Although Mario & Zelda both look excellent, there's little else of note, and I worry that the high price point and raft of expensive accessories will mean that the family market, the one that Nintendo should be aiming for, will be left behind. Nintendo should have made a standard console without gimmicks and released with a solid library out of the gate.
I've played most of these games. I'd struggle to call any essential. Many of them are fun for a few hours and then the novelty drops off. I doubt anyone will still be playing Rigs in a months time. However, Rez is, and will always be, one of the best games ever made, and its one use case for VR that I can totally see. Problem is that I'm not about to spend £350 to play Rez in VR.
As exciting as VR is in theory, it needs the software to back it up. I've yet to see an essential game for the platform, and even though it's early days, it desperately needs something like this to succeed. It needs its own 'Wii Sports' to move from something that's fun for an hour to a system that you can't wait to show off and get stuck into.
'Is it a game?' - The game.
Given the benefit of hindsight...Uncharted 4 was a good game, sure, but it didn't do anything new. What is there is refined within an inch of it's life, but it's still a lot of hiding behind waist high walls and moving boxes around.
A nice way to end out the series, and one of the most 'highly polished' games I've ever played - still had some faults though, and I think that ND were cut a little bit too much slack for what is essentially another cover shooter (albeit a damn good looking one).
Some nice titles out of these shows. I think Watch Dogs 2 might surprise a few people, has the potential to redeem the series, like Assassin's Creed 2 did - started off with a good premise and a ropey game, but came through in the sequel.
Not a bad show, but not a patch on last years E3. Still confused about Scorpio - sounds like all that power is focused purely on a 4K image? Is there really a market for that?
Great to see Dice turn to WW1 - plenty of untapped potential. Somehow it seems more exciting than Call of Duty's 'infinite wars' or however they're spinning it.
There's very real chance of them fragmenting their own market and upsetting gamers with an 'improved' console. Be very interesting to find out just what this thing is...
Nice to see the industry recognised, but don't agree with all the choices. An award for arkham knight seems a bit generous, considering the shocking launch issues, rip off season pass and repetitive gameplay.
Her Story and Rocket League deserved their recognition.
Weird one this. A nice departure from the series, but not sure it justified itself as a full boxed product. Would have sat better as a Blood Dragon style product. Nice to see the franchise take some risks though - no guns or towers!
Be interesting to see how this one does long term - is the competitive scene going to take to it? Feel like it'll live and die on how successfully it does with them,
Agreed, it's really heartening to see. It's especially nice when they're cross buy with Vita, like Day of the Tentacle!
Can't speak for Hitman, but Resident Evil Revelations 2 would have almost certainly been finished, as the episodes were released weekly. No way they would have still been working on the game week to week. (Unless Capcom really love to fly be the seat of their pants).
January 2017 is the supposed release date for the physical disc. 10 months away!
Massive, hundred hour games are pitched as being great value for gamers, but ironically they don't value our time. While a few games legitimately do require an large investment of time, far too many pad out their content with pointless cookie cutter collectables. Why have I got to run around collecting 100 donkey scrotums? For a trophy? Screw that! Give me a leaner, more focused game and concentrate on creating interesting content that lasts 10 hours, rather than bland repetitive stuff th...
That's a great pick, actually. It's like an updated Smash TV/Alien Breed (with more style than you can shake a bloody katana at).
Seems to me that this game will be something of a breath of fresh air for online shooters. CoD is getting a bit long in the tooth these days, and Destiny is a grind fest. I'll happily give this a shot, as long as it has a strong and dedicated community.
Yep, Crackdown 3 gets a mention in the podcast. Considering how long Microsoft have been polishing it,. and pushing the POWER OF THE CLOUD, it looks wholly underwhelming...