And now, Part 2 of this week’s Perspective, giving the virtual wag of the finger, tip of the hat concerning recent PS3 news…
Here are the YEAs and NAYs:
NAY to the Sony Defense Force at N4G: For the record, the only non-Sony gaming hardware that I own is a Nintendo DS. I stand by my criticism of the Qore program and of the Premium Themes. I do understand (and I noted in the column) that the demos offered by the Qore program eventually become free to the rest of the PSN userbase; however, that doesn’t excuse Sony charging a fee for a promotional product that was free at one time. Qore‘s editorial content is also frequently uninteresting and there are cheaper ways to access media for upcoming games. The piece was a Sony criticism and not necessarily a Microsoft-to-Sony comparison.- YEA to the now-live patch for Grand Theft Auto 4, which has added Trophy support. It is unfortunate that the Trophies are not retroactive, but this update will likely spark players to dust off their copies of the game or incite PS3 owners who don’t own the game (such as myself) to consider adding it to their libraries.
- NAY to Neversoft and Activision: Speaking of Trophy support, can anyone from either of these two entities give me even one good reason why Guitar Hero: World Tour does not support Trophies, while Rock Band 2 does? I didn’t think so. Even though I believe a patch will be forthcoming, the fact that it’s not on the disc to begin with is inexcusable.
- YEA to Koji Igarashi and his Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia crew: Apparently, IGA got sick of players walking through his recent Castlevania efforts with little resistance because OoE‘s difficulty is among the toughest that I’ve ever experienced in a Castlevania game, dating back to the NES trilogy. In spite of more than a few periods of frustration and many, many deaths, I find myself continuing to keep devoting time into the game; it makes the victories against tough bosses or progress through difficult sections of the game that much more rewarding.
That’s it for this week’s Perspective… but I’ll be back next week. I’m sure you can find a few games to play until then :-)
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