I just hope they don't restrict it to the standard 4 lotr character classes, it will be able lame that way.
@3.1 Thats like calling halo a call of duty clone, just because it plays like a fps normally does, you know you shoot enemies and toss grenades pick ammo and new weapons and just as stupid to.
Yeah the very first final fantasy(nes) had the exact same setup miss enemies on screen, so what is your point, it's a standard game formula not a zelda trademark.
So in what zelda game do you play a mythological japanese female god, in feudal japan, fighting ancien...
After looking at both ps3 and 360 sales for rpgs, i see an reoccuring trend on both consoles, if it involves shooting it generally sells. If it's a traditional style wrpg or jrpg it generally doesn't sell minus a few exceptions.
My one nit picking issue, almost 4 million of you bought fable 2, a very casual rpg, where you can not be killed, or see any game over screen?
How a rpg lite game outsells a fairly serious rpg like mass effect 1 or 2 i don'...
Because samus never revealed herself as a woman in any of the early games, you had to do a pro/speed run of metroid, just to find out that lethal badass warrior you have been playing is actually a woman.
Thats why lara croft is considered the first major female lead, because roughly 75-80% of gamers didn't know samus was a woman, till she showed up out of her power suit in one of the smash bros brawl games.
Another misconception sales equal a good game, o...
Golden axe, bayonetta, and wet, while the not the worst games i have played this gen golden axe being 2nd or third worst this gen.
None i particularly want to go back and play again and maybe platinum games won't have vanquish a total mess like the ps3 version of bayonetta was till sony fixed platinum's bad coding.
And yeah samus was kicking ass long before any of these chicks even had texture models.
Yeah that was acceptable 25 yrs ago, yet mario games still get a free pass on alot of areas,that any other game franchise would get points taken off for.
When reviewers/gamers can hold nintendo franchises up to the harsher standards that ps3/360 titles are judged by then i'll pay attention.
Bayonetta fun to play thats debateable, i guess to some people.
I have only bought 3 dlc's this gen cod4 map pack, k2's first map pack, and the secret armory of general knox boardlands-dlc. And the boardlands dlc has been the only one i used enough to get $10 worth, although a deathspank sequel or dlc i'd probably snatch up.
@above lady can you separate that into paragraphs or at least individual sentences, it's less of a hassle to read that way thx.
Yeah but for however much a legacy gaming female icon she might be, she has had equal or less personality than master chief has at least up to prime 2.
Hell the only 2 ways you can tell it's a woman is jumping/taking damage/dying or the reflection when releasing a fully charged blast.
And seriously peach she's worthless and bayonetta's annoying trying to hard to be sensual isn't much better. Sorry but bloodrayne or nariko would have been alot...
And alot of us gamers from the us, that started gaming back when it was only for nerds or outcasts( the unpopular people)look at the some of the newer gamers and just role our eyes in annoyance. I know generalising is convenient, but it is also stupid at times, because there are always exceptions to the rule.
Next time keep to the discussion at hand without going on a rant about 1 specific countries citizens debatable shortcomings, while boasting about your cultures supposedl...
Stupid ideas seem to have a permanent residence at square enix this gen i am still waiting for se to release xenogears on psn. And i wouldn't mind pe1 remade for download on psn.
So does being a evil shepard have any different ending than being a neutral or saintly shepard? If not jrpgs have had mutli endings for yrs, jrpgs must innovate, again jrpgs style is different than wrpgs so custom characters is a no no.
Dark Cloud started altering your environment/town last gen, multi endings again done, ludicrisly overpowered secert bosses/dungeons done, voice overs done.
So why is it people will sit there and scream innovation at devs, and ...
Actually that sounds lame as hell, no american that i know would ever use such a stupid term, unless that want to have everyone around them look at them like that are retarded.
Americans have countless terms/slang to state our fondness or lack there of, on products, ideas ect, like all countries do.
I think it's more do to more people on both console are shooter freaks ie if you can't use a gun to kill every enemy it's a boring game, bad gameplay ect.
Thats the only reason i believe wrpgs have gotten as popular this generation the shooter heads see another fps, with free roaming and alot of targets to shoot.
Before the added shooter elements in wrpgs, they weren't as popular as the have become this gen.
Bad title good article, it's nice to see people picking up on the amount of bullshit jrpgs have to go through in the west vs wrpgs.
I put 290+ hrs into fallout 3, i got more story from 50-60 hrs of trinity universe than from fallout or borderlands. Nothing worse than a wrpg developer running their damn mouth about jrpgs, take out the shooter elements and see how well it sells afterward.
I really love that borderlands and fallout 3, are examples of good w...
If i am not mistaken 4d or the 4th dimension is time, sony or someone showed a 4d, tech demo at a ces i believe a yr or so ago. That sounds more like a gameplay element, than something to base a console on.
I assume hd means high definition, an actual hard disk drive, would help.
Vs what late 2006 or early 2008 were the ps3 and it's owners, were torn to shreds daily by the 360 fanboys running rampant on n4g.
The 360 fanboys were just as bad as the blind ps3 fanboys are currently, because the ps3 was the major underdog then. The 360 had everything going for it back then, now the roles have reversed severely.
Sorry your internet sucks, launch ps3 owner here system updates vary have yet to see a system update that took longer than 5 minutes, the worst updating i've seen is mag or pain consecutive updates those are horrible.
I rarely ever get kicked off while playing online games, it's logically one of 3 things your internet setup(hardware failure/software), your internet(hardware) in your ps3 is going out, or your full of it(joining a few hrs ago doesn't help your story...
I agree with the article to an extent, i think the xmb needs alot more tweaking, and the update features have been boring for a while. As for the 2 "most wanted" features in game music and cross game chat that is the lowest priority to me in game web browsing is more important, at least for rpgs.
And yeah while sony can do alot more with there online, i remember the old saying beggars can't be choosers, so i can't rake sony's firmware team over coals, b...
@17 This gen worst by creativity(subjective) and fun(also subjective pal) and since were still barely halfway through this gen, that's being very presumptious. So really LBP, heavy rain and mod nation racers were all neither creative or fun, thank god don't have your tastes, The Last Guardian says hello.
Well lets see shooters and sports games are popular, so there will be alot of developers trying to get those limited gamer's dollars by making shooters and spor...