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Thumb Wars: Episode 22: Gamer Resolutions 2013 Edition ,
Episode 22: Gamer Resolutions 2013 Edition
Welcome back to the show where we introduce the debate and you continue it. This week’s topic: Shaun & a host of special guests discuss their gaming-related personal & developer/publisher resolutions for 2013.
Thumb Wars is a weekly show hosted/produced by Shaun Kronenfeld dedicated to starting and encouraging dialogue and debate on a wide variety of topics within the video game industry. Look for a new Thumbs Wars every Sunday. Comments, opinions, and thoughts are not only welcome, they are the entire point. Feel free to follow Shaun on Twitter @bigred_13 if you feel so inclined.
My gaming resolution is simple: play and finish up as much games I still have on my shelf that I haven’t played yet as possible.
I have games there that I got, but haven’t touched them all the way back from 2009! not counting HD remastered games, of course, hopefully, I could finish at least half of them by the end of the year.
My resolution isn’t so much as playing new games but to replay ones that I haven’t had the luxury if playing for a long time.
This includes Sonic Adventure (my fave game of all time) Metroid Prime 3, Twilight Princess, Spyro 3, Mass Effect 1 – 3 (I have to play 3 really to complete the experience regardless of my disgust for the ending), Pokemon Snap, the two Pokemon Stadium games and Digimon World. I take good care of my discs and I never let them be anywhere besides in their cases or in the console but I fear that they and my 360, Gamecube and Wii will stop functioning eventually. Even my first 64 wore out and I got the replacement but I never disposed of the original one. All named games (save ME3) are games that I will always love to no end.
I really want to get into Resident Evil CODE Veronica but it obvious that I fell for the story and atmosphere and not the gameplay.
and also to finish a few games which I have yet to complete which are Xenoblade Chronicles, Pandora’s Tower and the Last Story.
As for company resolutions…it’s split 2 ways.
Free Bioware from EA an get Sega to concentrate on all of the other Ips that they love to ignore in favor of Sonic.
I’m not in to new years resolution but I’ll give some personal not for companies but instead for gamers.
- pre-ordering games are for suckers. That’s how Game companies get away with broken and/or bad video games. Once paid you can’t get it back. Be patient, wait for reviews and know what you get before buying it.
- this for fan communities. Love your companies or video game franchise but don’t be a fool and defend them if they’re exploiting you as consumers.
- Don’t go nuts on DLCs. They might look cheap but some are overpriced depending on what the content is. Including first release DLCs they are there for cash grabs when it doesn’t add replay value. If you do want to buy the game with all the DLCs on its first release best thing is be patient and wait for a re-release with DLC compatibility so that way it’s cheaper than buying the game and all its DLCs separately .
- you’re entitled to play any game you want but don’t get freaked out when someone gives analytic criticism and valid points on why the video games you happened to like are bad *cough* RE6 *cough*.
- this is for video game reviewers and critics…….you guys suck!……nah I ‘m just kidding but really act like mature adults when you get negative comments.
- As for me……..I’ll probably go back to past video games and get the ones I didn’t notice or didn’t get the chance to buy them at that time like maybe get Shadow of the Colossus, Persona 4, Zone of the Enders.
happy new year to all and go fucking play video games.
I don’t have any personal gaming resolutions. I’m fairly happy with my status as a gamer at the present time.
EDIT: Actually, I do have a resolution: play Ghostbusters for the XBox. I bought it on sale for $5 a couple of years ago, and haven’t even taken it out of the plastic wrap.
As for company resolutions, Capcom, quit trying to nickel-and-dime your customers to death; no more on-disk “DLC”, no more Ultra-Mega-Super-Turbo-Plus Editions of games that you should have released finished to start with. Instead, be more like TellTale Games, and adopt a customer-centered policy that will help your company in the long run instead of just ticking everybody off.
I don’t make resolutions really, but I did make some long term plans recently.
1. Get PC for gaming and video processing – should be done by march
2. Clear out my backlog – probably will never come close
3. Catalouge by entire game collection – already started no clue when I’ll finish
Hmm. I’ve never been given to resolutions, either, but I should probably try to actually…finish a few games. Usually I play at them until I loose interest and stop.
For developers? Square Enix needs to make a Dissidia title for the Vita. You can tell with Duodecim that the series is naturally leaning away from duels and toward party-vs-party, both in story and in gameplay. The PSP couldn’t do that, so they had to compromise with assists, but the Vita can do it, and add 3G multiplayer on top. That announcement alone might resurrect the Vita.
My resolution is to prepurchase DMC Devil May Cry for PC this year. Early year resolution, less chance I screw it up, besides this year is very important to my future career so there will be less time for gaming this year anyway.
As for the companies, I wish RiotGames to continue taking steps to improve the League of Legends community, which at this point by far the worst part of the game. Douchebagery of players is by far the most Legendary thing about it and it has kept many of my friends from really getting into the game. Currently I’m not playing, because I need to focus on other things, and I’m overall used to the atmosphere so it doesn’t bother me that much, but for the sake of the game and it’s players (especially the new ones) I hope it will improve.
New Years Resolution: I’ll take the quick and easy way out and say get through my backlog (that will never happen)
I have two resolutions for two different companies (theres more but I figure just limit it to two)
Atlus I want you to announce your localization of Eternal Punishment, you don’t even have to release it quickly just make it known that it’s being worked on and it will be released.
Konami give Silent Hill to somebody who actually gets Silent Hill, or just don’t touch the Silent Hill brand because you’ve been shitting on it for nearly a decade and you should feel bad.
Also still be hating on DMC’s design just looks ugly to me, I actually think it’s going to be fun though, at the very least more so then Devil May Cry 4. (Totally only mentioned that because you did)
I can’t say I really do new years resolutions per se, but I have been trying to do something for about a month now: keep in practice with fighting games. Since getting into the genre about two and a half years ago I’ve played them pretty sporadically, often for a month or so after one I really like comes out, then going back to one for a couple of weeks off and on in between releases. And I’m always rusty as all hell when going back to one, and it irritates me. I’ve come to love the genre, and I love getting better at it, so I’m going to try to keep in practice on at least one at all times. I’ve got several I like that I can rotate now to keep from getting bored with any one – UMvC3, BlazBlue, Persona 4 Arena, even Street Fighter x Tekken to a lesser extent, perhaps Skullgirls if its online isn’t totally dead yet – so I should be able to do that.
Also, with BlazBlue, I’ve been too indecisive on a new main since losing interest in Jin. So unless one of the new characters from Chrono Phantasma really grabs me when that comes out, I’m going to start maining the character I find the most fun, even if I can’t do her advanced stuff – and that’s Platinum the Trinity.
For forcing a resolution on a company, I’d go with making Capcom treat Mega Man better. Including, if it were possible, adding either classic or X to UMvC3 via DLC (I don’t even care if they don’t add a Marvel character alongside him), and putting the classic version into the next Super Smash Brothers game.
Don’t know if it could be called a resolution, but a hope I have: that DmC does poorly. Because even if it’s a good game – which it may well be – if it does well, that’s going to be what “Devil May Cry” will be from now on, and the original series and characters will be lost to us for the foreseeable future. And that, above all else, is what worries me about DmC.