Good, never played the thief games but I love stealth games.
I don't think saying the game is harder on harder difficulties really justifies much, if a game wants it's enemies to be threatening, they need to be threatening on normal difficulty. I played DS2 on hardcore mode to get the platinum and that was a terrifying experience, but it wasn't that I was scared by the setting or feared for Isaac as a character, but rather because I was scared of losing all that progress to a stupid mistake.
Though my problems with Siren...
I'm not too interested in the atelier series, but I gotta respect any character who rocks a monocle like that.
Edit: Nvm, that'll teach me to skim titles.
Not really, people wouldn't be happy DS was gone if Dead Space 3 gameplay wasn't emblematic of EA's new direction of 'add more action, add multiplayer, add microtransactions, throw huge marketing budget at it' to all of it's games.
It's more that Dead Space 3 is a poster child of EA's marketing strategy, so people take DS3's 'failure' as an example of publishers harming good IPs and getting burned by it.
If you mean Siren: Blood Curse, don't say any more, that was the most infuriating game I played this gen.
You can barely tell what's scenery or whats an actual path. You have dumb child escort missions where the child dies if a monster brushes past her. You can pretty much kill any zombie easy once you pick up a farming tool or something. There like 6-7 character you switch between after episodes making the plot so convoluted I needed to look up an explanation on the ...
In what world are Infamous, God of War and GTA FPS or survival horror games? Or did you just pick popular titles because CAPS LOCK HELPS PEOPLE PAY ATTENTION TO ME!
Definitely an amazing game to add to the instant game collection. For me, the 3 best games in 2012 were P4:G, TWD, and Spec Ops, Spec Ops was a welcome breath of fresh air from the recent glut of modern military shooters.
Thanks Kotaku for more pointless rumour mongering! God knows you don't produce enough of it already.
@BanBrother
I'm not a fan of Gears for many reasons, art design and story mostly, though I do respect that it pioneered third person cover mechanics, but it's not a terrible game by any means.
That said while I don't think gears is a bad game, you really shouldn't try to use metacritic scores as proof of a games quality. For example, Fallout 3 has a way higher metacritic score than NV despite most people I talk to prefering NV.
Yet Geoff is still the guy who agrees to follow his superior's orders.
"I was just doing my job" only goes so far.
To be fair, PS3 disc based games aren't going to work on PS4 either, so it's not like by buying retail instead of digital you're future proofing yourself.
I'd still rather buy physical though since on PSN they're still selling it at retail price despite not having any manufacturing or shipping costs. I don't like blatant cash grabs, especially after I heard all that talk about how digital distribution was supposed to lower prices.
I haven't played MGR, but if you want a JRPG with a lot of time devoted to character development along with some of the best voice acting I've seen in a video game then I'd seriously recommend getting P4:G at some point.
For me it was 74 hours of pure enjoyment, though be warned, there are MANY bear puns.
I think Origin and Westwood would be better examples of why people hate EA.
Good developers who get bought out by EA, and then shut down.
I don't see any gameplay in the video...
Maybe the trailer was done in-engine, but that still didn't look anything like something someone was actually playing.
I like Infamous, but I'll hold my praise until I see him actually running around the world and collecting blast shards like a true hero.
VC2 wasn't that good, tbh. They turned the story into one of the high school animes where all the soldiers are teens attending classes in between battles, it never felt like there was a war going on like in VC.
The two aren't mutually exclusive.
It's a story based off a well known film and book, but uses the story to condemn the recent glut of modern military shooters where shooting hundreds of dudes is presented as an unequivocally good thing, and ultimately what saves the day.
It's not the second coming by any means, but especially in the recent climate of games it's a rare occurance, and something many people would like to see more of.
This is the game that really makes me wish I had a 3DS, Etrian Odyssey is just infuriatingly entertaining.
Yeah what right does a games journalist have to say he was unimpressed with Sony's conference?
Thank god you didn't waste your life reading an article you couldn't care less about, that time is much better spent doing something productive, like commenting on how you didn't read the article.
I think what riles people up more are these people listing off specs that they clearly don't understand, and then using them as proof of that hardware's superiority/inferiority.
BTW I'm talking about hardware in general here, PC enthusiasts can be just as susceptible to it as console owners.