Dragon Age Inquisition and Witcher 3 take pretty antithetical approaches to the whole open-world fantasy RPG concept.
I can only assume you haven't been paying attention.
Wasteland 2 was actually designed to be console-friendly and is getting ported to XB3/PS4 later this year.
Anyway, you can generally be sure that the moment someone starts making big generalizations about either JRPGs or WRPGs, they have very little understanding of either genre.
THose fingernails are gross....
Or a phone.
While I agree that those games are modern platformers, I feel that the basic appeal of platforming is not so much traversal as exploration. And while traversal mechanics in modern platformers are pretty fun, the actual exploration elements are SEVERELY lacking.
TBH the only modern platformers that come close to where I think the genre should be going are the two Ratchet & Clank Future games.
But I have high hopes that the next 3D Mario will embrace a more...
At first, I thought this was viral marketing. Then I saw that it's Best Buy doing it, and realized it was just plain marketing.
I wonder: does viral marketing even exist any more for the games industry? I mean, since there are so many fanboys ready, willing and oh-so-able to do it freely?
A LoK reboot would be terrible. Without the original writers or voice actors... it would inevitably fall short of the originals. I have no idea why any fan of the games would even suggest such a thing.
A remaster (IE port) compilation would be nice, though. All the games in one place, displaying properly on a modern 1080p display would be fantastic.
Expecting something from Square-Enix = inevitably disappointing.
I don't see the two as related.
Charging a subscription fee for unlimited game rentals and discounts is fine... charging a wholly superfluous fee for online play is not fine.
The one does not "make up" for the other.
Legacy of Kain cannot come back. Ever. Most of the voice actors are dead, and the lead writer is Amy Henig... you know--of Naughty Dog fame.
Any future Kain games will be like the Nosgoth MMO--LoK in name only.
I wouldn't expect to see anything on SO5 until at least TGS in a few months. The best we can hope for from SE-developed games is are trailers for DQH, FF15 and maybe KH3 (though I seriously doubt we'll see anything KH3 related for a very long while).
If we're super, super, super, super lucky maybe they'll announce an FF12 port, since SE tends to announce games the moment they start predevelopment.
Not Chrono Trigger.
Unless we're all very, very, very unfortunate.
Excellent: more money, time, and effort to be directed at something other than game development.
I dunno. I see it more as Nintendo chasing a fad. Shooters were THE most popular genre on the market a few years back, so Nintendo is making a shooter... years after the genre's dominance faded. That's backwards-thinking.
Free DLC, special events, betas, etc., too are things that were once very common in the industry... years ago. But less so now.
(And I also have a nagging suspicion that the "future content updates" are a euphemism for &quo...
Forward thinking? No. Nintendo is still following the same trends as everyone else, only years behind the curve. Splatoon looks great and all, but does anyone really see arena-based shooters ever making a comeback?
Careful. Lots of idiots here who don't know what words mean.
Pretty sure there are no heroes in the BL setting. Pretty much everyone is an omnicidal psychopath.
Anyway...... Handsome Jack can't be redeemed in Tales from the Borderlands. That's not how redemption works.
...You say that like there has ever been any other reason to play any adventure game.
Well, I guess there /are/ a bunch of obtuse puzzle fetishists out there.
Then can we accuse you have having preschool-level reading comprehension skills?
Because he is very, very clearly talking about publishers and developers.
If they're not going to talk about Zelda U at E3, they sure as hell better have several other unannounced games to talk about. They're keeping their platforms afloat almost entirely via first-party titles, after all--they have to have something new to show if they want to sustain them going forward.