February 4, 2013: wallet threat level space guns

Posted by on February 4, 2013 in Games

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This week it’s time to exercise your 2nd Amendment rights in space. Not only will you bear arms in Dead Space 3, you’ll build them, customize them, and take them apart to build new ones. Although this might sound like a gimmick, I can attest that it’s one heck of an effective gimmick. As far as horror games go, Dead Space 3 is about as effective as Resident Evil 5. That’s not a compliment. But as far as shooters with weapon progression and meaningful two-player co-op go, it’s also about as effective as Resident Evil 5. That is a compliment. A big one. I can understand that folks are irked at EA’s usual microtransactional meddling in the Dead Space economy. Yeah, it’s pretty crass. But it’s also easy to entirely ignore.

Fire Emblem is one of my least favorite SRPGs for how a story I couldn’t care less about is baked into a tactics system I couldn’t care less about. Does a lance trump a sword or an axe? Or vice versa? Even though I get to make my own character, Fire Emblem: Awakening on the Nintendo 3DS feels like any other Fire Emblem game. Make of that what you will.

A new Sly Cooper game — Thieves in Time, from the folks who made Secret Agent Clank — is out simultaneously for the PS3 and the Vita.

  • John Roberdeau

    How do you not even mention SimCity coming out tomorrow?

  • Ninyu

    Because it isn’t. March 5th is the release date.

  • John Roberdeau

    What?! I’ve been thinking it was February 5th for weeks! Uuuuuugh.

  • Barac Wiley

    I am genuinely shocked at you not liking Fire Emblem, Tom. There’s so much nuance and hard decision making to those games. Granted, I possibly make them (a lot) harder than I should by my twin tendencies to seek out 100% character completion and zero deaths, but even so.

    I suppose the fact that I do care about the story and I really appreciate games that meld story and mechanics as well as Fire Emblem does probably explains the difference of opinion, though.

    Mind you, I’m not picking up the new one. I don’t have a 3DS and I’ve 3 GBA entries, however many DS entries there are, the Gamecube one and the Wii one to get through before I even think about buying a new system for a Fire Emblem game.

  • anon

    “But it’s also easy to entirely ignore.”

    LIke the game then.

    Sly is a month and a half off in Europe for no discernable reason. Further, it has no buzz it seems. Sony’s really killing it.