Comments on: RPS-ish At-Ish E3: Housecleaning – Capcom,Warner

By: Dorian Cornelius Jasper

Dorian Cornelius Jasper — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:07:41 +0000

Robosexuals you say?

Hmm!

By: Al3xand3r

Al3xand3r — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:10:14 +0000

Wing Commander series is just as fondly remembered, if not more so. Creating a unique new IP for a game doesn’t instantly mean it’s “generic” you know.

Many licenced games are crappy (and overall reviews performance shows it), maybe people still buy those for the sake of the licence, but at least the Lego games have been worthwhile as games also… Well, at least Star Wars, I haven’t played the rest.

By: iainl

iainl — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:22:55 +0000

@Pixie Trap: Without incurring the wrath of Travellers Tales (Jonathan is a lovely guy) LEGO Batman’s appeal is in no small part the fact that you’re playing (a) LEGO, and (b) Batman. Recognising that is pretty reasonable, I’d say.

Yes, that sounds shallow, but I’m a shallow person. I wouldn’t play Gran Turismo if they were incredibly well modelled fictional cars I’d never heard of, and X-Wing wouldn’t be as fondly remembered as it is if they were generic spaceships. LEGO Indy practically justifies its entire purchase price with the sight of LEGO Sean Connery running around, even before you behold the actual gameplay fun.

By: Jewce

Jewce — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:56:26 +0000

I havn’t read all of the posts up there, but one in particular annoyed me: “If they like PC so much why did the port of RE4 suck so bad” because if you had researched before posting this, You would’ve discovered UBIsoft did the porting. Capcom later released a patch to fix Ubisofts broken shit – TRUTH – plus now there are tons of Mods and addons for it now making it super great.

On a diffrent note, im so entertained by Devil May Cry 4 that I almost missed this update. I’m deffinately looking forward to the new Street Fighter and all the other loverly capcom PC goodies. I love you capcom. SO MUCH

By: Al3xand3r

Al3xand3r — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:17:29 +0000

I explained further what my links were meant to show, I explained some of my feelings on the game in a later post, and I really shouldn’t have to quote myself but here you go anyway:

“there’s really no way to “prove” a game is grand, or is shit, therefor asking for such is silly”

So it boils down to one’s word against another’s which means we might as well never, ever, discuss the quality of any game since even in an imaginary extreme situation of a single person hating a game while the rest of the world adores it, you can’t prove that person wrong.

By: propanol

propanol — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:24:56 +0000

@Al3xand3r: so? Metacritic scores say nothing as they’re an aggregation of reviews written by shrills who are paid for by advertising deals with publishers (at least as far as all of the major Internet outlets go).

By: malkav11

malkav11 — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:01:25 +0000

Well, hell, I have no objections whatsoever to Dead Rising coming to the Wii (or, indeed, the PS2, were that to float their boats). I’m never going to play that version, but it’s no skin off my nose. What bothers me about it is that they’re porting to a system that can’t handle the game to the fullest while conspicuously ignoring a platform that would be perfect (and relatively easy to port to) – the PC.

And, y’know, I have a 360, so I can live without a PC version of Dead Rising. I’d just rather not. :)

By: Pidesco

Pidesco — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:33:20 +0000

Why is my description lousy and prejudiced? Was it inaccurate? Was there a part of the game I completely ignored in my description that makes it a gaming epiphany?

By: Al3xand3r

Al3xand3r — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:28:31 +0000

Not metacritic itself, but several of the reviews linked. Well, okay, those aren’t really “proof” either (there’s really no way to “prove” a game is grand, or is shit, therefor asking for such is silly), but try reading a few of those, many of them express my feelings on the game fine and I couldn’t express it differently enough myself to justify writing my own review, which you have no reason to trust more anyway, and you’d just counter it with some more senseless bashing so it’s not worth the effort.

Ico could be described as being “an escort mission” for the WHOLE game, not just a big part of it, while the rest of the mechanics could be of a “generic average platform game” with “mediocre combat mechanics” and yet it’s one of the most brilliant games of our time and provides an unmatched experience. The game is simply more than the sum of its parts and something like that can’t really be explained in any objective manner, only experienced. RE4 is similar in that.

By: Pidesco

Pidesco — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 23:11:30 +0000

@Al3xand3r: metacritic is incontrovertible proof that a game is good? How about you tell me in your own words why RE4 is such a brilliant piece of gaming.

You spend most of the game standing still and shoot heads with bad aiming controls. To top it off, a big part of the game is a freaking escort mission, and it has Quick Time Events. That’s brilliant gameplay right there.

By: Al3xand3r

Al3xand3r — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:03:32 +0000

Is the SF2 anniversary pad any good? It looks like an imitation of the Sega Saturn controller, but it’s all about the buttons feel, and more than that the quality of the d-pad. If those are half as good as on the Saturn pad, then it’s probably the second best controller for fighters ever. If it’s not so great, you should get an actual Sega Saturn USB controller if you can find one (it’s sold out on places like play asia).

By: Wedge

Wedge — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 21:58:28 +0000

The RE4 (and DMC 3) PC ports sucked because those were outsourced to Ubisoft, who did half-ass lazy fucking ports. Anything off the 360 era is using their crossplatform PC/PS3/360 engine, and is being handled by Capcom themselves. This is why Lost Planet, DMC 4, RE 5, and even SF IV are all out or coming for PC. Dead Rising was the first game on that engine, though at the time it was only for 360. So no reason it couldn’t have a PC port, and I really do want one.

Also, I can’t play fighting games with arcade sticks, but I do have a SF Anniversary controller for PS2 and a PS2->USB adapter, so I can totally play SF IV on PC.