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Curse The Spring Videogame Famine

GTA 3 alternate coverThere are two things that suck about Spring The morning allergies due to all the grasses and plants that are now blooming can be countered with some now OTC antihistamines. That is easily solved but the other issue is a bit more complex. The Spring Videogame Famine.

Stopped by my local videogame store and the picking of new games in the Spring is pretty slim. Of course they are still getting in some new games but the "must have" and "crapped my pants it is so cool" games have dried up for the time being.

I mean there is a trickle of new games and there are plenty of good games on the market but no game company is releasing their best and brightest A-list game in the spring time. We will defiantly have to wait until the Summer and Winter for the real big games to hit the shelves.

SNK vs Capcom SVC Chaos is not going to be out until September and Grant Theft Auto : San Andreas is not until October. Hell at least I have River City Ransom EX on GBA to look forward to this May. While I am mentioning SNK vs Capcom in the US what the hell happened to the PS2 version of the game? As of now there is only the Xbox version listed at the game store catalogs and I will be dammed if I have to get another Xbox for a Capcom fighting game.

There is no way that the current generation of software has plateaued and I know that there are good game to be expected from the PS2 and Gamecube. Ah well perhaps I can fall back on actually playing the games that I already own for a bit rather than contemplating future releases. I mean I still have yet to destroy all the espresso stands in GTA 3.

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Posted by: santokh samra at March 24, 2004 12:39 AM

This is exactly why I need to have some form of comment registration or review

Posted by: Jake at March 24, 2004 12:40 AM

At least we have Beats of Rage and a steady stream of excellent looking BoR mods on the Dreamcast to look forward to, especially Megaman War of the Past (pretty much a new beta release every week) and Castlevania Symphony Of Destruction (no more betas until the final this summer). For the first time ever I'm actually glad for this yearly temporary quiet time, gives me time to catch up with a few titles I didn't pick up during the holidays. But you're right, it's really bad this year, not even Ninja Gaiden and MGS: The Twin Snakes can turn the tide this early.

Posted by: InsaneDavid at March 24, 2004 2:12 AM

I'm still pissed that Gradius V was delayed... again. Would have been a nice spring-time release. Anyway, other than that, I'm finding my plate more than full during this famine period, and with FFXI coming out I doubt I'd have any time left for other games anyway.

Posted by: nowak at March 24, 2004 5:29 AM

Spring famine?? No way.. I just picked up Unreal Tournament 2004 and soon Syberia 2 will be released. There seems to be a lot of good upcoming titles for the PC, but then again I haven't noticed much on the console scene excepts perhaps for Ninja Gaiden.

Posted by: wuji at March 24, 2004 6:31 AM

Seriously man, you're nuts.

Today alone Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, Final Fantasy XI and FarCry ship. Last week saw Battlefield Vietnam and UT2004. The previous week was Ninja Gaiden.

The fallout from Christmas (those games that didn't make the rush) has made february - may the second best time of the year.

Other big-name releases in the last two months:

Phantasy Star Online Ep. 3
007: Everything or Nothing
The Suffering
Breakdown
Rise to Honor
Drakengard
Champions of Norrath: Realms of EverQuest
Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance II
Metroid: Zero Mission
Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles
Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes

After May it's a veritable dead zone until fall, but enjoy this time of year, man!

Posted by: jason at March 24, 2004 7:30 AM

I said Videogames not PC games. The graphics chip in my Notebook PC will not play newer PC games and I don't have an Xbox anymore. I already have Metroid: Zero Mission and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles. I want to rent and try Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes to see if it was my time

But I do think that most Videogame console publishers are holding off on their best games until the Post E3 summer at the soonest.

Posted by: Jake at March 24, 2004 8:30 AM

Hey, don't blame me if you can't play any of the big titles released this month. But that doesn't mean they're not coming out. :)

Anyway, the year can be broken down into four sections:

- Holiday season
- Post holiday, pre-E3
- E3
- Post E3, pre holiday

90% of the biggest games tend to be released during the holiday season, although publishers are finally starting to see that this is a bad thing. I think the lousy performance of some major games last year (Prince of Persia being the most glaring example) has finally made them wise up to this.

Post-holiday has become big thanks to all the games that didn't make Christmas. Other than that, it's a wasteland of scattered releases until later in the year.

Posted by: jason at March 24, 2004 8:52 AM

Hi, my first time here and I think you're nuts too. :) Out of the 17 games Jason listed, only 3 of them were PC exclusive. I can't afford all the games I want to get now, much less have the time to play them. Maybe it's burnout and not a famine.

Posted by: lstr at March 24, 2004 2:49 PM

Of those 17 games I already have two and only interested in one more.

Posted by: Jake at March 24, 2004 3:03 PM

Jake,
You should try older PC games that you did not consider before. May I suggest Neverwinter nights, or NO one lives forever series. Just check the Bargain bin, there's always good stuff there.

Posted by: scott at March 24, 2004 4:29 PM

Oh I have plenty to play that is not a problem.

Posted by: Jake at March 24, 2004 4:46 PM

I think that you're right and everyone else is wrong -- there is a serious lack of quality games to play right now. Fortunately for myself, I'll always have games to fall back on (my fiance and I own over 150 current-generation games), but if you've been efficient and beating all of your games and waiting for the next big wave... well, it's not coming until mid-May at best.

And Drakengard? Rise to Honor? I don't know if "A-list" is the right word for those.

Posted by: Umi at March 24, 2004 10:14 PM

I have to agree with Jason. I don't think we're in a famine. Four major titles released this week alone. I think one of the problems is you traded in your XBOX. Ninja Gaiden alone was worth the XBOX and now Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow is out as of yesterday. Don't forget the new Tenchu for the XBOX and Pokemon Colosseum for the Cube. I am not so big on FFXI due to the online factor, but a lot of my customers are excited about it. After this month, there isn't hardly anything coming out except Resident Evil Outbreak and Madden 2005. Woo-hoo! Nope, the next big thing I can even think of we don't even have a solid date for, and that's Gran Turismo 4 and Halo 2.

Posted by: Mici at March 25, 2004 8:35 AM

Well if I can't get a PS2 or Dreamcast version of SNK Vs Capcom SVC Chaos will have to get another damn Xbox

Posted by: Jake at March 25, 2004 8:38 AM

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