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The Skies Above to return (http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/01/new-black-mages.html).
If there isn't Norwegian cock rock on this album I am going to be SO disappointed.
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Which brings me back to an ever cycling question of mine.
The Advantage. Drop dead boring due to precision, or zoned out boring due to cover choices?
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Column C.
seriously, the advantage :fail:
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Rock Band confirmed for Brawl. (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3165798)
Plus, continued support through '09.
Give me your honest opinion. Do you foresee these musical simulators continuing on year after year, or are they going to burn out within a holiday season or two?
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A year or two? I'm not sure, there's lots of fun and challenging music to fantasize about playing... But... There is only so much. Eventually it, and the interest will be stretched to the point where it's no longer satisfying.
... Then again, sports games have turned into RPGs, going so far as to include the most useless of stats (charisma, Pfft!), so... who knows?
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I figure that they'll eventually just cook up a quick and dirty (official) way for people to make and import songs into the game.
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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3sdgg_guitarrising_music
Once someone tosses in some billboard toppers & brings it to console, it's :gameover:
As it is now, not so much.
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What about TMBG in Sims 2 (http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/10/tmbg-natasha-bedingfield-headline-sims-2-freetime-soundtrack/)?
(http://www.corporate-sellout.com/thad-han-flansy640.jpg)
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They were originally going to have a wedding band, but they called them off because nobody wants to hear that one again. Also, rumor has it that said band had such a strange obsequious manner that some guys in EA wanted them killed. So hey, good news for all parties involved.
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It turns out that they're making Mass Effect for the PC (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6185882.html) after all. So, how long after the initial release will it take for hackers to figure out how to replace Liara's normal character model with the naked one from the sex scene? Days, or merely hours?
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Spore release date announced! :approve:
...for September 9. :oh:
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It turns out that they're making Mass Effect for the PC (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6185882.html) after all.
It was only a question of when. So, six months. Slower than the KotOR 1 & 2 four month and two month waits, but far sooner than the Jade Empire twenty-two month wait.
And no, Target will not be removing copies due to Fox News (http://www.joystiq.com/2008/02/12/rumorong-target-not-pulling-mass-effect/). :slow:
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Spore release date announced! :approve:
...for September 9. :oh:
:MENDOZAAAAA: :hurr: :fail: :omg: :rage: :serious: :doit: :gasp: :wrong: :HUGE: :NO: ::O: :objection: :endit:
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At this point, I'm just relieved it's being released this year.
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I was expecting a vague November release date at this point, so early September is a pleasant suprise.
It's still gonna be delayed again :MENDOZAAAAA:
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Raptor Safari was cool. How could anything possibly top the sheer exhilaration of running down a velociraptor with a jeep and a spike bumper?
Gentlemen, I give you Flashbang's next project:
Jetpack Brontosaurus (http://jetpackbrontosaurus.com/)
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The King is dead. Long live the King! (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/16/technology/16toshiba.html?em&ex=1203310800&en=28bb15cf2437f6fc&ei=5087)
Which is still a bit disingenuous. The King is still very much alive, and while the red prince may be dead, the blue prince now has to compete with the queen (http://www.apple.com/appletv/rentals.html) for the throne.
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Funny, wasn't the death knell for Blu-Ray tolled when the porn industry backed HD DVD?
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The anime & porn industries have been hammered in the past years by INNNTTTEEERRRNNNEET. Their average budgets have been cut in half, and are becoming more and more niche in domestic releases. Expect less Jenna Jameson and Steamboy, and more Bang Bros and Kanon.
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In other news, Red Alert 3 announced (http://www.ea.com/redalert/press_release.jsp) for realz this time. You know, I think EA might even do it right, too. C&C3 might not have been spectacular, but it certainly was a step above Tiberian Sun. And that atrocity was committed while Westwood was still living and breathing.
The Red Alert series has always been more fun and compelling than the Tiberium series, anyhow.
tl;dr yuri is master
EDIT: Verbose-ified.
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You motherfuckers need to learn how to make descriptive links.
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But euphemisms are my art!
:american: See you on the campaign trail!
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It's just good to see Sony winning at something.
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No it's not.
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You motherfuckers need to learn how to make descriptive links.
i fixed it okay
jesus
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Well, the death of HD-DVD is official now.
Interesting to see Betamax win this time.
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So, does that mean we'll be forced to suffer through long load times since blu-ray reads slower, or can it be increased or will the gaming systems of the future still use DVD?
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Er, pretty much every gaming system out there has its own disc format, except the PC which you can just slot in higher-speed drives as they become available.
Which is not to say we're not looking forward to longer load times, but it's just not Blu-Ray's fault. I don't own a third-next-gen system yet but what I've seen they all seem to be designed to give you some time to stretch, do some cardio, maybe go make a sandwich before a stage loads. At least they haven't snuck in commercials yet.
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We've also got games like DMC4 that install about 5 gigs onto your PS3 which (supposedly) do away with load times. I'm not sure how long that procedure is, though.
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Long enough to learn Sanskrit, according to a reliable source. (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/02/06)
Another reliable source states that it doesn't even alleviate the load time issue all that much. Said source also mentioned that he'd have been pissed about buying the thing, if he hadn't gone into a pool to pay for the thing. How big a pool? Let's just say the number of people required to obtain a PS3 is almost enough to kill Luca Blight.
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Smash Brothers Brawl Completely and Totally Spoiled. (http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3166748)
Note: Digg that shit (http://digg.com/nintendo/Everything_You_Didn_t_Know_About_Smash_Bros). Not for the traffic. For the user comments. Digg users are thick. Rabid Smash Bros. fans are also thick. A single cubic centimeter of the material that comprises a digg user smash bros. fan would weigh more than your whole mom.
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Something Awful beat you to that sort of thing.
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Actually, when I heard that Bob was working on a Smash bit for SA (after the initial annoyance that I hadn't thought to ask him to do it first) we went and compared notes to make sure that we weren't working on the exact same thing. There are occasional bonuses to there being a grand total of ten videogame writers in the world.
But I know how much you love pointing out what a plagiarist I am whenever I have the temerity to make a joke about a videogame on the internet. I won't kick you in the bag over it. Mostly because you're way the fuck over there.
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You've been beaten to being wantonly paranoid over idle comments too. :sadderpanda:
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Just because you're paranoid don't mean bladablahblah.
Especially when it's Brent.
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Honestly I was just warning you that you were inhabiting the same territory as Something Awful. I try to avoid that whenever possible, but if you push on even after you're aware of it then I guess it's not a problem.
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Disgaea confirmed for DS!!! ::D:
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Motherfucking WARLORDS is going to be on xbox live arcade.
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SO ARC WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO VIDEOFY THAT REVIEW I DID
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Ziff Davis confirmed for Chapter 11!
Fat lot of good that did. (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3167296) This now leaves PC Gamer as the undisputed king of PC gaming magazines in America.
Thankfully, GFW Radio will still continue.
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FUCK (http://i25.tinypic.com/2evyu6e.jpg)
YES (http://i29.tinypic.com/nf30w0.jpg)
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As a prosecutor or defense attorney?
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It looks like you are trying to solve crimes and make charges stick as a prosecutor too me.
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Yep (http://www.n4g.com/News-132664.aspx).
You play as Miles Edgeworth from the original Ace Attorney series as you investigate crime scenes looking for inconsistencies and overlooked evidence, using a brand new search and deduction system. The game will also feature Detective Dick Gumshoe as a main character. No release date is known of yet but we will keep you informed.
Updates:
More details on just what exactly the game is about have emerged. This new law adventure game is not court room simulator like the Ace Attorny, rather it is a point and click adventure game. Evidence, The dialogue and the interface are very much left unchanged, however the core of the game is different.
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The only thing that could make me more excited for this game is if unlockable play as Franciska Von Karma mode was announced.
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I'm just glad we get more Gumshoe. Will he get together with Maggey? Stay tuned! :kowhyee:
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Sarcastic Gamer is planning a boycott on Battlefield: Bad Company in response to the DLC content.
Joystiq's response? Don't bother with a boycott, just don't buy the game (http://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/08/yes-there-is-a-boycott-of-battlefield-bad-company/)
:whut:
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Well, there is a distinction. Joystiq's saying "don't bother organizing a big thing about not buying the game, because if it's really that bad then the market will kill it with or without your intervention".
Of course then you have to believe that the market is any good at killing bad ideas. :fail:
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Well, see, the thing is, Joystiq is still telling them to do what they're already doing.
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Technically, yes, I suppose. But there's a difference between not buying the game and organizing/joining a "don't buy the game" campaign.
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They say any publicity is good publicity.
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I thought the new Battlefield was going to be free.
edit: Oh, I'm thinking of Battlefield Heroes.
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And now the six posts above me are moot. (http://www.joystiq.com/2008/04/09/battlefield-bad-companys-dlc-guns-are-free-but-require-marke/)
Basically:
- Pay $10 for the Gold Edition of the game, have the guns on the disc
- Buy the Standard Edition, hit the max rank level of 25
- In both cases, "You have to do the marketing programs that we're going to announce further ahead" before you can get the guns. Said marketing programs are free.
It would of been cool if those programs were like the 'Free iPod/PS3/360/etc' deals. And by cool I mean :omg:.
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(http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/9886/sbcg4aplinkbt7.jpg) (http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbcg4ap.html)<--- Click for flash trailer.
Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People for WiiWare coming in June. (http://www.telltalegames.com/company/pressreleases/id-65)
If this is not in the game I'll be very disappointed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uSyK2RdlUY
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The animation in that ad looks higher-quality than the usual stuff. Just goes to show you what a
budget higher framerate can do, huh?
I am interested in this.
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I was feeling kinda meh about it, but then TELLTALE
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The official site with a better trailer is up. (http://www.telltalegames.com/strongbad)
I'm surprised how well they adapted the Homestar Runner look to 3D.
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TellTale needs a subscription scheme. Now.
Now now now now now. By which I mean years ago.
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(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z284/Nikumatic/gametap.jpg)
</R^2>
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Something different than this (http://www.telltalegames.com/store/samandmax-season2)? I mean, it's not an auto-subscription to every single thing they do, but they update you when the episodes hit. Of course, it's kind of moot in that particular case...
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More along the lines of a recurring payment anytime a title drops, with a discount included. Even their Texas Hold'em title was the knees of bees.
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Parish on FFCC:MLAAK (http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3167390).
This one could go either way. I really like the idea of a sim game set in a fantasy world (ActRaiser is an all-time favorite), and I think cheap, outside-the-box downloadable games are an absolutely perfect fit for the Wii, but the rumors of getting nickeled-and-dimed to death by microtransactions give me pause.
Still, my interest is piqued; I want to see how this one turns out.
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Interview a few seconds ago with the QA team.
:cool: Would you suggest this game to other people?
:strawman: Eeeeeeeh...
:vampire: Maybe if they didn't like playing the game, but liked micromanaging other people playing it.
:cool: How much do the microtransactions figure into the game.
:strawman: You don't need them.
:vampire: Yes you do.
:strawman: No you don't.
:vampire: Yes you do. If you don't buy the microtransactions there's no point in playing the game. You'll just get all the way to the end of the game waiting for something new to appear, and you won't get it.
:NO: All the game is is acquiring stuff, and you need to pay to acquire it.
:cool: So this is basically Lilty Crossing, right? You can go to other people's towns and stuff?
:strawman: You can't go to other people's towns.
:vampire: It's more like Harvest Moon.
:cool: So you get to mack on the ladies, right?
:vampire: No.
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:thad:: :oh:
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:oh: I concur.
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To be fair, they did not say they outright hated the game.
One QA tester talking to another does not mince words. If they outright hated the game they would have said so. The impression I got was that they all agreed that the entire experience was just frustratingly shallow. Microtransaction bullshit alleviates the monotony somewhat, but it's still microtransaction bullshit.
...one of these days I'm gonna go searching through board archives trying to spot the exact point where I stopped caring about being fired for disclosure.
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Please don't do that. I value you as a source of potentially illegal "news".
I don't think they would fire you though. You've basically singlehandedly sold me on their new CC stuff. I was about to chuck it away as a "bad idea".
Still. Would love to see a nice semi-online Wii game where you got to play as adventurers might be nice.
.. But the more I talk about this, the more I want to see my own dream game made to my tastes, which could best be described as: Dwarf Fort the WILL NEVER GET MADE BECUZ' OF APOCALYPSE version 3 Adventure mode with a combat system forged from everything I loved about Secret of Mana with some faint hints of the "combat" from Jade Empire and Legend of Mana.
... I'm going to go and weep because my idea of ideal game design will eventually be stumbled upon and I will have nothing to do with it or if I do, it will be executed poorly.
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I'm pissing in the dark here, but are you looking for something like Dark Cloud?
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I don't think quite so. But then again, I only played its sequel (and that only 5-8 hours), so perhaps this bears deeper investigation. :mystery:
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The original was a lot better in its sim-building element, although it's still pretty basic.
Meanwhile, more information on Final Fight Crisis Core: Martin Luther as a King. I got fed up with playing my own game so I went over to rap with the other team a bit just as a way to pass the time, and this little tidbit came out:
:cool: So wait, why are all your guys Clavats? I mean you get Lilties and Selkies and stuff, right?
:strawman: Well... those are the additional content.
:cool: YOU HAVE TO BUY LILTIES?!?!?!
:strawman: Yeah?
:cool: No. Fuck this. I'm done here.
I dunno about you guys, but having to pay extra for all the standard races is a dealbreaker for me. I dunno the actual numbers but I'm sure that once you've assembled the whole FFCC universe together you've already paid for a full-price game.
:richiam:
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Speaking of microtransactions (http://www.gamedaily.com/articles/news/ncsoft-introduces-nccoin/?biz=1)...
MMO publisher NCsoft Corporation announced today details for their new micro-transaction system. Called NCcoin, this system will let customers purchase in-game items and upgrades using real-world money, with $1 equating to 100 NCcoins. The first game to incorporate the NCcoin will be Exteel and NCsoft is planning on incorporating NCcoin into many of their existing and upcoming games internationally.
:despair:
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Exteel uses the Puzzle Pirates method, in that you can buy things with monopoly money which you got by grinding the hell out of the game or real money, but either way as soon as you buy the item it starts crumbling into dust which keeps the cash flowing I guess.
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MORTAL KOMBAT VS. DC
EDIT BY THAD: Stop that.
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you beat me to it but basically heck yes is what i say
and by heck yes i mean heck yes to dc, does anyone even know who's in MK anymore
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Oh man, it's like 1994 all over again.
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and by heck yes i mean heck yes to dc, does anyone even know who's in MK anymore
The Shredder (http://thor.mirtna.org/oddities/lookalikes/pics/sub_zero_mortal_kombat_-_shredder_teenage_mutant_ninja_turtles.jpg).
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Are yellow the shredder and green the shredder and grey the shredder still around then, or did they go to hell or the ultra-dimension or... actually i don't even know what that series is about
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Anyway. Anyone have a reputable source for this? Because a single fansite blog post and default Apache page do not a formal announcement make. And April Fool's Day seems to last from mid-March to the end of April now.
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To be fair, they did not say they outright hated the game.
One QA tester talking to another does not mince words. If they outright hated the game they would have said so. The impression I got was that they all agreed that the entire experience was just frustratingly shallow. Microtransaction bullshit alleviates the monotony somewhat, but it's still microtransaction bullshit.
...one of these days I'm gonna go searching through board archives trying to spot the exact point where I stopped caring about being fired for disclosure.
But then how will I get mana swag!?
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Anyway. Anyone have a reputable source for this? Because a single fansite blog post and default Apache page do not a formal announcement make. And April Fool's Day seems to last from mid-March to the end of April now.
There have been rumors floating around about this from more credible sources beforehand, which is why I'm inclined to buy it.
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BARF!
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Sooooooo... GTA 4.
This is looking really, really good. Yeah, it's an 'omg big-name release' etc. etc., but I haven't played console games since Nintendo 64. As out of the loop as I am, my question is this: How long does it usually take before Rockstar ports games to PC?
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GTA IV is coming to PC around September / October. Assassin's Creed for PC is out now as a Director's Cut, and Mass Effect arrives late May.
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I really hope that all the little changes they made to the PC version can be downloaded onto the 360 version. And by little changes, I mean a not completely fuckstupid fucking shitcrap inventory system.
Oh, and getting to play as Wrex.
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Statement of enthusiasm. Yipee for Mass Effect.
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man i bet tf2 is gonna be super good in like two years
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Oh, huh. I wasn't interested in GTA4 before, but now after watching some trailers and such for it, I would like to play it.
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Oh, huh. I don't like good videogames, and am retarded to the point where I probably cannot feed myself.
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Well, after trying GTA3, Vice City, and San Andreas on separate occasions (usually long enough to forget the last time I tried it), and finding them in various proportions frustrating, arbitrary, and difficult to control, even with the code that gives you a tank, I can understand why he wouldn't exactly be brimming with confidence.
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GTA games have historically been clever, bold, funny, lovingly crafted, daringly innovative, immense in scope and ambition, and almost completely devoid of anything resembling actual gameplay.
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Well, after trying GTA3, Vice City, and San Andreas on separate occasions (usually long enough to forget the last time I tried it), and finding them in various proportions frustrating, arbitrary, and difficult to control, even with the code that gives you a tank, I can understand why he wouldn't exactly be brimming with confidence.
Nono, Kazz is actually right. That doesn't make what he said any less mean, though.
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GTA IV is coming to PC around September / October. Assassin's Creed for PC is out now as a Director's Cut, and Mass Effect arrives late May.
Good job releasing GTA IV the same month as Spore, Rockstar.
By that, I mean, Fuck you.
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Idiots. I'll just build a civilization where I can PLAY GTA IN SPORE!
Genius.
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There were two guys in sleeping bags outside the local EBGames on Monday evening.
Had I any spare change, I would have given it to them.
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Don't do that. They're just going to spend it on Red Bull.
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There is no joke that can be made about this that has not already been made. Including the one about how all the jokes have been made. (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?p=1665)
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How about how I no longer trust my own memory in regards to Duke 3D even existing?
It was all a lie.
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Yeah, if that information is to be believed they could have made at least $8800!
Also, a French publication supposedly previews the newest Prince of Persia. (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3167630) This story initially sounds like rumors, but if true would mean a radical new direction for the series. Gone are the time elements and the original Prince, replaced by a Zelda-like environment and cel-shaded graphics. I loved the Sands of Times, enjoyed the third one, but barely played the second, but I still find the idea of this new Prince reboot interesting, even if it does turn out to be just a rumor.
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Blue-Ray? In my 360? (http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/02/xbox-360-blu-ray-console-by-september/)
It's more likely than you think.
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"less God of War and more Soul Calibur."
Sold.
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I'm afraid to hope (http://www.vc-reviews.com/news/2008/05/esrb_update_earthbound_finally_coming_to_virtual_console). Many other excellent games have been rated for months but are still not available.
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I'll hope twice as hard for you then :D
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I'm sure a game so heavily featured in SSBB will show up on Virtual Console sooner than later.
...
FUCK YES GYROMITE :8D:
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"less God of War and more Soul Calibur."
Sold.
Anything in particular you're referring to, here?
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newest Prince of Persia. (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3167630)
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Are you fucking serious (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52547). SecuROM? God fucking damn it, I wanted to play that game. Not any more, though. Not if I have to put SecuROM on my computer.
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:proceed: What's the big deal?
...
:proceed: :proceed: :proceed: Do you have something to hide?
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I don't have a problem with the idea of copy protection. As long as they only "protect" the program they come with, that's fine - a bit insulting, perhaps, but it doesn't make it more difficult for me to play the game. SecuROM is not that well-implemented. It interferes drastically with the normal use of my computer (for example, I happen to like Process Explorer, and also it allegedly doesn't play nicely with the debugger in Visual Studio).
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EVERY TEN MOTHER FUCKING DAYS GOD SPIT DUFCK FASOFUSAPKLJSADFGASGIOPSFJH ASKFNH ASOPIAHREW KLEBN WIHF SADKLFH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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and also it allegedly doesn't play nicely with the debugger in Visual Studio).
Oh.
Fucking perfect.
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Also yeah I already know how to crack this system and I haven't even seen it yet.
Seriously.
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My information in that regard is old and unauthoritative; I'm looking for a more valid source. Wikipedia says, though, that SecuROM installs a shell extension that prevents you from deleting 16-bit executables. That alone is enough to skip it on principle, I think.
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Guess that means i'll just be waiting until the pirate community cracks both games. This oughtta save me a bundle!
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First the goddamn paid demo, now this.
Like fuck i am paying for the privilege of installing what amounts to a virus onto my computer.
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Yeah, so, apparently WFE requires you sign in every 6 hours or you're banned now. Nobody told me this.
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So what, just don't get the games that-
Spore
:whut:
Spore
:ohshi~:
Spore
:sadpanda:
Spore
:facepalm:
Spore
:humpf:
Spore
:fuckoff: :khaaan: :fukit: :wrong: :omg: :scanners:
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(Also the PC version of Mass Effect, but eh)
Wait, they're porting Spore to consoles, right? Maybe there's hope.
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Guess that means i'll just be waiting until the pirate community cracks both games. This oughtta save me a bundle!
Second. I was planning on purchasing Mass Effect, but I will not buy anything that comes with invasive copy-protection. Fortunately, since copy-protection doesn't work, I'm sure I can get my hands on a functioning version anyway.
...You know, I was planning on sending a job app to Bioware tomorrow. Maybe I should hold off.
I don't have a problem with the idea of copy protection.
And I don't have a problem with the idea of unicorns, but I'm not going to bend over and let EA have its way with me every 10 days just because it swears to me that it is helping the unicorn population.
...I was going to apply to EA, too. Dammit.
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They're both being published by EA, so they didn't exactly reach this decision independently.
But, look. Surely there's a way that I can play a game I paid for without having to install a malicious rootkit on my computer. I draw the line at anything that affects the normal functioning of my machine.
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Okay, so. While you guys do that, uh. I'll be over here. Playing Spore.
Because I'm not a little bitch.
::D:
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I have no idea what just happened, but was it something like this?
:loser: : NO! EA is releasing games with anti-piracy tools that make me into a bitch!
:kazz: : But I'm not a bitch, so I'll get them!
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You're right. You have no idea what just happened.
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Okay, so. While you guys do that, uh. I'll be over here. Playing Spore.
Because I'm not a little bitch.
::D:
Yeah, but see, so will we.
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Plus we'll have an extra fifty bucks to spend on blow.
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Capcom vs. Disgaea (http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2008/05/crossedge.jpg)
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s-so many waifus
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I wonder if Morrigan is going to flick that or wipe it on Felicia.
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Coming from anyone but you that probably wouldn't have been creepy
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I hear Laharl gets a cameo.
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Damn, well, at least by the time I learn enough moonspeak to fully enjoy the game, the PS3 might have a few good games. And it should be cheaper by then too. :shrug:
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Actually, hmm. There might be a way. It'll be a lot of work, but for Spore it's worth it. I have an extra Windows license sitting around. If I put that on a VM, and install the game there, SecuROM won't be able to escape and taint the rest of my computer, right?
...right?
Edit: GOD SHITTING FUCK IT ALL, Google says that SecuROM doesn't like VMWare.
Other edit: oh yeah, and Direct3D doesn't work under VMWare either. I'd need a separate partition.
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Assuming that the copies that go into the inevitable torrents will have SecuROM neutered, I say just buy a legit copy and download the copy you actually play. If you feel that EA doesn't deserve your money at all, then there's no point in having this discussion (even though you'd only be sticking it to the retailers by pirating the game, not EA).
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The problem with playing a cracked version of a game that goes online is that there's an easy way to be discovered.
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When I made the assumption that the copy-protection in the torrented game would be "neutered," I meant that its "phoning home" functionality would be removed.
EDIT: Wait, is there an online multiplayer portion to Mass Effect? Oh yeah, Spore, too. :derp:
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Oh right, Spore never LEAVES the internet.
Well, that's that I guess. It seemed like such a neat idea too.
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Because I'm not a little bitch.
Don't you have an "I'm leaving forever" post to write?
Assuming that the copies that go into the inevitable torrents will have SecuROM neutered, I say just buy a legit copy and download the copy you actually play. If you feel that EA doesn't deserve your money at all, then there's no point in having this discussion
If you pay for a game that contains malware, you are...paying for a game that contains malware.
Bear in mind that you are talking to someone who hasn't bought a CD from an RIAA affiliate since 2003 and who only very grudgingly keeps a Windows boot on his computer.
(even though you'd only be sticking it to the retailers by pirating the game, not EA).
I...don't really follow. If a game sells poorly, it hurts the publisher, not just the retailer. Yes, the retailer pays to put the games on the shelves, but if they don't sell well, that's going to have a pretty obvious effect on reorders.
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Wow, you know, i can't believe people are actually defending EA's decision to put malware in their games, evidently on the basis that piracy is a tremendously immoral practice, while crippling people's computers is a legitimate business decision. Thanks for ensuring that we can't have nice things, guys!
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Assuming that the copies that go into the inevitable torrents will have SecuROM neutered, I say just buy a legit copy and download the copy you actually play. If you feel that EA doesn't deserve your money at all, then there's no point in having this discussion
If you pay for a game that contains malware, you are...paying for a game that contains malware.
Bear in mind that you are talking to someone who hasn't bought a CD from an RIAA affiliate since 2003 and who only very grudgingly keeps a Windows boot on his computer.
I only said that for people who felt guilty about piracy but still don't want to deal with SecuROM. I personally swore off paying for EA software years ago. It seemed for a while that Activision had made them into the lesser of two evils, but nowadays it's like they're competing in a "Biggest Assholes in the Industry" contest.
(even though you'd only be sticking it to the retailers by pirating the game, not EA).
I...don't really follow. If a game sells poorly, it hurts the publisher, not just the retailer. Yes, the retailer pays to put the games on the shelves, but if they don't sell well, that's going to have a pretty obvious effect on reorders.
I tend to only think in the short term when it comes to the whole publisher/retailer relationship. The publisher's already been paid for that shipment of the game, and I'm only reimbursing the retailer by buying a copy.
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I'm not in any terrible hurry to reimburse my local software retailers.
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Seriously? (http://www.forbes.com/business/2008/05/07/japan-wealth-technology-cz-km-japanrichest08_0507intro.html) That old bastard?
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Course.
You don't think Bill Gates's wealth is going to plummet when he steps down, do you?
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I have maintained a passive interest in the new Banjo-Kazooie title for some time, mainly due to the possibility that the original might be put on XBLA. but these new developments (http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=18626) sound interesting and I'd like to hear more about them.
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In local game news, Bongo Bill's first comic replacement game (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=263.msg8864#new) just concluded! It was fun! Guild has suggested that we play again! I suggest that you participate!
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Okay so I want this (http://I want this), and I have a check coming in riiiiight about May 19 that's riiiiiight about the $600 price tag, and...
Oh wait, you get half the HD space because it's gray?
Ha ha, oh you crazy funsters at Sony. How I love not buying your shit until the price drops. :smile:
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Speaking of MGS4, it's going to have a lot of product placements. (http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/05/metal-gear-so-1.html)
(http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/122/ipodrr3.jpg)
I love how it has the ® behind it.
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What is it you want, Brentai?
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what th...
fine it's the mgs4 gray ps3 with half the hd space of a normal ps3 but for $100 more ok?
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... Which not only has to be ordered direct from Konami, but is also at odds with the 80GB MGS4 bundle (http://blog.us.playstation.com/2008/02/26/destination-playstation-news-mgs-ps3-bundle-kratos-psp-and-dualshock3-release-date-by/) which is going to retail at $100 less.
:scanners:
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Arc's link says that the Dual Shock 3 is set to be released in North America in April 2008. Is it actually out right now?
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May 21st or 22nd.
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I've seen people buy DS3s. Was I just hallucinating?
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They've been filtering out onto the market since early April, and one will be included with the 80GB MGS4 bundle.
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I bought one at Best Buy about two weeks ago. I was surprised to see them, but then just assumed they had been fully released.
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Yeah, I imported one and it arrived pretty much right around the US release date, at like a five dollar savings to me. Thanks, Play-Asia sale!
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Also only has a 40GB hard drive. (http://www.bornrich.org/entry/one-off-swarovski-crystal-covered-sony-playstation-3-up-for-sale/)
What's up with that, anyway? Is there some law that says that anything that looks cool has to have shitty stats? This isn't a Blizzard game, guys.
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why do you need 80 gigs anyway
also the ps3 doesn't use proprietary drives so you could just put your own in if you DID need a big hard drive for some reason
I'm not saying it's not retarded, but it's not deal breakingly retarded.
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Going all-out on a vanity piece and getting a product that is functionally inferior to the standard model is a deal breaker. If the image is all you care about, then the image you're giving off to everybody in the know is that you're a massive tool.
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So pretty much whoever bought the debut PS3?
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Considering the debut editions produce the best backwards compatibility, those purchases suddenly became 15% less toolish.
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Going all-out on a vanity piece and getting a product that is functionally inferior to the standard model is a deal breaker. If the image is all you care about, then the image you're giving off to everybody in the know is that you're a massive tool.
Either don't buy it, or just buy a god damned bigger hard drive for it, is I guess what my advice would be.
I spent 20 dollars extra just to get an MGS4 with box art that matched up with the previous games. Either it's important and/or affordable enough to you or it's not, who gives a shit about whether anyone thinks your choice of ps3 color over pre-installed harddrive size is so not cool.
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Going all-out on a vanity piece and getting a product that is functionally inferior to the standard model is a deal breaker. If the image is all you care about, then the image you're giving off to everybody in the know is that you're a massive tool.
Works for Apple.
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...You're referring to charging extra for black, right?
Because if you're referring to anything else it will probably result in a sound talking-to.
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DQ4 DS confirmed. (http://www.toastyfrog.com/verbalspew/archives/entry_647.php)
Cool; always wanted to give that one a play but I'll be goddamned if I'm going to play a version where I have to pick "talk" from a menu.
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...I had no idea that was news. It's been out of Stateside QA for months.
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From the comments, it looks like 5 and 6 are confirmed too, for first-time US releases. Well, good.
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Well, that's news to me.
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Well, they're unsourced comments, but it looks like SE has at least trademarked subtitles for them.
Then again, it also trademarked Chrono Break.
And, if I'm not mistaken, also Chrono Brake.
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My first reaction was to post "fuck now I'm gonna have to buy a ds" followed by about thirty pages of
:fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff::fuckoff:
but then I figured that playing a remade DQ4 is probably going to be worth it.
Still.
Do they make them in bigger sizes now or something maybe? I'm not following the portable scene.
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I love the DS.
But no, the biggest you're going to get is the original model, which they don't make anymore. Try eBay. Because I'm keeping mine.
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I'm just surprised that there are still people - especially video game fans - who still don't have a DS.
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I bought mine about a week ago. Until then I was borrowing my sister's.
I have found over the years that I tend to not complete portable games. This is largely due to the fact that I used to travel a lot, and would therefore store away portable games for such times, but I didn't really get enough game time in while traveling to get all the way through, say, Zelda Oracles. Now, though, I travel less and have to rely more and more on short bursts of gameplay in between periods of work, so I'm getting some good mileage out of this thing and its ability to halt the game immediately, at any time, by closing the lid. It's pick-up-and-play at its most literal.
But, like all things, I'm probably the last to figure that out. :/
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I played through Portrait of Ruin on my brother's DS, and it was awful, even in short bursts. I'm kind of a gigantic guy, and there is no comfortable way for me to hold this thing. My fingers cramp up, my neck, wrists and shoulders ache, and my eyes strain. I've never been able to play a portable system for any significant length of time.
Oi. Bah!
:MENDOZAAAAA: SQUARENIX!!! IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ON PSX! ON PSX, DAMN YOU!!!
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Yeah, I kinda wanted a DS-not-so-Lite, but that's what was available. Helps that I mostly play stylus games on it.
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Used to play mine for about a half-hour every day at lunch. Since I haven't had a job and therefore haven't had a lunch break since September, I haven't been playing it much. But I'm currently charging it for a trip I'm taking.
Re: stylus: that actually seems to cramp my hand MORE, since I have to support the weight of the thing with one hand, holding it from one side instead of its center of gravity. But again, I have an original model.
...Say, they've got that Nerf casing for the Lite. Wonder if that'd help?
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Used to play mine for about a half-hour every day at lunch.
Same here, including the part about not playing it very much anymore now that I don't work full-time anymore. If I do play DS, it's as I try to fall asleep at night... which is usually fine with, say, the Ace Attorney games, but it's going to keep me up all night when FFTA2 and the Dragon Quest games come out.
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...Say, they've got that Nerf casing for the Lite. Wonder if that'd help?
SO THERE.
...especially since my Lite is pink and I need to cover it up.
I was going to partially cover it with black and pretend that I was a teenaged scene-girl, but I think the NERF idea is probably much better. Especially if it's actually safety yellow.
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Working at a call center: Breeze through any DS/PSP game that isn't real-time (Phoenix Wright, nearly every RPG, EVERY damn sRPG, etc)
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why do you need 80 gigs anyway
also the ps3 doesn't use proprietary drives so you could just put your own in if you DID need a big hard drive for some reason
I'm not saying it's not retarded, but it's not deal breakingly retarded.
[Also everyone else who was going on about hard drive space]
40GB PS3: No PS2 BC At Fucking All
80GB PS3: Best PS2 BC
It's less about the space itself, but more about what the Hard Drive Space Designation says about the system it's providing space for.
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a.) does that apply to the gunmetal bullshit? has anyone said?
b.) 60gb = best PS2 BC. :whoops:
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Big changes coming to XBLA. (http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=10620&Itemid=2&limit=1&limitstart=1) A redesign of the store isn't one of them, but the delisting change is sorta like that, right? Right?
:facepalm:
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a.) does that apply to the gunmetal bullshit? has anyone said?
b.) 60gb = best PS2 BC. :whoops:
A) Yes. Gunmetal = No BC. Non-Gunmetal, non-anal-rape-price: Best BC.
Personally if I'm paying a premium for a special color I don't want the non-special color to be better than mine.
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Which is pretty much what my point was the whole time.
Was it that HARD to understand?
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THIS WILL NEVER WORK (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/52841)
:behold:
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You know I actually know that guy. I could go choke him if you like.
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we will be able to encrypt with an absolutely verifiable private key in the encryption world--which is uncrackable by people on the internet and by giving away passwords
Saying that word evokes a demonic spell which compels a myriad of pit dwellers to rouse, and devote every moment of their existence to prove the speaker wrong.
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Takes about a week, tops.
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This game (http://www.gametrailers.com/player/34389.html) looks pretty cool, at least the trailer does anyway. It sort of looks like God of War meets Gears of War and yet it doesn't even have war in the title!
Now as an artsy-fartsy snobby indie developer wannabe, I of course don't love games like those mentioned as I think that they don't push the interactive part of the medium as the main point of the experience and are instead completely linear, interactive movies with their lame quicktime events and etc. But I still appreciate them if they are done well and look sweet which this does. I just don't understand why you would force people to press buttons at precise times in them and not just make a sweet CG movie where your hero runs around killing shit in wicked ways. You can make the badguys a lot more badass that way and not annoy crappy players.
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Square tried that once, and it nearly made them bankrupt.
...then they tried it again without the plot and it was awesome. LESSON LEARNED!
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You know I actually know that guy. I could go choke him if you like.
Actually, if you could get his autograph for me, and THEN tell him he's out of his fucking mind, it'd be golden.
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Geo, that game only interests you because it stars a sword-wielding white guy wearing a hairstyle that only looks good on black people.
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Well, true enough, but the Half Life 2 esque music and minigun weapon look cool too. That decoy fade out move looked cool too.
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I saw that game five years ago when it was called "New Legends".
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Square tried that once, and it nearly made them bankrupt.
...then they tried it again without the plot and it was awesome. LESSON LEARNED!
Just for reference, which games were they?
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just make a sweet CG movie
I wasn't talking about games.
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...oh, I thought you meant movies that were in the games as opposed to... y'know, actual movies.
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What's the difference anymore?
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http://www.gametrailers.com/player/34389.html
iz dat sum bionic commando
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What's the difference anymore?
Professionalism?
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HEY GUYS HOW ABOUT SOME CAPCOM SALES FIGURES
Platinum-selling games:
01. Street Fighter II (released June 1992, SFC, 6,300,000 units sold)
02. Resident Evil 2 (January 1998, PS, 4,960,000)
03. Street Fighter II Turbo (July 1993, SFC, 4,100,000)
04. Resident Evil 3 Nemesis (September 1999, PS, 3,500,000)
05. Resident Evil (March 1996, PS, 2,750,000)
06. Dino Crisis (July 1999, PS, 2,400,000)
07. Devil May Cry 4 (January 2008, PS3, Xbox 360, 2,300,000)
08. Devil May Cry (August 2001, PS2, 2,160,000)
09. Monster Hunter Freedom 2 (February 2007, PSP, 2,150,000)
10. Onimusha: Warlords, (January 2001, PS2, 2,020,000)
11. Resident Evil 4, (December 2005, PS2, 2,000,000)
12. Super Street Fighter II (June 2006, 1994, SFC, 2,000,000)
13. Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny, (March 2003, PS2, 1,990,000)
14. Aladdin (November 1993, SFC, 1,750,000)
15. Devil May Cry 2 (January 2003, PS2, 1,700,000)
16. Duck Tales, (January 1990, FC, 1,670,000)
17. Street Fighter II' Plus (September 1993, MD, 1,650,000)
18. Ghosts'n Goblins (June 1986, FC, 1,640,000)
19. Resident Evil 4 (January 2005, GC, 1,600,000)
20. Onimusha 3: Demon siege (February 2004, PS2, 1,520,000)
21. Mega Man 2 (December 1988, FC, 1,510,000)
22. Lost Planet Extreme Condition (December 2006, Xbox 360, 1,500,000)
23. Final Fight (December 1990, SFC, 1,480,000)
24. Resident Evil Outbreak (December 2003, PS2, 1,450,000)
25. Duck Tales (September 1990, GB, 1,430,000)
26. Resident Evil Code Veronica X (March 2001, PS2, 1,400,000)
27. Dead Rising (August 2006, Xbox 360, 1,400,000)
28. Resident Evil (March 2002, GC, 1,350,000)
29. Mega man Battle Network 4 (December 2003, GBA, 1,350,000)
30. Devil May Cry 3 (February 2005, PS2, 1,300,000)
31. Resident Evil 0 (November 2002, GC, 1,250,000)
32. Resident Evil 4 Wii Edition (May 2007, Wii, 1,250,000)
33. Magical Quest Starring Mickey (November 1992, SFC, 1,210,000)
34. Resident Evil DC Dual Shock (August 1998, PS, 1,200,000)
35. Chip'n Dale Rescue Rangers (June 1990, FC, 1,200,000)
36. Dino Crisis 2 (September 2000, PS, 1,190,000)
37. Mega Man X (December 1993, SFC, 1,160,000)
38. Monster Hunter Freedom (December 2005, PSP, 1,150,000)
39. Resident Evil Code Veronica (February 2000, DC, 1,140,000)
40. Commando (September 1986, FC, 1,140,000)
41. Resident Evil Director's Cut (September 1997, PS, 1,130,000)
42. Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts (October 1991, SFC, 1,090,000)
43. Mega Man 3 (September 1990, FC, 1,080,000)
44. Resident Evil: The Umbrella Chronicles (November 2007, Wii, 1,050,000)
45. Final Fight 2 (May 1993, SFC, 1,030,000)
46. Street Fighter Alpha 3 (December 1998, PS, 1,000,000)
Series Sales:
01. Resident Evil Series (50 titles, 34,500,000)
02. Mega Man Series (120 titles, 28,000,000)
03. Street Fighter Series (59 titles, 25,000,000)
04. Disney Series (33 titles, 13,200,000)
05. Devil May Cry Series (10 titles, 9,500,000)
06. Onimusha Series (12 titles, 7,800,000)
07. Monster Hunter Series (10 titles, 6,300,000)
08. Dino Crisis Series (13 titles, 4,400,000)
09. Ghosts 'n Goblins Series (15 titles, 4,300,000)
10. Final Fight Series (10 titles, 3,200,000)
11. Breath of Fire Series (15 titles, 3,000,000)
12. Ace Attorney Series (11 titles, 2,800,000)
13. Commando Series (2 titles, 1,200,000)
14. 1942 Series (3 titles, 1,200,000)
Awesome entries in the list are emphasized.
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Mega Man 2 [...] 1998
Um.
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Yeah. Right about when StarCraft came out.
You don't remember that whole rivalry? People were like "Which is better: Dark Reign, Total Annihilation, or Mega Man 2?"
And then StarCraft came out and they were all like "Clearly the answer is Dark Reign (http://www.darkreign.us/darkreign.php?PHPSESSID=3472019303de76d1ed7aa568d1608f72)."
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...the Genesis Aladdin was way better. Philistines.
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God damn, brentai, i have had that argument with my roommates like five times. They utterly refuse to see reason!
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Maybe they meant 1988, which is when it came out in Japan.
TYPOS HAPPEN.
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Genesis Aladdin versus SNES Aladdin is totally graphics vs. gameplay. SNES Aladdin was way more fun while Genesis Aladdin was omgorgeous.
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...wait, I thought it was the other way around.
I'm just so used to SNES versions looking being the ones that look better and actually be way less fun. Blame Sparkster and Turrican.
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZdrNSu7lxZ0
Honestly I think people just liked the Genesis version because of the bigger sprites and the sword.
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...the Genesis Aladdin was way better.
no egm
you dont own me anymore
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The Genesis Aladdin also gets points for somehow having better music than the SNES Aladdin, something i personally thought could not be true.
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Ys III.
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Ys III.
Are you announcing that you've just discovered Ys III and it is therefore news to you?
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:slow:
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Wait. Was there a PC version of that Aladdin game? I think I remember playing the demo.
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http://www.gamefaqs.com/search/index.html?game=aladdin
:?:
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http://www.mobygames.com/game-group/disneys-aladdin-games (http://www.mobygames.com/game-group/disneys-aladdin-games)
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The Virgin Interactive version had a PC Port:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkclvUSFS20
And yes, it had a demo. Full download. (http://free-game-downloads.mosw.com/abandonware/pc/arcade_action/games_al/aladdin.html)
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Rhythm Tengoku DS (http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n08/brij/topics/index.html#topics04).
If you're not excited we can't be friends.
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So apparently Red Alert 3 has CYBORG BEAR PARATROOPERS
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And psychic ninja schoolgirls.
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Rhythm Tengoku DS (http://www.nintendo.co.jp/n08/brij/topics/index.html#topics04).
If you're not excited we can't be friends.
Hmmmmm...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkBuR2wzNl8
Well something just got excited.
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[spoiler]Right hand penis![/spoiler]
Sam and Max Season 2 costs five cents more on Steam than on Telltale's store. Is that all the commission Valve gets?
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I thought it'd never happen, but: Beyond Good and Evil is getting a sequel. :cake:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/34508.html
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wait WHAT
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Hopefully Ubisoft will pimp this one properly, and with the universal love that critics and journalists have for this game, they should be able to get much more in the way of attention. Sort of in the way Shadow of the Colossus did in the wake of ICO.
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Or they could totally Prince of Persia 2 the series.
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Beyond Good And Evil was fun, I guess, but I really don't get all the hype. There was no depth to it! You had decent combat and decent stealth and decent photography and decent ship travel, but none of these game elements have much chance to develop before the game ends. On top of that, the story was almost offensively transparent. "You mean the sinister, villainous-looking robots are actually villains?!" It probably wouldn't have bothered me so much had there not been so much potential here--they went to all this effort to make Jade into a believable and nuanced heroine, and then they saddled her with cliched hero Double H and the piggy-eyed leader of the Alpha Sectors as a villain, and... man, I dunno. I guess I expected some real moral quandaries from a game named "Beyond Good and Evil".
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http://www.gametrailers.com/player/34663.html
Needs more flopping fish.
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So, uh, it seems that Itagaki is quitting and suing Tecmo. (http://kotaku.com/5012535/itagaki-leaving-tecmo-suing-tecmo)
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"President Yoshimi Yasuda chose not only to violate this agreement, but also turned defiant, telling me 'if you are dissatisfied with the decision not to pay the bonuses, either quit the company or sue it.'"
Hey, it's one or the other, buddy! Pick one!
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Not an XOR Brent.
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:THATWAY: Semantics in spoken language do not work that way!
Alternately: Saying "either" before "or" does imply an XOR.
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:THATWAY: Semantics in spoken English do not work that way!
There are actually quite a lot of spoken languages that work that way.
I suppose that pointing out a language barrier is probably to blame in the first place is likely to suck all the fun out of this.
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Not Japanese, as far as I know.
Also, yes, you spoilsport.
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I would just like to point out that you are objecting to my debating the semantics in your debating of semantics.
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I would just like to point out that you are objecting to my debating the semantics in your debating of semantics.
Nobody has any liking for gerunds, Thad.
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I thought grammar Nazis were supposed to be anti-semantic. :wat:
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You can play Fallout for free now (http://kotaku.com/5012527/go-play-fallout--descent-on-gametap), for those of you who haven't. Like me. I haven't. So I'll be putting that next on my game queue.
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Beware, rather slow paced by today's standards.
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And rather shitty compared to fallout 2.
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what
I found quite the opposite. Fallout 2 seemed unfinished, and the premise was less interesting. I never completed the game, myself.
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Oh I'm sure it's not my thing, just like Baldur's Gate and Arcanum aren't, but I don't like to blow off games that every motherfucker on the planet keeps talking about.
And rather shitty compared to fallout 2.
Fallout 2 is also free.
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The Fallout 2 is also cursed.
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Fallout 2 suffers from being much more difficult, buggier, and perhaps a little tired in some of it's concepts. It's also much bigger and takes itself much less seriously, for better or for worse.
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Apparently it's not up on Gametap yet, but hey, Psychonauts is.
So is Daikatana.
In other news, MGS4 is officially as good as Ocarina of Time, Soul Calibur, Vagrant Story, Wind Waker, Nintendogs, FFXII and Brawl (http://kotaku.com/5012898/famitsu-gives-metal-gear-solid-4-perfect-score). In other words, seven games I bought and either left to gather dust or sold.
Seriously there's only one game on that list I've been arsed to give a full playthrough. Well I guess I've put my time in on Brawl but yeah gave up way before I considered it finished.
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What is the chance of This (http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/417/1210145858289ss0.jpg). Making it to the us. I know capcom has the rights to darkstalkers, but most of NIS has been getting ported over lately.
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It's actually a little astounding that Fallout 2 is buggier than Fallout, considering that Fallout is an ENORMOUS COCKROACH
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I am told you can complete Fallout 1 without ever getting into combat.
On a fun note, only the US release of fallout had children... And burning to death animations for children. And if you happen to see that, and you caused it? Prepare for a special mark on your character sheet, and dozens more fairly difficult encounters in the wilderness for the new bounty on your head.
I love Fallout.
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I did like how, in Junktown, you can kill Gizmo AND the guy who asked you to kill Gizmo, and get both quest rewards.
There were only a handful of situations in which killing absolutely everybody wasn't the best option.
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Fallout 2 on the other hand, will make you choose. I think New Reno has several paths, where you can only take one.
(Plated boxing gloves YESSSSS)
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Actually, with a little finagling you can be a Made Man for all four families. It's tricky, but doable.
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I did like how, in Junktown, you can kill Gizmo AND the guy who asked you to kill Gizmo, and get both quest rewards.
There were only a handful of situations in which killing absolutely everybody wasn't the best option.
These kinds of scenarios aren't the "bugs" you're talking about, right Kazz? Or are you talking about the [there are no spoilers for a game this old] terrible psychic wall doing enough damage to kill you no matter what you did?
Actually, with a little finagling you can be a Made Man for all four families. It's tricky, but doable.
I needs me some proofs.
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I am told you can complete Fallout 1 without ever getting into combat.
I did complete the game once without ever killing anyone or anything, IIRC. I used a FAQ, though. It's doable, but you pretty much need advance knowledge of the game, and you have no leeway as to how you build your character since you only get EXP from quests and such.
But the very fact that it's possible to do it... well, that's a Thing.
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Even if you don't do the entire game through conversation, every major encounter can be done that way, including the best way to defeat a last boss ever.
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Classic: I think the best example is Boneyard, home to probably half of the game's bugs (and 75% of its spelling errors). The fact that you have to go there to get advanced weapons is a shame, because most of the quest triggers and conversation trees are totally fucking broken.
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Alternatively, the fallout games are incredibly different if you play with minimum INT score. Other non-intelligent people are suddenly useful, and I think there are even one or two unique quests for that.
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I am told you can complete Fallout 1 without ever getting into combat.
On a fun note, only the US release of fallout had children... And burning to death animations for children. And if you happen to see that, and you caused it? Prepare for a special mark on your character sheet, and dozens more fairly difficult encounters in the wilderness for the new bounty on your head.
I love Fallout.
After chasing some little shit who stole some ammo for my ALIEN DEATH GUN
down i gave him some active tnt.
I am a fucking monster.
also, there is a fanpatch for Fallout 2 that fixes nearly every bug (including the random encounter that nets you the HOLY HAND GRENADE)
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Jack Thompson is going to be disbarred. (http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/06/04/florida-bar-wants-jack-thompson-disbarred-10-years-thompson-storms-out-hearing) Hell yes. Of course he hasn't technically been disbarred yet, but seeing that he walked out of the proceedings early on I don't think this is going to turn out well for him.
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Also he personally insulted the judge in his rambling, 4500 word essay statement.
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Personally insulting people is a large part of what got him there.
Of course it's also a large part of why we know about it.
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Actually, with a little finagling you can be a Made Man for all four families. It's tricky, but doable.
I needs me some proofs.
From the Nearly Ultimate Fallout 2 Guide (http://user.tninet.se/~jyg699a/fallout2.html):
It's possible to be listed on your character sheet as Made Man for all four families at the same time, as outlined by Sébastien Caisse: "Once you've become a Made Man for a specific family, this family won't attack you any more. First you need to do all the possible quests for them, and not collect the final reward, and not assassinate Salvatore (until you're a Made Man for him). The trick is basically to sneak past everyone and collect your final reward by talking to the bosses before they engage in combat." Ryan P. Fialcowitz and Joshua Jansen then looked into the particulars and found there is another constraint: you must become Made Man for Bishop first, since Bishop's dialogue will change for the worse if you're already with some other family. This means that if you want all four you must end up allied with either the Wrights or the Mordinos. You will need to use a combination of Sneaking and running in combat mode to reach all bosses - saving a lot is recommended. Getting through the door to Salvatore is one of the tricky parts, but John Gaw points out: "If you talk to Mason while on good grounds, you can go into attack mode later and open the door with no problem whatsoever." Two more things should be noted. Firstly, despite what your character sheet says you will only be Made Man for one family at a time as far as the game is concerned, so there's no real reward for doing all this. Secondly, attacking the family you joined last will remove all Made Man labels from your list of reputations, but attacking any other family, including one you joined earlier, has no effect on them.
tl;dr: Technically it shouldn't be possible but you can do it anyway with elite sploits. :mikey:
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Back to Jackie Boy: GP has a transcript of his hissy fit (http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/06/10/gp-exclusive-read-transcript-jack-thompson-storms-out-court) from the sanctions hearing.
JT: Excuse me Judge. Just to state my objection to your preventing me from doing what I have a right to do here today, note my objection to your ruling in that regard. Note my objection to the fact that you don't want to hear my objection, which I have a right to put on the record orally and heaving heard yet another erroneous ruling from you which simply digs your hole deeper -- with all respect for at least this Court -- let me then give you what I have in writing. May I approach?
JUDGE: Absolutely. Miss Tuma, do you have a copy?
TUMA: No, I don't.
JT: Let me give it to you. One for the court reporter (handing), one for Miss Tuma (handing), one for the Daily Business Review (handing). Ms. Roberts, try to get the story right this time [GP: Thompson made this remark to DBR reporter Alana Roberts]. Mr. Min, you're not supposed to be here, but here's your copy (handing)--
[GP: Barnaby Min is an investigator for the Florida Bar; Thompson has been highly critical of Min in the past.]
JUDGE: Let me just stop you right there. This is going to be a professionally conducted hearing. Whoever is in this courtroom has a right to be here because it's a public courtroom. I saw you basically throw onto Mr. Min's lap a motion --
JT: You saw me drop it on his lap because he wouldn't take it.
JUDGE: Mr. Thompson, he has no requirement to take anything from you. He's here as a person watching the proceedings... So I'd like us all to take a step back and to conduct ourselves professionally. Having said that, I have now received--
JT: Your Honor--
JUDGE: I have now received a motion entitled "Thompson's Formal Objection to June 4th Sanctions Hearing" and--
JT: It's not--
JUDGE: I will read it and when I receive a reply by the Bar, I will rule accordingly; but it's not going to stop this hearing from going forward.
JT: Nobody wanted to stop the hearing from going forward. Secondly, it's not a motion, It's an objection.
JUDGE: Okay.
JT: Thirdly, I'm entitled to give this to Mr. Min, if I feel like it. He wouldn't take it, so I gently dropped it on his lap. You can mischaracterize what I did if you want to, as you have before. Having stated my objection, Judge, which I wanted to do on the record orally, which I have a right to do, I want to wish you a very good day because I'm done here. Because I want you to understand that I cannot, Judge -- Referee, whatever -- object to the legitimacy of these proceedings and at the same time participate in them. I understand that. Others understand that. I don't know whether you understand it or not, but I'm done. I'll see you.
It is probably the very definition of schadenfreude that I laughed out loud at that part, but I'm not ashamed to admit it.
Or that I read Jack's babbling in my head in Milton's voice.
Dennis McCauley at GP deserves some serious accolades for the effort he's gone to in breaking this story. I'd advise everybody to drop a "thanks" in his comments section.
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The audio. (http://www.dailybusinessreview.com/Web_Blog_Stories/June/Thompson_Bar_Discipline.html)
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...Getting sort of pissed at all the FF4DS previews, because they make it sound a lot like a thing I want to purchase.
While I am opposed, in principle, to encouraging Square/Enix to continue cranking out remakes (DQ4-6 notwithstanding for obvious reasons), this one looks pretty damn good.
Also, I've only ever bought FF4 once. If I'd bought it three times, I'd probably be less inclined to buy it again.
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I had the original SNES cartridge and bought the GBA remake, and I'm still snapping this up on release day. The trailer on the US website is subtitled, I wonder if the final version will be dubbed.
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I really, really liked how they handled the graphics in FF3DS, and I'm sure I'll love them just as much in FF4, but I would feel like such a colossal whore buying that video game again. I draw the line here, Square. You want me to buy your damn game? Make a new one!
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I had the original SNES cartridge and bought the GBA remake, and I'm still snapping this up on release day. The trailer on the US website is subtitled, I wonder if the final version will be dubbed.
WHYYYYYYYYYY yes it is.
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I had the original SNES cartridge and bought the GBA remake, and I'm still snapping this up on release day. The trailer on the US website is subtitled, I wonder if the final version will be dubbed.
GameTrailers has a preview, which doesn't seem to want to play nicely with either the flash or the url tag. If the embed below isn't working (I can't tell because my Flash is spotty as hell in the first damn place), hit up their main site (http://www.gametrailers.com/) and find it there; at the time of this writing it's linked on the front page.
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/35093.html (http://www.gametrailers.com/player/35093.html)
The speaker doesn't seem to have played the last two releases of the game (or assumes the audience hasn't), and the music sounds like it's all taken from the SNES version, but it's the best English gameplay footage you're going to find right now.
Parish has a hands-on preview (http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3168208&p=39&sec=PREVIEWS) with screenshots but no video.
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Seh-sil? God damn it, I've been calling him See-sil this whole time.
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so does this play like you're in a time-slowed swamp full of molasses like ff3ds did?
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I heard they fixed that and battles go at a nice clip now. FF4 never had much grindan anyway.
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oh was there grinding in ff3? i dunno i only played it for like six or seven hours
so i got through the second random battle.
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I heard they fixed that and battles go at a nice clip now. FF4 never had much grindan anyway.
And apparently this version has an auto-battle like Suikoden.
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I heard they fixed that and battles go at a nice clip now. FF4 never had much grindan anyway.
And apparently this version has an auto-battle like Suikoden.
That seems weird. Parish has been going on and on about how difficult even the random battles are in FFIV DS, and how you actually need to use strategy and special abilities and such all the time.
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For early battles in a given area, yeah. Maybe not for grinding/walking in circles for hours looking for motherfucking Pink Puffs.
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An Open Letter to Chris Buffa: You don't get Metal Gear (http://www.playitreviewit.com/news/14/an-open-letter-to-chris-buffa---you-don%27t-get-metal-gear)
Why do people feel the need to sit around and bitch when some random no-name game reviewer gives the game they like a score they feel is bad? Don't they realize that reviews are opinion?
(THAD EDIT: I really shouldn't have to fix long straight-URL links twice on the same page in the same day.)
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Hey, this weekend is another free TF2 weekend. Awesome.
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Why do people feel the need to sit around and bitch when some random no-name game reviewer gives the game they like a score they feel is bad? Don't they realize that reviews are opinion?
Of course they know that reviews are opinion. They're the WRONG opinion. They must be CORRECTED.
Never mind that this has never, ever resulted in anything positive or constructive. It's a compulsion I will never understand.
The last review that pissed me off (from IGN, I believe) was one in which the reviewer claimed that, in TF2, disguised spies bleed when shot. This made it very clear that the reviewer didn't play the fucking game.
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:gasp: You say that about everyone when it comes to TF2!
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Meet the Sniper is up. (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53182)
Pyro weapons is reveal tomorrow.
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well, they kinda showed the pyro shotgun replacement in meet the sniper.
it's a goddamn flare gun.
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Daaaang. If these shorts keep getting better and better, number 9 is going to win an Oscar. Maybe number 8.
"I think his mate saw me." Dude!
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JARS OF PEE CONFIRMED FOR SNIPER'S MELEE UNLOCK
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The Hunted bobble head was the best part.
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NO SOLDIER, YOU ARE THE MAGET
And then soldier ate his own crit. (http://www.steampowered.com/pyro/?pw=presspreview)
Also noteworthy is RAGE QUIT ACHIEVEMENT
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Most of these achievements look like fun. I'm still not 100% clear on how the backburner works, other than the fact you need to be behind people for it to work best.
Also much happier with what looks like the final design for the alternate axe. The concept art looked a bit too stone age.
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Backburner: +50 max health, no air blast (like it is now), crits from behind
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I don't really get the over all design of the Axetinguisher, to be honest. It's always looked a bit too, I dunno, road warrior to me. It doesn't really match the Merry Melodies/Tom & Jerry look of the rest of the game's designs. That said though it's actual effect and perfect name are pretty cool and hilarious respectively. I'm thinking that some sort of melee ranged oil can squirter thing would have looked better although it would have required a suitably funny name.
The back burner works just like the regular flamethrower it just has an increased critrate on enemies backs and won't have the new compressed gas shot that the regular flamethrower has been granted. Compressed gas shot sounds awesome and will make pyros the undisputed masters of CQC they need to be as well as provide them with a neat trick against many of their long range nemeses. I'm thinking that they are also really good turret defenders now with flame to ignite saboteurs and compressed blasts to foil rocketmen and cyclopes alike.
The Flaregun looks really neat, it's something I would see myself using a lot if it was just an additional weapon to my load out or if I could replace my axe with it. As it stands though, I think I'd rather have what I assume is going to be the superior burst damage of the shotgun since its ability to initiate an attack or keep the damage going when approaching or fleeing an enemy respectively is a big part of playing this class effectively. The Flare gun sounds like more of an annoyance weapon than a real damage dealer as it probably just ignites enemies and does standard burn damage with out much actual shot damage and probably a low rate of fire (bad choice of words). I will obviously use it occasionally to get the achievement if nothing else though.
Basically, I'm probably gonna start playing some TF2 again for the first time in a while just because the Firejack was always my favourite class. The fact that he was way more effective than he ever was in the original TF was one the best aspects of the game to me and it now looks like he will have even more uses in a game and will be a lot more fun to play seeing has he will be all the more frightening in close quarters with his numerous methods of crit assurance.
I'm actually thinking of changing my screen name from Fake_Kraid to Red Adair (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Adair) and just playing pyro full-time for a while
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Flaregun has a BIG advantage over the shotgun in a major area, RANGE
I seriously wonder if the air blast will allow a pyro to launch himself and if it's able to reflect medic needles.
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Unknown about launching yourself, but I'm sure it will work on medic needles, not that you'd want to. It sounds instantaneous, so, assuming it emits as some kind of wave, you'd be lucky to catch a handful of nails. Hardly worth it.
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If you can bounce needles back at the target, would the life-drain needles work on the medic they originated from?
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It's three health per needle, so, pursuant to my previous point, who gives a shit.
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I know I'm the last person to be saying anything about TF2, but... isn't giving the Pyro a long-range weapon going against the point a little?
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If it just ignites, with low to no impact damage, then it continues in the great trend of what pyros do best. Tick people off. They pryo does not kill you the way the surprise crit-rocket does, or the quick shank of a spy from behind. The pyro loiters around, and gives people a little time (even if only a few miserable, burny seconds) to realize he is there, and he is trying to kill you. If they give the pyro new toys with which to harass and annoy (and eventually kill you), then it's very much in the spirit of being pyro.
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It's breach-loading, single-shot style flare gun. I get the impression that it is either very low damage on impact or has a very low rate of fire if not both. So it's not like they are giving the pyro a fiery version of the soldier's bazooka, they are just giving him a ranged ignition tool. You can probably pick off low health stragglers with it, but I think the main point of it is just to weaken and annoy high ranged enemies as well as initiate your burn damage before you get in range to toast them the standard way and thus speed up kills a little. You can also light up scouts that get out of your thrower range before you have a chance to fire.
I'm surprised they didn't give him a Molotov cocktail of some sort, though maybe the demo man will get that.
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Being on fire sucks hardcore. Now imagine you're tooling around, doing whatever it is you're doing, and then suddenly you're on fire. You think "oh shit pyro nearby" and look around in a panic, hoping you have time to kill him before he finishes roasting you.
But he's actually way the fuck over there and there's nothing you can do about it. You're on fire, he's gone to burn somebody else, and you're forced to seek a way to extinguish yourself instead of performing your usual job.
A properly used flaregun is going to be a great panic/distraction weapon. Just imagine a push on the very final point of Dustbowl; I don't know the rate of fire of the gun but I can certainly see a couple defending pyros setting a good portion the offense on fire while they cross the bridge. With the medics busy with ubers, you can bet there's going to be people scrambling for the nearby health items instead of rushing the capture point.
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Russian otaku make a thing. (http://kotaku.com/5017703/russian-gaijins-go-anime+style-with-x+blades)
Might be worth checking out. It'd be refreshing to see a game from people who haven't been as inundated with mutated Japan-o-bullshit and probably still think that bright colors and Lum are pretty fantastic.
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Lum IS pretty fantastic!
Regarding the game though, I found out about it back when it was called Oniblade and, while I appreciate anything where a half naked girl runs around cutting the shit out of everyone in sight, the gameplay looked a bit too... well, you know. Generic 3D God of War ripoff beat-em-up, not that interesting. I'd love it if this turned out to actually be good though!
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Finally, a product even SEGA could market. (http://kotaku.com/5017976/sega-creates-robotic-girlfriend)
I wonder how much trouble I'd get in if I said she has a pretty nice ass.
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Call me anthropocentric if you must, but my robo-lady would need more facial features than a blank slate of plastic covering her optical sensors.
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Being on fire sucks hardcore. Now imagine you're tooling around, doing whatever it is you're doing, and then suddenly you're on fire.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK1e9zRREqw
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Call me anthropocentric if you must, but my robo-lady would need more facial features than a blank slate of plastic covering her optical sensors.
I think all my real girlfriends have pretty much fit that description, so I wouldn't much notice.
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I don't mind the blank face thing.
I just want to fuck Tali from Mass Effect, is all.
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Personally I'd keep expecting her to call me "test subject" and start rambling about cake.
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Removed Soldier's 40% damage reduction from his own rockets. Does not affect rocket jumps
Removed Flamethrower's damage falloff (was falling off to 25% by the end)
:HUGE: :HUGE: :HUGE:
POST SCREW AROUND EDIT:
airblast uses 25 ammo per shot, slight delay before it fires.
Reflect kills have a unique icon
Hadoken is now an INSTANT KILL with its own kill icon so you can show everyone online what you did
Flaregun has a max of 16 ammo, single shot, slight firing delay, the projectile drops due to gravity (not as much as the needles or demo grenades) and only does 20~ damage along with the ON FIRE DoT
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Goddamnit. Now I want Guitar Hero IV (http://kotaku.com/5018197/guitar-hero-world-tour-impressions). Not just the whole Rock Band setup, they had to go and throw in character creation as well as instrument and actual song creation. And the drum pad looks a lot nicer and more flexible than Rock Bands.
And to top it off, they get "Everlong" on the set list.
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I'm just going to sit back and wait for this guitar game arms race to reach its inevitable and awesome conclusion.
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Why, eventually the drum pad will have 10 parts and the guitar will have 144 buttons! And I bet it would require years of practice just to become an expert at the device, and people will form these "rock bands" to give concerts. It would be unprecedented!
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I'm kinda surprised no one has made an electric guitar that just has a standard note scale worth of buttons on it and a strum bar. Then a button or knob to switch between strings and (what ever it's called when you strum across all of them).
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I've got a pretty funky Guitar Hero controller. It's a perfect replica of the game's Les Paul. It even has these wires instead of buttons, and to hit the notes you have to put your fingers on the wires between these little indentation things, and actually pull the wires. It then reads these... electromagnetic vibrations or whatever, I don't get it but it sounds like total future technology.
Thing'll plug directly into an amp, which is awesome, but it's so complicated that I can't even figure out how to hook it up to my PS2. Despite the fact that I miss literally every not with it people still say I look less ridiculous with it than with a normal controller. Weird.
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Why, then Brentai would go on to make the same joke as me.
Only better. :MENDOZAAAAA:
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It's a trick I've learned.
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What, you think it's ultimately going to become Guitar Wizard (http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/03/guitar-wizard-guitar-hero-with-a-real-guitar/)?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsqFzDSJfeE
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guys i just stomped on a bunch of turtles
my shoes are a mess
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I'm kinda surprised no one has made an electric guitar that just has a standard note scale worth of buttons on it and a strum bar. Then a button or knob to switch between strings and (what ever it's called when you strum across all of them).
(http://kazz.rooms.cwal.net/keytar.jpg)
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Ha ha it's funny that you're all making fun of people for playing a rhythm game instead of actually playing instruments. This is a point I've never seen made before. I'm going to go make fun of people for playing Halo instead of actually committing homicide.
and also
"Rogues" by Incubus (http://kazz.rooms.cwal.net/rogues.mp3) is fucking begging for the GH treatment. :;_;:
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We're not really making fun of people for playing rhythm games so much as we're making fun of rhythm game makers desperate to one up each other.
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http://www.gametrailers.com/player/35319.html
What's this feeling... It's like happiness
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We're not really making fun of people for playing rhythm games so much as we're making fun of rhythm game makers desperate to one up each other.
Harmonix is desperate to one-up... itself?
:wat:
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Sonic Vacationing In Europe
Sacré Blue!
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I almost feel sorry for the level designers in that Sonic game. It's highly detailed, most of the structures appear unique, and you blitz by them awfully fast.
Also, it reminds me somewhat of cs_italy, secretly hoping Sonic gets sniped in mid level.
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What's this feeling... It's like happiness
QUICK TIME EVENT, THE VIDEO GAME!
Same. Old. Shit.
Look, they got the speed down, awesome. I'll believe it's actually a good game when it scores higher than a 4.5 or a C- or two exploding heads out of five. Wolfhog is retarded, and that trailer still looks like it's the "Very pretty thing you watch" problem from every other 3-D Sonic game. I was a lot more excited when I thought it was gonna be 2-D again. Look at how many times in that trailer it looks as though the player is influencing what's happening and it's not a QTE button flashing thing.
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We're not really making fun of people for playing rhythm games so much as we're making fun of rhythm game makers desperate to one up each other.
Harmonix is desperate to one-up... itself?
:wat:
:facepalm:
Neversoft makes Guitar Hero, Harmonix makes Rock Band, and even Konami is producing a band game.
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I'm not making judgments on the final product. Sonic has burned me too many times for that. I'm just commenting that that's the first enjoyable thing I've seen from the franchise in about a decade, and felt very similar to the more frenetic parts of, say, Sonic 2.
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It better have some kind of magical space/pinball zone if it wants to come anywhere near that level of fun.
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The quick time events made me cautious, but the parts where you were obviously locked into three lanes are what broke the deal for me. I'm very much hoping that the entire game isn't just a long string of minigames.
..oh wait, that IS what Sonic games are now, isn't it? Fuck.
The stupid thing is that with a huge environment like that you could have very easily taken the rodent off the rails and turned it into some sort of speed-demon GTA. Just let the player wander around the world doing stuff, only make it VERY VERY FAST, which would solve the problem of most other open environment games in that you generally move VERY VERY SLOW. Pity.
...I just realized: Are they seriously so unaware of irony that they're calling this game "Sonic Unleashed"?
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I don't think you guys remember what playing the 16-bit Sonic games was actually like.
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I remember what they SHOULD have been like, and as far as I can tell, Sonic has been one-upped by a dinosaur (http://www.pixeljam.com/dinorun/).
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I don't think you guys remember what playing the 16-bit Sonic games was actually like.
Huge levels with multiple paths through each and little secrets all over the place that you could stop and pick up?
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I didn't do that too much. I was thinking more the achieve maximum possible speed and hit A to avoid spikes occasionally.
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I don't think you guys remember what playing the 16-bit Sonic games was actually like.
You're right, because I had gotten Vectorman not too long after my Genesis w/ Sonic. Why don't they modernize him!
:sadpanda:
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I didn't do that too much. I was thinking more the achieve maximum possible speed and hit A to avoid spikes occasionally.
...You should probably try playing them again.
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I don't think you guys remember what playing the 16-bit Sonic games was actually like.
You're right, because I had gotten Vectorman not too long after my Genesis w/ Sonic. Why don't they modernize him!
:sadpanda:
Don't ask (http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/5113/vectorman04280301bk4.jpg)
I didn't do that too much. I was thinking more the achieve maximum possible speed and hit A to avoid spikes occasionally.
...You should probably try playing them again.
Those are the memories I associate most with the series. I'm oversimplifying, but I always remember the times I went so fast Sonic left the screen before I remember any of the exploration or platforming. That is why the trailer made me happy, and because it was such a remarkable contrast to all the choking on bile I've done for the last ten years of Sonic games.
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Choking on bile.. Somehow that makes me vaguely recall Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine.
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:facepalm:
Neversoft makes Guitar Hero, Harmonix makes Rock Band, and even Konami is producing a band game.
Harmonix is best known as the developer of Rock Band as well as the original developer of the Guitar Hero series up until Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock, which Neversoft developed, along with future Guitar Hero titles.
oh my bad I was just thinking of three quarters of the series
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Just let the player wander around the world doing stuff, only make it VERY VERY FAST, which would solve the problem of most other open environment games in that you generally move VERY VERY SLOW.
That would involve populating the areas with more than bots to be 'stroyed, and I haven't enough faith in them to make the walls bouncy so dead-stopping isn't rampant.
Huge levels with multiple paths through each and little secrets all over the place that you could stop and pick up?
Stop?
STOP!?!?
gb2 /sth1/
This game will rule all! The music is peppy, the graphix are totally 300-bit, and
QUICK TIME EVENT
FFFUUUCK.
Holding out to see what happens when you miss a command. Hopefully you just... Slow down a bit. Instead of stopping dead or getting stabbed by Krauser.
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oh my bad I was just thinking of three quarters of the series
Yes. You were thinking of the series up until Harmonix got canned, at which point they said "fuck you guys" and made Rock Band, and the Guitar Hero game got passed to some idiots who shat all over the difficulty curve in 3, and are now just ripping ideas from the original devteam.
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sooooooo i'm right?
i'm done here i don't even like guitar hero
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:facepalm:
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I can't believe that i'm actually in the position of hoping that Sega continues to neglect their best franchises indefinitely so as not to insult their legacy of great gaming.
::(:
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sooooooo i'm right?
In the same way that -- hey, check this out, I'm going to tie the two conversations together -- you would be "right" if you kept talking about mid-1990's Sonic games as if they were the current status quo. And then acted stubborn and condescending when someone pointed out that your information was facepalmingly out-of-date.
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Am I wrong in thinking that Harmonix was hired to compete with its own game license?
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More like, Activision took the rights away from them, gave the rights to Neversoft, so Harmonix proceeded to create the Rock Band series. I'm really not sure why you think that Harmonix has anything to do with Guitar Hero 3 or 4.
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And I'm not sure why you think he thinks that.
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Because that's what he's been saying.
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No it's not.
In fact, I pasted the current status of the situation, straight from Wikipedia, a few posts ago. (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=31.msg14987#msg14987)
I was just making a joke that Harmonix is responsible for both ends of the rhythm game war. I never said "at the same time," just that both licenses are still active.
This is the dumbest argument ever.
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Yes, yes it is. That is the most correct you've been.
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Yeah, I'm kind of over bullshitting back and forth about franchises that have gone to Hell.
...on that note, the successor to Guilty Gear is coming along very unoriginally nicely (http://www.blazblue.com/).
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Isn't it just a series reset of sorts?
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It has nothing to do with Guilty Gear storywise, so I'm not sure what you mean by "series reset".
Unless you mean "all of the emo-fag crap with none of the rock & roll". In which case, yes. Yes it is.
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well i kind of meant more like "all the same dudes, more or less, only in a different setting and no rock & roll" but yeah ok
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Happy birthday, Sonic! (http://kotaku.com/5019006/happy-birthday-sonic)
Sorry we spent the last two pages calling your shit lame!
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i'm not.
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Brentai just feels guilty because he spent over a decade writing
erotic self-insertion Sonic fanfics
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It's funny because it's true! ::D:
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THEY WERE BETTER THAN SONIC FOR THE PS3 GOD DAMN IT
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AND the last several Mega Man X games.
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Could it be that Brentai and Thad's fanfics are the kiss of death for videogame franchises?
Well, not the kiss of death. More like the kiss of awful.
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Because they're so jealous of how awesome our stuff is that they just give up?
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"They uploaded Zero's brain into a magical clone of Sonic the Hedgehog? Shit, guys, we can't top that. Let's just have him appear out of nowhere before the last boss."
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Am I this much of a sheep? Baa, sir. Baa. (http://kotaku.com/5019288/spore-80-edition-announced)
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Does it come without violative system-breaking DRM?
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...they're including an art book? Wasn't the fact that Spore had almost no original art assets pretty much the entire fucking point? What is it, a book full of screenshots?
"Here's some preliminary concept art of eyeball #8. As you can see, the design of eyeball #8 went through a lot of changes before we arrived at something that we felt really captured the unique spirit of this eyeball."
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Thad, Brent, stop this shit. I'm REALLY trying not to start a Katestory thread. ::(:
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Thad, Brent, stop this shit. I'm REALLY trying not to quit school, earn enough money to build a badass computer, buy spore, and live in the middle of nowhere for a year dedicating my life to vidjagames.
Don't do this to me you motherfuckers. PLEASE! :despair:
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Ed Boon to 10 remaining Mortal Kombat fans: "Stop jumping to conclusions! We didn't mean it!" (http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/mortalkombat/news.html?sid=6192868)
Question is whether or not the game itself will be any good. (Probably not.)
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well i kind of meant more like "all the same dudes, more or less, only in a different setting and no rock & roll" but yeah ok
No, less of the same dudes, same setting, same rock and roll, 10 years later. Most people are pissed that Sol and and Ky are the only returning characters.
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because those people never played street fighter three and don't realize that blazbluegrenridyella: arc impakt will have pretty much the entire cast of gg reinstated.
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That's BS. I see Testament right there. He's wearing cat ears for some reason and his scythe is an umbrella now, but fuck man.
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No, less of the same dudes, same setting, same rock and roll, 10 years later. Most people are pissed that Sol and and Ky are the only returning characters.
because those people never played street fighter three and don't realize that blazbluegrenridyella: arc impakt will have pretty much the entire cast of gg reinstated.
Just to clarify, they haven't shown any GG characters in BlazBlue. I'm assuming Kayin is making an ice cold burn on the fact that Ragna the Bloodedge and Jin Kisaragi are basically just Sol and Ky dressed as World War III vampires.
Don't get me wrong, I mean it COULD turn out to be some kind of weird sequel. The storyline and setting are basically identical except they say "Black Beast" instead of "Gear". But I haven't seen anything to explicitly link it to GG so it looks to me like it's planted in "spiritual successor" territory.
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It's like this.
You know those commercials about Coke trying to sue Coke Zero?
Yeah. Exactly.
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World War III vampires.
:OoO: My attention. You haz it.
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Castlevania Fighting Game. (http://kotaku.com/5020097/wii-castlevania-revealed-its-a-fighting-game)
WHAT THE FUCK?!?! Also, it might be worth buying if meat comes out when you knock your opponent into a wall hard enough.
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Well, it might not be complete fail if it has Christopher in it.
I guess we'll see.
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New Adventure Island game. WiiWare. (http://kotaku.com/5020161/takahashi-meijin-new-adventure-island-coming-maybe-star-soldier-as-well)
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So Wii Ware is becoming the place where developers finally bring out follow-ups to their classic franchises without having to worry about modernizing them? I can dig it.
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And good times shall be had by all. (http://eu.blizzard.com/diablo3/)
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titan quest?
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too human?
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titan quest?
:facepalm: ...actually, is Titan Quest any good? I never got around to picking it up.
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Titan Quest has a lot going for it, but it lack that Blizzard polish that lets you play through Diablo II for the nth time.
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Oh boy death-of-your-index-finger mk. III
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titan quest does N things right but N+1 things wrong
that 1 thing is lack of random generation. my god, going through the exact same area over and over is just pain.
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I would like Blizzard to shoot themselves in the foot and release Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 on the same day.
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Titan Quest is great for occupying your fingers while listening to podcasts.
...but so is minesweeper.
I'm sick of minesweeper though.
Personally I didn't mind the lack of random generation too much. The main problem with the game, in my book, is that the world is too much boring, run-of-the-mill wilderness and not enough cool architecture. There are genuinely great battlefields in there but that's only like 5% of the experience. 80% of the time it's all "here's some woods, dude, I hope you like grass and trees", and the remaining 15% is crappy dungeons that look like they could have been randomly generated (Minoan Labyrinth I am looking at you sternly).
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Yeah, if you're going to premake all your dungeons, make them fucking decent.
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I've been waiting for this for years.
...So yeah how come I suddenly don't give two shits about it?
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god damn I want to play a Barbarian so bad.
THUD, WHACK, SMASH, CRUNCH. I always though D2's melee combat was kind of boring compared to throwing down a hail of frozen orb or multishot, and this looks like it's been turned on its head.
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...Deckard Cain?
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I've been waiting for this for years.
...So yeah how come I suddenly don't give two shits about it?
I felt the same way about Starcraft 2. Let me know once you figure this out.
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I'm actually a little worried about Diablo 3; I can't help but think it'll adversely impact the success of Mythos.
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Doubtful. Blizzard just not announced Diablo 3, so it's probably still only 5 years away.
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Good point. It'll probably adversely affect Hellgate: Paris.
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I think Hellgate: London will more adversely affect it.
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Oh Flagship, you're so screwed. Also who gives a shit about Mythos?
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I'm not going to dump on Flagship, but it seems everyone thought they were "Everyone who made Diablo" instead of "Like, 8 guys who worked on Diablo".
Mythos looks interesting, but at the same time its aesthetic seems completely at odds with D3, to the point where they might be for different audiences entirely. At this point Mythos is almost geared towards the asiatic Maple Story crowd.
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Oh Flagship, you're so screwed. Also who gives a shit about Mythos?
Oh Flagship, you're so screwed. Also who gives a shit about Mythos?
Oh Flagship, you're so screwed. Also who gives a shit about Mythos?
Oh Flagship, you're so screwed. Also who gives a shit about Mythos?
Oh Flagship, you're so screwed. Also who gives a shit about Mythos?
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Apparently Diablo 3 is going to suck (http://diabloiii.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/diablo-3-how-it-should-look/)because IT IS TOO BRIGHT AND COLORFUL. (http://forums.diabloii.net/showthread.php?t=668027)
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It did look a little cartoony to me, but I'm pretty sure it was the animation, not the fact that Diablo needs to be any fucking darker.
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I'm just happy they're keeping the isometric perspective and it won't look like another WoW clone.
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Yes please (http://www.bloodbowl-game.com/)
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Disappointed in the lack of actual mutants.
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What are you talking about? I've been playing Blood Bowl (http://) for a year now.
Wait. Is that?... No. Is that a purity seal? They are not going to make fucking 40k era football are they? Marines enter the field via landraider? Assault terminator going for the tackle? Space Marine scout going down to the 20, the 10, then OOHHHH, tackled by the Necron flayed one bursting out of the ground. The decapitation means a five yard penalty.
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It's called "scrumball" in 40k, actually.
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What are you talking about? I've been playing Blood Bowl (http://) for a year now.
Wait. Is that?... No. Is that a purity seal? They are not going to make fucking 40k era football are they? Marines enter the field via landraider? Assault terminator going for the tackle? Space Marine scout going down to the 20, the 10, then OOHHHH, tackled by the Necron flayed one bursting out of the ground. The decapitation means a five yard penalty to the team missing a head. Missing head. Five yards.
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Something about the idea of powered armor and football just sounds right.
I'll settle for the dwarven deathroller though. In the board game, you have to make rolls to 'sneak' it onto the field without the ref seeing it. It's cheating. It's actually easier to get the deathroller onto the table than it is for a goblin to get a chainsaw onto the table. And the goblin has to keep attempting to START the chainsaw, because you can't be sneaky with a running saw.
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- Hardware accelerated graphics
- Dynamic lighting and shadows (!!!)
- High detail textures
- Enhanced water effects
Aww yeah, bitches. Guess who's catching up with the late nineties! (http://kotaku.com/5021137/runescape-high-detail-subscriber-beta-is-go)
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The crazy thing is that Runescape is one of the biggest MMOs. Something like one million paying subscribers?
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WoW has over 9 million.
Guild Wars has like three million.
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WoW has over 9 millioooooooooooon.
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd145/Brentai/ninethousaaaaand.gif)
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Yes, but Runescape. This is a game where beer makes you better at mining, multi-way combat is optional and the most sought-after equipment is a colourful party hat.
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So there's a Persona 4 now, apparently (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3168535). You can finally control your party members now, but unfortunately they don't appear to shoot themselves in the head to release the demons floating around inside their brains anymore.
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:slow:
Seriously, though, i'd have been fine with the way combat works in P3 if i could have just disabled some of my allies' abilities a'la the Tales series.
Failing that, just not giving anyone Mind Charge would have been fine. An ability that does double damage in twice the turns? What the fuck is this, Suikoden?
... granted, it's really useful in the last battle, but the rest of the time it just makes Mitsuru waste 20 SP every other fight accomplishing absolutely nothing, given how much she likes to use it to augment the damage of physical attacks or charm spells.
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Mind Charge never really bothered me.
Break spells, on the other hand...
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:fukit: :toxic: :fukit: :nuke: :fukit: :toxic: :fukit: :fuckoff: :fuckoff: :fuckoff:
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What the hell are you guys talking about? The main character carried the whole game for me while every female flung herself at him with her legs spread readily and every male wanted to be as destructive as him while Vic Magnolia Home Theater...I mean, Junpei wallowed in pity that he could never hope to compare.
But then again, I got OCD once I looked at that fucking compendium and had to get everything.
Goddamn, Atlus. Goddamn.
I MUST COMPLETE YOUR LIMITED PRINT GAMES 100% FOR SOME REASON! :ohshi~:
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I really, really like Junpei, actually. He might be my favorite character as of FES, but right at the 11th hour Yukari puts up some awesome competition.
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Mythos looks interesting, but at the same time its aesthetic seems completely at odds with D3, to the point where they might be for different audiences entirely. At this point Mythos is almost geared towards the asiatic Maple Story crowd.
"Ping0, LLC, a joint-venture between Flagship Studios and HanbitSoft, Inc. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HanbitSoft)"
HanbitSoft and AsiaSoft signs $7million publishing rights contract (http://hanbitgame-espresso.blogspot.com/2008/01/mythos-breaks-into-sea.html).
Doesn't look like FSS is going to reap domestic gains any time soon.
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Again I am forced to inquire, who gives a shit about Mythos? It's not going to succeed, because it's militantly uninteresting.
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Hard to say. Mythos has some of the addictive Diablo formula down. It's bogged down by having so little in the way of development resources. Some would be inclined to forgive some of its problems, with the expectation that if it starts up well, said problems would go away.
I've been following it for a while and it's getting pretty hard for even me to give a shit about it, though.
The overworld transformation was kind of cool, but their skill system still sucks, they're still afraid of giving people respecs (possibly because they expect to make habitual skill retraining a cash shop thing), and the game is still a godfuckingdamn black box with unreliable damage reporting from the character screen and no skill damage tooltips and no damage log (though the latter is on the wish list), and so on.
A lot of it is very, very "work in progress." Crafting is presently broken in favor of weapon users, while it is pretty much brokenly fucking lame for casters.
I could go on, but, well, Bal doesn't give a shit.
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Warhammer Online massive content cut prior to release (http://games.slashdot.org/games/08/07/11/167250.shtml).
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Is EA insisting they release it on Ork Day, or what?
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Seriously? Removing two tank classes? And four capital cities?
(EA announces 4 capitals and two tank classes as pay-per-DLC in 3..2..)
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4 out of 6. That is not a minor cut.
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The capital cities are better thought of in pairs, due to the nature of the RVR endgame. I can sort of understand where they're coming from, having seen Altdorf and The Inevitable City myself, they really are something to behold compared to cities in other MMOs, and the idea of focusing the community toward one pairing at the beginning isn't out of line at all.
The classes on the other hand are bit bit more serious. At the most immediate level, there are a lot of people who had already chosen which class they wanted to play, and most of the ones I know wanted to be a Choppa (Greenskins without melee DPS is definitely unfortunate). The reasons they give are understandable, but it's still very disappointing.
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better version (http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/239/feature/2041/page/1)
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Way to make me not give a shit about WAR anymore.
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This takes me from not giving a shit about WAR (due to hating RvR and having no preexisting interest in the Warhammer IP) to having something additional to mock.
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Post Apocalyptic Film Festival Courtesy of Fallout 3 (http://kotaku.com/5024197/a-post+apocalytic-film-festival-from-fallout-3)
You California jerks get all the neat stuff.
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I trust the Warhammer boys to actually deliver on future promises of "here's some amazing new cities to ransack and siege and awesome new classes that are completely unique."
But it still bugs me that such a bomb shell lands when we're facing the Lich King (http://wotlkwiki.info/index.php/Classes).
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Post Apocalytpic Film Festival Courtesy of Fallout 3 (http://kotaku.com/5024197/a-post+apocalytic-film-festival-from-fallout-3)
You California jerks get all the neat stuff.
Both you AND the link spelled Apocalyptic wrong in different ways.
Normally I don't :thad: but that is remarkable.
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Huh. I wonder if the fact that the Aero is spitting distance away from me is enough to make up for the fact that I don't like Wizards that much.
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Wizards is not really a film to like or dislike... more like :painful: or :perfect:
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The rumor right now, regarding the capital cities in WAR, is that all of them will be in the game, but not all of them will be able to be attacked. That sounds back, but you have to remember that city siege is the endgame here, so if this actually is the case it seems to me to be a perfectly acceptable state of affairs.
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Both you AND the link spelled Apocalyptic wrong in different ways.
Normally I don't :thad: but that is remarkable.
Thankfully you're not the kind of guy to make a big deal out of minor typos or anything.
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So much for that. (http://kotaku.com/5024558/flagship-sunk-whos-in-charge-of-hellgate)
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So much for that. (http://kotaku.com/5024558/flagship-sunk-whos-in-charge-of-hellgate)
Well... maybe Blizzard will hire them back to help with Diablo III.
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GP (http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/07/09/we-have-judge039s-report-recommending-permanent-disbarment-jack-thompson): Judge Tunis recommends permanent disbarment for you-know-who.
More testimony from the bar trial. (http://www.gamepolitics.com/2008/07/12/florida-attorney-jack-thompson039s-attacks-are-quotemotional-equivalent-stalkingquot) I still want to dramatize this.
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So much for that. (http://kotaku.com/5024558/flagship-sunk-whos-in-charge-of-hellgate)
Thank god, justice is served. Still can't believe I shelled out money for that piece of junk.
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Shouldn't this (http://www.forum.your-gaming.net/index.php?showtopic=711) have been a no-brainer since the beginning?
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So much for that. (http://kotaku.com/5024558/flagship-sunk-whos-in-charge-of-hellgate)
Well... maybe Blizzard will hire them back to help with Diablo III.
This is some supremely good timing.
Just a note; if the article is telling the truth, Flagship was offered the option to stay afloat by their business partners, and chose to close their doors anyway. Think maybe Roper got a better offer? I wouldn't exactly be shocked if Blizzard had been sniping back former blizzard north people for months.
Barring that, FUCK do they have bad luck with their IP. They should just give up at this point on developing original content.
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ah hah hah.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3168704)
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so they got that "Too Human" demo on ye olde 360. It was pretty fun, I thought. Seems to be much griping on the internets, but I can't recall if there was supposed to be some sort of high expectations or what.
anyhow, I'll probably pick it up when it's released. whenever that is.
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Yay! Another reason to not buy a PS3!
::D:
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(Immediately after I split the conversation on how to properly format a link:)
ah hah hah.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3168704)
Please imagine I am punching you in the throat right now.
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But Thad, that would ruin the surprise!
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It's like finding a co-worker laughing at something. You have to go look over his shoulder to see what he's looking at. Only in that case, you can hit them for real!
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If I hadn't just watched the Gears of War 2 trailer beforehand, I'd say I just now watched the Gears of War 2 trailer.
Resident Evil 5's plan to turn Jill into Black Friday to avoid further claims of racism is quite saavy, but yeah yeah yeah, zombie bikers:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36228.html
Oh, and while Final Fantasy 13 is coming to 360, Final Fantasy "Boys Night Out" 13 is still PS3 exclusive.
:luv:
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so they got that "Too Human" demo on ye olde 360. It was pretty fun, I thought. Seems to be much griping on the internets, but I can't recall if there was supposed to be some sort of high expectations or what.
anyhow, I'll probably pick it up when it's released. whenever that is.
The head of Silicon Knights, Denis Dyack, is a huge douchebag who thinks it's hip to openly call out forum trolls on how his game is the best.
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I'm unclear as to why I should care? :wat:
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The head of Silicon Knights, Denis Dyack, is a huge douchebag who thinks it's hip to openly call out forum trolls on how his game is the best.
He is not a douchebag. He's an intelligent, articulate, thoughtful guy.
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Ghostbusters trailer. Not much to it.
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36298.html
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you can't just... show clips from the damned movie. that's not a trailer. that's crap.
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I think they call that a teaser.
Street Fighter 4: it looks like a Street Fighter game.
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36491.html
Also: Zangief appears to have stolen He-Man's underwear.
...Going through any of these that strike my eye. DC Universe Online appears to be made up of Jim Lee drawings rendered in 3D and brought to life. Which would probably be pretty cool if I didn't hate Jim Lee.
The DQ4 trailer doesn't show much, and what it does show is tiny.
The Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2 trailer literally spends as much time showing logos and titles as actual game footage.
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Dead Rising for the Wii. (http://kotaku.com/5025707/dead-risingfor-wii)
:wat:
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Hm. I would have to assume a PC version's coming, too, then.
Wonder if that means more hope for MML3?
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Fuck, you can take Metroid Prime 3, paint Samus blue, and WHAM LEGENDS THREE THANK YOU LET'S ALL COUNT OUR CASH
OH WAIT
NOBODY BUYS LEGENDS GAMES :painful:
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assuming anyone cares, you can play all the classes in the Too Human demo. You'll have to disconnect the 360 from your network, then set the internal clock to 2009. The defender and bio-engineer will still be locked, but if you select them, then press A just as you switch to one of the open classes it will pick them. It can be a little touchy, but if the camera doesn't start to swing to the next class before starting, then it worked.
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Regarding Street Fighter 4:
What's up with the weird brushstrokes? :wat:
At least for the English voice acting, they didn't translate the attack names. Fatal Fury: Maximum Impact had Rock Howard screaming "FORCE WIND PUNCH! DOUBLE FORCE WIND PUNCH!" for a Reppuken.
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(http://www.gametrailers.com/player/36746.html?type=)
DUKE NUKEM TRILOGY DUKE NUKEM CHAIN REACTION DUKE NUKEM PROVING GROUNDS DUKE NUKEM CRITICAL MASS DUKE NUKEM TRILOGY DUKE NUKEM CHAIN REACTION DUKE NUKEM PROVING GROUNDS DUKE NUKEM CRITICAL MASS DUKE NUKEM TRILOGY DUKE NUKEM CHAIN REACTION DUKE NUKEM PROVING GROUNDS DUKE NUKEM CRITICAL MASS
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The internet is over.
Go home.
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what the hell was that.
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THE GREATEST THING YOU WILL EVER SEE.
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Okay, now I'M starting to doubt that the old Duke Nukem games actually existed.
It's like the Duke Nukem guy is some sort of common filler when someone's making some sort of fake or mock-up game advert and needs a filler title. Sort of like the Lorem Ipsum of videogame marketing bullshit.
I mean, it's not a huge stretch, right? A sneering muscled blond guy named fucking Duke Nukem who shouts catchphrases all the time? It's like, they made this dude, but they weren't going to make an actual GAME out of it, that'd be retarded. He's just this generic stand-in who's everywhere.
Did my brain just make up that bit in the 80s where he was constantly harassed by ACME signs and had to fight that bald cyborg fucker from Captain Power?
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Yes.
Wait...
Yes.
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More Pikmin, apparently. (http://kotaku.com/5026096/miyamoto-were-making-pikmin)
I care exactly as much about Pikmin as there is a future for Duke Nukem, but the news for me is the way Miyamoto went about announcing it.
That man has so much style it's honestly starting to piss me off in ways that can't be described. Shigeru Miyamoto probably shits in the absolute most perfect way, every time. Just once I'd like to see the man do something as disappointing as mundane just to prove that he's not some sort of transcendent buddha motherfucker and that that's what you gotta be to make a decent game in this modern age.
P.S. if you think you've spotted a logical inconsistency in this post keep in mind that I think that Pikmin is probably a beautiful game, I'm just allergic to anything resembling an RTS.
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Anyone else kinda miffed at the "Wii MotionPlus" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_remote#Wii_MotionPlus)? It seems like it will cost $20 to have the Wii Remote do what we expected it to do before. The lack of an additional plug for the nunchuk also bothers me.
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Dead Rising for the Wii. (http://kotaku.com/5025707/dead-risingfor-wii)
...And I was JUST saying the other day that the only game I like for 360 that isn't also on another system (or PC) is Dead Rising. That's what I get for not liking SHOOTAN games and multiplayer very much.
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You should get Viva Pinata, though you might count the upcoming DS release as a port/sequel.
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The lack of an additional plug for the nunchuk also bothers me.
It has a passthrough.
Whether or not it will bother me depends on if anyone does anything awesome with it I guess.
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Maybe if LucasArts hadn't fired all their internal developers, they could've delayed the Wii version of Force Unleashed in order to make the lightsaber combat what everyone wants it to be.
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Anyone else kinda miffed at the "Wii MotionPlus" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii_remote#Wii_MotionPlus)? It seems like it will cost $20 to have the Wii Remote do what we expected it to do before. The lack of an additional plug for the nunchuk also bothers me.
I dunno, I feel like the MotionPlus is designed for games that require extreme specificity of movement - something that a fencing game needs, but a Zelda game doesn't. Something that Trauma Center would need, but Wii Tennis doesn't. That sort of thing.
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Lunar Knights is so fucking "anime" it hurts.
It's not just the art style. The hokey plot devices, the character clichés, the "check out this obscure technology" and "check out this mystic circle" cut scenes...
The space flight controls suck.
At least the translation isn't bad.
I don't think I like that dashing requires energy, which is not utterly trivial to renew (but not terribly hard either). The stamina-for-running system was shitty enough in D2, but making dashing eat the MP you use for offense is worse, and having it be a resource that doesn't always automatically fill is just ugly. Here's expecting most of the game to take place indoors, where there's no moonlight to refill dash-juice for free.
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something that you don't require for the random waggling that is apparently better than just having a god damned button do the same thing
edit: FUCK YOUR POST SEI, FUCK IT
GO ARGUE ABOUT VOLCANOES
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Lunar Knights is so fucking "anime" it hurts.
One short trip to Wikipedia later...
Okay so it's not actually a sequel to Lunar, it's a sequel to Boktai. But it's not called Boktai, it's called Lunar. And it's using the Lunar title font.
::(:
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Did my brain just make up that bit in the 80s where he was constantly harassed by ACME signs and had to fight that bald cyborg fucker from Captain Power?
Hahah, he was completely the badguy from Captain Power. My sister knew the girl who played Pilot btw. Do you think that Nukem copied the look or that both them and Captain Power simply came up with the most generic sci-fi nemesis they could and as a result both ended up with un-masked Vader?
I was watching that trailer last night with the cool kids on vent and I really think it needs to become a meme. I'm pretty sure anyone with some rudimentary video editing software and etc could make a trailer for any game in the Duke Nukem Chain Reaction style.
All you need to do is get a really cardboard-standie-looking picture the main character from a game holding a gun, some trite action-packed phrases that relate to the game loosely, and a central logo image from the game that you can rotate and over-scale like crazy for 6 minutes.
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All you need to do is get a really cardboard-standie-looking picture the main character from a game holding a gun, some trite action-packed phrases that relate to the game loosely, and a central logo image from the game that you can rotate and over-scale like crazy for 6 minutes.
And bits of the wicked guitar solo that fade down as though the trailer is ending, only for it to blast back up and continue for another three minutes.
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It takes great skill on Apogee's part to get 4 or 5 minutes of trailer out of 15 seconds of artwork.
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I request.. No. I DEMAND that Kazz make some parody of this in glorious Flash 4.
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how do you parody something that is already as absurd as humanly possible
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We have faith in you, Kazz.
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Do it with Pokemon. Grab a nice remix of the Gym Trainer Battle Theme, and do lots of pans of the logo with RED! BLUE! YELLOW! all over the place and a bunch of zooms in on Ash's crotch.
Do it.
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Lightsaber dueling packed right in with Wii Motion Plus. (http://kotaku.com/5026357/wii-sports-resort-will-sell-like-hotcakes-hands+on-impressions)
Well at least we won't have to wait. ::(:
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Eagerly awaiting the first fatality directly related to Wii Motion Plus related trauma.
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I didn't feel like spending a lot of time on this.
NSFW, enjoy. (http://kazz.rooms.cwal.net/ccdukenukem.swf)
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set this onto all the desktops at Best Buy
:justasplanned:
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yay kazz caves to peer pressure
No replacing of gas mask guy with Fritz, Ork, Dumbo, or Max? THIS IS NOT MY GENTLE KAZZIUS
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i don't even know what you're referring to
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Wizards. Gas mask mutants.
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wow, i didn't realize they had names
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I only remember Fritz because the bastards got him.
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Oblique link to good news for Half-Life fans (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/07/17/minerva-goes-pro-valve-hires-ultra-modder/)
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What IS it with FPSes and being guided mysterious female manipulatory figures
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The dim prospect of the ominous female voice being hot when you finally get to it. Not a giant computer or some horrendously evil abomination.
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Shigeru Miyamoto probably shits in the absolute most perfect way, every time. Just once I'd like to see the man do something as disappointing as mundane just to prove that he's not some sort of transcendent buddha motherfucker and that that's what you gotta be to make a decent game in this modern age.
Shiggy senses my desires and responds in the most perfect way possible. (http://kotaku.com/5026657/miyamoto-caught-on-film-checking-out-killzone-2)
...which means he's doing it wrong.
...which means he's doing it right.
...which means... which... you... FUCK YOU, SHIGERU MIYAMOTO!!!! AAAAAAAUGH!!!!!
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Meanwhile.
Am I the only cat really digging on Mirror's Edge?
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I think it looks pretty cool. My lastest installment of Game Failers (http://tsamurai.pyoko.org/) involved it.
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I'm excited for it. I love games that are about how you move through the given space.
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I love games that look like an ipod
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Oblique link to good news for Half-Life fans (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2008/07/17/minerva-goes-pro-valve-hires-ultra-modder/)
I think I want to make a HL2 mod now.
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Meanwhile.
Am I the only cat really digging on Mirror's Edge?
I dont trust first person jumping, not after Xen and Turok.
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What about after Metroid Prime?
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I felt like Dark Messiah did it right, but I'm not sure I can explain how. I even liked the stage where you chase a ghoul across rooftops; the jumping felt so natural that it didn't detract from the sequence at all.
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(http://img393.imageshack.us/img393/3184/miyamotopikmanpeacemx7.jpg)
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I felt like Dark Messiah did it right, but I'm not sure I can explain how. I even liked the stage where you chase a ghoul across rooftops; the jumping felt so natural that it didn't detract from the sequence at all.
I'd play it to find out what you're talking about, but I hear that game did absolutely everything else wrong.
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I like it, even though I'll readily admit it's hard to recommend. It looks good, the melee combat is awesome, and several individual sequences are a total blast to play. But everything else is C- at best.
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I WONDER IF THE EVIL GUY IS EVIL
YUP
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Merciless fuck, the new Prince of Persia is pretty.
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Niku's second source of income is on the way. (http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/07/littlebigplan-1.html)
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Will level creators be paid in real money, or just PSN points?
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I wanna be the Last Guy (http://kotaku.com/5027625/last-guy-looks-simple-sounds-fantastic).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9umbflFsFp0
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Looks like the gameplay is essentially a ripoff of one of Work Time Fun's minigames.
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It's... top-down Lemmings, with zombies.
I like it.
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First thing I'm doing is loading up a map of Shibuya and telling all the followers "I AM A REAPER! PLAY MY GAME!"
Fail, and face insect rape.
If you can clear Tom Sawyer on Expert, then you're three times better than Rush. (http://kotaku.com/5027981/watch-rush-fail-at-rock-band) Which might be true. It's Rush.
President Iwata actually apologizes for the sucky press conference at E3. (http://kotaku.com/5027984/iwata-so-very-very-sorry-for-nintendos-e3-presser) Which actually comes off as kind of sarcastic when you read it, but maaaaaaybe that's just a translation thing. Maybe.
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Watchmen games announced (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3168966).
We all know where this is headed.
(http://joelconstantine.com/gallery/d/185-1/Watchmenbabiessimp.png)
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Are you telling me you wouldn't watch a Watchmen Babies cartoon?
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Wallace and Gromit episodic game coming from Telltale. (http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/07/telltales-next.html)
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So... why does Bethesda have a fucking robot army in their office (http://kotaku.com/5029371/we-welcome-our-new-masters-the-brotherhood-of-steel)?
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Remember the life-sized Big Daddies? Same deal, I betcha.
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Sony Booth @ SDCC was Spook Central:
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/244270.html
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/37552.html
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/37542.html
4-Player Online Co-Op CONFIRMED FOR BUST.
^ Marshmallow flavored lip balm.
Also: Cell Phone game takes major graphical cues from Genesis edition. (http://protoncharging.com/gb/2008/07/25/more-screenshots-and-details-for-mobile-ghostbusters-game/) The DS edition would do well to follow the same path.
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So someone else recalls the Genesis entry fondly? My corporeal existence finally has merit.
The bitter, impatient jerk in me says that it looks fairly generic, and it appears that actually wrangling a Class II/III is going to be more... Awkward than intense.
However, I can't tell you how good it is to hear Ray's eager, know-it-all tone again, and it's going to take one heck of a mediocre combat system to make bustin' the Grey Lady anything but transcendently satisfying.
The less I know about the story, the better, but I suspect the final boss fight will make or break the game for me.
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This just in, Wario Land Shake It has the best ending ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aNxDI6FOEc
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The less I know about the story, the better, but I suspect the final boss fight will make or break the game for me.
The giant ghost of the 80s?
Seriously hoping the original theme song is preserved and not some 'cover' or 'remix' put in place.
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(http://frontal-lobe.net/images/ninja.gif) (http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=19585)
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From now until forever I won't be able to watch that animation without hearing
the victory fanfare from Shut Up and Jam GaidenSuper Mario RPG - Rawest Forest Remix. For some reason.
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Activision shelves Ghostbusters and Brutal Legend (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6195113.html?action=convert&om_clk=latestnews&tag=latestnews;title;1)
That's it. Activision have just blown EA away in the "who's the more evil company" competition. If EA picks up either game, I'll lift my self-imposed ban on buying their games.
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That's an... odd decision considering all the hype surrounding both games. If it's true and unqualified I'd have to count Activision as less "evil" and more "allergic to money".
Granted, it's Activision.
EDIT: Reading up a bit more it seems to be that they're basically killing all of Vivendi-Sierra and taking over its franchises. So, yeah, neither evil nor stupid, just beuraucratic.
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http://www.gametrailers.com/player/37641.html
goddamn this looks bad
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I'm not one to lightly throw around allegations of homosexuality, but that leg scissor grab/slam is the gayest thing ever.
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Here is an example of some of the creative ways players can string together Superman's specials.
He shoots a dude with heat vision.
And then kicks him!
Also no way Batman's gonna get punked by Mr. Freeze Sub-Zero like that.
Seems like all the MK guys still have their (T-rated) fatalities, while the "killing is kind of a bad thing" DC heroes get brutalities - instead of actually killing the guy they just beat the shit out of him way more than is really necessary. Hooray.
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I still like that "Superman grabs Scorpion and smashes him through like six walls" bit.
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Ghostbusters still to be published, just by somebody who isn't Activision. (http://kotaku.com/5030340/ghostbusters-is-not-cancelled-and-will-not-be)
Everybody wins, then.
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W...what about Brutal Legend? :sadpanda:
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And all of us who were children of the 80s take a collective sigh of relief, as we will be able to toast a ghostly marshmallow with nuclear backpacks.
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Yeah someone and I can't remember who, told me yesterday that Ghostbusters was "canned" as in, not coming out anymore. I want to slap that person in the face because losing your publisher when the game is pretty much finished does not mean your game isn't coming out. Especially when you are making a licensed game about the Ghostbusters that fucking Ray helped write dialog for.
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I want to slap that person in the face because losing your publisher when the game is pretty much finished does not mean your game isn't coming out.
Er, it does in a lot of cases.
Especially when you are making a licensed game about the Ghostbusters that fucking Ray helped write dialog for.
That's where this is different, though.
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Yeah, Activision certainly didn't kill those games, but they definitely jeopardized them. I hope people start throwing eggs at their booth at PAX this year.
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For in previous year not throwing eggs at booth of Activision, I surprise.
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Spore going gold soon. (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3169060) Only three years after everyone expected it.
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Dicks in Spore makes news. (http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/07/30/spore.sporn/index.html)
But scrolling through the database -- past the three-legged sea horse, past the seven-eyed wildebeest and the half-motorcycle-half-pig -- revealed something many users didn't expect. Buried among the more wholesome attempts were two-legged dancing testicles, a "giant breast monster" and a four-legged "phallic fornication machine," for starters.
If by "didn't expect" they mean "anticipated for three years", then yes. Unless "many users" have pudding for brains.
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Unless "many users" have pudding for brains.
I think I know why zombies eat brains now.
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The less I know about the story, the better, but I suspect the final boss fight will make or break the game for me.
The giant ghost of the 80s?
Seriously hoping the original theme song is preserved and not some 'cover' or 'remix' put in place.
When they were doing focus group testing, this was brought up. They suggested the idea that instead of doing the original theme, they'd have a modern band remix or cover it.
The person who suggested that was booed out of the room
So yes, they are keeping the good old Ray Parker Jr version.
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Ha ha ha
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Good. Now all that's left is fighting over who gets to be Ray in whatever online mode this game offers.
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egon 4 life
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egon 4 life
This would be my first choice, but a Venkman is fine, too.
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...What's wrong with Winston?
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PROBLEM SOLVED, all of you get a 360 and then sit and wait for it.
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I like Winston Zeddmore on principle.
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PROBLEM SOLVED, all of you get a 360 and then sit and wait for it.
What one of problem? I see still game has no publisher.
In the mean time:
Illinois am making FFXI not legal, maybe. (http://kotaku.com/5032004/illinois-law-spurred-by-final-fantasy-xi-cancellation-issues)
Am wishing I still work next to Customer Service of 'Squeenix' peoples. It must is funness.
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I am told by FFXI people that it takes all of 3 minutes to log into the PlayOnline viewer and cancel it.
So the Illinois State Rep is full of shit and is going to get his ass kicked for wasting time.
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Am now more wishing I still work next to Customer Service peoples.
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Accurate or not, it doesn't sound like a bad law.
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Why am making only for games and not for all internet everything however?
:strawman: WAZZAAAAAAP!
(Note: Strawman am symbolize the games.)
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Can't argue with that. AOL created an empire by making sure that nobody in America in the late 1990's was ever more than ten feet away from an installation CD, and then making it basically impossible to cancel after the free trial.
So hard to quit, no wonder it was #1!
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Yeah fun story: i've been paying for FFXi since it first came out despite semi-annual attempts to cancel my account. BofA utterly refuses to stop paying for the fucking game on my behalf, either.
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I think we've all given our own stories of shitty payment problems with BoA. That doesn't count.
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As past was teller of Wells Fargo: what deserve is what gotten.
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Yeah fun story: i've been paying for FFXi since it first came out despite semi-annual attempts to cancel my account.
...Wait.
You want to cancel your subscription, but you only make a phone call about it every six months?
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... jeez, how many hundreds must that be?
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Too demoralized/annoyed to bother most of the time. It takes a while for the stupidity of the situation to overcome my cynical belief that i will be paying for the fucking game until they take it offline.
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Am wish I have your size of money.
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Is you wishing to up sign new my service?
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Tell you what.
I'll call them every fucking day for you until they unsubscribe you, and then you can send the money to me every month instead.
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Well, perhaps you will have more success than i did.
I did call my bank's fraud department today. they were actually more receptive than in the past (e.g. at all). Maybe i'll see some results this time!
Then again when i actually called SE they told me they couldn't cancel the account until monday, after the payment has gone through. ::(:
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That's one nice thing about WoW. The only obstacle to account cancellation is a guilt trip and a sad picture.
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If you make the peon cry you're worse than Hitler.
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If Hitler HAD good videogames to play, he would have only killed maybe a hundred non "Aryans" due to his inability to get any following for being a fat nerd.
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If Hitler HAD good videogames to play, he would have only killed maybe a hundred non "Aryans" due to his inability to get any following for being a fat nerd.
Great, now you just got me imagining Hitler's Livejournal.
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Avatar totally appropriate.
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Ghostbusters delayed until 2009. (http://protoncharging.com/gb/2008/07/30/variety-activision-not-publishing-gb-game-helping-with-options/#comments)
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what, it was supposed to come out this year? huh, yay for ignorance, I guess!
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Pikachu am inside your brain. (http://kotaku.com/5032343/its-protein)
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So yes, they are keeping the good old Ray Parker Jr version. blatantly plagarized version of Huey Lewis' I Want A New Drug
:whoops:
Not that I dislike the Ghostbusters theme mind you...
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Christ, Kotaku's first page isn't normally so filled with bile. Who the hell pissed in Mike Fahey's coffee this morning?
Betcha it was Grignr.
[I don't feel like mistranslating today. Someone pissed in my coffee.]
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Illinois am making FFXI not legal, maybe. (http://kotaku.com/5032004/illinois-law-spurred-by-final-fantasy-xi-cancellation-issues)
Am wishing I still work next to Customer Service of 'Squeenix' peoples. It must is funness.
Wouldn't this also apply to Xbox Live?
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Illinois am making FFXI not legal, maybe. (http://kotaku.com/5032004/illinois-law-spurred-by-final-fantasy-xi-cancellation-issues)
Am wishing I still work next to Customer Service of 'Squeenix' peoples. It must is funness.
Wouldn't this also apply to Xbox Live?
no, you can tell microsoft to not auto renew, or you can fully cancel by calling them (or probably on the net too)
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Parasite Eve: The 3rd Birthday development moved to PSP. (http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/1217142_1124.html)
It's a step.
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More info on the Max Payne movie. (http://www.gamesradar.com/f/max-payne-the-first-great-videogame-movie/a-20080804113823281022)
Apparently they're shooting for a PG-13 rating, which was not what I expected from the trailer, but okay.
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Diablo III Lead Designer explains why darkened screenshots suck. (http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/08/04/diablo-iii-designer-turns-tables/)
"I think our artist just put [the rainbow] in there because they knew that’d be controversial."
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I really do need to keep up, as apparently EA has a site up for Red Alert 3 (http://www.ea.com/redalert/) already.
And it looks like it could be pretty awes- (http://www.ea.com/redalert/features.jsp)
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Is There Any Doubt Red Alert is Back? - Armored War Bears, Sonic Dolphins, Tesla Troopers, Vicious Attack Dogs, Man Cannons and Tanya. Welcome back!
:gasp: (http://img388.imageshack.us/img388/8191/yuri8o2ov0.gif)
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:kazz:: You're very welcome. :pimp:
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:perfect:
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I did enjoy the rather... Political way that they pointed to their series's cheesy cutscenes and plots.
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also: psychic Japanese schoolgirl commandos :wuv:
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...As though Ghostbusters weren't reason enough to get an X-Box 360, damn it.
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Tying two seperate threads together: Diablo III's art director goes rogue. (http://kotaku.com/5034395/diablo-iii-art-director-quits-game-remains-the-same)
What's going to be interesting is that whoever they bring in to replace him is going to have to submit to the big pretty colors, even if he doesn't really want to. Assuming that Diablo III's art assets aren't pretty much built at this point, that is.
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It's worth noting that's only one art director, and not the one who was commenting on the fan-altered screenshots earlier.
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Flagship's backish. (http://kotaku.com/5035260/flagship-seattle-alums-form-runic-games)
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Energy tanks. (http://news.dengeki.com/elem/000/000/099/99550/)
Between that and Potion (http://www.ncsxshop.com/cgi-bin/shop/SNT-530.html), the Japanese ought to have more HP/Life/Energy than God.
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Flagship's backish. (http://kotaku.com/5035260/flagship-seattle-alums-form-runic-games)
Unsubstantiated hype for an upcoming project incoming in 3, 2...
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Between that and Potion (http://www.ncsxshop.com/cgi-bin/shop/SNT-530.html), the Japanese ought to have more HP/Life/Energy than God.
Which should be useful for the inevitable boss-fight. :wat:
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Fuck you, Shinra. Mythos warranted a lot more hype then it got.
Also, comprehensive interview with Bill Roper about Flagship. (http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3169356) Possibly the single best thing I've seen from CGW since the magazine shut down.
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Sega needs to not fuck this up:
http://www.destructoid.com/more-house-of-the-dead-lurching-onto-the-wii-with-brilliant-trailer-100261.phtml
(http://www.destructoid.com/more-house-of-the-dead-lurching-onto-the-wii-with-brilliant-trailer-100261.phtml)
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WOW that is the best game trailer ever.
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Tyranids confirmed playable in DoW II. (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3169444)
There is not enough :wuv: in the world I can use to describe this.
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Aaaand "OMG STARCRAFT RIPOFF WTF" comments in 3...2...
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Tyranids confirmed playable in DoW II. (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3169444)
There is not enough :wuv: in the world I can use to describe this.
Only thing that could make it better would be playable Squa
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The man has a point. Whats your take on this, Sharkticons?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9joAb4XMaUs
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Yeah, he's got a point. He's also got a massive fucking blindspot.
I mean, what if I told you there was a system that only cost $130, had a natural pick-up-and-play-it control scheme, a bevy of casual and kids games, and is about the size of an adult's hand? Because there's one sitting on my desk right now, getting pissed at me because I haven't bought New Super Mario Bros. for it yet.
So yeah, worst case scenario, PC and Console games will scale back their dick-waving graphic-power arms races and the industry will coast on strong handheld franchises for a while. Again.
BONUS RANTING BELOW - READING NOT REQUIRED
Fun fact: The Consolepocalypse already happened. It killed Sega, put Nintendo on a handheld-only schtick for a while, and while the PSX1 was good for Sony, it generally led to a lot of failures and losses for third parties (yes, even Square, once they expended the huge dump of money they lucked into with FF7.) Once hardware caught up to consumer demand we got the much more reliable PS2 (reliable financially, not in hardware terms), and Nintendo stuck its toes back into the water after pretending the N64 didn't exist for a few years. That the next one is, let's face it, about to happen again so soon is kind of ugly, but not something we've never seen before.
What's making people so uneasy is the fact that the PC gaming market is set to crash simultaneously, and for pretty much the same reasons. It's going to take some time before developers figure out and adjust to the new niches of each format (PCs are now the social gaming platform and not the graphics platform; Consoles are now the graphics platform and not the social gaming platform; handhelds are and always will be a gateway drug for the kiddies; and arcades are well uh fuck arcades) but it's inevitable. I'm honestly waiting with baited breath for the bubble to burst so we can get to the stopping and thinking point, because I'm kind of tired of devs wanting me to pay $500 so I can god damn play Metal Gear Solid.
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I'm not sure his discussion holds weight. In an era of relative economic prosperity, there are enough privileged children who can demand and press for "mature content" in games and what-have-you for stories and bragging rights with peers.
What's that you say? Economic DepRecession!? Well blow me!
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I'm not sure his discussion holds weight. In an era of relative economic prosperity,
:wrong: BUT IT'S A FUCKING
What's that you say? Economic DepRecession!? Well blow me!
oh, ok
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Well yes, that's not helping matters at-fucking-all. But even without the recession, the hardware bubble's gotta burst pretty soon.
I mean running certain games on a PC is basically something you do as a gag.
It's like selling fucking Maseratis and only making $5 on each one.
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PC is the social platform. Unless you stop counting World of Warcraft and Steam.
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What I meant to say was, there's still a substantial number of pre-teen and teen fans that will just get on the bandwagon if they see the wagon as being "hot" or "mature". See cynical Hollywood cash-ins actually working, or maybe you when you wanted to buy Sleep-with-then-rob-the-hooker. Things being or not being cool is a strange thing, but at least for me, my interests have bled into my younger siblings, cousins, etc. and by extension many of my interests were influenced by elder cousins, parents, and grandparents. I wouldn't be the game addict I am now if I didn't have losts of fond memories playing Dragon Warrior with my dad and Mario Bros. with my mom.
What? You say fewer and fewer children have siblings or close ties with their extended families? Well blow me.
EDIT:
Any of you guys want to fuck around in Mabinogi? :mikey:
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Is Mabinogi actually worth my time?
baited breath
:thad:
I mean running certain games on a PC is basically something you do as a gag.
It's like selling fucking Maseratis and only making $5 on each one.
And then blaming (http://www.actiontrip.com/rei/comments_news.phtml?id=043008_2) pirates (http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/news.html?news=MzMzMTcsLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdCwsLDE) for your failure. It would be unsurprising if much of the piracy were due to some users running the game as a gag.
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It is, trust me. :slow:
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oh hey i can probably run crysis now
i should pirate it
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Oh my god. Stop 'N' Swop finally exists (http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=217519). (Well, as soon as it's released)
Word on the street (http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/08/banjo-kazooie-p.html) is that the game will be $40 and you get the original for free if you preorder it.
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Rare's still pretty dead to me after dumping a half-done shitshow like Perfect Dark Zero on the launch crowd after six years of waiting, forgoing the decency to even give us our gat dang counter-operative mode. The hell were these guys doing all that time?
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In before Rare puts the goddamn Facility level in this too. ::(:
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Mega Man Volnutt is playable in Tatsunoko vs. Capcom.
Now all we need is Radd Spencer and a PS3 release so that I can import it and I can die a happy man.
Also interestingly: Doronjo from Yatterman is playable, which is the first character from a series that already had another playable character. The three Street Fighter characters got around this by being labeled as being from SF, SF2, and SF3 individually.
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I pray that Tatsunoko vs. Capcom doesn't have horrible imbalances like Capcom Fighting Jam did. That game is proof of why Street Fighter III characters aren't allowed more than one super.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWDqoUGb2AE
I mean, seriously.
EDIT: Watch for anything with Chun-Li, Yang, Urien (AEGIS REFLECTOR) and Alex.
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custom combos AND supers at the same time?!
what is this madness?
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Guillermo del Toro really likes Ico and Shadow of the Colossus. (http://kotaku.com/5042252/two-gaming-masterpieces-ico-and-shadow-of-the-colossus)
Not... really that much of a surprise, when you stop and think about it.
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Ken goes on Survivor. (http://kotaku.com/5043019/smash-bros-champ-joins-survivor-cast)
What, does he think he can just pick Marth and tip all the other challengers into oblivion?
Japanese developers think Western developers are better at video game music. (http://kotaku.com/5042832/western-developers-are-good-at-music-yo)
Well, admittedly, that's just the guy who does music for Resident Evil. And he's talking about overall sound production. Still, considering there's an entire sub-industry for that in Japan, and over here we use music sparingly if at all, I'm inclined to believe that they're not as, uh, far behind as that guy seems to think.
Also, Capcom announces Tatsunoko vs. Capcom isn't coming to the States... after holding some location tests here to get people's reactions. Given that, I'm inclined to say that we're probably not missing much.
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He says they're catching up, but the best sound production in the world is in the UK or the US.
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I guess he's talking about sound production for movies and albums.
I respect the guy's moxie, but honestly, bad time to be trying to cross the video game big-budget line.
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Square-Enix plans to absorb Tecmo into the fold. (http://kotaku.com/5043307/square-enix-plans-to-take-over-tecmo)
Wait, does this mean One Winged Hutt (http://olremix.org/remixes/195) foretold the future?
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In this thread, Lyrai jumps at the chance to link to shitty remixes anywhere she can.
I'm going to have to call bullshit seeing as how Virtua Fighter 5, Soul Calibur 4 and Dead or Alive 4 are fine. (http://kotaku.com/5042842/for-console-street-fighter-iv-lag-will-be-huge-problem) I think it's just a lot of whining about how they don't want to do any work.
I certainly hope that the inevitable consoles versions do make the jump to the States. (http://kotaku.com/5042793/dont-expect-tatsunoko-vs-capcom-in-the-us-update)
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Alex, it sounds like the "problem" with lag in SF 4 is on the their side.
I think a better title for the article would be "Capcom working on lag compensation"
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NEW GAME STARRING ETNA!!!!
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I'd like to think that was awesome but I'm tired of everybody assuming I'm a pedophile just because I spend all day gawking at naked children
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A (somehow) less nerdy bit of game news:
Dynasty Warriors Gundam (http://highervoltage.net/mb/showpost.php?p=754220&postcount=172) is getting a sequel.
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NEW METAL SLUG GAME STARRING PRINNIES!!!!
now i care.
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I'd like to think that was awesome but I'm tired of everybody assuming I'm a pedophile just because I spend all day gawking at naked children
It's not like anyone plays these games for the gameplay or to level their units to 9999, transmigrate them and then do it again. I played this until I slipped into fits of insanity and now I hate each and every rehash.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HATE
:hurr: :hurr: :hurr: :hurr: :hurr: :hurr: :hurr: :hurr:
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Oh god dammit, you broke him. Anyone have the manual?
Spoke with a friend who could read moon. The following is him, not me:
>>1000 Lives
>>Crazy difficulty (touch anything and blow up)
>>lots of hidden shit
>>Save replays and share them with other people.
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NIS games are pretty much a mockery of balance, aren't they?
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the official site is Prinny.jp, but there is basically no content on it at the moment (http://prinny.jp)
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Probably the best way to handle the inevitable disposal of your PS2 (http://kotaku.com/5044444/your-playstation-2-trash-becomes-furniture-treasure). Hell, I haven't even figured out what to do with my PS1 yet.
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Oh, hey. Iji is out now. (http://tigsource.com/articles/2008/09/02/iji)
http://www.youtube.com/v/33mxD4FjD3w&hl=en&fs=1
So much for any productivity tonight.
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All those powerups, and you can't run.
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No run button, frequent abuse of the one-way corridor (despite a leveling system that makes that kind of bottlenecking unnecessary), plus it manages to be wordier than Metroid Fusion. And then there's the fact that, no matter how many times I repeat Japanese vowel sounds to myself, I keep hearing "Komato Tomato Komato Tomato" in my head.
It's not terrible. Still, I find myself wondering why I bother when I could be teaching myself to use Organya Twei (http://www5b.biglobe.ne.jp/~kiss-me/aji/organya2.html).
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Tecmo says no. (http://kotaku.com/5045253/tecmo-rejects-square-enixs-takeover-offer)
They'd rather merge with Koei. (http://kotaku.com/5045256/tecmo-and-koei-in-talks-to-merge)
REMINDER: Tecmo claims to focus on the US market.
Firefly MMORPG cancelled because it isn't enough like Buffy, lol. (http://kotaku.com/5045189/multiverse-launching-buffy-titanic-second-life+ish-titles)
Oh, and Spore's cracked already. Tell me how it is.
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From what I hear, bland and uninteresting, with the creature/vehicle/building creators being 90% of what you do and at the same time utterly without impact on gameplay.
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Prinny game for PSP looks awesome (http://kotaku.com/5045764/here-are-your-prinny-screens). Too bad it's for PSP.
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id super pack going for $35 on steam this weekend. (http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=sub&SubId=440) For those of you who REALLY like Quake.
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You save $179.79
Fuck that's a good deal. $35 for what? 20 games? Even if most of them are the same! That's what I call a deal.
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tempting, if only because I'm precluded from playing multiplayer anything right now
t catloaf: uh, only if you consider shit like $20 for Quake III Arena (1999) or $10 for a collection of Doom II maps to be fair prices
it's sort of like the Orange Box but instead of new, innovative titles you get ancient shit
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Yeah, I'm kind of torn between what an awesome value it is and the fact that I'll never play a single god-damn one of them. This must be what it feels like to be a woman.
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I do kinda want to fly around Quake II deathmatch as Astroboy again, but also, eh.
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Astroboy
OH GOD NOOOOOOOO
AAAAAAAAAAAH
FRIIIIIIITZ
THE BASTARD GOT FRIIIIIIIITZ
YOU BASTAAAAAAARD
OH MY GOD HE'S IMMUNE TO BULLETS
OH MY GOD HE'S IMMUNE TO BFGS
OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOD
OH MY
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD
I, eh, what?
I, er, sorry. I wanted to make a deposit, ma'am. And, um, a sit down. M... Ma'am.
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X-Com Complete Pack - $13.49 (http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=sub&SubId=964&cc=US)
Fuck that's a good deal.
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Assuming you can get it to run without a combination of technology and black magic.
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hmm?
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Man on internet has opinion (http://sorethumbsblog.com/post/48781177/publisherperspective).
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I like anonymous guy.
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tempting, if only because I'm precluded from playing multiplayer anything right now
t catloaf: uh, only if you consider shit like $20 for Quake III Arena (1999) or $10 for a collection of Doom II maps to be fair prices
it's sort of like the Orange Box but instead of new, innovative titles you get ancient shit
But you get a TON of it.
And Doom 3 isn't ancient yet. Isn't it?
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But you get a TON of it.
And Doom 3 isn't ancient yet. Isn't it?
I believe it was made in the Dark Ages! :slow:
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(http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/3967/greenrangerwk1.jpg) (http://www.destructoid.com/the-award-for-the-worst-controller-design-goes-to-the-usb-dragon-dual-shock-102708.phtml)
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Cho Aniki hits Virtual Console. (http://kotaku.com/5046684/weekly-wii-update-+-its-cho-aniki-time)
Seriously, Cho Aniki??? This sort of thing isn't exactly why my Wii hasn't been plugged in for months, but it aint helping.
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Prinny game for PSP looks awesome (http://kotaku.com/5045764/here-are-your-prinny-screens). Too bad it's for PSP.
Japanese PSP, at that. Still, the video makes it sound awfully, awfully tempting (http://www.videogaming247.com/2008/09/06/first-prinny-ore-ga-shujinko-de-iinsuka-movie-released/). Even though Metal Slug is more fun with multiple players.
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Cho Aniki hits Virtual Console. (http://kotaku.com/5046684/weekly-wii-update-+-its-cho-aniki-time)
What the fuck?? Never thought I'd see this on the Wii.
...
I might buy it.
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Nobody told me we had mana potions over here. (http://www.manapotions.com/)
So... the Japanese are all fighters, and America is a nation of mages. That's... kind of almost exactly the opposite of correct.
Though I suppose we did introduce them to "nuking"...
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Though I suppose we did introduce them to "nuking"...
:pimp: OH SNAP :pimp:
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Cho Aniki. Jesus Christ. :whut:
Nintendo just gained cool points in my book :perfect:
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Nobody told me we had mana potions over here. (http://www.manapotions.com/)
Can you combine them with the regular potions to get those purple ones? I mean, blenders are kind of like Horadric Cubes and crushed ice is closed enough to chipped gems, right?
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Well, you'd have to import regular potions from Japan, and it would probably cause your heart to explode, but sure, why the fuck not?
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Nobody told me we had mana potions over here. (http://www.manapotions.com/)
I've seen those in my local comic shop. They also sell Slurm, which tastes like liquid smarties by the way.
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Since the Thread Split spirited it away...
Nobody told me we had mana potions over here. (http://www.manapotions.com/)
So... the Japanese are all fighters, and America is a nation of mages. That's... kind of almost exactly the opposite of correct.
Though I suppose we did introduce them to "nuking"...
They taste tangy. Like a weird version of Orange Juice.
Has quite a kick, too. But not any different kick. My fireballs WERE a bit more brutal, though, I will give them that. Took out 7 Skateboarding punks with them, instead of the usual 4 I can get.
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I've seen those in my local comic shop. They also sell Slurm,
:pop:
which tastes like liquid smarties by the way.
:want:
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I always figured Slurm was just rebranded Mountain Dew.
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(http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/3967/greenrangerwk1.jpg) (http://www.destructoid.com/the-award-for-the-worst-controller-design-goes-to-the-usb-dragon-dual-shock-102708.phtml)
So, did you guys even click this?
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I always figured Slurm was just rebranded Mountain Dew.
Reminds me of the new Montain Dew flavors they had a few weeks ago, one of which tasted like liquefied gummi bears of the "berry" flavor.
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So, did you guys even click this?
Yes. I make a habit of mousing over every single image some idiot puts in a move tag, just on the off chance it might be a link.
I'm pretty sure even Zara isn't going to defend your link style on THAT one.
At least not until two pages later when everyone's already conceded my point.
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Currently a rumor, but Tabula Rasa may be ganked soon. (http://kotaku.com/5047650/ncsoft-to-kill-european-studio-kill-tabula-rasa)
And I just gloss over any SoraCross posts.
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I played in the Tabula Rasa beta just prior to launch. Shit sucks.
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Almost game news.
Resonance cascade emergency kit sent to CERN (http://blog.reddit.com/2008/09/crowbar-headcrab-and-half-life-strategy.html).
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(http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/2483/gordonfreemcernjq2.jpg)
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What do you know, his suit does have a helmet.
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In other news, my chemistry prof told us a bit about the LHC today. The powerpoint slide he used was titled "Large Hardon Collider". ::D:
I don't know if it would be better if that were intentional or accidental.
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Silent Hill 2 demake: Soundless Mountain II (http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=2481.0).
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(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z284/Nikumatic/shadowcopter.jpg)
why does shadowform make everything look so pimp
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(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z284/Nikumatic/shadowcopter.jpg)
why does shadowform make everything look so pimp
Melting faces never looked so good.
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Holy fuck i want an evilcopter
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So while messing around the beta...
(http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/7564/thehoghorde2lu7.jpg) (http://imageshack.us)
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not shadowy and evil enough.
YET.
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Commander Bond was off by a month, initially. (http://debrief.commanderbond.net/index.php?showtopic=49063&st=0&p=913407&#entry913407) Craig's in-game model is prettier than in real life flesh.
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But niku how are you going too...MAKE YOUR PASSENGER SHADOWY.
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http://www.atlus.com/dokapon/ Dokapon looks incredibally cute, also atlus is making a zoids game. http://www.atlus.com/zoids/ could be fun
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Wow, they're making a Zoids game right now? If we're lucky, it might be out three days ago!
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http://kotaku.com/5049212/amazon-deletes-all-spore-customer-reviews-blames-site-glitch
::(:
They're back now.
Seriously, though, I want to see the hard sales figures of Spore.
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Crysis and Crysis: Warhead coming to Steam (http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=63980). Interesting on its own, but much more interesting is that this is the first major EA title to appear on Steam (SiN Episodes is technically owned by EA now, but wasn't when it was put on Steam). Is this a sign that EA's god awful digital distribution platform will be phased out in favor of Steam, or at least will work in parallel with Steam? Probably not the former, but we can hope for the latter.
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Group of people from Retro Studios make new studio, say they're making games for all systems (http://kotaku.com/5049329/metroid-prime-devs-eye-360-ps3-for-future-games)
I made a comment there that pretty much says what I think needs to be said:
All right, another new, small studio made by industry vets from another wildly successful company who made several awesome games is going to have a success that dwarfs the previous position they were in, thanks to EA!
Just like Flagship studios!
...
...
Oh wait.
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...isn't that what Retro Studios began as, though?
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With luck, they'll learn from Flagship's mistake and curb their ambitions.
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Flagship didn't make a mistake. EA forced them to deliver a game at least a year early.
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And EA is not going to do that to Armature...why?
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Because the Hellgate model caused a famously tremendous failure?
All the flash and marketing in the world can't keep a broken game afloat, Derek Smart.
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Somehow I don't see EA as the type to learn from their mistakes.
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EA likes money, and Hellgate did not make them big stacks of it. I think it's credible that they'd adjust their model.
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Development costs are the easiest to cut.
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99% of all boys and 94% of all girls like video games. (http://kotaku.com/5050764/kids-enjoy-video-games-survey-reveals)
Kotaku's all sarcastic about the results, but seriously... 99%??? That's a ridiculous number. I can guarantee you that 99% of all boys don't enjoy football, or talking on the phone, or even watching TV... okay, well, maybe watching TV... but I'm willing to bet that all those activities are more popular overall. Hell, a good percentage of the nation's children can't even afford video games. But I guess those aren't the ones we're polling, are we, Mr. Oh-Derpa-Der-Children-Love-Dem-Marios?
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I'm willing to bet that all those activities are more popular overall.
What'cha got?
Hell, a good percentage of the nation's children can't even afford video games.
A majority of children can't. Their parents can. And they buy them. Anything to shut them up. Anything.
But I guess those aren't the ones we're polling, are we, Mr. Oh-Derpa-Der-Children-Love-Dem-Marios?
Poor kids love what they can't have. Middle class kids love what they can't have. Rich kids love what they can't have, and will destroy all in their path until it is obtained.
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I'm surprised that the girl number is so high. I have a feeling that the percent of girl gamers has risen dramatically over the last decade with stuff like DDR and The Sims so ingrained into popular culture.
And if you were wondering, the kids in this survey were aged 12-17. The kotaku article doesn't mention this, but the source article does.
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...you know, that is a completely different age group than the one Kotaku is talking about. I need to learn to stop taking their comments seriously on the subject of just about anything.
"All American teens play video games" is actually much more believable. That's the age where the desire to shoot things sets in.
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If you can't afford a game console, odds are still pretty good that you know someone who can.
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DO FUCKING WANT HD METAL SLUG (http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/18/snk-considering-metal-slug-hd-makeover/)
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Mirror's Edge is set to ship November 11th (http://xbox360.gamespy.com/xbox-360/mirrors-edge/911410p1.html).
I came.
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but not on pc.
Yarrrrrrrrr. :sadpanda:
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Strange Nintendo event has Kirby flying by. (http://kotaku.com/5052042/kirby-floats-on-by-over-alabama)
They had events in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Alabama and Tennessee. I almost went to the Jersey one, but I couldn't drum up the transportation. Certainly the most interesting bubble-based advertising I've ever seen, but I'm glad I didn't make the trip.
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Oboro Muramasa Youtouden (new vanillaware game) getting a US release (http://www.siliconera.com/2008/09/18/well-see-vanillawares-wii-game-in-english-next-year/)
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HOLY SHIT YES
...need to finish Odin Sphere one of these days.
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Oboro Muramasa Youtouden (new vanillaware game) getting a US release (http://www.siliconera.com/2008/09/18/well-see-vanillawares-wii-game-in-english-next-year/)
:victory:
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:everyjubilanticon:
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The Witcher: Enhanced Edition released (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3170035); patch is free.
I don't remember a lot of Witcher conversation here; anyone else play it? I thought it was a damn decent game, though the "sex card" stuff suggested it was made by a bunch of 17-year-olds and, as a prequel to a series of books, it left some of its biggest mysteries unexplored.
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I'm playing it right now actually. I've got it off Steam; I had never played the non-enhanced version before. And I'm having a good time so far, two chapters in. The story is decent, with choices that seem to actually matter and go beyond the "be a saint/be a dick" dichotomy you'd find in, say, a Bioware game. There are plenty of moral gray areas, in a way that I find refreshing, and that makes the more benign characters more effective.
I met this knight of a religious order in some sewers. We were hunting the same beast; he volunteered the kind of information you usually have to pay for, and then we joined forces. And all this time I'm thinking "wow, what a decent chap". We parted ways, and every time I run into him I'm actually glad to see him even if we don't interact much. He's not a shiny, formidable badass, or some sort of comic relief. He's just an honorable guy who killed a cockatrice with me and offered to help me out in the future if he could. And I give a crap about him! I'm not sure why, but it works. I guess there's a particular humanity to this setting.
As for the actual game, Yahtzee describes it (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/22-The-Witcher) as a single player MMORPG, a summary I find almost entirely without merit. There are a bunch of "bring me x ghoul testicles" quests, but they're painless in all regards. They fit the world and your character's job (professional monster hunter), and you're likely to accomplish them by accident while you're going about the main quest. Plus they're mostly optional, and the rewards are fair.
And the combat is fun anyway, so I like an excuse to kill stuff. It's a pleasant affair of preparation, position and timing.
I don't care much for the sex stuff, though it must be said it's not a detriment to the game unless you're opposed to the idea on principle. It's simply there, and comes down to an occasional "Bone her? y/n". It is kind of immature in some aspects (like the cards), but overall it's not like it's porn. It's almost a James Bond thing. You just happen to come across spectacularly easy women every once in a while, and doing the deed doesn't actually feel too out of place.
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I'm playing it right now actually. I've got it off Steam; I had never played the non-enhanced version before. And I'm having a good time so far, two chapters in. The story is decent, with choices that seem to actually matter and go beyond the "be a saint/be a dick" dichotomy you'd find in, say, a Bioware game. There are plenty of moral gray areas, in a way that I find refreshing, and that makes the more benign characters more effective.
In point of fact, everything pretty much goes to hell and half the cast ends up pissed at you no matter WHAT calls you make. Unless you stay neutral, in which case BOTH halves of the cast end up pissed at you.
I don't care much for the sex stuff, though it must be said it's not a detriment to the game unless you're opposed to the idea on principle. It's simply there, and comes down to an occasional "Bone her? y/n". It is kind of immature in some aspects (like the cards), but overall it's not like it's porn. It's almost a James Bond thing. You just happen to come across spectacularly easy women every once in a while, and doing the deed doesn't actually feel too out of place.
Flipping the issue, I think it's stupid that the sex cards all got censored for the US release. Yeah, the whole thing's spectacularly adolescent, and collecting a bunch of pictures of titties adds fuck-all to the experience of the game, but seriously, why the fuck do we even HAVE an M rating if people are still going to censor nudity?
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So, um, Warriors Orochi 2 is out tomorrow, sequel to the Dynasty Warriors/Samurai Warriors crossover.
The Monkey King is one of the new characters they're introducing. How many people wanna bet that he's just a Hideyoshi Toyotomi palette swap?
Official site boasts over 90 playable characters. :ohshi~:
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:wat: If it can't cloud somersault at least a thousand miles, is it REALLY a monkey king?
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...The Witcher Enhanced patch is a fucking travesty of a hack. A two-hour install that gives you no visible indicator of progress, appears to hang even if it's working, actually DOES hang if you're trying to update the 64-bit version and didn't set Win95 compatibility, and HOSES YOUR INSTALLATION IRRECOVERABLY if you force-quit it partway through.
And if you uninstall the game, IT DELETES ALL YOUR SAVES TOO. (Fortunately I'd already finished and would be starting over again anyway, but MY GOD.)
So, word of advice to anyone trying to upgrade the original version of The Witcher to the Enhanced Edition: fuck the patch, find a torrent of the full DVD. Given CDProjekt's dedication to fair use, it's hard to believe they'd object to you doing that.
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wow, glad everything when smoothly for me...
edit: So this is pretty cool! (http://www.youtube.com/experiencewii)
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damn it cthulhu you beat me to it...by a few hours :sadpanda:
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So, word of advice to anyone trying to upgrade the original version of The Witcher to the Enhanced Edition: fuck the patch, find a torrent of the full DVD. Given CDProjekt's dedication to fair use, it's hard to believe they'd object to you doing that.
The ESA doesn't take their position into consideration when they C&D you. I would know, they C&D'd me when I tried The Witcher the first time around.
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So this is pretty cool![/url]
ha ha holy shit i didn't see that coming at all.
Edit: it appears i broke something.
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That Wario-YouTube ad is genius. That's why Nintendo makes the big bucks. Also moms, grammas, and little sisters.
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Doesn't work right in Chrome.
I ought to stop using this thing.
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Parish (http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3170104) says it looks a hell of a lot better than it plays.
A pity. Because I desperately want more gorgeous, high-res 2D games.
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Well that's just depressing.
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Warioland Shake's pretty good as far as I've played. But, I've only played the first 4 stages or so. Not awesome, but it's certainly par for a Wario game.
Kirby Super Star Ultra is awesome, however. Since it's a port of a awesome game.
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Looking at the film credits of J.K. Simmons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.K._Simmons) (seeing as how he was the best part of Burn After Reading) I couldn't help but notice that he's playing the President in Red Alert 3.
So I looked at the cast list of Red Alert 3. Needless to say, I was pretty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Curry) impressed (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Stormare) by what (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pryce) I saw. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Takei) ::D:
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Some of you played the Mount and Blade (http://www.paradoxplaza.com/Mount&Blade/) beta when I did. The game can be reasonably described as Fallout on horseback. The melee combat model is fun and well-done.
Just a heads-up that the game has come out and is now for sale for $30. Good reviews; I'll give it a look soon.
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J.K. Simmons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.K._Simmons) (seeing as how he was the best part of Burn After Reading)
Correct.
And Juno.
And Spider-Man.
He transitions from authority to bewilderment (and back) masterfully.
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He was pretty awesome on Justice League, too.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCb5qn2izR0
He's awesome all the time.
There's a whole series of those from the various characters in the game, posted as responses to other popular videos. In some cases, videos of the same actors.
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Looking over Joystiq's headlines from over the past week...
Canceled Ensemble project was Halo MMO (http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/23/canceled-ensemble-project-was-halo-mmo/) - This is the equivalent of what The Joker did with his share of the gangster cash.
Bejeweled add-on coming to World of Warcraft (http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/20/bejeweled-add-on-coming-to-world-of-warcraft/) - This comment sums it up best:
Everquest added something similar when it started its decline. "Med"tris, it was nicknamed. It was played with gems made from spell icons.
Really, this sort of thing reinforces my prediction that WoW is at the top of the mountain and looking down right now. Not that Blizzard should take the central office of their bank off speed-dial any time soon.
And lastly, Konami registers 'Metal Gear Solid Existence' trademark (http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/19/konami-registers-metal-gear-solid-existence/). Expansion, ahoy.
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I knew there was a reason Interplay kept the MMO rights to Fallout (http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2008/09/24/fallout-mmo-still-alive?bub) when they sold off the game.
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Canceled Ensemble project was Halo MMO (http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/23/canceled-ensemble-project-was-halo-mmo/) - This is the equivalent of what The Joker did with his share of the gangster cash.
To be fair, that game looked terrible.
Really, this sort of thing reinforces my prediction that WoW is at the top of the mountain and looking down right now. Not that Blizzard should take the central office of their bank off speed-dial any time soon.
I think (http://www.starcraft2.com/) they know (http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/).
(On the other hand, that's not going to help them. Blizzard's in the unenviable position now of trying to maintain their cosmic success, and they're not going to be able to release back-to-back sequels to the most popular franchises of all time every year. Best hope is that they buy enough time to come up with another renewable source of ludicrous income that'll stay relevant for years.)
And lastly, Konami registers 'Metal Gear Solid Existence' trademark (http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/19/konami-registers-metal-gear-solid-existence/). Expansion, ahoy.
Konami's word is that they intend to make a bunch more Metal Gear games without Snake or Kojima. We'll see how that goes.
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Konami's word is that they intend to make a bunch more Metal Gear games without Snake or Kojima. We'll see how that goes.
<Konami> Hey, look, a grain thresher! I'm going to stick my penis in it.
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Canceled Ensemble project was Halo MMO (http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/23/canceled-ensemble-project-was-halo-mmo/) - This is the equivalent of what The Joker did with his share of the gangster cash.
To be fair, that game looked terrible.
Yeah, it'd be one thing if we were actually talking Halo in an MMOFPS, which if they mixed in a little PvE and kept vehicular combat relevant - Mongeese/Ghosts as mounts, Warthogs higher up on the price scale, for guilds - would be unbelievably awesome, but all indications are pointing to a turn-based WoW reskin with laser swords.
Still, something like 3's Scarab battle being the end of a raid would be six kinds of The Balls.
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Blizzard should probably just cash in their chips, give every employee $9,999,999 in severance and spend the rest of their collective lives on a beach sipping [Moonwell Mojito]s or something.
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I'm sure Existence is just the obligatory "make everyone buy the game again a year later" installment, now with Guns of the Patriots flavour. It certainly fits the naming scheme.
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Blizzard's in the unenviable position now of trying to maintain their cosmic success
Unenviable?
I would say that is the DEFINITIVE fucking enviable dilemma to have. I wish *I* could have that problem.
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People are going to have to give me something more concrete than Bejeweled to convince me that WoW is going to be anything but dominating for the next few years. Warhammer Online seems to be generating some buzz for itself right now, but it's coming in just before the WotLK launch. Once that hits, then we'll see if Blizzard needs to scale back from "ruling the universe" to "ruling 75% of the universe".
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I don't see how Lich King does anything but attract people who are already totally WoWtarded.
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Yeah, everything I've heard about WotLK makes it seem like throwing more grind in front of the obsessed. PvP items require Honor points AND Arena points, and disappear if your Arena ranking dips too low? Artifacts that you have to individually level to make them godlike? Catering to the hardcore at the expense of the dabblers doesn't often work out, be it in games or politics or entertainment or what have you.
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Canceled Ensemble project was Halo MMO (http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/23/canceled-ensemble-project-was-halo-mmo/) - This is the equivalent of what The Joker did with his share of the gangster cash.
To be fair, that game looked terrible.
Yeah, it'd be one thing if we were actually talking Halo in an MMOFPS, which if they mixed in a little PvE and kept vehicular combat relevant - Mongeese/Ghosts as mounts, Warthogs higher up on the price scale, for guilds - would be unbelievably awesome, but all indications are pointing to a turn-based WoW reskin with laser swords.
Still, something like 3's Scarab battle being the end of a raid would be six kinds of The Balls.
Kabbage, you lack vision. Have you forgotten Planetside already?
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I don't see how Lich King does anything but attract people who are already totally WoWtarded.
Yes, all 10 million of them. Are you saying this is a bad strategy, or are you merely making an obvious observation?
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I don't see how Lich King does anything but attract people who are already totally WoWtarded.
Yes, all 10 million of them. Are you saying this is a bad strategy, or are you merely making an obvious observation?
It's not going to cause many more people to start sending their fifteen dollars per month of sweet, sweet pirate gold. It will cause lots of their existing base to drop a one-time fee for the stuff. It will delay those people from the inevitable realization that they are throwing their lives and sweet sweet pirate gold away.
It'll make them money but it's not going to grow their market share. I think at this point "People who are fed up with WoW but not opposed to the idea of MMOGs in general" are a large enough demographic to sustain a game successfully, if they do it right.
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I don't see how Lich King does anything but attract people who are already totally WoWtarded.
Yes, all 10 million of them. Are you saying this is a bad strategy, or are you merely making an obvious observation?
It's not going to cause many more people to start sending their fifteen dollars per month of sweet, sweet pirate gold. It will cause lots of their existing base to drop a one-time fee for the stuff. It will delay those people from the inevitable realization that they are throwing their lives and sweet sweet pirate gold away.
It'll make them money but it's not going to grow their market share. I think at this point "People who are fed up with WoW but not opposed to the idea of MMOGs in general" are a large enough demographic to sustain a game successfully, if they do it right.
I think you're forgetting about people who leveled to 70 and quit because there was nothing more to do. Now there will be, and if you got to 70 and did everything, chances are you'll be intrigued by having even more shit to do now.
They don't need expansions to hook new people, as long as they keep practically giving away the DVDs with 2-week trials.
You know, I'm surprised that Blizzard even bothered developing SC2 and Diablo III.
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Sometimes it feels weird being quite possibly the only person who doesn't care about Blizzard. I never got into any RTS or Diablo games, and I only played WoW for a couple weeks when on a vacation last year, quit as soon as I went back to work and never looked back.
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It's not going to cause many more people to start sending their fifteen dollars per month of sweet, sweet pirate gold. It will cause lots of their existing base to drop a one-time fee for the stuff. It will delay those people from the inevitable realization that they are throwing their lives and sweet sweet pirate gold away.
With 10 million subscribers already sending that $15/month, I don't think Blizzard feels a pressing concern for making their pie EVEN BIGGER. Taking measures to prevent the pie shrinking is exactly the right thing to do when your playerbase is 10,000,000 people.
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It's not going to cause many more people to start sending their fifteen dollars per month of sweet, sweet pirate gold. It will cause lots of their existing base to drop a one-time fee for the stuff. It will delay those people from the inevitable realization that they are throwing their lives and sweet sweet pirate gold away.
With 10 million subscribers already sending that $15/month, I don't think Blizzard feels a pressing concern for making their pie EVEN BIGGER. Taking measures to prevent the pie shrinking is exactly the right thing to do when your playerbase is 10,000,000 people.
Exactly. I just seemed to think that Kazz was implying that it wouldn't be effective in growing the playerbase.
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That said, it would require a 90% loss of playerbase in order to equal Warhammer (if the 1 MILLION pre-orders is to be believed), and I brought up WotLK because for Blizzard, expansions are a way to attract new playerbase and restart ones who've already quit. I'll I'm seeing is baseless speculation and people making remarks that Blizzard is somehow crumbling away.
Yeah, everything I've heard about WotLK makes it seem like throwing more grind in front of the obsessed. PvP items require Honor points AND Arena points, and disappear if your Arena ranking dips too low? Artifacts that you have to individually level to make them godlike? Catering to the hardcore at the expense of the dabblers doesn't often work out, be it in games or politics or entertainment or what have you.
Last I heard Arena gear is seperate from PvP gear, which can be bought with Honor and lasts until you get bored with it. Arena is pretty much for the hardcore PvPers, which is a sliver of WoW's player base. It may appeal to you, but as we often toss around, you are not the norm. A lot of the changers they are making is meant to cater to the casual, such as scaled back raiding with fewer requirements and more player friendly questing.
How did we let a flippant remark from Arc go this far?
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All Arc said was that WoW will probably shrink rather than grow from here, which is true. The game is getting dated, everyone who was ever going to try it has either tried it and stuck or tried it and quit, the barrier for entry is only getting harder, and it is simply not a very casual game. I'm sure they can sustain a disproportionately large playerbase for a long time to come, but in business terms that's still a decline.
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All Arc said was that WoW will probably shrink rather than grow from here, which is true. The game is getting dated, everyone who was ever going to try it has either tried it and stuck or tried it and quit, the barrier for entry is only getting harder, and it is simply not a very casual game. I'm sure they can sustain a disproportionately large playerbase for a long time to come, but in business terms that's still a decline.
This might be the the case around here, but only a quarter of the current subscribers live in North America. 3.5 million are in China alone. I think the average Chinese gamer might not have the income to afford cutting-edge gaming PCs, so the relatively lax graphics will give it an edge versus brand new retail MMOs.
And WoW's environments still look damn good.
Will WoW last forever? No, that's stupid. But I think a decline is still years away.
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Many years.
They're still releasing Everquest 1 expansions.
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How did we let a flippant remark from Arc go this far?
Ah, a question asked each and everyday, and yet never answered.
Truly a mystery for the ages! ::D:
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The solution is to shoot Arc in his center of mass. Boom, chestshot.
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The solution is to shoot Arc in his center of mass. Boom, chestshot.
concrete shot?
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Yeah, everything I've heard about WotLK makes it seem like throwing more grind in front of the obsessed. PvP items require Honor points AND Arena points, and disappear if your Arena ranking dips too low? Artifacts that you have to individually level to make them godlike? Catering to the hardcore at the expense of the dabblers doesn't often work out, be it in games or politics or entertainment or what have you.
Uh, just wanted to make some quick clarifications here because it seems whoever is feeding you information might actually be entirely crazy. Not meant as a PLAY WOW OMG post, but correct info is good to have.
PvP gear is mostly tied to Arena now, yes, but it's been that way since BC and Wrath doesn't change much. Ratings requirement has been and is still only a requirement to PURCHASE it, you can fucking quit arena entirely and your items don't go anywhere and can still be equipped.
The interpretation of the new artifacts thing is kind of boggling, because it's completely opposite. Here's what is actually happening:
-"Artifact" item level that was never used except for GM items is being used for new Heirloom items
-Heirloom items are bought with badges from heroic/10man raids, which is standard endgame stuff
-Heirloom items are Account Bound, they can be mailed to any other character on your account.
-Heirloom items have scaling stats. Their stats are dependant on what level you are, so they have the stats of really good Blue items for your level. They're not supposed to be uber epics, but designed to be items to make levelling alts faster and less grindy.
So basically, you get an Heirloom weapon and some shoulders and mail it to a new level 1 you just made, and it gives him really really good equipment for those slots that will make 1-70 fly by a lot quicker. The entire purpose is to cut down on grinding.
Other fun facts:
-Heirloom shoulders give +10% increase experience gain
-Heirloom items are all old classic WoW weapons/shoulders that people liked and considered iconic, so there's stuff like the Bloodied Arcanite Reaper
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Bejeweled add-on coming to World of Warcraft (http://www.joystiq.com/2008/09/20/bejeweled-add-on-coming-to-world-of-warcraft/) - This comment sums it up best:
Everquest added something similar when it started its decline. "Med"tris, it was nicknamed. It was played with gems made from spell icons.
Really, this sort of thing reinforces my prediction that WoW is at the top of the mountain and looking down right now. Not that Blizzard should take the central office of their bank off speed-dial any time soon.
Double post of wow-blabbing: Add-ons are user created. It sounds like people are interpreting this as Blizzard shovin' a puzzle game into their title out of desperation, which isn't the case; they have nothing to do with this at all. If people aren't misinterpreting and are actually saying that a player creating a mod that lets you play Bejeweled in game heralds the end of WoW, that's kinda :hurr:
EDIT: I see the confusion. The story is actually "Guy makes Bejeweled addon for WoW. Popcap games, people that own Bejeweled, hire him to make a more polished version of the addon with the official name and their blessing. Blizzard more or less uninvolved and oblivious."
(note: we could use a few more :what: icons here, I wanted to use the strawman almost)
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Taking bets on monthly subscription numbers dropping by this time next year, which is at 10.9 million as of 09/15/08 (http://www.blizzard.com/us/press/080915.html).
Ten dollars in the pot, ten dollars in the pot, do I hear fifteen, do I hear fifteen?
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I'll bet you 100 that they will.
It works for Hawking.
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Hideo Kojima has three great ideas that he doesn't want to see ever used. (http://kotaku.com/5055078/kojima-dont-you-dare-use-my-ideas-for-mgs5)
Uhhh... thanks?
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Anyone else want in? Your share can be apart of the $100 so Romo won't have to payout the full amount when he loses.
I accept paypal.
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Anyone else want in? Your share can be apart of the $100 so Romo won't have to payout the full amount when he loses.
I accept paypal.
Oh, I'll be more than happy to pay 100 if I lose. I don't make false bets.
Hideo Kojima has three great ideas that he doesn't want to see ever used. (http://kotaku.com/5055078/kojima-dont-you-dare-use-my-ideas-for-mgs5)
Uhhh... thanks?
It's not like his big ideas ever actually make it into his games.
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http://www.gametrailers.com/player/40505.html
Athena has been eating too much cake apparently.
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Oh god that looks beautiful
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(a video)
Athena has been eating too much cake apparently.
Looks nice, but I'm failing to parse the joke.
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(a video)
Athena has been eating too much cake apparently.
Looks nice, but I'm failing to parse the joke.
She's a lot more round in the face and thighs.
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Flipping the issue, I think it's stupid that the sex cards all got censored for the US release. Yeah, the whole thing's spectacularly adolescent, and collecting a bunch of pictures of titties adds fuck-all to the experience of the game, but seriously, why the fuck do we even HAVE an M rating if people are still going to censor nudity?
Just starting the Enhanced Edition, and apparently it DOES have nippleage in it. Well, good for that, I guess.
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EA has standards, apparently, and kills Tiberium for not meeting them (http://kotaku.com/5057012/ea-axes-tiberium-for-not-meeting-standards)
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Just starting the Enhanced Edition, and apparently it DOES have nippleage in it. Well, good for that, I guess.
Eh? Really? Mine doesn't have any.
I mean, didn't have any. :nyoro-n:
Let's, uh, let's just say I got the uncensor because it fixed the Steam version's no-blood-in-the-NA-release bug. Also original vision of the game's creators and so on and so forth.
elfy nipples woo
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The uncensored bik files are there, anyway. Haven't actually seen any of them in-game yet.
The first (Triss) sex scene has no nipples even in the uncensored version.
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Elivator action remake: http://www.destructoid.com/elevator-action-returns-to-arcades-as-a-light-gun-game--105693.phtml
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You will never see that in America.
In fact, you will never see that... in America!
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U FUCKING GIEF
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Elivator action remake: http://www.destructoid.com/elevator-action-returns-to-arcades-as-a-light-gun-game--105693.phtml
there is no excuse for any of the things that you did in this post.
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Elivator action remake: http://www.destructoid.com/elevator-action-returns-to-arcades-as-a-light-gun-game--105693.phtml
there is no excuse for any of the things that you did in this post.
The only one I see is the long url. :wat:
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:kazz: (http://www.corporate-sellout.com/burst.gif) :thad:
:sharkey: Superasshole!
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Holy shit, I didn't know those three know the Rasengan! :ohshi~:
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It's genius... It's... It's so beautifully stupid.
I am at a loss for :derp:
I'm really tempted to ask, just to be sure, but I can't because it would ruin the magic.
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Here is how to make a link without it being stupid, ugly, and redundant:
Elivator action remake. (http://www.destructoid.com/elevator-action-returns-to-arcades-as-a-light-gun-game--105693.phtml)
If you want to go for bonus points, here is how to do it while actually correctly spelling and capitalizing the thing that is correctly spelled and capitalized ON THE FUCKING PAGE YOU ARE LINKING TO:
Elevator Action remake. (http://www.destructoid.com/elevator-action-returns-to-arcades-as-a-light-gun-game--105693.phtml)
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hay guys check this (http://preview.tinyurl.com/42ufu8) out
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...the length of the URL is really not the problem.
In fact, I will absolutely not under any circumstance click on any masked URL in a post by SoraCross.
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I was just masking it so that it'd be a hair less obvious that I was non-descriptively linking to the exact same URL.
I was kind of tempted to spoiler tag this post, but I'm (failing at) being funny, not trying to piss you off.
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:slow:
...I think we need to bring back RodaHoss.
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If you fall down... :wat: Get back on the RodaHoss?
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KLONOA DOOR TO PHANTOMILE REMAKE FOR WII
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KLONOA DOOR TO PHANTOMILE REMAKE FOR WII
VERY excited about this. I lent my copy to someone years ago and, of course, never saw it again. WORST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE
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oh and also a new punch out and sin and punishment 2 and a new wario ware for ds and a bunch of other stuff but srsly klonoa
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1up summary with video. (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3170306)
I missed this announcement: they're making a sequel to Trace Memory. Very excited about that, too.
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...hey, that's Klonoa.
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So Fable II is coming out soon, and in spite of the normal Molyneux pattern of game development and marketing, I haven't heard that much
ridiculous BS of anything about the damned thing. I have a feeling that I'm going to have to buy it for "a friend" and proceed to "visit them" (often when they are sleeping) to see it for myself. In part because I'm a chump with no real taste in vidjagames, but more importantly because I like the grandiose elements of ol' Pete's vision for an immersive and interactive RPG and want to make sure he hasn't done the impossible and developed the impossibly good game that I want to one day direct before that one day actually comes (after which I will bugger off to develop the positronic brain and cold fusion).
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So you're basically afraid that Fable 2 might actually be what Fable was supposed to be, even though when given two chances at it, he couldn't make Fable even vaguely resemble what it was supposed to be.
I wouldn't worry.
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You have nothing to worry about unless your life revolved around the contents of the collectors edition. (They cut out the minifig, cards, and something else.)
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... collectors edition... minifig, cards, and something else
Collectors edition? The kind that comes with a zillion little bennies if you preorder?
I AM TOTALLY UNABLE TO DO ANY RESEARCH WHATSOEVER!
Edit: Thanks MAx!
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... collectors edition... minifig, cards, and something else
Collectors edition? The kind that comes with a zillion little bennies if you preorder?
Kotaku Article (http://kotaku.com/5057688/fable-ii-lce-drops-in-price-and-features). :slow:
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Cave Story on Wii, allegedly. (http://www.siliconera.com/2008/10/02/cave-story-coming-to-wiiware/)
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(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd145/Brentai/approve.gif)
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:perfect:
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(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y182/diowho/cunderwear.gif)
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WoW just got easier. (http://blue.mmo-champion.com/12/10532281654-existing-raid-content-changes.html)
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I miss pre-nerf plague ghouls.
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Even more Kotaku on Fable 2 (http://kotaku.com/5058774/fable-ii-ce-cut-even-further). This is not-so-collectors now.
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I suppose it's not that surprising that Molyneux's system ofstripping down features to a mere shell of the originally promised product extends to packaging as well. But it is amusing.
Also: Wiiware Cave Story has been confirmed.
Also also: Nintendo sets a new standard for unnecessary remakes. (http://kotaku.com/5058472/there-are-a-lot-more-gamecube-wii-remakes-coming-pikmin-2-jungle-beat-etc-etc) Conversions to a system that... already is fully capable of playing the originals. Useful. Thanks.
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I guess that a pointer-using control scheme will add to some of them. Not to mention, haven't they basically discontinued Gamecube controllers and memory cards?
Not that that means much.
I know for a fact that I am a big enough whore to buy Metroid Prime 1 and 2 all over again if they get Metroid Prime 3's controls.
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Holy shit, there's a new Matt Hazard (http://www.doyouremembermatthazard.com/) game coming out!
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I know for a fact that I am a big enough whore to buy Metroid Prime 1 and 2 all over again if they get Metroid Prime 3's controls.
Yeah, me too. We're the problem, Bongo Bill. We're the problem.
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Metoid 1, yes. 2? No. 2 Sucked.
Also, here's hoping for... ... ... Man, GCN really did suck, huh?
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I kind of still want to play the original Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles.
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It's... kind of chaotic with 4 players. 2-3 seems to be the Zen Point. And you need to unearth some GBAs from the ruins of ancient gaming.
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Can't use the DS's GBA slot?
(I don't really remember what was involved. If not, I'm guessing it needs a GBA link cable to interface to the GC, in which case, yeah, I'm fucked on that one.)
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Can't use the DS's GBA slot?
If I remember correctly, the GC-GBA link cable used the GBA's link cable port, not the cartridge slot. This port is absent on the DS.
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Doesn't have a port for that link cable doohickey.
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You know, this one would make a pretty good Wiimake. Seeing as how you can, you know, connect a DS to to the Wii without buying any additional useless parts. And there's a touch screen, so you don't have to have your character stand around like an idiot any time you want to fiddle with the menu.
EDIT: What Det said.
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....it would.
Brentai, go suck the dicks required for it to be made so!
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Are you kidding? I'm like the only person in the world who could possibly fail to convince SE to remake a game.
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IT'S A MULTIPLAYER GAME THAT WE'VE NEVER SEEN OVER HERE AND INVOLVES NO MORE EFFORT THAN PORTING CHRONO TRIGGER! GOD, YOU FUCKS!
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I kind of still want to play the original Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles.
I WANNA PLAY GAME WITH YOU FLASHTRAN!
LAY YOU DOWN BY THE T.V.!
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I strongly dislike websites that don't launch (http://www.cavestorywii.com/) when they promised to.
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I strongly dislike websites that don't launch (http://www.cavestorywii.com/) when they promised to.
It's up now, and just in time!
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:8D:
MUSIC YAY
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Evidently they're including the option to switch between original graphics and new graphics, and the same for the music.
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I... I was going to try and hold off for fear of it becoming lame... but...
Our love overflows! (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y182/diowho/cunderwear.gif)
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(http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y182/diowho/cunderwear.gif)
I actually got this item today. Oh Japan, you're so crazy.
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Best item in the game! I wonder if you'll be as excited when you discover its secret use as I was.
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Yes, yes, we all know panties make great hats.
PILDER ON!
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1up interview (http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3170405) on Muramasa.
I'd like it to have the same kind of atmosphere as The Legend of Kage and "Genpei Toma Den (Namco)," two of my favorite games.
::(:
Why do Japanese people love Legend of Kage? (Also, all the other terrible things they love.)
Anyway, the good news is that by "atmosphere" all he seems to mean is "you jump around in trees".
Fundamentally speaking, "even people with no skills can grind their character to the point that they can beat the game." That part as an RPG still hasn't changed. But I suppose it is much more action oriented than Odin Sphere at the same time. This time around, we increased the agility and mobility of the characters and put a lot of energy into creating the field maps for the player to jump around in. On the other hand, we condensed the dramatic portions of it. This way, we can avoid how we reused bosses in Odin Sphere like how people pointed out.
Parish made the point that Odin Sphere's reuse of enemies would have been forgiven if it had been released as an episodic, downloadable game. I'm inclined to agree.
We're developing it in the same way as Odin Sphere so there are bound to be a lot of similarities. But there is one difference. You won't be planting seeds this time around.
:perfect:
...no, wait...
:painful:
...no, wait...
:perfect:
We talked about it regarding the controls and concluded that keeping the classic controls for side scrollers will best fit this game. That's why this game will be using the Classic Controller. Currently, we do not have plans to use the motion sensor,
:perfect:
but we are in talks about adding some feature enabling it.
:painful:
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Why do Japanese people love Legend of Kage? (Also, all the other terrible things they love.)
Why do Americans love Pitfall? Why do Brits love Jet Set Willy?
Anyway, Legend of Kage is fun as hell as long as you don't try to like... win. Demon Sword (the sequel) is almost like a real game, even.
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Why do Japanese people love Legend of Kage? (Also, all the other terrible things they love.)
Why do Americans love Pitfall?
...Oh right. Kage was BEFORE Super Mario Bros in Japan.
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I actually like Kage. It's mindless fun and the music bores into your head like some sort of pain worm.
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I miss The End. I hope Friday prepares a press release about it's status/progress soon.
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Demon Sword (the sequel) is almost like a real game, even.
If by "almost like a real game" you mean "great", then I agree. The music is awesome, too.
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There's just something about leaping from tree to tree that is incredibly fun, even if your weapons are pathetic and you usually die in one hit.
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Well, the sword is only pathetic for the first two levels, and if you don't miss shuriken upgrades you become unfairly powerful around halfway through the game.
The "dying on one hit" thing could almost kind of be an issue, but the game keeps throwing the equivalent of Zelda fairies at you, and on top of that you can farm all your max health upgrades in the first level if you're careful about moving forward every once in a while so you don't trigger the skeletal wolves.
And once you reach the bone mountain, those same skeletal wolves become so easy to kill and give so many points that you can pick up as many extra lives as you could ever want with a minimum of effort.
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http://www.vimeo.com/1838270
if anybody ever plays this, tell me if it's as cool as it looks
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Looks and sounds a whole damn lot like Cave Story.
EDIT: Beastie Boys X Cave Story musical remix? I could get into that.
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Underside is not out yet.
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Quote hat @ 1:23
::(:
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coming to wiiware fall 2012
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http://www.gametrailers.com/player/41032.html
:wuv:
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No More Heroes 2
:wuv:
FUK YES FUK YES FUK YES!
Less GTA cloning and more stylish awesome please; I will buy this game SO HARD
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Notes from Microsoft's keynote at TGS
Dashboard update on november 19th
Halo 3 campaign expansion (it's a prequel to the events in 3 and YOU DONT PLAY AS MASTER CHIEF)
R-Type XBLA
Tekken 6
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No More Heroes 2
:wuv:
FUK YES FUK YES FUK YES!
Less GTA cloning and more stylish awesome please; I will buy this game SO HARD
Perhaps, but I really loved that desolate loser-in-california FEEL they had in NMH. It had this great loner vibe to it when you went around the city, just how palpable it was that you were just some jerk not doing anything with your life, grabbing some cash doing crappy want-ad jobs here and there under the glare of the california sun.
It was in heavy contrast to the other half of the game that's spent being a badass sword-swinging assassin, but shared similarities too; both were still lonely and surreal. It was the whole "floating world" vibe.
I'm going to stop now before I start babbling about Body Harvest and the aesthetic of bleakness again.
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Not as great as a god hand 2 or second killer 7...but ill definitely take it.
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oh god
what if
what if no more heroes 2 is also god hand 2
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http://www.gametrailers.com/player/41048.html
i am so gay for wesker
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"They're acting like the ganado detailed in the Kennedy report!"
So will they tie this game's virus with las plagas, or will this just be an excuse to reuse the zombie AI?
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i am so hetero for wesker
I do enjoy how the new female lead is introduced ass first.
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better than how jill was introduced in the other trailer
[spoiler]DEAD[/spoiler] first
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I like how Wesker forgets about meeting Chris in Code Veronica X.
But that's okay, I want to forget about Code Veronica in general.
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was..that the shop guy?
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better than how jill was introduced in the other trailer
[spoiler]DEAD[/spoiler] first
wait what
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So, I went and educated myself on the plot of Resident Evil 0-3 + Code Veronica
Must... Not... Raaage...
But that's okay, I want to forget about Code Veronica in general.
... Must... Not...
better than how jill was introduced in the other trailer (http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/21938)
[spoiler]DEAD[/spoiler] first
(http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/oo22/driftycity/lolstockno.png)
:mahboi: [spoiler]She's faking it![/spoiler]
(http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/oo22/driftycity/1223504672157.jpg)
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RE: Underside:
the game's graphics and engine are (believe it or not) completely original.
I don't like this. The entire style is cribbed far too heavily for it to just be "inspired". It looks just like Cave Story 2.
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Don't they confess to it by playing the CaveStory theme behind the end of that... umm... "remix"?
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:mahboi: [spoiler]She's faking it![/spoiler]
I just saw the other trailer and hsdgjkhgkjhkj NO NO NO NO NO I REJECT THIS REALITY AND SUBSTITUTE IT WITH MY OWN FUCK YOU CAPCOM
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The site seems to be really flimsy on its relationship to Cave Story beyond "inspiration" and the few times it comes up it's kind of dismissively tongue in cheek.
I'd say it's capitalizing on the fact that Cave Story wasn't easily accessible to english-speaking gamers who weren't burrowed in the internet and willing to work for a patch, but WiiWare is going to rain on that real soon.
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Underside fills me with incoherent rage.
MAYBE NOT THAT INCOHERENT:
Waiting for the bomb to drop that Underside is a metacommentary on the indie games of the last decade, as the lyrics at the end of that video suggest. Either way, I'm not impressed: it's like they really liked the mechanics of Cave Story but felt they'd be even better wedged into a metroidvania, about which I have already said enough (http://insomnia.ac/commentary/fuck_metroidvanias/).
Cave Story's graphics were nice not because of what they portrayed, but because they demonstrated coherence, confidence, and an appreciation for older games without actually resembling them. What little there is to go on here just exudes cynicism and desperation. The content of the graphics come across a bit like the content of the text in Iji: it's not what the designer is interested in, so just shovel in a stopgap measure cobbled together from whatever inspirations the designer enjoys without worrying about whether it's actually sufficient.
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yeah, hey, you know, quote hat. already pointed this out. quit being kotaku at me.
RE: RE5: I like how the new female lead better get a new voice actress or i probably won't be able to play it
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Yeah, I... was taking time to articulate.
Really intrigued about NMH2, though. Curious where else they can take that premise.
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Full Cast for Dissida (sans any hidden characters) confirmed.
FFI - Warrior of Light (With Class Upgrade) & Garland
FFII: Firion & Emperor Mateus Palamecia
FFIII: Onion Knight (With Sage & Ninja) & Cloud of Darkness (With original green snake form thing)
FFIV: Cecil (DRK & PAL forms) & Golbez (with Shadow Dragon Fusion)
FFV: Bartz & Exdeath
FFVI: Terra & Kefka
FFVII: Cloud & Sephiroth
FFVIII: Squall & Ultamecia (With Griever fusion)
FFIX: Zidane (With Trance) & Kuja (With Trance)
FFX: Tidus & Jecht (With Braska's Final Aeon form)
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Exdeath rather than Gilgamesh?
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RE: RE5: I like how the new female lead better get a new voice actress or i probably won't be able to play it
what's wrong with lara black
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No Rydia, no sale.
FFVI: Terra & Kefka
Well... maybe just this once.
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Huh. I just noticed, out of a cast of 20, the game will only have two women on it. Weird. (in before Kuja)
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(in before Kuja)
Damn you, TA. :MENDOZAAAAA:
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The spirit of Street Fighter is alive and well.
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Shouldn't Terra have two forms like Zidane or Cecil?
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She probably does.
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Does Cloud of Darkness not count as a woman? On account of her being a cloud or whatever the fuck she is?
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She probably doesn't count as woman because not everyone here has played Final Fantasy 3 and thus were not aware that she was indeed a woman, actually.
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Dude. Dude. Dude.
:ohshi~: :ohshi~: :ohshi~:
HOW THE FUCK DID WE MISS THIS? (http://www.capcom.co.jp/gyakutenkenji/)
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I've been purposefully ignoring it since it was announced. I hate getting hyped for things I'm not gonna see for a long time.
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HOW THE FUCK DID WE MISS THIS? (http://www.capcom.co.jp/gyakutenkenji/)
Yo. (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=31.msg4962#msg4962)
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New Castlevania for PS360 (http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/09/tgs-08-konami-whips-out-castlevania-for-ps3-xbox-360/)
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Full Cast for Dissida (sans any hidden characters) confirmed.
FFI - Warrior of Light (With Class Upgrade) & Garland
FFII: Firion & Emperor Mateus Palamecia
FFIII: Onion Knight (With Sage & Ninja) & Cloud of Darkness (With original green snake form thing)
FFIV: Cecil (DRK & PAL forms) & Golbez (with Shadow Dragon Fusion)
FFV: Bartz & Exdeath
FFVI: Terra & Kefka
FFVII: Cloud & Sephiroth
FFVIII: Squall & Ultamecia (With Griever fusion)
FFIX: Zidane (With Trance) & Kuja (With Trance)
FFX: Tidus & Jecht (With Braska's Final Aeon form)
Now with pictures! (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=13145420&postcount=547)
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Now with pictures! (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=13145420&postcount=547)
So I went and checked out the thread that post was in, and immediately wished I hadn't. Fuckin' weeaboos calling her Tina.
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Now with pictures! (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=13145420&postcount=547)
So I went and checked out the thread that post was in, and immediately wished I hadn't. Fuckin' weeaboos calling her Tina.
Also, I will buy this game if Tidus' victory taunt is "HA HA HA HA HA HA HA". And I don't even have a PSP.
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Oh, that's right. It's for the PSP.
That's tragic.
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Not a total loss,
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v624/Seraph830/TerraGreen.jpg)
and lulz @ bishonen buttz
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Which one was the 'Hero of Light?'
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The first one. It's the guy from the Amano illustration on the original Japanese box.
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Now with pictures! (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=13145420&postcount=547)
So I went and checked out the thread that post was in, and immediately wished I hadn't. Fuckin' weeaboos calling her Tina.
Pretend I can remember the line from FF6A about the hardcore Cult of Kefka members who insist on spelling his name with C's.
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Pretending is fun!
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Just in case NMH2 wasn't enough:
The enhanced DS port of Suda51's Flower, Sun and Rain (http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/09/flower-sun-and-rain-ds-remake-coming-to-na-in-2009/) is coming to America.
Buy it or I'll come to your house and cut you in half.
Additional note: is there any talk of Monster Hunter 3 coming stateside yet?
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No, but pretending is fun.
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:MENDOZAAAAA:
Way to play the game up on every fucking english news outlet when there's a good chance we'll never get it.
ARGH. It sounds awesome. Solitary immersed-in-nature exploration, huge mythical beasts, all the items crafted yourself, most from what you've hunted, and a gameplay system that seems to be summed up by "PSO, but less retarded."
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...isn't that a fairly accurate description of the rest of the Monster Hunter series, which was released in the US?
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yeah except you'd actually be able to play multiplayer on a wii version
(the PSP games are only ad hoc, so you need to be within 20 feet of an actual person with a PSP and the game)
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...isn't that a fairly accurate description of the rest of the Monster Hunter series, which was released in the US?
I was under the impression Monster Hunter 1 and 2 were NOT released here.
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nah, i recall that dogstar was jizzing his pants over the first one back when it was released.
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The PS2 version of MH2 slipped through the cracks, and they didn't bother with 2nd G, but the rest have been ported.
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"Don't listen to the crusty sailor. The Sword of Aeons is not real, and couldn't be found in a dirty space between cargo containers if it were."
"Stop messing with the website and get back to shipping, Jim."
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Apparently Blizzcon attendees are getting Starcraft 2 beta tickets.
:sadpanda:
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Starcraft 2's campaign will be three separate games. (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3170574)
I'm curious as to how they plan to do this. They use the term "stand-alone", so it's unlikely they are expansions. Will they each be full price?
More Blizz news: Wizard is Diablo III's third class. (http://www.blizzard.com/diablo3/characters/wizard.xml)
Totally different from the sorcerer/sorceress, yeah.
That is correct: I used the uncouth term wizard, not sorcerer. It seems that even the title of a civilized magic wielder is too restrictive for this young upstart.
Seems like the opposite of the dichotomy used in D&D 3rd edition.
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Wizard comes from the Middle English "wisard", as in one who is known for being wise.
Sorcerer on the other hand comes from the Latin "sortiārius" meaning "one who casts lots", or in other words, a fortune teller.
The uncultured teutonic Wizard versus the civilised, Latinate Sorcerer. Makes sense I guess.
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I dunno, I think it's pretty punk to be a teenager and demand that everybody refer to you by a title that implies age, experience and an even temper.
EDIT: :MENDOZAAAAA: THIS IS YOUR FAULT LEE-HAM
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::D: BWAHAHAHAHA
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First character: wizard named "KimikoRoss"
:whoops:
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Starcraft 2's campaign will be three separate games. (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3170574)
I'm curious as to how they plan to do this. They use the term "stand-alone", so it's unlikely they are expansions. Will they each be full price?
They're not going to make 3 full standalone games. "Standalone" referred to the campaign modes and whoever wrote that article sucks.
Here's a much better summary from the Joystiq coverage:
Rob Pardo, executive vice-president of game design at Blizzard announced that the campaign version of the game will be a trilogy, each part focusing on a separate race.
(and no the multiplayer isn't a fourth standalone thing that's retarded)
Also the reaction comments there are making my head hurt.
ALSO the campaign is full game-length and everyone ranting about LOL ACTIVISION DOES IT AGAIN is an idiot. It's not "small-sized" episodic content and arrrrrgh.
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Well, they could have made the announcement a little less confusing.
At this moment it looks like they will be full-length single-player only expansions. Not a bad idea, but adding multiplayer units would make them mandatory. I guess we'll see after the dust settles.
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It would've been much better if they didn't try to spin it and just said "Starcraft II will only have a Terran campaign, the other races will have campaigns in the expansions".
It's really not that complicated, and it makes sense when you realize that story mode is a bit bigger than some unit portraits sitting there while a voiceover plays nowadays.
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Diablo III t-shirt worn by lead designer. (http://kotaku.com/5062184/behold-the-new-diablo-iii-logo-t+shirt)
Not for sale, but neither was the Mega Man 9 shirt at first.
I'd buy one, but I've already got the Unicorn Power (http://pbfcomics.com/archive_b/PBF103-Nice_Shirt.gif) shirt.
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As a general rule, I don't wear shirts with logos or anything on them, but I'd so make an exception here.
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agreed
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First character: wizard named "KimikoRoss"
:whoops:
Moar like "Azula" am i rite.
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Oh hey, Mount Arreat's a ruins now. Is there some sort of trope named for the habit of any town you go to great lengths to save ending up destroyed in the interim time before the next sequel?
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Lucky Vault 13?
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My sources suggest that it's in the Grand List of RPG Cliches as "#48: Zidane's Curse."
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Oh hey, Mount Arreat's a ruins now. Is there some sort of trope named for the habit of any town you go to great lengths to save ending up destroyed in the interim time before the next sequel?
Is that really "In the interim time"? I mean, Harrogath wasn't immediately nuked and incinerated by you, but Mt. Arreat did kind of explode.
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Blizzard to Monetize Diablo III (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55271)
Yeah, that worked out SO WELL For Hellgate:London
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sounds like they're doing an optional services thing rather than a subscription fee.
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Oh hey, Mount Arreat's a ruins now. Is there some sort of trope named for the habit of any town you go to great lengths to save ending up destroyed in the interim time before the next sequel?
Is that really "In the interim time"? I mean, Harrogath wasn't immediately nuked and incinerated by you, but Mt. Arreat did kind of explode.
I don't remember Arreat exploding... although now that I come to think of it, the game sort of ended with the universe exploding. So nevermind!
"We are going to monetize features so that we get to make them," said Wilson. "We kind of have to."
I can respect that. When you've got a small budget like that and probably won't sell that many copies of the game, and will have to bring down the price to make it accessible... you know, you just do what you gotta do.
despite the fact that he and many other designers got their start in modding, the team takes a strong stance on the hacking of their games.
Hypocat is a hypocriiiiiiiiiite.
I do respect Blizzard enough to keep the monetization to fluff, though, so I'm not as angry as I sound. I'm not angry. I'm just very, very disappointed.
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To be fair, they're kinda stuck in a perspective problem. Best case scenario, Diablo III sells like hotcakes, barely matching the profits of one month of WoW subscriptions.
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To be fair, they're kinda stuck in a perspective problem. Best case scenario, Diablo III lets everyone buy six new houses barely matching the ten houses of one month of WoW subscriptions.
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Well, that's fine. Diablo devs have one house to go before they're officially elitists.
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Secret of Mana on Virtual Console (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3170620)
I foresee good times ahead.
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Blizzard to Monetize Diablo III (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55271)
Yeah, that worked out SO WELL For Hellgate:London
Followup comment by Pardo. (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3170622)
With Battle.net we're definitely looking at possible different features that we might be able to do for additional money. We're not talking about Hellgate or anything like that. We're not going to tack things on. I think World of Warcraft is a great example to look at. We charge people if they want to switch servers or if they want name changes, things that aren't core to the game experience, they're really just optional things that some people want. It takes us some development work to do it, so it makes sense to charge for it. We would never do something like say to get the full game experience, you'll have to pay extra.
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Kay.
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Secret of Mana on Virtual Console (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3170620)
I foresee good times ahead.
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So my copy of Gears of War 2 from Amazon comes with the freaking lancer rifle. A full size prop. I think it's an awesome, if nerdy thing. Best Buy will let you get an RC Chimera tank. That's pretty nifty. Surely nothing could beat those options. Oh, wait, WAIT. What the fuck is this? A GOLD RIFLE (https://www.gamestation.co.uk/product.asp?id=man0304)? Damn you UK!
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Wouldn't a gold rifle weigh hundreds of pounds and sound terrible?
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Weigh’s over 5 kilo’s
Chainsaw Sound Effect
That answer your question?
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Post-Blizzcon roundup of D3 info (http://www.shacknews.com/featuredarticle.x?id=1024) at ShackNews.
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No decisions made on the financial model. Blizzard is leaning toward not charging a subscription for Battle.net, but some features will be monetized.
A bit misleading here, due to the announcement itself being misleading. Later interviews with (I believe) Jay Wilson have him calling the idea pay-to-play battle.net "evil" and saying definitively "We are not considering a subscription fee to play Diablo 3, it's not an MMO"
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Not that that's slowed down the PSO franchise.
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It stopped me and some others from buying PSU, but I guess they made the loss of box sales up and then some off of subscription fees. Fuckers.
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... PSO has always required a subscription to play online
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The greatest thing from blizzcon was rob pardo wearing a diablo III shirt with my little ponies and smiling rainbow clouds. If they don't sell that shirt I am going to be mad.
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Meh, I don't think it fits. Had it been just "Diablo" and a single rainbow, that would have driven the point home. The current design just looks like a 13-year-old goth girl tried to be ironic.
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... PSO has always required a subscription to play online
PSO (original) for Dreamcast did not require a monthly fee ("Hunter's License") to play online with friends. PSO v2 (typed POS by accident) and onwards did.
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PRETTY SURE YOU'RE MISTAKEN BRO but then this was a whole decade ago, it's not like i can remember all that clearly.
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... PSO has always required a subscription to play online
Dreamcast's general online service did not require a subscription to play online.
Xbox Live does.
Fuck paying subscription fees for individual games on the 360.
(also psu was pretty assy by all counts)
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It got a lot better with the expansion, but putting the focus on crafting and a player economy really fucks up the whole diablo-like "let's go into the mines and get treasure" vibe that was so fun in the first place.
It's hard to get jazzed about finding quality 10 metal, even if you can sell it for a fortune or make it into something awesome later.
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PSO (original) for Dreamcast did not require a monthly fee ("Hunter's License") to play online with friends. PSO v2 (typed POS by accident) and onwards did.
This is correct. I used to play completely free by rigging my DC up with the then-free NetZero service. Good times.
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And the people would randomly erase your entire memory card. :smile:
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Oh goodie. I hope some light comes of this MGS4 on 360 rumor (http://kotaku.com/5063447/konami-officially-comments-on-xbox-360-metal-gear-solid-4), so I can continue not owning a PS3.
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Meh, I don't think it fits. Had it been just "Diablo" and a single rainbow, that would have driven the point home. The current design just looks like a 13-year-old goth girl tried to be ironic.
THAT'S why it makes me ravenously horny! I thought I was just gay!
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Meh, I don't think it fits. Had it been just "Diablo" and a single rainbow, that would have driven the point home. The current design just looks like a 13-year-old goth girl tried to be ironic.
...am I missing something or am I just desensitized to sap?
:doit: Yes.
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We get two, count 'em, two translation projects finished this week: the Persona 2: Innocent Sin translation is finished (http://tsumi.wordpress.com/2008/10/15/all-is-lost/). I've never played a Persona game except for 3, so I'm going to give this one a shot before I get caught up in Mother 3.
Edit: Wow, one of the very first characters you meet is given a description that screams Mary Sue (or Canon Sue, or whatever): "A student at Seven Sisters who's got the hots for [main character]. She's a white girl, but she speaks Japanese fluently and knows kung fu. She also happens to be the sexiest girl in Sevens."
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You can safely ignore every persona game before P3.
I'm saying this as someone who likes the megaten series enough to have played through them.
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You can safely appreciate every persona game before P3.
I'm saying this as someone who likes the megaten series enough to have played through them.
:perfect:
As much as I liked Persona 3, I don't think it holds a candle to the quality the older MegaTen games have.
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Persona 1 and 2 were boring. That's all.
Persona 3 is more anime =^_^= but also actually does something with the symbolism that the persona series has been hanging on to just because it was in megaten and western shit is kakko ii. It also does not require you to grind yourself retarded.
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I thought
Tartar Sauce Tartarus was a shitload of grinding while hoping your party doesn't get tired. At least, that's what it was like for me.
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You don't need to grind beyond just getting to the top of the tower every month, which is not much of a chore. It usually took me about two to three trips and then i was done until the end of the month, and spent the rest of the time working on elizabeth's requests and taking my current favorite Persona to the arcade to buff its stats to stupid levels for 2,000 yen a day so i could trash the next big boss in about two turns flat.
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I definitely preordered Persona 4 so hard. And the Social Link Expansion (http://www.amazon.com/Persona-Amazon-com-Exclusive-Expansion-Playstation-2/dp/B001H14C8C/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1224088335&sr=8-3) from Amazon, which is basically a t-shirt and a teddy bear.
Oh god. Why am I such a sucker?
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* 100% XL cotton t-shirt featuring Persona Konohana Sakuya is exclusive to this package
... In America!
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* 100% XL cotton t-shirt featuring Persona Konohana Sakuya is exclusive to this package
... In America!
(http://www.absoluteanime.com/yu-gi-oh/keith.gif)
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Persona 2 Innocent Sin patch get!
As usual, I can't get it to run in an emulator (derpderp no sound supersonic speed lawl), but I made an eboot. It seems to run on the PSP without too much trouble. Let's see how bad it crashes at some pivotal moment....
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Persona 2 Innocent Sin patch get!
As usual, I can't get it to run in an emulator (derpderp no sound supersonic speed lawl), but I made an eboot. It seems to run on the PSP without too much trouble. Let's see how bad it crashes at some pivotal moment....
It glitches up, and then freezes, during the first battle on my PSP.
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It glitches up, and then freezes, during the first battle on my PSP.
The forum goers on the patch website say to use PsGUI300beta to make the eboot. Other versions apparently cause it to crash. I've done two faux battles so far (i.e. can't really do anything, but it's in battle mode) and nothing so far. I'll let you know if I encounter any problems. Also, using 3.71 popsloader. I think.
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I got it to work by upgrading to the 4.01 custom firmware and I used PsGUI300beta just to be on the safe side. I'm past the faux battles as well now.
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No 360 yet? Dell is offering some pretty slick deals (http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/16/xbox-360-holiday-bundle-prices-slashed-with-dell-coupon-magic/) on them.
$30 off an Arcade ($169), $50 off a Pro ($250), and $70 off an Elite ($330)
I bought a Pro, but it occurred to me seconds later that you might be able to order an Arcade unit, then buy the 20GB HD + 3 months of Live upgrade thing for $30, ushering you into the current gen of gaming for just about $200. Your mileage may vary.
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wouldn't it be easier to just auto-mute any speech above a certain pitch? (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081020-microsoft-gets-patent-for-real-time-f-bomb-bleeping.html)
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BIOWARE STAR WARS MMO WOW KILLER COCK SUCK (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3170812)
Yeah, it's hard to get excited over an MMORPG these days, but this is getting close.
In before Brent laments how underrated Star Wars Galaxies was.
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So is pretty much every MMO from now on going to be about two giant, warring factions?
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Well, some of them might end up with three factions.
If it works, right?
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Well, some of them might end up with three factions.
If it works, right?
World of Starcraft!
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Well, some of them might end up with three factions.
If it works, right?
Frankly, it wasn't that hot in DAoC.
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I like the idea of four factions where each faction has a MOST HATED ENEMY but can tenuously deal with the other two.
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Frankly, it wasn't that hot in the Middle East.
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I like the idea of five factions where each one has two bestest friends and two mortal enemies.
Frankly, it wasn't that hot in Magic: the Gathering.
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cant be as bad as the 40k mmo would be.
which would be like 8 (if you split chaos up)
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only problem i could think of for 40k is how to balance, like, someone playing a Space Marine versus someone playing a Guardsman.
Otherwise hell fucking yeah, 8-way everybody hates everybody party.
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BIOWARE STAR WARS MMO WOW KILLER COCK SUCK (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3170812)
Oh.
You know, they had one of tho-
In before Brent laments how underrated Star Wars Galaxies was.
Yeah. It did everything right (except let Sony run it) and failed, so I can only imagine a successful Star Wars MMO is going to involve every player being some sort of underpowered Jedi and every item being some sort of Force-enchanted bullshit and huaghluaghluagh.
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If every player is a Jedi, then you don't have to make Jedi suck for balance purposes.
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Hm. Maybe you could make the game span hundreds of thousands of years and have PCs die and reincarnate with points the got in their past life?
Did they do that already?
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who wants to be a jedi when you get to be an HK droid?
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Because the point of being an HK droid is saying awesome things and most people do not regularly say awesome things?
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Oh, what, like you don't want to hear all the different sort of voice emotes that HKs will get?
I would never stop using /flirt
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If every player is a Jedi, then you don't have to make Jedi suck for balance purposes.
Which they didn't in the original, non-lowest-common-denominator version of SWG.
Originally 50 bounty hunters on one Jedi was considered balanced PvP.
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only problem i could think of for 40k is how to balance, like, someone playing a Space Marine versus someone playing a Guardsman.
You play a commander of a squad/platoon/horde. Psuedo-point-buy like the tabletop game.
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So the Guard would essentially be a pet class? Sure, that'd work.
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Combat's gonna make or break this thing for me. I'd love to roll droid if I knew killing things was going to be a bit more than me clicking on my target and chalking up misses to a d20 system. Mass Effect's battle system would be just delightful.
Erickson also wants to make the Sith a more sympathetic villain in this game, explaining that they're an entire culture banished by the Jedi. "These are actual people. They have to have a legitimate point of view. You have to believe when you're playing that the things you're doing make sense and be proud of where you are." He promises that this will give each mission a special context, rather than the standard grinding found particularly in the early stages of most other MMORPGs.
WoW pretty much nailed this with Horde, so I know it can be done well, and if KOTOR's Sith side-quest is any indication, Bioware knows how to make the Jedi/Sith conflict less of a good/evil thing and more of a "living for others"/"serving yourself" tussle. Greed tends to be the biggest unifier in MMOs; it'd be pretty cool to have the dark side actually reward players with more money and material goods while the light side gives more player upgrades, or somesuch.
In before Brent laments how underrated Star Wars Galaxies was.
Yeah. It did everything right (except let Sony run it) and failed, so I can only imagine a successful Star Wars MMO is going to involve every player being some sort of underpowered Jedi and every item being some sort of Force-enchanted bullshit and huaghluaghluagh.
Seriously? We're talking about the same kill-mynock-nest-rest-in-hospital-for-an-hour-repeat bullshit parade? All I wanted was some damn Stormtrooper armor, but the game just... they just wouldn't let you have it unless you were ready to grind for four damn months off the same three alternating assassination missions, all the while ducking the overleveled rebel entourage camping the Imperial terminal. My best memories of that game was watching people draw Rancors into the city for the guards to wail on.
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WoW pretty much nailed this with Horde
The Horde is basically a group of good guy races who made the stupid, stupid mistake of allying with a bunch of guys who want to kill every living thing on the planet.
You could say they're pallin' around with terrorists.
Greed tends to be the biggest unifier in MMOs; it'd be pretty cool to have the dark side actually reward players with more money and material goods while the light side gives more player upgrades, or somesuch.
AO set it up something like that; the giant, ridiculously oppressive corporation side got better equipment and the rebels got... I dunno, prettier scenery I guess. The neutral faction had the worst equipment and lived in a junkyard, but for the most part wasn't being shot at all the time.
Seriously? We're talking about the same kill-mynock-nest-rest-in-hospital-for-an-hour-repeat bullshit parade? All I wanted was some damn Stormtrooper armor, but the game just... they just wouldn't let you have it unless you were ready to grind for four damn months off the same three alternating assassination missions, all the while ducking the overleveled rebel entourage camping the Imperial terminal.
I don't remember ever having to rest in a hospital, unless you're talking about going and talking to any of the Doctors who were fighting over who gets to patch you up. Then again that game turned into something completely different every three months. I never saw Stormtrooper armor (everyone looked like Boba Fett when I played) so you must have gotten on later, sometime after they completely redid the way basic things like health worked and everybody cried "wait what the fuck this is absolute crap" and Sony was like "oh well since everybody hates it when we fuck with the vitals then we'll never, ever change it from the horrible way it works now."
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WoW pretty much nailed this with Horde
The Horde is basically a group of good guy races who made the stupid, stupid mistake of allying with a bunch of guys who want to kill every living thing on the planet.
In addition to that, the faction divide fell more along simple cultural lines; the "civilized" and human-looking Alliance against the "tribal" and monstrous-in-appearance members of the Horde.
The BC races muddled this a lot. Before they showed up, it was really apparent that the Alliance was very racially-oriented in terms of appearance; with the sole exception of Night Elves, all the members of the Alliance were different sizes of pink-skins. The Horde was all the freaky blue and green people with tusks and horns.
I still find it interesting that all of the "normie" human-derived races are on Eastern Kingdoms, and all of the exotic technicolor-rainbow races are on Kalimdor, regardless of faction. It makes a neat sort of sense, too.
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The original Alliance is Humans, Short Humans, Really Short Humans, and Ninjas. The original Horde is Awesome, Awesome, Awesome, and Awesome. It mystified me that anybody rolled non-Ninja Alliance at all.
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The original Horde is Awesome, Awesome, Awesome, and Awesome. It mystified me that anybody rolled non-Ninja Alliance at all.
:objection: ONE of those awesomes is for trolls, and trolls are not awesome.
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Correct! They are super-awesome.
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mon.
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ZOMBIES!!! is getting an xbla release (http://www.xbox360fanboy.com/2008/10/23/zombies-confirmed-for-xbox-live-arcade/)
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!!!
:victory:
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That's cool. That's a board game that will play much better with computer aid.
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:objection: ONE of those awesomes is for trollsgoths, and trollsgoths are not awesome.
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In a move that surprises no one, EA is making a dead space sequel
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I'm suprised they waited this long to announce it.
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Fun Fact: All four awesomes were for Tauren.
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In a move that surprises no one, EA is making a dead space sequel
Dear EA, I need this on my desk by January. Get to it.
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Hellgate soon to be erased (http://kotaku.com/5068506/hellgate-london-slamming-shut-on-january-31st) from history. It will become easier to deny having ever played this game.
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or having beta tested its sister product
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I played the demo. :smile:
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i think noro and norn may've both offered me their copies
then again maybe noro was just inviting me to log into the forums as him to witness the shitstorm
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Apple totally just ripped off the Shake It! thing, only they put it on YouTube's front page.
Doesn't help the "already having fucking problems with the site" thing.
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Open Platform PS2s (http://kotaku.com/5070265/the-ps2-is-now-officially-an-open-platform)? Not quite open-source, but this should be interesting.
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Dev kits are still expensive as hell, but seeing as how submission fees is the real place where the console developers make their money (the one for the DS is like $10,000, and you can get rejected for something as innocuous as a vaguely written save message) I can see where this can open up the platform to some Valu-Soft sort of wankers. Don't think it's going to suddenly be a big indie platform, though.
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Hey, anybody remember the Net Yaroze (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_Yaroze)?
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Blizzard aiming to make StarCraft II more accessible to the casual player. (http://kotaku.com/5071464/blizzard-wants-starcraft-ii-to-be-mom-friendly)
A strange turn of events, since as I understand it, the original was very specifically made to be unbeatable unless you were some kind of cyborg.
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:over9000: Wii software shipments surpass total N64 & Gamecube shipments. DS software shipments could possibly surpass total NES & Gameboy shipments by the end of the year. (http://news.vgchartz.com/news.php?id=2426)
DS shipments of software stand at 454.63m through September 30. With the holiday quarter coming up, and NES and Game Boy software shipments only reaching 500m, DS is primed to take over as Nintendo’s most successful software driver ever. It is especially likely since 48.43m units of DS software shipped in July to September.
Wii shipments of software stand at 229.85m worldwide. Nintendo 64 software shipments petered out 224m and Game Cube software shipments topped out at 208m last quarter. Note that at 40m DS portables shipped worldwide DS software stood only at 189m. Wii is likely to easily surpass whatever software total DS reaches.
Meanwhile, Fable II sold 1 million units in a week. (http://vgchartz.com/weekly.php) :OoO:
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http://kotaku.com/5075443/hellgate-to-relaunch-flying-pigs-not-pictured
:wat:
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Blizzard aiming to make StarCraft II more accessible to the casual player. (http://kotaku.com/5071464/blizzard-wants-starcraft-ii-to-be-mom-friendly)
A strange turn of events, since as I understand it, the original was very specifically made to be unbeatable unless you were some kind of cyborg.
Which in itself was an improvement over Warcraft 1 which couldn't be beaten by anything unless cheat codes were used.
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Blizzard aiming to make StarCraft II more accessible to the casual player. (http://kotaku.com/5071464/blizzard-wants-starcraft-ii-to-be-mom-friendly)
A strange turn of events, since as I understand it, the original was very specifically made to be unbeatable unless you were some kind of cyborg.
You can essentially read that as "man, we sure have learned a lot about UI in the last 10 years or however long it's been" when it comes to multiplayer. Don't think they're making it so grandma can beat a progamer.
because holy crap will you be steamrolled if you think that. oh man.
no I do not have good build orders or high speed
yes I find filling my entire base with cannons just to shock my opponent for a few seconds before dying fun
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I'm still waiting for an RTS that rewards strategic thinking over twitch-city skill and rote memorization of build orders.
I don't mean that I want 'grandma can beat a programmer', but I do want 'grandma can beat a programmer because she outsmarted the little bastard'.
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Everything valve, including L4D for $100 (http://store.steampowered.com/sub/1134).
You can gift any of the parts you already own apparently.
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You can gift any of the parts you already own apparently.
Which, incidentally, is everything except L4D.
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Same, although it would be amusing to own most of the Half-Life series three times over.
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So is Half-Life this generation's Mega Man?
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Drowned under a glut of suspiciously similar one-per-year sequels? Maybe sorta, only at Valve pace and not, erm, Capcom pace.
The way things are going, we can probably expect Gears of War or somesuch other EA property to take the title.
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Hi, I'd like an 8-bit gears of war done almost Mega Man style please.
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Half-Life 1 is on sale for 98 cents. (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3171416)
If for some reason you don't have this game, or just can't find your copy, this is a good opportunity to grab it cheap and legit. The mods alone (Natural Selection, Sven Co-op) are worth it.
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...oh. It's on Steam. I thought they'd be issuing stacks of CDs in envelopes AOL-style.
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Blizzard aiming to make StarCraft II more accessible to the casual player. (http://kotaku.com/5071464/blizzard-wants-starcraft-ii-to-be-mom-friendly)
A strange turn of events, since as I understand it, the original was very specifically made to be unbeatable
What? The basic campaign is laughably ea --
unless you were some kind of cyborg.
... oh.
Which in itself was an improvement over Warcraft 1 which couldn't be beaten by anything unless cheat codes were used.
What? The basic campaign could be easily beaten by a single line of human arch --
OH SHIT THEY HAVE CATAPULTS
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It's funny how little interest I have in SC2's campaign or multiplayer. Just the custom maps.
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as long as it is less "I CLICKED FASTER AND CAN REMEMBER ALL THE GODDAMN KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS SO I WON" than SC1
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I prefer my VS. Strategy gaming to be similar to timed chess. With a minimum speed required, but beyond that speed doesn't really help or harm. And actual strategy yields victory rather than speed berserking*. So, basically I don't like any RTSs that exist.
*Paradoxically, I think that when using Orks in a Warhammer/Warhammer40k match, berserking is the only legitimate form of victory, as anything else is against the spirit of Orkdom.
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*Paradoxically, I think that when using Orks in a Warhammer/Warhammer40k match, berserking is the only legitimate form of victory, as anything else is against the spirit of Orkdom.
But Gork and Mork have aspects of Cunning. Whether Brutally Cunning or Cunningly Brutal, it's perfectly Orky to outsmart a guy to make it easier to chop 'im.
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It's not that it's un-orky to run away, you just have to come back and krump 'em later.
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Look, you wanna be a sneaky git then you need to be either one of the Kommandoz, or since DoW completely lacks them, some tank bustas. Matter o' fact, build ONLY tankbustas with stealth. That ways when you sneaks up on them real quiet-like, they'll be too distracted by the clusterfuck of missiles launched at the same time to krump ya back.
If yous lucky, one of those will hit someone.
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The way things are going, we can probably expect Gears of War or somesuch other EA property to take the title.
Took me this long to go "Guitar Hero"
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the completly retarded way that warhammer fans insist on talking like orcs has put me off of it for ever
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you guz need more dakka
Ow. My English major.
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Why is it that when a video game company dies, it's always fascinating? (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117996526.html?categoryid=13&cs=1) Granted, it's not as entertaining as Gizmondo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gizmondo) or Phantom/Infinium, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_Entertainment) or as :sadpanda: as Flagship, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagship_Studios) but it's certainly interesting, particularly the CEO's pet project Wall Street MMO, (http://weblogs.variety.com/the_cut_scene/2008/11/brashs-wall-str.html) the out-of-touch management, (http://weblogs.variety.com/the_cut_scene/2008/11/brashs-manageme.html) and the Mickey Mouse Story. (http://weblogs.variety.com/the_cut_scene/2008/11/brash-the-micke.html)
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Licensed games have gone from their height in 2002 from selling millions of copies, to selling only hundreds of thousands, to even only tens of thousands in 2007. The Variety article shines light upon the industries' current inflection, but the answer has been staring them in face since Goldeneye 007. Theatrical cross-release be damned. Coincidentally, today Atari released trailers to the Butcher's Bay sequel Dark Athena, and Ghostbusters. Has someones learned from their Enter the Matrix days?
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It's no big surprise that Nintendo absolutely hates user-generated content. Unfortunately, their worst fears seem to be completely justified. (http://kotaku.com/5101547/nintendo-responds-to-animal-crossing-racial-epithet-issue-blames-internet) Poor bastards can't even get away with letting players choose 1 word they like without being called racists.
Now if you'll excuse me, Bitch, Fagball and I are going home to eat some of Mom's famous Hair Pie. She knows that I like to eat Hair Pie.
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:>_>:
(http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/oo22/driftycity/Nook_wanted_me_to_send_this_by_Izzy.jpg)
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Gardening Mama, Spring 2009. (http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/03/gardening-mama-to-sprout-in-spring/) Appears she didn't have to be told twice (http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=254).
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So... the next Cooking Mama game is fully vegetarian.
Hunh.
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if there's milk, i expect a PETA protest featuring Mama squeezing blood from a cow's tit
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I really like the character animations in this game. The woman in the red with the vaguely Klingon looking sword looks particularly graceful yet brutal doing her little combos.
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/43525.html
It looks like the off screen spell caster's spells are designed more around crowd-controlling/disabling enemies so that the melee characters can effectively deliver their hits with more ease. I'm admittedly out of the loop in terms of JRPGs made after the PSX era, but I don't think I know of a game that's done that really effectively yet. I mean, Valkyrie Profile definitely tries to do this same sort of thing, but that game always felt sort of clumsy to me for some reason.
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I found that the best way to consider the combat in Valkyrie Profile is to imagine that your entire party is actually one single fighting game character. It's kind of a weird thing to say, but it really does get to a point where launching an attack series feels like performing a combo in, say, Guilty Gear. I've actually come to think that one of the reasons Zappa is my favorite character in there is because playing him tickles the VP-lovin' parts of my brain.
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http://kotaku.com/5106136/dragon-quest-x-coming-to-wii
Nintendo wants complete domination of both handhelds AND consoles, it seems.
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They'll need a lot more than one Dragon Quest game to do it.
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As of December 19, 2007, the Dragon Quest series has sold over 43 million units worldwide.[1] It is Square Enix's second most successful franchise and is one of the most popular video game franchises in Japan.[2][3]
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but only two of the eight main-series DQ games has been on Nintendo consoles?
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but only two of the eight main-series DQ games has been on Nintendo consoles?
You are completely wrong. 7 and 8 are the only not to be on Nintendo consoles.
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...woops. That's what I meant. Well, I can't go and edit my post to make me NOT look like a complete idiot! :nyoro~n:
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They'll need a lot more than one Dragon Quest game to do it.
Dragon Quest IX - DS
Dragon Quest X - Wii
Or did you forget?
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Picking up this thread after missing about.. 40 pages.
I haven't actually played Dwarf Fortress in ages. I'll probably pick it back up in a year or so in the future.
So, like, I'm replaying Mass Effect with a brand-new Shepard, this time an Infiltrator.
What the fuck good is the sniper rifle in this game?
I kept hearing about giving everyone sniper rifles or something when I played, but I hated them up until the last third of the game when I realized that stupid range is STUPID. Being able to reach out at 'they can't hit me' range and touch someone is awesome. That being said, if they were within pistol range, pistols ruled.
From the makers of puzzle pirates (http://www.whirled.com/#games-d_827)
awesome game is awesome.
Is Mabinogi actually worth my time?
great way to kill time for a month until you realize that starting at age 17 is a long-term nerf, and starting at age 10 REALLY fucking sucks. Also, you can either craft or fight. And crafting doesn't get you anything approaching decent loot that comes from the dungeons. Have fun, sucker.
Oboro Muramasa Youtouden (new vanillaware game) getting a US release (http://www.siliconera.com/2008/09/18/well-see-vanillawares-wii-game-in-english-next-year/)
Is this the same game series as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazo_no_Murasamej%C5%8D (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazo_no_Murasamej%C5%8D)?
edit: So this is pretty cool! (http://www.youtube.com/experiencewii)
Hah. That was fun to watch.
nah, i recall that dogstar was jizzing his pants over the first one back when it was released.
Yep. Single player MMO fun. Except that not being able to play with other people but still needing to do all the grinding without getting all the important drops I need.. yeah, not as much fun as I'd liked.
Blizzard to Monetize Diablo III (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/55271)
Yeah, that worked out SO WELL For Hellgate:London
tell me about it. I'm more upset about the whole 'NO MODS. NONE.' thing, though. Eastern Sun made D2X playable all over again - I need to redownload that.
Mirror's Edge DLC (http://xbox360.gamespy.com/dor/objects/949455/mirrors-edge/videos/ME_DLC_120408.html).
I really wasn't expecting floating cubes.
Hey, look, the game everyone wanted to play when they first got it.
Ah, games. Games. Lately? Warhammer Online, Medieval Total War II, Fallout 3 (hearts), Left 4 Dead, Galactic Civilizations II: Twilight of the Arnor (great space 4X game), S4 League (http://s4.en.alaplaya.eu/) (Korean FPS, surprisingly fun.), Shin Megami Tensei: Imagine (http://megaten.aeriagames.com/), and something I -think- is a game called Goonzu. It might just be a calculator disguised as a MMO. Also, got a DS Emulator working, and that's been wonderful. A little less recently, but worth mentioning,
I'm recording what I can from games and stuff and putting it up on my YouTube page. Give it a look if ya want. http://www.youtube.com/user/PratzStrike (http://www.youtube.com/user/PratzStrike)
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The American Club Nintendo (https://club.nintendo.com/) site is (finally) open. Looks like you can migrate your registered products from My Nintendo when you sign up, but as of right now, it looks like you can't do surveys for any games you migrate, and thus, can't earn coins for them. So it might be better just to start from scratch.
EDIT: Never mind, it looks like only newer Nintendo games(the oldest I see on the faq is Zelda: TP) qualify for surveys. :nyoro~n:
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Animal Crossing playing cards! :wuv:
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800 for the game and watch collection... 30 points a DS game.. So I need. TWENTY SEVEN DS GAMES. Okay.
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Protip: If you tell them you plan to buy a game before you register it, you get 10 extra points.
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I can see the Hanafuda deck being worth 20 games/$600. The platform appropriate rerelease... fuck them.
Going with the "stuff Nintendo used to make," though ...I wonder if you can get enough coins to earn a Love Hotel.
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Ok, now it's showing coin-earning surveys for several older games I had registered that weren't listed in the FAQ. So it seems even Nintendo doesn't know what games work with Club Nintendo. :derp:
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Ha ha, I found a typo in the FAQ. It was apparently "optomized" for Firefox, Safari, and IE7.
Edit: these FAQ is full of typos.
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i get it.
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Great, now my l/p won't work, and the password reset form just pops up connection errors. 'Optimized for Firefox' my ass.
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...That has nothing to do with the browser you're using. It's entirely server-side.
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It worked when I switched to IE, so I assumed it was browser-related. Still, it's good to see that Nintendo's incompetence with regards to any sort of online services continues apace.
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EA now on Steam. Valve's grip on the heart of PC gaming said to have visibly tightened.
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Does EA leave the copy protection in their Steam releases? Take 2 were that stupid when they released Bioshock on Steam, which is a big reason why I feel good about sticking with the console version. But that shit needs to stop.
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Valve's grip on the heart of PC gaming said to have visibly tightened.
I...
I don't mind. :pop:
In other Steam news (ALL HAIL OUR OUR GASEOUS OVERLORDS), Aquaria is 16$ until the end of the year (http://store.steampowered.com/app/24420/). Is that game still good in retrospect? I played the demo a bit, but it was like 30 bucks back then and I didn't bother.
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3rd-party DRM: SecuROM™ 5 machine activation limit
One step forward, at least one step back.
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aquaria is still good. I have played through it twice and enjoyed it both times
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$16, you say? I might be jumping on Aquaria quite soon.
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I'd go for it. It sounds like they will be releasing it with some new artwork or something, too.
And giving them money will hopefully fund the sequel they better fucking come out with.
Wait... I think I just thought of something to get a friend for Christmas. :perfect:
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I was kind of hoping to see it on XBox Live at some point.
Somehow achievements make games taste better.
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Somehow achievements make games taste better.
-Unlock all the Steam Achievements
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BUT THOSE ACHIEVEMENTS DONT GIVE YOU POINTS
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3rd-party DRM: SecuROM™ 5 machine activation limit
One step forward, at least one step back.
Then the boycott continues.
Edit: WAITAMINUTE, the other EA games' pages don't have those notifications. Furthermore, digging around their respective forums yields evidence suggesting they are clean.
Could it be?
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I've read multiple sources saying that EA titles on Steam do not have 3rd party DRM.
There was even a post on the official Steam forums saying "Steam itself is the only form of DRM on these titles".
(and honestly, I think systems like Steam are how DRM SHOULD be. This is great and proves it's one of the few methods that works, and is not awful, and works because it is not awful.)
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Except for the parts where it is awful. Like how it's awful. The only thing Valve has on EA is that the mandatory software they require you to install to verify your purchases and activate them online doesn't interfere with core processes.
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I've read multiple sources saying that EA titles on Steam do not have 3rd party DRM.
It says right on the games' Steam pages that Crysis (http://store.steampowered.com/app/17300/) and Crysis Warhead (http://store.steampowered.com/app/17330/) both come packed with SecuROM.
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So EA is lying... one way or another.
Well, at least they're covering their status quo.
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This is less lying and more nobody gives a shit about updating detail/info pages.
Or Crysis is the sole exception for whatever reasons.
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EA didn't develop Crysis, they just published it; I believe in that case, it fell to the developer to prepare a Steam version, and they didn't.
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Crysis was on steam with DRM way before EA decided they wanted to put all of their games on steam, which is why they're saying that their stuff is DRM free, but Crysis still has it. They're too lazy to go back and get Valve to fix it for them, or they just don't care.
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CRAB BATTLE (http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/JUimxEY26578DpoTcWG5PDkvJmTf91TR)
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It broke... it broke my cannon!
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Inafune to public:
Dragon Quarter kills franchise Breath of Fire joins Megaman Legends in game limbo. (http://kotaku.com/5115773/capcom-has-no-plans-to-bring-back-breath-of-fire)
:slow:
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::(:
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Vote for the Dark Templar tribe that will be appearing in Starcraft 2. (http://www.starcraft2.com/features/protoss/darktemplar-vote.xml)
Me? I'm voting for Zer'Atai. Having both would be nice, but come on-ZERG BONE ARMOR. WHERE THE HELL IS MY STARCRAFT CD KEY DAMNIT
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Could it be a worthy successor to PlanetSide? (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/01/07/the-world-is-enough-global-agenda/#comments) I remain cautiously optimistic and might give the beta a try.
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Option 3 represents a true tacticians ability to adjust to circumstances on the fly and make the most of his resources. So after stumbling through a log-in process that wants my bloody CD key, I voted 3!
The vote as a whole seems like a nice excuse to promote publicity and if options 1 or 2 work, hey less work on a game we're releasing three times :perfect:
Except everybody has seen through it and any RTS fan when asked "more toys, yay or nay" votes yay if they've got a brain(Both winning at 63% vs 27% for Nostalgiatards and 9.67% for regular 'tards.)
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Could it be a worthy successor to PlanetSide? (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/01/07/the-world-is-enough-global-agenda/#comments) I remain cautiously optimistic and might give the beta a try.
Combat looks a bit clunky, but yeah, I am all over this.
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Option 3 represents a true tacticians ability to adjust to circumstances on the fly and make the most of his resources. So after stumbling through a log-in process that wants my bloody CD key, I voted 3!
The vote as a whole seems like a nice excuse to promote publicity and if options 1 or 2 work, hey less work on a game we're releasing three times :perfect:
Except everybody has seen through it and any RTS fan when asked "more toys, yay or nay" votes yay if they've got a brain(Both winning at 63% vs 27% for Nostalgiatards and 9.67% for regular 'tards.)
You're aware that this is a purely aesthetic choice, right?
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But that's even stupider! :hurr:
50/50 on unit use sounds fun, damnit!
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The vote as a whole seems like a nice excuse to promote publicity and if options 1 or 2 work, hey less work on a game we're releasing three times :perfect:
I'm guessing that both styles will appear in the campaign (as the different tribes), this vote is just to decide which style is put into the normal multiplayer mode.
Hopefully their working on pointless choices such as this means they're ready to release a beta soon.
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Not sure where else to put this, so I'll dump it here: Birdmen and the Casual Fallacy (http://malstrom.50webs.com/birdman.html), an essay on why third parties and Sony/Microsoft are largely failing to capitalize on the business strategy Nintendo's been preaching since 2004. They keep using terms like "Blue Ocean" and "disruption", but do they mean anything? (Of course they do.)
As a Wal-Mart employee, I've got to say that the fact that we have no problem stocking PS3s and 360s but never have any Wiis lends a lot of support to Malstrom's theories.
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...I know it's intended to be a cute pun, but I still can't help wanting to :thad:-slap the guy every time I see "casual fallacy".
Though the article does also contain the phrase "EA Retard Games Division", which redeems all.
ADDENDUM RANT!
Here's where he thrusts a dagger dead-center into the heart of the issue, though.
Since these lower tier games were the most critical for Nintendo, they put their first string teams to make games such as Nintendogs, Brain Age, Wii Sports, Wii Play, among others. Birdmen, who mistake the downmarket for ‘casual games’ (i.e. retard games), keep putting their third or fourth string teams to make these type of games.
There. Right fucking there. That's the thing.
That's the key to success and also the biggest hurdle in the business. Put your best and brightest to the task of inventing, innovating, and bringing in fresh meat from old markets. Let your specialty teams cater to the hardcore fetishists - usually those guys are hardcore fetishists themselves, so you'll get some synergy from it and will get your profits without pouring money into a market of limited resources.
The hurdle is the fact that the entire industry, especially out West, runs on this assumption that anything that your mother would play is necessarily a developer's first project out of college, while everything that the "core" gamer plays will take 5 years and over a hundred million dollars to develop by a team of 10-year industry vets. The proof otherwise is out there, of course; Wii Fit had as much if not more budget than any other Nintendo product (and Miyamoto spearheading the thing full-time), while near-messianic fanboy favorite Portal was literally an extension of some Digipen student project.
Could switching up the established order, placing epic-scale GTAs and Halos in the hands of rookies while diverting all the best talent and money to the task of hooking the kiddies and soccer moms revitalize* the industry? Hell, I don't think it'd hurt.
* Not that it's terribly necessary - I think the vidjagame market's made a real pull upwards in the last several months.
MORE ADDENDUM RANTING:
There are a couple fallacious assumptions that I see here, but the big one that I see is the idea that this "upstream" strategy is new. Not only is it not, but it's been done before. Several times. And it will continue to be done over and over again until the end of video gaming. You can tell this has happened before because you are, most likely, a hardcore gamer, and someone, somewhere lured you over, placed the hook in your mouth and pulled you in. I sincerely doubt that your first game ever was Grand Theft Auto. It was probably a kiddy game, and probably by Nintendo, wasn't it?
The funny part is, there's only one company that's ever been able to directly compete with Nintendo, and that was entirely by accident. SEGA did it, but never managed to figure out how or why; the how is simply, "They caught players in the middle of Nintendo's training course." While Nintendo was charting the path with Mario, then Mario 3, and getting ready to graduate players to Super Mario World and the Super Nintendo, SEGA blundered in and undercut them with Sonic and the Genesis, diverting away a portion of Nintendo's players by allowing them to take the next step first. It created a sort of direct competition that was very good for consumers and has never really been seen since; SEGA of course had no idea what the hell they did right and never managed to get that lightning to strike in the same place again, while Sony and Microsoft have never even attempted playing the same game that Nintendo is. One assumes that a more knowledgeable entity could step in and recreate that sort of direct competition, which would be good not only for the fruits of those struggles which we gamers receive, but also my sneaking suspicion that Shiggy has always been the mastermind of this plot and if he ever retires or dies then ever major game publisher will be left trying to drink from the same ponds until the whole industry stagnates and dies.
I'm really just writing a whole bunch of words at this point, but in the background a sort of plan is forming in my head. It involves an endless series of controlled battles within the game industry to keep it alive in perpetuity. And I shall call it... Outer Heaven!!!
:asplanned:
Yes I am a little drunk.
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Incessant usage of third-person truly hampers the piece.
The collection of quotes (http://malstrom.50webs.com/) on the front page? Devilish.
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THE PROBLEM WITH ENTRY LEVEL GAMES
Is this: developers don't know how the hell to make them.
An almost-requirement for being a game developer is knowing how to play video games. This sounds perfectly reasonable, and is for many reasons, but it carries one serious drawback when trying to develop an entry-level game: the developer no longer knows how NOT to play video games.
Some things are simply reflex. Some things you take for granted. You're so far gone from the early days of biting the hook of your gaming habit, you can't even imagine not knowing that pressing the A button causes you to jump. Or that the Goomba is out to kill you. Or that the mushroom is a good thing and NOT out to kill you.
That's right. You're making a video game for the Awesome Video Games guys now. They're real, and you have to think like them and get them to like your game.
Now here's where most developers go wrong: when they try to make an entry-level game, what they'll normally do is take a popular game and remake it "for beginners." This sounds good on paper, but in execution what you invariably cook up is the same thing, but with all the challenge and surprise removed. What you've essentially done is taken something people aren't buying, made it worse, and tried to sell it again.
To illustrate, let's take a look at one of the most popularly failed attempts at making a game "for Dummies": Final Fantasy Mystic Quest. Consciously and specifically constructed to hook non-RPG players into the genre, it completely failed to garner any interest from newcomers and was simply laughed right out of the room by its beefy big brothers. Years later, its intended purpose would be spectacularly accomplished by one of the main entries to the series: Final Fantasy VII, which spawned an entire new generation of, admittedly annoying but still quite profitable, RPG fanatics.
How did FF7, a huge production and successor to one of the more hardcore RPG series, become popular with the casual audience when the tailor-made FFMQ failed? Well, let's take a look at the important items:
FIRST IMPRESSIONS: Well, first of all, FFMQ billed itself outright as a dumbed-down RPG, whereas FF7 was serious business. It's a not-too-unknown fact that people don't like to have it acknowledged that they're just beginners. Kids will rip those damn training wheels off their bikes the moment they're certain they can ride without their heads cracking open, and interns always bristle a little when someone outright calls them an intern. Labeling your game as "for pussies" is pretty much saying "You are inadequate for playing me!"
Ignoring that, though, let's focus on the first impressions of the game itself: FFMQ has a cutesy little intro with some crystals and then a little guy running around in the middle of an earthquake. FF7's intro is a full-budget CG movie designed to blow you the fuck away and show you what RPG gaming is all about. Of the two, which do you really think is going to hook skeptical players?
THE FIRST BATTLE: What happens the moment the player is put in control is super-important, and both games do something very right by making it happen almost immediately, after first impressions have been established. Here, though, FFMQ does something truly fucked up: the first battle is hard. In fact, you are very likely to lose the first battle, and even worse, you will probably lose the first battle several times. Yeah, there's a guy standing there to heal you every time you fuck up, but meanwhile there's this huge behemoth boss trashing the shit out of you, and it's the first battle of an RPG designed for total pussies. Yeah, you suck. The other problem here is that you literally can't do anything but keep attacking until you get lucky and kill it, which is a splendid way to give new players the idea that your games are all about monotonous repetition, constraint, and dumb luck. One can only imagine that the only non-gamers who continue past this point are the ones sitting next to their friends who are saying, "No, stick with it, it totally gets better!" while the player rolls his or her eyes.
FF7's first battle is different. The player has a brief interlude in which he or she can orient themselves after the intro, and once they've gotten their bearings the soldiers come out in force and the game begins. Now unlike FFMQ, you probably won't die in this battle. In fact it's fair to say that the only way to die in this battle would be through sheer concentrated effort. It's far from impossible, as you take real damage and experience a real Game Over if you blow it, but it takes a good 5-10 minutes for the soldiers to whittle you down and no matter how thick you are you can probably figure out the "Fight" command by then. Not only that, but you can do other things as well, right off the bat: you have a couple of spells you can use if you're feeling flashy, and you can even run if you want (although you'll have to get past the soldiers eventually). The game eases you into combat as gently as a mother holding your hand as you learn to walk, and lets you explore as much as you can at that point to the extent that you may want to.
AFTER THE FIRST BATTLE: After you've managed to get past the !@#$ Behemoth in FFMQ, you have a longish conversation with an elder and have to scum around town for a while before moving on to the first dungeon. For new gamers, this is pretty dull; they're exploring RPGs for the first time and you're introducing them to the joys of micromanagement. The totally set-up battle in the beginning hasn't given them any incentive to put up with the more mundane bits of the RPG experience, so at this point they're getting frustrated.
FF7 bucks RPG tradition at the time by making you play for quite a bit before every subjecting you to the shopping and micromanagement aspects of the game (FF6 and FF5 both did this too; FF6 at least is also an excellent example of how to hook new players, seeing as how it was where I first started playing RPGs). Instead of forcing you to go to town and talk to everyone, it gives you the game's premise bit by bit, all the while giving you more introductory battles but slowly ramping up the difficulty as you made your way through the reactor. By the time you got down to the boss, the difficulty was almost up to the game's standard level. Note that this was still easy, as was the rest of the game; FF7's difficulty is substantially lower than other RPGs, which made it easy for newbies to get into, but it never made that fact transparent and, beyond that first dungeon, never held the player's hand. The visible training wheels were off in the first two hours, and while the parent was still watching and subtly helping, to the player it simply seemed like they were kicking the game's ass.
FEATURES: Now this is important, because it's where a lot of developers go wrong. To them, "for beginners" automatically means "fewer choices", following the logic that less choices -> less confusion -> more comfortable players. This is false for two reasons: having more choices doesn't make things any more confusing as long as the choices themselves aren't confusing (and by the same token, less choices are just as confusing if those choices are... and they usually are, do to developers trying to compress the choices too much), and because having less of a sense of control is the most uncomfortable thing for any player.
A good example in this case is FFMQ's weapon system. FFMQ had, essentially, only four weapons, and each monster was weak to a certain type of weapon. So basically to do the most damage to a monster, you select the weapon it's weak against and attack it. Simple, right? Well... not really. Fighting mixed groups of monsters meant you had to switch out weapons in the middle of battle, which was actually pretty easy but still felt awkward (dynamic weapon switching is ALWAYS awkward! Take notes!), and each monster having a different weakness meant you had to memorize which weapon was the "correct" one for every monster. And having only four choices meant it didn't always make sense: the tree monster is obviously weak to the axe, but what is the minotaur weak to? (Answer: also the axe, for no real reason.) There's also the fact that each weapon was supposed to upgrade linearly but... didn't. It was a fucking mess.
FF7 eschewed this bullshit. Yes, it had a much, much wider array of weapons, armor and special items, but they were dead simple to manage. Do you take the sword with more power, or more materia slots? Do you take the accessory with HP or STR? It's a decision you only have to make every once in a while, while shopping or looting chests, and despite the variety of ways you can go it's usually fairly straightforward to pick the approach you like. The lesson here is: taking away the power of the player, and dumbing down their choices, doesn't make the game any easier or simpler. It frustrates the player, makes the game experience more hollow, and often has the opposite of the intended effect.
And I'm not even going to get into abilities and spells here; the short of it is "FFMQ's were simple and stupid while FF's were varied, powerful... and still easy to use." It doesn't take a genius to figure out "Cure Materia = I can use Cure!" but you can still use it in tons of combinations.
TRAINING: In theory, an entry-level game should prepare new gamers to play more "hardcore" games in the future. It's your "Ph.D in RPG", as the ads for FFMQ says. The problem with that is, even if you play FFMQ in its entirety, you're still not playing the same game as, say, Final Fantasy IV. The party size never goes above 2. Spells and potions are basically infinite all the way. There's never a need to level grind, etc.
FF7, by the end of the first disc, is a fully-fledged RPG; still a damned easy one, but by the time AERIS DIES and the player is definitely hooked, the player knows how to play the game. FF7 is no longer teaching the noob; it is convincing the noob, to keep playing FF7 and, ultimately, to play more Final Fantasy. And it pulls out all the stops.
THE HOOK: FFMQ is conservative, and never gets to the hook, and that's it's ultimate failure. It spends so much time trying to train the player to play RPGs that it never stops to say, "Hey, this is why you want to play RPGs." Even if the training is successful, the player walks away saying, "So what? I control this little man who kills the Doom King and sits on a pile of swords. Big fucking deal."
FF7 spends a lot of time teaching, but not the entire time... or even the majority. Once the RPG neophyte has been given a taste of blood, been eased into the genre, and starts to feel like he or she might, just MIGHT get used to this, FF7 leans in real close, smiles and whispers, "You've learned everything you need to know. Now here's what you have to look forward to." And then...
FF7 takes the player out of Midgar and shows them the world. "This is an RPG!" FF7 cries as the overworld music goes ballistic. From that point on, the game isn't just about introducing itself to the player, it's about selling itself to the player. To this end, it ignores what the oldschool player wants and goes completely over the top. The player gets a date with the perfect girl and tragically loses her. The giant monsters come out and have epic battles with both sides casting nuclear missile spells. The prettyboy final boss comes out with an angelic halo and a full Latin chorus. To the standard gamer, it's ridiculous and cheesy as hell, and they'll spend the next decade yelling at the neophyte who's sitting there, taking it all in, mind fully-well blown. The oldschool gamer isn't going to stop buying RPGs... he got hooked long ago. The virgin who has a taste, an idea of what it's really like... that one's going to start buying. Both of them go on to buy FF8. FF7 wins.
...and then FF8 turns out to be an unbelievable load of shit and alienates both players. :shrug:
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Mystic Quest had good music :loser:
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Relic decides to fight piracy by releasing new content for legit DoWII users periodically instead of using DRM, promises that patches will be faster than they were for DoW (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/56685)
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Incremental free content? Okay. I admit, I'm curious now.
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"Reward the children that do their work." Was always a better school tactic than "punish the child that doesn't." So hopefully this will catch on.
Unfortunately, EA seems to like their own special tactic of "fuck everyone up the ass until the thieves say 'uncle'."
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You mean everybody but the thieves.
"In an honest service there is thin commons, low wages, and hard labour. In this, plenty and satiety, pleasure and ease, liberty and power; and who would not balance creditor on this side, when all the hazard that is run for it, at worst is only a sour look or two at choking? No, a merry life and a short one shall be my motto." -Bartholomew Roberts
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No I mean the thieves.
They have no intentions to ever stop fucking.
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[lengthy treatise on FFMQ vs. FF7]
The interesting thing is that this could be extrapolated out to software design IN GENERAL. As I read the bit on giving the player choices, I kept thinking about the difference between KDE3 and GNOME (or KDE3 and KDE4...dammit).
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User training is an important aspect of anything that, you know, has a user. You want a crash course in how to do it? Listen to the commentary nodes from Portal. Those guys have user training down to a science, which explains why they seem obsessed with creating very long stealth tutorials and only briefly skimming the realm of actual gameplay.
The most interesting thing about Portal is that it comes in the same box as TF2, which is the exact opposite: minimal training and all gameplay, subjecting you to repeated failures until you manage to teach yourself how to swim instead of sink. TF2 is clearly the more enduring product, yet Portal is more fondly remembered.
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There are only so many times you can find "THE CAKE IS A LIE" funny.
Butterfly Knife insta-kills? Never get old.
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Exploding a dude with his own crit-rocket? Never get old.
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Uhh, I think that has more to do with the genres of the games than the "training".
Look at any multiplayer FPS. They tend to outlast single player games of any sort. As wonderful as Portal is, you can only play through it so many times before it becomes routine. The unexpected nature of other people makes multiplayer games feel less static.
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Somebody please stop me from preordering Legacy of Ys.
...it even comes with a soundtrack. Fuckers.
EDIT: Too late. SOUNDTRACK.
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(http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/oo22/driftycity/advicedogphp.png)
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NOW I just want to get the definitive version of the game off Virtual Console just to make it clear that I love playing the same game over and over and over and over and over again.
(PROTIP: If you want to play Ys, get the one that's on Virtual Console. None of the spillion of other versions. The TurboGrafx one. That one.)
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Or the Windows version if you can finagle it.
It'll be nice to have the game on a handheld, but the port actually looks kind of bad. The new 3D environments are atrocious and completely unnecessary, and I'm a bit worried about the stylus controls.
But oh well. It says "Ys" on the box so I am obligated to buy it :(
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It'll be nice to have the game on a handheld
I miss having it on my phone. It was like they specifically designed the game 20 years ago to be played on a flip-open. The bright colors, the condensed area design, the pretty much one-handed gameplay... I have no idea why there aren't a few dozen Roguelikes out there for Nokias that look exactly like Ys.
Now all I've got is Bejeweled and... well, Bejeweled.
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Jaleco gives up, sold off for 1 Yen (http://www.joystiq.com/2009/01/20/jaleco-quits-gaming-purchased-for-1-yen/)
A little sad to hear it when this happens. I was kinda charmed by Dragonseeds back on the Playstation. They didn't really make much else, though.
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Totally Rad had great music.
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Wait what's that near the bottom of the Jaleco release list (http://www.allgame.com/cg/agg.dll?p=agg&sql=3:739~T20B)? Vanark? Awesome, Arc gave me one of the last games made by Jaleco. Now I have a reason to keep that awful star-fox clone.
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Even in the 80s I could never believe that Jaleco existed. This is kinda disappointing, like the government coming out and saying there was something in Area 51 but they moved that shit decades ago.
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Man. I grew up with so many Jaleco games either on rental, library borrowing, or buying from stores. I never did beat Totally Rad...
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Yay, information about Feb updates to Burnout (http://kotaku.com/5137908/free-february-burnout-update-detailed-+-restart).
Restart Race option! YES. I think I will put off further playing until I get that feature.
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i like the EASIER BARREL ROLLS AND MORE VISIBLE SMASHES (seriously i have like 5 to go and cannot find the bastards)
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Restart Race option!
Eeeeeeeee! :victory: :cake:
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Grand Theft Auto 4 and Knuckles (http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3172419).
I have to admit: I am popping a bit of a boner over this. I will always be a sucker for lock-on technology, I guess.
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Hopefully it's not like the Dynasty Warriors expansions in which the entire game is clearly on the disc but they lock out the majority portion of it until it reads the original.
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I wish I went to a better college, like UC - Berkley, because of classes like this Starcraft class (http://www.tumeroks.com/starcraft-course-opened-for-college-earn-credits/).
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Is Yahtzee faking his own accent now or something? It sounds like he's trying to replace every single vowel with "eh".
For example.
Ehs Yehtzeh fehkehng hehs ehwn ehccehnt nehw ehr sehmethehng? Eht sehnds lehke heh's trehehng teh rehplehce ehvehreh sehngehle vehwehl wehth "eh".
See?
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If you're talking about the Far Cry 2 review, he was faking a South African accent, because the game takes place in South Africa or something I guess. It didn't mix very well with his fast delivery style.
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PC version of Gears of War turned off for everyone (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/01/pc-gears-of-war-drm-causes-title-to-shut-down-starting-today.ars).
Probably not intentional on their part. But hardline anti-DRM guys are having a field day over this one.
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"I had this problem this evening, I had to change the date and time (from PM to AM) and I am able to get in just fine," one frustrated gamer posted. "I also changed it back to the current date and time and it didn't work. Change it back to yesterday AM and it works fine."
:facepalm:
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But hardline anti-DRM guys are having a field day over this one.
:pimp: :dance: :nyah: :lol:
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Love the last line of that article.
Those who pirated the game, as usual, continue to play with no issues.
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I hope you like Warhammer Fantasy in your football. New BloodBowl (http://www.bloodbowl-game.com/videos/index.php?video=4) game coming.
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SUP DAWG I HEARD YOU LIKE PUNCHING ELVES SO WE PUT ELVES IN YOUR FOOTBALL SO YOU CAN FOOTBALL AND PUNCH ELVES AT THE SAME TIME.
(this was funnier in my head)
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:THATWAY: THEN YOU SHOULD HAVE KEPT IT IN YOUR HEAD!!!
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Mount and Blade is getting an expansion. (http://www.gamersdailynews.com/story-8154-Paradox-Interactive-New-Titles-Announcement.html)
I suppose there's potential in the multiplayer thing, but if it's just deathmatch I'm worried it'll get old really fast. The rest of the stuff sounds pretty good though.
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PC version of Gears of War turned off for everyone (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2009/01/pc-gears-of-war-drm-causes-title-to-shut-down-starting-today.ars).
Probably not intentional on their part. But hardline anti-DRM guys are having a field day over this one.
Sometimes I wonder if DRM devs secretly hate DRM as much as everybody else and are deliberately sabotaging it. Like those Tom Tomorrow strips where George Bush, Karl Rove, and Dick Cheney are secretly '60's radicals who decided to bring down the Republican Party from the inside.
To my mind it makes more sense than anyone being stupid enough to think that an expiration date that can be thwarted by changing the system clock is going to prevent anyone from pirating a game. As I've said before, I'm not always very good at following Hanlon's Razor.
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Well, to be fair, putting an expiration date on your game based on the system clock is about as stupid as DRM that shuts off the game at a given arbitrary date without any warning.
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Makes sense to me. How many programmers and coders believe in DRM? It's practically antithetical to the subculture.
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Professional programmers believe in giving their client the product they asked for, however stupid.
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hardline anti-DRM guys are having a field day over this one.
I see it as a breath of fresh air if their ultimate device to prevent you from playing software that you may have gotten from a download rental service or whatever their plans with it are can be bested by changing a 9 to an 8.
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Professional programmers believe in giving their client the product they asked for, however stupid.
Basically. If someone had asked me to write this thing I would have noted once what the huge obvious flaw is, then after that kept my mouth shut and charged for my goddam time. As long as it didn't nuke China or anything I'll let my client stab his eyeballs out with it all he wants.
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http://www.mwctoys.com/REVIEW_020409a.htm
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
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I like the level of realism.
Like how they very accurately portrayed what happens to your teeth if you keep biting hard plastic accessories.
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goddamn i've seen capsule machine toys that look better.
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I am in no way affiliated with Jinx clothing and any shirts I may have from them were given to me for free
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Dawn of War 2 has gone the not stupid route for copy protection, is using Steam. (and games for windows live for matchmaking for some reason)
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Holy shit this looks to be an actual "leaked" Dead Rising 2 trailer and it looks amazing. (http://kotaku.com/5148320/could-this-be-dead-rising-2)
Well, I now want to get a giant metal ball/cage thing in case of zombie attack. "Ha Ha! I'm using Forbe's insoluble dry plates a ball thing so I'm perfectly safe as long as I don't need to sleep or get through any doors or narrow hallways!"
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The safest place to be during a zombie attack is in the American Gladiators Atlasphere (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlaspheres) arena. True fact.
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Or anywhere where American Gladiators might be hanging out, really. Public schools, Smoothie Factories, unemployment offices, the works.
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You're taking your life in your hands if you hole up on the Aggro Crag, though. :negative:
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I think I saw the megaman suit in that trailer, it's good to know they kept it.
But maybe they should just make a new megaman in 3D that would be even better.
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That'd be great, until Capcom chops off Keiji's pinky for defying them.
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Trailer for the Persona PSP remake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INlE9UZARHg&eurl=http://www.google.com/reader/view/
English this plz, Atlus.
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Inafune's just going to keep taunting us until his masters relent.
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I can't believe everyone's saying "could it be, oh my God I don't know!" They use no less than three very obvious references to the first game in that, how could it be anything but?
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Yeah, Dead Rising 2's official now. (http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/09/theyre-back-capcom-announces-dead-rising-2-for-pc-360-and-ps/)
Takes place years after the Williamette incident, the main character is NOT Frank West, and Las Vegas is now Fortune City.
(http://pseg.teampseg.com/dead_rising_2.jpg)
Fuuuuuuck YEAH!
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the main character is NOT Frank West,
THEN WHO CARES
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Look man, there are wars he could be seeing. He can't be everywhere.
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Were you too busy having fun?!
SCOOP CHANCE LOST
SCOOP CHANCE LOST
SCOOP CHANCE LOST
SCOOP CHANCE LOST
GAME OVER
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See the thing about it is that you can keep playing if you get a game over?
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See the thing about it is that you can keep playing if you get a game over?
Yeah, if you miss the main plot missions in the game, you can keep playing until the 72 hours are up. It just tries to make you feel bad by telling you "the truth has been lost..." or some such dramatic shit.
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Like anyone cares about the story in Dead Rising.
It's better to just kill the whole town.
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My first time with Dead Rising, I just ignored the story until I maxed Frank's level and got the Real Mega Buster so I could breeze through it and enjoy the story (which makes me some sort of freak?).
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The game is meant to be played like BoF: Dragon Quarter. You get as far as you can, until you die, then you start over with your increased levels and skills and you keep trying until you succeed.
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Yeah, but it was actually fun for Dead Rising. :nyoro~n:
Edit: That and no story/cutscenes/items required you to restart the game other than items gained from Achievements.
Double Edit: I can imagine Frank may be an unlockable character. I mean, they slapped him in Lost Planet.
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Today was compound fractures as well as fractured layers being knocked inward to damage soft inner portions. So a bone in the arm for example could break through the skin if the arm is struck by even a blunt weapon, and impacts can also force jagged skull edges into the brain or a broken rib into the heart or a lung (generally, the broken layers can cross body part boundaries according to the wound's path over body part relationships).
God I love Dwarf Fortress.
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Dunno how old (or relevant) this is, but Midway Games files for bankruptcy. (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090212.wgtmidway0112/BNStory/Technology/home)
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What does this mean for The Joker Shoots Sub-Zero?
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That came out a month or so ago, Brentai.
The fact that you aren't aware it did is related to why they're filing.
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And that's why you should never pin your financial success on The Joker.
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd145/Brentai/joker-burning-money-in-tdk.jpg)
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Iwata formally gave a development studio to Sakurai (http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/18/nintendo-opens-new-studio-helmed-by-sakurai/), saying "If one were simply considering effective use of funding, we'd have went with a plan similar to Touch Generations. But that's not I wanted."
Who's excited? I'm excited.
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Super Smash KART?
FALCON BANANA.
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Looks like Dead Space Wii is a prequel, Possibly an on-rails shooter.
:nyoro~n:
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It's official, then. Every horror property must have a shooter on the Wii.
Because nothing says "Survival horror" like unlimited ammo.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJVHt3QIS0k
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Raiden sounds faggier than I remember.
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Judge overseeing the EA-NFL-Madden monopoly trial decides best way to see if the monopoly has affected Football Games' quality is to play them himself. (http://kotaku.com/5156045/madden-monopoly-case-trial-by-video-game)
I like this judge. :perfect:
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:coffeespit:
That's unprecedented!
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Not even the ESRB does that.
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It's funny because I know that you know that it's true.
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Iirc, game companies voluntarily submit information about what's in the game, and the ESRB makes a decision based upon that.
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You fill out a form and submit a short tape of whatever content was mentioned in the form.
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And if a single bit of content in your game, accessible or not, is more offensive than what's on that tape, there'll be a media shitstorm.
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Only if it's boobies.
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Auditorium is finished. (http://www.playauditorium.com/)
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Another American McGee Alice (http://kotaku.com/5156821/the-return-of-american-mcgees-alice-set-for-pc-consoles)? Sure. I would buy that. Wait. WAIT. Why does it say EA is getting on board?
:facepalm:
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.... because the original was published by EA?
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Telltale Games has yet another IP they're turning into an episodic game series: Wallace and Gromit (http://www.telltalegames.com/wallaceandgromit). Interestingly, it's also coming out on XBox Live.
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If it's as good as SBCG4AP, and better than Sam & Max, then color me interested.
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To those it may concern: the latest Steam update to Mount & Blade will (may?) rape your save files. There's a way to mostly recover them on the official forums (http://forums.taleworlds.net/index.php/topic,57870.0.html), but it involves hex editing and it messes with the honor stat. If you haven't played since the update, your best bet for now is to download the demo off of Steam, which is still the older version, and play from that instead; it recognizes your purchase either way.
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I haven't played it in a while, what else did the update do?
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Not much. From what I gather, the first version that appeared on Steam was 1.010. We have been updated to 1.011, and the sole purpose of that was (ironically) to fix save compatibility with pre-1.01 versions, which never were on Steam to begin with. I'm pretty sure somebody at Valve messed up; either that or 1.011 will be required for the upcoming expansion.
Until a real fix pops up, just play your old characters on the demo (which is still 1.010 apparently); if you start a new character, you should do it on the latest version.
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SquareEnix bringing Last Remnant to Steam (http://kotaku.com/5159356/square-enix-invades-steam).
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The Watchmen game available for prepurchase on Steam. 20$. (http://store.steampowered.com/app/21010/)
On one hand, I could use a decent brawler; not a masterpiece necessarily, just one that isn't entirely terrible. Also, Watchmen.
On the other hand, it's licensed game, for a property that seems incredibly unsuited to having a game based on it, and I'm not sure I want to encourage that sort of thing.
Hmm.
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Considering that the whole actual crime-fighting part of their lives was something I'd have loved to see... this looks like a definite pick-up in the distant future.
Also
Rorschach, a feral, street-wise fighter who can disarm enemies to use their own weapons against them
Judging by the trailer, they look like they've got a nice idea of how downright mean Rorschach is in a fight. :nyoro~n:
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Is this supposed to be pre- or post-smashed-dog-head Rorschach?
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Is this supposed to be pre- or post-smashed-dog-head Rorschach?
Pre, I think. But I've been wrong before, and it's bound to happen again.
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I don't think there's that much a difference between pre- and post-. Don't forget, Rorschach did in fact use that disarm attack in the comic to melt some kid's eye with a cigarette.
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I don't think there's that much a difference between pre- and post-. Don't forget, Rorschach did in fact use that disarm attack in the comic to melt some kid's eye with a cigarette.
He was tame enough that Night Owl would actually partner with him. I think the difference was before he would beat people senseless in self-defense, and after he would just plain beat everybody senseless.
...which probably doesn't matter in this context. Nevermind.
I know people use "gay" as an insult on XBOX live, but this is ridiculous. (http://consumerist.com/5160187/identifying-yourself-as-a-lesbian-gets-you-banned-on-xbox-live)
That is an unnecessary thing to put in one's gamer profile, unless you're trying to start some sort of LBGT gamers group or something (which would be a good idea but obviously Microsoft would kill that deader than a smashed-dog-head.) I would like to know if she got so much as a warning and a "Please take that down" first. Otherwise, fuck that on several levels.
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Final Fantasy 4 sequel for cellphones coming to Wii, in America. (http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/27/final-fantasy-iv-the-after-years-coming-to-wii/)
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:cake:
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I thought PSP ports on the Wii were bad enough, but a cellphone game?
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I thought PSP ports on the Wii were bad enough, but a cellphone game?
WiiWare, not Wii Retail. Even less standards there.
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It beats Beer Pong.
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Playable 2004 build of Stalker (http://gsc-game.com/index.php?t=community&s=forums&s_game_type=xr&thm_page=1&thm_id=17037&sec_id=16&offset=0).
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Er, what? Game data too?
Weird dudes.
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Final Fantasy 4 sequel for cellphones coming to Wii, in America. (http://www.joystiq.com/2009/02/27/final-fantasy-iv-the-after-years-coming-to-wii/)
Hopefully they will try making it look a little better. From what few screenshots I've seen it has the same graphics as the SNES game, so all they have to do is make the screen bigger.
I'm quite glad I'll be able to play this, but it's too late, had they released this back in 1992-1996 It would have been the best thing ever, but now I'm just a depressed old man.
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Zeno Clash looks good (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/03/06/fish-guns-and-knee-bashes-zeno-clash-trailer/).
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I don't think I could play that game if the trailer is any indication. Every time the dude hits something I hear the Scout screaming "BONK! BOINK!!!!" in the back of my head and it would just drive me nuts after a while.
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DS sells 100 million units, before DSi hits shelves outside of Japan. (http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/11/ds-sells-100-million-units-worldwide/)
:profit: The spankings shall continue. (http://kotaku.com/5065715/ds-getting-dog+girl-pole-pissing-spanking-discipline-game)
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vulva
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STOP
VULVATIME
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Burnout Paradise hits Steam (http://store.steampowered.com/app/24740). Whipped my card out so fast it has been reduced to a useless lump of slag. Now I can't play.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYlDbv7MqE8
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If you are over 17 and play Animal Crossing: City Folk, you are probably a child predator. (http://www.kmiz.com/news/story.php?id=13725)
"There is no reason an adult should have this game," says Andy Anderson, Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force.
Anderson says adults playing "animal crossing" and similar games are likely doing it for the wrong reasons.
See? Not even friend codes can protect your children!
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To really reach the next level, the game urges you to exchange letters, gifts, and favors.
I like how they had to throw in something about "levels" to dumb it down further for the non-gaming audience. Also: PA is always relevant! (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/02/09/)
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Quick Kazz, go check your basement!
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Kororinpa was one of my favorite games for the Wii. It provided exactly what it promised, in a way that was pleasantly free of contrivance. It was as gorgeous as it needed to be, and the sound of the ball rolling across the surfaces was delicious.
There is a sequel, and it's out now (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001KRPU4S) for less than 30 dollars.
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Punch-Out! trailer (http://www.gametrailers.com/player/47035.html)
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!
My bike!
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Looks like he stole Mac's virginity there too.
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They probably avoided using the bike and jogging scene BGM for that reason specifically.
Nevertheless, I am totally boners for that.
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Actual arcade games on the virtual console now
also new zelda, which replaces the boat from phantom hourglass, with a train.
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Actual arcade games on the virtual console now
also new zelda, which replaces the boat from phantom hourglass, with a train.
Ain't no gettn' offa this train Link's on.
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Actual arcade games on the virtual console now
also new zelda, which replaces the boat from phantom hourglass, with a train.
Also the Wii now supports up to 32GB SD cards and you can download games directly to the SD card and play directly from the SD card.
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His train conductor outfit is super cute
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That Zelda game looks cool. At least the train parts. Finally, a Celda game with hills, mountains, forests, lakes, rivers and plains instead of just blue as far as you can see. Too bad the dungeons are still ugly, Nintendo better have a Wii Celda in the works. No likely though.
Rock n Roll climbing looks lame and Nintendo sucks at trying to be cool.
His train conductor outfit is super cute
I think it looks ugly :(
But I dont care, it's Zelda yay
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There will be brawl episode 3 is up.
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Sony teases "Big announcement"
turns out its a....ps2 price drop.
:nyoro~n:
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Oh, Sony! :awesome:
*laughtrack* *applause* *end credits*
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New game from the Odin Sphere guys looks fucking amazing. I was already sold watching this trailer, but when it got to the octopus battle I was truly astonished.
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/47382.html
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NICE, it looks like you totally get to eat food. A worthy successor to princess crown indeed!
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At first I was like :wat:
but then they showed the busty fox girl and I :jizz:
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It looks more fun than Odin Sphere, but the sprites look slightly less fluid. Or maybe my memories of Odin Sphere have slightly corrupt data so my mind filled in the blanks with better graphics. :wakka:
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i think this game has the same voice cast as odin sphere
also "mervalus" entertainment
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Look at me avatar bitches. I want this game more than you
because I don't have a ps3 or xbox so theres nothing else to look forward too.
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At first I was excited about the prospect of a Silent Hill remake (even on the Wii).
Then I heard what they were doing to it. :|
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Not turning it into a lightgun game?
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They already did that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpqDEeArpMk
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if its not by team silent its not worth playing.
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Climax.
From the guys who brought you Silent Hill Origins.
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Yeah, it's less what they're doing to it and more who's doing it. Eh.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKgnsOrW38k
(http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/oo22/driftycity/122797.gif)
SPEAKING OF MEGA MAN, the original artist of the Flying Spaghetti Monster takes Legends fandom to an unreachable new level. (http://androidarts.com/mml/reaverbot_legends.htm)
(http://i358.photobucket.com/albums/oo22/driftycity/green_bombers.jpg)
:OoO:
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GOD DAMN IT NINTENDO, WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM? (http://www.destructoid.com/what-the-hell-is-going-on-with-fatal-frame-for-the-wii--127952.phtml)
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GOD DAMN IT NINTENDO, WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM? (http://www.destructoid.com/what-the-hell-is-going-on-with-fatal-frame-for-the-wii--127952.phtml)
Well, that sucks. At least we're getting Staafy though, right?
Fuck.
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Oh Staafy, why didn't you come here?
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Starfy...
That just sounds dirty to me.
"Dude, I got a total Starfy last night!"
"Hey, bro. Last night me and this chick totally Starfied."
"And then I stuck it in her Starfy."
Maybe it's just me.
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I'm not going to say what it sounds like to me. To give you some idea... I'm not going to say what it sounds like to me.
And yes, I am thinking of something specific. It's an idea that I've never had before and I wish I never did.
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GOD DAMN IT NINTENDO, WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM? (http://www.destructoid.com/what-the-hell-is-going-on-with-fatal-frame-for-the-wii--127952.phtml)
Tecmo says: Blame Nintendo.
Nintendo says: Blame Tecmo, we don't have the publishing rights to it.
Internet says: FUCK NINTENDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOW CAN U ABANDON US WHEN WE MADE U WUAT U ARE FAGGATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Conclusion: The internet now gets sexually excited from blaming Nintendo for all the ills of the world.
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GOD DAMN IT NINTENDO, WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM? (http://www.destructoid.com/what-the-hell-is-going-on-with-fatal-frame-for-the-wii--127952.phtml)
Tecmo says: Blame Nintendo.
Nintendo says: Blame Tecmo, we don't have the publishing rights to it.
Internet says: FUCK NINTENDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOW CAN U ABANDON US WHEN WE MADE U WUAT U ARE FAGGATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Conclusion: The internet now gets sexually excited from blaming Nintendo for all the ills of the world.
:jizz:
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GOD DAMN IT NINTENDO, WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM? (http://www.destructoid.com/what-the-hell-is-going-on-with-fatal-frame-for-the-wii--127952.phtml)
Tecmo says: Blame Nintendo.
Nintendo says: Blame Tecmo, we don't have the publishing rights to it.
Internet says: FUCK NINTENDO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOW CAN U ABANDON US WHEN WE MADE U WUAT U ARE FAGGATS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Conclusion: The internet now gets sexually excited from blaming Nintendo for all the ills of the world.
I bothered to track down that interview to check:
The Actual interview (http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/04/02/reggie-talks-wii-not-paying-for-exclusives-avoiding-the-japan-wii-slump/)
MTV Multiplayer: “Fatal Frame 4,” published by Nintendo in Japan. There’s been confusion and mixed signals about whether that’s coming to America.
Reggie Fils-Aime: We are not the publisher of that title in the Americas. So I can’t comment on it… I don’t know if it has a publisher.
I'm gonna go with Nintendo being those responsible, if only for being the stupid ones in this debacle. Presumably they would know who the publisher of a game for their system would be. Or rather, Reggie should. It being his job and all.
Also, I'm going to go with the corporation's prepared statement over a guy at an interview.
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I don't think it's exactly realistic to expect a first party publisher to know off the top of their head, in an interview what company is publishing every single game for their console. That is not, in fact, Reggie's job. Extrapolating that to mean "Nintendo doesn't know at all wtf it's their console" is rather disingenuous.
It could still very well be their ignorance at fault, but the red tape for publishing localized games is downright arcane and I've seen enough dumb spats like this in the industry to know that it's likely the full story is known by...probably no-one.
Also, I'd say it sounds nice to have enough free time to get really upset over random stuff like this, but it doesn't really sound that nice.
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WOO BLOOD BOWL BETA (http://www.bloodbowl-game.com/index.php?rub=news-info&id=34)
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I don't think it's exactly realistic to expect a first party publisher to know off the top of their head, in an interview what company is publishing every single game for their console. That is not, in fact, Reggie's job. Extrapolating that to mean "Nintendo doesn't know at all wtf it's their console" is rather disingenuous.
It wouldn't be all of them. A cursory google search puts at fairly popular, at least among game journalist. I barely follow these kind of things, but it seemed like something a spokesperson should look up before interviews. Perhaps that is a tad proactive.
It could still very well be their ignorance at fault, but the red tape for publishing localized games is downright arcane and I've seen enough dumb spats like this in the industry to know that it's likely the full story is known by...probably no-one.
Probably. The entire Nintendo position was a few sentences in an interview. A clearer answer will be out later.
Also, I'd say it sounds nice to have enough free time to get really upset over random stuff like this, but it doesn't really sound that nice.
You can never have too much anger. It drives us all.
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Who watches Game N Watch.. Episode 4 of there will be brawl thats who.
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This is kinda old but
EA mails Brass Knuckles to reviewers to promote Godfather 2, then realizes it's a fucking crime to possess/mail those in California and a lot of other states (http://kotaku.com/5207521/update-ea-ships-illegal-weapons-to-press-wants-them-back)
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They probably avoided using the bike and jogging scene BGM for that reason specifically.
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/47808.html
:racist:
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http://www.gametrailers.com/player/48062.html
:jizz:
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Dr. Harlene Quinzel?
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Harley Quinn's origin is as the Joker's psychiatrist, yes.
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Dr. Harlene Quinzel?
She's a psychiatrist.
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It sounds like they're setting this at some point where she's still thought to be a psychiatrist and not a criminal herself. Possibly the cause of the whole mess, even.
:wuv:
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I kinda hated that look when I first saw the images of it.
Hearing her soothes all wounds.
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By the way, it's because she's a psychiatrist.
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:perfect:
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Are all video game cut scenes produced by some robotic generator?
One part static camera angles, one part stilted animation, and one part inorganic edits equals a hard days work for CyberShot 9000.
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CyberShot 9000.
Damn you Sony!
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Is it too much to hope for Lego instruments? (http://www.destructoid.com/lego-rock-band-actually-announced-as-a-real-thing-129447.phtml)
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Europe - The Final Countdown
:ohshi~: :ohshi~: :ohshi~: :ohshi~: :ohshi~: :ohshi~: :ohshi~: :wuv: :wuv: :wuv: :wuv: :wuv: :wuv: :wuv: :wuv: :wuv:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZkllM8znx4
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Lego Rockband?
I want a lego guitar.
Connect more pieces for ADDITIONAL ROCKING
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Muramasa might not be coming stateside (http://kotaku.com/5220643/muramasa-loses-its-american-publisher) :enraged:
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I heard about that. I also heard that just because it's losing its publisher doesn't mean it won't be finding a new one in plenty of time.
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XSEED is currently positioned where Atlus was before Persona 3, and so Atlus flying in to save the day here would provide for a wonderful dosage of iron knee.
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Lego Rock Band? We are through the looking glass here, people.
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I hope it's full of more cheerful sounding songs that are actually about seriously adult shit. I'd like to nominate Lust For Life, and just to see the same mistake made twice, Semi-Charmed Kind of Life, which made it's last appearance in the trailer for The Tigger Movie.
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Square now owns Tomb Raider & Dues Ex. (http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=23302)
Implementation of Active Time Battles & zippers confirmed.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZs8F0x604Y
The new trailer for Dead Rising 2 is pretty fucking cool. I marked out like a small violent child over the various uses of chainsaws.
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re: Lego Rock Band
Some people from Harmonix came to speak on campus last semester. They assured us that they were working on something new and different and that if we liked their Guitar Hero and Rock Band games that we would also like their new project.
I'm a little surprised that this is it.
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The new trailer for Dead Rising 2 is pretty fucking cool. I marked out like a small violent child over the various uses of chainsaws.
I :jizz: when they showed the motorcycle.
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CHAINSAWS TAPED TO A BIKE, THIS IS THE BEST IDEA EVER.
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(http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo297/BBLegs/1969-12-31_18-59-59-2.jpg)
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M...mass effect CARTOON?! :ohshi~: :ohshi~: :ohshi~: :ohshi~:
:perfect:
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Well, technically it's an animated style top-down shooter prequel for the iPhone. (http://www.joystiq.com/2009/04/28/survey-reveals-mass-effect-jacobs-story-for-iphone/)
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Piracy rampant in... Canada? (http://kotaku.com/5234487/canada-joins-us-piracy-watch-list)
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Yar, I be Link
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New MvC2 trailer (http://www.joystiq.com/2009/05/01/marvel-vs-capcom-2-teaser-has-the-touch-the-power/) featuring Stan Bush's 'The Touch'; Roger to buy 9 copies.
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New MvC2 trailer (http://www.joystiq.com/2009/05/01/marvel-vs-capcom-2-teaser-has-the-touch-the-power/) featuring Stan Bush's 'The Touch'; Roger to buy 9 copies.
Nine...Point Cards for Live/PSN? :wat:
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They did say that they were going to change the soundtrack, didn't they? If The Touch is actually in there, major props.
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I may never play with my 360 again if Capcom keeps releasing awesome things on PC. (http://kotaku.com/5235815/3d-resident-evil-5-coming-to-pc)
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...You know, since Dead Rising 2 has been announced for PS3 and PC, I think this may be the time for me to sell off my 360.
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BTW doods, has ffv actually had a ds remake announced? plz keep an i out 4 it. k thx bb.
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No, Matrix quit doing FF remakes to work on Avalon Code.
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oh no, now we will never have a slow-as-shit version of FFV in comparison to the lightning fast gba version
... and never have a 3D FFVI. ;_;
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... and never have a 3D FFVI. ;_;
This is the "for real" reason to be upset. Though, who knows? They might go back to those projects.
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The real tragedy is that with the supposed extra power of the DSi, future Matrix games might actually be playable.
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I may never play with my 360 again if Capcom keeps releasing awesome things on PC. (http://kotaku.com/5235815/3d-resident-evil-5-coming-to-pc)
Oh hey, Street Fighter IV is coming to PC despite being confirmed for months and Resident Evil V is getting a port just like its predecessor. Here's hoping they don't do something dumb like not support mouse-aim because that sure would be dumb.
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No, I am sorry, all it will support is the 3d glasses. You can look at zombies but can't do anything about them.
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Sounds like they're getting back to the basics, there.
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New MvC2 trailer (http://www.joystiq.com/2009/05/01/marvel-vs-capcom-2-teaser-has-the-touch-the-power/) featuring Stan Bush's 'The Touch'; Roger to buy 9 copies.
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd145/Brentai/energize_18109_400width_feathered.jpg)
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It's rumored that Capcom takes it up the ass from SecuROM and begs it for a reacharound every night. (http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/45239/Capcom-Defends-SecuROM)
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Turtles in Time getting a Bionic Commando Rearmedish remake for XBLA. (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3174027)
:victory: :victory: :victory: :victory: :victory: :victory:
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meh. Bionic Commando had some depth. TiT was just ... heheheheheheh
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BIG APPLE. 3 AM.
...in America.
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remark (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3174027)
(http://i43.tinypic.com/4udz55.jpg)
:)
Heard the basis is the Arcade version, instead of the decidedly superior SNES port. (http://www.x-cult.org/dispart.php?catid=9&gameid=10&subid=1&artid=1)
:|
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Piracy rampant in... Canada? (http://kotaku.com/5234487/canada-joins-us-piracy-watch-list)
yeah not really. (http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/3912/125/)
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Heard the basis is the Arcade version, instead of the decidedly superior SNES port. (http://www.x-cult.org/dispart.php?catid=9&gameid=10&subid=1&artid=1)
Well, er, superior except for the whole "only two players" thing.
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Whoa whoa whoa, the Arcade version's missing Slash? And no Bebop and Rocksteady? No Technodrome?! NO FUTURE SURFING?!
(http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/7255/maidguytableflip.png)
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Breath of Fire II fan retranslation released! (http://www.romhacking.net/trans/1391/)
...Unfortunately, it's not the GBA version, which doubled the experience points gained (and actually works 100% on my psp emulator), but I'm glad it exists.
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No Technodrome?!
:wat: They took out the level that had the "throw ninjas at the screen" bit that had to be included in every review, screenshot gallery and ad about the game by law?
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Breath of Fire II fan retranslation released! (http://www.romhacking.net/trans/1391/)
...Unfortunately, it's not the GBA version, which doubled the experience points gained (and actually works 100% on my psp emulator), but I'm glad it exists.
If it's the same "enhancement patch" I remember reading about, I think they rolled the GBA changes into it, including the XP/Gold (triple gold) tweaks and the run button.
EDIT: Patch readme mentions run button, but not XP/Gold. Hum. I know he enhanced some graphics and dialog boxes/portraits here and there.
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I compared this patch to my GBA copy, and I can confirm that he did not increase the exp/zenny. The weird part is that he says he played the GBA version and that's most likely why he included a run button with the patch.
I did a search for some kind of exp patch, but all the results are just related to this new patch. I didn't think so many people gave a crap.
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Suddenly, Duke Nukem Forever goes quietly into that dark night (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/91526-3D-Realms-Shutting-Down)
Good night, sweet prince.
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Bailout! BAILOUT!
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But... but what about Duke Nukem: Chain Reaction? And Duke Nukem: Critical Mass? And Duke Nukem: Proving Grounds? And Duke Nukem: Chain Reaction? And Duke Nukem: Critical Mass? And Duke Nukem: Proving Grounds? And Duke Nukem: Chain Reaction? And Duke Nukem: Critical Mass? And Duke Nukem: Proving Grounds? And Duke Nukem: Chain Reaction? And Duke Nukem: Critical Mass? And Duke Nukem: Proving Grounds? And Duke Nukem: Chain Reaction? And Duke Nukem: Critical Mass? And Duke Nukem: Proving Grounds?
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FTFA:
Deep Silver and Apogee Software have issued the following statement: "Deep Silver and Apogee Software are not affected by the situation at 3D Realms. Development on the Duke Nukem Trilogy is continuing as planned."
Whew.
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That doesn't include DNF though.
So the question is, er, now what's the title currently in development hell that's been there the longest? I mean DNF has always been so far ahead of the rest that nobody ever really bothered to check what #2 was.
(It's not Not Not Battle Royale, by the way.)
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So the question is, er, now what's the title currently in development hell that's been there the longest? I mean DNF has always been so far ahead of the rest that nobody ever really bothered to check what #2 was.
Blimpo Warrior 2.
No, that thing Spram posted doesn't count.
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It's way more than we ever got for DNF.
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I'm just waiting to see if some former employee decides to leak whatever they had done for DNF.
You know, if they actually had anything done for it.
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Re: DNF
Take-Two has openly said "Yeah, we sort of have the rights to that" and may hand it off to another company. Perhaps one a bit speedier.
To be honest, I can see them doing that. All publicity is good publicity, right? DNF has it's own marketing & word of mouth - "It's about goddamn time"
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They should hand the game over to Valve.
:lol:
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Oh, so Red Dead Revolver and Call of Juarez are getting sequels? Hot damn, it's a good day for western games. The finest since Custer's Revenge.
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3d realms should put duke nukem in the public domain
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New 2D Contra being released on Japanese WiiWare. (http://gonintendo.com/?p=81805)
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A SAKURA WARS GAME GETTING LOCALIZED (http://kotaku.com/5245006/segas-sakura-wars-finally-coming-stateside-but-not-from-sega)
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WHAT IS THAT YOU SAAAAAAAAAAAY
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Yeah, I'll be buying Sakura Wars, just out of retro-curiosity. It's probably too little, too late for the series as a whole in Mother America, though.
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Worked for Fire Emblem.
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They just need to throw a mec (or a moe) into the next Super Smash Bros. and they're set!
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Ara, did I win~?
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They just need to throw a mec (or a moe) into the next Super Smash Bros. and they're set!
(http://boxoffice.com/blogs/steve/moe-howard-7.jpg) Chowderhead.
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A SAKURA WARS GAME GETTING LOCALIZED (http://kotaku.com/5245006/segas-sakura-wars-finally-coming-stateside-but-not-from-sega)
Neat, who's bringing it over?
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(http://romosome.pyoko.org/posts/spitrainbow.jpg)
And Cross Edge got localized? How the hell? Capcom actually let them?
What is going on over there?
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Lunar gets another remake. (http://kotaku.com/5251709/lunar-the-silver-star-getting-psp-remake)
It's almost like the Street Fighter 2 of RPGs. Except Final Fantasy 1 has that honor.
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I think they're both about 20 iterations behind Ys I.
Still, both Ys and Final Fantasy have actual, you know, sequels. Lunar gave us one good sequel and a Game Gear spinoff and then retracted into a perfect little ball to recover the same territory over and over forever.
No, Dragon Song did not exist. I don't know what you're talking about sir.
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What bugs me about remaking Lunar is that the game has no replay value. Regular battles are just what you'd expect from an average RPG, and all the boss battles go: Alex --> special sword attack, Kyle --> special sword attack, Jessica --> Heal, Mia --> most recent magic spell, Nash --> same fucking spell through most of the game. There's no customization, no strategy, nothing.
Now, the same could be said for almost every RPG, but at least they aren't being remake several times over. And at least Lunar 2 had those magic things you could equip to give your characters a few different spells - which still wasn't much.
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Well between the SCD and Saturn/PS1 remakes of Lunar there was a pretty major overhaul of the battle system and both of them really were more involved than the standard JRPG fare (it still remains one of the few games where I'll actually weigh the choice between attacking and casting a spell) so I'm not complaining about that.
Still, there's only so many ways to round out the wheel.
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FACTOR 5 IS GOING UNDER (http://kotaku.com/5253800/factor-5-officially-shuttered)
(http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/764/niku.png)
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Only the US branch.
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would care more if they had released something good since rogue squadron 2
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At first I thought Level 5 went under I was going fuuuuck but then I realized you said Factor 5.
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One of my best friends worked for them while Lair was being made. In fact, I believe he designed the first level. It was amusing to me that for years, while lots of people on the internet were waiting anxiously for the game's release, he was telling me how goddamn fucking awful it was going to be thanks to all the meddling on Sony's part and the incompetence of his boss.
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lemme guess, sony's meddling was where the MAKE IT CONTROLLED ENTIRELY VIA THE TILT SENSORS idea came from
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Console sales take a beating. (http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/42473/98/)
I WAS going to use my last check to finally bite on a 360 or PS3 and finally join the next generation, but it might be worth it to sit on my ass for just a biiiiiit longer and see if they're forced to chop prices any. It's not like I actually get to PLAY videogames anymore anyway.
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At least browse around and find one of the bi-monthly sales where they throw in like five free games.
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The best reason for a 360 these days will be because you want to do some bustin' with us.
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Oh, great. And here I was thinking it was an easy choice, since the only next-gen game I still cared about at the moment was MGS4.
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You can watch MGS4 on the internet, I hear.
Also Arkham Asylum should come out for the 360 so you're in the clear for Game of the Year 2009.
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But just today, my brother showed me an ad in his latest Game Informer that said that you can actually play as The Joker in the PS3 version!
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But just today, my brother showed me an ad in his latest Game Informer that said that you can actually play as Mark Hamil The Joker in the PS3 version!
I think I need a PS3
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Just wait a month when it's announced as DLC for the 360 version.
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New Punch-Out!! officially awesome (http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3174243&p=44).
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Walmart getting into the used game business. (http://neocrisis.com/content/view/3918/1/)
Now shoplifters can steal games and sell them at the same place! :perfect:
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That was my first thought exactly. Way to close the loop, Wally!
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Now I'm a little anxious for the day that gaming becomes purely digital, with no physical media.
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This sounds like a job for OnLive!
Quick, to the OnCopter!
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Bad news. McDohl's team isn't working on the OnCopter anymore.
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Anyone mention this?
http://playstationlifestyle.net/2009/05/19/project-trico-screenshots/
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Say, that's an interesting... giant badger?
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I have no idea what it is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF3fED8EXl4
Click through for HD.
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... reminds me of when I first heard about Shadow of the Colossus, back when it was mistakingly called Wanda and the Colossus. I thought it was going to be a game about a little girl and her pet giant.
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A gigantic animal which is a mix of like six species and also has a devil tail and angel wings.
So in this game you befriend every furry ever?
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I didn't notice the video before. Looks like a griffin. Also, it has wings, which I suspect will eventually grow strong enough for it to fly.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbrIjyxzmhM&feature=related
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It's going to be hard knowing that every step you take in that game is leading that animal closer to its inevitable plot-driven death.
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Anybody else notice the half-dozen arrows in its butt?
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It's going to be hard knowing that every step you take in that game is leading that animal closer to its inevitable plot-driven death.
:;_;:
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I heard a rumor that this is the video that was shown behind closed doors three years ago, and therefore the game might look quite a bit different now. (Compare the uncompleted PS1 version of ICO to the final game, and the trailer for NICO to Shadow of the Colossus.)
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I would figure so, since the kid's model is pretty bland and basic looking.
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BABY DEEP CROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
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I had no idea what it was from the images. But from the video, it clearly looks like a reinterpretation of a Griffin.
Or a Cat+Dog+Bird+Fox+Rat+Demon+Angel+IAMAHUGEMONSTROSITYBUTI'MSTILLSOMEHOWADORABLE.
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(http://anotherdimension.pyoko.org/flammie.jpg)
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three player co-op shadow of the colossus confirmed
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:perfect:
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I didn't notice the video before. Looks like a griffin. Also, it has wings, which I suspect will eventually grow strong enough for it to fly.
It does look like a griffin. But I think it's wings are clipped, not just small. I mean, yeah, it looks like a baby. But it was chained up and guarded! Who guards a baby!
I'm betting they were clipped.
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I love Ico and SotC, but "trico" doesn't do much for me, it's like Ico but with a giant chihuhua-bird-rat instead of a girl I usually left alone while I did my thing. I doesn't seem like the game is breaking new ground like their predecessors did.
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Queen of England gets a bling Wii. (http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/the-royal-wii/1316670)
:wat:
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Oh, that THQ. :awesome:
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"Ju-on: The Grudge makes quick scares accessible to anyone with a Wii," said Xseed president Jun Iwasaki in a statement. "Players can even hand the Wii Remote to their mother and enjoy watching her play and get scared."
Oh yeah, I'm gonna do that, sure.
:hurr:: "Hey mom, check this out!"
:oh:: "...!"
:mahboi:: "DISPWNED!!1"
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So it seems XSEED is bringing Half-Minute Hero (http://kotaku.com/5142502/yuusha-30-turns-out-countdown-clocks-are-sometimes-warranted) to the states. And here I was thinking I wouldn't have to buy a PSP this year...
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Tekken 6 gets 2-player co-op Tekken Force Mode. (http://kotaku.com/5273450/e3-trailer-blurs-the-line-for-tekken-6)
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Doesn't matter that Tekken 5's Tekken Force mode was terrible.
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Not so much news as a general :wat:: http://kotaku.com/5280821/11+year+old-genius-says-video-games-a-waste-of-time#c13393138
Just like reading non-textbooks, martial arts, movies, sleeping and eating!
Although I did take a gander at one of the links in the comments that caught my eye: http://www.ftwunited.com/dfly4/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4
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Not so much news as a general :wat:: http://kotaku.com/5280821/11+year+old-genius-says-video-games-a-waste-of-time#c13393138
Just like reading non-textbooks, martial arts, movies, sleeping and eating!
Although I did take a gander at one of the links in the comments that caught my eye: http://www.ftwunited.com/dfly4/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=4
It's naive, but it's also a fairly off the cuff comment.
If I was gonna be mean I'd go with a joke about a proclaimed genius having a liberal arts degree.
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Meanwhile, Mathmetician Alexey Pajitnov is still famous (if not exactly rich) for creating Tetris, which turns 25 today.
As depressing as it is that I'm older than both that kid and Tetris, I'll still, I dunno, drink a quart of vodka in honor of it or something.
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Meanwhile, Mathmetician Alexey Pajitnov is still famous (if not exactly rich) for creating Tetris, which turns 25 today.
As depressing as it is that I'm older than both that kid and Tetris, I'll still, I dunno, drink a quart of vodka in honor of it or something.
Well, it IS important to note that he said PLAYING videogames, not making them. It's an interesting catch-22.
Unless he's hardcore enough to say that making things that don't directly benefit glorious society constructively is pointless, in which case, kill him, he's a borg child
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He did imply it pretty heavily, yeah.
I really do not want to have much of a debate about a kid with a liberal arts degree from a community college, though. Fuck, I could have done that. I just chose to play video games instead.
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Not like he's going to accomplish anything, anyway; most "child geniuses" never do.
Change the world. Kid'll be lucky if he gets to change the prices on a McDonald's drive-through menu.
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(http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo297/BBLegs/longcat060309.jpg)
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EPILOGUE: I did not have any vodka so I drank rum instead.
Salut!
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Oh :victory:~yes (http://kotaku.com/5285105/crackdown-2-to-feature-4+player-co+op)
Had some issues with how damn floaty and invincible your guy was in the original - my one game with Niku was us leaping four stories to every bad guy, absorbing hundreds of rounds while we stood there and shot them till they exploded into delicious energy snacks. Loved all the freewheeling street justice and mischief but MAN, if we're gonna be shooting at things for half the game it should probably be kind of a bit less lame.
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I just hope that the stunt rings are slightly less annoying.
my biggest problem with them was that they are INVISIBLE unless you are driving, and even then are kinda hard to see.
then you have to find the damn ramp truck, which handles like a manatee and line the thing up perfectly
then some asshole in a car rams the ramp and fucks everything up
then i pick up said asshole's car and THROW IT INTO THE SEA
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jump buggy best make a comeback
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Pornstar sells breast adspace to goldfarming site (http://www.geekologie.com/2009/06/wow_gold_farming_website_pays.php)
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http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/02/confirmed-perfect-dark-bound-for-xbla-this-winter/
:cake: :cake: :cake: :cake: :cake: :cake: :cake: :cake: :cake: :cake: :cake: :cake: :cake: :cake:
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Pornstar sells breast adspace to goldfarming site (http://www.geekologie.com/2009/06/wow_gold_farming_website_pays.php)
There's a shortage of perfect breasts in this world. It was a pity to damage hers.
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Google searched the fuck out of "Anna Morgan" and didn't find shit. >:(
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What the hell is wrong with you Spram.
She's not a white chick, she's Russian.
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Great minds. (http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/6/8/)
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That comic doesn't cover the third and most likely possibility: They both die. :MENDOZAAAAA:
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They both die at some point but are brought back/reborn through some bullshit contrivance.
I would really like to see how that horse managed to land.
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My stepmom raises and trains horses, and she found SotC to be fascinting: both because of Agro and because she enjoys fantasy stories. She was amazed at how true-to-life Agro was, from the way he switches the leg he leads with as he runs to his mannerisms in general. She was actually more sad when he returned at the end than when he fell, because she could tell by his limp that his leg would never fully heal and he could never run again. He would probably have been shot in real life. :sadpanda:
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Team ICO trolls everyone.
Both of them come out unscathed at the end.
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No no no!!! The kid becomes the Colossi and the Griffin becomes Yorda! It makes perfect sense!!!
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I'd be jazzed if each of these games just took a step backwards chronologically forever. I wanted to do an RPG series like that once; the first one takes place millions of years after the destruction of Earth, then keeps stepping back to events referenced in the previous game until you finally get to the dragons at the beginning of the universe and find out what the hell the final boss in all the other games is actually supposed to be.
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That's one of those things you have to force yourself into completing. ESPECIALLY if it picks up an audience.
:serious: I'm looking at you, George R.R. Martin.
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My constant fear of anything I do becoming popular is a large part of why I never do anything.
:painful: Simo Belmo haunts my every waking moment.
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I'd be jazzed if each of these games just took a step backwards chronologically forever. I wanted to do an RPG series like that once; the first one takes place millions of years after the destruction of Earth, then keeps stepping back to events referenced in the previous game until you finally get to the dragons at the beginning of the universe and find out what the hell the final boss in all the other games is actually supposed to be.
You should play Live-A-Live. Start with the Far Future chapter and work your way backwards chronologically and it even matches up perfectly.
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I'd be jazzed if each of these games just took a step backwards chronologically forever. I wanted to do an RPG series like that once; the first one takes place millions of years after the destruction of Earth, then keeps stepping back to events referenced in the previous game until you finally get to the dragons at the beginning of the universe and find out what the hell the final boss in all the other games is actually supposed to be.
You should play Live-A-Live. Start with the Far Future chapter and work your way backwards chronologically and it even matches up perfectly.
Whoa, just checked out some gameplay vids on this thing and it looks pretty sweet. Have you played it? Worth the time?
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Well, assuming you mean the SNES RPG by Squaresoft. The "Gameplay" actually isn't too remarkable, as combat is infrequent and while interesting, nothing too revolutionary. The real appeal of it is the story and settings (and music).
And yes, I've played the entire thing and would reccomend it to any fan of RPGs. It's not very long, either, only a few hours. A small collection of mini-RPGs.
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(http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu23/Bon_Bon_2009/scruffy-1.jpg)
Yeah, it's good. Some bits are really asinine if you're a completionist but I still recommend it.
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I'll probably give it a shot, looks fun! I have no problem with RPGs light on combat and heavy on story - love, and still love, Ion Storm's adventurey Anachronox - and the fact that it came out the same year as FF6 gives me hope the story is a step up from the joyless RPG standard of the early 90's.
Well, assuming you mean the SNES RPG by Squaresoft.
Er, what else would I mean?
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My constant fear of anything I do becoming popular and getting massive amounts of gay porn and ridiculous shipping is a large part of why I never do anything.
Wait, that's why I never want anything I do to be popular.
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I'd be jazzed if each of these games just took a step backwards chronologically forever. I wanted to do an RPG series like that once; the first one takes place millions of years after the destruction of Earth, then keeps stepping back to events referenced in the previous game until you finally get to the dragons at the beginning of the universe and find out what the hell the final boss in all the other games is actually supposed to be.
A series of stories I've been very, very slowly working on for a decade is similar to this. It takes place on a world that has had odd things happen to it in the distant past, and each story focuses on a different part of the world and how it is currently coping with the remnants of the bizarre past. Then eventually, the final story would be about the ancient being that was the cause of everything and what happened to him.
...Ever since I started another math course last week, the creative half of my brain has been working extra hard... I'd like to take advantage of that, but I'm getting too much damn homework.
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Post the first chapterrr
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Post the first chapterrr
What, of my thing? All my time working on them has only amounted to pages and pages of notes, maps, story concepts, character information, and so on. I've probably got several attempts at a chapter one but I hate them all.
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Forgot to mention the obvious ending: You swing back to the very end of the universe and finally get to see what transpired due to your actions in the very first game, which is of course "You fucked up everything."
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So, the plot device for the finale movie of Star Trek: TNG?
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That's one of those things you have to force yourself into completing. ESPECIALLY if it picks up an audience.
:serious: I'm looking at you, George R.R. Martin.
George R R Martin is not your bitch.
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Thanks, Neil.
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http://www.gametrailers.com/player/51765.html
holy fucking shit.
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That's quite a repertoire of moves, there.
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Okay, so, aside from the whip and katana, it looks like she can use every weapon with both her hands and feet.
And, also, of course, she has a whip. Why wouldn't she.
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Her clothes come off every time she finishes a combo.
Really think SEGA ought to finally stop fielding every idea that comes across the boardroom table.
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That's because she uses her hair as clothes, and also for the large constructs in her combos. Ain't enough for both, apparently.
:shrug:
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Rocket launcher shoes! For all those times when you've thought to yourself, "I want to hit that guy over there with explosives, but I don't want to have to put my sandwich down first."
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Rocket launcher shoes! For all those times when you've thought to yourself, "I want to hit that guy over there with explosives, but I don't want to have to put my sandwich down first."
(http://misc.levels4you.com/l4y/tf2_soldier.jpg)
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Rocket Launcher TONFA shoes.
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Wow, Bayonetta's like some child of the Prince of Persia and Vanessa Z. Schneider.
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Her clothes come off every time she finishes a combo.
Which brings to life the very likely thought while playing the game:
"Why the fuck isn't it dead!!? I got naked didn't I?!"
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Black Sigil, a blatant Chrono Trigger clone I was getting a bit excited about, an irredeemable mess (http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=8995028&publicUserId=5379721). I'd say it was rushed out of the door if I hadn't been following its development for the past three years.
the time I invested in Black Sigil was more than enough to make me realize that this is one of the least entertaining RPG I've ever played. In fact, the more I played, the worse it got, and the hopes I harbored for improvement at the adventure's rough but promising outset were steadily dashed.
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Sigil feels less like a professional release and more like a ROM hack, similar to those fan-remixed versions of Zelda or Super Metroid designed to beat down experienced players with cheap, untelegraphed traps and gimmicks. No amount of warm nostalgia provided by visuals traced directly from Square sprite sheets and a truckload of familiar, clichéd characters can compensate for the fact that Sigil's foundation is inherently rotten. Much as I want to like it -- tried to like it! -- it has rebuffed my efforts at every turn.
Oh welllll :shrug:
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Wow, they even ripped off the font from Chrono Trigger. That's some dedicated plagiarism.
Yet constant enemy ambushes are never a burden when they're built atop a solid battle system; see Final Fantasy V.
Yyyyyyyeah I'd say that's pretty much a perfect counterexample to the point you're trying to make there, Mr. Guy With a Website.
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Worms 2: Armageddon coming to XBLA July 1st, PC later this year. (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3174935)
I'll be holding out for the PC version, I got the first Worms released on XBLA and I hated using the controller.
The naming is kinda confusing, it seems like it should be "Worms: Armageddon 2", the current name sounds like an expansion pack for Worms 2. As a side note, when Worms: Armageddon first came out, I thought it was an expansion for Worms 2. It wasn't until after I bought it that I realized it was a sequel.
Still, 2D Worms with full Armageddon arsenal and new weapons = happy Det.
I don't know what it means that I recognized the remixed music in the trailer. I played that game a lot back in the day.
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Totally up ons.
I might even be convinced to pick up the PC version when it comes out.
Sounds like all the weapons that should've been in the first version of Worms Live are in now.
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Worms 2: Armageddon coming to XBLA July 1st, PC later this year. (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3174935)
I'll be holding out for the PC version, I got the first Worms released on XBLA and I hated using the controller.
The naming is kinda confusing, it seems like it should be "Worms: Armageddon 2", the current name sounds like an expansion pack for Worms 2. As a side note, when Worms: Armageddon first came out, I thought it was an expansion for Worms 2. It wasn't until after I bought it that I realized it was a sequel.
Still, 2D Worms with full Armageddon arsenal and new weapons = happy Det.
I don't know what it means that I recognized the remixed music in the trailer. I played that game a lot back in the day.
wait, they are adding completely new weapons?
I hope they bring ninja rope sheep back
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Concrete Donkey.
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Concrete Donkey.
(http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu23/Bon_Bon_2009/scruffy-1.jpg)
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Concrete Donkey.
(http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu23/Bon_Bon_2009/scruffy-1.jpg)
(http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu23/Bon_Bon_2009/scruffy-1.jpg)
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Among the additions to the new game are weapons like the bunker buster, electro magnet, sentry gun, and concrete donkey, as well as the new fort and rope racing modes, and persistent fire. The full feature list can be found here, or you can check out the trailer above for a look at what to expect from next week's release.
Sentry Gun! Defend your position with this deadly guardian.
Electro Magnet! Attract or repel deadly metallic explosives with this unique item.
Bunker Buster! Use this vertical missile to dig out enemy Worms that have snuck away!
Buffalo Of Lies! The Donkey’s nemesis, this Trojan Buffalo will cause havoc!
Super Bunker Buster! Devastating below ground charge!
I think the buffalo thing was the one running along the ground and causing explosions when it hits the ground in the trailer? Like a horizontal Donkey, I guess.
The bunker busters/sentry gun/electro magnet seem imply they're trying to make darkside infrastructure strategies more interesting, which is nice.
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so basically bunker buster is the molebomb without the REALLY FUCKING HARD TO ACTUALLY HIT ANYTHING?
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Was that your problem with it? I always leaned to "puny damage" since ludicrous firing arcs always give you style points and are therefore not a problem. I'd have to boot it up, but isn't it just a parabola?
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it ran along the ground, then when you hit the button it does this weird little hop (which is the first thing that makes hitting anything hard) then it starts to dig in an odd arc
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Now I want to play Scorched Earth again.
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I'd like to take a second to call
MASSIVE FUCKING BULLSHIT
Mass Effect 2 is not going to feature a New Game + mode (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3174990). Especially stupid considering that there's a fucking level cap ME1.
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Oh yeah, they couldn't just allow you to make another file, copying the character file from another, or hell, save a character file up to a point early in the game which can be used in multiple files. And then come ME3 ask which file to continue from.
No, that's not possible at all!!!!
::(:
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There will be brawl episode 6.
:ohshi~: Ending.
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So. Fez. XBox Live. (http://polytroncorporation.com/?p=512)
::D:
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So, what, Fez is like if Super Paper Mario were a graphical adventure game?
Keen.
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Didn't see this posted in the last couple of pages: Bethesda parent co.
buys bought ID Software (http://news.bigdownload.com/photos/top-10-pc-game-stories-for-june-2009/2116892/)
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Oblivion with guns. Yeah, that's going to be real popular...
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Some motherfucker actually remade Mega Man 2 for the Atari 2600 (http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=146735). No joke:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvrpXc8C3S8
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Valve does something to shut up whiny pricks who don't wanna buy L4D2 (http://kotaku.com/5308751/left-4-dead-2-might-work-with-left-4-dead-1)
I'm betting the cross-play would work for one or two maps (certainly no more than two) from each. So you can still play with people who have the one you don't have, but you're given a strong incentive to buy the other one.
But, who knows.
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Mega Man 2
(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z284/Nikumatic/1243179740287.gif)
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That's not from Mega Man 2.
Which may or may not be what Niku was getting at with his thoughtful and constructive post.
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Some motherfucker actually remade Mega Man 2 for the Atari 2600 (http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=146735).
You guys are fags.
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That's not from Mega Man 2.
Which may or may not be what Niku was getting at with his thoughtful and constructive post.
(http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z284/Nikumatic/1243179740287.gif)
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Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis is now on Steam for $5.
This game forever has a special place at the top of any "My Favorite Games" list, and there are no longer any credible excuses for not having played it.
If you never listen to me again about anything, ever, then listen to me when I say this: GO PLAY THIS GAME.
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I don't care about Indiana Jones.
Retro Game Challenge 2 won't be coming to the USA (http://www.destructoid.com/want-retro-game-challenge-2-localized-open-up-that-wallet-137386.phtml)
That's horrible. I want to play Guadia Quest 2.
Also, that Atari "Megaman 2" is actually the original Megaman. Elecman's level in fact. That is the best animated gif ever Niku.
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A chronology of Evony ads. (http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001286.html)
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Breaking news: Fanmade Phoenix Wright musical the worst thing ever (http://www.pwmusical.com)
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What about the official one, the japanese all-female one? Was that one any good?
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What about the official one, the japanese all-female one? Was that one any good?
Never even heard about it before now.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAe51MrTIto
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If only there was some info on when it's out.
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Or what it's on.
I will be so pissed if it's out on PSN alone. So pissed.
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The description on the Youtube page says it's on the PC, and the game's web site doesn't have a release date.
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Rock Band just got super sexy (http://creators.rockband.com/)
Expect to be able to play AD at some point in the future.
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What about the official one, the japanese all-female one? Was that one any good?
Never even heard about it before now.
Take that! (http://kotaku.com/5053963/phoenix-wright-as-cross+dressing-all-female-musical)
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Oh, the Takarazuka Girls Revue.
... I think I have a poster advertising that thing somewhere.
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Found this through 8-Bit Theatre: these dudes (http://www.thespeedgamers.com/) are going to play through Final Fantasies 1-10 and 12 over the course of a week.
Is it even possible to play through 12 in only a week?
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19 hours in and going through FF2?
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spoilers: final fantasy games are childishly easy if you ignore the optional shit and don't run from fights
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Why would you ever choose to run from fights?
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You can run from fights?
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What can I say? I knew a dude in Waldorf who ran from about 50% of random encounters in Final Fantasy 9. Somehow, the second half of the game was nightmarishly hard.
He was also too lazy to take off Dagger's Cure Rod and auto-melee'd, so he was constantly healing things he wanted to kill.
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that's like expert mode
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According to those wild cats at the NeoGAF (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=16755049&postcount=1), there are whispers of Persona 5 coming out for PS3.
If true: this will be the game that makes me buy the monolith.
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Persona 5 for the PS3?
...
sigh.
Oh well.
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I cannot fathom the reasoning behind this decision.
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:shrug: Atlus does what they need to do in order to make sure their games fall into as few hands as possible.
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The odd thing is that I can totally see why they would do this.
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The odd thing is that I can totally see why they would do this.
You must disclose to us this forbidden secret.
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Atlus loves to make/publish products that would lose their core player base if they were to ever become popular in the mainstream. They're like some weeaboo Jim Davis, carefully controlling the reception of their products in order to maintain some sort of eternal baseline cult popularity.
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Or they hadn't noticed that PS3 exclusivity is pretty much a death sentence to anything you may not love and cherish.
Which would make sense to me if they wanted to bury the changes that came with the new Persona games and go back to the superior stylings of 1 and 2. ::D:
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I think it's just because the rest of the Persona series has been on Playstion in one form or another. Even the remake of the first one is on the PSP.
I think they just kinda have a little bit of party loyalty, as almost if not all of their best (and hopefully best-selling) games have been on Sony machines.
That, or a JackFrost or something made the decision, and as you all probably know, are assholes, adorably playful assholes, but assholes all the same.
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Found this through 8-Bit Theatre: these dudes (http://www.thespeedgamers.com/) are going to play through Final Fantasies 1-10 and 12 over the course of a week.
Last night I checked up and found that they had played 100 hours and were deep into Final Fantasy VII. At 110 hours and they're on disc two of Final Fantasy XI.
How?
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Found this through 8-Bit Theatre: these dudes (http://www.thespeedgamers.com/) are going to play through Final Fantasies 1-10 and 12 over the course of a week.
Last night I checked up and found that they had played 100 hours and were deep into Final Fantasy VII. At 110 hours and they're on disc two of Final Fantasy XI.
How?
How are they going so fast or how are they going so slow? Are you aware they're not doing them in order?
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They skipped 8 and are planning on doing it after 9 cause he is studying a low level game I believe.
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Last night I checked up and found that they had played 100 hours and were deep into Final Fantasy VII. At 110 hours and they're on disc two of Final Fantasy XI.
Final Fantasy XI
XI
Weren't they skipping 11 because it's an MMO!? Did you mean 9? Or do you just suck at roman numerals.
X=10
I=1
XI means X+I, as opposed to IX which means X-I
10+1=11
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Yes, I meant IX. That's what we in the industry like to refer to as a 'typo', you slimy fuck.
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when your typo is "teh" and you can still understand the intent fine
when it actually changes the entire thing that you are saying, well!
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In this case, context clues allow one to not be a jerk.
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BUT WHY WOULD YOU WANT THEM TO
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If I went to the store to buy Final Fantasy IX, and they gave me Final Fantasy XI, I would punch them right in the nose.
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You are just looking for excuses to do violence. :perfect:
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New? touhou game featuring playable Sanae, Hong meiling and Cirno (http://www.tasofro.net/touhou123/index.html)
also
DO WANT (http://www.gift-gift.jp/goods.html)
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Oh hey, closed beta signups for the Mount & Blade multiplayer expansion (http://beta.taleworlds.com/apply.aspx) are open.
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EA games invites convention attendees to sexually harass ‘booth babes’ (http://www.thefword.org.uk/blog/2009/07/ea_games_invite)
Whoa... getting flashbacks to my Sour Gropes thread. Hey! Maybe you guys could act like horsebutts and get this one locked by the next time I check the forums, too! :perfect:
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buh? :wat:
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I'm not sure it really counts as sexual harassment when your actual paid job is to be "harassed".
That said, it's a terrible idea that can't even be spun well, but from EA that's hardly surprising.
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Well, EA's been kinda better, lately. This seems more like the , uh... What company was it that was going to buy headstone and baby name advertising space? Seems like something they would do. That wasn't EA, was it?
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I'm not sure it really counts as sexual harassment when your actual paid job is to be "harassed".
Wear a costume and wave at nerds = a grope is fine too?
We all get that you're gonna have some desperate nerds staring a little too hard but then there's "COMMIT AN ACT OF LUST."
I think Activision did the Tombstone crap. Whoever makes Turok. They offered $10,000 to name your kid Turok.
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That was Acclaim, I think.
And they're obviously not being hired just to wear a costume and wave, given this promotion.
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Acclaim did.
The deal was they pay for the funeral, and in return, a small ad. Quote a marketing memo, "This should especially interest poor families"
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The brochure in question. (http://mashable.com/2009/07/25/danteteam-contest/)
It's a poorly done "edgy" attempt to be "edgy" by EA that makes a bad, stupid scene even worse.
Unless you are speaking from experience and there's something in the job description of Booth Babes that goes
1) Dress in a costume
2) Stand here from X to Y
2a) sometimes people will randomly molest you
SIGN HERE __________
I assume EA is innocent of actually wanting nerds to molest women, but they definitely did something stupid. Maybe EA really had the 2a clause for their booth babes.
Also there's the whole little blurb from a booth babe detailing that such an environment does not need intentional or unintentional incentives for creepy males to be creepy. Not to mention the issue that any booth babes EA hires are not the same as any booth babes X company hires.
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It's kind of hilarious because the booth babes are one of the reasons the industry hates "regular" E3.
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To me, it looks like poor wording more than anything else. By the picture, it looks like the "act of lust" is just getting your picture taken with the booth babe (notice there is no interaction). They just worded it so it sounds like they are advocating molesting them. They just needed a proofreader to say "hey, it sounds like you're telling nerds to grope them".
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Epic Mickey is a game that Warren Spector is making for Disney. He made Deus Ex, System Shock, Wing Commander, and Thief.
Now he is making this.
(http://tyler.suckramento.org/imgs/em/castle_dwn_view.jpg)
(http://tyler.suckramento.org/imgs/em/castle_side02.jpg)
(http://tyler.suckramento.org/imgs/em/sea_transport.jpg)
(http://tyler.suckramento.org/imgs/em/goofy_zombie.jpg)
There is more art in these places:
http://www.fredgambino.co.uk/film_tv_thmbs.html
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=16881047&postcount=109
http://web.mac.com/askbotboy/Site/Characters_%26_creatures_5.html
Probably a Wii game. More info here: http://wii.kombo.com/article.php?artid=14585
Looks pretty fucking amazing imo
Before anyone says it is too dark to be real:
- Remember in the Rescuers when Bianca eats her young?
- Remember Czernobog in Fantasia?
- Remember when in the Lion King, Scar kills his brother, and is later eaten by hyenas?
- Remember when Mickey tried to commit suicide one time?
- Remember when Ursula was gored through the chest with a ship?
- Remember when Disney financed the Nightmare Before Christmas?
- Remember how they are making Tim Burton's Alice?
etc
Nor doesn't think it is real. He's dumb.
Too lazy to make a new thread.
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Epic Mickey sounds like some sort of sex slang.
Anyway. Dang. I know nothing of this except those pictures, and this is the first time I've cared about anything Disney since Gargoyles.
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I well might get a Wii for that shit.
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Somehow, the really detailed goofy image makes it seem less plausible to me.
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It's like Kingdom Hearts with less zippers.
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(http://hundredcoins.org/brentai/images/asdasdasdasdasdasda.png)
Dear God, the cancer is spreading.
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Yeah, this is kind of what Kingdom Hearts implied and utterly failed to deliver on.
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Epic Mickey sounds like some sort of sex slang.
Now I can't think of anything related to Disney without considering how its name would apply as a sexual position or maneuver.
HaHA, Fantasia.
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I know I'm not right at the moment, but isn't that a Romanov princess?
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Just finished up the Arkham Asylum demo.
:jizz: :jizz: :jizz:
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Old new's probably but new to me. This is the only future king of fighter game I will ever buy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rciCLdxTAkw
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qr1xJgG9gg
has this been posted already
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that chick is hot
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Stage 3, eh. Hopefully Stages 1 and 2 end with Cirno and Hong Meiling respectively.
:3c Pretty awesome. Hope they add before-fight dialogues.
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Wait, what in the world is that?
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In case you couldn't tell, IT WAS TOUHOU CASTLEVANIA!!!! You are now all pedophiles like us.
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Fortunately, Walker isn't that much of a weeaboo. Not that I could see him buying into Touhou if he was.
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what the fuck is a touhou
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I sort of lost interest when I realized all the enemies were little girls. I didn't even bother to identify which little girls they were.
I'm so manly you can fry an egg on my blood!!!!!
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Stage 3, eh. Hopefully Stages 1 and 2 end with Cirno and Hong Meiling respectively.
:3c Pretty awesome. Hope they add before-fight dialogues.
Why Cirno, in particular? Other than, y'know, hooray Cirno.
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If we assume that the Shrine Maiden must enter the castle, we assume she encounters either Rumia or Cirno and then China.
Mostly based off the actual Touhou 6 boss progression.
also
Castlevania has a ton of ice sprites so it's a no-brainer for reference.
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She also encounters Patchouli, though. And unlike Rumia and Cirno, she's actually generally found in the castle.
China's the gate guard, she's level 1 boss if anything.
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Having not seen Stage 1 and 2 I can't really comment on when the castle is entered.
But Sakuya shows up early and would fit nicely as a recurring boss. I mean, you fight Sakuya in Stage 3, and from there you go deeper into the castle to encounter Patchi. (If you mean Patchi is encountered in the video I didn't see it or it was so brief I doubt it counts?)
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I laughed at YUKURRI 1-UP
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Here's the site. (http://aja-games.com/products_koumajo/index.htm) It's in Japanese, but it does confirm Cirno, China, Patchouli, Alice and even Suika for some reason. I only saw true confirmation of Cirno and Patchy as bosses, but I'm confident that Meiling will also be one.
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Playing the demo, I notice that Marisa's portrait is up next to Reimu's, and one of the buttons summons her to throw down a spell card. That's probably the capacity in which such as Alice and Suika get involved - you pick them up as powerups, and they're usable.
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You mean it actually is a chick?
:MENDOZAAAAA: MY JOKE IS RUINED
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Yes, and I truly doubt there will be a single male character in the game. That's how Touhou games roll. In fact, there are maybe 5 male characters in the entirety of the Touhou universe. And one of them is a turtle.
The witch she used to cast the star magic is generally considered the most masculine character to actually ever appear in-game.
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The male characters are like, two off-screen dead fathers, a cloud, a turtle, and a shop-keeper who almost never appears outside of fan-made manga.
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Having played the actual thing now, not super-impressed with touhouvania. It really feels like just a castlevania reskin plus flight mechanic, and not really particularly touhou. The fighting games and the Megaman clone, they still had that quality. This one ... doesn't.
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They should have just done a Touhou version of Nightmare Sphere.
I think everyone would win, there.
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Having played the actual thing now, not super-impressed with touhouvania. It really feels like just a castlevania reskin plus flight mechanic, and not really particularly touhou. The fighting games and the Megaman clone, they still had that quality. This one ... doesn't.
It's closer than all the generic ma-jongg games and falling block puzzles if you ask me
plus the art's nice
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The final version might be better.
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Having played the actual thing now, not super-impressed with touhouvania. It really feels like just a castlevania reskin plus flight mechanic, and not really particularly touhou. The fighting games and the Megaman clone, they still had that quality. This one ... doesn't.
It's closer than all the generic ma-jongg games and falling block puzzles if you ask me
plus the art's nice
Well I never played those.
The final version might be better.
That's what I'm talking about. It went up on the download sites today.
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I don't know what to think about Hitlers Must Die! (http://www.crypticsea.com/noquarter/). On the one hand it is a monochrome retro-styled vector-based game with gentle piano music, which is such a perfect storm of hipster bullshit that it makes my blood boil enough to bring on the heat death of the fucking universe. On the other hand it is entirely about finding clever ways to slaughter an army of clone Hitlers.
The deal-breaker is that it's merely part of a collection of other monochrome retro-styled vector-based games with gentle piano music.
(http://hundredcoins.org/brentai/images/metallicafanatic_st_anger.jpg)
(http://hundredcoins.org/brentai/images/hulk.jpg)
(http://hundredcoins.org/brentai/images/explosion-finger.jpg)
(http://hundredcoins.org/brentai/images/pup1.jpg)
(http://hundredcoins.org/brentai/images/hell-11g.jpg)
(http://hundredcoins.org/brentai/images/wii-dead-space1.jpg)
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Persona 3 Portable for the PSP (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3175637). With all of the FES updates as well as a few new changes, including:
- You can now select the gender of your main character, a choice that affects both your personal appearance and that of Orpheus, your starting Persona. The story changes a fair bit if you go it female, of course -- for one, instead of the enigmatic Elizabeth (above), there's a new, equally shadowy male character.
Mother Fucker. I'm a habitual gender-swap player, whenever I can. I've been wanting to do this since Persona 3 and 4, and they finally do it... on the damn PSP.
I am especially curious how this might affect other parts of the game. I guess you get to date all the male characters this time. And maybe Chihiro. One would hope. Mitsuru, too.
Also:
- You can now directly control your NPC party members in battle instead of just defining tactics for them, although that option's still there as well.
... Damn it.
I guess this is how everybody who bought Persona 3 vanilla felt about FES coming out. Except this stings more, since there's no way I'm ever going to get a PSP.
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The one problem with playing a female character in it is that Elizabeth becomes a dude. Which I'm sure will spawn some dickgirl porn of her on pixiv. And an obligatory doujin of the main character fucking him/herself.
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...I'm pretty sure such already existed.
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No one has mentioned the hot springs yet?
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Fuck Life for making me buy a PSP.
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fml4psp
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idk my bff modded psp?
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How did I not know that Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box would be out on the 24th?
:o
:D
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:want:
Critical thinking is the key!
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The Policenauts translation patch should be
coming out today out now.
http://policenauts.net/english/
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Stick an IV in this man and pump him full of karma.
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Jesus Christ. (http://g4tv.com/videos/41010/Serious-Sam-HD-The-First-Encounter-SUPERMERCIAL/)
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I gotta know how they got 6009 polygons into one krundle.
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First, they took a giant block of polygon...
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Yes I'm well aware that this is based upon the first Serious Sam game.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQsObzDsYd8
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I... you missed my joke, apparently?
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RUMOR: SIR HENRY MOTHERFUCKER IS PLAYABLE IN NO MORE HEROES 2
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So I can let low level mooks beat the shit out of him over and over?!
Oh rapture! ::D:
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A bright, colorful, somewhat toony, third-person Zelda-esque adventure mod... (http://www.gametrailers.com/user-movie/airborn-a-ut3-total-conversion/329219)
...of Unreal Tournament 3.
:OoO:
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Is there anything you CAN'T do with the Unreal engine?
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I'm more impressed with the 3rd person adventure RPG done with the Starcraft 2 map editor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAtmOLTMqPg
(skip to 5:00, watch to the end for bonus top-down shooter mod)
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RUMOR: SIR HENRY MOTHERFUCKER IS PLAYABLE IN NO MORE HEROES 2
not a rumor. shinobu's also playable evidently.
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DFO Open Beta starts soon. (http://dungeonfighter.nexon.net/News/View.aspx?boardNo=101&contentNo=005cu&pageIndex=1)
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Sega announces Dreamcast2 (http://thegia.com/2009/09/09/sega-announces-dreamcast-2/)
Have I stumbled across some new "September Fools" tradition?
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Sonic Factory - A 2.5D Sonic game with a focus on speed and platforming.
A console Sonic game that is not a travesty?
I'm gonna have to go with yes, it's a cruel joke.
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(http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/314/a6f3d29d80d79f531255c75.jpg)
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Sega announces Dreamcast2 (http://thegia.com/2009/09/09/sega-announces-dreamcast-2/)
Have I stumbled across some new "September Fools" tradition?
Wait, what? A GIA is updating again? I see Erin Mehlos is involved. Who else is behind this?
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downloading Airborn's demo
hope i get to fuck Lavie
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According to the GIA, that Dreamcast2 will go well with my Led Zeppelin: Rock Band while I play Mega Man Legends 4.
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Just in time for the Dreamcast's 10th anniversary no less.
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This reeks of fake. It must be some kind of Dreamcast anniversary prank. :wat:
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GASP! Vagrant Story 2 is available on PSN (http://thegia.com/2009/09/08/vagrant-story-2-available-on-psn/)? I loved that game when it came out for the PS2 in 2003!
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This reeks of fake. It must be some kind of Dreamcast anniversary prank. :wat:
:mystery:
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My heart wants to believe. It really does.
::(:
I'll be over here playing Bangai-O.
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This makes me the saddest panda in the most recent history of sad pandas.
I'm going to play Project Justice to make myself feel better.
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Bangai-O...Chu Chu Rocket...what's next?
MORE TREASURE. IKARUGA.
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i am just gonna play through all of Jet Set Radio
TURNS OUT IT'S STILL MY FAVORITE GAME EVER
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Protomen have a new album out.
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Protomen have a new album out.
:victory:
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Bethesda sues Interplay over Fallout (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6217290.html)
The first [suit]was in relation to the Fallout MMORPG, which stipulated that Interplay had to have raised at least $30 million in funding for the project by the end of March 2009. As evidence such fund-raising did not occur, Bethesda points to a June 30 filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission which said Interplay had $2.54 million in debt and only $16,000 in cash assets.
The second part of the suit accuses Interplay of riding the coattails of Fallout 3 by re-releasing and repackaging older Fallout games without permission. Specifically, it says that the company was selling a compilation of Fallout, Fallout 2, and Fallout Tactics as boxed products called "Fallout Trilogy" and "Saga Fallout." The packaging of any such new boxed product needed to be approved by Bethesda, which claims it never did so. Bethesda also feels the name "Fallout Trilogy" was deliberately misleading consumers into thinking the compilation contained Fallout 3.
Oh, Interplay.
Interplay, Interplay, Interplay.
Interplay.
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NieR to feature futanari (NSFW?) (http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/09/16/square-enixs-nier-replicant-gets-hot-futanari-action/)
A female warrior and partner of Nier, she was part-possessed in a demonic attack, and became a hermaphrodite (futanari).
(http://www.layoutcodez.net/personalized/google/success_baby70989908.jpg)
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NieR Gestalt (below) is thought to be an effort to appeal to international markets, though what the addition of a futanari says about Square’s hopes for the Replicant PS3 version is not entirely clear...
I can see the international markets already.
America: :gasp:
Europe: :ohmy:
Germany: Silly Japanese! Robots don't have any sort of gender identification!
Australia: We're just happy to get the game!
Followed by someone at Square-Enix taking the road Capcom did with Poison where she is a dickgirl in Japan, but a normal woman in America.
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:glee: Do you hear that, Mr. Anderson? It is the sound of inevitability. It is the sound of doujinshi.
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Shit, it was inevitable to begin with, now it's canon.
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Dude, it's a cannon?
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Nintendo DLC for the next few months (http://www.gamerbytes.com/2009/09/nintendo_revealed_wiiware_dsiw.php). Of note: Shantae sequel.
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Of note: Shantae sequel.
:pop:
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Cave Story in Q3? Wouldn't that mean this month?
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Hope so.
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Honestly wasn't sure whether to post this here or in the terrible video thread.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJpomoKXj8k
Stay classy, Tecmo.
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We've come a long way from "JUST A GIRL, GET OUT OF HERE!"
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It occurs to me that they may not find that sort of thing to be ridiculous trashy pandering over there.
Or maybe they just don't care.
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full disclosure i kinda laughed at their advertisement which was a couple of fingers sticking out of a wall as if holding up a fake wall and then a giant pair of fake tits protruding from said fake wall. SEE IT ACTUALLY HIGHLIGHTS HOW RIDICULOUS A NINJA WITH GIANT TITS IS
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oh sure you COULD do the same thing with a giant cockbulge
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but ninjas are japanese see
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shut up what about those crazy bikini model chicks
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We've come a long way from "JUST A GIRL, GET OUT OF HERE!"
No kidding. They didn't even kick that high back then.
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It's evidently comedy of some sort. They make fun of themselves while allowing their audience to also make fun of themselves?
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Get the first episode of Tales of Monkey Island for free. (http://www.telltalegames.com/playlikeapirate)
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-Gore
+weird purple mist and FUCKING LUDICROUS BREAST PHYSICS
:THATWAY:
BREASTS DO NOT BOUNCE THAT WAY
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Yes, but they don't know that.
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Y'know, the crazy part is that this isn't even the first PS3 game to have the Sixaxis used to shake breasts. You could make Rose's breasts jiggle by shaking the controller when you called her via Codec in MGS4.
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Get the first episode of Tales of Monkey Island for free. (http://www.telltalegames.com/playlikeapirate)
Just a reminder that today is the day.
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On a related note, the remake of Monkey Island 1 is half off on steam this weekend. (That's $5.)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoFYEtj2tDw
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoFYEtj2tDw
That game looks seeexxxaaayyy. :8D:
I'm surprised it's a PS3 exclusive.
I don't mind if it completely rips off the old Zelda games, and stays away from "newer" ones with :tldr:
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It's a cool idea, and I get what they're going for, but I'm really not liking how these things animate. Intentionally or not, it still feels clunky.
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Was that the guy from spelunker in there? (~1:38) If so, he better take damage or die after falling any further than 2 feet, assuming he's not just an immobile NPC.
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The first game I have wanted a PS3 for
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There is no expression I can manage for that video.
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It wouldn't matter what expression you could manage, because you've been sacked.
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Resonance of Fate (http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3176196), despite it's pretentious title, has me pretty well interested. Combat looks fun, like if Valkyrie Profile 2 were a third person shooter. Also: it's being made by both SEGA and Tri-Ace. Say what you want about Sonic, but we all know that SEGA makes pretty great RPGs. And as long as Tri-Ace doesn't have its head up its ass, it too can make some fun games.
Just so long as Tri-Ace has nothing to do with the story, I think I'll continue to be pretty excited about this one.
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I am going to be all over Lost Planet 2, when it's released. :perfect:
If you've set up a japanese PS3 account, you can get the demo. It might be in the US demo, too, but I was impatient.
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Say what you want about Sonic, but we all know that SEGA makes pretty great RPGs.
... like what? What good RPG serieses has SEGA developed in-house?
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Do you really want to go down this road with me?
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I want you to go down this road with TA! Please!
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The Phantasy Star series, the Shining series, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Skies of Arcadia, Valkyria Chronicles.
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Wait, all the PS games were in-house, weren't they? What else did they do?
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Well, if you count all the second-party shit, then sure, Sega's developed thousands of games.
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If you don't count second-party shit, then SEGA never developed anything past the Master System and the question is fucking stupid. Even Sonic Team is a separate entity on paper (Sega AM8).
Phantasy Star, Skies of Arcadia, and while we're at it Sakura Wars were made by Team Shinobi/Overworks/AM7. Panzer Dragoon Saga was made by an offshoot of an offshoot of the R&D team (Team Andromeda, of Smilebit, of AM6). The Shining Force series before III (and the LandStalker series) was indeed developed out-of-house by Climax Entertainment and therefore doesn't count if you absolutely must be a mincing little twat.
EDIT!: Shining in the Darkness and Shining Force were collaborations with the in-house Sonic! Team Planning, and Shining Force II was made entirely in-house by STP, which would explain the weird "Team Sonic" credit it gets in the US. STP would after this break off from SEGA and instantly be reduced to making bad GBA ports and regurgitated Mario Parties.
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A test client for Love (http://iloapp.quelsolaar.com/blog/news?Home&post=56) is available. All it is good for at this point is lookin' at the pretty, pretty graphics.
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Maybe it's worth specifying which of the Sega second-party teams we're talking about, then. Because while AM7 might have some games, AM5 has pretty much nothing but racers.
Moot, anyway. Sega's only publishing, the development appears to be entirely Tri-Ace.
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If "You Got the Grappling Hook" is too avant-garde a title for you, here's just plain Grappling Hook (http://ghook.speedrungames.com/).
DISCLAIMER: I haven't actually played this game and probably won't.
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If "You Got the Grappling Hook" is too avant-garde a title for you, here's just plain Grappling Hook (http://ghook.speedrungames.com/).
DISCLAIMER: I haven't actually played this game and probably won't.
Do you realize that YFtGH is a real game (http://messhof.com/you-found-the-grappling-hook/), and the version Kazz played is a joke made to punish hotlinkers?
Note that I haven't played the real version, maybe it's avant-garde too and I'm mistaken.
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I do realize. I'm making fun of the title itself, which apparently I can't even be arsed to get right.
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Ah, you meant "title" literally, not as a synonym for "game".
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Correct, though it probably still works both ways.
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Um.
Jesus.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HehBgXZRipU
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(http://zedpower.dreamhosters.com/images/misc/936273-bbaron_large.jpg)
The Black Baron is unimpressed.
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one of the games involves putting more BLENDER HATS onto zombies and hitting a big button that turns said hats on than the other guys
you also get dynamite to blow up the zombies that have been blender hatted by the other players to deny them points
there is also a duct tape mechanic that lets you tape weapons together to get things like WHEELCHAIR WITH MOUNTED MACHINE GUNS
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So you can re-enact the fight with Belger?
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Planetside sequel rumored (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/09/26/sony-to-develop-planetside-2/).
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Kotor 2 Restoration completed (http://www.deadlystream.com/showthread.php?t=339).
But not by Team Gizka. By some other people who thought Team Gizka was taking too long and said fuck it, we'll do it ourselves.
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i am playing through it and it is GLORIOUS :perfect:
Goddamn, this is so much better than KOTOR that it's a bit embarassing! Too bad Carth the Second still sucks.
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Too bad Carth the Second still sucks.
i forget his name actually, oh wait atton? wasn't that it? he was still more interesting than carth. like that's hard to do. i think the best depiction of carth is how hk-47 depicts him if you ask in 2.
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(http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/522/carth.png): Are people talking about me? Hi! Hi!
... oh. I'm sorry. I'm ... I'm so sorry.
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i forget his name actually, oh wait atton? wasn't that it? he was still more interesting than carth. like that's hard to do.
yeah, but. I just got to Nar Shaddaa and found out his secret (?) from those Twi'leks, and, uh. [spoiler]I KILLED TWENTY MILLION JEDI. I HATE JEDI. CAN I BE A JEDI PLS ;_;[/spoiler]
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When you said Carth the second, I thought of Kaidan is Mass Effect. D:
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That's Carth the Third.
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Kaiden always ends up incinerated whenever I play Mass Effect.
I am okay with this.
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I've always kind of wanted an option to leave them BOTH behind.
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Yeah, same. Carth 3.0 and Fuckoff Space Catholic were both just utterly uninteresting, and it really robs the situation of any drama if you have to choose which of the two dies and you honestly don't give a shit.
'course, the same could be said for most of Mass Effect. God that was the blandest game.
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Well, i mean, i gave a shit, it was just like, "Which one do i want dead MORE?"
It may not surprise you that my first run through was as a Renegade. I typically play good characters in games that offer the choice; the exceptions are when the NPCs populating fantasyland are literally so stupid or unlikeable or hopeless that even I can't make myself feel bad about harming them, or want to do them specific injury -- this latter was the case in Jade Empire, piece of shit that it was.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RmEUlywivs
:vampire: Hey Alex, wanna see a new Darkstalkers game made?
:wheeeee:: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOB5ysoxPLI
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJOHK36p3C4&feature=PlayList&p=1495B94872A7792D&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=39 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJOHK36p3C4&feature=PlayList&p=1495B94872A7792D&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=39)
Whoa..This is actually looking like a serious contender to Silent Hill's spot. :ohshi~:
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remember epic mickey?
(http://gameinformer.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Blogs.Components.WeblogFiles/00.00.00.00.06/7558.epicmickey_2D00_cover.jpg)
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If you put a keychain on the other end of Mickey's paintbrush the picture'd fit in perfectly with the KH universe.
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i think the best part is how it's for the wii.
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Oh, Warren Spector, you're soooo dreamy~
Yeah, I'm excited for that.
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Is it really gonna be called "Epic Mickey"? I mean, I find the name hilarious as all hell, but I don't think that's what they're going for.
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What, you don't want everyone to be talking about how they're going to get an epic mickey?
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yeah, that's the official name
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Rocket Knight is coming back, guys. (http://www.1up.com/do/minisite?cId=3176338)
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(http://doom.pyoko.org/eeeee.jpg)
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Sparkster is finally returning in a proper adventure: A 2.5D platformer for XBLA, PSN, and Steam, programmed by Climax,
(http://daniel.suckramento.org/chuck-e%20cheese%20is%20too%20close.png)
Oh, if only they meant the good Climax.
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The guy they're interviewing (http://www.1up.com/do/previewPage?cId=3176349) is a regular on the gamespite forums (http://www.gamespite.net/talkingtime/). So if you have problems with what's going on, there you go.
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Parish seems impressed so far, and it looks right, but you never can tell with remakes/launches.
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Well Climax's forays into the Silent Hill IP have not really been the kind of thing that fills me with hope and happiness. Their pending remake of SH1 sounds, uh. I dunno. Also they made Overlord.
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(ABC News) Metroid Prime Trilogy: The "Citizen Kane" of gaming? (http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8765863)
:rolleyes:
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Deep breath and...
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
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Rocket Knight is coming back, guys. (http://www.1up.com/do/minisite?cId=3176338)
I hope to god it's more Rocket Knight Adventures and less Sparkster.
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(ABC News) Metroid Prime Trilogy: The "Citizen Kane" of gaming? (http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=8765863)
Well, at least they picked good games.
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remember epic mickey?
apparantly the main villain is oswald the lucky rabbit and he unleashes the phantom blot and oh god yesssss
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remember epic mickey?
apparantly the main villain is oswald the lucky rabbit and he unleashes the phantom blot and oh god yesssss
I'm expecting "OSWALD IS A TOTALLY NEW CHARACTER" idiots to be all over various forums/blags
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On a tangent, I always thought Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit was Screwy Squirrel.
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oh god what if judge doom is in the game somehow
yeah okay officially overhyping myself.
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Are you suggesting some kind of level where you end up in 1930's Hollywood/Toon Town and your guest partner is Eddie Valiant as voiced by Bob Hoskins?
(http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/4448/judgedoom.jpg)
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit wasn't even a Disney movie as far as I remember. :wat:
Although, Doom -would- make a cool villain.
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Pretty sure it was a joint venture.
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so has anybody made a "american mcgee's steamboat willie" joke yet
because if not consider this the first "american mcgee's steamboat willie" joke
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Touchstone is Disney's "everything rated worse than G" label. They went in on it with Warner Bros., and thus granted access to the Disney stable.
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit wasn't even a Disney movie as far as I remember.
I am sorrrrrrrrrrta sure that Disney has the rights to Roger Rabbit and company, while the movie was indeed a joint venture.
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They did get the rights. I know this because I recall seeing Jessica Rabbit towels at the Disney World gift shops.
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:shrug: I stand corrected I guess.
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Jessica Rabbit towels
(http://hundredcoins.org/brentai/images/iamshocked.jpg)
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You're probably thinking the same thing I was when I read that, Brentai. :ohmy:
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All four Oddworld games to be packaged and released on PC. (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/10/09/oddbox-oddworld-games-on-pc/)
Good news to those of us who consistently ignore the first two games constantly popping up on Steam promotions.
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Fantastic news for those of us who love Oddworld but not buying X-Boxes.
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I watched some videos of Cave Story on Wii. The music made my ears bleed. Why would they want my ears to bleed?
http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/26736
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I really don't like anything about the WiiWare Cave Story
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Good thing it includes the option to use the old-style music and/or the old-style graphics, I guess.
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But what if I hated the original graphics and music even more?
What then, hmm?!
But seriously, I like it. I can see why others might not, though.
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I'm not saying "OH NO THEY CHANGED SOMETHING NOW IT ISN'T THE SAME!" I am saying that they made the music shrill and high pitched based on the videos I watched.
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yeah that's actually rather painful.
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Is it... supposed to invoke early builds of MEKA or something? I mean that's kinda retro I guess.
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I guess I'm the only person who thought that the original Cave Story music was shrill and irritating, too. Although the music in that video IS even worse.
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So, preorders for Painkiller: Resurrection (http://store.steampowered.com/app/39559/) are open.
I... uh... hmm. I don't know...
Developed by Homegrown Games with former developers and modders from the previous Painkiller games
I think I'll wait for reviews.
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Yeah, the people who made the original Painkiller got absorbed into Epic, so we will probably never see another game at the same level as Painkiller.
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And didn't a bunch of the rest go on to make Dreamkiller?
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The people who made Dreamkiller also made Painkiller Overdose.
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Koei to make Fist of the North Star Musou (http://kotaku.com/5380244/tecmo-koei-bringing-fist-of-north-star-to-ps3xbox-360)
I wasn't aware I'd become my own focus group!
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ohhhh hell yes. Now I know that I must purchase a PS3.
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First game where musou's "1 guy vs 1,000,000 goons" really makes sense
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Possibility of a US release: I am going to bet that it is non-nil, as a consequence of an unaccountable memory of a rumor of that series getting a dub nearly two decades late.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzxgRGV6W_Y
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Castlevania The Adventure Rebirth graphics reveal it to actually truly honestly a remaking of Castlevania: The Adventure.
(http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a314/blot_terrorcon/vania1014.jpg)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkpwZvxWWLw
Would it have KILLED him to turn off the goddamn word danmaku on pixiv?
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Whoa, I'm usually not into beat-em-ups but I really like the look they're going for. Not bright flashy streaks of light with every hit, it's just A Dude Punching Real Hard and the air blurring from the force.
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The Last Stand (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/10/14/dawn-of-update-the-last-stand/#more-19609) was just released for Dawn of War II, and I want some. It's basically Relic's take on the Survival/Horde mode that's so in vogue these days, but from the RTS perspective, and Relic's usual flair. I haven't tried it yet, but it's totally free, so who among you will stand with me?
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Buuuuuh guuuuuh.
Hell yes. I am totally getting that!
...
As soon as I get a job so I can buy DoWII.
Can't find good torrents for the game anyway
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:goodnews:
FOTNS GAME GETTING WORLDWIDE RELEASE (http://www.destructoid.com/fist-of-the-north-star-planned-for-worldwide-release-152103.phtml)
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We are already dead.
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I don't understand what yo-- :scanners:
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toooooooookiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
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Left 4 Dead 2 boycott group disbands... (http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/10/14/left-4-dead-2-boycott-group-disband)
...approximately one month before such a boycott would have any effect. Way to stick to your guns, guys.
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You didn't actually read the article, did you.
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Perhaps there is something about boycotts you're implying I don't understand? It's really easy to not buy and play a product when it is not available.
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You seem to be suggesting that the threat to boycott a product on its release if it is not changed prior to that release is inherently a valueless threat. Which is ... dumb.
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The Koopalings don't seem to really get Fat Princess (http://gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=100805).
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Wait a minute...
Super Mario...
Giant... cake...
Peach is a fucking skank.
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1) Haha, Koopa Kids are canon again. Suck it, haters.
2) Of course the L4D2 boycott disbanded.
It was a dumb idea to begin with.
If we assume they're dumb, we can assume that they have other mental and spiritual weaknesses.
Therefore, the cynical man would probably win a bet that most of those dudes are going to buy Left 4 Dead 2 if they oppose it for "boycott-worthy" reasons. I'd only believe people who won't buy L4D2 because of monetary concerns will actually avoid it.
Buuuuuut hey, there are more clues, to make it more laughable.
accomplished everything we can” and added that “Our goal wasn’t to steer people away from L4D2, it was to get Valve’s attention and have them support original L4D. We succeeded and that’s where our mission ends; nothing more or less.”
They're dumb enough to think they've won because they got Valve to backtrack do something that was probably already in the pipe due to Valve Time and add in a single new campaign to L4D. Problem solved, I'm sure L4D will be consistently and intelligently updated.... with more "campaigns." That still feature the same six zombies and the same four guns.
As a collective we have done more than achieve a few goals, we have paved the way for Developer-Community relations in the future. No matter what the press or other gamers say, we have made an indelible mark upon the future of this industry. You should all be proud, we certainly are.
Valve flew the leaders of the boycott group out to their offices in September in a bid to make peace.
Sounds like this is a victory for scoring free swag for making a loud enough bitch fest on the internet. I'd shake my head at Valve "caving in", but I'm guessing it takes maybe two interns to write a L4D "Campaign" and it probably took a bag of swag each to buy out the leaders. Especially if there were like, Valve franchise plushies in them.
So Congratulations, Valve. You've saved maybe a few hundred purchases. That was probably worth the airfare.
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I guess if we start the Half-Life Episode 3 Boycott group now, we can be flown out to visit Valve headquarters and get our headcrab plushies a month before it's released.
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I am remorseful that I bought Left 4 Dead at the fifty-dollar launch price only to discover that, after the first few times, I don't really like it that much. Go figure! So I probably won't be buyin' the sequel. Does that count as a boycott?
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I waited until the free weekend to come up with the same conclusion, and probably won't buy either the original nor the sequel now.
HOLY CHRIST I THINK I AM A MOVEMENT NOW
WE'RE DOING THIS MAN
WE'RE NOT MAKING IT HAPPEN
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lets DO this thing
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I don't know why. But that totally looks like Gabe and Tycho.
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It's ironic.
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(http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh107/blaze627/1255643306639.jpg)
(http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh107/blaze627/1255643425586.jpg)
(http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh107/blaze627/1255643532175.jpg)
(http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh107/blaze627/1255643649116.jpg)
(http://i254.photobucket.com/albums/hh107/blaze627/1255643730077.jpg)
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Well that ingame art sure killed my erection.
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"early beta"
"wii games"
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"Spyro the Dragon"
"PS1"
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"wii games"
Is Nintendo publishing this? No? Fuck it.
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"Spyro the Dragon"
"PS1"
true, but i bet it did not look that good a year and a half from release.
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World of Goo once again an experiment in marketing. (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/10/20/world-of-goo-sale-provides-fascinating-results/) The results may or may not be interesting.
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Not exactly a bold move so far into release. They've already made almost all of the money on the game that they were going to.
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Long tail viral marketing, piracy DRM copyright publisher shareholder, tip jar underserved market, or I'll eat my hat.
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I think Dante's Inferno might be trying too hard.
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/57872.html
Also, the Scythe is really stupid.
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wow why do i still want to play that
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Boobies?
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I am a man of many tastes. Breasts aren't one of them.
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Death's Scythe doesn't strike me as being all that difference from the Nanobreaker guy's weapon (but Death's Scythe can do whatever it wants).
That said, it's a DMC-esque game, so I'll probably play it and enjoy it despite blatant pampering to the hormonal white male crowd (not that this bothers me).
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Bethesda sues Interplay over Fallout (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6217290.html)
Interplay countersues Bethesda over Fallout (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6237558.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=hot-stories&tag=hot-stories;title;2)
By way of its countersuit, Interplay seeks a declaration that it continues to hold and make use of its licensing rights under the APA and TLA. In the alternative, the publisher seeks that Bethesda's purchasing agreement from 2007 be rescinded, and all Fallout rights return to Interplay. The company has also petitioned the court to award it royalties it would be due under Bethesda's original licensing agreement from 2004, a figure it estimates at $15 million thanks to the highly successful Fallout 3.
:facepalm:
Part of me has the primal instinct to root for the underdog, but it's not going to. Ever since I listened to the interview with the Star Trek game guy in episode 77 of Retronauts, I find it impossible to ignore the fact that Interplay is run by moronic douchebags who would be all be chugging on a Bag of Infinite Dicks if there was any justice in the world.
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...which one's the underdog, now?
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Part of me has the primal instinct to root for the guy with the least money
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In what capacity does Interplay even exist anymore? I thought they were just the heading on a particular set of debts some company had inherited.
Deja vu (http://www.penny-arcade.com/images/2001/20010119h.jpg), in some regards.
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They were supposed to work on a Fallout MMO, and use the money they got from selling the actual Fallout IP to Bethesda to do that and also restart some of their other franchises, but that money is gone now, and who knows where it went. They've announced some things, according to their news page (http://www.interplay.com/about/news.php), but it's strictly small time. Earthworm Jim for iPhones and Boogerman on Virtual Console aren't going to earn them enough cash to make a competitive MMO.
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I didn't notice these before, but here's some Mass Effect 2 screens (http://www.1up.com/do/media?cId=3170362&sec=IMAGES). New Alien Race, a New Krogan and... what the fuck is she wearing (http://www.1up.com/media/03/7/5/9/lg/850.jpg)? I don't even know.
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It appears to be a bra fashioned entirely from suspenders.
I'm all for the DIY aesthetic, but this seems like it's taking it a little too far.
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Partial nudity INDEED!
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Okay, if Bioware is going to insist on putting all this nookie in their games they really need to get away from this uncanny valley nightmare fodder
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Maybe that's why I thought Asari was better looking than Ashley in Mass Effect. As an alien she's less apt to enter the uncanny valley.Either that or years of Star Trek have given me a head make-up fetish.
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If you're given a world full of beautiful, exotic alien beings to fuck, it'd be kind of a waste of time to just put your penis in the nearest human female.
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Chirp chrrk chiak chirp chjar chrrk chirp.
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But yeah, Johnny Depp is hot.
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But there is no Johnny Depp in space.
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Not only is there a Johnny Depp in space, but it will gladly tentacle rape you. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Astronaut%27s_Wife)
Happy birthday, Friday.
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Hearing rumors about Persona 3 for the PSP and how you can choose the gender of the main character. This is backed up by the pictures I've seen of a red colored chick (vs the blue guy) standing next to Blue Guy leaning against a wall saying P3P.
Sounds like I'll have to buy THAT TOO.
EDIT: I guess it's not a rumor. Guess it's a fact. Watched some youtube videos with her.
Why am I the last to find out?
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This should probably go in the games you're playing thread, but I just finished the Dragon Age: Journeys Episode One. Then I went to the Origins website and got myself waaay too hyped for the game. I guess I'd better make time to blow away the whole of the 2nd.
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Man, if P3 Portable doesn't come out here I'm probably never going to get around to beating P3 ever. I just can't beat console rpgs anymore.
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Yeah, same here. I already own FES, but honestly, for a great portable RPG, I actually don't mind paying twice for this thing. Not sure if I'm going to get it right after release, but I'll probably get it secondhand after a couple months.
I don't know what it is about portable RPGs, though. This and the GBA Tactics Ogre and Advance Wars are unbelievably entertaining for some reason.
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Remember Kabbage. Atlus. :nyoro~n:
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I've never played a Persona, but P3 Portable might change that.
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I've never played a Persona, but P3 Portable might change that.
Or you could buy Persona 1 and 2 for the PSP
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Which would count for dick-all, since Persona 3 and 4 play almost nothing like Persona 1 and 2.
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That is a good thing to note DN, but which style of play do you think would be a better entry to the series for someone new?
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3 and 4. 1 and 2 were a bit hard and relentless to people who werent super on the rpg ball. Then again they could have added a easy mode to the psp version.
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I dunno, 3 and 4 kicked my ass pretty bad - Devil Survivor is the first SMT game I've played with a difficulty curve I've ultimately found manageable.
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I feel like Persona 3/4's difficulty followed an inverted bell-curve kind of thing. It was still possible to get robbed on a cheap death, but on playthrough one I found myself clearing sections in only a day or two after a full party is assembled. I can't speak to the earlier incarnations.
Actually, Devil Survivor had battles that didn't make me break a sweat, followed by boss fights that made me want to end all of humanity.
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Howabout playing persona 3 and 4 because they're awesome and not playing persona 1 and 2 because they have nothing going for them other than style.
Seriously, beating persona 1 was one of the more painful experiences I've ever had while gaming.
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I hear the Persona 2's are pretty great, though.
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3 and 4. 1 and 2 were a bit hard and relentless to people who werent super on the rpg ball. Then again they could have added a easy mode to the psp version.
Persona 1 on the PSP does in fact have an easy mode.
I would personally suggest Persona 2 (and 1 to a lesser extent) over Persona 3 (and 4 by proxy although I haven't played it). I might like 3's characters, but 2's are much much better while the gameplay is more draconian and difficult. No wandering in randomly generated dungeons is also nice.
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The fundamental problem I ran into with Persona 3 and 4 was the strict timeline - there were very real limitations on how much dungeoning I could do at a time, and if I wasn't high enough level to deal with a particular boss on a particular day... well, it led to unwinnable restart-your-game scenarios.
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I could see that as a problem in Persona 3, but Persona 4? As long as you go through every dungeon twice you should be pretty well in the green.
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I only use one save slot
I used more than one save slot for exactly that reason. Though, I never had this problem myself. This may have more to do with the way I level grind more than anything inherent to the game itself.
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SPLIT MERGE IMMINENT
Chiming in to say that, if you're a Persona neophyte, play 3 first. 4 is an expansion on 3 that you'll appreciate much more having played 3, and 2 is awesome, but a bit of an acquired taste.
I'd be playing 1 right now but, well, custom firmware.
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Having played only 4, I like it.
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The changes made in 4 make it a bit tough to go back. The changes (mostly) seem like obvious extensions of the concept. To the point where you wonder why they didn't include them in 3. And then you start to resent it... and then come the murder plots.
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I would argue that you should play P3 first. I have probably posted enough about it at this point that to post more would make me have to go shave my neck again, but the story is much better than P4's -- which isn't to say 4 is bad, by any means, but 3 is actually kind of amazing for a console RPG.
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I'd play P3 first, even though I personally enjoyed P4 more. I think that most of the reasons why I liked 4 more are based on the gameplay improvements from 3, which is why you should start with it. After playing through 4, I really don't think I could ever play 3 again on a console, but the portable version sounds like fun. Tartarus should be a lot more tolerable when I can play it while watching TV or something.
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Doesn't look like there's any walking in the PSP version. that is to say, each area where you would normally talk to people, EG the dorm lobby, is now just a graphical menu where you select what to interact with. This is probably a great handheld solution.
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So yeah... Rape Lay?
thoughts?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ACSsUhFk7I
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Cyan, i don't even personally dislike you or anything, but please leave the forums alone for a couple years.
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Persona 3 is the only game that, when completed, honestly made me feel like I never had to play another game of that genre.
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Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
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So, preorders for Painkiller: Resurrection (http://store.steampowered.com/app/39559/) are open.
I... uh... hmm. I don't know...
Developed by Homegrown Games with former developers and modders from the previous Painkiller games
I think I'll wait for reviews.
Nobody likes it. Gamespot gives it 3.5 (http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/painkillerresurrection/review.html). Abandon hope all ye who liked the original. That franchise is dead.
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http://www.mf-online.jp/ :perfect: :perfect: :perfect: :perfect: Yes please japan thankyou.
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Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
the genre in question is the japanese role-playing game
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Aw, Square-Enix renamed Eidos. (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3176863) The new name is really lame, too.
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Hhhhhhhhhuh, i didn't realize SE even bought them. Shit.
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Sgt. Frog is getting his own RPG for the DS (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3176877). Apparently it's going to play like a Tales of game.
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(http://stat001.ameba.jp/user_images/20091112/19/sinobi/4a/17/j/o0210030010304765535.jpg)
There is a hotel dusk sequel coming out in January in Japan. Hopefully that means we will get it next year.
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Coming soon: Edgeversion? (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/11/12/going-over-the-edge-indie-mass-protest/)
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(http://stat001.ameba.jp/user_images/20091112/19/sinobi/4a/17/j/o0210030010304765535.jpg)
There is a hotel dusk sequel coming out in January in Japan. Hopefully that means we will get it next year.
:want: :want: :want: :want: :want: :want:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoUMkNVbV5I
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Fist Fighting a T-Rex may in fact be the ultimate expression of that which is Badass
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What is unsaid is that you can play this game RIGHT THE FUCK NOW (http://www.moddb.com/mods/dino-d-day)
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Yes, but you really shouldn't.
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Just watching the trailer told me that it's a pretty crappy Source mod that uses Day of Defeat: Source assets and head crab sound effects for the raptors.
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You guys ruin all of the fun. :;-(:
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I am actually a professional buzzkill.
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Supposedly the HL2 mod is just the first step and they're actually working on a full retail product for next year?
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Make no mistake, I too refuse to ruin the magic of the trailer by actually playing the game.
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Game is okay. I guess you could be a snob and think "I want my WWII dinosaur game to be an experimental, life-altering experience" rather than just game about shooting dinosaurs.
Also, you know, free.
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Not a matter of it not being avant-garde enough so much as it's a matter of the game's level design being pretty gosh darn bad.
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also once again blithely glossing over the fact that everyone else was bare-knuckle boxing allosaurs for like two years before you Yanks decided to show up
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Pandemic Studios got shut down. I'm sort of sad, since we are never going to get another Mercenaries game. I'm also happy because they won't get to completely ruin my expectations ever again.
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(http://www.masswepray.com/images/gallery/mass_we_pray_1.jpg) (http://www.masswepray.com/)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRMiRFJzIKA
I am totally psyched is anyone else totally psyched about this?
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Genuflecting!!!
We're taking this prayer to the next level, bro!
WHERE DOING THIS
WHERE MAKING IT HAPPEN
...was that memetic enough for you guys?
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Wh...
:oic:
:8D:
Did anyone take a look at the website?
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You mean it's not real?
:hurr:
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:mahboi: I was surprised too, but the way that they misspelled "wii" was a dead giveaway.
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Okay, you all stay the fuck away from Classic for a while. I think that was good enough to warrant his next five posts.
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Turns out it was viral marketing for Dante's Inferno by EA.
Supposed to represent the "Heresey" section of hell.
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Interesting. (http://zepy.momotato.com/2009/11/18/new-lufia-game-details) Very (http://www.true-gaming.net/tgupload/images2/0911192045b518d0a2471b544f.jpg) very (http://www.true-gaming.net/tgupload/images2/09111920456cd4ed0e378d3009.jpg) very (http://www.true-gaming.net/tgupload/images2/091119204420c66ad914b0a384.jpg) interesting (http://www.true-gaming.net/tgupload/images2/09111920440add33f4eb3d903b.jpg).
I really have absolutely no idea how this could turn out, but that's one of my favorite games, so.
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I'm smelling remake of Lufia 2 with that cast of characters.
Which I'm keen on.
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Well, this is more of a "reimagining" than a "remake" to use the Hollywood parlance. Same basic idea as Lufia 2, whole new execution.
.. as one of the few people who prefers Lufia to Lufia 2, I'm interested!
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I actually really like Lufia 1 the game but I literally could not play it anymore because you got into a fight every five steps. It has/had pretty much the worst random encounter system I have ever seen.
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Check out my review of PS0, boys and girls!
http://prime.programming-designs.com/?p=37
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I actually really like Lufia 1 the game but I literally could not play it anymore because you got into a fight every five steps. It has/had pretty much the worst random encounter system I have ever seen.
Skies of Arcadia.
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I kinda want to play Lufia 1, I think. Is that the one with an unfinished dungeon in the game that looks really messed up?
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That's Lufia 2. It's only a couple floors of a couple dungeons though.
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Heh, only. Nothing like trying to make sense of scrambled pixels to locate a fucking plot item in a chest.
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It's definitely not worth it but I still want to do it.
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Lufia 2 is a great game, it's definitely worth it.
Maxim was a pretty blank slate so it's not like they're "runing' his character since he didn't have much of one to begin with, but that's a pretty radical (hurr) take on him.
There's a few ways they could completely ruin this, but I dare to hope.
....actually, it doesn't matter, as long as they keep the old music and do nice remixes of it I'll buy it.
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Check out my review of PS0, boys and girls!
http://prime.programming-designs.com/?p=37
Check out my review, boys and girls!
http://prime.programming-designs.com/?p=37
DON'T DO THAT.
This is not a difficult concept.
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Check out my review of PS0, boys and girls!
http://prime.programming-designs.com/?p=37
Check out my review, boys and girls!
http://prime.programming-designs.com/?p=37
DON'T DO THAT.
This is not a difficult concept.
Kazz did it >_>
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Yes, yes he did.
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....actually, it doesn't matter, as long as they keep the old music and do nice remixes of it I'll buy it.
Romo, you are such a music slut. Nothing wrong with that, just... damn. What if the game was just a black screen that played, like, fucking Black Mages covers or something? WOULD YOU BUY IT??
Kazz did it >_>
Cyan, don't look to Kazz for an idea of how to act in society.
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Or here, for that matter! ::(:
Now to get back to sliders!
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Holy shit! Mario 64 in a web browser (http://prime.programming-designs.com/?p=40)!
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Holy shit! Mario 64 in a web browser (http://kappa.dreamhosters.com/games/mario/mario.html)!
Fixed it for you.
EDIT: Okay, properly fixed.
Seriously, Sora. What the fuck?
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n-no you didn't?
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Yeah so it works about as well as an N64 emulator ported to Java is expected to. I guess that's still impressive?
Also it's been said a million times but that game has really aged beautifully, god damn.
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I don't care much for Adon, but man, Cody and Guy? I'm all over that.
(http://i814.photobucket.com/albums/zz70/hvzero/ssf4hugocopy.jpg)
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Adon actually has a reason to come back though. Sagat came back and took the championship from adon so I guess adons story is him trying to win it back again? I'd hope to see some Yun or Yang.
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where is Mayor Mike Haggar
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Him and 'Geif are practically a pallet swap.
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Him and 'Geif are practically a pallet swap.
Gief has a pallete swap that is a haggar costume.
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:perfect:
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Alternately, he is givin' criminals around the city 'Gief. :lol:
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The new video with Guy and Cody make me happy. Guy's ultra is superb.
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well we can't have a palette swap in a game that features Ryu/Ken/Akuma
morons
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Ryu and Ken maybe. Akuma plays totally different.
Edit: Unless your talking about shoto fighting style then yeah there exactly the same in that way.
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I'm hoping against all odds that the SF3 characters chosen are Alex, Dudley and Yang, but it's a serious long shot.
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Yun and Yang were both featured in Chun's opening sothats possible one of them will be into the fight.
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where is karin you said there would be karin
okay maybe you didn't fuck you where's karin
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She is off being unique and unwanted. :gameover:
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Early rumors pointed out to Dudley, Makoto and Ibuki, and well, early rumors have been pretty spot on so far even when it comes to the one new character that has been shown so far.
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I will be extremely pleased if Makoto does get in. Favorite fighting game character ever.
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The good news is that Makoto is top tier in Third Strike.
The bad news is that's about all she has going for her.
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The good news is that Makoto is AWESOME tier.
The bad news is oh wait there is no bad news.
Quite right, sir!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv1lETg0398
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Envy, stop having shitty opinions about Street Fighter
Alex, you too
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I hope Elena gets into Street Fighter 4.
I'm just a massive pervert, you see.
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Makoto is flippin' sweet.
Alex is king too.
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Alex will likely get in since he was meant to be the face of SF3.
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where is karin you said there would be karin
okay maybe you didn't fuck you where's karin
NEEDS MORE KARIN GODDAMNIT
or r. mika. I might let them go with some r. mika. BUT NEEDS KARIN.
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Oh for fucks sake: http://kotaku.com/5413247/turn-your-car-into-pac+man
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Yeah dang what's up with those guys using an intelligent and cute solution to better their maps.
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waka waka waka waka waka woow woow woow woow woow woow woow wupwupwupwupwup BWOP beeoo beeoo beeoo waka waka waka waka waka waka waka BWOP beeoo beeoo beeoo woow woow woow woow
oowoowoowoo bwop bop
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Episode 9 of there will be brawl is up!
[spoiler]Luigi uses a warp whistle.[/spoiler]
Edit: This is the saddest episode out of them all. The ending. :sadpanda:
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Silent Hill Composer Akira Yamaoka :8D:
... might be leaving Konami (http://www.joystiq.com/2009/12/01/rumor-silent-hill-composer-akira-yamaoka-leaves-konami/). :loser:
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Yeah but is this like what Uematsu left Square and kept doing all the music under his own contract?
Or like Yuzo Koshiro who was always independent and has basically worked for every major developer in Japan at some point.
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Not just doomed, MEGADOOMED! (http://prime.programming-designs.com/?p=47) -- MegaMan 2 mod made for doom 2!
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Not just doomed, MEGADOOMED! (http://www.youtube.com/user/9esferas) -- MegaMan 2 mod made for doom 2!
fify
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Phantasy Blade Alpha 3 released!
*new hud
*new boss (temp)
*new dash attack (press X)
(http://imgur.com/bWvvp.jpg)
play it here (http://prime.programming-designs.com/java/phantasyblade.jnlp)!
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why does your fantasy game have your spaceship games UI
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Didn't you play Assassin's Creed?
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:O
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I just watched the trailer of the Lufia 2 reimagining, and it seems very strange. The setting is so different, I wonder if anyone would notice the connection if they had changed the name of the game and characters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oudnx8P7L3I
Just as long as Dekar is still badass.
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It actually looks so very much like a Ys game that I honestly wonder if Squeenix lost some sort of publishing deal with Falcom halfway through development and were incredibly relieved to find another popular IP with a redheaded protagonist and titular floating continent.
No really though, compare the bit at 1:35 to...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkZyoQbMR0s
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Was that burly guy with the hammer, uh, Guy?
My biggest concern is that they'll drop Tia or otherwise turn "Serena"/Selan into the exact generic RPG romance that Lufia 2 was so great for avoiding in the first place.
Hearing the Airship theme come up gave me chills. I will probably be buying this. My inner child will punch me in the kidneys if I don't, honestly.
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Yeah, I got chills when I heard the airship theme too.
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My biggest concern is that they'll drop Tia or otherwise turn "Serena"/Selan into the exact generic RPG romance that Lufia 2 was so great for avoiding in the first place.
(http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t322/DetonatorNova/tia.jpg)
well...
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uh, so...wasn't Tia's primary weapon a whip, not a suitcase with a bear trap?
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She also didn't have orange hair and Maxim didn't have a leather jacket and you know what there are lots of differences.
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It's not a remake of Lufia 2 so much as a, I dunno, alternate version of it?
Think like in the Zelda series. Zelda in, say, Twilight Princess is similar to, but actually completely different from the Zelda in OoT, and so on. So throughout the series you have a sort of cast of repeat characters who are recognizable but distinct from their counterparts, coming together to form a game that's completely the fucking same every time I mean totally a different beast than its predecessors.
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Mega Man
X 10 (http://www.nintendopower.com/images/NP250_DLmega.jpg)
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YYYYYYYESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
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(http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu23/Bon_Bon_2009/scruffy-1.jpg)
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I sure am glad now that I didn't spend the other 1000 Nintendo points after downloading MM9.
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http://www.youtube.com/v/V7R-OhZFmko&hl=en_US&fs=1&
When NiS brings this over -- and come on, they've got to -- I look forward to comparing notes with at least one of you on battle strategies once it becomes impossible for either of us to notice breasts in the context of this game.
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Oh Banpresto, just stick to making robot games. Your human sprites look terrible.
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When NiS brings this over -- and come on, they've got to -- I look forward to comparing notes with at least one of you on battle strategies once it becomes impossible for either of us to notice breasts in the context of this game.
Except Queen's Blade is a terrible fucking game
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Oh Banpresto, just stick to making robot games. Your human sprites look terrible.
To be fair, they are working off drawings of humans that also look terrible.
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Except Queen's Blade is a terrible fucking game
Disheartening if true, but I should have expected this! Clearly, I was hypnotized. :shrug:
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So I watched the preview...
I vomited a little in my mouth. It happened.
The preview managed to make me feel like a sleazy dude. Also maybe I shouldn't have gobbled down those donuts after about a pound of "mixed meat" pho. Spoiler re: "meat" [spoiler]Tripe was more palatable than I had expected, after my failure to consume grilled tripe. The beef tendon was chewy, but just tender enough that I could break it into smaller pieces. Victory.[/spoiler]
Anyway, yeah. If I want to feel like a creepy dude who looks at cartoon girls losing their clothes to get his jollies I will play a proper H-game. Thank you.
EDIT:
Oh, it turns out I am actually sick. :shrug:
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Except Queen's Blade is a terrible fucking game
Disheartening if true, but I should have expected this! Clearly, I was hypnotized. :shrug:
Well, I couldn't convince my friend to play it more than once with me, but essentially the ACTUAL game boils down to you each choosing your combat action from like 20 different ones (swing high, swing low, jump back, block, etc) and then comparing the results to see who wins, with characters just having an advantage in certain situations.
It's gridded out to the point where tiers are absolutely CRUSHING. Perfect example, Melpha has Holy magic which only works on the undead characters, Menace and some other bitch, and she's totally useless against anyone else.
I am assuming that this game is probably going to be nothing like that, though, just a hunch.
(I have some of the books if anyone wants to try it more with me, like I said I've only played once and would like to be able to judge it better out of morbid curiousity)
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I love how they keep pushing Queen's Blade like it's just another fightman show and not, in fact, out-and-out soft-core hentai. They're certainly getting bolder!
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Is this the part where I'm supposed to chime in or something? I kind of don't have any strong feelings for Queen's Blade. I don't watch the show, can't keep the vast majority of the characters straight, constantly misspell the names of the ones I do know, and really am only in it for the porn. So uh... needs more tits, I guess?
Kneads more tits? :nyoro~n:
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Needs more or less tits, because the middle ground it's straddling right now is kinda uncomfortable to behold.
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I would like to point out that that giant pink amorphous blob at 1:30 into the video does seem to have a pair of tits when it's attacked.
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I don't watch the show, can't keep the vast majority of the characters straight, constantly misspell the names of the ones I do know,
you are soooooooooooooooooo full of shit
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I am assuming that this game is probably going to be nothing like that, though, just a hunch.
Probably. It looks like it's going to basically be SRW with people instead, which means that it'll be a bog-standard Fire Emblem knock-off SRPG except without Fire Emblem's permadeath.
And is it me, or does Queen's Blade look a lot like a Battle Fantasia (http://"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Nznm3R66ds")? The same artstyle, the same stiff animation... I wonder if they actually hired the guys who made BF to help with Queen's Blade.
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I'm sorry... I have to do it.
Instead of permadeath, you get a boobie prize for your incompetence.
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I'm probably one of the few people who believes Roger when he says that he's not into it. I'm also probably one of the few people to realize that credibility of the person questioning Roger's taste (or distaste) in an embarrassingly pandering, uncomfortably voyeuristic game is brought into doubt due to his having a picture of an embarrassingly pandering video game character whose on-screen actions come across as uncomfortably voyeuristic as an avatar. Seriously, some guy imported the Japanese version ('cause it's region-free and all) and he beat it and watching it was kind of like playing FFX-2 only more.
Just sayin', is all.
...and near as I can tell all the Battle Fantasia stuff was just mock trailers for things and not actual games; seems kind of a waste to hire folks to do what Banpresto and the Queen's Blade artists are already equipped to do themselves. Unless you meant the Battle Fantasia fighting game, what on account of the link being a little mangled.
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Just imagine I've put a link to something Roger might find deeply embarrassing and would show what a hypocrite he is at the same time here.
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also, what the hell does my avatar have to do with anything, mr robot waifu in a christmas suit
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There's a difference between military hardware whose appearance represents a subconscious expression of repressed desires due to the designer growing up in a deeply heteronormative traditionalist society, and a woman with no personality beyond "generic sultry vamp" seemingly designed to embody the worst excesses of Akibahara's virtual skin trade right on down to the implementation of single-button combat, a design decision which I would normally consider tongue-in-cheek were it not for the first-hand reactions of literally dozens of prospective buyers; an object fleshed out into a character versus a character designed to be an object, and to be honest I'd appreciate it if you didn't immediately try to shift attention away from yourself when I'm being a dick and calling you out on things.
It's entirely possible that the problem lies with me; that I simply can't just shut off my brain and stop thinking about what circumstances would have to come to pass to result in women attaining no small degree of combat experience without dying due to lack of armor or losing their supermodel good looks to an errant arrow or sword, or regard a woman gyrating for an unseen audience before her outfit lifts off her body, turns into a dragon and bites someone in half, leaving her nude save for two strategically-placed strips as an expression of empowered womanhood, forgetting of course that these were not and never were conscious decisions on their parts because they're fictional constructs designed by males primarily for other males; males who never quite seem to understand that there can be female characters who are competent and - dare I say - attractive without having to resort to having them bind enemies up in with whips and force them to straddle wooden ponies or parading them around in Japanese gym uniforms or cheerleader outfits. Or if they do understand this they're either intimidated by the prospect of a woman who isn't either helpless or helplessly in love with them or only concerned with shallow parodies of human beings whose behavior and sexuality are as inflated and distorted as their breasts.
I'm not sure where I'm going with this and it feels like there should be another paragraph or two but there isn't so I'll just jump to the end: In conclusion, YOU ROCK-SHITTING KNUCKLE-DRAGGING BRICKPUNTER DESIGNERS SHE'S WEARING HIGH HEELS WITH GUNS ON THEM HOW ABOUT I FLY OVER THERE FORCE YOU TO WEAR HEELS AND CHASE YOU DOWN THE STREET SO YOU CAN SEE WHAT A COMPLETELY FUCKING HORRIBLE IDEA DOING ANYTHING OVER A SLOW WALK IN THEM IS OH WAIT YOU CAN'T SEE HOW MUCH OF A HORRIBLE IDEA THEY ARE BECAUSE YOU'VE FALLEN OVER AND I'VE BEATEN YOU BLIND
Fucking hell. Fucking. Hell.
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...and if anyone points out that I'm a giant hypocrite for saying all that I'LL FUCKING STAB YOU IN THE SOUL.
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...and near as I can tell all the Battle Fantasia stuff was just mock trailers for things and not actual games; seems kind of a waste to hire folks to do what Banpresto and the Queen's Blade artists are already equipped to do themselves. Unless you meant the Battle Fantasia fighting game, what on account of the link being a little mangled.
Nah, I meant the trailers. And yeah, it is a bit silly; I just thought the similarities in art style and awkward animation were worth noting. It's weird when a game about humans fighting has them being stiffer than the mechs the company usually animates.
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I simply can't just shut off my brain and stop thinking about what circumstances would have to come to pass to result in women attaining no small degree of combat experience without dying due to lack of armor or losing their supermodel good looks to an errant arrow or sword,
how do you even play video games
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I simply can't just shut off my brain and stop thinking about what circumstances would have to come to pass to result in women attaining no small degree of combat experience without dying due to lack of armor or losing their supermodel good looks to an errant arrow or sword,
how do you even play video games
Have you not met OHakubi before, Bleck? He plays them by hating them.
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There are some games where the ridiculousness of the concept is in fact central to the concept. You don't necessarily have to like that concept though.
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Says the man with the smiling ninja turtle for his avatar. :disapprove:
Oh- oh wait, nevermind. That's perfect. :imagination:
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ha ha ha holee shit
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LEAVE BAYONETTA ALONE!
PLEASE!
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...and if anyone points out that I'm a giant hypocrite for saying all that I'LL FUCKING STAB YOU IN THE SOUL.
...hypocrite.
But I still love yohgodmysoul
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Huh, without a NSFW board I forgot most of you people's kinks. This isn't the thread I expected the reminders to come pouring out into, though.
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...and if anyone points out that I'm a giant hypocrite for saying all that I'LL FUCKING STAB YOU IN THE SOUL.
Can I point out that you're a gibbering retard?
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There are some games where the ridiculousness of the concept is in fact central to the concept. You don't necessarily have to like that concept though.
This, right here.
Although the difference between ridiculous exaggerations of violence and sex (well, titillation, really) is that violence actually wraps around at some point, going from awesome to stupidly overblown back to awesome because it's overblown to comic proportions (see: Devil May Cry 3, Shoot 'Em Up) and that winking asides about the absurdity of it are, if not humorous, then at least tolerable. Meanwhile, sex never actually wraps around; the flesh pile just keeps growing bigger and more people who might actually be interested in the thing are instead embarrassed to even touch it, and all the clever winking asides to the player about how ridiculous it is just keep getting sleazier and sleazier. If things like Queen's Blade were done tongue-in-cheek, nobody ever told the people who actually bought them.
The worst part is that despite designing a main character in what would normally be seen as a bid to drum up sales or obfuscate glaring gameplay flaws with breasts, Bayonetta is a good game! I'm pretty sure me saying that just blew someone's mind, so I'll say it again:
Bayonetta is a good game.
It really is a worthy successor to Devil May Cry in terms of gameplay, and I mean the good DMCs when I say that, not like 2 or anything. It's just that... well, the art department really needs to get out more.
I'd :tldr: everything but I've basically forgotten what I was thinking when I wrote all that. Oh well.
...and if anyone points out that I'm a giant hypocrite for saying all that I'LL FUCKING STAB YOU IN THE SOUL.
Can I point out that you're a gibbering retard?
NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER
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the worst part about bayonetta as sex object is how she is some kind of horrible stretched out rack victim for whom proportions do not exist and also why is she british and
she is basically the least sexy HEY LOOK SHE'S SEXY character since lara croft's original model.
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The thing is I think the "infinite straight-faced sexualization" thing is really a specific thing to American culture. No amount of sex is too much sex here, but that's not generally true everywhere else. That's why hot women popping up out of nowhere is a joke on British comedy shows or why the Japanese consider a blonde woman with giant tits who talks endlessly about her tits and does mundane things using her tits and fights monsters with her tits is considered a joke character. We get disproportionately exposed to the Japanese Pervert Underground here, but I get the feeling that most of them have a better sense of sexual proportion than we do and that something like Bayonetta to them is just fucking silly as hell, which gets awkward when it's ported over here and the unanimous reaction is "DEAR GOD THAT'S SO HOT!"
There's a reason why so many other countries view our behavior towards sex with a mixture of awe, fear, disgust, and mostly total bemusement, depending on their exposure to us.
she is basically the least sexy HEY LOOK SHE'S SEXY character since lara croft's original model.
See, this right here. I'm pretty much convinced that Bayonetta is basically a parody of Lara Croft, a character who you were very seriously expected to somehow masturbate to.
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Right, fapping to Bayonetta seems like an insurmountable task, but fanart can make anything hot. If it's really going to destroy my ability to hold an argument though, I'll change it to Lucia from Psychic World or something.
The reason I want to play Bayonetta is because I like Devil May Cry. The end.
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(http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m122/brazilianbaker/tropic_movie_downeyjr1.jpg)
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NIGGER NIGGER NIGGER
Hey, man. That's not cool.
I would never use the N-word.
r quite seem to understand that there can be female characters who are competent and - dare I say - attractive without having to resort to having them bind enemies up in with whips and force t
Sorry if I'm playing the strawman, but this sort of sentiment has always struck me as being even more sleazy and gross than any number of chicks in thongs could ever hope to be.
I mean, no shit, dude. Even the makers of Queen's Blade realize that much, as there are a few characters in it who are actually modest and fully dressed. Shouldn't the question be 'why do female characters have to be attractive at all'?
Whenever I read some guy whining about hyper-sexualization, he always carefully adds that women don't need to have spilling cleavage and exposed butts in order to be attractive, which I imagine is supposed to make him sound all feminist, but really what it sounds like he's saying is "I still see women as wank objects, but I find those slutty, half-dressed ones disgusting", with a side of "Look how feminist I am, ladies".
I could be wrong, but that's basically what I'm reading off of you. You're not angry at Bayonetta and Queen's Blade for being exploitive and sleazy, you're angry at it for not catering to your tastes.
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Whenever I read some guy whining about hyper-sexualization, he always carefully adds that women don't need to have spilling cleavage and exposed butts in order to be attractive, which I imagine is supposed to make him sound all feminist, but really what it sounds like he's saying is "I still see women as wank objects, but I find those slutty, half-dressed ones disgusting"
I agree with both you and the hypothetical guy here.
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This is one of the more common arguments about Power Girl.
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Well, I'd be lying if I said I didn't prefer characters - male or female - attractive, all else being equal. If you're dealing with fiction where characters achieve heroic deeds that set them far apart from normal folks, why not complement that extraordinary behavior with an extraordinary appearance, as well? Good looks are the default for heroes: you shouldn't diverge from it without a reason.
That said, "just to be different" is certainly a good enough reason, as are the old chestnuts of realism, marketing, wanting to tell a different kind of story, drawing inspiration from a different kind of cliché, and a whole host of other reasons that are, in practice, far more likely to be applied to the appearance of male characters than female ones, not merely in games, but going back the entire length of the human literary tradition. Beauty is the generic positive female trait, in a way that convinces me there must be a corresponding generic positive male trait that I can't think of off-hand. Competence? Whatever it is, it's something that's only omitted for laughs or for otherwise subverting expectations about the story.
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The classic manly trait is manliness, or courage/spirit/guts/blind determination. Not just as literally the basis for an entire genre of manga but basically nestled into the bosom of most Western ideals as well, especially since it goes hand in hand with the Good Endings that we are also in love with.
What's more classic than "the hero struggles against odds, prevails, and wins the girl/his freedom/his family/the world?"
To say nothing of the vast history of mankind portraying men as leading figures who are responsible for the well-being of their family if for nothing more valid than the courage to take a cougar on with a pointy stick.
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Right, fapping to Bayonetta seems like an insurmountable task, but fanart can make anything hot. If it's really going to destroy my ability to hold an argument though, I'll change it to Lucia from Psychic World or something.
Yeah I usually just aim below the belt as a matter of course. Sorry 'bout that.
The reason I want to play Bayonetta is because I like Devil May Cry. The end.
As well anyone should, as previously stated!
...and in retrospect I probably should have gone with some different turn of phrasing but didn't (as is my wont). Something like "interesting" or "serving some other purpose besides a tit delivery system."
...and didn't Sharkey already cover this at some point?
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I think sharkey may have said something along those lines when he was busy bating in dry-erase markers for money.
EDIT:
Ordinarily I'd be helpful and put up a link but goddamn am I finding it hard even to type.
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So I stopped reading this at some point. Are we having the video game girls have boobs that are too big discussion again?
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Guys why are you talking about sexism in video games when you could be complaining about the new Rock Band: Green Day (http://www.geek.com/articles/games/vga-2009-rock-band-green-day-announced-20091212/) that's coming out.
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(http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa34/disponi/BIGBOOBDISCUSSION.jpg)
Personally, I don't see anything exploitive about Queen's Blade.
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best macro
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Who the hell drew that picture, Rob Liefeld? :wat:
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your mother
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You'll find "your mother" insults are hilariously ineffective against me, because even I think my mother is a stupid bitch.
Alex can vouch for this.
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You'll find "your mother" insults are hilariously ineffective against me, because even I think my mother is a stupid bitch.
Alex can vouch for this.
I think it's hilarious that you think "your mother" insults are designed to be effective.
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Touche.
Not that I took the comment seriously or anything. But it demanded a response! :mahboi:
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YOUR MOTHER demanded a response! :mahboi:
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Who the hell drew that picture, Rob Liefeld? :wat:
The art studio behind that anime. It's official character art.
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Wow, that's ...utterly horrible. :goggles:
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yeah a woman with muscles I mean come on
Dudes who whine about video game ladies with huge cans are usually just pissed that Japan has the audacity to design a character that doesn't look like a twelve-year-old girl.
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Dude, have you seen any other pictures of that particular character? I mean, the other Queen's Blade characters have huge boobs, and that's ok, that's what the thing is about, but Cattleya proves that there is such a thing as too big.
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yeah a woman with muscles I mean come on
Dudes who whine about video game ladies with huge cans are usually just pissed that Japan has the audacity to design a character that doesn't look like a twelve-year-old girl.
this isn't /v/, you little turd.
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Can't it be okay for someone to find both Bayonetta and Etna hot?!?!! Because I do. But yeah, Queen's blade is awful.
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(http://daniel.suckramento.org/etna.jpg)
Sorry, man. She's cute, but the butt-plushies ruin it for me.
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Can't it be okay for someone to find both Bayonetta and Etna hot?!?!! Because I do. But yeah, Queen's blade is awful.
(http://www.nikumatic.com/images/;_;.gif)
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yeah a woman with muscles I mean come on
Dudes who whine about video game ladies with huge cans are usually just pissed that Japan has the audacity to design a character that doesn't look like a twelve-year-old girl.
People sometimes complain that I throw out the word "troll" when it is unwarranted.
However, the only alternative is that you are legitimately as stupid as this post indicates you are.
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Baby Female Lead's chest was just too small, it made Goldilocks look like a pedophile.
Daddy Female Lead's chest was just too big, it made Goldilocks look like a pervert.
Japan wont let Mommy Female Lead have a game.
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Chi chi chi ni oppai... bo-ing bo-ing...
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I don't mind a girl with muscles, Buge, but that drawing just looks like whoever did it learned to draw by studying Liefeld's work. The anatomy in general is god-awful.
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Liefeld's girls are a lot less meaty.
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yeah a woman with muscles I mean come on
Dudes who whine about video game ladies with huge cans are usually just pissed that Japan has the audacity to design a character that doesn't look like a twelve-year-old girl.
People sometimes complain that I throw out the word "troll" when it is unwarranted.
However, the only alternative is that you are legitimately as stupid as this post indicates you are.
I don't see anybody complaining about Etna, nor do I ever. People are always quick to point out that oh no, busty video game girl isn't wearing armour of some sort, this shit doesn't make sense yo - but when ten year old almost-naked girl is walking around fighting superdemons in Anime Hell, the only responses I see can effectively be summarized as ':3'.
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In a setting defined by the surreal, an element of the surreal goes unnoticed.
Like for reference, Disgaea is defined by invincible little kids.
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In a setting defined by the surreal, an element of the surreal goes unnoticed.
Except here we are, talking about Bayonetta, which, uh....
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I see his point, though. Although there may be a sampling bias at work, this kind of conversation only seems to appear in the wake of sexualization of the more, uh, mature sort. Which sounds like a topic that somebody ought to get Leigh Alexander to weigh in on.
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I guess I'm not the best guy to take a side here. I just shrug and mumble "videogames" when a plate mail bikini shows up next to a guy in actual plate mail.
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I'm inclined to think that it is because Etna is built as a foil to the "standard" over-sexed battle girl character. She has basically no secondary sexual characteristics. If Etna constantly referred to herself as a dude (:gay4:), you'd believe it basically without question.
If I had to honestly make a guess, I'd say that this kind of reaction is basically caused when character designers make their consumers feel self-conscious about how fucking creepy they are.
::(:
Also, is this character actually some kind of half-cow? Is that the excuse?
Finally,I guess I'm not the best guy to take a side here. I just shrug and mumble "so lonely" when a plate mail bikini shows up next to a guy in actual plate mail. And find real porn to masturbate to before posting about it angrily on forums.
IDEA:
Comic where female lead possesses magical, full body tattoos that when exposed to the light of the sun or moon make her invincible proportional to the amount of the magic ink that's being touched by that light. BUT, she firmly believes in personal modesty/is embarrassed by the enchantment/design of the tattoo. I think it could make for a decent 30-40 page story.
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that is exactly the opposite idea of empowered, where she has a super suit that gets weaker the more torn up it gets
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I thought it got weaker the more self-conscious and unconfident she got, which just went up as it tore.
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You seem to not realize what people hate about the art. It is not that she is scantily clad. It is that she is a terrifying she-beast with no reference of any anatomy we recognize as human.
Also her incredibly manish face. Which makes me think she's actually just a man with boobs attached.
And those legs. :barf:
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Wait, wait, are we talking about Cattleya or Bayonetta now?
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Wait, wait, are we talking about Cattleya or Bayonetta now?
I'm not sure. I think we're talking about Empowered now....?
:shrug:
It's only a matter of time before Tarot enters the discussion.
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yourvaginaishaunted.jpg
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It's only a matter of time before Tarot enters the discussion.
Woah woah woah. We're going to be talking about Tarot, now? I should get out of bed for this.
(http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa34/disponi/Tarot42a.jpg)
Naked bed.
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http://kazz.rooms.cwal.net/kagtsmitdz3.mp3
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It's only a matter of time before Tarot enters the discussion.
Well it's only a matter of time before Tarot enters anything.
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It's only a matter of time before Tarot enters the discussion.
Well it's only a matter of time before anything enters Tarot.
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Man, Empowered is so good.
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I totally agree that we need more realistic, non-sexualised female main characters, though, that would be awesome.
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Most game worlds are full of "average" women. You don't notice them, just like in real life. You pig.
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I said main characters, you spinning peniscopter!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTfXfmtoEXU
OwlBoy is a game that looks absolutely gorgeous.
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I said main characters, you spinning peniscopter!
bizzowned
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAP_wAkQNlU
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Protoman, being a bro? What has the world come to?!
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Brotoman
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He always did want to have a real brother relationship.
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gettin' melt
gettin' melt
...
gettin' melt
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8-bit Dark Void prequel announced for DSi. (http://www.capcom-unity.com/jgonzo/blog/2009/12/21/introducing_dark_void_zero)
Really, Capcom? Really? I think you guys have a problem.
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XBox avatars to encourage exercise? (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6244419.html)
To incentivize people to improve their physical well-being, Microsoft's filing notes that gamers will be locked out of certain components of a game or a chat room until the proper health parameters are met.
In unrelated news, Sony shares are up 300% today.
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Actually that just begs the question
where the fuck is my mega man 9 / mega man 10 for dsiware, capcom
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"Physical data that reflects a degree of health of the real person can be linked to rewards of capabilities of a gaming avatar, an amount of time budgeted to play, or a visible indication," the filing reads. "Thereby, people are encouraged to exercise."
Microsoft's filing goes on to note that it wouldn't just be physical characteristics that could be refined. "The physical characteristics can be further extended to psychological traits associated with the physical person, including intelligence, religious beliefs, political affiliations, and hobbies that affect the rendering of an avatar," the application reads.
When Microsoft sees a slope, the first thing they do is get a barrel of WD-40.
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Sounds like a patent, so they're probably just covering their ass. But, uh... yeah. :wat:
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"You have been locked out of your XBox Live Account until you understand the wickedness of net neutrality"
"We have detected a PS3 on your network and your XBox Live Account has been suspended until that shit is in the trash"
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I don't see anybody complaining about Etna, nor do I ever. People are always quick to point out that oh no, busty video game girl isn't wearing armour of some sort, this shit doesn't make sense yo - but when ten year old almost-naked girl is walking around fighting superdemons in Anime Hell, the only responses I see can effectively be summarized as ':3'.
Yes, Bleck, everyone is complaining about her muscles breasts lack of armor. There is absolutely no other reason to suggest that the art is fucking hellaciously awful. Also, anyone who disagrees with you is a pedophile.
Quit being stupid.
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http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-us-record-of/60353?type=flv (http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-us-record-of/60353?type=flv)
Record of Agarest War now beats out Bayonetta for shear shamelessness.
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:hurr:
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What was the point of the mosaics?
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Frankly I think it's at least a pragmatic way to market what you know is kind of a lame turd. Insert various references to play now my lord here.
The mosaics are awesome because they make you think there's something awesome under them when there is in fact jack shit.
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OH SNAP, YOU CAN ALMOST SEE THE LOWER HALF OF ONE OF HER BUTTCHEEKS! DAAAAAAAAAAMN
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You know what will be a real tragedy? If it's actually a really good, inventive game beneath those trappings of excessively bland JRPG. :imagination:
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What Brentai said. It seems like the kind of game you'd see on sale at Jlist.com, but with the smut turned down from "Bible Black" to "Ranma 1/2."
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Yeah, I've never seen cleavage censored before. I'm a bit impressed.
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I enjoyed how the final "Coming Soon" was actually rendered as
"Coming Soon"
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Hee hee
Anyone remember Metal & Lace? The magazine ad tagline for it was "Give your joystick a thrill."
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You know what will be a real tragedy? If it's actually a really good, inventive game beneath those trappings of excessively bland JRPG. :imagination:
:lol:
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arc system works wants to make new guilty gear game for ps3/360 (http://www.siliconera.com/2009/12/30/arc-system-works-wants-to-make-xbox-360ps3-guilty-gear/)
hopefully its an ACTUAL SEQUEL, not that LOL ALL THE CHARACTERS YOU LIKE ARE GONE shit that was GG2
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Wait, Sammy bought Sega, right? Not the other way around? How does Sega end up with an IP acquisition?
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The game would sell better with Sega's logo on it than with Sammy's.
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How about Sonic Team's logo?
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:MENDOZAAAAA:
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Fortunately all the characters in Guilty Gear already have Shadow and Rare-Metal versions of themselves.
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So there will be brawl the final episode came out. :scanners: :perfect:
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Front Mission 5 translation patch done. (http://www.frontmission.info/) :8D:
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Sooo...either I've completely missed it, or nobody's mentioned Mega Man 10 (http://www.nintendopower.com/images/NP250_DLmega.jpg) yet.
EDIT for trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAP_wAkQNlU
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I think somebody did.
Four more days 'til Bayonetta and Darksiders! :wheeeee:
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EGM is coming back!! (http://www.egmnow.com/press/time-warner-retail-egm.html)
Great! Now we can pay for free news and reviews again! I fucking love magazines!
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For all those getting DarkSiders that diddnt preorder. The code for the harvester is The Hallowed Lord.
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Oh holy crap, FM5 patch finished? So getting it right now! <3
I guess i'll be starting the game again to see all the little bits of text i missed!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8XH6qa6jl8
I can not wait to play the shit out of this game.
Oh hay, remember that time we didn't get a US realease of Trace Memory 2? ::(:
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Hotel Dusk sold a bit better than Trace Memory, so I am sort of hoping it comes out here. If this (http://www.vgchartz.com/games/gamereviewdisp.php?id=998&reviewid=643) is right, it didn't sell well in Japan either. Trace Memory (http://www.vgchartz.com/games/game.php?id=2519®ion=All) had even lower sales.
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but they're so good
Does anyone know how to play PAL Wii games
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Yeah, if it comes down to it i can post a guide. It involves major skulduggery and might brick your wii if you're bad.
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apparently Yoshinori Ono (street fighter 4's producer) mentioned something about "SSIV sells well=NEW DARKSTALKERS"
Morrigan will still have her old 2d sprite. :nyoro~n:
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but they're so good
Does anyone know how to play PAL Wii games
Live in Australia!
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...so apparently Metroid Prime Trilogy is out of print now.
Debating whether I should go to the trouble of trying to buy a used copy while they're still $20. (Keep in mind I already own the GameCube games.)
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$20 is a decent savings on Metroid Prime 3. Check around your local stores, your mileage may vary on e-bay/amazon.
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Oh holy crap, FM5 patch finished? So getting it right now! <3
I guess i'll be starting the game again to see all the little bits of text i missed!
Has anyone played this? Stush? Eh? Worth a go?
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...so apparently Metroid Prime Trilogy is out of print now.
Debating whether I should go to the trouble of trying to buy a used copy while they're still $20. (Keep in mind I already own the GameCube games.)
That's disturbing because it's one of the, like, maybe 5 Wii games I've ever wanted, but then I remember that it's not THAT hard to find out-of-print games on eBay, barring the usual overpriced weeaboo fetish objects.
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Why the hell is it already out of print? It hasn't been out that long...
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Oh holy crap, FM5 patch finished? So getting it right now! <3
I guess i'll be starting the game again to see all the little bits of text i missed!
Has anyone played this? Stush? Eh? Worth a go?
Yeah! It is, I enjoyed the game a lot, towards the end it can get a little frustrating, as battles start to take a long time just because everyone has so much damn HP, so you end up just surrounding a single unit and pounding away at him until he dies, but other than that, it's really enjoyable, good story, good music, good gameplay, and it looks lovely.
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in b4 kazz closes it
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what are you talking about
wouldn't you rather this be about 400 individual threads
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here's the thing
dump threads are very easy to post in, but nobody will ever read them
they function quite a bit like IRC channels. there isn't really a topic; everybody will just babble for a few minutes about one thing and then move on.
i'm not closing this thread. as much as i hate dump threads, this one is probably a decent idea (because it focuses on current events and upcoming bullshit) and would just get replaced by a very similar thread.
the "babble about a videogame" thread was just a poor idea. if someone wants to discuss a game that there isn't a thread for, they could make a thread and maybe people would actually discuss it. and then people who want to read about people's opinions on a game can go there and see all the posts on the topic in one spot instead of having to dig through a 200 page dump.
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here's the thing
dump threads are very easy to post in, but nobody will ever read them
(http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh147/GLKEL/family-guy-i-disagree-1.jpg)
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Goddamit Parish. I've gotten some pathetic sort of :want: for DQ9 after reading you babble about it.
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no kazz is right
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Wasn't the entire idea behind the Babble thread to cut down on pointless go-nowhere threads? And that if there was a conversation in it that actually was going somewhere, that it would get separated into its own thread?
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Wasn't the entire idea behind the Babble thread to cut down on pointless go-nowhere threads? And that if there was a conversation in it that actually was going somewhere, that it would get separated into its own thread?
that's the idea, but it's kinda annoying in practice. A lot of times conversation will get mixed with people posting about several games in a single post, making it impossible to split without breaking up other conversations.
People don't like making new topics, but I don't think it will hurt if we do so. If people don't talk about a game, it drops off the page and it doesn't get in the way anymore. I don't think "too many topics" will be a concern on a board this size.
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I don't really see how even if there's a bunch of topics with only one post in them on individual games how it might be a bad thing; And if it is messy, I'm sure it's easier for a mod to delete them after it's been shown that noone but the OP cares than to split 5-10 posts out of the dump thread where something else might be discussed simultaneously.
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Remember this? (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/2/21/)
Well, Brisbane is doing it. (http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26608844-3122,00.html)
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Don't they ban all M-rated games in Australia?
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:lol:
Hey Frocto, tell the nice man what Bayonetta's rating is.
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well if the canadian postal system doesn't suck too bad, you'll be able to tell him yourself
Also, I am completely flabbergasted that they are going to all the trouble to set that up and aren't including any pinnies
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Have you still got a Wii? Have you gotten No More Heroes 2? Why the fuck not?!
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Might as well wait for the superior 360 port.
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how is the 360 port of NMH superior again
replacing the fun gameplay with bikinis? oh right
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Have you still got a Wii? Have you gotten No More Heroes 2? Why the fuck not?!
This so much. I'm enjoying it so much and I love New Destroymans theme.
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Have you still got a Wii? Have you gotten No More Heroes 2? Why the fuck not?!
This so much. I'm enjoying it so much and I love New Destroymans theme.
Although his level and the one before it are kinda stupid at times. Still great game so far, tho.
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Did they seriously update Naomis Jiggle effect. Is that why we paid so much for tsubaki Mrk III
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here's the thing
dump threads are very easy to post in, but nobody will ever read them
The Dragon Age thread is ALREADY too fucking long for me to read top-to-bottom.
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Akira Yamaoka and freelance dev Kazutoshi Iida hook up with the No More Heroes guys (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3177798)
Spanish Artists Pay Tribute To Konami (http://www.gamesetwatch.com/2010/02/spanish_artists_pay_tribute_to.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+gamesetwatch+(GameSetWatch)&utm_content=Google+Reader)
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TRIbute?
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* Frocto whips Brentai.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVsTrLW_04U
Niceee
There's only been this awful shakey-cam version from one of the Blizzcons up until now. Sweet intro.
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Can somebody remind me why that game never came out?
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People didn't want Blizzard ruining the Stealth genre the way they did RTSes and MMOs?
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But weren't stealth games already ruined by that point?
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I played a build of this thing two years back and uh
Maybe it was just really half-done, but the stealth mechanic barely worked, all the weapons were underpowered and unsatisfying, and you basically just huddled through metal corridors around marine patrols through each painfully-linear level.
I like the SC universe and all but I cannot really see this thing having been very good unless they really fundementally changed direction.
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Which build did you play? From what I understand, there were at least a couple.
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Two years back at Comic-Con... I was in a hanger bay, trying to elude marines, which opened up into a long string of hallways where you were supposed to Splinter Cell your way out.
edit: It played like this (http://bit.ly/bjR0s9), only in a hanger bay. I never really understood the appeal of stealth games, though, to be fair.
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It is, in a manner of speaking, conquering literally impossible odds.
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Happy 10th Anniversary, The Sims! (http://kotaku.com/5462766/happy-10th-anniversary-sims)
Let's celebrate with a barbecue.
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:itsatrap:
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Happy 10th Anniversary, The Sims! (http://kotaku.com/5462766/happy-10th-anniversary-sims)
Let's celebrate with a barbecue.
Can we go swimming afterwards?
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Why not DO BOTH?! :imagination:
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Why not DO BOTH?! :imagination:
I said "afterwards", not "instead".
here, I will nyoro~n for you :nyoro~n:
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Wait, aren't you just negating the first thing with the second?
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Wait what.. when did this get announced?
FINALLY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe1IWjfdNCU
It's probably going to suck like the last matrix movie, but at least they're going to try to finish it!
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Can somebody remind me why that game never came out?
Because Blizzard feeds and gains power off of my tears. And so does Kabbage, apparently. :;_;:
It doesn't matter. I'm finally getting Starcraft 2.
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Ghost never came out because every version of it was a piece of shit in actual fact. It is the modern WarCraft: Adventures. It's not like they're hiding an amazing stealth action game on a shelf. They gave it every chance to be good, including changing developers completely, but the thing was just destined to fail.
I still dream of sniping Hydralisks and hiding not in shadow, but away from detector units while using my stealth behind enemy lines, but alas it was not to be.
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I still dream of sniping Hydralisks and hiding not in shadow, but away from detector units while using my stealth behind enemy lines, but alas it was not to be.
Hey, you saw that SC2 map editor demo, right? Someone will do it.
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Yeah, just give those damn dickhugging Koreans a week with this thing
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So kind of game news. I'm setting up a PS3 GameShare account. It's where you download a game on a anonymous account and share it with your friends so they can download it. I've tested it with a bud and it works. If your interested let me know. I'll be buying some games frequently and I can share it with 4 friends.
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Ibuki, Makoto and Dudley are FINALLY FUCKING 100% CONFIRMED FOR SUPER STREET FIGHTER 4
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God I hope the sys reqs won't change, I'm borderline as it is. Daaaaang.
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Ibuki, Makoto and Dudley are FINALLY FUCKING 100% CONFIRMED FOR SUPER STREET FIGHTER 4
So... no Karin then.
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The only Sys Reqs are that you need a ps3 or 360 cause it is severely looking like it's not coming to pc.
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How big of a flop was the pc version? I bought it, but I waited for it to go half off on Steam. I still haven't really played it since I don't have a good controller to go with it.
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To be fair, vanilla's not a good port at all, so their options are basically rewrite the entire PC engine or accept that another port is just going to tank and just skip it.
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Civilization 5: (http://www.civilization5.com/) This time it's got hexes.
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The only Sys Reqs are that you need a ps3 or 360 cause it is severely looking like it's not coming to pc.
there is a chance that capcom are deliberately not announcing the pc version yet JUST to sell more console copies.
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Yes because the PC market just eats away at the console market like nobody's business.
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Civ5? But I just bought Civ4 in the January Steam sale
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better beat it quick so you'll know the story going into the sequel
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all the stuff in Call To Power is out of continuity btw
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You had me at Hexes.
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all the stuff in Call To Power is out of continuity btw
/me televangelizes Norondor's cities
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The timing in this video is just fantastically spot-on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUxF4XWtj4g
Opponent's response: what
Also, you can watch it in up to 1080p if you don't watch the auto-embedded version.
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That is going to be my strategy EVERY TIME.
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Dear sweet jesus
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Funny thing is, the opponent did build some anti-air could have easily taken down that mothership if he hadn't clustered all of his Vikings.
He must have been so fazed by the presence of the mothership that he totally forgot about the black hole generator, even though the mothership had just black holed him a couple minutes earlier.
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I laughed out loud when he was like "what".
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Oh, hey, it looks like there might actually be a Penny Arcade Adventures 3 (http://www.joystiq.com/2010/02/23/hothead-hoping-for-penny-arcade-adventures-episode-3-reveal-a/#comments). Maybe. Yay! I have my hopes up!
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2D "Worms Reloaded" announced for Steam (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3178083)
Since Worms 2 Armageddon's PC port was apparently forgotten about, this is some welcome news.
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Mega Man 10 comes out on Monday. Super Mario Galaxy comes out in three months. Metroid Other M comes out in four months. Monster Hunter Tri has free online play and voice chat.
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Wii finally worth money?
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Hey, I have a Wii, but how do I get Megaman 9 and 10? Do I have to sign up for some online thing or get some widget or what. I never use the Wii we have so it's all pretty foreign to me, you know like a Ford or an American flag, or regular bacon.
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Connect your Wii to the internet. It has built-in wifi, but if you only have wired internet you'll need to buy an adapter. Activate the Wii Shop Channel. If you haven't taken your Wii online this will cause you to perform a firmware update.
You don't have to create an account; or, more specifically, the Wii itself constitutes its own account credentials, rather than a username-password combination. It identifies itself to the shop automagically.
You will have to enter the number from a retail points card or a credit card in order to add funbux to your account. You can only buy them in $10 increments (1000 points), but I am pretty sure that Mega Man 9 and 10 are 1000 points anyway.
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Monster Hunter Tri has free online play and voice chat.
Seriously?! Japan got royally screwed, then, since they had to pay a monthly fee.
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Monster Hunter Tri has free online and voice chat? I might have to buy a wii if it turns out good.
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Monster Hunter Tri has free online play and voice chat.
Seriously?! Japan got royally screwed, then, since they had to pay a monthly fee.
If I remember correctly it's all a matter of what they can get away with. Monster Hunter is big in Japan, and all the previous games had fees, so this one will too. Over here, they rightfully realized that a separate monthly fee for a console game wouldn't really fly (cue Brent saying something about PSO). I guess we win, then.
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To my knowledge, the Japanese version of Monster Hunter Tri requires you to spend Wii Points on a block of time in which you can play online. Is the North American release getting a different deal?
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We don't have to pay for online play at all, but there is still going to be a store where one can buy items and stuff using "Monster Hunter" points. I don't know if those are the same as Wii points, though.
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Over here, they rightfully realized that a separate monthly fee for a console game wouldn't really fly (cue Brent saying something about PSO).
The game pretty much died the moment it switched to monthly fees, so yeah.
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Pump Man.
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The Hotel Dusk developer declared bankruptcy. (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3178253) It looks less and less likely that we are going to get the sequel over here, which totally blows, because Hotel Dusk was awesome.
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The Hotel Dusk developer declared bankruptcy. (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3178253) It looks less and less likely that we are going to get the sequel over here, which totally blows, because Hotel Dusk was awesome.
This is the worst news I have ever heard.
Seriously. You guys. If I don't get Last Window, I am going to explode.
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http://vimeo.com/10066962
Sword & Sorcery EP for the iPhone. Looks gorgeous.
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That is a thing of beauty
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Shack: Do you know your next project? If not, do you have a dream project you'd like to do?
Yoshinori Ono: As far as a dream project is concerned, there is another fighting game series established shortly after I started at Capcom. A little something called Darkstalkers. If I was given the resources and permission to do so, I'd love to make a new Darkstalkers.
Yes please.
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Guess who's back? That's right, it's DEREK SMART
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/27688/Quest_Online_Fires_President_Hires_Derek_Smart.php#comment46259
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THIS GAME IS MUCH BETTER THAN WOW AND IF YOU DISAGREE THEN CLEARLY YOU ARE TOO STUPID TO HAVE IT EXPLAINED TO YOU
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You know what's pretty fun? Resonance of Fate is pretty fun! Voice work by Nathan Drake and Robin, the Boy Wonder!
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Oh, hey, it looks like there might actually be a Penny Arcade Adventures 3 (http://www.joystiq.com/2010/02/23/hothead-hoping-for-penny-arcade-adventures-episode-3-reveal-a/#comments). Maybe. Yay! I have my hopes up!
And my hopes have been soundly dashed! (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3178518) Good showing, sirs!
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Aw man, now I'm sad.
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It's going going going goooooing...
AND THEY'RE GONE! THEY'RE ALL GONE! (http://www.massively.com/2010/03/31/acti-blizz-restructuring-assigns-new-executive-to-blizzard/)
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Treyarch makes Starcraft 3 confirmed, new Starcraft every year.
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It's going going going goooooing...
AND THEY'RE GONE! THEY'RE ALL GONE! (http://www.massively.com/2010/03/31/acti-blizz-restructuring-assigns-new-executive-to-blizzard/)
Hey guys, maybe it won't be so ba--
Treyarch makes Starcraft 3 confirmed, new Starcraft every year.
Don't forget, they're going to remove the ability to have player-hosted custom/UMS maps too. It's going to be all matchmaking.
:endit:
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Clever happenings a day before April Fools or perhaps a really mean joke. You decide! (http://www.eventhubs.com/images/2010/mar/31/possible-april-fools-joke-showing-cvs3-famitsu-magazine/)
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Given that the relationship between Activision and Blizzard is a merger, not an acquisition as with Infinity Ward, I rather doubt that Blizzard's design philosophy will be adversely affected.
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Bal
Cheerful in the face of nuclear armageddon
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(http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/5373/pipboythumbsupavatar.jpg)
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I really can't imagine that Blizzard gave up their power to develop as they saw fit, but if we start seeing their franchises whored out I'll just have to change my outlook slightly.
(http://img188.imageshack.us/img188/9024/1154917135474.gif)
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Bought five games.
Resonance of Fate: One hour in - I might play a large amount of this game. The battle mechanics are poorly described, but once you break and cry and finally crack the manual and learn how to tri-attack, the pace quickens adequately. The crafting system is intriguing from this end. I have higher hopes than most JRPGs I've never bothered to finish.
God of War III: I didn't play this, but I think I played some of the clones that came out, and I watched my brother as [spoiler]Kratos offed himself[/spoiler] and smiled warmly to myself. The basic combo I use in all those games is intact, so I don't need to press SQUARE SQUARE SQUARE SQUARE TRIANGLE WHATEVER a million times to watch this one's story. Might play it after FFXIII and the other games in this post.
Heavy Rain: Uh. I push buttons. I set the difficulty high and win. The story is that [spoiler]everyone in the game is either insane, a killer and has some kind of addiction or deep-seeded emotional problem that causes them to have freaky dreams or become psychopathic and kill people in their houses secretly, or a kicked puppy (murdered, actually)[/spoiler]. I realize that's not really much of a spoiler.
MGS4: Third in the planned lineup, but I've already had all the plot points shown to me or I've read about them. Hideo's on the team for a new Castlevania game <citation needed> someone told me. Neat!
Modern Battlefront something and a roman numeral: I miss Counterstrike. This was my brother's pick. What can I say, I'm a nice dude.
Mirror's Edge: Fourth in the lineup. I'm already a few hours in, and I appreciate this game because it reminds me of twitchy, 3d, shoulder-over Sonic the Hedgehog. can't wait for StH4 omf This game will be enjoyed by me.
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I really can't imagine that Blizzard gave up their power to develop as they saw fit
Well, not knowingly.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhMN0wlITLk
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Sleep is Death (http://www.sleepisdeath.net/), by Jason Ruhrer (the guy who did Passage, eh) looks neat. It's a storytelling game, where one player is the protagonist, and the other player assumes the role of the "controller", controlling the action in the scene. Each player gets 30 seconds to do an action and respond. Looks simple, but outputs a bunch of PNG files for the game afterwards. That way you can tell a story together.
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http://en.justin.tv/clip/67b18e78f4eb3bc5
Mike "REAL SOVIET DAMAGE" Z talking about his fighter Skullgirls.
REALTIME LIGHTING IN A 2D FIGHTER, WHAT SORCERY IS THIS?
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Looks like guilty gear but less interesting.
Clever lighting tricks, though.
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This looks pretty interesting. For a 3 month subscription you get a free controller, though you can probably do all the same through emulation though.
http://www.playsega.com/
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Kojima finally COMPLETELY LOSES HIS MIND, decides to have MONSTER HUNTER monsters in Metal gear solid:Peace walker
EDIT: NOW WITH VIDEO (http://www.konami.jp/mgs_pw/jp/movie/pw_movie_mh_x.swf)
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Kojima IS TOTALLY AWESOME, decides to have MONSTER HUNTER monsters in Metal gear solid:Peace walker
edit: also doritos and mountain dew. :whoops:
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Honestly, that game play looks downright sweet
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delicious
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That is the most wonderful thing
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METAL GEAR?!
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Given how these deals normally work, I'm sure we can now look forward to Metal Gears in Monster Hunter.
... Ray is practically a dragon already.
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but is it a street fighter?
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New XCOM in the works (http://kotaku.com/5516654/x+com-is-back).
Surprise, it's an FPS!
We've never seen anything like that (http://tinyurl.com/y5psl2t) before (http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/xcomenforcer)...
:derp:
I imagine that they'll try to emulate Fallout 3, but then again, I didn't particularly like Fallout 3 (primarily because Bethesda captured the Fallout setting without any of its humor and soul). Maybe 2K will do a better job with that.
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I know it's an alpha and all, but if you're fighting an uphill marketing battle it's probably best not to open with something that looks like it's from 1999.
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Sorry, auto-embed is fucking up the display of that story.
The video is from X-Com Enforcer, an X-Com themed TPS from 2001.
The new game news is the link in the first few words of my post.
Edit: cleaned up the initial post a bit. Is there any way to disable the Youtube auto-embed?
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Oh okay that kind of explains things.
Yeah that is pretty much Fallout 3 with more greys.
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Edit: cleaned up the initial post a bit. Is there any way to disable the Youtube auto-embed?
Use a tinyurl.
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HUH! So that's why the tinyURL link didn't take me to a rickroll!
EDIT:
Never gonna give you up!
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I suppose they need to use some of their old licenses at some point.
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I've got a bad feeling about this.
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Health Pack Reform divides nation. (http://www.firstpersonobserver.com/?p=4)
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Starcraft II gets 18+ rating in Korea (http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/tech/2010/04/133_64287.html)?
hottt
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Um, isn't a Starcraft player considered to be past his prime at about 23?
Won't delaying the game's release a year or more to censor the game to make it acceptable for younger games put Korea massively behind the global skill curve?
Those pro-gamers must be quaking in their boots right now.
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I wouldn't be surprised that even massively censored version would still get a 18+ rating just from public outcry/politicians trying to keep children from getting addicted to more videogames to the point of death. Which is partially understandable, but I think there's something inherent in their culture that must be a contributing factor in that kind of thing. Because death via videogame overdose is not as rampant a problem elsewhere.
...is this post :racist:?
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Their history is basically defined by an unbroken string of invasions by armies several times larger than their entire population. By necessity both Koreas have developed kind of a largish cultural boner for strategic warfare.
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Ohshitnorthkoreanrush kekeke...
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(http://imgur.com/qiIuH.png)
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I admit, even I want to bring about my large vessel to invade that girl's lips.
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Am I the only one who thinks this 18+ hullaballo is some kind of petty revenge against Blizzard for the recent betting scandal thing?
Like, it makes no sense, but if they decided to blame Blizzard for shaming them, instead of their own psychotic culture about it...
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Betting scandal?
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Apparently some coaches and players were fixing games pro games. I'm not clear on the details of who is and is not involved.
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Am I the only one who thinks this 18+ hullaballo is some kind of petty revenge against Blizzard for the recent betting scandal thing?
Yes you are
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Apparently some coaches and players were fixing games pro games. I'm not clear on the details of who is and is not involved.
"Nearly every top starcraft player in Korea" is a good place to start on who is involved.
Also it goes as far back as 2006.
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No one cares.
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Those fuckers
We were used! The whole world! Like stone cold chumps!
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From what I've heard, all the top players are being investigated, but that's a long way from being guilty.
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Ubisoft ditching paper manuals under the guise of being greener (http://www.joystiq.com/2010/04/19/ubisoft-getting-greener-by-ditching-paper-manuals/).
I'm reminded of those terrible, hole-riddled DVD cases that games like Brutal Legend came in. They say they're doing it for the environment, but they're really just doing it to save money on shipping.
It's fine if they just want to save money (hell, games already come with in-game manuals. They're called tutorials), but I'd rather they just be honest about it than say that they're being environmentally conscious. Makes them look soulless.
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Eh, the only deal here is that game companies probably should have started doing this about 10 years ago. I haven't need a manual since I was in elementary school, and annoying tutorial levels or pop up hints are the norm these days.
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I'd kind of prefer having something I can flip to in the middle of a level to remind myself how to do something, as opposed to being forced to save, quit, start a new game, and run the tutorial level until it gets to the move I'm forgetting.
Manuals aren't supposed to teach you how to play the game. They are reference material.
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So hopefully the in-game manual is a pause and simple menu option away?
As it is, it sounds like DN wants everybody to be cynical because he is cynical, not that they could actually be doing something good.
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Well excuse me for not seeing the environmental incentive in not publishing books.
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Wait a second, you know paper is trees, right?
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I... uh
well
I'm going to go kill myself. Later guys.
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And plastic is oil! And aluminum is ore!
Basically everything that has ever contained something is somehow fucking the planet. Including you, you ambulant bag of water and feces.
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No way, I'm just made from dust. Useless dust. It's those women always stealing our ribs. Delicious, succulent ribs.
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Basically everything that has ever contained something is somehow fucking the planet.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/buge/herpaderp/teknight_wtf.jpg)
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UGLY BAGS OF MOSTLY WATER.
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I was always under the impression that Ubisoft printed their manuals on seal pelts.
P.S. SAGAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE9dEAx5Sgw
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I'd be more supportive of Ubisoft if they weren't still using the worst DRM system I have ever seen and stubbornly keep saying it's working.
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Obvious joke: [spoiler]They're bringing back manual-based DRM.[/spoiler]
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Obvious joke: [spoiler]They're bringing back manual-based DRM.[/spoiler]
I would not object to a code wheel coming with all my games if it meant I didn't have to deal with securom or checkdisk or connecting to the internet whenever I want to play my games.
It would de-legitimize websites like GameCopyWorld overnight.
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Until you lost the wheel.
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Send away for a new one or print it out?
I'd prefer the inconvenience of a code wheel to having overzealous disk-checking software slowly destroying my DVD-ROM drive, or the privacy invasion that is "calling home every time you start your computer up".
A lot of modern DRM blacklists other software on your computer too, which gives me even more reason to not buy it - I don't like the idea of paying for a product that's going to disable every disc emulation program I have, half the ISOs I mount are for games I have already bought and paid for - I have about 500 PC games sitting in a cardboard box in the garage. It's too much of a pain in the ass.
The real solution I'd like to see is getting rid of DRM altogether, but I don't think that's going to happen, is it?
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I'd kind of prefer having something I can flip to in the middle of a level to remind myself how to do something, as opposed to being forced to save, quit, start a new game, and run the tutorial level until it gets to the move I'm forgetting.
Manuals aren't supposed to teach you how to play the game. They are reference material.
I'd be fine if they included a single page laminated reference card. Pref. one-sided so places like blockbuster could glue it to the box the game comes in when you rent it.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xuXkVzBdJQ
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/buge/avatarpoll/064.jpg)
The Boulder mocks Chris Redfield's struggle with basic earthbending. He would go so far as to say...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/buge/avatarpoll/065.jpg)
That clip was complete 'schist.'
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The Boulder mocks Chris Redfield's struggle with basic earthbending. He would go so far as to say...
That clip was complete 'schist.'
at first i was like ::(:
but then i was like :smile:
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1up reports of a multiplayer 2D Hi-Def Castlevania (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3179087)
Playable characters are all from previous 2D Castlevanias, so I guess story won't be a major concern.
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I'm really intrigued by this. The idea of a metroidvania that you play online with multiple people has been an idea we've tossed around on these boards for a long time so I'm interested to see if there's actually any merit to the idea.
I call dibs on Hammer.
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Yeah, this could be pretty cool!
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1up reports of a multiplayer 2D Hi-Def Castlevania (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3179087)
Playable characters are all from previous 2D Castlevanias, so I guess story won't be a major concern.
I knew that after I sold my 360 there would finally be an exclusive that I liked.
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1up reports of a multiplayer 2D Hi-Def Castlevania (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3179087)
Playable characters are all from previous 2D Castlevanias, so I guess story won't be a major concern.
I knew that after I sold my 360 there would finally be an exclusive that I liked.
This so much, also I guess there is a Priston Tale 2 now?
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Why does it have to be on 360, where they still live in the goddamn stone age and you have to pay to play online?
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You call it the "stone age"; they call it the "big stacks of money every month age".
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Weirdly, though (and somewhat disappointingly), the character sprites will evidently be the same as those used in the Nintendo DS games
::(:
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New Castlevania game a disappointment, news at 11
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http://www.uberent.com/
A third person shooter DotA meets TF2 meets Smash TV sounds pretty great, but XBLA instead of PC makes me a sad panda.
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how can you [spoiler]not[/spoiler] be a ninja with an ass that big
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Sort of gaming news. The Mega Man fan film will premier at Noon CST on Friday, May 7th on screwattack.com
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Been playing the Lost Planet 2 multiplayer demo. This is alot like 1 but bettter.
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Hideki Kamiya doesn't like that people make Bayonetta h-doujinshi (http://kotaku.com/5538030/bayonetta-creator-not-thrilled-with-erotic-bayonetta-send+ups)
Wow.
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HURRR, IT IS A MYSTERY (http://www.themmnetwork.com/2010/05/08/the-mystery-of-wily-castles-pipe/)
I think this calls for the Hardy Boys.
*Kids look up from their video games*
"Who?"
:mystery:
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Hideki Kamiya doesn't like that people make Bayonetta h-doujinshi (http://kotaku.com/5538030/bayonetta-creator-not-thrilled-with-erotic-bayonetta-send+ups)
Wow.
There's the old argument that Bayonetta's supposed to be some sort of embodiment of feminist sexuality (http://www.gamepro.com/article/features/213466/bayonetta-empowering-or-exploitative/), which is potentially undermined when the character is translated to a pornographic context. Not necessarily, of course, but I could see the argument.
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Sounds plausible, but Hideki Kamiya's Japanese, isn't he?
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Yeah, I don't get the intention behind that statement. The only way he could be at all surprised by that or even take note of it is if he had been flown straight down from a monastery in Tibet and given full directorial control of an A-budget video game.
It doesn't even have anything to do with Bayonetta being a hypersexed Barbie doll with a penchant for getting naked every 5 seconds. There's probably more porn of Klonoa than of Bayonetta out there. Maybe he's just pissed off because there aren't enough doujins.
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Alpha Protocol is out! I think this game's going to fly under the radar, get really cheap, and then be impossible to find. Partly because it is a heavily flawed game.
I just posted this on another forum:
[...] I could have swore Baldur's Gate 2 and Planescape Torment were some of the best games ever made, but all bioware or obsidian seem to be capable of anymore is a bunch of cliche riddled male fantasy bullshit. And even if you got any kind of enjoyment out of Dragon Age or Mass Effect, I don't think the same will happen here, the writing here is way worse than anything Bioware's done lately, maybe anything anyone's done lately, and it behaves like it was assembled by the crack programming team behind Ultima IX, and the voice acting makes Deus Ex look like Uncharted 2.
There are unskippable minigames that range from simple and pointless to unsolvable and the save system is some check point type thing, like it came from a 2002 console game. All the security guards wear sunglasses indoors. On the character background selection screen, you pick what you wanna be, soldier, recruit, etc. They all sound like comic book superhero descriptions and the freelance one has a picture of a fat kevin smith guy with a backwards baseball cap and two uzi's. I'm saying I just feel like I'm not getting any younger and don't have time for this kind of shit anymore, there's good games out there.
I had a chance to watch one of my former roommates play this, and yeah, the game has all these flaws and more. Just in the time that I watched, I witnessed
–awkward environments: no jumping or climbing over obstacles, except where the holographic icon says you can
–a counter-productive camera: it's positioned really close to the protagonist, meaning attempts to run from an encounter often led to the character running in place against a wall we couldn't see
–juvenile thematic choices: it's like they based their world and scenario design on concepts rejected from "Burn Notice" for being too cliché-ridden
–character models that plumb the depths of the Uncanny Valley: major nightmare fuel. (Those teeth!)
All that, and it's still an improvement over Deus Ex 2. I totally have to buy this.
I should elaborate. I have always preferred the flawed-but-interesting games to high-gloss, triple-A titles. Stuff like Zelda Four-Swords Adventure, Graffiti Kingdom, Psychonauts, and Chulip: these games are mistake-ridden, some of them unplayably so. I still love them and am glad I own them. I'm looking forward to including Alpha Protocol among their number.
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I should elaborate. I have always preferred the flawed-but-interesting games to high-gloss, triple-A titles. Stuff like Zelda Four-Swords Adventure, Graffiti Kingdom, Psychonauts, and Chulip: these games are mistake-ridden, some of them unplayably so. I still love them and am glad I own them. I'm looking forward to including Alpha Protocol among their number.
What? Why wouldn't you prefer something that worked?
Elaborate damn your eyes!
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Because those flawed games are often flawed because their eyes were too big for their plate. They shot for the stars (or at least for something totally rad or interesting) and missed like a motherfucker, but they at least did something.
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Kind of like how a cool Half-Life mod can keep us entertainined for weeks, whereas the latest Battlefield gets like six days before you've moved on?
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Alpha Protocol is out! I think this game's going to fly under the radar, get really cheap, and then be impossible to find. Partly because it is a heavily flawed game.
Yeah, I'm hoping to grab it at step two in a couple of months. I actually had a pre-order out for it, but then decided to cancel that, and buy a different game (toss up between Alan Wake, Dragon Age: Origins and Final Fantasy XIII -- and Best Buy didn't have any copies of Dragon Age around, so I went with FFXIII, which I was bound to buy anyway. As for Alan Wake, well, I already have Deadly Premonition).
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Kind of like how a cool Half-Life mod can keep us entertainined for weeks, whereas the latest Battlefield gets like six days before you've moved on?
I hate this. I hate this so much. :rage:
All that games I've bought in the last six months have not given me as much entertainment value as Heroes of Newerth Beta/Release did for $30. Nor the APB Beta.
I figure I need to get in on that "Restraint" thing but that might just depress me more.
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Guilty Gear guys make sequel to Contra: Hard Corps for XBLA and PSN (http://www.joystiq.com/2010/06/03/hard-corps-uprising-is-new-contra-for-xbla-and-psn/)
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OH GOD MY PANTS
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And in other
Alpha Protocol
news, Sharkey wrote 1up's review. (http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3179545) He likes it for the reasons I'm hoping I'll like it!
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution (http://www.joystiq.com/2010/06/04/deus-ex-human-revolution-trailer/). Hmm.
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That looks like it belongs in Coming Soon.
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Fiddlin' about with Peace Walker. Pretty cool, so far.
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That's not news.
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It's new to me! :whoops:
No, I suppose it isn't.
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Destructoid justifies its entire existence with a single article. (http://www.destructoid.com/the-animals-of-the-l-a-zoo-make-our-e3-2010-predictions--171676.phtml#ext)
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SQUARE ENIX IS PUBLISHING AN OBSIDIAN DEVELOPED DUNGEON SIEGE GAME???? (http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/109/1095171p1.html)
:pop:
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XCom trailer (http://ve3d.ign.com/videos/play/73913/PC/XCOM/Trailer/E3-2010-Trailer/Flash-Video). Basically contains no new information except that they really got the 50s aesthetic style down pat.
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I uh
I don't know about this one folks...
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I have a feeling this is a game that would do better without the XCom name attached to it. Not because it looks bad, but because 1)that is still a hell of a name to live up to, and 2)this is clearly not the game that anyone who has fond memories of the original wants (by which I mean a thinking man's game, and not "Bioshock in the pre-war Fallout universe").
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The fact of bases, research, and the ability to send a team in and have them all die and continue on from there suggest it's a lot more than just Bioshock. This is allegedly a game in which you actually can fuck up and fail, in a context beyond the "Game over, reload last checkpoint?" that we've seen so much of these days.
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Oh. Hmm. Well, I was going entirely from this trailer, so yeah, if there's more to it then that's a premature assessment. That's still a hefty legacy to put on a game's shoulders though.
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We are not going to learn anything about the non-fps parts of the game for a long time, so we can keep on speculating until the game is weeks from release. I don't think slow menu sections are high up on the mainstream videogame trailer agenda.
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Mortal Kombat: Black (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_MqZn7E-mk#ws)
(warning: features harlequin babies)
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Combat in the new XCom just looks like the anti-fun :( :( :(
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Yeah so here's the real Mortal Kombat trailer.
Mortal Kombat Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdNUGS-kqSk#ws)
Looks like could be decent! A return to the classic 2D style, rather than that gimmicky faux-3d crap, with a tag-team system, and character designs that echo the originals. It actually looks fun!
I've always had a soft spot for Mortal Kombat, and I've been consistently disappointed, similar to what many people go through with Sonic games, but this one...this one could be different.
Or it could be a terrible mess like the last 10 or so MK games(except Shaolin Monks, which was awesome). :shrug:
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3D Realms wins lawsuit, keeps Duke Nukem Forever rights. (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/64233) 3D Realms doesn't have any developers anymore, but I don't think that would make any difference.
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So, we've managed to avoid talking about how the best pixel artist ever is making the best game ever for the best movie ever based off the best comic ever, and that should probably stop now.
E3 2010: Exclusive Debut Gameplay Montage HD - Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2010-scott-pilgrim/101186)
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We've also managed to avoid talking about how Telltale Games has acquired the license to Universal Pictures movies, and are now producing Back to the Future and GODDAMN JURASSIC PARK adventure games.
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I am looking forward to the game. And I am really glad that it's on PSN/XBLA instead of DS like originally thought
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I love the fact that the Toronto TTC streetcar stage background is accurate.
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Everything should be. All locations in the comic, even if not well known actual locations are based off pictures the creator took from around the city of Canada. From what they're saying both movie and game reflect this perfectly.
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I'd still rather have a real Pirate Baby game.
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In response to a question about growing sales of Sony's Playstation 3, Reggie Fils-Aime, Nintendo of America President, said: "It is easy to talk about growth when you are working off of a very low base."
:ashandpikachudisplayingjoy:
I have to admit that I really wish I had enough money to open a trading account so I could dump it all in Nintendo right now.
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:brockandpikachudisplayingjoy:
I believe this is what you're looking for? :happy:
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:rage: This is his happy face.
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Looks like Microsoft found a creative solution (http://consumerist.com/2010/06/microsoft-took-red-ring-out-of-redesigned-xbox-to-prevent-red-ring-of-death.html) to that whole 'RRoD' thing.
* SimonTheDigger removes the Check Engine light on Squizzle's car
<SimonTheDigger> Now you don't have to check the engine anymore!
<@Squizzle> :O
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Holy shit. I joked about them doing this when they announce the new 360 at their conference. Hot damn.
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Soon XBox gamers will come to fear GROD
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(http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x270/servewithchips/6012a32d.jpg)
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...
(http://hundredcoins.org/brentai/images/86936-34505-green-lantern-ring_super.jpg)
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(http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/11/03/the_flash_by_alex_ross.jpg)
Excuse me, Hal? I think it's my turn.
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So, I didn't know Square-Enix was publishing and co-developing Deus Ex 3. That's interesting.
You can kind of tell by the collar on the newslady.
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Squeenix bought Eidos, so it's a given that you're going to see that name on any Deus Ex game. If I know the Japanese branch of the company, though, they probably want as little to do with the development of any Western and especially first-person game as possible, so I wouldn't blame them for any of the game's usual sort of curious design choices.
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(http://imgur.com/Wb2It.png)
:wat:
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Deus Ex 3's art direction was supposed to be all Renaissance and stuff.
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The last several decades have seen the 50's-through-to-the-90's recycled multiple times now. Time for a change of pace anyway.
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(http://i512.photobucket.com/albums/t322/DetonatorNova/de3city.jpg)
Fashion aside, I hate how the city looks all futuristic in 2027. Did they really rebuild the whole city in 17 years?
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Apparently the recession was ended by a slew of ridiculous construction projects.
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The Neo Deal?
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Oh yeah! I forgot that I live in the city that they're developing this. Now applied to playtest.
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After watching the trailer, I'm not so annoyed by the newscaster's ridiculous collar as I am by how the second half of the trailer turns into the protagonist trying to look cool while killing as many dudes as possible. That and "I'll take you to hell!" make the project about as mindlessly generic as it could get.
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Yeah, the trailer did not excite me either, but I am pinning my hopes on the chance that it was intended for the lobotomized shooter-playing masses.
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the protagonist trying to look cool while killing as many dudes as possible
as mindlessly generic as it could get
lobotomized shooter-playing masses
JC Denton wore sunglasses and a black trenchcoat in something released a year after the Matrix came out. Shut yer wordholes.
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He also walked like he had a stick up his ass and broke his legs every five minutes.
You also spent most of your time hiding in vents because direct conflict would result in broken legs.
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Don't forget that midway through the tutorial you would end up crawling on the floor with every limb on you body broken wishing to die, but the game would not give you that release since it was the tutorial.
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Fashion aside, I hate how the city looks all futuristic in 2027. Did they really rebuild the whole city in 17 years?
Well, it really didn't work when they tried normal human timetables for reconstruction. The "Exhaust every last able-bodied resident with overwork so they can't burn down the other parts of the city plan," long name aside, was quite effective when enacted in 2015 after the city was entirely leveled due to the... well, you guys already know rest. Anyway, the future look aside, it's still very much racially self-segregated. :shrug:
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I'm not expecting a good game from this so I am just hoping for a shiny new game that can stand up to the first game better than Invisible War.
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The first game isn't even that good. Yeah, I said it.
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:hellamad:
preposterous.
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Yeah, Deus Ex was a terrible game! Just like Half-Life and System Shock 2 and Starcraft and Morrowind and Alpha Centauri.
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Nobody's saying it was a terrible game. It was a very solid game. But it was not the great masterwork that fans keep jizzing themselves thinking about. Many of the mechanics - like the whole locational injury thing - sound good on paper but just blow in actual play, and the storyline was pants-on-head retarded. It reads like if Hideo Kojima shed a chromosome and got a Geocities page in trade.
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I'm not expecting a good game from this so I am just hoping for a shiny new game that can stand up to the first game better than Invisible War.
Well, I think they're going to try, dammit. (http://kotaku.com/5568944/deus-ex-human-revolution-plays-best-behind-shades) At least that's what I am understanding from this article. I'm cautiously hopeful about it.
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Yeah, Deus Ex was a terrible game! Just like Half-Life and System Shock 2 and Starcraft and Morrowind and Alpha Centauri.
Deus Ex is overrated, but Morrowind just plain sucks. I'm not saying Deus Ex wasn't amazing in a lot of ways, but it was jenky as fuck, the stealth was terrible, and the characters were mostly cliche'd and/or transparent.
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I don't like Deus Ex but that's a symptom of my personal tastes and not a critique of the game. I just can't get off unless my guns are constantly blazing.
...oh, erm, and the game is slow-paced too.
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Here's some Human Revolution gameplay videos. Poor quality, but it gets the point across. (http://techspotlight.net/trailers/deus-ex-human-revolution-full-20-minute-gameplay-video-mirror)
Crackdown 2 Demo up on the XBL Marketplace, for those interested.
I enjoyed the first game a whole lot, and the second one really doesn't disappoint, but it's not much to get excited over either unless you're a big co-op person. It really feels like it carries on 90% of the spirit of the game in both good and bad ways.
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TRON-themed Controllers (http://www.joystiq.com/2010/06/22/gallery-pdps-peripheral-lineup-demoed-at-e3/).
I will but it so hard.
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So EVO 2k is going on. It can be seen at Stickam (http://stickam.com/evo2k) . However the stream is so unwatchable, and it's being put out by G4 and will be on their station for 3 days I think? I think they should have left the streaming to the actual players.
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Doublefine is working on four new games, none of which are Brutal Legend 2 (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3180403).
I'm not surprised that there isn't going to be a Brutal Legend 2. Disappointed, but not surprised. If they had stripped out the entire RTS theme and focused entirely on the adventures of Eddie Riggs, it would have been a truly awesome game. And had they focused entirely on making an Action RTS with three distinct campaigns to play through, it would have still been a pretty great game. But they tried making two complete games in one, and even did a surprisingly good job at it, but ended up with lackluster results.
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people dissing on Invisible War
I still can't quite understand why people hate DX2 so much. I admit that it wasn't as good as the first, but it had a good mix of action and going around town exploring/talking to everyone (well, until Antarctica, but that's like the 3rd quarter of the game - and mind you, DX1 had the same problem around when you went to Vandenberg), the actual shooting/sneaking around was fun and enjoyable, the inventory system was much less of a pain in the ass (yes, DX1's inventory tetris screen was awful, don't deny it), and the story was ridiculous, but in a fun way. (Every conspiracy in the world is fighting every other conspiracy! It's up to YOU to choose the winner!) The only real complaints I have with the game are that the loading times are atrocious, the areas are a bit small (which exacerbates the loading problem), and universal ammo is a stupid fucking idea and whoever thought it up should be shot. Aside from those issues, it's really a very good game!
On the trailer: You know what the Deus Ex series really needed? Flashy over the top JRPG cutscenes. Thank you Square for showing us the way! I actually am looking forward to the game, but fuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
EDIT: The problem with replying to stickies is that I assume the posts on the last page are all somewhat recent. :slow:
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http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/action/megamanuniverse/video/6269358/mega-man-universe-announcement-trailer (http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/action/megamanuniverse/video/6269358/mega-man-universe-announcement-trailer)
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So, that was cool and all, but I have no idea what Megaman Universe is. Was that part of it intentional?
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Looks like Mortal Kombat set a new precedent for being intentionally ambiguous.
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I don't know, but I want to play a game where Mega Man turns into a bunch of different Capcom characters and fights high-res versions of Mega Man 2 enemies while remixes of music from the original games plays in the background.
If he's also two inches tall and the game takes place in the real world, that will just be fucking gravy.
(Did anyone else hear the Tick theme when the alarm went off?)
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You too?
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http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/action/megamanuniverse/video/6269358/mega-man-universe-announcement-trailer (http://www.gamespot.com/ps3/action/megamanuniverse/video/6269358/mega-man-universe-announcement-trailer)
Featuring facial aniimation by Tim Buckley.
(I hope you can play as boxart Megaman in whatever the hell this is)
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Alice: Madness Returns - Announcement CG Teaser (Part 1 of 3) - Pixel Enemy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjRkFsZXguo#ws)
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Oh great, ten more years of people jerking off to goth Lewis Carroll shit.
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That was the goofiest trailer.
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WarHammer 40K Space Marine Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATb5hxZTJLQ#ws)
Sold.
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Wake me up when Relic makes a Horror/Mystery Adventure Game starring the Adepta Sororitas.
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Wait, so they took that game away from that awful team who couldn't stop saying "cinamaction" like that was a real thing, and gave it to the actually competent people at Relic? Fuuuuck.
On the one hand, I approve, but on the other hand this is clearly time they could be spending making fucking Homeworld 3.
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Really, it better have a 4-player co-op and a Hordes mode. Otherwise
I won't buy it I'll buy it and be less happy with my purchase.
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Everything has a horde mode now, but yeah, if this just turned out to be a Gears of War reskin where they put the chainsaw on a sword instead of a gun, I'd be perfectly fine with that.
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More Fighting game stuff:
http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/07/19/rumor-namco-vs-capcom-not-one-but-two-games.aspx (http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/07/19/rumor-namco-vs-capcom-not-one-but-two-games.aspx)
Namco Vs. Capcom/Capcom Vs. Namco
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Well, there's a few more clues as to what the fuck Megaman Universe is (http://kotaku.com/5594213/the-father-of-mega-man-explains-mega-man-universe), but that's not important.
What is important is this quote:The Father of Mega Man ended his Comic-Con presentation with another tease, claiming "You haven't heard the last of the Mega Man announcements out there." Inafune said to expect confirmation of an "oft-requested thing that you guys want."
When fans began shouting for Mega Man Legends 3, Inafune just smiled and said "Thank you."
I don't want to get my hopes up, but things like this keep me trapped in the mindset of the Sonic Fan-boy.
:omg:
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Hey nothing is wrong with being a Legends fanboy. Everything is right with that.
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Only if Tron Bonne returns.
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We're talking about a Legends sequel. The sequel he's wanted to make since forever. Do you mean to say you think Tron won't appear in a Legends sequel?
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I mean to say I'm still looking for a copy of The Misadventures of Tron Bonne. Why?
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So this new Spider-Man game is looking better and better. They revealed the last Dimension (Ultimate, of course, but in the symbiont) to go along with Amazing, Noir (which is reported to play a lot like Batman: Arkham Asylum) and 2099 (which the developers have described by saying "We basically just put Spider-Man into the city from Bladerunner) and now this tidbit from G4's SDCC coverage:
Neil Patrick Harris, who lent his voice to the iconic web-slinger in 2003’s “Spider-Man: The New Animated Series,” will portray Amazing Spider-Man. The other three versions of Spidy will be voiced by Josh Keaton (Ultimate), Christopher Barnes (Noir), and Dan Gilvezan (2099).
Like Neil Patrick Harris, each of the other actors have played Spider-Man in various animated series. Keaton starred in “The Spectacular Spider-Man” from 2008-2009, Gilvezan was in “Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends” from 1981-1983, and Barnes appeared in 1994’s “Spider-Man.”
Spider-Man creator, and all around badass, Stan Lee will also lend his voice to Shattered Dimensions as the game’s narrator, while the game’s orchestral score is being created by Emmy Award-winning composer Jim Dooley.
Holy balls, fellas, I might actually have to purchase a fucking Spider-Man game.
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Christopher Barnes
Every line will be delivered like at 5:17.
Spiderman The Animated Series - Season 1 - Episode 8 - The Alien Costume Part 2 (Part 2) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpzr5aKpx30#)
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I just read both Noir arcs, so maybe I'm nerding out a little more than I should, but it really does look great.
Here's all the dimensions in action for anyone who hasn't seen it.
SDCC 10: Exclusive Ultimate Dimension Trailer HD - Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions (http://www.gametrailers.com/video/sdcc-10-spider-man-shattered/701854)
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2099?!
Ahahahahahahahahaha.
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To be fair, Spider-Man was the only thing readable out of the whole 2099 thing.
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I think the only thing that I liked anywhere in 2099 was that Mutants had become so common that a bunch of them had totally worthless abilities, so they had all the negatives of being a mutant, without the AWESOME SUPERPOWERS positive.
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I think that was part of the entire last ten years of actual X-Men continuity too
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More like almost since the beginning. That's like the whole gimmick for the Morlocks. Only a few of them have any real power.
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(http://dailypop.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/brian-michael-bendis.jpg)
nope
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I think that was part of the entire last ten years of actual X-Men continuity too
See, I haven't read any of that.
Because my DC/Marvel comic buying days were the first half of the 90's.
:goggles:
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The world has finally seen it.Tekken X Streetfighter (http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2010/jul/24/ono-announcements-comic-con-2010/)
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They literally just reskinned Sagat as Jin and played Ryu's rival cutscene there.
This whole thing is just going to be one big recycle bin.
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Additionally, Tekken is trash.
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I was a lot more excited when the possibility of using Dig Dug in a fighting game existed.
Fuck you, Namco.
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You'd think they'd at least bring in their other, better 3D fighting series.
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Or just make it company wide, like CvS.
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Well yes, that's what we all thought they were going to do. I'd have no problem watching Klonoa beat up Akuma.
But just Tekken... man, I don't even know who the audience is for Tekken. Like if KoF is for latinos and Soul Calibur is for cosplayers, Tekken is for, I dunno, people who think the WWF needs more anime in it.
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it gets screen time at Evo still, so I guess there are fighting game pros that see something in it, but I still hold that Virtua Fighter is better in every regard except character design. Not that Tekken's are good, just that Virtua Fighter's are uniformly bland.
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Well yes, that's what we all thought they were going to do. I'd have no problem watching Klonoa beat up Akuma.
But just Tekken... man, I don't even know who the audience is for Tekken. Like if KoF is for latinos and Soul Calibur is for cosplayers, Tekken is for, I dunno, people who think the WWF needs more anime in it.
Circus clowns.
(because clowns like juggling)
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Well yes, that's what we all thought they were going to do. I'd have no problem watching Klonoa beat up Akuma.
But just Tekken... man, I don't even know who the audience is for Tekken. Like if KoF is for latinos and Soul Calibur is for cosplayers, Tekken is for, I dunno, people who carry a torch for Killer Instinct.
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Spider-Pig confirmed
SDCC 10: Opening Cinematic (Cam) HD - Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions (http://www.gametrailers.com/video/sdcc-10-spider-man-shattered/702118)
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Touhou 12.8 announced on Zun's blog:
GREAT FAIRY WARS, STARRING CIRNO
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Spider-Pig confirmed
Yeah it's pretty cool that they got Spider-Ham to do the narration.
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine Confirmed for PC Release (http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3180577)
I was actually really worried it was going to be console only.
THAD EDIT: Fixed the link. Links are hard. All that Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V you have to do to add the name of the article just in case somehow somebody doesn't know what the fuck a 3180577 is...
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http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/29797/ (http://gamevideos.1up.com/video/id/29797/)
Maker of strider teams up with Square-Enix for PSN/Arcade 4p Co-Op
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Got Limbo off the 360 marketplace, it's a pretty sweet puzzle/platform type thing. While I don't regret getting it, I'm not sure it's worth $15.
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Spider-Pig confirmed
SDCC 10: Opening Cinematic (Cam) HD - Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions (http://www.gametrailers.com/video/sdcc-10-spider-man-shattered/702118)
I see Mysterio is being played by Guy-Manuel from Daft Punk.
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Ghost Trick Announcement Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OxMfwK7XKM#ws)
E3 2010:Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective DS E3 Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDprOzmmGOg#ws)
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That game looks pretty great.
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It is from my experience playing the tutorial level in online flash-demo form. Unfortunately for most of you, the demo's in Japanese only. Fun though.
As a side note on that, it felt like such an accomplishment to be able play a text-heavy game like that in Japanese and completely understand what was going on. Sure, I missed a few little tidbits of information, but nothing that mattered/couldn't be figured out by context. ::D:
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Can you provide a link?
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Gameplay 1 - E3 2010 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhbQ3ZaUH6k#ws)
this looks Epic
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I like how one of the three unforgivable curses can be used to temporarily stun enemies.
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I can't imagine the board meeting for that. Does Rowling have creative control at all, or would it only be the publisher of the book(people who don't care) who gets to approve everything?
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I like how one of the three unforgivable curses can be used to temporarily stun enemies.
Well, it's a cover shooter. You need your standard shotgun, sniper rifle, machine gun setup in a cover shooter. Cruciatus is the machine gun.
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I think I just blew a vein in my head. Evidence for this includes significant paralysis in my left side and the fact that the Cruciatus curse, which [spoiler]Harry ever only uses against Belatrix in book 5 right after he watches her murder Sirius[/spoiler] is selectable from a god damned ring menu. Neville would be horrified.
Frocto edit: Spoilered, because holy fuck I don't care if the books are old, he was going for some sort of record for spoiling as many things as possible in one sentence.
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Well, it's a cover shooter. You need your standard shotgun, sniper rifle, machine gun setup in a cover shooter. Cruciatus is the machine gun.
So, what, I guess the Shotgun would be Avada Kedavra? Sectumsempra seems more like a Magnum to me.
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The rocket launcher is, of course, biggus dickus.
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Maybe the whole problem is having Harry Potter be a "regular" FPS when the theme is more suited to a stealth FPS at best but when it comes to game developing nobody ever backs up from a bad idea ever
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biggus dickus.
I like how a Google Image Search of that name turns up equal parts Life of Brian and Dick Cheney.
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Not surprised this slipped through the cracks, but Rock of Ages (http://www.destructoid.com/e3-10-tower-defense-with-a-twist-atlus-rock-of-ages-176977.phtml), a weird sort-of tower defense game developed by the guys who made Zeno Clash where you roll a boulder down a hill to smash the hell out of your enemy's castle, looks pretty awesome.
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That's not the right link.
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What the derp
Ok fixed
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I don't get why you guys say that harry potter game looks bad, It looks like the first harry potter game that i'd actually play!
Fun > Accuracy
Imagine if the schindler's list game had stayed totally true to the source material? That'd be depressing as hell.
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It stands as the greatest Moonwalker clone of all time.
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...there was a Schindler's List game?
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Yeah, I think Sharkey reviewed it.
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Wh
How do you win??
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Let me put it this way: remember Lemmings?
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I don't know the name for what I'm feeling.
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There's probably a word in German for whatever it is.
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:O
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I think I just blew a vein in my head. Evidence for this includes significant paralysis in my left side and the fact that the Cruciatus curse, which [spoiler]Harry ever only uses against Belatrix in book 5 right after he watches her murder Sirius[/spoiler] is selectable from a god damned ring menu. Neville would be horrified.
Actually, he uses it on Carrow in the last book, too.
Frocto edit: Spoilered, because holy fuck I don't care if the books are old, he was going for some sort of record for spoiling as many things as possible in one sentence.
There is absolutely nobody on the Internet who has not at some point read the phrase "Snape kills Dumbledore."
For fuck's sake, there was a Simpsons episode written around it.
In 2006.
I think we've reached the point where we probably don't have to tag spoilers from the PREVIOUS book.
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I haven't read them.
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That's on you at this point.
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I haven't read the seventh book since it was released. I stand corrected.
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you have my explicit consent to unspoiler bal's post
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...the other thing that's fucking absurd about it is that, of course, there is a perfectly good stun spell in the goddamn canon. You don't even have to make one up, just flip back through the first book. And the second, third, fourth, fifth...
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HTML5 can be used to make games that look like this (http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/?sound=1).
:cake:
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Fuck, that's amazing. :goodnews:
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Will this spawn a new age of browser-based adventure games? No. But it should!
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HTML5 can be used to make games that look like this (http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/?sound=1).
:cake:
Soooo HTML5 can make those clocks you find in Chinese restaurants?
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I think he's drooling because they have an even lower bandwidth cost than standard anigifs???
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They aren't animated, really. It's just fancy-pants palette cycling.
Getting some hardcore Amiga nostalgia off these.
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It's not even palette cycling. It's using a series of .pngs and a script to simulate an animated gif background.
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Any way to save them then? I'm really loving his colour choices.
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Early Arkham Asylum sequel details. (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/08/05/batman-arkham-city-announced/#more-35272). Sounds promising. I look forward to the vertical spaces possible in this new setting.
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Whoah, that colour cycling stuff is amazingly pretty. :D
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http://kotaku.com/5609770/rumor-borderlands-studio-reviving-duke-nukem-forever (http://kotaku.com/5609770/rumor-borderlands-studio-reviving-duke-nukem-forever)
"Gearbox was outed as the developer of the apparently scrapped Duke Nukem spin-off Duke Begins earlier this year."
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Duke doesn't begin. He is forever.
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A serpent, in the forn of a circle, shitting down its own neck.
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christian bale stars in duke begins
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"the duke knight"
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[PS3/360]Ace Combat: Assault Horizon Announcement Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SP1aLhmx1U#ws)
At first I was like "It's set in the real world, I liked the ace combat world. :("
And then I was like "THEY'RE CHANGING EVERYTHING IT'S GONNA SUCK"
And then I was like "Oh man this music is pretty sweet, sounds like keiki kobayashi is doing this one too"
And then I was like "NEW ACE COMBAT GAME :D:D:D:D:D:D :glee: :glee: :glee: :rage: :itsatrap: :advice: :tldr: :nyoro~n: :perfect: :perfect: :perfect: :perfect:"
And now i'm like "GODDAMN IT YOUTUBE I KNOW MY INTERNET IS CAPPED BUT I WANT TO LISTEN TO THAT MUSIC AGAIN"
I want my ace combat.
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Time is short, so I'll be brief.
The enemy squadron is being lead by a shark.
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Bioshock Infinite (http://www.joystiq.com/2010/08/12/bioshock-infinite-preview/#continued). Takes place in 1912. In a floating city.
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I'm hoping that the trailer doesn't actually reflect the game much aside from airplanes shooting action game. In that trailer there is:
* MASH TRIANGLE TO GET BEHIND BAD GUY
* GUNNER SEAT RAIL SHOOTING
* ON RAILS FLYING?
It looks awesome, but I hope most of it is just a mockup for the game.
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why play excitebike or oregontrail when you can have both?
So Long, Oregon. Let's go find El Dorado. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zVmW4NYkwE#)
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That looks awesome! :cake:
... iPhone or iPod Touch?! :rage:
NO ANDROID?
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Smiler, yeah, a lot of it is probably mockup stuff, like the missile counters on the side don't change at all.
I am a little worried about it becoming a QTEfest, but, I'm still hopeful. And it's sorta cool that they're letting you use gunships and stuff, maybe they'll make it a branching mission thing, so if you don't want to do that kinda stuff, you can just stay in jets.
I'm just really hoping it comes out as good as i'm hoping for, the trailer looks pretty badass.
Anyway, it's team aces, they do good work! So Fingers crossed on wood.
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Is the rest of the series an arcade flight shooter game? That trailer has sort of sparked my interest in it, and I'm looking at a $20 used copy of Ace Combat 6 at my local gamestop. Worth it?
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Ace combat is like my favourite series ever! If you can grab any of the playstation ones, go for it! 6 is awesome too. :D
They're arcadey in that like, some of your planes have over 300 missiles and you can defeat entire armies on your own, pretty much. And drop bombs on city blocks and just kill the tanks that are nearby without damaging the buildings.
But yeah, they have really great music, and they totally make you feel like a badass, they're great games.
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Bioshock Infinite (http://www.joystiq.com/2010/08/12/bioshock-infinite-preview/#continued). Takes place in 1912. In a floating city.
you misspelled skyoshock
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Yeah, I find it weird that they are dumping the Ace Combat World of Osea and Belkan and Yuktabonia and all that. But haven't they done that and gone with normal earth once before?
Part of the reason for the whole Ace Combat made up world with mostly real world jets is because of the game's original intent. Originally it was actually going to be an Area 88 game, I shit you not. That's why the first game is all about this ragtag band of merc pilots that end up stopping a criminal/terrorist plot. But something happened and they couldn't get the license so they ended up just making their own universe for the game. Area 88 took place on normal earth except for its main setting which was a fictional north african country called Asran (or Aslan) that was sort of like a less unfortunate version of Afganistan mixed with Iran and Egypt's history and stuck other next to or on top of where Egypt should be on the world map.
I guess when they started moving in the direction of not being based on an existing IP like that, they said "Hey, lets just make the whole world fictional places."
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PC Gamer - Bioshock Infinite announcement trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV_TDxl2UIo#ws)
Between 1:15 and 1:40 his head performs a complete 360 degree turn.
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http://www.skyoshock.com (http://www.skyoshock.com)
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Yessss new Ace Combat
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why play excitebike or oregontrail when you can have both?
So Long, Oregon. Let's go find El Dorado. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zVmW4NYkwE#)
Didn't a Bronto make an LP of this?
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Who else but Frocto
Let's Play Fuck Oregon Let's Go Find El Dorado (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dn4YVes62E#)
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Supposedly that game's really upgraded since then. They added multiplayer and hunting.
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Warren Spector wants to make a Ducktales game (http://kotaku.com/5612735/deus-ex-creator-wants-to-make-a-duck-tales-game) :8V:
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If you go back to the actual interview (http://www.industrygamers.com/news/warren-spector-feels-strong-sense-of-responsibility-with-mickey/) (which is very interesting and the thing your link quotes is really just an afterthought) he never mentions DuckTales.
What he wants to make is a Carl Barks game. Which is even better.
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http://probertson.livejournal.com/33796.html (http://probertson.livejournal.com/33796.html)
Just some of the animations Paul Robertson did for the Scott Piligrm game.
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I actually bought the game. I like it a lot. It's a RPG sidescrolling brawler. It's got a nice almost Earthbound feel. Up to four players can play, you canr level up your characters and buy them moves, there are hidden places on each stage, and the art is indeed great looking.
OH. Music is pretty nice and there are apparently bonus game modes?
I'm hearing talk of ZOMBIE MODE. So that's something.
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Could you paste it for those who don't care enough to sign up for some random forums
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I deleted my post because of regret from one of the individuals involved, but after Mechafetus/Amanaguchi were put on the project, additional development staff was added less for having relevant skills than for being on good terms with certain people at Ubi, which stalled progress; the game got cancelled internally, but no third parties were willing to take on the project, so it went back to Ubi's original team with Chinese contractors. Apparently the Chinese were great and they wished they could have taken over responsibility for even more stuff (e.g. the rest of the lackluster sound design). The final boss was (unsurprisingly) originally a huge cockbeast that all the penises had to be censored out of by the Chinese; there may or may not have also been dickgirls at some point. A lot of random things also got changed, like the character faces in the pre-battle profile images, etc. They didn't really want to make it all grindy but marketing insisted.
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It's River City Ransom.
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Somehow that strikes me as perfectly appropriate.
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Ys Seven tomorrow!
Falcom's been having a bit of a renaissance since they decided to focus on making fast-paced dungeon crawls a few years ago. The advance reports and videos suggest Ys7 is like Secret of Mana at about 3 times the speed, and in a refreshing change of pace the developers insist the main story is a solid 35 hours.
For me, seeing the Ys games become genuinely fun around Oath in Felghana was kind of like the fat, shy, dumpy kid you knew and stuck up for in high school sending you postcards while he travels the world in search of adventure, opportunity, and just generally being the most interesting guy you know. Pretty excited!
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something only me and stush will care about:
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/08/18/making-the-cut-jagged-alliance-online/ (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/08/18/making-the-cut-jagged-alliance-online/)
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MMO Jagged Alliance? That sounds amazing.
They should get the 1.13 dudes on board so they can have like, fourteen million guns and five hundred types of LAM
That would be super.
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Warhammer 40 000: Dark Millenium Online - Imperium of Man trailer HD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNUp4Plu2ns#ws)
Imperial Guard, Tech Priest, and Space Marine classes? Maybe separate 'races', maybe? (Division like Horde -> Race -> Class , except Imperium -> Imperial Guard -> [class] )
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This game will probably terrible, but the trailer is AWESOME:
Battle of Giants Dinosaurs Strike 'Gamescom 2010 - Announcement' Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmNRJRXq4ek#ws)
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Hnnnk.
It l-looks g-g-STEGOSAURUSWASNEVERAROUNDAFTERTHELATEJURASSIC
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Yeah, well, there was no such thing as brontosaurus yet look where we are
LOOK
LOOK AT IT
THIS IS IT
THIS IS WHERE WE ARE AT MAN
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I don't think the dinosaurs need to put up with this bullshit, guys
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There never where dinosaurs. The evidence we found was planted there by Marty McFly and Doc Brown in order to make his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents THINK there were dinosaurs for some convoluted reason.
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Yeah, well, there was no such thing as brontosaurus yet look where we are
LOOK
LOOK AT IT
THIS IS IT
THIS IS WHERE WE ARE AT MAN
I prefer the explanation that "Brontosaurus" is a proper noun. Like "John." It's ridiculous to say there's no such thing as a John.
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Unless you're a Solenoid hooker.
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That sounds both painful and dangerous.
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It's OK, it turns out she was an android the whole time.
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I'm starting to think Lee-Ham is either my clone or has been watching me watching semi-obscure 80s anime shit all my life.
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Catherine. Upcoming Persona game that has sheep being chased by giant forks.
Catherine Debut Trailer SUBBED (From The Makers of PERSONA Series) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL19qtwYx2g&feature=search#ws)
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It's by the P3/4 team, but it doesn't have anything to do with MegaTen.
Apparently the game is strongly sexually-themed, too, so I'm guessing it'll never make it over here.
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From what I understand, Vincent (the main character in there) has a cameo in Persona 3 Portable. So, despite not necessarily being part of the megaten series, it is somewhat connected.
Also, a Teddie teddy bear is in that trailer.
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Apparently the game is strongly sexually-themed, too, so I'm guessing it'll never make it over here.
Ehh... I'd agree if it was somebody other than Atlus, but Atlust has a reasonably strong fanbase here, and they've published some weird stuff domestically before. I think it'll get a (small) domestic release.
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I want it. It looks gorgeous.
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I want it. It looks sexy.
It's not at all connected to the Persona series, except it takes place in the same town as Persona 3 and I'm willing to bet money that there'll be a handful of cameos.
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Apparently the game is strongly sexually-themed, too, so I'm guessing it'll never make it over here.
And Persona is about activating monsters with suicide. I think we're okay.
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No! It is just an eerie pantomime of suicide used to summon elder gods and demons from the collective human psyche! That is way less wrong/weird.
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Since when have concerned North American parents ever given a crap about violence or disturbing content?
But throw sex in and WHOA NOW BETTER PROTEST THAT SHIT
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Since when have concerned North American parents ever given a crap about violence or disturbing content?
But throw sex in and WHOA NOW BETTER PROTEST THAT SHIT
Which is probably the best reason the game WILL be sold over here. Controversy = media exposure. Remember the Mass Effect debacle? I'm sure that hurt sales a lot.
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I do wonder about the mechanics. It is labeled as action-adventure, but I wonder if there will be any social linking or time managment.
Strong indication that Catherine is central to the whole mess, perhaps some kind of succubus and you have to keep her happy without getting your soul eaten.
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Since when have concerned North American parents ever given a crap about violence or disturbing content?
But throw sex in and WHOA NOW BETTER PROTEST THAT SHIT
they'd probably flip their shit over the main SMT series.
i mean you KILL GOD on more than one occasion
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Like any American critic of the horrors of videogames would get that far in a jrpg.
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Don't you actually play as Jesus in the first SMT game?
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N-no?
In the second one you play as a "man-made" messiah, and if you touch angry ghosts they instantly calm and find peace.
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(http://i626.photobucket.com/albums/tt344/Frocto/006hbyzr.jpg)
trap confirmed for bioshock infinite
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Since when have concerned North American parents ever given a crap about violence or disturbing content?
But throw sex in and WHOA NOW BETTER PROTEST THAT SHIT
they'd probably flip their shit over the main SMT series.
i mean you KILL GOD on more than one occasion
To be fair, while the god you kill is the god of Abraham, it is not the creator of the universe and is really just a dick who manipulates humanity for his own purposes and wants to do away with free will. You also get to kill Lucifer (who's generally much harder, also there's a difference between him and Satan) and he's really just a big 'ol anarchist who hates everything.
The whole thing is absolute Law versus absolute chaos. The good (and canon) ending is to kill both of them and lead a to world of moderation. This same basic plot reoccurs in most if not all of the main series and the DS games.
Oh, and the sex stuff isn't really new. It's certainly been more subtle, but it's always been there. Just look at Mara.
Don't you actually play as Jesus in the first SMT game?
No, you just have the burden of the fate of all of humanity thrust on to your shoulders. You actually get to kill Jesus, well, you get to kill the messiah who's aligned with god anyway.
The basic premise is that gods/demons exist, but they're invisible and we can't really do much to them nor them to us, also none of them like us very much unless they're childish and/or stupid. It's by and for the Japanese, and the writers don't really give a fuck about what western audiences think.
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YHVH is Creator of the universe in SMT.
this makes the existence of the Demiurge somewhat confusing unless they are one and the same
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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/08/mega-man-online-trailer-isnt-screwing-around/#more-410564 (http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/08/mega-man-online-trailer-isnt-screwing-around/#more-410564) oh hello
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http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/08/mega-man-online-trailer-isnt-screwing-around/#more-410564 (http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/08/mega-man-online-trailer-isnt-screwing-around/#more-410564) oh hello
That just saved my hopes for the game. Even if it's a korean mmo like game that video makes up for anything wrong they could do with gameplay.
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It's just an animated clip.
Why is megaman flying
This does not make any goddamn sense
but seriously though, capcom, not everything needs to be a god damn MMO.
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Clearly it's marvel vs capcom megaman.
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hey what a cool megaman animated movie
too bad it has nothing to do with the mmo theyre developing
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Totally rad sounding zombie survival X-com RPG thing from Obsideon/Troika veterans (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/08/25/a-blood-red-state-dead-state-revealed/#more-36965)
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holy shit yellow devil
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Looking forward to Megaman Fanwank Trailer III: Still Not an Actual Game
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Based on that clip, they should just make a Mega Man anime and skip the game entirely.
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Mega Man Cartoon Intro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX_XKIZ1aPc#)
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At the end of the day they could do everything right and it would still be brought down by the inevitable F2P model. Right, Dungeon Fighter Online?
Hugepriest! Huge hugepriest hugepriest!
That's right!
Anyway though they showed a bunch of fucking Reploids in the middle there which leaves me to believe it's just a bunch of shit tossed together to get a fanbase reaction.
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Dont bring up Dungeon Fighter Online, I still have a history of rage involving priest patch. That game is all my anger manifested into a hate machine.
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still no tron bonne sequel
film at eleven
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We don't even have Mega-Man Legends 3, let alone the ultra-niche spin-off Tron Bonne.
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I've always said if there's one thing the gaming industry needs more of, it is Megaman games that are basically indistinguishable from each other.
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That zombie survival game sounds pretty cool, Bal. It sounds a lot like the sort of thing I thought would be cool to make which was basically Dwarf Fortress re-themed to the theme of that zombie game.
There's a couple things that I don't like about the sound of that game though.
- I don't like how you can't seem to eventually farm if you really put your mind to it and it looks like you HAVE to scavenge ALL food for the WHOLE game.
- I don't like how you have to use that school as your base instead of just spending the first part of the game maybe wandering until you find a place that seems suitable or selecting a cool place you like from a Dwarf Fortress style generated world map
- I don't like how you are tied to that school. Like, you can't abandon it, design your defenses with escape routes in case of an unfixable breach and then just run to maybe an auxiliary temporary shelter you set up or anything like that.
- Overall the game just seems a lot more scripted and needlessly rail roady in many ways that makes it seem inferior to my concept of a more open, meticulous simulation, Dwarf Fortress rip off which I think would be far more entertaining and enduring.
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We don't really know how open your options regarding the school are going to be just yet, but being bound to it doesn't bother me at all. There are only so many places in your average town that can feasibly support a large and growing population of survivors in a disaster situation, and schools are one of them.
I'm much more interested in the idea that other humans are the real enemy in the game. Zombies will kill you,, sure, but the threat is other groups of survivors and internal conflict. It's pre-alpha, so I'm sure they have a lot in store still to reveal, but I'm excited regardless.
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Mmm, I just really like the idea of being faced with a mostly abandoned urban/rural/whatever human area and then just sort of looking at the "terrain" that the building(s) create and then building walls out of whatever to fill in the gaps and taring down this or that or modifying parts of structures to create your optimal survival fortress.
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Wasn't that pretty much how Urban Dead evolved?
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Bulletstorm - Gamescom Presentation (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nc3wP28uwUM#ws)
God this looks like big dumb fun.
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Exclusive Debut Teaser HD - Untitled Telltale Game (http://www.gametrailers.com/player/703721)
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Steam Poker Champions?
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Yes but do I get a hat?
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X-Box Live Price Rising on November 1st (http://kotaku.com/5625516/xbox-live-price-increase-coming-november-1)
"When originally launched in 2002, a Gold subscription cost the same as an AAA video game, $49.99. When taking into account for inflation ($50 in 2002 is roughly $60 in 2010) and the additional services available to Gold subscribers in 2010, such as ESPN, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix, Last.fm and Video Kinect, a $10 price increase still represents an incredible value to consumers"
I love this quote so much. I've never seen so much shit spewing out of a human's mouth.
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In response, Sony also increases the subscription fee to PSN by 25%.
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Ha ha. You know what that Gold subscription fee is? That's the Kinect subsidy.
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In response, Sony also increases the subscription fee to PSN by 25%.
So... free?
EDIT:
But yeah. I really doubt we'll see an increase in the PSN+ fee for quite a while. I mean, it's not even worth what it is now. Besides, it's too new.
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Lottel gets the joke.
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Is inflation really 10 dollars every year.... that seems high.
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Steam publishing a domestic release of a doujin game. (http://store.steampowered.com/news/4275/) It's still in preorder only at the moment, but there's a demo (and I was really quite impressed - the gameplay is good, and the writing is excellent). More significantly, this represents a real first - it's certainly the first doujin game on Steam, but it's also the only really mass-market domestic release of a doujin game I can think of. (H-doujin games are inherently not mass-market.)
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Recettear is pretty awesome and you guys should try it.
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Best Moe shopkeep simulator ever, preordered after i beat the demo
it is currently THIRD on the Steam top sellers list which is pretty great
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Wii Kirby's Epic Yarn / 毛糸のカービィ teaser (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkht8JTdyOo#ws)
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Ubisoft makes a game in which you can play a clown and can murder a cute girl in a playboy bunny costume by bashing in the back of her head with a wok. (http://www.joystiq.com/2010/09/02/bloody-good-time-source-engine-fps/)
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Great. First the moe doujin game, and now we're starting to get dating sims.
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I don't think it qualifies as a dating sim. This one takes two hands to control!
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Wii Kirby's Epic Yarn / 毛糸のカービィ teaser (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkht8JTdyOo#ws)
I've seen trailers for this a bunch already but I hadn't seen the part where Kirby is a little happy looking firetruck. Oooooh he's so cute ^_^! Look at him, all happy about putting out a fire, eeeeeeeeeeee!
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Steam Poker Champions?
Frightening realization: Fowl was absolutely correct (http://www.telltalegames.com/store/pokernight).
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if by frightening you mean predictable
seriously, they should be fucking shot for not doing anything better with those licenses
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I'm digging the references in Recettear (especially liked the Dragon Warrior 3 intro homage and the wink at Planescape Torment of all things), but every time that fairy says merde it puts me off only slightly less than if she was all osti and tabarnak. I'm all for random French for adorable effect but dang.
Still bought it tho.
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Duke Nukem Forever "in the polishing stages", slated to be released late 2010 /Early 2011 (http://kotaku.com/5628894/its-official-duke-nukem-forever-coming-from-gearbox-software)
duke nukem theme megadeth (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUCbflBkIgo#)
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You know, part of me wants to be all "OH MY GOD DNF IS ACTUALLY COMING OUT! HELL IS FROZEN SOLID LIKE THE COLDEST PARTS OF THE NORTH POLE AND PORCINE CREATURES HAVE TAKEN UNTO THE SKIES!", but really "developer buys rights to title from bankrupt publisher, plans to finish highly publicized project" isn't exactly bizarro-world stuff.
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At least it's the second most appropriate developer possible to do that.
(The first would have been People Can Fly, but they were too busy making that neat Whip-Bonuspoint-Cloverfield thing over there.)
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Too bad I already know what the last boss is going to be.
Half-Life: Opposing Force - last boss + ending (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osOcpNNcSy0#)
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Seems he finally ran outta gum.
Best comment.
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From another board I go to:
(http://i.imgur.com/SZ9e3.png)
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It's especially funny because he purchased the PC version, and now Gearbox is handling the release.
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Hah. He should totally vacuum-seal that thing and then take it to that Gamestop (if it's still open) on the release day.
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Company of Heroes Lead Designer dies a Hero. (http://www.theprovince.com/news/final+only+thing+that+would+save/3487150/story.html#ixzz0ynSeLsNa)
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I don't know if getting killed by a DUI punk kid while in a car with his pregnant wife is a heroic death, though certainly a tragic one.
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It's heroic when he sacrificed himself to save her life. That's textbook heroic sacrifice.
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It's especially funny because he purchased the PC version, and now Gearbox is handling the release.
I wouldn't be surprised if DNF flops because it will be nowhere near the level of hype that has been built up around it. Gearbox has to know this and will put out a competent FPS with a coating of Duke, which would be fine five years ago, but will pale next to games like Gears of War 3 and Vanquish. So Duke will cause a brief nerdpoloxy for being hollow and unoriginal and die like a King, not with a bang, but on the toilet.
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It's especially funny because he purchased the PC version, and now Gearbox is handling the release.
I wouldn't be surprised if DNF flops because it will be nowhere near the level of hype that has been built up around it. Gearbox has to know this and will put out a competent FPS with a coating of Duke, which would be fine five years ago, but will pale next to games like Gears of War 3 and Vanquish. So Duke will cause a brief nerdpoloxy for being hollow and unoriginal and die like a King, not with a bang, but on the toilet.
it has one of the signs of terminal consoleitus already, severely limited weapon carrying ablity
anyway in other news a teaser site for a new Earth defense force has gone up, sadly without any content other than a title http://edfia.com/ (http://edfia.com/)
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FUCKING SHIT YES
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Duke might not be a flop after all: Wired Article (http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/09/duke-nukem-pax/?pid=109)
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New Prof Layton game out today. Going to pick it up now.
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Happy 25th Anniversary, Super Mario Bros.
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God have we been married that long?
She must have found out I was cheating with Sonic at SOME point...
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She cheated with Sonic AND Knuckles to get revenge.
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And the only reason we found out was 'cause Metal Gear Solid was hiding inside a cardboard box at the time.
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Asura's Wrath (http://www.joystiq.com/2010/09/15/asuras-wrath-video-trailer/) appears to be the single greatest thing ever made.
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Anger: The Ragening
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Sort-of niceley-done hoax about a haunted Majora's Mask cart: Cool story bro (http://inuscreepystuff.blogspot.com/2010/09/majora.html)
EDIT:
there must be someone out there trying to be the HP Lovecraft of video game hacks:
http://tinycartridge.com/post/866743831/super-creepy-pokemon-hack (http://tinycartridge.com/post/866743831/super-creepy-pokemon-hack)
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FROM Software announced Project Dark, which is going to be a spiritual successor to Demon's Souls. I got what I wanted from TGS.
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Odin Sphere and Muramasa HD remakes coming to XBox Live and PSN (http://www.joystiq.com/2010/09/17/rumor-odin-sphere-and-muramasa-hd-remakes-coming-to-xbla-psn/).
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Gal Gun, an on rails shooter where you shoot moe girls with pheremones (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gamelife/~3/WSM8kuqyCVU/).
Oh Japan.
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So, uh, this... this wasn't the year that Capcom announces Mega Man Legends 3...
was it? :;_;:
I have a feeling that a game like that would be announced at TGS first.
Well?
Has Capcom shown off all of their stuff yet? I have this foolish, irrational hope that one of their "mystery games" will be Mega Man Legends 3.
Yes, I know I have a problem. Shut up.
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Sort-of niceley-done hoax about a haunted Majora's Mask cart: Cool story bro (http://inuscreepystuff.blogspot.com/2010/09/majora.html)
EDIT:
there must be someone out there trying to be the HP Lovecraft of video game hacks:
http://tinycartridge.com/post/866743831/super-creepy-pokemon-hack (http://tinycartridge.com/post/866743831/super-creepy-pokemon-hack)
All of these stories keep reminding me of The Tails Doll story.
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Odin Sphere and Muramasa HD remakes coming to XBox Live and PSN (http://www.joystiq.com/2010/09/17/rumor-odin-sphere-and-muramasa-hd-remakes-coming-to-xbla-psn/).
:omg:
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Gal Gun, an on rails shooter where you shoot moe girls with pheremones (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Gamelife/~3/WSM8kuqyCVU/).
Oh Japan.
A spiritual sequel to Doki Doki Majo Shinpan!, perhaps?
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PS3 Ryu ga Gotoku - OF THE END - TGS2010 Debut Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utjMcCcjjwU#ws)
Yakuzombies
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I should really start playing the Yakuza games, shouldn't I?
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so how about Devil May Cry 5 being a reboot of the series with the critical difference being that Dante is a self-insert of the lead designer
truth stranger than fiction. laughter.
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I should really start playing the Yakuza games, shouldn't I?
That one is rather atypical of the series, but Yakuza is basically just Shenmue with a name-change and mafia, which makes it pretty worthwhile in my opinion. I played a bit of Yakuza 3 and it was very nice and polished.
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Dante is a self-insert of the lead designer
WAT
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(http://doom.pyoko.org/DMC5Protag.png)
they even included his little necklace!
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I choose to believe that any similarities between Dante and that dude are entirely coincidental.
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(http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/3609/1363fc3e02b698b01e100f8.jpg)
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Exactly, see? Dante has muscle mass. Totally different.
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I wouldn't mind half as much if the guy didn't look like a mutated giraffe. I don't want to play as mutated giraffe.
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Okay I sorta lied there.
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I was going to say
(http://www.gamersmint.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/bayonetta1.jpg)
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Well now I'm just angrier.
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Given DMC is in the BIG THREE of homosexual pornography, I don't think he really thought this through.
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The problem with making a real DMC sequel is that, chronologically, DMC2 is actually the latest game in the timeline, and they're running out of places to stuff other events. So, faced with the terrifying prospect of recognizing DMC2 as something they actually made, they've decided to start over.
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Okay.
What are they going to do to pretend this one wasn't made?
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Probably the same thing. Though, to be fair, DMC, Bayonetta, and Ninja Gaiden, the top tier games of that ilk, all have terrible stories and characters. Some of them are doing it ironically, but so long as the fight mechanics are good, no core fans care.
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Devil May Cry 2: The Quickening
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Something interesting from the Tokyo Gaming show: apparently foreign games were being pushed hard (http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2010/09/western-games-japan).
At the Tokyo Game Show, which runs from Thursday to Sunday here, many of the big games on the show floor are being developed outside Japan. Square Enix’s most popular franchises — like Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts, games that move millions of units in Japan alone — are relegated to a small corner of the company’s massive booth.
Instead, the majority of Square Enix’s show-floor space is given over to Western-made games it is publishing this year under the label Extreme Edges, a new brand for “mature” titles. The games include Call of Duty, Deus Ex and Lara Croft, the kind of high-end titles that do well in the United States but haven’t taken off in Japan.
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I like how the moral of that story is "The Japanese hate our freedom."
Honestly I think they're just marketing these games wrong, though. Instead of pounding the pulpit about the unfocused nature of Fallout, which is a negative to your target audience, try to rebrand it as something more palatable to them. Like a sim game. Racettear seemed fairly open, even if there was an inexorable movement towards some type of endgame; if you bill Fallout as a post-disaster survival simulator in which you scavenge for resources while working to uncover the secret of of your missing father, I guarun-fucking-tee the nips will eat that shit up with a spoon. Possible bonus points for pointing out that it takes place in the twisted wreckage of Washington D.C. after it was A-bombed into a pancake, though supposedly they're still queasy enough about that that they had to take out the one actual A-bomb in the game.
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The nips have a short quip that they use to dismiss western games. HUH!
That... that pisses me off.
You might be right, but reading that quip decrying 2/3rds of the world's software developers as shitty, I think if you try to tell the Japanese that the west is embracing Japanese designs they're just as likely to ignore it because... It's a shitty western game with nothing new!
And they're apparently a population that, as a whole, wants the safe and familiar.
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lol japan
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Japan displays vague smug xenophobia and disdain for outside influences?
This is my surprised face.
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Michael Jackson MMO 'Planet Michael' Announced (http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/65666)
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God yes.
Tell me who I have to get fondled by to make this not be a hoax.
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(http://img840.imageshack.us/img840/3609/1363fc3e02b698b01e100f8.jpg)
Awaiting Thor's "Videogame Lookalikes" comparing this guy to David Bowie (http://www.videogamelookalikes.com/david-bowie.html).
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So there's a Mario All-Stars port coming. That's apparently just Mario All-Stars. Which sorta misses the entire point of Mario All-Stars, which was that it wasn't a lazy port with dated graphics and sound.
Oh, and they want $30 for it.
Fuckers. I'd have totally bought it if they actually displayed some sense of give-a-fuck.
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God yes.
Tell me who I have to get fondled by to make this not be a hoax.
Even if it is, you still have Leanan gaems (http://www.shacknews.com/screenshots.x?gallery=15873&game_id=9632&id=166286#img166286)
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So there's a Mario All-Stars port coming. That's apparently just Mario All-Stars. Which sorta misses the entire point of Mario All-Stars, which was that it wasn't a lazy port with dated graphics and sound.
Oh, and they want $30 for it.
Fuckers. I'd have totally bought it if they actually displayed some sense of give-a-fuck.
According to Parish this is one of those Japanese anniversary collection editions where it's far more about the package than the contents. Nice graphic design, extra books and doodads, etc.
If you just want to play all the Mario games on your Wii it's ... well okay it's $5 for Mario 1, $6 for Lost Levels, $5 for Mario 2, $5 for Mario 3, $8 for Super Mario World (which I haven't actually seen if it's part of the re-release officially or not yet). So it's $21 or $28 dollars for just the games straight up, or $30 for all of them with the spiffied up graphics, a book, and a CD.
Yeah, that's worse than them just releasing All-Stars as an SNES download for $8, but there was never really any chance they were going to do that anyway.
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I would pay $60 for a Wii Disc that had every Mario game from Mario Bros Arcade up to Mario 64.
To clarify, this is my unicorn:
Mario Bros (Arcade)
Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros 2
Super Mario Bros Lost Levels
Super Mario Bros 3
Super Mario World
Super Mario World 2
Mario Paint
Mario is Missing
Mario's Time Machine
Super Mario Land
Super Mario Land 2
Super Mario Land 3
Super Mario Kart
Super Mario 64
Bonus Points for:
Any game where Mario cameo'd but did not have a starring role
Mario Teaches Typing 2
"Mario Teaches Typing 2": Mario's Head & Cutscenes: Part 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1LyMzvCkv4#)
:imagination:
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It doesn't look like this is going to be happening. In a 4gamer interview today, series producer Yoshinori Ono said that, due to high piracy with the PC version of the original Street Fighter IV, there are currently no plans for a PC version of Super.
The PC version of the original was actually a strong seller worldwide, said Ono. However, it was also "number one in piracy."
Ono actually managed to look on the bright side of the piracy issue, saying that at least the game saw wider spread because of it. However, for the sake of protecting the Street Fighter IV IP, they cannot make it so that Street Fighter is considered "free" in certain areas.
Ono didn't totally rule out a PC release. If they were to find some sort of powerful copy protection solution, the PC version's status could change, he said. He explained that the arcade version already runs on Taito's DirectX-based Type X2 arcade board, so a PC version is already 99% ready.
He did, however, rule out the possibility of a Steam-only release, saying that it would be unfair to those who are unable to buy via Steam.
:lol:
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That's a startlingly honest look into the brain of a developer and publisher. It's not about whether it sells well at all, it's about stopping piracy. The idea that someone, somewhere, somehow, might play the game without paying is so offensive that no amount of sales can cover it up.
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The thing is that the arcade version already runs on a PC for all intents and purposes, if they don't actually release an official PC version people will just figure out how to run the arcade one on their computers anyway.
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And then he goes and rules out the most effective solution to his imagined problem. If I hadn't just gotten a PS3 a couple months ago I'd be livid that the console-only release was unfair to people who didn't have consoles. Now I'm just, you know, EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED.
The way the article is worded seems to imply that Japanese IP law prohibits opening yourself up to piracy, which would actually explain a lot of the Japanese game development community's decisions. Alternately you can argue that the strong PC sales are offset by estimated console losses, but he didn't.
Really honestly though I don't think the whole picture is being painted here. Capcom and Apple seem to have kind of a thing going - if they're going to keep that up they're probably going to want to have a Mac version set up before they put something on its rival platform (X-Box is not really a rival platform).
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They have a version of SF4 for like iPhones or iPads or whatever, but they did mention from the very beginning that the engine used for SF4 was very portable and pretty scalable both upwards and downwards.
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Keiji Inafune sez, Japanese game makers five years behind (http://tgs.gamespot.com/story/6276630/japanese-game-makers-five-years-behind-inafune)
If I remember correctly from when I listened to the Bionic Commando dev podcasts, Inafune got doors to open for the American guys at Capcom Japan to get the recent BC games made. Regardless of the success of the venture, it kinda shows that this has been in his thoughts for a while now. It's a shame it didn't entirely work out.
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I think Bionic Commando Next Gen would have done much better if it was done tongue-in-cheek, like Metal Wolf Chaos. Absolutely no way is MWC serious, and if Bionic Commando's plot and dialog were like that, then I think it would have done much better.
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Bionic Commando would've done better if it had, you know, an ending.
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Bionic Commando would've done better if it had, you know, an ending.
no, pretty sure it wouldn't have.
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Old Dante isn't cool anymore! Try New Dante, with New Hat! (http://scrawlfx.com/2010/09/ninja-theory-old-dante-isnt-cool-anymore)
this guy's head must be bigger than the building he works in
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Tortured albino prettyboy in black leather is sooooo 1997.
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Keiji Inafune sez, Japanese game makers five years behind (http://tgs.gamespot.com/story/6276630/japanese-game-makers-five-years-behind-inafune)
Why is it that I want to give this guy the manliest totally-not-gay hug all of the time? Or, like, an earth-shattering fist pound.
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Keiji Inafune sez, Japanese game makers five years behind (http://tgs.gamespot.com/story/6276630/japanese-game-makers-five-years-behind-inafune)
Why is it that I want to give this guy the manliest totally-not-gay hug all of the time? Or, like, an earth-shattering fist pound.
Magfest 2010: The Ultimate Brofist | Dohl Bomber (http://blip.tv/file/3050290#id3069930)
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Keiji Inafune sez, Japanese game makers five years behind (http://tgs.gamespot.com/story/6276630/japanese-game-makers-five-years-behind-inafune)
Why is it that I want to give this guy the manliest totally-not-gay hug all of the time? Or, like, an earth-shattering fist pound.
Because that's what happens when a dude is spectacularly honest and correct despite his culture pressuring him to put on a straight face and say that everything is just so swell.
Old Dante isn't cool anymore! Try New Dante, with New Hat! (http://scrawlfx.com/2010/09/ninja-theory-old-dante-isnt-cool-anymore)
Because there's nothing cooler than looking like you've been eating nothing but crack and AIDS ever since your parents kicked you out of their basement on account of you washing your hair twice a year max.
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I find this DMC5 thing kind of ironic considering DMC4 featured a prettyboy that was pretty much identical to Dante and yet wasn't.
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If I hadn't just gotten a PS3 a couple months ago I'd be livid that the console-only release was unfair to people who didn't have consoles. Now I'm just, you know, EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED.
Pretty much the entire reason I run Windows on my HTPC is I want to be able to play SF4 in my living room.
I would still like to buy it; however, if I'm stuck with an inferior version because somebody else pirated it, that's sort of a disincentive.
All moot until I get my Wii Fight Stick working properly under Windows anyway. Like I said, Windows is surprisingly far behind OSX and Linux in Wii Remote support.
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of course this is fucking capcom we are talking about.
i seem to recall they pulled one of those "NO PLANS AT THIS TIME" things for the fucking arcade version of SSF4
hell, they are pulling one RIGHT FUCKING NOW with "We might not add the stuff we added to the arcade version to the console versions"
calling it now, approximately 2 weeks after the arcade version is officially out, they announce the fucking PC version
I think Bionic Commando Next Gen would have done much better if it was done tongue-in-cheek, like Metal Wolf Chaos. Absolutely no way is MWC serious, and if Bionic Commando's plot and dialog were like that, then I think it would have done much better.
The biggest mistake was moving away from rearmed's silliness.
then they decided to make super joe evil
then they decided YOUR MISSING WIFE=YOUR ROBOT ARM
Rearmed 2 is looking pretty fucking great though
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Given DMC is in the BIG THREE of homosexual pornography, I don't think he really thought this through.
Wait, what are the other two?
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Well, Cho Aniki's too obvious. I'm gonna say Kingdom Hearts.
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There's Kane & Lynch, duh.
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Kingdom Hearts and FF7.
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(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs031.snc4/33900_445143242759_287835847759_5035077_3179067_n.jpg)
Guybrush Threepwood as a Force Unleashed 2 skin (http://kotaku.com/5650500/i-am-guybrush-threepwood-mighty-jedi-apprentice). Not sure how I feel about that.
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"You fight like a moisture farmer."
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How appropriate, you fight like a bantha!
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I just realized that no matter how cool MGS3 coming to the 3DS is, it's going to probably control like shit. The Peace Walker control scheme could work, but it is no substitute for two analog sticks.
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3DS will be at least $250, possibly as high as $300 at launch (http://nexus404.com/Blog/2010/10/04/nintendo-3ds-high-price-is-due-to-media-reaction-the-300-price-for-the-3ds-is-thanks-to-us-reporter-types-after-e3-unveiling/)
Well, at the announced Japanese list price of ¥25,000 ($300), it’s also the most expensive Nintendo product at launch in history. The previous three most expensive items were the Gamecube ($200), Virtual Boy ($180) and Nintendo DS (at launch – $150). Even adjusted for inflation, the 3DS is the most expensive Nintendo product of all-time. It’s a bit odd for a company who’s reputation is built on family friendly products.
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And I pretty much have to get it, because MML3. :|
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And I pretty much have to get it, because MML3. :|
I'm really tempted to copy and paste that a few more times.
I guess it's back to selling my redundant organs. Does anybody here need a lung?
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3DS will be at least $250, possibly as high as $300 at launch (http://nexus404.com/Blog/2010/10/04/nintendo-3ds-high-price-is-due-to-media-reaction-the-300-price-for-the-3ds-is-thanks-to-us-reporter-types-after-e3-unveiling/)
Well, at the announced Japanese list price of ¥25,000 ($300), it’s also the most expensive Nintendo product at launch in history. The previous three most expensive items were the Gamecube ($200), Virtual Boy ($180) and Nintendo DS (at launch – $150). Even adjusted for inflation, the 3DS is the most expensive Nintendo product of all-time. It’s a bit odd for a company who’s reputation is built on family friendly products.
The Super Famicom was ¥25,000, the N64 was ¥25,000, the Gamecube was ¥25,000, the Wii was ¥25,000.
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I would have given you karma for that. Remind me to do so whenever you finally lose the number of the beast.
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3DS will be at least $250, possibly as high as $300 at launch (http://nexus404.com/Blog/2010/10/04/nintendo-3ds-high-price-is-due-to-media-reaction-the-300-price-for-the-3ds-is-thanks-to-us-reporter-types-after-e3-unveiling/)
Well, at the announced Japanese list price of ¥25,000 ($300), it’s also the most expensive Nintendo product at launch in history. The previous three most expensive items were the Gamecube ($200), Virtual Boy ($180) and Nintendo DS (at launch – $150). Even adjusted for inflation, the 3DS is the most expensive Nintendo product of all-time. It’s a bit odd for a company who’s reputation is built on family friendly products.
The Super Famicom was ¥25,000, the N64 was ¥25,000, the Gamecube was ¥25,000, the Wii was ¥25,000.
So, the Japanese price is not an indicator of the price abroad in any way shape or form. Yet us foolish foreign swine forget this every time they release something, taking our prices as standard rather than theirs. Remember, while white (usually christian) men are the invisible standard in all of Europe, Canada, USA, Australia, New Zealand, etc., Japanese men are the standard invisible in Japan.
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Or that the Japanese price is absolutely an indicator of the price abroad, but the dollar is weaker versus the yen now than it was in past years.
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Game stuff tends to be more expensive than japan when adjusted for inflation if I recall correctly, so I think cait is right. Japan, as a society, is willing to pay more for luxury goods.
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The Super Famicom was ¥25,000, the N64 was ¥25,000, the Gamecube was ¥25,000, the Wii was ¥25,000.
So this handheld will be the same price as a new console? That would place it in the $200-$250 range in North America.
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Yes, which is different from the $250-300 Mongrel was suggesting.
Though I was guessing $200 at its unveiling, right now I would be shocked if it was anything other than $250.
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Remember that we are talking about a goddam portable non-glasses 3D movie player here.
I really don't think it's inconceivable that a few people might consider $250 to be a fair price for that.
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The Super Famicom was ¥25,000, the N64 was ¥25,000, the Gamecube was ¥25,000, the Wii was ¥25,000.
So this handheld will be the same price as a new console? That would place it in the $200-$250 range in North America.
Yes, which is different from the $250-300 Mongrel was suggesting.
Though I was guessing $200 at its unveiling, right now I would be shocked if it was anything other than $250.
::(:
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The point is that, by Niku's logic, it won't "possibly" be $300 like you said.
No, it's not a huge difference, and there is an overlap. I'm sorry if my post offended you.
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It's probably gonna be 249.99 at most, putting it out of mongrel's price range entirely.
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Not after tax.
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I also wasn't arguing against Mongrel so much as I was against whoever that fucking retard was that he quoted. I don't think $300 is outside the realm of possibility, but I also don't think they're going to be ballsy enough to go that high.
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I think they understand that Americans think of money in terms of the first significant digit.
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The Super Famicom was ¥25,000, the N64 was ¥25,000, the Gamecube was ¥25,000, the Wii was ¥25,000.
So this handheld will be the same price as a new console?
Remember that there is only about a $50 dollar difference in price between a DSiXL and a Wii. At $200, it would be the price of the Wii currently. At $250, it would be the price of the Wii at launch, but seeing as it has only slightly less power, is portable, and again 3D, that price would make sense.
It will be between $200 and $250, with probability lying on the pricey side of the spectrum.
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The point is that, by Niku's logic, it won't "possibly" be $300 like you said.
No, it's not a huge difference, and there is an overlap. I'm sorry if my post offended you.
Nah, if I was offended, I would have posted a long disjointed rant or something. :imagination:
I also wasn't arguing against Mongrel so much as I was against whoever that fucking retard was that he quoted.
I knew it was a complaint against the article, because... I hadn't really said anything myself that wasn't a direct quote!
I don't think $300 is outside the realm of possibility, but I also don't think they're going to be ballsy enough to go that high.
I think they understand that Americans think of money in terms of the first significant digit.
Sooooo... $299.98 USD then? :whoops:
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Swords & Sandals 5 Best Boss Competition! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRJ0wG9EOn4#)
Australian Gaming News
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So Sega is asking for all of its games to be taken off the shelves. They say they want to wipe the slate clean and start fresh.
It's a strange, ballsy move. Something they haven't done in years. I commend them for it. Whether or not anything good comes of it, its a right step if you ask me.
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So Sega is asking for all of its games to be taken off the shelves.[citation needed]
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i've been reading this thread for years and have never, ever had a good enough computer or up to date enough console to play most of the games that get talked about in it. this HAS to be a metaphor for something.
no, okay. here: i'm vicariously experiencing games generally designed to provide some kind of vicarious experience. i guess that's not a metaphor so much as just sad?
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So Sega is asking for all of its games to be taken off the shelves.[citation needed]
http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/9445/average-sonics-pulled-from-retail (http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/9445/average-sonics-pulled-from-retail)
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This move had better be to make room for Chu Chu Rocket.
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APT. 117: Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCdz0db9Y9M#ws)
(http://www.loiterink.com/photos/products/129_795_500x500.jpg)
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Who are those guys and why should I care?
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Do not want.
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So Sega is asking for all of its games to be taken off the shelves.[citation needed]
That says they're just pulling poorly rated sonic games to make room for the 3 new sonic games they're releasing this year.
http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/9445/average-sonics-pulled-from-retail (http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/9445/average-sonics-pulled-from-retail)
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Super Meat Boy 90's Commercial (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQZeQSaXwR8#ws)
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If you got Borderlands on Steam (or bought the GotY edition) you can register to get first access to the Duke Nukem Forever demo (http://www.dukenukem.com/access/) (whenever that comes out).
Go to the Borderlands game page on steam and click on "CD Key" on the right to get your code.
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Cool I guess, but why do they need to do first access for a fucking demo? Besides marketing?
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Do they need another reason?
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Well if they want to shake off the stigma of being unrepentant pricks basically all the time.
I mean it's a demo, so they're not really letting anyone get it early. They're letting everyone else get it later.
Later being the half hour it takes to get uploaded to Megaupload I guess.
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Valve is officially announcing their DotA-clone tomorrow (http://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2010/10/12/valve-s-next-game-announced-here-tomorrow.aspx)
Which means another two years before they start working on Episode 3...
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Wild and unsubstantiated allegations about Bioware Mythic, the future of the new Star Wars MMO, Warhammer Online, why they sucked and who was responsible. (http://ealouse.wordpress.com)
Obviously, this could be pure bullshit. But it's a mildly funny rant regardless.
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That popped up in the Warhammer Online thread.
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I might have one less thing to complain about, soon. (http://kotaku.com/5663410/steam-to-introduce-digital-trade+ins)
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Maybe not technically game news, but Netflix is adding 5.1 and 1080p support to its PS3 streaming, and taking away the stupid disc.
All of a sudden the PS3 is actually worth something.
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NIDHOGG (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYQYT3rvLDI#)
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Christ, is that thing still not out yet?
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Level 5 has announced a Professor Layton-Phoenix Wright crossover game for the 3DS.
I haven't found a news article for it, but it was confirmed on the liveblog of Level 5's press event.
Here's a photo taken of the trailer. (http://cdnmo.coveritlive.com/media/image/201010/phpJHY7PMimage20.jpeg) "Professor vs Gyakuten Saiban" is the title.
:omg:
edit: video
Professor Layton x Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gufhYicCUs4#ws)
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The 3DS is now a mandatory first day purchase for every living nerd.
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Huh, that's funny. Japanese developers sort of have a culture of hating crossovers.
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What was the last one? Battletoads and Double Dragon? I can see why.
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Wait a sec, it's Capcom. They cross over with everyone.
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Oh it's Capcom? Yeah, they are the crossover kings. It's more the smaller Japanese developers and Indies that hate crossovers.
For instance, Pixel didn't want Quote appearing in Indie Brawl or Super Meat Boy.
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And yet, Super Robot Wars.
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I don't want to be cynical about this, but somehow a Professor Layton/Phoenix Wright game doesn't fill me with confidence. For as many parallels as the franchises have, it's hard to think of two brands with less equivalent aesthetics.
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It's already pretty clear they just adopted high-class Layton art for the whole thing.
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Objection!
(http://i52.tinypic.com/2uiw08j.jpg)
also (http://i52.tinypic.com/oap0ma.jpg)
also also (http://i51.tinypic.com/qy8i94.jpg)
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Super Meat Boy is out today
Super Meat Boy Release Trailer! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kIGueVqD_0#ws)
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Level 5 has announced a Professor Layton-Phoenix Wright crossover game for the 3DS.
Professor Layton X Phoenix Wright in HD - First Trailer for 3DS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHTO4j8_3-E&feature=embed#ws)
Better video.
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So, if this actually gets a release in the U.S., does that mean Phoenix and Maya are going to have actual voice acting? Beyond the occasional "Objection!" or "Take That!", I mean?
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I dunno how recent this is, but I only found out when I bought the latest PC Powerplay yesterday, You can play Lord of the Rings Online for free now, it has a little less features than the full account, but still, Free!
www.lotro.com (http://www.lotro.com)
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Months behind.
Also, print? Years behind.
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Hey, cut Stush some slack. Australia's on the other side of the world, for corn's sake.
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In months ahead news, Champions Online will be free to play next year (http://www.champions-online.com/f2p) in case you're into that kind of thing.
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hah. Jack Emmert couldn't topple his previous 'masterpiece'.
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Oh hey, maybe I'll actually bother to get one of my guys to endgame now.
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I didn't want a Kinect before
3D Video Capture with Kinect (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QrnwoO1-8A#)
Now I do.
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RPG originally slated for the Commodore 64 spent 20 years in development and is now about to be released (http://www.newcomer.hu/)
Rough gameplay time is given as 70-280 hours long.
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Super Huge Atlus 50% Off Sale on PSN (http://blog.us.playstation.com/2010/11/15/introducing-the-atlus-super-mega-ultra-50-off-psn-sale/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PSBlog+%28PlayStation.Blog%29&utm_content=Google+Reader)
Not exactly a steam deal so there you have it.
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That reminds me... what's up with bumpy trot 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poncotsu_Roman_Daikatsugeki_Bumpy_Trot_2)...
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Recettear breaks 30,000 copies sold (http://twitter.com/SpaceDrakeCF/status/4356157246279680). Capitalism, ho!
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That reminds me... what's up with bumpy trot 2 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poncotsu_Roman_Daikatsugeki_Bumpy_Trot_2)...
No doubt ran the usual reasons such as not enough sales. Since the PS2 is finished, the best we would get is a PSP release.
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Ilomilo is an overwhelmingly adorable XBLA puzzle platformer. In a somewhat bewildering move, Southend has decided not to offer the trial in the traditional manner; instead, you have to go to their secret code site (http://wp7supersecretaccess.ilomilo.com/page_2.php), get the code from there, and then redeem that to download the demo. Not sure exactly what they were going for, here. Making people jump through multiple hoops just to play a demo doesn't seem like the cleverest idea.
Still, it seems like a pretty good game, and co-op friendly too.
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Back to the future: The Game offical trailer Telltale Games (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOUtpPIWlgw#ws)
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At least they didn't make another movie sequel. This might actually be fun instead.
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Ms. Splosion Man Reveal Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pQV-af-gVg#ws)
BIG SCIENCE CAPTURES SPLOSION MAN, WORLD NOW SAFE FOREVER
Twisted Pixel Games Proud to Announce the World Won’t End in the Fall of 2011
AUSTIN, TX – December 2, 2010 – Twisted Pixel Games was pleased to announce today that their subsidiary, Big Science, has captured the Splosion Man and guaranteed the safety of all humankind. Many remember the terrifying events of July 2009: Splosion Man’s horrifying rampage through Big Science laboratories that meated hundreds of scientists and caused untold damage to their underground laboratories. Eye witnesses reported widespread destruction and a staggering number of t-bones and fillets left in his wake.
Today that ends, with Twisted Pixel releasing footage of the successful capture of the renegade experiment. The scientists speak with new-found confidence about their success. Says Dr. Wilson, “Even if some sort of newer, stronger, better threat were created, our newest security measures and fiendish traps would be more than enough to contain it. We’ve made incredible advances in our technology over this past year.... Not that there would ever be a use for any of it.”
Dr. Henry was quick to add, “Our lab, our equipment - everything has had functionality improvements and visual overhauls, and our company has expanded to some incredible new locations. It’s all pristine and beautiful - decadent environments that we are very happy no experiment gone wrong will ever rampage through.” Dr. Henry paused briefly before continuing, “I don’t even know why I’m mentioning that, because it’s 100% guaranteed that Splosion Man will never be a threat to us again.”
When asked if there was any risk of overconfidence amongst the scientists, Dr. Riley was quick to interject. “Why? What’s going to happen, some sort of freak accident in the after party that creates a “Ms. Splosion Man” mere seconds after Splosion Man’s capture? And then the Ms. Splosion Man goes on some monster tear in the fall of 2011? Yeah right. Not very likely.”
Twisted Pixel Games reiterates that despite the fact that nothing could possibly go wrong during today’s events, should any newsworthy event occur, they will release as much information as possible in the coming months.
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:ohshi~:
More. (http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox360/call-of-duty-4-modern-warfare/news/call-of-duty-players-happy-to-sit-in-own-piss-and-crap-amazon-has-proof/a-2010120311520660080/g-20070214121220634011)
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That's pathetic and terrifying.
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Remember when that episode of South Park was a joke?
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Remember when satire wasn't reality?
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Not really. I was born in the eighties.
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I was born in the 70's and I don't remember that either.
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Call of Doodie: Brown Oops
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Suddenly the thread title takes on new meaning.
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Around the same time Mass Effect 3 is coming out, The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim should be available. I'm hoping it has more in common with Morrowind than Oblivion.
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Here's the trailer for Skyrim. (http://www.gametrailers.com/video/vga-10-elder-scrolls/708368)
I agree with Newbie. Oblivion had a lot of good ideas in it, but it also cut back on a lot. Especially aesthetically and in terms of gameplay. I think the game would have been far better if they'd ditched the full-voiced dialogue and put focus on making Cyrodiil look and feel less like generic LOTR land, and more like the way they'd described it in the lore up to that point: Roman Empire with Chinese architcture in the middle of a jungle.
was that Max Von Sydow?
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Here's the trailer for Skyrim. (http://www.gametrailers.com/video/vga-10-elder-scrolls/708368)
Why, exactly, did that require me to be of-age to view?
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Elder Scrolls is a terrible series. Anyone who claims to like it is lying to trick other into playing.
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I think that's the first time in the series they've ever mentioned any Elder Scrolls.
For some reason I believe that to be a terribly bad sign.
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Not exactly the first. (http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Oblivion:The_Ultimate_Heist#The_Elder_Scroll) ([spoiler]Thieves' Guild[/spoiler] quest spoilers in there... not that it matters by now.)
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Also, I'm pretty sure the Elder Scrolls are important to the first and/or second games. The games I don't remember very well or at all!
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I wish it was possible to embed this (http://tubedubber.com/#7XX6cTjaih4:hGMOMkACtn4:0:100:0:0:true).
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I think that's the first time in the series they've ever mentioned any Elder Scrolls.
For some reason I believe that to be a terribly bad sign.
Actually Morrowind is the only game that doesn't directly relate you to the elder scrolls because the Dunmer look to Almsivi as their religion, where as the scrolls are tied more directly to the Aedrea / Daedrea.
That's right, I read the lore.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/buge/reaction/Maiq.jpg)
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PS3 is cracked as all get out. (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-ps3-security-in-tatters)
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A new game was released for the Sega Genesis.
Two weeks ago. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Solar)
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Sega CD, even.
It's too bad that it meets one's expectations exactly, which is to say it looks almost exactly like an RPGMaker game. Still, actually developing for dead systems is one form of retro I can get behind 100%. Maybe this will convince Capcom to print actual cartridges of Mega Man 10/11, or something else suitably retardawesome.
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PS3 is cracked as all get out. (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-ps3-security-in-tatters)
They've also gotten the PSP master keys from this (and the more recent AACS keys may also be vulnerable)
Sony REALLY fucked up on this
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Indeed. Sony disables Linux option, citing piracy concerns; galvanizes hacker community to find a way to re-enable it, in the process finding a much, much more serious exploit than they ever would have simply running Linux on the damn thing.
Moral: don't give hackers a toy and then take it away, you dumb bastards.
Oh, and also, salt your fucking hashes.
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I loved how every layer of security, when examined closely, wasn't one at all. Just a clumsy attempt at one. This would totally protect that layer of functionality if we told it to!
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A new game was released for the Sega Genesis.
Two weeks ago. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Solar)
There's a new commercial title for Commodore Amiga (http://babyloniantwins.com/), from an Iraqi company who weren't able to release it in 1994 due to trade restrictions. They've also released it on iPhone, where it's sold over 400,000 copies.
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The Japanese 3DS launch title list (http://kotaku.com/5728228/the-ten-3ds-launch-titles-in-japan) is up.
Guess I'd better acquire a taste for Professor Layton.
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Also, the 3DS is going to be region locked.
:humpf:
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The Japanese 3DS launch title list (http://kotaku.com/5728228/the-ten-3ds-launch-titles-in-japan) is up.
Guess I'd better acquire a taste for Professor Layton.
(http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo297/BBLegs/Layfro.jpg)
Aww yissss
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I got DCUO 'cause hey fuck it why not and it's pretty fun. I'm not sure how much staying power it will have, but beating costumed goons into paste with a big fucking hammer and also occasionally exploding like a fuel-air bomb is enjoyable.
Gotham and Metropolis are pretty nicely realized, and there are random heroing's scattered about as well. Every once in a while you'll happen across some mook causing a scene or attempting a robbery, so you just bash 'em in the head a bit and arrest them. No big deal for a superhero. Once I was flying about the upper levels of the skyscrapers and happened across a dude on a helipad. Convinced him he could just buy a new horse, come on man don't be such a drama queen.
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Wait, it's actually out?
fffffffuck guess i should keep an eye on how awful it is
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Last I heard there was a bug that erased your system32 folder when you uninstalled the game. That is usually a sign of quality right?
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Huh. What I'd heard was that there was no uninstaller, and uninstalling the game meant having to manually delete all the files and edit your registry.
Maybe they meant that you had to do that because if you ran the uninstaller, it'd wipe your system32.
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That's... a very hard thing to do accidentally. Are we sure we're talking about a "bug" here?
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Intentionally putting it in a product is kind of a dumb thing, though. I mean, it's not like we're talking about a bunch of comic book supervil-
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:gasp:
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:asplanned:
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http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/01/14/the-sounds-of-skyrim.aspx (http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/01/14/the-sounds-of-skyrim.aspx)
CENTURION SPHERES
MAX VON SYDOW
SHOUT MAGIC
:8D: :8D: :8D:
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PS3 version of portal 2 not only has Crossplatform play, buying it also gets you the PC/Mac version (http://www.destructoid.com/buy-portal-2-ps3-get-pc-mac-version-free-steam-support-191930.phtml)
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Niiiice. Valve is really nailing what digital distribution can do that a disc can't.
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These are things that they've been talking about doing for years, trying to unite their products on Steam and other platforms through various means, including the Steamcloud storage. I'm just surprised they got Sony to sign on. I wonder if your saves are compatible between platforms. That would be a fucking coup.
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From what i understand, the saves do carry over.
I think Valve is trying to put pressure on microsoft so they change their policies
Said policies caused the xbox version of l4d2 to JUST receive a patch that the pc got months ago (MS requires that every patch go though their certification process, which is incredibly slow and doesn't even stop buggy patches from being released)
Other devs have complained about these same policies too
Team Meat has tweeted many times to fans asking where the fuck a 360 patch was saying that the patch was DONE but MS was just sitting on it
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Indie developers really get the dick on that score. I know Monday Night Combat is coming to PC at least half because their balance patches, essential in an online shooter, were going for months without being released because they're at the back of some fucking certification line, with big developers cutting in front of them all the time. It's bullshit and everyone smells it. Meanwhile, over on Steam, you push a patch and it goes live that day. Now, Valve isn't going to stop you from breaking your own game, but by all accounts neither is Microsoft, and at least Valve is prompt about it.
I don't think Valve is specifically trying to put pressure on Microsoft though, because this is stuff they've been talking about since Steam was first discussed openly in, like, 2001, and of course Steam launched in 2004, before the 360 came out. They're not out for Microsoft, they're out to change the way games are distributed and supported, period.
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Monday Night Combat
they semi-bypassed MS's bullshit actually
instead of releasing patches they change variables on their servers
obviously this doesn't work for making extreme changes but it does let them change some things
better explanation of how they still can make small tweaks (http://www.penny-arcade.com/2010/8/9/too-deep/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pa-mainsite+%28Penny+Arcade%29)
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Yeah, but there were a lot of major changes they kept promising regarding overall class balance that was stuck in the pipes for months. Shit like that can sink an indie. Obviously not in this case, but it's endemic of the cert process used by XBL.
Again though, I don't think Valve gives a fuck about that except insofar as it directly effects them, which, given that they're Valve, and their box copies are published by EA, they aren't that drastically effected. This is just another step in what they've been talking about for years.
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The 3DS is out March 27.
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For $250.
Friend Codes now tied to the system, rather than each game.
DSiWare carries over.
Nintendo Funbucks is out, actual cash is in for the store.
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From what i understand, the saves do carry over.
PC/Mac, at least; not sure about console.
Friend Codes now tied to the system, rather than each game.
Yeah, that's what they said about the Wii.
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March 27.
$250.
Thank you, now I can fill in this line item.
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The date is set (http://www.pcworld.com/article/217338/duke_nukem_forever_to_finally_ship_year_before_world_ends.html).
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DNF is going to have compitition from Bulletstorm in the juvenile humor depertment.
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And I don't think it's going to be any competition to Bulletstorm's gameplay.
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And I don't think it's going to be any competition to Bulletstorm's gameplay.
Bulletstorm is absolutely crazy and amazing. The multiplayer sounds like it would be a blast. Is anyone else gonna get it?
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I certainly am, and most people I talk to seem interested. People know a stupid good time when they see it.
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DNF is going to have compitition from Bulletstorm in the juvenile humor depertment.
And I don't think it's going to be any competition to Bulletstorm's gameplay.
Well, DNF does have something Bulletstorm doesn't: tits. So, know.
Tits.
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But does DNF let you grapple a monster into a giant fly-trap to get munched before shooting it in the balls for MEGA POINTS?!
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Knowing Duke? There's a good chance to yes.
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Both these games have already been dropped right on their soft baby skulls in terms of PC support, and I find first-person shootan on any console an exercise in pulling teeth.
Which sucks because BulletStorm looks like sex behind a floating gun otherwise.
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Both these games have already been dropped right on their soft baby skulls in terms of PC support
How do you mean?
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Go download the demo and you'll see.
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"Plays well on console" does not necessarily mean "plays poorly on PC". Just look at Bad Company 2. If anything, it's better on PC, even though the series was specifically designed to bring the Battlefield thing to console. Unless you're talking about some magic qualifier that makes something too "console" which, in my experience, doesn't fucking exist.
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No.
Go download the demo for PC.
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The DNF demo isn't out yet, on any system. What has Gearbox done to indicate that the PC version is going to be in some way crippled?
Which systems do or do not get a demo is a marketing thing. It doesn't tell you much of anything about the final product.
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You mean the one that isn't a demo, but is a trailer? Maybe that's your point? I honestly don't know where you're going with this. Console exclusive demos are not uncommon in very good PC games. Bad Company 2, for example, was console only for the demo.
If you mean DNF demo, who gives a shit about that anyway? Everyone already knew it was a console focused game even before 3D Realms imploded.
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What has Gearbox done to indicate that the PC version is going to be in some way crippled?
Specifically and repeatedly screwed over PC owners with their last title, mostly.
You mean the one that isn't a demo, but is a trailer? Maybe that's your point?
Yes, thank you.
Console exclusive demos are not uncommon in very good PC games. Bad Company 2, for example, was console only for the demo.
Well, if you say so. I don't consider Bad Company 2 a very good example, but that's fine.
The lack of demo is more immediately irritating to me but probably wasn't the best "this game will definitely, definitely suck on PC" argument. You're right that not offering a demo to PC users is only proof of callousness, not lack of quality. This is the best "this game will definitely, definitely suck on PC" argument. (http://revolt-tech.com/archives/453)
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GFWL is annoying, but hardly deal breaking. Is Dawn of War II bad because of it? Definitely not, but on the other hand they're switching to Steamworks now that it offers matchmaking, the thing that drew them to GFWL to begin with. At worst though, GFWL is an irritant. It doesn't have any effect on the quality of the game.
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it wasn't a dealbreaker for us beating the shit out of Lost Planet 2, that's for damned sure
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that said, Borderlands was a total fuck in the cock on PC
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Yes but:
A: That used GameSpy
B: That was actually a product of the game's terrible design with regards to ad hoc play
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not just multiplayer, i mean all the bullshit you needed to edit in .ini files to make it play like a modern game made by human beings and the fact that even after all that you were only allowed 5 lines of text, absolute maximum, to see what guns actually did.
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I actually have no idea what you are talking about. Aside from the draconian quest system, and UI elements, I really liked Borderlands.
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Borderlands had some of the external trappings of bullshit, but yeah, it thought was a solid game. Before playing it, I was merely hoping that Duke would be big, over-the-top, and ridiculous, but after playing Borderlands I cautiously add "halfway decent FPS" to that list.
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It's not like Gearbox is new to the FPS gig. They made Half-Life: Opposing Force and Blue Shift, then moved on to the Brothers in Arms series, and then Borderlands. They're a good designer. DNF's problem is that no matter what it is it's too little, too late, and on top of everything, Bulletstorm is kind of the same appeal but much, much better.
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I actually have no idea what you are talking about. Aside from the draconian quest system, and UI elements, I really liked Borderlands.
welllll, i... pretty much meant the draconian quest system and horrible UI, yes.
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Neither of which diminished my enjoyment of the game, at all.
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they didn't until i noticed them, if that makes sense.
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So you point them out to ruin it for everyone else?
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i was just sayin' man
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Hey, you guys like complaining about things: How are you all still talking about PC shooters when Sony unveiled their new handheld monstrosity just yesterday morning (http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/01/26/introducing-the-next-generation-of-portable-gaming/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Jack_NGP_012611).
"You fuckers like touching shit? Well now you can touch shit on the back."
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so stupid
the PSP has a lot of killer games on it though, and as Parish the Sagacious mentioned it's the last bastion of oldschool Japanese gamedev... but if the PSP2 is too much more powerful, they'll probably just jump to the 3DS and keep making the kinds of games they are making now, but with random-ass 3D gimmicks or something
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I dunno if remy could be called "sagacious" but he is pretty well tuned in to the opinions of gamers six months ahead of when they realize they have those opinions.
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I don't think anyone so laconic that they verge on the narcoleptic should be called "Remy".
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Hey, you guys like complaining about things: How are you all still talking about PC shooters when Sony unveiled their new handheld monstrosity just yesterday morning (http://blog.us.playstation.com/2011/01/26/introducing-the-next-generation-of-portable-gaming/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=Jack_NGP_012611).
"You fuckers like touching shit? Well now you can touch shit on the back."
It's very... round.
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Honestly i'm expecting the usual sony botches of forgetting to have enough ram and vastly overselling the graphical capabilities (remember how powerful the emotion engine was supposed to be?)
plus the non-removable battery is stupid as fuck
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Eagerly awaiting the commercials for this thing.
"It's like a nut you can touch on the back!"
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have you ever wanted to fondle a huge, plastic testicle?
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Would you have preferred it if I had said "it's like carpet you can touch on the back" instead?
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Hardware designers in general won't be satisfied until we'd be absolutely mortified to be seen playing our video games. Making a portable device that the player constantly looks like he's trying to bring to orgasm is pretty much an instant kill.
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My question is will it be powerful enough to handle SNES emulation?
And yes I am aware of the irony of wanting a new, cutting edge portable console just so I can play decades old games.
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just buy a Caanoo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X_Caanoo).
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Or, you know, a phone.
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Hardware designers in general won't be satisfied until we'd be absolutely mortified to be seen playing our video games.
Yeah, I remember right before the 3DS announcement I was reading an interview with somebody at Nintendo (Iwata?) criticizing 3D glasses and saying people wouldn't want to game with them in public because they look ridiculous.
I also remember wondering if anyone had told him that his company made games that require the player to blow into the handheld.
just buy a Caanoo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X_Caanoo).
Didn't know the new GP2X model was out; neat (though I'm not sure how that round thing compares to a D-pad; I've tried playing Genesis games with the Street Fighter pad and while it's got the right button layout the "floating pad" feels, well, floaty). I looked at those things for awhile, then wondered why not just get a PSP, then thought, you know, I've already got a stack of games I haven't finished, and I bought a new monitor instead. Because I use my monitor all day even if I'm not gaming.
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So instead of a Bulletstorm demo, EA and Epic made this Call of Duty parody which is hilarious, but not really worth downloading when you can just watch it. Here is a video of TotalBiscuit playing through it. If you can't handle a brit being amused by what he sees, I'm sure you can find a video without that.
WTF is Duty Calls? (It's a Call of Duty parody and blatant marketing ploy) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbTtsezso4Q#ws)
The end may have the greatest screenshot potential of all time
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Since you seem like the #1 Bulletstorm fan, can you give me a list of reasons it is going to be good? I am too lazy to look for them myself, and the initial things I heard about the game are nothing special.
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Imagine if in Tony Hawk, instead of finding the perfect line for your huge combo, you described that combo with creative use of enemy flesh. I don't really care about the over the top attitude of the characters, though it is theme appropriate for the over the top shit you do to people, I just fucking love the idea of a combo based FPS that directly rewards you for how creatively you murder everything in sight. I say directly reward because the currency to upgrade your weapons and abilities is the points you earn from the skill shot kills. So the more creative you are, the more options become available, allowing you to be more creative, and so on.
I'm not calling this thing a work of art or anything, it's just exactly the kind of ultra-violent, tongue-in-cheek fun that FPS games have been missing since the rise of serious business military shooters.
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To be fair, Bioshock tried to be this, but it didn't make it that far past I'M FIRIN' BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES.
I haven't played the sequel on account of DRM but I hear the reason it sucked was mostly trying to play things completely straight.
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What? You're fucking high. The skillshot system has nothing in common with Bioshock, except that in Bioshock you could combine certain powers. There was no benefit to doing it other than a slightly more effective result. Bulletstorm is built entirely around using you guns, abilities, and the environment to kill your enemies in the most extravagant manner possible. That's a pretty far cry from "zap people who are in water".
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Yes, that's why I said IT DIDN'T MAKE IT FAR PAST FIRING BEES.
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Right, to which I reply "They are nothing alike except in that they are both first person shooters"
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so it's kind of like pn03 had a baby with madworld and the kid went to college to become a fps?
i could dig that
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DRIVE ME CLOSER! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrrCY7dgaqs#ws)
YES.
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Never change, Commissar Lord.
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I finally watched a video for Bulletstorm. Why isn't it called Footstorm?
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Turns out once I got around to playing he demo I wasn't all that impressed by it anyway. It did make me really glad I installed F.E.A.R. yesterday though, because now I really want to go play F.E.A.R.
(Explanation: because F.E.A.R. let's you be fuckawesome in ways that Bulletstorm really doesn't and would have probably been a much more popular game if it had played up that aspect instead of the shitty haunted house tour one.)
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yeah steve blum as the dumbest guy didn't appeal to me, though all the various ways to deal with emerging enemy attacks did.
As for F.E.A.R. i definitely the did a lot of the same kind of thing you do in Bulletstorm. I considered it a personal failing if i didn't have at least 3+ people nailed to the roof with the penetrator after any given firefight and i would intentionally bum-rush and bicycle kick Alma wherever possible.
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I think everyone's initial reaction to Alma is to try and kick her.
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Mansions of Madness (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZ5mZStU5zI#ws)
I WANT THIS GAME
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They made one of the characters Indiana Jones with a guitar and a dog and expect people to play as anyone else?
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They named the dog Indiana.
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Oh, that's Ashcan Pete. He was originally in Arkham Horror, where he could eat his dog (Duke) to recover his sanity.
That was a bit of a mechanical/thematic mismatch. Otherwise he was a pretty cool character, though.
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He could also draw cards from the bottom of a deck, which was fantastically useful.
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So apparently, Baba Yetu (aka. that kick ass music from the Civ IV title screen) won a Grammy last night for "Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalist(s)", making it the first piece of music originally composed for a video game to win a Grammy, and also validates what most people have said all along, that the best part of Civ IV might actually BE the title screen. That shit just makes you feel good about what you're about to do, even if what you're about to do is lead Otto Von Bismark to world domination by the sword.
Official music video:
Christopher Tin - Baba Yetu (Official Music Video) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJiHDmyhE1A#ws)
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Wait.... that was composed just for the video game?!
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Yes.
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that arrangement, at least. it's some people singing the lord's prayer in swahili, which maybe you already knew...?
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Yeah, but that's not a song, Noro. He composed all the music and accompanied it with that choir. By the way, the lord's prayer is not traditionally sung in any language.
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What about Latin?
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It's a prayer, not a hymn. This isn't a math problem. Do people sing it? Of course, almost any prayer can and will be sung, but it's not traditionally sung. I've been to a lot of catholic masses, and I've never heard it sung once.
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I thought most masses in the US stopped being sung in latin like... in the late 70s or 80s (I keep mis-remembering the decade). I'm surprised you've been to a lot of latin masses.
Sorry, I've been playing some Darklands and the verb "sing" is always used for each hourly liturgy/mass. You can see why I might be confused.
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Actually, a lot of Orthodox churches chant the entirety of the liturgy, so it probably is traditionally sung in Greek and maybe Russian often enough to justify the term. Bal's correct both in that Norondor's post is dumb and that the Lord's Prayer isn't traditionally sung or chanted in Roman Catholic or Protestant traditions. The term arrangement has nothing to do at all with the lyrics of the piece and rather specifically for the orchestration behind the choir.
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Not to pile on or anything, but in Québec Catholic churches, the Lord's Prayer (the Notre Père) is almost always chanted. It's not sung, there's no real melody, but there definitely is a specific rhythm to it. It's like a mantra, especially as part of a rosary.
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If it's chanted, it's sung and has a melody.
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Well, I actually researched the word before posting, second language and all, and I had gathered that this wasn't necessarily the case. So :shrug:.
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I thought most masses in the US stopped being sung in latin like... in the late 70s or 80s (I keep mis-remembering the decade). I'm surprised you've been to a lot of latin masses.
Sorry, I've been playing some Darklands and the verb "sing" is always used for each hourly liturgy/mass. You can see why I might be confused.
Christ. All masses everywhere were changed to be in the local language after Vatican II (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_II) in the 1960s. Prior to that, the entire thing was in Latin and, I assure you, almost nothing was sung. The whole process was very dour and arcane to most parishioners, because it was steeped it odd ritual and in an alien language. I have been to many modern Catholic masses, because I was raised Catholic for a good portion of my childhood, and still very little is sung, least of all things that are prayers and not hymns. Catholics are like that.
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The goal of the Lord's Prayer is for everyone to mumble is unintelligably as possible individually while retaining coherency en masse.
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Gives the priest a good minute and a half where he can scratch himself without notice.
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Everything is sung in the Orthodox church pretty much always, and that covers like half the languages of the Christian world. Also there's an option to sing basically everything in the Anglican churches, and this has gone in and out of style at various points.
The Importance of Singing
Since faithful from different countries come together ever more frequently, it is fitting that they know how to sing together at least some parts of the Ordinary of the Mass in Latin, especially the Creed and the Lord's Prayer, set to the simpler melodies.
So yeah, Roman Catholics too.
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After almost two decades, finally our prayers have been answered: New Sonic Blast Man. (http://www.siliconera.com/2011/02/15/finally-an-arcade-game-where-you-can-punch-dinosaurs/)
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Sonic Blast Heroes had better be better than Sonic Blast. Or Sonic Heroes.
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I didn't hate Sonic Blast.
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Surprisingly good trailer for a zombie game.
Dead Island: Official Announcement Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZqrG1bdGtg#ws)
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I didn't hate Sonic Blast.
I didn't either, but I didn't play it a second time.
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This is the first game on the Kinect I actually want to play. (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/23/sesame-street-once-upon-a-trailer/)
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PC Gamer The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim in-game trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbmBYT8Dwf4#ws)
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Let's hope Max sticks around longer than Patrick Stewart did. That was such a disappoi—
Conan the barbarian cut scene : King Osric death (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx4zZO69oag#)
:nyoro~n:
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Skyrim (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9eGtyqz4gY#ws)
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I thought I had wrung all the Elder Scrolls urge out of my system when I stopped playing Morrowind maybe 25% into the main quest; I even skipped New Vegas entirely.
But apparently I thought wrong.
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Catherine confirmed for release in the states. (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/01/catherine-confirmed-for-north-america-coming-this-summer/)
Also, in news that makes my penis hard: Obsidian is making an XBLA game (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/01/obsidian-working-on-xbla-title-for-q1-2012/). As I think XBLA is the perfect medium for small-yet-ambitious games, I am excited.
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Magicka: Vietnam Announcement Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs2DsoiA54Y#ws)
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I had just come to post that, Bal.
I can't describe how excited I am for this.
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When Magicka first came out, it sounded to me 1) very interesting, 2) designed to be played in co-op exclusively, and 3) incredibly buggy. In what ways am I mistaken?
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The game has enough comedy to be enjoyed in single-player, and the bugs, from my understanding, are largely fixed (though there are still occasional patches).
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This looks incredibly fun
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So are you guys as tentatively excited as I am over Super Mario 3DS?
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y89/CX-Neo/supermario3ds_gr.png)
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y89/CX-Neo/uLe88.jpg)
I say "tentatively excited" because I hope against hopes that this isn't another fucking NSMB and is more of a Mario Galaxy/64/Sunshine thing.
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It's obviously 3D, so I don't understand your concern.
On the other hand, New Super Mario Bros. Wii was great, so I don't understand your concern from that direction either.
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the answer is no because i am not excited about the 3DS at all
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understandable since the only two good announced games are super mario 3D and a port of a psp puzzle game (crush). and i guess there was kid icarus but that could really go either way.
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also every report of everyone who has ever played one is "yeah it was cool also i got nauseous and had a migraine after playing it for 10 minutes"
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... Wait... It's the new virtual boy?
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Flimsy-necked tripod sold separately!
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also every report of everyone who has ever played one is "yeah it was cool also i got nauseous and had a migraine after playing it for 10 minutes"
luckily you can just turn the migraines off and play the neat games
that they have not actually announced or made yet
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yeah that's #2 on the action item list, but for me #1 is really "why would i buy a $200 portable headache machine"
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...I hope you guys are having this conversation ironically, with full awareness that it's the exact same fucking conversation we had when the DS was announced.
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the DS didn't make you barf, so... not really.
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I actually really really want a 3DS but I really really want games I want to play to show up on it first. DS had a few titles I was excited to play on day one, 3DS does not have a single game I want for at least a month or two out from the day it hits. Which considering how I have barely cracked into DQIX since getting it might actually be a good thing.
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Yeah I de-line itemed the thing once I realized that there wasn't much reason to get one on release day.
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Speaking as someone who gets headaches (for whatever reason) from playing normal handhelds, I think a handheld that actually caused headaches in normal people would probably cause my face to peel back and my eyes to liquefy.
I mean, outside of the bedroom right before I eat you.
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... have... you been waiting a long time for someone to invent such a device then?
did you get hungry while you were waiting?
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There's no games I'm particularly interested in that have release dates right now, but I know they'll come, because it's Nintendo. On the other hand, my DS' shoulder buttons are fucked now, and I know that the price isn't going to drop before the games come out, because it's Nintendo. Verdict: I've already ordered mine.
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If you need a new DS for some reason then yes you might as well buy a 3DS.
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luckily you can just turn the migraines off and play the neat games
that they have not actually announced or made yet
Paper Mario? Mega Man Legends 3? MGS3? Animal Crossing? Those are some of the games I'm personally interested in, and plenty more have been announced.
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I'm excited for Cave Story 3DS, Paper Mario, and Ocarina of Time. I'm getting it on launch day, however, so that I can play Pokémon. I traded my DSi without really thinking of how torturous 3 weeks without being able to play Pokémon is going to be.
It's obviously 3D, so I don't understand your concern.
On the other hand, New Super Mario Bros. Wii was great, so I don't understand your concern from that direction either.
The 3D Mario games have always been more exploratory games rather than Mario's trademark platforming, and given how much stuff in those screenshots is clearly meant to evoke classic 2D Mario I'm worried that it's going to be more like the Super Mario Sunshine FLUDD-less stages. Which is to say, 2D-style platforming in 3D space.
I hate those stages.
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luckily you can just turn the migraines off and play the neat games
that they have not actually announced or made yet
Paper Mario? Mega Man Legends 3? MGS3? Animal Crossing? Those are some of the games I'm personally interested in, and plenty more have been announced.
paper mario i'll give you. we don't have anything even remotely resembling a time frame when we will see it, so i will enjoy it in 2012.
mml3 is being made without inafune, port, game i don't care about.
I know things can be a slow start and all, but the 3DS just screams of being released too damn early between the anemic launch and post-launch lineup and the fact that a lot of their shit literally is not ready, such as the online store.
Also playing old DS games on it gives you the choice between smaller screen real estate than on an actual DS or upscaling it to look terrible. Which I mean, the former I don't really mind but it is something worth considering if you're picking it up just for older games right now.
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mml3 is being made without inafune, port, game i don't care about.
Yeah, it's heartbreaking to think about how much MML3 is going to blow.
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Wait a minute.
Over priced hardware. Crappy launch titles. Trying to encourage people to buy it via non game related features?
Oh, so it's not another Virtual Boy, it's Nintendo's PS3.
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Can nintendo survive having its own PS3?
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nintendo survived the n64 in more or less the same environment where the dreamcast murdered sega
they could survive an entire hardware generation by selling nothing but individually wrapped poops with random pokémon figurines inside
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Talk big all you want, but everyone is going to have a 3DS eventually.
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dreamcast murdered sega
:hellamad:
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i love the dc too and i don't say that because i'm happy about it... but that's the quickest way to put it
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Saturn murdered SEGA. Dreamcast was a sharp, sharp upward pull, but still too late to keep the plane from crashing into the ground.
I think the nature of the hardware means that a lot of early games are going to be constrained to running down corridors until the developers can be assured that free cameras won't give people motion sickness. So yes, SM3DS is very likely to be just a series of no-FLUDD/Bowser world levels, and MML3 will probably not play a whole lot like its predecessors either. As it turns out you can play something like an FPS in 3D without it being too disruptive (judging by the Killzone 3 demo) but I appreciate taking baby steps with the whole tiny-lenticular-screen thing.
Anyway I don't expect the 3D fad to really gain a huge foothold for games - it's not as easy to implement into a game as it is with a movie (oddly enough) and it's altogether too gimmicky to design around. 3DS is looking like it'll be a fine 3D movie player and 2D game handheld generation, with a few odd tech demos for games here and there.
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The DS launch lineup sucked a lot more than the 3DS launch lineup, so there's really no point in hatin' on it right now.
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but dooly it is cool to hate on it right now
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The DS launch lineup sucked a lot more than the 3DS launch lineup, so there's really no point in hatin' on it right now.
Right, I forgot to mention that. The first game I liked for the DS was Dawn of Sorrow, which came out almost a year after the system's launch.
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The DS launch lineup sucked a lot more than the 3DS launch lineup, so there's really no point in hatin' on it right now.
super mario 64 DS, feel the magic, mr. driller drill spirits
vs
monkey ball maybe
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Sorry to spoil the Debby Downer's 3DS discussion, but SpaceChem is a pretty awesome puzzle game. Try the demo, since the demo is pretty much the tutorial and the beginner levels of the game.
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the DS didn't make you barf, so... not really.
Nor, the thread was called "Nintendo announces sequel to Virtual Boy."
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that's because it was silly and not very console-ish, not because it gave you brain cancer.
... i hope, because i don't know how the DS would cause you pain, aside from hand cramps.
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Gabe Newell has gigantic, clanking brass balls
Gabe Newell stellt IPT für Steam auf der Cebit 2011 vor (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXkTMhp7QFI#ws)
For some background, this is a fairly potent demonstration of a new, optional, security tool coming to Steam that allows Steam to take advantage of a feature of the new Sandy Bridge generation of the Core series that lets you key your Steam account to a specific computer, supposedly infallibly. I imagine it has to do with the fact that processors are significantly more unique than fingerprints. This does remove the ability to use Steam's ability to play your games on any computer, but because it's completely optional that's not really a problem, just a judgement call. Personally, I don't play my games on more than one PC, so I might think of taking advantage of this, since my Steam account runs into the thousands of dollars at this point, whereas if I were more on the move, and had, say, a gaming laptop I took with me places, I might not.
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What's their backup if your computer crashes and burns?
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What's their backup if your computer crashes and burns?
:profit: :richiam:
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Probably the same thing as if you lose your account now. You call in and retrieve your account.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifelock (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifelock)
In May 2010 the Phoenix New Times reported that LifeLock CEO Todd Davis has been a victim of identity theft at least 13 times since 2007, which is 12 more times than has previously been known.
Okay so maybe Steam's new security is awesome and all, but that was kinda dumb of Newell.
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Intel IPT isn't really hackable in the same way. Steam's service literally binds your account to the unique signature of your CPU. The only way to crack it would be to actually gain direct access to the code that the Sandy Bridge CPUs spit out that allow for this to happen.
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Plus, while Gabe would certainly have some big problems if his Steam account really was compromised, such problems pale in comparison to the one's he'd have if his SIN, driver's license, etc. were out there.
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So is this brilliant plan defeated by purchasing an Athlon processor or what?
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Intel IPT isn't really hackable in the same way. Steam's service literally binds your account to the unique signature of your CPU. The only way to crack it would be to actually gain direct access to the code that the Sandy Bridge CPUs spit out that allow for this to happen.
More likely it's public-key encryption, so even if you've got the code, it's useless without the private key.
(Who was the guy who kept making bizarre claims that if Steam respect first sale doctrine Newell's account would immediately get hacked? JDigital?)
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No idea. That thread was bad, and I thought we agreed never to speak of it again.
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Not quite re: the protection thing.
You can still play your Steam Games on any computer, but you can only modify your account settings on that one computer.
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So is this brilliant plan defeated by purchasing an Athlon processor or what?
You can't use it if you don't have a sufficiently new Intel CPU.
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steam guard DOES work if you dont have one of those new intel chips
just differently
steam guard is active in the steam beta but the intel thing is not (http://store.steampowered.com/news/5088/)
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution is coming out in August. A game that was supposed to be out by now is getting pushed back 5 months because of how bad FF14 is. There is no fuck big enough to express how I feel.
Also it's going to be interesting to see how sales get effected by this. Pretty much every media outlet has released everything they can by now because it was supposed to be out. Now there will be a long stretch of silence until the game comes out.
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Croteam and Devolver today jointly announced the Serious Sam Indie Series, three stand-alone games allowing independent developers to offer their own takes on the first-person shooter series.
(...)
The indie teams participating include Mommy's Best Games (Grapple Buggy and Weapon of Choice), Be-Rad Entertainment (Lame Castle), and Vlambeer (Super Crate Box, Radical Fishing). Mommy's Best Games will be making Serious Sam: Double D, a side-scrolling two-dimensional shooter for PCs and consoles. Be-Rad will continue to explore the auto-running genre of mobile phone games with Serious Sam: Kamikaze Attack!, which has players guide one of the series' ever-sprinting headless, bomb-handed grunts to his appointed target by dodging obstacles.
Finally, Vlambeer is adapting Sam into a "seriously frantic" turn-based role-playing game with Serious Sam: The Random Encounter. The game will feature fast-paced fights pitting Sam and his party against hordes of Mental's minions.
I don't even know what to say about that last one. I'm curious, definitely, but... :wat:
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Rock, Paper, Shotgun has the scoop (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/03/09/for-serious-the-serious-sam-indie-series/) as well. Nothing more than a screenshot, though.
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Skulls of the Shogun Trailer #2! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INshw-ESFtI#ws)
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Looks okay.
Then you get to 1:22.
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J.K. Simmons is going to be in Portal 2 (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/11/j-k-simmons-to-voice-aperture-science-founder-cave-johnson-in-p/)
That is... just wonderful.
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Due to the tsunami and the diminished production and increased need for power by emergency responders, Squeenix has shut down FFXI and FFXIV for an indefinite amount of time.
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J.K. Simmons is going to be in Portal 2 (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/03/11/j-k-simmons-to-voice-aperture-science-founder-cave-johnson-in-p/)
That is... just wonderful.
Dear god, what if he's playing the lunatic founder of Aperture Science, whose mad vision led them from shower curtains to government contracted, teleportation skunkworks.
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... did you read the article
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I did not. Apparently all my dreams are coming true.
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http://uk.ign.com/videos/2011/03/15/batman-arkham-city-this-aint-no-place-for-a-hero-trailer (http://uk.ign.com/videos/2011/03/15/batman-arkham-city-this-aint-no-place-for-a-hero-trailer)
Do fucking want.
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Doug Church, designer on Thief, joins Valve (http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/03/16/thief-designer-doug-church-now-with-valve.aspx)
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Wargaming, circa 1929 (http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1135247/index.htm#)
Okay, now this is cool.
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Cripes. That makes Flames of War look like a sensible investment.
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Panels, lady and gentlemen. They're important. For science.
Aperture Science Products 1 - Panels (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uXbS1BtJ8g#ws)
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Jamestown Teaser Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk7UERiO3t4#ws)
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Duke Nukem...
is delayed.
A very special message from Gearbox Software - International Edition (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VFFR-5a-Ko#ws)
:whoops:
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KEEPING THE DREAM ALIVE.
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/me glances at calendar
Well, it's not quite April Fool's, but close enough.
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Wait... the international release is 4 days before the domestic release? :wat:
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I don't think you can call yourself a Duke Nukem Forever developer unless you've been somehow involved in pushing the game back. Frankly, this is the first news I've heard that makes me confident that Gearbox understands the spirit of Duke's legacy.
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they need time to record duke making fun of the slap a woman's bottom mode
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Robots. A necessary evil.
Portal 2: Official Bot Trust Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f6cHVuPlIg#ws)
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Is it wrong to want to buy an iPad for just one game?
Audience Calibration Procedure (http://vimeo.com/20379529)
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I think all of us now want to buy an iPad just to play that.
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not me.
it comes out for the phone next month. B)
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As I have no interest in an iAnything, I'll just have to hope it gets ported.
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Hideo Kojima made vice president of Konami (http://mmomfg.com/2011/03/30/konami-vp-kojima-0330/)
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So the number of people who can put the kibosh on his sadism has been reduced to 1?
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I for one welcome our new Kojima overlord.
HURT ME MORE
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So the number of people who can put the kibosh on his sadism has been reduced to 1?
I knew there was a reason this seemed like a bad idea!
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So the follow up to the totally rad cult hit Anno 1404 just got announced, and it is set in the future? Shut up and take my money. (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/04/04/anno-2070-announced/)
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Sleep tight
Aperture Investment Opportunity #3: "Turrets" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i-nMWgBUp0#ws)
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Lost Levels gets Bio Force Ape. (http://www.lostlevels.org/wordpress/2011/04/01/bio-force-ape-is-here/) Or it's a very thorough April Fool's joke.
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it's the real deal if you go by the play through they had on 1up that one time. Unless someone hacked some butter in later levels, but so far it checks out fine.
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the playthrough orchestrated on 1up by frank cifaldi, mind you. that one time being last april.
basically i do not know what to believe
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I want paper mario 3ds nowwww :<
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I knooooooooooooow.
Stupid Nintendo and its complete lack of release dates for anything good on the 3DS.
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Why did they do this to us :(
In the meantime, I'll fantasize about how they fixed everything they ruined in the wii version.
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Well, they have shown screenshots of it, and it is unlike Super Paper Mario in that it is actually an RPG, rather than a lousy platformer with snappy writing.
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guys
update your 3dses
there are 3D HIPSTERS AND DOGS ON IT NOW
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That was available at launch.
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you were available at launch
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Well, they have shown screenshots of it, and it is unlike Super Paper Mario in that it is actually an RPG, rather than a lousy platformer with snappy writing.
The writing in SPM was nowhere near as good as it was in the previous two. In Paper Mario 2, talking to every NPC was just something I did. In Super Paper Mario, it was a huge chore that I eventually just stopped bothering with.
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Don't talk about SPM anymore, it hurt my feelings. It was the worst of the series, and downright offensive that they changed battling to nothing more than hopping on enemies sometimes. What the fuck was their god damn problems. I love ttyd--it might be my favorite game ever. I have replayed it more than once, and every time I play, I have as much fun as the time before.
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i was playing parasite 3ve and i was pretty much enjoying it, and then i got to mission 5 and threw my psp into the wall without noticing i was doing it.
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Warhammer 40k Space Marine Exclusive Behind the Scenes of the Universe Trailer [HD] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGToH9mQTjY#ws)
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Aperture Investment Opportunity #4: "Boots" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX9Sc88qreg#ws)
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Just make those cheques out to "Cash".
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Start pre-loading your portal gun now.
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there's some REALLY WEIRD shit in the ASHPD cutaways like Miniature surplus German stick grenades and an Ink reservoir
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What is more weird is that those miniature stick grenades create small black holes
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of course there's an ink reservoir, how else would you have colored portals? fucking duh.
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The aforementioned Anno 2070 in motion. At least as gorgeous as Anno 1404/Dawn of Discovery, but all future-y. I want it bad.
Debut Trailer HD - Anno 2070 (http://www.gametrailers.com/video/debut-trailer-anno-2070/712787)
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The Quebecois accent there gets me for some reason. Or is that a plain ol' French accent?
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I don't think that's any kind of French accent at all.
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I'm fairly certain it is a English fluent German, because the development company is German.
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So initial reviews seem to indicate that MK9 might actually be worth a fuck.
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Crysis 2 In A Nutshell (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZgzKKX4z-4#)
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http://mwctranslate.blogspot.com/ (http://mwctranslate.blogspot.com/)
Someone has been doing the world a favor and has translated all of the important stuff in Metal Wolf Chaos.
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PHANTASY STAR ONLINE2 最新PV (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7uCoa3mJ7M#)
Skip to 1:30 if you want to see gameplay.
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This is the best news.
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just like jesus!
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Day One.
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It's crazy, but the greatswords just look fun and look pretty fast compared to what they were in Universe.
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All they're doing here is un-using all the different names they came up with for other sequels to PSO, but whatever I'll take it.
Still waiting for a proper Phantasy Star RPG , even if they don't actually go back to the original Algol plotline (since that's pretty well buttoned up). I keep hearing rumors but it just continues to not be happening.
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Borderlands' Modest Proposal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fii-KPEmcMw#ws)
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Did they just do that for some random fan?
Because that's pretty incredible.
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Aww, she said yes.
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It's a mod but its should be pretty familiar if anyones heard the term, Rainbow Edition.
STREET FIGHTER IV KORYU - Release (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSvkfN8W9RE#ws)
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Does... does that mean it will include Rainbow Mika?
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It's a mod but its should be pretty familiar if anyones heard the term, Rainbow Edition.
...HAS anyone heard the term "Rainbow Edition"?
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Yes. The most famous of the many, many hacks for Street Fighter II.
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...I see.
So is anybody working on making something resembling a "Super" version for PC? Granted that'd be a great way to get C&D'ed, but seems like something somebody would try.
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SSF4AE is coming out on PC, actually. Confirmed quietly a couple weeks ago.
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i came
EDIT: wait, crap, my stick doesn't work with my latest motherboard :painful:
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They are also pushing for a MVC3 PC release too.
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Just saw info on that Haruhi Suzumiya game coming out for PS3/PSP.
Two things:
1.The story is the same on both platforms. You can even take save data from the PS3 version and use it your PSP to continue the game on a lunch break or vice-versa. The difference between the two versions is the quality of graphics (they’re better on PS3) and the amount of voice acting (the PS3 has more).
That's system porting done right.
2. WHAT GENRE OF GAME IS THIS? I saw a video of gameplay. It just looked like a few cutscenes followed by a cutscene-cutscene. A double cutscene if you will. I assume it's some sort of choose-your-own-adventure interactive anime, but I'm just guessing wildly.
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I wonder if you don't amuse Haruhi enough, that it will pull a Nier and reset everything.
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ACTUALLY from what I understood, you make choices and each choice pushes you down a different alternate dimension, until you get to something unlike the novels/shows/whatever at all.
It revolves on how you treat Haruhi though, but it seems like you are free to go for other girls.
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I assume there will be a Nyoro~n Churuya-san minigame.
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I hope a massive chunk of the game is devoted to Endless Eight.
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A pox upon your house.
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A game centered around a time loop? It'll never work. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majora%27s_Mask)
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I assume there will be a Nyoro~n Churuya-san minigame.
Someone started making a game (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryyWBYx5-s8#) based off of the last part of this ep (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDd-c03uGgA#ws).
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Activision is collectively shitting its pants right now because someone leaked a bunch of screenshots (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=430117) and literally the entire plot to Modern Warfare 3 (http://kotaku.com/5801345/where-youll-go-how-youll-kill-and-who-will-die-in-modern-warfare-3). Spoilers: it sounds as blisteringly retarded as its predecessors.
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To file in the "Gamestop et al are a big fat leech on the nuts of the gaming industry" drawer: Fable III dev sez used game sales are worse than piracy (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6314347.html).
"Piracy these days on PC is probably less problematic than secondhand sales on the [Xbox 360]," West told the website. "I've been working on PC games for many years, and piracy is always a problem. There are a lot of honest people out there as well, and if they like your game, they'll buy it."
Lionhead released the PC version of Fable III yesterday in North America. West told the site any sales of the game will be seen as a "bonus," as the original Xbox 360 edition of the game covered its development costs with sales in the millions.
"For us, it's probably a no lose even with piracy as it is," West said. "But, as I say, secondhand sales cost us more in the long run than piracy these days."
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Maybe if they didn't charge $120 for a new game, the secondhand market wouldn't be going so well!
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Maybe if Australia's government wasn't totally insane about video games, they'd cost about $60 new.
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I wouldn't celebrate too much about that sentiment. He's basically saying that, given the choice between crushing the rights of honest consumers and stopping thieves, he'd go after the consumers first.
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i think it's more like he's saying that in spite of what they might think, people who buy games secondhand from retailers are secretly not honest consumers.
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The "used game sales hurt new game sales" argument is reductivist nonsense.
You know those people who are playing games and then selling them? How many of them do you think would still be buying mediocre games at full price if they knew they wouldn't be able to resell them?
And those people who are buying games used? How many of THEM do you think would pay full price if there were no used games on the shelf?
Of course, you could read this another way, to mean that piracy's not as big a problem as it's made out to be.
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The most important line is the one about XBox sales covering the PC even with rampant piracy etc. Fact is, neither secondhand sales nor piracy are doing a whole Hell of a lot to hurt the game industry (or, at the very least, they aren't hurting Fable III's producers).
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This isn't game news, but today I got to play sixteen-player Mario Kart: Double Dash with eight TVs/GameCubes in the same room. The way it was meant to be played!
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So a guy told me today that the makers of Witcher 2 leaked a special, 'marked' version of their game to several torrent sites before the game came out, then sent a bill for $60 to anyone who downloaded it. I guess that's game news insofar as it's a new tactic (to my ears). Bloody brilliant if true.
I've tried to explain to people that piracy is NOT a huge issue and they mostly give me deer-headlight glares of 'you're crazy.' If enough stuff like this happens, though, I can't see piracy remaining AS popular for long. Assuming it's even an enforceable action.
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This isn't game news, but today I got to play sixteen-player Mario Kart: Double Dash with eight TVs/GameCubes in the same room. The way it was meant to be played!
Remember when we were kids and had Nintendo parties? Imagine if the internet had been more of a thing back then. We'd have had ... slightly bigger Nintendo parties. Probably exactly like you did there. Ah, to be young again!
OH SHIT DID I JUST SAY THAT FUCKING SHIT!?!
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So a guy told me today that the makers of Witcher 2 leaked a special, 'marked' version of their game to several torrent sites before the game came out, then sent a bill for $60 to anyone who downloaded it. I guess that's game news insofar as it's a new tactic (to my ears). Bloody brilliant if true.
I've tried to explain to people that piracy is NOT a huge issue and they mostly give me deer-headlight glares of 'you're crazy.' If enough stuff like this happens, though, I can't see piracy remaining AS popular for long. Assuming it's even an enforceable action.
It's a one-trick pony though. Either savvy folks will figure out how to find the markers, OR they'll just stick to cracking open regular production copies.
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So a guy told me today that the makers of Witcher 2 leaked a special, 'marked' version of their game to several torrent sites before the game came out, then sent a bill for $60 to anyone who downloaded it. I guess that's game news insofar as it's a new tactic (to my ears). Bloody brilliant if true.
I've tried to explain to people that piracy is NOT a huge issue and they mostly give me deer-headlight glares of 'you're crazy.' If enough stuff like this happens, though, I can't see piracy remaining AS popular for long. Assuming it's even an enforceable action.
It's a one-trick pony though. Either savvy folks will figure out how to find the markers, OR they'll just stick to cracking open regular production copies.
How is joe schmoe going to know which downloads are safe? I guess by download ratings, but those can be faked, right? Torrent sites sometimes take money to remove torrents, maybe they'll start taking money to add BAD ones? This has a few iterations left to play out, I think.
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How is joe schmoe going to know which downloads are safe?
Well, if the executable itself is altered, that can be determined with a checksum (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sha1sum).
If, on the other hand, it's just a matter of someone at CDProjekt seeding a torrent and IP-checking everyone who grabbed it, well...it's still early days for anonymous torrenting, but it'll become a lot more common as stuff like this becomes more common.
But BT is far from the only way to download files. Encrypted Usenet servers are easy to find; they cost money and it's a little more complicated than BT, but that route's open to savvier pirates.
None of which is to say I don't love the idea of just sending bills to people. But it's already been established that IP addresses are not legally binding forms of identification (in this country, at least), and it's not a long-term technical solution for the reasons outlined above. Given CDProjekt's track record, I'm confident they know all this and are doing this simply to make a point. And as points go, it's a perfectly good one.
(Tangentially: Back in the golden period of EC Comics, they ripped off a Bradbury story. Bradbury sent them a letter politely explaining that they must have forgotten to send him his check for the rights; Gaines cut him a check and Bradbury has been a staunch supporter of the old EC stuff ever since.)
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Bastion (http://supergiantgames.com/): hand drawn, diablo-like, narrated. So looking forward to this game.
Gameplay:
Bastion - Gameplay Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqQE6f2BzTs#ws)
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Beat Hazard Ultra: Teaser Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n6HDC2A1ro#ws)
:jizz:
Speaking from the point of view of a guy who's got a lifetime total of over seven hundred million points on the original, I gotta say June 27th can't come soon enough. I mean, outside of the music gimmick, Beat Hazard is about as bare-bones as they come. But since I loved it anyway I can hardly wait to see how it plays with new weapons and enemies.
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Dead Island E3 Exclusive 2011 Trailer [HD] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p8kGRM0Nis#ws)
Dead Island is looking really damn fun. Seems like there's going to be a good mix of tragedy and catharsis going on.
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Halo: Combat Evolved Anniversary Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHuE6JRkpHw#ws)
Sort of want.
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Hey, is it that thing we kept talking about when we were playing Reach where they should remake Halo 1 using the Halo Reach engine?
[clip of the assassination]
Hey look it is
:imagination:
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Goddamn, Skyrim is looking pretty sweet.
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Gameplay (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9hJMxw126A#ws)
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Now that there are super OP shouts I hope they make it so you have to stick to a specialization and can't just be king shit of maxstats.
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:jizz:
Street Fighter 3 Third Strike Online Edition Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDnada5FN_o#ws)
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GGPO enabled? So those of us that have been illegally playing it online get to keep doing so?
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http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-battlefield-3/714882 (http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-battlefield-3/714882)
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-battlefield-3/714884 (http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-battlefield-3/714884)
DO WANT
http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-battlefield-3/714910 (http://www.gametrailers.com/video/e3-2011-battlefield-3/714910)
EDIT: DO FUCKING WANT
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Minecraft on a console doesn't suprise me. The fact that it's Kinect does slightly.
But as soon as this winter? I call bullshit. No way in hell Notch can work that fast.
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Well, one must consider: how long have they already been working on it? They did announce an Android port a while ago, too.
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And before he showed off the Android port, if you followed his Twitter he talked about Minecraft on phones in the future and showed him working on it. That was a while ago. of course, he said there was some problem at that time...
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RE: BF3
Battlefield 3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GmEjCGQ3wI#)
I'd also like to see a lot more on the Frostbite 2 engine. Maybe a new Battlefield 2142 without bullshit lag on titan mode?
As someone who has always loved their Xbox and felt they made a lot of the right decision before Kinect, this is how I feel: (Thank you reddit)
(http://h3.abload.de/img/futuramas02e08001kinecweyi.gif)
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Best thing so far is Kaz Hirai announcing their partner for the 3g of the NGP (now officially the PS Vita) being AT&T, followed by laughter and booing.
The Vita looks like a strong piece of hardware though, and for the same price as a 3DS. I'd say Nintendo might have a problem trying to compete with it, but I bet we'll see a price drop on the 3DS before the Vita launches.
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What are the data caps on AT&T's current 3G plans like? I'm guessing it's only a tiny fraction of a single Vita game download.
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$10/gig.
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:profit:
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Shadow of the Damned: Enlarge Your Johnson Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kd8IsBKDEtY#ws)
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MUY MUY MUY MUY BUENO!
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It's so surreal. Yesterday I lived in a world where everything I knew was still right and the motions of the stars and planets made sense.
Today, I live in a world where Duke Nukem Forever was released.
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fuck that, there's a new spectromancer pack!
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And Jamestown! Look, here's what you do: Buy Jamestown instead, because it's better, and it tells the story of the ill-fated Roanoke mars colony, and donate the $40 you save to a local women's shelter instead!
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I heard that Jamestown only has local coop. Is this true?
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Yes. Online bullet hell would make people want to kill themselves, because the first moment you get any lag at all you are dead. That said, devs have said they'll look into it if enough people bitch*, and the steampowered forum is made up of people bitching.
*Could just be a rumor.
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Is there a 3d-platformer-with-shooty-and-smashy-bits shaped hole in your heart? You just might want to give Alice: Madness Returns a try.
Seriously, it was pretty fun! Just don't expect any revolutions in gameplay, beyond managing to not be shitty at the 3d-platformer part, which is pretty important! It's not the next Mario Galaxy, or anything, but it kinda plays the way I imagine the original Alice would have played if people 11 years ago knew what they were doing with 3d platforming games.
Also: playing HD-ified Alice is a nostalgia trip combined with rudely ripping rose-tinted glasses from my face. I don't recall ever being so forcefully reminded of how spoiled I am by current-gen graphics and game design.
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Magicka PVP Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgcEZ8jz_Hc#ws)
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wait
i thought magicka already had a pvp mode
it's called magicka
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Saints Row: The Third - Exclusive Gameplay trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN2-WSyRuO0#ws)
NOVEMBER 18TH, WHY ARE YOU SO FAR AWAY
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holy shit
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New Arkham City gameplay footage.
Massive Gameplay Blowout HD - Batman: Arkham City (http://www.gametrailers.com/video/massive-gameplay-batman-arkham/717026)
Catwoman gameplay? Kevin Conroy? Jack Ryder cameo? Strange and Joker plotting something?
WHY WON'T YOU JUST TAKE MY MONEY?! Here, I'll just put it in a pile and turn my back, and when I turn around the money will be gone, and the game will be in it's place. No questions asked, ok? Just, no more money, game instead. Mystery.
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and then Steam walks by and is all "STEAM SALE! YOINK!" and the money is gone
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Fortunately I already own everything interesting that's been on sale so far. I... I'm not sure that's a good thing.
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Ace Combat: Assault Horizon - Flight Gameplay [720p HD] (ACAH) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2JuPVWCzsA#ws)
<3 <3 <3
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oh that's what jet fighting games need: raspberry jam on your face when you take damage
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i can't wait until FF15, when assuredly we will have a cover system and raspberry jam
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THE GODDAMNED BATMAN
Unable to fit his shoulders through normal doorways, Batman is forced to leave Gotham.
<3 <3 <3
Fffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff-
New Ace Combat is always good, but major changes to camera / gameplay / storytelling immediately makes me think back to when rumors were abound that the entire dev team got giant boners for HAWX and wanted to try what they did.
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When does that game get released on the PS1?
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Whiiiiiiiine
Have you ever played Hawx? It's exactly the same as OLD ace combat, but it sucks. The camera is the same, you fly the planes the same, but it's a badly done ace combat clone.
And how is the storytelling any different from the other games? Other than being in a different setting, that is.
This looks like it's gonna be fun, you can still play it exactly the same as old ace combat games, there's two flight control options, as always, you can fly it like lylat wars or you can have one where you can roll and stuff, and you don't have to use dogfight mode.
So yeah, anyone saying that the game is changing to make it more like hawx is talking out their butt.
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And how is the storytelling any different from the other games? Other than being in a different setting, that is.
Main character is telling the story / has a voice / has a face.
Have you ever played Hawx? It's exactly the same as OLD ace combat, but it sucks.
Old Ace Combat did suck. It really wasn't until three that they really got into it for gameplay / storytelling and four is when they learned how to jerk off your ego.
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Okay, that's a bit of a change, But, in hawx, the main character didn't have a face or a voice!
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Primal Carnage - Alpha Gameplay Teaser (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PjYn-Cvkwo#ws)
Team based competitive dinosaur multiplayer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4FDds4ndiog#at=35 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=4FDds4ndiog#at=35)
Team based competitive shark multiplayer
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oh thank god, i was afraid that primal carnage was becoming vaporware
also shark game looks awesome as well
all of my money
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PlanetSide 2 Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBCp_rgAkfc#ws)
I'm not really sure what else to say here. I've been waiting for this game for so long. Planetside 1 was really so close to perfection - and it was really advanced for its time. It handled multiple players having gunfights in a same area with minimal lag in 56k-high speed transition days built on the EQ Engine. Rebuilt with today's standards of MMOs and FPSes? Good lord, it'd be a monster with proper marketing.
PlanetSide 2 - SOE Fan Faire Press Conference (July 2011) - New Details, Trailer and Concept Art (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqzK9X_WAGU#ws)
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I like that everyone in the trailer went to Storm Trooper school. Maybe they don't have death animations in yet.
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Serious Sam 3 BFE - Headless Kamikaze - Screams of Glory.mov (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww-nwPqtQVs#ws)
Sometimes it's good to remember that there are real people behind those apparently mindless screams.
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I guess the reason I'm hyped the most is that in all of my years of playing MMOs, Planetside gave me the best stories because it was so big and felt so dynamic. There were so many bases and so many scenarios that offered a lot of different situations. There was a map that had four facilities in the center of the map - but they were on top of a mountain, near the flight ceiling, meaning air drops were suicide.
Other times there were facilities on islands, which had good use of air drops - but it worked out differently for the Vanu Empire Hovertanks. The Magrider (http://wiki.planetsidesyndicate.com/index.php?title=Magrider) were hovertanks that allowed you to attack from any angle. Meaning the island was much harder to defend against one empire.
As much as people will decry that the Battle Frame Robotics (BFRs) (http://wiki.planetsidesyndicate.com/index.php?title=BattleFrame_Robotics) ruined the game, I disagree. They were big, powerful mechs that changed the flow of combat outdoors. They had customizable weapon systems and came in three types: 1-seat, 2-seat, and flight-variant and all of them came equipped with a big shield generator that made them hard to kill from a distance. They were easily killed by extremely skilled infantry, though - they could just walk into the shield and shoot the shield generator directly. They also had an hour cooldown on spawning one once you killed it.
Ps. Reinstalling/possibly re-upping when I get home because "planetside players get first beta access"
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More details (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/07/08/the-return-to-auraxis-planetside-2/). Of note:
Skills advance based on real-time a la EVE, but there is a battle rank requirement to unlock them; more varied environments, including battling over territory and fighting at sea. Instead of advancement being fully free-form, there are now classes, but each class' skill tree looks to be comparable in complexity to the entire character advancement system previously. Each weapon, vehicle, etc. also has its own selection of skills that a player might unlock to customize their play style extensively.
Instead of sanctuaries, each continent has one apparently uncapturable stronghold off in some corner. This could just be uncapturable in the sense that the sanctuaries were uncapturable, i.e. actually capturable but if you attempt it you are going to lose. Under some circumstances (not all, but which ones are unspecified) you can respawn near your squad. The goal is "get people to the action quicker."
A mission system attempts to provide a formal mechanism for telling players what needs to be done. Characters with a high battle rank can come up with missions and put them in the list, though it's unclear whether the list will also contain automatically-generated ones. This seems like an outgrowth of the way PlanetSide 1 restricted wider chat broadcasts to higher-ranking player, which is a system that really worked well and allowed strategies to be formulated.
No word on pricing, but the Reserves was so successful earlier that I do still anticipate them doing something like it.
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Since it's SOE, I expect:
-Boxed game, subscription fee
-F2P Up until X level
-Possibly advertisements in game (wouldn't put it past them - even in a P2P game)
-Microtransaction store for vanity items
The "Spawn near your squad to get to the action quicker" is a double edged sword. In Planetside 1, The Advanced Mobile Station (AMS. Mobile spawn point that was slow, big, and deployed with a cloaking bubble) was a seriously tactical part of the game. Where you placed it, how you used it, getting it to the front lines.. etc. On the other end, yeah, there were times where getting to the action is just an absolute bitch. Running across a continent to reach a fight and die was just not fun.
They better balance that very carefully. High rank commanders coming up with missions? Sold. They should just say "Capture this point" and if you're fighting at the point, you gain a bonus % to experience. Simple fix really. I'd imagine there'd also be automatically generated missions for lower EXP to not completely punish solo-ers and also encourage team play. You'd get 10% bonus for killing in the mission sphere solo generated by the game, or 20% for a squad mission sphere generated by a player, for example.
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All I remember of the first PlanetSide was the Pyoko Party Bus. That's enough to be excited for a new one.
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So it's looking more and more like Battlefield 3 won't be sold on Steam. (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/07/11/no-steam-release-for-battlefield-3/#more-65617)
Whether this is just a middle finger to Valve, or part of some larger strategy on EA's part, remains to be seen.
It's worth noting that, as of right now, EA's own digital distribution service, Origin, is basically terrible.
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I like that EA's download service was almost decent, but then they decided to fuck it up by trying to turn it into EA Steam.
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EA... decent
:disappoint:
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I see what you did there.
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Actually, I found out the other day that EA's customer support is actually pretty good! They had a thing where you could chat in real time with a customer service person, instead of sending emails! I really liked that.
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So it's looking more and more like Battlefield 3 won't be sold on Steam. (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/07/11/no-steam-release-for-battlefield-3/#more-65617)
Whether this is just a middle finger to Valve, or part of some larger strategy on EA's part, remains to be seen.
It's worth noting that, as of right now, EA's own digital distribution service, Origin, is basically terrible.
EA seems to have wanted to spam the fuck out of people with BUY OUR DLC messages and steam said "lol no"
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Okay, I'll give EA one thing
www.modernwarfare3.com (http://www.modernwarfare3.com)
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So this morning Overstock.com had some kind of massive system error and dropped all of their consoles and handhelds (including bundles) to the $9-$25 range. Right now everything is marked as sold out, possibly just a safety measure to keep people from ordering them until the problem gets sorted out.
This is gonna' have some interesting repercussions.
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Saints Row: The Third - Professor Genki's Hyper Ordinary Pre-Order Pack! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHAA_CgWKpU#ws)
:victory: :want:
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Just beat the last boss of Jamestown with only one life. I figured that counts as news.
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Yes I do want 5 player co-op Voltron! (http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/07/18/voltron-the-game-trailer)
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The game is being developed by Behaviour Interactive the same people who brought you Naughty Bear, Wet and Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime
:lol:
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(http://newsletters.ubi.com/US/il2sturmovik/PL-IL2-USA-NL-20110714/images/index_02.jpg)
:derp:
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http://www.saintsrow.com/blog-post/celebrities-i-got-your-celebrities-right-here (http://www.saintsrow.com/blog-post/celebrities-i-got-your-celebrities-right-here)
Hulkamania's about to run wild on Steelport.
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Aww yeah.
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So apparently Eidos Montreal had a contest for a lucky Deus Ex fan to go on a trip to Detroit. (http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=116672)
Take Him To Detroit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ny4a-oxOndo#)
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Contest planner: Shirley Jackson.
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Street Fighter x Tekken Comic Con 2011 Gameplay Trailer HD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-pu00L29Pk#ws)
Is... is that Tara Strong voicing Poison?
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I like how the trailer spends an awful lot of time ogling a character who may or may not still have a penis.
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Does Japan have the transvestite angle to their Poison? I remember it being mostly a US thing, on account of some kind of translation shenanigans.
Frankly she's boring as hell without that little something special tucked away
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Does Japan have the transvestite angle to their Poison? I remember it being mostly a US thing, on account of some kind of translation shenanigans.
Frankly she's boring as hell without that little something special tucked away
No, that is an american only thing because they didn't wanna beat up women in america.
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Not true! The difference is whether she's pre or post-op. I think she's supposed to be post-op in Japan.
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Pre-op Japan, post-op America, and has always been that way. She was trannied in original development due to the Japanese being hilariously wrong about what makes Americans squeamish; when she got across the seas she ran into the standard of "beating up women is okay but being queer is a no-no", so the translators tried to sweep her sexuality or her altogether under the rug. Once the two ends of the ocean started communicating the American side backpedaled again with "Well she IS female over here because she's post-op!"
The whole affair is amazingly dumb but at the same time it's pretty much the only reason she would EVER have become recognizable enough to appear as a character in MvC.
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Heh. (http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/862)
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Poisons Theme maybe? Also Kings Reaction to Poison coming out is hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghzBQn6QI6s&feature=player_embedded#at=33 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghzBQn6QI6s&feature=player_embedded#at=33)
Edit: This just in.
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/Ninjabredman01/phpf50mqPDStalkers-600x360.jpg)
Double Edit: This one is sheer what factor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aaSBkBDcepM#at=27 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aaSBkBDcepM#at=27)
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(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/Ninjabredman01/phpf50mqPDStalkers-600x360.jpg)
Well. I'm pretty sure *some* of them are.
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i am so fucking stoked for freddy
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I'm a little disappointed with his fatalities. I mean, when you think child raping nightmare ghast you expect something a little more fucked up.
Especially in a game that has this:
MK9 Noob Saibot Fatality 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6SGjbZtvbM#ws)
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Meanwhile people pick out the little hidden messages found through the SFxT video.
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/Ninjabredman01/21_sfxttrailer02.jpg)
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I'm a little disappointed with his fatalities. I mean, when you think child raping nightmare ghast you expect something a little more fucked up.
Freddy is old news. People are more scared of losing their jobs and homes. So get the fuck out of my face you freak! Because I have a report due at 8 AM!
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(http://cdnmo.coveritlive.com/media/image/201107/phpDnCTDQDSC_0119.jpg)
sperm everywhere
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Yours or theirs?
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Yes.
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Saint's Row 3 first mission walkthrough is up!
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http://kotaku.com/5824084/well-thats-one-way-to-combat-misogyny-in-gaming (http://kotaku.com/5824084/well-thats-one-way-to-combat-misogyny-in-gaming)
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A "gentleman's retreat" without women, you say?
Perhaps the most unbelievable part of the whole thing is that the organizers even needed to enforce a ban. I guess I wouldn't want to hang out with any chick who's hot to get into a Battlefield 3 party either.
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I'm not usually one to pay attention to any games from XBLA but for some reason I decided to try the demo for this. I'm pretty into it right now. The music is rather good the way the story unfolds is pretty great. If you have the spare money I'd say give it a shot.
Bastion E3 2011 Trailer [HD] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuHIvSgDF7w#ws)
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Why did that remind me of Legend of Mana?
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Someone said Mana
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Diablo 3's auction house lets you eBay your items in game, Blizzard gets a cut whether the item sells or not (http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/2397-Diablo-3-Auction-House-Announced-Spend-and-Earn-Real-Life-Money!)
Basically, they're geniuses for finally having the balls to do it.
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the amount i care about diablo just dwindled to absolutely zero in less than a second
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Optional things that don't involve me at all do not effect my enjoyment of the game. Still a better economy that one based on SoJs.
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to be fair, this does have a chance of royally fucking over the gold economy in game, but yeah if the game is fun who really cares.
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Optional things that don't involve me at all do not effect my enjoyment of the game. Still a better economy that one based on SoJs.
yes we all know you are the cancer
also SoJs are more stable than the dollar tbqh imnsho.
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I just don't see how it hurts anything.
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Also, you have to be connected to their servers to play, even in single-player.
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Same for StarCraft 2. Not exactly excited about it, but that part isn't news. Battle.net 2.0 is just like that, and all future projects will be on the framework. They've made no bones about that fact.
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This feels like they're legalizing marijuana. "We don't like that this is going on, but we know it's gonna be going on anyway, so we might as well regulate and tax it ourselves."
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Personally, I just hope the Item Drop stat has been removed completely to prevent farming characters from cropping up.
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Diablo III isn't an MMO, right? People could just hack all the best equipment into their inventories and sell it for top dollar.
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Which is why you need the always-on Internet connection: your game is saved on their servers, not your own computer.
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They're basically running the back end of the game as if it is an MMO, which is fine by me given Diablo's history. Personally, while the whole rest of everyone is freaking out, I see this as the strongest move yet in the battle against a real problem in gaming (as opposed to piracy), which is gold farming. Blizzard is simply recognizing that people will find a way to pay money for items, and owning it. They've just taken the market away from those guys and put it in their hands and the hands of the players.
I really don't view any of this as being a DRM issue any more than having to be signed in to play WoW is a DRM issue. That's just the kind of game they're making. The online kind.
They are going to have to pump up their security even more now that real money is involved though. Not having an authenticator is inexcusable when someone could conceivably raid your Diablo bank for real money.
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This is all fine and good for pubbies but maybe I just wanna play the game by myself or with a few trusted friends and not have to worry about what happens when someone at Cox spills his coffee? I really don't need the almighty cloud to protect me from people I know running around screaming about free gold. I have the almighty quit button for that.
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Well, tough shit, I guess. They had to choose between security (and I'm referring to Diablo's rich history of hacking here) and the ability to play however you want. I respect their decision. Just think of it like Guild Wars, because that's basically how it will work.
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Tough shit nothing. There's a completely simple solution of allowing you to create your character as either a offine/ad-hoc only or a Battle.net character. See? Battle.net play is still secure, and nobody has to wait for the inevitable offline/ad-hoc pirate version.
If Blizzard doesn't at least try to implement this then they're clearly not doing this for the reasons they say they're doing this. Do you accept this behavior?
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(http://i.imgur.com/U79bS.jpg)
Arkham Asylum 2 alt costumes
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Wow. Seeing the BTAS version in the game is probably going to be jarring.
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must have fatman
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The DCAU Batman is still a pretty beefy dude. Also: he looks like he sounds. The Batman Beyond suit, though? That suit goes on a lithe teenager. I don't care if it was designed for beefy Bruce Wayne. It goes on slender Terry McGuinness.
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Hahahaha.
Oh, man.
So that company that came up "UNLIMITED DETAIL" and other bullshit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-ATtrImCx4#) a year ago isback (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00gAbgBu8R4#) The way he goes on about it and his tone is insufferable. The technology sounds great, but I don't see anything there about animations and characters - which is supposedly one of the bigger issues with voxels (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voxel). But yet they really really push it for gaming.
And then the best possible person to shoot them down shot them down. (http://twitter.com/#!/ID_AA_Carmack/statuses/98127398683422720)
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I can't tell at that resolution if the one with the blue cape is supposed to be the Adam West costume. It kind of looks like it has the eyebrows but that might just be the lighting. Is there a larger version?
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Looks more like this (http://www.the-isb.com/?p=368) version to me.
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It's definitely the 1970's-'80's-era Aparo (http://www.artandartifice.com/jim_aparo.html) Batman. (Which is the version Ted just posted, but I figured I'd give Aparo a credit since it's his design.)
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I thought it was, but I wasn't sure! I mostly just wanted to link to the post about Batman taking a dude out with a car battery.
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heheh, bat-tery
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Bordelands 2 (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-08-02-borderlands-2-confirmed-source)
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August 6th; 2011
Happy 25th Anniversary, Metroid.
Too bad Nintendo is quietly ignoring you.
(it's the sixth in Atlantic Canada right now fuck you)
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Hey, after the last game even I'm ignoring it.
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lmao if you think Metroid has ever been profitable enough for Nintendo to warrant the same anniversary treatment as Mario and Zelda
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It's funny. You'd think they'd get more mileage out of a blonde bombshell combat machine.
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sorry, but the only people who like metroid games are gamers, and gamers don't buy enough games to satisfy nintendo.
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lmao if you think Metroid has ever been profitable enough for Nintendo to warrant the same anniversary treatment as Mario and Zelda
I understand what you mean; not a chance it would be as big as Mario or Zelda, but it deserved something.
It did a pretty good job of staying relevant over the last decade too. Back in 2001 it wouldn't have been worth a fifteenth anniversary celebration, but then it suddenly went from from "no new game over an entire console generation and nearly a decade" to "highest-rated game of the PS2/Gamecube/Xbox generation. It's not their biggest franchise, but it's not like it's a small one. We got seven games in the last decade, and Other M was the only one to really get any substantial amount of negative criticism.
seriously though just a mention on their website or something would have been nice.
"3D Classics: Super Metroid" would have sold 3DS' and you know it.
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lmao if you think Metroid has ever been profitable enough for Nintendo to warrant the same anniversary treatment as Mario and Zelda
Yeah, they really went all-out with that Super Mario All-Stars port. I hear they added a couple of videos to it!
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My favourite thing about the Super Mario All-Stars port is that it's pretty much exactly as good as Nintendo implied it would be.
If I recall correctly; they didn't even confirm it would be available in America at first, there was very little actual news concerning it when it was announced, and it had an extremely limited print run when it came out. In retrospect it's pretty obvious that it was just a lazy port collection only really made for collectors that had been blown completely out of proportion.
I remember parents trying to get me to sell them my copy back when I worked at Blockbuster, and I kept trying to explain to them that it was just a couple of ports of games that you can get on the Virtual Console for five bucks a pop.
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It's a testament to how much people love Mario, and how out of touch Nintendo has gotten with those people.
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My favourite thing about the Super Mario All-Stars port is that it's pretty much exactly as good as Nintendo implied it would be.
If I recall correctly; they didn't even confirm it would be available in America at first, there was very little actual news concerning it when it was announced, and it had an extremely limited print run when it came out. In retrospect it's pretty obvious that it was just a lazy port collection only really made for collectors that had been blown completely out of proportion.
Right. And you know what equally-lazy task they could do now to commemorate Metroid?
Another limited run of Metroid Prime Trilogy.
I imagine the reason they haven't is that they can't justify the production/distribution cost based on their current sales. It happens, particularly in the waning years of a console's lifespan; that's how we wound up with a fully-translated, unreleased Earth Bound NES.
Anyway. If Nintendo were going to go for some limited release business for some vaguely-defined "hardcore" demographic, I'd rather see Xenoblade, but of course I doubt there's anybody out there actually trying to decide a release between those two choices.
...anyway. Bears repeating that I would have quite liked an updated Super Mario All-Stars. 480p res, 16x9 ratio -- ideally not NSMB graphics but those would be acceptable I guess. Add in the extras from the GBA releases. Maybe more, but hell, the eReader levels alone are something the majority of players have still never seen.
Point being, of course, that the real irony is that SMAS was, at release, the opposite of a half-assed port; it's no Zero Mission, but it's still one of the best rereleases ever.
And people don't do shit like that anymore. You never get an overhauled, multi-game rerelease like that. Occasionally you'll get a really thorough reinvention of a single game (Mega Man: Powered Up), or a multi-game collection with some slight tweaks (Metroid Prime Trilogy), but something on the order of SMAS is pretty much unheard of anymore.
Guess the closest thing I can think of is FF4:Complete, but judging by Parish's review it still feels like a half-assed cash-in.
It'd really be nice if SE could cool it for a couple of years on the FF4 rereleases, too. I'm not advocating the FF7 remake that the fanboys are misguidedly begging for, but if they're set on remakes there are plenty of other FF's that could benefit from a makeover.
(I hear FFT is finally out for iPhone. And it's still showing a few growing pains -- text menus are awkward as hell, which is to say it's pretty much like playing FF3DS with the stylus -- but once the inevitable FF4 port shows up, SE's going to need somewhere to go from there.)
(...it occurs to me that Dragon Quest 9 would have worked really well on the iPhone.)
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Super Mario Brothers Deluxe for the GBC was a pretty fucking excellent rerelease of a game I never imagined I'd buy again (though that is honestly the only one I can think of).
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Graphical upgrades aside, All-Stars is actually a pretty lousy port, particularly with regards to SMB1. The only real improvement is the save feature.
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Well yes, if you omit the two things that are major improvements over the previous versions of the games, then it doesn't really have any improvements over the previous versions of the games.
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I remember the physics being jankier than the originals, but I was probably already nostalgia-addled at the time. In all honesty if you go back and play the originals the physics are, uh, pretty fucking janky.
<joke about Sonic 4>
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The physics in the All Stars version of SMB1 are different from the NES version; as I recall, they backported the SMB2j physics. The main difference is that you bounce higher off enemies.
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Hm, didn't remember that but I'll grant I probably spent less time on SMB1 than any of the rest in that collection. Main difference I can remember is that the scrolling background made it harder to judge where to jump to get the 1up on 1-1.
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Skyrim footage puts woman into labour. (http://gamerant.com/elder-scrolls-v-skyrim-demo-baby-woman-labor-robk-99175/)
I'm not kidding.
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The funny part about all of this is that back in February, Bethesda posted a “quest” for fans of the game, that if they could birth a child on the release date of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (November 11, 2011) and name their child “Dovahkiin” (which translates to “Dragonborn” in Dragon Tongue), they’d win a special prize. They later revealed that the child would get every Bethesda game ever (past and future) for free, along with other unannounced “loot.”
Man, i'm just so glad that the well of reasons to look down on Elder Scrolls fans never runs dry.
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Buge you are bad at linking fix it
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Buge you are bad at linking fix it
Okay, fine. Also, 3000th post in this thread wheeee
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I can't wait for the inevitable teamup between Dovakhiin and Turok.
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wonder if it'll look anything like the classic teamup between Klebold and Harris
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The funny part about all of this is that back in February, Bethesda posted a “quest” for fans of the game, that if they could birth a child on the release date of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (November 11, 2011) and name their child “Dovahkiin” (which translates to “Dragonborn” in Dragon Tongue), they’d win a special prize. They later revealed that the child would get every Bethesda game ever (past and future) for free, along with other unannounced “loot.”
Man, i'm just so glad that the well of reasons to look down on Elder Scrolls fans never runs dry.
Hey, it worked for Acclaim.
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...Oh right.
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...The point is, I want more Quantum and Woody comics, god dammit.
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The funny part about all of this is that back in February, Bethesda posted a “quest” for fans of the game, that if they could birth a child on the release date of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (November 11, 2011) and name their child “Dovahkiin” (which translates to “Dragonborn” in Dragon Tongue), they’d win a special prize. They later revealed that the child would get every Bethesda game ever (past and future) for free, along with other unannounced “loot.”
Man, i'm just so glad that the well of reasons to look down on Elder Scrolls fans never runs dry.
There's a genuine question here of whether the kid would be completely fucked up on the basis of being named an embarassing name after a word in a fake language in a video game, or on the basis of being named an embarassing name so his/her parents could themselves get free video games.
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The name itself is probably the least of the child's problems.
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The parents named the child "Atari".
fffffffffffffffff
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Regarding "Atari," that name is not in honor of the longtime brand in video gaming. "The name Atari comes from the name Ataru which means 'to hit a target' and the word Atari is used when a prediction has come true or someone has won the lottery. Her first and middle name together mean 'To hit a target, from the lake'. The name is not everyone's cup of tea. We assume that by the time she is in high school, most of the children her age are not going to know what an Atari is, considering a lot of kids while we were in high school had no idea."
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That baby's gonna inherit the brownest little eyes.
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Regarding "Atari," that name is not in honor of the longtime brand in video gaming. "The name Atari comes from the name Ataru which means 'to hit a target' and the word Atari is used when a prediction has come true or someone has won the lottery. Her first and middle name together mean 'To hit a target, from the lake'. The name is not everyone's cup of tea. We assume that by the time she is in high school, most of the children her age are not going to know what an Atari is, considering a lot of kids while we were in high school had no idea."
Yes, of course a woman who got engaged on stage at QuakeCon and went to E3 when she was due to give birth would name her child "Atari" not in tribute to the gaming console of her youth but as an elaborate pun in a foreign language.
Never mind that, can somebody help me figure out what this strange little animal with the feathers and webbed feet is? The incessant quacking is driving me crazy.
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Regarding "Atari," that name is not in honor of the longtime brand in video gaming. "The name Atari comes from the name Ataru which means 'to hit a target' and the word Atari is used when a prediction has come true or someone has won the lottery. Her first and middle name together mean 'To hit a target, from the lake'. The name is not everyone's cup of tea. We assume that by the time she is in high school, most of the children her age are not going to know what an Atari is, considering a lot of kids while we were in high school had no idea."
Yes, of course a woman who got engaged on stage at QuakeCon and went to E3 when she was due to give birth would name her child "Atari" not in tribute to the gaming console of her youth but as an elaborate pun in a foreign language.
Never mind that, can somebody help me figure out what this strange little animal with the feathers and webbed feet is? The incessant quacking is driving me crazy.
You know, this is one of those times where the referent events and topic of debate exist entirely outside of objective reality. If you want to say that P. Birdy stands for Peony Birdy instead of Paco Bird, I'd be inclined to give it to you without further comment.
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IN ACTUAL GAMING NEWS
Dead Island Co-op (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCQmI-9DAOQ#ws)
I guess it wasn't totally unexpected? I'm still carefully excited about this game.
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Regarding "Atari," that name is not in honor of the longtime brand in video gaming. "The name Atari comes from the name Ataru which means 'to hit a target' and the word Atari is used when a prediction has come true or someone has won the lottery. Her first and middle name together mean 'To hit a target, from the lake'. The name is not everyone's cup of tea. We assume that by the time she is in high school, most of the children her age are not going to know what an Atari is, considering a lot of kids while we were in high school had no idea."
Yes, of course a woman who got engaged on stage at QuakeCon and went to E3 when she was due to give birth would name her child "Atari" not in tribute to the gaming console of her youth but as an elaborate pun in a foreign language.
Never mind that, can somebody help me figure out what this strange little animal with the feathers and webbed feet is? The incessant quacking is driving me crazy.
You know, this is one of those times where the referent events and topic of debate exist entirely outside of objective reality. If you want to say that P. Birdy stands for Peony Birdy instead of Paco Bird, I'd be inclined to give it to you without further comment.
Hey, I just noticed your avatar, Mr. Get-Hit-by-a-Falling-Star
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(http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/5702/enemiesq.jpg)
It's a topic close to my licentious heart, after all.
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Remember Tim Langdell, the guy who owned the trademark 'Edge' and sued anyone who used it in a videogame title?
In October (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/104251-Langdell-Loses-Trademarks-in-Finalized-Judgment), a court stripped him of his trademarks. As a result, Mobigames' "Edge" is now coming out on Steam. You can follow the entire absurd tale at Rock Paper Shotgun (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/tag/edge-games/) and Chaos Edge (http://chaosedge.wordpress.com/).
The abridged full story, for those who missed the start: A guy named Tim Langdell, whose company Edge produced games in the Commodore 64 era, registered the trademark Edge and tried to sue anyone who used it in a videogame context. This went largely unreported until he had an indy game called Edge pulled from the App Store (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/the-edge-of-reason) and demanded royalties. He also tried to sue EA for Mirror's Edge, supporting his claim by announcing a fake game called Mirrors (http://chaosedge.wordpress.com/2009/09/03/mirrors-a-new-game-from-edge/) with box art stolen from a guy on Deviantart.
In an uncharacteristic move of EA looking out for the little guy, they sued (successfully, we now know) to have the 'Edge' trademark revoked, as his company hadn't actually released a game since the early 90s. He attempted to counter this by announcing fake games. A judge discovered that Langdell had photoshopped images in his trademark application to give the impression that he produced both Edge magazine and Marvel's comic "Edge".
He was also sued by the publishers of Edge magazine, who had licensed the trademark from Tim Langdell since 1994 and were somewhat miffed that he had been using their magazine's logo as his own without permission. Langdell responded by claiming he invented the logo first, and produced a 5.25" floppy disk with a file dated 1991, which an expert discovered had been created using Windows 95.
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oh, JD. You really know how to put a smile on my face.
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Kinda wonder how EDGE controls on a PC. Mouse gestures? Because part of the game on iPhone was how you kinda held a swipe early to keep the cube from tipping over, allowing it to balance on its edge (get it), with a window of sensitivity that got smaller the longer you held it.
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(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hTXMODQHOr0/TcqtureUvZI/AAAAAAAAMo8/FDq3d4F4arM/s1600/edge-1%2B%252816%2529.jpg)
Man, what a douchebag!
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Former Rockstar Creative Director chats up new hot-button project: 1979: The Game
An article posted on CNN Thursday provides tantalizing details about a game that is destined to generate a few headlines. 1979: The Game will provide an open-world experience exploring Iran’s Islamic Revolution from the perspective of several playable characters, including an American/Iranian translator and a student demonstrator.
You don't have to be a historian to know this is a project fraught with the prickliest of narrative thorns. Luckily, the game’s creative direction is being handled by a man ideally suited to tell this particular story: Former Rockstar Games developer Navid Khonsari. The Iranian-born game maker actually lived in Iran during the events that the game is set to depict before eventually fleeing to Canada with his family.
"I want people to understand the incredible moral ambiguity of this story, that this was a country with many different ideas and beliefs," said Mr. Khonsari in the CNN piece. "Growing up in Iran when I did, I saw Iranians in the greatest light, and I saw them in the worst light."
Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised, then, at the game’s tagline: “There are no good guys.”
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No Time To Explain (http://tinybuildgames.com/) is out. There are some rough edges (its spectacularly generous respawning system entirely neuters the boss battles, given that if you die to a moving hazard you respawn instantly in the exact same location, making you effectively invincible), and it looks like lots of people (including me) have run into game-ending bugs, but apparently the devs are working on fixing it.
Other than that, it is, basically, amazing. I'd tell more, but, you know.
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That looks pretty cool. Think I'll wait for the Steam release, though.
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That's probably the wiser choice, even if just to give them time to unbreak the thing. If I have it now it's because I was on their kickstarter drive.
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I found this trailer showing shots of the DMC reboot in action.
DMC - Gamescom Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Riz1byp-MW8#ws)
If you note, there is only one ground and one air melee combo displayed throughout the trailer with no variation from different angles. Your options to mix it up are apparently "shoot guns." In other words, a by the numbers Ninja Theory game.
So what seems to be the fan reaction?
DEVIL MAY CRY 5 REBOOT: FANS REACTION DANTE DMC TRAILER FUNNY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HBzTpddcw0#)
RIP DMC, even if it gets slogged through another sequel, at the very least it is dead to me.
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Long live Bayonetta
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FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC
Lollipop Chainsaw - Announcement Trailer (PS3, Xbox 360) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRfroCeDk2E#ws)
I wasn't sold on this one until the bit at the end when the zombie gets sawed in half and bleeds a rainbow.
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Sega lifting the Goofy Action crown from Capcom's head just makes my brain hurt.
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that thing
So they've taken the original concept of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and added equal parts Sam Raimi and Lisa Frank.
Eh.
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I'm not to fond of "You fat douchebag!" "Take this you ugly fatass!" and her other fun phrases.
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It would probably be funnier if you weren't so fat. Put down the feed bag, tons of fun.
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God damnit, I don't want to have anything to do with EA's abominable Origin service but shit like this makes it hard to say no.
Battlefield 3 Caspian Border 64 Multiplayer (HD 1080p) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tZmUZxhJ08#ws)
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That trailer was bullshit because there were helicopters and aircraft in the air that weren't crashing and were piloted by competent pilots
actual alpha gameplay my ass
That said: Really, Bal. Do you want to support this? Do you want to give EA money for making you suck exclusive origin dick? Yeah. The video looks great. I kind of want to play it, but my hate for this bullshit is much stronger than my need to play that game.
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I don't see the problem with offering decent competition to Steam other than the fact that it's EA that's doing it.
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You know, Battlefield 3 isn't Origin exclusive. It just isn't on Steam.
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From recent reports it will require you to install origin, the same way retail steam integrated games do.
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I don't see the problem with offering decent competition to Steam other than the fact that it's EA that's doing it.
Yes. And they're doing it in a totally toxic and awful way that no one should support. Your game entitlements/licenses are revoked after two years of inactivity along with other bullshit. GoG would be a fine competitor to Steam if they expanded. Their ideals and functionality are great.
From recent reports it will require you to install origin, the same way retail steam integrated games do.
Correct. Running and playing Battlefield 3 will require Origin running. It will also never be on Steam.
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The problem is that it ISN'T decent competition for Steam. The service is lacking in every regard except it's vast library of EA titles.
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...so apparently the PS3's getting a price drop.
And there's a crappy, no-wifi version of the PSP coming to Europe for 99 euros.
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That said: Really, Bal. Do you want to support this? Do you want to give EA money for making you suck exclusive origin dick? Yeah. The video looks great. I kind of want to play it, but my hate for this bullshit is much stronger than my need to play that game.
It'll be really hard to suck all that exclusive Origin dick, with Steam's dick a total fixture in there already.
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daaaaaaaannnnnnnnngggggggggggggggggggggg
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see the difference is that Origin is like ass to mouth
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Hey now, let's not go down talking ass to mouth.
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http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/05/minecraft-studio-being-sued-by-bethesda-over-scrolls-title/ (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/08/05/minecraft-studio-being-sued-by-bethesda-over-scrolls-title/)
Man, what happened to you, Bethesda?
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So you didn't hear that Notch took those lemons and made awesomeade (http://notch.tumblr.com/post/9038258448/hey-bethesda-lets-settle-this)?
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If Notch let this go to court he'd actually MAKE money in people stuffing his legal coffer with donations to help the up-and-coming indie developer defend against a big publisher's utterly fucking frivolous lawsuit. I hope it happens despite his better intentions.
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I actually hope it ushers in a new age of gaming companies settling legal disputes through games.
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This can only lead to THUNDERDOME!
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I'd go with a "I CHALLENGE YOU TO MORTAL KOMBAT" but it's like the very first joke in Megatokyo.
Also probably the last.
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Ubisoft requires Internet connection to run From Dust, lies about it, deletes evidence of lying about it. (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/08/ubisoft-lied-about-from-dust-drm-ubis-war-on-pc-gamers-continues.ars)
Do I even need to mention that the game was cracked on day one?
I'd point out that DRM doesn't fucking work, but somebody might de-karma me.
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(http://i385.photobucket.com/albums/oo297/BBLegs/gas4full.jpg)
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Fubisot? FUBISOT?
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I've got a feeling that EA is TRYING to make BF3 fail on the PC.
Newest nugget of shit is that it doesn't have a fucking in-game server browser
You have to use an external thing
THE CONSOLE VERSIONS DO HAVE A BROWSER.
Add the use of punkbuster, origin being a shitheap and PAID ZERO DAY DLC I have gone from hyped as fuck to HELL NO
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Sometimes I get the feeling that the big name publishers have a Ballbusting Quota to fill. I mean a lot of them really do go way the hell out of the way to seem totally despicable. Is there a weird sort of psychological marketing advantage to this?
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I think its more that they do not understand PC gamers wont put up with the same bullshit console players will
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Sometimes I get the feeling that the big name publishers have a Ballbusting Quota to fill.
this actually dovetails nicely with my Not Having To Pay For Things Quota, i find
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I love this trailer
Blocks That Matter - Launch Trailer (XBLIG) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aDtip5b-Kc#ws)
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Tripwire are apparently huge trolls in addition to great developers
Gamescom Coverage : Hyper WTF is Red Orchestra 2? Part 2 - The Devs Troll TotalBiscuit (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXRTQuPVSgk#ws)
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Khajiit to look a bit more "normal"; Argonians somehow creepier (http://www.bethblog.com/index.php/2011/08/24/the-races-and-faces-of-skyrim/)
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.bmp
::(:
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The female khajiit look like drowned cats. :(
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Starring Danny Trejo as Imperial Male and Ron Perlman as Orc Male
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The female khajiit look like drowned cats. :(
(http://i.imgur.com/nBmjX.gif)
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Batman: Arkham City is GfWL reguardless of where you buy it (http://www.vg247.com/2011/08/30/batman-arkham-city-pc-still-releasing-under-games-for-windows-live/)
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Someone actually decided to make Mario with a Portal Gun
Mario Portals Test 3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtcGiZelPfk#ws)
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why doesn't it make pipes
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http://www.psu.com/Will-you-buy-the-new-Xbox-360-styled-controller-for-your-PS3---a012738-p0.php (http://www.psu.com/Will-you-buy-the-new-Xbox-360-styled-controller-for-your-PS3---a012738-p0.php)
Finally, I can play PS3 games without having to use the shitty PS3 controller.
:glee:
[spoiler]If I ever actually get my PS3 fixed :([/spoiler]
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Seems like it would be better for some games. The PS3 already does support generic USB controllers, though not very well (you can't remap buttons or anything), and I haven't tried it with a 360 controller.
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Goddamn this looks pretty.
Dust: An Elysian Tail - XBLA Announce Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmSAQwbbig8#ws)
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That is so painfully, painfully furry.
Also I want to have sex with that trailer.
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Hey, some dude from my University did a study and found that competitive games stimulate more aggression than violent ones. (http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Competition+video+game+violence+spurs+aggression+study+finds/5345987/story.html)
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I think the study proves that people who play Mortal Kombat are the kind of assholes who will make your sauce really spicy.
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Hey, some dude from my University did a study and found that competitive games stimulate more aggression than violent ones. (http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Competition+video+game+violence+spurs+aggression+study+finds/5345987/story.html)
See, I've been suggesting someone should do that study for YEARS.
Some of the biggest game fights I've ever had were over Worms.
Glad to hear that someone's finally backing up my personal hypothesis based on an anecdote. Thanks, science!
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The Mario Party series has brought more men closer to first-degree murder than I care to recall.
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I thought first degree is premeditated?
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Well you start premeditating the notion fairly early in the midgame when your roommate's boyfriend stone cold bowser fucks you out of four stars, then genuinely begin to entertain the idea when he can't rowboat worth a quarter dick, costing you a left nut's worth in coins five spaces from Toad, and finally bring it to fruition the sixth time the motherfucker boo shanks you over Moneybags "Peach" Moneybags because I guess he's just an asshole then GOD WHY DO WE PLAY THIS GAME I DIDN'T KNOW I HAD SUCH HATE WITHIN ME
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and people claimed nintendo couldn't make a hardcore mario game.
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Called it (http://www.joystiq.com/2011/09/15/star-wars-ads-find-their-way-into-deus-ex-human-revolution-load/). I don't remember when or where I described using piss-boring loading screens in video games as prime advertisement territory, but I saw that shit coming miles away.
Now if only I had filed a patent on that shit.
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I've seen ads in the loading screens for Wipeout HD. And I know that wasn't the first place I'd seen 'em.
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Wipeout 2097 for the original playstation had Red Bull ads in-game.
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You can pretend that in 2027 Lucas is releasing another Star Wars remake. There you go, your immersion is saved.
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I haven't seen any ads in Wipeout HD so far. Maybe I haven't, erm, unlocked them?
Either way it's great to see that Star Wars and Deus Ex are the proponents of the first major salvo in the war between advertisement and good taste. You always thought it'd be some douchy thing like Axe Body Spray during Modern Warfare but NOPE, turns out nerds are the real consumerist fuckheads here!
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turns out nerds are the real consumerist fuckheads here!
We didn't ask for this.
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I actually thought the gauntlet of holograms accosting Anderton with personalized product placement was one of the few bits of the Minority Report movie that felt like it was straight out of a Philip K Dick story.
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Color me a fat consumerist whore, but I never really understood the big deal when it comes to blatant advertisements. Unless the paying companies have actual control over the content they're sponsoring, or until advertisements actually get so invasive as to appear in your dreams via SCIENCE(!), I don't really see anything that advertising is actually stealing from the general public.
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The problem is I just paid $50 for Deus Ex so really the company doesn't need to be making additional money on me just playing the game.
It's about as obnoxious as commercials on cable television. In reality, it's a company dipping into the well twice. You've already paid, and they're generating additional revenue off of you passively seeing ads.
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I tolerate ads when I don't feel they're meaningfully adding to the time I'm sacrificing to enjoy my recreation. Loading screen ads might be OK as long as I could be convinced they added close to nil to the loading times I was seeing, but obviously this requires a game where I'm supposed to let my immersion drop during loading screens.
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Speaking at the this year's Tokyo Game Show, Kojima reiterated his intention to make a ZOE sequel during the live stage show for the recently-announced Zone of the Enders HD remake. As translated by Japanese gaming news site Andria Sang, Kojima announced that a ZOE sequel was in development at one stage before stating his surprise at seeing so many people turn out to hear about the ZOE HD re-make. This latter point impressed him so much that he announced he would return to his office to speak to his staff about re-starting work on the ZOE sequel.
Pretty sure many people would have turned out if he had been reciting the technical manual for an obsolete industrial machine used in stapler factories in the 1960s. Because he's Hideo Kojima.
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Who cares? So long as I get ZOE3 out of it.
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i want more teleporting and more chances to badmouth my AI partner and more robots with turgid robo-phalluses and a stupider name than Dingo Egret
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Wallaby Albatross
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Wallaby Albatross
Quit giving out the name of the new Megaman X bosses.
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Yeah, like they're going to make another Megaman X game.
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IGN had a contest where people made reversible covers for Uncharted 3. (http://ps3.ign.com/articles/119/1195044p1.html)
(http://i.imgur.com/OBPFd.jpg)
That was a winner.
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I'd buy a game with a cover like that.
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When I eventually buy the game I am printing that shit right the hell out.
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Castlevania: Harmony of Despair is coming to PSN. Now I can play this game. Maybe with other people!
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This may be the first sports game I buy.
Diabolical Pitch - Short Teaser - Xbox360 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8DvF8i2nCw#ws)
Apparently a new trailer went up too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kma1GyNXQE&feature=player_embedded# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5kma1GyNXQE&feature=player_embedded#)!
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And Wayne Gretsky's 3D Hockey remains the most violent sports game ever.
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Castlevania: Harmony of Despair is coming to PSN. Now I can play this game. Maybe with other people!
Okay it's out does anyone else care about it?
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I do, I'll get it soon enough and goad more people to get it
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I have zero interest in solo play but if I know I can throw down with some tonbros that would be okay.
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We could alternatively do a game share thing where we all chip in for the game. As far as I can tell Sony still doesn't give a shit about it.
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So Castlevania's 25th anniversary was a few days ago.
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Oh oh I know how this joke finishes.
It's a repeat.
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WHY ARE YOU NOT PLAYING THE BINDING OF ISAAC (http://store.steampowered.com/app/113200/) YET
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I don't like porn games.
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because it looks ugly and boring.
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On the one hand, it's based on history's most famous trolling campaign.
On the other one hand, it's not pixel art.
On the other hand, what Norondor said.
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Post Apocalyptic Mayhem (http://store.steampowered.com/app/91900) is quite awesome and fun. The tracks are great, none of the items are unfair, and it's %50 off until tomorrow.
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It turns out that RAGE is really fucking good. The setting and characters are so well realized I keep expecting to get experience points, and then I remember that all the combat is based on 20 years of id's fantastic gunplay. Notably different from the norm you would expect from an id game is the incredibly good, and frankly dangerous AI possessed by the enemies. Each type of enemy behaves in a distinct fashion ranging from mindless, but cunning mutants that run at you in erratic angles of attack as soon as they see you, do smarter, well armed bandits who will not only make full use of cover and grenades, but will actually fall back to a better position if being overwhelmed. I'm frankly shocked by how just fucking GOOD everything about this game is so far.
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My biggest concern with games nowadays is how many fucking glitches I've got to deal with. Every AAA title I've bought this year has been a buggy piece of shit on day 1 and refused to get any better within a reasonable time frame (as if there's a reasonable time frame once the thing is fucking released). How is it holding up in that department?
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I'm not having any problems, except a bit of texture pop-in that, while I known issue with id Tech 5, shouldn't be happening as much as it is. However, many other people are reporting problems such as crashing and more serious graphical issues. These seem to associated mostly with Radeon cards, and there is apparently both a patch from id on the way, and a driver update as well.
I guess that's about normal. Lots of people report problems, which I don't ever see.
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My favorite part of Rage is playing as Blake Griffin. He's better in the new NBA Jam, though.
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3DS 『海王（かいおう）』 イメージムービー (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6aggT5JENs#ws)
Just look at that classy American eagle.
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Keiji Inafune's One Piece With Animals
fuck yeah
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I actually think this thing looks awesome... what is it?
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Apparently the Japanese have a thing for outrageous American accents.
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I've seen multiple people complaining that the console versions are too hard because the aim assistance is either weak or completely absent and enemies move around too much
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I can't tell if you mean that or are just making a joke about MML.
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No, he's just replying to the previous page. I like your theory better.
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Yakuza of the Dead is coming to the US as Yakuza: Dead Souls. Eeeeeeeee.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBVrdl9DIbM&feature=player_embedded# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBVrdl9DIbM&feature=player_embedded#)!
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What, they didn't like Yakuzurrection?
a.k.a. Yakko's Erection
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Sega just put a bunch of recent game names on a dart board and they hit Dark Souls. Because of course we need even more games that end in -souls.
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Personally I was hoping for Burning Rangers 2.
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http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/14964/warhammer-40k-dark-millenium-info-revealed (http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/14964/warhammer-40k-dark-millenium-info-revealed)
If these rumours are to be believed, you can't play a Guardsman, instead, you get a "guardsman-like" start as an assassin. No mention of sororitas, or even if female characters can be created. Chaos is Khorne only.
If I were generous, I'd give this a year until it goes free-to-play.
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If I were generous, I'd give this a year until it goes New Game Enhancement.
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No mention of sororitas, or even if female characters can be created.
They briefly mention Callidus in passing. I wouldn't take it as confirmation but it's there.
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I'm concerned about the game. I want it to be good but I'm just not sure. Lack of variety can and probably will be fixed through expansion packs at least?
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Perfect way to play Guard is to be a huge ball of troops that move as one. Every time you get hit, you lose 'X' number and get smaller, this would capture the 'bury you under out corpses' schtik of WH40K.
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I'm concerned about the game. I want it to be good but I'm just not sure. Lack of variety can and probably will be fixed through expansion packs at least?
Assuming it lasts long enough.
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Man I love Level-5
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DdszdojtAas# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DdszdojtAas#)!
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Envy this is some Duel Masters level bullshit here
what is the appeal exactly
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Envy this is some Duel Masters level bullshit here
what is the appeal exactly
I think you just answered your own question.
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"PSM3 has heard from another source that God of War 4 is coming, and will hit in September 2012,
(http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/814155141_3dnYd-L.jpg)
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Rumor has it that you'll be playing a viking killing Norse gods. Which would be pretty sweet.
Of course, what are their other options? I feel anything Asian wouldn't appeal to a lot of GoW fans. Roman doesn't count. African? Good luck not being called racist. Native American? That'd be bitchin', actually. Doubt they'd do that though. Seems like more of a Hail Mary kind of thing.
Egyptian? That'd be cool AND everyone likes Egyptian gods.
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You now play as Sotark the Roman.
I hear in the first game Minerva guides you in slaying Mars.
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Oh please, you talk like Kratos killed the entire Greek Pantheon.
Dude still has the likes of Nyx and Chaos to murder.
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Of course, what are their other options?
You could always go with Babylonian myth. Heck, the story writes itself: Gilgamesh is king. Enkidu is sent by the gods to wreck his stuff. Gilgamesh and Enkidu fight. Gilgamesh and Enkidu become bros. Gods kill Enkidu. Gilgamesh kills gods. Roll credits.
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There's always the inevitable option of somebody else killing Kratos.
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"But, gems will be a pre-order enticement, too, with certain ones being only available for buyers who reserve the game at specific retailers."
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The Price is Right losing horn (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A#)
thanks for nothing as usual, Ono.
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It's either that or Tax Cuts for the rich.
Well, okay, it's both.
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There will be no option to disable gems in SFxT. Ono said they're too important to the gameplay.
• Gems are designed to be complex — for advanced players. They really want you to think about which gems will fit your play style and approach.
• Preset gem packages for new players will help them along, though.
• The DLC load times for SSF4 AE are partially a problem with the infrastructure on XBL/PSN. Capcom is aware that this is an issue, though.
• Not all gems in SFxT will be opened up from the get go, DLC and other stuff will make more of them available. There will be a starter set available right out of the gate.
• There are two kinds of gems, one is passive and another is active. One type is geared towards new players, that help with blocking and throwing, and another type of gems that are for high level players, the latter of which adding a more strategic element.
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see my earlier post
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I had no interest in SFxT but that whole gems bit makes me even less interested and I thought that wasn't possible.
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Ezio in Soul Calibur 5. (http://shoryuken.com/2011/10/17/rumor-soul-calibur-v-welcomes-guest-character-ezio-from-assassins-creed/) I was wondering when they were going to announce special guest X.
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Rock Paper Shotgun has the best (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/10/17/skyrim-the-bad-vegetarian/) Skyrim (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/10/17/skyrim-the-zombie-torturer/) stories. (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/10/18/skyrim-the-guerilla-blacksmith/)
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Ezio in Soul Calibur 5. (http://shoryuken.com/2011/10/17/rumor-soul-calibur-v-welcomes-guest-character-ezio-from-assassins-creed/) I was wondering when they were going to announce special guest X.
I had no interest in sc5 but that whole bit makes me even less interested and I thought that wasn't possible.
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well, i mean... it's at least someone who makes some fucking sense at all.
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You say that like Star Wars didn't take place a long time ago.
In a galaxy far far away.
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Ezio in Soul Calibur 5. (http://shoryuken.com/2011/10/17/rumor-soul-calibur-v-welcomes-guest-character-ezio-from-assassins-creed/) I was wondering when they were going to announce special guest X.
Ezio actually revealed. (http://shoryuken.com/2011/10/20/soul-calibur-v-ezio-reveal-trailer/)
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it's a sign of my low worth as a person that i'm super-hyped for this.
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the best and also worst thing about ezio is that given the story and setting, everyone else besides him is out-of-genre.
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Seeing that trailer, the first thought I had was "forget Kilik or Siggy or whoever is heading that roster by now*, Ezio is officially the main character of this series". They should just call it Assassin's Creed: Soul Calibur.
*: i dunno, i never played 4
EDIT: RETCON NIGHTMARE INTO A TEMPLAR. DO IT, NAMCO, YOU KNOW IT FEELS RIGHT. THE SWORDS ARE PIECES OF EEEEEEEDEEEEEEEENNNNNNN
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As long as he doesn't MOVE-READ LIKE THAT BUTTHOLE APPRENTICE DID I'll be happy
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Saint's Row 3 character creator is now available. Gamespot is offering codes if you sign up to their site. :derp:
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Did you mean Gamespy? Because Gamespy is offering free codes if you log in.
Also: Rockstar has announce GTA Five V.
Edit: Maybe you typo'd Gamespot, because supposedly they are also giving out keys.
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Also: Rockstar has announce GTA Five V.
:perfect:
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For Saint's Row The third character creator:
Here's the link (http://www.gamespot.com/event/codes/saintsrow-pc/)
And it looks like some people have made some awesome stuff (http://saintsrow.com/community/characters/details/126189308842591624).
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Gundam? Check.
MMO Fighter? Check.
Released in America? Check.
http://sdgo.ogplanet.com/en/teaser.og (http://sdgo.ogplanet.com/en/teaser.og)
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So some intrepid soul leaked the first twenty minutes or so of Skyrim gameplay on video. Linking is pointless, since all videos get taken down within a few hours.
It looks... okay. Textures seem too shiny, combat a little too stiff. I'd play it, but I wouldn't buy it. Not for a while, anyway.
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combat a little too stiff.
For an Elder Scrolls game? I mean, for a game with a history of fluid, visceral combat this is most definitely a shock. Quite a shock indeed.
I'm sure this will deter the many fans of the series because it is such a divergence from the amazing combat gameplay from the games of previous years. Especially Morrowind. That was the pinnacle of smooth, meaningful combat.
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Honestly, the only reason I like oblivion better than morrowind is because of the combat.
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I thought all the combat in elder scrolls game was super stiff. In oblivion it always seemed clunky, especially when you had more than one person attacking you. First person doesn't really work so well for melee combat. That's why I just liked lobbing fireballs or arrows at stuff.
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Only game I've played where first-person melee felt in any way right was Dead Island. And I think they cheat a bit by making the effective range larger than it should be.
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Dark Messiah had good melee combat. Maken X's was alright, if a little floaty.
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For some reason I never minded the melee combat in Team Fortress 2, but other than that and Dead Island first person melee is terribad.
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Playing Brick in Borderlands is fun, but that's more in spite of the bad melee combat, rather than because of it.
Zeno Clash is pretty great, though!
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TF2 and Borderlands cheat because the melee is simple and one-sided; if you're in melee range, you're doing damage, the end.
Dead Island seems to be a little more refined but for the most part you're just up against slow as shit dumb fucking zombies.
If you ask me, if you want to do effective melee combat in first-person 3D, then look at the elements of effective combat in third-person 3D. Most of them still apply.
So Devil May Cry, God of War, Bayonetta and ok sometimes Dynasty Warriors all employ a couple common tricks to make the 3D foightin' work:
* The range of the weapon is always a bit longer than the actual weapon. In GoW this is obvious; Bayonetta has little effect splashes that increase her range; the DW series gives everyone little wind slices as an actual stat, and DMC just kind of tells you to accept it.
* Basic movement stuff: a block, a dodge, and some form of dash move to close the gap.
* Easy 2-3 button combinations. None of this fancy/useless directional attack shit. The player needs to be in control of his/her attack while at the same time not really thinking about it.
* Targeting and auto-targeting.
* Something to do BESIDES just basic attacking. The Devil Mode/Musou/QTE stuff breaks up a fight that would otherwise just be MASH BUTAN.
* Enemies all have readable attacks.
* Enemies don't clock you in the back of the head from offscreen, or if they do, there's a reasonable way to either tell they're going to or oherwise prevent them from doing so.
...wow, that was a longer list than I thought. There's probably a lot more in there, too.
Anyway, I think if people took their cues from DMC for first-person combat instead of trying to ape some weirdly mechanical system like a wrestling game, it'd suddenly turn out to be a perfectly viable and quite fun little subgenre.
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Elder Scrolls V Skyrim: Official Gameplay Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjqsYzBrP-M#ws)
I showed this trailer to my little brother one day. He loved it. Later that night, there was a huge thunderstorm. My little brother was scared, so I told him that all the thunder/lightning was from the Dovhkiin fighting dragons in the sky. He spent 15 minutes cheering for the 'Skyrim guy' before falling soundly asleep.
Daw you are a good big brother. :3
cool story bro
Is he not a litlle young to know the truth about thunderstorms??
awww :3
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You could also make the actual melee combat more methodical and turn-based. See VATS- actually VATS is kind of retarded. See Vagrant Story's system. Actually neither is very good for what I'm trying to talk about, I just wanted to namedrop Vagrant Story.
The idea is that movement should never be tied 1:1 with the controls for your attack options. i.e., if I want to do the Ranger Takedown, I shouldn't have to be retreating from an enemy to do it. If you must use the same input scheme for both, make sure that a player can do something to make their movement or attacks not be across purposes, like a pause-to-attack scheme.
I think that one of the biggest strengths of 3rd person melee brawlers that 1st person games need to use more is a more reliable turn-to-face attacker scheme. Being surrounded oblivion is worse than being surrounded in reality, because it's (sometimes) impossible to assume a point of view that lets you observe both attackers at once.
I feel like I've played first person games that let you make fast facing changes toward the direction of motion by pressing a button, but I don't remember what they were. It's probably also a useful tool to making 1st person view viable.
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Mount and Blade uses directional attacks just like oblivion and it works pretty well on it. The problem is that oblivion is easy enough that being surrounded in all sides is not really that big a deal even if your controls are clunky.
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Mount and Blade is third person, though.
Also I dunno I found it nearly impossible to hit someone from horseback.
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M&B is another pretty good template, yeah. Definitely a different one. Does it have a first-person view mode? I kind of only played the demo.
The big difference between M&B and TES is that TES consistently commits the Unforgivable Sin of enemies not reacting to damage taken (or blocked, in MB's case). I haven't seen the Skyrim trailer so I don't know if they really fixed that or not but I'm going to bet no, because Bethesda seems to take special care in maintaining that weird this-world-is-populated-by-robots feeling in their games and the transition from malicious, unfeeling mannequin to suddenly limp rag on death accomplishes that beautifully.
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Fallout had limb damage, and enemies would only react when you crippled a particular part of their bodes, not with every bullet, but at least that's something.
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in M&B you can go first-person by zooming all the way in, i am pretty sure. i never did because that's rather dangerous!
But it also helps that MB has a quick, intuitive fighting system that allows you to rapidly aim and adjust your angle of attack, and just as rapidly protect yourself. It's simple, but it's fast enough that it's fun without super moves or musou mode or what-have-you.
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iirc they only reacted if the crippling changed their regular animations, i.e. from walking to limping. Otherwise the only indication you ever received that you just, say, inflicted traumatic brain damage on someone was a little text box saying you "crippled his head".
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I remember there was a cheat code (something like "realisticsabrecombat) in Jedi Knight 2 that let you actually cut stormtrooper's limbs off in a fairly realistic manner. It made the game really fucking fun. The fact that this was a CHEAT code and not part of the normal game speaks very clearly that game designers think completely abstract damage models (i.e. they are fine until their hp drops to zero) are perfectly OK in games.
WHY they think this is a mystery. Perhaps they are also robots?
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I remember there was a cheat code (something like "realisticsabrecombat) in Jedi Knight 2 that let you actually cut stormtrooper's limbs off in a fairly realistic manner. It made the game really fucking fun. The fact that this was a CHEAT code and not part of the normal game speaks very clearly that game designers think completely abstract damage models (i.e. they are fine until their hp drops to zero) are perfectly OK in games.
WHY they think this is a mystery. Perhaps they are also robots?
Or that ratings exist.
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saberrealisticcombat 1
yes I have it memorized as well as most of jk2 why do you ask.
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Here's to hoping Metal Gear Rising does dismemberment well.
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iirc they only reacted if the crippling changed their regular animations, i.e. from walking to limping. Otherwise the only indication you ever received that you just, say, inflicted traumatic brain damage on someone was a little text box saying you "crippled his head".
Don't remember fallout 3 but new vegas has them holding their heads for a while when you cripple a head.
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That explains a lot. (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=4471.msg196173#msg196173)
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Goldeneye managed to get away with T rating in the US despite the as of then revolutionary realistic flinching when shot mechanic, though Perfect Dark got upgraded to M.
I can tolerate a complete lack of blood a lot better than a complete lack of reacting when damaged, and I think most people feel the same way. My point being, I think it's the gore that gets the higher ratings, not just enemy reactions. Though you're right that having saber realistic combat would probably have upgraded jk2 to mature and that may have been the reason it was only included as a cheat code.
Doom, of course, was in part so successful because it had both; demons would groan, flinch, and spout copious amount of gore whenever hit, which made shooting them incredibly satisfying.
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that and the noise the super shotgun made
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More importantly, it made who to shoot when tactically significant, rather than "I must put x number of bullets in target y to make him go away."
I still maintain that this is an Unforgivable Sin but looking back on it, well, you rarely hear people say that Half-Life's biggest weakness is its combat mechanics, even when you're SMGing a guy's head and the only indication that it's doing anything is blood teleporting out of his helmet.
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This was one of my big problems with the X games, In like, freelancer and freespace, you could wear the big ships down, destroying turrets and subsystems, they'd get weaker as you go. In X, the enemy ships are at full power until they die. At least the new game is gonna be fixing that.
I like the idea of damage systems that aren't just a HP bar, like the vehicles in the Men at war system. You can fire shells at the front of a tiger tank all day, and nothing's going to happen, but one shot through the back armour will probably hit the ammo or the fuel tank and blow it up. I'd like to see games have more systems where vehicles actually take realistic damage to their engines and weapons and stuff, and aren't at full power until you wear a bar down.
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So I want to rant about how much I'm buying into the Skyrim hype, but I'm thinking that making a thread titled:
NEVER FORGET! 11-11-11
is about the most tasteless thing I can do.
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There has never been a good Elder Scrolls game. I sense no change in the air.
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Them's fighting words boy.
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There has never been a bad Elder Scrolls game. I sense no change in the air.
Silly Bal with his being wrong.
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No, Bethesda are incompetent goons, and every Elder Scrolls game has been modded into a playable state post release.
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Yeah, a reputation for releasing games that millions enjoy for 50+ hours and invite a mod community strong enough to add hundreds more to the play time sure sounds like the definition of bad to me.
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Arguing the popularity of something as a reason for its quality is not a good path to walk. For example, the Kim Kardashian is more of a creative genius than the Beatles.
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Call of Duty must be the best game series ever.
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Arguing the popularity of something as a reason for its quality is not a good path to walk. For example, the Kim Kardashian is more of a creative genius than the Beatles.
That comparison is dumb, and you are dumb for making it.
I'm not sure how to qualify how enjoyable a game is if not how many people enjoy it how much. The Elder Scrolls games create a universe and story with a massive following, and games that play well and provide interesting and fun worlds with open options for how to experience them.
Even Bal who is trying to say the games are bad admits they're fun when heavily modded, which uses resources bethesda has made available for users to do just that. I'm pretty sure the argument "god, call of duty is shit until people start doing knives only servers" has never come up ever. And yeah, the CoD games are fun, just in a totally different way.
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Bethesda sucks at making great videogames. They are good at making backbones of games that you add cool shit to when you get tired of how it is at release.
While it is hard to commend someone for that, it is pretty damn nice to see a company who lets their fans fix their game for them. People have been trying to chip away at Far Cry 2 for years, but there still isn't a way to make the guns not disintegrate or the patrols to not respawn when you look the other way. Far Cry 2 could have been a good game, but the developers fucked up at some point like they usually do nowadays. Bethesda has decided to give their players the tools to add shit to their game, and that is one of the main reasons the PC version sells as much as it does. As for the console versions? A whole lot of people who didn't start playing games until Morrowind came out I guess.
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Giving players a way to play around and make their own content for your game is a good way to give your game a really strong fanbase.
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Even Bal who is trying to say the games are bad
I'm not "trying" to say anything. I am flat out stating that Bethesda makes bad games. Even my favorite game of theirs, Fallout 3, is only good in spite of their best efforts. The main quest is total garbage, and the engine is a horror show. Fortunately they had a setting and design aesthetic created by much more talented people that let them create a fun wasteland. So long as you just forget the story completely and play as Mr. 101 Wasteland whatever-you-want then you're golden. That said, the best thing Bethesda has done with that license is give it to Obsidian.
Elder Scrolls is worse because it's aesthetically and mechanically bankrupt in addition to being poorly written.
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Bethesda makes bad games ... Fallout 3, is only good in spite of their best efforts.
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Wow, I didn't know damning with false praise would make your fucking head explode.
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Mythic super-roman empire is a viable and reasonably interesting setting for a sandbox.
I even enjoy the writing, in spite of it not being "good". I actually feel nostalgic for some of the storytelling cliches they employ. I think that's kind of the point.
And mechanically, it's fun to grow in power basically without limit.
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I think a lot of TES's faults are strictly intentional. The thing is built, specifically, to be modded - the developers have called it a "RPG operating system" at one point - so the product as presented is specifically made as bland as possible. Cardboard people inhabiting a cookie-cutter world, engaging in pantomime combat and playing out a pulp story. It encourages two important things: modders to build off of the very basic template presented, and players to suffer no illusions that the unmodded game is a "pure" state worth giving a shit about. And it works, too. I don't know of anybody who gives a rat's ass about dredging through the default main quest; even if they don't mod, players invariably end up fucking off and turning themselves into vampires or turning invisible and trolling people or filling houses with every single stolen object in the world. So focusing on TES's technical faults is kind of missing the point. It's not the sandbox, it's the nagging mother telling you to turn off th video games and go play in the sandbox, and it only does it because it loves you.
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Mythic super-roman empire is a viable and reasonably interesting setting for a sandbox.
It would have been nice to see Cyrodiil as the designers originally indended: Roman Society with Oriental architecture in a sweltering jungle. (http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Lore:Pocket_Guide_to_the_Empire,_1st_Edition/Cyrodiil)
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In my latest game, i've been collecting every single skull I find, and I want to put every single one into some guy's house, I have over 250 of them.
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You are one sick motherfucker Stush. It is a pleasure to have you on my team.
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Well, i'm mostly just bumming about and raiding dungeons, so I need stuff to keep me sane. Like filling a dude's house with skulls.
I also have a huge amount of jewels and gold, I'd love it if i could make a huge loot pile in my house, like in fable 3.
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I would suggest that any person who claims that Elder Scrolls games are consistently excellent, but that Hellgate: London was not great, is guilty of a cognitive dissonance.
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I would have liked to play that, but the servers went down, didn't they?
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There's a free korean hellgate now. It suffers from Diablo S yndrome though, so you need to get a full group and just push to beat it before you realize all you're doing is breaking your left mouse button.
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The aforementioned Anno 2070 in motion. At least as gorgeous as Anno 1404/Dawn of Discovery, but all future-y. I want it bad.
Debut Trailer HD - Anno 2070 (http://www.gametrailers.com/video/debut-trailer-anno-2070/712787)
The demo is now available:
http://www.gamershell.com/news_128212.html (http://www.gamershell.com/news_128212.html)
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Wait. What the fuck?
Dawn of Discovery is no longer available for purchase on steam? (http://store.steampowered.com/app/33210/)
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Not for awhile. Something to do with some patch and Ubisoft. I've never been clear on what happened exactly. If you already own it, you can still download/launch it through steam, but it won't update without a bit of a hack.
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Ubisoft refused to update the steam version, so steam refused to sell it.
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Good to know.
I guess we won't be seeing Anno 2070 in steam then?
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HoMM6 just came out and is on steam, so it could be. By now you should know how selectively bitchy Ubisoft is.
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Ugh. I'm actually considering MW3 for the PC because I want to play a shooter on PC and Battlefield 3 is out of the question. They seem to be doing so much right this time around. (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/10/21/modern-warfare-3-pc/) Activision, although run by evil corporate monsters such a B.Kotick, play a smarter game than EA. They're definitely capitalizing on the Origin/BF3 Bullshit to get the PC market back.
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But battlefield 3 on PC is great fun. :( Origin is seriously not as bad as everyone makes it out to be. And I've never really had this much fun in an online FPS game before.
Also, in MW3, you can't drive tanks or fly jets, so battlefield wins.
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I've heard good and bad things from sources that have gotten early access. I don't have high hopes for it, but I've got it on preorder anyway. Let me know if you want to play.
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Played that demo, and I believe I can say that Anno 2070 is the shit. It'll probably be buggy, and who knows what, if anything, they'll call it stateside, but it's still great.
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For those who haven't heard yet, Mass Effect beta demo gets leaked and dataminers yank the plot/script for the game out of it and troll Bioware Social. It has old info, but the tiny bit I saw is eye-rolling.
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Elaborate?
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You can fuck a reaper this time.
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This is apparently the entire Mass Effect 3 plot line in a Paste bin (http://pastebin.com/KYJNWGug). I got a paragraph in and realized I actually want to play and enjoy the game so I closed it. Read at your own risk.
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Wii U will support 2 touchscreen controllers after all (http://www.reghardware.com/2011/11/09/nintendo_adds_wii_u_support_for_second_tablet/)
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Fucking buckets, how do they work? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PG2CPSxE_0#ws)
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shiiiiiiiit do I stay up later than I want to to play it or go to bed now so I can get up early to mess around with it?
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I fell asleep at 8 AM this morning. My condition doesn't have a whole lotta perks, but I'll take what I can get. :nyoro~n:
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My videocard has finally given up the ghost for real
Not the best time for it
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My sister's trying to sell her old video card. It's an FX 4800. Do you have $1500 and a professional workstation?
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Steam was hacked (http://store.steampowered.com/news/6761/).
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Do tell. (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=5811.msg210441#msg210441)
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Steam was hacked (http://store.steampowered.com/news/6761/).
Do tell. (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=5811.msg210441#msg210441)
"PSN got leaks"
If I squint my eyes really hard, it almost makes sense why that'd be where this discussion wound up appearing, and yet....
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I honestly wasn't sure if it was worth its own topic, and figured if it was worth it a moderator would do me the solid of a split.
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Topic titles around here shouldn't be taken too literally. We've got one named "Aborpopulation" for Christ's sakes.
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I thought it was dumb steam was included in the PSN topic.
But what do I know?
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Ok I've seen some trolling from capcom lately, but it's not directly at me, but more at the Mega Man fans. This one hit hard. [spoiler]Kuma in a R.Mika outfit if you can't figure it out.[/spoiler]
(http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f216/Ninjabredman01/13_onopictwitter.jpg)
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TellTale Games borrowed some guys Jurassic Park Jeep for Pax. It was damaged and they are refusing to fix it. (http://www.jurassicjeep.com/jeep-18/tell-tale-games-damaged-our-jeep-and-refuses-to-pay-for-it/) He let them borrow it - he didn't ask for any compensation. They are deleting all comments on Facebook, their forums, etc.
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And his blog post about it too, apparently.
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Seems to have been a shitty move on the part of the jeep owner, asking reddit for internet justice. Telltale was pretty classy about it.
http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/62962/Jurassic-Jeep-Leads-To-Jurassic-Drama-For-Telltale-Games (http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/62962/Jurassic-Jeep-Leads-To-Jurassic-Drama-For-Telltale-Games)
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Ugh. Submitting someone's personal info for Internet Justice really is a dick move.
Unless somebody's actually been caught on video beating his daughter or throwing a cat in the trash, they probably don't deserve it.
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Guy has already admitted he lied about part of his story and that they used his recommended transport company. too bad it would be bad press to drive him under for libel.
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Steam was hacked (http://store.steampowered.com/news/6761/).
The funny bit is that I only got a notification via Steam now.
So what did they do to the Steam forums anyway?
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Doom 3 source published under GPL. (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTAxODk)
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So, R6: Patriots has released the concept that they're working off of for the game. (Gameplay and story wise) It's very interesting to say the least.
Rainbow 6 Patriots Target Render Footage (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1WyvIT1Z9c#ws)
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all the boners
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Press square to ipad.
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That was... very unpleasant.
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Press square to ipad.
If that open sequence 1:1 is created in the game I can't wait to let the game hang awkwardly at the "Kiss wife" prompt.
That was... very unpleasant.
Mission accomplished on their part then, I guess.
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If that open sequence 1:1 is created in the game I can't wait to let the game hang awkwardly at the "Kiss wife" prompt.
oh god assassin's creed 2 guilt all over again
I DIDN'T MEAN TO LEAVE YOU HANGING LEO :(
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That video looks interesting but it would be nice if the game would branch a bit like more pragmatic actions that cause bad publicity would result in you losing funding/weapons. I mean if they're taking cues from heavy rain...
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i was just complaining about 24 infecting the national consciousness like a virus in the skyrim thread right? pretend i also said that here.
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But nor the terrorists!
ALSO
They say it's from a year ago, buuutttt....
1) They complain about people getting rich during the foreclosure crisis
2) They're kind of white, lower class looking people
3) They have a target in the middle of Time's Square.
Is the next Rainbow Six game going to be about putting down OWS?
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A year ago it very well could have been about putting down the Tea Party.
It's Rainbow fucking Six though, so I'm guessing no.
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Oh wow, I didn't even notice.
Go to 2:35 in the video. Listen for it.
"Traffic's backed up on the bridge. We're not going to make it in time." [spoiler]I never asked for this[/spoiler]
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A year ago it very well could have been about putting down the Tea Party.
Oh yeah, forgot about that. The Tea Party was angry at the banks, too, up until the lefties started getting in on the rage, then it stopped being cool.
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Oh wow, I didn't even notice.
Go to 2:35 in the video. Listen for it.
"Traffic's backed up on the bridge. We're not going to make it in time." [spoiler]I never asked for this[/spoiler]
yeah i caught that IMMEDIATELY. CALLING IT NOW: FINAL MISSION -- MEXICANTOWN
[spoiler]you are playing wayne haas[/spoiler]
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yeah i caught that IMMEDIATELY. CALLING IT NOW: FINAL MISSION -- MEXICANTOWN
[spoiler]you are playing wayne haas[/spoiler]
oh
oh my god
shut up and take my money
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Less of general interest, Microsoft Flight Simulator is being resurrected (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/12/02/test-pilots-wanted-microsoft-flight/), and while it's now called Microsoft Flight, it does still appear to be a simulator. There's to be some sort of open beta starting next month.
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I wasn't aware it had gone away. I have a cousin who's been taking pilot lessons for years and I'm pretty sure he's got a copy, with a serious, expensive, no-fuckin'-around flightstick peripheral.
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Trey Parker and Matt Stone are making a South Park game. With Obsidian. (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=454179)
It's going to be an RPG with a Paper Mario styled battle system. And a Materia-like system for augmenting weapons.
What the fuck is this that I'm feeling.
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Sounds a lot like Penny Arcade.
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Except it won't be entertaining. Or funny.
Or have any redeeming qualities.
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LIKE PENNY ARCADE
HAHAHA I BEAT YOU TO YOUR OWN JOKE, ASSHOLES
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Despite the rather irresponsible headline, Shigeru Miyamoto is not retiring (http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/12/miyamoto-interview/). Read the entire article and then seek shelter from the tidal wave of internet stupidity that is bound to result.
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Sounds an awful lot like good news to me. Miyamoto ditching the big-budget franchises in favor of simpler pet projects? Sign me the hell up.
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“Inside our office, I’ve been recently declaring, ‘I’m going to retire, I’m going to retire,’” Miyamoto said...
It's kind of hard to use a nice moderate article title when the man himself keeps throwing around the 'R' word.
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Kohler did change the title to "stepping down" pretty soon after posting that article... though I guess the damage had been done.
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It's kind of hard to use a nice moderate article title when the man himself keeps throwing around something that his interpreter translates as the 'R' word.
He wasn't actually speaking English, you know. It's entirely possible that the word he was actually using doesn't directly translate.
Or it could just be that he thought his repeated clarifications would be enough to prevent the American press from taking his remarks out of context for the sake of a provocative headline. Haha, silly foreigners.
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Turns out there are different words for "step down from current position" and "retire altogether" that both use the character for "to retire" (tai). So yeah, "step down" is probably what he was saying, and it only got half-translated in the rush to be first to report.
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Hmmmm, Bren(tai)...
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Brentai's Retiring? FOREVER!?
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He's just going to focus on smaller, more intimate molestations from now on.
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It's true. The chick I just met could fit in my duffel bag.
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No, she is not currently in my duffel bag.
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"Currently"
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GSC is dead, Stalker 2 is dead.
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You could say it got out of hBLAM BLAM BLAM ETCETERA
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Diablo 3's opening cinematic (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/12/11/oh-and-theres-a-diablo-3-cinematic/). It's pretty fucking awesome.
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So, you know how Bioware is making the next Command & Conquer game?
Well, that's not true. The exact same team that made the last few C&Cs is making the next one. EA just renamed that team "Bioware Victory" to cash in on Bioware's reputation.
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Bioware's rapidly waning reputation.
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Look, just because Dragon Age 2 sucked and The Old Republic sucks and Mass Effect 3 is going to suck doesn't mean people won't see "Bioware" on the box and buy literally millions of copies.
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Did Dragon Age 2 suck? I don't remember it sucking.
I just remember it being very different from DA:O, and not as good at keeping its tone straight.
It helped maybe that the things I did immediately before starting it up were playing Awakening which had poorly written and acted cookie cutout characters.
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act 1 was merely ok. act 2 was pretty good but beginning to look a little threadbare. act 3 was uhhhhhh
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uhhhhhhhhhh
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<@Kayin> But yeah seems like a bad decision. Unless they're really sure of Generals 2, stuff like that seems to risk the brand a bit too much
<patito> if it fails they can just completely scrap the studio and rename their download service "Bioware"
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act 1 was merely ok. act 2 was pretty good but beginning to look a little threadbare. act 3 was uhhhhhh
I guess it also helped that I put it down somewhere in the middle of act 2.
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I generally don't consider games I can't finish very good.
Of course that means that 99% of everything made after 2004 was terrible.
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So Xenogears isn't a good game?
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So The Simpsons isn't a --
damn it Envy
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It's the crossover (http://tinycartridge.com/post/14334537644/pokemon-nobunagas-ambition-a-new-mash-up-srpg) nobody asked for.
This link summary is a spoiler to preserve a proper state of shock for those brave souls who follow it blindly: [spoiler]Pokemon meets Nobunaga's Ambition[/spoiler].
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And I will take it upon myself to ruin it!
PIKACHU has entered the battlefield.
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...I think the audience for this is my uncle.
I'm not sure if there is anybody else in the audience. But he's going to love it.
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you can't even begin to imagine how much my brother has wanted someone, anyone, to make an alternate history TRPG with pokemon in it.
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Okay, so we're up to two.
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It's the crossover (http://tinycartridge.com/post/14334537644/pokemon-nobunagas-ambition-a-new-mash-up-srpg) nobody asked for.
To be fair, the best gifts are often the ones you never even knew you wanted.
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Indeed. It's a well-worn saw that the fans don't actually know what they want and you need to give them something they never thought of -- a couple examples I've seen over the years are "Goth pantheon" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sandman_%28Vertigo%29) and "Bond meets Lovecraft meets Office Space" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Stross#The_.22Bob_Howard_.E2.80.94_Laundry.22_series).
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I think they overestimated the Widgetiness of this idea though. If you did it with WWII instead of Sengoku it'd sell like hotcakes worldwide. Hitler brought out Charmander! Go, Churchill!
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Actually, fuck Pokemon. Now I just want a game where you capture and train famous figures from throughout history.
Feed Gandhi nothing but raw meat, then starve him for three days before his match with Napoleon and Madame Curie.
THERE WILL BE BRAWL!
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An interview with Yoshinori Ono, re: Poison (http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/egm-interviewyoshinori-ono/)
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Although I like to think that Poison is a male-to-female pre-op transgender, I have to agree with Capcom's decision to keep it officially ambiguous. The lady is already an exaggerated amalgamation of trashy sexual deviancy merely judging from her design alone, the added mystery of her physical gender just drives the entire forbidden nature of her fruit to its logical extreme. When you look at her, you don't know what you're in store for, and your only guarantee is that the very foundation of your world will be permanently and most powerfully rocked. Also maybe herpes.
Now, whether that interpretation holds weight with, or if Poison is even somewhat identifiable without concrete definition by, actual transgendered women, I don't know. And that might be the more important question.
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You should do a comic about it.
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I... what? I'm not even sure I understand what I wrote. What exactly should I make the comic about? Are you talking about the part where fucks somebody wild ways?
'Cuz I might do that.
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The problem with Poison is that she's on the one hand gaming's premiere transsexual character (Birdo doesn't count she's a fucking bird) and on the other hand she's possibly the trashiest goddamn whore that's ever smooshed her giant ass all over a TV screen.
Like I know there's going to be some bad jokes and a backwards view of social acceptance and a whole lot of Japan going on with this character just like there is with every minority when they first show up in the medium, but it seems like the more attention is paid to the status of her, uh, ride, the more the designers feel they need to morph her into a hypersexual black hole. Trannies already have to put up with a... mostly undeserved reputation for being all 24/7 bondage queens and Poison seems to be driving that point home.
...
That just slipped out I swear.
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God DAMN it.
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The problem with Poison is that she's on the one hand gaming's premiere transsexual character (Birdo doesn't count she's a fucking bird) and on the other hand she's possibly the trashiest goddamn whore that's ever smooshed her giant ass all over a TV screen.
In other words she's a "Strong Male-to-Female Character".
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In other words she's a "Strong Male-to-Female Character".
(http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/793/notbadz.png)
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Are you talking about the part where fucks somebody wild ways?
The best part is how you completely omit the pronoun instead of even trying to figure out which one to use.
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(http://i.imgur.com/YJkXV.jpg) (http://thepunchlineismachismo.com/archives/862)
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Sony sued over terms of service update (http://www.gamespot.com/news/sony-sued-over-terms-of-service-update-6347852?tag=hot-stories%3Bstory%3B2)
In September, Sony updated its PlayStation Network terms of service to prevent class-action lawsuits. Now that change has itself instigated a class-action lawsuit.
:lol:
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(http://i43.tinypic.com/73gylf.jpg) (http://www.ultimaforever.com/)
Not like this.... not like this..... (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avr7enrZuJQ#)
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Brace for awkward romance scenes with Dupre.
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Everyone will still hate Iolo.
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ultima online 2: a bioware title
you get renegade points whenever you call someone's ghost a nigger.
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100 pyos says "fethers" shows up as a dialogue option somewhere.
Also, aren't they self-cannibalizing a little bit early here?
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Also a special 'Kill Lord British' event.
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ultima online 2: a bioware title
you get renegade points whenever you call someone's ghost a nigger.
oOOOoOoooOOoOooooOOooooOoOOOoOooooOooOOOoOOOooOOooOooooooOOoOooooOOOoOoOoOOOooOooOOOoOoooOOooOOooOOOoOoOoOOoOOoo :(
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PlanetSide 2 The9 Gameplay (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUeRQSRMiFc#ws)
Please don't fuck this up SOE.
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Finally. Watching IPLY flail around pretending they had the funds to make a fallout MMO was getting embarassing. (http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/39553/Interplay_surrenders_Fallout_MMO_rights_back_to_Bethesda.php)
Now Zenimax Online actually has something to do!
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Two minutes on the Zenimax website in the past year would have made it pretty obvious that they didn't even bother to stop development on it for a second.
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Maybe this means we'll see some screenshots or concept art soon, then. Hopefully it will look better than the garbage we were seeing out of V13.
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Stalker 2 isn't canceled (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-01-12-stalker-2-not-cancelled-says-dev-gsc)
(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/123768/forum%20post%20pictures/1283083125852.jpg)
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Ukrainian law enforcement was interested in taking control of the company
Uhhhhhhhh.... :mikey:
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The rumors ranged from "Didn't pay their taxes" to "It's Ukraine."
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Street Fighter X Tekken: PS3 and Vita exclusive characters (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MFkGo-hsCY#ws)
:glee: That Mega Man
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oh jesus fat megaman
so good
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I-is that Cover Art Megaman? Because if that's Cover Art Megaman then that is fucking awesome.
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"Known as a Digger, a person who digs up relics from the past for research. He is a hot-tempered man, but has a strong sense of justice and is also very polite. His weak point is that he is easily rattled when backed into a corner. He is always running around in a hurry due to the demands of his partner Roll, and this time he's been asked to travel to Antarctica to retrieve a mysterious box."
Holy shit.
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While horrible, that is fucking excellent.
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Rubbing it in like that seems kind of mean-spirited, don't you think?
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...what are you talking about? Every bit of that sounds 100% amazing and I am actually considering getting this game now.
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the joke is that Megaman Legends 3 is never going to exist, and Megaman x Tekken is one massive reference to a game that will never be.
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Also, fans have been absolutely apoplectic about the lack of Classic Megaman or Megaman X from Marvel Vs Capcom 3.
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Yoshinori Ono remembers a great day (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2ad2-Mlcis#ws)
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I don't know who Yoshinori Ono is. So I looked up the name. Probably not this guy though. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinori_Ono)
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It's probably the guy who shows up first in a google search. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshinori_Ono_(game_producer))
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or you know, the one whose job they tell you in the video description
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So anyway, Analogue: A Hate Story (http://ahatestory.com/) was released last night (and I got a numbered box!), and the developer is kind of a bro so I thought I would point out her most recent work on one of my favorite corners of the internet. This is the same Christine Love that did the still completely free works of Digital: A Love Story (http://scoutshonour.com/digital/) and don't take it personally, babe, it just ain't your story (http://scoutshonour.com/donttakeitpersonallybabeitjustaintyourstory/). I encourage you to get it, or at least try the demo! I promise there's actually a point on the title and it's not just self reference.
While I still liked don't take it etc etc for the ideas it presented, it felt like a rush job in comparison to Digital, and Analogue is definitely a better showing again! If you don't hate reading give it a shot.
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So the Onos patch just dropped for the NS2 beta(changelog) (http://www.unknownworlds.com/ns2/news/2012/2/gorilla_released_ns2_build_194), and the game is really starting to come together in terms of features. There's only a few things missing now from what will be the final product. The game is completely independent, with a homegrown engine (they abandoned Source years ago because it couldn't certain features easily, and HAMMER was bottlenecking their progress), and I have to say, it's pretty god damned gorgeous, with no "for an indie" caveat. The atmospherics are completely nuts with how important they've made lighting.
You have to buy the game to get into the beta, but that's also most of their funding, so think about it if you like what you see.
NS2 "Gorilla" Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjPywj1TODo#ws)
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The sooner this game comes out the better. NS was the best Half Life mod, and one of my favorite multiplayer FPS games of all time.
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That is looking absolutely gorgeous.
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Yeah. The infestation (which is already dynamic) is still using an, admittedly fancy, placeholder graphic. Eventually it will be fully 3D instead of a bumpy decal.
Major things that are missing at this point are the Exosuit for the marines (which is being revamped from NS1 to be much more imposing and different from just "tanky marine" in terms of gameplay), the Shift upgrade structure for the alien side to go along with the Crag [defensive upgrades] and the Shade [exotic upgrades] which are already in, and then probably several balance passes and bug fixing rounds before it's ready for prime time.
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Where are the (expected) system reqs or are they too early in development to list that.
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It scales quite well. I run it easily on my somewhat aging core 2 quad, 4gb RAM, GTX 260 setup. Every patch has optimization tweaks (client and server), so it really isn't as hefty as you might think to look at it. Keep in mind also that this is no Battlefield. The whole point is claustrophobic areas and aliens in the god damned walls, so they can put half the detail into a tenth of the space and it comes out looking like a million bucks.
No firm numbers out yet, though. Broken promises and all that.
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Would you say that the beta is in a playable state? I know it isn't finished and all of that, but since I am probably getting this game anyways, I guess I could buy it right now.
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Oh yeah, it's been playable for ages. More than playable. Right now it's probably the least it's been in awhile because of the huge patch and all the bugs that is likely to cause, but overall it's been very stable for awhile.
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Dude dies while playing League of Legends, no one notices (http://www.playerattack.com/news/2012/02/03/dead-gamers-body-left-unnoticed-for-hours-in-cafe/)
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You haven't made it as an online multiplayer game until you've killed someone.
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Now someone find the Tribunal for him idling.
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It did not go unobserved that Heihatchi looks quite similar to Dr. Wily, but now that's actually funny.
I must have missed the part of the Pac-Man mythos where he drives a giant robot.
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Volition Guy thinks used game ban/CD Keys on consoles is a fantastic idea, says fans will hate it, but will get over it (http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/121/1218051p1.html)
Also says that something needs to be done or our entire industry will fall apart man
:rolleyes:
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He is 100% right that it is greatly to the benefit of game producers if used sales are impossible, and he is 100% right that gamers might rage for a little bit but will quickly grow accustomed to it. If you think he's wrong, look at Steam.
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He is 100% right that it is greatly to the benefit of game producers if used sales are impossible
I'm not sure that he is.
Resale is a part of value. There are people buying games for $60 who would not be if they knew they wouldn't be able to recoup any of that later on.
and he is 100% right that gamers might rage for a little bit but will quickly grow accustomed to it. If you think he's wrong, look at Steam.
Steam increases convenience, typing in a CD key decreases it. Yes, PC users are used to the idea enough that they don't think about it, but console users are not.
If EVERY game on EVERY console were designed with keys, then yeah, people would probably just suck it up. But if it's implemented on a game-by-game or console-by-console basis, it's not going to catch on.
That and Steam offers some pretty killer sales.
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I would not buy a game that I didn't think I could sell.
It's one of the reasons there are no sports games in the house though my brother and I own most of the big consoles and are sports fans. You buy it for $60 and within a month or two it's worth $1. After two years, it's not even worth the sleeves they put them in.
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Maybe you should buy an older sports game?
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I already own Looney Toons Basketball, Monster League Football, and Megaman Soccer. I have all the older sports games I need.
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But do any of those let you pit Ralph Bakshi against Peter Parker (http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2012/02/03/comic-book-legends-revealed-352/)?
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The issue with limiting physical media to first-sale only is that it involves intentionally crippling an inherent property of the bought item. Nobody minds that Steam doesn't have a (complete) resale system because that's not something that digital distribution can really do on its own. Discs, though, the only way to keep people from being able to pass them around like weedwhackers is to build in the software equivalent of a tiny mallet the thing uses to smash itself if it thinks it's not being used in a way that most profits the manufacturer. Consumers REALLY HATE built-in failure features; sooner or later, they'll either start gravitating towards products that don't have that, or in the face of a lack of better alternatives, they'll build a (much bigger) culture around cheating it.
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He is 100% right that it is greatly to the benefit of game producers if used sales are impossible, and he is 100% right that gamers might rage for a little bit but will quickly grow accustomed to it. If you think he's wrong, look at Steam.
(http://i.imgur.com/VFyvu.jpg)
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Discs, though, the only way to keep people from being able to pass them around like weedwhackers is to build in the software equivalent of a tiny mallet the thing uses to smash itself if it thinks it's not being used in a way that most profits the manufacturer.
Which of course brings up the point of inevitable false positives.
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If you think he's wrong, look at Steam.
I think it's time to let it go man.
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I don't really trade games in much, but I buy used games all the time, because a lot of the time, it's the only way to find some of the rarer things! But I think i'd be mostly okay with it, if they made the games a hell of a lot cheaper, like around $60 or so. That's why I buy stuff on steam and PC, because I can get it for up to like, a third of the price, usually.
Also, volition need to stop being jerks and make freespace 3!
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The answer to resales is permanent availability. When a PC game goes off the shelves, I'll always be able to find it again, and at least the publishers will get some money, the developers of older titles having usually having long since moved on. Between Steam and GoG and I can get practically any classic PC (and increasingly console) game I want. It's never not in stock, or hiked up in price due to rarity (DBGT only $150), and used to boot.
The Wii is really the only console so far to try for something like a Good Old Games for consoles, and they such fucking cockteases about it that it barely worked. Really though, it seems like something like this needs to be decentralized to work. Also Japan is bad at the internet. I don't know if Squeenix will ever understand that permanently making their games available will make them many times the money they get from re-releasing them.
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I don't know if Squeenix will ever understand that permanently making their games available will make them many times the money they get from re-releasing them.
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/05/21/790K-people-bought-chrono-trigger-ds-and-other-square-sales/ (http://www.joystiq.com/2009/05/21/790K-people-bought-chrono-trigger-ds-and-other-square-sales/)
Not as long as almost 800,000 units of the $40 Chrono Trigger DS keep moving.
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And it's not like there's much overhead to slapping new graphics onto the 2000 Final Fantasy remake every couple of years.
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I don't know if Squeenix will ever understand that permanently making their games available will make them many times the money they get from re-releasing them.
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/05/21/790K-people-bought-chrono-trigger-ds-and-other-square-sales/ (http://www.joystiq.com/2009/05/21/790K-people-bought-chrono-trigger-ds-and-other-square-sales/)
Not as long as almost 800,000 units of the $40 Chrono Trigger DS keep moving.
Of course, since that release, they've also put Chrono Trigger on Wii Virtual Console for $8 and PSN for... $10, I think. So even they are starting to get into the spirit of things.
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800k units is certainly profitable, but they still have to publish the thing again. If it was around all the time it wouldn't be 800k at once, but assuming the kind of market penetration I'm talking about, they'd end up selling a lot more over a longer period, and they'd be able to do it with their whole catalog to boot, with a fraction of the overhead.
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Aren't all the US Final Fantasies up to 9 purchasable via some form of digital distribution now?
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Let's find out. FF1 NES is on Virtual Console, the Origins release is on PSN, and there's an iOS port as well. With the exception of the NES version, the same is true for FF2. The only digital version of FF3 is on iOS. FFIV has Virtual Console and PSN versions, as does FFVI; FFV is on PSN only. FFVII, VIII, and IX are also all on PSN.
So, yes, they are, in at least one version. However, some versions, like IV DS, are substantially different and are unavailable digitally.
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That's kind of a total cluster fuck though. I don't mind the total remakes, they're a different animal, but here's the greater point. Those, too, leave shelves. Nothing should ever leave "shelves" anymore. The long tail on these games isn't going to be like Counter-Strike or something, but sometimes I want to play these things and they're not around, or they're only available used, or some shit that doesn't do Squeenix any good at all.
I'm not just picking on them though. Basically everyone who doesn't publish regularly on the PC is missing out on this.
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I don't mind the total remakes, they're a different animal
But there's overlap.
There ARE people who are going to say "I'm not going to buy this $40 remake because the original is $5." Especially with stuff like Chrono Trigger where the updates are minimal.
Which isn't to say that you're wrong. If CT were $5 on iOS they might very well make more money on it than on the DS version. And they would SURE as hell make more money on it than the $0 they are currently making on it.
Is FF7PC available on GOG? I'm thinking it's not. There's no damn reason why it shouldn't be.
Even if Square Enix Eidos Ramalamadingdong doesn't want to hire the entire modding community at qhimm (and I would argue that this would be an excellent idea), they could at least buy the graphics patch that lets FF7PC run on current hardware. Bundle it up, remove the disc check, ideally put something in there that makes the MIDI sound like it's supposed to, and you've got something good enough to sell for $5. If you want to clean up the speckly-ass movies, that'd just be gravy.
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Apparently, notch is volunteering to fund (just fund) Psychonauts 2.
I really can't see why people do not like him.
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Well, a lot of those remakes were the first official release of the game in English, but I see you point. Still, once that game is out, it should remain available too. Because sometimes a motherfucker just wants to play some DQ or something, and it isn't there, when it could be.
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Well, a lot of those remakes were the first official release of the game in English, but I see you point. Still, once that game is out, it should remain available too. Because sometimes a motherfucker just wants to play some DQ or something, and it isn't there, when it could be.
That's a good point. To my knowledge, no Dragon Quest has ever been released digitally. It makes me wonder if they're making more remakes or something.
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Enix was a remake machine well before the Square acquisition. DQ1&2 and 3 got SFC remakes, which were then remade for GBC, and I THINK the 4/5 remakes using the 7 engine first appeared on PS1 (otherwise it wouldn't make much sense to use the 7 engine). But yeah, we only got the NES originals and the GBC and DS remakes.
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Enix is like the Disney Vault. You know they could release those movies forever, but they stagger them so people will go into buying frenzies when the one they're waiting for finally does come out. Of course, that's not what happens anymore when someone doesn't want to wait for something.
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Yeah. I read Disney was going to try the "vault" gimmick with Marvel's digital comics.
Good luck with that, Disney.
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On the Obsidian forums, Chris Avellone is asking hypothetically, if Obsidian did Kickstart a game, what would people like to see?
http://forums.obsidian.net/blog/1/entry-158-if-obsidian-kickstarter/ (http://forums.obsidian.net/blog/1/entry-158-if-obsidian-kickstarter/)
Seems like this might start taking off.
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http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/dynamic/press_center/2012/02/board-elects-robert-a-kotick-as-director.html (http://www.thecoca-colacompany.com/dynamic/press_center/2012/02/board-elects-robert-a-kotick-as-director.html)
What... the hell?
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New coke bottles released, bottle opener is available as dlc for 9.99.
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I guess this is to make me feel better about having to give up the stuff for health reasons.
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This is clearly a move to get WoW players to switch to Coke from Mountain Dew.
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He's just a director (i.e. a member of the board) and not an officer or chairman. Rich guys serving on the boards of random various companies happens all the time.
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quit ruinin' our good time, grampa
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I don't know if you guys have heard of Binary Domain or not, but it is supposedly coming out soon. It's being made by the Yakuza team, so it should be interesting. Unfortunately, it is a cover shooter. To balance that out, you are fighting crazy snatcher like robots that you can blow specific limbs off of. There is also a system where depending on how you do and how you interact with your squad throughout the game, they can kick the bucket. So you can in theory yell your coworkers to death.
I'll probably try the demo sometime this weekend, but I think it will be neat. Not 60 dollars neat for me right now, but maybe 40 dollars neat.
Edit: "Haha, I was called out for picking the two female members for my squad. I'm already liking this game."
Binary Domain 'Bigger than you Think' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceTpSrIBNC0#ws)
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"Binary Domain" sounds like a coding help website from 1995, or an independent computer repair shop circa 1988.
as for the game I've gone from disinterest to curiosity the more I see of it,
Black ops 2? (http://kotaku.com/5886065/black-ops-2-reportedly-outed-by-french-as-this-years-call-of-duty) couldn't they think of some other covert military names like COD: NSA, COD: Homeland security, or COD: IRS, but assuming it's still the cold war I guess we can look forward to a COD: Generations where every character from all 53 game travels in time to stop some terrorists from starting the Big Bang 2 eventually.
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Didn't even the Cod fans hate Black Ops?
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Fans of cod hate cardiovascular disease, but I don't know if that implies anything about their taste in video games.
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Dear LORD, Bongo
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They're a valuable source of omega-3 fatty acids! It's not something you need to apologize for!
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(http://hw1.pa-cdn.com/par/img/editorial/gabe_alt.jpg) (http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/valves-gabe-newell-talks-wearable-computers-rewarding-players-and-whether-w)
Penny Arcade launch their new games journalism wing with Gabe Newell's incredible new beard; interview at no additional cost.
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'ORION: Dino Beatdown' Announcement Teaser (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPEvhcIevCI#ws)
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So Atlus is making a Persona 4 based fighting game. (http://atlus.com/p4arena/)
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They sure are.
P4U (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwvTOlsXneg#)
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I really hope they get all the voice actors back for the US version. The only X-factor is who's gonna voice Yuu? For total mindfuckery, they could throw the role to Johnny Yong Bosch.
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Morgan Freeman.
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Tim Rogers made a video game for iOS (http://itunes.apple.com/app/ziggurat/id498448797?mt=8) with some people. It's actually pretty good!
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Is he gonna write a 20 page meandering treatise on his own game now
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seriously what a tool
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Is he gonna write a 20 page meandering treatise on his own game now
maybe (http://www.actionbutton.net/?p=2423)
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Borderlands 2 release date trailer - Doomsday (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBY1bkgPiJc#ws)
So much WUB
[spoiler]Also I like how they managed to make Claptrap even better[/spoiler]
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sold
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sold
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But seriously, if all they do is reskin the original four vault hunters, mix up their skills a bit, and fix the numerous, numerous UI issues and bugs, then yeah. Borderlands was one of the best games I've ever played, brought down to merely above average by the aforementioned.
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Sold.
Zero
Claimed.
But seriously, if all they do is reskin the original four vault hunters, mix up their skills a bit, and fix the numerous, numerous UI issues and bugs, then yeah. Borderlands was one of the best games I've ever played, brought down to merely above average by the aforementioned.
For me it does kind of hinge on the fact that they need to fix that must-be-on-the-same-quest-to-progress bullshit in order to properly drop in and drop out. If they fix that? I'd be down for playing it again.
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can i buy six four-packs right now plz
thank you
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http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/02/brain-age-3ds-demon-training/ (http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/02/brain-age-3ds-demon-training/)
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/02/brain-age-3ds-demon-training/ (http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/02/brain-age-3ds-demon-training/)
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/02/brain-age-3ds-demon-training/ (http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/02/brain-age-3ds-demon-training/)
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/02/brain-age-3ds-demon-training/ (http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2012/02/brain-age-3ds-demon-training/)
I JUST
WHAT
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Nintendo's secret plan to convert housewives to Satanism comes to light.
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Wait wait wait, Claptrap was annoying? I thought the little guy was cute!
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The two Brain Age games sold over 31 million copies combined, roughly equivalent to the lifetime sales of the Assassin’s Creed or Street Fighter series.
...I'll buy Assassin's Creed*, but I don't think comparing sales to a series of ARCADE PORTS is quite apples-to-apples.
* I will not actually buy Assassin's Creed.
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Wait wait wait, Claptrap was annoying? I thought the little guy was cute!
[spoiler]me too[/spoiler]
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This time around, Nintendo says it will go after younger people as well with the new game, which promises to help improve one’s concentration and “working memory.” It defines the latter as “the system where information that enters the brain is held temporarily as it is manipulated and used.”
Since these exercises were found to be quite difficult, Nintendo is framing them as “demonic,” giving the normally happy digital head of Dr. Kawashima devil horns and a mocking grin.
Pretty sure this is going to be the n n-back task.
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Wait wait wait, Claptrap was annoying? I thought the little guy was cute!
[spoiler]me too[/spoiler]
I had no problem with him. On the other hand, dubstep.
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Pretty sure the dubstep was them poking fun at the Farcry 3 trailer.
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Guess Who's Back? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfDlHdERxrE#ws)
[spoiler]Now make my fucking Jet Set Radio Future disc work on 360, Microsoft. You assholes.[/spoiler]
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FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
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Hey so you can go ahead and forget about Planetside 2. Just clear it off your radar.
They're destroying their community by outsourcing and IP/Region locking Europe from everyone else. And US can't access Euro servers either. (http://forums.station.sony.com/station/posts/list.m?topic_id=11500038788) It really shows a level of disconnect and stupidity that you can only shake your head at and say "Oh, SOE, why you so dumb?" This also doesn't affect just PS2. It's also their long-standing MMOs that they're dividing.
Even if I didn't have Euro friends to play with (SPOILER: I do) I can't rightfully support a game that supports something so ass backwards and terrible. Not to mention who they are outsourcing to has a fucking track record of security breaches, breaking EU privacy laws and generally being shitbags.
They say it's not a done deal (http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/02/23/soe-responds-to-prosiebensat-1-fiasco-says-its-not-a-done-deal/), but once SOE has it's eyes on stupid bullshit it's hard to pull them away from it. (See also: Combat Upgrade/NGE)
Favorite quote of the day:
SOE can MAKE good MMOs.
They just don't know how to run them.
(except maybe...into the ground)
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...going to renew my request that people not use spoiler tags for things that aren't spoilers at this point. Thanks.
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Request denied. Fuck not given.
I'll just say it in big letters and not use fancy black boxes.
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Well, that serves me right for asking nicely.
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Yo dawg, I heard you like handheld gaming (http://tinycartridge.com/post/18156031007/heres-what-game-gear-games-look-like-on-3ds-you)
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Turns out that trailer was teasing Jet Set Radio HD for PSN, XBLA, and PC (http://blogs.sega.com/2012/02/28/jet-set-contest/). Everyone buy it so we get JSRF too.
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http://baldursgate.com/ (http://baldursgate.com/)
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We can only hope that it's Beamdog doing it, as they've confirmed a new project but no details, and not the Gaider-Hepler abortion that is modern Bioware.
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http://www.siliconera.com/2012/03/01/dmc-devil-may-crys-dante-grew-up-in-orphanages-run-by-demons/ (http://www.siliconera.com/2012/03/01/dmc-devil-may-crys-dante-grew-up-in-orphanages-run-by-demons/)
(http://i.imgur.com/9pMj2.gif)
Peace out, Dante. You were loved, brother.
(http://i.imgur.com/gOC8N.jpg)
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:barf:
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Still waiting for a community rep to just post "RE: DMC5: ...psych!" on his Twitter or something.
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Suddenly, a lot suddenly makes sense. On the left is the lead developer for this game, Tameem Antoniades.
(http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/3/34626/1675720-tameem.jpg)
Also, if it helps, they've been backpedaling *hardcore.* When it was first announced, they called DmC a origin story. Then a reboot. In this article, it mentions it takes place in a parallel universe. Maybe next they'll call it canceled :V
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(http://lyrai.brontoforum.us/expert.jpg)
That includes on Dante's design. After the entire fanbase called them out on it and they insisted they'd ignore any and all complaints and press on, the next footage of New Dante looked a bit less masturbatory
(http://lyrai.brontoforum.us/DMC_art.jpg)
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(http://lyrai.brontoforum.us/expert.jpg)
That includes on Dante's design. After the entire fanbase called them out on it and they insisted they'd ignore any and all complaints and press on, the next footage of New Dante looked a bit less masturbatory
(http://lyrai.brontoforum.us/DMC_art.jpg)
I still want to know how a gun with a modern semiautomatic action and barrel "feels like it was made a long time ago"
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Maybe it's the pointy bit at the bottom of the grip? Maybe old guns had pointy grips.
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It's made out of wootz.
You know, so it can shatter every time it's fired.
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SCP - Containment Breach
SCP - Containment Breach (free survival horror game) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0IfJSf-a-U#ws)
Someone is working on this in their spare time. Could be good.
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Fucking 173. That shit creeps me right the fuck out.
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Octodad: Dadliest Catch - Teaser Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03rP_O2k8XM#ws)
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Unreal Engine running in Flash (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/03/unreal-engine-brings-console-quality-graphics-to-browser-based-flash-games.ars)
Pretty fucking intensive, as you might expect, but it's damned interesting that we're even talking about it. And it could be a lifeline for Flash.
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Hotfile's next. (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/emboldened-by-megaupload-shutdown-hollywood-targets-hotfile.ars)
The studios argued Hotfile is not eligible for the Digital Millennium Copyright Act's Safe Harbor provision, in part because the site did not terminate repeat infringers, or identify and keep track of infringers. The studios accessed Hotfile data through the litigation discovery process, and say the infringement notices sent to Hotfile by copyright owners revealed a "staggering" number of repeat infringers. Hotfile owner Anton Titov "has a direct financial stake in Hotfile's extensive infringing activities, which he took active steps to enable," the court filing states.
Hotfile argues that it is eligible for DMCA safe harbor provisions because it has taken steps including registering a DMCA agent, and informing users about its repeat infringer policy. Throughout the site's three-year history Hotfile says it has provided a "report abuse" form for content owners to send DMCA takedown notices, and has taken down links in response.
I don't use Hotfile; I assume it has individual user accounts and it would be trivial to ban repeat offenders?
That said, the question of whether Big Content can FORCE a private company to disable accounts from paying(?) customers based on a three-strikes (or even fifty-strikes) rule is kind of an important one with widespread ramifications.
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Keiji Inafune sez, Japanese game makers five years behind (http://tgs.gamespot.com/story/6276630/japanese-game-makers-five-years-behind-inafune)
Inafune on the sad state of Japanese gaming (http://www.gamespot.com/news/inafune-on-the-sad-state-of-japanese-gaming-6365702)
There are a lot of specific problems, but a good example would be that this is GDC. It's the Game Developers Conference. Out of the Japanese creators, how many of the major ones are here at the show? It's very limited, and that itself states that Japan is not taking global business seriously. They should be here at the show, giving sessions and mingling with the rest of the world more, intentionally. But I don't see that, and that's one of the biggest problems...that Japan is not looking at the global perspective. We all know for sure that we have to go global, but the actions are not there.
I believe that in Western or other parts of the world, they all liked Japanese games from the past and benefitted from them. They had a significant amount of influence in game development around the world, but that's all from the past. Because Japan is not in a healthy state right now, not everybody is being influenced by us now.
There are great big franchises like Skyrim, great titles for the iOS, the Call of Duty franchise, of course. But in Japan, there is nothing like Call of Duty or a similar franchise, so there aren't any titles spending a lot of development costs. There's nothing big, and no iOS titles that can go global. Though the Western development scene may have its own problems, it's way healthier than the state of Japan right now.
I have to be careful with the Capcom questions. I probably feel the same way as all the Mega Man fans. All I can say is I hope to see the new Mega Man because I've left a lot of people with my DNA [at Capcom]. But if they can't, I'm always open if Capcom asks us to be the developer. We'd take it.
And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.
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A slide from Inafune's GDC talk, in which he teased that he's working on a PlayStation Vita game.
Definitely walking the talk there.
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http://www.baldursgate.com/ (http://www.baldursgate.com/) was counting down until 6 minutes ago. Now the website won't load. Someone grabbed this though:
(http://tbreak.com/megamers/files/bgannounce-430x891.jpg)
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Sooo not a sequel, apparently.
Wonder if it'll use the NWN engine or something less obvious (seeing as I don't see BioWare's name on there).
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Reading the source code for the page in previous days talks about the infinity engine.. So I'm wondering if they're just cranking it up to work at modern resolutions?
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Sooo not a sequel, apparently.
Wonder if it'll use the NWN engine or something less obvious (seeing as I don't see BioWare's name on there).
The company making it, Overhaul Games (http://www.overhaulgames.com/), has released one other game, MDK2, which was also Bioware-developed. So I guess this is kind of their thing now.
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(seeing as I don't see BioWare's name on there).
And there was much rejoicing.
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Infinity Engine updated to 5e, scheduled to coincide with launch of that edition's core rulebooks.
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Holy shit Wizorb (http://store.steampowered.com/app/207420/)
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At that price, I can't not get it!
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http://air.audio-surf.com/ (http://air.audio-surf.com/)
Looks like an Audiosurf sequel.
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I'm excited by default, but, uh, first-person? I dunno how I feel about that.
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PS3 TOKYO JUNGLE PV (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejBt-CWCv4E#ws)
A side-scrolling beat-em-up set in a ruined post-humanity Tokyo where you play different types of animals in a fight for survival and dominance.
(http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y89/CX-Neo/1333108830371.gif)
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Oh hey I thought they threw this down a hole and were never going to talk about it ever again. Nice.
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I am SO glad I own a PS3
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Orcs Must Die 2 has been announced all other news is irrelevant.
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Kill Screen's Rob Dubbin interviews Leisure Suit Larry creator Al Lowe. (http://killscreendaily.com/articles/interviews/lowebrow/) Interesting talk about the Good Old Days, and also apparently there's a Kickstarter project for a new Larry game.
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They're asking for 500,000 in the kickstarter and it's just a remake.
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...oh. Well that's lame.
Still, it's a good interview.
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Well, in fairness, the interview does describe what happened the last time he tried to make a new independent game.
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Kickstarter is getting kinda out of hand, I saw a banner ad for some ninja ipad game. They needed/wanted 70K or something and only had $500 with 20 days to go.
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2 (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/wasteland-2)
Goal: $900,000
To date: $1,923,752
I think they exceeded the goal within like the first few days, and are now talking about Linux versions and like a bunch of other shit.
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http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613260297/shadowrun-returns (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1613260297/shadowrun-returns) :glee:
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Contextual Gameplay in Four Realities
Four realities overlap in the world of Shadowrun (the Physical, the Digital, the Mystic, and the Astral) and associated character classes such as the Street Samurai, Hacker, Combat Mage, and Shaman, each have the ability to view and interact with the world in ways the others can’t.
Here are some ways that selecting each character type allows you to see the map from a different perspective:
Street Samurai see a threat assessment overlay of the environment that notes enemy appraisals, options for cover, potential weapons, and statistics for drawn weapons.
Combat Mages see magical auras, granting them the ability to locate magical items, identify spells being prepared, and find the intersections of magic lay lines where they can recharge their power.
Hackers/Deckers see the digital control circuitry that allows them to manipulate the physical world via the digital one.
Shaman see the “true world” that lies in the astral plane, distinguishing the true nature of people, plants, creatures, and magical objects while buildings and other “dead” objects appear as mere shadows.
Missions (aka "Runs") in Shadowrun Returns can require interaction with all four realities simultaneously, requiring you to use information learned from each character’s perspective to coordinate their context-sensitive actions to get the job done. . . and survive.
That’s why we decided to make Shadowrun Returns a turn-based game—so we can offer you a wide range of context-based gameplay options from which to craft a your plan.
This can only be a triumph or a glorious mess.
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Live-action Sleeping Dogs Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SE2ADqLuzvU#ws)
How do I stay ignorant of things capable of such boners?
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http://kotaku.com/5900341/penny-arcade-pranks-ocean-marketing-nemesis-here-we-go-again (http://kotaku.com/5900341/penny-arcade-pranks-ocean-marketing-nemesis-here-we-go-again)
come on, seriously?
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TROLL BATTAL
TROLL BATTAL
TROLL BATTAL
... yeah that's just tiresome now.
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I almost think that the lynch mob was too kind now.
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For fuck's sakes, Gabe's even changed his avatar to Three Sizes Too Small.
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He did that right after the first Christforo thing.
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Ars: Lawsuit forces Gamestop to post used game DLC warnings in California, online (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/04/lawsuit-forces-gamestop-to-post-used-game-dlc-warnings-in-california-online.ars)
And if you're in California and bought a used game at GameStop and were locked out of DLC, they owe you about $15 settlement money.
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I can't believe that's what finally did it. A daily happening at any Gamestop is people bitching that the used game they bought doesn't have the microsoft points / redemption codes / Kung-Fu Panda tickets advertised on the box.
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Demon Souls American servers going down next month.
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Tears
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Charmer Behind
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(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/123768/Game%20pictures/kill%20hitler.png)
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(http://img713.imageshack.us/img713/6152/doctorwhokillhitler.png)
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Concept art (http://www.themmnetwork.com/2012/04/09/the-making-of-an-old-man/) of Bad Boxart Megaman shows that Capcom had a lot of ideas for him.
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Bad Box Art Roll is kinda hot in a few of those.
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Chicks dig strongfats, apparently.
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Bad Boxart Megaman is built like a football... Whatever you call those guys whose job it is to just charge at each other at the line.
I also really dig the way they considered using the Howard & Nester buster from the Mega Man 3 strip.
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Bad Boxart Megaman is built like a football... Whatever you call those guys whose job it is to just charge at each other at the line.
Lineman.
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In-Shape Digger (the one pictured with Robot Boots Roll) is actually a pretty cool design.
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He's built like a lineman gone to seed, which is kind of what he's supposed to be. Old, fat, down and out Megaman. No more robots to fight. Just a small apartment and a big fat alimony check to go along with his gut.
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Original Apple II Prince of Persia source posted. (https://github.com/jmechner/Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II/blob/e9423368581d07b2baa42c746c2464ef532378ce/README.mkd) It's not really open-source per se:
As the author and copyright holder of this source code, I personally have no problem with anyone studying it, modifying it, attempting to run it, etc. Please understand that this does NOT constitute a grant of rights of any kind in Prince of Persia, which is an ongoing Ubisoft game franchise. Ubisoft alone has the right to make and distribute Prince of Persia games.
Not like there's much you could do commercially or practically with 6502 assembly anyway.
(Via The Reg (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/18/prince_of_persia_source_code/))
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Oh hey, it took long enough. Someone finally linked the Norway shootings to video games.
Breivik said he played the computer game "Modern Warfare" for 16 months starting in January 2010, primarily to get a feel for how to use rifle sights. In 2006 he devoted a full year to playing "World of Warcraft," for 16 hours a day, he said.
I really have no idea which of my dozens of initial reactions here are the appropriate one. I have a sneaking suspicion that the only proper thing to do here is to drop a Haddock and move on.
It bears noting that this paragraph is buried pages down in an article detailing Breivik's motivations in great detail, but the headline is still "Norway killer sharpened aim on computer games". Looks like at least one editor knows his priorities.
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Super Monkey Ball
川村ゆきえplays 川村ゆきえ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poqps1bzA7E#ws)
now with tits.
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::(:
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:disappoint:
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Oh hey, it took long enough. Someone finally linked the Norway shootings to video games.
Breivik said he played the computer game "Modern Warfare" for 16 months starting in January 2010, primarily to get a feel for how to use rifle sights. In 2006 he devoted a full year to playing "World of Warcraft," for 16 hours a day, he said.
I really have no idea which of my dozens of initial reactions here are the appropriate one. I have a sneaking suspicion that the only proper thing to do here is to drop a Haddock and move on.
It bears noting that this paragraph is buried pages down in an article detailing Breivik's motivations in great detail, but the headline is still "Norway killer sharpened aim on computer games". Looks like at least one editor knows his priorities.
My understanding has been the crazy fuckface has been purposely trying to drum this up. For whatever reason the psychopath wants the media circus around it. His manifesto explicitly detailed that he used CoD to train himself, and he acted in court all smug and grinning when they talked about it.
He's purposely feeding them the bullshit and they are smearing it all over themselves so eagerly. I don't know why, maybe he's hoping for more controversy around his name, maybe he hates video games, maybe he wants to get off the hook, but he's doing it on purpose in a disgusting way.
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Chuck Sommerville has a kickstarter going (just 9 days left so get going)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/niffler/chucks-challenge-3d (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/niffler/chucks-challenge-3d)
Also he answers some questions, including about Chip's Challenge 2, on this video:
Where is Chip's Challenge 2? and other questions answered by Chuck Somerville (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fGhOPX6ACk#)
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Apparently there was a mod released for Arma2 a few days ago "DayZ" and it's everything everyone wants out of a multiplayer zombie survival persistent RPG (http://www.knowngriefers.com/2012/04/dayz-zombie-game-you-damn-kids-keep.html?m=1)
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Oh nice~ I'll have to try that out. Arma 2 rocks.
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It's so new that it has some serious bugs (mine gets stuck on loading) but from what I've seen it has serious potential.
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Oh hey, it took long enough. Someone finally linked the Norway shootings to video games.
Breivik said he played the computer game "Modern Warfare" for 16 months starting in January 2010, primarily to get a feel for how to use rifle sights. In 2006 he devoted a full year to playing "World of Warcraft," for 16 hours a day, he said.
I really have no idea which of my dozens of initial reactions here are the appropriate one. I have a sneaking suspicion that the only proper thing to do here is to drop a Haddock and move on.
It bears noting that this paragraph is buried pages down in an article detailing Breivik's motivations in great detail, but the headline is still "Norway killer sharpened aim on computer games". Looks like at least one editor knows his priorities.
My understanding has been the crazy fuckface has been purposely trying to drum this up. For whatever reason the psychopath wants the media circus around it. His manifesto explicitly detailed that he used CoD to train himself, and he acted in court all smug and grinning when they talked about it.
He's purposely feeding them the bullshit and they are smearing it all over themselves so eagerly. I don't know why, maybe he's hoping for more controversy around his name, maybe he hates video games, maybe he wants to get off the hook, but he's doing it on purpose in a disgusting way.
He wants attention and they're giving it to him.
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Steam for Linux; L4D port included. (http://www.reghardware.com/2012/04/26/valve_suggests_steam_for_linux_is_close/)
NICE.
Valve's move to OSX is the best news for Mac gaming since...probably ever. This could be a real step forward in companies actually natively supporting Linux. Valve itself is a pretty good start.
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I had heard rumors and whispers that Valve has a Linux steam build they've been greedily keeping all to themselves; I'm glad to see there's some truth to it.
To be as stupid and cliche as possible, making this available to the public would be a gamechanger.
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I rather doubt that the linux version of steam will, itself, be open source. Unless you just mean in the sense of making Linux a viable gaming OS.
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Valve porting their stuff over to Linux will be good for the maturity of the Linux versions of a lot of game-related technology.
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Sony reveals Super Smash Sony Brawl.
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale for PS3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1bQSw7FOUQ#ws)
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MAN, WHERE DO I GIVE ALL THESE FUCKS
BECAUSE IT SURE AS HELL ISN'T HERE
i can't wait to battle as such iconic characters as motherfucking fat princess and half-tucked shirt indiana jones
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GOD OF WAR: PERHAPS THE BEST LOOKING GAME ON THE PLANET.
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Confirmed for All-Stars Battle Royale for PS3™
Confirmed for All-Stars™
Confirmed for Battle Royale™
Fuck it
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I rather doubt that the linux version of steam will, itself, be open source. Unless you just mean in the sense of making Linux a viable gaming OS.
Nobody mentioned open source.
That said, two things:
1. Once this is released, Valve will presumably also release API's that make for easier cross-compiling -- like they've done with OSX. If even a small percentage of Steam devs use start using those tools, that's going to make Linux much bigger for gaming.
2. If the rumors about Valve releasing its own console turn out to be true, then no, that still doesn't mean the client will be open-source, but Valve WILL presumably be making its own kernel tweaks and releasing them back.
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I guess at this point we need to figure out what Microsoft will call their own Brawl game
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Master Chief's Shut Up and Jam Gaiden.
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Master Chief in a fist fight with Marcus Fenix on a level that's final destination, but it's Crackdown themed. On the other end of the stage, Alan Wake is fighting Commander Shepard wielding that Sword of Aeons from fable as an item he picked up.
(http://a0.twimg.com/profile_images/1990456266/avatar2.jpg)
[spoiler]but seriously I'd rather play that bullshit than this PS3 one. Who gives a shit about any PS3 characters?[/spoiler]
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Shepard is not a Microsoft related character.
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Sony reveals Super Smash Sony Brawl.
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale for PS3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1bQSw7FOUQ#ws)
It's 26 days late for April Fools.
In all seriousness: Can't Nintendo sue them for this? It's awfully derivative.
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In the video, even the dude standing in a hallway talking about it(who is presumably one of the people who made the damn thing) doesn't seem all that enthusiastic about it.
Sony reveals Super Smash Sony Brawl.
PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale for PS3 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1bQSw7FOUQ#ws)
It's 26 days late for April Fools.
In all seriousness: Can't Nintendo sue them for this? It's awfully derivative.
IIRC you can't sue people for ripping off gameplay mechanics.
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It's more that it's designed from the ground up to perfectly replicate Brawl's visual style, right down to the interface using the same font and colors. In addition to completely ripping off Brawl's unique gameplay mechanics
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Shepard is not a Microsoft related character.
I still think he's more iconic to the 360 Franchise than any other. Besides, the list of completely exclusive 360 characters is laughable. They'd have to stretch.
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And you know, Sonic's not a Nintendo character, etc. etc. It's not unlikely that similar deals are going to be made for this.
Brawl's unique gameplay mechanics
I don't know which mechanics you're talking about but I can't think of anything offhand that Nintendo really has a solid lock on.
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Percentage based damage and ring-out only deaths on large levels involving items and a wide variety of characters.
I think the only thing they've changed is the damage systems, as some players seem to get straight up killed in that video.
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Does this one have tripping too?
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This is not the only videogame that uses brawl mechanics, and nintendo knows better than to sue for ridiculous reasons.
EDIT: eddied my post because I typed "same" instead of "only" and the sentence didn't make any sense.
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The last time another game company ripped Smash Brothers off wholesale Nintendo got so pissed that they put one of the company's flagship characters in Brawl.
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but man playing as optimus prime was SO FUN
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One shall stand
and one shall fall.
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Panzer Dragoon?
Oneechambara?
Earth Defense Force with Storm-1!
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IMPORTANT UPDATE: Gabe Newell is a Brony.
That is all. (http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-04-27/why-there-are-no-bosses-at-valve#p1)
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Gabe Newell is a fan of My Little Pony. This is decidedly not the same as being a Brony.
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as if the internet will note the difference.
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I didn't even know there was a difference (and evidently neither did DN)!
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He's not part of a subculture or anything, he just unironically admits to liking a cartoon for little girls with no friends.
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I didn't even know there was a difference (and evidently neither did DN)!
nah I totally know the difference. I just love the humorous implications.
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I wonder what Gabe's ponysona is.
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(http://i.imgur.com/RTzmV.png)
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:rage: Pony
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Microsoft is going to sell Xboxes for $99 with a two-year, $15/month Xbox Live subscription. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/report-99-xbox-console-with-kinect-to-launch-next-week-but-theres-a-catch/2012/05/02/gIQAf0rzwT_story.html)
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The article speculates the "value" of the 2 year financing at $39.
EDIT:
"Value"==the amount saved for what looks like the same package with all payments up front.
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http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2012/05/03/june-cover-revealed-the-elder-scrolls-online.aspx (http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2012/05/03/june-cover-revealed-the-elder-scrolls-online.aspx)
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The last thing I'd ever want to do in an elder scrolls game is play it with other people.
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Videos of one million newbies rolling down a mountainside in three... two...
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For some reason, this reminds me that I really need to play Mount and Blade.
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Flame Wars: The Card Game (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1225737959/flame-war-the-card-game-of-extreme-moderation)
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http://kotaku.com/5908338/star-wars-the-old-republic-loses-400000-subscribers (http://kotaku.com/5908338/star-wars-the-old-republic-loses-400000-subscribers)
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[X] Knights of the told republic
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To be fair, every MMO loses mad population in the couple months after release. The surprising thing is more that it retained 1.3 million. That's a lot of people.
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Oh hey, Starhawk launches today. Think I might have to get that...
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Microsoft is going to sell Xboxes for $99 with a two-year, $15/month Xbox Live subscription. (http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/report-99-xbox-console-with-kinect-to-launch-next-week-but-theres-a-catch/2012/05/02/gIQAf0rzwT_story.html)
The article speculates the "value" of the 2 year financing at $39.
EDIT:
"Value"==the amount saved for what looks like the same package with all payments up front.
...that's a bit hard to parse, but Ars corroborates (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2012/05/subsidized-xbox-360-bad-deal-for-consumers-missed-opportunity-for-microsoft.ars): the $99 bundle actually costs $40 more than buying the console full price plus two years of Live at $60/year.
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チーム戦ルール紹介動画 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eybYy3E4zU#ws)
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It's a shame that Anarchy Reigns looks exactly how I imagined it would look like: A FTP Korean game/Gunz.
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I think I prefer the cast of Madworld in black and white.
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It reminds me of Virtual On
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Wolfenstein 3D Director's Commentary with John Carmack (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amDtAPHH-zE#ws)
Wow, it's been twenty years.
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We've released the alpha of Storybricks to the public so you can understand what it is about.
this is what I've moved to london for.
this is what I've been working on for the past year.
could you please just LOOK at it
http://play.storybricks.com (http://play.storybricks.com)
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I saw this when you retweeted it on twitter! I gave a diamond to a guy, and then he ran off. I then gave three other items to three other people.
I am intrigued by the tools underlying this stuttering interaction, but I have to go do the dishes.
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So this is what I installed Unity for.
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I think I'm missing something because it just hangs after it loads.
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I can't seem to connect.
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Playing the stress test of Guild Wars 2 was a huge mistake because it was only for today and it was so good. ;_;
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Rhythm Heaven Fever has made me realize I have no rhythm. :(
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How many years of life didn't teach you this?
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I'm very good at self-deception.
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I have great rhythm. I just have poor coordination.
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I tend not to like playing rhythm games for the opposite reason. I've been playing drums since I was like 10 and people get mad.
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Demon's Souls servers have been extended.
Now I have more time to work on killing Black Phantom Miralda.
Fucking BP Miralda.. :rage:
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So Quantum Conundrum looks like it'll be a blast. I don't think Portal has enough copy cats, honestly, and this game being by a "co-creator" of Portal should mean it's pretty good, right?
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http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/06/01/how-low-will-electronic-arts-go.aspx (http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/06/01/how-low-will-electronic-arts-go.aspx)
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Would be nice if they were saying EA specifically is in the shitter, instead of the entire general game industry. I take Fool's analysis of actual business trends with a grain of salt though since most of their trading strategies seem to be based on pure math rather than forecasting.
If anything explains EA's precipitous drop in value, it'd probably have to be the 1-2 punch of terrible 3s.
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BILL COSBY RIDING EA STOCKMARKET DOWN THE SLOPES SAYING ZIP ZOP ZOOBITY BOP (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLDtHsfmEKs#ws)
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Best summary of E3 this year: (http://i.imgur.com/mFUxG.gif)
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I really like this gif:
(http://i.imgur.com/dlxXI.gif)
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Tekken Tag Tournament 2 - PS3 / X360 - Get ready for the Snoop Dogg Battle (E3 2012) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg-jnLTC_NE#ws)
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I only watched the Nintendo presentation, but what the hell was that ZombieU shit? Everything they showed of it looked like fake game footage you'd see a character "playing" on a CSI or Law & Order episode.
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ZombiU is apparently some sort of FPS roguelike. I can't really blame them for not attempting to explain it, but I don't have any details myself.
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&plgroup=1&docId=1000807831&tag=gmgamzn-20 (http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&plgroup=1&docId=1000807831&tag=gmgamzn-20)
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The new MGS is subtitled "Revengeance"?
So even the production team doesn't take it seriously anymore.
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It's being made by Platinum Games. So no they really don't care about it anymore.
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Tekken Tag Tournament 2 - PS3 / X360 - Get ready for the Snoop Dogg Battle (E3 2012) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg-jnLTC_NE#ws)
It's a crime that Snoop only has a bonus stage and isn't a playable character.
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DLC
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Maybe when you play as Snoop, on the snoop stage the background snoop is replaced with robosnoop.
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Tokyo Jungle confirmed for worldwide release (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/06/08/sonys-wacky-tokyo-jungle-headed-to-north-america-and-europe/)
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The new MGS is subtitled "Revengeance"?
So even the production team doesn't take it seriously anymore.
Technically they've dropped the "Solid" part of the title, on purpose to stress it's not part of Metal Gear Solid series.
Just "Metal Gear Rising: Revengenance"
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Is it really spelled like that? Not like "re-vengeance" but "revenge-nance"?
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Metal Gear Rising: Revenge of the Vengeance: Attack of the Assault: Gaiden
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Metal Gear Sworded: Reswordeance
Can swords bloom on the battlefield? [spoiler]yes[/spoiler]
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Metal Gear Rising Revengeance
so Re-Vengeance. I got it wrong apparently. My bad!
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Eurogamer interview with Yoshinori Ono (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2012-06-11-the-rise-and-collapse-of-yoshinori-ono)
"I woke up and walked to the bathroom," he tells me. "When I opened the door the room was abnormally steamy. Stranger still: the steam was rising. It kept rising, up and up, and I didn't understand what was going on. It was like I was suffocating. Then, when the steam reached my head level I passed out cold and collapsed onto the tiles."
"What happened then?"
"My wife was at home and heard the crash. Later she told me that she ran into the bathroom. There was no steam, just my body on the floor. She called an ambulance and I was rushed to hospital. When I came to, the doctor told me that my blood acidity level was on par with someone who had just finished running a marathon. He asked me: 'Ono-san, what on earth you been up to?' I told him that I woke up, went for a bath and simply passed out. He didn't believe me. I guess I have been working too hard. You could say my health bar was on the dot."
"Steam chip damage?" I quip, and Ono laughs hysterically. He laughs a lot: a hyperactive titter that punctuates his sentences like a court jester. He loves to make jokes, to see people laugh. Even when he's talking about falling into a near coma he sugars every sentence with generous laughter. Often it's unclear if he's masking true emotions, or whether he only sees the funny side to life's setbacks.
"Capcom doesn't allow a trade union or any sort of worker movement you see," he says, giggling. "So if I complain I will probably get sacked. You have to say it for me, OK? I want you to write: 'Capcom overworks Ono'. That's your headline."
I shoot the PR guy an apologetic glance. He sighs and looks to the ground. Ono, catching our interaction, turns to him and says, with that impish grin: "Just you wait. It will be you passed out on the floor one day."
The man also talks about how he got started, how he managed to indirectly get Capcom to greenlight SF4, and plans for the future. Pretty damn interesting. In a way he makes Capcom look like The House Keiji Inafune Was Right To Leave, but he clearly wants to stay with the franchise at least. I guess he holds out hope that the corporate mentality will change. More power to him I suppose; surely he knows better than anyone else there what he risks by sticking with that company.
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He just needs to hang in there long enough to make Darkstalkers 4 not suck, then he can go join Grasshopper and hang out with all the cool kids
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Lollipop Chainsaw came out yesterday. I just beat the last boss. It's an arcadey (high scores and leaderboards included) hack and slash with fanservice and fanservice and fanservice. The most expensive unlockables in the game (and the only ones I care about) are costumes for Juliet. They range from "skin-tight latex" to "seashells covering her nipples and something that is maybe supposed to be a bikini bottom." Also when you kill zombies rainbows spray everywhere.
I don't really know how I feel about this game. It's just so... I don't know. But I like it. I like it a lot.
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Eternal sadness that isn't for PC.
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The only costume worth using is the Ash costume. :serious:
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Receiver Game Mechanics Overview (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCThInmzjXw#ws)
Gun dickery and shootery roguelike.
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GET HYPED!
PSO2 - Super bouncy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9nwPK1nyI0#ws)
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Reactive armor.
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Guild Wars 2 is coming out August 28th.
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Hero Academy (http://www.robotentertainment.com/games/heroacademy/) is gonna be coming out on Steam in August. I've been kind of obsessed with the iOS version for a couple of months, so this is good news to me as long as the teams I've already got carry over.
Also, you'll get a free TF2 Team with the Steam version as well as TF2 items for every other team you've got, because of course you will.
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Oh, hey, I'd always thought if I had any game making skill that it'd be cool to have a mobile, multiplayer tactics style game. Glad to see it exists!
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Hero Academy is pretty fantastic! Happy to see this.
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Kayin. Kayin, what did you do?
Evo 2012 Special Announcement (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h03RYt67woU#ws)
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I can say without a doubt that the gaiden is better than the original
so good
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It is double plus great.
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I can only hope floe misses the trailer and doesn't know about the parachute before evo.
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Sony buys Gakai (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/07/what-sonys-gaikai-purchase-means-to-playstations-cloud-gaming-future/), the streaming game service.
This has potentially major ramifications. I've been saying for years that DRM that actually works IS hypothetically possible (for games and no other medium) if you set up a streaming model where the client is a dumb black box that just takes outputs, transmits them, receives video, and renders it. Then -- and ONLY then -- you have a model that prevents a game being copied, because it's never transferred into local memory in the first place.
Latency is, of course, the major problem. Expect this to be more immediately useful for passive entertainment and games that don't require split-second responsiveness. Long-term? I think they'll work out the delay issues.
I don't think we're ever going to live in a world where ALL games are streamed and none are stored locally. But we could be approaching one where all CONSOLE games are.
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Seth Killian now works at Sony Santa Moncia. (http://blog.us.playstation.com/2012/07/02/a-message-from-sony-santa-monica-studios-newest-employee/)
The external group works with Sony’s outside studios — teams like Queasy Games (Sound Shapes), Fun Bits Interactive (Escape Plan), thatgamecompany (Flower, Journey), and… SuperBot Entertainment, makers of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale!
Fuck.
However the good news is that his title is Lead Game Designer. So here's to hoping he gets to design a fighting game from the ground up sometime soon.
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So this is going around, supposedly written by a Capcom employee. If this is true in the slightest, that's some fucked up shit.
(http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m5jk5gSxi21qg0ruko1_1280.jpg)
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Probably not true but I find it believable - especially after reading that Ono interview. Capcom can't be a great place to work - and Japan's social/business practices aren't like the US where you say FUCK YOU I'M OUT and find a new job even if you're super qualified.
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like the US where you say FUCK YOU I'M OUT and find a new job
What's the weather like in 1998?
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That's still a viable tactic around here as long as you don't try to do it in that order.
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So, dunno if anyone else noticed, but new JoJo game incoming.
「ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 オールスターバトル」 第１弾PV (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOPqmpzlAE8#ws)
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What could possibly be the biggest lot of games sold on eBay for one million Euros, less a penny. (http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&rt=nc&nma=true&item=300736846867&si=K%252FfLPr8eryvYeyeRKHRZlx4I%252B04%253D&viewitem=&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc#ht_161582wt_1146)
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http://kotaku.com/5924710/deus-ex-human-revolution-gets-deal-to-be-the-next-big-video-game-movie (http://kotaku.com/5924710/deus-ex-human-revolution-gets-deal-to-be-the-next-big-video-game-movie)
I never asked for this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXpuRIZzJog#)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9zOoth30ylA# (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=9zOoth30ylA#)!
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I'm so ready.
Borderlands 2 Wimoweh Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nicvyhrmTDs#ws)
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http://ultimaforever.com/ (http://ultimaforever.com/)
Oh Bioware!
The first great Western RPG has been lovingly restored in Ultima Forever - return to the Ultima series in BioWare's new cross-platform action RPG. Accept the challenge from Lady British and save the land of Britannia. Play as the Fighter or the Mage and travel alone or with friends, restore virtue and become the Avatar!
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Bioware has money to do things?
Wait, LADY British?
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It's a different studio to which EA has assigned "Bioware" branding, Bioware Mythic, which is to say, Mythic.
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Dark Stalkers almost Confirmed (http://www.siliconera.com/2012/07/12/capcoms-yoshinori-ono-hints-at-darkstalkers/)
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Long awaited sequel to a capcom classic, huh?
I wonder how that will end.
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Pretty (http://i.imgur.com/zyOlq.jpg) well (http://i.imgur.com/w5Li0.jpg)?
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Not at all (http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/gamelife/2011/07/mmlegends3.jpg)?
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Mega Man game fails after Keiji Inafune left, whereas the architect of the fighting game rebirth is still there.
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Yeah guys, MML is totally different. That was the story of a famous and well loved director / producer who had been trying to get a sequel to his pet project series for years, and after things started to finally look good for it he left and the series all but officially died.
That sounds nothing like this.
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You're right.
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DEADPOOL THE GAME: Teaser Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gLadgMsU9fw#ws)
um
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I have to admit, I did enjoy that last line.
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It's like I'm really on the internets in 2004.
edit: fixed
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I like how it has the record skip sound effect from comedy trailers. "Deadpool thought it was easy being a mercenary *BVVRT* But that all changed when his long lost son showed up! Now he's gotta learn how to fight evil, and how to be a dad"
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I hope that when you play the game, Deadpool goes "PEW PEW PEW!" the ENTIRE TIME.
oh god
It would be terrible and awesome at the same time, but Kinect support so you could talk to Deadpool.
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Steam, L4D2 bound for Ubuntu. (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/07/valve-announces-ubuntu-port-of-steam-source-engine-and-left-4-dead-2/)
Not a bad start.
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Fable III is a game where you can spend twenty hours running around in a dog suit that makes you look like your dog partner while shooting people in the face with a rifle, and right when things looks the darkest you can save the world with a rock concert.
Game of the year every year.
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Wait, what? Did I somehow miss a medieval rock-out?
edit: well, more pseudo-victorian, but whatever.
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The rock concert was in you all along.
it is you playing a lute
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The best ending is contingent upon [spoiler]having a lot of money[/spoiler], which you can achieve by many different means, one of which is [spoiler]playing the Lute Hero minigame[/spoiler].
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I had to give up on the Fable series about 3 hours or so into Fable 2, when the combination of excessive motion blur and BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMM started making me dizzy.
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I sorta got annoyed at how people kept whining at me how I wouldn't have enough money, even though I had left the game running for hours and had like 15 million gold saved up.
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Some characters just always whine about that, while others' lines are based on how much is in the treasury rather than in your personal possession.
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Fable 2 gave you money over real time time even if you were not playing. i played for a while on a 360 that never got connected to the internet before. then i connected it, it synced its time up and i got a couple years worth of rent on my properties. :whoops:
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If this is true,say goodbye to your credit cards and wallet. Planescape Part 2? (http://pc.gamespy.com/pc/planescape-torment/1225541p1.html)
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So apparently Insomniac Games, creators of Spyro the Dragon and Ratchet & Clank, looked at the games on Facebook and scoffed. They guffawed, even, and swirled their brandy glasses, snorting, "Shiiiiieet. I could do that. Fuck, I'll show these fucks how it's done."
So they made a Pokemon clone about exploring the universe. (http://www.insomniacgames.com/games/outernauts/)
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Gotta say, even though I'll never play a facebook game so long as I live, I really like those sprites.
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...so Last Story appears to have been pushed back 2 more freakin' weeks?
I mean, okay. I've got plenty of shit to do in the next 2 weeks. It's just that I preordered it with a gift card that's about to expire and can't take much more in the way of delays.
Expiration date of 08/12 means it's good through the END of August, right?
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Hmm, I don't know if that's allowed in your case, or if you'd even want to (given the dubious practices of some game stores), but I'm fairly sure I just straight-up paid an entire preorder in advance one time, back when I used to do that sort of thing. Might be worth a shot to see if they would take your money right now.
...of course in a very real way they already have your money, so I guess it would be a good measure of how much of a dick they feel like being at the time.
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I always pay off games in their entirety when I pre-order just to be sure I don't accidentally spend the money on something else.
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Yeah, it's NewEgg. I could shoot them an E-Mail and ask if they'll just charge me but I imagine that's a pretty big hassle for an online company with an automated process.
Could cancel and go elsewhere, but I got a $10 off deal with NewEgg, so.
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NewEgg is a pretty reasonable operation. If you shoot an email to customer support they'll probably be able and happy to issue an account credit or something.
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Spinning coins: Check
Anti-Gravity Discs: Check
Jump Pads: Check
Like 10 Different Kinds of Rocket Launcher: Check
Excalibat: Check
Ludicrous Gibs: ????
Rise of the Triad Exclusive Reveal Trailer [HD] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhi-7lj7osI#ws)
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The game DNF wasn't.
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They also confirmed the God and Dog mode power ups at the reveal during Quakecon. ROTT has the best God mode ever, if anyone didn't know, and the only Dog mode ever. They're about equally powerful.
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The firewall
The ridiculous jumps
The ripped 16khz voices
The Goin' down the fast way
Is... is this what it feels like to actually be excited about a game announcement?
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Yes.
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That said, I do see Raspberry Jam. That's not a minor nitpick; it's a big part of why DNF lost its spirit.
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In fairness, that's someone else's jam. He just got some on him.
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Oh, there's also a toggle to turn on 100% original sound effects, if you want to. Music, guns, enemies, player quips, everything.
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So is The Secret World fun? I really want it to be fun.
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It is very, very fun.
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So I can not in any way shape or form condone what Robot Entertainment decided to do with Hero Academy on Steam, charging $5 per team instead of $2 and bundling in their dumb avatar packs with them as a required purchase instead of being a seperate freemium transaction like on iOS.
But the game is still really fun and I really wanted the TF2 team so I bought the basic pack anyway since all my other stuff is unlocked from iOS already. :(
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You are all WEIR-
the decision -- made by Activision Corporate, not the developers themselves --
...DOoooh shit.
EVERYBODY GET THE FUCK OUT OF THIS THREAD GO GO GO HOLY SHIT WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE
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You are all WEIR-
the decision -- made by Activision Corporate, not the developers themselves --
...DOoooh shit.
EVERYBODY GET THE FUCK OUT OF THIS THREAD GO GO GO HOLY SHIT WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE
This post is hilarious in isolation like this. :glee:
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Agreed. I think we should leave it.
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OnLive fires all employees, files for bankruptcy. (http://www.giantbomb.com/news/onlive-is-either-shutting-down-or-isnt-depending-on-who-you-ask-updated/4322/)
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Ahead of its time.
I really do think cheap generic hardware + streaming game service is the way things are going; it's interesting seeing the way it's developed -- first Phantom, which introduced the basic premise but never actually managed to produce a product, then OnLive, which put out a product but still couldn't sell it. Ouya's the next evolution; it's doing pretty well out the gate but the proof is in the pudding.
I've said it before but it bears repeating: in the coming years the latency problem is going to get mostly-tackled and we're eventually going to see consoles that are just dumb terminals that accept controller inputs, send them to a server, and then send back the audio/video/force output. This is desirable from the publishers' standpoint because it is the only way DRM can ever actually successfully work (because it is the only way that does not involve copying the program into the client's memory), and it's desirable from players' standpoint because it will mean cheaper hardware, up to and including handhelds that perform on par with consoles.
Ouya complicates things a bit because it's an open platform, which means fragmentation. The cost is a consistent user experience; the benefit is a competitive market of both hardware and software. I'm a Linux guy so I don't have to tell you which side of the divide I stand on, but monolithic It-Just-Works platforms certainly have their appeal.
What Ouya's got is Android, making for easy portability of existing games. Then again, OnLive ran Windows.
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The people of OnLive, like everyone who ever worked on DNF, should just take pride that they managed to make the thing actually happen, and leave it at that.
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http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/17/source-onlive-found-a-buyer-cleaned-house-to-reduce-liability-prior-to-acquisition/ (http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/17/source-onlive-found-a-buyer-cleaned-house-to-reduce-liability-prior-to-acquisition/)
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Waitwaitwait
Heeeeeeeeeey
I thought private equity was supposed to create jobs
Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey
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Romneynomics at its finest!
:perfect:
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The company says in their statement almost half of OnLive employees were given job offers with the new company at their current salaries. Those not hired by OnLive will be "given offers to do consulting in return for options." The company also says CEO Steve Perlman did not receive any stock or compensation during this process.
From here. (http://content.usatoday.com/communities/gamehunters/post/2012/08/more-details-surface-on-onlive-acquisition/1)
:shrug:
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http://planetaryannihilation.com/ (http://planetaryannihilation.com/)
This looks pretty damn amazing, I loved TA, and this trailer gives me a lot of the same kind of feeling, it reminds me of Fragile Allegiance a bit too.
It has a kickstarter, but you can also donate through paypal. This looks fun as hell, so i'm gonna throw some money their way.
I mean, you can put engines on an asteroid and ram it into the enemy's planet! Who isn't excited about that?
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I was never a big fan of TA, but that game looks nuts.
Is... is that genuine originality?
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Wow does Uber Entertainment really need a kickstarter? Hopefully they doesn't release Super Planetary Annihilation a couple years after this releases as a f2p game.
This looks baller as hell though.
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Interplay is bringing back Black Isle Studios. (http://www.gamespot.com/news/black-isle-studios-returning-6392966) With none of the people who made Black Isle Studios what it was.
If anything of value comes of it I will eat a hat.
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Dust: An Elysian Tail (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/08/dust-an-elysian-tail-one-animators-3-5-year-quest-to-create-his-dream-game/) -- any good? It sure LOOKS good.
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Dust: An Elysian Tail (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/08/dust-an-elysian-tail-one-animators-3-5-year-quest-to-create-his-dream-game/) -- any good? It sure LOOKS good.
that looks amazing except I can't get over that the game was probably inspired by furry porn doujin somebody picked up at Anthrocon.
Look at his companion. It's rouge the bat combined with tails with F cup tits for some reason??? Jesus, it's all the worst parts of furry art combined into a beautiful amazing muramasa-esque beatemup. It's like if Vanillaware was called Yiffillaware and their primary product was Sonic the Hedgehog porn games.
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Look at his companion. It's rouge the bat combined with tails with F cup tits for some reason???
those are paws, dude.
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(http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/3/33504/1127075-dust_02.png)
I am trying really hard to find the giant knockers on this character.
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Oh, the way the paws were dangling in the video they looked like breasts. No Shinra, you are the fruedian.
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The actual gameplay is neat from the trial I played but it's so furry that I can't stand to keep playing it.
I mean, look at the art you just posted. It looks like it's straight off of some furaffinity deviantart sheezyart page.
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Just for context, you know that you can have anthropomorphic characters without having shit be, "so furry," right?
The trailer didn't give me any so furry vibes above and beyond say... Klonoa.
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Yeah, I'm Internet-old enough to remember back when you could say "furry" without invoking creepy sexual overtones. Watership Down, Mrs. Frisby, Star Fox, Sonic the Hedgehog before the fandom got all weird...
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If you're buying Mists of Pandaria then I don't want to hear shit about furry fandom.
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TSSZ seems to dig it. (http://www.tssznews.com/2012/08/22/review-dust-an-elysian-tail/)
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The trailer didn't give me any so furry vibes above and beyond say... Klonoa.
I used to know a really bad furry who was obsessed with Klonoa.
It's not the character's fault, but that's not a comparison that'll reassure me.
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you guys are fucking idiots btw
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http://www.square-enix.co.jp/subaseka/ (http://www.square-enix.co.jp/subaseka/)
IF YOU FUCK THIS UP SQUARE SO HELP ME GOD I WILL WRITE THE ANGRIEST GODDAMN WORDS ON THE INTERNET
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I've been hearing a lot of secret "reduce your hype" on this. Rumor is that it's an IOS port.
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I've been hearing a lot of secret "reduce your hype" on this. Rumor is that it's an IOS port.
A flub on the japanese Square-enix store page for the soundtrack of TWEWY outed this as the truth.
::(:
Edit: Okay so maybe it's not entirely terrible?
This subaseka sound is powering up its arrival again. The World Ends with You was released for the Nintendo DS in 2007. It was praised for its quality of the game, quality soundtrack, and it has received a very high rating. An iOS version of the game will be released in North America and Europe in 2012.
This product, in addition to new music for the iOS, music that was arranged for Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] has also been included. Please enjoy this music again, for the memories of the hot summer spent with Neku.
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The HOT summer spent with Neku.
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I've been hearing a lot of secret "reduce your hype" on this. Rumor is that it's an IOS port.
that actually is better than a sequel that ruins everything so i'll accept it
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So, apparently confirmed for just IOS port and I guess soundtrack stuff?
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Valve's up to something. (http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/09/valve-is-jumping-in-to-the-computer-hardware-market/)
Valve Software has just revealed a bit more about its apparent intention to jump from gaming software to computer hardware: a job posting for an industrial designer noticed by CVG states that the company is "frustrated by the lack of innovation in the computer hardware space" and that Valve is "jumping in" to fill a "void in the marketplace."
While this job posting seems to confirm the persistent rumors that Valve is looking to get into the hardware business, it doesn't tell us much about what form the company's efforts will take: in addition to the "Steam Box" console rumors, Valve has also obtained a patent for a controller with swappable parts. The wording of the job listing also doesn't preclude some sort of gaming PC, though Valve director Gabe Newell has made his dissatisfaction with the forthcoming Windows 8 "catastrophe" quite clear. Anything that creates a "compelling user experience" appears to be fair game, though the listing specifically calls out basic input devices like the keyboard and mouse as elements that "haven't really changed in any meaningful way over the years."
Hm -- I'm thinking Linux-based gaming system. Could be a console or a desktop computer, though of course the distinction between those two things is getting blurrier all the time.
Basing it on open hardware standards could be damned interesting.
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I'm thinking digital distribution-based console.
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Couple of Arma 3 devs got arrested for espionage, apparently could get up to 20 years if convicted. (http://www.vg247.com/2012/09/11/arma-3-devs-arrested-for-spying-on-greek-island-lemnos/)
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... Well I guess I'm getting a Wii U (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/09/13/bayonetta-2-is-a-wii-u-exclusive/), what with Bayonetta 2 being an exclusive.
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What in th-
Okay, me too, even though I was getting one on release day anyway just to play my shit on an HDTV.
Still, what th-
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Platinum I can't believe you've done this.
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Hee hee, I love how the comments section is all people blustering "well, I didn't want it anyway!"
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It's fine by me. Unless Nintendo maintains its "one generation behind" policy this means we'll get it on the most powerful hardware at the time of release, plus there's no danger of buying The Really Bad Version this time.
I mean, it FEELS weird, but maybe this will lead to Bayonetta/Samus slash fiction or something.
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You never know. She might show up in Super Smash Brothers Scrimmage or whatever the next one's called.
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The only thing that worries me is that the controller for the Wii U is going to be so clunky. It's going to be like playing games while holding a netbook.
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I wonder what Bayonetta's taunts would look like.
Or her combos.
Or her smashes.
Honestly I think she might end up being represented by a giant black censor bar.
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Oh come on, Brent. Putting Bayonetta in the game and slapping a big M FOR MATURE sticker on it is a license to print money.
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god damn it.
god damn it.
and apparently MH3U is coming to the US on WiiU as well.
I guess that's enough to justify a WiiU.
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Speaking of WiiU-exclusives...
「鉄拳タッグトーナメント２ Wii U EDITION」 TGS２０１２トレーラー (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCJAOaPiz5M#ws)
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...
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Tekken you have seriously got to stop trying so hard. You're already everyone's least favorite fighting series.
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METAL GEAR RISING REVENGEANCE - TGS 2012 TRAILER (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htSmSUaWtBE#ws)
Gosh I love Platinum.
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Platinum Games talking about putting their games on PC. (http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/9/24/3383184/platinum-games-on-pc-steam-kickstarter-tgs)
(http://i.imgur.com/HPsbC.jpg)
Just had a quick backstage at The International with Gabe from Valve. It was inspiring. We got the impression that they are a very open-minded company
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Valve, you have the money to do this. Don't make them go to Kickstarter, just fund it.
Also, Gabe Newell's beard is so jolly I can't take it.
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Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooothatwouldbekeen
Also, good god does Gabe ever look so much better with a beard. Though it sure makes him look a hell of a lot older than 49.
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Beards take off like 60 pounds on camera.
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It's harder to see multiple chins through a beard.
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When a guy who used to work at Capcom visits Valve HQ, I'm sure there's some point in the tour where he just goes slack-jawed and stops moving and they have to reboot his brain somehow. It must be like a Russian athlete attending a competition in the US during the cold war. "This is how you guys are running one of the most profitable game companies in the world? Why the hell are we bothering with the developer concentration camps back home then? Can I stay? Please tell me I can stay. They have my family, can you help with that?"
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Bearded Gabe Newell looks like George Lucas.
Valve, you have the money to do this. Don't make them go to Kickstarter, just fund it.
Also, Gabe Newell's beard is so jolly I can't take it.
Oh no, Platinum has to pony up the $100 for Greenlight just like everyone else.
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The difference is that unlike Valve, Platinum actually makes games.
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I think they're mainly talking about using Kickstarter to get enough money to fund their own game to release on PC, not porting over stuff like Vanquish and Bayonetta.
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Let's hope they mean both. I'd get Bayonetta on PC.
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Doing a port costs money too y'know.
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Oh god, just imagine the horrible pornographic mods that would ensue if Bayonetta came out on PC.
All of which would somehow invariably manage to be less erotic than the game itself.
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Retro City Rampage is finally out (google it). It isn't as cheap as some games at 15 bucks, but it's still way cheaper than any NES game we ever bought and it's probably way better than pretty much any of them. For a game that is truly one guy's crazy vision, that he has been working on in some capacity for years, and that he was originally making in assembly code so that he could release it as an actual NES cartridge, I think it's a fair price. The guy worked his ass off to make this thing, and it's pretty cray-cray.
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Ono discussing Darkstalksers 4. (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/10/11/capcom-ono-dreams-of-revitalizing-darkstalkers-wants-darkstal/)
pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease
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Just so long as he doesn't suddenly quit the company in the next month.
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http://starcitizen.robertsspaceindustries.com/ (http://starcitizen.robertsspaceindustries.com/)
This sounds pretty awesome, I never really played wing commander, but i loved the hell out of freespace, and open world space games are awesome as heck. And this one sounds amazing.
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I like how they blatantly stole the kickstarter format, but are actually doing this entirely through their own website.
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I looked it up, and found this.
http://www.vg247.com/2012/10/11/star-citizen-eschewing-kickstarter-to-talk-to-gamers-directly/ (http://www.vg247.com/2012/10/11/star-citizen-eschewing-kickstarter-to-talk-to-gamers-directly/)
"“The problem I have with Kickstarter is that it’s better than the publisher setup, but it’s still another party,” he said of the decision"
It makes sense, I guess, if you can do it all yourself, you may as well.
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Can't remember if there's a Wii U topic. Anyway: Wii U gamepad has a one-frame latency.
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/10/rayman-developer-wii-u-gamepad-latency-is-160th-of-a-second/ (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2012/10/rayman-developer-wii-u-gamepad-latency-is-160th-of-a-second/)
The tone of the article really torques me off. Hey, I think that's a pretty noticable and significant delay, and I'm not exactly a Kayin. Apparently for touchscreen games it's offset by just showing stuff on the gamepad a frame early... uh, which means there's a couple frames of video lag too. Eeeurgh.
Looks like we're all set for another Nintendo console that's only really good for games built around its control gimmick, surprise surprise.
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That'll only be noticeable if it's a very high-detailed series of frames. The addition of a tiny amount of motion blur to sprites/model animations would render it unnoticeable. Because delay noticeability is non-uniform and correlated with amount of difference between frames, the lack of light saturation, and detail of the images being processed by the eye. So it could be an issue sometimes, but it really shouldn't be in most cases.
So, if you want a game to run 'smoother', turn down the detail, it makes it go faster on the computer and makes you eyes less able to notice stutters. Also turning up the screen brightness helps, stupidly enough.
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War of the Roses is a broken piece of shit. It has a 'bug' where it's not actually compatible with... well no one knows. It seems to just be nVidia cards, but ATI users have issues to. "Issues" in this case meaning "the game doesn't run".
Their support forums (http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?748-War-of-the-Roses-Bug-Reports-and-Technical-Support) are the definition of unhelpful. There has been zero word on anything that's happening since beta, and mods/devs shrug off any requests for information on the topic.
The only support they've ever provided is just reposting anything a user says worked for them. To the point where for months the only 'known fix' to come up for the issue didn't even relate to it. Because why would devs / admins even bother to check and see if all the steps are real before telling everyone that's what they have to do, right?
It's really frustrating to the point where I feel like something should be done, but I don't know what. Steam laughs at anyone who asks for refunds on anything, and Paradox employees literally ignore (if not delete while pretending to ignore) anything that has to do with refunds, or specifically with how the admins have been ignoring their PMs about possible refunds.
So is this something worth emailing a gaming site about and seeing if they can stir up some shit? Or am I just overreacting and no one that didn't blow thirty bucks on a game that doesn't work will care?
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Have you actually tried sending that exact text to Steam along with a refund request.
Like I would go through the motions before hitting up a gaming news site or whatever.
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My ticket to steam
Payment Info
I understand that you do not commonly give refunds for downloaded games, but the issues with WotR should understandably make it an exception.
Many users (anyone with an nVidia card and various others) are completely unable to load this game. It is a known issue with no fix in the works.
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?634593-Do-you-have-random-crashes-client-startup-issues-Look-here-please (http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?634593-Do-you-have-random-crashes-client-startup-issues-Look-here-please)!
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?636440-Some-Common-issues-and-possible-solutions (http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?636440-Some-Common-issues-and-possible-solutions)!
http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?635617-Tips-For-Those-Using-an-Nvidia-Video-Card (http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?635617-Tips-For-Those-Using-an-Nvidia-Video-Card)
Those are just moderator / developer started threads mixed with the countless user started about the game crashing outright or preventing play in some regard. There are even posts from the mods that contact is being / needs to be made with Steam to change the listed system requirements because they don't properly reflect a system that the game will run properly on.
I understand that none of these technical issues are Steam's fault, but Paradox will outright ignore any request for technical support or any kind of compensation for the issue. Still, this is not an example of me not liking the game or being unable to use it because of my own failings. The system requirements shown on the order page promised something that was not delivered. Advertised the product was supposed to be access to the beta and full release, but it seems they have you selling only the beta builds under false pretense.
Notably that bit about the system requirements is a bit of an overstatement, since it was only in regards to vista SP2 compability (http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?634593-Do-you-have-random-crashes-client-startup-issues-Look-here-please!&p=14450902&viewfull=1#post14450902).
response:
Thank you for contacting Steam Support.
As with most software products, we do not offer refunds or exchanges on games, DLC or in-game items purchased on our website or through the Steam Client.
Please review Section 3 of the Steam Subscriber Agreement for more information.
http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=subscriber_agreement (http://www.steampowered.com/index.php?area=subscriber_agreement)
We will make an exception and refund preorders as long as the request is received prior to the release of the game. This only applies to preorders purchased from your account, preordered titles received or sent through the Steam Trading system cannot be refunded.
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Yeah, the idea that Steam never refunds anything under any circumstances is kind of bullshit and I figure they're going to get called on it at some point.
Next step is to request an escalation for your ticket, with an explicit sentence along the lines of "I have the hardware and software system requirements as described, have followed all company-provided support, and still cannot play the game in any way shape or form, nor is any response forthcoming from the manufacturer/developer/studio."
Google searches for steam support seem spotty at best, but I did see one or two instances of people requesting escalation and/or getting a refund for buyer's remorse or other things, so it's not flat-out impossible.
If they refuse the escalation or the escalating rep gives you the same answer, then yeah, I would look at speaking to gaming media. I used to laugh at "I'LL SPEAK TO THE MEDIA!" but that actually works sometimes these days. Sometimes.
There's also a BBB complaint (which also works sometimes, surprisingly enough), but apparently Steam doesn't bother with accreditation through them and doesn't really bother with complaints registered against them. You you might actually be able to try a BBB complain against the publisher. Which also brings up the possibility of requesting a refund directly from the publisher.
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The Entertainment Software Ratings Board's standard rating process involves issuing content guidance to consumers based on viewing a DVD of representative gameplay. But with thousands of games being submitted to participating digital storefronts—including the upcoming Windows 8 Store, Steam, console download services, and the new PlayStation Mobile marketplace—the ratings organization found its standard process couldn't handle the load. So now, the organization will assign a free rating to downloadable games based on a questionnaire filled out by the developer that describes the game's content.
"Due to the volume of digitally delivered games and the speed and frequency with which they’re produced, we recognize the need to utilize a process that is scalable and fast but still highly reliable," ESRB Director of Communications Eliot Mizrahi told Ars. "Our goal is for this service to facilitate broader adoption of our ratings so consumers are presented with consistent rating information regardless of where their family plays."
On the one hand, I've always thought ratings systems of all kinds are stupid (1: as Zappa put it, "that means that somebody in an office someplace is making a decision about how smart my child is"; 2: they've proven a mechanism of enshrining the notion that sex is worse than violence). And I can't help questioning the wisdom of allowing people to rate their own games.
On the other, I acknowledge that the ESRB ratings system is a necessary evil in this market, and if these means a bigger audience for indie developers then I think that's a good thing.
At least, until the first one slaps an E rating on an AO title and the news media find out about it.
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Natural Selection 2 has finally come out. It is surprising for some reason to see it released and actually resemble a finished product. It plays a lot nicer from the last time I played the beta. I was wondering how the aliens were supposed to break into the marine start when they all had grenade launchers until someone gave us a protip that the alien commander can lay down higher evolution eggs down so that players don't have to wait for their resources to slowly creep up to evolve.
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More importantly, Primal Carnage also came out.
I honestly to god thought Steam was just fucking with me when I saw both of those games on the Now Available ticker.
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Pretty sure Primal Carnage is crap. NS2 is fucking awesome though. I've been in the beta since it was an alpha engine test, and to see what it has become is amazing.
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yes probably but you can play as a t-rex
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(http://i.imgur.com/1O8cA.jpg) (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/halo-4-king-hill-fuled-by/id565679301?mt=8)
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Thank goodness that is just a joke image and not a link that leads to the saddest thing.
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It's fuled by Mountain Dew.
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/09/18 (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2002/09/18)
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PROFITS OF THE MODERN AGE!!!
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The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim: Dragonborn - Official Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRmdXDH9b1s#ws)
Solstheim + bonemold armour + Telvanni mushroom houses = Morrowind!!!
(http://i55.tinypic.com/2yvvuyf.jpg)
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http://www.shacknews.com/article/76589/silicon-knights-ordered-to-destroy-unreal-engine-games (http://www.shacknews.com/article/76589/silicon-knights-ordered-to-destroy-unreal-engine-games)
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It also requires Silicon Knights to cease producing or distributing those games, and to recall and destroy any unsold copies.
So how long until a judge orders a company to destroy all SOLD copies of a digitally-distributed product?
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That's a good question. I'm not sure anyone's actually considered that. Would it be like those people whose books get taken off their kindles for whatever reason, only on a large and permanent scale?
Besides, wouldn't they just switch off the servers or something? There's probably a clause in the EULA for that already.
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That's a good question. I'm not sure anyone's actually considered that.
Well, I mean, Doctorow and lots and lots of other consumer advocates have considered the possibility.
Would it be like those people whose books get taken off their kindles for whatever reason, only on a large and permanent scale?
Yes.
And if a court does it, there's the rub -- Amazon got a huge black eye over that 1984 deletion and has pledged not to do it again. But if a court ordered it, Amazon wouldn't have any choice but to comply. The only way to actually GUARANTEE a company is never going to remotely remove things from your device is for that functionality not to be built into the software in the first damn place.
Besides, wouldn't they just switch off the servers or something? There's probably a clause in the EULA for that already.
Well sure, assuming the game needs to connect to a server to authenticate every time it's run. But I'm talking more along the lines of exactly what Amazon did: actually removing the data completely from your device.
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I hadn't even heard about these shenanigans until now. I guess that means there's no chance of an Eternal Darkness sequel.
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Not from Silicon Knights. But somebody else could wind up with the rights.
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PC Gamer basically says that Hitman: Absolution is garbage. (http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/10682/article/hitman-absolution-is-a-mess-gets-torn-apart-in-pc-gamer-review/)
Gosh, you mean the game that was advertised with a trailer where 47 kills a squadron of sexy battle nuns isn't very good? Color me shocked. Seriously though, after Kane & Lynch my faith in IO Interactive was pretty much gone. And really, Blood Money was the only objectively good game in the series anyway (though I did enjoy 2 and Contracts, buggy as they were).
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Kane and Lynch 1 at least had something with taking apart the 'Good man in bad situation' deal that gets tossed around in GTA games.(Except for Libery City). Lynch and Kane were monsters who had flashes of humanity but threw them away.
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Man, I played Blood Money like a month ago as my first Hitman game and its really a massive bummer that Absolution is sounding like its just savagely bad cause I was really hyped to play something new in that same vein. I guess I'll just go back and play the older ones instead? =\
OTOH several of the comments on the article make it sound like the guy harshing on it might be out for blood or something. I dunno... I'll probably end up checking it out somehow, since I have a hard time believing they'd fuck it up so badly (don't even start, don't even).
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In the physical copy of Call of Duty Black Ops 2, installation Disc 2 is actually Mass Effect 2, Disc 2. (http://community.callofduty.com/message/413513938)
[2] (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?p=33349751) [3] (http://imgur.com/a/t9XEH)
Black ops 2 = Mass Effect 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_a0TzFx5hE#ws)
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Also, it features Patraeus as the Secretary of Defense.
:whoops: :whoops: :whoops: :whoops: :whoops: :whoops: :whoops:
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Possibly the biggest news in the history of video games, the NBA, and apocalyptic cataclysms, ever. (http://www.talesofgames.com/)
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That's not "NBA Jam is getting a bigger sequel, with free TF2 hat"
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That's not Shaq-fu 2: Tofu Snafu, a game where shaq uses martial arts to fight pod people made of soy beans.
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That's not this (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/10/03/nba-2k13-delivers-justin-bieber-experience/)*
*edit for people who hate this urls get bent**
**not actually an edit
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I'll thank you to continue failing to remind me of the Bieber's existence in the future.
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in other news:
WHORE OF THE ORIENT (http://www.joystiq.com/2012/11/14/rumor-whore-of-the-orient-action-adventure-aiming-for-2015/)
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Stay classy, videogames.
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somehow they made this scene even crazier than they let off it would be (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doCw_M5Rdzs#)
the new CoD has fucking horse riding oh my gaaawd
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the new CoD has fucking horse riding
Oh hey it IS about Patraeus.
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A most influential video games list that is kind of interesting. (http://techland.time.com/2012/11/15/all-time-100-video-games/slide/all/) At least it is in my opinion.
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The only thing that comes to mind that's missing (I'm sure there's more) is Dragon Quest. But of course they focus mostly on western games.
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ＥＰＩＣ ＨＩＴＭＡＮ ＡＢＳＯＬＵＴＩＯＮ ＧＡＭＥＰＬＡＹ! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh3a4stNaf4#ws)
This is kind of amazing.
Silent assassin
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Glitch closes shop, no one will notice. (http://www.pcworld.com/article/2014252/requiem-for-a-game-quirky-mmo-glitch-to-close.html)
It had recently changed from a great concept to Facebook the Game, so it's probably for the best.
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So Elite (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1461411552/elite-dangerous) might be getting a new iteration. Also a stupid subtitle.
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HIT MAN: ABSOLUTION (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoMCqZJNX-I#ws)
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I dunno if you guys kept up with the uhh Doritos lawsuit story(?) but here's a new chapter: https://twitter.com/MCVonline/status/270547559649513472
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I have absolutely zero idea as to what you are talking about.
In situations like this, a link would be courteous.
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I have absolutely zero idea as to what you are talking about.
In situations like this, a link would be courteous.
I don't know to much about it myself, but this is what I gathered.
Some dude working for a gaming mag decided to talk shit about a girl who wrote a review on a game and had ads for said game as the background of her twitter. The girl threatened legal action, and the guy lost his job. Then apparently the backlash made the company the girl was working for publicly fire her as seen on the tweet.
I dunno where the potato chips. :nyoro~n:
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http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/libel-alleged-legal-threats-and-conflicts-of-interest-the-twisted-story-of- (http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/libel-alleged-legal-threats-and-conflicts-of-interest-the-twisted-story-of-)
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Okay, that actually makes sense now, including the Doritos reference.
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Here's how I read it:
It's entirely possible that Lauren Wainwright is simply naive and doesn't understand professional standards, and the concept of avoiding even the PERCEPTION of a conflict of interest. Given the state of the game journalism industry, this is actually entirely understandable.
If she was just being honestly enthusiastic, then yes, it's pretty fucking insulting to be accused of accepting a bribe, even in such a roundabout "I don't think she REALLY is, but but but" kind of way. It's perfectly reasonable to be pissed off about somebody making those insinuations against you.
I'm not sure how the story would have played out in America. I like to think she would have simply written a response saying she was insulted and Florence was wrong, instead of complaining to management.
Failing that, I like to think that an American outlet would have shown some backbone and told her publisher where to stick it if they claimed those few sentences actually qualified as defamation. Because in America, I sure as hell don't think that they would.
I see British libel law as the real problem here. I must admit I don't understand Britain's approach to free speech, and I think it builds entirely too much "right not to have your feelings hurt" into the law. What happened here? Perfectly normal for the UK, and generally accepted as the normal thing to do there. (I've never quite figured out how their tabloids manage to get away with just straight-up making shit up when their libel laws are so strict -- anybody from there/living there know how that works?)
Anyway. Completely independent of British law and culture, Ms. Wainwright has just walked right into a lesson in Internet culture and the law of cause-and-effect. One specific Effect in particular.
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The headline picture from those articles is a pretty concise summary of Games Journalism today.
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Here's how I read it:
It's entirely possible that Lauren Wainwright is simply naive and doesn't understand professional standards, and the concept of avoiding even the PERCEPTION of a conflict of interest. Given the state of the game journalism industry, this is actually entirely understandable.
If she was just being honestly enthusiastic, then yes, it's pretty fucking insulting to be accused of accepting a bribe, even in such a roundabout "I don't think she REALLY is, but but but" kind of way. It's perfectly reasonable to be pissed off about somebody making those insinuations against you.
I'm not sure how the story would have played out in America. I like to think she would have simply written a response saying she was insulted and Florence was wrong, instead of complaining to management.
Failing that, I like to think that an American outlet would have shown some backbone and told her publisher where to stick it if they claimed those few sentences actually qualified as defamation. Because in America, I sure as hell don't think that they would.
I see British libel law as the real problem here. I must admit I don't understand Britain's approach to free speech, and I think it builds entirely too much "right not to have your feelings hurt" into the law. What happened here? Perfectly normal for the UK, and generally accepted as the normal thing to do there. (I've never quite figured out how their tabloids manage to get away with just straight-up making shit up when their libel laws are so strict -- anybody from there/living there know how that works?)
Anyway. Completely independent of British law and culture, Ms. Wainwright has just walked right into a lesson in Internet culture and the law of cause-and-effect. One specific Effect in particular.
Something to note, it is apparently disgustingly common in "Games Journalism" to angle into a job with your favorite company by sucking it's dick vigorously and thoroughly.
Put in a less graphic sense, the "usual way" to get a job with your company of choice is to go into PR and be an unpaid shill for them. They constantly send you product to "review", and if you continue to churn out positive bullshit for them, eventually you get hired because hey, you're a ready made mouthpiece for them.
Wainwright comes off as incredibly naive, yes, but to me, she was playing a game that is disgusting and broken to begin with, and lashed out when she saw someone potentially damaging her chance to get a job with them. (Or a better job with them, she was already hired to do two reviews for Square-Enix, her attempts to hide this fact one of the things that came out of this)
Agreeing in British libel law also being the problem here - she knew full well she could throw it at them to get it removed, and got Streisand'd because of it.
She's a dumb naive bitch who hopefully takes a good long look at what caused this shit and can manage to actually improve herself from this.
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Hate the game yo.
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Metal Gear Rising Revengeance -- Raiden Gameplay Part 2 Trailer [HD] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJn9hhedJ7A#ws)
Bueno.
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Sombrero box has shown me how to love again.
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Also also: Dark Souls 2 (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/382757/dark-souls-2-more-approachable-series-creator-steps-aside/)
Here's to hoping they don't fuck it up.
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The Secret World is now free to play, provided you buy a copy of the game.
here (http://thesecretworld.com/). You can buy it on greenmangaming for 19.50 right now using their winter sale promo code, if anyone is interested.
They are using the Guild Wars model, with future major content packs being released as DLC for 5 bucks a pop.
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CD Projekt RED Team released their Cyberpunk 2077 Teaser
Cyberpunk 2077 Teaser Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P99qJGrPNLs#ws)
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One thing is guaranteed from the studio: you will be able to fuck every female in that teaser.
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Sonic and All Stars Racing Transformed is up on Steam! It's Mario Kart but better! And this version has NETPLAY!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/212480/ (http://store.steampowered.com/app/212480/)
Sonic and All-Stars Racing Transformed Gameplay Footage Panzer Dragoon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvZj-V2nnIg#ws)
So who is getting it it with me?
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Why does Sonic need a ca-- oh, they're flying and stuff.
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It's a handicap, R^2
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So who from the LB ventrilo is getting it it with me?
Before anyone may fall in that trap.
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why is it that every crossover game not made by nintendo shows a profound disinterest in maintaining the integrity of the characters they're using
i mean, okay, sonic has a car, fine, but why do the monkey ball characters have cars when they already have mini-games where they fly by opening the ball and flapping them like wings? why does wreck-it ralph have some tow truck instead of a sugar rush car? can't you give the jet set characters like, rocket skates or something (they could totally stabilize with spray paint cans)? why in the living fuck is wikipedia telling me that danica patrick is a character in this?
no sir, i am not buying what you are selling
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So who from the LB ventrilo is getting it it with me?
Before anyone may fall in that trap.
It's true, we don't let anyone into our secret fortress unless they ask or something.
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...Bal, scroll up the page.
But yeah, looks like fun; I can definitely get behind the Witcher guys doing a Blade Runner/Neuromancer/Matrix pastiche.
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Look, I'm not about to pay attention to things Ziiro says.
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So who from the LB ventrilo is getting it it with me?
Before anyone may fall in that trap.
I... what? No, I mean exactly what I said. I like meeting new people and getting to know those I have met better. I'm not beholden to the specific voice chat server I use and can join another or vice versa. There's no edict from on high banishing the masses. Not sure why you're being a jerk at random.
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defen, meet beat bandit
now you can safely ignore every single one of his posts
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as if millions of parent's wallets suddenly cried out in terror (http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/01/disney-infinity)
tl;dr Disney is combining basically every single movie property they have into a blended mash of Skylanders and Minecraft. this is some weapons-grade marketing evil.
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Apparently the makers of the Dead Island Riptide Zombie Edition felt the need to apologize for marketing to Niku with a foot-tall statue of a mutilated woman's bikini-clad torso. (http://www.joystiq.com/2013/01/15/deep-silver-apologizes-for-gruesome-statue/)
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no head no sale
(this goes for many relationships)
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Yeah, it might've actually been tasteful with a head, I'd really love to hear their reasoning there.
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Sever the head or destroy the brain.
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And it was already a girl, so.
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Something for the Sexy Losers crowd.
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『KILLER IS DEAD（キラー イズ デッド）』第1弾PV (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXAejVR9PSQ#ws)
New Grasshopper/Suda51 game.
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yuuuuum
Gameplay is probably going to be awful but that's okay
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Goichi Suda has a dial in his brain. On the far left there's Flower, Sun and Rain, then going towards the right there's Killer 7, No More Heroes, Shadows of the Damned, and then Lollipop Chainsaw on the far end.
For this one, it looks like someone set the knob somewhere in the space between K7 and NMH. Which as far as I'm concerned may just be a sweet spot.
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WARNING: The following is a spoiler of the nail-biting final boss battle of DmC: Devil May Cry.
DmC: Devil May Cry??? (Spoilers???? [But are you really surprised???]) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft7hlHjZw0c#)
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Goichi Suda has a dial in his brain.
I see it more like two switches. 'gameplay' has "I want this to be fun" and "I want this to be artistic"; 'story' has "Life is horrible for everyone always" and "lol boobs and butts".
Finally they're both in position one.
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It also requires Silicon Knights to cease producing or distributing those games, and to recall and destroy any unsold copies.
So how long until a judge orders a company to destroy all SOLD copies of a digitally-distributed product?
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-01-18-too-human-and-associated-content-pulled-from-xbox-marketplace (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-01-18-too-human-and-associated-content-pulled-from-xbox-marketplace)
Currently unknown if the court order extended to Digital copies, or if this is just a happy excuse for Silicon Knights to try and erase the colossus-sized turd from existence.
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Wii U - Monolith Soft Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GxUMMGyZcM#ws)
I... may have to buy a Wii-U
EDIT: speaking of having to buy a Wii-U, a new trailer for Bayonetta 2 is up (http://www.joystiq.com/2013/01/23/bayonetta-2-trailer-teases-with-concept-art-animations/). It's mostly just conceptual, behind the scenes stuff, but you get to see a few monster and location designs, plus one of Bayo's new weapons: kick-whips.
ANOTHER EDIT: also apparently an HD remake of Wind Waker. (http://www.joystiq.com/2013/01/23/wind-waker-hd-fall-2013/)
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Xenoblade really is fucking wonderful. The plot and character relationships are standard JRPG Cliche Bingo stuff, but the combat system is genuinely satisfying, and it may be the biggest world I've ever seen in a game (granted I haven't gotten around to Skyrim yet). I was 100+ hours in before I set it aside for Last Story (and now I can't play either because my Wii's on the blink).
It's got its rough edges -- not all of the exploration is worth doing (giant fucking empty lake!), the collection stuff is far too random, and the quest system, while a noble try, is about 15 years behind how shit like that works in western RPG's. (Too many fetch/kill X number of monsters quests, with a crummy interface slapped on top.) Maybe that shit'll get fixed in the sequel. And even if it doesn't, I look forward to playing it, even if there's no Jenna Louise Coleman.
I'm tempted to put a Wii U on my "shit to get when I've got a job" list just so I don't have to fuck around trying to fix my Wii. Would have to get my GameCube back out to actually play GameCube games, but there are worse things.
Though really, just at the moment I'm leaning toward trying to fix my Wii myself (http://www.consolezombie.com/Wii/). Way I figure it, my warranty's already expired, even if my fix doesn't work I'm not liable to make it any more broken than it already is and should still be able to send it in for repairs, and I've kept every console I've ever owned (except my original Genesis, which I gave to my cousin after I bought a Genesis 2/Sega CD combo on eBay) and, long-term, I want to be know how to fix them when they break.
Though seeing how well I can get Dolphin to run is still on my to-do list too.
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Xenoblade really is fucking wonderful. [...] and it may be the biggest world I've ever seen in a game (granted I haven't gotten around to Skyrim yet).
Skyrim ain't got shit on Xenoblade in terms of map size. It's maybe 1/3rd the size at best. However, it's map has a crapton more stuff per foot of map space. But Xenoblade has a good deal of emptiness.
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So Final Fantasy 6 is getting a 4 disk remix set from OC Remix. There is more details, and sample music in this post.
http://www.destructoid.com/exclusive-final-fantasy-vi-balance-and-ruin-preview-242840.phtml (http://www.destructoid.com/exclusive-final-fantasy-vi-balance-and-ruin-preview-242840.phtml)
I do believe this is greater then sex, and I can't wait to hear the full thing. Sadly, I was not able to help fund this project ::(:
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Games Workshop claim common law trademark for the term "space marine" (http://mcahogarth.org/?p=10593)
Would be interesting to hear a statement from Heinlein's estate on this matter.
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Yeah, Ken at Popehat (http://www.popehat.com/2012/12/14/some-people-call-me-the-space-marine-and-get-threatened-by-games-workshop/) mentioned the claims back in December; today he updated seeking someone who can give her pro bono legal representation (http://www.popehat.com/2013/02/06/the-popehat-signal-help-an-author-against-a-bogus-trademark-claim/). Because the claim is clearly meritless (not only does the use of "space marine" date back at least to Heinlein, but Games Workshop does not own the trademark in the context of science fiction novels), but as we all know by now, meritless legal actions work just fine against people who can't afford a lawyer.
As someone who just put out an audiobook with "Home Depot" in its title, this case is relevant to me.
Patrick at Popehat has this to say in the comments section:
With a small company like Games Workshop (I play Warhammer 40K), which survives because it sells expensive merchandise to a small number of customers, respectful emails really work.
I just sent them an email advising them that I've purchased more than a hundred dollars of their wares within the past year (true), that I'm disappointed in their stance against Hogarth, and that whether I remain a customer depends on how this is resolved.
If you're actually a customer (don't send them an email falsely claiming to be a customer if you're not), the email address in the United States is: [...] legal@gwplc.com
Good advice. Any of you Warhammer players out there, let Games Workshop know, respectfully but firmly, how you feel about this.
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I would, but I'm already boycotting GW until they bring back Sisters of Battle.
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That they've gotta do someday. Rule 63 Spehss Merines are as inevitable as greed.
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I doubt it. Pretty much anyone who'd petition for Sisters of Battle has left GW. I think the company's actions thus far have been:
-Quietly let Sisters of Battle go out of print.
-Pretend Sisters of battle don't exist outside of fluff. Act surprised when people demand support for the faction.
-Transfer the specialties of the faction to other factions in subsequent editions to draw in disgruntled fans.
-Claim that they're working on miniatures, but can't get the hair right.
-Print a significantly weaker Sisters of Battle army rules supplement in White Dwarf to mollify anyone still holding out hope.
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That seems nuts to me since they'd be a sure moneymaker. I wonder what the rationale for that is.
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NO GIRLS ALLOWED
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Their current BIG TIME RULES GUY wrote a dedicated book for the Grey Knights before the Adeptus Sororitas for fuck's sake. No girls allowed.
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Telltale announces Walking Dead 2, confirms Fables is still in production (http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/02/14/the-walking-dead-fables-video-game-telltale-games-image-dc-comics-vertigo/) (but won't be called "Fables" for what should be obvious trademark reasons).
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Metal Gear Rising came out today and I don't have the money to get it right now.
This makes me very sad.
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I'm just waiting for the "This game is a month old" 10-20 dollar sale.
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Just a quickie: FFXIV has this dude (http://www.creativeuncut.com/gallery-19/ff14-amon.html), some sort of glorious, Amano-influenced pirate demon lord.
I miss Final Fantasy.
EDIT: fucking roman numerals
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Ha -- his name's even Amon.
(And you presumably meant XIV, not XVI.)
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http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/02/ps4-analysis/ (http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/02/ps4-analysis/)
http://gameological.com/2013/02/more-more-morehow-do-you-like-it/ (http://gameological.com/2013/02/more-more-morehow-do-you-like-it/)
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/187186/PlayStation_bets_the_farm_that_true_gamers_are_enough_to_sell_its_new_machine.php (http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/187186/PlayStation_bets_the_farm_that_true_gamers_are_enough_to_sell_its_new_machine.php)
:tldr:, PS4:
(http://i.imgur.com/hrDrc3o.jpg)
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Makes sense, since the non-core gamer has more or less drifted off into iPads and... I dunno what other people do now, sex? But this skein of dismissing the PS4 as a media device seems a bit awkward, since the PS3 is already one of the best set-top/BD-players around. So, uh, are they ripping features out, or what? Do they not understand how many people bought the PS2 as a DVD player and the PS3 as a BD player and built their libraries around that? I guess not having some sort of new format to support makes that angle much weaker, but "Ha ha this thing is shit for non-gaming activities!" is a weird proclamation, especially considering that it's probably not even true.
I've seen journalists from every corner fall over themselves to talk about how bad the launch event for this console was, but I think there are two important things to consider here:
1. Sony holding a launch event where people don't end up going "RIDGE RACERRRRRR!!!!!" or "GIANT ENEMY CRAB!!!" for the entire next generation is, for them, equivalent to knocking it out of the park.
2. Nobody's saying shit about the actual console, other than "It doesn't have a specific new gimmick we can write about."
Personally I'm getting pretty excited about it, and the fact that the Wii U is looking like another Nintendo generation where first-party games are about the only worthwhile thing, and that Microsoft getting ready to shoot itself in the face with a DRM-crippled preterm, means we might actually see another mostly-unchallenged console generation like the PS2. This can be a good thing.
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Yeah, I'm not really getting the hate. I won't be preordering Drive Club or Killzone whatever, but the PS3 has become pretty incredible over the last year or two, and I'm optimistic about PS4.
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Torment from InExile smashed through every stretch goal at lightspeed.
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Oh Lordy. Stretch goal for Torment that consists of a video of Colin McComb apologising for making The Complete Book of Elves for 2nd Edition AD&D. :perfect:
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Hacking the Xbox (http://nostarch.com/xboxfree) is now a free download, in honor of Aaron Swartz. It's a bit dated at this point (that would be the ORIGINAL Xbox that the title refers to), but it's still a seminal work on the subject of reverse engineering.
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Saint's Row 4 will go to the ultimate and logical conclusion giving The Boss actual super-powers
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Originally it was going to be another Matrix-y type addon for SR3, but then The Boss was like, "shit, let's be Superman", and they're making it a whole game.
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Doesn't the last expansion already give you superpowers for drinking Saint's Flow?
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Yes. A shame it didn't let you keep it in the main game.
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Supergiant put up a trailer for their followup to Bastion.
Transistor - Reveal Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTik6sYT_BE#ws)
:jizz:
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Oh boy. Oh boy. Oh boy!
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(http://i.imgur.com/biINVIK.jpg)
(http://i.imgur.com/8gaEMCv.jpg): Mother?
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"Everybody loved the hell out of Zia; let's just go whole hog and make our next main character a songstress, this is a no-brainer."
Welp, works for me!
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『ドラゴンズクラウン』プロモーションムービー#1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwMKiimtmaI#ws)
IT'S HAPPENING
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SEMI NSFW
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SEMITRUCK THIGHS
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DELICIOUS DELICIOUS SEMITRUCK THIGHS
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Borderlands 2 -- Krieg the Psycho Character Reveal Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2W35HkXjHDA#ws)
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Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain 'GDC 2013 Trailer' HD (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fo5KmreiiE#ws)
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(http://i.minus.com/iMYOyICAYzM29.gif)
"What the fuck is Night Vision?"
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My take away is two-fold. First, Garbage is still making music? Cool. Second, that song is stuck in my head now.
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Telltale announces Walking Dead 2, confirms Fables is still in production (http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/02/14/the-walking-dead-fables-video-game-telltale-games-image-dc-comics-vertigo/) (but won't be called "Fables" for what should be obvious trademark reasons).
The Fables game will be called The Wolf Among Us (http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/03/28/dc-and-telltale-announce-fables-prequel-game/) and will be a noir-style prequel featuring, as the title implies, Bigby.
Good choice. Detective stories have been a staple of the point-and-click adventure genre at least since Deja Vu.
(Now, if it were a shooter, it'd have to be a Goldeneye remake starring Cinderella. Obviously.)
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Broken Age Teaser Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWM4R5JsakE#ws)
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http://www.destructoid.com/disney-shuts-down-lucasarts-250695.phtml (http://www.destructoid.com/disney-shuts-down-lucasarts-250695.phtml)
:bam:
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THANKS, GEORGE.
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now i will never play the old republic 2
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or force unleashed 3
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or kinect star wars 2
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Technically Disney's only shuttering the studio, they're still going to slap the brand name onto anything Star Wars related developed by a third party.
Which is clearly different than what the last few posts have suggested the studio was going to do.
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Adam Orth, Creative Director at Microsoft Studios, publicly shits the bed.
(http://i.imgur.com/0lLelR0.jpg)
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Sweet. I think EA just found its new CEO.
(seriously though Bal you do remember you've defended always-on requirements as being totally okay and not a problem at all, right?)
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Not universally. I think I defended Diablo III in that regard, but I wouldn't have defended SimCity had we discussed it. I would certainly never defend a whole game console being always online.
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While I do not agree with Bal's views on Diablo III, I am glad that they exist to help put into perspective why this is becoming increasingly stupid.
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I will say this about the Next Box. If it ships with built in 4G or better wireless support that is priced into the console in the same way the early Kindle models had you essentially buy permanent cellular support, to ensure that the consumer IS always online to the greatest extent possible, I would be slightly more on board with the concept, but they'd have to offer some seriously awesome services besides to actually sell me one. We all know that isn't going to happen, and that this is a totally cynical attempt at DRM, but I can at least dream they're trying something actually interesting with this.
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I think that's really what this boils down to. Nobody's ever really trying to do anything with always online at all.
Lots of people have legitimate gripes about Steam, but ultimately Steam won, because Steam as a platform actually offers a number of significant benefits to the consumer and to small developers too.
Always-online systems could theoretically offer a variety of significant improvements for many games, but for the moment at least it's only being used as a label to cover bad DRM schemes with no upside at all.
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I was typing a reply to that but then suddenly my router decided to stop recognizing my computer. Because sometimes consumer routers just plain fuck up for no reason. But hey, that's my problem, right? And the fact that, even if I already owned a 720, I would at this point be less inclined to purchase and play games on the platform than on comparable platforms that don't have this issue - including Steam, which only authenticates at startup - certainly is of no concern to publishers who have to pay a licensing fee to get their game on it before they can even try to make a sale.
If it sounds like I wish that Microsoft would reconsider their stance, well, you're dead wrong. I have no interest Microsoft gaming products and would love nothing more than to watch the entire division collapse from a self-inflicted wound. Here's hoping it really shakes out that way.
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Anyway, the original post that I managed to write because my computer is still mostly functional when not connected to a network:
I will say this about the Next Box. If it ships with built in 4G or better wireless support that is priced into the console in the same way the early Kindle models had you essentially buy permanent cellular support, to ensure that the consumer IS always online to the greatest extent possible, I would be slightly more on board with the concept, but they'd have to offer some seriously awesome services besides to actually sell me one. We all know that isn't going to happen, and that this is a totally cynical attempt at DRM, but I can at least dream they're trying something actually interesting with this.
I have a feeling that if that was on the table we'd have Eternal Sadface up there just saying, "That will not be an issue. You'll see what I mean!" instead of vehemently refusing to see the difference between an inherent and an enforced point of failure (and also demonstrating that he's never heard of a cordless vacuum before).
Lots of people have legitimate gripes about Steam, but ultimately Steam won, because Steam as a platform actually offers a number of significant benefits to the consumer and to small developers too.
Not a direct comparison because Steam doesn't kick you out of an authenticated play session in the event of a connection failure (early reports say the 720 will only give you a 3-minute grace period - by comparison, even SimCity gave you 20). Steam's benefits managed to outweigh its drawbacks, but they would not if Steam had implemented a scheme similar to this.
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I was typing a reply to that but then suddenly my router decided to stop recognizing my computer. Because sometimes consumer routers just plain fuck up for no reason. But hey, that's my problem, right? And the fact that, even if I already owned a 720, I would at this point be less inclined to purchase and play games on the platform than on comparable platforms that don't have this issue - including Steam, which only authenticates at startup - certainly is of no concern to publishers who have to pay a licensing fee to get their game on it before they can even try to make a sale.
If it sounds like I wish that Microsoft would reconsider their stance, well, you're dead wrong. I have no interest Microsoft gaming products and would love nothing more than to watch the entire division collapse from a self-inflicted wound. Here's hoping it really shakes out that way.
The problem is this:
You're already looking at this same shit on a whole lot of PC games.
And there are rumors that the PS4 will have the same limitations.
If I were a betting man, I would not put my money on Nintendo stealing away all the PC/Xbox/PS customers who are sick of this crap.
And even if the Ouya gets its shit together and offers a better library than the one it's got, it doesn't have the hardware power that the other consoles have.
Basically, MS has just given Valve TWO huge openings to change the way people play video games. And you know who else should be sitting up and paying attention right about now? Mark Shuttleworth. He thinks Amazon integration and a tablet OS are the best way to dig Ubuntu out of its money sink, well, bundling Steam into the default install would sure pick up a lot of curious new paying customers.
Realistically, though? I think MS will hold its ground, Sony may very well do the same thing, desktop Linux will continue to make modest inroads at best, and the whole thing will just be one more step in the long slow decline of the market for dedicated gaming hardware. The SteamBox COULD be a game-changer, and Valve's definitely weighing its options, but I don't expect them to come out with anything unless they're sure they can make it count.
To put it all more succinctly: as we already know, people will put up with all kinds of shit from Microsoft if there's insufficient competition in the marketplace.
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Last I heard the PS4 pulled a bunch of stupid shit on you at install that mostly just breaks right of first sale, but it leaves you alone after that. If they're smart they'll backpedal from even the shit that they're rumored to be doing, and run an ad campaign on it to tie into their new focus on "real" gamers or whatever.
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Big "if".
-- MEANWHILE --
Via Ars (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jedioutcast/): following the dissolution of LucasArts, Raven has released Jedi Outcast (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jedioutcast/) and Jedi Academy (http://sourceforge.net/projects/jediacademy/) under the GPLv2.
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I would be way more excited about a new Mario and Luigi game, Yoshi's Island 3, and A Link to the Past 2(!!!) if they didn't all look like Playstation-era 2.5D abortions. Someone please remind Nintendo what a sprite is and that they still have enough money in the bank to use them in their games, especially given how goddamn cool sprite-based games look on the 3DS.
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GOD DAMMIT NIKU!
A Link to the Past 2(!!!)
http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/04/zelda-a-link-to-the-past-2/ (http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2013/04/zelda-a-link-to-the-past-2/)
Why won't you do my motherfucking google searches for me!?
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Monaco's up for preorder at one buck fifty off (http://www.pocketwatchgames.com/Monaco/); it comes out in a week. Dang it feels like the first time I heard of that game was forever ago.
I don't know what it is about that sort of line of sight system that gets me so frikkin' hard.
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Sprites have the same problem that traditional animation has right now - not only is CG more popular, but when the infrastructure is already in place to support it it's actually a lot cheaper too.
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Yeah, I'm aware that making sprites is a way more costly proposition, but Yoshi's Island and the Mario and Luigi games are both representative of some of the best spritework that Nintendo themselves have ever done. That makes these games being polygonal feel way dirtier than say, the New Super Mario Bros. series or the new Link to the Past. Yoshi's Island is particularly egregious, since the brief bit they showed looks almost like one of those shitty SNES claymation games.
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New plot to LttP2: It turns out that curse that made your magic meter 1/2 is now killing you, so you have to collect the pike, the pig nose, the hoof, the cape, and the Wizard costume of Ganon and resurrect him so you can kill him again
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Everybody knows all you need to resurrect Ganon is to spill Link's blood on his ashes.
That's totally not creepy for a seven year old.
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New plot to LttP2: It turns out that curse that made your magic meter 1/2 is now killing you, so you have to collect the pike, the pig nose, the hoof, the cape, and the Wizard costume of Ganon and resurrect him so you can kill him again
This plot will never get old, and I will 110% play it if Link can change up partners as he progresses through the game, with his final choice of partner changing the ending sequence subtly.
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But then Zero shows up in the next game anyway.
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On the one hand, if it's half as good as LttP then it's probably worth buying a 3DS for.
On the other, the footage they've released makes it look painfully like a rehash by people who think LttP's appeal comes from its mechanics, its tiles, and its enemies. The most exciting thing in the video is Link turning into one of the hieroglyphics from the beginning of Wind Waker; I am hoping that this is a useful power that broadens the areas you can explore instead of something like that zippy top thing from TP that you use on one dungeon and that's pretty much it.
Me, I'm a whole lot more curious about Bugs vs. Tanks -- because it is an Inafune game, it is not a sequel, and it is called Bugs vs. Tanks -- than any of the announcements that are actually grabbing headlines.
Also, hey, a legal way to play Earthbound without spending $600 on the copy at the used game store.
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The most likely scenario for this game is that the team started off prototyping a remake of Link to the Past, then, when experimenting with the best ways to use stereoscopic 3D to represent the layering features, decided that there was a mechanic there that was worth exploring in a game of its own.
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I don't mind a bit if that's the case, since off-the-rails remakes of classic Zelda gave us both Oracles games.
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But 50% of the Oracles games were terrible!
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Seasons was so good we can overlook Ages.
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I never managed to get much into either one of them.
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Monster Hunter Online Announcement Trailer (720P) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lxd_V1P_Vhs#ws)
http://mmogamecentral.com/tecent-games-confirm-cryengine-3-developement-of-monster-hunter-online/ (http://mmogamecentral.com/tecent-games-confirm-cryengine-3-developement-of-monster-hunter-online/)
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=542352 (http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=542352)
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Neverwinter (http://nw.perfectworld.com/) went open beta and announced plans to stay F2P at the end of April.
Overall it's a pretty generic real money marketplace MMO, but there are highlights worth mentioning. Combat is TERA-esque in that there's no auto-attack and everything is cursor-aimed, which they work D&D into well enough. Your two main attacks are from a (so far small) selection of 'at-wills' for your class, 'encounter' powers are cooldowns and 'dailies' require an action point which you can only have one of at a time and build up through what is essentially a rage meter.
The story is as good as any Neverwinter game has been so far, and it carries over features that Thads in the audience may be interested in. I haven't delved into the creator tools at all, but a large part of the game is player-created instances that are completely public and ranked based off other player ratings. No word yet on if they're offering any dev jobs from them, but it should be worth looking in to.
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So uh Fez is finally out for PC. I didn't buy it because I have serious issues with Phil thinking he's a big rad rockstar developer when he's more of a nerd that can't keep his mouth shut.
But I did play it. If you play it, I reccomend the following:
- Avoid getting the purple cubes until the end of game. Most of them are acquired by solving inane code puzzles, and you're really only getting the best value out of the game by solving all gold cubes before you end the game once and get the flying cheat.
- Still you need a couple of purple cubes, because some gold cubes are hidden behind retarded puzzles like the owl puzzle too.
- You can get 65 cubes. Don't. The secret ending only plays if you get 64 cubes.
- The secret ending is not worth it, so if you're gonna solve the purple cubes by looking up the answer, just go watch the ending on youtube.
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The Adam Orth affair of the previous page (the rumor that the next Microsoft console will require a permanent internet connection, and the termination of the Microsoft employee who said some tone-deaf things about it) is now over (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/05/microsoft-next-xbox-will-work-even-when-your-internet-doesnt/) for ever and ever for real.
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I don't really fightan games on account of severe suckage, but this looks pretty cool and maybe you guys might care?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKGPhKu3jNg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKGPhKu3jNg#ws)
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If it has good netcode, I'm switching to that for my main game, and given that P4A has amazing netcode, I am optimistic. It should be noted here that those are not sprites, and they're basically doing what SFIV did, only MUCH MUCH better.
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Huh. I honestly didn't expect that to ever happen.
Not sure if I agree with the limited-frame stuff, but if it makes a better fighting game, okay.
God, though, those faces. Do not want Tales of Guilty Gear.
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not sure what you mean by limited frame.
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not sure what you mean by limited frame.
Supposedly they're using a technique on the character models of limiting their frames of animation in such a way as to give the appearance of sprites in motion. So, instead of a normal 3D model just moving from one action to another more or less seamlessly, they're giving the impression of hand drawn sprites moving from frame to frame.
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So... what? Are only Sol and Ky playable or something? I mean, yay for the slashfic community, but wake me up when they mention I-no.
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Sol and Ky are the flagship characters, so it makes sense for them to appear in the announcement trailer. Millia and Eddie showed up at the end of it.
Also it's kind of stupid to assume a fighter in this day and age would only have two playable characters???????
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This day and age is precisely the one in which I'd expect some mid-size indie to put together a two-character fighter.
But, did you know, everything that's absent from an announcement trailer will also be absent from the finished product?
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Even Divekick has more than two characters.
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So, I dunno if any of you play Neverwinter. I was playing for a while, but got kinda burned by the way content starts to happen by thirty or so. So, no real attachment to get in the way of enjoying watching the game sputter and die because of Cryptic being ridiculous. That's fun.
Anyway, yeah, the game is ruined forever.
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So, I dunno if any of you play Neverwinter. I was playing for a while, but got kinda burned by the way content starts to happen by thirty or so. So, no real attachment to get in the way of enjoying watching the game sputter and die because of Cryptic being ridiculous. That's fun.
Anyway, yeah, the game is ruined forever.
Thank you for the incredibly informative post that so succinctly summarizes the specific faults of the game that you're clearly trying to refer to, and doesn't at all look like a crazy person talking to themselves about something that never actually happened.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKGPhKu3jNg (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKGPhKu3jNg#ws)
So who here can instantly explain why Sol has a sword closer to his weapon from the holy order while working as a bounty hunter, and Ky has a dumb ponytail, so I don't have to spend hours on the guilty gear wiki identifying why?
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It takes place after Guilty Gear 2: Overture. According to the timeline sometime after that game Sol modified his sword into that form. Ky has a ponytail presumably because he was not yet bishi enough.
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Supposedly they're using a technique on the character models of limiting their frames of animation in such a way as to give the appearance of sprites in motion. So, instead of a normal 3D model just moving from one action to another more or less seamlessly, they're giving the impression of hand drawn sprites moving from frame to frame.
Yeah. It makes really good sense in a 2D fighting game, where knowing what happens in every frame of a character's animation is considered fairly important. Unfortunately it also run into the problem that the Street Fighter HD remake had, which is that lower frame rates start to look noticeably worse when the resolution is increased. That you need to scale the number of animated frames up along with the resolution and find a place in memory to store it all is part of the reason why non-retro 2D sprites have become really unpopular in this generation (just because I understand why retro is so much more attractive from a developer standpoint doesn't mean I'm about to stop calling it lazy though).
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KOFXIII solved that problem by rotoscoping 3D models to make their sprites, giving them as many transition frames as they liked. With GGXrd they seem to be cutting out the middleman.
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Thank you for the incredibly informative post that so succinctly summarizes the specific faults of the game that you're clearly trying to refer to, and doesn't at all look like a crazy person talking to themselves about something that never actually happened.
Yeah man TA I read your post twice and have no idea what you're talking about and you have not given me any reason to care enough to try and look it up.
You know how I don't click on links when nobody gives me any sort of context or information about what they are? This is kind of like that but without any links.
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Bah, whatever. Fine. Thought a prominent new MMO release would have some awareness already.
Okay, Neverwinter is the latest big release from Perfect World Entertainment and Cryptic Studios. The big thing about Neverwinter has been the player economy they're trying to build, and this is based around multiple currencies and systems. You've got Gold, which you get for killing things and selling items to vendors, and which you use to buy things from most vendors. It's a gameplay maintenance currency - healing items, common bits for crafting, etc. You've got Zen, the cash shop currency. $1 gets you 100 Zen, items and mounts and services cost varying amounts of Zen.
And you've got Astral Diamonds, the bridge between the two. In standard Perfect World style, you get Astral Diamonds from doing lots of little things - profession missions, dailies, etc - and there's a Zen Exchange, where you can turn Astral Diamonds into Zen and vice versa by buying and selling from other players. This is limited on both ends, bottoming out at 50 AD per Zen, and topping out at 500 AD per Zen. Exact same systems as Champions Online and Star Trek Online. This is part of the various Preorder "Founder" packages, getting a big pile of free Astral Diamonds, so there's enough out there in the wild to jumpstart the economy from the start.
However, what's unique about it is that Astral Diamonds are also the currency used in the Auction House. This is what you get when you sell items to other players through the player market, this is the currency in which all player interactions occur. You can list things for a buyout and a minimum bid, or just the minimum bid, and players can buy for the buyout or place a bid. So, if you do endgame content and get spare drops - because nothing's Bind On Pickup - or high-level crafting or whatever, you can turn the products into Astral Diamonds, which you can then turn into Zen, and thus access the cash shop without spending dollars. The corollary, of course, is that players can dump a lot of dollars into Zen, sell them for Astral Diamonds, and use those to buy raid gear.
There's also the Gateway. This is a website where players can log in to manage auctions, mail, crafting, and such without having to fire up the game itself. You can buy and sell things on the auction house from your phone browser!
We good? Good. Okay. That's the way in which Neverwinter strives to be unique, at least in the American market. Now here's how they fucked it all up. This has been a bug since closed beta, tickets for which were just closed as resolved despite the issue being reproducible, but now that the game is launched, it's been an exploit in constant use, and as of last night, common knowledge. To the point where the auction house and the zen exchange and eventually the entire game had to be shut down while they tried to figure out what if anything they can salvage out of the mess.
See, the inputs for the auction house in-game, those are checked, but on the gateway? Not sanitized. You can place a negative bid. Normally, let's say you have 10,000 ADs, and type in a bid for 5000 on an item. You then have 5000 in your inventory, and the item has a 5000 bid on it. But simply by typing "-5000" there, you can place the bid, the item will have a -5000 bid on it - no idea what happens if that wins - and then you have 15,000 ADs in your inventory.
Or, as people have been doing, type in several negative billions of Astral Diamonds. And use those to buy out everything on the Auction House, and pass the items out randomly to players in the zone. Or turn them into Zen, and cash out whatever you like from the cash shop. Accounts are free, so you can create entire mule accounts just to hold your spare Diamonds, or spare Zen, or spare items. This isn't speculation - this happened. This shut the game down.
Now, this is fixable, right? It's been wild since launch, but that was only three weeks ago. So, you have to wipe - delete all characters, erase all currencies, set the game back to its initial state, and re-issue all purchased Zen or preordered Astral Diamonds. At the very least, this only became a catastrophic thing in the last 48 hours, so rollback to Friday morning and hope nobody set up a mule account with a few hundred billion Diamonds worth of things before then. Fixable, right?
(http://i.imgur.com/dzCYK7V.jpg)
These are off the table. They're considering specific character rollbacks, and have banned some accounts they've identified as placing a bunch of negative bids, but they have no way to filter these exploited Diamonds out of the economy. People are reporting their experiment accounts being banned, but their side accounts that took the diamonds being intact. The value of Diamonds has ground into the dirt from hyperinflation, and the Zen Exchange is permanently ruined - there's no point in turning $20 of Zen into a million Diamonds if everything costs tens of millions.
Shit's fucked. Discuss.
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My first thought when I woke up today was "we're never gonna see another Guilty Gear, are we".
I wonder if I can monetize this reverse clairvoyance somehow.
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Also: Cryptic's last game, Star Trek Online, had the exact same problem (http://i.imgur.com/oA6Z8.jpg).
Here's a tester talking about the catastrophic failures of QA in place at Neverwinter. (http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/05/19/exploits-plague-neverwinter-economy-cryptic-responds/?hubRefSrc=permalink#lf_comment=74830497)
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So who here can instantly explain why Sol has a sword closer to his weapon from the holy order while working as a bounty hunter, and Ky has a dumb ponytail, so I don't have to spend hours on the guilty gear wiki identifying why?
Ky was jealous of Bridget and wanted to get on that trap gravy train.
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You can place a negative bid.
Wow, that's...wow.
So the developers fucked up a basic, fundamental, essential bit of programming...ignored bug reports that explicitly warned them about it...
...and my current living involves building websites where you can buy pants for your trash bin.
You know what? Fuck it. There IS still a part of me that takes it personally that people who seem to have slept through the entire 100 series of programming courses get real programming gigs and I'm doing what I'm doing. But there's also a part of me that's happy to be in a low-stakes, low-pressure 9-5 job where I get paid a decent wage for doing work that can't possibly produce this kind of catastrophic fuckup.
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Supposedly they're using a technique on the character models of limiting their frames of animation in such a way as to give the appearance of sprites in motion. So, instead of a normal 3D model just moving from one action to another more or less seamlessly, they're giving the impression of hand drawn sprites moving from frame to frame.
Okay, that's what I figured. Also, I'm in favor of it. Looks good.
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There IS still a part of me that takes it personally that people who seem to have slept through the entire 100 series of programming courses get real programming gigs and I'm doing what I'm doing.
If you buy into the stereotypical view that people's technical ability is usually inversely proportional to their charisma, it stands to reason that the worst programmers are more likely to be hired for the best jobs.
I am a tester.
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But simply by typing "-5000" there, you can place the bid, the item will have a -5000 bid on it - no idea what happens if that wins - and then you have 15,000 ADs in your inventory.
Seller loses 5000. I have no idea if that's actually the case but it's far too dumb to be more complicated than that.
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The solution has been announced! It is a seven hour rollback. This is enough to hit a large number of the exploiters, when the game was in full-on crash mode, but still misses the first few waves - and, of course, the people who have been doing this since the game launched. Goons are reporting mule accounts being entirely intact, because they cashed in prior to 5:20am PDT. Redditors are reporting that the bug still exists, but is slightly trickier to activate.
Best part of the Q&A thread (http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/showthread.php?266921-FAQ-AD-AH-Exploit-Follow-Up):
Q: But... I won the Armored Nightmare from a lockbox! I'll never get that lucky again!
A: We know how much that would sting. We are looking into ways we can make it better, but we don’t have an exact plan yet. Stay tuned and keep checking here for updates.
Oh, yeah, forgot to mention, it's one of those standard shitty chinagames where you get a bunch of locked boxes as drops all the time that have a small chance, when opened, to give fantastic super-valuable prizes. Single-use keys are 125 Zen. The top prize was, last I saw, selling for 1.5m diamonds - about $75 at pre-exploit zen exchange rates.
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There IS still a part of me that takes it personally that people who seem to have slept through the entire 100 series of programming courses get real programming gigs and I'm doing what I'm doing.
If you buy into the stereotypical view that people's technical ability is usually inversely proportional to their charisma, it stands to reason that the worst programmers are more likely to be hired for the best jobs.
I'm not sure if you're really insulting my charisma, my programming ability, or just saying they're both sort of mediocre.
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The first part of that sentence was meant to imply bullshit.
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Don't believe him!
He was making the claim that would offend you the most!
Blood feud!
EDIT:
So should I be excited about Shadowrun Returns (http://harebrained-schemes.com/shadowrun/) or am I just being dumb?
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They're calling it Xbox One.
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The diet console.
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Xbox One is not some sissy, diet console for women and fake nerd girls! The Xbox One is for men!
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MENERGY
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But wasn't there already a first XBox?
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Well I'm going to get a Playstation Four, it's three better.
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Lana Kane Yup (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zu9ZxzsWchg#)
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But wasn't there already a first XBox?
From now on that one will be known as the XboX.
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The Xbox is no longer the first Xbox. Henceforth it shall be known as the Ex-Xbox 1.
Just be glad Arc System Works didn't have a say in this.
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http://www.computerandvideogames.com/407912/microsoft-confirms-pre-owned-fee-for-xbox-one/ (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/407912/microsoft-confirms-pre-owned-fee-for-xbox-one/)
IT BEGINS
Pirates, as always, are unaffected.
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So the Xbox One might require you to connect it to the Internet at least once a day in order to work (http://kotaku.com/xbox-one-does-require-internet-connection-cant-play-o-509164109).
Or something. It's a little unclear.
Man, if you're going to require bullshit like that, you probably ought to invest in creating a free, national wi-fi network.
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I see that Microsoft is continuing their recent string of stellar business decisions.
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No one has mentioned the best part of the announcement (http://www.nowgamer.com/news/1934607/sonys_share_price_rises_after_xbox_one_announcement.html) yet.
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also hey xbox has netflix and hbo go and hulu apps yay (http://www.joystiq.com/2013/05/21/xbox-one-interface-shots-show-netflix-hulu-other-streaming-app/)FUCK YOU
Don't get me wrong. I like Netflix.
But they really need to start packaging these services.
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No one has mentioned the best part of the announcement (http://www.nowgamer.com/news/1934607/sonys_share_price_rises_after_xbox_one_announcement.html) yet.
How sweet it is.
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Sony making money wouldn't normally be something to be happy about but I've said over and over that they've been making, uh, most of the right decisions this generation (pretty sure they're doing some version of the pre-owned fee too, but no word if it's the same incomprehensible "secondhand price + full retail price = ???" scheme) and it'd be nice to have the PS2 era of single-console solidarity back. I hope we get to see how the thing actually plays at the show.
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http://www.computerandvideogames.com/408116/microsoft-xbox-one-pre-owned-plans-consistent-with-way-the-world-works/ (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/408116/microsoft-xbox-one-pre-owned-plans-consistent-with-way-the-world-works/)
Thanks, Microsoft! Telling you to go eat a bag of dicks is also consistent with the way the world works.
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I can give that disc to somebody else - maybe my son who has his own Xbox One somewhere else in the house - and he can install and play it on his machine. I can come to your house with that disc, I can install it on your machine and we can play it and while I'm with you we can have all of the capabilities of that game.
"The moment I go home and notionally take that disc with me, you no longer have the ability to play that game.
Um... okay. What if I physically and, you know, "notionally" leave that disc the fuck where it is?
It sounds like it's consistent with the way the world works as long as you imagine that the world works exactly the way Microsoft wants it to.
What kills me is that I actually think a nominal charge to activate secondhand games isn't a wholly terrible idea. Give the content producers some secondary kickback for the development and publishing costs, sans manufacturing and advertising which have already been covered. The devs get paid, GameStop takes only a minor hit to its business model, consumers keep their right of sale, and physical media continues to be economically viable. Microsoft is just going full OnLive redundant-purchase batshit with this nonsense, and it's hilarious to watch but also maddening. They're going to make the whole idea completely unpalatable to people, no matter how reasonable the costs are, and everyone gets hurt by it.
Congratulations, Microsoft. You've somehow managed to find an undiscovered way to bring the whole industry down another notch.
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"Imagine that the world works exactly the way Microsoft wants it to" is pretty much the company vision statement.
It worked pretty well for 'em until about 2004.
I've become a much different type of consumer in the last couple of years. The last two game systems I got were a PSP and a 360. In both cases, I waited until the price had bottomed out (and indeed in the Xbox case it was free with a new computer).
We've spent maaaaybe $200 total on all our 360 kit. That's the console (new), an extra wireless controller (new), a third-party wired controller (new but cheap), a Kinect (used), a hard drive (scrounged from an out-of-lifecycle laptop on the recycle pile at work), and a pretty solid collection of games (most used, some marked down to $20 because they'd been out a couple years).
Now, Microsoft may lose money on customers like me. (Or not. I don't know how much money the hardware costs to manufacture or what their cut is from the new games I bought, either on digital or physical media, how much money they got from Dell for the OEM license on that computer the Xbox came with, etc.) But customers like me are the reason people are willing to shell out sixty bucks for a game.
We're already living in a world where Skyrim costs $5 less used than new, and the same amount new after two years as it did at launch (today's NewEgg sale marking the Legendary Edition down to a mere fifty bucks notwithstanding). I'm willing to bet we've got more people starting to look twice at a price tag and wonder if this game's really worth that much if they can't get much for reselling it.
This doesn't just make that worse, it also breaks the very notion of lending and borrowing.
BTW, my latest Xbox purchase is a game I borrowed from my cousin and liked. Yeah, I waited until it was marked down to $18. But that's $18 more than I would have paid for a new game if I hadn't borrowed it first.
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Here's a video that sums up the whole Xbox One conference in under 2 minutes:
Xbox One Reveal 2013 Highlights (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbWgUO-Rqcw#ws)
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I like how not one of those people seemed to care. Or be enjoying themselves particularly.
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No one has mentioned the best part of the announcement (http://www.nowgamer.com/news/1934607/sonys_share_price_rises_after_xbox_one_announcement.html) yet.
Amazon UK: Wii U Sales Rank Jumps 875% Following Microsoft’s Xbox One Reveal (http://playeressence.com/amazon-uk-wii-u-sales-rank-jumps-by-875-following-microsofts-xbox-one-reveal/?fb_source=pubv1)
It's not a 875% boost in sales, it's a climb in the sales rank, from number 380 to number 40.
Still. Hahaha~
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Microsoft applies for patent on TV achievements (http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-05-24-microsoft-applies-for-patent-on-tv-achievements)
Two examples given include doling out achievements for watching a single event like the Super Bowl, or for watching an entire series of a single show.
"Mang this show is terrible, but I can't not watch it! Gotta get them cheevos!"
I hope whatever amount of gamerdicklengthpointsbux you get for watching TV is inversely proportional to the quality of the show at least, to reflect the added challenge. I bet the Kinect can tell if you're awake or like even in the room at all so you can't cheat and just leave the TV on while you do something less retarded with your life.
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Hey guys remember grade school and if you did well you'd get a gold star next to your name
but then the person with the most or people past a certain amount got a tangible fucking reward
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BWOOOOO GAME OF THRONES S1 COMPLETE
NEW HEADSKIN UNLOCKED: NED STARK
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When I went to school the person with the most gold stars usually just got beat up more.
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I'm not worried about that. There's no possible amount of physical violence we could inflict that would make someone feel worse than if they got an achievement for watching several seasons of Cake Boss.
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Random folks on your Halo Fragpit buddy list all getting the My Little Pony friendship badge. There's no way to remove it. No way to remove any of them. Not the Project Runway neckerchief badge, not the 19 Kids and Counting yawning-cavern-vagina badge, not the Hoarders: Buried Alive cat skeleton badge.
I'm not worried about that. There's no possible amount of physical violence we could inflict that would make someone feel worse than if they got an achievement for watching several seasons of Cake Boss.
hahahaha
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Pirates are as always unaffected.
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So curiosity is over.
Winner Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qhzb9OUWrXU#ws)
The reward is that you get to be Peter Molydeux and get money for it.
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Wow, so one lucky person gets to be overwhelmed, corrupted and ultimately bored with the absolute power they're granted in a game.
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Man, The Prize used to mean something.
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http://www.joystiq.com/2013/05/26/report-xbox-one-will-be-region-locked/ (http://www.joystiq.com/2013/05/26/report-xbox-one-will-be-region-locked/)
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Linking the front page of YouTube is probably cheating, but:
"Next Gen Technology" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMYso30L9zI#ws)
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Neverwinter auction house is down again. Possible suspect:
(http://i.imgur.com/1A9wak7.jpg)
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I guess you have to give Blizzard credit for making this crap look easy to implement.
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The fun thing is that those particular items, being sold by that particular guy, are the result of botting, not duping.
But there is a reproducible and easy way to dupe things.
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CRUSADER KINGS 2 REVIEW.avi (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2ZkO8CclhI#)
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Those dumb apes never saw it coming! (http://imgur.com/a/xCYVj)
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Red Star... fall!
(Lavos is now engaged to your daughter)
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Those dumb apes never saw it coming! (http://imgur.com/a/xCYVj)
I actually clicked on that and STILL have no idea what the fuck I'm supposed to be looking at.
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http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/06/what-microsoft-will-and-wont-let-you-do-with-games-on-xbox-one/ (http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/06/what-microsoft-will-and-wont-let-you-do-with-games-on-xbox-one/)
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Sweet Metro: Last Light trailer.
Metro: Last Light - Mobius Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2djDE_kwH3Q#ws)
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Reminds me of the Dead Island trailer a lot. Except I hear this game is actually good.
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Also, unlike the Dead Island trailer, it's representative of the actual game it's advertising.
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(http://www.abload.de/img/drm4yjrw.png)
this gets better and better.
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In the cupholder of every seat at the XBone demo:
(http://i.imgur.com/yEI1DmT.jpg)
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The next Mirror's Edge is a reboot. (http://www.joystiq.com/2013/06/10/new-mirrors-is-a-reboot-new-origins-story/)
Of an intellectual property with only one title under its belt.
I'm at a loss.
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And is less than a generation old.
Whatever, I'm just shocked enough at "next Mirror's Edge" to care about the particulars. Too bad I'm gonna have to pirate the shit out of it.
(EA should probably not make games that encourage running contraband in defiance of a capitalist organization that's squashing people's rights.)
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I'm imagining this nightmarishly long sequence where your character slides across a billboard for The Internship, Starring Owen Wilson, In Theaters Now, Press Y Now To Purchase Tickets Through FunHub
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(EA should probably not make games that encourage running contraband in defiance of a capitalist organization that's squashing people's rights.)
I dunno, it worked out well enough for [Marvel publishing comics where the little guy stands up for his rights/Fox airing programming that tweaks Fox News/Urban Outfitters selling Che Guevara T-shirts/Disney releasing The Muppets]. Most consumers are lacking in a basic sense of irony.
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I wonder how Urban Outfitters would react if someone broke into their warehouse, stole all the Che Guevara shirts and distributed them for free.
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Official PlayStation Used Game Instructional Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA#ws)
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Console War's over. Microsoft lost.
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$399, no always online, Kingdom Hearts 3, used games just like you remember, VIDEO GAMES. Drop the mic
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:glee:
I can certainly appreciate a corporation rubbing it's enemy's nose in it. If they can only manage to bring the same sense of fun to the games themselves, they'll be set.
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Summary of today if you missed it:
(http://i.imgur.com/IdRcW2j.gif)
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Killer Instinct announced for the Xbone. Developed by Double Helix. (http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/10/e3-2013-killer-instinct-announced-for-xbox-one)
I'm not going to pretend I'm a fan of the franchise or anything. Nevertheless, no game property deserves that fate.
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Game Over.
Return of Japan Time (http://www.smashbros.com/us/)
Nintendo brought out a bunch of stuff that looks fun and wasn't surprising in the least. Appropriately surprising no one. It'll be nice to have a Wii U when they're cheaper and these things are actually out.
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Killer Instinct announced for the Xbone. Developed by Double Helix. (http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/10/e3-2013-killer-instinct-announced-for-xbox-one)
I'm not going to pretend I'm a fan of the franchise or anything. Nevertheless, no game property deserves that fate.
A co-worker of mine remains optimistic for reasons I cannot fathom.
I ain't gonna be all "I told you so", but, you know...
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Game Over.
Return of Japan Time (http://www.smashbros.com/us/)
So THAT'S what the New 52 Mega Man looks like.
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Wii U - Bayonetta 2 E3 Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dFfVBdRWmw#ws)
Oh, hey, the only reason I need to own a Wii U.
Did I say only reason? What I meant to say was
HOLY FUCK Monolith Soft RPG (http://youtu.be/APWTJMyM4qg)
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Killer Instinct announced for the Xbone. Developed by Double Helix. (http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/10/e3-2013-killer-instinct-announced-for-xbox-one)
I'm not going to pretend I'm a fan of the franchise or anything. Nevertheless, no game property deserves that fate.
Hey, apparently it's Free to Play* (http://www.destructoid.com/killer-instinct-is-combo-tastic-and-it-s-free-to-play-255989.phtml)!
*Jago only. Additional characters can be purchased through DLC.
Also, for anyone who missed Microsoft's presentation:
Xbox One at E3 - The Abridged Version (VideoGamer.com) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlkZNNaYBro#ws)
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Super Smash Bros. for 3DS/Wii U Wii Fit Trainer Joins the Battle! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBoL1Ic9uWw#ws)
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I'M SORRY WHAT
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Ha ha, it's a funny reminder of when new Super Smash Bros. contestants were cool.
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GET HYPE.
Ha ha, it's a funny reminder of when new Super Smash Bros. contestants were cool.
yeah remember when mr game & watch was a shitty character and everyone hated him and there's no way in hell they'll ever make him cool and it's just cheap gimmick bullshit.
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yeah remember when mr game & watch was a shitty character and everyone hated him and there's no way in hell they'll ever make him cool and it's just cheap gimmick bullshit.
No, I don't remember thinking that all. Good thing he didn't end up being a terrible character that was unfun to play or anything.
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I kind of hope that Ryuta Kawashima from Brain Training is an assist trophy or something.
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yeah remember when mr game & watch was a shitty character and everyone hated him and there's no way in hell they'll ever make him cool and it's just cheap gimmick bullshit.
No, I don't remember thinking that all. Good thing he didn't end up being a terrible character that was unfun to play or anything.
He was actually pretty amazing to play, and you're just kind of a massive killjoy.
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Are you guys talking shit about my horrifying mannequin waifu?
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Wait.
Wait.
Wait.
Wait.
Wait.
Wait.
Wait.
Did I just see a game that was Xenoblade but you drive a Transformer?
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Are you guys talking shit about my horrifying mannequin waifu?
What? No! Bayonetta looks fabulous.
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(http://25.media.tumblr.com/b3e73fab85d34d30c61c29b0b6265837/tumblr_mo9dbrlW0e1rlxmdbo1_500.gif)
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Why do I feel like she should have a portal gun?
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SMB3DW looks delightful. But then I remembered I have no friends.
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FINAL FANTASY XV - Primer vistazo al sistema de batalla (E3 2013) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37-Q2mv3Rr0#ws)
wanna play that game
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SMB3DW looks delightful. But then I remembered I have no friends.
None that can play SMB, apparently.
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SMB3DW looks delightful. But then I remembered I have no friends.
This feels obligatory (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/08/25)
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Did they confirm no online coop, or are we just assuming this because of nintendo. Either way I am kind of sad.
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Did they confirm no online coop, or are we just assuming this because of nintendo. Either way I am kind of sad.
The one feature that was not on display at E3 was the online multiplayer, which is a long-overdue first for the series.
http://www.digitalspy.com/gaming/news/a489247/super-mario-3d-world-preview-cat-suits-co-op-in-new-wii-u-adventure.html (http://www.digitalspy.com/gaming/news/a489247/super-mario-3d-world-preview-cat-suits-co-op-in-new-wii-u-adventure.html)
It uh. Sounds like it may have it, actually.
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Online in something like SMB feels like missing the point, but if I continued this thought I might have to actually admit that some people may be more antisocial than I am. So uh, SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DOUCHEBAGS.
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wanna play that game
Hooooly shit that looks good. I haven't been this pumped for a new Final Fantasy since... 12.
...because the combat system looked so fluid and refined...
On second thought, I can wait to see how this one turns out.
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It looks like a pretty interesting game, but that trailer keeps making my brain go "Wait, is that a Final Fantasy monster? What's that doing here?"
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I dunno, I just see Kingdom Hearts with a fresh change of clothes. And maybe just a tiny splash of Drakengard cologne. Maybe that last bit is just me, though.
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Amazon sold out of "launch edition" PS4s within 24 hours, and are now taking preorders for "standard edition", which basically means you're not guaranteed one on launch date.
So yeah, we're getting to the point where you have to camp to get an online preorder in months in advance, here.
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Well that's okay. After getting a bit singed this gen, I'm gonna wait for a month or three for everybody else to shake out the bugs, if any.
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Amazon sold out of "launch edition" PS4s within 24 hours, and are now taking preorders for "standard edition", which basically means you're not guaranteed one on launch date.
So yeah, we're getting to the point where you have to camp to get an online preorder in months in advance, here.
There are still plenty of Xbox Ones, though!
(http://brontoforum.us/Smileys/classic/laugher.gif)
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Or maybe they sold out so fast that you didn't notice it (http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/10/xbox-one-amazon-preorders-almost-completely-sell-out-within-four-hours/)
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Nnnnnnooo? (http://amzn.com/B00CMQTVK0)
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Dangit, Ted! Now that's gonna be in my browsing history and Amazon will recommend me Xbox crap.
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The thing actually did sell out at one point. That point was also before the Sony conference.
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I just realized that all three of the new characters in SSB are known for their limited facial expressions.
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:| :| :|
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That's not fair. Mega Man is all :| on the ground but he goes :o whenever he jumps!
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And his 1ups are clearly :D
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And then he dies and he's all DX
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And then he's a vampire. :l <---Vampire.
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So, whenever I see ads for low-rent games they always have ad lines now like "You'll never want to hang out with your friends!" "Your buddies will never see you again!" "You'll never want to leave your room!"
When did this actually become a selling point? :wakka:
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I have literally never seen that but man. That's a pretty low bar for marketing ;D
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I always thought it was weird that "addictive" is a salable quality. It implies that people are out looking for games to feel dependent on, and the fact that that's probably true feels awful.
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I tend to see that on really cheap games, like the various "Not-40K" MMO clones, or the "Fondle my boobs, my lord!" type of thing, but yeah I have legit seen that on at least a half-dozen different ads for different games now.
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<beatbandito> http://www.crypticsea.com/subrosa/ (http://www.crypticsea.com/subrosa/) everyone play this
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Complete 180 on all Xbox DRM. (http://news.xbox.com/2013/05/qa)
No more always online requirement
The console no longer has to check in every 24 hours
All game discs will work on Xbox One as they do on Xbox 360
Authentication is no longer necessary
An Internet connection is only required when initially setting up the console
All downloaded games will function the same when online or offline
No additional restrictions on trading games or loaning discs
Region locks have been dropped
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Xbox 180
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Yeah, saw that coming a mile away.
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The reversal, or the joke?
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The reversal. I didn't even realize you had made a post.
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::(:
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I know it's not any consolation to wanting for the peerless esteem and regard of DN, but I thought it was a fabulous pun.
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It was delightful pun.
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It was for about five minutes after the news broke, and then EVERYBODY was saying it.
Anyway, judging from the reaction on the interwebs, this is simultaneously the best and worst news, proof that Microsoft is going to win and lose the next console generation, and just another ploy in their grand scheme to dominate the market by making everyone hate them, so the Kinect can track our movements and eating habits through the subdermal chips the government implanted in us at birth, open your eyes, sheeple!
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I think they're still going to lose, and this blatant damage control isn't going to help them all that much in the face of the hundred dollar price gap, and the really sour taste that this has not washed out.
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No, but they probably have at least recovered from "total wipeout" to merely "third place this generation".
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It's not like sphorts sphorts sphorts sphorts sphorts sports TELEVISION got a 180.
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What Microsoft learned from this generation: don't advertise these things, attack the user with them after the purchase.
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No, but they probably have at least recovered from "total wipeout" to merely "third place this generation".
Let's be honest, here. Even when it was still a privacy-invading, consumer fucker-over, the Xbox One was still going to outsell the Wii U.
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No, but they probably have at least recovered from "total wipeout" to merely "third place this generation".
Let's be honest, here. Even when it was still a privacy-invading, consumer fucker-over, the Xbox One was still going to outsell the Wii U.
You should change your name to Kotaku.
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"Win" and "lose" aren't really valid metrics here. Will MS gain back the customers it lost because of this? Probably a few, but for the most part the camps have been drawn up - hardcore gamers on the PS4, social gamers on the XBox, and Nintendo pretty much coasting along on the strength of its first party titles like it has for almost 20 years now. Anyone who actually cares about the XBox's DRM requirements aren't going to just shrug and forget about them, and no amount of catching up to Sony on policy matters is going to change the fact that their machine costs $100 more and has something like half the graphical capabilities. Microsoft's main advantage is going to be that the 360 managed to be the de facto platform for multiplayer (despite being the one that forced you to pay for it) and that sort of social network carries a lot of inertia with it - one guy in the clan or whatever migrates to One to play the new Colladuty, and now everyone else has to get the same system to stay with the group. Beyond that, they don't have much of a convincing argument, and "Not as terrible as originally thought" doesn't really substitute.
History has shown repeatedly that the qualities of the console itself don't really matter for a hill of beans after the first year, though. Winners and losers are determined solely based on the system's library. Between the two competitors (Nintendo is really off in its own dimension), XBO's got the advantage with a Halo, but it's too damn early to say that that alone is going to help them "win" this generation, especially since Halo isn't really the silver bullet it used to be (who else here forgot that Halo 4 was already released?). So there's no point in opening up a casket for Microsoft no matter how badly they fuck with the system, at least not until some major publishers make noise about abandoning the platform, which probably just happened somewhere in the back rooms and is probably the real reason Microsoft has started to backpedal.
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There's more cross-platform releases than ever this generation.
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It probably said something about the final "closeness" of the player bases that people were willing to make Xbox and PS3 versions of a lot of different titles.
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Don't forget that also a lot of people just own two (or all) the consoles, perhaps picking up one every year or two. This is especially feasible for those who aren't early adopters.
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There's more cross-platform releases than ever this generation.
But how often if ever can the Playstation and Xbox crowds play together online?
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yo ho hooooh fuck (https://itunes.apple.com/US/app/id658707860?mt=8)
it's puzzle pirates for ipad
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Someone set up a neat little widget site that lets you play Cards Against Humanity online for free: http://pyz.socialgamer.net/game.jsp (http://pyz.socialgamer.net/game.jsp)
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So the 1950's XCOM game might actually be good. (http://www.joystiq.com/2013/06/27/the-bureau-xcom-declassified-personal-pacifist-edition/)
It looks like it's going to be a Shooter/RPG hybrid like Mass Effect, but with a massive emphasis on squad-based tactics. So much emphasis, in fact, that in the entire demo the player character doesn't fire a single bullet and instead succeeds purely through issuing orders.
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the player character doesn't fire a single bullet and instead succeeds purely through issuing orders.
That's actually something I've been waiting for a long time and genuinely surprised hasn't been done well before. Really interested in seeing how that plays out.
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http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/27/texas-teen-makes-violent-joke-during-video-game-is-jailed-for-months/ (http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/27/texas-teen-makes-violent-joke-during-video-game-is-jailed-for-months/)
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The statements “lol” and “jk” — meaning “laughing out loud” and “just kidding” — indicate that Justin’s statement was entirely sarcastic, said his father.
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Well, apparently people need to be told that, since the kid's been in jail for months.
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The good news is that it shouldn't be hard to find a good free speech lawyer to take this case on contingency.
I'm not a lawyer, but I have a hard time believing this could pass muster under the true threat doctrine, even in Texas.
Lawsuits are a long road, but I'm hoping it's a road he's willing to take.
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Hey, GIA's back (http://thegia.com/).
As a Wordpress blog with four posts on it so far, but I am perfectly okay with that.
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Earthbound on wii u virtual console.
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New 2.5D Strider game announced at ComicCon. Also a teaser:
Strider - Announce Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jMwcJI0pEg#ws)
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EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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That is correct.
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Earthbound out on Wii U Virtual Console as of yesterday.
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Namco High is a browser-based cross-over dating sim featuring numerous Namco-Bandai characters.
And it's being written by Andrew Hussie.
Seriously. (http://www.polygon.com/2013/7/19/4537684/homestuck-creator-developing-namco-high-dating-sim)
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Ahahahaha... WHAT.
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The most terrifying thing to remember is that Namco produces the Idolmaster series.
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I heard about that yesterday, but I thought it was a joke.
brb
:bam:
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I have no earthly idea why this merits these reactions and I' think I'm going to ask that you guys leave my ignorance intact.
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On the other hand, it might be possible to date Voldo.
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I have no earthly idea why this merits these reactions and I' think I'm going to ask that you guys leave my ignorance intact.
Nope, too bad, you're going to find out.
Andrew Hussie is most famous for the popular webcomic Homestuck.
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On the other hand, it might be possible to date Voldo.
I need a hot date with the King of All Cosmos. If the game is voiced, He must speak in record scratches.
Make it happen, Namco.
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The King of All Cosmos is a happily-married man, you jerk!
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Name a king that didn't have a little action on the side.
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It's not like I'm asking for a committed relationship, god.
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Also, it's a high school, so presumably this would be Angsty Teenager King of the Cosmos.
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He was quite a rebel in his teenage years. You should have seen that delinquent pompadour.
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Unfortunately, it was spoiled by his feeble attempts to grow a moustache.
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Also acceptable: Principal King of All Cosmos.
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Kanye Quest 3030 Release Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WKchWie2Go#)
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... so it Barkley's Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden, but with Kanye West and Rapping instead of Charles Barkley and B-Ball?
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Earthbound out on Wii U Virtual Console as of yesterday.
More important than that, Shantae on the 3DS E-Shop's Virtual Console
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Did you mean:
Earthbound out on Wii U Virtual Console as of yesterday.
More Almost as important than that, Shantae on the 3DS E-Shop's Virtual Console
I think that's what you meant. I almost thought you were blaspheming.
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What's Earthbound? ┐(O_o；)┌
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Doesn't seeing chicks make you happy, Buge?
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What kinda question is that?
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A referential one. (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=6491.0)
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I'm pretty sure Buge is having you on, seeing as how he posted in that very thread at some point.
EDIT: Okay, I'm not 100% sure about that, but I'm pretty sure?
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You wanna go through the whole thread and check, be my guest.
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Allow me to ask this seriously, What's Earthbound?
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The blunder of the century, circa 1995.
THIS GAME STINKS.
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I don't play Animal Crossing, so I'm not particularly familiar with all the details, but this article was fantastic.
After a duping bug resulted massive inflation and the total collapse of the Animal Crossing economy, slave trading became the new economy (http://animalcrossing.quora.com/The-Collapse-of-the-Animal-Crossing-Economy-and-the-Rise-of-Villager-Trading).
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I'm legit happy that I can play Earthbound and Shantae in an easy, legal fashion.
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Mongrel, that guy sounds like he doesn't have the balls to take advantage of item duping.
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I paid off my house in ACNL completely legit and I'm not sure how I feel about missing out on a dupe bug
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I don't really mind infinite money cheating if you're struggling with a game due to difficulty or balance, but there's nothing difficult about Animal Crossing. Money functions as a pacing mechanism and a barometer of dedication or cleverness, and giving yourself arbitrarily large amounts of money duping rare items fucks up the former and takes all the thrill out of the latter. It's not like there some sort of Region First achievement for getting a complete set of gold furniture; you don't need golden tools in order to be competitive. Your friends aren't going to yell at you for visiting their towns with less than perfect gear.
But hey, if these people want to play the entire Mario game in the golden tanuki suit, I don't have a problem with that. Personally, I like to feel accomplishment when I'm done with a game, but it's their game to do with what they want.
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It's really funny how people have opted to take the gameplay out of Animal Crossing.
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guys you don't understand
they're finally free
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They paid 35 bucks to be chained up, I don't think they deserve an easy way out.
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The thing is, they're not finally free, they've just moved on to a different form of currency. The people themselves. See, who is in your village is randomized, so the dupe barons are now trading citizens from their golden palaces to get the perfect comp.
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http://kotaku.com/video-games-obsession-with-winning-is-killing-them-511624286 (http://kotaku.com/video-games-obsession-with-winning-is-killing-them-511624286)
yes, it's Kotaku, but this is a not-bad blurb on game design and ways to make losing fun.
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Fez II is cancelled (http://www.joystiq.com/2013/07/27/fez-2-canceled/)
Video quickly explains what happened:
Phil Fish's Twitter Breakdown (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuDqraUlUcM#ws)
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(http://puu.sh/3Niws.png)
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Let's also remember that Phil Fish also took time off at intervals to just blast random people for no reason just because he is a raging douche.
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:leaving:
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That's one hell of a ragequit.
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I liked Fez well enough, and can sympathize with getting frustrated about the stresses of being a public figure.
But....
Phil Fish is apparently a guy who responds to Twitter abuse by canceling his game first and then his Twitter account.
Well, in light of this, there's a lesson I think any independent developer could benefit from: you don't have to make yourself a public figure to promote your game, and you can keep your brand and your personal correspondence separate. And you should really consider taking efforts to do so if you are worried about the stress of dealing with your audience.
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I think the best part about this whole blowup is that FEZ 2 was being worked on by an actual team, and Phil Fish just put them out of a job.
Edit: Has Phil Fish beat up a vending machine yet?
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Hey guys! Breath of Fire 6! You love Breath of Fire right? It's happening! It's coming out!
...For phones. (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-08-01-breath-of-fire-6-announced-for-pc-tablet-and-smartphones)
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Where JRPGs go to die.
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JRPGs have been dead since the 360 launched.
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Nah man, there are still good ones... they just all have Shin Megami Tensei in the name.
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Hey guys! Breath of Fire 6! You love Breath of Fire right? It's happening! It's coming out!
...For phones (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-08-01-breath-of-fire-6-announced-for-pc-tablet-and-smartphones) and PCs.
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Rise of the Triad Launch Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFLNrfc4HKY#ws)
It's out and it's really really fun.
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Except if you hit the 500 optimization bugs which plague the game. I gotta wait until they patch and then hopefully it won't chug so hard.
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100% steady for me so far.
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People have been submitting ways to fuck with the .INIs, and the results for me so far has been "None of the traps or enemies spawn" and "There isn't even a mouse smooth variable what are you people smoking?"
Also people keep gushing about the great music tracks the game has, but I was listening to the same song for about 30 minutes.
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Touching Characters in Dragon's Crownドラゴンズクラウン:全裸の精霊に触ってみた (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex133LSR6xE#ws)
Well..Tropes vs. Women will have more material it seems.
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Yeah, why isn't that guy tied up too? I demand a refund.
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Some of the people who made FEAR and No One Lives Forever are making a weird looking fps.
http://www.pcgamer.com/previews/betrayer-game-announced-hands-on-with-the-new-fps-from-former-creators-of-f-e-a-r-and-no-one-lives-forever/ (http://www.pcgamer.com/previews/betrayer-game-announced-hands-on-with-the-new-fps-from-former-creators-of-f-e-a-r-and-no-one-lives-forever/)
Betrayer trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct2grSFF_M8#ws)
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The system update for the 3DS that lets wifi hot spots that allow Nintendo Zone to connect also store and exchange street passes finally happened today.
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(http://img.game.co.uk/images/content/SpecialEditions/WADWADLarge.jpg)
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WOW A PRIUS
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The funny thing is that with the space flight and the Lambo, that might actually be a good deal for 1M.
If you were gonna buy all those things anyway, I mean.
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Game Developers from all over the world are coming together to kickstart a JRPG, including Nobuo Uemetsu. (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1300298569/project-phoenix-japans-indie-rpg-feat-aaa-talent)
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Hm -- could be something special, if it all comes out well.
$20 to get the game when it's released? Hell, I spent more than that on Pier Solar.
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Ah, I knew I was archive diving for a reason.
Last I heard the PS4 pulled a bunch of stupid shit on you at install that mostly just breaks right of first sale, but it leaves you alone after that. If they're smart they'll backpedal from even the shit that they're rumored to be doing, and run an ad campaign on it to tie into their new focus on "real" gamers or whatever.
Ka-boom.
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Meanwhile!
Sony strikes deal with Viacom, PS4 may offer streaming Viacom channels without a cable provider by the end of the year. (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/business/media/sony-and-viacom-reach-tentative-internet-tv-deal.html?_r=0)
Where's that gif... ah, there we go.
(http://i.imgur.com/IdRcW2j.gif)
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Oh speaking of xbone, microsoft finally backed off on requiring kinnect being always plugged in and on to use the console.
It's still in the box and inflating the system cost though.
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At this point the Kinect is the XBone's only real distinct advantage, other than Halo exclusivity. Wouldn't be too surprised if the platform morphed into a "motion only" game system like the Wii wanted to.
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This could go so many places, but anyway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed_IV:_Black_Flag#Reception (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed_IV:_Black_Flag#Reception)
So much gold in there.
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Okay, full Saint's Row IV rundown, without any more spoilers than the prelaunch trailers.
This does not play like a Saint's Row game. There are certain particular missions that make it more like the classic games, but most of combat and how you approach secondary objectives has changed.
You work from a central HUB and all the activities on the map are part of 'side quests' you get from other characters. It should also be noted that everything about the HUB area is Mass Effect satire that personally I think is handled amazingly. You can still do all of these on your own without being told, and they will simply automatically be removed from the list of activities for the quest they were a part of.
Collectibles and open world events (kill enemies, destroy objectives, platform) are better done than they ever have been. I still enjoy just flinging myself the city and stumbling on stuff. The instanced activities are as hit-and-miss as ever though. A lot of them don't need to take you out of the action with reward screens and the such but do anyway for reasons I don't fully understand. Much with the old games some are pretty fun (Insurance Fraud shines brighter than the sun in this version) and others feel like they had an idea and forgot that's not enough on its own (sections of speed rifts can be worse than the really dumb celeb bodyguard missions from earlier entries).
Sidequest rewards are most of the costumes / toys / abilities. Silver medal rewards cover the more OP buffs, and gold medal stuff is mostly redundant or purely aesthetic, meaning that it doesn't feel like you're really missing out on anything that might be fun just because you don't want to redo a broken instance over and over.
The plot and setting are more just means to an end so they're not as worth going into. Writing is more of the same and, in what feels like another poke at Mass Effect 3, it revolves mostly around closure or commentary / jokes about past games and references.
Now people on my Steam friends list can start looking forward to me randomly invading their worlds to try some of those co-op modes.
If you like Saint's Row or sandbox action games and serious stories aren't a need of yours you'll definitely enjoy it / 10.
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My internal review gets summarized thus: "What Volition has made isn't a sequel to Saints Row, but an entirely new IP that happens to reuse most of the assets from Saints Row the Third. The result has more to do with the likes of Prototype and inFamous than another Grand Theft Auto parody, and in that light the game really shines."
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I think it's smart, fun, hilarious at times, and doesn't give a fuck on a scale so grand it's almost poetic. I don't think anyone ever asked, during the course of development, if anything made sense or not. The only parameters were whether it was fun, possible, and if they had time to put it in. I think the movement is actually better than Prototype (to which it is most similar in that regard), though the melee combat is no better than in SR3. I think the writing is better, for what it is trying to be at this point, than at any previous point in the series. That is to say, it's fucking crazy from start to finish, but more consistent than something like SR2 that clearly wanted to be serious in the main plot, while having you drive a poop truck in side missions. This game is crazy and it means it, and it's not going to compromise that insanity by having anything serious or dramatic intrude at any point.
It's not perfect by any means, but I loved it. It wears the signs of it's origins as a DLC gone rogue very clearly, but I just don't care. I have no idea what Volition is going to do next, but I hope they don't lose this sense that, somehow, you're playing something generated by actual lunatics.
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‘StarCraft’ Gameplay Boosts Mental Flexibility, Says Study
http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/08/25/starcraft-gameplay-boosts-mental-flexibility-says-study/?mod=WSJBlog (http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/08/25/starcraft-gameplay-boosts-mental-flexibility-says-study/?mod=WSJBlog)
The participant pool was composed entirely of 72 female students at the University of Texas at Austin, because researchers were unable to find male participants who played computer games for less than two hours a day.
Amazing :glee:
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haha i always knew the Sims was shit
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Anything that lets me make virtual brontos (http://www.1up.com/features/sims-2-experience?pager.offset=2) and murder them in fire can't be all bad.
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Anything that lets me make virtual brontos (http://www.1up.com/features/sims-2-experience?pager.offset=2) and murder them in fire can't be all bad.
Holy shit, I thought that article ceased existing.
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"Queequeg is an ex-whaler."
:lol:
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Hot Pepper Game Review - The Walking Dead (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9wmzBJZ2FY#)
Hot Pepper Game Review feat. Octopimp - Prison Architect (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUYJTrcod_Q#ws)
If you're going to rely on a gimmick, make it a good one!
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The one of Egoraptor reviewing Monster Hunter is fucking amazing. If you close your eyes it sounds like he's slowing revealing details of the game from a fucking torture rack.
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Isn't that just how he sounds naturally?
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I was a little bit sad that he quit.
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Bunny Must Die! Chelsea and the 7 Devils Greenlit. (http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=93405836)
Also some gay-looking game called Knytt Underground.
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(https://gs1.wac.edgecastcdn.net/8019B6/data.tumblr.com/798a361e1a35ba1b7525827b9bb158a5/tumblr_ms979aKKxG1r3g97ao1_1280.png)
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I have no idea what's being referenced and who's being made fun of...
:keikaku: ????
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There's a new (slightly) cheaper variant of the 3DS coming out called the 2DS, which removes the unnecessary 3D feature (okay) and also doesn't fold and moves all the buttons to the top (what).
Also, when they said just last month that there won't be a Wii U price drop? They actually meant "There will be a Wii U price drop next fucking month."
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Slight bit of digging around reveals that the 2DS actually has a single screen covered up to look like two (http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/08/how-the-2ds-could-have-been-nintendos-first-true-portable-tablet/), which kinda makes sense for technical reasons but also is confusing because WHY WOULD YOU COVER UP ALL OF THAT SCREEN SPACE? As Ars points out there's one unsubstantiated but very believable explanation: they were going for a standalone tablet gaming system, like a Wii U tablet that's not tethered to a console, with the ability to be cross-compatible with the 3DS, and then eventually realized they would essentially be creating a three-way competition between their already floundering touchscreen based systems (and they don't have enough software output to even support the two they have). The tablet design actually makes sense because, if you're going to have a big ol' flat screen anyway, that would be the right spot to put the buttons (putting them on the bottom would have made it top-heavy). Anyway, so instead of just scrapping the prototypes they decided in their infinite wisdom to slap some plastic bits over the screen, lock it into 3DS mode, and announce that they just made an entry-level 3DS that happens to look goofy as hell. It's... definitely, definitely something that Nintendo would end up doing, historically.
The obvious question at this point is what can be done with it once the plastic's been pried off and a decent homebrew installer's been hacked up. The thing might actually become immensely popular in certain circles.
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To my knowledge, the 3DS hasn't actually been hacked open yet to any homebrew-runnable degree. I think a flash cart that can play pirated games (and no homebrewed stuff) only hit like this month. Eventually it'll happen, but by the time the 2DS is out? Eh.
Also Parish says the button placement is way better comfort-wise for D-Pad games, but of course, you can't selectively put all your virtual console games onto one system and your 3D games on another, screwing over anyone who might want to double dip for comfort reasons.
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Natural Selection 2 just had a huge update. Pretty awesome.
Natural Selection 2 Reinforced Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZzW23gAtyY#)
Intel Update - B253 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csJmLAac5w8#)
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Nice, they finally let people eject out of exosuits. I've had a hilarious amount of games end with half the marine team unable to repair the power station because they were apparently welded into their dumb giant robots.
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To my knowledge, the 3DS hasn't actually been hacked open yet to any homebrew-runnable degree. I think a flash cart that can play pirated games (and no homebrewed stuff) only hit like this month. Eventually it'll happen, but by the time the 2DS is out? Eh.
Well no, not by the time it's out; it seems to me that it's the release of the 2DS that's likely to incentivize hackers.
I haven't done a whole lot of research into the current state of handheld hacking; it looks like the Vita's got a solid hacker community but the 3DS hasn't attracted that kind of attention. A tablet model seems like exactly the sort of thing that will get hackers more interested in tinkering with it.
Guess we'll see.
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Megaman man makes mega Megaman. (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mightyno9/mighty-no-9/description)
Maybe.
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this allows me to maintain my "only back spiritual successors to mega man" streak
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Except it's almost literally a Megaman game!
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no way. as parish eloquently put it, mega man is a total astro boy rip off. this is clearly a cyborg 009 rip off
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it's actually more like (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f8/Marusu.jpg/230px-Marusu.jpg)
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(http://francois.brontoforum.us/miscpic/kamiyaa.png)
(http://francois.brontoforum.us/miscpic/kamiyab.png)
(http://francois.brontoforum.us/miscpic/kamiyac.png)
(http://francois.brontoforum.us/miscpic/kamiyad.png)
(http://francois.brontoforum.us/miscpic/kamiyae.png)
(http://francois.brontoforum.us/miscpic/kamiya1.png)
(http://francois.brontoforum.us/miscpic/kamiya2.png)
(http://francois.brontoforum.us/miscpic/kamiya3.png)
Haha wow.
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A history of Final Fantasy (http://imgur.com/a/uxIUL?gallery)
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Wait. What the fuck is that FF5 screenshot?
FF5 never got a PSP remake, did it?
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No, but like it says there in the caption, it got an iOS and coming Android remake.
Gotta say, I prefer the sprites.
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Pretty disappointing choice of character models. I'll give the PSP FF1 remake this much, at least: it had gorgeous fucking sprites.
Up until they started moving and you saw they hadn't actually bothered to add any more frames of animation than they had on the NES.
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They're probably operating under the advice that mobile game developers ought not to make their graphics too detailed. Bright, solid colors are easier to see on various screen sizes/lighting conditions and scale more easily.
And then SE goes and makes a game like Demon's Score, but that's really probably the least bizarre thing about Demon's Score.
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The sprites they use for the iOS ports don't look quite so shitty on extremely high-density displays like iOS devices tend to have, but they're still a step down.
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Oh, wow: Child of Light (http://www.joystiq.com/2013/09/10/child-of-light-is-a-whimsical-send-up-to-jrpgs/), it turns out, is something I'm actually really looking forward to. I had no idea.
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A history of Final Fantasy (http://imgur.com/a/uxIUL?gallery)
I'm recognizing whole blocks of that from elsewhere, and given all the shifts in tone it's a pretty safe bet that whole damn thing is a bunch of other articles haphazardly pasted together with a few poorly written linking paragraphs crammed in between. Hell, he didn't even manage to delete all the wikipedia footnotes[15].
I bet /r/gaming ate this shit right up.
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:mystery:
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Artemis Spaceship Bridge Simulator (http://store.steampowered.com/app/247350/) seems relevant to the discussion over in the Star Trek thread and our many massive boners over naval-analogue space exploration.
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Oh shit, how many of us have that?
Because that actually sounds like stupid good fun (and is cheap!), only it REALLY requires a critical mass of friends playing.
EDIT: Based on my own friendslist, nobody has it. ::(:
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Don't get too excited. First, the thing just came out today, and second, you kind of need a critical mass of friends in the same room with separate PCs to play it as intended.
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So, what you're saying is MAGFest.
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Don't get too excited. First, the thing just came out today, and second, you kind of need a critical mass of friends in the same room with separate PCs to play it as intended.
Oh. I thought it says right on the game profile that you can play online. I would assume you need Skype/mics for that, but it's doable, no?
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As intended. There is an online mode but I suspect it's very dull to be, like, some kind of nav officer in your own room in your underwear listening to everyone else talk over each other.
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Remember that episode of The Simpsons where Mr. Burns finds out he doesn't have any money left?
Well, the same thing is happening to Capcom (http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2013-09-10-capcom-looks-towards-big-changes-after-difficult-fy13).
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please say that means they'll have to sell their IP
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That's exactly what they'll do, if by "their IP" you mean "more DLC".
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That implies they'll actually SELL more DLC.
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I've been saying for years that Capcom is actively trying to go out of business. I'm proud that they are succeeding.
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B-but what will become of humble Traingun????
Lost Planet 2 - Waysiders, train-cannon + Over G Akrid FMV (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2Ib7A2FTf4#)
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Did you even see Lost Planet 3? They went back to 1's forgetableness.
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What was weird about Lost Planet 3 was that it struck me as genuinely embarrassing. The shit that goes on in LP2 or RE5 is so far beyond the limits of shame that they frolick, like children, in the fields of abstract, wild indulgence. Nothing is sacred.
And yet, it took until Lost Planet 3 — a nightmarishly bland Dead Space ripoff that tore out every shred of joy and character a Capcom game might possibly have — for that company to produce a truly embarrassing product.
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Dragon's Dogma is yet another game with a really awesome concept (Monster Hunter as an open WRPG!) executed pretty well with one specific decision that's almost impressive in how totally it ruins the whole thing.
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I don't know what that one thing is. All I know is Capcom missed the point of the whole thing by making a vita exclusive that is sidescrolling with up to 8 pawns, so I guess they figured what their fans wanted was patapon.
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Imagine Skyrim without fast travel or even mounts.
The best part is the normal movement animation is kind of a crouch/stalk, like the game is actively trying to get you wherever you want to go as slowly as possible.
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I don't even... I never had a problem with things being too far away and I beat the game twice.
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yeah but you fucking love cocaine
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Dragon's dogma does have fast travel, though! It's just unfortunate that you need to finish the game to be able to use it effectively.
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But the only place you arguably need it for, is the very place you get a pylon. anywhere else, and you're just being lazy. Which is not to say that I did not make judicious use of them in Dark Arisen.
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Not to use it as an excuse for DD vanilla, but the DLC added in the ability to leave a much larger number of marker stones, charges way less for the teleports, and basically just gives you unlimited restriction-free movement if you have a new game +.
Still haven't heard if they removed the bug that causes your character to get raped at the half-way mark if you play the game as any normal person would.
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...what?
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Er, sorry. I guess they just drastically reduce the price, and give vendors with unlimited supply. I was misinformed.
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Not to use it as an excuse for DD vanilla, but the DLC added in the ability to leave a much larger number of marker stones, charges way less for the teleports, and basically just gives you unlimited restriction-free movement if you have a new game +.
The larger amount wasn't in the DLC, Just once you finish the game, I don't have the DLC and I put down like a dozen of the things. Makes the escort quests possible!
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Er, sorry. I guess they just drastically reduce the price, and give vendors with unlimited supply. I was misinformed.
I was actually referring to the Still haven't heard if they removed the bug that causes your character to get raped at the half-way mark if you play the game as any normal person would.
part.
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Having never played it, I imagine he's referring to a sudden spike in difficulty.
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http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Beloved (http://dragonsdogma.wikia.com/wiki/Beloved) Actually... that doesn't cover the problem as well as it could, just allude to it.
Basically, there was a very involved romance system in which assisting, giving gifts to, and just talking to someone could make any NPC in the game your romantic partner. None of this, however, is mentioned in the game, or even very well documented at all. To top it all off there was a bug that made it so talking to someone was the only thing that impacted the affection ratings characters had for you.
This meant that a lot of people would be rewarded for [spoiler]having killed what appeared to be the end boss of the game[/spoiler] with a mandatory sex scene with the innkeeper, a traveling merchant, or even this dude:
Dragon's Dogma - Court Jester Romance (Ending Spoilers) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUbLL3J0__o#ws)
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Oh, right, that. Haha, I only ever ended up with Madeline on account of finishing up her questline right before the tipping point of the romance "minigame". Man, even in Dark Arisen that shit is hard to game. Tried to hook up with the notFrench soldier, but got stuck with the princess because fuck if I know.
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I just love that this is just a thing that happens. Much more realistic than romance in most other games.
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Dude beatbandit, what are you talking about, that was the best part of DD's romance system, I freaking loved every second of it.
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There is a similar romance system in Radiata Stories, but Jack's only allowed to be straight (and fantastically dumb).
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I think the princess/Duchess thing is because the system tilts that way.(What with her having an unique carry animation.)
Miss Airhead can just go back home to wait for the net political marriage as far as I am concerned. My kneecaps still hurt when it rains.
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Classic Streisand Effect here: http://pcgmedia.com/garrys-incident-video-total-biscuit-removed-dev-dislikes-critique/ (http://pcgmedia.com/garrys-incident-video-total-biscuit-removed-dev-dislikes-critique/)
Also, YouTube caving to copyright requests used for a bullshit request that has nothing to do with copyright, but there's nothing new about that.
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So... Japanese developers seem to be sticking microtransactions into full retail games, now. The first I heard about this was JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle (http://www.eventhubs.com/news/2013/oct/15/fans-react-negatively-micro-transactions-jojos-bizarre-adventure-all-star-battle-may-drop-system-international-version/), and now Bravely Default: For The Sequel (http://www.joystiq.com/2013/10/22/bravely-default-for-the-sequel-adds-time-saving-microtransactio/) will feature them.
This trend is not going to end well.
For anyone.
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Ace Combat Infinity is doing the exact same thing too. You have a finite amount of fuel that you spend each time you play, and you have to wait for it to come back or pay for more. Also you can only have enough fuel for 3 matches just by idling; pay more for even more!
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If anyone actually pays full price for a game they can't even pay I am going to have to finally give in to the urge to hang it all and, I dunno, go outside.
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Yeah, that seems like a great way to incentivize actually giving up vidja games forever.
"Oh, it turns out I can completely do without these! Whoops!"
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Like at least the new Ace Combat is F2P. Jojo is a 60 dollar game and Cyberconnect2 thought that they could get away with limiting the time people could play it so it would last longer (But hey you can pay us more to burn through it).
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The only way to make such a thing remotely acceptable would be to drastically lower the initial game price. And even then it would be bullshit if it applied to the entire game and not just Online stuff
My dreaded and sadly likely eventual outcome: A single-player game where you have to buy every single level/stage separately. "Well, I beat world 1, now on to the next--" "THAT WILL BE $5, PLEASE."
This is why arcades died everywhere but Japan! Why would you keep pumping an endless amount of quarters into a machine if you could just pay one lump sum upfront and play forever? This is quite literally a step backwards.
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That doesn't explain why arcades still exist in Japan though. That seems like a critical omission of the theory.
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My dreaded and sadly likely eventual outcome: A single-player game where you have to buy every single level/stage separately. "Well, I beat world 1, now on to the next--" "THAT WILL BE $5, PLEASE."
So, any recent Telltale or other episodic game. Walking Dead, and such.
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I buy that TellTale actually rolls with what the original plan for Valve's "Episodic Strategy" was:
Shorter games; lower price; more frequently.
It's not like TellTale has been misleading people about what their products are.
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You might as well make the same complaint about serial comic books.
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Didn't an arcade shooter reboot do that? Sell the first episode for cheap as a quasi-demo?
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There's nothing wrong with charging 5 bucks a stage for a 5 stage game if the initial game/stage doesn't cost 50.
Also, it turns out human beings are psychologically inclined to prefer a larger lump sum that grants you unlimited use than paying as you go, even if paying as you go is cheaper. Disney Land used to charge per ride and people hated it, so they switched to 20 bucks for an all day pass and everyone loved them for it while paying twice as much or more than they used to.
Of course, making people pay BOTH (a large lump sum and then pay as you go) is a really shit thing to do.
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My dreaded and sadly likely eventual outcome: A single-player game where you have to buy every single level/stage separately. "Well, I beat world 1, now on to the next--" "THAT WILL BE $5, PLEASE."
So, any recent Telltale or other episodic game. Walking Dead, and such.
Well I did just buy the whole season of The Wolf Among Us for a flat 25 bucks, and you can't buy individual episodes on Steam, so it looks like they're moving away from that.
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it turns out human beings are psychologically inclined to prefer a larger lump sum that grants you unlimited use than paying as you go
Is that something I'll read about in Predictably Irrational (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictably_Irrational) or is that from somewhere else?
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Just want to point ou that there's a huge difference between paying for an episode and paying for a life/play.
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In that you own that fraction of a game forever? Indeed!
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The biggest problem of selling a game piecefold is that the first part is nothing but ads for the second part.
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Yeah but you could (kind of) say that about any serial narrative.
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Just like you could equally complain that serial narratives are all at risk of being left incomplete or to jump the shark.
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All cereal narratives are ads, even complete, self-contained ones.
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That's a corny pun if ever I've seen one. Definitely not the cream of the crop. You gotta separate the wheat from the chaff BB.
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The biggest problem of selling a game piecefold is that the first part is nothing but ads for the second part.
Depends. Competently executed, a first episode can be perfectly self-contained while still whetting the appetite.
I haven't really played any serialized games other than Walking Dead, so I don't have a good example off the top of my head, but film's rife with them. Star Wars and The Matrix are both excellent first acts that end with satisfying closure while still leaving the major arc unresolved. (Indeed, both of those first chapters have far better and more satisfying resolutions than their complete arcs.) Course, those are also cases where the parties involved didn't know if they'd have the money for a sequel and figured they HAD to be self-contained -- does that make Lord of the Rings a better analog? Probably not, given that it was based on a beloved novel already conveniently split up into three parts, and was the equivalent of a big-budget AAA title rather than the more modest fare we see in episodic games.
I haven't gotten around to playing 400 Days but I'm guessing it's probably a pretty good example of a self-contained story that's part of a larger narrative. It's a bookend between two arcs, though, not a first episode as such.
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Deadly Premonition's PC developer Swery:
To all the fans of Deadly Premonition. As usual, The steam version evaluation seems to be polarizing. Sorry it is seems to give some unsatisfied. I'm embarrassed that problem give you big disappointment. Anyway, thank you. Please enjoy. I love you all!
Well I guess it's just going to stay shitty unless the DSfix guy manages to somehow optimize it and make it work. I can't get more than 30fps in the opening cutscene, which is infinitely annoying.
Edit: It was Swery himself and not the people who ported the game. I assume he probably had nothing to do with it.
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Oh and the end of the attract video has a watermark for freemake.com which is apparently a free video converter. Tons of quality in this port.
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Konami reveals the relationship between Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes and Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (https://www.konami.com/news5.php)
The biggest surprise for me? That MGSV is actually two games. I thought The Phantom Pain WAS Ground Zeroes.
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He's been saying that they are two different games that together make MGS5 since E3 dude.
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In other news, whoever owns the rights to the You Don't Know Jack series stopped being massive shitheads about PC and released all of the old PC YDKJ games on steam.
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5th Dementia is not on Steam, and none of them are online Multi. Just local multi.
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Well, they are ports of the old 90's games. And its a change from the original "no multiplayer at all because people who own PCs have no friends."
Edit: Oh, and when I say port, I mean 640x480 max resolution.
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Rosalina revealed to be playable in Super Mario 3D World
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/13204397/shit_just_got_adorable.jpg)
oh my fucking hell that shit is so god damned fucking adorable i think i'm going to die
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A Mysterious Cities of Gold game? (http://store.steampowered.com/app/261940/)
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Killer Instinct Net Code Syncing Issues (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkMw3G18C4E#ws)
pffft
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Street Fighter has the same issue RARELY. The thing is it will end the session when a round ends and the clients cannot agree on who won (Or if it even ended).
The fact it went on for so long is ludicrous.
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Gearbox/Telltale just announced a Borderlands adventure game (couple minutes ago on VGX (http://store.steampowered.com/promotion/vgx?snr=1_41_4__42)).
:omg:
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No Man's Sky (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRpDn5qPp3s#ws)
This looks extremely ambitious for a four-person team. In spite of the devs insistence that it is not "Minecraft meets Day Z in space" it appears that that's what it's going to be: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/12/09/first-look-no-mans-sky/ (http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/12/09/first-look-no-mans-sky/)
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http://www.jc-mp.com/ (http://www.jc-mp.com/)
I haven't been having a whole lot of luck installing new servers lately but if there's enough interest I might give this one a shot.
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Killer Instinct Tournament Finals could not continue after XBone lost internet connection.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByIzDRdHxIw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByIzDRdHxIw)
Congratulations on having a game that even people who want to play can't be run successfully.
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Well, it's just a tech demo video, but expect these guys to get hired up by Valve and their stuff shoehorned into Portal 3 in a couple years.
Tech Demo for Pillow Castle's First Person Puzzler (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOfll06X16c#ws)
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They're making a sequel to the greatest fighting ever made. (http://youtu.be/IEnoGGw8XPM)
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Lies! That link has nothing to do with Bushido Blade.
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Gonna have to Thad it up here and inform you that a blind link to YouTube leaves me with absolutely no context at all when I'm on a phone.
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[spoiler]Shaq Fu 2[/spoiler]
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http://store.steampowered.com/app/228380/ (http://store.steampowered.com/app/228380/)
This game actually looks sorta rad, but that name is freaking comedy gold.
We finally ran out of names!
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Alternia naming schemes to become prophetic in