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James Woods Fan posted:Is Rise Of The Argonauts worth a rental? I heard it is similar to Conan but with more story. Too bad Conan didn't get a sequel. It didn't light the world on fire but I enjoyed it. I can't emphasize enough how poorly made this game is. It's very clearly unfinished. There are "villages" you go through where you literally run from one end to the other for like five minutes straight and it's basically an open plane with invisible walls, four houses and no people.
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GUI posted:Rushed development probably. Yeah, supposedly the game was almost unplayable about a month or so before release. They were very open about it after the game came out.
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Code Jockey posted:Also I must get that Arc System Works FotNS fighter, I had no idea that existed. Seriously how do you screw up making a FotNS game?!
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I love Fist of the North Star, but the games... ehhh.
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Yeah OK Uncharted 2 is a lot better, finished the first one today. I had to push through it this weekend or I knew it would just get left for ages. Got up to about chapter 7 in 2 and it's way more enjoyable just in this small chunk.
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Housh posted:Seriously how do you screw up making a FotNS game?! At least some of it may be the license. Apparently for the Dynasty Warriors games they ran into the problem where Kenshiro was not allowed to be shown losing. Even if you beat him in a fight they had to show him getting up and walking away casually. So they've probably got some weird restrictions on how they're allowed to depict the characters.
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I had the wrong idea about Darksiders... I thought it was just a hack and slash beat em up. I finally got around to playing it after getting it free with psn+ a while back and it's very much reminding me of the 3D Zelda games (the dungeons anyway). I'm only a few hours in so far but digging it. Does the sequel hold up?
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Ineffiable posted:And I could do Dark Souls 3 times, but my PC isn't good enough at the moment (1 plat on PS3, 1000/1000 on xbox360) If you want another plat on Demons Souls I can send you my Chinese version. I swapped to the NA version thanks to PS+ and I'll never have time to get one plat let alone two.
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ImpAtom posted:At least some of it may be the license. Apparently for the Dynasty Warriors games they ran into the problem where Kenshiro was not allowed to be shown losing. Even if you beat him in a fight they had to show him getting up and walking away casually. So they've probably got some weird restrictions on how they're allowed to depict the characters. His brother whips the ever living piss out of him in the anime movie. No walking away there. Fotns not Dynasty Warriors 
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May 20, 2013 02:47
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Is it just me, or is Knytt Underground completely unplayable on release PS3 controllers? I think they fixed it with the dual shocks, but both my release gamepads have alway had issues with the sticks not quite zeroing out. 99% of games design to avoid this (by having a dead zone), but Knytt is like trying to control a pat of butter on a gridle. The inventory is completely unusable to boot.
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McFunkerson posted:I had the wrong idea about Darksiders... I thought it was just a hack and slash beat em up. I finally got around to playing it after getting it free with psn+ a while back and it's very much reminding me of the 3D Zelda games (the dungeons anyway). I'm only a few hours in so far but digging it. Does the sequel hold up? The sequel falls a tad short due to the Diablo-style loot dropping and the game starts to get a bit dull once you get to Earth, but it's still a good game. To its credit, Death is a better character than War.
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Parkingtigers posted:If you want another plat on Demons Souls I can send you my Chinese version. I swapped to the NA version thanks to PS+ and I'll never have time to get one plat let alone two. Only 3 Demon's Souls regions exist (japan, taiwan and chinese all are under one region and Euro and NA make another) I already plat'd all of those. As for Dark Souls, it has no division by region.
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McFunkerson posted:I had the wrong idea about Darksiders... I thought it was just a hack and slash beat em up. I finally got around to playing it after getting it free with psn+ a while back and it's very much reminding me of the 3D Zelda games (the dungeons anyway). I'm only a few hours in so far but digging it. Does the sequel hold up? Yeah, it's pretty much Zelda after the first hour or so. The first demo was of that first area and gave people completely the wrong impression of the game and that's why they released a better demo later. And honestly, the sequel didn't really do it for me. The loot system was completely pointless. Some areas were completely aggravating. And the graphics look like they came straight from a PS2; not only were the polygon counts low but the textures were really bad as well. It looks terrible.
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Shalinor posted:Is it just me, or is Knytt Underground completely unplayable on release PS3 controllers? That game seems to drive my cat crazy. It causes him to attack the screen to get at the running little person which he's never done for any other game.
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Shalinor posted:Is it just me, or is Knytt Underground completely unplayable on release PS3 controllers? I've got a probably dumb question, as a relatively new PS3 owner: Is the one controller I got with my 500GB PS+ bundle an actual Dual Shock 3, or is there some lesser controller they give out with the system and the DS3 is something you can buy separately?
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The lesser controller was called the Sixaxis, and didn't have vibration. They haven't made them for years.
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Aphrodite posted:The lesser controller was called the Sixaxis, and didn't have vibration.
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Just got my first plat in years with Sleeping Dogs. The most difficult task was tracking down every item of clothing.
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McFunkerson posted:I had the wrong idea about Darksiders... I thought it was just a hack and slash beat em up. I finally got around to playing it after getting it free with psn+ a while back and it's very much reminding me of the 3D Zelda games (the dungeons anyway). I'm only a few hours in so far but digging it. Does the sequel hold up? Darksiders takes God of War combat, Zelda puzzles, World of Warcraft aesthetics and mashes them into a game. A lot of people like them but they just really remind me how derivative they are whenever I play them.
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http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/151ccs/shadow-warrior-teaser-trailer Shadow Warrior teaser. It looks absolutely nothing like Shadow Warrior and seems like they're playing it seriously, goddammit. 
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Alteisen posted:http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/151ccs/shadow-warrior-teaser-trailer
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Samurai Sanders posted:Well, the old one was ridiculously racist, I didn't expect it would ever come back in any form. Punch-Out was racist and that got a modern remake on the Wii for godsakes, I doubt that's a sole cause. And you can retain goofiness or even humor, not everything needs to be so edgy that you cut yourself opening the box, Lo-Wang was a shirtless dude who fought monsters, dude with the sword there just looks like some generic guy. Its just a teaser but I don't have a good feeling about this.
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Punch Out was also iconic and a good game, Shadow Warrior has literally nothing to set it apart other than being racist and set in Asia. Other than that it's just a lovely Build FPS, shittier than Blood or even Redneck Rampage. It needs a complete makeover to appear as a modern game. Honestly, this game shouldn't exist at all. Pick another franchise.
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I liked caltrops, they were interesting to use in multiplayer because they made the person who stepped on them cry out, revealing their location. Other than that...uh, yeah. Not a good game at all.
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Aphrodite posted:The lesser controller was called the Sixaxis, and didn't have vibration. Yet it's the controller that came with my PS3  . I don't like it at all, and playing games on my old PS2 really accentuates the difference. It's super sturdy though because I can't count the amount of times I've dropped the fucker and there haven't been problems.
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Samurai Sanders posted:Well, the old one was ridiculously racist, I didn't expect it would ever come back in any form. Looking back at that game its insane that it even got made. During the entire process of making that game did nobody ever stop and think about how crazy racist it was?
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muscles like this? posted:Looking back at that game its insane that it even got made. During the entire process of making that game did nobody ever stop and think about how crazy racist it was?
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PlayStation 4 teaser. Kind of ridiculous that we now have teasers for what a console will look like but here we go.
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The awesome: Mass Effect coming to LittleBigPlanet tomorrow! The not so awesome: No Femshep or Tali! 
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Fix posted:I, too, am being utterly lost to Sleeping Dogs, and burned a bunch of credit on upgrades I look forward to playing once I'm done. Man this game is good. It's definitely given me a few "HOLY poo poo"-out-loud moments when Jackie shoots Yung in the head, Winston's wedding massacre [which I did not see coming but probably should have], and when you get the mission to drag Dogeyes back to Mrs. Chu's kitchen because holy poo poo, the dude you spent the early parts of the game gunning for is now being force-fed soup made from his former foot soldier and the car chase scenes are incredibly fun. The gunfights are tense and exciting, and the driving is pretty fun too. This feels to me like the straight-faced counterpart to Saints Row 3's over the top ridiculousness. Between those two games, GTA5 had better be really, really good for me to care at all about it. I just got officially made a red pole and drat I cannot wait to see where this ends up. I kind of miss seeing sunlight but whatever it'll be there when I'm done e. Housh posted:Tell me how you go about getting the game. I'm deciding whether I should emulate the MAME rom or go PS2. I have been crushing through the anime series and all I can think about is ATATATATATATTT!!! I'll probably load it into my softmodded PS2, since I don't know if I've got a PC that could emulate that well enough. I still need to watch the rest of the anime, I've read through pretty much all the manga and the side stories, and it's amazing. Code Jockey fucked around with this message at 17:03 on May 20, 2013 |
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Just wanted to chime in and say that initially I was a little bored by Sleeping Dogs but as I got a little further into it it got its hooks into me in a big way! Something very fun and visceral about the melee and the guns (when you get them) feel special. (Different, a little odd, but special.) [edit] ^^^^ haha, synchronized S D praise! ^^^^ Yes, you made a good point I forgot to mention as I was thinking about this last night. In terms of fun gameplay (but still set in a realistic world) and (at the very least) entertaining story/plot, if GTA5 isn't AT LEAST as good as Sleeping Dogs in those areas, they need to just retire the franchise. Feenix fucked around with this message at 17:08 on May 20, 2013 |
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Stare-Out posted:PlayStation 4 teaser. Kind of ridiculous that we now have teasers for what a console will look like but here we go. A day before Microsoft's big reveal. They had to release something, so why not the E3 teaser trailer shown before the spotlight focuses on the box on the stage?
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Code Jockey posted:Winston's wedding massacre [which I did not see coming but probably should have] I saw it coming because I had finished GTA4.
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For what it's worth, I've been plugging away at Sleeping Dogs since December-ish. I'm sure someone could plat it in the week since it was released on PS+, but it's a lot more enjoyable if you take your time and just appreciate the city. It's tied with Just Cause 2 for being my favorite open world game, though they are very different! I used to love Saints Row 3, but I tried playing it last week and didn't enjoy as much as I used to. My quick impressions of DLC I have Zodiac Island: Very well done and worth playing. It's four or five missions long. Triad Enforcer: Not really worth it, but maybe consider it if you need some more Triad exp Tactical something This one comes with a machine gun and grenade launcher, which is awesome. Red Envelope: Got this free with PS+ and wouldn't have paid for it because you get ton of money by doing the car delivery missions in the main game. Retro Triad: Got this free with PS+ and it's not worth any money in my opinion. Nightmare In North Point: Haven't played this yet. Year Of The Snake Haven't played this yet. edit: You get a Just Cause 2 costume w/ revolver/grenade launcher hybrid if you have a Just Cause 2 save file. the truth fucked around with this message at 17:39 on May 20, 2013 |
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I find myself really excited/intrigued about The Last of Us. Obviously I expect great things from the campaign, but we're a month (less) from release and (unless I've missed some coverage,) we know nothing about Multiplayer other than "it has it." (and do we even know that? I thought we did.) On the one hand, I think Naughty Dog has spent a lot of time tweaking/refining/caring about UC2 and UC3 Multiplayer for us not to assume that a lot of that "research" would flow directly into Multiplayer on TLoU. That said, I think they'd get pretty lambasted if they release multi and it's just Uncharted 3 Multi with a new coat of paint and some fresh characters. My best guess is it will look (at first blush) an awful lot like UC3 Multi, but be a more quiet, slow-paced, resource/ammo-conserving hunt. Not out and out stealth, but more cover and sneaking to get the drop on others. Unlike Uncharted's spastic run up and do the Gun Dance in eachother's faces style. Have I missed ANY articles, reveals or even hints or tidbits about multi for TLoU?
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Also, I want to go on record as saying that I think now would be a good time for us to find someone, (a champion, if you will!) who either knows a ton about The Last of Us or cares enough to find out, to create a thread. Not only can we all go geek out about the game over there, but anyone on serious media blackout doesn't have to get over-exposed in this general games thread. DO WE HAVE A CHAMPION? (Not it!)
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Multiplayer is being shown off next week. I think they're doing a press event in London (for whatever reason) about it this week.
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the truth posted:Tactical something This one comes with a machine gun and grenade launcher, which is awesome. Incidentally, I do kind of like SWAT pack - the police experience it gives is a bit anemic, but it's nice to have an always there "go shoot dudes / run dudes off the road" mission. Not worth full price, but worth the $2 I paid for it. Shalinor fucked around with this message at 17:57 on May 20, 2013 |
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