Gaming thoughts of the day

[St. Elmo's Fire]

Huh? I meant the earlier mention of the codes that tag the game to a console, thus leaving you with a useless disk if you get bored of the game. Seems an incredibly underhand thing for them to do, when plenty of people (me included) would happily buy a used one. I wasn't meaning the comparison to be taken literally, just used the Ford/etc. one since cars are also a valuable commodity on the "used" market.

[Bluecast]

Wii U Us PS5 We are broke and Xbox Xtreeeeeeeme 1 mirrion troooops. Will require run off your blood. Has a simple needle on the top that jabs into your arm. Give it 2 pints and be able to play for a full 20 minutes!

[Henry Spencer]

SEGA profits are up again.

Sega Q3 Results: 3 billion yen profit, Sonic 930K, FM 730K, Yakuza 5 580k

http://www.segasammy.co.jp/english/pdf/ ... 130206.pdf

I definitely think Yakuza 5 has a good chance of localization from good news like that!

[St. Elmo's Fire]

Wii U Us PS5 We are broke and Xbox Xtreeeeeeeme 1 mirrion troooops. Will require run off your blood. Has a simple needle on the top that jabs into your arm. Give it 2 pints and be able to play for a full 20 minutes!

If they made them backwards compatible by way of having an on-board time machine, it'd be kinda cool...

[Bluecast]

I'm sure I am the last person on earth to know this. Chad Warden who made blatant Sony fanboy videos in 2006 that became popular. It was just him trying to do a character and have fun as thing for his friends,had no idea it would be so big. Only watching them for the first time today since I first saw them in 2006 or 2007 it's easy to tell he s just putting on an act and why I tried to see if I was right. All the more reason why Sony should hire the guy to do ads.

[Sonikku]

http://www.gamespot.com/news/mass-effec ... ad-6403512

Zaeed! noooooo!

[Bluecast]

He was in Star Trek and Galaxy Quest as well.

[Axm]

A potential tease for Project Gotham Racing 5

MSR/PGR2 are joint top the best racing games I've ever played. Not just because of the style of racing, that was a lot of fun. Specifically why I think those games are so great is the soundtrack and the tracks, more specifically the cities. Each city had a real atmosphere to them and it was because, I feel, those cities had radio stations playing music that was native to that country e.g. Stockholm would play bands from Sweden, Yokohama bands from Japan etc. Even the DJ's spoke in the native tongue. To me, that really made me feel good to come back and play it, because racing games to me aren't necessarily about the cars, it's about the tracks. And while PGR4 probably had the best gameplay of the series, a lot of what made that series special was lost when they had this generic soundtrack where you could listen to any song at any time.

MSR went a step even further by basing the day/night settings of the tracks be set upon the Dreamcast's internal clock, so if you were playing at 12PM on London it would be the daytime in the track, but if you drove in Tokyo next, it would be 8PM their time, and so you would be driving at night. It can be a bit gimmicky sure, but I loved that. I'm amazed no other game has done that, not even PGR.

It's wishful thinking, but I hope PGR5 brings those elements back. But still, PGR5 as a potential launch title for next Xbox? Would be a big deal for me.

[Kenny]

Went ahead and signed up for Gamefly primarily so I can try DmC but also put in Lollipop Chainsaw, Asura's Wrath, and Shadows of the Damned.

[Bluecast]

Asura's Wrath is awesome. Downside need the DLC for the complete story which is needed. Cyberconnect2 amazing developer but Capcom and DLC.........

[Kenny]

I'm not getting the DLC, i'll just youtube it.

[Bluecast]

[Rakim]

http://www.edge-online.com/news/the-next-xbox-always-online-no-second-hand-games-50gb-blu-ray-discs-and-new-kinect/

The next Xbox: Always online, no second-hand games, 50GB Blu-ray discs and new Kinect

[Who Really Cares?]

Sony no used games
Xbox online 24/7

If this happens would be the first time 2 consoles had to drop out of the race and leave one with no competition.
SEGA! Make a console again!

Not really as many will be fine with it and its not like the Wii U is selling great. Just don't see us having 70M+ sales next gen or the U.

[Segata Sanshiro Jr.]

Its hard to say, I really hope people throw a fit. No used and online 24/7 are actually 2 really big issues.

The WiiU hasn't had a decent release since December. If the WiiU isn't selling in December 2013 we can talk about if its doing well or not.

Even with the PS4 and Durango, I don't think we'll know how things are going down until 2014/5.