True, but it was a much different time. Games sold on tech back then - that's not true these days. If they wanted to release in this fashion, the core game should've been free and people could augment their experience how they saw fit with DLC (aka, free-to-play model).
I agree with Michael117. Fatal Frame is far more terrifying than Silent Hill. It's not even that it's ghosts vs. monsters, Fatal Frame is just amazingly good at catching you off guard. I'm not one that's scared by much, but my first time with Fatal Frame 1 really threw me for a loop because it caught me so many times.
In that game, you're already in this creepy abandoned building in the middle of the woods and just when everything seems normal, you'll come back down a hallway you've been down before and all of a sudden you'll see a ghost girl hanging from the rafters on a noose. It's nuts and also unscripted, so you have no idea it's coming. As you progress through the game (which is loosely based on a true story) you'll read about all this messed up stuff that happened there and it really brings the whole experience to life.
Mechanically Fatal Frame 2 is a much better game, but I don't know that it's quite as scary as the first. The third sits somewhere between both, but I'll never forget the first - it's the only game to ever scare me.
I know people talk about how scary Amnesia is all the time, but I just found it really annoying and incredibly boring. You can barely see anything and you're constantly worrying about having enough oil to actually be able to see anything at all, it just gets really annoying. Since most of the time nothing is going on, it's always really obvious when a monster encounter is coming, which really destroys the effect.
Last thing - I see you have Parasite Eve on there. I never realized that was considered horror, but if you're creeped out by it to some degree, you should move it closer to the top, because I don't remember it having any random scares or anything like that.
If you can believe it, it's worse than that. There is no DLC right now, so they can't even nickel and dime you. I have no idea what the hell they were thinking with this game. I know what I'm thinking - this should've been delayed.
Bloobs?
That parody is exceedingly well done. I chuckled.
He's kind of an ass. This really hit home with me. Apparently we weren't ready for the greatness of Milo. It wasn't because the idea was stupid and fake.
Editor flub on my part! Sorry about that, I apparently can't add. I just fixed it up to read properly...
Definitely excited to find out what that special suprise is. Also very excited for this in general, though I'm a bit upset that they didn't include Deadlocked, as that's still considered mainline. Oh well, it's not that great of a game anyway.
You'd be surprised at how common this shit is. Totally awful.
Just got a chance to listen to this and it seems the article in question is just down on Final Fantasy XIII. I find the intense frustration around that game kind of amusing. I loved it as I felt it distilled RPGs down to their core essence, stripping away all of the extraneous nonsense that typically loses me.
It's not a game for everyone and I think the fact that they did something so bold with Final Fantasy mainline rubbed most people the wrong way. However, if nothing more, I think people need to recognize that it's an interesting experiment and an effort to shake up JRPGs, which are constantly complained about for not changing much.
In response to Angelo regarding Dragon Quest, I think the arrangement there is a bit different. For one, Dragon Quest is pretty niche here and after it failed for Square Enix with the DS release of DQ V, they wanted a safer route to bring these games to the west. Nintendo must've struck up some publishing agreement to get these titles as exclusives to their systems. Regardless, I feel like that series works pretty well on Nintendo consoles. Their main fan base supports games like that whereas those of the PS3 and 360 have moved on to western RPGs.
