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| Originally Posted by Booyakasha Dude, weak. It's got 'Ninety-Nine Nights' and 'Dead Rising', two games dedicated to the ennobling principle of beating the crap out of everybody in the world. If you need more than that, then there is no pleasing you. And you're probably some kind of devil, stalking the earth in the guise of a man, spreading the burning sands of Gehenna wherever you cast your unholy gaze. |
This is borderline going off-topic to extend discussion of this, but yes I have been thoroughly impressed by both of the games you mentioned. Be that as it may,
Ninety-nine Nights, unlike
Dynasty Warriors 3 (which of the ones I've played was the best one to date), has no longevity--no long-term replay value. Sure, it's fun beating up 2k+ warriors on a single board (and having hit combos measuring in the thousands thanks to Inphyy and Dwingvatt), but once you've played it through, the lack of quantity in characters and levels will inevitably catch up to you, thus making it nothing more than a spectacle of robotic beauty. (Okay, except for Fort Wyandeek when Inphyy kills all the goblin women and children.)
Dead Rising, while a VERY impressive game in its execution, is not my style of game... and it's also a game that I would say is unique to its breed. I am a better man for having played it, but it is a game that, on my own, I would never have played if I had to buy it to try it.
That said, I think
Enchanted Arms will be a good start to increasing the genre diversity of the 360. I only hope they keep that up. (The things I would do to see
Project Offset are many.)
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| The XBox360 is going to be where it's at this generation. I might get a PS3 later on for completeness' sake, but it's looking to be more and more irrelevant with each passing day. Shame--Sony was doing really well, and dropping the ball like this is going to cost them. |
It's sad, but true. (You know it's sad when you're rooting for Microsoft to crush another company!) The only game that I've heard of for PS3 that is really intriguing me right now is
White Knight Story, but it's not a game I'm willing to shell out $600 (or even $500) plus an HD TV just to get. Once I start seeing several titles that PS3 has that I "must have" that 360 does not will be the beginning of the temptation, but I don't think that will happen for a while though; many developers are hedging their bets by removing PS3 exclusivity from their early titles. (I would absolutely laugh if
MGS4 lost exclusivity on PS3, but I find a very perverse pleasure in watching Sony writhe in pain.)
It's because of this that I actually think the metagame of seeing which people adopt which systems (and how they are supported over time) will actually be quite interesting. Japan hates the 360 with every fibre of their bodies,
the PS3 has lost so much steam since E3, and Wii will only be a "second console" for many people. In many ways, this generation could result in a three-way tie, and in many ways, I think that's the best result to get to.