Personally I'd recommend waiting a few more years before moving to SSDs to allow them to iron the issues out and for better prices. They're nice but they do have some issues so if you are getting one, be sure to do your homework first to see if they're worth it for you. On the other hand, HDDs are considerably cheaper space wise and are much more reliable than they once were. I haven't had a HDD fail on me in a long long time.
I like manuals. I live a good ways from the nearest city and a trip there usually means shopping all day. Often I'll grab a couple games early in the day since groceries and other perishable supplies need to come last. Often times I'll pop open a couple games and stick the manuals in my pocket to read while having lunch and dinner. That's something I'll certainly miss.
On the other hand, games these days are usually so simple, dumb down and straight forwar...
What ever system is the best is purely subjective to each individual gamer's experience. I wish people would stop approving fanboy bait.
I'm interested in this game, but only if it doesn't turn out to be another mindless zombie hacker. Personally I'm getting a little sick of those. It would be nice if the game occasionally required you to do some thinking. And please Naughtydog, no more Sullys, I may have to put up with foul mouth idiots in the real world, it would be nice to not have to deal with them when gaming.
Interesting article. At least some of those forms of DRM where oblivious to the legal gamer. Since pirates have always been able to get around DRM, it seems that the schemes used nowadays do nothing but punish the honest gamers.
I just wish Square-Enix would get back into creating good single player RPG experiences. The market is just so over saturated with MMOs that I can't see how anything but the very best of the genre can survive for long.
Square_Enix needs to stop depending on the Final Fantasy name to sell games and start actually making good games again.
Originally this was going to be a day one or very close to it purchase, but when I heard about the online pass, I decided to pass (pun intended.) I'll give this game another look when the GOTY edition comes out to see if anythings changed. In the meantime, there's lots of other good stuff coming out for me to spend my hard earned money on.
I agree with EverydayGuy above, there are a lot of times when I purchased a used game that I never would have gotten new and ende...
Being a fan of the genre, I've been playing around with the idea of getting an Xbox over the last several months so I could play some of the JRPGs that were exclusive to the system.
I'd really like to try Tales of Vesperia and Lost Odyssey.
I've played FF XIII on the PS3 and Last Remnant on the PC and can't say I was too impressed with either of them though. It seems to me that there are better games that could have made this list.
I fully agree with this article. This was one of the games the I was looking forward too, but when I heard about the online pass, this game went from a day one purchase to a maybe purchase once the price goes down.
The sad thing about this is that it is only going to get worse if gamers support it. It won't be long until 40% to 50% of new games are locked in such a way. This punishing the honest gamer for the sins of the less than honest gamer has been going on for a w...
A games quality should have nothing to do with the popularity of the platform it's on. It just seems like he's making lame excuses for his team's incompetence. Not to mention that it's hard to take him seriously when the immature language he's using makes him sound like a frustrated teenager.
I enjoyed Stalker COP, but won't be getting this. I decided back when Ubisoft started pulling this crap, I wouldn't buy any single player game that did this. There's enough good games out there from companies that don't do this so it's not really a problem to just go without the games of the companies that do.
As a long time Elderscroll fan, I have to say that I've been a bit concerned about Skyrim myself. While I'm excited about the game, every announcement from Bethesda seems to mention either changing or removing long established features of the series. While I did enjoy Oblivion and have it both for my PC and PS3, (pc so I can enjoy the mods and PS3 for when I want to relax in an easy chair with a controller,) IMHO it was still not in the class of Morrowind, which still remains my sta...
I know I don't want it. Personally I think 3D this gen has been for the most part a gimmick to get people who have perfectly fine HDTVs to buy new TVs.
Or in the video game market, to get people to re-buy games they already brought.
Interesting selection in this list. Nice to read a list that covers a wide selection of genres, rather than mostly featuring FPS like many do.
No, I like to physically own the games I buy too and I also don't like having to depend on the internet to play single play games either. Deals like this though make you wonder if they are doing as well as the boast.
I'll take my hardware over OnLive any day. I prefer to buy retail, but at least with digital purchases, downloading stuff to my hard drives on the PS3 and PC, I can entertain the delusion that I own it, but OnLive seems to leave the consumer with no rights at all.
I was a bit surprised at this until I realized that they were switching over EA accounts. Probably the majority of them came from people who made an account to register The Sims and don't even know that they are now registered with Origin.
I have no desire to give access to my account out to other people, be it friends or otherwise, but we were considering getting another PS3 for keeping in a different room. I won't be too happy if I can't play my PSN purchases on both machines. I'm starting to wonder if it might be better not to buy anything on PSN and stick only with discs.
Personally I don't like 3D, it gives me a headache and I know I'm not the only one. Until they find a way to do it that doesn't put a heavy strain on the eyes, I can't really see it becoming mainstream, at least for video games.
It's one thing in a hour and a half long movie, but a completely different thing when you're doing a 5-6 hour gaming session.
Handheld gaming is very popular in Japan, but the video game market there is mostly children.
Here in the US where a good chunk of the video game market is adults, whom studies have shown to prefer large consoles (and smart phones on the go,) I think Nintendo would be wise to put some serious effort behind their up coming WiiU Console.