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Titanfall 2's single-player campaign was one of the best I have played in years.

Yup, DICE could have made the Battlefield: Bad Company 3 everybody wanted but they didn't and probably never will.

I apologize, sir. I thought you meant the year of Final Fantasy VII, Mario Kart 64, Blast Corps, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Need for Speed II, Dungeon Keeper, Shadow Warrior, Blood, MDK, Harvest Moon, Final Fantasy Tactics (Japan), Star Fox 64, Carmageddon, GoldenEye 007(GoldenEye 64), Hexen II, Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, Ultima Online, Fallout, Total Annihilation, Grand Theft Auto, Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, Age of Empires, Riven, Blade Runner, The Curse of Monkey Island, Tomb Raider II, Quake II and Gran Turismo.

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Ahhhhhhh...Metacritic! The place where 13 year old kids gather around from time to time to p*ss on the single good game that they don't happen to own. What better source to use for a research when it comes to video games, eh?! It's funny because I usually end up reading the reviews that are rated 6 when I check out Metacritic, those tend to be the neutral ones, at least they let you know how the game plays... Also 2001? Seriously!!! What the hell happened to 2007 then?! Just check out ACG, EasyAllies or GiantBomb. Most of these guys have been in the video games industry since forever and based on what they say, I really don't think there will be a video games industry crash...unless Steam and its collection of games become vaporware or something. Look what we got this year from Japan: Tales of Berseria, Yakuza Zero, Final Fantasy XV, Nioh, Nier: Automata, Atelier: Firis, new Zelda, Persona 5, Resident Evil 7, etc. and we'll be getting few more A-Bombs this year as well, all polished games, wih no need for day zero patch, and no microtransactions... although FFXV should not count, because SE is going games as a service road as well, to stay competitive with west, and it is already being seen on FFXV season pass startegy... Maybe that's because they spend the money on Story and design instead of 4K textures and purdy graphics. Not that Japanese games look bad or something, but if you compare Nier: Automata to Horizon: Zero Dawn for instance you can clearly see the different approach the devs have taken. Western games rely waaaaaay to much on graphics, gimmicks and the so called "innovation", Japanese on the other hand simply tell a good story. Example: I finished Silent Hill 2 a few days ago and noticed that it had very awkward combat, same as Silent Hill 1. What I do with these games is that I set combat difficulty(or simply the difficulty settings) on Easy so it won't bother me. I enjoy the games regardless of the combat every time. Then I remembered what Swery 65 had to say about Deadly Premonition(Red Seeds Profile in Japan): "This game wasn't meant to have combat, we added it at the very final stages of development." As you can guess, the combat in the game sucked but why did they absolutely have to add it to the game? The western audience likes guns in their games and it might not sell if we don't include it in our game.

Silent Hill 3. It looks quite different compared to Silent Hill 2 but I am liking it, it reminds me of Silent Hill 4 a bit. Once this is all done I'll probably go for Silent Hill: Downpour since that's the only one I got besides 1,2 & 3. I'll skip SH4 since I already played and finished the game back in 2006. Has anyone here played any of the Wii or PSP Silent Hill games? are they any good?

I think you're mistaking 1998 for 1997. Yeah, that's the famous one. I was talking about 'the second one', you know...like when you talk about the 7 wonders of the ancient world and then you proceed to talk about the 7 wonders of the modern world.

Ahhhhhhh...Metacritic! The place where 13 year old kids gather around from time to time to p*ss on the single good game that they don't happen to own. What better source to use for a research when it comes to video games, eh?! It's funny because I usually end up reading the reviews that are rated 6 when I check out Metacritic, those tend to be the neutral ones, at least they let you know how the game plays... Also 2001? Seriously!!! What the hell happened to 2007 then?! Just check out ACG, EasyAllies or GiantBomb. Most of these guys have been in the video games industry since forever and based on what they say, I really don't think there will be a video games industry crash...unless Steam and its collection of games become vaporware or something.

Do people have short memories? I'm honestly curious because part of what ruins any replays for me is basically remembering every single quest and every single outcome after I've played through before. So instead of any sense of awe, I end up reacting like, "And now he'll say this" or "And now this happens next". Happens all the time with the Mario series, doesn't ruin the fun though...

Silent Hill 2 OST - Promise

Finished Silent Hill 2.

I am liking Elex more and more with each video: It reminds me of Fallout: New Vegas for some reason.

Super Mario Galaxy. It looks gorgeous and it's a whole lot of fun to play.

is out on the Nintendo Switch: Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus - Interview with the devs and some new gameplay footage: Never played any of Piranha Bite's games but Elex looks pretty cool:

Dear folks, I just can't seem to shut up about Killzone: Mercenary. The best handheld fps ever made, period. -Top notch graphics, not just for a handheld -Great selection of weapons and gadgets -Awesome gunplay and weapon handling -Missions that you can approach in a variety of ways -Great sound -Brilliant music -A well written, mature story -Superb menu design, presentation and cinematics -replay value Multiplayer is great but I couldn't always find players but on the plus side, all Killzone games allow you to play the MP with bots and Killzone: Mercenary is no exception. PlayStation Vita was an awesome handheld(and it still is, believe me) and Sony basically killed it by cutting off first party support for no good reason. It still gets decent indie games and cross-platform games though(Day of the Tentacle Remastered, Attack on Titan, Dragon Quest Builders etc. ) I hope Sony is secretly working on a PS Vita 2 or something like that.

Yes, especially since 99% of 'gaming' is already SJW satire...

An MMO without s subscription fee with a focus on single-player and co-op? Could be something like Destiny or WoW. I wouldn't mind that if they make something similar to The Secret World but with better combat(obviously). Imagine a big world where you can tackle quests alone or with a friend. That's what my inner guts tell me when I watch those videos and they usually don't lie...usually. It's interesting but I don't know how they are going to achieve something like that without procedural generation and washed up fetch quests. Maybe they can, the writing in The Secret World was pretty good but the combat was awful...that and you didn't have spaceships that could fly from one fully explorable planet to the next.

On paper, this sounds even more ambitious than No Man's Sky or Star Citizen! Previous videos posted: E3 2017 Trailer First in-engine gameplay footage.

Yes, it's still the same deal. Though nowadays you pay 59.99 instead of 49.99. PS Plus is mandatory if you want to play online games on the PS4 but it's still free on the PS3. The games they offer for free aren't always hot either, sometimes they offer indie games such as Broken Age or Rocket League, other times they might offer AAA titles such as Transformers Devastation, Killing Floor 2 and such. The deals were obviously a whole lot more appealing during the PS3 era since there were more AAA games and less shovelware indie titles. Don't know anything about that, I mostly use PSN for gaming. Movies are a different story but I can imagine that Sony's streaming services for movies can't be any better than PS Now. Agreed, that's a greedy move by Sony especially since most of the freebies nowadays are indie games and let's face it: some of them aren't good! Still, PSN offers great deals from time to time, even if you don't have Plus. I bought both Zone of Enders games for the PS3 for 15 bucks a few days ago. They won't, and they shouldn't(if they are smart). Why on earth would they help Xbox/Steam sell more games?! They are competitors. They would rather attract a new customer to their own user-base.

Believe it or not, the most fair and user-friendly platform so far has been PlayStation Network and I've been using it for the past 9 years. It has its share of stupid flaws(You can never change the region of your account or your username and lets not forget about that hack...) but at the end of the day it is a whole lot easier to use PSN over any other digital platform. Buy pre-paid card, charge your account, buy the game, download, play. Sony also has one major winning card: Exclusives!

This looks pretty darn sweet: Makes me want to go back to Pillars of Eternity.

One feature Steam has that most others don't is the community. There are groups, achievements, trading cards(which aren't the same anymore), Steam greenlight(which isn't what most people thought it would be but hey...) and Steam Workshop(which is a great idea that has its own share of flaws in execution). I don't know how good GOG Galaxy works but one reason it was introduced was that it wanted to attract people that are into community features. I am not sure if you can do both 100% DRM free and the 'optional client' thing at the same time. Steam will remain dominant because people have gotten used to it. It is sad because Valve makes a whole lot of money and it spends it on Steam OS, Big Picture Mode, Steam Controller and Steam machines instead of spending it on game compatibility issues and a sequel to Half-Life 2.

Yeah, that is something I always wonder. There are a whole lot of games on steam that get abandoned by the developers and when a new operating system hits the stores people will see compatibility issues and games that don't run unless you fiddle with them with patches, mods and tools which is bothersome. GOG for some reason doesn't suffer from this problem. Their games work 99% of the times right out of the box.