I have a PC, a PS3 and an Xbox 360. I do not have Gears of War for my PC or my 360, and I certainly don't want it for my PS3.
I just hope there's no DLC. Gundam Senki cost me a bundle, and the $100 USD import is more than enough.
Totally worth it, though. I see an Arbalest there, and a bleeding Crossbone! Day 1 buy.
I imagine it'll have a much expanded roster of the previous ACE game. God, I want this NOW.
So if you compare a game with bad writing to games with notoriously atrocious writing, that makes the bad writing great?
It... it... doesn't work that way. Just because the gaming industry has very, very low standards does NOT mean that we can call mediocre and just-plain-bad writing "good" by comparison. The standards will never--NEVER--get any higher unless gamers like you stop accepting the status quo and start demanding more.
Heavy Rain IS poorly written. In every way. The weak delivery certainly doesn't help matters. More than any other game this generation, Heavy Rain is a product of hype and little else.
But, because it's an exclusive, it gets blind praise. Odd, especially when you consider that the PS3 actually HAS exclusive games that excel in every aspect Heavy Rain gets such undeserved praise for. I can only assume it's because those games weren't nearly so heavily advertised.
I forget what it was called, but it was based on the Chinese epic, Journey to the West. It sounded incredible. Or is that some one else? I think it was called "enslaved" or something.
I found the combat system to be massively underwhelming. FFXIII really shines in terms of presentation and narrative, but the gameplay leaves a lot to be desired. Well, thank God RoF more than delivers on that front.
Gaming is turning into Abortion and Gay Rights--an issue no one can speak about without foaming at the mouth and taking an extreme stance.
I won't dignify this circus show by approaching it directly, but I will say one thing: gaming, along with contemporary film, television, music and literature, perpetuates the culture of violence we have here in the West. Sexism and racism are inherent to that culture of violence. It's fine to point at the culture of violence and call it a prob...
Dated gameplay mechanics? Lack of polish? There goes GI's credibility, flying away.
Seriously, Yakuza 3 is very much among the BEST of the genre. Sure, SEGA gimped the hell out of the NA release, but it's still a damned fine game. Hell, the only competition Y3 really has is GTA4 and Saint's Row 2--and, frankly, it blows those two games out of the water.
A franchise can't be considered alive when it takes five years to develop a game--or in the case of FF, an entire decade to develop a good game. Something is seriously WRONG with the development team at Square Enix. Yes, Final Fantasy XIII is an awesome game, but it took six odd years to develop. Mass Effect 2, for example, only took two.
Back to the article itself, I love FFXIII. I'd love to see a XIII-2. I haven't enjoyed a FF game so much since FFX. That said, I'm hugely disap...
...but it would certainly be nice to have. ME1 may not be anything great, but ME2 is one of the greatest games ever made. Sure, most gamers are able to play either on 360 or, better yet, PC... but there's a significant number of people with just PS3s and no solid gaming PC that are missing out. That ain't cool.
This whole notion of slamming ME2 because it's not on the PS3... that's as fanboyish as it gets. Nearly so bad as 360 fanboys claiming it as an exclusive--but still worse....
I don't get it. Why would FFVII, a game for which the script, character design, etc. is already completed for take longer than FFXIII, a game that was built from the ground up twice?
Thinking logically, a FFVII remake should only take half the time of FFXIII. Even less if you'll remember FFXIII was to be built using a general-purpose engine that could be tweaked for multiple games, ala Unreal.
Come to think of it, S-E should be able to build a remake on their new eng...
Not so good a coupon as it seems.
It cannot be used in conjunction with other coupons (so no free shipping) and it cannot be used for pre-orders--so those of us buying Yakuza 3, Resonance of Fates and Final Fantasy XIII all on the same day aren't gonna save a dime.
The previews I've read, and videos of the game I've seen look pretty bad. Infinite Space seems to be yet another horridly unispired, flat roleplaying game--in the save vein as the hopelessly mediocre Star Ocean 4.
That said, the whole starship angle is immensely appealing to me. The 1980s was pretty much the golden era for science-fiction in Japan. It was the era of VOTOMS, Dougram, Patlabor, Zeta Gundam and, perhaps most pertinently, Legend of the Galactic Heroes. If infinite sp...
In all honestly, your typical tentacle-rape eroge will get ya' to learn more about "lovin'" than Mass Effect or Dragon Age: Origins. Sure, some games handle romance incredibly well--CLANNAD immediately springs to mind--but not Mass Effect, and most certainly not Dragon Age.
You know, I don't get why this rumormongering is so common. I mean, are fans really clamoring for a remake? Are graphics really that important? Or is there actually a group of gamers out there who found Crisis Core's "plot" so compelling that they want more of it? Really?
I'd be happy with a remake, if only because it'd be more likely to be a good game than anything else S-E might excrete... but I'm not, nor have I really seen anyone else drooling at the prospect.
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He really hit the nail on the head.
"When you look at most Western RPGs, they just dump you in a big open world, and let you do whatever you like... [It] becomes very difficult to tell a compelling story when you're given that much freedom."
Very true. Even the best WRPG since Shadows of Amn, Mass Effect 2, seems wholly incapable of telling a compelling story (ME2 makes up for it with bang-up characterization, though).
Most of the reviews I've ...
Er... there aren't ANY homosexual relationships in ME2. Jack, Tali, Garrus, Thane, Jacob and Miranda are all hetero.
I'm hoping it'll have something nice on the reverse. Otherwise, I'll probably just seek out a hi-res scan of the JPN boxart and print it out. That thing is too damned ugly for my shelf.
For consoles, at least. All this PS3/360/Wii bullshit has really left me bitter. The only reason I'm still gaming at all is the occasionally remarkable title that surfaces--Mass Effect 2, Flower, Heavy Rain.
Most everything else is painfully generic. Actually, I'd planned to give up gaming after the massive disappointment that was Dragon Age: Origins, but ended up buying ME2 on a whim. And, well, y'know how that'd turn out.
Let me say that the only game worth being on that list is Mass Effect 2. And even then, I'd recommend it for a PC.