Forum Overview :: Gamerasutra :: Ironic you would say that now

[quote name="Lizard_King"]since it is the first time a single month contains relevant exclusives with Infamous and Demon's Souls (import for now, will be released US in the Fall). Infamous seems to play like a hybrid of Crackdown and Assassin's Creed so far, with that sensible Sucker Punch approach to making platforming painless. It will probably run out of gas eventually, but based on first impressions I'm going to go ahead and rate it a moderate-to-good 80x better than GTA 4. A good part of that credit comes from simply having a checkpoint system, for those keeping score. Demon's Souls is probably the best RPG, best third person action game, and best survival horror title released this year, all in one. It's also the first attempt I've seen to update the roguelike genre in a way that intelligently adopts our modern day ability to save meaningful progress without compromising the feeling of crushing risk. So, yeah, it's an increasingly relevant joke. They need to stop dicking around with that Home bullshit and rip off the party and voice chat elements of XBL right away, though. I have like five PSN friends, but I'll be damned if coordinating multiplayer isn't the biggest pain in the ass I've seen since I abandoned the PC for non-single player games years ago. Note: that is a direct comparison to the state of PC gaming circa 2002, not whatever you are doing in Steam with your Steam friends Right Now. [/quote]