Nice article!
Harmony of Dissonance's soundtrack problems were super weird and not (past) Konami-like back when I first played it, but now it all makes sense. The GBA was built to be a portable SNES, and the SNES had this gorgeous Sony sound chip that put it above the Genesis for nearly every multiplatform game out there. They broke up with Sony in the Playstation snafu during GBA R&D and therefore no longer had their awesome sound chip expertise behind the system. ...
Thumbs up! Great selection this month, I've been waiting to play both of these.
Ha! This is amazing - a good commentary on the game since all he had an issue with was the strategy guide. PlayOnline really was a joke, and I always looked through those guides at the store before buying one at that point, since so many of them had useless, surface-level info.
Well, Famitsu scores are usually outright silly, but this at least is a good look for BlazBlue: CF, and any well-received Arc System Works fighting game gets me hyped. I've been playing through all the SP stuff in GGXrd: Revelator at the moment.
There are ways to make sure that the devs you support are utilizing the tools you're featuring without forcing anything.
Sigh. The lack of framerate prioritization is sad. I'd go back and actually play through Fallout 4 if they could make the thing run a little more smoothly. 4K's for the birds. Birds with thousands of disposable dollars.
I'm a big fan of Dawn of Sorrow too - I'm not sure I can decide between it and Aria, though. The bosses in Dawn of Sorrow are better, especially with the boss rush at the end. The story's a little more streamlined and neat in Aria, while Dawn just seems like it's trying to justify its own existence. And the stupid draw-a-glyph thing was definitely the long arm of Nintendo going MAKE USE OF THE TOUCHSCREEN and it was way out of place, although I did love the ice-destroying touc...
The statements they're making here are bland and counter-productive. It's like they haven't learned from the past decade.
The last time traditional Japanese companies decided to jump into largely Western genres like shooters, they usually either 1) overspent and underdelivered to the target audience (Lost Planet, RE Op. Raccoon City), or 2) made a great take on the genre that no one bought (Vanquish, Binary Domain). Or, well, they bought a Western studio (Square...
Awesome! Now if they'll just add about a half-game's worth of a story campaign, it'll be a full retail game.
OMFG.
GG Xrd Revelator is on sale. THIS IS NOT A DRILL!!!
I understand the open mind thing, but they should have kept this entire game locked down until it had more time in the oven. That 15-minute demo was one of the most boring things I've ever seen, and you can tell it's because it's a really early build. Hopefully - hopefully! - there will be more to the enemies than the same unicorn zombies over and over on what's basically a borrowed MGS5 map, but it didn't look like it there. If they're planning on something more compl...
Wow, a new Humble Bundle! Oh wait...
Good! They had enough supplies for when Persona 5 hit, then! I cannot wait for that game...
I really liked The Witness running at 60, it's one of the reasons I jumped for it after seeing it streamed. Yes, it doesn't affect the gameplay in the slightest, but 60's just easier on the eyes. With a game like that, where you're just chipping away at a puzzle for God knows how long, the framerate helped me keep at it a bit.
8 for Pac-Man CE2! That game's had a real polarized reaction, but I'm on the "love" end of that reaction for sure.
How about "PS4 Exclusive Gran Turismo Sport Looks Pristine at Tokyo Game Show, But You Wouldn't Know It Through this Phone Camera Sub 30fps Video." Better?
Not without HBO Now. PS4 has had HBO GO for a while, and that was HBO's first online service. It sucks, because you need a prior cable/HBO subscription to use it. HBO Now is a newer service that doesn't depend on cable, and it's showed up in way fewer places, starting with the useless-for-games Apple TV.
That's HBO Go, which has to do with arcane cable bullcrap. HBO Now doesn't require a cable subscription.
The difference is that you don't need a prior cable/HBO subscription to sign up for HBO Now.
I'll always pronounce this misspelling of his name as "Zuck-er-boorg."