Nick Fury said:
Even games like Resident Evil and Metal Gear Solid stick so much to their established Japanese-development formulae that they now look like creaky old dinosaurs compared to what most western studios are putting out today.
Is it -really- too much to ask for anything on the level of quality of the games listed above to be present on the 3DS? The 3DS' power is more or less at where the PSP's is/was. It's fully capable of putting out a good gaming experience that doesn't rely on the slow, boring stat-obsessed formula that is tripe like Monster Hunter, so is it really that much to ask for Nintendo to bother getting the wheels turning and putting it out there?
Financially, tying third parties in with a game that will sell well all over the world is a far more sensible move than tying in a third party title that only a niche group will give a damn about.
Something like Metal Gear Solid actually adopted typical TPS gameplay with enough cutscenes that would make a movie thats longer than Titanic (which many didnt liked, because hey, its supposed to be a game).
As for Resident Evil, thats the new one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltPfjojOYeg
Cant get more american than this. Except for maybe adding a bald eagle into each background.
And then again, I really dont know what is so new ,great and innovative about western games except for forfeiting gameplay time for cinematics (but the japanese have been guilty of that too of course with JRPGs and Metal Gear)
And Monster Hunter IS quality. Gameplay like that isnt common anymore and its polished as hell.
The focus really isnt put on the stats as you make it out to be. The primary thing is the skill. The way how you approach the enemy and how you take down the dragon. This isnt the case in many games anymore with something like autosave after each step holding your hand.
The gear and stats themselves, while being actually optional, are just there to make the fights easier and to customize your playstyle.
Giving players the option to turn every boss enemy into a full set of armor and a weapon is actually a pretty cool and popular feature.
Its not like a typical RPG where you HAVE to grind to beat the evilbad.
And really, slow and boring? Did we play the same game? Monster Hunter is basically Boss rush: the game.
I wouldnt say that a "game" like LA noire is a better quality product than any MH game released so far.
But thats all opinions.
What isnt opinions is that MH Freedom Unite for PSP sold 4million copies in Japan alone and 1,3 million copies in the rest of the world.
This is a lot considering that MH Freedom Unite is basically a game like Platinum or Emerald as it adds content, but doesnt qualify as a real new game.
They can actually rely on that one game selling in Japan only. And considering how game starved people are over here with their 3DS, this might actually get more people to try this series out.
5million copies sold would put it right below Dragon Quest Monster 9 (another game that sold 4mil copies in japan and 1 mil in the western world), the best selling third party DS title.
ALSO, lets not forget that this is all a rumor and that Capcom is actually not ok with the Monster Hunter sales on the wii, so its still in the air. We already didnt see the last Monster Hunter game in the west because Capcom was suprised that games in the past didnt pull call of duty level of sales over here.
The fact that the rumor was spawned on 4chan doesnt help either. Many people on that site are biased as hell.
Right now many on that site advocate that there will be a 3Dless 3DS out that will add a second anolog stick. This is just weird wishful thinking.
Anyways, this is one of those games that just got hinted at, and I heard rumors about 9 games in total being revealed for the 3DS, one of which might be a new RPG from the Xenoblade makers.
Not sure if they only announce games that are completely fresh or if they'll go into games that got announced already but not released like lets say Tekken 3DS and that non-special ops influenced Resident Evil game.
I really think that the Vita will be more of a handheld for you.
Stuff like Bioshock, Mortal Kombat and assassins creed got already announced as an example. And I bet that a tomb raider will follow sooner or later.
Many of those big name games from the west will most likely appear on the Vita.
It was kind of similiar with the PSP. Uncharted Vita basically shows that those "triple A" console titles can work on it (same with God of War on the PSP back then), while all the 3DS had to offer was a remade version of a N64 classic.
I think that those western devs will go for the Vita.
And I welcome it as I plan to get one.
Linkachu said:
As for the DQ X: forced online, fees, but not a full-fledged MMO? That's just... weird. Doubly weird that they'd make such a game for the Wii. Wii U would probably be alright, but Wii's online service? ... I think I'll wait for the Wii U version, if not pass altogether.
While this is kind of the topic: Monster Hunter 3 already had online fees in Japan, but they didnt put them into the western games because they knew that this would completely ruin the chances for any sales for a series that is just slowly gathering fans in the west.
DQ10 might follow that as its similiar (though with no forced online in MH, just fees for online usage afaik.)
Makes me wonder if theres japanese people who play on US/EU servers for free through proxies.
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