Topic: Game News Dump (Read 297350 times)

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #400 on:** June 30, 2008, 05:43:30 AM »

What are you talking about? I've been playing Blood Bowl 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.

Burrito Al Pastor · « **Reply #401 on:** June 30, 2008, 06:32:06 AM »

It's called "scrumball" in 40k, actually.

Bal · « **Reply #402 on:** June 30, 2008, 11:32:08 PM »

Quote from: MadMAxJr on June 30, 2008, 05:43:30 AM

What are you talking about? I've been playing Blood Bowl 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.

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #403 on:** July 01, 2008, 06:49:55 AM »

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.

Brentai · « **Reply #404 on:** July 01, 2008, 11:06:03 AM »

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!

JDigital · « **Reply #405 on:** July 01, 2008, 02:17:58 PM »

The crazy thing is that Runescape is one of the biggest MMOs. Something like one million paying subscribers?

A² · « **Reply #406 on:** July 01, 2008, 04:28:27 PM »

WoW has over 9 million.
Guild Wars has like three million.

Brentai · « **Reply #407 on:** July 01, 2008, 05:21:55 PM »

Quote from: Lyrai on July 01, 2008, 04:28:27 PM

WoW has over 9 millioooooooooooon.

JDigital · « **Reply #408 on:** July 02, 2008, 07:11:21 AM »

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.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #409 on:** July 02, 2008, 09:12:23 PM »

So there's a Persona 4 now, apparently. 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.

Norondor · « **Reply #410 on:** July 02, 2008, 11:19:00 PM »

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.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #411 on:** July 02, 2008, 11:20:37 PM »

Mind Charge never really bothered me.

Break spells, on the other hand...

Norondor · « **Reply #412 on:** July 02, 2008, 11:28:04 PM »

Alex · « **Reply #413 on:** July 02, 2008, 11:31:51 PM »

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!

Norondor · « **Reply #414 on:** July 03, 2008, 12:42:29 AM »

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.

sei · « **Reply #415 on:** July 03, 2008, 05:26:23 PM »

Quote from: Romosome on June 28, 2008, 02:09:02 PM

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."

HanbitSoft and AsiaSoft signs $7million publishing rights contract.

Doesn't look like FSS is going to reap domestic gains any time soon.

Bal · « **Reply #416 on:** July 03, 2008, 06:44:41 PM »

Again I am forced to inquire, who gives a shit about Mythos? It's not going to succeed, because it's militantly uninteresting.

sei · « **Reply #417 on:** July 03, 2008, 07:15:20 PM »

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.

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #418 on:** July 11, 2008, 10:40:55 AM »

Warhammer Online massive content cut prior to release.

Norondor · « **Reply #419 on:** July 11, 2008, 10:51:15 AM »

Is EA insisting they release it on Ork Day, or what?

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