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well what's your disposition toward odd, clunky little curiosities you'll probably only play once?

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No one at Konami, or no one at Team Silent?

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re: milking street fighter, nedge basically has the right of it. the heartbeat of the majority of the fighting game world rested firmly in the arcade scene at that time. introducing a new super street fighter 2 cab to your local haunt didn't particularly stretch consumer wallets, it just sat aside or replaced older cabs. that they got ported after the fact is kind of unrelated to the reason those versions existed in the first place. moreover, i really wish people would stop conflating incremental updates of fighting game engines with the issue of "sequelitis".

re: the "demise" of the fighting game genre, this is an issue of the obsolescence of arcades in a world where home consumer products were rapidly catching up with arcade technology. that and things like street fighter 3 alienating established fans with unfamiliar characters and increasingly abstruse mechanics. i don't really see how sf3 and alpha were encumbering the market in the late 90s any more than whatever other combination of games were popular four years prior or subsequent this oft-cited fightgamepocalypse.

three drastically different dmc games released two years apart from each other doesn't seem too outrageous to me

but yeah there are a lot of megaman games

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i think it's more supposed to be between cvs2 and sf4, but yeah, agreed.

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this (mainly the intrusive/redundant/bad dialogue and dull self-insert/gary stu character) dampened my expectations of Axiom Verge a bit.

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tim what have you done

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god


damn it

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the smattering of posts on this page just didn't really warrant this barely applicable latent frustration you've been waiting to shout from a mountain top. not that it much matters but for my part i wasn't intending to communicate any enthusiasm, though i am actually a bit surprised by how little cynicism i've felt in response to the game's announcement.

i don't think anyone was really responding to "SNAKE IS BACK IN ACTION." whatever implications an "open world" MGS in which alert phase contributes to a "Game without Game Over" has it holds potential interest if you've mind to consider it. there's as much reason to think that's throwaway buzzword fluff, i suppose, but what they're attempting to convey suggests to me they might be finally re-examining the series' mechanics. i guess you'll tell me this is what i am Supposed To Think and i'm a puppet to the meager but manipulative trickle of a suggestion of the marketing machine. boy is my face red. i deigned to imagine potential in a videogame. the man's got me by the balls i'm trapped in the matrix.

or maybe just this'll be a new mgs and that'll be ok or not ok.

p.s. you can stop suffering ign comments sections whenever you like.

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also here are some goofy kojima-isms:

http://www.psu.com/a016755/Metal-Gear-Solid--Ground-Zeroes-demo-detailed

http://www.konami.jp/mg25th/imgs/fox/fox_poster.jpg

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it took you two and a half innocuous posts to start proselytizing about things you'd already wanted to shout. it's not about silencing criticisms so much as it is you inventing the narrative to begin with.

sorry for badposting, everyone. RIP me.

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i'm prolly gonna play this :(

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i've felt retroactively less positive about bayonetta as time's went on, but the creativity in its weapons and weapon systems and fluidity of movement is def as good or better than anything in dmc, and for that it still gets respect from me. i would've probably played 2 if i was able to.

imo every dmc has roughly as much bullshit as all the rest of them and bayonetta has maybe 15% more than that while also exploring ( / improving on?!?!) some things dmc already did well in some cool new ways. the disparity isn't that huge, even though it's still pretty easy to not like bayonetta for reasons that have nothing to do with one's like or dislike of dmc, so i wouldn't really begrudge anyone that.

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i am going to come over to your house and pet all of your animals except one

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