I enjoyed the trial a lot but, like many others, I believe the price is a little too high for the service to go mainstream. I think they would have better luck releasing an annual subscription for $120 and perhaps with a PS+ price of $100. 180 plus 50 for PS+ puts you at 230 a year...then you need to consider consoles, accessories, and games.
@breakpad Yes they kept mentioning emulation plans over the last two years and I'm confused as to what the plan is now. Seeing anot...
They can still be good games in their own right, but the massive hardware limitations lead to a game that cannot be described with any other word better than "lesser" like you said. The games cost them probably a quarter to a third of the budget to make, they sell a bit lower, but the risk is far lower and the profit is marginally higher.
As an old-school RPG fan I've got to say that action RPGs have the ability to be just as strategic and rewarding as turn-based ones. At first I thought KH and Elder Scrolls games were just mashing the attack button, but as you come across more difficult enemies, you are forced to think more about healing, positioning, guarding, weaknesses, timing, etc. As for mindless battle systems, I would have to cite Ni No Kuni. I loved the art style and story, but the battles were way too easy and te...
Reminds me of the dinosaurs from 13. I hated that game so much though that I couldn't grind past the point where they one hit KO me.
FF1,4,6,9,10, TA, and the original Tactics are all worth a shot depending on your tolerance for old-school RPGs. FF11 and its first couple of expansions were phenomenal, though painfully difficult, grindy, and sometimes wholly inaccessible.
Personally I still see it as a cash grab (a portable game remastered and sold at $70). That and a way for them to expand the PS userbase (primarily in Japan). It will be worth it for me when the price halves though for sure. I don't need a demo for a game that I know I'm going to play. We've already waited so long. Another year or so is nothing in the scheme of things.
Definitely FF6&9, Pokemon red/blue and Gold/silver, Ocarina, Mario Party 1(still the best in the crappy series lol), Journey, DC2, Kh 1 and 2, Jade Cocoon 2, Halo 2, MGS3 and 4, R&C, Diddy Kong Racing, CoD 4, shadow of the colossus, U2, and perhaps unusual but persona 4. The flow and length of that story just felt perfect to me and it's one of those games that is the best the first time and more of a grind on subsequent plays. There's probably so many others. I'm getting a...
Good scores for this one mostly. So many 2D platformers on the Wii U I don't know which to choose. Would probably get Yoshi over this or Tropical Freeze but have to wait to see how that game pans out. Hopefully they're working on some kind of 3D adventure game and not planning to oversaturate their lineup with more pseudo-old-school platformers. I miss those 3D games like Mario, DK, and Banjo when they felt huge and epic. Hopefully a more modern Mario is in the works to supplement gam...
Exactly. I would also pay for some older Dragon quest games on the store. I've only played 1 through 4 unfortunately (3 was the best). 3ds exclusivity is killing certain franchises for me and many others tbh. I have nothing against the system but it's become a safe way to make money by making lesser quality games for handheld and it's essentially sucking the potential for certain franchises to evolve to the extent they could. Even monster hunter 4 didn't make it to Wii u. What...
I settled for a blue and a black with my original white one. Couldn't get red w/o importing so I said screw it plus I found them for $45 at some random online retailer.
The half black design actually looks more stylish. When you have it in your hands, you can't see a lot of the black and it just looks complimentary. Definitely one of the slickest controllers imo.
I have no time to read this, but I would add a real standby mode to the gamepad. There are a lot of games that just start the gamepad up as a player (often even as player one). It's kind of been an annoying obstacle when we use different controllers than it for smash for example. It ddefinitely has its uses but, for a lot of games, I would rather use a different controller and would like it to leave me alone lol. If it was a bit lighter and sleeker that would help a lot though and I don&#...
I would think less than .1% of that .1% have the means and motivation to carry it out though. Otherwise we would see a lot more random murders over internet debacles. After all, .1% of one million people (far more death threats going around than this) would mean 1000 random internet psychopaths follow through. I think 90% of these threats are coming from little kids anyway. Death threats usually show up a lot in public and high school.
People disagree with you that we should all stop being a bunch of @ss hats? Nice guys.
Agreed about the flash sales. Nintendo and MS don't have nearly as many sales and they tend to be not as good. I say this as someone who hunts sales on a daily. MS occasionally pulls out a decent sale (only in the past year mostly) that might have a game or two cheaper, but if I go through my purchases I can say that I've gotten over 30 games for like 100 bucks. My favourites were GoW Ascension for $18 the year it came out and KZ Merc for $9 the same season it came out. There's a ...
Man I'm still playing MK8. Kicking so much @ss with yoshi.
The open world and branching possibilities beg the possibility. That hybrid art style is really something too.
My personal favourite is Ocarina just because of the immense scope and the novelty it had of being the first 3D adventure. I also like Majora's Mask, but it didn't feel quite as big or memorable (probably because of all the cut and paste assets). It did however have the best atmosphere to me (dark and weird). As for art style and overall sense of exploration, I would favour Wind Waker. They are all great in their own way really.
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To an extent the below 7 theory is correct though. But not on a review to review basis but when you take them all together on metacritic. It took me like 15 minutes to think of a game that I enjoyed that got below a 70...Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex on the PS2 (66). The Xbox version that came out later got 70 so even that one is kind of a stretch lol. Oh and the original Monster Hunter for PS2 (68).
It would be difficult to discern the quality of a game if no numbers were given whatsoever. Though there are certain reviewers out there that are so sporadic with their scores that it goes beyond logic, and I would prefer it if they stopped giving numbers or stopped reviewing altogether.
Review seems credible, but scores under 5 (or even 6) are getting out of hand. To prove my point I cite a game that received a 5/10 and definitely deserved it (if not less):
http://ca.ign.com/games/mar...
Discrepancy? I think so.