Mario Kart 8 is a likely candidate for me as well, although I must confess I was slightly disappointed with it. Possibly SSB, although I'll reserve judgement until I've played it.

Given that it's the start of a new generation, it's actually been a pathetically crap year for gaming so far. Neither the PS4 nor the Xbox One have much actually worth playing that wasn't already on the PS3 or 360, and the PC has been inundated with 1,001 indie puzzle platformers, pointless shovelware, endless P2W F2P shooters and RPGs, and numerous half-finished and deathly dull early access survival sims, the only decent game it having to show for itself being Divinity: Original Sin.

@hitmanactual: I think the main problem is that it is all we seem to be seeing at the moment. Aside from a few isolated titles, the bulk of the stuff that has been released on PS4 so far has been made up of superficial remakes.

The HD remasters on the PS3 from the PS2 at least provided tangible improvements - proper widescreen support, HD graphics and trophies. Meanwhile, the PS4 remasters seem to bump up the res from 720p to 1080p, increase the FPS slightly and...that's about it really. And unlike the HD remasters on PS3, they're actually charging full whack for individual games.

I've played through most of what I want to play on the PS4, and now it's collecting dust except for the occasional round of Resogun because I've already played most of what's coming out on the PS3. Now most of my playtime has been devoted to my Wii U, as it's the only system that seems to have any worthy games.

Sure, nobody is "forcing" us to buy these remakes, but when these remakes are taking the place of proper new releases, I do have to wonder what the point of next-gen really is.

Can't speak for Deus Ex 2 - haven't played it in ages - but the others all run perfectly on Win7 64-bit.

You may need to use imagecfg or something similar to force KOTOR to use a single core, or else the videos will probably cause the game to crash to desktop. The Steam version has the same problem and is identical in every way to the retail game.

Your point? 3DS was at a profit when it launched at $250. 3DS is still at a profit at the $170 price point.

I have articles to back up my claims while you are just using your own opinions, which my article is disproving.

Galileo wrote a paper that the Earth revolves around the Sun in the 1600s. Does that make it not true because it was written so long ago?

CajunShooter

Comparing the rotation of the earth to market forces is like comparing apples and oranges. Market prices, supply and demand change constantly. I'd be worried if the Earth's orbit did the same.

The core of your point is correct - Nintendo is still making a profit at $170 per unit - but it's naive to believe that the age of the article is immaterial.

Point in case - the PS3, which Sony was making a per-unit loss on to begin with, but thanks to changes in production processes, they managed to turn a profit on each console sold by finding ways to reduce production costs. And this was before the Slim came out.

Nintendo will almost likely have found a way between then and now to optimise their production costs.

Bully: Scholarship Edition. Refused to run on any PC that didn't have hardware accelerated audio (so pretty much any PC running onboard sound). Wasn't patched properly until a year later, at which point all the stores were already selling the game at €5.

If it's flat out rebooting your PC (as opposed to a simple crash-to-desktop), chances are you have defective hardware or hardware drivers. My gut feeling tells me to check your graphics card / ForceWare drivers. Update them if you don't have the most recent ones, try and downgrade a version or two if you do have the most recent ones already.

Ditto.

I don't post on the forums much these days, but there is something I feel that has to be mentioned. I don't have a problem with the iPad or iPhone or its games, but does anyone else have a problem with shovelware screenshots for these two platforms filling up the front page en mass? I thought the front page was supposed to be for the most interesting stories?

That is very unfortunate with the German government being full of backwards folk. Still, you guys can import from the UK without facing scrutiny, correct? It's good to be in the EU. I will gladly provide you with UK websites that won't rip you off and provide uncensored games to boot if you want.

Hexagon_777

Actually most people get their indexed wares from Austria, as Austria is often the only country with companies that allow for bank transfers from German bank accounts. Besides, not everyone here speaks English as well as I do :)

Also, I don't have a credit card or Switch card, so I'm usually stuck with Austria, except perhaps for PayPal and eBay (which I often use to import games out of the UK).

Germany doesn't permit the sale or advertising of banned games but gamers can still import these games from what I know.

Hexagon_777

The 'banning' of any media is illegal in Germany (the last time anything was 'banned'/verboten was during the Third Reich) so the government gets around this by 'indexing' (Indizierung) or 'confiscating' (Beschlagnahme) products. It's a unique idea - you're allowed to own the material, but you either have to know it exists first without being informed of it (indexing) or have to obtain it without buying it while you're in Germany (confiscation).

Now, technically, it is illegal for any company around the world to deliver indexed games to an address in Germany without conclusive proof of age (obviously next to impossible, although an expensive system to achieve this has been introduced), confiscated games are not allowed to be delivered full stop. In practice, however, there's no stopping it. The post secrecy act (Postgeheimnis) makes it illegal for any post to be opened or scanned except by the recipient unless the authorities have good reason to suspect it being illegal. A DVD case is not such a reason. Also, buying games within the EU is subject to the free trade area agreement (Schengen) and so the German government would be in violation of EU law if they prevented anyone from buying from the UK. They tried this by threatening Amazon UK and failed miserably.

It is. Germany's up there too. Then again, Germany has an 18+ rating! :lol:

Hexagon_777

Don't kid yourself. Look up first what we in Germany get stuck with for 18 ratings. The vast majority of 18 rated games here in Germany are heavily censored versions of existing titles, and many shooters don't even make it here. Some companies (like Microsoft) have even refused to release titles in Germany if they don't get rated and declined to release censored versions, simply because they usually don't sell. 19 games were indexed (banned for sale in the open, so they're sold much like porn DVDs in the US) in 2009 alone, with three of them being outright ban candidates (in fact, I think Left 4 Dead 2 and Modern Warfare 2 have been banned outright now in their uncensored versions).

Interesting to note is that, in some cases, the MA15+ Australian release is identical to the German USK 18 release.

That's not where it stops though. Gamers in Germany are regularly discriminated against and are always portrayed by the media as being anti-social, violent, sociopaths (of course, egged on by the government). Germany is the only country in Europe that refuses to recognise computer and video games as an artform (again, we have successive governments to thank for this) and numerous German-based development studios have been bombarded by the press and government, and in some cases even harassed.

The media are permitted to use World War 2 material to portray the Nazis, providing that they don't glorify them or play down the atrocities. The one medium that this does not apply to is gaming, in which it is forbidden to talk about Nazis, use the Swastika or even show Adolf Hitler The Nazis in WW2 games like Medal of Honor are not Nazis, but "Germans".

It's nothing to do with the German bureaucracy's aversion to violence - Quantum of Solace, the movie, got rated 12, the game got rated 18 for the same level of violence.

Australia's got it easy in comparison.