"Pikmin 3? Hah! That won't move units. The Wii U has no future" - 2013
"Next-gen F-zero? Make it happen!" - 2015
If Microsoft can resurrect Rare, than that'll be the accomplishment of the generation.
If it's a PS4 game, then it better not disappoint. Been a while since we had a console worthy Tony Hawk experience. Franchise fatigue's the likely culprit people point to, but overall, I don't know how a skating game's going to do in a market of kids and adults gaming more than they're skate boarding.
Platinum's stuff are some of the finest titles to come out of the last decade of gaming. Cheers, guys. Best wishes for Scalebound.
Oh, woe is Knack. The game that looked like what I was hoping for for two generations.
And the fact that most PS4 game lists include multi-platform titles say something about how far Sony's fallen in terms of game development. The PS4's made them the kind of hardware. I just wish I could have that old Sony back that gave me Jak & Daxter and Ratchet & Clank.
Little low for my tastes, but I kinda loved Sunset Overdrive. Exactly the reason I jumped ship and got myself an Xbox One. It's the kind of exclusive that reminds me of the better years of Ratchet & Clank, Tony Hawk, and Jetset Radio all in one package.
Whether it's the "popular" exclusive that people remember five years from now isn't important to me. It's exactly the exclusive that made me enjoy a wicked good console this past year and pulled ...
That song sets me on fire every time I hear it. It's great to see Kojima land such great talent to drive home his games.
Both, of course. It's very rare that any good game includes the two in a question of either or. Great gameplay engages the mind and a great story immerses the soul; the two go hand in hand crafting the best of both worlds.
Not every game requires story – or much of it, in some cases – but every "game" is by default invested in interactivity. Some games present a story to the player via cutscenes and scripting. Others have the player tell the story.
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Cool beans. Good luck, everyone.
If Dragon Age: Inquisition isn't already proof enough that we need more Star Wars RPGs in our lives, then I don't know what is.
I have one. And I like it; I don't love it, not yet anyway. Zelda's the last cherry on top for the system and if you don't buy one next year you never will – even past the hope of another Metroid. The gamepad and the tech is alright, but what I do love are the games. And that's great enough.
Their family friendly image is what won them the success they've enjoyed for generations – unlike PS and Xbox's focus towards your average, college-age male gamer.
The Wii brand was a mistake to repeat twice, indeed. It follows Nintendo's perpetual mistake of their "dual-brand" strategy, as I like to see it. Every NES and Gameboy has to be succeeded by a "super" version of itself. Sadly, consoles have been the company's hit-or-miss Achille...
These "defects" are like golden tickets for eBay sellers.
I'd count on it. Bioware's been frank about how little even THEY know about where the series is going from here, and with Dragon Ages keeping them busy here and there, doubt they'll need an ME 'til Rockstar does slap a VI on GTA. And that's probably by the time we finally play a woman in a Rockstar game.
Rise of the Tomb Raider – if it does, in fact remain on Xbox One exclusively – will be in the Top 5 contenders for GOTY. So will Zelda U and Uncharted 4, most likely.
It's a wilder bet that Halo 5 might if franchise fatigue doesn't hinder it and the passing of the torch from Master Chief to the new guy is done well. The Order: 1886 is already a big shrug of a game, but Bloodborne could surprise us.
All that said, the Top 5 you'll be seeing this ...
Nintendo's always committed itself to making its hardware as timeless as its software, even if it's unpopular in the moment. Playstations and Xboxes come and go, but you'll likely hear about the Wii U's quality 20 yrs. from now.
Whether or not it's been a financial failure is more relevant to investors and grand-standing analysts, as is the Xbox One's success. Both companies are still around and making fantastic games. The Wii U's a "fun succe...
It's a chicken and the egg scenario. Do companies make us stupid or are we making them churn out crap because that's "what gamers want?" Gamers are guilty of trolling companies for absolutely ANYTHING on a whim and making companies fear their fans at every turn, so much as to not know what to do. Companies are guilty of being slaves to their investors and churning out garbage before their ready.
This industry is a vicious symbiosis of abuse from either part...
Absolutely not; or at least at present. There's things called a Wii U gamepads and iPads already being sold.
Bayonetta 2 and Sunset Overdrive both did wonders for my eyes, but Super Smash Bros. for Wii U did wonders for my soul. So much lovely fan service there in all three, but Shovel Knight and Shadow of Mordor were what renewed my faith in the underdogs achieving something marvelous. Too scared to ever go near this past year's horror entries, much less Silent Hills. :3
If robots could be killed, that is. Their souls will ascend to Xenoblade Chronicles X.