Original-Gamer.com: "Back in the 80’s, playing games only cost a quarter for every five to ten minutes of gameplay. In the late 80’s & 90’s, retail game sales took over the industry as people would rather purchase a console than play at some arcade in public. Other than the digital revolution for downloadable sales, nothing has changed for game sales other than the fact that more games come out on a weekly basis than anytime previously. What if you can change the way people pay for games?"
Available right now on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC is the latest from a prolific KEMCO team - Horrific Xanatorium; a horror Visual Novel
Gary Green said: You’ll be forgiven if you haven’t heard of the Ar Tonelico trilogy. The previous two games arrived so late in the PS2’s life-cycle that they simply went unnoticed. While most were tinkering with their shiny new PS3s, Ar Tonelico: Melody of Elemia and Ar Tonelico II: Melody of Metafalica were being ‘returned to sender’ by your local Game stores. Luckily, you won’t need to have played them to understand and appreciate this third and final chapter, Qoga (pronounced k-yoga) tells the story of a racial war between humans and Reyvateils, a breed of biologically produced female cyborgs capable of reproduction, while still having a digital mind.
Oh my god. I kinda wish this would get a remaster on PS5, it would be awesome. One of my favorite games on PS3.
That and 3D Dot Game Heroes. It's a shame that some stuff is stuck on PS3.
Ar Tonelico 3 is good I still prefer the first AT game. The music is solid in all the games and Akiko Shikata is a very talented singer bringing life to the game. Only annoying part is well I find is Saki I always choose Finnel or Tyria. KOEI so needs to HD remaster the franchise along with Ar Nosurge and Ciel Nosurge since it never came to North America. I would day one the Ar Toneliceo games and Ar Nosurge if they were remastered.
I still have the limited edition of Qoga unopened. Unfortunately it never went up in value like I had hoped all these years.
"The Singapore-based indie games publisher Spiral Up Games and Qingdao/Shandong-based (China) indie games developer Aluba Studio, today announced with great happiness and excitement that their hacking adventure "Cyber Manhunt 2: New World" is coming to PC via Steam EA on May 10th, 2024." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
This buy online concept will only continue to grow. It helps kill used games and gamers pay a little less initially. Next gen it will be paramount.
To be honest this way of doing things could become messy. Developers basically stripping their games to pieces and selling them in bits and on top of that theres DLC.
I'll abandon gaming altogether if purchasing games online becomes the preferred method of distribution. Steam has got it right, pricing structure is amazing.
Digital downloads on consoles are a joke, way over priced and no competition meaning prices will never shift like they do on the high sreet.
I think this model makes a great companion to brick and mortar stores.. However digital sales will not lead to the extinction of physical game sales.. There's just something magical about going to a midnight release, chatting with fellow gamers, feeling the tension build, getting home and ripping open your copy, the smell of a new disc, the sound of the disc loading into the system and the elation when that start screen appears.. Granted there are alot of people that prefer digital but its not a strong enough segment to do away with brick and mortar..
I'm in favour of this, I usually just play the single player of games.