Nintendo DS titles may make up over half of the latest Japanese software top thirty, but it's a PS2 game that tops the pile.
PlayStation 2 title Seaman 2 shifted 33,000 copies in its debut week to net the No1 position, outselling fellow new entry Bungaku Zenshuu for DS by just 1,000 units.
While DS titles take 16 of the top thirty places, four games chart for Wii, PS2 and PSP. Sony's Lair for PS3 is at No21, while Beautiful Katamari for Xbox 360 debuts at No7.
01. Seaman 2 (PS2) - 33,000 / New
02. DS Bungaku Zenshuu (DS) - 32,000 / New
03. Dragon Ball Z: Sparking! Meteor (PS2) - 20,000 / 271,000
04. DS Nishimura Kyotaro Series:(DS) - 20,000 / 81,000
05. Gundam Battle Chronicle (PSP) - 19,000 / 133,000
06. Pokémon Mysterious Dungeon: Time Party (DS) - 19,000 / 521,000
07. Beautiful Katamari (Xbox 360) - 19,000 / New
08. Pokémon Mysterious Dungeon: Shadow Party (DS) - 16,000 / 457,000
09. Flash Focus: Vision Training in Minutes(DS) - 15,000 / 646,000
10. Banushi Life Game: Winners Circle (DS) - 15,000 / New
11. KanKen DS 2 + Jouyou Kanji Jiten (DS)
12. Wii Sports (Wii)
13. Tamagotchi no Puchi Puchi Omisecchi: Mina San Kyu (DS)
14. Galaxy Angel II: Mugen Kairou no Kagi (PS2)
15. Mario Party 8 (Wii)
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Huzaifa from eXputer: "2008 was home to the likes of Call of Duty: World at War, Dead Space, GTA 4, Far Cry 2, Left 4 Dead, and many other hits, which is outright remarkable."
1998 - the best year in gaming! Metal gear solid, crash bandicoot 3, medievil, half life, ocarina of time, thief, tenchu, resident evil 2, Spyro, tomb raider 3, oddworld abes exodus, banjo kazooie.
It was a different breed of a gaming era. You’ll never understand what it was like back then. The aura of gaming, it was different!
I second this. Gaming was a lot more varied and fun than it is today. I'm 35 so getting on compared to some here but I got to see all the changes from NES up to now but I've never felt so disappointed in any generation than I have this current gen. I was expecting more from this generation rather than prettier versions of games that came before it. Game mechanics have become so refined that alot of games feel the same and has done for a while now.
Maybe it's time to have a break for a while. I love gaming but I don't feel I get much fun in the traditional sense out of it anymore.
Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil 2, Abe’s Exodus, and Ocarina of Time are the only things from that list that I liked.
Here’s the 2023 game releases that I personally liked… and big releases that I didn’t care for:
- Dead Space Remake
- Wo Long Dynatsy
- Resident Evil 4 Remake
- Diablo 4
- Fire Emblem Engage
- Hogwarts Legcay
- Street Fighter 6
- Hi-Fi Rush
- Like a Dragon: Ishin
- Octopath Traveler 2
- Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters
- Final Fanatsy XVI (actually ended up not liking this, but it was still a big deal release)
- Baldur’s Gate 3
- Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon
- Lies of P
- Mortal Kombat 1
- Marvel’s Spider-Man 2
- Starfield (Ended up hating this one, but big release)
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder
- Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (I’m an old-school Zelda fan, but didn’t really enjoy this game)
- Alan Wake 2
I mean, honestly I’ve never seen a year of major IP releases like that, ever.
Isn't it just a generational thing realistically.
I've been gaming since way back and I some of my favourite games go as far back as the late 80s for me each generation has a year or two of game changing releases one after another before an inevitable dry spell.
I kind of agree gaming had a different feel games hit different because we didn't have the internet nothing got spoiled and you really had to put in the effort to beat a puzzle which could set entire groups of people looking for a solution. But most importantly games were experimental and not as cookie cutter as today even basics like controls were not universal today r2 is shoot l2 is ads garunteed you can't deviate from that in a shooter back then it could of been square, R1 or R1 and circle nothing was standard.
But as time moves on a new generation picks up their controller they are going to be interested in different things that PS1 demo disc with the t Rex blew our primitive 16 bit brains back on launch but to kids today it's laughable.
The new gen of kids coming into to hobby seem to value different things to us there seems to be a huge focus on online play, streamers, gaming personalities, and social experiences, convience of digital downloads. To me I value none of that but that's ok like my parents not liking the band's I would listen to its just the natural cycle.
While the mainstream media always sees things turning in favor of the hero, here are 6 games that own being a bad guy.
Pretty much all of these games listed are based around a morality system you don't have to be bad and you don't have to be good.
It seems to have left out some real amazing games like red dead redemption 1/2,ass effect and true crime la/ny
Armored Core VI?
Ok, I'm really missing something here. Just beat chapter 3 earlier this evening, unlocked A-rank Arena fights. I'm not seeing or sensing any branching paths or morality system and I've done every side mission and arena fight available to me up to that fight.
Is something big coming soon to branch the story?
No mention of Grand Theft Auto? Saints Row (original trilogy), Manhunt? Also The Suffering (depending on the ending you get).
Trevor in GTA 6 is a sadist and psychopath who dabbles in cannibalism. Should be top of the list. These game “news” sites should hire people that know games.
Cool Seaman for DC was a pretty cool game. Plus it had Leonard Nimoy as the voice over! Can't go wrong with that
? I Did not know they made another seaman lol the first one was funny
The advertising for it was hilarious as well.
Nice to see an xbox360 game in the middle.. no PS3 games :/
DS making a killing yet again. I heard that the Flash Focus game was garbage but has anyone played it personally to comment otherwise?
Kudos to the PS2 as well. The continued success of the PS2 hints that there are still a lot of ppl out there who have yet to buy a 7th-generation console.
They illustrate cultural differences in definitive manner. Interesting stuff!
I wonder how long it will take for western style games to gain widescale acceptence by Japanese gamers? http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/...
Will it ever really happen?