Topic: Game News Dump (Read 297325 times)

Niku · « **Reply #460 on:** July 16, 2008, 07:49:11 PM »

THE GREATEST THING YOU WILL EVER SEE.

Brentai · « **Reply #461 on:** July 16, 2008, 08:18:21 PM »

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?

Cannon · « **Reply #462 on:** July 16, 2008, 08:38:24 PM »

Yes.

Wait...

Yes.

Brentai · « **Reply #463 on:** July 16, 2008, 10:16:40 PM »

More Pikmin, apparently.

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.

Detonator · « **Reply #464 on:** July 16, 2008, 10:29:55 PM »

Anyone else kinda miffed at the "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.

Rosencrantz · « **Reply #465 on:** July 16, 2008, 10:34:27 PM »

Quote from: Lyrai on July 16, 2008, 12:23:18 AM

Dead Rising for the 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.

Detonator · « **Reply #466 on:** July 16, 2008, 10:41:53 PM »

You should get Viva Pinata, though you might count the upcoming DS release as a port/sequel.

Niku · « **Reply #467 on:** July 16, 2008, 10:42:20 PM »

Quote from: Detonator on July 16, 2008, 10:29:55 PM

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.

Dooly · « **Reply #468 on:** July 16, 2008, 11:47:12 PM »

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.

TA · « **Reply #469 on:** July 17, 2008, 12:54:12 AM »

Quote from: Detonator on July 16, 2008, 10:29:55 PM

Anyone else kinda miffed at the "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.

sei · « **Reply #470 on:** July 17, 2008, 01:17:08 AM »

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.

Kazz · « **Reply #471 on:** July 17, 2008, 01:18:02 AM »

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

Brentai · « **Reply #472 on:** July 17, 2008, 07:27:20 AM »

Quote from: sei on July 17, 2008, 01:17:08 AM

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.

James Edward Smith · « **Reply #473 on:** July 17, 2008, 07:32:44 AM »

Quote from: Change it to Brentai on July 16, 2008, 08:18:21 PM

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.

Niku · « **Reply #474 on:** July 17, 2008, 07:34:57 AM »

Quote from: Geo T. Hermal on July 17, 2008, 07:32:44 AM

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.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #475 on:** July 17, 2008, 08:11:45 AM »

It takes great skill on Apogee's part to get 4 or 5 minutes of trailer out of 15 seconds of artwork.

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #476 on:** July 17, 2008, 09:55:51 AM »

I request.. No. I DEMAND that Kazz make some parody of this in glorious Flash 4.

Kazz · « **Reply #477 on:** July 17, 2008, 10:33:33 AM »

how do you parody something that is already as absurd as humanly possible

Cannon · « **Reply #478 on:** July 17, 2008, 10:35:06 AM »

We have faith in you, Kazz.

Brentai · « **Reply #479 on:** July 17, 2008, 10:53:34 AM »

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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