I don't know about soft, but he definitely seems to have one of the most generic voices ever. I know I kind of jokingly compared him to Nolan North, but looking at IMDB and Wikipedia it's crazy accurate. He has done soooo many games and cartoons in the past year and in the majority of the stuff he uses the exact same voice. Also, did not realize before that he was the official voice of Hawkeye now. Kinda fits, though.
Yep, CAG's been around long enough that you can go back and see people posting in 2003 or 2004, "Video game reporting/criticism is bound to get better, right?" NOPE. But this is true of a lot of journalism. The immediacy of twitter (blogs to a lesser extent) make people unwilling to do any legwork at all.
. I just beat Gears Of War 2 last night. Yeah backlog.Did we play the same games? Paper Mario on the 3DS felt completely different from the rest of the series. And Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon was a vast improvement over the original, not to mention it's only the second entry in the series.
From what little I played, I hated Mario Galaxy. It could not hold my interest and seemed to be following the trend of whatever I hated about NSMB DS that I couldn't put my finger on.
Yeah I can't put my finger on it and your statements are true but I think I'm just feeling kind of "meh" on the whole thing, like suddenly these games don't strike the chord like they once did. I think it might be burnout of the themes and characters maybe not the games themselves. I guess it's kind of like even though it's new the freshness is gone for me.
I can understand that. I don't really get tired strictly of the characters of those series, but I can't blame anyone that does. For me, I still get excited about Nintendo games as long as the gameplay ideas look fresh/expanded/revitalized. That's why games like Mario Kart 7 and NSMB2 bored me, while Mario Galaxy and Skyward Sword excited me. The new 3D Mario looks somewhere in the middle, kind of like Mario 3D Land.
To it's credit I adored Mario 3D Land. It was an amazing title through and through. I actually borrowed it from a friend though because I didn't want to get burned. I played through it and had a blast. I stayed away from NSMB2 because I didn't want to feel that contentment towards it.
Yeah it is a catch 22. Poor starfox though I've played every game in the series and I feel like they left it to die after Starfox64. I think I'm one of the lone people that actually really liked Metroid Other M but since Prime that series hasn't gotten much love either. Zelda is really at a crossroads in my eyes...they need to break the mold they are stuck in. People will complain but it needs to try at this point.
He already said on Twitter he's cancelled his XB1 preorder and will be PC & PS4.
What did you think of Paper Mario on 3DS? I haven't played mine much, but like you said, it's different.
It was good, but I wasn't crazy about it. I like that they tried something different, and the game looks beautiful (especially in 3D), but I felt like the design of certain puzzles could use some work.
That's exactly what I don't want them to do. I want them to be able to devote more time and people to making *new* games.
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I agree, partially, with the idea of innovation in franchises that already are estaablished -- the idea of a Team Ninja Metroid game is so awesome it's a shame that it ended up so badly. But it's always risk reward. Look at Mario Sunshine -- people love to hate that one, or they used to. But then you have Metroid Prime, which was a stroke of genius. Those are radical shifts though -- I liked some of the ideas in NSMB DS, but it felt soulless and boring to me. It was missing that spark. I felt the same way about Galaxy -- the new ideas and controls didn't entice me and the same goes for Skyward Sword. It's all about mixing the right amount of nostalgia with the right amount of *good* innovation.
Mario Galaxy is my favorite Mario game of all time, easily within my top 20 games of all time and probably my second favorite 3D platformer behind Banjo Kazooie. It was seriously wonderful, it seemed like Galaxy 2 improved on the ideas of the first, but I didn't finish that one, and I felt like the original had a lot more magic since it had so many cool ideas.
Yeah, I'm really stoked for this. Have the evening cleared out to soak some decent time into it. First game I've preordered in ages. Kind of wish I'd preordered locally than Amazon though since UPS has been delivering stuff at 6-7pm at my condo building lately, and when they use fedex it goes to the post office first and the mail comes 5:30-6:30 usually. Maybe they'll use Lasership though as that's how my last few games have came and that tends to come late morning/early afternoon.
I loved SMG, never got around to the second. I did like Super Mario 3D land better--still playijng it actually. Up to special world 7, just need to knock that and special world 8 out (getting the 3 coins in each level before moving) and I'll be done with it finally. Just distracted by console stuff and Animal Crossing currently.
That's probably a big part of it. I still enjoy the games but I don't NEED to play them anymore, and have really no interest in a Wii U as the 3DS is enough Nintendo for me.
Yeah, the two Mario Galaxy games are my favorites in the series, and I've played just about all of them. Galaxy 2 in particular is one of the very few games I look back on as a perfect experience. Both games just seemed brimming with creativity and a love for game design. This is pretty much the opposite of something like NSMB2, which felt to me like a game that had to exist to fill up the 3DS library. (contrarily, I'm actually quite fond of NSMB Wii and WiiU, which have some of that craftsmanship that I love about certain Nintendo games).
Oh cool you live in hawaii. DA BEECH.
Lol, speaking of which I felt like oh man Assassin's Creed...I'm missing out. I probably also felt that way since I love Ubi's Prince of Persia games. I started Assassin's 1 on the PC, I'm about halfway through and I'm kind of meh on the whole thing. Oddly enough I finished the PSP game which was only about 5 hours. I have 2 waiting for me on the 360 which I hear is probably the best of the series but not sure I'll keep up with it after that. 1 just seems really jank at times and I'm pretty sure people said the PC version fixed some things? Overall not impressed. I'd take a yearly POP in the vain of the first trilogy and the forgotten sands over this any day.
Yeah, AC 1 is quite a bit different from AC2 and subsequent games.
That's the other thing after hearing 3 wasn't very good, I'll probably stop at 2. 4 looks good, but I feel like right now it's a next gen farce. I guess the only thing to push me back in after 2 would be rave reviews or something, then again I guess it doesn't hurt to let a few games go nowadays.
Aw that sucks I was looking forward to this game.
Runner2 was announced awhile ago -- but it wasn't slated to hit until Summer instead of along PS3/Xbox/PC.If you play AC:L before the sale ends, lmk how it is.
TLoU better arrive early tomorrow.
I wish Atlus would release the SMT4 3DS over here. It looks so good. ;_;
Runner2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien is coming to the Vita.
yeah.
