TheCrapgamer over at GxC writes:
The Xbox 360 is long considered the “first person shooter” console, granted it does offer great controls and a plethora of FPS games out on the market, but to say the Xbox 360 has but a single genre of games worth playing would be a huge mistake. You’d be missing out on some of the best games this generation. Lately I’ve been in an RPG mood in anticipation of The Witcher 2 coming to the Xbox 360 later this year, so I thought I would comprise a list of the top five RPG’s on the Xbox 360 console. These are in no particular order and are my own personal opinion mind you.
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Original Destiny artist Darren Bacon recalls how Bungie reacted to the art style change of Halo 4 by 343 Industries.
Bungie at that time became the most wonderful bunch of hypocrites in the gaming industry. Knowing this now, gosh the entitlement they felt was out of this world.
Nothing like buying yourself from Microsoft because you don't want to be the Halo Studio anymore, and the FIRST THING you do is sign your next IP over to Activision, for a DECADE, while they are in the middle of ousting the heads of Infinity Ward so they can exert even more control over COD while screwing out the devs at IW...
Should've come as no surprise then that Activision gutted the content of Destiny 1 before launch and was a horrible partner through Destiny 2, until history repeated itself and Bungie had to split from Activision only to wind up in the arms of another major conglomerate that also doesn't know how to handle these unmanageable devs.
Tti their credit they praised the technical abilities of 343 and I remember at the time thinking halo 4 was a huge graphical leap above reach everything else was rubbish when I actually got to play it but there was no doubt it looked good for the 360 and is probably the best looking game on the system.
But ultimately I think bungie has always had a leadership problem and going independent ultimately proved this it's only getting worse with studio heads being outed by Sony for abuse allegations seems like all bungies past success has been in spite of management not because of it.
But really I think the bungie we have today is not the same one we had in that Xbox era of Bungie
I liked the artstyle change. For the most part. Something looked worse but most of everything else looked better. Weapons and vehicles for sure. The wraith come to my mind instantly.
And how can they get mad when the bungie changed it with Halo Reach?
I know a lot of people dislike Halo 4’s arts style, but there’s thing about it I like and dislike. Personally, the Halo 4 design of Master Chief’s armour is my favourite depiction of the character’s armour.
Double Fine Productions’ masterful Psychonauts turns 20 and it’s still as insightful today as it was back when it was new.
Lost Odyssey was such a good game. That was my FF13. It had towns and Nobuo Uematsu (I think thats the correct spelling)... Great story with a good twist. Awesome game.
I was shocked as hell at how much I was enjoying Lost Odyssey. I hadn't played a turn-based RPG on consoles since Legend of the Dragoon before it came along, only to find out that some devs from that game helped make LO.
It got me interested in turn-based RPGs again, which is why I was interested in FFXIII (which, after currently replaying it isn't as bad as I remembered).
LO was so underrated.
LO, amazing. ME, fantastic. Fable 2, great. The other 2... sort of failed though.
360 needs RPGS, The Witcher 2 will be a good addition. Though I wonder what the frame rate will be >_<
Lost Odyssey is the #1 JRPG on the 360 and Demon Souls is the #1 JRPG on the PS3. However most of the good JRPG were on the handhelds this generation while WRPG dominated the consoles.
It seems like Tales of Vesperia never gets the respect it deserves. It was head and shoulders above Lost Odyssey.