Ah, this is one of the games I was really curious about that was shown off a lot last year. Partly because the cinematics seemed awesome, but also because it’s a Capcom action game… sort of, since they didn’t actually develop it (CyberConnect2 developed it). My first impressions, when I saw the announcement trailer, were 100% negative, because the first thing you saw was a QTE. But I didn’t really give much mind to that since… well, maybe it just happened that some cinematics had some and they showed a clip that just happened to have a QTE. It might not be the full focus of the game, I thought. And, even after playing the demo, I figured that it couldn’t be like that for the whole game.

So was I wrong? Was I right? I haven’t played through the whole game yet, but I did play enough to know what the rest of the game is about and whether or not I’ll enjoy the rest. So I’m making this an “impressions” post rather than a full review… but you can threat it as a full review since that’s essentially what an impressions post for this game will end up being no matter what.

So let’s talk about this one a little bit.

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I didnt’t exactly pick up the pace in regards to reviewing yet, but I’m getting there (I.E. I’m writing things that aren’t standard reviews AND I have some games I want to talk about, as well as a few posts incoming soon). So let’s see the games coming in march!

So this month we have: 1 awesome 3DS release, 1 Wii release, 2 PS3 releases, 2 Vita releases and 12 Mutliplatform releases. No 360, PC or PSP exclusives on the list, surprising no one once again (note: I may need to find better release lists, PC always ends up getting some cool low-budget indie games).

So read on and see what’s coming out!

Note: this doesn’t include shovelware or games that we all known will suck, but rather gamse I think are noteworthy for whatever reason, may it be because they’ll be popular, or that I’m personally interested in.
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2 years ago Final Fantasy XIII was unleashed to the world, met with mostly hate from everyone who played it, or at least want to talk about it whether they’ve played it or not. Most reviewers didn’t like it, and most gamers, no matter if they played it or not, thought it was terrible. There were some exceptions of course, such as me, who gave very positive comments about the game and addressed some of the issues saying how they either didn’t make sense, or shouldn’t detract from the overall fun of the game, but I also addressed the very real negatives here (which tend to be ignored when talking about FFXIII strangely enough).

Now comes Final Fantasy XIII-2, a sequel to a game very few people actually liked, but it was said, fairly early on, to fix some of the issues people had with the original. So here’s what I thought of this game, this being the point of view of someone who enjoyed the previous outing. And yes, I’ll mention XIII a lot here, since it’s very similar.

(YAY! First review in, like, 3 months! There are more to come as well, there are a few games I want to talk about that I’ve been holding off for a couple weeks/months… as well as a new series of posts which I’m probably going to do once I pre-write a couple more posts for it… just to make sure I have a backlog of sorts for it)

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I really hope to get back to reviewing games soon, it’s been quite a while since my last review. I’m going a bit early with this post because of… reasons… Okay, not really, I’m just bored so… yeah.

February marks the release of a new console! Yay! Otherwise there are: 5 3DS releases, 1 standard DS release, 1 Wii release, 4 PS3 releases and 6 Mutliplatform releases. No 360, PC or PSP exclusives on the list, surprising no one.

So read on and see what’s coming out!

Note: this doesn’t include shovelware or games that we all known will suck, but rather gamse I think are noteworthy for whatever reason, may it be because they’ll be popular, or that I’m personally interested in.

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Well, 2011 was pretty awesome, but I’m sure 2012 has a lot of gaming experiences coming that will be really awesome as well. I figure, why not highlight the games I’m personally hyped for? It should give a good idea of what’s coming and such. Just as a note, this is a personal list, so don’t be disappointed/unhappy/mad/a raging moron when Gears of War in Space isn’t on the list. Also, this is just an outlook from the moment it was posted, so anything not announced at the moment of posting will obviously not be in this list, and I probably won’t update it.

Hopefully this ends up being a bit more insightful than other posts I’ve seen like this… Where all that was said about most games was “The graphics look good!”… yeah, but what about the game itself? Give some detail about why you’re hyped about a game, dammit!

So let’s go! (and yes, I’m being incredibly cheap and lazy, not including any images here, w00!)
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And it’s the start of a new year. We’re done looking back on the greatness of 2011 (at least gaming-wise), now let’s look to the awesomeness 2012 will bring us… maybe.I’m not too sure how much there is to look forward to for the rest of the year, but here’s what’s coming out in January. (I may do a post about my currently most hyped games, we’ll see tomorrow)

Really not a whole lot coming up for January so here we have… 5 (*Edit* 3) Multiplatform games! That’s… it really. No good/interesting/popular exclusives for anything.

So let’s go at this quickly!
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Well, I’m done with this year’s Games of the Year posts. Here’s a quick lowdown post with links to each post!

I haven’t made “Biggest Surprises” and “Biggest Disappointments” posts yet, not sure if I will… So here’s what we have right now! Again, no overall GotY post, but I don’t think it’s really needed, I think all the posts as a whole display a large variety of awesome games we got this year. Sadly we had to skip over a bunch of great games, otherwise we would have had 5-15 winners per category (other than Wii and 360), and I just decided to highlight my personal favorites. I’m sure other people/everyone else have different winners, and that’s obviously fine too.

So here it is:

2011 DS winners
2011 3DS winners
2011 Wii winners
2011 Xbox 360 winners
2011 PS3 winners
2011 Downloadable winners
2011 Multiplatform winners

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With the industry being super weird right now and making it almost pointless to own multiple consoles, a lot of high-budget/really good games end up on PS3/360/PC (or any combination of that… yes, that means games that come on 360 and PC are NOT 360 exclusives as morons will try to make you believe), and thus a lot of the best games every year end up being playable on everything. This was especially true this year, with TONS of high-quality multiplatform titles coming out.

So let’s go right at it… Here I’ll go for 4 winners due to the high number of candidates. As a precision, 2 of the choices are mine, one is Dave’s and the other is some british guy’s. Heck, even with 4 winners, we’re missing a couple games I wanted to highlight.
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The world of downloadable games… it brings some of the most interesting gaming experiences in modern days, due to generally being made by small teams with low budget, with said smaller teams being more willing to experiment with interesting gameplay ideas, or throwbacks to older games/genres. They’re also a very good bet for any gamer to get since they’re low-cost.

To highlight the high variety of great downloadable games and genres that it represents, I’ll go with 5 winners (seriously, I had, like, twice the number of candidates than Multiplatform… so the extra winner is warranted )
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The PS3 had a bit of a rough year due to the unfortunate and badly handled (by Sony) PSN hacking, but, despite that, it still managed to have a good showing game-wise. Mostly sequels, rather unsurprisingly, but still high-quality games.

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