Yeah, I really like Project X-Zone. It's not quite as awesome as a new standalone Valkyria or Sakura Wars title would be, but the fanservice delivers in a big way. I managed to snag the collectors' edition they had. Well worth getting.
I'd have figured TLOU would have been one you had already. I'd say it's probably the best survival horror game I've played since RE4 on Gamecube. It certainly plays like a cross between MGS and RE.
I used the Sorceress myself; my wife used the Amazon. Dragon's Crown was an absolute blast to play. I've also recently bought the digital version of Code of Princess, which is the 3DS's answer to Dragon's Crown and is a spiritual successor to Guardian Heroes.
A Link Between Worlds has a lot more new ideas and areas than I had thought based on impressions from critics. It's been a very engrossing ride so far, and by a long shot it's the 3DS game I've played the most. It's also a bit more open-ended than A Link to the Past is.
The Disgaea games are SRPG porn. Not in the sexual sense, but they take every SRPG mechanic you can think of and crank it up to 11. I have Disgaea 4 myself. Maybe I should pick this one up too.
MGSV will probably make my library. Bayonetta 2 definitely will be a day-one purchase. I'm going to download Phoenix Wright off the 3DS eShop and try it out, and if it's good, Layton vs. Wright may be an option. South Park might be good if they can ever get it out the door. Seems like it's been stuck in development hell since THQ tanked, but that's not the first time Obsidian has had trouble finishing a game, as much as I loved their work on Fallout: New Vegas.
Destiny... I'll definitely have to play a demo first. If I enjoy the demo enough, I might break down and get the game. FPS's are not prominent in my game library, but they do have their place there if they're enjoyable.
I actually kind of wish they'd come out with Retrons with CD-ROM drives that are capable of playing PlayStation/Saturn/Dreamcast/PS2/Gamecube games, especially now that backwards compatibility seems to be getting rarer and rarer.
This is true, but it's only part of the picture. The problem is that whether something is a fair price or not is a matter of perception, and when you're used to seeing $200, yeah, seeing $500 is going to hurt. There is nothing that can be done about simple human psychology, but it is what console makers must contend with, because their job is to persuade the consumer to agree that $500 is a fair price, not the consumer's job to accept $500 as a fair price, especially in a time when there are plenty of other options. The 3DO in particular was kind of a ripoff, but that doesn't make price complaints over the launch PS3 or Xbox One any less valid.
The other problem is that wages haven't kept place with inflation for the most part, so unless your last name is Gates or Buffett, $500 is still a lot of money for most people even if it's worth what $200 was in nineteen-something, and especially when there are other, much cheaper options. The mobile market, with all the freemium and 99-cent garbage glutting it, is also creating a race to the bottom. When someone tries to put out a good game on mobile platforms, one that's a little more involved and cost a bit more to make than matching three candies, buying darling dresses for your virtual paper dollies, or cutting strings to drop candy in some nondescript googly-eyed creature's mouth, people scream in protest all over the App Store and Google Play. Never mind trying to get those same people to invest $20 or $30 into games like Fire Emblem: Awakening or A Link Between Worlds.
I liked Ni no Kuni's battle system. It wasn't perfect in execution, but I thought it made the battles quite lively. Its battle system reminds me a lot of Tales, and maybe that's why I like it. It's also a lot like Level-5's great PS2 RPG, Rogue Galaxy. I'd love to see a spiritual successor to Ni no Kuni come to PS4. I do know Level-5 is working on a PS4 game.
I think Ni no Kuni is probably the closest we'll see to a console Pokemon, but its story does take a bit of time to pick up. That doesn't bother me in the slightest, because I like RPGs and most of them start at a leisurely pace, but your mileage may vary. Once you get more playable characters and collect more familiars the game really rocks.
I do love me some SRPGs, that's true, but The Last of Us was a great production from Sony. Hopefully they'll have something just as good in the works on PS4.
