But a prequel is different; there is little room for discovery, mystery or surprises.
But that’s just my general dislike of prequels in any medium. I didn’t like Star Wars prequels or the BattleStar Galactic prequel and not looking forward to the Hobbit, the only one I liked was the Star Trek movie because of the time travel twist.
Wow... that’s a bit of an overreaction. He's taking this stuff very seriously.
It would be great if it had the style of Shadow Complex, I just want one pure old school Meteroid.
Pleas Nintendo just one.
Hmm... It seems the metric goes down a bit for every Halo sequel.
It seems the storytelling has improved, the only problem for me is I don’t like prequels, we already know what will happen, Reach falls, Spartans die -1.
The Wii probably has the worst ever attach rate for hardcore games.
For me even 7 is a good score, I just want an un-hyped honest opinion.
A lot of more 8s than I thought, maybe that’s what it will amount to when we all get sober.
Comparing KZ with Halo is making it more popular than it is.
Why don’t people talk about FF6? I'm I too old? A shame it doesn't get rereleased, it had the best set of characters in FF games, and their wasn't a main character, everyone had a spotlight.
WTF?!
sorry ment 3&4
FF games only changed mechanics, they didn’t evolve and expand the experience, SE peaked at Chrono Trigger and FF6, and then the games advanced only in graphics and regressed in gameplay. Their were some exceptions like Vagrant Story, but very few. Before the merger there was always some fresh new RPG between FF games like Parasite Eve, Vagrant Story, Xenugears, FF tactics. But now they hardly pay attention to anything other than FF DQ and KH, imagine what a classic game Nier would have been ...
Scores these days range from 6-10, reviewers only score 5 and under to make a statement or insult the developers. That’s why some (ridiculously) argue about a .2 or .5 difference in score.
Imagine what Persona5 would look like running on the Catherin game engine, and Level 5 are making a great beautiful looking game in Ni Nu Kuni. And the new Tales game for the PS3 is taking the series to a new graphical level.
And don’t forget this generation already bright great JRPGs like Lost Odyssey, Tales of Vesperia and Valkuria Chronicles, so JRPG lovers don’t need to hang their hopes on SE anymore.
BioWere and Bethsaida and Atlus are the ones advancing the RPG genre, SE is suffering from lack of vision for some years.
Too many FPS games this year and early 2011, even if it's multiplatform, it will maybe sell 2-4m units.
The problem is in the manner of the review, whether it's an official mag or not, it has to respect the reader, and it just hurts the credibility of the score, they shouldn't give Halo Reach special treatment, it doesn't need it. It's like helping an A student cheat.
The 360 did have a good 2010 but so did the PS3 and the PS3 wins it by a game or 2.
@Alpha-Male22
MS had a cold 2008; they may have another cold year in 2011 and focus on Kinect.
@IcarusOne
No racing game can be more encompassing than GT5
Ni no kuni on PS3 is my no1, studio Chilbi+ Level5's a game (hopefully), it even has a world map and towns, remember those?
And the Wichter2 is my no2, console gamers don’t know what their missing with this game.
As long as it's not on-rails for 30 hours I don't care.
Man… the Japanese get a lot of interesting and cool stuff, wish they would loosen up and just give all their games English language support and story subtitles, it can't be hard, games released in Europe support over 10 languages.