• 20Feb 08

  System selling games

  Here is a list of games I consider to be system sellers and are therefore among my favorites. I will begin with last generation systems and continue on to systems for which games are still being actively developed. All of these systems include many other games worthy of attention but I would not exactly consider to be system sellers. I am only including games exclusive to each system:

  Nintendo Game Cube:

  -The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker

  -The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

  -Resident Evil 4 (this is an exception to the system specific rule as it was released on GC so long before PS2 and is the superior version.)

  Playstation 2:

  -ICO

  -Shadow of the Colossus

  -Okami (another soon to be exception to the exclusivity rule but I don't consider the Wii to be a proper gaming system for games that were not specifically designed for it's "unique" controls. If you can't tell, I'm still bitter over the GC Twilight Princess delay because of the friggin Wii version.)

  -Odin Sphere (this game proves that sprites aren't dead and just how beautiful a 2D game can be on current systems. We need a revival of sprite-based 2D games like this.)

  -Devil may cry 1, 2, 3 Special Edition

  -Ace Combat 4, 5

  -Final Fantasy X, XII (For FF fans only, though this goes without saying. I felt I had to at least include FFX as it was the first PS2 game I ever owned.)
  

  XBOX:

  -Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge
  

  -Psychonauts

  -Thief: Deadly Shadows

  -Otogi 1, 2

  -Halo 1, 2

  -Ninja Gaiden (Black)

  Game Boy Advance:

  -Advance Wars 1, 2

  -Fire Emblem (Both games)

  -Super Robot Taisen: Original Generation 1, 2

  -The Legend of Zelda: The minish cap

  -Boktai 1, 2

  Nintendo DS:

  -Advance Wars: Dual Strike

  -Advance Wars: Days of Ruin

  -Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow

  -Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin

  -Lunar Knights

  -The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass

  PSP:

  -Loco Roco

  -Patapon

  -flOw (available by download only for those interested)

  X360:

  -Gears of War

  • Posted Feb 20, 2008 10:06 pm GMT
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• 18Apr 07

  The old west genre is worth re-visiting.

  I just finished Red Dead Revolver and Gun, the only two Old West themed games that I know of and I must say that I believe the genre is worth investing in.  Personally I'd like to see something along the lines of an alternate time-line or TechWest sort of game.  Red Dead did a good job of creating an unreal stylized Old West and Gun did a good job of creating a beautifuly realistic open world in which to ride around in.  The game Darkwatch takes Old West technology but adds a flare of style to make some great looking weapons (not to mention Old West Vampires!)  Imagine a TechWest game with Steampunk style vehicles along with horse and buggy.  Imagine being a gunslinger who is part mechanical and for power-ups you get gears and parts to upgrade your quick-draw speed, etc. 

  The duck-and-cover system used in Red Dead is a must but so is the wide-open realistic environment of Gun.   The linear confined levels of Red Dead allowed for some stylistic expression (the quick-draw shootout in the train car) and there's no reason a game can't have both.  You could have chase-style battles taking place out on the plains on horseback and close-quarter duck-and-cover shootouts in the town streets, inside buildings, or inside trains, etc.

  I'd like to see a Red/Solid Snake looking character with perhaps a mechanical arm or something along those lines.  For anyone who has seen Vampire Hunter D you know how cool a mechanical horse can be as well.  For the antagonists I'd have an eccentric cast of characters (much like the Metal Gear series) and I'd have to include a vampire in an old west suit, tophat, and cape (which of course must be killed with silver bullets!) And following in the footsteps of Metal Gear and Red Dead there simply must be one character wielding a gattling gun (preferably carried in a coffin.)

  • Posted Apr 18, 2007 1:15 pm GMT
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