Anyone here play video games?
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I still think chrono cross isn't much next to chrono trigger… Still a good game. Arabit, a lot of the games you have mentioned are totally great... The problem with games today is the budget is just too huge, and corporations have pretty much taken over the industry. Developers get eaten up all the time/get fired. Fat cats like bobby kotick make sure to maximize profit instead of playability and fun... This goes for all genres of games. Kotick has been quoted as saying his aim was to take all the fun out of developing video games for the sake of profit (not a direct quote but it's there... You can look it up). Just look at what they've done to diablo and world of Warcraft in such a short time after being bought out. A lot of older games were works of passion, a rarity these days. It's really no wonder to me that most games suck now and only have a 1 maybe 2 year life cycle. It's basically the same problem American television has. I could probably nerd rant about this for an hour so I'll stop before I have an aneurism.
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Those works of passion are still coming out if you know where to look though. I definitely agree that what the "big" studios have been putting out has been generally lackluster, but the indie scene is thriving pretty hard right now and kickstarter/indiegogo have definitely been helping out with this. A little lacking in RPGs maybe, but some great games have come out recently. Fez, on XBLA is a great adventure/puzzler. FTL is a frustratingly awesome roguelikeish game. Endless Space is an excellent 4X game. All the humble indie bundles have great games for their releases. Plus a sequel for Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, a basketball themed RPG, is in development too and it's looking like it could be fantastic.
Basically, indie gaming is really where it's at right now.
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As emceeQ mentioned - has anybody played Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch? It's a collaboration between Level 5 and Studio Ghibli which probably means great gameplay and great graphics. It has gotten great reviews. It hasn't been released here in Europe yet, but I'm planing to buy it. It's a Playstation exclusive though.
As for the indies vs "big studios" I have been dissapointed with a lot of the big game releases lately. But I haven't really caught the indie-bug either. Instead I started playing old classics, such as Knights of the Old Republic and Alpha Centauri. There are a lot of classics on Steam and gog.com.
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Speaking of Zelda, this is pretty cool:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/29/3890158/nintendo-legend-of-zelda-history-book
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Speaking of Zelda, this is pretty cool:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/29/3890158/nintendo-legend-of-zelda-history-book
I have that book inbound from amazon
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Preordered injustice and bioshock infidels
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Anyone into Elder Scrolls Online?
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PS3 DLC for Skyrim finally gets a date: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/01/skyrim-dawnguard-hearthfire-and-dragonborn-dlc-dated-for-ps3 … Best news is it will be 50% off the first week ...
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PS3 DLC for Skyrim finally gets a date: http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/01/skyrim-dawnguard-hearthfire-and-dragonborn-dlc-dated-for-ps3 … Best news is it will be 50% off the first week ...
FUCK YEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I was having problems with my old hard drive, so I am starting from scratch on a new windows 7 install with a 2TB HD I had in reserve. It think my first foray into gaming will be downloading Path of Exile and trying out the open beta.
