It doesn't really matter what you compare miitomo to because the comparison to the other two games isn't the point of the graphs. We see that miitomo has gone downhill on user interest over the last month and there are many good reasons for that. Miitomo is trying to compete with so many other apps that keep people connected, and miitomo does not do that particular function very well. The drop game is dull as can be and honestly, due to the difficulty, it should be giving tons of freebie tries at it daily because there is little reason to do it other wise. I only mess with it around once a week if I remember, just to snag a few platinum coins. I am not even sure why I bother since I don't care about picross and there is nothing else worthwhile to spend coins on, so my coins will likely expire with nothing to show for them other than a waste of my life earning them.
I own both the FE collectors edition and STEAM, but I haven't gotten around to playing STEAM yet as I am waiting till I eventually pick up a New 3ds since I have the FE amiibo.
As for FE Fates, I was let down by the games. I was wanting more of Awakening but the games took out much of what I really enjoyed about Awakening. I am fairly certain I am not the only one feeling this way. I won't be picking up the next FE unless it goes more Awakening. I was ok with the 3 game layout, figuring Birthright would be Awakening, Conquest would be classic, and no clue what the other would be. But Birthright was not awakening, and that really annoyed me.
If all the maps were $.49 I would snag them. I don't see the point of paying as much as they are asking for a single map. They already have the engine built, and they have been using layouts of stages from previous games. I don't like rewarding people who are just milking us at those prices. Give me a $10 expansion pack.
Normally I don't mind small changes but this is starting to get ridiculous. I am seriously considering not even bothering with the NX if this is how things are going to go on a Nintendo console. I was one of the hardcore players that came in for the Wii U and I think it will be a shame if the nintendo scares me away after one generation.
The wii u console wont get healthy numbers again until we know more about the NX. For all consumers know the NX could play wii u games so many folks wouldnt want to jump the gun with all the rumors floating around.
Honestly, this new system doesn't make me feel like being loyal to nintendo. Club Nintendo had me hunting new copies of games down, even when they were full price. Full price, digital only games will not sell to me. If nintendo and the other consoles keep trying to force this digital only future on me, I will abandon them for PC and PC game sales.
It figures. I have been trying machine Knight on my phone I just completely lost interest after a certain point. I tried one other of their games didn't last long before I lost interest. As a person who grew up on old school games on the Super Nintendo none of their games actually have the same soul as the old games. I can't in good conscience pay what they ask for these games on Console because they are just not worth it to me and if I can't finish their games on mobile I don't see console being any better.
I have 0 faith in Capcom because they have been leaving it to fans to make Megaman fans happy over these last years. Everytime they get up hype, we get crap mobile games, like Breath of Fire 5. Plus the Legends 3 fiasco was a nail in the coffin.
To be honest, I am enjoying the game right now. Close to chapter 20, and working on children right now.
Other than that, I actually enjoyed Awakening a great deal more. I don't really feel invested in most of the characters in Fates, at least no where near as much as I did in Awakening. I miss an actual map to traverse. Also the story is rather weak at this point as well.
So other than lack of a traversable map, weaker character development, and weaker story, everything else is leagues better than Awakening. I like the new optional fight way of doing things, the My Castle, forging, the works.
@TechJunkie69 I was going to post the same question. Mario looks surprisingly nimble in a game that is supposedly experiencing slow down. It looks like his environment is slowing, but he isn't.
@BrizzoUK We likely would of gotten it uncensored in the US if it wasn't for the major issues going on with the LGBT community now a days. It is still a huge fight for those folks to even get married as tons of Republican governors in power are looking for all kinds of ways to block LGBT folks rights, even going against the Supreme Courts decisions. If this game had come out 5 years ago, I doubt it would of been censored.
Plus, I doubt Japan is going to change how they do things just because of a Western audience, entirely because localization is a thing.
Not bothering with the 3ds game. I don't like games like that on 3ds as my 3ds is my rpg machine primarily. If they won't give us everything in this game as DLC on the Wii U, then I just won't get this content. Thankfully Hyrule Warriors has enough content in it already, at least more than enough to make me satisfied with my purchase.
@SmaMan Because its fun seeing a chubby plumber get his butt kicked =p Honestly, I think they do it just because Mario is so recognizable, and he does make some of the best faces for somebody getting his behind kicked all over the place.
I have 0 issues with the text. I have bad eyes and my glasses are a few years past their "get a new pair" date, and I don't really have a hard time with the text at all unless I am distracted, which isn't a text size issue.
I find it interesting how he likes western stuff while many of us westerners like the japanese style rpg's. I don't like XCX as much as I liked XC. If XC had XCX's quest system, the game would completely blow away XCX in my personal opinion. I don't like silent protagonists, and I don't like open worlds when they use silent protagonists as you end up getting an Elder Scrolls type game. While I do enjoy an Elder Scrolls game occasionally, I prefer my rpg's to be like living a book, not creating a book.
@Christoff It will be complex, but if you have screwed around with complex games in other genres, one would assume you would be fine. If you want to play a jrpg before X gets released and don't mind old, snag Golden Sun in the gameboy advance games on wii u. It isn't the same kind of rpg as X but it does have a number of mechanics that you can play around with besides just run around, kill stuff, level up, repeat.
@MekkaGodzilla I am the complete opposite. I feel epic games lose a lot of the epic on handheld, so i prefer bite sized rpg's....and yeah 30 hours is bite sized to me =p
@GeminiSaint They need to get over their upset. They are part of a big world, so they need to quit the belly aching and realize that teaching people is far more effective than trying to force the rest of a world to honor your traditions.
@DreamOn I thoroughly disagree. If everybody takes offense at everything, then anger flares all around because nobody can see eye to eye. To be part of a big world means you have to realize that people will post things about you, try to mimic you, or any numbers of other things. Instead of whining about it, native Americans should be embracing that and helping non native Americans learn about the native American culture. Instead they are just making everybody dislike them.
@Nintendo_Ninja I do. I much prefer the Tomahawk character from at the least an artistic point of view. Not a huge fan of that cowboy class because it looks tacky and feels shoehorned in.
Man that game looks horrid. Makes me think of this beginner program to help folks learn to program called Alice. Alice is barebone, but useful, and the graphics in this game and the canned animations make me think of Alice on so many levels.
Will admit, that game does look pretty bad, but I will still pick it up. I am a big Warsong fan. I will admit I think I would of preferred old school Langrisser graphics to these 3d battlefields that look like elementary school level programmers playing with programming tools.
Whats interesting about this review is how it points out this game checks all the checkboxes. I am fairly confident this game invented or at the least had no template with which to check, and the review's point of view is based on comparing this game to the other games that have come out in the last 20 years. Just my 2 cents. I played both of the Star Tropics back in the times they came out, and I enjoyed both.
As long as they didn't censor the of age characters, I really don't care. The girl does not look 13, heck she doesn't look 15 either, so all this is over a number on a character's statistics. I would of sooner just had them make her older, but I am going to guess her age plays a part in her personality.
This is a good game, but it is one you really want to play in increments instead of non stop. I am taking a break from it right now to play Devil Survivor 2, and I take LoL with me sometimes when I go out as I can do some stat and skill grinding on a map during short down times. Yeah, the lack of a story is rather bad and they could of done a lot more to give it even a minor story, but the game itself isn't horrible.
To be honest though, I would recommend folks wait for it to go on sale as it doesn't really feel like a full priced game. It isn't fleshed out enough because, other than animations, all the characters are basically the same thing, the main difference being each character has different affinities to weapons and magic that affect how fast they learn skills with particular types.
Kind of a shame that anybody that bought them won't be able to re-download them after they are removed. Thankfully the games were cheap, but this will happen to those $50 games at some point as well, and to ones that aren't available on other consoles.
I will never back retail priced downloads. Don't believe in them and they it is fleecing customers to charge almost full price after the game maker saves half the premium price or more not having to deal with middle men.
@ottospooky Agree with you whole heartedly. Own over 300 physical games and going and am a huge fan of limited and collectors editions. I prefer my games for display and the fact that I may want to play them when companies shut down. If Sony were to shut down today, a whole lot of people would be mad when they learn that if anything happens to the games on their HDD, they are gone for good, and all the games they didn't have room to download are gone for good as well.
It also makes me feel good to go to a game store and see a copy of a game I own going for $100+.
@OorWullie You and me both. To date I still want to play Shining Force 3 and Panzer Dragoon Saga. And I would love that re-release they did of Dragon Force.
@fluggy Niche products do that. Unless you are into this type of game, then you won't "get" this game and it will be a hard sell to most reviewers. Happens with many games. For folks who love the series, this will probably end up being an 8 or 9.
To me this game is a lot like Etrian Odyssey, minus the character customizing. It also has it's own version of FOE's, as in enemies that won't chase you, and usually look like a shadow that you can easily avoid, but if you hit it, you get into a mid boss fight. What is nice though, is almost all fights allow you to run, which always works.
The problem with the game is it takes way too much grinding, and while some characters seem to jump in levels on certain things like hp, some don't. My Eloise is my weakest character because my hp level ups are few and far between where as my other two characters are a min of 30 hp, to a max of 80 hp difference compared to Eloise. She dies too fast on some fights before I can get a water shield out. The manual is also lackluster, as I don't really understand the point of getting 5 skills that all cost nothing to use. It doesn't mention if I have to level up some to get other skills, or any number of other things....or I didn't notice it, one or the other. And of course, as usual, the game has no physical manual.
@ItalianBaptist I didn't have a Vita for the same reason tons of other folks didn't, the Sony tax and their idea of memory. If you are a big time gamer, the Vita required around $320 to $350 just to buy the thing plus one game. Nobody wants to pay the price of a console for a handheld. And since no prices have gone down, there is still no overwhelming desire to get it.
@rjejr You said it yourself, the wii sold over 100 million. Nintendo gets lucky, then unlucky, but by far their biggest problem is power. If they fixed that problem, third parties would love them, and they would be competitive in their own market as the pure gaming console, not the all in one box xbone and ps4 want to be.
Got a taste of tv connected hand helds with the PSP, and while I love the option to do so as many of the games look ok, it still comes back to power, power, and more power. Handhelds just don't do the depth of console games, and to make a handheld as powerful as a console would put an extremely hot item in your hand after 30 minutes.
@rjejr Because, games in general lose a lot of what makes them great by going handheld if they were originally a console title. From what has been said, Hyrule Warriors will lose a lot of the scenery, including soldier numbers, by going handheld, plus most games, even Dragon Quest 8, lose a lot of their vibrant colors. Many people who make handheld games also cut back on many things that are staples on console. I don't mind handheld games, but consoles are where its at for me because you just don't get the same immersion on a handheld that you do on a console.
My go to example is always Shin Megami Tensei 4 versus Shin Megami Tensei 3 Nocturne. SMT 4 does not hold a candle on ambiance and immersion like Nocturne does because so much is missing from the handheld game, especially deep sound effect, and a post apocalyptic world that actually looks like one. The world in SMT 4 is neat and all, but at such a small size it is very hard to really get into the world as a backdrop, and to me it was just a few roads you follow to get wherever. In SMT 3, the world was dangerous, and you had to maneuver your way around it in all it's glory.
@AugustusOxy I like old school zelda style games and getting a clone that features a completely different cast is worth it to me. Course i didn't back this game, as I already went through my kickstarter growing pains, but I would of liked to have played this game.
@Sinister No, kickstarter was meant to let people forget publishers exists so they can retain the rights to their own IP and can make a game with fan feedback instead of a checklist given to them by a publisher. Too many indie developers are jumping the gun recently and trying to be AA, closing in on AAA, thinking they can do it on indie budgets.
@whodatninja Because some folks enjoy a non Zelda based Zelda style game. It is nice having a new hero and villain sometimes, in a world that doesn't revolve around a triforce and a princess named Zelda.
I would of tried it if there was a physical disc, but since I am in the US, the only way I would try it is if it hit $20 or less digitally. Making it digital only here is a death sentence for the game because people will not spend the price they will likely ask for the game on a digital only title. They will be lucky to get 15% of the sales they would of had if they had done physical and digital.
@dronesplitter I agree with you. I hope Nintendo is slow, but I am not sure they will be since they have a money man in charge now. I am a core gamer myself, and today's gaming scene is a huge pile of crap with the rare gem when it used to be about equal.
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Re: SurveyMonkey Intelligence Breaks Down the Declining Usage of Miitomo
It doesn't really matter what you compare miitomo to because the comparison to the other two games isn't the point of the graphs. We see that miitomo has gone downhill on user interest over the last month and there are many good reasons for that. Miitomo is trying to compete with so many other apps that keep people connected, and miitomo does not do that particular function very well. The drop game is dull as can be and honestly, due to the difficulty, it should be giving tons of freebie tries at it daily because there is little reason to do it other wise. I only mess with it around once a week if I remember, just to snag a few platinum coins. I am not even sure why I bother since I don't care about picross and there is nothing else worthwhile to spend coins on, so my coins will likely expire with nothing to show for them other than a waste of my life earning them.
Re: Editorial: Fire Emblem Fates and Code Name S.T.E.A.M., Two Very Different Intelligent Systems Ventures
I own both the FE collectors edition and STEAM, but I haven't gotten around to playing STEAM yet as I am waiting till I eventually pick up a New 3ds since I have the FE amiibo.
As for FE Fates, I was let down by the games. I was wanting more of Awakening but the games took out much of what I really enjoyed about Awakening. I am fairly certain I am not the only one feeling this way. I won't be picking up the next FE unless it goes more Awakening. I was ok with the 3 game layout, figuring Birthright would be Awakening, Conquest would be classic, and no clue what the other would be. But Birthright was not awakening, and that really annoyed me.
Re: New DLC Maps Are Coming To Fire Emblem Fates Next Month
If all the maps were $.49 I would snag them. I don't see the point of paying as much as they are asking for a single map. They already have the engine built, and they have been using layouts of stages from previous games. I don't like rewarding people who are just milking us at those prices. Give me a $10 expansion pack.
Re: Western Localisation Of Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE Features Costume And Age Changes
Normally I don't mind small changes but this is starting to get ridiculous. I am seriously considering not even bothering with the NX if this is how things are going to go on a Nintendo console. I was one of the hardcore players that came in for the Wii U and I think it will be a shame if the nintendo scares me away after one generation.
Re: Yo-kai Brand Power Strikes Again in Japan as Pokkén Tournament Passes Sales Landmark
The wii u console wont get healthy numbers again until we know more about the NX. For all consumers know the NX could play wii u games so many folks wouldnt want to jump the gun with all the rumors floating around.
Re: Poll: What Do You Think of My Nintendo and Miitomo?
Honestly, this new system doesn't make me feel like being loyal to nintendo. Club Nintendo had me hunting new copies of games down, even when they were full price. Full price, digital only games will not sell to me. If nintendo and the other consoles keep trying to force this digital only future on me, I will abandon them for PC and PC game sales.
Re: Poll: What Do You Think of My Nintendo and Miitomo?
@XCWarrior
It doesnt drive me to buy digital. It drives me to not bother with digital games on wii u unless they are a really good sub $15, exclusive game.
Re: Review: Alphadia (3DS eShop)
It figures. I have been trying machine Knight on my phone I just completely lost interest after a certain point. I tried one other of their games didn't last long before I lost interest. As a person who grew up on old school games on the Super Nintendo none of their games actually have the same soul as the old games. I can't in good conscience pay what they ask for these games on Console because they are just not worth it to me and if I can't finish their games on mobile I don't see console being any better.
Re: New Capcom Survey Points to Potential Future Plans for the Mega Man IP
I have 0 faith in Capcom because they have been leaving it to fans to make Megaman fans happy over these last years. Everytime they get up hype, we get crap mobile games, like Breath of Fire 5. Plus the Legends 3 fiasco was a nail in the coffin.
Re: Random: An Official Splatoon Lint Roller is a Thing You Can Own
Wouldn't surprise me if it pops up on amazon.jp as one of the items that can be imported.
Re: Talking Point: Nintendo Wants Us to Download More and Move On From Discs - Will It Work?
No, it won't work. If Nintendo tries to do what Microsoft did, my return to Nintendo hardware and software will be short lived.
Re: Chronicles Of Teddy: Harmony Of Exidus Arrives On The Wii U eShop Later This Month
Depends on the price. If it's $15, consider it bought.
Re: Rain Games Announces World to the West
Legacy of the Wizard x old school zeldas. Sounds good to me.
Re: Fire Emblem Fates Becomes Fastest Selling Release in Franchise History in the US
To be honest, I am enjoying the game right now. Close to chapter 20, and working on children right now.
Other than that, I actually enjoyed Awakening a great deal more. I don't really feel invested in most of the characters in Fates, at least no where near as much as I did in Awakening. I miss an actual map to traverse. Also the story is rather weak at this point as well.
So other than lack of a traversable map, weaker character development, and weaker story, everything else is leagues better than Awakening. I like the new optional fight way of doing things, the My Castle, forging, the works.
Re: Video: See How Super Mario Maker's Slow Motion Glitch Works its Magic
@TechJunkie69 I was going to post the same question. Mario looks surprisingly nimble in a game that is supposedly experiencing slow down. It looks like his environment is slowing, but he isn't.
Re: Nintendo Removes Infamous Drugging Scene From Western Localisation Of Fire Emblem Fates
@BrizzoUK We likely would of gotten it uncensored in the US if it wasn't for the major issues going on with the LGBT community now a days. It is still a huge fight for those folks to even get married as tons of Republican governors in power are looking for all kinds of ways to block LGBT folks rights, even going against the Supreme Courts decisions. If this game had come out 5 years ago, I doubt it would of been censored.
Plus, I doubt Japan is going to change how they do things just because of a Western audience, entirely because localization is a thing.
Re: Video: Take a Look at the Wii U Versions of New Characters from Hyrule Warriors Legends
Not bothering with the 3ds game. I don't like games like that on 3ds as my 3ds is my rpg machine primarily. If they won't give us everything in this game as DLC on the Wii U, then I just won't get this content. Thankfully Hyrule Warriors has enough content in it already, at least more than enough to make me satisfied with my purchase.
Re: Random: Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS Picked Up a People's Choice Award
@SmaMan
Because its fun seeing a chubby plumber get his butt kicked =p Honestly, I think they do it just because Mario is so recognizable, and he does make some of the best faces for somebody getting his behind kicked all over the place.
Re: Editorial: Xenoblade Chronicles X Has Tiny Text - Time for an Update?
I have 0 issues with the text. I have bad eyes and my glasses are a few years past their "get a new pair" date, and I don't really have a hard time with the text at all unless I am distracted, which isn't a text size issue.
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X Creator Tetsuya Takahashi Prefers Western Games To Japanese Ones
I find it interesting how he likes western stuff while many of us westerners like the japanese style rpg's. I don't like XCX as much as I liked XC. If XC had XCX's quest system, the game would completely blow away XCX in my personal opinion. I don't like silent protagonists, and I don't like open worlds when they use silent protagonists as you end up getting an Elder Scrolls type game. While I do enjoy an Elder Scrolls game occasionally, I prefer my rpg's to be like living a book, not creating a book.
Re: Ryu, Roy and Famicom Colour R.O.B. amiibo Will Be Released On 18th March
Here is hoping they don't cover Bayonetta in plastic support beams.
Re: Guide: The Best Nintendo Gifts For The Holiday Season (US Edition)
I just picked up Marth from best buy's website for $12.99 with free shipping. I have no best buy near me so I don't have their membership thing.
Re: Xenoblade X Developers Talk About the Game's Complexity and Why The "Xeno" Appears in the Name
@Christoff It will be complex, but if you have screwed around with complex games in other genres, one would assume you would be fine. If you want to play a jrpg before X gets released and don't mind old, snag Golden Sun in the gameboy advance games on wii u. It isn't the same kind of rpg as X but it does have a number of mechanics that you can play around with besides just run around, kill stuff, level up, repeat.
Re: Xenoblade X Developers Talk About the Game's Complexity and Why The "Xeno" Appears in the Name
@MekkaGodzilla I am the complete opposite. I feel epic games lose a lot of the epic on handheld, so i prefer bite sized rpg's....and yeah 30 hours is bite sized to me =p
Re: Xenoblade X Developers Talk About the Game's Complexity and Why The "Xeno" Appears in the Name
@OorWullie You can still kill dinosaurs in lingerie =p just not with 13 year olds with the bodies of 18 year olds.
Re: Rumour: A Class in Bravely Second is Supposedly Being Censored for the Western Release
@GeminiSaint They need to get over their upset. They are part of a big world, so they need to quit the belly aching and realize that teaching people is far more effective than trying to force the rest of a world to honor your traditions.
Re: Rumour: A Class in Bravely Second is Supposedly Being Censored for the Western Release
@DreamOn I thoroughly disagree. If everybody takes offense at everything, then anger flares all around because nobody can see eye to eye. To be part of a big world means you have to realize that people will post things about you, try to mimic you, or any numbers of other things. Instead of whining about it, native Americans should be embracing that and helping non native Americans learn about the native American culture. Instead they are just making everybody dislike them.
Re: Rumour: A Class in Bravely Second is Supposedly Being Censored for the Western Release
@Nintendo_Ninja I do. I much prefer the Tomahawk character from at the least an artistic point of view. Not a huge fan of that cowboy class because it looks tacky and feels shoehorned in.
Re: Review: Lucentek - Activate (Wii U eShop)
Man that game looks horrid. Makes me think of this beginner program to help folks learn to program called Alice. Alice is barebone, but useful, and the graphics in this game and the canned animations make me think of Alice on so many levels.
Re: Langrisser Re:Incarnation Tensei Confirmed For North American Release
Will admit, that game does look pretty bad, but I will still pick it up. I am a big Warsong fan. I will admit I think I would of preferred old school Langrisser graphics to these 3d battlefields that look like elementary school level programmers playing with programming tools.
Re: Review: Zoda's Revenge: StarTropics II (Wii U eShop / NES)
Whats interesting about this review is how it points out this game checks all the checkboxes. I am fairly confident this game invented or at the least had no template with which to check, and the review's point of view is based on comparing this game to the other games that have come out in the last 20 years. Just my 2 cents. I played both of the Star Tropics back in the times they came out, and I enjoyed both.
Re: Those Who Buy Stella Glow Digitally Will Receive an Exclusive 3DS Theme
I won't be gloating with envy. I will be gloating with mirth when something happens to the digital copy and I can still play my physical edition.
Re: Nintendo Is Making Female Characters Cover Up For The Western Version Of Xenoblade Chronicles X
As long as they didn't censor the of age characters, I really don't care. The girl does not look 13, heck she doesn't look 15 either, so all this is over a number on a character's statistics. I would of sooner just had them make her older, but I am going to guess her age plays a part in her personality.
Re: Nintendo Is Making Female Characters Cover Up For The Western Version Of Xenoblade Chronicles X
@invictus4000 I think you need to replay those games =p
Re: The Legend of Legacy Isn't Too Far Away From a Release in Europe
This is a good game, but it is one you really want to play in increments instead of non stop. I am taking a break from it right now to play Devil Survivor 2, and I take LoL with me sometimes when I go out as I can do some stat and skill grinding on a map during short down times. Yeah, the lack of a story is rather bad and they could of done a lot more to give it even a minor story, but the game itself isn't horrible.
To be honest though, I would recommend folks wait for it to go on sale as it doesn't really feel like a full priced game. It isn't fleshed out enough because, other than animations, all the characters are basically the same thing, the main difference being each character has different affinities to weapons and magic that affect how fast they learn skills with particular types.
Re: Nintendo of America Launches Its Holiday Gift Guide Website
Well, the shovel knight amiibo is on there. Good stuff.
Re: Sonic The Hedgehog Titles Being Pulled From The Wii Virtual Console
Kind of a shame that anybody that bought them won't be able to re-download them after they are removed. Thankfully the games were cheap, but this will happen to those $50 games at some point as well, and to ones that aren't available on other consoles.
Re: Poll: The Tricky Issue of Retail Games as Download-Only Releases
I will never back retail priced downloads. Don't believe in them and they it is fleecing customers to charge almost full price after the game maker saves half the premium price or more not having to deal with middle men.
Re: Poll: The Tricky Issue of Retail Games as Download-Only Releases
@ottospooky Agree with you whole heartedly. Own over 300 physical games and going and am a huge fan of limited and collectors editions. I prefer my games for display and the fact that I may want to play them when companies shut down. If Sony were to shut down today, a whole lot of people would be mad when they learn that if anything happens to the games on their HDD, they are gone for good, and all the games they didn't have room to download are gone for good as well.
It also makes me feel good to go to a game store and see a copy of a game I own going for $100+.
Re: Bonk's Adventure Has Been Rated By The ESRB For Wii U
@OorWullie You and me both. To date I still want to play Shining Force 3 and Panzer Dragoon Saga. And I would love that re-release they did of Dragon Force.
Re: Review: Project Zero: Maiden of Black Water (Wii U)
@fluggy Niche products do that. Unless you are into this type of game, then you won't "get" this game and it will be a hard sell to most reviewers. Happens with many games. For folks who love the series, this will probably end up being an 8 or 9.
Re: Video: Here's Some More Footage of The Legend of Legacy
To me this game is a lot like Etrian Odyssey, minus the character customizing. It also has it's own version of FOE's, as in enemies that won't chase you, and usually look like a shadow that you can easily avoid, but if you hit it, you get into a mid boss fight. What is nice though, is almost all fights allow you to run, which always works.
The problem with the game is it takes way too much grinding, and while some characters seem to jump in levels on certain things like hp, some don't. My Eloise is my weakest character because my hp level ups are few and far between where as my other two characters are a min of 30 hp, to a max of 80 hp difference compared to Eloise. She dies too fast on some fights before I can get a water shield out. The manual is also lackluster, as I don't really understand the point of getting 5 skills that all cost nothing to use. It doesn't mention if I have to level up some to get other skills, or any number of other things....or I didn't notice it, one or the other. And of course, as usual, the game has no physical manual.
Re: Hyrule Warriors Legends Site Shows Off Skull Kid and Phantom Ganon
@ItalianBaptist I didn't have a Vita for the same reason tons of other folks didn't, the Sony tax and their idea of memory. If you are a big time gamer, the Vita required around $320 to $350 just to buy the thing plus one game. Nobody wants to pay the price of a console for a handheld. And since no prices have gone down, there is still no overwhelming desire to get it.
Re: Hyrule Warriors Legends Site Shows Off Skull Kid and Phantom Ganon
@rjejr You said it yourself, the wii sold over 100 million. Nintendo gets lucky, then unlucky, but by far their biggest problem is power. If they fixed that problem, third parties would love them, and they would be competitive in their own market as the pure gaming console, not the all in one box xbone and ps4 want to be.
Got a taste of tv connected hand helds with the PSP, and while I love the option to do so as many of the games look ok, it still comes back to power, power, and more power. Handhelds just don't do the depth of console games, and to make a handheld as powerful as a console would put an extremely hot item in your hand after 30 minutes.
Re: Hyrule Warriors Legends Site Shows Off Skull Kid and Phantom Ganon
@rjejr Because, games in general lose a lot of what makes them great by going handheld if they were originally a console title. From what has been said, Hyrule Warriors will lose a lot of the scenery, including soldier numbers, by going handheld, plus most games, even Dragon Quest 8, lose a lot of their vibrant colors. Many people who make handheld games also cut back on many things that are staples on console. I don't mind handheld games, but consoles are where its at for me because you just don't get the same immersion on a handheld that you do on a console.
My go to example is always Shin Megami Tensei 4 versus Shin Megami Tensei 3 Nocturne. SMT 4 does not hold a candle on ambiance and immersion like Nocturne does because so much is missing from the handheld game, especially deep sound effect, and a post apocalyptic world that actually looks like one. The world in SMT 4 is neat and all, but at such a small size it is very hard to really get into the world as a backdrop, and to me it was just a few roads you follow to get wherever. In SMT 3, the world was dangerous, and you had to maneuver your way around it in all it's glory.
Re: Midora Developer Admits He Knew Kickstarter Funds Wouldn't Be Enough To Complete The Game
@AugustusOxy I like old school zelda style games and getting a clone that features a completely different cast is worth it to me. Course i didn't back this game, as I already went through my kickstarter growing pains, but I would of liked to have played this game.
Re: Midora Developer Admits He Knew Kickstarter Funds Wouldn't Be Enough To Complete The Game
@Sinister No, kickstarter was meant to let people forget publishers exists so they can retain the rights to their own IP and can make a game with fan feedback instead of a checklist given to them by a publisher. Too many indie developers are jumping the gun recently and trying to be AA, closing in on AAA, thinking they can do it on indie budgets.
Re: Midora Developer Admits He Knew Kickstarter Funds Wouldn't Be Enough To Complete The Game
@whodatninja Because some folks enjoy a non Zelda based Zelda style game. It is nice having a new hero and villain sometimes, in a world that doesn't revolve around a triforce and a princess named Zelda.
Re: First Impressions: Taking A Shot At Fatal Frame: Maiden Of Black Water
I would of tried it if there was a physical disc, but since I am in the US, the only way I would try it is if it hit $20 or less digitally. Making it digital only here is a death sentence for the game because people will not spend the price they will likely ask for the game on a digital only title. They will be lucky to get 15% of the sales they would of had if they had done physical and digital.
Re: Climate "Not Healthy" For Dedicated Handheld Games Consoles, Says Sony's Shuhei Yoshida
@dronesplitter I agree with you. I hope Nintendo is slow, but I am not sure they will be since they have a money man in charge now. I am a core gamer myself, and today's gaming scene is a huge pile of crap with the rare gem when it used to be about equal.