From Kotaku; "Oh, didn't you know? Blue Dragon is out. In the West. In English and everything. And it's being totally ignored. Which having played it non-stop for the past week makes me a little sad. Sure, it does absolutely nothing new, but the old stuff it does, it does with a degree of polish you rarely see outside of a first-party Nintendo title. I love it. Might even be, at time of writing, one of the platform's strongest titles, and it definitely plugs a big hole in the 360's lineup. In fact the game's biggest problem is not its own, it's Microsofts decision to ship it in the second half of 2007. The cupboard was bare earlier this year: had this been released then I'd have played it for months. Now? I don't think I'll get past disc 2 before the downpour starts, and I'll end up retiring it to the cupboard until next year. Which is a damn shame."
The Nerd Stash: "Developed by Treyarch Studios, Call of Duty: Black Ops games are some of the best in the series in terms of gameplay, story, and -- of course -- Zombies."
Black ops 4, because it was the last cod of duty I was able to dominate with a +2 k/d ratio. Before all the freaking cheating started to happen. It was nice catching people off guard and shooting at them first and getting the kill. Unlike now, where I shoot people first, but they gun me down with less hits, less time, literally feels like they can kill me in a split second. At times, they are able to run away after me shooting them way more than necessary, yet, the second I'm spotted, I'm dead, there's no me running away to cover. They can do cartwheels, summersaults, backflips and gun you down perfectly. They can shoot you across the map with perfect accuracy. They can jump around like morons and gun you down without even having to correct their aim. They have superman split second perfect reactions. That's the best way to describe it, everything they do is spot on perfect. They can spam and spray (no praying) their gun from far away, because they have no recoil or bullet spread. It always feels like I have to aim and also correct my aim when moving around, while these pricks don't have to do the same.
And yes, I know how to play fps games. I dominated many fps games like: Resistance 1&2, kz 2&3, Socom, MAG, Crysis, Gotham City Impostors, blitz brigade etc. all with 2-4 k/d ratio. Kz2 (lag input controls) and resistance (no aim assist in resistance) being the hardest and were the games I reached either close to a 3 k/d ratio or above.
I truly got to enjoy blacks ops 4 and got my money's worth out of it. Afterwords, I would either stop playing cod games after a while, because of the cheating, or would skip buying cod games for a year or two before buying another.
BLG writes, "Do you ever get that feeling after you’ve finished a game that you just wish there was more? Or do you spend years hoping and praying for a sequel that never comes?
This list compiles some of the top games we desperately want to get a sequel. Please give us more of our favorite games!"
Would love to see a sequel to the 7th gen FPS campaign SINGULARITY from RAVEN Software..
GL: "Staff writer Shaz reflects on his small library of physical games he's kept throughout the decades, and how a recent move made him nostalgic."
I lost my drive for collecting physical games due to many discs lacking the whole complete game. Instead, of collecting games I started collected figurines.
I am a collector have a room dedicated with a couple original arcade cabinets, physical game library, old and new consoles and controllers backlit with LED lighting. It’s very cool to have but with emulation being so strong and prevalent, I sometimes feel foolish because the hobby is expensive and like another said, the full game is not always on the disc. Could probably spend more wisely but I enjoy it.
Most games are usually on disc still. Of course you got you publishers that are hit and miss, Activision, ubisoft, ea, Microsoft, where the rest of the game needs downloaded.
It's simple really. blue dragon's target market doesn't play the 360 IMO
Simple...if you like pokemon type rpgs than Blue Dragon is a MUST BUY! I personally don't like japanese rpg's.
That's not necessarily true, when I bought my 360 I bough it assuming that this time around it will have more RPGs than the first Xbox did. In fact, blue dragon was one of the reasons why I bought it.
they defintitly released it at a bad time... i would have bought it, but other games have taken priotity over it...ill get it eventually tho.
I've beaten Blue Dragon and it is in my opinion a pretty good game that does everything right and it has the feel and play of an old school JRPG, depending on your tastes this is a good or bad thing, it plays and feels lot like Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy V but with a lot better graphics. It doesn't try to be new or innovative, instead it brings classic gameplay with a high level of polish.
The game is not innovative or brings anything new to the table, its not going to win any awards because of this but for a console that is starved of JRPG's it is a worthy title for anyone who owns a 360 to pick up who enjoys the genre.
Considering this is Mistwalker's first title it is a pretty impressive achievement and if they can bring what should be a more interesting story in Lost Odyssey (that would appeal to a western demographic more) with the same level of polish that was seen in Blue Dragon, I have high hopes for their second title.
Blue Dragon is a solid game and will sell decently, but it does nothing to make it stand out of the crowd that's all. Anyone who does pick it up will probably enjoy it, the impressions on GAF and palgn have been mostly favourable which usually is a decent indicator of what to expect from a title.