I played Ninja Gaiden 2 today for 4 hours and...

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BengaBenga said:

 

Zen: Thanks a lot! That's seriously a good help. Especially from someone that owns all 3 consoles.

I am extremely happy with Wii. Fire Emblem, Galaxy, Zelda, Kart, RE4Wii, Z&W...I have enjoyed those games enormously. And some of the stuff that's coming should be great. Fatal Frame IV, Symphonia 2, King's Story, Oboro Moramasa, Fragile etc. Especially in the Japanese department Wii has great stuff coming, and I am very much in the Japanese department...


My main reason to buy a HD console is RE5, I'm a big fan of the series and MUST play it. Therefore I don't understand the complaints it's not coming to Wii, if you're a fan, you buy that console. Besides, the trailer looked awesome. I do hope for another RE4Wii controlled RE game though, preferably a Remake of 2+3.

I'll probably won't buy MGS4, MGS1 is one of my favorite games, but I stopped during MGS2. I couldn't handle it anymore. Too much cutscenes. Before MGS4 I should play through half of MGS2 and full MGS3. That's probably not going to happen.
So indeed FF13 would be the main reason to go PS3. We've seen so little that I don't have a clue whether Lost Odysse or Tales of Vesperia can compete. Vesperia is a major decision maker as well, since Symphonia was amazing. Namco's strategy seems to be to only release their 360 RPGs on PS3 in Japan.

So what it comes down to is actually kind of stupid:

FF13, FFvs13, WKC and Valkyrie versus a whole shitload of 360 RPGs including a Tales game.

Maybe 360 is indeed the right way. But certainly not before the RRoD issue has been resolved.

The main reason the PS3's so great is FFXIII. Lets not kid ourselves, it will be amazing. I've loved every Final Fantasy I've ever played from VI and up. XI wasn't the best game of its genre, but it didn't suck.

 

Now, you have to look at a few things though. The 360 has more great exclusives, from my point of view. Do they, combined, equal up to MGS4, Verses, and FFXIII? That's for each individual to decide.

 

We've already estabilished that the 360 has a better and more Japanese-centric back-catelog. Now we have to look at what the future holds with real, substnative games.

Let's leave out the lesser non-FFXIII JRPG's and just say that the 360 certainly has an advantage there considering Eternal Sonata's Japanese only announcment.

 

For 360 you have:

 

Ninja Gaiden 2 - It's freakin' Ninja Gaiden 2. I've seen the gameplay video. This is a game worth owning a system for, I don't care if it just looks cool to people who you show it off to. This is an impressive game and deserves condiseration. Sure, it's got an 8.2 gamerankings average. Radiant Dawn's average is in the 7's for the same reason. Didn't evolve enough, meaningless flaws, ect.

Too Human - Yeah, I'm not so hip on this game, but the developers are pretty great. So I'm not gonna LBP it just yet. It has potential

Fable 2 - Yeah, so I liked Fable. It wasn't as bad as hate filled fanboys make it out to be. It's actually a really accessable WRPG, and that says a lot.

Alan Wake - This game is the game that I want more than these other 360 games combined.

 

All of these games are pretty huge. We can skip Gears of War 2, because imo Gears of War 1 sucked. That's just the harsh reality of my opinion. I literally was sickened while playing that game, by how bad it was. The shooting was worse than GTAIV, frankly, and the game centered around said shooting. I came to the realization that this game is "good" because of graphics and hype, about halfway through. It's all about being cool, and not about being good. The VA sucks, BAD. The main character is the bad guy from Darkwing Duck. Literally. The story is non-existant, and the game is just a piss-poor copy of RE4 with multiplayer. It's one of the worst "next gen" games I've played so far, and I've played plenty. So screw the sequel.

Halo Wars, crap, Halo Chronicles, crap.

 

For PS3 we have:

 

MGS4 - MGS2 sucked, bad. MGS4 however, looks to be based off MGS3 which was amazingly badass. Good stuff.

Final Fantasy XIII - It's the next single player final fantasy game. It is simply a must own.

Final Fantasy Verses XIII - See below

 

Now, I'm leaving off 3 games that will probably be above average, but if you didn't own a PS3 you probably wouldn't give one crap about ever playing them. Little Big Planet. I just love the idea of playing a game engine with user-generated DLC as my campaign mode. NOT. Resistance 2 which is a sequel to an alright game, so who really cares. It's not exactly reinventing the wheel... and Killzone 2, which is a sequel to a terrible game that should have never been made, and can kiss my ass. GT5, until it gets damage modeling, is dead to me.

For those who don't know, VS 13 is an alternate version of FFXIII made by the Kingdom Hearts creator. Apparently two developers withing Squeenix wanted the project, so they split into two teams and are each making their FFXIII the way they have it envisioned. Awesome.

 

 

Certainy the PS3 has some great titles lined up. There is no doubt that the 3 I mentioned are better than the 4 360 titles.

 

HOWEVER, the 360 isn't lacking titles. I would say that due to Alan Wake's potential badassness, it is right up there with the PS3's lineup, which includes 2, count em 2 new Final Fantasy numbered titles and MGS4. Alan Wake IS that badass. Just watch the trailer and know that Max Payne 1 and 2 are still my two favorite PC games.

 

So that's my wrapup on announced games, from my perspective.

 

 

What gamers are the exact opposite of myself? Well if your most anticipated games include Resistance 2, Gears of War 2, or Killzone 2, then you might be in said category.