Yep. The new Xenosaga and Mario Kart will go a long way with me (seriously, MK8 looks really, really good in motion), and so will Bayonetta 2, but only if the price drops considerably. I'm good with it being $200. That's probably a loss for Nintendo, though, so eh.
They rushed it out the door, and they were surprised by how much it cost to develop HD-resolution games. Look at the 3DS - that thing has amazing games by Nintendo and its "second-" party partners, because it's way cheaper to develop a game for.
They'd say something like "Oh, but we did have Mario! New Super Mario Bros. U! And Zelda was in NintendoLand!" But they, and we, all know that it's just not the same; definitely not a reason to buy a ne...
Cool! I think a black 3DS would really bring out the ridiculous amount of LED's. I'm fine with my bright red one, but this is a nice addition.
Well, yes, it's not trying to "represent" that, but can we agree that CoD, at least through its bread-and-butter multiplayer, isn't trying to represent war either? It's just a good time, more representative of an augmented paintball match.
So many of us couldn't make the SAS, Seals, Spec Ops, because of our physical limitations as dudes. That's why some of us escape to these genres at first - boom, you can do what you can't in real life! Afte...
I get that, and that's what the article seems to agree with also. On a surface level, yes, gender is just another thing, alongside "This guy is fat," or "This character wears 100 belts." At the end of the day, Lulu doesn't represent all belt-wearing people because she's belt-tastic, yes. But women are often used as "tools" in games to either titillate the player (see Devil May Cry, the 3d incarnation of Ninja Gaiden, Soul Calibur, but surprisingly eno...
These are a couple more issues:
1) People not even reading the article's introductory paragraph at the top of the page.
2) Calling a game a "man's game." I personally know some women who wreck everyone at CoD on a regular basis. The good thing about CoD is that it's first-person - you could easily imagine that the player's female, no matter what the narrative.
I'd have preferred it greatly over a XII or a XIII, that's for sure, to say nothing of the XIII sequels.
I didn't mind X-2; for me, it got a pass for having a brilliant combat system, probably the best turn-based active system I've ever played. To have a game that improved on it featuring some of the best (or at least "most tolerable") characters in FFX - that would have been great.
Yeah, this is a pretty mild-mannered article despite the angry comments here. It's looking like independent developers will have a good time on either console, and Sony is providing a ton of support. When the cost differences are projected to be this small, that only means good things for great indie devs and gamers without a solid PC.
The PS4 certainly has the advantage at the moment, but I wouldn't discount the new Kinect. That thing looks like what the first one should have been before they stripped the initial Tel Aviv design of what made it work, resulting in embarrassing controls for stuff like Steel Batallion.
And yet, they hardly sell its functionality in games at all right now. Harmonix is jumping up and down in the background about something that's at least *original* using something uniqu...
@WildArmed
Remember the "Fight Against Grenade Spam" video?
"Nobody knows how it'll work..."
That's the end of this entire story to me. Will there be strings attached to this plan? Absolutely, I'm sure. Does this article indicate anything new at all, any details, any quotes from people planning the thing, insiders, etc.? Nope. Just "I hope they don't do this other thing." I love busting the Xbone's cajones as much as anyone else, but this article's insubstantial.
Yeah, the article's pretty misleading. Headline news, everybody! People are skeptical of details before said details are released!
Look, when I get a console, it's probably going to be the PS4, but I'd like to live in a world where indie developers have a stronger voice in the industry regardless of console. The little guys (and the mid-sized companies in Japan) are the ones that still make games I care about, so of course I'm going to say that.
I think this looks a lot like the promotional stuff outside of the PS Store that they released before the store overhaul - those random-ish squares that displayed new content and news over a bright blue background.
I'm kinda meh. I think this might be some sort of "front page" or news feed that doesn't represent the whole thing.
Yes, and the astute observation that the WiiU's "fate" is based on the holiday software lineup.
Come on, really? They're not competing with Xbone and PS4, that isn't their plan - no matter how many times they have to say otherwise on news programs and in press conferences. They're sitting on an HD-friendly box until actual good games come out for it, and the big ones are mostly coming next year.
It'll probably sell well as a seco...
Alternating between Animal Crossing New Leaf and Shin Megami Tensei IV is an activity I will look back upon years later and smile, and it's so easy because I've got ACNL digitally. Summer 2013 has been an amazing time for gaming, so long as you've got the proper tastes.
Ah, I'd see Kapp'n as an assist. He'd be the Resetti of this game, singing out in the forefront to distract everyone.
And then... Resetti would be the playable character... MWAHAHAHA
I think this could be fleshed out into a list, either ordered or unordered. A paragraph after a headline indicating "reasons" just doesn't jive very well.
However, I do agree with the content!
I hope the new producer is a fan of single-player fighting games and unlocking weapons the old-fashioned way, because I sure am, and Soul Calibur used to be that... *sob*
The Atlus teams function so well when they're not on cutting-edge technology. That's why SMT IV is 3DS; it's why Persona 4 was on the PS2 after the generational switch. They're content, dialogue, and combat system specialists. I'd say Nintendo would be an excellent buyer for Atlus, but this article is guessing. A more boring thing will most likely happen, where a private equity firm liquidates everything but Atlus (the parent company has a lot crappier stuff in their portf...
Is it the girls themselves, though? Or is it a system in which sexualized girls get ad revenue and clicks, and which sexualized boys are viewed immediately as "gay," since we're imagining a default hetero male viewer, therefore only generating "gamer girls" and no highly-visible sexualized "gamer guys" articles? Wouldn't it be the viewers first and the writers/editors second? Then the girls who accept the deal?
And even if it's usuall...