I was tempted by store displays ofFinal Fantasy IV Complete Collectionfor the PSP yesterday while out shopping, but decided that I’m tired of reading Japanese in RPGs. Unless the game is mostly spoken word, I’m very slow at getting through it. I ran into someone later that told me that there’s an English language menu option in the game, though, and that it will be shipping in America next month. smacks head I should have known that....
There’s a certain feeling you get in your body when you really want a game. I never got that feeling fromFinal Fantasy XIII. Final FantasyVersusXIIIis something else entirely. This is the kind of game my body can get behind. For starters, I’m loving the look of the simple-yet-exciting real-time combat system, which appears to allow for both melee and projectile attacks. I’m also really into the way thatFinal Fantasy XIII Versusembraces the modern (and by modern, I mean post-GTA 3) trend in gaming towards real world environments, and juxtaposes it against a decidedly fantastic set of monsters, mechs, and hairstyles....
Capcom sent over word as to when their next retro release will be making its way to consoles.Final Fight: Double Impact, a pairing of classic beat-em upsFinal FightandMagic Sword, will be available to purchase April 14th on Xbox Live for 800 MS points and April 15th on PlayStation Network for $9.99. Both games come with a variety of visual modes to play in, including one which bows out the screen like a classic CRT monitor in a real cabinet and adds all the scanlines and distortion inherent to the original arcade experience....
There’s still all of this silly talk about shooting games and how they make gamers aggressive and violent. I don’t see it. In fact, shooters make me sad because I’m so bad at them. Now driving games? Those make me crazy. I call it the “Karate Kid” effect, named after the kids that go around kicking and chopping things after watching the movie. I’m like that with racing games in my car....
Isn’t it great when a game is revealed and then it’s released a few days later? I wouldn’t know, but ask the Japanese. They’ll be getting the recently unveiled PlayStation Network title, Dark Mist, on Thursday, November 8. The Game Republic developed title is dual-stick top-down action shooter that will make use of the Sixaxis controller by allowing you to shake it to clear enemies from the screen. Bombs and special attacks like Meteor Flare and Split Star are also available, assuring that no one will call this gameGeoanime Wars....
Last week, I wrote aboutAdvent Rising, Majesco’s first entry in a supposed sci-fi trilogy which actually ended up damn near sinking the entire company. This week, the subject isPsychonauts, the game which pretty much did. After the combined failures ofAdvent RisingandPsychonauts, Majesco lost 18 million dollars and its CEO immediately resigned.More on Majesco’s other failure after the jump.StoryIsn’t really that important, to be honest. The protagonist, Raz (short for Razputin), enters a psychic summer camp, where children are trained to become Psychonauts (psychic soldiers)....
While I’ll be the first to admit that Electronic Arts had me at “snowboarding game,”SSXis shaping up quite nicely. In this gamescom trailer, we’re told about a few new features. As has been the case with pretty much every competitive online title from the company, social interaction is being pushed forSSX. Players will have the option of uploading — and competing against — ghosts. There’s also something called Ridernet (presumably akin toAutolog), which promises global events of up to 100,000 players “live at once....
With any big launch, it seems like we state the obvious, but here’s your confirmation — GameStops will be holding midnight launch events forFinal Fantasy XIIInext week. The events will take place next Monday, March 8 at “more than 3,200” stores nationwide. Of course, you’ll want to check your local shop to verify; a list of participating storescan be found here. If your store isn’t doing one, call them, complain, and threaten to pull your reserve....
Game Developers Conference 2009 has kicked off in San Francisco today, and guess what? We’re here! As you’d expect, we’ll be poking around all week to bring you all of the excited (and perhaps not so exciting) details from the event. So what’s going on? On Wednesday morning,Nintendo’s Satoru Iwatawill be giving a keynote entitled “Discovering New Development Opportunities”; what that actually means is anyone’s guess. While GDC isn’t normally full of huge announcements, some are speculating that Iwata could revealsomethingwe haven’t seen before....
During Nintendo president’sSatoru Iwata’s keynote speechhere at the 2009 Game Developer’s Conference this week, he showed footage of the localized DS/DSi gameRhythm Tengoku Gold, now namedRhythm Heavenfor the Western market.The clip was brief, and they didn’t reveal any of the good parts, but I did notice that there were new English language commands. That made sense, but it made me worry about the songs. Poorly done voiceovers are one thing, but bad English-language singing over Japanese-produced tracks in a music-based games could be serious....
Want to play theHeavy Raindemo now? Complete the mystery of Sony’sHeavy RainARG and win a code to download it today. Or, alternately, skip the headaches, and get the answers here and right now. The four pieces of evidence (which you’ll enterover at Precinct 52) are: Once the code is redeemed, you’ll have access to download the game’s demo, which features two playable sequences — one with detective Nordan Jayden, the other with private investigator Scott Shelby....
Destructoid is committed to bringing its readers thebest contests we can, and thanks to our friends at Rocket XL, we are proud to offer one lucky Dtoid fan the chance to win a LlamaDragon Ball Z: Burst Limitedition Xbox 360 (estimated value $2500!!!) and a copy of the game to play on it. You’ll also get a T-shirt, hat and poster. Just because we can do that. What do you have to do in order to win this most fabulous prize?...
[Editor’s note: I’m promoting this one as a friendly PSA to remind you all that Goodwill and thrift stores do hold good finds every so often. — CTZ] [Goodwill Hunting is a possibly weekly series about my gaming adventures at local Goodwill Stores and thrift stores. Sometimes it will be interesting and sometimes it won’t be. Just like Goodwill. I may occasionally hold contests for games I find and already own or don’t feel like keeping, so keep your eyes open for that because everyone likes free stuff, right?...
