Seriously. I was just what this author mentioned as his main point, a casual who walked into GameStop and bought Demon's Souls on release day because it looked cool. I didn't know what I was in for, but I didn't love it because it was accessible to me, I loved it because it was an intricate and fair set of systems that I clearly had to learn.
Bloodborne is no different unless you're talking about PvP, in which case "git gud" is valid. Just like how n...
Or is the hard-copy retail market finding itself stale with a market of only regulars, and dependent on bundles for game sales? If this included digital, or global, it would make more sense to come to that conclusion.
Man, we're talking about a year where The Witcher III came out, and it's nowhere on that list...
EDIT: Wait a minute. That's new games at US retailers data. Zero digital sales, so anything that's sold via Steam or the digital stores. This makes more sense, since so many of these games are bundle games.
I'd normally react the same exact way about this - screw episodic - but Hitman's an interesting one.
Normally when something's episodic, it's story-driven, so by design it's made to keep you coming back instead of giving you a fulfilling experience, and there's no guarantee that final episode will be any good. Hi, Final Fantasy VII Remake! Telltale says hello.
But with Hitman, if they can make it very mission/contract-based with the ki...
$499, but sold at a loss for the first year until parts cost less. If they want VR to really shine out of the gate, while still covering the costs and covering the R&D overhead it took to make this guy, they need that extra processing box, and that ain't cheap. Remember, Oculus is selling at $599 and that thing requires your PC to be a gigantic beastly expensive contraption instead of packing in a processor.
Remember when MS stripped the original Kinect technology of ...
I hate to say "Of course it does," but come on. Of course it does. It's a big-budget Ubi production that promised quite a few things a couple of E3s ago. I'm sure they needed more of a continued-funding promise for how long it took for them to make it. I'm sure it'll make the game a little worse, but eh, it's not my cup of tea in the first place.
I was like "God of War 4? What? Oh, Gears 4. Alright."
Automated systems are still not ready for prime time when crap like this happens. How superficial is that - screening by name only, no questions asked, and then being locked out of stuff? We can do better, or we're severely underestimating how long it'll take to reach the Singularity. Heaven help us if John Smith winds up being a dangerous man. I've seen better judgement systems in Papers, Please.
Nice! You can tell he actually played the game quite a bit, that's great handling of some weirdly abstract story material.
You could make the case that the company simply figured Japan's okay with this, but other nations aren't, especially with laws being really different when it comes to the age of consent. That would make it less about censorship and more about "Let's change okonomiyaki to a hot dog and fries overseas to make sure they can actually relate."
That has its issues, too, but it's a different kind of discussion.
Well, sure, but the best fishing is Ridiculous Fishing. Once those fish are out of the water, you're shooting them with akimbo miniguns.
More Hamster games! Looks like Jeff Gerstmann's going to be busy.
It's a blurry issue. Censorship doesn't have to be imposed by government in order for it to be censorship - for example, the Hays Code was just the film industry policing itself through Catholic guidelines, and then the G-X rating system policed itself also. Those were censorship, but not national/state/political censorship.
Really, what games have to deal with is ESRB, PEGI, CERO, and whatever the heck Australia uses these days. That's where the industry forces i...
I'm seeing all of this comparison talk in the comments to PS4 or Xbone. Why? CC didn't mention anything like that in the article, they focused on what Nintendo itself has been doing. Read.
Nintendo reps keep saying NX is not a replacement for their current consoles. What that means is completely up for debate (and in the past it's meant "wait, developers, you can still make your games! Kids, you can still buy those systems! Then we'll phase them out."...
I'd love to pay a one-time fee to have my PS2 discs work on the PS4, whether that's off-the-disc emulation or a download based on the specific item's ID, but that's not happening. I'll be over here waiting for Onimusha 1 and 2 to somehow hit the store, I guess...
My interpretation of that was they're not giving specifics away at the moment, both to not spoil things and to make sure there isn't too much anticipation for something that may not make the final cut.
I'm up for a Spanish game company's interpretation of a Lovecraft story! Sounds great!
I wouldn't start blind comments about Konami on this article, because the guy who commented doesn't even work there anymore.
Yuichi Haga's interesting. He's a former employee and a huge fan of both Konami and Suikoden. He even streamed Suikoden on Twitch just to try to get people to remember that there are some good people that at least used to work there, and maybe to remind Konami that they had yet another good series that they balked on. He was the guy that...
Airship battles and large at-scale cities! So it's basically trying to have everything that Final Fantasy XII had cut from its budget, then! Cheers to that. Let's hope it has a proper endgame, too.
Yeah, I know, I'm still bitter about what didn't happen in XII, but whatever, the soundtrack redeemed the whole thing.
It really sounds like some of the core things I enjoyed about Myst are here. It doesn't throw you any hints, there's a mixture of puzzles and exploration, and it teaches you how to do things without words.
What's different is that the puzzles in The Witness seem to be unified in this really, really fleshed-out maze mechanic, while Myst had very different puzzles, but usually just one of each. I liked that about Myst - the different puzzles really figured into the ...