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| Batman: Arkham City Reaffirms Itself as The Best Superhero Game Posted: 14 Oct 2011 07:11 AM PDT If you’ve spent much time in the corporate, work-a-day world, you know that one of the big differences between a great employer and a lesser one is how they approach the concept of “human resources.” A good employer takes the term to mean they should provide resources for humans; a bad one takes it as carte blanche to treat humans as resources. As it happens, this is also the biggest fundamental difference between a Pokémon game and the latest Dragon Quest Monsters release, Joker 2. Both revolve around capturing creatures to send into battle, but where Pokémon is all about bonding with your team, Joker treats those monsters as disposable means to an end. Joker’s ultimate goal isn’t entirely alien to Pokémon fanatics — it’s all about having the biggest, baddest group of monsters on the battlefield — but the difference is in how you accomplish that objective. In Pokémon, you bond with your team, raise them up, evolve them, and make them stronger through the power of friendship. Here, your captive creatures are commodities to be exploited. Monsters don’t evolve on their own; rather, you fuse them together into new forms, destroying the original creatures in the process. It’s almost exactly like demon fusion in a Shin Megami Tensei game, and just as in MegaTen, Joker doesn’t even pretend to treat your battle minion as anything but tools to be used and discarded. It’s not insignificant that while Pokémon gives you enough PC box slots to keep one of every monster type, Joker offers only 100 slots total in your monster pen — less than a third of the overall bestiary. You’re supposed to use up your creatures in the process of making better ones. They’re forgettable. Disposable. Posted by: admin in Gaming News Thank you for Visiting Gameforumer.com, Hope you enjoyed the stay with us. |
| Posted: 14 Oct 2011 01:10 AM PDT
Touted as the “true” successor to Ragnarok Online and the “real” Ragnarok Online 2, a number of overseas servers are already confirmed, with the English one hosted by Aeria Games (link) hopefully by next year. What happened to Ragnarok Online 2? Well, nothing was informed to the media for months by Gravity, with the company opting to publish Eden Eternal in Korea soon. God bless the Ragnarok franchise. Posted by: admin in Gaming News Thank you for Visiting Gameforumer.com, Hope you enjoyed the stay with us. |
| September NPDs: Madden, Gears 3, and Xbox 360 the Top Sellers Posted: 13 Oct 2011 07:09 PM PDT Resistance 3 was the PS3′s big exclusive in September; it came in at number seven. The multiplatform Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine, which also debuted last month, came in at number ten. No doubt thanks to Madden’s launch being counted in September, videogame software sales were up three percent as compared with September 2010. Hardware and accessories were down nine and 14 percent, respectively. Xbox 360 was the best-selling console in the U.S. during the month with 438,000 sold. That gave it a 42 percent share of current-gen consoles during the month, which Microsoft is happy to point out is the seventh month in a row it’s had at least 40 percent of that category. Sony chose not to share specific sales numbers yet again. It instead pointed out that PS3 hardware was up 20 percent and software was up 52 percent. Based on math done by a NeoGAF member, these numbers and Microsoft’s suggest the PS3 sold between 364,000 and 374,000 units during the month. Nintendo’s spin on the numbers highlighted the DS line surpassing the 50-million-units-sold mark in the U.S. 260,000 3DS systems were sold last month (up 10 percent from August), adding up to 450,000 units sold since the price drop in August. 240,000 Wii systems were sold during the same period, and over 145,000 DS units were sold. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, meanwhile, became the first 3DS game to sell in excess of 500,000 units. The software top ten for September follows below:
**(includes CE, GOTY editions, bundles, etc. but not those bundled with hardware) Posted by: admin in Gaming News Thank you for Visiting Gameforumer.com, Hope you enjoyed the stay with us. |
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