Hey Cheapy and Wombat,
Recently, Gamasutra talked to a few analysts not about what games will sell big this holiday season, but which games they think will flop. One chose Banjo & Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe, Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, Tomb Raider Underworld, Midnight Club LA, and Need for Speed Undercover. Your boy Michael Pachter chose Midnight Club LA, Shaun White Snowboarding on the PS3 and Xbox 360, Tomb Raider Underworld, and Animal Crossing: City Folk before he flip-flopped on Midnight Club and replaced it with Need for Speed Undercover after seeing the reviews for both games. Do you guys agree or disagree with these choices and are there any other games you'd add to the list?
Your other boy, Nick Suttner at 1up, mentioned in his comments on the length of Tomb Raider Underworld that it seemed to end abruptly at about six or seven hours, which lead to the discussion of the possibility that the six hours of exclusive Xbox 360 DLC were just cut from the last few levels of the game instead of developing new levels. So how bad could this situation be that not only could the people that paid $60 for the Xbox 360 version didn't get the whole game, but that those that purchased the game on the other platforms were also screwed over because of Eidos and Microsoft's exclusive DLC agreement?
After playing the Japanese demo for Resident Evil 5, I'm still confused as to why Wombat thinks the gimped controls are an integral part of the scariness of the game. Why can't Capcom enchance the rest of the game while letting the controls catch up to the games it's influenced, Gears of War and Uncharted, instead of just gimping our controls? Though I haven't played it, wasn't Dead Space successful at providing good controls and the creepy atmosphere you'd expect from a horror game?
Speaking of the Japanese demo of Resident Evil 5? What do you guys think of Microsoft's inability to not region lock their foreign demos a few hours after it is put out for the public, forcing a lot of people to download it from the net and burn it to a blank disc to just play this free and legal demo? Sony seems to be completely fine with anybody getting foreign accounts to grab items on the Japanese, European, and other PlayStation Stores without this kind of hassle, which is great for impatient gamers.
Are there any updates on your LittleBigPlanet torture sessions?