Agent Whiskers threadsto be disappointed, you'd have to have some built up expectations. I appreciate the concern. :-*
Everyone here will hate all the games anyway... lol.
Dante's Inferno
Darksiders
Dark Void
Dead Rising 2
DC Universe Online
Remember, "Starts with 'D', tastes like pee"
Dante's Inferno
Darksiders
Dark Void
Dead Rising 2
DC Universe Online
Remember, "Starts with 'D', tastes like pee"
You forgot about Diablo 3, if that's even a 2010 title...
I'm prediciting that it'll disappoint many people, too.
Can DC Universe Online be a disappointment if you have no expectations for it?
Anyway, the games I'm at least hoping turn out good but I'm still skeptical of are Crackdown 2, Dead Rising 2, Alan Wake, and Heavy Rain. I'd say GT5, MAG, White Knight Chronicles, etc. but I don't exactly have real expectations for any of them.
actually, just thinking about games next year, I'm amazed by how few PS3 games announced I care about compared to 360 games, which is the total opposite of 2009.
Wait, Diablo 3 is coming out in 2010?
horrible feeling about Bioshock 2. :/
Dante's Inferno
Darksiders
Dark Void
Dead Rising 2
DC Universe Online
Remember, "Starts with 'D', tastes like pee"
I only picked DR2 because Blue Castle Games whose body of work so far consists of terrible baseball games is taking the reins. I doubt it'll be half as good as the original.The Bigs is fucking awesome, dude! :maf
I only picked DR2 because Blue Castle Games whose body of work so far consists of terrible baseball games is taking the reins. I doubt it'll be half as good as the original.The Bigs is fucking awesome, dude! :maf
Dead Space 2?
Can DC Universe Online be a disappointment if you have no expectations for it?
Anyway, the games I'm at least hoping turn out good but I'm still skeptical of are Crackdown 2, Dead Rising 2, Alan Wake, and Heavy Rain. I'd say GT5, MAG, White Knight Chronicles, etc. but I don't exactly have real expectations for any of them.
actually, just thinking about games next year, I'm amazed by how few PS3 games announced I care about compared to 360 games, which is the total opposite of 2009.
Generally when I'm skeptical its based on finding that the prior team or prior game of a studio I didn't like as much as I noticed most other people did. I think Alan Wake has a very good chance of being good based on resources and theme but then I've always thought that particular dev was a bit over-rated via Max Payne 1 & 2. Dead Rising is one of those early gen games that for some reason people seem to forgive instead of attacking it for how clunky and janky it actually was imo. If I was going to pick a controversial choice I would say Reach. Based on their track record I actually have pretty good confidence the game will turn out pretty well, but outside of Halo fanboys, I'm interested to see how the game is received especially coming after ODST. And just generally that the market has changed a lot since Halo 3 was top dog.
horrible feeling about Bioshock 2. :/
Alien vs. Predator will probably suck.
I used to think that way, but this gen seems to have caused problems for others devs with good records. Two that comes to mind are Free Radical and Factor 5.
Free Radical.
Free Radical.
I don't think Free Radical has ever been all that great of a developer. They made functional shooters with funky style, which was nice, but I don't know what made me think they had it in them to develop something like Haze (or, what I assumed that Haze would be, which rumor has it was pretty spot on until a serous redesign halfway into development).
Dante's Inferno
Factor 5 had always had good tech but poor design.
Pretty much, I tried a few of their n64 and cube star wars games and thought they evoked boredom. I guess you have to be
-a star wars manchild
-a graphics whore
to 'understand' what people saw in them.
Natal (and all of its games) - After a laughably bad E3 2010 showing, Natal titles sputter out of the gate, delivering software that ranges from mediocre to embarrassing. Microsoft spends shitloads of money on advertising for something that people don't want or like. I await a Dean Takahashi article or book detailing about the various bumbling and fumblings of Natal. While I expect Natal to be put to pasture quickly enough, it won't be in 2010. This all assumes Natal is coming out in 2010.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 - I love the original and like what I saw on the video but I think a lot of people, including myself, are setting the bar too high for this one. I'll re-Wii for this game but I don't think it will live up to the hype or expectations.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 - I love the original and like what I saw on the video but I think a lot of people, including myself, are setting the bar too high for this one. I'll re-Wii for this game but I don't think it will live up to the hype or expectations.
And also NSMB showing us that 2D mario really is more fun.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 - I love the original and like what I saw on the video but I think a lot of people, including myself, are setting the bar too high for this one. I'll re-Wii for this game but I don't think it will live up to the hype or expectations.
And also NSMB showing us that 2D mario really is more fun.
I traded Galaxy in because I couldn't see myself going through it again. I think I'll hold on the nsmb wii though. Something about makes me think I'll want to revisit it over and over.
Oh wow, Evilbore hating on the PS3, who would've thunkit. ::)
[insert overly hyped PS3 exclusive here]
That would be MAG, Heavy Rain, God of War III and GT5. All are generally overhyped by the (internet) public, and I'm sure I'm gonna be disappointed in most, if not, all of them. Here's the kicker though, they're all being released in Q1*.
* GT5 doesn't have a confirmed Q1 release in any territory but Japan.
If the PSP game didn't happen, and if GoW I & II were released further apart (iirc GoW I was delayed multiple times) then I might be more interested in a bigger, prettier, samey GOW.
The saturation of the series releases (I, II, CoO, HD, which were all basically the same), QTE-based games, clones, and action games in general killed all the excitement I had or GoW III.
If the PSP game didn't happen, and if GoW I & II were released further apart (iirc GoW I was delayed multiple times) then I might be more interested in a bigger, prettier, samey GOW.
The saturation of the series releases (I, II, CoO, HD, which were all basically the same), QTE-based games, clones, and action games in general killed all the excitement I had or GoW III.
Right, but then you can't really be disappointed in it when it releases. You already know what it will be.
MAG
White Knight Chronicles
God of War III
3D Dot Game Heroes
Last Guardian
Final Fantasy XIII
Heavy Rain
you can't be disappointed when you have no expectation at allMAG
White Knight Chronicles
God of War III
3D Dot Game Heroes
Last Guardian
Final Fantasy XIII
Heavy Rain
Yakuza 3 absent, as expected.
If the PSP game didn't happen, and if GoW I & II were released further apart (iirc GoW I was delayed multiple times) then I might be more interested in a bigger, prettier, samey GOW.I agree with this. I beat Chains of Olympus before I tried GoW II, so by the time I got to GoW II I couldn't bring myself to finish it.
The saturation of the series releases (I, II, CoO, HD, which were all basically the same), QTE-based games, clones, and action games in general killed all the excitement I had or GoW III.
If the PSP game didn't happen, and if GoW I & II were released further apart (iirc GoW I was delayed multiple times) then I might be more interested in a bigger, prettier, samey GOW.
The saturation of the series releases (I, II, CoO, HD, which were all basically the same), QTE-based games, clones, and action games in general killed all the excitement I had or GoW III.
Right, but then you can't really be disappointed in it when it releases. You already know what it will be.
Good point. Here's hoping I'll be pleasantly surprised, then.
heavy rain: 2010's shenmue
While there are some who believe Heavy Rain creator David Cage is a gifted man, others think he (and his games) are a little too full of themselves.
Both types will probably find these comments of interest, then. "Heavy Rain is not a video game anymore in my mind because it breaks with most of the traditional paradigms, but it's fully interactive," he told Destructoid. "If the format becomes successful, we will probably have to find a different name for this type of experience".
And if it doesn't, we will probably have to find a different name for David Cage.
Meh, imo Heavy Rain at least looks promising as opposed to the other uninspired candidates. It looks very atmospheric with an interesting art direction; just look at the cover art, I haven't seen one as haunting as this in quite a while:
(http://i49.tinypic.com/yl728.png)
It looks atmospheric, it just doesn't look like a game.xfag filth.
Heavy Rain could (and probably will) turn out to be a bloody cum stain of noniteractivity but we won't be able to escape it because it's a PS3 exclusive. The only way people would ever be honest and recognize its problems is if it were ported to a different platform.
For a bunch of people that are so quick to butt fuck Dyack everytime he opens his supercilious mouth I guess I'm a little surprised to see the ammount of people willing to take a full frontal of David Cage's verbal bukkake without any sense of irony, especially after the whole Indigo Prophecy bs. But I guess that's the life of a PS3 fan nowadays.
It's even more frustrating that journalists who say Bayonetta is a great game, also say Heavy Rain is a great game, yet you guys beleive them on one thing but not the other? WTF? Oh that's right, 'cause it's a PS3 exclusive.
Please quote me the same journalists who say Bayonetta is great saying Heavy Rain is great too. You can't, because it's bullshit.
How is it false logic? Who cares if there's a demo out, if there wasn't you'd still say the same things. The same people who say Bayonetta is amazing, also say Heavy Rain is amazing. I don't understand how you can agree with one thing and not the other. Oh yeah, because you're 360 bots who believe nothing can be good on PS3.
the PS3 is seen as more of a art house system, which more sophisticated players.:rofl
You know methodis, I believe just about everyone here owns a PS3.
Just sayin'.
How is it false logic? Who cares if there's a demo out, if there wasn't you'd still say the same things. The same people who say Bayonetta is amazing, also say Heavy Rain is amazing. I don't understand how you can agree with one thing and not the other. Oh yeah, because you're 360 bots who believe nothing can be good on PS3.
When there are "reviews" out there that say Heavy Rain is amazing and a consensus of them then you have a point. Until then you have no point at all. Because talking about a game before it comes out isn't the same thing as a reviewed game. Even with the shitty state of game journalism there is a big difference between the two.
That's BS and you know it. Reviews for Bayonetta in USA didn't come out until this week, and you all were felatting it prior to even the first japan reviews. The reviews didn't have anything to do with the hype around Bayonetta except for "lulz ps3 sux harr harr". Don't make me actually work and find when the first reviews of bayonetta came out.
People are just threatened by Heavy Rain, and I feel confident saying that a game as sophisticated as Heavy Rain or even Uncharted 2 in it's cutscenes could never come to the 360, just because the PS3 is seen as more of a art house system, which more sophisticated players.
probably because bayonetta has parts where you kick giant monster ass with the pistols in your boots, and heavy rain has parts where you get in the minivan and drive the kids to soccer practice
for the record i am not interested in bayonetta either
i will probably play both, tbh
they are in my gamefly queue
Especially since well respected journalists have said it's a great game. I only used Bayonetta as a recent example, but I'm sure I could use countless other games that evilbore has a hard on for also, such as Mass Effect 2, yet you guy's don't bash that even though it's the same journalists.
I just think that if Heavy Rain was a 360 exclusive you all would be fellating it.
I just think that if Heavy Rain was a 360 exclusive you all would be fellating it.
Especially since well respected journalists have said it's a great game. I only used Bayonetta as a recent example, but I'm sure I could use countless other games that evilbore has a hard on for also, such as Mass Effect 2, yet you guy's don't bash that even though it's the same journalists.
I was essentially going to post this last night but I got too lazy. Mass Effect is a decent enough game but I've struggled to maintain interest over its flaws to beat the first. It seems like an AC 2 situation where you can sort of skip the first one.
Among your picks, I always thought the original Dead Rising was incredibly overated so my expectations aren't exactly high for the 2nd.
Mass Effect was the same if not more so terrible than Indigo Prophecy
Mass Effect was the same if not more so terrible than Indigo Prophecy
Mass Effect had it's share of problems but in no way shape or form was it in Indigo Prophecy territory. Plus Mass Effect 1 and 2 is on the PC as well and I'm sure quite a few people around here will be playing it on that.
My point is that how was indigo prophecy terrible except for the story line? it wasn't.
And the lack of any sort of actual gameplay didn't stop MGS4 from getting good reviews either.
I don't let reviews tell me what's a good and what isn't.
I think system wars BS should = instant ban
And the lack of any sort of actual gameplay didn't stop MGS4 from getting good reviews either.
I don't let reviews tell me what's a good and what isn't.
Did you seriously say there was no gameplay at all in MGS4? Did you miss the sniper beast fight or the octo beast fight?
Go figure, you took a PS3 exclusive and said it doesn't have any gameplay. How shocking.
Why does every game need to have what you seem to indicate "gameplay" to be considerd "good" by the Xbox republic?
If Heavy Rain was on 360, I'd be saying it looks like a piece of shit. A graphically impressive piece of shit but a piece of shit nevertheless.
Mass Effect was the same if not more so terrible than Indigo Prophecy
Mass Effect had it's share of problems but in no way shape or form was it in Indigo Prophecy territory. Plus Mass Effect 1 and 2 is on the PC as well and I'm sure quite a few people around here will be playing it on that.
mass effect 2 will be on ps3 also, but that's beside the point. My point is that how was indigo prophecy terrible except for the story line? it wasn't. Mass Effect overall was pretty terrible.
It's okay, you guys can have Insomniac, i'll take Gears 3 multiplatform and play a "game".
I don't udnerstand why that makes it bad though. People enjoy that, I love the cutscenes in MGS4, hell, if there was no cut scenes in games i wouldn't play the pieces of shits. I hate gaming but I love cut-scenes. Go figure that out.
I don't udnerstand why that makes it bad though. People enjoy that, I love the cutscenes in MGS4, hell, if there was no cut scenes in games i wouldn't play the pieces of shits. I hate gaming but I love cut-scenes. Go figure that out.Sounds like you're ready to graduate from shitty games and move on up to shitty movies
Even though famous journalists have said they've see nit playable behind closed doors? ???
Even though famous journalists have said they've see nit playable behind closed doors? ???
Really?
Never heard or read about it. Give me some links.
FFXIII will surely have a huge backlash. It's already starting. I think the honeymoon hype period was the japanese launch day...
GT5 and FFXIII are two games in the "hyped and teased for so fucking long that they could never live up to expectations" category. I mean, did car damage even make it into GT5 or is that coming with a patch in 2011?
My predictions:
Alpha Protocol
MAG
Blur
Alien vs. Predator
Castlevania: Lord Of Shadows
*List subject to change*
Pretty much everyone was convinced that DC Universe Online was going to suck. :lol
It kinda does suck.
Right, but then you can't really be The reality is most of these big titles will turn out fine.
Medal of Honor is going to kick lots of ass.
Was Condemned 2 really that bad? Never got to play it.
I predict:
Halo Reach
God of War 3
Final Fantasy XIII
Fallout 3: New Vegas
Dead Rising 2
Pretty much everyone was convinced that DC Universe Online was going to suck. :lol
It kinda does suck.
Err...no. It's kind of awesome, is what it is.
It plays like a console RPG, that's about all it really has going for it. People are hitting the level cap in a single day, that shouldn't be happening.
I told everyone a famous journalist told me ME was running on a PS3 behind closed doors
is peter molyneux doing another game in 2010?
either that or nintendo flukes something
My predictions:
Alpha Protocol
MAG
Blur
Alien vs. Predator
Castlevania: Lord Of Shadows
*List subject to change*
:rofl
Anyway this is probably the most accurate list in the thread. Solid predictions.
Feels like shooting fish in a barrel this year, but here are my picks:
Final Fantasy XIII - This is a duh. It's a Final Fantasy game so no matter what people are going to be twisted in knots about it.
Whatever 5th Cell is making - Another gimme. These guys are the crown princes of disappointment.
Halo Reach - Microsoft continues to outline how to take one of gaming's most popular franchises and turn it into nothing over the course of a generation.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 - Not that I mind terribly, but this is going to be a Mission Pack, I'm sure of it, and it's going to pay the price for that.
Metroid: Other M - If this makes it out this year. I have a feeling Team Ninja isn't worth much without their dear leader and all the guys he took with him, but we shall see.
Mass Effect 2 - Just a hunch on this one.
Heavy Rain - Looks boring and pretentious. From a developer whose history contains two ... to be kind, "6/10" games. About as interested in this as I am in seeing what Sonic Team is up to next.
Castlevania Lord of Shadows: This is going to end up being a so-so God of War wannabe. There is literally nothing revealed about this game that makes me feel otherwise.
Mega Man 10 - I know I'm excited but I can't help but feel the honeymoon is over with most people.
And before Princess Methodis starts screaming rape, remember, I don't own a 360, haven't had one for two years, have no intentions of buying one again unless they actually fix the hardware, and play my PS3 nearly daily. You don't have to be a PS3 hata to think Heavy Rain will be crappy, you just have to have a modicum of foresight and taste.
I told everyone a famous journalist told me ME was running on a PS3 behind closed doors
Reported to the SEC for insider trading. Enjoy prison, asshole.