First Of All, Drawn To Life Does Not Suck Because It Was My First DS Game When I Got It. I Was About 8 (So I know it's a kids game) But Im 12 Now And Still Play It. Everyone Was Different Opinions So Stick With Yours. The Best Parts Of The Game Were The Bosses And I Feel Your Pain When You said It Was Tough Getting And Talking To Other People.
I really can't see any problem with the growth of 40's through the years. It's important to be flexible nowadas. And I think that you can get really serious when you make a critic review and try not to 'use' a lot of your personal opinion, just a tip for you. I do agree with the magazine, and it's ok if they put their culture in the avaliation of the games, like monster hunter and nintendogs.
And the Aaron guy that said that the japanese games are going down the tubes anyway, I'm sorry but I don't agree with your opinion. The difference beteen the american and japanese games is that the japan mantains a certain innocence in the games. Example, Mario. While the american games gets more bloody and mature. And the public is the same. So, we can see that there's a lot of kids wanting to play adults with shooters, GTAs, etc. Well, it's just my opinion.
I'd like to qualify to all readers that I'm not looking for photo-realistic graphics or anything of the like. The ability to run the type of games we have now to their potential, and at resolutions that benefit the screens most of us own would be more than adequate for my tastes.
However, Alan Wake was always being created for both PC and consoles. The problem was when they signed the publishing contract with Microsoft. Even then, the PC version was still planned for some time until scrapped by "assumedly" Microsoft so the 360 could have free run on the exclusive.
PC development also by and large has a lower barrier to initial development and success, unless you're already being published.
But in general, I agree. And Alan Wake is a fantastic example of such limitations.
You're all rediculous. This cartoon was out before all your nowadays Zelda knowledge. I had the comic books, watched all the shows and the cartoon was a great discrption of everything Zelda. I was a kid watching, laughing and loving everything Zelda. I'm shocked to see how much they've changed it from its original humor and action to such in depth fantasy I've lost interest. Sometimes all you need is a goofy hero and a sassy princess, so excuse me. :-P
Oh, and one more thing. I don't know HOW you think full moon bosses are hard. They're made easy on purpose, so you can easily whoop their ass if you've reached as far as you can go for the time being in tartarus. They made them so easy so that you don't get stuck and never be able to beat the game. What's actually hard are the floor bosses, because you have all the time in the world to train up for them.
Seriously, you just sound way too wimpy for SMT games...Persona 3 is cake compared to what the others in the series dish out. And yes, the games make a point of OHKOing you now and then so you don't get cocky. The point these games drive home is learn enemy patterns and be prepared. This is no ho-hum strategyless RPG where you just buy the best weapon at quickeemart and mash A until you win.
I'd like someone to give me an example of a game that isn't the same thing over and over. Isn't that the point of games? You buy a racing game to RACE CARS. That's ALL YOU DO in racing games. You buy a fighting game to FIGHT PEOPLE. It's ALL YOU DO in a fighting game. You get an action game like God of War...guess what? YOU SLICE PEOPLE THE ENTIRE GAME. You get a puzzle game like tetris. YOU'RE DROPPING BLOCKS THE WHOLE GAME. You get an RPG and you FIGHT IN BATTLES WITH COMMANDS the ENTIRE GAME.
So I don't get your point. All game genres have you doing the same thing the entire game. The point is the player chooses which style of gameplay will entertain them for the full set of hours. Honestly, I didn't read through your whole review because that point threw me off so much. Regardless, I could probably boil everything down into one point: The SMT series and its spinoffs are difficult games made for its fans and nobody else. Persona 3 and 4 may have been the closest thing they've ever made to something the general public could like, since they're easier. However, these games have an extremely limited style and they're either your thing or they're not. Everything I did read of your review that you hated was the exact reasons I liked the game. I liked that you couldn't control anyone because it made the game more challening, difficult, and exciting. I wouldn't know what they'd do (like real people!) and that made it more challenging and edge-of-my-seat. That's just one of your gripes that I enjoy as a turnaround, but I like every aspect of P3, and I like it far more than P4. P4 was good, but too hokey on the plot for me. Swimsuit contests and crossdressing? A fucking bear? The glasses gimmick? Everyone dealing with their ~inner feelings~? It was too upbeat for SMT and my tastes. SMT is supposed to be dark and brooding, and P3 has that in spades. It's the fucking end of the world, and it's eating away at these kids inside. You can feel the desperation start to rise. It's just my kind of game, through and through. Obviously, the game just isn't for you, so I feel that your review is much too heavily skewed (just like mine would be).
Maybe this is just me...but after watching about half of the first episode, I was pretty disgusted with it. Like that review says, Link and Zelda are portrayed as "saints". Well....I rather liked that. I wouldn't expect them to be perfect but I didn't expect Link to behave so...uncultured, and Zelda so...annoying. Well, I mean, Link seemed kinda perverted, really. He's supposed to be a hero. And isn't part of the definition or at least general connotation to "hero" mean that we are supposed to look up to them? Why would you look up to a somewhat whiny and perverted guy, even if he does "save the day"? This is just my opinion. Zelda is sort of bossy and strange, but at least when Link seems to give up, she tries to come up with a plan. Also, I don't really mind the romance between them, but not the way it is portrayed. I always sort of imagined that at least in one of the games that they probably got married at some point or something. The games are connected, right? Or you could connect them if you wanted to. I figure that Link and Zelda probably got married in one of those games. But! I think it can only have happened once if you think of the Hero's line being continuous from there. Anyway. Another thing that bothered me was just the general divergence from the game "general" storyline. But I could have handled that if Link and Zelda's personalities or attitudes weren't so....wrong! I am not trying to force my opinion on anyone, but I just really wanted to point this out. Am I the only one who thinks this? But anyway, thanks for listening.
Lets say you were a character how would you know it all? You would know the enemies or the bosses either so they kept it a surprise. And the floors are forms school what do you expect?
I enjoy easy games like mass effect and i really liked Dragon Age 1 (Dragon Age 2 not so much, was simply a worse RPG).
Especially the difficulty is nice, as a lot of new games are simply way too easy, even if played on the hardest difficulty its not that hard at all (which is a big flaw).
Actual care for the character and spending a lot of time creating them is a big part in D&D. It can easily take hours to make a character, write a background story and fully get its character, its a pen & paper game and Icewind Dale is the combat version of D&D, less the role playing one.
Where Planescape Torment is the text based crawler, Icewind Dale is the combat crawler of the D&D world.
And god i enjoyed this games, and they are exceptionel well made by anyone that can fully grasp "real" RPG games.
For the Call of Duty like player, Mass effect is among the best RPG you can get, as it really guides you through the story and the options in dialog are mostly meaningless and just give you a funny time playing (which is nice, its just not a crazy RPG).
Baldurs gate gets its enhanced edition , which might be a chance to get reworks of all the classic games, especially Planescape Torment is something that i would play with better graphics and overall more of it (as it had such a great story, it was not from this planet).
I would say World of Warcraft would be right down your alley. Over the years it has been dumbed down to fit exactly the type of game you're looking for. Simple games, for simple minds.
I wonder if this game would be suited for an 8-year-old, as I've been trying to get such games (the textures and colors are amazing in my opinion). Escorting Blob might add complexity to the game and perhaps it's not the point. The visuals look like watercolors, reminding me of the old arcade games I used to love before :-) Escort agency
Thank you for the suggestion
Interestingly enough I have the opposite response. I loved the persona 4 characters and story but I hated the actual fighting. While in persona 3 I enjoyed the fighting more but besides a small handful of characters I couldn't careless about the social links and the story just wasn't all that interesting to me in comparison with the fourth one. But opinion is like beauty and its different from person to person.
Thank you for the Resonance alternate endings videos on youtube! Saved a few three hours of gameplay that surely will spent with other games.
Also, it was trought them I discovered this blog. I'll have a look around, just wanted to thank you first! (:
Hi, I too feel like I am getting burned out on JRPG's, except for 1 thing... I loved Persona 4. The minute I beat it, I went out and picked up Persona 3. And HATED it. To me, Persona 4 did everything better, particularly making me like the characters more. P3: FES just wasn't the same... especially when my teammates did the stupidest things. In persona 4 the combat is also better, and the Dungeons not quite so shitty... maybe try and give it a shot too, you may not like it but hey if you're bored sometime...
I love grinding. when you grind enough to beat the things that killed you before, i simply kill all the monsters on the floors where those things show up. i find it enjoyable to kick their ass after getting mine kicked. Does that make me weird? its easy to stay alive if you use the vending machines in the dorm to store up on drinks that you can use while walking around tartarus to heal your hp and sp.(it takes alot of them but if your not short on cash its a good tactic). also the best persona's in the game are as follows: Surt(fire), Skadi(ice), Odin(electricity), Norn(wind), Daisojou(light), Alice(dark) Melchizedek(strike and a little healing(no weaknesses after lvl 65) (and i personally like Michael(elec, ice, slash,a little healing, and no weakness after lvl 75)<-p.s.he can also be fuzed in the relic store to make the best sword in the game for you)toss up for best healer between Attis and Hariti; or at leasts those are the best ones i know of. if you folow a fusion guide you can eventually get them all.
Please enlightened me about this. How does the Planes and animals stays in midair?
First Of All, Drawn To Life Does Not Suck Because It Was My First DS Game When I Got It. I Was About 8 (So I know it's a kids game) But Im 12 Now And Still Play It. Everyone Was Different Opinions So Stick With Yours. The Best Parts Of The Game Were The Bosses And I Feel Your Pain When You said It Was Tough Getting And Talking To Other People.
We'll try not to use our personal opinions in reviews anymore, we wouldn't want to inject any kind of subjectivity into the process, now would we?
I really can't see any problem with the growth of 40's through the years. It's important to be flexible nowadas. And I think that you can get really serious when you make a critic review and try not to 'use' a lot of your personal opinion, just a tip for you. I do agree with the magazine, and it's ok if they put their culture in the avaliation of the games, like monster hunter and nintendogs.
And the Aaron guy that said that the japanese games are going down the tubes anyway, I'm sorry but I don't agree with your opinion. The difference beteen the american and japanese games is that the japan mantains a certain innocence in the games. Example, Mario. While the american games gets more bloody and mature. And the public is the same. So, we can see that there's a lot of kids wanting to play adults with shooters, GTAs, etc. Well, it's just my opinion.
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Do you need a day job?
Comments aren't moderated?
What a long write up. Do people actually read this stuff?
I'd like to qualify to all readers that I'm not looking for photo-realistic graphics or anything of the like. The ability to run the type of games we have now to their potential, and at resolutions that benefit the screens most of us own would be more than adequate for my tastes.
That's actually a great point. I had forgotten that it was at one time in dev for PC at time of writing.
That said, it's still pretty damning because the title was always in dev for 360.
To start, I like the article.
However, Alan Wake was always being created for both PC and consoles. The problem was when they signed the publishing contract with Microsoft. Even then, the PC version was still planned for some time until scrapped by "assumedly" Microsoft so the 360 could have free run on the exclusive.
PC development also by and large has a lower barrier to initial development and success, unless you're already being published.
But in general, I agree. And Alan Wake is a fantastic example of such limitations.
You're all rediculous. This cartoon was out before all your nowadays Zelda knowledge. I had the comic books, watched all the shows and the cartoon was a great discrption of everything Zelda. I was a kid watching, laughing and loving everything Zelda. I'm shocked to see how much they've changed it from its original humor and action to such in depth fantasy I've lost interest. Sometimes all you need is a goofy hero and a sassy princess, so excuse me. :-P
Oh, and one more thing. I don't know HOW you think full moon bosses are hard. They're made easy on purpose, so you can easily whoop their ass if you've reached as far as you can go for the time being in tartarus. They made them so easy so that you don't get stuck and never be able to beat the game. What's actually hard are the floor bosses, because you have all the time in the world to train up for them.
Seriously, you just sound way too wimpy for SMT games...Persona 3 is cake compared to what the others in the series dish out. And yes, the games make a point of OHKOing you now and then so you don't get cocky. The point these games drive home is learn enemy patterns and be prepared. This is no ho-hum strategyless RPG where you just buy the best weapon at quickeemart and mash A until you win.
I'd like someone to give me an example of a game that isn't the same thing over and over. Isn't that the point of games? You buy a racing game to RACE CARS. That's ALL YOU DO in racing games. You buy a fighting game to FIGHT PEOPLE. It's ALL YOU DO in a fighting game. You get an action game like God of War...guess what? YOU SLICE PEOPLE THE ENTIRE GAME. You get a puzzle game like tetris. YOU'RE DROPPING BLOCKS THE WHOLE GAME. You get an RPG and you FIGHT IN BATTLES WITH COMMANDS the ENTIRE GAME.
So I don't get your point. All game genres have you doing the same thing the entire game. The point is the player chooses which style of gameplay will entertain them for the full set of hours. Honestly, I didn't read through your whole review because that point threw me off so much. Regardless, I could probably boil everything down into one point: The SMT series and its spinoffs are difficult games made for its fans and nobody else. Persona 3 and 4 may have been the closest thing they've ever made to something the general public could like, since they're easier. However, these games have an extremely limited style and they're either your thing or they're not. Everything I did read of your review that you hated was the exact reasons I liked the game. I liked that you couldn't control anyone because it made the game more challening, difficult, and exciting. I wouldn't know what they'd do (like real people!) and that made it more challenging and edge-of-my-seat. That's just one of your gripes that I enjoy as a turnaround, but I like every aspect of P3, and I like it far more than P4. P4 was good, but too hokey on the plot for me. Swimsuit contests and crossdressing? A fucking bear? The glasses gimmick? Everyone dealing with their ~inner feelings~? It was too upbeat for SMT and my tastes. SMT is supposed to be dark and brooding, and P3 has that in spades. It's the fucking end of the world, and it's eating away at these kids inside. You can feel the desperation start to rise. It's just my kind of game, through and through. Obviously, the game just isn't for you, so I feel that your review is much too heavily skewed (just like mine would be).
Maybe this is just me...but after watching about half of the first episode, I was pretty disgusted with it. Like that review says, Link and Zelda are portrayed as "saints". Well....I rather liked that. I wouldn't expect them to be perfect but I didn't expect Link to behave so...uncultured, and Zelda so...annoying. Well, I mean, Link seemed kinda perverted, really. He's supposed to be a hero. And isn't part of the definition or at least general connotation to "hero" mean that we are supposed to look up to them? Why would you look up to a somewhat whiny and perverted guy, even if he does "save the day"? This is just my opinion. Zelda is sort of bossy and strange, but at least when Link seems to give up, she tries to come up with a plan. Also, I don't really mind the romance between them, but not the way it is portrayed. I always sort of imagined that at least in one of the games that they probably got married at some point or something. The games are connected, right? Or you could connect them if you wanted to. I figure that Link and Zelda probably got married in one of those games. But! I think it can only have happened once if you think of the Hero's line being continuous from there. Anyway. Another thing that bothered me was just the general divergence from the game "general" storyline. But I could have handled that if Link and Zelda's personalities or attitudes weren't so....wrong! I am not trying to force my opinion on anyone, but I just really wanted to point this out. Am I the only one who thinks this? But anyway, thanks for listening.
Lets say you were a character how would you know it all? You would know the enemies or the bosses either so they kept it a surprise. And the floors are forms school what do you expect?
I enjoy easy games like mass effect and i really liked Dragon Age 1 (Dragon Age 2 not so much, was simply a worse RPG).
Especially the difficulty is nice, as a lot of new games are simply way too easy, even if played on the hardest difficulty its not that hard at all (which is a big flaw).
Actual care for the character and spending a lot of time creating them is a big part in D&D. It can easily take hours to make a character, write a background story and fully get its character, its a pen & paper game and Icewind Dale is the combat version of D&D, less the role playing one.
Where Planescape Torment is the text based crawler, Icewind Dale is the combat crawler of the D&D world.
And god i enjoyed this games, and they are exceptionel well made by anyone that can fully grasp "real" RPG games.
For the Call of Duty like player, Mass effect is among the best RPG you can get, as it really guides you through the story and the options in dialog are mostly meaningless and just give you a funny time playing (which is nice, its just not a crazy RPG).
Baldurs gate gets its enhanced edition , which might be a chance to get reworks of all the classic games, especially Planescape Torment is something that i would play with better graphics and overall more of it (as it had such a great story, it was not from this planet).
I would say World of Warcraft would be right down your alley. Over the years it has been dumbed down to fit exactly the type of game you're looking for. Simple games, for simple minds.
What did you say? I love all the PERSONA Saga, you don't know nothing about that game. It's oviousli you can t get the awsome who is this game.
I wonder if this game would be suited for an 8-year-old, as I've been trying to get such games (the textures and colors are amazing in my opinion). Escorting Blob might add complexity to the game and perhaps it's not the point. The visuals look like watercolors, reminding me of the old arcade games I used to love before :-)
Escort agency
Thank you for the suggestion
Mark
Interestingly enough I have the opposite response. I loved the persona 4 characters and story but I hated the actual fighting. While in persona 3 I enjoyed the fighting more but besides a small handful of characters I couldn't careless about the social links and the story just wasn't all that interesting to me in comparison with the fourth one. But opinion is like beauty and its different from person to person.
Thank you for the Resonance alternate endings videos on youtube! Saved a few three hours of gameplay that surely will spent with other games.
Also, it was trought them I discovered this blog. I'll have a look around, just wanted to thank you first! (:
Hi, I too feel like I am getting burned out on JRPG's, except for 1 thing... I loved Persona 4. The minute I beat it, I went out and picked up Persona 3. And HATED it. To me, Persona 4 did everything better, particularly making me like the characters more. P3: FES just wasn't the same... especially when my teammates did the stupidest things. In persona 4 the combat is also better, and the Dungeons not quite so shitty... maybe try and give it a shot too, you may not like it but hey if you're bored sometime...
Beat Smash Bros. and listen to the "congratulations" sound-bite. This is what you should be hearing right now.
I love grinding. when you grind enough to beat the things that killed you before, i simply kill all the monsters on the floors where those things show up. i find it enjoyable to kick their ass after getting mine kicked. Does that make me weird? its easy to stay alive if you use the vending machines in the dorm to store up on drinks that you can use while walking around tartarus to heal your hp and sp.(it takes alot of them but if your not short on cash its a good tactic). also the best persona's in the game are as follows: Surt(fire), Skadi(ice), Odin(electricity), Norn(wind), Daisojou(light), Alice(dark) Melchizedek(strike and a little healing(no weaknesses after lvl 65) (and i personally like Michael(elec, ice, slash,a little healing, and no weakness after lvl 75)<-p.s.he can also be fuzed in the relic store to make the best sword in the game for you)toss up for best healer between Attis and Hariti; or at leasts those are the best ones i know of. if you folow a fusion guide you can eventually get them all.