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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Jo did one similar to this, but here’s my take on 2012’s outlook. [Yes, I am acting as if it wasn’t forever that I’ve posted on the site, problem?]

No more further explanations, here’s first and foremost, my list of most anticipated games this year. Read more…

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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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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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Earlier this year, I got rid of my 360 because no good games were coming out for it, very few older exclusives on it were any good, and nothing down the pipeline was any good. Turns out that was a minor mistake, and I rebought a 360 a few days back (on boxing day) to get the few good games that came out (see: 2 of the winners) and a variety of XBLA games I missed.

Not a whole lot of good 360 exclusives came out this year, so I tried desperately to find 3 winners, and I’m kinda winging it at this point (most of the “obvious” winners (see: Gears, Halo) are games I don’t want anywhere near this list). Anyways, here’s my 2 winners and a third sort of random choice!
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I would just write “insert obvious choices here”, but I guess I’ll go with the standard “name game and explain why it’s there” concept… just because. Sadly the Wii got very few good games this year, so this isn’t just a “Best Wii Games of the Year” post, but rather a “here are the only good games that came out on the thing” post.

So… let’s go for the 2 obvious choices and the only other worthwhile game. (note: I was thinking of including Fortune Street here… but I won’t… not because it’s bad, but because it’s not too fun alone and it’s not terribly easy to rally 3 people to play with you when the Wii has many better multiplayer game choices)
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