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US Sees Blockbuster Games Release Week
If you've been looking forward to a game's release, odds are that it's coming out this week. Gamasutra has the full list of titles hitting stores in the next few days, and it's a tsunami of gaming goodness. Assassin's Creed, Mario Galaxy, and Crysis are probably the three headlining titles, but no console is spared the deluge. PC Highlights: EverQuest: Secrets of Faydwer, EverQuest II: Rise of Kunark, Kane and Lynch, SimCity Societies. PS3 Highlights: Assassin's Creed, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Kane and Lynch, Beowulf. 360 Highlights: America's Army: True Soldiers, Assassin's Creed, Beowulf, BlackSite: Area 51, Kane & Lynch. Wii Highlights: Mario Galaxy, Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles, Geometry Wars: Galaxies.
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Perhaps this counts as "last week", but what about Sam and Max 201 - Ice Station Santa?
with just one title too (there may be more, but really, who cares):
Mass Effect.
Not to understate the release of Mario Galaxy, for that is a title almost a decade in the waiting. But for some reason, when it comes down to it, I'm probably even more excited about Mass Effect... even though I traditionally don't like American RPGs. If a jRPG/Wii freak like me can be converted to the dark side by this... I can only guess how huge this game is going to be.
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I predict that ET on the Virtual Console is going to eat up all the hype. It might even be the biggest entertainment launch in history.
I used to think a six hour game length (CoD4) was much too short. I'm beginning to understand a little better now why we need them that low.
Actually I'm glad all these games are coming out. Not just to play them, but the modability of these new engines should be great.
Let me be the first to say:
[My game platform of choice] totally r00lz, and is going to pwn the game market this year! On the other hand, [your preferred game platform] is ugly, hard to use, buggy, and will soon be remembered as the game platform nobody can remember!
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Mass Effect will be released two days after the end of this week, on November 20. Truly, this is when the "next-generation" consoles get into their own with quality releases and hopefully the PS3 will finally shape up, as well.
is coming out on PC, too.
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Don't forget last week and the week after this one. It sucks, during Sept 24th - Nov 20th I am going to have spent over 500 dollars on games. And I already own the two consoles I buy for. Oh well, the fact that there are enough good games in that short a time span is probably one of those "good problems".
in the economy, as if millions of checkbooks cried out in terror, and were suddenly empty.
With use of the word "blockbuster" I thought this article would involve Blockbuster Video. And, well, Blockbuter Video is going the way of the dinosaur. Would have used any word but blockbuster. Wait until the company dies out for a few years, than we can use it as a generic non-TM word. :)
SimCity Societies
COD 4
World in Conflict
Supreme Commander Expansion
Orange Box
Crysis
NWN 2: Mask of the Betrayer
Empire Earth 3
Hellgate: London
The Witcher
F.E.A.R Perseus Mandate
All of that in a what, 3 month period. My bank account is crying uncle already! That doesn't even include games I'm less interested in like UT3, ET:QW, etc.
I don't remember the last time there were this many all at once..
Maybe not, I dunno. With movies, conventional wisdom said that the audience would only see a couple movies in a summer so every studio was competing for a fixed number of viewings. What the studios later came to realize was that demand was fairly elastic: put out 2 good movies and they'll be watched, put out 20 good movies and they'll be watched. Conversely, put out no good movies and you won't get many viewers. The thing is, a movie doesn't take up anything more than an evening. Unless people are that fickle with their full-priced games, it should take them longer than that to properly experience the thing.
I guess that would be an interesting statistic: for the game-buying public, especially the ones that drop the full price when the games come out, how long do they typically stick with a game before getting bored and buying a new one? If two games they think the'll like come out on the same weekend, will they buy both the same day or pick one to play and get the other one once it's half-price some months later?
Since there are so many more adult gamers now, I'd imagine the purchase cycle isn't driven as much by birthdays and Christmas as when gamers were mostly kids.
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"You mean like a [sufficiently sized] monitor to fit [two to four] people around?"
What is a good flat-screen gaming monitor for someone visually impaired (nearsighted)? The ones on spike tv look expensive.
My wallet is so gonna be crying after the next two weeks. It's not fair I have to pick up these hot games. WHY?
I looked everywhere today for MOH:H 2 for the Wii but they all said they wouldn't be getting copies in until tomorrow (14th).
Sigh. I'm ready for a good shooter on the Wii. IGN has been raving about how the controls are better than Metroid on the Wii so I gotta check this out.
I guess shipping WWE to stores today was higher priority than shipping MOH.