Originally Posted by wraggster BioWare has hit back at analyst criticism of upcoming Star Wars MMO The Old Republic. After an E3 2011 hands-on Cowen and Company analyst Doug Creutz slammed the game, calling it "highly derivative" of World of Warcraft. "Despite promises from EA/Bioware that the title represents a major step forward in MMO design, what we saw was essentially a World of Warcraft clone with Star Wars character skins and the BioWare RPG nice/nasty dialogue tree mechanism ...
Originally Posted by wraggster There used to be breathing space between Halo games (Halo 1 2001, Halo 2 2004, Halo 3 2007), but in recent years Microsoft has been flinging the IP at us: Halo Wars 2009, Halo 3: ODST 2009 and Halo: Reach 2010. With the E3 announcements of Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary (Halo 1 remake) coming this year and Halo 4 in autumn 2012, has Microsoft adopted an annual rhythm? Microsoft Game Studios head Phil Spencer dismissed the proximity as coincidence, not master plan. ...
Originally Posted by wraggster The PlayStation Vita version of Street Fighter x Tekken looks as good as the PlayStation 3 version, Capcom has claimed. So good, in fact, that it's a "one-to-one match". In the run up to Sony's announcement of the powerful portable, reports claimed the Next Generation Portable, as it was codenamed, was capable of reproducing PlayStation 3-quality graphics. While this isn't the case for the vast majority of games, Capcom reckons it's nailed it ...
Originally Posted by wraggster NES made Metal Gear famous but series creator Hideo Kojima abhors that version of the game, calling it "pitiful", an "abomination" and a stain on his career. Kojima designed and made Metal Gear for Microsoft's MSX computer in 1987. He did not make the game for NES. "I had absolutely no participation in the development of the NES version," Kojima told Nintendo Power (via GameSetWatch). "The NES version was a pitiful title developed ...
Originally Posted by wraggster Square Enix is yet to decide whether its Dissidia: Final Fantasy series for PSP will make the jump to PlayStation 3. Series producer Yoshinori Kitase told Siliconera the company had yet to mull the prospect over, although there were no immediate plans. "The concept of remastering PSP titles for PS3 is a new idea and initiative from Sony," Kitase explained. "We have not had enough time to think through and plan our actions." This year ...
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