Well Retro Studios got away with suggesting that Metroid Prime might look like this (start at 0.53):
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
Of course it's a classic game and it looks nice but it certainly doesn't have the detail of that trailer - look at the texture on the floor.
OK, it's a trailer, not a demo, but they always say that a demo is not necessarily a re...
Well this article is a little... unimaginative to say the least as to speculating what Nintendo's thinking could be.
The Gamecube put Luigi's Mansion as a launch game. That console has subsequently been seen as a relatively 'hardcore' one I think it's fair to say, at least by those who owned it (although the N64 arguably deserves that honour more because it started off so many Nintendo series).
So my speculation is that it means that ...
Only joking. I've never played Alan Wake as I only have a PS3, what I've seen of it suggests that it's at least a promising start with some pretty graphics and I love Remedy. Max Payne was a genius series in the time that they made games for it.
Superfrog is an amazing platformer game. It's worth it for the music on the opening screen alone. Out of all the Amiga games that could have been released , that is the one that I would have chosen. It doesn't really do anything new gameplay wise but it does it with joie de vivre. The original game was sponsored by Lucozade (like a lot of Amiga games sponsored by sweets/drinks companies). I wonder if that will still apply? I'd urge anyone to play Rick Dangerous 2 as well.
Alan Wake. Take some Fake Bake. Eat some cake and some steak, you look like a rake. Make like a tree and throw yourself in the lake for everybody's sake.
I didn't get far. The graphics, or at least the art design, looked like a notch down from Metroid Prime. Maybe if Echoes had been released first I'd be more willing to engage with it but it's still pretty much like comparing Aliens to Alien. The original film is always going to have that element of beautiful understatement and surprise. The sequel is just playing around with it.
Metroid Prime is certainly a contender. The original trailer seems an exaggeration about the graphical quality but the in game graphics are still good. It's the fluidity of the morph ball that most impresses graphically. Apart from that the audio and the cleverness of the level design tends to impress more than the pure graphics (although the graphics are nice). The eerie beauty of the abandoned frigate stands out to me even more than Phenandra Drifts. I found one of the later bosses just...
Gaming lost some of its soul in its big budget games. Maybe the death of the Dreamcast and the unspectacular sales of the Gamecube had a bit to do with it. Gaming was often the particular, arguably peculiarly niche, outlook of a small band of brilliant eccentrics. Once it tried to reflect the general cinematic tastes of the public, to make sci-fi or fantasy epics in the same mould, it threatened some of that quirkiness. It seems that you can rarely be very brilliant and very popular at the sa...
All the trailers suggested to me that this was going to be the new Doom 3 and that's what it looks like. I'm sure that it will at least be visually interesting enough in places to warrant playing because those aliens looked amazing in the trailers.
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Recalling some article I once read (not just making it up) the PS2 was capable of some 'crazy geometry' in the right hands because of its complex engine.
This probably partly accounts for why the PS2 was capable of some really subtle, beautiful, games such as Silent Hill 3. Whereas the Xbox, like a mid powered PC in a box, had more power but less delicately hit you over the head with its fierce shadows in games like Doom 3.
Motorstorm Apocalypse 2 please - or something that's essentially that if you rename it. I know that not all Motorstorm fans like it but it's a much more exciting concept than the first 2 games.
Just perhaps no parts where you can crash due to traffic coming at you from another part of the track. That can seem a little too randomly unavoidable.
Super Mario Sunshine is a good tech demo but it isn't what I'd call a 'game'. Most of the levels are a tedious chore doing the most mundane of things.
It's like the Uncharted 3 of 3D Mario games. Come up with the set pieces and then try to fit some story around it. Then shoehorn in Yoshi towards the end to add some clumsy platforming.
To Miyamoto, the game must have been more like a dry run for better things to come, Super Mario Galaxy. Mi...
Sonic Adventure 2 was much more enjoyable than Sonic Adventure.
As for GTA, wasn't San Andreas quite a leap? Even if it's just because people liked the setting? (Both my nominated games here feature San Fransisco-type environments).
I certainly won't be saying Crazy Taxi 2 though - a bit of a needless sequel set in New York with its flat ground and few things worth being called crazy although CT3: High Roller looked fun.
Papa and Yo, The Unfinished Swan, The Cave, Limbo. There's fun there, the first 2 on PS3 only, and they are all emblematic of the best kinds of 16 bit and 128 bit games that there used to be.
Then there's Tales of Monkey island and Sam and Max on download. Yes, you can argue that in some cases this revival of the point and click genre is just a passable imitation of what it once. But it's nice that they're back as an option.
It's some ...
They who are laughted at are still creating more pleasure for others than those who do the laughing. Even the most B-movie of games may be doing so deliberately for style and some may become regarded as a cult classics. In a fair world, it could be argued that anything that deserves to be regarded as a cult classic also deserves to be regarded as a popular classic but, to my displeasure, this is clearly not a fair world.
There's too much risk in selling a free console as a rule with people not keeping up with payments. A mobile phone company may choose to do that (either with a mobile phone or a console as part of a deal) but a console manufacturer has many studios and projects dependent on it.
Mobile phone companies are essentially in communication with entertainment as a hook. The devices won't cost all that much (even if they charge a lot for them on pay as you go) and if the network's...
One of Microsoft's innovations was to be the first console to do HD gaming. Gameswise it wasn't a revolution to start with but Microsoft sleekened the Xbox brand's image.
They've done a bit of a Sega really by calling it the Wii U. There'll be some suspicion as to how long they intend to support it. The question in some people's minds will be 'But when's the Wii 2 coming out then?'
(I'm not generally a Zelda fan, give me Banjo Kazooie over it any day but:)
Outset Island from The Wind Waker:
http://www.youtube.com/watc...
So wonderfully pastoral.
Which is itself a kind of reworking of:
http://www.youtube.com/watc...