Being a long time gamer I have participated in many console runs. Going on 30 years of gaming I can tell you that most companies take your money and not even consider you as an asset to their success.
I been a Sony Loyalist since they came out with the PSone. Many hours lost on Tobal#2. I had signed up for the Playstation Underground. After I noticed receiving a few shirts and demos I bought my brothers a PSone and registered their hardware to my account. More freebies kept coming in.
Ps2 launched and the internet is finally accessible in most homes and the PSU is now an online thing. I register all our PS2's (5 at the time) and the more I added the more they would send me. Indeed this is awesome; was my thoughts when I opened a Sly raccoon statue!
For a while Sony seemed to be the only one to do this (as I was unaware of Club Nintendo) and after winning clan tourneys for SONY the gear got better, Hats, more shirts, game beta tests, and all kinds of promotional gems.
I later bought a Wii waiting for the PS3 launch and noticed this thing called "Club Nintendo" and for every game I buy and or take a survey on, I get coins and can buy little neat odds and ends.
I cant help but to be overly happy at these meaningless trinkets and perks for taking a part in their success. Sure it might be monkey scratch when looking at the value. I just think even saying Thanks is a good way to let people know that they are appreciated... despite any hangups
The friendly folks over at Razer recently sent us their full size Kishi Ultra mobile gaming controller, and this thing didn't disappoint.
VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."
Me leaving it out should be telling of my thoughts on it. Better than 2 as a DMC game.
Still a good game though.
3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them
2.
Dmc.
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God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best
Order changes depending on your focus. I tend to focus on gameplay/fun factor, so...
5, 3, 1, 4, 2.
I really didn't like 4 but commend Dante's weapon diversity. The retreading of old ground was pretty unacceptable to me.
But even then... Still more enjoyable than 2 for me
TSA go hands on with the beta for Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road, but how is the game transitioning to the post-stylus era?
Steam thanks me, I got 3 free games for just getting achievements this week. Portal 1, 123 kick it and costume quest :D
Yes, uncharted series is enough of a thanks for me.
Allow me to bring up the elephant in the room:
What does MS do for 360 owners?
(It's not a snarky question; I really don't know.)
Wasn't Sony contemplating rewarding PS3 users on a rewards program? I have a feeling that was the case but that it was later axed.
Ah yes, found a link: http://blog.us.playstation....
More digital items or trips across the world than novelty items there.
Club Nintendo was great for me - I must have gotten at least 5,000 wii points from it.
As for Microsoft.. I think they have yet to launch some kind of similar program. Do let me know if they do though.
STEAM has reward me as a gamer. Free games, free cloud saves, and amazing deals :-). I just bought batman arkham city for twenty five dollars.........