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Pachter: PS4 and Nextbox to have lowest starting prices ever
So if Pachters always wrong then...
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Platinum's president talks leaving Capcom
Kamiya comments, success around the world and more
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Nomura: Info ban on Final Fantasy Versus XIII to lift soon
He's stalling. It doesn't really exist.
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Yakuza's Kaz Kiryu Coming to Hot Shots
Blockbuster announcement takes world by storm.
gematsu.com news
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Play around with a virtual NES music box
Take a cartridge, slide it into the system and power-on to hear the jams!
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Sly Cooper Collection Sneaking Onto Vita
HD remasters of Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, Sly 2: Band of Thieves, and Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves.
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It's about a small town of quirky, Monsters and various mutants and the Company and Family that caused it all. it's pretty cool.
Well fuck me running, I didn't know they released the original Xcom on the PS1?!
I'm going to ebay that shit stat.
Sounds like Mikami's been doing shrooms with Miyamoto.
Sorry was talking about Hemlock Grove Netflix TV series.
Mikami is on probation with me. He'll have to prove himself.
I jsut read up on Bravely Default. Fianlly a game for the 3DS I am legitimately excited about. It will probably be $70 here (that what most RPGs go for on 3DS), so I'll have to wait for reviews.
I am god of monster hunting!!!!
3DS right?
I think he's playing Wii U as am I, and I'm starting to really enjoy it. Despite its way overly verbose dialog.
How can you enjoy that shit on the Wii U? lol
Bear is right, Wii U (I'm a man without a handheld system these days). I just finished the main storyline of the game. 85 hours of gameplay to get there, and I loved nearly all of it. I was also shocked to see that there is at least the same amount of post-completion content after you beat the game. Normally I'd roll my eyes and just put the game away, but I've enjoyed it too much. I will be playing this game for a long time to come.
And in other news I was called a gay fanboy in the Miiverse of all places this evening.
While playing Injustice I took a screenshot of Ares (Greek god of war and Wonder Woman villain) while he does his super move which is really freaking cool. Then I posted the picture with the caption, "Kratos never would have been able to beat this Ares." Well apparently that was just too much for one Miiverse member to take and he ripped into me. I debated getting into it with him for about half a second, but honestly I don't have the interest. So instead I clicked the report to admin button and flagged him. Good times.
85 hours? Yeah, that's not a game I'd want to play exclusively on a 3DS. Imagine 85 hours of hand cramps. *shudders*
That's something that frustrates the hell out of me with Harvest Moon and Rune Factory. They're two of my favorite franchises, but they're mostly kept on handhelds now. I know it's to cater to the Japanese market since that's what they're into but damn... who can play a handheld for that long? Not me anymore.
That's a buzzkill.
Damn, I completely forgot I have a Harvest Moon game on 3DS. I probably should give it a try one of these days, lol.
Buzzkill? Me or the poorly shaped 3DS?
How do you think I played it?
Aspro buddy, just wanted to say I am 99.999999999999999% cool with you and everything you do and say with that one exception that everytime I want to discuss or talk about anything Nintendo related you pull out the old "GG is oversenstive" chesnut.
However politely you put it the implication is that I am a fanboy and so my opinions are skewed or biased and not reality or worth merit. If you can't see this then finish this sentence: GG is oversentive about Nintendo because.......
I probably overeacted because I have a monkey fist in my back and 3 months worth of fatigue because of a viral infection, it kinda makes you more irritable.
Also because Vader was making the same point about other companies sequels and I get the oversentive comments. There are people on this site who have played as many if not more Nintendo games than I have. Dvader bought and played Kirby's Epic Yarn, I didn't. Edgecrusher bought and played Pikmin 2, I didn't. Bugs bought and played Bowsers Inside Story, I didn't. Travo bought and played Paper Mario Sticker Star, I didn't. I hate Mario Kart 64 and Wii Smash Bros, I even loathe horrible looking NES games other people have this fascination with and can play, like original Zelda. I skip many of these retreaded Nintendo sequels too like how I avoided NSMB 3DS or Fire Emblem DS, Bowsers Inside Story and even Golden Sun DS when I loved the gba originals.
And I probably bought and played through more 3rd party games on Wii than anybody else here. And if you're wondering why I don't talk about the 360 games I've been playing, I think the last one was Arkham Asylum, I've stated on several occasions in the past that it's because of my back problems and the location, DVI cable and wired controller too -so as the years have gone by and my pain has gotten worse it's less feasible to overcome it. The big TV doesn't have a DVI input either so I can't even hook it up. I'm also one of those people who find it hard to buy new games for a system that will soon be going out of date, probably why I never picked up Pikmin 2, or the Last Story. But assuming I buy a Nextbox, 360 is going to be relegated as a legacy console.
At the moment Wii U is the only next generation console I own and will be around for the next 5 years so I am more willing to buy and play games on it, whilst with 360 on the way out I can happily bide my time and wait for prices to drop on games I am looking forward to picking up like Sleeping Dogs and Dishonoured.
I've always owned 2 consoles per generation and some of my top 10 games of all time are non-tendo games like Shenmue 2, Skies of Arcadia, Bully, RE4 etc.
Regarding Nintendo, I've always been the sort of person who will stand up for the underdog, I hate double standards and unfair comparisons. I once, aged 10 and 4ft high had a full blown argument with my class head about his treatment of us in dentention when he made us do detention in an art studio where a nude male was being painted - and it was a strict school. With Nintendo there is and has been for over a decade, a cloud of lingering bullshit that pervades the gaming media, publishers and some of these snotty turds on gaming boards (not talking about you of course, GAF, Gamespot system wars, trolls etc). Where myths and lies and double standards are perpetuated. Like publishers throwing 3rd rate spin offs onto Wii then saying that games don't sell. Or developers making up BS excuses as to why a game is not coming to Wii U. I take an all things being equal approach, parity must be there if a fair comparison is to be made. When a Wii U game like NFS for instance launches 6 months late and the other console versions are already half price and you're comparing sales between an install base of 3 million compared to 70 million on rival platforms - how is relevant unless you do a percentage analysis?
When they announce Mass Effect 3 for Wii U then the trilogy on other platforms how does that make sense? When Konami announce MGS3 for 3DS but the trilogy for Vita how does that make sense?
I am the one the one saying that Nintendo is anachronistic, backwards, financially conservative, unwilling to invest and would rather make Pushmo than the next Uncharted. And yet despite being the person criticising Nintendo I get the oversentive comments levelled at me? It's not only annoying, it just doesn't make any sense.
The whole point I was trying to get across is that people in general really don't want Nintendo's new IP. People say they want new IP but they don't like the new IP Nintendo are making. They don't like Wii Fit, they don't like Nintendogs, they don't want a console Harmoknight. I'm trying to point out that Nintendo would rather zig rather than zag and that they would rather make another Warioware type experimental game than the next Halo, Uncharted etc etc. I'm breaking down studio by studio the capability Nintendo has and the reasons why they aren't getting the Zelda team to do a new action adventure etc. They are too fucking slow! They take 4-5 years to make a game and are unlikely to drop a money maker for an unknown bet.
And as I have said they are unwilling to scale up and invest their vast financial reserves to shore up support and produce more content - essentially they are tightwads, they are like the tortoise in a race with the hare. They would rather get Namco to make the next Smash Bros, Team Ninja to make the next Metroid, Sega to make the next F-Zero, Namco to make the next Starfox, Atlus to make the next Shin Megami Tensei x Fire Emblem, Grasshopper to make the next Fatal Frame. This is their approach, they would rather have partnerships to create additional content rather than having more 2nd parties or expanding their internal there-since-the-80s studios.
But whenever they do this, or publish and pay for new IP like Endless Ocean, Xenoblade, The Last Story etc the vast unwashed gaming populace at large claims that they don't count.
Anyway like I said I am 99.999999999999999% cool with you and everything you do.
Anyway I've been playing LEGO City Undercover and I'm so enthused about the game I almost wrote a review when I'm only halfway through the main campaign.
At 13 hours in I was 13% complete so doing some easy math to get 100% would take 100 hours?
I am halfway through the main campaign at 13 hours so I guess 26 hours for the main campaign and hours more for the rest. Some Miiverse peeps are 50 hours in for instance.
The thing about this game, how can I put it? I have played a lot of great games over the years, but this game actually feels like it must have taken years to make.
You know in a GTA game there is a lot of real estate but a lot it goes unused, you can for instance drive through large swathes of the city that are just there as scenary between where you are and your next mission? In Lego City it feels like they have densely packed the whole game world with things to do.
Whenever you are on your way to a story objective you spot something in front of you or in the corner of your eye and you jump out of your car like a kid who just spotted a candy shop - thinking, what's this? What can I do here? And you're nearly always rewarded.
You might stop at a basketball court and throw some hoops to earn some cash.
Or climb to the top of that pagoda to find a golden brick (equivalent to a mario star) or a hidden audio scan point which unlocks a chase sequence.
You might wonder what happens if you bounce off the top of that parasol, or climb the environment Prince of Persia style across the white and blue blocks.
From this viewpoint for instance I can immediately see 4 areas in this small corner of the world with things to do. The bottom left for instance is a childrens playground where you can build, then ride the attractions there, go down the slide, spin around on the carasoul, carasol, how do spell this?
The game is so varied too, there is so much stuff to do.
One minute you might be having a karate fight in a dojo
The next you are hunting pigs on a farm in a little Majora's Mask tribute, using chickens to glide off of rooftops and using the tractor to plough the field.
Then you have the indoor sections, unlike GTA where your on foot action usually (but not always) occurs in and among the city streets - Lego city has bespoke created sections which you enter and playthrough which are much more satisfying. Bad guys to smash, minor puzzles to solve, items to build, all well laid out with a great camera.
Then, a lot of the buildings are multil-evel and scalable, you won't often pop up on a boring flat rooftop with nothing to do, most of the scalable buildings have actually been designed for you to scale, with prince of persia like platforming and there is always a reward at the end of it. And you even unlock free run time trials too, so you can go back and beat your best times or just explore at leisure.
The amount of stuff to do in this game that they track is insane, you may have a certain number of ATMs in the city so smash, or aliens to catch, gangs to beat up - yes there are gangs around the city and you have to break up their skimishes, if you can find them. There are car chases where you are trying to stop car thieves, there are time trials with super cars, 17 of them but I have only found 1 for instance. There are many objects to be squirted with a paint gun provided you can find the paint stations.
The amount of collectables is insane - if you thought Rare overdid it in Banjo Tooie or DK64 then you have to see and play this. Collecting becomes an obsession, with 450 gold bricks (mario stars) hidden throughout the city and viewable via Metroid like scanner.
You start working out in your head how to get to it, what building to climb, what door to open, what item to build. Then you have cash laying around the city, lots of cash, an INSANE ABOUT OF CASH in studs and of course you just have to run over all of it. It lets you buy things like cars and new disguises but you can only do this once you unlock each one by collecting the bajillion tokens hidden around the city. Then you collect normal bricks for breaking things then there are small, medium and large superbricks and gold bricks. All contribute to your brick count which lets you build large, special objects in the gameworld (superbuilds) like a giant fun fair ride or a station where a helicopter will bring in cars you call in.
I just find something to do around every corner. The game parodies many movies and TV shows, it's not a licenced game (outside of lego) but it pulls in so many references from films like Goodfellas, Shawshank Redemption, Starsky and Hutch. And because Nintendo semi-produced the game and published it there are some Nintendo references too, like giant mario star balloons, an odd ? brick to find or invicibility stars complete with music. These are almost always rare items and don't have an overbearing influence.
Let me try and lay this out for everyone. When Lego City was unveiled most of us either shrugged or grimaced. When it was released and reviewed as a 9/10 great game we mostly assumed it was just getting that because it was a good kids game or because there was nothing else in Wii U's dry season.
Turns out that it got great reviews because it's actually a great game, TTFusion was right, it's probably the best game on Wii U, not Zombi U, not NSMB U. Not even NFS Most Wanted which I just reviewed as a 9.1 game.
If you like GTA and want a lighter toned, densely packed game with tremendous value and fun to be had, you need to get this game.
One of the most telling moments was finding a wheelchair outside the hospital and being able to ride it - just those little details.
Vader warning - it's not very challenging - aside from the challenge of getting everything and acheiving 100% - the city is like one massive easter egg hunt.
EDIT: Another little detail is the disguises, there are probably 100 or more?
Some of the special costumes include stuff like the Lizard suit from the A-Team. But what is great is that some of them have custom animations and sound effects. Change into a zombie and the animation will lurch and the sound will groan. Wear a clockwork toy robot outfit and it will squeak like metal rubbing against itself. It's that little attention to detail, where they have gone the extra mile - it just feels like it must be years of work at play here.
Someone posted some screens from http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=54717633&postcount=43 the last level of Crysis 3 on PC.
Similar detail levels to Deep Down and MGS Ground Zeroes IMO. Environment wise I mean