Chris399

I don't know what this article is going on about. It was definitely more than just an upscaled game, looked very cartoonish (as most Tales do), but stylized and fun. Only real difference that I saw between F and Vesperia were minor environmental detail and hair design.

They're really our only hope at this point. At least one of them should be able to pull the rights from those stodgy buggers.

and correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't their last financials not so hot?

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They'll be putting their focus on marketing dollars for 3DS Resident Evil and the DMC reboot. There are very few companies who "care" about the type of material that they present and most of them rarely turn an...

But JRPGs and niche Japan-centric titles.

That was sarcasm btw.

And as an aside, it's pretty clear that there is a significant lack of originality in the games sector these days. Most publishers back games that they think will sell, not what they think is the most creative.

Look at how stagnant and repetitive the MMO market is, where everything is a WOW clone (which is just an EQ clone). Little has changed in over a decade.

Nor as efficient or advanced. I'm fairly certain you didn't examine all angles of your argument fully. Look at how bulky a gameboy was (using your example) and then add telecommunication tech from a decade ago. You'd be carrying around something the size of a laptop or larger.

I will be checking it out, as it appeals to my - Otaku - tastes and is made by Cyberconnect.

That said, I can see this missing the market and going right over most reviewers' heads.

it's too obscure and the Eastern elements will be frowned upon by the Western media. Sci-fi without space marines just won't go over well.

People (including reviewers) are relatively set in their perspectives at this point. Bayoneta and Vanquish were exceptions, not the rule, nor the start of a trend. See: Binary Domain for further examples of Japanese/ Western games that just miss the mark.

I would never even have known about the title if it wasn't offered to me (literally). PS+ has been great for expanding my gaming palette :)

You need to make your trolling a bit more stealthy. See: Omega for how to troll with subtlety.

For $50 a year I've gotten: 4 PSX classics ($5.99 each), 5 Minis ($2.50ish each), 6 full games ($9.99 and up each) and numerous dynamic themes, avatars, digital magazines (Qore) and discounts. It's not some b.s. rewards program, it actually gives me content. A tremendous amount of content. And that's not including all the content that I opt out of (which is well over...

we can see it's about as graphically capable as a PSP. That's not a knock, but people get way too excited at times. The 3DS will sell on the strength of it's unique feature set and it's typical Nintendo appeal. Their products are rarely bleeding edge.

The only things I disliked about the DS were the lack of an analog stick (fixed) and it's crude graphics (also fixed). PSP level graphics are sufficient for a handheld, considering the smaller screen and ...

The tree models are 2D cutouts placed across one another, and the older race models with their 10 haircuts/ faces and sausage fingers don't even hold up to Free to Play standards anymore. Nor do they mesh with the newer races at all (where you can tell more care and modern techniques have been used). They get points for artistic design, but the character models are way overdue for an update.

There's some of us who have been playing the game since vanilla and can see...

but I'd like to point out that Move uses something like 6 MB of RAM and can be integrated in less than 2 weeks into a title (there's a Dr. Richard Marks interview that I'm too lazy to find atm that covers this). Kinect requires games built from the ground up to incorporate it's functionality. It takes almost no effort to add Move to a title (see: Ruse or Dead Space 2 or whatever that EA golf game was that got released not too long ago). So critical sales mass aside, MS has...

I should have played through a bit of my backlog by then. Too many damn RPGs next year. Two Worlds 2, Ar Tonelico 3, Neptune, Zill O'll, FF XIV, Dragon Age 2, DCUO. That's all in the first quarter too.

That should keep me busy till WKC2 and Guild Wars 2 :)