Topic: Game News Dump (Read 282015 times)

TA · « **Reply #160 on:** May 19, 2008, 04:47:55 PM »

Quote from: eloH on May 16, 2008, 11:16:26 PM

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.

Thad · « **Reply #161 on:** May 19, 2008, 04:50:03 PM »

...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.

Thad · « **Reply #162 on:** May 20, 2008, 10:59:56 PM »

DQ4 DS confirmed.

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.

Brentai · « **Reply #163 on:** May 20, 2008, 11:04:36 PM »

...I had no idea that was news. It's been out of Stateside QA for months.

Thad · « **Reply #164 on:** May 20, 2008, 11:08:14 PM »

From the comments, it looks like 5 and 6 are confirmed too, for first-time US releases. Well, good.

Brentai · « **Reply #165 on:** May 20, 2008, 11:09:43 PM »

Well, that's news to me.

Thad · « **Reply #166 on:** May 20, 2008, 11:19:41 PM »

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.

François · « **Reply #167 on:** May 20, 2008, 11:29:48 PM »

My first reaction was to post "fuck now I'm gonna have to buy a ds" followed by about thirty pages of

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.

Thad · « **Reply #168 on:** May 20, 2008, 11:33:09 PM »

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.

Rosencrantz · « **Reply #169 on:** May 20, 2008, 11:35:34 PM »

I'm just surprised that there are still people - especially video game fans - who still don't have a DS.

Brentai · « **Reply #170 on:** May 20, 2008, 11:46:30 PM »

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. :/

François · « **Reply #171 on:** May 20, 2008, 11:53:08 PM »

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!

SQUARENIX!!! IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ON PSX! ON PSX, DAMN YOU!!!

Brentai · « **Reply #172 on:** May 21, 2008, 12:00:07 AM »

Yeah, I kinda wanted a DS-not-so-Lite, but that's what was available. Helps that I mostly play stylus games on it.

Thad · « **Reply #173 on:** May 21, 2008, 12:02:56 AM »

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?

Rosencrantz · « **Reply #174 on:** May 21, 2008, 12:31:27 AM »

Quote from: Thad on May 21, 2008, 12:02:56 AM

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.

Brentai · « **Reply #175 on:** May 21, 2008, 12:41:45 AM »

Quote from: Thad on May 21, 2008, 12:02:56 AM

...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.

A² · « **Reply #176 on:** May 21, 2008, 01:37:55 AM »

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)

A² · « **Reply #177 on:** May 21, 2008, 01:41:19 AM »

Quote from: Niku on May 16, 2008, 11:07:20 PM

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.

Niku · « **Reply #178 on:** May 21, 2008, 03:00:39 AM »

a.) does that apply to the gunmetal bullshit? has anyone said?
b.) 60gb = best PS2 BC.

Al Baron · « **Reply #179 on:** May 22, 2008, 03:43:09 PM »

Big changes coming to XBLA. A redesign of the store isn't one of them, but the delisting change is sorta like that, right? Right?

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