Recent content by Hutcher

Agreed with many of the other people on here. The "Why do you like X"? topics are kinda pointless. Myself, I remember being impressed with Halo pretty much from the first time I played it. There were a lot of things that it did really well, and many of these were new experiences for me at the...

Except that this is a business. When they release a system, they have expectations and projections on how many units it will sell. When the system fails to meet these expectations, those sales are bad from the company's standpoint. Plain and simple, if the company itself admits that sales were...

Depends how you interpret it. If a system's sales "Don't meet expectations", it depends on whose expectations those are. If it's the expectations of the media and the console market, then I'll give you that one. However, if the expectations he's referring to are NINTENDO'S (which is probably the...

Honestly for me it doesn't even need to be a new IP. They could take one of their existing IPs in a different direction, like what Square did with Super Mario RPG years ago. What I'd love to see is a new Metroid game (maybe 3rd or 1st person, incorporating some tablet elements) with a more open...

Again, I don't WANT Nintendo to fail. I would rather see them as a viable hardware manufacturer, to keep the market more competitive. I feel the same as this guy. When the titles are there, and the price is right, I may still buy a Wii-U.

As to the PC question, this has always been the debate between PC and Console. Steam and similar services have revolutionised this a bit; they've made PC games more affordable and accesible. Still, there's the old argument; spend $500 for a console for gaming, or $2000plus for a gaming PC? And...

Late to the party, but again I'm going to go with immersion. I just finished playing through Farcry 3, which was a great experience, and was obviously a title that Ubisoft wanted to focus heavily on the immersion of the player. They gampelay style and the writing really helped this as well...

Know what? I agree that Nintendo should not move into the IOS or Android market with their mainstream titles. What they should do is something a little like Square has done; take older titles like Mario 3 or A Link to the Past (Basically the good stuff on NES and SNES), make IOS versions of...

That's the thing though; Kids may have been the "target" demographic of the Wii, but sales to kids were not really what made the Wii such a success. The thing that prompted so many Wii sales was the fact that they made it so attractive to people who were not gamers. The controls were more...

It's kinda do or die for the big N actually. They need some hits, and they need them very soon. Their stock price is down, and didn't receive anywhere near enough of a boost from the announcement and release of the Wii-U. This shows very little faith among the consumer market in the system's...

This "875%" seems to be more or less meaningless. And I still feel like Nintendo may actually be in the worst position long-term, thanks to their usual problem with 3rd party development. Looks like development for the PS4 and Xbone will be roughly equivalent, just as development for the PS3 and...

Just wow. This guy is a real prince. The way he dresses and gestures with his cigarette he clearly thinks of himself as some kind of Don Draper type, but he comes off more as some douche who probably gets pepper sprayed a lot. This guy truly is a mysogynist. I also find the contrast between...

This is an easy one for me: The Crissaegrim in Castlevania: SotN. Soooo broken.

Didn't like it then and I don't like it now. The Force worked better as pure mysticism in the original trilogy. Stapling some arbitrary and half-baked micro-biological explanation onto it just made it needlessly complicated. The fact of the matter is that the general explanation for the Force's...

My breach with the Big N began in the N64 era, because that generation was when they truly lost the 3rd party developers to Sony and Microsoft by being dictatorial about their hardware. They thought they could take their proprietary cartridge technology (a technology that allegedly doubled...