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SSB Brawl or Bore?
I've heard in the past that the SSB Brawl team was slopped together and is being rushed, but this news is what worries me: "the game's being designed to stress 'easiness' over the small details of combat, in an attempt to make the entry level for playing the fighter even lower than before." Don't get me wrong - complex combo moves seen in games like Tekken is NOT what I'd ever want from this game - but taking a step back from SSB Melee's simplicity doesn't sound great either. I mean come on - Pick A or B plus a direction and that's almost the entire gameplay! How much simpler could they make it for the Nintendo newcomers? The news also briefly mentions future characters, but nothing revealing or set in stone.
Something to get excited over though is the Wii's new rumors, mentioning the power of the wiimote's camera and many other possibilities for the console. Wiik or Swiit?Did you know? You can now get daily or weekly email notifications when humans reply to your comments.
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9:00 AM on 05.20.2013 Killzone: Mercenary is the FPS the Vita has been needingThe PlayStation Vita is a great system with a slowly increasing library of great titles. The exception being in the first-person shooter genre, that is. You'd think that after one of these big game companies made a handheld w...
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12:00 PM on 05.18.2013 Preview: The Last of UsI was skeptical of The Last of Us. Despite all the hype and high promises, to me, it looked like post-apocalyptic Uncharted. I wasn't sold on the dynamic nature of how the game progressed, and as we all know, zombies have been literally done to death in the past five years. Then, I got a chance to actually play it. How many days until June 14th again?
7:00 PM on 05.17.2013 Viking shenanigans in Crusader Kings II: The Old GodsOver the last year and -- almost -- a half, Crusader Kings II has grown considerably. What started of as a vast grand strategy game where players could take the reins of a Christian noble dynasty now contains playable Islamic...
2:00 PM on 05.17.2013 Preview: Civilization V: Brave New WorldWith the arrival of the 20th century, I can sometimes get a bit bored in Civilization V. It continues to engage me enough so that I power through to achieve whatever victory path I had chosen, but therein lies the issue. I en...
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