Friday 22 February 2013

Disgaea Dimension 2, Time and Eternity, and The Guided Fate Paradox confirmed for North America

NIS America has just announced that they will be localizing Disgaea Dimension 2: A Brighter Darkness, Time and Eternity, and The Guided Fate Paradox for PS3. This just proves once again which console is the JRPG king while WiiWii, Wii Underpowered, and Xbox3fixme pretty much get... well nothing (besides Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate and Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII).

Since I'm too lazy, I'll just copy n' paste what each game is about to (Is this allowed?)

Time and Eternity is slated for this Summer calling itself one of the first HD Animation JRPG's 

Kamza a vibrant kingdom located on a lush ocean island, is in the midst of a national
event celebrating the upcoming marriage of their princess to a valiant knight. But when a group of assassins appears during the ceremony, this dream come true transforms into their worst nightmare. As the knight lays mortally wounded, the princess reveals her long hidden-secret--there is a second soul living within her, and together they control the power to travel through time. But can they act quickly enough to reverse the course of history and find out what happened that fateful day? Only time will tell...

Disgaea Dimension 2: A Brighter Darkness is slated for this Fall and is a direct sequel to Disgaea Hour/Afternoon of Darkness for PS2 and PSP.

The Netherworld a place where might makes right and today’s friends are tomorrow’s enemies. After a long journey with many ups and downs, Laharl finally finds himself as a full-fledged Overlord. However, the other denizens of the Netherworld do not see him as such, so he sets out on a journey with his loyal(!?) vassals to receive the respect he deserves. Along the way, Laharl will meet a girl who claims to be his sister, demons with bigger than usual chips on their shoulders, and find out that even his own body holds a few surprises for him...

The Guided Fate Paradox is slated for this Fall and is a spiritual successor to Z.H.P. Unlosing Ranger Vs. Darkdeath Evilman for PSP

Players take on the role of high school student Renya Kagurazaka who has become a god by winning a lottery in a mall! Renya must travel through the Copy World in order to affect changes in the Original World and make people’s wishes come true. But is there some other force at work?
 
There you have it. Did I forget to mention these are all EXCLUSIVE? Game on!

Thursday 21 February 2013

It's Official! Wii Underpowered is finshed- PS4 enters the fray

Yesterday on February 20th Sony unveiled to the World a glimpse of the PS4 in New York City. Speculated by many to cease existing (Nintenyearolds) Sony has proven to everyone once again why next-gen begins when they say so. Starting off, they talked about the new and improved Dualshock 4 controller that would give any Fisher Price tablet a run for its money. The controller sports a touchpad just like the PS Vita and the upcoming Ouya. The D-Pad has been further perfected putting Xbox 3fixme to shame once again, the analog sticks are now concave to cater to ever growing CoD fagbase along with the L2 and R2 triggers. The home button has been updated to now allow the console enter sleep mode to allow quick suspended play when turned back on and last but not least, a SHARE button that will change console gaming forever.

What is the share button you ask? It's a new little function that allows gamers to stream GAMEPLAY in real time and upload bits over it on UStream for their friends to watch. The new UI that replaces the XMB also allows gamers to watch games their friends are playing even if they don't own a copy of it. Another new function is the ability to allow your friends to temporarily take over your game if you suck ass or want to witness how Godly they are in action.

But enough about that, I'm pretty sure a kiddy gaming company is pouring those tears right now. Next is the power that determines a consoles longevity. PS4 will sport a 8 core x86-64 AMD Jaguar CPU that will surely blow the pants off the HD twins unlike a cretain "other" console that sports the weakest CPU on the planet that even 6-7 year old consoles can out match it and a 1.84 TFLOPS AMD next-generation Radeon GPU that marks its identity as NEXT-GEN. It also packs a whopping 8GBs of GDDR5 RAM (Not really much by PC standards but much better than 2GBs, just saying).

Last but not least the GAMES, the only reason you came to read this wall-of text in the first place. First off, consumers have the ability to play downloaded titles while they're downloading. Yup, no more whining that PSN takes 20 years to download a game when you can play while that percentage slowly rises. First was Knack featuring some tiny creature that grows larger as he absorbs his surroundings around him and Hulk smashes everything. Not that original but much better than saving some Princess for the 20,000th time, AMIRITE? Next up was Killzone Shadow Fall which while criticized for being the same old cookie-cutter shooter really upped the bar in visuals (and hopefully enemy AI) than CANNOT be done on a PS3 or a revised 7th gen console *coughWiiUcough*. Then there was InFamous Second Son which should bring some new life into the sandbox genre, Drive Club which already shits on Forza, New Media Molecule game, Quantic Dremas showing off how much of a beast PS4 is, Demon's/Dark Souls Crapcom Editio.. I mean Deep Down, Square Shitnix announcing an announcement and other games like Destiny, Diablow III, Watch Dogs and The Witness.

Now that Sony has shown us that next-gen began without showing a damn console, I wonder what this means for Kidtendo whose Wii Need Games U has been flopping across the charts. I'm sure they'll be fine with the usual milking of the overweight plumber and tired IPs from decades ago. PS- Keep damage controlling Nintenyearolds :)