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Mario doesn't even seem like it's made by a Japanese company, it's the one game that can truly be called a worldwide phenomenon.Well since there's never been a game just called Mario, I guess we don't know for sure. Mario as a franchise, is platforming, racing, sports, fighting and board games/mini games all together. So which aspect of Mario is the one you are referring to here?
Sorry, due to the lockout, the NFL restructured the exclusivity deal with EA and added an extra year so it runs through 2013 now. No new NFL 2k game until at least 2014.Hopefully it's not MLB 2K, which is awful compared to Sony's The Show. I think their exclusivity deal is expiring anyway, so with any luck we'll see some other third party step in and show them how shittily they've handled their monopoly. One can only hope for EA to revive the MVP franchise.
Most likely it's basketball, since they're actually good at that, and they do well in sales with it.
I hope it's nba 2k as the series is great and there is alot they could do with the tablet (coach mode during timeouts where you use the upad as a clipboard to draw up plays). Now if I'm really shooting for the stars with my expectations then hopefully its a new entry in the nfl 2k series as I think EA's hold on the nfl license should be up this year and there are rumors that 2k's parent company is going to make a push for the nfl license. let me not get my hopes up though. :/
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Graphics may not be necessary, but they don't hurt a game most of the time either. Do you really think COW games would be as popular as they are with cel shaded graphics? Certain games, due to how they are presented and envisioned by the developers, will require a certain amount of realism. That means voice acting and Hollywood movie budgets and realistic graphics and physics.My point of all of this is, if graphics really are that important, then why isn't every single developer trying to push for the latest and greatest graphics?
You have some developers who stick to the PC, while other developers are fine making smartphone games. Clearly, graphics are not a defining point for some developers.
It depends on the developer and how they want to express themselves, not to mention it is linked a lot to the fact many don't have access to the large teams and huge budgets to make graphically impressive games. I would bet that if you were to give many of these developers access to the right amount of resources for visually stunning games, so they can fully express what they imagine a game looking like (or changing course on a game), most would take advantage of it in a heartbeat
So yeah, you are right in a way, graphics is not the defining point because many can't afford to take that risk, especially small teams.
But then you have people complaining that games are becoming more expensive to make with each new generation. Maybe the problem is that developers are setting their standards too high. Maybe these problems would be solved if everyone just dialed back from making games more like movies. You don't need voice actors, motion capture tech, Hollywood-style budgets to make a good game. None of that stuff is necessary.
The rumored amount was $25 billion.Any article that says Nintendo needs to develop for smart phones is complete sh!t that should just be ignored because the writer clearly has no idea what the f*ck they're talking about. It's basically the usual Nintendo's going third party bullsh!t that's been all over the place for the last decade. Plus the article completely ignores all the success the 3DS has been having since last fall which goes to show just how clueless these so called analysis are.
I remember back when the GameCube was almost dead, there were rumors of Microsoft wanting to buy Nintendo.
It was more than just a rumor. Bill Gates offered Yamauchi a bunch of money, but Yamauchi refused. Good thing he did, because right now he might be wealthier than Bill Gates. Maybe one day Nintendo will want to buy Microsoft.
IGN has a recent interview with Sakurai on the game. He is really pushing connectivity. What can really be done?Any chance you can quote the pertinent info? IGN keeps crashing my browser.
http://wii.ign.com/articles/122/1223770p1.html
Uncharted is about the only exclusive game that's making me keep my PS3. If Uncharted was a multiplatform game (the IP not owned by Sony), I'd sell my PS3 immediately and buy an Xbox 360 instead.I have a feeling you'll enjoy The Last of Us when it releases.
Samus was never really a character other than being a figure in a spacesuit with a gun arm that is revealed to be a woman at the end of the first game. Link and Mario aren't really characters either. They come from an era where the story telling in videogames was limited. As a result the fans would largely fill in the blanks themselves for the "character" on the screen. Realistically Mario, Link & Samus were me as I largely grafted my own personality to them when I first played the older games.Befor I continue reading (yes I am drunk), I agreee with everything Ian said here.
Whatever Samus Sakamoto had in his head was always going to risk being inferior to the one in the fans' heads. A character like Boba Fett is cool precisely because of how little is revealed to the audience. The audience just sees some superficially cool elements and then fills in the gaps. The WORST thing to do when introducing a mysterious character like that is to fill in the gaps because it is so hard to meet expectations. That's pretty much the biggest problem with the Star Wars prequels. Every fan had just spent 20 years filling in the gaps themselves about the Clone Wars and Anakin's turn to the Dark Side. So then George Lucas told everyone the official story and it didn't measure up and backlash ensued. Metroid is the same thing. Sakamoto's vision of Samus does not measure up to that of the fans.
I'm not saying that we should have one dimensional heroes but I think it would work better if new IP was used for that. Olimar has a real backstory and no one bitches about it because there was never some glorified player avatar of Olimar that we all got attached to.
| Game Title | Platform | Publisher | This Week | Total | |
| 01 | Dai-2-Ji Super Robot Taisen Z: Saisei-hen | PSP | Bandai Namco | 34,403 | 299,842 |
| 02 | Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance | 3DS | Square Enix | 20,977 | 276,788 |
| 03 | Super Mario 3D Land | 3DS | Nintendo | 18,119 | 1,504,812 |
| 04 | Pro Yakyuu Spirits 2012 | PSP | Konami | 17,037 | 104,086 |
| 05 | Shin Hikari Shinwa: Palutena no Kagami [Kid Icarus: Uprising] | 3DS | Nintendo | 15,228 | 220,643 |
| 06 | Monster Hunter 3G | 3DS | Capcom | 15,047 | 1,390,226 |
| 07 | Pro Yakyuu Spirits 2012 | PS3 | Konami | 14,485 | 131,804 |
| 08 | Mario 3D Kart | 3DS | Nintendo | 12,212 | 1,649,867 |
| 09 | Pokemon + Nobunaga's Ambition | NDS | Pokemon Co. | 10,377 | 295,974 |
| 10 | Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games | 3DS | Nintendo | 8,254 | 131,222 |
| 11 | Atelier Elkrone: Dear for Otomate | PSP | Idea Factory | 8,012 | -- |
| 12 | Kurohyou 2: Ryu ga Gotoku Ashura Hen [Black Panther 2: Yakuza Ashura Chapter] | PSP | Sega | 5,882 | 147,829 |
| 13 | Bokujou Monogatari:Hajimari no Daichi [Harvest Moon: Land of Origin] | 3DS | Marvelous | 4,574 | 165,182 |
| 14 | Wii Sports Resort with Wii Remote Plus | Wii | Nintendo | 4,243 | 914,691 |
| 15 | Monster Hunter Portal 3rd [PSP The Best] | PSP | Capcom | 3,658 | 236,467 |
| 16 | Devil May Cry HD Collection | PS3 | Capcom | 3,641 | 65,245 |
| 17 | Mario Kart Wii | Wii | Nintendo | 3,505 | 3,546,938 |
| 18 | Wii Party | Wii | Nintendo | 3,446 | 2,328,169 |
| 19 | Hatsune Miku and Future Stars: Project Mirai | 3DS | Sega | 3,392 | 132,689 |
| 20 | Armen Noir Portable | PSP | Idea Factory | 3,254 | -- |
| Platform | This week | YTD |
| 3DS | 63,796 | 1,376,356 |
| PS3 | 17,765 | 457,757 |
| PSP | 13,166 | 305,944 |
| PS Vita | 8,250 | 219,685 |
| Wii | 6,837 | 174,103 |
| XB360 | 1,373 | 23,313 |
| PS2 | 1,212 | 17,306 |
| DSiLL | 800 | 17,896 |
| DSi | 633 | 13,566 |
Now, I respect my opponent. I think he's a good man. But quite frankly, I agree with everything he just said.Greater words have never been said.
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Did anyone else pick this game up? It's pretty good overall, however... Have you ever seen something where there was just one thing wrong with it, but that thing keeps reoccurring and it brings down the whole thing? No, I'm not talking about Star Wars and Jar Jar Binks. The boards are good, the new board setup is interesting, the minigames are fun, the graphics are nice, the boss battles range from decent to awesome... but everything is woven together with a system based entirely on luck, that it makes everything up until the final moments feel pointless. This system is way more luck-based than Mario Party has ever been, to the point of absurdity.Hmmm, so a change to the system that makes the whole game, outside the last part, feel entirely pointless is a welcome change. Good to know.
Oh well, it's still a welcome change to the formula, and the group I payed with seemed to like it, so it should still provide some more multiplayer fun down the line.
EDIT: That's what I get for trying to be fancy with my post... weird formatting errors.
