Are you buying the PS4 and Xbox One?

Eventually. I eventually get everything. I have the entire Panzer Dragoon series, including an MIB copy of Mini and a boxed white Panzer Dragoon Orta Xbox, so I'm pretty much obliged to get an Xbox One for Crimson Dragon, despite the reviews.

Looking far more forward to what Valve is up to, though.

 

I'm getting a bit sick of those "hardcore games" but probably will be getting the XBO and PS4 eventually. But for now I play my retro games and WiiU with it's great future releases and it's eshop with some great titles.

 

Colour me jelly.

 

As someone who also has virtually every piece of PD merchandise imaginable (and then some), I hate to say it but CD is a huge disappointment. It seems like Futatsugi was more interested in the leveling up of dragons than making a coherent game. As a result, the game plays more like a proof-of-concept than a complete game.

And then there's the final boss... which is like, Planet Joker bad.

My entire reason for getting an Xbox One was for Crimson Dragon, I mean, how could it be bad? You've got Futatsugi, Kusunoki, Saori Kobayashi, and I want to say Tomohiro Kondo's new (that is, the one he made when he left Team Andromeda) company involved (and maybe more people, I haven't spent much time looking into it), so surely it has to be better than Orta.

Nope. I do hope Futatsugi goes ahead and makes Crimson Dragon Saga, and I would love it if he would make a Crimson Dragon that is an actual full game, because great ideas are there, they're just clouded by horrible ones. Though from everything I've read his next project will likely be Phantom Dust 2. Can't hate on that.


As for the next-gen debate, I'd take the Wii U over the PS4 or Xbox One at this point. Best 3D Mario in ages and the best 3D Sonic ever have the Wii U looking pretty good right now. Then next year sees the new Donkey Kong Country, Mario Kart, and maybe SSB... gonna be a good time. Meanwhile the Xbox One will get Titanfall and the PS4 will get... something-or-another.

Granted, Xbox One had a good launch. Dead Rising 3 is damn good, Ryse is a nice launch title, and Killer Instinct will be fantastic once they finish it in March.

 

I ordered an Xbox One a good few months ago. I picked up Dead Rising 3 and Killer Instinct and could not be happier. DR3 removed the horrible time limits that stopped me from playing the first 2 for any length of time. I've already beaten it and immediately dove right back in, something I don't normally do. Killer Instinct is absolutely incredible and I expect people to have an insane reaction to the matches during Evo. I ran my cable box through it as well and it works great. Great launch games, upcoming stuff looks intense, and I couldn't be more stoked. I really didn't care about anything Sony offered.

 

No, they just made them longer. It's better, but the time limits are still there.

 

I've never understood why people think Orta is such a bad game. Personally I love it, and I think it's one of the best games on the Xbox. I haven't really played the first 3 games much (though I own 1 and Zwei), so I don't know much about how the story relates to them, but the gameplay is great, and the graphics are really impressive for an Xbox game.

 

I own all the Panzer Dragoon games although I do play Orta on the 360, not an actual XBOX but I too can't understand all the negativity surrounding it. It's a great game. Some people just bitch to bitch.

 

I've played Orta on both and an original Xbox and a 360, and I think the emulation is pretty accurate, EXCEPT (and this is important) it usually crashes near the end of the game. At least it did the last time I tried to play it - maybe they've fixed it since then.

 

I'll be getting an Xbox One when Halo 5 or Battlefront 3 is out. Right now no games interests me. :/

 

It was a huge step down from PD and PDIIZwei and the story was fucking retarded (and completely ruined Saga's beautifully depressing ending). Even Yukio Futatsugi (who is the father of the series and had nothing to do with Orta) said he wished they hadn't tried to continue the plot of Saga because they got it wrong. Though I don't even consider it canon, the original trilogy's plot ends with Saga, Orta is just a fanfic or some shit.

My view on the (rail-shooter) PD games is along the lines of "less is more": I don't need to morph my dragon into various forms to manage different areas and I don't need to raise 10 different dragons so I can have all the elements at my fingertips for elemental weaknesses (Crimson Dragon). Shit like that is just too cluttery IMO.

If it wasn't a PD game, I wouldn't be so hard on it. But it is, and on that end it completely failed.

Though Crimson Dragon just fails as a game. :|

 

I honestly didn't pay much attention to the story when I was playing it. It has beautiful graphics and fun gameplay - to me that's more important than the story in a game like that.

 

Well:
1. PD is my favorite game series of all time. As in, I own every soundtrack, every strategy guide, every version of every game, every promotional item I know of, etc. etc. etc.
2. I already explained why I didn't like the gameplay when compared to the originals. Quite frankly, even the boss fights and level design were a step down from the originals.

Though it does look good and has a nice soundtrack (granted, that was done by the same people who did the Saga soundtrack). Though the lack of Kusunoki's artwork in there is apparent, and is another downfall of it for me.

Oh, another hit on Crimson Dragon:
Kobayashi's soundtrack was apparently butchered by an American producer for Crimson Dragon. >_< The original soundtrack only produced by her is in the mobile game, but the Xbox One game's soundtrack was apparently "westernized". Bah!

 

Not even Forza 5 with the $60 DLC Lamborghini?

 

Nah, I never got into Forza. For racing games I stick with Burnout or Mario Kart. =)

 

Gonna jump in here a bit late so excuse me if I repeat someone's point.

I'll most likely end up buying a PS4. I've never liked Xbox, and the whole Kinect "always on" is just too much for me. I'm the sort of person who puts tape over his webcam just in case. An all seeing, all hearing camera that can't be disconnected? No thank you. Not to mention I much prefer the Playstation line overall, and I've been a buyer for almost every single console while it was still in production (missed the PS1).

For now, I won't buy either. I don't have a TV of my own, they're still overpriced on Craigslist, and I just don't have the time to sit down and have a worthwhile time gaming. When the summer comes the used prices will drop as supply exceed demand, I'll have some actual free time, and hopefully I'll have a TV by then.

That in combination with some new titles and it'll be a good time to buy.

 

You know they changed that policy, right? Kinect is no longer required, except for games that use it. You don't have to have it plugged in at all. It does, however, come with the Xbox One whether you intend on using it or not - which is probably why it's $100 more expensive than the PS4.

One thing I'd like to add about the two consoles: I've seen them both in person, and the PS4 is significantly smaller than the Xbox One, which I think is a good thing. I also like its design a lot more. The Xbox One looks like an old VCR. The PS4 looks futuristic.

 

Well, I still don't like it. /stubborness

Anyone would say that about the Xbox- it is an atrocious looking machine. It's very bland and distasteful, and while people say it's intended to blend in with the rest of your TV boxes, I feel like if it's that expensive wouldn't you want people to know it's there? Sony had the right idea, and the design itself is functional- the angled edges in the back prevent the system from pressing right up against the wall, stopping two things from happening- cables bending sockets and causing unnecessary stress, and cooling vents being blocked completely.

I've seen the Xbox in person too- I'd say it's a LOT smaller than the PS4!


This was in Downtown Vancouver for a bit, very close to a friend's apartment. I had a great time laughing at it and recalling all the "Xbox huge" jokes from 2001.

 

proberbly neither im just gonna get a psvita ^^

 

I actually like the way it looks for some reason, maybe it's because when I was a kid every cool electronic thing was a big black box, so basically looking like a VCR would be in its favor.