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I said come in! posted:I'm hoping From Software still keeps the Demon's Souls servers online.
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Sep 22, 2011 00:22
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Rakanakle posted:What kind of shady stuff? How can someone purchase a game before street date in a shady fashion? Are drug dealers getting shipments of games now? Pretty sure most people who get games early often pirate it
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Sep 22, 2011 00:40
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Mustach posted:It's up to Atlus, isn't it? (Or do you own the Asian version) Atlus is just the publisher, From Software runs the server.
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Sep 22, 2011 00:42
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Rakanakle posted:What kind of shady stuff? How can someone purchase a game before street date in a shady fashion? Are drug dealers getting shipments of games now? Trying to trick employees into believing the game has the wrong number and should already be out, creating a fake complaint about an employee because they wouldn't break street date.
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Sep 22, 2011 00:47
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I said come in! posted:Atlus is just the publisher, From Software runs the server. Atlus runs the US servers.
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Sep 22, 2011 00:54
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I said come in! posted:I'm hoping From Software still keeps the Demon's Souls servers online. They only have them scheduled for October 2011, but I think they will extend the license another year. If they don't, I hope they release a patch that disables the save file protection. Oh my goodness, I just got demon's souls a week ago and I'm enjoying it. No 
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Sep 22, 2011 01:01
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40 OZ posted:Oh my goodness, I just got demon's souls a week ago and I'm enjoying it. No They only ever have the license to run the server, for one year, but have always extended it each year. They'll do it again, almost 100% positive.
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Sep 22, 2011 01:18
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Yeah, no way they'll turn off the servers right before the sequel comes out. There'll no doubt be newcomers who love Dark Souls that want to go back and try the predecessor.
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Sep 22, 2011 02:47
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I know it's just beta but MAN is All 4 One a clusterfuck. I just don't see how that game does well, at the core gameplay level.
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Sep 22, 2011 03:32
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European PS Store has a single-player demo of Resistance 3, if anyone's on the fence about the game.
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Sep 22, 2011 06:25
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drat, Resident Evil 1 (Director's Cut) is shockingly good. I completely missed PSX the first time around. Thank the PSN+ account for the freebie. (Voice acting is hilarious, but it's not a terrible game by any means.)
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Sep 22, 2011 07:04
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I have to recommend the PSN Bloodrayne game. People wanted it to be like Metroid, but instead it plays more like an old-school Castlevania but with better controls. The fighting has a surprising amount of depth (you have to experiment), the game does a good job of keeping the gameplay from getting stale, and it really gives me this great "just-one-more-stage" feeling. Also, infecting an enemy by biting them and then pressing a button to make them loving EXPLODE in a rain of blood and body parts, and also making any nearby enemy explode in a chain reaction of death, is hilarious. EDIT: PSN has received some great games lately: Bloodrayne, Renegade Ops, SF3... Renoistic fucked around with this message at 12:34 on Sep 22, 2011 |
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Sep 22, 2011 12:27
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Seconding the praise for Bloodrayne. It also has a seriously great Castlevania: SOTN-ish soundtrack, which you can get for free (or whatever you want to donate) here. Even includes NES versions of all the tracks, which are unlockable in-game via a cheat code. Wayforward are one of the best old-school studios out there. Really looking forward to their Aliens DS game at the end of the month, which WILL be Metroid-style.
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Sep 22, 2011 12:36
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Dominic White posted:Seconding the praise for Bloodrayne. It also has a seriously great Castlevania: SOTN-ish soundtrack, which you can get for free (or whatever you want to donate) here. Even includes NES versions of all the tracks, which are unlockable in-game via a cheat code. Bought and downloading it right now 
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Sep 22, 2011 12:49
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On a bizarre note, the IGN review for the game (while glowingly positive on all other fronts) marked it down for the soundtrack. Apparently goth-metal just doesn't fit a Castlevania-esque game, according to that guy. Man, gently caress that guy.
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Sep 22, 2011 13:03
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:Pretty sure most people who get games early often pirate it I was talking about people buying before street date. I just don't understand the idea that someone is being shady by buying a game early.
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Sep 22, 2011 15:18
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Dominic White posted:On a bizarre note, the IGN review for the game (while glowingly positive on all other fronts) marked it down for the soundtrack. Apparently goth-metal just doesn't fit a Castlevania-esque game, according to that guy. That's better than marking the game down for not being a Metroidvania when they never claimed it to be one. It would be more understandable to me if he ragged on the last three levels, because holy crap does the game get hard, no holds barred. Especially the last level is hilariously dickish - limited visibility, a hard platforming segment followed by a tough encounter AND another platforming segment with no checkpoint in between, AND you have to do this while walking LEFT instead of right like usual. It was like playing Super Meat Boy at times (and it felt as good when I finally beat it). The last boss was no push-over either, and the end I felt like a goddamn master at Bloodrayne. Renoistic fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Sep 22, 2011 |
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Sep 22, 2011 16:00
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Dominic White posted:Seconding the praise for Bloodrayne. It also has a seriously great Castlevania: SOTN-ish soundtrack, which you can get for free (or whatever you want to donate) here. Even includes NES versions of all the tracks, which are unlockable in-game via a cheat code. Hey virt does the soundtrack! Pretty cool, that guy just used to do VG remixes and now he gets hired for occasional videogame work. Rakanakle posted:I was talking about people buying before street date. I just don't understand the idea that someone is being shady by buying a game early. THE AWESOME GHOST fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Sep 22, 2011 |
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Sep 22, 2011 16:10
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THE AWESOME GHOST posted:Hey virt does the soundtrack! Pretty cool, that guy just used to do VG remixes and now he gets hired for occasional videogame work. He's the full-time music guy at Wayforward now.
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Sep 22, 2011 16:45
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Dominic White posted:He's the full-time music guy at Wayforward now. That's awesome. The Bloodrayne demo was better than I expected! Great soundtrack and pretty fun combat. Gonna buy it. Is Saints Row 2 a good buy at $20 [it's $20 on PSN right? or $30? Can't recall]? Always been really curious about it, and before anyone recommends it, I don't have a PC that can run it so I can't buy it on PC instead. 
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Sep 22, 2011 18:39
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Code Jockey posted:Is Saints Row 2 a good buy at $20 [it's $20 on PSN right? or $30? Can't recall]? Always been really curious about it, and before anyone recommends it, I don't have a PC that can run it so I can't buy it on PC instead. I just finished playing it for the first time, and I had a good time with it. Within about a half hour or so of starting up, my cockney-voiced gangster clad only in a mankini and trucker cap was going over sweet jumps on a motorcycle, trying to impress a gangster chick into joining my gang -- all while Final Countdown was blaring on the radio. If that sounds like fun to you, SR2 is what you need. The game obliterates the usual tendency of games these days to take themselves too seriously. The story is crazy heaped on crazy, and most everyone was well voice-acted.
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Sep 22, 2011 19:23
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Code Jockey posted:That's awesome. If you liked GTA4, but felt it could be a bit less about being realistic and a bit more about being fun, then you'll probably like it.
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Sep 22, 2011 19:27
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Code Jockey posted:Is Saints Row 2 a good buy at $20 [it's $20 on PSN right? or $30? Can't recall]? Always been really curious about it, and before anyone recommends it, I don't have a PC that can run it so I can't buy it on PC instead. I bought a disc copy for $20 a couple days before the PSN release was announced. So far I'm roughly half way thru it and all I can say is gently caress YES it's worth every drat penny. It's like the true sequel to Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, not quite as polished as GTA4 but with a double scoop of everything that made SA fun to play. Zero Punctuation did a pretty decent job of covering why SR2 is so awesome. http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/312-Saints-Row-2
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Sep 22, 2011 21:38
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For those of you who were wondering, Atlus has extended the Demon's Souls servers to 2012.
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Sep 22, 2011 21:58
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I work at a local Wal-Mart in electronics and we get games sometimes a week or two before the release date. Last week I opened an envelope with only two copies of the ICO/SOTC PS3 remake inside and it made me wince because I want to play those game so loving bad but I can't buy it until the 27th. And we only got two copies!  Edit:^^^^So after 2012 Demon's Souls will be unplayable? spasticColon fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Sep 22, 2011 |
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Sep 22, 2011 22:15
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spasticColon posted:Edit:^^^^So after 2012 Demon's Souls will be unplayable? No invasions, blue phantoms, blood stains, messages or ghosts. And it was supposed to happen this year, next month actually. I think this is the second time the server lifespan has been extended.
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Sep 22, 2011 22:26
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Atlus has stated in the past that they'll keep renewing the end date for the servers as long as there's still a sizable amount of people playing. Whether that number will drop significantly when Dark Souls hits is anyone's guess. Edit: And it is Atlus running the NA servers(and I think the EU ones as well). Whoever kept insisting that From Software runs the servers is tragically misinformed.
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Sep 23, 2011 00:26
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...! posted:Edit: And it is Atlus running the NA servers(and I think the EU ones as well). Whoever kept insisting that From Software runs the servers is tragically misinformed. Namco Bandai handled the PAL release so I think they run the EU servers.
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Sep 23, 2011 00:38
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evilalien posted:Namco Bandai handled the PAL release so I think they run the EU servers. Either way, it's certainly not From running it.
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Sep 23, 2011 01:01
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Why does Santa Monica intentionally put things in their games that they know people are going to cheat to get? Like i'm actually going to grind for half a million red orbs in Ghost of Sparta to get all the unlockables. Thank God for turbo controllers and tape. 
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Sep 23, 2011 01:08
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AngryBooch posted:No invasions, blue phantoms, blood stains, messages or ghosts. And it was supposed to happen this year, next month actually. I think this is the second time the server lifespan has been extended. It's actually happened quite a few times. It released here in Fall 2009 (I'm pretty sure), and they guaranteed 6 months of server support, and then about a month before that day, they would usually extend it for another 6 months or so.
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Sep 23, 2011 03:21
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Chrono Cross and Final Fantasy Origins have just been rated by the ESRB for a NA PSN release. Personally, I hate Chrono Cross but I'm sure this news will get someone excited.
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Sep 23, 2011 05:25
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Renoistic posted:I have to recommend the PSN Bloodrayne game. People wanted it to be like Metroid, but instead it plays more like an old-school Castlevania but with better controls. The fighting has a surprising amount of depth (you have to experiment), the game does a good job of keeping the gameplay from getting stale, and it really gives me this great "just-one-more-stage" feeling. Also, infecting an enemy by biting them and then pressing a button to make them loving EXPLODE in a rain of blood and body parts, and also making any nearby enemy explode in a chain reaction of death, is hilarious. I love it, but all of a sudden it hits a brick wall of a difficulty curve when you meet the crab basher mk. 2. I feel like it was originally intended to be a Castlevania remake, considing WayForward made Contra 4. Konami probably rejected it because they're doing all kinds of weird hosed up things to Castlevania on their own, so the devs shopped around their concept until they found something somewhat related. edit: Also highly recommend Hard Corps which is a modern old Contra game. Not made by WayForward but loving solid.
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Sep 23, 2011 05:34
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...! posted:Chrono Cross and Final Fantasy Origins have just been rated by the ESRB for a NA PSN release. Personally, I hate Chrono Cross but I'm sure this news will get someone excited. It's me. This gets me excited. I loving love Chrono Cross.
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Sep 23, 2011 07:03
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...! posted:Chrono Cross and Final Fantasy Origins have just been rated by the ESRB for a NA PSN release. Personally, I hate Chrono Cross but I'm sure this news will get someone excited. I'll replay Chrono Cross, mostly for the nostalgia value. I originally played it at the same time as my roommate and we ended up with completely different parties, I remember being blown away that he had the pirate guy when I completely missed having him join.
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Sep 23, 2011 07:17
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Final Fantasy Origins? You mean they're not going to shove out FF1 and 2 as separate games like Japan did? Nice!
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Sep 23, 2011 07:18
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Crowbear posted:It's me. This gets me excited. I loving love Chrono Cross. I don't know how this makes me feel about you. 
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Sep 23, 2011 07:39
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I said come in! posted:I don't know how this makes me feel about you. Chrono Cross was a really good game and I won't hear anything negative about it 
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Sep 23, 2011 07:52
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Crowbear posted:It's me. This gets me excited. I loving love Chrono Cross. Me too. I love the gently caress out of that game.
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Chrono Cross is a good game. I like it and Trigger more or less equally.
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