aspro said:

I pre-ordered Conduit based on yGeek's hype.  That game did a lot right, the controls were perfect... oh my god I just remembered the ending of that game. Second worst ending ever (Crackdown has the worse ending).

You should base your purchases on reviews and impressions not hype. I once made a Soul Calibur Legends thread and Namco promised it was made by the proper SC team and it would be amazing, the concept sounded cool. It turned out to be a turd. RE mercenaries turned out to be a turd and I was sort of watching that  - if only to see what visuals the 3DS could push. I made hype threads for games like Monster Hunter tri but never bought it. Reviews are good but I find reading forum impressions help the most - I know some people hate gaf, but its a great source for impressions of games because there are a lot of passionate gamers. You even get passionate impressions on some niche games you rarely see coverage of. And especially import games too.

travo said:

Have you played your 360 this year?

Are you asking me or Aspro? I played it a ton early on in the year, completed Batman AA, Assasins Creed 2, Splinter Cell Conviction and Halo Reach. Then I got to Fable 2 and I have like a mental block for months, I can't bring myself to play it.

Iga_Bobovic said:

Conduit 2 has the best ending ever. I am not joking BTW.

For sure, watch it folks, you're not going to play it anyway.

travo said:

Spirit Tracks is difficult and cumbersome at times. .

Best thing to do is stop early and then inch into the stations. I hate the parts where you have to divert to avoid enemy trains and then you're basically sitting and waiting for the train to go through the detour, it feels like such a waste of time. I have been replaying Phantom Hourglass, it's good fun. The Ocean temple, you have to remember to make extensive notes and then on repeat visits you usually have a new item which gives you easy shortcuts.

edgecrusher said:

I would never claim there to be nothing for me to play on any console besides the Wii. The other consoles and the PC have almost TOO MUCH to play, but the Wii? No..... not for the kinds of games I want anyway.

You've just mentioned Zelda, Donkey Kong and Metroid Other M. But yeah for a gamer like you who has at least sampled some of - if not most of the good games worth getting I totally understand it when you say there is not much to look forward to on the system. For others  I could reel off a list of 10 + games they could be playing but have avoided. So if they hypothetically said their wii was gathering dust, there is nothing to play this year I would say buy the damn games out already and play them.

As a european we've been pretty lucky, this year along with Zelda and Rhythm Heaven we have Last Story and Xenoblade to look foward too as well as Pandora's Tower - I'm also keeping an eye on these two new Namco games.

But even for someone like me who has dug to the bottom of the well and tried games like Cursed Mountain, there is still stuff I could get like recentely I picked up Sin and Punishment 2 and there are games like Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn or We Ski and Snowboard, or Tenchu, shit like that I haven't tried. And the best thing is that the poor selling market for hardcore wii games means you can pick all these games up cheap.

edgecrusher said:

I don't get why a company would try to stop us from playing imported games, if they have no intention of releasing them anyway. Very lame.

Anyway....

Nintendo's "very happy and excited" about FPS Wii U 'changes the way we play first-person shooters'

I wonder if Nintendo is happy and excited about the Wii U changing the way we also play JRPG's? It would be amazing if it enabled gamers around the world to experience this satisfying form of software!

LOL

Did you watch the video in that link? You can attach the Wii U controller to a new zapper and it acts as like a mini hud and you can have Silent Scope arcade style functionality. It magnifies things you hover over on the Wii U screen.

Also imagine having the Aliens motion tracker on it.

edgecrusher said:

Why?

Sub-text, lack of appreciation for Wii games/lack of good taste.

Foolz said:

edgecrusher said:

Why?

Sub-text, lack of appreciation for Wii games/lack of good taste.

No Red Steel 2 was ok, I liked it. But it definitely didn't blow me away. The last few hours of it kind of dragged IMO.

edgecrusher said:

No Red Steel 2 was ok, I liked it. But it definitely didn't blow me away. The last few hours of it kind of dragged IMO.

It's a good game but Ubisoft limited it's scope. It should have been more like Oblivion with a semi-large open world and quests and characters and NPCs to actually interact with. And there was barely any story. Still good game though not the best, personally I think that Red Steel 2 should have just perfected what the first game was and it would have turned out more like Goldeneye. I can imagine playing the first red steel with the improvements of red steel 2, a solid frame rate, perfect controls - add to that explosive fun, gameplay and it could have been a winner. Instead they went left and cel-shaded it and mashed up a western with a samurai world.

So Black Rock studios is closing, developers of racing games. Remember Bizaare went under too?

There seems to be the notion that the market for racing games has bottomed out. What are your thoughts on this?

I gave up on traditional racing games after the PS2 generation ended because I felt there was not much difference in the genre - I dropped out of 1 on 1 fighters for the same reason.

Seems like the big franchises like NFS and Forza are still going, how did Gran Turismo do compared to the prior games?

What would it take for you to get interested in the genre again?

Do you remember experimental driving games like Stunt Driver or that Destruction Derby game?

Also, English trailer up in the non-gaming forum

I think part of the reason nobody cares about driving games anymore has a lot to do with games like GTA having fun driving mechanics built into a game you can do so much more with. Back in the day, many of my friends only played driving games because, well, that was pretty much the only games you could get a driving experience out of. That changed over the past 10 years. Same with Fighting games, to an extent. Of course you have your uber deep driving and fighting experiences with the best of each genre, but for the most part I think people would rather have these other kinds of games that give you a variety of experiences...not just the same thing over and over.

They need something fresh to be interesting these days. I mean I consider SSX a racing game, and its so much funner than just about every car game in the past 10 years. When Gran Turismo 1st came out it was incredible because of the realism and the scope of the game...nothing was like that. But what more can they do?

edgecrusher said:

I think part of the reason nobody cares about driving games anymore has a lot to do with games like GTA having fun driving mechanics built into a game you can do so much more with. Back in the day, many of my friends only played driving games because, well, that was pretty much the only games you could get a driving experience out of. That changed over the past 10 years. Same with Fighting games, to an extent. Of course you have your uber deep driving and fighting experiences with the best of each genre, but for the most part I think people would rather have these other kinds of games that give you a variety of experiences...not just the same thing over and over.

They need something fresh to be interesting these days. I mean I consider SSX a racing game, and its so much funner than just about every car game in the past 10 years. When Gran Turismo 1st came out it was incredible because of the realism and the scope of the game...nothing was like that. But what more can they do?

Great points, I do very much like the driving in games like GTA. I guess I like a more freeform driving experience rather than being put onto a defined track and told to race a set of cars. Mostly I like just messing about with cool music in the background. Some of the newer driving games are going back to adding things like combat into them and it doesn't seem to be catching on. I'm curious to see how Rage blends vehicles and combat. Also, Halo - vehicles and combat, more variety and a freeform driving experience if you can call it driving.

gamingeek said:

Great points, I do very much like the driving in games like GTA. I guess I like a more freeform driving experience rather than being put onto a defined track and told to race a set of cars. Mostly I like just messing about with cool music in the background. Some of the newer driving games are going back to adding things like combat into them and it doesn't seem to be catching on. I'm curious to see how Rage blends vehicles and combat. Also, Halo - vehicles and combat, more variety and a freeform driving experience if you can call it driving.

Hell yeah Halo was one of those early hybrids too. Now you have stuff like Red Faction Guerilla, Ninja Gaiden and hardcore action fighting games....etc.

This may sound crazy but after going thru 5 Xbox 360's I just did not feel like sneding another console in for repair....lol Plus, I wanted a black one.