As many have mentioned, Banjo and Conker are coming. What I think many people in the gaming community dont yet see is that we are living in a paradigm shift of gaming development. Platformers were king in the past and were primarily created by japanese devs. During the NES, SNES and even up until the PS2 era, japanese devs made the best games, with platformers and third person action games at the front. However nowadays western devs from America and Europe have been the ones dominating the charts with cutting egde games, primarily FPS and western style rpg's. Even the platformer has been taken over by top notch western devs, R&C, Banjo, Jak, all made by western devs. I too long for more next gen platformers, but that genre is a mostly japanese affair and we'll likely see more western style games in the near future.
You'll hear most people make a fuss about Sigma and how it proves that NG2 will go multi-platform and for the most part it seems that way. However, 2 reasons strike me as showing some significant proof that NG2 may stay 360 exclusive.
1: Itagaki didn't do it. Usually when a different team other than the original team works on a port it smells of either a cash grab or a test to see how well the title will be recieved in a new market. Which brings me to my second reason
2:It bombed at retail. Yes yes I know it got good scores, but are game developers in the buisness of getting high scores or high profits? Regardless of how fanboys wave it in 360 owners faces about losing an exclusive, the fact is that when Sigma was released nobody bought it. Check the june and july NPD and you'll see Sigma nowhere to be found in the top 20 games sold for those months. I'm sure Tecmo sees how even the most abysmal 360 game cracks the top ten month after month while the best PS3 has to offer barely makes a dent. Which is why i'm all but certain that NG2 will remain 360 exclusive. Your two cents, do tell.
Looks so damn good and the environments look better than Sigma. I have my doubts that this will make it to PS3, but even if it does i'm sure the 360 version will sell a ton more copies. Sigma never cracked the top 20 games on NPD for June or the top 10 for July, i'm sure Tecmo noticed that only 2 people picked up the game.Those horrible saleswill have more influence on whether the game goes multi-platform than a lilttle extra power (if any).
They said he's the first video game character to be done at the museum ever. Its official, Master Chief is the new mario. Now if he just only pull the trigger on that fall out boy dude.
Gamespot is in a jam on the Bioshock review because of the new review system. Bioshock can only score either a 9.5 or a 10 which means one of two things. Since gamespot rarely gives a perfect score, a 9.5 seems logical, however that would place Bioshock as being inferior to Gears which recieved a 9.6 under the old system. On the one hand they could give it 10 (which it deserves) and break tradition, or they could deal with thousands of angry fanboys by scoring it 9.5 placing it as lower than Gears. What do you guys think
Words fail me when describing this game. I have never played a game where every inch of it is oozing with detail and history, this game redefines the word "immersion". Graphically this game is equal with, if not better thanGears ( not that that's a bad thing) but it exceeds Gears in different ways, like the water for instance.Both the look and physics in the water are above and beyond not only Gears, but every other game I've ever seen in my life, water never looked or behaved so real in a game before this. It also exceeds Gears by allowing lots more interaction with the environment, the surroundings feel alive and not just a pretty show piece. Besides the look and feel, gameplay wise it's the most fun i've had playing a game in a long time. This isn't some regular pass the time away kind of game, for me this was like playing RE4 or God of War for the first time. Truthfully I wasn't really into this game up until this week, but now i'm buying it day one for sure.
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