Currently spending precious gaming time on (read: Not enough time in the world)
1. Dragon Age: Origins..finally done!! will never trade-in..going back for seconds..eventually
2. Bayonetta (Wow)..
3. Mass Effect (Replaying to alter my dumb decisions before the sequel drop..and have now realized that the old game is still untouchable)
4.God of War collection..Love it..will time it to be done with both before GOW3
5. For...
I love how Aaron brings out the absolute worst in people by expressing positive state of the 360..
Why not concentrate on what the 360 did well throughout the year..
Software sales and withstanding the amazing sales of what essentially was a brand new console from Sony.
It is what it is..
Evil
LOL @ Halo Haters who repeat the samer stuff about ODST over and over...but never played the game..
Easily one of the best games of 2009. Halo fans F-ing loved the game..because that's who the game was catered to..the fans..
And when September rolls around..we will be back..
Loved Halo wars and loved ODST..played Firefight for hours on end..although I wish it was a part of matchmaking..
The best part was watching people like Hip Hop ...
Sony pulled the ultimate chess move with Slim and it payed off with it's best holiday..
But, amazingly Microsoft withstood it all and still posted a million+ December.
The 360 community still posted great numbers in software sales..even with the mass hate that Left 4 Dead 2 got ALL year.
Just as I predicted early..PS3 owners proved that the FPS is the number one genre for it's platform too.
And even with the great numbers..the haters...
GRAW 1 and 2..Rainbow Six Vegas 1 and 2..are still four of the best games this generation..period!
I absolutely can't wait for the next Ghost Recon..Ubisoft was pushing polygon miracles at the 360's launch..can't wait to see what the war vets come up with now
I love this year!!
Evil
My prediction of every site that has ever had a negative 360 article will spend the next 8-9 months spinning the negative Reach and Natal articles over and over and over..
We had 3 in the last 3 days and the count will be over a 100 by the end of the year..
Natal negative spin tactic # 1:
Compare it to any add-on or peripheral that has failed in any generation of gaming.
This time Sega CD..not even in the same ballpark..I owned a Seg...
Not only do I get some breathing room..
Still playing Dragon Origins with a sprinkle of Forza 3...
*stops playing to spend two weeks on the first Mass Effect..I need REX back!*
Jan 26th..Gaming heaven..Mass Effect 2
follows with
Dantes Inferno
GOW 3 (still needs to open GOD of war collection)
Final Fantasy XIII
if time permits..finally buying
Bayonetta and Darksiders
...
It will all be based on what Natal does for the sales of the 360.
If it is a massive success and the experince really can't be duplicated then you Microsoft will wait until after the holidays of 2012 to pull out the new system.
If Natal fails to ignite and the economy is back to pre-recession strength expect next years E3 to be the unveiling of the 720 w/ Natal 2.0.
Either way you may be looking at a sold through install base of 60 million+ by then fo...
Yeah..I knew that Crystal got the gig because of how they handled the previous TB release..
But, I always wanted Tomb Raider Anniversary because they revisited the old levels and supposedly added an updated spin on them.
Havent seen Meta's score but the game seemed to review well in the mags.
Top 3 ORIGINAL Tomb Raider memories
1. Being absolutely astonished when controlling Laura Croft for the first time
2. tie.. Seeimg the T-Rex for the first time..diving off of the waterfall.
- Trying to pull off the nude code for a half an hour and then realizing it was a fake (confirmed later)
RIP Core or wherever the restructuring takes you
(I really need to finally grab that Tomb Raider Anniversary)
Who c...
Once again proof positive..article just shows 'scans' of the magazine and N4G.com has it at 300+ coments deep.
The internet is on fire once more...
All just simple indications on why Reach will dominate the planet earth (at least the gamers who own 360s) when it drops in September.
It begins.
Evil
Halo 3..8.1 million in 4 months when the 360 had 11 million total.
MW2..8 million+..with 360 having an install base of 39 Million total.
HALO REACH..drops in September w/ the Xbox have it's largest installation in the history of the Xbox.
Halo 3 has a rabid fan base that still has over a million playing it online everyday.
HALO REACH is guaranteed to have the largest launch of 2010 w/ 1000s of fans purchasing the game during midight ...
LOL @ it only being January..we got a loooong road of Natal hate ahead of us.
It's for the casual market..Get over it!
Xbox 360 owners have friends and family that will NOT be playing Halo Reach and Mass Effect 2..it's for them
Just because the Wii sold to a zillion folks.doesnt mean there isnt a market out there on other consoles. (ask Sony)
Whether, Microsoft ultimately succeeds or fails with Natal, the fact that they are getting b...
Gran Tursmo 5 has got to be the favorite to beat out God of War 3 for the top selling exclusive for the PS3.
The truth is Reach will outsell Gran Turismo 5 by millions..
I've been saying this since the first early details of Reach and now even in the first month of the year you see how Reach has already infiltrated the gaming community's psyche in a major way.
Halo Reach is the 300 pound gorilla in the room for the industry. The stars have aligned to make it dominate sales in easily one the greatest gaming year in the history of this generation.
Just try to wrap your head around why Halo Reach stands above the fray.
Halo ...
We can shut this all down by comparing the very last time Halo and Gran Turismo did MONSTER numbers..again my WHOLE point is you have to actually take the sales in context to THAT particuliar gen to get the full breadth of the actual success of the title.
Gran Turismo is a BEAST of a franchise..but the last time it did HUGE numbers was Gran Turismo 4..but let's look a little deeper than sales
Gran Turismo 4
- Gran Turismo 4 has a lifetime sales of ...
Lmao @ bringing up last generation numbers up in 2010..
Facts..
We all had PS2s back then and The GT series was the grand daddy and sole owner of the console racing sim market..you can't take nothing away from it..
But this isn't the PS2 days of glory.and when you find out shockingly that Gran Turismo 5 doesn't sell like it dod in the 90s..please don't say we didn't tell you so..because we did
No one is even pretending Halo is as storied or ...
@ Guido
ODST is at almost 5 million now..it'll eat up Prologue by spring..in fact it might outpace it before the winter is out..wait till the beta is released..the scramble for new and used will be on..
The funniest part of the Gran Turismo sales comparisons is it was all last generation on a system that had an install base that only the Wii has a chance to touch in this gen.
Notice how quickly they pretend ODST is an indication of Reach sales but Prologue isn't an indication of GT5's upcoming sales.
Gamers are not stupid..they know the difference between Halo Wars, Halo ODST, and Reach. If they don't..believe me they will after E3...
The top selling ga...
What they say about 360 fans losing bubbles for no reason on N4G.com is absolutely true.
This is a perfect example of how trolls on this site mysteriously with 10 bubbles can continue to roll through..while commenting about playing BOTH PS3 and 360 games allows a bubble to be lost.
Classic
Evil