as possible.
It'd have to be. Don't know much about Tales of Innocence, but no matter whether or not it's 2D or 3D, it would have to be completely remade. If it's 3D, the models would be far too blocky on the Vita, and if it were 2D, the sprites would be displaying at something like 1/3rd the Vita's resolution, and would thus have to be redrawn.
Or they could just increase the size 50% and add a blur effect (like Disgaea 3).
Exactly. No one is demanding freebies from Nintendo.
People are demanding Nintendo stop acting like asses and get back to what they used to be good at--giving us the games we want to play.
Huh. Cool. Always loved monks in Shadows of Amn.
Of course, I'd be lying if I didn't say that Starcraft 2 killed off my enthusiasm for Blizzard games just as thoroughly as Revenge of the Sith did for Star Wars.
Gotta love how you see this in every creative medium: the people bereft of creativity are always so quick to claim that there's no such thing as originality, that nothing is ever new, etc., etc.
They use it to excuse the fact that they can't dream up a new idea themselves (or recognize original ideas when they see 'em) but completely fail to realize the concept works even better as an argument against all forms of creative expression, period.
I was thinking, "Probably another ho-hum updated. I hope there's at least something cool for Disgaea 4."
Then I saw it.
"Ace Combat: Assault horizon."
I think that's the first time in my life my mouth fell open out of pure surprise.
Was not expecting that at all.
Jesus Christ on a stick.
What time does the PSN usually update in NA? I want to download me some AC ASA...
Not much chance? Zero chance. Microsoft paid for permanent, exclusive international distribution rights.
Easily one of the biggest "**** YOU!" to gamers in a generation boiling over with giant "**** YOU!"s.
Of course graphics matter. People who dismiss graphics entirely are just as bad (and just as casual) as people who dismiss everything BUT graphics.
And as for Nintendo abandoning core gamers... yeah. They did. In the SNES-era. Core gamers are not Nintendo's core demographic. Nintendo's core demographic is comprised of casual gamers, and nostalgia gamers.
The only time post-SNES that Nintendo has managed to appeal to core gamers was with the NDS... and...