When I consider my undying love for Dead Space 1, and how angry I was against the micro-transaction idea, I can only say that's fair and EA has to understand that they killed the golden hen themselves... Afraid they won't see too much into this, hmm?
I finally finished to grab all the lovely relics and kill all the lovely bandits of the jungle in Far Cry 3, so now I'm running through the beautiful plains of Ni No Kuni. My only problem is that my copy of Persona 4 arrived yesterday by the mail and I'm afraid that if I boot it up, I'll never be able to return to Ni No Kuni, so I'm sticking with this one for now...
I personally really loved the game and I do think it deserves this kind of marks. Ok, the "coming back to already completed areas" gets old fast, but the universe and the storytelling are so perfect! Even if the puzzles are a bit on the simple side and the platforming elements are too much, it's still a game that I heavily recommend. And if you want to see the true heirs to Maniac Mansion (the twins segment), Day of the Tentacle (the time traveler segment) and Monkey Island (the island segment), you owe it to yourself to play this game
I'm personally very strongly against micro-transactions. This is the single most annoying feature to appear in our beloved market for the last years (just see the mess Square-Enix is doing on smartphones with Theathrythm ou Final Fantasy : ATB). In my opinion, this model is ok when it's for supporting small-time developers that can't sell their games 2 or 3 euros because not enough people would buy them in the first place.
However, when I think about it touching full-fledged AAA games on the last generation of consoles, I can't help but feeling that we're on the verge of losing the whole idea of "owning a game". What's going to happen now? Is the next Zelda going to look like Farmville because we're supposed to shell out 0,99 cents to buy more bombs? 60 or 70 euros is already a steep price for a game, in my humble opinion, but it's ok if the game is great and I can replay it whenever I feel like it. What now? If I'm getting my PS3 out of it drawer in ten years from now, I won't be able to play the Dead Space trilogy again because the PSN was discontinued and I can't buy more ammo for my gun? This is just ridiculous.
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Re: Rumour: Dead Space 4 Dismembered Following Dismal Sales
When I consider my undying love for Dead Space 1, and how angry I was against the micro-transaction idea, I can only say that's fair and EA has to understand that they killed the golden hen themselves... Afraid they won't see too much into this, hmm?
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue One
I finally finished to grab all the lovely relics and kill all the lovely bandits of the jungle in Far Cry 3, so now I'm running through the beautiful plains of Ni No Kuni. My only problem is that my copy of Persona 4 arrived yesterday by the mail and I'm afraid that if I boot it up, I'll never be able to return to Ni No Kuni, so I'm sticking with this one for now...
Re: Review: The Cave (PlayStation Network)
I personally really loved the game and I do think it deserves this kind of marks. Ok, the "coming back to already completed areas" gets old fast, but the universe and the storytelling are so perfect! Even if the puzzles are a bit on the simple side and the platforming elements are too much, it's still a game that I heavily recommend. And if you want to see the true heirs to Maniac Mansion (the twins segment), Day of the Tentacle (the time traveler segment) and Monkey Island (the island segment), you owe it to yourself to play this game
Re: Talking Point: What's the Big Deal with Microtransactions?
I'm personally very strongly against micro-transactions. This is the single most annoying feature to appear in our beloved market for the last years (just see the mess Square-Enix is doing on smartphones with Theathrythm ou Final Fantasy : ATB). In my opinion, this model is ok when it's for supporting small-time developers that can't sell their games 2 or 3 euros because not enough people would buy them in the first place.
However, when I think about it touching full-fledged AAA games on the last generation of consoles, I can't help but feeling that we're on the verge of losing the whole idea of "owning a game". What's going to happen now? Is the next Zelda going to look like Farmville because we're supposed to shell out 0,99 cents to buy more bombs? 60 or 70 euros is already a steep price for a game, in my humble opinion, but it's ok if the game is great and I can replay it whenever I feel like it. What now? If I'm getting my PS3 out of it drawer in ten years from now, I won't be able to play the Dead Space trilogy again because the PSN was discontinued and I can't buy more ammo for my gun? This is just ridiculous.