Of course it is. It's not like the PS4 has a huge library of awesome games to compete with it. A better statement of quality might be to say that it's one of the best games in years... or sets a new standard for the roleplaying genre.
I mean, you may as well call Mario Kart 8 the best racing game on t he WiiU--sure, it's a compliment, but it's backhanded as hell.
It's all-but-confirmed, aside from Square-Enix' notorious ineptitude.
A game console never dies. It just... slowly fades away.
All these comparisons really demonstrate is just how good FFX looked back in 2001.
And how bad most games released subsequent really are.
...What unexpected incompetence. And from Square-Enix, of all places. Who could ever have anticipated such ineptitude and disrespect for their consumers?
/s, for the fanboys here who are sufficiently deluded to think the above statement was genuine.
The Power of Nostalgia still appears to be running strong, as far as I can see. Tons of people think the FFXV demo was the best thing ever, and there's still a neverending torrent of people who will rush to defend any of the XIII games.
Hell, there are even people who defend Type-0's motion blur.
After the single-player MMO that was IX, and the actual-MMO that was X, I really don't have any faith that SE is even capable of developing a decent DQ game.
So, yeah: I would much rather have anything else.
Except one of those godawful mobile ports.
I did forget about Devil's Third... but isn't Splatoon coming out this summer? And Mario Maker, too?
Hell, Splatoon is coming out this month. And -no one- is talking about Devils Third, so no matter how you cut it, the last half of 2015 is looking pretty damn barren for WiiU.
And why do fanboys always think "unrevealed games" are a valid counterargument to a lack of games?
If Nintendo really wants to become the industry leader again, the path is simple: combine their handheld and home consoles into a single device. They won't need to compete with the production values of Western AAAs if they can get the diversity of Japan's handheld and mobile developers on board.
Imagine just a WiiU-style tablet that can be played independently, or set up and used as a stationary console w/ a small controller (or stream directly to your TV) that could ...
That sounds exactly like Witcher 2.
And most reviews state that the combat is largely unchanged.
And, TBH, TW2's combat wasn't all that good. It was salvaged mostly by a decent difficulty curve.
You really think that's going to happen?
Unless Nintendo pulls a fast one on us and announces a Starfox release date this year, or some other big unannounced game on WiiU this year, Xenoblade is pretty much all they've got for the latter half of 2015. That pretty much means it HAS to have a November or December release date, regardless of any other circumstances.
IMHO only two games have really done great things with turn-based combat--at least in terms of RPGs. I'm not sure where I stand with strategy games. Anyway: those games are Original Sin, and Arc the Lad: Twilight of Spirits.
Yeah. I definitely plan on picking up a PS4 version sometime. I'll probably wait for a sale, though, simply due to not wanting to randomly give Sony money for online play.
Well, thanks for the generic fanboy response I've come to love from N4G users! Seriously though: thanks for the lack of vitriol. I really do appreciate that.
But, as you almost certainly know, I was talking about significant retail releases... Nintendo's big games in 2015 aren't much to speak of--there's Splatoon, Mario Maker, and DLC for Smash and Mario Kart. Yeah, the WiiU has plenty of games to play if you look at eShop indies, older WiiU and Wii games, and...
I could maybe handle the game one the lowest possible settings.
But I'm not even going to try. CDPR has a history of poor optimization, so my plan is to grab the PS4 version and hold off on the PC version for 4 years or so.
*shrug* Just be glad he's not attacking PC gamers in general, but rather the idiots who use the term "master race."
Woohoo!
Here's hoping the new content expands the world instead of simply adding to it. DOS was/is a fantastically designed game to begin with, but budget limitations led to a disappointing lack of diversity--only the one big town to explore, no elves, dwarves or lizardfolk to interact with, and so on.
I figured the big content update would give me a good excuse to play the game again. It feels so nice to see that update morphed into a brand new game (mor...
You lost me at STUPID COMMENT.
It's not that hard to explain. Nintendo gamers don't have the games to obsess over, so we obsess over the toys instead. Only so much can be done with Smash or Mario Kart, after all.
And all the extra publicity from the "troll" certainly won't hurt.