You have some interesting ideas, but overall your article is lacking depth while trying to push an agenda (your own). Comparing Sega to Sony is a glaring error. Sega had neither the resources or development to recover from their mistakes. As we can see from the disastrous PS3 launch, Sony does. They can put out a dud product or two - original Eyetoy, PSP Go - without it crippling their business.
The playstation suite is genius. As are the ideas about portable gaming and multi...
Spouting off nonsense about a GAME THAT YOU HAVE NEVER PLAYED AND LIKELY NEVER WILL. I've clocked about 35 hours into the game at this point, as have two people on my PSN list and guess what WE ALL LOVE IT. I played three demos (2 Japanese, 1 NA) and watched every piece of media on the game before I received a physical copy and nothing about it screamed flop. In fact these brief tastes only cemented my anticipation for what I felt would be an awesome game.
Guess what? I...
you seem to have little interest in video games, so you enjoying RoF comes as a suprise. Maybe its on account of all the guns and shooting of things in that game. Perhaps you should join a fight club or something to channel all your rage.
I'm flattered that you're thread stalking me, btw.
(who was quoting some rhetoric about the two abysmal 3s Trinity has received and the oh-so-holy Metacritic average) before I ran out of bubbles, Metacritic is a WEIGHTED average, so some people's opinions matter more than others - significantly more in some cases. That shouldn't be the case with something as subjective to personal opinions as reviews.
Not to mention that the chances of a niche-loving reviewer at the average media outlet are slim. So the fact that peo...
A reviewer should be able to maintain SOME degree of impartiallity when examining his subject. You're not reviewing a niche game for yourself, but for it's target audience.
Jim does not have that ability. Not in the slightest. Again, Jim makes himself the odd man out here. The game is averaging 7s from people who don't even like the genre. A 3 is something untouchable and unplayable, which Trinity is not. Let's not forget he gave Deadly Premonitions a 10.
He's a professional who makes utterly polarizing, sensational reviews. People are allowed to question that.
Didn't you rave about Atelier Rorona? That game is fun, but I after a while I felt like I should have been a 12 year old girl to fully enjoy it.
Different strokes for different folks, I guess.
He clearly hates them, unless they're as pretentious and inflated as he is (see: Enslaved).
This is White Knight Chronicles all over again. Oh well, I'm loving the game and THAT is what matters.
when all you're making is shovelware with avatars.
(Demon's Souls/ Lost Odyssey style) I love when Japanese devs do a retake on classic - Tolkeinien or European - fantasy. I'll take one of those styled games over loli/ teen anime JRPGs anyday. That said, JRPGs are a rare species, so I'll take what I can get :) I'm not trolling the 4chan boards or anything, but I definitely have a fascination with Japanese culture, language and their unique RPGs.
Hyperdimension N has been delayed by a week or so (according to...
It's a pretty fantastic title for those who are into the genre and I don't feel it's had much coverage or user-feedback yet. I was posting a buyer's comment on Amazon and it sorta spiraled out of control into a full on review thought I'd post it here :)
There are enough locations to keep things fresh, the world map is rather large. Different groups of enemies spawn each time you enter a location (I've seen up to 5 variants in one place), with totally different mobs, treasure and layouts.
So its not as if you're grinding the same enemies endlessly. You can also re-explore areas once you've acquired new modes of mobility to unlock hidden treasures, quests and bosses.
Save over $100 that way.
This article is mostly a hate piece, my only gripe is the (real, not initial) price.
Some fluff titles, cheap action or FPS stuff, games you grab for $10 and play in a weekend, I don't keep around. It just messes up the "look" of my collection :)
If you think that these people don't have some measure of influence and ego that they like to exert whenever possible, you should read more Jim Sterling.
As is the standard. The reviewers hype and heap praise upon a certain game and we rush out and buy it like the good little sheep we are. Only on this occasion, we did not. And so they rage.
If that was the case, why didn't the 360 crowd gobble it up? Oh, right all they play is CoD. (See what sort of logic blind assumptions breed?)
I passed on Enslaved because the demo was tripe and I couldn't fathom paying full price for two hours of cinematics dressed up with some ramshackle action/ platforming: for a $70 price tag, no less.
Is it so unthinkable that the game just wasn't that good? I mean you have critics praising CoD to high heave...
and completely under-estimated both the Wii and 360 (by a couple hundred thousand each) in November.
This isn't about console-wars or preference, but the dude just isn't reliable.
But let's simmer the hype down a bit till we see, I dunno... An in-game trailer? More than 10 doctored up (as they all are) screenshots/ bullshots? There are lots of other AAA titles releasing this year. Deus Ex, Dragon Age 2, ME: 3, Uncharted 3. Lots of GOTY contenders.
I also expect that Skyrim will be filled with bugs as ALL Bethesda games are. Don't know how a game that has to be patched numerous times, freezes or erases saves (Fallout 3, for example) can be co...
Sony has the NGP, tablet (rumored), Ericsson Phone and every other current gent Android smartphone in the world.
Its about the distribution. NGP could still get outsold 2:1 by Nintendo and it wouldn't matter one bit if PS Suite is a hit.