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on: June 05, 2009, 02:20:47 AM
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My friends great insensitive comment:
"No need to kill Bill anymore"
...I'll admit it. I laughed. :| I found the comment "The legend no longer continues." to be both funnier and slightly less insensitive. :( |
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The Rest / General Discussions / Re: RPGFan Super Game Journal Turbo II - The New Challengers
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on: June 04, 2009, 07:16:01 PM
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Picked up a The Guardian Legend on Tuesday.
And then I picked up a Knights in the Nightmare as well as a Luigi's Mansion, a Pikmin, a Wave Race Blue Storm, and a Kirby's Air Ride.
All for about $47 bucks.
Tomorrow I hope to land a PS2 for an extra $10.
Edit: Nope, I ended up with a relatively unused $25 Xblock that came with Halo 2, Faroza, and Call of Duty 3 and two controllers instead.
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The Rest / General Discussions / Re: Our worst fears are true (PSP Go):
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on: June 04, 2009, 06:57:56 PM
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It turns out, there are some differences in hardware (which are yet unmentioned), and some games will be designed SPECIFICALLY for the PSP Go. A new Resident Evil [GameSpot] game coming out in 2010, is said to be designed specifically for the Go. The publisher isn't saying what they mean by that, whether it will work with a normal PSP at all remains to be seen. But frankly, if this means that games for the PSP will even be gimped, then you can kiss the notion that the PSP3000 will have a peacefull place alongside the Go, goodbye. I knew it from the beginning. Remember when Nintendo said the DS was *not* going to replace the Gameboy, and that they wanted to have the two coexist? Yeah, that tune soon changed when the DS came out. Either the PSP will be too popular to support Go, or the PSP Go will be too popular to support UMDs. Regardless, if you start making Go exclusives, you've crossed that line. It didn't help that Nintendo eased everyone into the DS with the GBA Micro. |
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The Rest / General Discussions / Re: E3 - Nintendo
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on: June 04, 2009, 06:54:30 PM
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One other thing that I noticed in the trailer is the presence of what looked a lot like a Speed Booster Dash which I sorely missed in the Prime games (Speed Booster. Accept no substitutes). And now for something different: A NSMBWii preview.And the best part....Bowser Jr. is moving out to let the Koopa Kids in. :) |
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on: June 04, 2009, 02:14:39 AM
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You're probably right about the price, but I still find it hard to care about this. Perhaps when a game worth getting comes out for this thing then maybe I'll buy into it but until then I've got better things to look at.
Damn my first attempt to rely got swallowed by the internets (must've gone down the wrong tube or something -_-;).
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on: June 04, 2009, 01:57:48 AM
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Crysis developer talks about the console version of Crysis 2:
Crytek has said the multiplatform Crysis 2 is "touching the hardware limits" of PlayStation 3, and that "there's not much more that you can do".
"The interesting thing is we did run a performance analysis on the PS3 devkit, and you know the funny thing is the occupation on all the CPUs, the Cell and the GPUs, is pretty much - the needle is at the limit," Crytek boss Cevat Yerli told Gamasutra.
"There's not much more you can do, and frankly the breakthrough was very recent, and otherwise we would've had a compromised strategy on the consoles, which we don't have now.
"So I think we will still have an upside, but we're touching the hardware limits already," he added.
Crysis 2 will head to PC, PS3 and Xbox 360. There's no date, which means we're unlikely to see the game this year.
This will be the first of the series to use CryEngine 3, which promises to deliver more visual benchmarks that melt computer innards and turn us gooey inside.
All we've seen so far is a teaser video from E3, which pieces together the logo amid scenes of rioting and pictures of the fancy suit from Crysis 1, which let players throw cars around and camouflage to near naked-eye invisibility.
Eurogamer
Well, I'm pretty damn sure my PC wont run this so I hope the console versions are really good. I wouldn't be surprised if the machines are reaching their limit. PCs always had the upper hand this generation so it was rare to see something that could really blow your mind.
Wait! Has technology finally advanced far enough to play Crysis 1 now? As for the Sony conference I thought Uncharted 2, Assassins Creed 2, MGS Peace Walker looked the most interesting. FFXIV went right by that mark right up to the the point when the word Online then my enthusiasm burned out just as quickly as it had flared up. The Last Guardian was an impressive showing but it was a far more impressive showing last week (I still consider it a day one purchase I just wish I knew more about it today aside from a name change). The rest, to me, fizzled (at least Sony's wands looks slightly less ridiculous than Microsoft's Navel (damn that name is too easy to make fun of)). |
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on: June 04, 2009, 01:37:39 AM
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I'm weary of the Natal. That guy's avatar was spazzing out occasionally, and the lack of physical feedback can be detrimental to some things, I'd certainly prefer to actually HOLD a steering wheel over pretending to hold on, and they've already gotten that nailed. Besides, it kinda feels like Microsoft trying too hard to capture what the Wii has. This is the best way certainly, trying to properly one-up them rather than simply copying what they do like those other assholes did, but at this point in the lifespan I don't think it'll get much support at all.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v233/Skip_Hitler/16mc5e.gifI would care more if it weren't a peripheral (and one rumored to weigh in at $200 no less). |
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Media / Single-Player RPGs / Re: Golden Sun DS! :D \(^^)/
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on: June 04, 2009, 12:09:31 AM
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Look, I'm pretty neutral these days. I bought into the Wii early, and sorta got burned, even though I think that it has paid itself off with the few ridiculously high quality titles it has. I have a 360, and I like it a lot, but it's not perfect, and I can start to see the appeal of the PS3 now that the price isn't horrific.
That said, when the dust settled at the end of the day, I have to admit that the Sony and Microsoft conferences were a bit underwhelming. Sony announced "The Last Guardian" (Trico), which floored me, however it was leaked a few days ago. And while I'm sure FF14 is going to be really good, I don't personally play MMOs.
I guess why I'm so happy with Nintendo's is that they NEEDED A GOOD ONE... BADLY. I've been becoming dissolutioned with my Wii, feeling like the very company that I thought was going to make great headway was abandoning quality for flash-in-the-pan demographic increases. Boy did they pull a 180 this year. Metroid: Another M is far-and-away the best thing that came out of E3, not because it was probably the best game demoed at E3 (I'll leave that to either FF13, FF:CC:CB, or Trico), but because it was the smartest thing to do for the livelihood of one of my favorite series, and showed a certain amount of agile thinking on the part of game designers, as to how to proceed with the franchise's overall development. Golden Sun DS is a good runner up, since we had no idea that it was coming.
Basically, many of the great announcements we already knew were coming or had a strong suspicion that they were: FF:CC:CB, Trico, new MGS, etc. Nintendo had the most shockers though.
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