Bayonetta 2 exclusive? Yup, I'm getting a Wii U. I think this gen I'm just going with the U and PC.
Pretty great launch window lineup, too. Wonderful 101, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate (with 3DS cross-play!), and that premium bundle's eshop discount is a really good idea. Please, Nimtendo, don't botch this like you did the Wii. Not that it'll matter, as it seems most people still have no idea what the Wii U is or that it even exists.
Last Sunday of November, 250 dollhairs. Also predicting the launch and first year will be a disaster, which is a shame because it already has a far better lineup than the Wii did. Also, a controller that actually seems useable.
Y'know, I didn't take the supplies from the car, but not because I was afraid Clementine would be mad at me. I mean, by that point I had killed two guys in front of her and failed to keep her from eating human (I chose the IT'S PEOPLE dialogue, which, while hilarious, was not effective and just made Lee look like a crazy person).
I didn't take it because the lights in the car were still on, which means it hadn't been abandoned for that long. I had a bad feeling that if we took it, that would come back to bite me in the ass later.
Episode 1 was alright, but 2 was so much better it was crazy. Even if the "twist" was so hilariously telegraphed as soon as the creepy people kept talking about dinner. I also kept trying to get Lee to examine the wheelbarrow full of blood and clothes, but he just kept talking about how something smelled. C'mon, Lee. C'mon.
Right, I think overall the biggest flaw in Dark Souls is the open world. It's a good concept, but without any method of fast-travel until late in the game, which in order to get certain endings you have to give up anyway, it's just far more of an annoyance than a way to provide an immersive experience. You don't need to be able to go to any bonfire anywhere, but just being able to travel to the beginnings of certain areas would be fine. It's also not like the areas really flow that naturally. Sure, swamp -> cave -> LAVA EVERYWHERE! The hubworld of Demon's Souls worked fine, having every area as an isolated level let them play around with the architecture more and it, oddly, didn't feel as disconnected. There were times in Dark Souls where I couldn't remember how to get to certain areas because it didn't seem to make much sense.
When this port is discounted on the steams and maybe has some mods that fix some crazy crap in the game, I might give it another shot. I dunno. It was Disappointment Of The Year for me. Actually, no, Uncharted 3 was. At least Dark Souls was good for a little while.
I still don't know why people love Dark Souls so much. It's good at first, but the developers seemed to be obsessed with just making it as hard as possible with no regard for whether it's due to dumb bullshit or not. Demon's Souls was a great balance of challenging things that still seemed fair. I played through it twice, no regrets. Dark Souls just seems to want to fuck you over at every opportunity, once you get to the swamp. Which also had the same awful framerate problem the swamp in the first game had.
What I'm saying is, it's not shocking that From Software released a totally botched port, since they couldn't even fix problems from the previous game on fixed hardware. Also Dark Souls is not good. So there's that. Here come the flames about how I'm just bad at it or whatever!
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