Turns out western third-party support for the Vita isn't quite dead yet, eh?
Portable gaming will be just fine for years to come. Sony may withdraw from the handheld market, but Nintendo will likely come up with quite a few successors for the 3DS before they move on to mobile, and the 500k+ worldwide 3DS sales in the last week of November show that they have no reason to do so anytime soon.
Yeah, Bloodborne deserves at least Best Art Direction for its awesome world and atmosphere. It could lose to The Witcher 3 or Ori & the Blind Forest, though.
The choice is obviously between Bloodborne, The Witcher 3, and MGSV. Fallout gets Overhyped Game of the Year ¬¬" Suffering with major framerate issues in some random dungeon in Cambridge as I type this.
Also a honorable mention to Life is Strange, Her Story, Undertale and every other great indie game.
Which one gets GOTY: The Witcher 3 or MGSV? Both have Metascores of 91 or 92 depending on the version. The Witcher won 'Most Anticipated Game' last year, but MGS received more perfect scores after it was released. MGS has a more celebrated protagonist, whilst The Witcher has a more acclaimed world. The awards are surely more exciting than last year, when we all knew Inquisition was going to win.
The Gamespot review mentions the soundtrack: "...you may instead be reeling from the soundtrack, which is dotted with low-rent tracks that make you reach for the mute button." And yeah, many have found the story to be kinda mediocre, and others have noted the lack of tutorials, too.
Some have criticized the slow-paced beginning (who cares, is there a JRPG with a "fast-paced" beginning?) and the allegedly weak characters and soundtrack, but the Metascore is at a very decent 84. I'm still buying it.
Maybe a prequel about how Marston used to run with Dutch's gang in the late nineteenth century, how they met and how they ended up parting ways. It would be hard to preserve the setting for a sequel, considering that RDR takes place in 1912, a year in which the Wild West was essentially dead already. You'd get to play as Bill Williamson or Dutch, thus making use of the multiple character mechanics introduced in GTA V. 'Red Dead Rebellion' would be a good name for it.
Commercially, perhaps; critically, no. The game struggled to maintain a Metascore of 75, the lower threshold for "generally favorable reviews", and now sits at a shameful 72, alongside much less hyped games such as Mad Max.
Considering the gap between ES IV - their first take on the previous gen - and Fallout 3 was two and a half years, I'd say that ES VI could be out as soon as the first half of 2018. However, they usually prefer the fall - save for Oblivion -, so late 2018 is a good guess.
BTW, seeing a post-nuclear Beijing with its historic temples, colossal buildings, and (pre-war) 20+ million population would be awesome.
Some boring statistics to think about.
MGSV is leading on Metacritic (Metascore 93) while The Witcher III is ahead on Game Rankings (92.23%), although the difference from MGSV is a meager 0.61%. These are followed by Bloodborne, Fallout 4 (although more recent reviews have been pushing it down), Forza Motorsport 6, Batman: Arkham Knight, and Rise of the Tomb Raider.
Notice that the most critically acclaimed exclusive title is Bloodborne - Metascore 92, GameR...
Must've been a pain in the ass for the voice actor, having to mutter 1000 names into the mic.
Guess I'll have to choose between "Francis" and "Franke", heheh. I also thought about "Trevor" as a little tribute to the kind and gentle Canadian entrepreneur, but it isn't there either.
I stopped reading non-specialized coverage of videogames in '09, when Time named Modern Warfare 2 their GOTY and placed Uncharted 2 at a ridiculous number 10. Last year, The Guardian named Mario Kart 8 their GOTY, and Bayonetta 2 got the second place, both of which are pretty questionable, too. These lists and reviews are often preposterous.
Turns out Famitsu reviewers (38/40 = 95/100) liked Halo 5 a lot more than most westerners (Metascore 85).
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I see nothing wrong with Scott Shelby being the origami killer either. It's convenient in that it dispenses with the need to introduce some new NPC and his ulterior motives, and interesting because it uses the "lawman turned deranged murderer" formula in a very peculiar way. Not to mention that it rekindles the player's disposition to go through the game all over again, this time looking for signs of the real person behind the detective.
The original had these brownish, kinda lifeless cities, but they seem to have fixed that - this one looks colorful and vivid.
Mario should be there for stomping his enemies to death, burning them with vicious fireballs, and hitting n' running them mercilessly while dressed as a penguin. Not to mention his personal fortune of pure gold coins and the fact that he, a fat mustachioed plumber, invariably gets the tall, good-looking women. That is major badassness.
Oh, Haze was bad, REALLY bad. Lair was another PS3 exclusive from the console's early days that really screwed up
I wish I could buy Xenoblade Chronicles X :(.
I'm Brazilian, and Nintendo has permanently suspended official distribution of games down here due to our deplorable tax policy and our unpromising economic landscape. As a result, Wii U games can only be bought via importation, and the cheapest value I found was R$ 314,00, which equals approximately US$ 125,60 using exchange rates from back when the economy was "stable". A hundred twenty-five freaking dollars for a single g...