PGR2 featured car damage, as did Forza Motorsport. So did the Rallisport Challenge games, and I'm pretty sure you could flip a Ferrari in Outrun 2. Even games like Sega GT and Test Drive Unlimited feature gameplay-related consequences for reckless driving, something Gran Tourismo doesn't bother with. That's not even getting into the PC stuff like GTR.
It's not a matter of the car makers not wanting car damage. It's a matter of Polyphony Digital being content with the gradual tweaking of GT1 for the past 10 years.
Yeah, I'm sure the guys at Bizarre are heartbroken thier launch day arcade racer released a year ago isn't getting the same attention as a free edition of the GT series.
No, wait-- if the guys who make the PGR games are racing game fans (and logic dictates they must be)-- what they're really dispondent over is that after 10 years, all Polyphony Digital has really been able to do is put better reflective surfaces onto thier cars than Bizarre.
I love GT, GT4 is the reason I finally broke down and picked up a Slimline PS2, but until a working car damage system is implemented-- something Sega GT on the Dreamcast holds to this day over the Gran Turismo games-- it's really hard to take GT HD seriously anymore. And that's not even getting into other advancements made such as driving lines, more than six cars on the track and working driver AI.
Sure, Reggie's telling us "no drought", but outside of the core franchises-- Metroid, Mario, and Kirby-- has Nintento announced any 1st party games for the Wii?
I don't know that Nintendo is able to provide the DS and Wii with the same level of support. If they truely want to truely avoid fears of a game drought between Mario/Metroid/Zelda/Pokemon, then they need to start showing they're grabbing 3rd party exclusive support.
It's not like this is something Square just now started doing this, there were arbitrarily hidden sidequests and weapons dating back at least as far as FFVI (and probably earlier.) This is just something Square does, it's not intended to drive strat guide sales, it's there to provide the illusion of depth.
Besides, the Zodiac Spear isn't that great a weapon. You can do more damage with easier to obtain weapons that strike more per round-- the Zodiac Spear is the hardest hitter in a single swipe, but it's slow.
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I don't think there really is a US equivalent to Famitsu-- No one has taken EGM seriously, Game Informer is so horrid they have to give away subscriptions, and Play readily gives out 7/8/9's to any dreck even remotely Japanese in nature.
Edge is easily the English-language equivalent to Famitsu, if not in popularity at least in quality. It isn't so much that they're all that terrific-- it's just that gaming journalism is so abhorrent that it manages to rise above everything else by succeeding at being competent.
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That "Gaming Journalism" is as much an oxymoron as "Jumbo Shrimp".
PGR2 featured car damage, as did Forza Motorsport. So did the Rallisport Challenge games, and I'm pretty sure you could flip a Ferrari in Outrun 2. Even games like Sega GT and Test Drive Unlimited feature gameplay-related consequences for reckless driving, something Gran Tourismo doesn't bother with. That's not even getting into the PC stuff like GTR. It's not a matter of the car makers not wanting car damage. It's a matter of Polyphony Digital being content with the gradual tweaking of GT1 for the past 10 years.
Yeah, I'm sure the guys at Bizarre are heartbroken thier launch day arcade racer released a year ago isn't getting the same attention as a free edition of the GT series. No, wait-- if the guys who make the PGR games are racing game fans (and logic dictates they must be)-- what they're really dispondent over is that after 10 years, all Polyphony Digital has really been able to do is put better reflective surfaces onto thier cars than Bizarre.
I love GT, GT4 is the reason I finally broke down and picked up a Slimline PS2, but until a working car damage system is implemented-- something Sega GT on the Dreamcast holds to this day over the Gran Turismo games-- it's really hard to take GT HD seriously anymore. And that's not even getting into other advancements made such as driving lines, more than six cars on the track and working driver AI.
Sure, Reggie's telling us "no drought", but outside of the core franchises-- Metroid, Mario, and Kirby-- has Nintento announced any 1st party games for the Wii? I don't know that Nintendo is able to provide the DS and Wii with the same level of support. If they truely want to truely avoid fears of a game drought between Mario/Metroid/Zelda/Pokemon, then they need to start showing they're grabbing 3rd party exclusive support.
It's not like this is something Square just now started doing this, there were arbitrarily hidden sidequests and weapons dating back at least as far as FFVI (and probably earlier.) This is just something Square does, it's not intended to drive strat guide sales, it's there to provide the illusion of depth. Besides, the Zodiac Spear isn't that great a weapon. You can do more damage with easier to obtain weapons that strike more per round-- the Zodiac Spear is the hardest hitter in a single swipe, but it's slow.
I don't think there really is a US equivalent to Famitsu-- No one has taken EGM seriously, Game Informer is so horrid they have to give away subscriptions, and Play readily gives out 7/8/9's to any dreck even remotely Japanese in nature. Edge is easily the English-language equivalent to Famitsu, if not in popularity at least in quality. It isn't so much that they're all that terrific-- it's just that gaming journalism is so abhorrent that it manages to rise above everything else by succeeding at being competent.