There's something spiteful about people in interviews forecasting or wishing the decline of a long loved model amongst gamers for enjoying games.
And it's always people who's games I've never cared to try that make such proclamations. They're not necessarily interested in improving experiences so much as wanting to cut down hardware to make more money- that's what they mean by 'not sustainable'.
Always remember - some things do...
I'd say the first 3 Silent Hill games but, in truth, I only ever got in to the rather good part 3 (not a game that I'd want to play any more though)
and I actually regret more that I haven't played The Room, Shattered Memories and Origins. By the way, Silent Hill : Downpour is quite good for PS3 owners (in the absence of having Alan Wake) - it just isn't all that scary which is fine by me.
Unless you're in Japan you don't get to call Resident Evil 'Biohazard'.
Anyone else fancy a WiiU?
Videogame journalists don't have a 'profession'.
Any information that they give to their readers is not regulated with the same level of requirements of being a school teacher, solicitor, architect.
Journalists in general don't have a true 'profession'. The only thing that they can profess is to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. But they don't anyway, if they even had the time, inclination and capacity to work out w...
I hated the start of Bioshock. It gives you no reason to do anything. OK, I crashed. There's fire around so don't go near that. But other than that you can stay endlessly floating on in the water or stay seated outside the tower hoping for eventual rescue. No game should have to force you through boredom to do something. And I realised right from the start that there's something odd about not explaining straight away who you are, something a bit 'Alice in wonderland the abridg...
Some people would have chosen not to play Mario 64, Banjo Kazooie or Conker's Bad Fur Day if BC had been so vital to them in tne belief that because it continued to use cartridges it should also support older cartridges.
By not supporting CDs, it does look like Sony wants to make it largely about downloadable content though.
Which makes me wonder just how long retailers selling Bluray discs will remain a norm. And whether the next Playstation will eve...
Well it appears to be practically conclusively proven now that Japan is extremely likely to always support buying Playstation.
I mean the Japanese, this supposed epicentre of quirkiness,
failed to properly support the Dreamcast which had such forward thinking love letters to all aspects of Japanese culture as Jet Set Radio and Shenmue.
And if ease of programming was so important then more studios would have released on the Dreamcast and Gamecube than would...
Some artistic awards should have gone to The Unfinished Swan or The Cave. And if Quantum Conundrum would have been eligible that had some moments of great music/sound.
Journey's obviously some people's cup of tea but it's also this year's pseudo-intellectual winner.
If anyone's doing whaling it's essentially excused by some governments under the name of 'scientific research'.
Maybe PETA just wanted to remind such countries that people are still whaling and that people object to it- that it hasn't merely passed in to folklore as some exotic looking pastime.
Personally, I think that we should entirely frown upon countries eating horses. My rule is that if it's an animal that is ridden for people'...
But we would like the likes of The Unfinished Swan. The childlike wonder that Nintendo likes to portray has long coasted on past ground laid down.
I don't want them to be gorily dark but they sometimes need to be a bit more humourously dark - at least the WiiU has The Cave and Luigi's Mansions Dark Moon.
No- I think Rare'd get intimidated (and a bit more unnecessary) by being alongside so many other studios like Naughty Dog.
They might have been best on the WiiU though (just not the underpowered Wii).
Insomniac have never been as close to as important to the Playstation brand as Naughty Dog in my opinion. Sony would save themselves a whole lot of diminishing returns by letting Insomniac go multiformat.
Ratchet and Clank was basically Sonic Adventure 2 in new clothes - rail grinding etc.
Some say Ratchet and Clank are 'Pixar-like' - well that must mean offering a fairly predictable blend of sentimentality and pseudo- pretentiousness (e.g. Wall-Ee) then. I en...
On PS3 don't forget Papa and Yo, the upcoming Puppeteer, The Unfinished Swan and multiformat The Cave.
Journey has arguably been given far too much coverage compared to these. Journey's arguably become part of pseudo-intellectual territory compared to the above games.
I mean, really, I got enough sand in my sandwiches with Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. The desert scenes were some of the tedious glorified cut scene lowpoints of Uncharted 3 too.
Announce Jet Set Radio Future 2 - a true sequel to the Xbox game available in episodes. Easy going like the Xbox game, not hard like the Dreamcast original.
No-one would say that it's amongst the best selling series but Sega die hards will love you forever. It'd be an iconic decision, more useful than resurrecting the idea of Shenmue 3 when Yakuza has that genre covered. Who can tell the balance of power that it might have in determining which console Sega fans buy?...
That's to be expected. Duke Nukem has die hard fans and no classic Hollywood film status to live up to.
I think that the WiiU will actually sell more shortly after both the Playstation 4 and next Xbox are out by which time buyers will be able to fully compare it to them and know whether they want to buy a WiiU as a second console, as their sole console or not at all.
I don't expect it to sell what the Wii did. With tablet phones taking so much of the casual market now, it might be practically impossible to work out what the Wii can expect to sell. It's unlikely to be le...
Donkey Kong Racing (Gamecube).
The original Xbox was not quite in the classic tradition of console design master pieces. It was powerful pieces shoehorned in to a big box. But right from the start Microsoft showed that it is a lie that they were always only about the 'hardcore' FPS gamer. They certainly catered for them strongly but they interspersed the line up with PC ports that didn't feature on either of the other 2 consoles, fall out from the end of the Dreamcast by getting the juiciest ports/sequels for S...
Is Braid actually good? It looks like something from 1995 to me and the idea of reversing decisions is hardly novel. (Blinx the Timesweeper?)
Is it just clever puzzles and that's about it? Would I be a bit disappointed after the atmosphere of Limbo and The Cave?