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Post by Lee on Jul 19, 2011 22:57:01 GMT -5
I agree with most of what feynman said with the exception of Golden Axe: Beast Rider, that game pissed me off.
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Post by 9inchsamurai on Jul 19, 2011 23:16:38 GMT -5
So which country do we blame for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow?
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Post by Sac (a.k.a Icaras) on Jul 19, 2011 23:41:54 GMT -5
I don't know if there is a delcine in japan or american...sorry "wetsern"...games, or modern gaming, at all.
I just think that the games coming out now are just not the sort of games we've grown up with and come to expect.
Me, I really liked old school "japanese" style CRPGs and on most major consoles, there really seems to be a lack of games in that style. Sure there are always RPGs coming out, but not of the kind I expect.
I look at a lot of games these days and just say "meh" simply because they'r enot the style of game I like.
This doesn't really mean there's a decline in the gaming industry (of whatever country) or any of the other bullshit I've seen in this thread. It just means the kind of games I want to see are not the kinds of games the big companies are wanting/are making.
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Post by muteKi on Jul 20, 2011 1:24:12 GMT -5
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Post by kitten on Jul 20, 2011 1:51:08 GMT -5
Oh boy, an engine for shitty flash-looking games that animate on pivots and by stretching. How great.
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Post by flux on Jul 20, 2011 1:56:20 GMT -5
The only way you could get me to drop full price on that thing is if it's attached to the belt of one of those blonde chicks they had at E3 last year. because hey, free belt. |
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Post by muteKi on Jul 20, 2011 2:09:08 GMT -5
Oh boy, an engine for shitty flash-looking games that animate on pivots and by stretching. How great. I am hoping this'll spur on better development tools. On the other hand I haven't used it myself anyway so I dunno what it's actually capable of. |
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Post by Gendo Ikari on Jul 20, 2011 2:49:22 GMT -5
This wave of cancelled or delayed projects on the 3DS, including one with the specific reason of waiting for the system's userbase to expand, baffles me. Ok, we know it's not selling as much as they expected but, hell, it's been out for just four months now! [Unless they are hiding that sales are going very badly, I don't know.] Also, if they lament the lack of a strong userbase, how can they hope to expand it if games are still few and some aren't even coming anymore?
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Post by Sketcz-1000 on Jul 20, 2011 3:21:23 GMT -5
I'm sure you think this would be "sticking it to" these people, but it would just make you look like a gigantic retard. The t-shirt thing was a joke. I'd hoped it was absurd enough to be obvious; obviously not. Yes quite clearly the Metroid Prime Trilogy was a horrible abomination and Other M is a glorious return to form. For the record, I haven't like any Metroid games since Super. Well, Zero Mission was OK, but the rest, Fusion, Prime and Other M, were all pretty awful I thought. My point was that regardless of how well Japan is doing (and I would argue they have lost all of their confidence but not their talent), there is nothing wrong with saying you like games of Japanese origin. Compare it to films or even cuisine. Hollywood blockbuster, Hong Kong action, French arthouse, Italian horror, Bollywood, Nollywood, and so on. People can claim to be fans of a specific country's film (or food) output and no one bats an eyelid - but if you admit that "I have a particular liking for Japanese games" then you're branded as some kind of leprous pariah. As if you're strange. I don't like how one section of gamers attacks other sections - solidarity, my comrades, solidarity. EDIT: Excellent article here, explaining many of the problems and why great Japanese games aren't reaching us. www.1up.com/features/golden-age-jrpgs-xenoblade-pandora-tower-last-story-xseed |
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Post by hidetoshidecide on Jul 20, 2011 8:21:33 GMT -5
Even if they aren't sharing Valkyria 3 with us.  Likely a blessing in disguise. |
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Post by caoslayer on Jul 20, 2011 9:16:19 GMT -5
So which country do we blame for Castlevania: Lords of Shadow? Spain. |
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Post by Super Orbus on Jul 20, 2011 9:21:37 GMT -5
Even if they aren't sharing Valkyria 3 with us. Likely a blessing in disguise. Really? I thought 3 looked much more interesting than 2. Then again, I got bored after 3 or 4 missions playing the first game, and own the second but haven't even opened it. So I suppose I'm not one to talk. I'll go back to it... someday... |
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Post by retr0gamer on Jul 20, 2011 9:23:59 GMT -5
I liked lords of shadow. It might have been as far from castlevania as itcould get but once you got past the first few stages (the swamp stage should have been cut) it gets a lot better.
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Post by derboo on Jul 20, 2011 9:51:42 GMT -5
Hmm, that article claims piracy is the main problem for handheld games, but I say handheld games are the main problem for handheld games. I would never buy Ys or Trails in the Sky as a handheld game, if Xseed would bring out the PC versions I would buy one title or the other. If they were console games, I'd own all of them by now. The console market somehow seems to be very hostile to mid-tier retail releases. Why can't we have retail console games that look like last-gen but just cost as much as a DS or PSP game? Or give the PS3 a PSP emulator and pack every game with a download code? |
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Post by hidetoshidecide on Jul 20, 2011 11:27:56 GMT -5
Really? I thought 3 looked much more interesting than 2. Then again, I got bored after 3 or 4 missions playing the first game, and own the second but haven't even opened it. So I suppose I'm not one to talk. I'll go back to it... someday... The setting of 3 was more interesting- particularly the idea of following a penal battalion- than the school setting of 2, but there's no saving the engine that the PSP games use. |
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