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Sistergodiva posted:Has anyone tried the Ratchet and Clank all 4 one beta yet? Is it online only or couch co-op too? I haven't played the beta, but I played it when it was on the floor at some media event. There is local co-op (and it is awesome).
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| # ¿ Sep 7, 2011 20:02 |
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EC posted:Would it be fun for two players? I'm thinking this might be a good wife game... I don't see why not. I think I played it with three people and it was pretty sweet. As far as I remember you can't get a game over in it unless everybody dies at once; there's a respawn timer.
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| # ¿ Sep 7, 2011 20:11 |
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Polite Tim posted:Also...gently caress, Uncharted 3, Skyrim, Dark Souls, Saints Row the 3rd, Disgaea 4, it's a good year for hopefully high quality sequels. It's a bad year to be dirt poor also It's a bad year to have a job, too. Really, it's just a good year to have a lot of money and no work to attend. Like, a trust fund kid. A good year for them.
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| # ¿ Sep 9, 2011 11:52 |
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liquidypoo posted:If you're working to unlock story missions, I don't think Just Cause 2 is for you. Seriously. By the time I actually went to do story missions, I had caused enough chaos to unlock every single one of them already.
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| # ¿ Sep 10, 2011 21:30 |
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I just beat Earth Defense Force: Insect Armageddon. What the gently caress was with the lack of an ending.
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| # ¿ Sep 11, 2011 03:32 |
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DOUBLE CLICK HERE posted:Ni No Kuni coming to America, aces! Don't think I turned on my PS3 after getting a decent PC since Mortal Kombat. What? WHAT. Awesome, but it had better come with the spellbook.
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| # ¿ Sep 16, 2011 14:41 |
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Green Puddin posted:Surprise for me, turns out Steam will do something if I scan them proof of purchase and write my ticket number on my key card. Steam is awesome. Funny thing is that if it is like its DS counterpart, then the book will come with every version of the game, simply because it's part of the gameplay. The game itself is going to tell you to look up a certain page, or spell, or something, knowing that you'll have the book right next to you. If someone released a strategy guide that looked like that for other games, I'd pay many dollars for it. It's just a gorgeous thing, cover to cover.
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| # ¿ Sep 18, 2011 03:50 |
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One thing I need to know about WKC2: Do skill descriptions go into more depth than "Hits enemies"? Like, do they talk about how much damage they do?
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| # ¿ Sep 19, 2011 23:42 |
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Mother of god. I don't think I'm going to receive my new credit card early enough for Dark Souls to be ordered of Amazon. I'm going to have to wait. Oh god why. Or I guess buy it from EB.
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| # ¿ Sep 26, 2011 19:37 |
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The Dirty Burger posted:Can't wait to raid a dungeon as a moe anime babe~ A twist! "There's one confusing bit about the reports that are surfacing at present. It seems that rather than controlling the witch of the title, you're actually controlling the hundred cavalrymen. We're waiting to hear more about this area."
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| # ¿ Sep 27, 2011 12:39 |
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I have never bought a strategy guide before, but: http://www.amazon.ca/Dark-Souls-Off...17230520&sr=8-5 Buying the gently caress out of this. I can't imagine getting through Demon's Souls without having the official guide next to me for information about crafting, enemies, boss strategies, etc.
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| # ¿ Sep 28, 2011 18:14 |
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I said come in! posted:I wouldn't buy that. Goons are putting together a way better Wikidot.com page for Dark Souls, and it'll be free. Yeah but it's not just about the info. It's about having a well-designed hardcover book, filled with art, info, backstory, etc. Edit: 400 pages of the stuff.
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| # ¿ Sep 28, 2011 18:30 |
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axleblaze posted:Did you miss the part where the guy had footage of you with the bomb that destroyed the city, because the guy had footage of you with the bomb that destroyed the city. I prefer the mechanics of DS2, but I enjoy the story and the atmosphere, general horror stuff, of DS1 better. They're both well-made games though, worth a play through at least.
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| # ¿ Sep 29, 2011 16:52 |
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SpacePig posted:Is "EYE-KO" not correct? I've been pronouncing it that way, too. In Japanese, the letter 'i' is always pronounced as a long 'e'. I've always pronounced it EYE-ko, though, simply out of habit.
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| # ¿ Oct 3, 2011 20:13 |
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axleblaze posted:Well, I got an e-mail from Amazon saying that Dark Souls was in fact delayed. So this morning I clicked cancel and went to Best Buy who had plenty of copies. I come back and apparently I didn't cancel it properly on Amazon and it's being prepared to ship and now it won't allow me to cancel. Ah well...at least I finally have the game and it shouldn't be hard to just return it to Amazon (or if it is the collector's edition I just might sell it on ebay. I hear these things are already going for way more than they should). Man. This is why I just buy local. Though I guess I'm lucky in that my local EB isn't staffed with incompetents. Rarer stuff though, Amazon.
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| # ¿ Oct 4, 2011 15:38 |
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Feenix posted:Everything about your post is basically "Exception" though. Yeah you're right. I do like Amazon, and I actually just got some stuff from them just today, but I like the reliability of being able to go to a store (which isn't crap, in this case) and getting a Thing. Plus it means I don't have to be at my apartment to pick up packages.
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| # ¿ Oct 4, 2011 16:37 |
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How's this for irony? After extolling the virtues of getting a game from a store, and not online, my local EB hosed up, and despite what the guy told me over the counter, not all preorders for Dark Souls are the CE. Motherfuck. Guess I should've bought online. Heading to Futureshop tomorrow to see if they have some more in stock, maybe. I said come in! posted:I'm just messing with you, I don't actually know, I just wanted to do that because of how badly you wanted to know. I'm actually curious myself, ive been wanting to play this after playing Muramasa. Odin Sphere is awesome, due greatly in part to the balance between using experience points for actual growth of your weapon's power, or putting them into plants to grow food to increase your hp.
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| # ¿ Oct 5, 2011 02:44 |
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Samurai Sanders posted:Sure seems like the load times and slowdown on Odin Sphere are fixed. And it looks beautiful. The test is the fight against the queen. If that goes without slowdown, then it's golden.
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| # ¿ Oct 5, 2011 12:34 |
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WOLF KIDULT MAN posted:Can anybody tell me what the total memory size for the PS2 games are? I've got an 80GB model and between DLC and game installs, I've had to clear a lot out to make room on several occasions. You really don't need to worry. Entire memory cards are generally about 8-16 MB. Unless you have literally hundreds of PS2 games with large save files, you won't even notice it.
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| # ¿ Oct 5, 2011 14:50 |
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WOLF KIDULT MAN posted:Oh, I should have been more specific, I'm looking for the game size. Oh yeah, whoops, totally misread that. Oh poo poo, Tides of Destiny is coming out this month too? gently caress me.
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| # ¿ Oct 5, 2011 15:03 |
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Feenix posted:Cliff's notes on story and gameplay style? And does it have anything that will make my fiancee raise an eyebrow at me? First, no, the game is fairly free of anime nonsense (though some of the characters are a little strange in the fashion department). Oh and the queen of the underworld has really big breasts, but that's besides it. The game is a sidescrolling action-RPG. You fight enemies, progress chapters, and level up as five different characters in intermingling fighting styles, each with distinct fighting styles. The levels are basically divided in circles (or spheres, I suppose). Experience is in the form of Phozon (I think?), a substance that your weapon can absorb to raise its strength experience. If, however, you plant seeds, you can grow plants that can be eaten or cooked then eaten to raise your health experience. The game's biggest drawback was its framerate issues, though there is also the problem with repetitiveness, as you'll find yourself fighting the same bosses a few times, with different characters each time.
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| # ¿ Oct 5, 2011 16:20 |
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Urban Achiever posted:Dark Souls... Dead Souls... gently caress. Look for the new Dead Space game, Dead Space: Dying Souls. Also, Uncharted 4: Deader Souls. Plus Saints Row 4: Bitch These loving Souls gently caress They Dead Yo Yo.
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| # ¿ Oct 5, 2011 19:13 |
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Code Jockey posted:Me and my new policy of don't play new poo poo until I beat what I'm currently on. I have this policy, but unfortunately the kinds of games I like tend to be rare, or in limited runs or something, so I tend to get hosed if I wait. Sometimes this isn't the case (which is the reason I haven't purchased Infamous 2 yet), but more often than not it is. If I could, like, get a personal library accruing at EB/Amazon that has my games put away, safely, until I'm ready to buy one, then I'd be all set.
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| # ¿ Oct 5, 2011 20:06 |
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...! posted:Speaking of development teams that are no more, Team Bondi went belly-up a few days ago. (They made LA Noire.) Good riddance. Though at the same time, I'm worried that someone will be dumb enough to pick up the idiot who headed the entire operation, since LA Noire was a big, popular game. And not, you know, the people who actually did the work.
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| # ¿ Oct 7, 2011 13:19 |
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Undead Zombie posted:Yes, you have to complete this 3 minute mission over a thousand times. That's 3000 minutes. 50 hours. Nothing but grinding the same mission over and over again. The game even uses an EXP table straight out of a Korean MMO - it takes 2.5 million EXP to get level 9 and just that one more level takes another 2.5 million. Armored Core: For Answer has an achievement where you must win 10 000 online matches. 10k. Not just play, but win. I consider myself a mild trophy whore, but goddamn.
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| # ¿ Oct 13, 2011 16:51 |
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ChetReckless posted:I know there are a lot of Demon's Souls experts in this thread. Is there anything I must know before jumping in? Don't spend any boss souls. Also, when you see this guy:  You should either let him stay in the cage he is in, or kill him. He will mess up your poo poo permanently otherwise.
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| # ¿ Oct 15, 2011 05:02 |
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Policenaut posted:You get fast travel halfway through the game. Spoiler this for me, because I feel I'm fairly past this point and I have yet to do it, so I just want to make a beeline for where I can get this ability. Because goddamn and gently caress walking back from the Ash Lake.
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| # ¿ Oct 16, 2011 15:40 |
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I said come in! posted:I keep hearing so many conflicting things about Dark Souls difficulty. A lot of people have told me that Dark Souls is actually much easier than Demon's Souls. That they toned down the difficulty to much. Depends. The non-linearity of Dark Souls means that you can find yourself way out of your depth much easier than Demon's Souls. For example, in the starting area, the closest thing the game has to a hub, you can simply walk fifty feet and meet skeletons that will completely wreck your poo poo. You go another way, down a path, and you'll find yourself in a derelict town with ghosts you literally can't even hurt without a special item or weapon. Or in a valley filled with drakes that will kill you in one hit. If you go the right way, every time, the difficulty isn't very hard. But it's very, very easy (and sometimes preferable, loot-wise), to go off the path and find areas you shouldn't be in.
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| # ¿ Oct 17, 2011 17:01 |
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Oh god Batman: Arkham City comes out tomorrow. But how will I play that, Rune Factory: Tides of Destiny (my roommate has no willpower when it comes to buying stuff), and Dark Souls all at the same time?
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| # ¿ Oct 17, 2011 18:52 |
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Shalinor posted:So, finally tried Rochard. That's easily one of the best Metroidvania-esque thingies I've played this year. The music is great, puzzles are clever, gameplay's tight, and I love John Rochard himself as a character. I was pleasantly surprised by it. Agree with everything you say, and in general it's just a fun sidescrolling puzzle game with good actiony bits. Also yeah, Rochard is pretty awesome. This may be due in part to the fact that he is voice by Duke Nukem.
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| # ¿ Oct 18, 2011 18:20 |
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This talk of the steel fist in Uncharted reminded me of the coop gameplay in Uncharted 3, and how much I'm going to have as Sully, beating the poo poo out of enemies while their attention is focused on someone else shooting at them. drat that was so much fun. I wonder how it looked from the other person's perspective, watching guys pop out of cover then get punched in the back of the head.
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| # ¿ Oct 26, 2011 13:10 |
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Ein Bear posted:What's the PS3 version of Fallout New Vegas like? I played the GOTY version of Fallout 3, and that game was practically unplayable by the later stages, think I was getting 1fps on Broken Steel. I played through it entirely without too many long-lasting issues. It's about as stable as a house of cards though; apparently disabling auto-saves helps, but basically it crashes at least once every couple hours. I never ran into any non-crashing errors though.
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| # ¿ Oct 29, 2011 14:13 |
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Just got my official hardcover player's guide to Dark Souls, looks awesome, and I'm reading the back (at work, so I can't quite crack it open yet), and nestled between all the blurbs about Dark Souls info is: "Side Quest Mastery" "Ensure that you don't miss a single Side Quest and experience the complete Deus Ex: Human Revolution story."
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| # ¿ Oct 31, 2011 15:44 |
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Tamagod Sushi posted:'This guide is augumentated.' What do you mean by elemental weapons? Seems to describe every weapon and its stats on all upgrade paths in detail. Or maybe there's just something I haven't discovered yet. (Also this guide is awesome.)
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| # ¿ Nov 1, 2011 01:09 |
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Samurai Sanders posted:"Elemental weapons" refers to lightning and fire weapons specifically, and also the fact that they don't scale with your stats. Yeah, has info on those? Or maybe he means specific info. For example, in the Caestus listing, there are stats for all the kinds of upgrades, including Fire Caestus, Fire Caestus +5, and Fire Caestus +10. Likewise with lightning weapons. This includes the parameter bonuses. Edit: Not to turn this into a Dark Souls guide derail or anything. I've also been playing that new Spyro game, which has literally nothing to do with him except that it has him as one of thirty-two characters. Also the fact that you have to pay to simply explore everything in this game you have purchased is a little more than insulting. Still, the tech is really good and it's well-put-together.
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| # ¿ Nov 1, 2011 01:34 |
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Yodzilla posted:I don't think Dyack has too much of a leg to stand on nowadays though: http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming...assive-layoffs/ Should've made Eternal Darkness 2 
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| # ¿ Nov 2, 2011 18:59 |
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I said come in! posted:I would love it a lot more of it didn't crash so much. I don't know how people buy a Bethesda game day one and not expect it to crash and be filled with bugs.
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That's the only thing holding the game back right now.
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I said come in! posted:This is stupid and it doesn't excuse it. I should absolutely expect a company as big as Bethesda to be able to ship a quality game that works. I agree. I should expect them to, but they have shown repeatedly that they don't, so I don't expect a perfectly workable game from them until at least a few months down the road. And even then really it's all about the mods to get around some fundamentally flawed design choices. Not complaining about Skyrim here - haven't played it - but just their past titles, I guess Fallout and Oblivion in particular.
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| # ¿ Nov 12, 2011 04:27 |
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From a multiplayer perspective, Rayman Origins is pretty much New Super Mario Bros Wii, which is awesome. I have qualms with the platforming mechanics though, they feel way too slippery.
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Tactical Grace posted:Where do we stand regarding games with local multi-player? What are you looking for? Rayman Origins is pretty much New Super Mario Bros as far as multiplayer mechanics goes, including the part where you can knock your partners into spikes and death and laugh as their corpse floats around you.
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