SteelAttack said:

Shit's getting rough over here. This bitch is 40 km away.

Crap, how big, I need to check it out. I don't see an eye so that could be a good sign but it could be the timing of teh picture. Be safe, I have been through some horrible ones, just be in a big windowless room.

Anyone else love the show, Dexter?

travo said:

Anyone else love the show, Dexter?

Dexter is awesome

Project Dark trailer is exactly what I wanted to see. Demon's Souls looking game, lets be honest it is Demon's Souls 2. Same art style, same looking environments. Hugely improved animation and graphics. Enemies look larger than ever. The trailer may be hinting at having team members. Excellent.

So I went to Best Buy today to play Move and they did not have it on display. Plenty of them to buy though. Instead I played Spider-Man SD, my reaction is meh.

I started with the tutorial which allowed me to quickly play as the different spider-mans and get used to the controls. Swinging is nice, I like the various points that you can target to, makes things much easier. The Noir Spidey felt a lot like Batman, but no where near as interesting. I know its early but it was simplistic. Instead of needing to get really close to take out bad guys like in Batman you just get in their general area and press grab.

The combat tutorial is the one that really disappointed me. X for standard attack, Y for strong attack, B to grab, A to evade... how original. Then they taught me some combos, XXX, YYY I was sucked. I swear I have played this game a million times before already. Of course you earn exp to unlock more movies which will be things like aerial dodge and cool pull grab moves, or a longer combo attack. To dodge you just hold the left trigger and spidey does a bunch of Matrix like dodges, easy and cool to look at.

I then played a good portion of the first normal Spider-Man level, I know this is the worst one so I know the game will get better. What I liked is that there are a ton of stuff to collect which increases your exp. Plus you have in game achievements going on, they challenge you for everything, like swing five times in a row. At least there is added insentive for some actions. Combat is just like every generic super hero game.

I think the main issue is that Spider-Man doesn't feel that different to control. I have controlled many video game characters that feel very similar. The reason why Arkham was so impressive is cause Batman felt like Batman. It was a game where you play and you say "I have never played something that feels like this before", it was different, it stood out. This game does not.

aspro said:

I was shockedc for the first minute I heard it, but then when you remember that they did that medievil Japan game with Kaz, this kind of fantasy is not a departure for the series.

I think that game had its own character, a decendant of Kaz. I think that was simply a period piece. This is complete off the wall insanty. I love it!

To be fair I still have only played the first one. I feel that after 4 games the story has to be sucking, it must be very repetitive. I figure that by the time I play Yakuza 4 I would be saying "they need to scrap this story and make things fresh... by adding zombies, rock monsters, mech arms, lickers, YEEEEAAAHHHH!!!"

Dvader said:

aspro said:

I was shockedc for the first minute I heard it, but then when you remember that they did that medievil Japan game with Kaz, this kind of fantasy is not a departure for the series.

I think that game had its own character, a decendant of Kaz. I think that was simply a period piece. This is complete off the wall insanty. I love it!

To be fair I still have only played the first one. I feel that after 4 games the story has to be sucking, it must be very repetitive. I figure that by the time I play Yakuza 4 I would be saying "they need to scrap this story and make things fresh... by adding zombies, rock monsters, mech arms, lickers, YEEEEAAAHHHH!!!"

It's carried itself well through the three main games.  I am waiting for the western release of 4, which is apparently the best in the series so far.  The PSP one is a departure, in that it follows the younger Yakuza instead of Kaz.

If you recall the early promotion of this game, which depicted the destruction of the main city that has been in all the games, this is clearly a big reset for the game, and yeah, probably welcome.  Once you get up to 5 in the main series, 7 in total, you have to start shaking things up.

Death by Vagina.