I wish I could be there defeating Bowser for the children these guys are good people.

The worst name for a console in history. Before it was announced the Internet was a buzz in talk of Sony’s Playstation Vita and how that name was just lame. Vita means life in latin and while I still think its a lame name for a console hand held, lets just say its no longer the front runner in this years bad names choices. Course the internet also confirmed the Wii was still a worse name then Vita to begin with. Keeping such a horrible name and Extending it to something even more lame. It is no wonder that since the announcement of the Wii U that nintendos stock has dropped more then ten percent.

So lets start out with the unavailing. As I and my friends watched the console announcement live we where amazed as it seemed nintendo did not even have a new console just a new controller for the original Wii. The controller seemed odd and gimmicky and like they where attaching an ipad to the wii. The fact they had no real games to announce for the system either was disappointing however. We all know to expect the average new mario kart sports and cookie cutter mario games.

So they then announce basically nothing new for the 3DS that they didn’t already have announced or just more n64 ports. Some rubbish about the new smash brothers connecting to the Wii U and 3DS which is also a gimmick. Wahoo can you tell I am not impressed. The Project Cafe we had all been hoping for was going to be announced focusing the console specs and third party support and being less of a gimmick then its previous console system that left most developers thinking. “Why would I put my game on that we would have to redevelop a inferior custom version of the game. We got no information on the console and even less for potential games. There have been multiple interviews and post on the internet all about the new console clearing up the horrible non information we got from nintendo at the conference.

http://www.industrygamers.com/news/wii-u-is-actually-50-more-powerful-than-ps3—report/

So that site claims the new Wii U will be 50% more powerful then a ps3.

This site:

http://techtroids.com/new-wii-u-info-surfaces-1527

Says the Wii U will not have blu ray or dvd capabilities but it will however have netflix.

My personal impressions of the Wii U so far based on the little information I have gathered everywhere is this.

This will be the Wii 2 in every aspect it will get great 3rd party support at first. It will launch with a mario game or large nintendo title close behind while nintendo paces releasing new 1st party games for the console slowly hoping to make it last its 5 year life cycle. 3rd party support will fall off as microsoft and sony announce their next consoles which will be four to five times more powerful then their previous consoles and the Wii U. Devs will have new amazing tools to work with that they will then have to water down to work with the Wii U causing nintendo to once again have the weakest console on the market that will get less and less 3rd party support until the same thing happens again with another console or nintendo announces its going the way of sega. Even better they shift their focus completely to hand held gaming that does not also have to be a cell phone.

I am still annoyed at nintendo with its Wii and Japan not releasing the great games that are out for it in the USA. As an RPG gamer I looked forward to the new games that where going to come out for the Wii. Below is a list of great games that if they all or most get released in the USA then the Wii will at least in my eyes be worth its salt this generation and I will likely pick up a Wii U.

Pandora’s Tower
The Last Story
XenoBlade
Dragon Quest X
Tales of Graces

A couple have been announced for the UK so they could be imported and played with a Wii Free loader. Still five great 3rd party games four are already released and while I expect that its likely we will either get DQ5 or it will be released for the Wii U in the end one game to look forward to for the system is not enough to justify keeping it around. Most of my friends have sold their Wii and bought a kinect and while I do not plan to do the same I can understand why they have and don’t see so far with the Wii U any reason why it will not end up the same in most gamers eyes.

I am not what you would call a casual gamer but I am no longer a core gamer as it would seem. My personal game tastes lean towards role playing games, platformers, action adventure, and point and click adventure games.

My favorite game of all time?
Chrono Trigger hands down no question.

So at E3 2011 the big companies did not show off any new role playing games worth their salt. Sure FFX13-2 was there somewhere but I would rather have an FF15 announcement then another sequel to a game that did not do so well. Japanese developers seem lost in our new western gaming market that is filled with repetitive multi-player games or first person co-op and single player shooters, or third person shooters that claim they are action games or RPGs or any other number of things when they are clearly another shooter jumping on the market.

I love Fallout and Mass effect but I do not consider them role playing games they are in my mind shooters. So that leaves us with MMOrpgs and Dragon age which did not announce another game at this E3 most likely to take their time and make up for Dragon Age 2 which I really enjoyed minus the lack luster story.

There was a few platformers announced at E3 new ray man new sly new mario and other nintendo cookie cutter clones.

The best thing at E3 to me that was not even mentioned at E3 was Dragon’s Dogma. That game looks amazing.

So a capcom RPG is the best that E3 has to offer? Rinse and repeat shooters everywhere. The year of the lack luster sequels.
So if you look closely there was a couple RPGs that where announced that where prime examples of why RPGs are losing popularity in the west.
By losing popularity in the west I mean its popular in Japan to not release their RPGs in the west anymore.

Medieval Moves: Deadmund’s Quest:

Not only does this game push something that has made decent games into garbage this generation. (Motion Controls)
It looks just plain boring. I guess they want you to just hop in and “figure” stuff out. I remember when RPGs where about having epic stories now its all about multiplayer and lack luster social interaction. Yes I remember being young on forums years back and talking to other nerds about how cool it would be if final fantasy was multiplayer. FF11 was a pretty horrible game because its so not user friendly and FF14 is a disaster I remember them announcing FF11 and wishing it was not an MMO and to this day FF10 was the last decent FF game released. The creation of mistwalker studios is a tribute to that. Here is a studio where basically all the people who should be making FF15 are working and what do they make? The Last Story. This game does not see a release outside Japan. Why? There has been a paradyme shift in the gaming world. Both developers and players alike have changed.

Gaming is now about having a game that sells and outsells and makes records and it seems these cookie cutter shooters are the thing to do that. But do we really need every major development house publishing a FPS MMO this year? Is there really that many gamers who want to smiply shoot and respawn over and over. Its not my cup of tea and I do not have anything against it I just am amazed that it feels like we are not getting anything else anymore. Its either a shooter you play with your friends or a shooter you play alone.

Where are the other choices? E3 this year has made me take a look back at the past generations of games and I was able to create a pretty huge list of great games from both this and past generations of games I have missed to get me through this drought of games in a time where every single game is the same thing again.

I love how you read RPG reviews on anything released since 2006 and most of them start out with “Average RPG nothing to make it stand out.” There have been some really great games with amazing stories that have been overlooked and not sold well because people rely on big review sites to tell them if a game is good and they simple say simple rinse and repeat nothing to see here.

The FPS world is doing this right now and being praised for it. I look forward to the FPS fad ending and alot more game choices and gameplay types becoming available again.

I will be making another post very soon about the Nintendo Conference and the rumors about the Wii U so look for that soon.

Check out my list of great games to play while the gaming world is drowning in the saturation of the FPS world.

Click below or the GTP section in the menu to the right.
THE LIST

So most gamers have played this game before. Those who have not really don’t call themselves gamers they just play video games sometimes.

So there is no mention in this first official new trailer of any of the real reasons that gamers should go back and pick up this game.

New Updated graphics!

Includes master quest and boss challenge modes.

New ending that makes wind waker make more sense!

There is so many routes they could have taken and they just mention 3d and show link riding around and fighting the old enemies.
They also did not mention the rumor that it will be released in limited quantity so if you do not pre-order it you will not get it. Honestly is such a rare quality in this day where information is so freely tossed all over the internet.

There is this great website.

http://www.darthsanddroids.net/

It has taken the star wars movies and turned them into a unique webcomic told from the perspective of a Dungeons and Dragons campaign. At first the idea may sound a bit off but keep in mind that this is likely the greatest way to uniquely enjoy the star wars movies without actually going through the trouble of giving up 2 hours a movie of your time to watch them. Not that its not always a pleasure but lets just say this can make episode 1 fun.

Here is an example:

(Click the image to visit the site and start reading from the start of the comic.)
Not a star wars fan? Who cares this is fun.

It was only a matter of time.

Uploaded on gametrailers.

Yes I have my copy of this paid off already and will go to a midnight release if its available. Viva La ZELDA!

As a former beta player of CoH I subscribed for years and played the game to level 50 on the heroes side three times. I had a maxed out character sheet on the Victory server that had heroes and villians of all the level ranges besides my level 50 characters. I had read last month that they added end game to CoH which was only six years late. They also added the unofficial level 51 though honestly that game was way past the need for a level cap raise a year after it was released. City of Villians never hooked me though I had a high 30s villian I always ended up playing my heroes again every time I tried to get that villian to 50.

Paragon Studios released a really amazing statistics graphic with the announcement of some pretty cool seven year anniversary perks.

Click the graphic for the official Paragon Studios post.

New Harry Potter trailer for the final movie.

It is pretty amazing looking really when you look at the trailer for this movie and how epic it looks and how much action is involved and then you jump back years and watch this trailer.

You think to yourself man thats a pretty standard childrens/family fantasy movie nothing that amazing or special. Unless you ask the religious nuts who think the whole thing is evil and the spawn of the devil. Either way you feel about these movies and books they are an extremely fun read and the books really capture how to tell a great fantasy story as well watching a group of children grow up and come into adulthood in their own way. Though the movies are coming to an end I do not believe this will be the last time these movies, books or even actors make headline news. I look forward to the future.

So not only is the chick from Juno/Kitty pride from the only alright wolverine focused xmen movies in this movie but also that guy who makes the office enjoyable. Truly whoever watched kick ass and was sitting there going man anyone can be a superhero make a superhero movie about heroes with no powers. Generally though people putting on a costume and going ape shit is a pretty normal thing when you go through any tragedy in your life. I am sure if your wife left you, the first thing you would do is put on a provactive tough guy outfit and go confront the
person who stole her cheating whore.

This movie reminds me of:

Which of course is a comic as well. I do not know if super was originally a comic but the premise is great. Here is hoping that the crimson bolt can make crime shut up long enough to make some money in the box office.