Given that I've never heard of it, am I right in assuming that One America News Network is one of those far-right news channels for people who think Fox News is too mainstream? Regardless, someone there is clearly a Giant Bomb fan... it must've been a slow day.
@austin_walker said: I also hope that better hardware (and ideally, easier to use development tools) will give third-party developers a better reason to build games for the NX. But... I've also been hoping that since the GameCube, so I'm trying to stay realistic. But a man can dream, right? Right?
As someone who was a Nintendo kid, I can tell you that the GameCube definitely still had its fair amount of third party support simply by virtue of parity with the other two consoles. It didn't have everything, but by comparison, the Wii U is actually what people call it: a box for first and second party Nintendo games and nothing else.
My hope is that this next Nintendo Box has more and better Nintendo games than the current Nintendo Box, which isn't a high bar but I'm a Wii U owner so I've already bought into that philosophy. I imagine having the combined might of their portable and console teams behind it might help if that particular rumor is true.
@sparky_buzzsaw: This would be easier to manage if all the games I wanted to play weren't roughly a bajillion hours each, for as much as not having enough time to play all the games one wants to play is basically the definition of a "First-World Problem". It's probably important for me to acknowledge that.
Speaking of Divinity and Wasteland, the updated editions of both of those games hit this month (Wasteland 2 Director's Cut is already out, Divinity: Original Sin -- Enhanced Edition is on the 27th) and I was thinking of using those as a springboard to actually finish them, which I didn't do the first go-round. Wasteland is probably less of a priority (because I think it's not as good of a game as Divinity), but I also still want to play The Witcher 3 as well. Not to mention I've been messing around with The Age of Decadence, which... might have to get its own blog at some point. It's uhhh... "interesting".
At least you started writing something. I got as far as a list before I realized that I still wanted to finish the two 50+ hour strategy/RPG dealies I was playing at the start of this month. I am still playing them.
It turns out the line for me in regards to Persona 4-based spinoffs is the rhythm game, so I'm glad you did an overview of this. The trajectory of that 7-year-old JRPG has been super weird and I'd like someone to just give an overview of the whole thing at some point between the fighting game, dungeon crawler, this, two anime series and who knows what else in Japan.
I thought Arena's story mode was alright, but I'm more torn on Persona Q. It's a passable if uninspiring dungeon crawler, but some characterizations are a little off and detract from the goofy funtimes of the Persona 3 and 4 casts bouncing off one another.
Huh, I was honestly not expecting the game to look this good, even with stuff I was hesitant about like aiming down the sights. Almost makes me regret being a turncoat this console generation! Almost.
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