ASK_Story said:

Sonic Colors is from Dimps, so it's definitely going to be better and more creative than the current Sonic Team.

It's also kind of funny noting that the daytime levels in Sonic Unleashed were done by Dimps and the werehog night stuff was done by...well, that other team!

It's like the werehog was Sonic Team's idea and they panicked when making the daytime levels. So they asked Dimps to do it...while they went on to develop...Sonic and the Black Knight!

I think seeing Sonic Colors and Sonic the Hedghog 4 being both by Dimps, I think Sega has lost all faith in Sonic Team. I think they made too many bad Sonic games while Dimps made the good ones in recent years like Sonic Rush.

I am pretty sure Dimps made the crappy Wii version of Unleashed and Sonic Team handled the far superior HD versions, both night and day. Dimps is good at making specific kinds of Sonic games, Colors seems to be right up their alley.

I also threw down and picked up the new Professor Layton and as much as I'm ashamed to admit it, Harvest Moon Grand Bazaar.  I'm confident it won't be real good, but the need to play Harvest Moon is getting too hard to ignore. Fortunately it's much more fashionable to want to play a decayed niche game series rather than a decayed mainstream game series.

robio said:

I also threw down and picked up the new Professor Layton and as much as I'm ashamed to admit it, Harvest Moon Grand Bazaar.  I'm confident it won't be real good, but the need to play Harvest Moon is getting too hard to ignore. Fortunately it's much more fashionable to want to play a decayed niche game series rather than a decayed mainstream game series.

Rune Ractory 3 is coming out soon. I'm not sure if you like the Rune Factory series as much as the main series.

bugsonglass said:

oh man how can you watch a sporting event when it's already happened?  it's not ASK's fault you're weird that way

I've gotten very good at dodging spoilers.

Archangel3371 said:

Didn't DR2 come out at the end of the month? I'd give it some more time. I think the first game sold 1 million +.

Yep.

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Had to scrape the very bottom of the news barrel today, and that was with no updates last night.

robio said:

Fortunately it's much more fashionable to want to play a decayed niche game series rather than a decayed mainstream game series.

Those are some of the more enjoyable and rewarding games.

Archangel3371 said:

Didn't DR2 come out at the end of the month? I'd give it some more time. I think the first game sold 1 million +.

Yeah, the game has gotten a very positive reception so far, but I don't know if it'll push a million...worldwide it should.

aspro said:

Wow, Robio, guess you are not the only one that likes to play certain games at certain times of the year

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Interesting. I wonder if my tastes or mood for certain games change during the course of the year. You know all those "I'm in a phase" periods. It's odd that I do still want to play certain genres.

Could it be a seasonal thing?

Dvader said:

Sonic Chronicles is SLOOOOOW, I dont know how much more of this I can take. Its a Sonic game, why does this have so slow combat and game progression. Coming off of TWEWY this is so sad.

It could be because that's just BioWare trying to make a JRPG.

I don't know. I know that Sonic Chronicles got some negative impressions because of those things.

I'd play it just because it's Sonic. I wonder if I can find this still at stores.

Dvader said:

This captures nothing of Sonic, its like Bioware's bad JRPG experiment with a Sonic skin.

I think you said it right there. Although in their defense, they didn't have much to work with in terms of hardware and the material. I don't know how anyone can really come up with a really good story with Sonic that can fit a 40+ hour RPG.

And the DS has limitations other than going with turn-based.

But I played a lot of turn-based games and a lot of the JRPG developers found better ways to make the battles fast-paced and fun.

At least BioWare tried and I hope they try to do more and improve it.

LBP2 NA beta just started. I am not in it so at least that makes me not having a PS3 bearable.

Dvader said:

Sonic Chronicles is SLOOOOOW, I dont know how much more of this I can take. Its a Sonic game, why does this have so slow combat and game progression. Coming off of TWEWY this is so sad.

Word of advice, STOP PLAYING THE GAME.

I'm not exaggerating either. It's honest to god, the worst Sonic game out there, and it's Biowares worst effort. I know it's not saying much, but at least with the more recent games, there's something that's come out of it. This? NOTHING. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

Combat is fucking broken, enemies are stupidly overpowered, the story doesn't amount to much (well, except for making Sonic a dick), and the music is a fucking abortion.

Seriously Vader, just stop playing and move onto something else.

ASK_Story said:

Rune Ractory 3 is coming out soon. I'm not sure if you like the Rune Factory series as much as the main series.

I do like Rune Factory, but I greatly prefer it on a home console. Frontier is one of my favorite games for the Wii in fact. Its just not as good on a handheld. Combat isn't as good. THe social features aren't as good. Maybe some of that is fixed in RF3, but I know it'll still fee like a step backwards after Frontier. I'll just hold out and wait for Rune Factory Oceans for my return to the series.

aspro said:

Wow, Robio, guess you are not the only one that likes to play certain games at certain times of the year

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Heh, that's kind of cool.  For the record I'm also that way with Zelda games as well. I'm not sure if its because the series always seems to launch new installments during the holidays or because I played the original Zelda back in December of 1987, but as soon as it gets cold outside (winter cold that is) I want to play Zelda

Ok, I just preordered the latest Donkey Kong Country for the Wii. I started thinking about the fond memories I had playing the first one when it was released, during my first year in college.   Retro hasn't let me down yet. I spent many a nights playing through that one.  I don't know if I'm buying Kirby or renting.  The reviews make it sound too easy and that sounds boring.  It does look interesting, though.