In this week's New Business... a 3DS hands-on report! Also, we catch up on Listener Mail.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/rfn/24733/episode-227-national-pastime
On this special episode of RFN, we kick off with a tri-continental version of New Business, as James Charlton reports on the recent 3DS event in Japan while Greg and Jonny ask him annoying questions. James recaps the game impressions he already posted here at NWR and also tells us about his overall thoughts on seeing and playing 3DS just a few weeks before its launch in Japan.
After that, Jon and James (Jones) return for a full-on buffet of Listener Mail collected over the past few weeks. Big topics include horror in video games, Retro's next game after DKCR, reasons for high prices in Europe, our views on both the Sonic and Resident Evil series, and finally, which HD console is best for a Nintendo gamer.
The next edition of RetroActive is coming up soon, and you have just a few days left to vote before the poll ends on Thursday, Jan. 20!
Thanks for the discussion on horror in games. When you lay it out like that, contrast between the creepy aspects of the design and the rest of the game is quite important in terms of actually getting a reaction out of the player. In a game like F.E.A.R., where the theme is explicitly stated on the face of it, it doesn't really get to you because you're expecting the weird little girl to try and mess with you at every spare moment. As you put it so well, you quickly become desensitised to the effects that the game throws at you.
The real problem with FEAR is that it's a generic repetitive FPS with the horror elements just thrown in randomly. Crazy images are just CG and most adults have grown out of the phase where they're amazed by special effects, when you want to instill fear the gameplay mechanics must match that. Being a superhuman death dealer just doesn't really do much to help there.
Indeed. At least the developers would learn somewhat from their mistakes with FEAR and put out the really well-done Condemned: Criminal Origins, which fixes a lot of the issues I had with FEAR (though it's still nowhere near a perfect game).
Indeed. At least the developers would learn somewhat from their mistakes with FEAR and put out the really well-done Condemned: Criminal Origins, which fixes a lot of the issues I had with FEAR (though it's still nowhere near a perfect game).
You mean in the 1 month period in-between their releases?
....and they called him the King of Kings.
I have a Wii and am looking at one of the HD consoles. Does Metroid Prime 3 run smooth?
