Andrew of Gaming Today asks: How long do you have to not enjoy a game to definitively know it sucks? How long do you need to be entranced in an action game to know it rocks?
The short answer is no. You don't need to finish your dinner in order to tell if it's a good or a bad meal, and Andrew thinks the same can be said about video games... And there is definitely also something to be said about a game not even being able to motivate a gamer to even think about playing all the way through a game.
I had it all wrong...Blue Dragon is awesome!
I bought this game a couple of days ago, along with Lost Odyssey, while they're on sale in the Xbox Store. I never had a 360 back in the day so I missed out on these games, so I'm glad that I'll finally be able to try them out soon on my Series S.
Yep, Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, and Gears of War were my favorite 360 games back when they first released.
no doubt. To this day it baffles me when this game gets hate. Sure it wasn't as epic as Lost Odyssey, but in it's own right it was a great game.
Lost Odyssey is one of the best jrpgs of that era but got killed because it was bought up and released on the "wrong" console.
Is there a chance that Lost Odyssey will be released on PS5? I really want to play it and Blue Dragon, too.
Great game. The 360 had some really good turn based games back in the day. Absolutely loved Lost Odyssey too. I think they are both Sakaguchi creations.
Correction. Both Blue Dragon & Lost Odyssey (as well as Infinite Undiscovery) started off as in-house developed projects that went third party after MS killed off their Japanese development studios.
Doesn't really have anything to do with what I said though 😂 Sakaguchi wrote them both
This game together with Lost Odyssey, The Last Remenant and Tales of Vesperia convinced me to buy a 360. This game made my 2007 which ended off with mass effect.
Honestly, a fantastic game, especially if you were a fan of old-school JRPGs. I hate that this genre rarely can come back to these roots.
Destructoid: I remember where I was when Blue Dragon was announced. Although I already had an Xbox 360 and was ready for it, some folks I knew bought one just for it given who was involved (Nobuo Uematsu, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Akira Toriyama): as Mistwalker and Microsoft Game Studios made a mad dash to put out more games from Japanese studios on the Xbox ecosystem.
Blue dragon was fantastic. Love that game. It was my biggest reason for getting a 360.
i wanted to play it, but ...
1. its on xbox
and 2. i missed it when it was on gamepass ha.
I thought it was pretty good but I personally I think Lost Odyssey is better
Also, I know a lot of JRPGs are cheesy but damn…this one was amped up to 11.
Lost odyssey lost me when I started to realize my grinding to level up wasn't adding up. So I never picked it up again. I really really despise that.
Then you missed out on of of the best jrpgs ever made.
Did you at least reach the point where Jansen qas singing? 🥰
I really wish Mistwalker would remaster these games... they're too busy with mobile unfortunately.
The Summer Game Fest 2023 revealed a new Akira Toriyama game called Sand Land, and it has more potential for greatness than a new Blue Dragon would.
Imma call bs on this. Sorry a blue dragon sequel would be dope and much needed. While this one I'm sitting here trying to figure out if I'm interested. I'm kinda stuck on vehicular action. That's where it's losing me.
Why can’t we just get both? In this gamer world of ours, it seems like it’s always one or the other. Games like these seem like they would print money for these development studios if they released multiplatform.
they need to play it atleast half way...
Finish the game. Unless of course the game is broken like Sonic the Hedgehog. I played 2 levels of that and it was enough to know that game was badly broken.
and then after completing games they can make a COMPLETE review...
@THE round peg : u r right... but many of us playing and finishing many long games like oblivion,FF games and so on...
so they can use some younger GAMER guys to review these games.. at least for BIG games . its not fair playing 15 minutes and say its 10 or its 5 ...
BTW : "The short answer is no. You don't need to finish your dinner in order to tell if it's a good or a bad meal, and Andrew thinks the same can be said about video games."
MOST STUPID COMPARISON !!!!
reviewers should only play one system ps3/360/pc etc
that way they know when a good game comes along for that system
Yes, they need to! Otherwise you can't even uderstand the storyline. Like MGS, it needs to be played over and over to fully immerse into it and get to really liked it.