Topic: Team Microtransactions (MTX) PS3 Library Deliberation Thread

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Good to see you back. Some of us were starting to get a tad concerned.

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy Woah! Hey there! So glad to see you back! 😀

@Foxy-Goddess-Scotchy welcome back to the mad House

Tron: Evolution Propaganda Games
Truck Racer Kylotonn
Turbo: Super Stunt Squad' WayForward Technologies
Turning Point: Fall of Liberty Spark Unlimited
TV Superstars SCE Studios Cambridge
Two Worlds II Reality Pump Studios
uDraw GameTablet with uDraw Studio THQ
uDraw Marvel Super Hero Squad: Comic Combat THQ
uDraw Studio: Instant Artist THQ
UFC 2009 Undisputed Yuke's
UFC Undisputed 2010 Yuke's
Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late Ecole Software, French Bread
Up Heavy Iron Studios
Vampire Rain: Altered Species Artoon
Viking: Battle for Asgard The Creative Assembly
WALL-E Heavy Iron Studios
Wanted: Weapons of Fate GRIN
Warriors: Legends of Troy Koei Canada
Watchmen: The End Is Nigh Deadline Games
We Dare Ubisoft
Where the Wild Things Are Griptonite Games
WWE '12 THQ
WWE '13 THQ
WWE 2K14 Visual Concepts/Yuke's
WWE 2K15 Visual Concepts/Yuke's
X-Blades Gaijin Entertainment
XBLAZE Code: Embryo Arc System Works
Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z Team Ninja
Young Justice: Legacy Freedom Factory
Zumba Fitness – Join the Party 505 Games

I'll set up the sheet in a bit.

@Ralizah Thank you Amigo.

@Ralizah Damn, I've played one game...

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14uRdE72JtbW4N3dPmgzaf...

Alright. Here's the sheet. Although, considering none of us have played any of these games, I'm not sure what good it'll do us.

i've played just two of them this week.

I purchased Zumba Fitness and quickly realised that it's rubbish. It uses the Move controller which you place in a belt attachment that comes with the game.

I quickly realised the game has no way of knowing if you are doing the moves correctly and simply gives you points for jumping up and down like Zebedee from The Magic Roundabout. That's the only way to score well, doing what you're meant to will result in a poor score.

Everything else about the game is unremarkable apart from the fact it sold so well. Clearly Zumba was quite popular at the time.

Not able to access the spreadsheet right now but I'd suggest a 1 is appropriate for this title.

Young Justice: Legacy
Based on a TV show and the game is set between season 1 & 2. Seems like a cash grab that was pretty bad. Plays like a PS2 game.
Let's put this in Pointless

Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z
Looks like a spin off from the Ninja Gaiden series. It got very mixed reviews saying it was short and lacked a variety. A game that you could easily live without playing
Existing

XBLAZE Code: Embryo
A visual novel prequel to the BlazBlue fighting games. This seems like a very strange one. Reading the review on this site (Vita version), it comes across as a very basic visual novel game that does not really seem that important in the grand scheme of things
Not Important

WWE 2K14
Doing a little reading on the net and this seems to be the best on the PS3 hands down.
This needs to be in Important
The other WWE games will go into Existing as they are all apparently good but have some flaws

@ZeD Arite mate. List 7 games you want me to rate please bro and I will have the scores over tonight.

I updated the list with my scores.

I'll take:
Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late Ecole Software, French Bread
Vampire Rain: Altered Species Artoon
Viking: Battle for Asgard The Creative Assembly
WALL-E Heavy Iron Studios
Watchmen: The End Is Nigh Deadline Games
Where the Wild Things Are Griptonite Games

Leaving:
Tron: Evolution Propaganda Games
Truck Racer Kylotonn
Turbo: Super Stunt Squad' WayForward Technologies
TV Superstars SCE Studios Cambridge
uDraw GameTablet with uDraw Studio THQ
uDraw Marvel Super Hero Squad: Comic Combat THQ
uDraw Studio: Instant Artist THQ
UFC 2009 Undisputed Yuke's
UFC Undisputed 2010 Yuke's
Warriors: Legends of Troy Koei Canada
We Dare Ubisoft

Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late Ecole Software, French Bread
A surprisingly decent indie fighting game. It's kind of rendered pointless by the existence of its rebalanced and expanded sequel, Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late(st), also being on the PS3, but it still hosts technically proficient and highly technical 2D action. Taken on its own terms, it's a solid release on the system. I'm tempted to knock off a point for that name, but I'll resist.
Verdict: 3

Vampire Rain: Altered Species Artoon
Metal Gear x Splinter Cell x Generic horror movie... but really, really bad. I've seen almost no love for this. Frequent criticisms of the level design, graphics, difficulty... everything. This is a loser all-around.
Verdict: 1

Viking: Battle for Asgard The Creative Assembly
Repetitive level design. Framerate issues. Uninspired. This is God of War on a budget. Diet God of War. Why wouldn't you just play God of War instead?
Verdict: 2

WALL-E Heavy Iron Studios
Repetitive, chore-like gameplay that involves manipulating trash so you can progress through your environment. PS2 graphics. Extremely short. No trophies. Fox only, no items, final destination.
Verdict: 1

Watchmen: The End Is Nigh Deadline Games
Great production values for an early, downloadable PS3 title. Unfortunately, it's a shallow beat-em-up that does nothing interesting with the license. Also, the load times are apparently long.
Verdict: 2

Where the Wild Things Are Griptonite Games
Boring. Short. Excessively linear. Visually unremarkable. Weird plot. An adventure game minus the fun... so, about what you'd expect from a last gen licensed game.
Verdict: 1

We Dare frankly shouldn't exist at all. ubisoft pulled the plug on a US and UK release, either out of embarassment at how bad it was, or shame for how much flak it got on its european release. it's a bunch of party mini games using move controllers designed to illicit some kind of salacious behaviour. it sounds like a bit an of insult to everyone's intelligence, and apparently others think so.
https://www.pushsquare.com/reviews/2011/05/we_dare_ps3
https://www.engadget.com/2011/02/24/ubisofts-we-dare-to-ruin-...

Verdict: Pointless

Warriors: Legends of Troy
Seems like this is a spin of the Dynasty Warriors series, with similar hack-n-slash style, but characters controlled in 3rd person and with a greater level of graphical violence. story mode retells the trojan war with certain dramatisations, and is divided into two stories, one for the greeks and one of the trojans, with four playable characters on each side of the war. reviews are not too favourable, with PlayUK magazine giving it 14%. it averages 44 on metacritic. it's been described as simple button mashing, lacking the character of its sister series, repetitive and boring, cheap and empty. i've not played any dynasty warrior games, so i don't know how it compares to that series (critically at least, it doesn't) so unless there's somebody with dynasty warriors experience with a better insight, i'd rate this as pointless. even some of its more favourable reviews say there are better options for a hack-n-slash.

Verdict: Pointless

Tron: Evolution Propaganda Games - Not Important

They turned Tron into a 3rd person action adventure which does nothing particularly well.

Truck Racer Kylotonn - Pointless
A racing game by big Ben. Have they actually made a decent game outside of the Bunker?

Turbo: Super Stunt Squad' WayForward - Pointless

Low budget movie tie in which went with a Clone of Toby Hawks which doesn't work well. Subpar graphics etc.

@Ralizah Here are a few scores for your database!

Ill work through the remainder at work tomorrow morning

uDraw Studio: Instant Artist
Interesting peripheral that did add a lot of fun for kids. However, THQ went bump and i think this property was not picked up by any one.
So lets put this is Not Important
I have removed uDraw GameTablet with uDraw Studio THQ from the list as it is the same game

uDraw Marvel Super Hero Squad: Comic Combat THQ
Same as above

TV Superstars
Seemed to get a lot of average scores stating that it is content light but great to play with friends. I would not say it is pointless as it came out around the time when sony were pushing a few family friendly party games.
Not Important

UFC 2009 Undisputed
Looks like it was first in the series and got some great reviews. A sports game that manages to simulate the sport it is showing.
This will go in Important

UFC Undisputed 2010
This builds on the previous years entry (above) and it seems like the must have of the series
Very Important

All - are we happy with the list? If so can some one please post it when they can as I will be watching Endgame when the dead line is

@ZeD Eh.

Is UFC 2010 REALLY a "very important" game? Did it shake the industry in the same way games like Bioshock, Uncharted 2, and Dark Souls did?

My proposal would be to bump down the UFCs one score each, the first to "existing" and the second to "important."