Official Site: http://www.soulcalibur.com/
Source: Youtube Channel RajmanGamingHD
The first time I played Soul Calibur was at a nickel arcade. It was like many other 3D games out around time of its release such as Virtua Fighter, Tekken, and such. What really got me into Soul Calibur was when my father bought me Soul Calibur 2 and I didn't really know what it was (I didn't even know I had played Soul Calibur 1 at this time), but I liked the premise of a fighting game based on swords (I love swords). My father had bought me the gamecube version with Link as the special character for the system. From the different swords, to the quest like legend mode, Soul Calibur was a different fighting game for me and I really enjoyed it. When 3 came out, it was only for PS2 and I ended up not getting it. When my father had bought me the PS3 one Christmas, he got Soul Calibur 4 with it (among 11 other games). To my dismay, I was disappointed that all the characters were created using the customizer they created. I felt a lot of the personality of the characters were all watered down since they had similar features. On the bright side, the level of customization was very high. I didn't play Soul Calibur 4 as much (I don't play a lot of my fighting games all that much because I have so many games now) but I'm still excited for Soul Calibur 5 for some reason. It seems that Ivy is more properly robed. I assumed she was gonna go all out seeing the progression from SC2 to SC4. It's mainly the new characters being introduced that has me interested in the game. One of them is Natsu, but I won't be as interested if she's a direct copy of Taki (she's Taki's student). I'm still so interested in fighting games even if I don't play them too often (anymore) mainly because of the amount of games I have now than I did before. It's also mainly because fighting games, shoot-em-ups, and First-Person Shooters were the main genres I played throughout college because I didn't have enough time to sit down and play for a long duration. With more time now, I'm getting back into RPGs like crazy. Still, with the release of fighting games like Soul Calibur 5, I want to get back into Fighting games a least a little bit.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
GameOn - Fighting Games - Tekken Hybrid
Did everyone have a good break yesterday for Columbus Day (assuming you got a break)? This week's GameOn theme is upcoming fighting games (all of them being being spin-offs or sequels). Today's topic is Tekken Hybrid; it's a 3D CG Movie packed with the original Tekken Tag in HD and I think Tekken Tag 2 Tournament.
Source: Youtube Channel NamcoBandaiGames
I'm not a huge fan of Tekken (even though I own Tekken 1-6) but I do like the premise of the stories for each character and how they all tie together. I dreaded the creation of the live action movie for Tekken, and so I was really happy to see a 3D CG movie in the works planned to be released as Tekken Hybrid as that's how a movie for Tekken should be presented. I just hope the story and choreography lives up to its reputation within the games. Lots of tournament and/or competitive players are excited about Tekken Tag 2, and it makes sense if you see some of the crazy combos pro players perform utilizing the tag system:
Source: Youtube Channel MitsuGTO885
That's scary! After 1-2 rounds in, your character will miss the feeling of the ground. Tekken Tag 2 will have a steeper learning curve compared to the main game as its use of the Tag system is necessary if a player wants to be remotely competent against someone who plays the game often. I'm already god awful at the game controlling one character, I can only imagine how bad it would be like controlling two characters. The arcade cabinet should be available internationally sometime this month, but the PS3 version won't be seen until sometime next year in 2012.
Source: Youtube Channel NamcoBandaiGames
I'm not a huge fan of Tekken (even though I own Tekken 1-6) but I do like the premise of the stories for each character and how they all tie together. I dreaded the creation of the live action movie for Tekken, and so I was really happy to see a 3D CG movie in the works planned to be released as Tekken Hybrid as that's how a movie for Tekken should be presented. I just hope the story and choreography lives up to its reputation within the games. Lots of tournament and/or competitive players are excited about Tekken Tag 2, and it makes sense if you see some of the crazy combos pro players perform utilizing the tag system:
Source: Youtube Channel MitsuGTO885
That's scary! After 1-2 rounds in, your character will miss the feeling of the ground. Tekken Tag 2 will have a steeper learning curve compared to the main game as its use of the Tag system is necessary if a player wants to be remotely competent against someone who plays the game often. I'm already god awful at the game controlling one character, I can only imagine how bad it would be like controlling two characters. The arcade cabinet should be available internationally sometime this month, but the PS3 version won't be seen until sometime next year in 2012.
Friday, October 7, 2011
VGCulture - Music - Fight Evil with Religion!
My friend sent me this video today:
Source: Youtube Channel machinima
The game is Castlevania: Harmony of Despair originally exclusive to Xbox 360 XBLA and was recently released on PS3's PSN. It's not like the usual Castlevania with exploration and such but more like a huge boss rush mode. It allows up to 4-player co-op. I tried out the original release at E3 2010 and thought it was okay, but I'm not happy with the price. It's $15 for the base game with an extra $2-$5 for the other 10 DLCs that contain extra maps, characters, and such. The video did remind how great the past few hand-held Castlevania games were, and so I plan to replay them soon. Have a good weekend everyone.
Source: Youtube Channel machinima
The game is Castlevania: Harmony of Despair originally exclusive to Xbox 360 XBLA and was recently released on PS3's PSN. It's not like the usual Castlevania with exploration and such but more like a huge boss rush mode. It allows up to 4-player co-op. I tried out the original release at E3 2010 and thought it was okay, but I'm not happy with the price. It's $15 for the base game with an extra $2-$5 for the other 10 DLCs that contain extra maps, characters, and such. The video did remind how great the past few hand-held Castlevania games were, and so I plan to replay them soon. Have a good weekend everyone.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
GameLight - The Cursed Crusade
Official Site: http://www.thecursedcrusade.com/
Source: Youtube Channel AtlusUSA
When I first heard that Dark Souls was going to be published by NamcoBandai, I was wondering what Atlus was working on since they weren't going to be the ones publishing it (since they published Demon's Souls). So that's when I saw trailers for "The Cursed Crusade" (before, it was just hearing the name and seeing the box art) and wondered what sort of game it will be. The Cursed Crusade will be a 3rd-Person Action-Adventure game set in the Medieval era. It will feature split-screen local cooperative gameplay, which is something rare these days it seems. You could almost say it's like a Medieval version of Army of Two. I've been looking/waiting for a co-op game I can play whenever my friend comes over besides Call of Duty: Black Ops, but there aren't too many good local co-op games as most developers focus on online play for multiplayer. I'm not sure why, but I've been getting more and more into the Medieval themed games again recently (such as Dark Souls, forth coming Skyrim, Dragon's Dogma, and Kingdoms of Amalur *though it's more fantasy than medieval*). So far, The Cursed Crusade is a game I want to get for the co-op play; however, I'm still not sure how it'll turn out as it already has one review up on MetaCritic with a rating of 58/100 (PC) but a score of 83/100 on PS3. I'll most likely get it on PS3 since it'll be easier to play with a friend and to avoid the many problems a PC version may have with compatibility, graphics, and requirements.
The Cursed Crusade will be released on October 11th, 2011 at (most likely) $59.99 for PS3 and Xbox 360 and $49.99 on PC. I'm still not certain whether it will be available for digital purchase on Steam, but we'll find in five days anyways.
[Update]: NA Release is October 25th and EU Release is on October 7th. These dates aren't for sure, but that's what I've found for now.
Source: Youtube Channel AtlusUSA
When I first heard that Dark Souls was going to be published by NamcoBandai, I was wondering what Atlus was working on since they weren't going to be the ones publishing it (since they published Demon's Souls). So that's when I saw trailers for "The Cursed Crusade" (before, it was just hearing the name and seeing the box art) and wondered what sort of game it will be. The Cursed Crusade will be a 3rd-Person Action-Adventure game set in the Medieval era. It will feature split-screen local cooperative gameplay, which is something rare these days it seems. You could almost say it's like a Medieval version of Army of Two. I've been looking/waiting for a co-op game I can play whenever my friend comes over besides Call of Duty: Black Ops, but there aren't too many good local co-op games as most developers focus on online play for multiplayer. I'm not sure why, but I've been getting more and more into the Medieval themed games again recently (such as Dark Souls, forth coming Skyrim, Dragon's Dogma, and Kingdoms of Amalur *though it's more fantasy than medieval*). So far, The Cursed Crusade is a game I want to get for the co-op play; however, I'm still not sure how it'll turn out as it already has one review up on MetaCritic with a rating of 58/100 (PC) but a score of 83/100 on PS3. I'll most likely get it on PS3 since it'll be easier to play with a friend and to avoid the many problems a PC version may have with compatibility, graphics, and requirements.
The Cursed Crusade will be released on October 11th, 2011 at (most likely) $59.99 for PS3 and Xbox 360 and $49.99 on PC. I'm still not certain whether it will be available for digital purchase on Steam, but we'll find in five days anyways.
[Update]: NA Release is October 25th and EU Release is on October 7th. These dates aren't for sure, but that's what I've found for now.
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
GameLight - War of the Immortals
Official Site: http://woi.perfectworld.com/
Source: Youtube Channel PerfectWorldVideos
War of the Immortals will be a sequel of sorts (I suppose, not sure) to Battle of the Immortals. It plays similarly but with extra content such as new classes, more items, and new dungeons to explore. It'll be a top-down MMORPG with all the usual stuff such as PvP, questing, and instances. I finally tried out Battle of the Immortals last night and got up to level 21 in 2 hours. The gameplay is much faster than most MMORPGs nowadays, though it feels like an old school MMORPG as Online RPGs have that top-down isometic type of view. War of the Immortals will be getting three additional classes from Battle of the Immortals: Ranger, Duelist, and Enchantress. The game utilizes the auto-path function that most all Chinese MMORPGs have which makes it really easy to progress from one point to the next without having to guess where everything is. Just a word of warning: the game looks a lot like Diablo, but it's not Diablo. The game plays more closely to games such as Twelve Sky 2, Mir 2, and Ultima Online (if anyone even remembers that). I'm liking Battle of the Immortals so far, so I'm anxious to see what sorts of improvements will be brought in War of the Immortals.
Source: Youtube Channel PerfectWorldVideos
War of the Immortals will be a sequel of sorts (I suppose, not sure) to Battle of the Immortals. It plays similarly but with extra content such as new classes, more items, and new dungeons to explore. It'll be a top-down MMORPG with all the usual stuff such as PvP, questing, and instances. I finally tried out Battle of the Immortals last night and got up to level 21 in 2 hours. The gameplay is much faster than most MMORPGs nowadays, though it feels like an old school MMORPG as Online RPGs have that top-down isometic type of view. War of the Immortals will be getting three additional classes from Battle of the Immortals: Ranger, Duelist, and Enchantress. The game utilizes the auto-path function that most all Chinese MMORPGs have which makes it really easy to progress from one point to the next without having to guess where everything is. Just a word of warning: the game looks a lot like Diablo, but it's not Diablo. The game plays more closely to games such as Twelve Sky 2, Mir 2, and Ultima Online (if anyone even remembers that). I'm liking Battle of the Immortals so far, so I'm anxious to see what sorts of improvements will be brought in War of the Immortals.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
GameLight - RAGE
Official Site: http://www.rage.com/
Source: Youtube Channel machinima
RAGE was released last night along side with the release of Dark Souls. RAGE is an Action-Adventure First-Person Shooter with some RPG elements and semi-open world roaming. No critic reviews were seen at all as of yesterday and I guess all of them were posted the second the game was officially released. Currently, the scores average to 83-84/100 Xbox 360-PS3 respectively with no average rating for PC thus far from the critics. From fan reviews, it seems that RAGE for the PC is riddled with glitches, crashes, ugly textures, errors and such. As I've mentioned before in the past posts, I didn't have much interest in RAGE ever since the first time I heard about it at E3 2010. I didn't bother to even look up any gameplay trailers until today and after watching a few of them and reading a few reviews, I'm interested in playing through it. This means I'm not going to be buying it for a while. A lot of people are complaining how it looks like a Borderlands or Fallout 3 Rip-off. Looking at some of the videos, I can see that there are influences of Borderlands inventory system, level and artistic design, and open-world concept in the footages. Is that a bad thing? Of course not. Borderlands was a great game, but RAGE doesn't seem like Borderlands at all in terms of an overall gameplay experience. I guess some people are pointing out the post-apocalyptic theme that Fallout 3 had in RAGE, but the game doesn't look or playing very much like Fallout 3 at all. If anything, the game reminds me of Doom 3 (which would make sense since the developers are the creators of Doom and Quake). The game has "some" RPG elements, but it isn't an RPG. The game has "free-roaming" missions and maps, but it's not an entire open-world game. There also seems to a be a racing game implemented into this FPS-adventure. Players can race, build their own car and upgrade them to win more money. The game does look fun, but compared to several other fall and winter releases (not to mention ones I've missed during the spring and summer such as Deus Ex: HR and Dead Island) I'm just not interested enough to go out and get it...yet. If you're concerned about spending the full $60 for the game, wait till Black Friday/Cyber Monday and see if you can get a good deal (sometimes a drop to $20-$30 can happen during that duration in time, even for new games).
Source: Youtube Channel machinima
RAGE was released last night along side with the release of Dark Souls. RAGE is an Action-Adventure First-Person Shooter with some RPG elements and semi-open world roaming. No critic reviews were seen at all as of yesterday and I guess all of them were posted the second the game was officially released. Currently, the scores average to 83-84/100 Xbox 360-PS3 respectively with no average rating for PC thus far from the critics. From fan reviews, it seems that RAGE for the PC is riddled with glitches, crashes, ugly textures, errors and such. As I've mentioned before in the past posts, I didn't have much interest in RAGE ever since the first time I heard about it at E3 2010. I didn't bother to even look up any gameplay trailers until today and after watching a few of them and reading a few reviews, I'm interested in playing through it. This means I'm not going to be buying it for a while. A lot of people are complaining how it looks like a Borderlands or Fallout 3 Rip-off. Looking at some of the videos, I can see that there are influences of Borderlands inventory system, level and artistic design, and open-world concept in the footages. Is that a bad thing? Of course not. Borderlands was a great game, but RAGE doesn't seem like Borderlands at all in terms of an overall gameplay experience. I guess some people are pointing out the post-apocalyptic theme that Fallout 3 had in RAGE, but the game doesn't look or playing very much like Fallout 3 at all. If anything, the game reminds me of Doom 3 (which would make sense since the developers are the creators of Doom and Quake). The game has "some" RPG elements, but it isn't an RPG. The game has "free-roaming" missions and maps, but it's not an entire open-world game. There also seems to a be a racing game implemented into this FPS-adventure. Players can race, build their own car and upgrade them to win more money. The game does look fun, but compared to several other fall and winter releases (not to mention ones I've missed during the spring and summer such as Deus Ex: HR and Dead Island) I'm just not interested enough to go out and get it...yet. If you're concerned about spending the full $60 for the game, wait till Black Friday/Cyber Monday and see if you can get a good deal (sometimes a drop to $20-$30 can happen during that duration in time, even for new games).
Monday, October 3, 2011
GameLight - Dark Souls (Out Tonight)
Official Site: http://www.preparetodie.com/
Source: Youtube Channel NamcoBandaiGames
Source: Youtube Channel NamcoBandaiGames
Dark Souls is getting its debut release tonight at 12am at GameStops (not sure about other stores) and many are excited about it. Having already 17 critic reviews on Metacritic with an average of 89/100 points, Dark Souls is already making its way to be this year's winter seller game. It will be available for PS3 AND Xbox 360 tonight for North America and Oct. 7th in other regions thanks to the efforts of NamcoBandai. The game looks excruciatingly difficult and makes Demon's Souls look easy in comparison. I'm definitely going to buy the game, but not tonight. I'm willing to wait a bit longer until there's a price drop or sale as this winter I will be spending quite a bit on new and old games (around black friday/cyber monday). I'm a patient man, and I have a ton of games still unfinished. And I still have Demon's Souls to hold me down as I've started a new character last night. If you're interested in Dark Souls, haven't played Demon's Souls, and want to wait for the price drop for Dark Souls like I am, then I suggest picking up Demon's Souls as it's $15-$20 (for new copy) at stores now. Now that the game's finally coming out tonight, I'll just have to wait a little longer before getting the chance to play through it.
Source: Youtube Channel NamcoBandaiGames
Source: Youtube Channel NamcoBandaiGames
Dark Souls is getting its debut release tonight at 12am at GameStops (not sure about other stores) and many are excited about it. Having already 17 critic reviews on Metacritic with an average of 89/100 points, Dark Souls is already making its way to be this year's winter seller game. It will be available for PS3 AND Xbox 360 tonight for North America and Oct. 7th in other regions thanks to the efforts of NamcoBandai. The game looks excruciatingly difficult and makes Demon's Souls look easy in comparison. I'm definitely going to buy the game, but not tonight. I'm willing to wait a bit longer until there's a price drop or sale as this winter I will be spending quite a bit on new and old games (around black friday/cyber monday). I'm a patient man, and I have a ton of games still unfinished. And I still have Demon's Souls to hold me down as I've started a new character last night. If you're interested in Dark Souls, haven't played Demon's Souls, and want to wait for the price drop for Dark Souls like I am, then I suggest picking up Demon's Souls as it's $15-$20 (for new copy) at stores now. Now that the game's finally coming out tonight, I'll just have to wait a little longer before getting the chance to play through it.
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