Call me biased, but my favorite game for the original PlayStation is Final Fantasy Tactics. You can imagine my excitement when I read that the ESRB has rated Tactics for release on PSN. It’ll be available for download for both the PS3 and PSP and I’m guessing it’ll be priced around $9.99. The real question is, will they fix the job point glitch that can be found in the original version?
Oh boy. Look what we have here! Some brand spankin’ new Final Fantasy XIII footage has hit the YouTubes and this time around, it’s no pre-rendered bullshit. No, sir. This time, we have some live gameplay that was captured by an adoring fan. After watching the video for about five minutes, I have to officially state that I am excited for this game. The last time I got excited about a Final Fantasy title was with FF10. The graphics, the physics and the particle effects of FF13 are the best I’ve seen in an RPG, let alone Playstation 3 title.
People, get your systems ready. This is going to be epic.
Fallout 3 is about to hit Japan’s store shelves and news has emerged claiming that the developers, Bethesda Softworks, have made changes to the game to more comfortably appeal to the Japanese market. You can probably guess from here what changes have been made, but just in case your a little rusty on your history, I’ll tell you.
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In case you fucking missed it, Blizzard spun the gaming world on its ass this weekend by announcing the long-awaited Diablo III. Along with assorted details here and there, a magnificent 20-minute gameplay video was released, showcasing graphics, environment, new classes and more. You can head on over to Blizzard.com for the real deal but I recommend hitting up ShackNews as they have the best selection of videos and most of the news compressed for ya!
Would a piggy bank that can save up to $465.46 dollars encourage you to abandon the console RPG you’re playing in favor of hording your money in this game? Staring at it in astonishment, amazed by the fact that it’s a RPG on a piggy bank. You’ll mindlessly drop coins in it, one at a time, at a slow pace. Before long, you’ll realize that all the gear you bought for your character was for naught; you were playing nothing more than Tamagotchi with a bank account . You’ll want all your money back to go get some White Castle. Then you’ll never touch this machine again.
There are more RPGs in existence than the current population of China. Not even the most devoted RPG fan could have sampled them all. Even yet, there were many which fell through the cracks under the bigger titles which were released. Here are 8 Role-Playing Games (in no particular order) you may or may not have forgotten:
Hours and hours of my pre-teen years were spent huddled in circles, dishing on mana cards from my black deck, owning all of those damn counter-spell blue decks people were using for awhile. Gradually, my relationship with Magic: The Gathering grew further and further apart.
Wizards Of The Coast has licensed Magic to be made into a video game for PCs, X-Box Live (both from Stainless Games) and Mac (from Mind Control Software). We’ve played the original Magic card game and the original computer game as well. We can only hope the new game is better than the original. — Andrew Dobrow
