gamingeek said:

Man, Call of Duty and Wii really came out of nowhere and dominated sales over this past generation.

As much as I like the fact that Take 2 didn't milk the shit out of Grand Theft Auto...they really missed the money boat by only releasing 1 GTA this entire generation. They had the biggest franchise going into it.

gamingeek said:

Assassin’s Creed III’s creative director Alex Hutchinson  first impressions of PS4.:

The hardware also has more grunt, which is always exciting, but also has the potential to make development more expensive although I don’t think it’s as big a jump as the previous generation. These days we’re usually building high resolution assets and then creating simpler versions for different platforms or different LODs. But it will push up the fidelity of the top end of the industry again, which will make it harder again for smaller or medium sized studios to compete: it’s a continuation of the arms race we’ve been in at the triple-A level for a while now, where blockbusters keep getting bigger, and continue to compress sales in a smaller segment at the top end.

For smaller studios or teams hopefully the fact that the kit is easier to use, has a tremendous amount of power, and is a lot closer to a traditional PC, which should allow them to develop more easily and more cheaply. I also think the sharing features will also be huge for smaller devs trying to get exposure outside of the traditional marketing model.

Q:  How significant is this leap forward?

AH: It’s an interesting time for the business: there’s no real gimmick feature to latch onto, the controller is basically the same and I don’t see much point in the touch pad on it, but there are improvements for connectivity and portability as I said, but overall there are no cheap wins for developers. I think this is really significant, because it puts all the stress on the success or failure of this generation on the software, which is where it needs to be. We need to work through the hard problems of broadening the audience and the type of content we can create, without radical changes in hardware forcing us to rebuild the basics of game-making, and without being able to rely on shinier graphics or 3D TVs. So I think it’s conceptually significant, although at first glance it looks smaller than perhaps previous transitions appeared.

I truly believe that players are going to buy games based on the content they’re offering more than visuals or technical features. What is your core fantasy? How strong is the emotional hook in your game? What are you allowing people to do that they’ve never done before, or how can you take an emotion people already like to the next level? The answers to these kinds of questions will dictate the winners of this generation, not just who can push more polys around the screen, or who can create better lighting.

http://www.edge-online.com/news/ps4-and-how-it-changes-blockbuster-game-development/

Smart man..now stop miling the shit out of Assassins Creed!

Why AC4? Why do the numbered thing if its going to be a part of the story to AC3? That is stupid, save AC4 for when you have a real jump in gameplay.

gamingeek said:

WTF? That good?

Yeah I will need to see more first.

I decided to turn on my Wii U for thr first time since forever and Wii Street was already downloaded for me. Sweet.

Dvader said:

I decided to turn on my Wii U for thr first time since forever and Wii Street was already downloaded for me. Sweet.

EA saying prices for the next gen consoles can be $70.  

Dvader said:

EA saying prices for the next gen consoles can be $70.  

The games?

I'll stick with my PC.

Spec ops the line worth $13?

As Bugsie said not too long ago, you KNOW a game is good when you find yourself thinking about it throughout the day and counting down the hours and minutes 'til you can play it again. That's me with Fire Emblem! I went to bed last night mulling over what class I was going to change the character Donnel into. He's a special case because you recruit him as an ordinary Villager and need to nurture him to the point where he can survive in a battle, let alone fight! He comes to your aid reluctantly when his village is attacked by Thieves and Chrom takes him under his wing. The conditions you need to fulfill to recruit him are pretty challenging, so if you take the time to earn him, you're going to want to try and keep him. I went to bed with him on my mind, and woke up having made a decision. I told myself I was going to wait until I took a break for lunch so I could appreciate his promotion and savor the moment he went from being an ordinary guy to being a hero. I started counting down the minutes to lunch at that point. (This was 5:45AM).

Lunch happened at 2PM and the first thing I did was give the Master Seal to Donnel. I was beaming in Starbucks; people must have thought I was nuts!

The next battle I played had Donnel in the line-up and he performed even better than I had hoped for. I had been pairing him often with a girl that can transform into a dragon because the interactions they have with each other are BEYOND adorable! So, when I went into the 'Support' screen after the battle to see Donnel's and Nowi's conversation, I was thrilled to see their relationship had grown even stronger.

I then went into the conversation between Axe-Fighter Vaike (awesome character!) and the Princess, Lissa... He was stuttering and acting nervous and was asking if Lissa knew where Chrom was... Turns out he was looking to ask Chrom for Lissa's hand in MARRIAGE! He proposed to her then and there and I --SWEAR-- I must have let out a sigh like a heart-sick girl at that point because I couldn't have been more pleased! I was excited by Donnel but Lissa and Vaike stole the show! ...and my heart! **tee-hee!** <3

I completely abandoned the Story at that point to start fighting Battles exclusively with "Couples" I wanted to see get together...

...Isn't that just NUTS?! What essentially is a Turned-Based strategy game became a Dating Sim in the span of an hour, and I was LOVING. EVERY. MINUTE. OF. IT! So many emotions ran through me while playing, the game had me so enthralled... I felt like I wanted to talk to someone about everything that had just happened as if it were real... If fictional characters can bring about such a response, can you imagine how that speaks to JUST how good and well-designed this game is?!

This is very quickly becoming one of my favorite games OF ALL TIME, and I can completely appreciate and relate to what Bugsie was saying about Ni No Kuni last week too!

Dvader said:

EA saying prices for the next gen consoles can be $70.  

It'll only cause more people to wait for price drops. I almost never buy games on launch day anymore.