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Jamesman posted:If you're playing the game before it's actually out, then them griefing you is the nicest thing they could be doing about it since you either broke street date or pirated it. A consumer can't break a street date.
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| # ¿ Sep 21, 2011 20:57 |
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MUFFlNS posted:Ok so I've been playing some of the Uncharted 3 multiplayer via that early access thing and yeah, game of the year right there. Really? I really loved the single-player campaigns of the Uncharted games but this beta doesn't seem much different than UC2's MP, which basically sucked. Maybe I just stunk at it or something but it mostly feels like a bunch of idiots sprinting around until they find someone and then the better load-out wins - or people do a ridiculously poorly controlled dance around each other and throw grenades at impossible angles and swing wildly with the melee attack which doesn't kill anyone until a full second after it connects. I like that the jumping and climbing elements are intact from SP but I think the introduction of these power plays is basically an admittance that the multiplayer is an unbalanced goofy mess.
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| # ¿ Oct 2, 2011 21:41 |
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It's not hard to imagine that Steam went to Microsoft and Gabe was like "yo, look at all this special integration your main competitor has let us do with their system. Now we've got this free DLC we wanna give away..." and Major Nelson was all YEAH BRO
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| # ¿ Oct 4, 2011 23:31 |
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Crappy Jack posted:Not to tell you how to play, man, but really, chill. You're doing fine. The game's not going to explode if you don't do everything perfectly. You're going to miss some evidence, you're going to fumble an interview, these things are going to happen, but the investigation still goes on. If it helps, you can replay any case when you're done and try it again, but in the meantime, you're doing fine. Trust your instincts and don't rely on the game to tell you you're doing good, because you are. In fact basically it doesn't matter what you do at all except a grade they give you at the end! LA Noire and Dragon Age 2, pioneering ways to make the player powerless, incompetent or just a replaceable cog in the gears of their narrative. (which is expected in action games but adventure games and RPGs should be held to a higher standard)
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| # ¿ Oct 11, 2011 21:27 |
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tooooooo bad posted:Why is it a bad point? Because I think the way it aligns both the player and the player character against the in-universe establishment that's forcing them to make bad choices is a legitimately clever device for a video game to use, and one that wouldn't work at all outside of a video game. It only aligned me against the game's designers for making my avatar be retarded. It's the video game equivalent of seeing a watching a horror movie where the protagonist is given every bit of information as to who the murderer is but then we're forced to sit and watch them make stupid decisions until they're ultimately killed. Makes for a lovely movie. Makes for an even WORSE game because the supposed advantage of video games is that the player has some sort of control or involvement in the game. The best-case scenario in a large part of the game is failure. The only control the player can exert is failing to maximally fail. The better you are at playing the game, the more wrong you are! Or it's kinda like if you played Final Fantasy 4 and an entire quarter of the game was those unwinnable battles
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| # ¿ Oct 12, 2011 00:46 |
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Is it an all new engine? The character creator feels like the controls are just as spacey as the second one and the characters are, like, 15% improved. All the clothing options are still hideous and the less said about the animations, the better. It really turned me off the game, I bought Skyrim instead.
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| # ¿ Nov 12, 2011 08:00 |
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I'll wait for the deluxe edition, thanks very much. I got burned on the DLC for Saints Row 2 and the new character creator betrayed that they haven't bothered to improve the lovely character models or animation much if at all. Compound that with the painful juvenilia and all the wacky poo poo-spraying in the world isn't gonna do it for me.
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| # ¿ Nov 20, 2011 16:37 |
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Jimbot posted:lovely animation? You must be thinking of a different game, the animation in The Third is pretty good. The models themselves are an improvement over the second game's for sure. Yeah I dunno man I went through all those little taunts in the character creator and everything is goofy as gently caress with the added bonus of having hot digital boobies bouncing all over the screen at the slightest touch.
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| # ¿ Nov 20, 2011 19:33 |
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yeah that doesn't make any sense I'm aware it doesn't take itself seriously but that doesn't make having clumsy clay characters hamfisting their way through a crotch chop an artistic choice (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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| # ¿ Nov 20, 2011 20:12 |
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Lair 
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| # ¿ Dec 11, 2011 06:58 |
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I played Uncharted for the first time like two months ago and it owned and playing the second one was all the better for it. Sorry you suck at video games.
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| # ¿ Dec 16, 2011 09:20 |
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It must suck to be so broken.
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| # ¿ Dec 16, 2011 15:22 |
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I preferred The Simpsons to that Turtles in Time reskin because at least The Simpsons was how I remembered it, warts and all. While I appreciate the reskin of TiT, the lack of some of the moves and levels the SNES version had really soured me on it. Lightning of Genius and that being the French mag makes me think it's a new title from that Heavy Rain weirdo which would own.
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| # ¿ Feb 13, 2012 03:18 |
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So Quantic Dream is full of creeps and poo poo but do we think that video presages a new game announcement from them anytime soon?
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| # ¿ Mar 20, 2012 15:48 |
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quakster posted:They took the arcade version and swapped the sprites with 3D models. It's merely ok, and not the second coming of Hitler, like some goons keep insisting. Well it's considerably worse than the SNES version so it sort of gets graded on a curve.
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| # ¿ Mar 28, 2012 22:04 |
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Apropos of nothing but I would totally buy a Chloe Frazier spin-off.
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| # ¿ Apr 1, 2012 20:56 |
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Jesus, Uncharted is perfectly playable and fun. We don't need every single console generation to be 60% rehashes of games we literally just played.
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| # ¿ Apr 1, 2012 21:40 |
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HardDisk posted:For those that played Journey: Would you recommend the game if it was 25 bucks instead of 15? No way.
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| # ¿ Apr 4, 2012 03:27 |
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Nah just now they can force everyone to upgrade to the full-priced sequel through planned obsolescence. Glad I sold that dumb game.
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| # ¿ Apr 11, 2012 23:51 |
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Sony just doesn't have the same roster of characters to make it nearly as appealing. They've got like 8 signature characters at best and very few of them fit together thematically/stylistically. Cramming a bunch of Killzone and Resistance nobodies in there to pad out the roster is just gonna make it more schizophrenic.
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| # ¿ Apr 25, 2012 23:49 |
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If you think SSB is bad and boring you should not be catered to as a gamer.
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| # ¿ Apr 27, 2012 17:36 |
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Stare-Out posted:The new composer they have for GoW:A scored 300. Apt. Kilometers Davis posted:Oh jesus, that soundtrack was pretty bad. Not only is that composer an absolute bore with everything he's done, I believe they had to put a disclaimer sticker on copies of the soundtrack/maybe the DVD because they found out he plagiarized a bunch of it. How does he get more work? That's shameful. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300_Or...opyright_issues Role Play McMurphy fucked around with this message at Apr 30, 2012 around 16:54 |
| # ¿ Apr 30, 2012 16:51 |
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Yeah I just played three games of Awesomenauts having no idea what it was going into it. Basically like a 2D platforming DOTA? I ended up winning the third game only because the huge tank guy on the other team disconnected. Prior to that point they'd pushed through two of our turrets and were like a couple minutes from destroying our base. This despite the fact that I had six kills and no deaths and had basically spent the whole game being very conservative and trying to push creep and play defense. Another guy on our team was like 12-6. Everybody on the other team had maybe 2 or 3 kills and like 5 or 6 deaths. All I can assume is that the giant tank guy is so overpowered for pushing that they can win the game simply by flinging their bodies at our turrets regardless of how many times they die. Pretty dumb. I hit level 4 overall and the reward was like a free 200 energy for every game I think? Doesn't bode well for team balance to just give people that play more a starting advantage like that. Also I fired up that Pixeljunk demo thing and the one person online streaming was awful. Or the game itself is awful, hard to say. There were some lovely polygons and dots and a lovely song in the background.
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| # ¿ May 2, 2012 05:58 |
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I can't imagine there being any need for Uncharted multiplayer when Max Payne 3 looks to be the same thing done ten times better.
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| # ¿ May 6, 2012 21:20 |
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Yeah I've had PSN+ for a year now and have another year queued up, gonna have to stop downloading every free game they offer now just to save the HD space.
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| # ¿ Jun 5, 2012 14:09 |
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I liked All-Stars in theory but if you just watch Sweet Tooth in that video... he jumps around and does the same plant mine move over and over and over and over again and it looks boring as gently caress. Then he gets the level 3 super and wins the game thanks to his boring-rear end tactics. Maybe they planned that to show off a level 3 super or something but you'd think they would've wanted to show more dynamic, exciting gameplay than someone cheesing a single move.
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| # ¿ Jun 5, 2012 18:52 |
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That Gobbo posted:You can download the free games now, but they don't show in the Playstation Plus area yet so you have to search for them. Here's the list posted before: Yechezkel posted:Crosspost from the PS store thread: Edit: they're in the new arrivals section now
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| # ¿ Jun 5, 2012 21:27 |
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Krad posted:So, Watch Dogs is possibly probably coming to the PS3 (and X360). It looks fun+cool
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| # ¿ Jun 7, 2012 16:45 |
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LmaoTheKid posted:They're probably pushing a poo poo ton of data with the new freebies being so big. That being said I downloaded 17 gigs in about an hour on FiOS so I'd say it's your ISP. I'm on FiOS and get upwards of 1.5 MBPS on Steam and Xbox but downloading and installing like five of those free games took nearly two days.
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| # ¿ Jun 8, 2012 14:53 |
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ChetReckless posted:I die a little inside every time I hear our 11 year old refer to something as "totally fail". It's those darn minecraft youtubes he watches! You're a bad parent.
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| # ¿ Jun 11, 2012 21:36 |
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...! posted:So they finally updated the Store (on Wednesday Could've told you it wasn't coming out weeks ago being that they haven't announced its release date, or you might have noticed it wasn't released on Xbox yesterday (or PC for that matter). But I'm sure it doesn't make any difference to you as this unacceptable behavior will surely compel you to forego buying any of the new episodes. Just forget about it, it'll be out when it's out. Read a book.
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| # ¿ Jun 13, 2012 05:25 |
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) and -- as expected -- the second episode of The Walking Dead is still nowhere to be found. For Telltale to sell the game by saying that new episodes will come out "monthly" and then taking nearly two months between episodes is unacceptable. The first episode came out on April 26 and they still haven't explained themselves or given anybody a date or even an estimate of when the second episode will actually come out.
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You're at their mercy? Is there a slave-labor-for-games exchange going on that I'm not aware of? I'm sure if you're enduring some great personal hardship as a result of your delayed vidcon then they'll surely offer you a refund.
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| # ¿ Jun 14, 2012 00:52 |
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blackguy32 posted:I can put up with more Dead Space just because its a new IP in a land of dozens and dozens of sequels. I would prefer to reward them for that risk if it meant we got even more new IPs you realize they're on the third iteration right
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| # ¿ Jun 19, 2012 02:49 |
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Harlock posted:I think in the end Dead Space and Dragon Age are going to be linked in how EA ruined their respective franchises. I'm willing to bet after the first games were surprise hits, the developers were told to tweak the games to make it more accessible and thus attempting to get higher sales. Both DS2 and DA2 fell short from their predecessors and started to stray out of the original genres. With Dead Space 3 looking worse and worse as we get closer to it, I can only wonder how bad Dragon Age 3 will come out of the gate. Bioware has fallen quite a bit since getting acquired by EA. I don't think you can call Dragon Age a "surprise hit." If anything they were disappointed by it not crossing over from the target audience into the NEW poo poo demographic, hence the direction of Dragon Age 2.
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| # ¿ Jun 19, 2012 03:34 |
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No, unless they're releasing it as a patch, which I'm sure they aren't doing since it's like 2 gigs.
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| # ¿ Jun 25, 2012 12:59 |
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point is: no
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| # ¿ Jun 25, 2012 13:04 |
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I think they tend to say they expire like... 10-14 months after the game debuts? But I've also heard that some/many don't actually expire then, it's just a disclaimer to protect themselves in the event they actually do have to take the DLC down or something.
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| # ¿ Jun 25, 2012 16:39 |
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Pandanaut posted:The Walking Dead Episode 2 is coming Friday. Source? It was supposed to have dropped today for Steam/Xbox and didn't, so a Friday date was probably just the PSN equivalent of that missed date.
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| # ¿ Jun 26, 2012 20:52 |
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That makes perfect sense to me as far as a good PR answer that lets them answer the question without saying "we're not going to remake it because then you'll realize how loving stupid it is," which we all know is the real answer.
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| # ¿ Jun 26, 2012 21:32 |
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Yeah I heard Telltale is using that Walking Dead money to fund drone attacks on indigenous villages
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