In my opinion, this is great news. This means he's no longer chained to Sony and can basically pursue what he wants on whatever platform he wants.
You gotta wonder what led to this though.
On the topic of multiple saves:
I personally keep a minimum of 3 save files going in any RPG I play in case I get stuck. It's a habit from my 8bit days I think, but I've found it still applies to modern games. The most recent example was what got me so frustrated I quit playing Shin Megami Tense: Devil Survivor. I'm just gonna copy and paste from my blog entry over at 1up:
Not that anybody even looks at this crap, but I stopped playing Devil Survivor because the game screwed me over and didn't even pay me for the service. Seriously, one save slot? Who over at Atlas had that dumb ass idea! I was in a situation where I had to find Mari's bag of demon killing dust then meet her and do stuff. After doing all the legwork and other missions required to get the mission and find the dust, I tried to do the actual demon killing mission once, failed, then discovered a former party member that went rogue was around and figured I'd to that mission first, then come back to the hot teacher in need of help. I saved his stupid ass, then accidentally saved the game. Lo an behold, the mission I actually wanted to do was GONE, and since you get ONE BLOODY SAVE SPOT I'm stuck with a dumbass party member who I never even really liked and I can't find out more about the other character I was actually interested in. SCREW THIS. I couldn't go back to it, so now my DS has the Mega Man X collection inside it.
So... am I gonna have a dialogue wheel when I send my engineer to take over a factory now or what?
From what I've heard, I'd be very excited to try The Last Story, but I would probably pass on Pandora's Tower.
I should probably state that I am a pretty big JRPG nerd. I'll tolerate more weird "Japaneeseness" in my games than I probably should, but I just blame that on growing up a console gamer in the 80's and playing mostly Japanese games.
10 bucks says the shooting mechanics suck :DThat's a pretty awesome trailer though, and whatever those enemies are, they sure are freaky. They did a good job letting you feel the tension. I sure hope Naughty Dog does the 'everyday normal guy' thing a little better than they did Nathan Drake though. He's crossed the line way over into superhuman in my opinion.
Hideous name, fantastic studio. Now I'm interested.
Someone needs to engrave this on the tombstone for creativity in gaming.
Yeah, but God of War has always felt more button-mashy than precision focused to me. I'd defiantly say that's a personal viewpoint though, plenty of people love God of War's combat.
This is very unlike BioWare. I'm not a huge fan of their games as I'm more of a console gamer, but I suspect there might have been a little bit of a rush put on by their publisher once they found out they had a hit on their hands with the original Dragon Age. I can't find any evidence of this though, just more internet conjecture.
