Vader, you need to pick up the latest Game Informer.  There's tons of info on SS and a retrospective on the whole series.  It's a keeper.

Been playing Xenoblade, great game on many levels.

On the graphics, sometimes it's outright astounding. Sometimes it's downright ugly.

Wish some areas were lavished with as much attention as others. Story is getting much better and more epic with lots of suprises and an expansion of the robots vs humans storyline.

So I was pretty excited about the Fire Emblem 3DS trailer

It made me think of the DS versions of Fire Emblem and the latest DS version of Advance wars.

Do you think Nintendo fucked up with these two games? I got the second advances wars ds game and I never completed it and sold it. They took what made advance wars fun and good and made it all dark and moody - it lost all the charm.

Then Fire Emblem DS had hideous art, it looked like computer made renders put in 2D. So I avoided that completely.

Yoshida on PS Vita remote play:

You demonstrated the Vita’s remote play function with Killzone 3 during a TGS 2011 presentation. Will every PS3 game be playable on Vita, or is it up to the developer to incorporate that feature?

Yes, that’s correct. The PS Vita has to be customized to support remote play with the PS Vita. Yesterday, the demo that I showed using Killzone 3 was customized. It was meant as a technical demo and we haven’t even finished the utility of the remote play that’s really, really nice to support higher resolution screens on PS Vita, and the mapping of controls like R3, R2, L2 buttons using the backtouch panel. So as soon as we complete the development of those utilities, we will release the utility to PS3 developers so that they can check if their games work with the utility or they may have to do some additional work, because the remote play takes some additional memory and CPU time out of PS3 games. So some games that really utilize the PS3 capabilities may not work, so we’ll see.

Eurogamer review RE4 HD:

Resident Evil 4 is a brilliant game, but that's exactly why Resident Evil 4 HD is such a disappointment. This is no definitive version or director's cut (wouldn't that be something), but a criminally half-baked attempt to winkle a little extra cash from the still-beating heart of a classic. Resi 4 deserves better than this; Resi 4's legions of devoted fans deserve better than this; and Capcom should be much better than this.


7/10

More:

"Capcom may be one of the top developers in the world, but there's no denying its love of a quick buck - and Resident Evil 4 HD has been done as cheaply and quickly as possible. It's a cynical exercise resembling nothing so much as a naked emperor: standing tall with its high-res output, with everyone too astonished to remark on its itty-bitty textures."

"Simply up-ressing a game and calling it 'HD' might work for some: not here. It's like looking in the mirror on an extremely sunny day, every lump and bump exposed, the ugly and brutal truth. Leon's character model, the floppy hair and the stitches on his shoulder holsters, are right in your face: and by the way, don't forget that this is a 'premium' download and you'll be paying top dollar. It's part of a pair of Resi remakes with Code Veronica, which, incidentally, looks laughable."


"Resi 4 HD's visuals are the GameCube version's: textures designed to be viewed at a maximum of 480p. Nothing has been done to the game's assets bar the upscaling, and what makes it worse is that Resi 4, from start to finish, requires you to pay especial attention to your surroundings. It begins with Leon approaching an unknown village through a sparse, scrubby forest, which is dotted with bear traps to snag unwary adventurers, often hidden under patches of grass. You spot these bear traps by looking at the ground.

The blades of grass look like Lego; yesterday's autumnal leaves are an auburn mush; the grey and black pixels of the bear traps blend into such a swamp, deadlier than ever. What have your eyes done to deserve this?"

Nice job on the updates, GG (and everyone).

God Eurogamer are such nitpicking a holes. Come on, its RE4 HD, they never said anything else, its supposed to be upscaled RE4, that is the point. Damn that dude needs to get that stick out of his ass. It is the greatest action game ever made and looking better than ever.

*sigh*