I'm surprised he stayed that long having to prattle on about Anthem!
It's weird that none of the ex-BioWare staff haven't made a new company to just basically be BioWare again before EA bought them... I'm sure with that pedigree (Even if don't agree with the opinion they were the bee's knees) they'd get plenty of funding to make narrative driven games of yore they did not Games as a Service tripe
I didn't like the bosses characterisation of being a complete and utter psycho in 2. Plus it was still just a reskin of incredibly drab GTA.
3 and 4 were pretty good at painting them as more loveably nuts or as they'd say a puckish rogue. Just as long as I can use Troy Baker and Laura Bailey as the male and female voices I'm good to go! Give me the wackiness!
Considering Persona 5 & I think Kingdom Hearts III only lasted a week at number 1 each when they released, the fact that Fire Emblem has been in the top ten for three weeks and was number 1 for two is an outstanding achievement!
Meanwhile there's only two comments on nintendolife saying it's outright bad. All the rest are either indifferent or seem pretty psyched about it... The six and seven year olds I teach are behaving better then half the comments here
Oh that starting area is definitely derivitive @Ralizah especially those screenshots of yours that look like BotW tit for tat... The rest of the trailer as @NintendoFan4Lyf says shows some unique looking places (Though I haven't seen much of BotW barring the starting area) and seeing as I won't be able to get a switch for a good while this could be a good substitute
Shame on that comment though and some of the others. All fandoms can get a bit overzealous...
Well I'm not surprised... Playing offline (Well Online but not against other players at least) the last three/four days of the grand prix I managed to get about 4500 coins and got Ami, Megumi & Liz along with unlocking Tawna.
Still plays great and looks fantastic but can't say I'm not disappointed either in what was obviously a grindfest for money.
Read up about the downfall of THQ @naruball 'cus I admittedly wasn't completely sure but they were hemorrhaging money left and right and centre on stuff like chasing after WoW to make an MMO and stuck in expensive licensing deals for kids games
The U draw was definitely one of the final nails in the coffin for THQ though... The Wii version apparently sold gangbusters but as you said the PS3/360 versions bombed disastrously
Still a Β£230/$260 board game for a super special edition doesn't scream smart finacial investment for a series that had a rather poorly recieved installment recently
I didn't like Wolfenstein The New Order and didn't even bother with the other one. DOOM'S my FPS of choice! Hope people who do like the series enjoy it though!
So I know nothing about Kill la Kill other then I've heard of it before... And that certainly was something .
Not sure I liked it at all.
There's some really poor graphics with the character Ira Gamagoori in the story mode when it shows him from a distance... unless that's part of the anime's visual style... either way I'm not a fan of it.
The versus mode opening animations also got boring very fast... I played as Ryuko Matoi against the other three and there's no differenation bar a different line being spoken.
After playing REmake and Resident Evil 0 for the first time over the past week or so, the itch for Resi is still there... So looks like I'm playing Resident Evil: Code Veronica X for PS2!
While these might be two critically acclaimed games, it seems to me that is a bad month for the service as a whole.
You've got one game that's two/three hours long with limited replayability and a multiplayer only (basically) game that's better with friends on the couch/sofa
They're both pretty niche to the more general gaming public so I'm not surprised there's such an overwhelmingly negative response to this month's offering.
I've never had plus myself (barring a free trial) and it's the one month where I'm not a tad jealous of the offering
Considering how the Dark Souls board game made barrels of money in seconds as well this is unsurprising in every sense of the word... Looks neat though!
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Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 285
Replaying Horizon: Zero Dawn mainly on PS4 with a bit of Crash Team Racing: Nitro Fueled on the side
Though I'm playing Jade Cocoon: Story of the Tamamayu more then H:ZD on PS1 at the moment!
Re: Soapbox: I'm Collecting Every NFL Game Ever Released on PlayStation
I've got a "The Legend of Dragoon" collection to get. Course that's only the one game (Why haven't you made another Sony?!)
... But still it's at least Β£115 for a good condition one on Amazon! π
Re: ANTHEM Lead Producer Leaves BioWare
I'm surprised he stayed that long having to prattle on about Anthem!
It's weird that none of the ex-BioWare staff haven't made a new company to just basically be BioWare again before EA bought them... I'm sure with that pedigree (Even if don't agree with the opinion they were the bee's knees) they'd get plenty of funding to make narrative driven games of yore they did not Games as a Service tripe
Re: Shantae 5 Has Been Officially Titled Shantae and the Seven Sirens, First Screenshots Released
Never played a Shantae game before... Looks rather pretty!
Re: MediEvil on PS4 Is Looking Good in This New Dev Diary Video
The fact they mention being given the source code and talking about bosses that they never managed to put in the original has me pretty intrigued!
Re: Work on a New Saints Row Game Is Currently Underway at Volition
I didn't like the bosses characterisation of being a complete and utter psycho in 2. Plus it was still just a reskin of incredibly drab GTA.
3 and 4 were pretty good at painting them as more loveably nuts or as they'd say a puckish rogue. Just as long as I can use Troy Baker and Laura Bailey as the male and female voices I'm good to go! Give me the wackiness!
Re: Dead Island 2 Development Moves to a Third Studio
... Wasn't the first one incredibly pants anyway? Who even wanted a second one?!
Re: THQ Nordic Wants Even More of Your Pre-Order Money with BioMutant Special Editions
So if you wanted the Special Duper Editions of each of these releases you'd be plonking down Β£1000+?! Utter madness!!
I do hope Biomutant is good though, it looked interesting from that gameplay trailer like last year
Re: Double Fine Could Release More Multiplatform Games Despite Microsoft Ownership
playstation1995 wrote:
...That's... complete and utter gibberish? What are you even trying to say with that?
Re: UK Sales Charts: Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled Reclaims Number One Despite Sales Decline
Considering Persona 5 & I think Kingdom Hearts III only lasted a week at number 1 each when they released, the fact that Fire Emblem has been in the top ten for three weeks and was number 1 for two is an outstanding achievement!
Re: Double Fine Could Release More Multiplatform Games Despite Microsoft Ownership
head of Xbox Game Studios Matt Booty?!
... Who's the vp of Microsoft Game Studios? Biggus D$ckkus? π
Be interesting to see games from Obsidian maybe make it to playstation still. That's the only studio I really care about being snatched up
Re: Countdown Clock Suggests Need for Speed Reveal Coming Later This Week
With EA in charge it'll be a Need For Greed and all your money!
Re: MediEvil's PS4 Remake Massively Upgraded in Off-Screen Footage
Ha ha I know @DreamerAbe86 ! My comment was mainly just to rag on actish$t a little
And voice my excitement on Sir Daniel Fortesque being back soon of course!
Re: MediEvil's PS4 Remake Massively Upgraded in Off-Screen Footage
SIR DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!
Hopefully my trust in Sony to not bugger this up like Activision and CTR:NF will be rewarded! π
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 284
Getting back to finishing off Resident Evil: Code Veronica X on PS2
Dropping the incredibly average Middle Earth:Shadow Of War and starting Horizon:Zero Dawn again instead on PS4
Re: Borderlands 3 Boycotted by Fans Following Take-Two Investigation into Leaks
Not creepy in the slightest Take Two!
Re: Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled Microtransactions Are Rolling Out on PS4 Now
Still scummy as hell stealth rolling them out like this. Really enjoying CTR but ugh these coins and the always online requirement for them
Not much ya can do about it sadly but since the announcement every time one of those "fun surveys" comes up I say No.
Once I get Spyro collection that's it for Activision for me. Not that I like any of the other stuff they put out anyway...
Re: Random: Raging Zelda Fan Smashes PS4 Over Breath of the Wild 'Clone' Genshin Impact
Meanwhile there's only two comments on nintendolife saying it's outright bad. All the rest are either indifferent or seem pretty psyched about it... The six and seven year olds I teach are behaving better then half the comments here
Re: Random: Raging Zelda Fan Smashes PS4 Over Breath of the Wild 'Clone' Genshin Impact
Oh that starting area is definitely derivitive @Ralizah especially those screenshots of yours that look like BotW tit for tat... The rest of the trailer as @NintendoFan4Lyf says shows some unique looking places (Though I haven't seen much of BotW barring the starting area) and seeing as I won't be able to get a switch for a good while this could be a good substitute
Shame on that comment though and some of the others. All fandoms can get a bit overzealous...
Re: Random: Raging Zelda Fan Smashes PS4 Over Breath of the Wild 'Clone' Genshin Impact
Game looks pretty decent from the trailer, hopefully it isn't some micro transaction filled gacha game!
Fudging weirdo
Re: UK Sales Charts: FIFA 19 and Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled Can't Topple Fire Emblem
Congrats to Fire Emblem! Surprised and pleased that a JRPG/Strategy game is number one...
...Even if I unfortunately can't play it cus I haven't got a switch
Hey @Ralizah your favourite game is still in the top ten as well!
Re: ChinaJoy 2019: Genshin Impact Is An Open World PS4 RPG with Waifus
Hence why the Subtitle is Waifu of the WIld @KeanuReaves
It looks decent enough! I'll wait for the review from you though first @ShogunRok
Re: Garfield Kart Poses a Threat to Death Stranding with November Release Date
Game Of The Millennium!
Re: Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled Is Getting Microtransactions
Well I'm not surprised... Playing offline (Well Online but not against other players at least) the last three/four days of the grand prix I managed to get about 4500 coins and got Ami, Megumi & Liz along with unlocking Tawna.
Still plays great and looks fantastic but can't say I'm not disappointed either in what was obviously a grindfest for money.
Re: UK Sales Charts: Wolfenstein: Youngblood Settles for Second as Nintendo Strikes Again
Really? That's a surprise @Ralizah I thought all the Fire Emblems since Awakenings sold like crazy
Plus there seems to be a decent amount of stock here in the UK still from a quick google so it might not be that big of a fall!
Re: Classic DOOM PS4 Ports to Have BethesdaNet Login Requirement Removed
Well I was gonna break out the PS1 and play my copy of Doom on there.... Still might actually. But I might get these too once this is done!
Re: UK Sales Charts: Wolfenstein: Youngblood Settles for Second as Nintendo Strikes Again
At least you're not in an alternate timeline @Ralizah where you're commenting on Mario Kart 8 being in the top ten again for umpteenth time?
Be interesting to see how Fire Emblem: Three Houses preforms next week though.
Will it be like most Jrpgs and it'll unfortunately sink like a stone? Or will it actually rise above that and continue to do well?
Re: Darksiders Genesis: Nephilim Edition Is Pricey as Hell, Includes Full Blown Board Game
Read up about the downfall of THQ @naruball 'cus I admittedly wasn't completely sure but they were hemorrhaging money left and right and centre on stuff like chasing after WoW to make an MMO and stuck in expensive licensing deals for kids games
The U draw was definitely one of the final nails in the coffin for THQ though... The Wii version apparently sold gangbusters but as you said the PS3/360 versions bombed disastrously
Still a Β£230/$260 board game for a super special edition doesn't scream smart finacial investment for a series that had a rather poorly recieved installment recently
Re: Darksiders Genesis: Nephilim Edition Is Pricey as Hell, Includes Full Blown Board Game
Nordic does remember that stuff like this is why THQ went belly up right?
Re: RAGE 2 Grabs New Game Plus, Ultra Nightmare Difficulty, and a Few Welcome Changes
Did this even do that well? I remember all the hype about it and then heard nothing at all. In fact I forgot it was out til now
Re: Round Up: Wolfenstein: Youngblood Reviews are a Little Hit and Miss
I didn't like Wolfenstein The New Order and didn't even bother with the other one. DOOM'S my FPS of choice! Hope people who do like the series enjoy it though!
Re: UK Sales Charts: Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled Back at Number One After Amazon Prime Day
I don't own it @Ralizah
Suprised that Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order is in number 2, not so much at Crash zooming back to number 1
Re: Digimon Survive Digivolves with a Fully Animated Opening Movie
Nice! Keeping my eye on Survive after Cyber Sleuth!
Re: Random: God of War Art Director's Take On Cuphead and Mugman Is a Knockout
Kinda hard to mess up Cuphead & Mugman compared to some of the Smash Bros pictures (Though I actually quite liked most of them!)
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 280
Shadow of War on the PS4, can finally start recruiting orcs
Resident Evil: Code Veronica X on the PS2... About halfway now!
Re: Yes, Cyberpunk 2077 Has a Reversible Cover for Male or Female V
Just gimme a different colour other then that disgusting yellow... I don't care about anything else! π (Though an alternate side with Fem V is nice)
Re: Sea of Solitude - Gorgeous Graphics, Generic Gameplay
Sea of Snoritude then?
Re: Kill la Kill - IF Demo Is Playable Now on PS4
So I know nothing about Kill la Kill other then I've heard of it before... And that certainly was something .
Not sure I liked it at all.
There's some really poor graphics with the character Ira Gamagoori in the story mode when it shows him from a distance... unless that's part of the anime's visual style... either way I'm not a fan of it.
The versus mode opening animations also got boring very fast... I played as Ryuko Matoi against the other three and there's no differenation bar a different line being spoken.
Not sure I'm fond of the fan service either π
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 279
After playing REmake and Resident Evil 0 for the first time over the past week or so, the itch for Resi is still there... So looks like I'm playing Resident Evil: Code Veronica X for PS2!
Re: Feature: What to Expect During Today's State of Play?
MediEvil!!!!!!!!!!!
... I do hope it takes little to no cues from Resurrection though...
Re: Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled Shows Off Some Crazy Character and Kart Customisation
I'm hyped!
I just hope the cynic in me isn't right about these being a chore to grind or worse overly priced microstransactions/cosmetic DLC π
Re: Official PS Plus May 2019 Videos Battered by Dislikes and Comments Section Outrage
While these might be two critically acclaimed games, it seems to me that is a bad month for the service as a whole.
You've got one game that's two/three hours long with limited replayability and a multiplayer only (basically) game that's better with friends on the couch/sofa
They're both pretty niche to the more general gaming public so I'm not surprised there's such an overwhelmingly negative response to this month's offering.
I've never had plus myself (barring a free trial) and it's the one month where I'm not a tad jealous of the offering
Re: The Mysterious Persona 5 S Is Persona 5 Scramble: The Phantom Strikers, and It's Coming to PS4
... You're kidding me?! π
This is... WOW
Not expected in the slightest, genuinely thought it'd be a switch port!
TouchΓ© Atlus!
Re: Days Gone - Open World Comfort Food with a Survival Horror Spin
Seeing as I don't play many open world games (...I think Horizon is the last one I bought?) I still might get this sooner or later
Re: Bloodborne: The Board Game Slaughters Its Kickstarter Goal with Ease
Considering how the Dark Souls board game made barrels of money in seconds as well this is unsurprising in every sense of the word... Looks neat though!
Re: Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled Cover Art Is Here to Rev Your Engine
Nice! A good piece of box/cover art is always appreciated by me... And that's top notch!
Would be even better if it was reversible with a take on the original box art on the other side!
Re: Persona 5: The Royal Adds New Party Member, Expanded Story, New Enemies, PS4 Pro Support, and Much More
Ehhhhh... I think I'm done with Persona sadly.
Or at least I don't want any more of 5. It's a shame but I'll have to pass
Re: Days Gone Has Some Seriously Impressive Snow
That's snow joke
... Seriously though it looks pretty darn good!
Re: Square Enix Confirms Live E3 2019 Showcase
Avengers: Age of Microtransactions?
I kid... Hopefully π₯
Re: UK Sales Charts: World War Z Fends Off Zombies from the Top Spot
Genuinely surprised World War Z got into the number 1 spot! I thought it was gonna be in tenth spot or something at best. Shows what I know
Next week will be interesting to see however on whether this is just because of a slow week...