Sometimes game franchises just disappear for years on end. It happens. Occasionally some will hand out renders or screen-shots just so we have some peace of mind that Duke Nukem: Forever is in fact not the biggest joke ever to be perpetrated via Photoshop. Others, however, are content to just fade into the mist. Such is the fate of the game featured in today’s Youtube Video of the Day, Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
Oftentimes I find myself thinking, “Geeze Nick, you sure have way too many games on your plate as is…what are you actively doing to keep yourself continually backlogged with titles?”
That’s when I generally end up calling up Kurt/Zander/insert another equally gaming-addicted friend and making a trip to Best Buy or GameStop. However, this isn’t always the most efficient way to discover that nothing remains (or that, remarkably, something still remains) for one to waste spend money on. Time is money…and so is gasoline, for that matter.
If there’s one thing I can say with great certainity about video games (other than the fact that I will never be good at any RTS title, and that Dead Rising will still have the worst ally AI of all time several eons from now) it’s that the gaming industry has mastered the art of viral marketing in a way that few other industries have.
Some people are afraid of changes.
Just ask Billy Corgan, or whoever that country singer was that sang the song before he covered it with the Pumpkins.
I, on the other hand, embrace change.
It’s a nice way of saying that you lack the focus, determination, and drive to stick with something without…well…typing exactly what I just typed.
Too many games these days attempt to provide us with a haughty and convoluted socio-political justification for massive destruction, as if tearing Paris apart in the name of one man is seemingly irresponsible. Yet, we all have our personal reasons behind our social (collective) actions, and Pandemic understands this perfectly.
Quick, name all of the good Spider-Man video games to date. Let me guess, you just listed off Spider-Man 2 in record-setting time, and are now stumbling around for a second.
No, you cannot count the Marvel: Ultimate Alliance titles or any of the Marvel vs. Capcom games.
I figured while working on my review of The Saboteur that I’d give all of you something else to peruse meanwhile, something akin to that all-too sticky issue of Highlights! in your dentist’s waiting room. Sure, it’s not the Swimsuit Edition of Sports Illustrated, but it’ll still keep you from having to make small talk with the 70+ old geezer whose been creepily staring your way for the past nine minutes, and who is no doubt envisioning X-rated fantasies involving the two of you. Was that analogy too in-depth? Oh, well.
Talk about bad timing. In celebration of actually not feeling like crap and that fact that being indoors when the weather actually is nice derives some sick sense of pleasure for me, I previously vowed that I was going to try to put out one post a day for an entire week…if only to give it a try.
Well…some of you are wrapping up Heavy Rain (or your umpteenth play-through of such) or Mass Effect 2, and others might have recently started up Final Fantasy XIII or God of War 3. A couple of you are working on completely obscure and aged gems like Wild Arms 3 or A Bard’s Tale (if you just so happened to stumble on this “diamond in the rough” as I did…great find on Bill’s part at GameBoss…seriously, even if you don’t know what you want to play next, Bill’s always got something interesting in stock).
So, there’s this thing called Deux Ex 3, and it’s been rumored/in the works/may or may not be happening for quite a while now. That is…until…okay, so this trailer is vague, and I can’t make any sense of it, but I’m willing to view this teaser trailer as the necessary “baby step” toward the creation of DE3.