Slagathorian

Actually, DQ9 is a pretty short game. The actual "campaign" if you will can be easily done in under 12 hours. Really depends on the game. I loved every second of Heavenly Sword's 5 hour gameplay. And I put in over 200 hours into Morrowind. I'm easy to please either way. But I think we can all agree, that a short well made game, is better than a long poorly made game any day.

I'm not at all saying its bad. I'm saying its bad to get upset when you see a repeated mechanic/concept/idea. I'm referring to people harping on Microft for borrowing from the Eye Toy, or saying that Uncharted is a Tomb Raider Rip off. I'm ranting about the people who claim to hold innovation above all, but aren't willing to accept that not every aspect of a game needs to be innovative. Like does anybody really get upset when they see yet another phone with a camera in it? No, we like camera's in our phones. Nobody needs to yell at the next phone to also have a phone. Just like we like a cover mechanic in our third person shooters. What's wrong with keeping the things we like? Square Enix can't understand this concept whatsoever. Every Final Fantasy has to be so vastly different from the previous version, that they forget to keep aspects that people love. I loved the Materia system, but I've never seen it since. Hell, Chrono Trigger's double and triple techs was one of the coolest battle systems ever, and yet I've rarely seen it since 1995. What's wrong with keeping the things we love, maybe tweaking them minorly to make them even better, and discarding the stuff we don't like, until we are left with a truly great game? And no, I don't beleive in evolution

I don't hate you, but I do think your sister is hot, so you may hate me. The person below me, pirates everything, and either lies about it, or only admits shame about it to appear cool on gaming blogs.

My pet peeve rant: Innovation. I hate people who clamor for it. Or who even bring it up in any kind of video game discussion. Its usually just a word they use so they don't have to educate themselves, and so they can disguise their fanboyism. Yes, the Move looks like the Wiimote. Guess what? The Wiimote was successful, so another game company followed suit. This is the EXACT same in absolutely EVERY industry. From any food franchise to car manufacturer. If people want motion control in their videogames, and Sony makes videogames, then Sony would have to be VERY irresponsible to not have such a device/feature. Does anybody here REALLY care which car manufacturer was the first to put a sound system in their car? No, all we know is that its a much loved feature, so any car I buy better have it. Maybe we should all be mad at Apple, because they were not even close to the first company to put a camera in their phone. They are just COPIERS! This is forgetting the fact that NOTHING is really innovative anymore, and all things are just upgrades of previous ideas/concepts/technologies. Gears of War wasn't the first to use a cover based mechanic. Tomb Raider does not hold a monopoly on the "adventure" genre. I could go on and on.

Lol, that's the only trophy I'm missing from Infamous, i have only 1 left to find. But gave up after about an hour of searching.

See I'm in the opposite boat. I love sequels. Sequels are a chance for the devs to step away from a product (the first) gather user feedback, and then hit the drawing board again for the second time with good feedback, and a fresh outlook. And as most of the game assets are already done, it allows for a shorter and cheaper development cycle. Which ultimately allows them to put on more polish and add more features. (Uncharted 2, Gears 2 and Infamous for example) I usually buy a sequel before I buy a new IP.

can't wait to pre-order!

Does Dragon Spirit count? Can beat that game as a blue dragon without breaking a sweat.

Well, I wouldn't say "just" but I did about 2 years ago, during my PSP playthrough of FF6. The person below me has never played Team Fortress 2.

HA! That is very true. I don't like beer, (or any alcohol) The person below me hates Apple.

Right on, I miss some of the good guysfrom Kotaku. But its cool how a lot of them are here. And you only have 1 platinum? In what game?

Makes Jewish Jokes.

Hmmmmm.. This is a fun game Dean. I am going to say: That the person below me has never played any of the Omnimusha's and that you never finished any of the Donkey Kong Country games for the SNES.

No need to be an asshole. Again, I don't want to bother with patches and bad downloads ect. easier just to buy the freaking game.

lolwut First off, it's nowhere near half the games, it's only major titles where they even bother to implement anything to try and make it not work for pirates. Secondly, the pirate scene keeps up on cracking the DRM/whatever you call this and updates the firmware of the various flash carts. I have an R4, I don't run the old R4 firmware anymore, I run Wood's firmware so I can play any game without patching. Yeah, I can't be bothered to keep up with all that. Easier to just buy the game and play legitely.

I love FIF. Got to see them once, my first ska show. So much fun. Holy crap, I can't believe I met another person that likes FIF!

And in regards to the pirating on DS, half the games barely work. Dragon quest 6 just loops the first scene for me over and over. Ditto for DQ9 New Super Mario Bros. And hey, is this Vincent Grey from Kotaku?

Beats me, I'm still trying to get my R4 take a bigger mini SD card than 2GB. (DS Lite homebrew)

Exactly, there's no pleasing everyone. You should read some of the comments on finalfantasyforums.net, now granted they're mostly all European teenagers, but still, there's no pleasing them. The only Final Fantasy I'd say is not good, would be II, as there was a lot of things broken about that game, somethings have been fixed in various re-releases but it's still hard to play. There's other games I don't like but that's all personal preferences. Final Fantasy fans seem to mix up their opinions with facts. This is a dangerous mindset to take. There is always a happy medium between two extremes. You can't say that people hated FF12's big world (I actually do not recall ever hearing this) And say that Square's only alternative to this was remove all towns, and cramp up the entire game. No product out there can ever made everybody happy, what you should shoot for, is to keep improving though. And FF13 was NOT an improvement. Exactly. I've never really understood the whole "people complain about EVERYTHING" mindset. The FF series is played by a very large amount of people, no? That means that there are millions of players with different tastes and things that they each want, no? It's not reasonable to think that response has to be UNIVERSALLY positive just because Squeenix has gone from one polar extreme of the gameplay spectrum to the other. There's a whole bunch of people who like FFXII, and there's a whole bunch of people who liked FFXIII. It boggles the mind that some people think that NOT thinking like collective sheeple is somehow "bad". Popular series always have whiners. Doesn't mean that the people who whine about one thing are exactly the same people who are whining about another. And even if they were, what's the harm, really? So people wanted more linearity after FFXII, doesn't mean they are suddenly obligated to like it when Squeenix then releases what seems to them is a glorified hallway simulator. I love this whole post. Especially this line: "Doesn't mean that the people who whine about one thing are exactly the same people who are whining about another." Everyone needs to know, and understand that concept. You hear something like this alot: "Oh you didn't like the FF13 characters, well at least its better than a bunch of steroid pumping, bald space marines!" As if that somehow justifies bad character design.

Exactly, there's no pleasing everyone. You should read some of the comments on finalfantasyforums.net, now granted they're mostly all European teenagers, but still, there's no pleasing them. The only Final Fantasy I'd say is not good, would be II, as there was a lot of things broken about that game, somethings have been fixed in various re-releases but it's still hard to play. There's other games I don't like but that's all personal preferences. Final Fantasy fans seem to mix up their opinions with facts. This is a dangerous mindset to take. There is always a happy medium between two extremes. You can't say that people hated FF12's big world (I actually do not recall ever hearing this) And say that Square's only alternative to this was remove all towns, and cramp up the entire game. No product out there can ever made everybody happy, what you should shoot for, is to keep improving though. And FF13 was NOT an improvement. Exactly. I've never really understood the whole "people complain about EVERYTHING" mindset. The FF series is played by a very large amount of people, no? That means that there are millions of players with different tastes and things that they each want, no? It's not reasonable to think that response has to be UNIVERSALLY positive just because Squeenix has gone from one polar extreme of the gameplay spectrum to the other. There's a whole bunch of people who like FFXII, and there's a whole bunch of people who liked FFXIII. It boggles the mind that some people think that NOT thinking like collective sheeple is somehow "bad". Popular series always have whiners. Doesn't mean that the people who whine about one thing are exactly the same people who are whining about another. And even if they were, what's the harm, really? So people wanted more linearity after FFXII, doesn't mean they are suddenly obligated to like it when Squeenix then releases what seems to them is a glorified hallway simulator. I love this whole post. Especially this line: "Doesn't mean that the people who whine about one thing are exactly the same people who are whining about another." Everyone needs to know, and understand that concept. You hear something like this alot: "Oh you didn't like the FF13 characters, well at least its better than a bunch of steroid pumping, bald space marines!" As if that somehow justifies bad character design.

Here's the thing, I loved FF12's world, and I loved Gambits. But even if I didn't, how does cramping the whole world into a tiny corridor, taking out every shred of towns, and making an x-button mash-a-thom cater to those who didn't like FF12? That's like saying that people who didn't like the giant steroid abusers that were the Gears of War 2 characters would be satisfied with a tiny dainty little squealing 16 year old. We have to find happy mediums people!