windbane said:
Hah, touche. I forgot Tales just came out. Solid 66 on metacritic and sold .34 mil. Swords sold .74 mil if you do count that as a JRPG. So, no good JRPGs yet. That has nothing to do with the fact that people care if KH is in HD. A lot of people do, including myself. Wanting it to be in HD has nothing to do with my main reason it won't be on Wii, either. Btw, you can retract your "try again" statement any time up there, since the data shows I don't need to.
Edit: thanks for that list, Benga Benga. Like I said above, though, western RPGs are doing just fine in HD, and Kingdom Hearts sells like a western RPG because of Disney. I left out Mass Effect above, too. |
TOS2 is perhaps the largest divide we've ever seen between gamer opinions and reviewers'. The game was measured by expectations of being a true sequel not that of what it was, a valid and sound expansion of the first game's experience. Namco warned of the games novel nature yet apparently reviewers didn't get the memo. But enough excuses, the game is what it is, and clearly you haven't played it. Even then an argument that hinges on the laughable reviewing community as a standard does bring into question the validity of that argument.
Reviews are something people will rely on when it benefits them and deny when it doesn't, including you too. Thus they're invalid as a point of recourse in dicussion even if we could establish any sort of professional standard held by an industry composed entirely of people with no formal requirements other than that you are the guy hired to review games. This is not the movie industry, this is just a bunch of geeks with their own opinions given a couple hours to play any one game then write the review the editor tells them to write.
Let us also take note of how you avoided the entire post listing the numerous RPGs coming out this next year. Heck, by your logic DQX could have never come out for the Wii. Yet here you stand trying to argue down the sheer weight of all the evidence stacked against you with little more than rhetoric and dodging damning evidence.
The Wii may be the casual no-game alternative in the west, but in Japan, it is the only viable alternative for many developers looking to make eastern focused games.
