I agree. Also, Nintendo might want to get a Legend of Zelda game out soon to increase sales of the Wii U.

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Hey, a new Detective Conan game.... wu, wait. It's being developed by Chunsoft!? Most people here probably associate the company with 999/Zero Escape, but pfft, just think about the possibilities of a Conan game by the company that brought us games like Portopia Serial Murder Case, Trick X Logic, Machi, 428 and Kamaitachi no Yoru!

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Detective Conan game?!?!?! :O

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Project X Zone got announced for localization! Life is good today! If such a niche title such as this is getting released to the West, then surely PL vs PW will come too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbgA_K0KjpM

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I cleared the game this week earlier, and it is a highly flawed game. It starts off great with a fantastic selection of music and the most amazingly animated sprite art, but around mission 10~15 the game starts to bore very quickly: there is no real strategy involved in defeating enemy units, so they only differ in their HP count / ATK/DEF stats / presence of a guard. Which isn't bad on its own maybe, but for some reason the developers thought that throwing countless of these units at you would be fun. Some missions (maps) start off with like 40 units (and each fight you initiate takes about 20~30 seconds each) and after you beat them all, reinforcements appear with another 20~30 units! And nothing to really differentiate one fight of another! (Well, except for the occasional time limit they impose upon you for clearing the mission, the most ridiculous one being the mission where you first beat the first wave of enemies (with boss-level characters), then the second wave (with boss-level characters), and then the third wave appears (with boss-level characters), which is also when they suddenly decide to tell you that this mission has a time-limit! Tell me that before the whole mission starts!)

The problem also holds for the bosses. Heck, what makes it even worse is that bosses constantly reappear in later missions. I don't mean that they appear as downgraded bosses, as you sometimes see in RPG due to power inflation of the heroes, the same bosses appear again and again. I lost count of them, but I am sure that you fight some bosses at least ten times during PXZ. And they don't change either: whether they appear in the very first mission or the very last mission: they are the exact same bosses with the same move-sets (nothing extra!).

Oh, and your units also learn all of their moves around three-quarters in the game, meaning that there really is nothing extra to gain from the last quarter of the game. It took me about 50 hours to clear PXZ, but I think that by cutting like 20~30 hours, the game would have been much more fun to play overall. It just overstayed its welcome.

Which explains why PXZ can be bought for a nickle and a piece of string in Japan at the moment, even the limited edition...

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That's pretty much the gist of Namco X Capcom which I played a little bit recently due to there being a fan-translated patch. All the problems you listed are pretty much there in its prequel, and I can pretty much tolerate it. Because let's face it, this game is nothing more than fanboy panderering. I like this kind of fanboy panderering.

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Metal Gear Rising Revengance.

Can´t wait to do all the slicing and dicing with Jack.
(And still Dead Space 3)

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I was ok with the look of Metal Gear Rising for a while.

Then I saw the latest 'Jack the Ripper' trailer and thought "Alright I was ok when it just seemed like a spin off but now they are butchering the characters to make them triple backflip over their character development" and now I'm a little disappointed in it.

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Animal Crossing
PLvsPW
New GS game and PL game
The new Bioshock game too, even though it is delayed.



I should add this to the list then, I wonder how it will come out.

The teaser showed that it will feature a zapping system like Machi, 428 and Kamaitachi no Yoru x3, so multiple, simultaneously running storylines/perspectives that influence each other. Which can be absolutely awesome.

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A new Detective Conan game? Let's just add that to this list:

- Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
- PLvsAA in English (As the Happy Mask Salesman would say, "Have faith...")
- Persona 5
- Professor Layton and the Azran Legacies or whatever they plan to call it in America.
- Smash Bros. for 3DS (Not really planning on buying a Wii U for quite some time, honestly)

Also, it may not count, but I'm really looking forward to some new Persona 4 Arena DLC. I'm not actually too sure whether they're planning on DLC characters or not, but that would be awesome!

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These, of course, go without saying:
GS5
AAI2 Fan Translation
PL Vs AA


Star Trek
Legend of Zelda Wii U
The Journeyman Project: Pegasus Prime Re-Release
Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker Wii U Re-Release
Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII
Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes (As a MGS fan who plays the whole game without killing anyone Rising doesn't interest me in the least)

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Really? The prospect of it offends me greatly.

Also didn't know there was a new Star Trek game coming out.

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Well I really like FFXIII and it's plot, so I figured getting a third entry can't be bad unless XIII-2 was terrible. Also I like the idea that you're only controlling one person rather than a party and the battle system is a little less "RPG-y".

Do you mean just because it's a crappy game or there's something morally/actually offensive about it? Becuase I've only seen like two minutes of gameplay so if there's something awful that happens in the trailer I probably didn't see it.

Yeah, there's a new Star Trek game coming out in April for PS3, 360, PC, etc. To be honest it doesn't look that memorable but it comes before the new movie and I'm desperate for ST story info.

To be honest, this isn't a big year for VG releases for me, which is why things like LR:FFXIII and Star Trek, as well as re-releases of games I've played before are on the list. I'm not even too hyped about Layton vs AA.

The only game I'm actually really really excited for is GS5, at least right now. I think it might be because I'm getting older and have less time for games now. It could also be that all my home consoles are at home and I'm at college with only my PC and my 3DS.

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No I hated 13 and 13-2, though 13-2 made improvements it also mis-stepped horribly making other mistakes to cover the old one. Hate Lightning she's basically pre-coma Cloud in female form sure she gets better at the end of 13 but (again like Cloud) she sure regresses for the sequel. Why would I want my RPG's to be less RPG-y? Playing as one character can work in RPG's (Crisis Core did it alright) but in general I like party members and if not I don't want my only character to be the most hated character from the previous games (followed closely by Hope who I also understand has a larger-than-most role). Furthermore after the negative backlash to 13-2 they promised they wouldn't make a 13-3 after people got mad about the "to be continued" in the ending which we were told alluded to multiple endings and DLC.

Well...it's NOT 13-3 they dodge that by calling it "Lightning Returns" and everyone just sighs That kinda stuff doesn't fly with me. Though if you like bland rehashed characters who are just mash ups of the worst elements of other bland characters and RPG's that aren't RPG-like then sure I imagine you'll enjoy 13-3.

Though I didn't know they were making more Star Trek movies (presumably of the modern-style kind) so that should be interesting...though whether it just turns into a cover-based shooter remains to be seen.

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I never played FFVII so the rehash thing doesn't really bother me. And actually I'm surprised so many people think Lightning is bland considering how bland the other characters in FF13 are. Snow is forgettable about 5 seconds after he leaves the screen and that priest/fal'cie guy...I don't even remember his name. I think it was a mistake to use the flashback devices in the game as they didn't help describe the characters at all. I think if they would have made Lightning a little less wooden in the first part of the game then she wouldn't be so hated. (Vanille and Snow seem much more annoying to me, personally, but that might be the voice acting) I've heard a lot of people compare her to Cloud and another character from another FF game but since I have never played those it doesn't bother me. I really like the story and premise of XIII the only thing I didn't like was the voice acting/wooden lines which seem to be prevalent in the other FF's I've played (X and XII). I think it's more the script-writer's fault than the story creator or whoever came up with the concepts. I also don't like how characters will have big dramatic monologues in the middle of a level which in the end don't end up doing anything (usually when a dramatic cutscene happens it means you've finished the chapter/level/etc. and it kind of hurts the flow of the story. I look at FF13 as a good game with a lot of potential that just needed a lot of re-writes in the story department.

I'm not a big fan of RPGs. I like ones that don't use Active Time Battles because there I can think and plan some strategy, but I'm not crazy about the kind of battles in more recent RPGs because I always feel like I'm pressing X for 20 minutes again and again and again. And the fact that I can't dodge or move when an enemy is attacking me. RPGs also usually take way too long for me. I usually like a game I can beat withing 30 hours.

So, yeah, I can totally see why people don't like the FFXIII series for a lot of the same reasons a non-rpg fan like me might like them. And I'm aware most FF fans agree with you, which means Square Enix really isn't listening to its fan base.

As for Star Trek, I'm sure it will be a generic shooter. Like I said the appeal for me is just more Canon Star Trek story. And yeah, Star Trek Into Darkness is coming into theaters this may. It looks like its going to be really good and it might be J.J. Abrams' last ST film considering he's now doing the new Star Wars Episode.

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I like Snow, he's got a drive and energy in his life more emotional than Lightning is for sure. Though for the record the character designers were told by the director he wanted a 'female cloud' for 13 so Lightning is more than a little inspired.

I remember a lot of your comments from the Zelda section. I agree FFXIII did not explain anything, hell I only learned the name of....that woman...when the dude killed her and Cid apparently had a whole lot of story that never got explained in game. I hear this is down to FFXIII being made for 360 as well and a mass amount of content got cut out. Though XIII's plot is dumb and nonsensical anyway. As for mashing X for 20 minutes, that is basically FFXIII the game except there is L1 occasionally but for most of the five-star ranks you just want the right paradigm to start (normally relentless assault) then you just mash X and win. Already said I thought the cutscenes were fine, and the dialogue in X I liked, I guess FF dialogue just isn't for you.

Though FFXIII is basically the ATB system you hate, I don't mind ATB but I liked the standard slow paced battles of X but eh.

I guess FF is just getting more mainstream.

Still shame, if Star Trek is going to be a standard shooter, which strikes me as odd as the plots of Star Trek episodes don't typically involve THAT much on-ground shooting scenes all the time. At least not enough to justify a game I'd think.

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Yeah I read about that 360 thing. I liked XIII's plot and like I said before I think it would have a lot more potential if it was re-written in a way which explained a little more. I like the idea of the fal'cie control/"rise up against the gods" kinda plotline, but the way the characters talked about it didn't really make sense. One minute they were like "Screw the fal'cie, let's take control of our lives again!" and then the next second they were like "Well, the fal'cie say pulse l'cie are evil, so does that mean we have to destroy cocoon?". I think that's what bothered me about the dialogue scenes out of nowhere - it felt like they were trying to stretch the characters' revelations over too long of a time.
I would bet that if you got a good writer to do a movie script based on the lore of FFXIII but restructure it with better narrative and characterization it could be really good, but what was in the game was kind of all over the place.

And yeah, I was speaking directly about XIII when talking about the X button for 20 minutes. If it wasn't for the other things in the game I liked I would have stopped because while it is my favorite battle system in a FF game short of X, it is still nowhere near "really fun" for me. I like it better than XII because it's at least a little more like the old-school RPGs and I like that you don't have magic points. But if an enemy is killing me with an attack every 5 seconds, I'd rather just start hitting him Zelda-style than waiting for my charge bar to load. (That's why Lightning Returns sounds appealing, because you can assign specific attacks to the buttons and can control lightning's movements in the actual battle, meaning dodging is more based on your movements rather than random chance.) Versus any other RPG, I really like the XIII system, but in terms of overall games it's kind of annoying and long. That might go back to why I'm not a big RPG fan. In an action game, running through a hallway and fighting enemies near you will probably take about 5 minutes. In an RPG it might take 30 minutes. I used to be really into RPGs when I was younger, but now adays I don't have the time.

I really liked X, because that wasn't ATB. You could take an hour deciding what to do. I also think the dialogue in X was better than in XIII, but it still wasn't my thing, as you say. The voice actors were a lot better in X as well.

Well, in the last new star trek they used the phasers a lot more like Star Wars blasters and had a couple of shootouts, so i assume they'll use that. Like I said, I'm not really going into with any expectations so that whatever it is I'll get some enjoyment out of it.

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1.Tomb Raider
2.Watch dogs
3.Professor Layton 6: Azran legacy
4.The last of us
5.GTA 5