Uh... did I miss something? I didn't notice any big news out of Gamescon, let alone big news for the WiiU.
If there are any big sales spikes, it's likely due to anticipation for the new Smash and Zelda Musou games.
The argument is not and has never been "no games." It is "no (too few) games (that are good)."
And it's as valid now as it ever was.
...Avatar made money because it was a spectacle movie. Like most big blockbusters these days. Audiences didn't drive to the theater to watch it because it was a compelling story, or because it had relatable or interesting characters--they went to see it because it was pretty.
Which is what we gamers call "graphics-whoring."
Sorry, but you don't assume the role of any of the characters in the game. The player assumes the role of an entity external to the story.
Hence the book presentation with newspaper clippings and photos. You're experiencing a story that has already been documented--you are not an active participant in it.
You can whine all you like about how I'm wrong, but the point is I've able to argue my point, and those who disagree, it seems, are incapabl...
Sorry, VC is not an RPG.
In an RPG, the player assumes the role of a character within the story.
In Valkyria Chronicles, the player assumes the role of an external third party who views the story from the "outside," and interacts with the game from the perspective of a god.
An anime aesthetic and cel-shading don't make a game an RPG, people--the actual gameplay mechanics and narrative presentation are what matter here.
Summer 2014 belongs to the PC. None of the consoles have much of anything coming out this summer, but PC has some incredible games--Divinity Original Sin; Wasteland 2; Legend of Heroes Trails in the Sky; to name a few.
Thankfully handhelds and PS3 also have several good games coming this autumn and winter.
I never actually finished Fatal Frame 2. Such a creepy game. Love it.
You can by each one for $3.99, or you can buy the bundle of both for $7.98.
$3.99 + $3.99 = $7.98.
So you're not actually saving anything at all by buying the bundle. But I'll give you a bubble anyway.
Yeah, that's my main game for August, too. Lots of stuff in September and October and November, though.
But there are some other August releases I'll probably be picking up this year: Layton vs Phoenix Wright and Disgaea 4 Vita. And then there's Wasteland 2, which I already own.
Well, that was a good call. This was the list you missed (in ascending order).
Final Fantasy XIII (terrible)
Valkyria Chronicles (not an RPG)
Dragon Age Origins (mediocre)
Xenoblade Chronicles
Diablo III (mediocre)
The Witcher 2
Dark Souls 2
Fallout 3 (mediocre)
Mass Effect 2
Skyrim (mediocre)
....
So pretty much both the first and last entry indicate that whoever wrote t...
I'm not entirely sure what you're trying to say.
The PS4 is selling on hype right now, so when those "killer apps" do arrive in the Japanese market expect the same thing to happen that always happens: a massive sales spike and increasing sales thereafter.
Not sure I'd call it "growth." Their PS3 titles really don't demonstrate the... design lineage of their previous games.
Which is unfortunate. Can you imagine how cool an open-world Uncharted game would be with solid, nonlinear platforming?
The PS4 is flagging in Japan because it doesn't have any games, and the Japanese market is more oriented around the idea of "killer apps"--single games good enough to buy a platform for. The WiiU has that, arguably. The PS4 does not.
And even ignoring the lack of a "great" game, the PS4 is also sorely lacking for good/average titles, especially Japanese titles. FPS and TPS games will only appeal to so many people.
I expect things to tu...
Most of that life is only there because the PS4 isn't backwards compatible. Sony's got themselves in a position where their new console (PS4) is competing with their old console (PS3), and suffers for the comparison.
What I find interesting in this whole turnabout is the fact that the WiiU was ever outselling the PS3 to begin with, given the relatively huge disparities in their respective libraries.
But then, of course, there's crap like the XB3/P...
I would rather have SNES games.
But this is Nintendo: neither of us will get what we want.
I always get the feeling Nintendo decides which games to offer as rewards by seeing which games most of their members have already bought and registered.
Every single chapter of BG2 was a fake-out ending for me. Never expected that game, or any game, to be so damned big.
Also: Tales Of games are pretty notorious for this. So much so that when there's not a "second half" to play through, it's surprising. Same for Dragon Quest, in a way--the whole 'other world' aspect.
If you don't know who Manuel Noriega is, at least read the article.
Noriega was one of those South American dictators from back in the day. He's got his own heinous crimes to own up to, without being saddled with fictitious ones. Hell, that was literally in the very first sentence of the article.
That said, I think being a public figure pretty much means he no longer has control over his "image." If so, things like political cartoons/caricat...
A terrible idea, IMHO.
Kong-centric DLC for MK8 would be cool, though I'd rather see other Nintendo franchises be included via DLC.
Uh... I really hope that's meant to reflect games across every platform you own.
I can't say how many physical games I have off the top of my head, but I actually keep an alphabatized, categorized list of all the digital games I've purchased so that I can know for sure if anything is "lost." (Steam, for example, will sometimes randomly delete games from user libraries).
I haven't updated the list in a while and probably have 20-ish n...