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Virtual Yakuza Call-Girls Design Custom PSPs
No touch controls on the back.
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GTA4 Mod Turns PC Version Into FPS
All those controls too complicated for ya?
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MS insults hardcore gamers to please Kinect users.
WTF. I don't like Metallica.
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Super Robot Taisen L Screens
Pretty sure this will only interest Leo and Aspro.
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Realtime Worlds (APB, Crackdown) Sells Off Assets
"Project MyWorld" first to go.
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As previously noted I need a new 360 controller, but I'll probably just get one of the current ones as a charge station doesn't help me (since I'd be importing it).
I did pay $70 for a controller before though -- the PS3 with rumble -- I imported that from Japan before they were here. #$%&ing Sony "Rumble won't fit along with six-axis, it's physics people" Yeah.
"We've heard from the community (since November 2005) that you're not big fans of the D-pad (that the d-pad is broken), so the engineers went back into the laboratory (so the engineers live 4 years and 11 months from the lab?) and came up with this ingenious solution (a working d-pad for $70)," Larry Hryb, Xbox Live programming director
I guess MS needed to put something in like that to make the new controller sale have more value.
The D-pad thing is cool but I'm just getting used to playing Super SFIV with my current controller so I won't need it. I like the color buttons also.
But I do need that play-n-charge kit. It would save so much on batteries.
So it took 4 years, Street Fighter IV, Super Street Fighter IV, BlazBlue, BlazBlue CS, Tekken 6, SoulCalibur IV, and Dead or Alive 4 for them to finally see this problem?
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Now Playing: Golden Sun Dark Dawn, God of War Ghost of Sparta, and DKC Returns
Yeah, I'm so cheap, I never did buy a second Wii Remote & Nunchuck because of the (IMO) ridiculous $60 price tag. I feel like these companies are just price gouging us these days. I see no point in charging more than $40 for any current-gen controller, including the Wii remote and Nunchuck combo.
This week: Metroid Other M, Valkyria Chronicles 2
Next week: Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
Week after next: Halo Reach
I may have to skip on Reach for now and get that later in the month. I don't think I can get Kingdom Hearts either. I couldn't even get VC2 today because I just didn't have enough.
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Now Playing: Golden Sun Dark Dawn, God of War Ghost of Sparta, and DKC Returns
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Now Playing: Golden Sun Dark Dawn, God of War Ghost of Sparta, and DKC Returns
Yeah, the drought is over.
Next Week:
Spider-man Reboot, Kingdom Hearts, Dragon Age DLC
Week after:
Halo, Phantasy Star Portable 2, Prof. Layton
Week after:
Civ 5, Etrian 3
Week after:
FIFA 11, Dead Rising 2, FF14, Sonic 4, Front Mission Evolved
Week after:
Castlevania, FF 4 Heroes
Same here. These are crazy tough but I'm going to still get it just because it's Bangai-O.
I really don't know why the Dreamcast version is so highly regarded as Treasure's best game and I skipped the DS version, so I'm interested to try this. The reason why I skipped the DS one is because there was no story or level progression, which turned me off to it. Also, my eyesight is bad enough.
But this one looks easier to play.
Can't wait for Castlevania Lords of Shadow. I hope that game turns out well.
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Now Playing: Golden Sun Dark Dawn, God of War Ghost of Sparta, and DKC Returns
I have never NOT liked a Metroid game. The only one I have NOT finished was Echoes. *Got up to the very, very end and just lost interest.*
Playing a Metroid game for me is like continuing a story started 24 years ago.
As much as I loved the Prime games, Zero Mission, Metroid 2, Super and Fusion always got me more excited and the stories in those games intrigued me more.
Fusion was my least favorite of the side-scrollers, due to the mission structure and linearity of it. My interest was peeked by the SA-X, the continuing Ridley conflict, the back-story of Adam and the Federation Conspiracy, but the gameplay itself left me wanting a tiny bit...
We'll see on Other M...
I like the controls. There's NOTHING wrong with them! Tools that grew up knowing ONLY analog sticks may have issues, but I am not one of those. Pointing the remote at the screen --ALSO-- not a big deal... Get over it dual analog-stickers! Oh noes! You have to move your thumbs --AND-- your wrists? This is too much exertion for me... *losers!* It's not the typical Metroid control scheme; I can deal with that.
Samus taking orders from Malkovich...? You have bombs but you're not allowed to use 'em 'til Adam says so... Nyah! The internal monologue-ing...? Such self-doubt and regret...? Such a monotone voice...? Errr... THIS is going to take some getting used to!
I appreciate the stories in the Metroid games (as sparse as they could be)... but this may be a tad overdone!
We'll see...
I can read it just fine.
Cool that they finally addressed the d-pad issue for the 360 controller, aside from that it's been my preferred controller. Not a bad price considering you get a recharge pack with it. I still want an arcade stick for my fighting games but I'll likely pick one of these up for everything else.
Yeah the games are starting to pick up. I'll definitely be getting Halo: Reach and Dead Rising 2 this month.
Played a little of the Vanquish demo and yeah it's pretty heavy on the action part, seems quite intense. I love it!
Playing some DR2: Case Zero right now, not far into it yet but it feels like the developer did a great job with it so it certainly makes me feel much more confident about DR2.
I also finally downloaded Castlevania: Harmony of Despair. Not sure if I'll get around to trying much of it out tonight.
Sounds like a 7.5 from Leo
I rad your impressions, glad to know the only thing that blows is the exposition.
I wouldn't go that far yet...
I understand where the over-dramaticism is coming from... Samus was raised from childhood to be a cold, hardened hunter. Something was touched in her heart when the very thing she was sent to exterminate, imprinted on her and saw her as its mother. The emotion of seeing something like that for the first time in her life, then having the baby not only sacrifice itself for her but then getting brutally annihilated shortly after, left an impression on her. It haunts her. I get it.
I'm thinking the way it is portrayed is a bit of culture shock though. The monologue, the monotone... it's often seen in Japanese anime and movies...
I dunno. Metroid from the beginning was almost seen as a "Western" styled Nintendo game. Where Fantasy was the norm, Sci-Fi was what made Metroid unique. I believe a lot of people began to associate Fantasy to the East, Sci-Fi to the West. Seeing something like Metroid with such "Eastern" presentation in the story-line... It just seems... off.
If the story is interesting enough, I can forgive this and may actually enjoy it a lot. (I'll admit I felt something when I saw the intro with Mother Brain and the Baby.)
It's just DIFFERENT right now. Different isn't always bad. It just comes across as something you're not expecting from a Metroid game.
We'll see...
Also, Leo. I'm hearing that Other M has a mandatory update. What is it?
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Now Playing: Golden Sun Dark Dawn, God of War Ghost of Sparta, and DKC Returns
...for the benefit of those who aren't on now that may miss them otherwise.
(Vader?)
Tell me how Magna Carta 2 is once you play it!
Alright. Thanks.
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Now Playing: Golden Sun Dark Dawn, God of War Ghost of Sparta, and DKC Returns