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Shalinor posted:I still think you guys are kind of crazy. I loved the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack, I love Anamanaguchi's other stuff, and I ended up throwing it all into one big playlist that I play all the time. Sorry to further derail, but if you want to talk about chiptunes and jazz Shnabubula has you covered.
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Shalinor posted:I still think you guys are kind of crazy. I loved the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack, I love Anamanaguchi's other stuff, and I ended up throwing it all into one big playlist that I play all the time. This, this right here. And getting to see them live in concert with Starscream was amazing.  Also this is the best song from the Scott Pilgrim soundtrack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9eZIDojXuho [Another Winter's pretty great though, maybe I just listened to it so much I burned out on it, I dunno, I tend to do that] e. and the game itself is fantastic with four drunk people. "STOP PICKING ME UP AND THROWING ME YOU gently caress" etc. Good times.
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I use the Scott Pilgrim sountrack as an alarm playlist, because it's great and also loud. If they had come out with this DLC a bit closer to when the game was relevant to my friends and me, I'd be all over it. But after the disappointing Knives DLC, and the amount of time that's passed, I can't say I'll be looking to get this.
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Stelas posted:To be fair, yeah, arguing over 'Anamanaguchi were good in the old days, not this newfangled stuff!' is kind of the hipster equivalent of discussing the finer points of Call Me Maybe. I once accidentally used "it's really obscure, you probably haven't heard of it" to describe Yakuza. I was the video game hipster of my college class. I don't think Kiryu would approve 
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Captain Walker posted:I once accidentally used "it's really obscure, you probably haven't heard of it" to describe Yakuza. I was the video game hipster of my college class. To be fair, the Yakuza series is entirely too obscure for how good it is. Always one lonely copy of Yakuza 4, sitting on a store shelf, buried between Football Game 2012 and Movie Tie In Game, collecting dust.  The series deserves more attention than it gets, it's one of the best, and pretty much the only series that I will obsess over release dates for and skip out on work on launch day to track down a copy for. That's what I did with 4 and Dead Souls, and that's what I will do for 5 [5 will get here, it will, it has to, I have to believe this]. And I don't regret doing it for Dead Souls. 
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Sega really ought to make a viral site: Kiryu Kazuma facts. Kiryu Kazuma once punched a tiger in the balls. Kiryu Kazuma counted to infinity four times. The Millenium Tower has a near-Kiryu experience every year, that sort of thing.
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Better yet, get Kojima to do it. Man knows how to work a fan base into a rabid frenzy.
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Captain Walker posted:Better yet, get Kojima to do it. Man knows how to work a fan base into a rabid frenzy.
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So what's everyone looking forward to this year? I think a lot of games still have very tentative release dates and it's starting to look barren for a while after we get Metal Gear Rising and Last of Us.
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Captain Walker posted:Sega really ought to make a viral site: Kiryu Kazuma facts. Kiryu Kazuma once punched a tiger in the balls. Kiryu Kazuma counted to infinity four times. The Millenium Tower has a near-Kiryu experience every year, that sort of thing. Hell, just make Kiryu's Revelations blog.
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Ineffiable posted:So what's everyone looking forward to this year? I think a lot of games still have very tentative release dates and it's starting to look barren for a while after we get Metal Gear Rising and Last of Us. Well, The Last of Us is looking bananas and is almost enough on its own for me, but despite the fact that PS4 and (please, please) Vita will likely be the focus of E3 for Sony this year, I bet we're still going to get some big time, last hurrah type stuff then.
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Captain Walker posted:Sega really ought to make a viral site: Kiryu Kazuma facts. Kiryu Kazuma once punched a tiger in the balls. Kiryu Kazuma counted to infinity four times. The Millenium Tower has a near-Kiryu experience every year, that sort of thing. Sega really ought to make a sequel to Sonic Generations  Speaking of which, I came across a game being developed by some Greek guy which perfectly embodies everything that I wish Sega was these days. Really, look at how loving amazing this is! There's gameplay footage starting about halfway through. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bywfy_hcq_s I wish Sega still made games like this 
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Ineffiable posted:So what's everyone looking forward to this year? I think a lot of games still have very tentative release dates and it's starting to look barren for a while after we get Metal Gear Rising and Last of Us. I'm looking forward to the new Tomb Raider, The Last of Us and Dragon's Crown. I'll probably also end up playing MGR, even though I couldn't make heads or tails of the demo.
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Cyra posted:I might be the only one looking forward to Beyond. I am too, but that's a tenative release, and I don't think we have a release date set in stone. It's more than likely after the summer though, so once Last of Us drops, we might have a pretty big drought. I wish we could get Yakuza 5
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From the demo of MGR:R it seems like a cool gimmick expanded to full-game length...
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I really could not figure out the demo for MGR:R. Like I manged to beat it but I'm not sure if I was doing anything right. I also am not a fan of relying on counters, or at least not counters that are activated like that.
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axleblaze posted:I really could not figure out the demo for MGR:R. Like I manged to beat it but I'm not sure if I was doing anything right. Try it again, then - you learn a lot each time. The demo does drop you in at the deep end. A very limited tutorial and skipping the entire prologue act doesn't help. It seems to be a nearly year-old build from a tech show early-ish last year.
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Ineffiable posted:I wish we could get Yakuza 5 Shut up, shut up stop it I have to believe.
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axleblaze posted:I really could not figure out the demo for MGR:R. Like I manged to beat it but I'm not sure if I was doing anything right. I also am not a fan of relying on counters, or at least not counters that are activated like that. Alternatively, you can just slide into everyone, enter slice mode, and whip the right stick around. It kind of turns you into a ginsu knife crossed with a rocket, it's pretty neat. Don't try it on the boss, though, or you'll get punished hard. My only gripe with the controls is that I want to lock out the left stick if I'm in slice mode. I get that it's to allow for better aiming of cuts, but every time you enter it, you're rushing forward - which almost always means the camera skews off in some stupid direction and you end up cutting air. I feel like disabling it during that mode wouldn't matter much, and that I'd still be able to pull off the moves I needed, but without the goofy camera skew into the sky any time I forget.
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Shalinor posted:My only gripe with the controls is that I want to lock out the left stick if I'm in slice mode. I reversed the sticks so that the left stick controls blade-mode swings, and the right stick moves the camera no matter which mode you're in. Fits my brain a lot better - the controls are pretty configurable. But yeah, you've nailed it - the entire design of the game is focused on absolute aggression. You don't need to preemptively parry enemy attacks - you can literally cancel out of your own attacks into a parry, or even parry straight out of taking damage. You block bullets by ninja-running directly into them. Everything is stacked so that the most effective way to play is a berserker charge headlong into danger, because that's how Raiden works.
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Ineffiable posted:So what's everyone looking forward to this year? I think a lot of games still have very tentative release dates and it's starting to look barren for a while after we get Metal Gear Rising and Last of Us. The Last Guardian and Final Fantasy Versus XIII  Real releases, in alphabetical order:
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Shalinor posted:The big thing it does is that by effectively removing the standard back dodge but replacing it with a counter, they shift the momentum of combat to always be forward. You're never dodging back to watch patterns or look for an opening, and you're not trying to punish bad or missed combos. You are constantly at their throat, reacting to what they're doing, and recognizing (and hopefully taking) the openings as they open at basically point blank. I guess the thing is that I just don't like that type of counter. I've never been a fan of the press a button and a direction just as you're being attacked. I know it's like in every gaem but it's usually optional with a bunch of less good but less precise alternatives. I don't like being forced to just use the one type.
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axleblaze posted:I guess the thing is that I just don't like that type of counter. I've never been a fan of the press a button and a direction just as you're being attacked. I know it's like in every gaem but it's usually optional with a bunch of less good but less precise alternatives. I don't like being forced to just use the one type. You don't need to be precise with it at all. The window for parrying is huge. You do get an automatic counter if you time a parry just right, but that's just deadly icing on the murder-cake.
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Ineffiable posted:So what's everyone looking forward to this year? I think a lot of games still have very tentative release dates and it's starting to look barren for a while after we get Metal Gear Rising and Last of Us. I am super excited for Bioshock Infinite, GTA5, Last of Us, Killer is Dead and Tales of Xillia... I feel like I don't really need to list Dead Space 3 or Revengence since they are right around the corner. And of course if it seriously comes out this year, I'll preorder Dark Souls II the second it has a release date. Then there's all the stuff that I'm interested in but will probably wait a bit to get, since I have a backlog of stuff from last year to clear out still. Stuff like Tomb Raider, Atelier Ayesha, Sly Cooper, Lord of Shadows 2, Dragon's Crown, Deadly Premonition, RE: Revelations... So as far as I'm concerned this year has quite a bit of stuff I'm looking forward to. There are even a few games from the last year or two I can go pick up during any empty space.
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This video was just posted on the Sony PlayStation YouTube channel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g82C4Nu_Jq8 Something important is happening on February 20th.
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MUFFlNS posted:This video was just posted on the Sony PlayStation YouTube channel. I'm feeling like this is our pre-E3 PS4 announcement. Hopefully they'll put these nasty rumors about blocking used games to rest and we (I) can start thinking about my preorder.
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So February 20th is Orbis and the 25th is Destination PlayStation? Cool times!
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So either PlayStation Home comes out of beta on Feb 20th or we'll have PS4 info. Wicked.
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PlayStation Home's probably just continuing onto Orbis as BigFest, which really excites me for 2 reasons: 1) maybe they won't gently caress it up so badly this time, and 2) hopefully a ton of Home poo poo isn't compatible so I can watch the literal children who argue about Home content scream about entitlement. They flipped their poo poo when Sony announced PS+ exclusive features, and by God do I want to see them freak the gently caress out over a whole new platform.
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That loving Sned posted:Playstation Home has fans? According to Sony something like 7 million PSN users actually use it on a weekly basis.
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