Tales of Xillia didn't come out in the west and doesn't even have any western reviews. Same goes for Ni no kuni (unless you're talking about the DS version which already came out in 2010).
So you're left with Xenoblade (which is a Wii exclusive) and disgaea 4 (which is a PS3 exclusive). You need to have two specific consoles to play these two games. Oh, and you also have White Knight Chronicles II on the PS3 - which is a proper contender for the term "bombed"...
UE engine worked amazingly well for Lost Odyssey, which is a beautifully looking Japanese art style game and one of the nicest JRPGs this gen.
They may have developed the Crystal tools internally, but considering the time it took them to develop FFXIII it seems pretty ineffective. Last Remanat wasn't the best, but it was their first attempt with their engine. I believe they improved since then.
@kaveti661, well said.
This commercial was just what I thought about, being a rare gem that unfortunately was banned.
Both the Halo Believe commercial and the Gears commercial were also awesome. Both were actually finalists in the "commercial of the decade" competition, and shared that honor with the Playstation 2 commercial from Sony:
Did multiplayer kill Baldurs Gate and Neverwinter Nights? Because these are two previous Bioware games which had multiplayer...
@ApplEaglElephant
That's becasue MS mostly applies the opposite Strategy: instead of announcing games years in advance and then throwing them to dev limbo, they announce most of their games about a year before, sometimes less.
Forza 4 for example was only officially announced in 2011 and L4D2 was announced half a year before it was released. But for how many years now are we hearing about Agent and TLG?
Skyrim says hi. More people play it on Steam right now than all of the COD games combined
@BluEx610
Over half of these games sounded to good to be true when they were claimed to be released in 2011, and some of them back on 2010 and even 2009. Guess what? It indeed wasn't true. Unreleased and unannounced games have a tendency of not being released within a single year timeframe
@yesmynameissumo you still ignore the fact that the previous industrygamer claim was based on the wrong information: they quoted a ubisoft executive who mistook the 10 mil kinect sold as a September figure where infact this was the number in March.
Truth is, none of us know how many Kinects were sold since then because MS never published any numbers. No point discussing how good/bad sales were until we know that, but EVILDEAD360 is right to point that the "doomed kinect&...
Game is too easy for me! I abuse game glitches so it's not fun anymore!
I assume you played her in a game of WE DARE? It's also on the list...
I also agree. Many reviewer get an early review build of a game on one console. They play it fully and have a higher tolerance of small issues since they understand it's an early build, so they will usually only complain if there is some big issue.
Skyrim PS3 however WAS a big issue, so what happened here? It's possible that some reviewers only reviewed the X360 game (many outlets mention this), while others probably reviewed the X360 game fully assuming that it was a...
2007 and 2001 were the definite best year for gaming: 2001 revolutionized 3 genres with the introduction of Halo , DMC and GTA III. Many game series climaxed with games like GT3, MGS2, Civilization 3 and Baldurs Gate 2. Tony Hawk 3 and Smash Brothers Melee. New and totally original games like Ico, Max Payne, Burnout and Black & White came out.
2007 perhaps even topped that with new games like Portal, Uncharted, Mass Effect, Assassins Creed and Bioshock: these are probably...
@Pyscho_Mantis
The big difference is that Halo remake is a true remastered version: new engine, new graphics, new online support - stuff that wasn't available before. The other collections you mentioned are basically the same old games ported with some upscaled textures in HD. You see tons of games like this on the XBLA and PSN service for 10$, while the collection games have a price tag of 20$ per game (and also force you to buy all the games even if you want just one).
"This in it's third and it's only down 40? "
It's down 40% from the SECOND week, not from the first. The decline after the first week was much bigger (mostly because about half of the human race already bought it in the first week)
Why not have both?
People mistake HonestGamers for the specific reviews by Tom Chick which they don't like, and that is just because they can't separate their personal emotional attachment from a critical perspective. Hell, most of the people who criticize the critic don't even bother to read the review.
I read it, and I think that Tom nails all the problems in Skyrim, so the review is a valid opinion and a well written one. And this comes from someone like me who thinks Skyrim is ...
Even it this list was called "Top 5 most wanted Japanese games for 2012" it would have been a big miss. Mentioning those games and not the Last Guardian? Srsly!?
You forget three things:
1) L.A Noire is a few months old. Fallout is over a year old
2) L.A Noire is the complete version which includes all the DLC released before on the console version. Buying Fallout 3 with all DLC brings the price up to over 15$, and Two Worlds 2 with the DLC is over 25$. So the difference is not that big.
3) These other two games are RPGs. If someone is looking for an action-adventure game these two might not appeal to them as much.
@DNAbro:
There was nothing revolutionary since COD4, but there were a lot of incremental gameplay improvements: killstream system, spec ops mode, etc. You can't make a revolution EVERY year.
And with each incremental innovation it still heads forward slowly but surely, and this puts it overall way ahead of Zelda when you compare the differences between 2006 COD/Zelda and 2011 COD/Zelda. Where's my co-op Zelda experience for example?
@NEW-AGE
I actually looked it up. Dreamcast wikipedia page came on top. Your point?