ASK_Story said:

Seeing the Ubisoft news above, you know, if Rainbow Six Vegas series is one of the highest selling franchises for Ubisoft, why haven't they made any more of them?

Yeah, I've been thinking about GRAW all week and how big that was earlier in the generation -- and how now it;s basically disappeared.

999 news posts and no good news for 1,000!

This is the video I recorded earlier in the week of Halo Reach AI.

This guy was stuck and because he wouldn't follow me I could not progress.

But it got worse, last night I was working my way across this bridge. The humans were standing at the foot of the bridge looking ahead and doing nothing. There were Brutes running about in front and behind them, not shooting either. They were like a metre away from each other and did absolutely nothing. And I could stand about 10 metres away and just watch this freak show.

aspro said:

Wait, the Red Steel franchise is at 2 million?

Well this is interesting because the first game sold 1.2 million.

Ubisoft slashed Red Steel 2 sales estimates to 500k before launch but this means it has sold 800'000 which has exceeded their expectations. The game was seen as a commercial  flop but these sales say otherwise.

Er... Gamasutra's most underated game of 2010 is:

said:

1. Sin and Punishment: Star Successor (Treasure/ Nintendo, Nintendo Wii)


          The sequel to one of the Nintendo 64’s strongest titles exhibits a great many of those traits that has maintained developer Treasure’s position as Japan’s leading boutique developer. This on-rails shooter, like so many other games in the company’s oeuvre, offers a relentless conveyor belt of inspired ideas, distinct, discrete moments of brilliance that dizzy the mind with their intensity and inventiveness.


          It’s un-sustainably expensive game-making, the fixed positions of enemies and immovable set-pieces leaving no room for padding with procedural battles. Rather, every moment in this rollercoaster ride of twitch shooting has been meticulously orchestrated with a brand of care and creative attention rarely seen today.


          As with its forebear, your character exists only on a 2D plane, firing into the screen as per Space Harrier. But the camera wheels and dives around, shifting perspective in ways that thrill and changing the language of interaction from side-scroller to top-down to vertical shoot-'em-up and back again.


          Being a Treasure game, the spectacle is buoyed by score attack mechanics that inspire repeat play long after the visual treats and surprises have grown cold. Despite the level of craftsmanship and inspiration, the game is perhaps something of an anachronism, its workmanlike graphical assets failing to draw the attention of the Wii audience.


          Nevertheless, Sin and Punishment: Star Successor is one of the strongest titles of the year, bold evidence that Japanese developers on many counts still produce the most thrilling and inventive video games for those with eyes to see.

I don't know what reviews they were looking at but this game got a boat load of 9/10 reviews.

travo said:

GG, have you played Fallout 3?  I know you're not online, but what is your gamertag?

I completed Fallout 3 a while back, and I did all but 3 of the sidequests. It's a decent game but I really love Oblivion so I couldn't help but compare.

I do have a gamertag, MS made me create one so I could send my 360 in for repairs but I can't remember it, I think someone else has the gamingeek tag already.

travo said:

Get you a new gamertag so we can add you.  You'll have to get online sometime soon.  I want  to plan a huge VGPress gaming night.

I don't even know how to hook this thing up to the internet, I don't have the cables and it's too far away for cables anyway. I wish it were wireless. But then the wireless signal from my router is too weak to go upstairs without the connection constantly being lost anyway. Just give up on me.

travo said:

Never!  Never leave a man behind!

I also have no headset.

I do have a hard drive now, with nothing on it but game saves.

Just finished RDR.