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I have to wonder why they simply didn't outsource it to some small studio that specializes in PC porting or at least hired a contractor. I mean it's not like this is new to Japanese publishers/developers, Sega already do most of their PC ports with PC porting studio, Devil's Detail. The whole situation seems unnecessarily stupid, they had 5 months to ask for help or get outside support.

Incompetent and full of shit as ever. Never change Konami.

RAGE is a really bizarre game to me. The recipe for a great shooter is all there but it just doesn't come together in any cohesive way. It has charming, well voice-acted, beautifully animated NPCs yet nothing they say is worth shit or relevant to anything. You can see that Id artists have spent countless hours bringing this wonderful post-apocalyptic world to life but why does it still feel like a static series of corridors disguised as an "open-world"? There's nothing to say about the story or the narrative except that it's kinda lifeless and somewhat shit. Like you said, RAGE's strongest asset is its shooting and my god does it feel and sound satisfying. I absolutely love the combat shotgun.

As much as I love P4, I 'd rather see them reboot the whole persona universe and give us new characters, stories and themes. I wanna see something new Atlus, it's about time.

Oh well... at least we still have Machine for Pigs for our 2013 horror fix.

@TaliciaDragonsong said:

This, really.

DICE and Visceral will join that list soon enough unfortunately.

I love Twilight Princess but that's because it's the only Zelda game I've ever played. I've gotta say that the dungeon design in that game is phenomenal except the Zora water temple which was tedious.

If you can count Darksiders then that too.

Another Army of Two game but no Mirror's Edge 2....... :(

@RadixNegative2 said:

Awesome read. I've found I can be really easily scared by video games (I only recently got the nerve to get through Half Life 2). I love the worlds of these games though so I always push myself to get over the fear and play through them, even if it takes me a long time. Wish I was addicted to the fear maybe that would make things easier :D

Have you reached Ravenholm? *chuckles*

I wish I had the ability to not get scared of fictional things, especially from videogames. Seriously, the opening sequence for Silent Hill 1 screwed me up quite a bit when I was a kid. It's not real of course but as Patrick said, videogames have the interactivity aspect to truly suck you in to the experience like no other medium can. I'm two hours into Amnesia and I still can't muster up the will to go back. Yikes.