Right. The last 6 months totally didn't count.
...I seem to recall many similar arguments from the playground in 1st grade.
Gotta love the characterization. I figured it'd be easy to choose, but this game really does great job of presenting difficult choices, and making the player think. It's very refreshing.
I haven't been this pleased the the immersive choices of a game since The Witcher. Here's hoping the team takes this experience and uses it to craft an even better next game--I'm up for a new Persona, how 'bout you?
My only real gripe is that the dicho...
I have to take a bit of issue with that.
Nintendo did not abandon core gamers with the Wii. They alienated core gamers with a number of very poor hardware and firmware design choices, and with their advertising campaign.
The main betrayals of core gamers are all very recent--screwing over early adopters of the 3DS, not bothering to support the Wii in North America, persisting with their (frankly retarded) archaic stance on digital distribution with the WiiU a...
Not all of 'em, though. The Brain Age games that came with the DSi XL aren't recognized by the transfer tool, and the 3DS-->DSi transfer utility is "coming soon."
Which is a sort of odd-acknowledgment on Nintendo's part that there are plenty of people out there who don't think the 3DS is a worthy replacement for their DSis.
That's more of a false positive. General common-sense is better security--don't save your credit card info on a console (or a PC, for that matter--convenience be damned). It's not smart.
That minor upside does nothing to account for the many, many negatives. I currently own two PS3s, and don't know what I'd do if I couldn't move content from one to the other. My sister really wants a Wii for herself, but I'd rather get her a DS--because most of the...
In terms of narrative? No.
In terms of gameplay? Only if they introduce a leveling system, and/or make combat more active.
Only they're not doing that, so the final answer is one big whopping NO.
Vita has any more gimmicks.
It's quite clear that neither Sony nor Nintendo have any idea what they want their platforms to be, and just want to toss in as many gimmicks as they can, hoping that they'll get lucky with something as innovative and popular as the DS's touch screen, somehow managing to ignore the fact that the Wii's own motion-control "gimmick" ended up being largely ignored.
The problems with the 3DS are several.
...Gotta love how, at the core of this "20 free games" thing is Nintendo basically confirming that there will be ZERO crossover between platforms for digital products.
In other words, you can play Final Fantasy or SMB3 on your 3DS and your Wii... if you buy it twice. It's really pathetic that Nintendo is STILL managing to completely fail at digital distribution. A failure made all the more painful by how well Sony has handled it, and has been handling it for the...
By all accounts, this is just a lite anime cash-in title, whereas NUNS was a fairly solid game. As for three free episodes... well, the value of that depends on how much of a Bleach fan you are. And to be quite honest, I thought the last few years of the manga managed to kill most of the love people initially had for the series.
Indeed. Like many games, it has some grating faults and flaws, but it's still so much better than anything else in gaming history, it's hard to focus on the bad, let alone acknowledge it.
Here's hoping Uncharted 3 lived up to its predecessors!
And that Amy Hennig gets off her ass and posts here LoK story notes on the Internet....
It will probably mean nothing. I can't see Sony backpedaling on Vita's price point.
Though, arguably, Vita was priced to be more appealing than the 3DS, so they really ought to rethink it. $145 for wifi, $190 for 3G would be just about perfect, but by the time that happens the 3DS will be selling for $120.
If you're interested, I'd suggest waiting at least a month. Odds are it'll be on a special sale for some retailers for $40 or so inside a month, and by December it'll be a $20 title.
It's been three years. Another Persona by this time next year isn't exactly out of the question.
I honestly never cared for bosses. I'd much rather have more variation of regular enemies and more interesting area design. Or, here's an idea--better A.I. The average A.I. in games today is scarcely any better than it was 15 years ago--that's pathetic.
Creating bosses by inflating HP bars, adding QTEs, or giving them "weak point puzzles" and forcing the player to repeat the same action multiple times was a cheap, gimmicky way of creating an illusion of ...
So Catherine is here! Yay!
....
Okay, I'm done with it. Persona 5, please.
It hasn't been the best of years, either.
Ever since the Wii was released, core gamers have felt more and more alienated/betrayed by each of Nintendos actions. Sometimes those feelings were justified, sometimes they weren't, but Nintendo has done nothing to respond the the growing resentment.
Now, it's catching up to them.
3rd party support for the eShop should be the smallest of Nintendo's 3rd party concerns.
Their chief problem lies with convincing 3rd party developers and publishers to put games on the 3DS, in spite of the low sales, increasingly negative publicity, and higher development costs.
The price drop may go a ways toward motivating publishers to fund 3DS games, but the biggest hurdle is still there--higher development costs. Nintendo could easily fix that probl...
We're not overreacting at all.
Over the while, Nintendo has betrayed core gamers--the very demographic that kept them in business for more than two decades--time and time again.
In the past few months alone, they've gotten even worse. I assume you've heard the expression about burning bridges? Right now Nintendo may be has the absolute lowest reputation of the big three, and that's saying one helluva lot. The consumers that Nintendo has reject...
...Apparently more people would rather see new games that are shitty.
Gotta love the twats on N4G, huh?
First batch of Dynasty Warriors Gundam 3 DLC is supposed to be out tomorrow, too.
IIRC, it will include 2 DLC missions and Weaboo-san's mobile suit.
Gotta love how NB waits until virtually ~none~ of the fans who bought the game care about the DLC any more.