I agree. While Nintendo isn't going to get Wii-level sales, ever again most likely since it wasn't just a console, it was a fad, they're going to play a long game with Wii U that will net them some profits in the long run - the same exact way they did it on the 3DS.
With the 3DS, they rushed the launch and had some half-baked games ready to go (sounds familiar, right?), and one really great SF4 port. People cried gloom and doom as unannounced projects ran for year...
This just in - he predicts another Madden somewhere down the line. Possibly next year - but yeah right, it can't possibly be done in a year, they always build that from the ground up!
Seriously, that's as obvious as God of War 4, a new Mario title, or Half-Life 3... *sobs*
Still, it only took Pitchford three public tweets to reach a child abuse analogy... Classy.
I'm pretty sure that was confirmed - the movie, at least. Another great movie that's basically like a real-life Dynasty Warriors is Red Cliff, which is already out.
Not everybody is savvy enough to build a great PC and outfit it for a TV, let alone patient enough to deal with the text-reading issues involved if you have a slightly smaller TV... Windows just isn't engineered for TV's, although it looks like 8 kinda is. I'm thinking they're doing this for a market that wants to take advantage of Steam, but doesn't have the equipment for it.
Whether that market exists or not is another thing altogether. I'm thinking ...
If you look carefully at the gameplay shots, you'll see status bars at the bottom that look just like they do in Etrian Odyssey. I'm going to guess their EO team is doing this (just look at the character design!!), and they only develop for DS and 3DS. It's not that outlandish.
And come on. Those 3DS/2DSs are cheap! It's time to get one. If you haven't played an EO game yet, you've got some awesome RPG's to play!
I'm still never betting DBZ. ;)
I don't get it either. The utility of it makes slightly more sense in Japan, where everyone's packed in on the Shinkansen with systems, but if 8-4 Play's anything to go by, the days of portable gaming systems everywhere is dissolving even there - Japan's moving quickly toward iPhones, especially Puzzle and Dragons. With the every-so-often Monster Hunter exception, of course. The money just isn't the same with that franchise, especially on handheld.
It feel...
Hilariously enough, Destructoid rated it lower!
By the way, I'm about two hours in and in love with this game.
It's amazing how many games are lauded for being "innovative," yet they really only *look* different, or have a better story. This game gives no craps about that - they've taken everything about the old Zelda formula, including not just A Link To The Past, but also Minish Cap, Oracle of Ages/Seasons, the original Zelda, and Link's Awakening, and improved all the stuff that needed to be im...
I agree, but also don't have a problem with reviewers not being completely, absolutely objective. What I really took away from that review is that the fast-traveling seems geared toward more casual players with stuff to do, if you use it too often you'll get a short game, and for me to avoid it at all costs whenever possible. The prospect of a great soundtrack with, as I've heard over and over, amazing bosses and great level design - that's enough for me! The rest is gravy, bu...
There's always Edge.
He loved the heck out of quite a few other great 3DS games recently - glowing reviews on Destructoid. When he's not reviewing, he takes on a pretty good joke persona on Jimquisition, where I think half the point is to make fun of how he used to write.
When something strikes him the wrong way these days (and no, not years ago, he was AWFUL around the time that the PS3 and 360 were getting their bearings), I usually see it as genuin...
Add my YESes to the pile!
Wow. Fulgore wasn't in the original lineup?? I know, I should RTFM, I know, but... Really??? That's the most brilliantly skeevy business move they could make - take the game's figurehead of sorts and make you pay for him later.
Okay, that controller looks great. I want one of those for my PC. :P
The box, however, looks even more like a compact air purifier from the 90's.
I know it's way late, but I totally agree - there's a laundry list of (game-wise) small stuff that makes it amazing like that, and it all hits us differently. Some of those things made it to newer games, and some of those things, like arcade games in a game, are fizzling out due to digital downloads being available.
Seriously, they basically said that in the article. We'll see this over and over this generation - no dev studio has the Cell to blame or anything, exclusives will mostly be based on moneyhats. That's not necessarily a bad thing - the kind of money that both MS and Sony will pay out to these companies is the money that helps a game be developed, polished, and tested.
What I love about many of these exclusives though is "And PC" being tagged on. The architec...
Oh EA, you tried. Again.
No seriously, it happens, especially in cheaper urban areas. Sugar ants love batteries for some odd reason, spiders love places to hide, it's an actual thing. Heck, Grace Hopper codified the term "bug" as a technical glitch when a moth was found in the old Harvard Mark 2.
Dudes, big companies have different divisions which do different things. Their HR department obviously deserves a round of applause for doing what many big companies out there aren't even thinking of doing, and that applause doesn't need to be directed at... oh... the rest of that entire company.
However! I have an issue with this author:
"Well, lo and behold it turns out that evaluating a company entirely based on whether it charges for on-disc ...