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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4080 on: August 09, 2013, 03:39:49 PM »

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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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4082 on: August 12, 2013, 11:38:38 AM »

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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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4083 on: August 15, 2013, 11:50:09 AM »

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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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4084 on: August 16, 2013, 02:41:10 AM »

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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4085 on: August 16, 2013, 03:43:07 AM »

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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« Reply #4086 on: August 16, 2013, 04:03:20 AM »

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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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4087 on: August 20, 2013, 06:27:21 PM »

This could go so many places, but anyway: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin%27s_Creed_IV:_Black_Flag#Reception

So much gold in there.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4088 on: August 22, 2013, 01:06:34 AM »

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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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4089 on: August 22, 2013, 03:18:40 AM »

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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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4090 on: August 22, 2013, 11:38:53 PM »

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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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4091 on: August 27, 2013, 10:08:18 AM »

Quote from: Skeletor
‘StarCraft’ Gameplay Boosts Mental Flexibility, Says Study

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2013/08/25/starcraft-gameplay-boosts-mental-flexibility-says-study/?mod=WSJBlog

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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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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4092 on: August 27, 2013, 10:20:41 AM »

haha i always knew the Sims was shit
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4093 on: August 27, 2013, 10:44:15 AM »

Anything that lets me make virtual brontos and murder them in fire can't be all bad.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4094 on: August 27, 2013, 01:13:15 PM »

Anything that lets me make virtual brontos and murder them in fire can't be all bad.

Holy shit, I thought that article ceased existing.
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4095 on: August 27, 2013, 01:22:13 PM »

"Queequeg is an ex-whaler."

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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4096 on: August 27, 2013, 04:18:52 PM »

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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4097 on: August 28, 2013, 05:18:37 AM »

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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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4098 on: August 28, 2013, 05:55:53 AM »

Isn't that just how he sounds naturally?
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Re: Game News Dump
« Reply #4099 on: August 28, 2013, 06:13:29 AM »

I was a little bit sad that he quit.
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