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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo To Hold Fall Press Conference

« on: September 17, 2008, 08:20:59 PM »

Well, here's to good tidings.

Eh... I hope any new product will introduce new characters rather than more franchise installments. Though, I wouldn't exactly mind a promising new Star Fox or another F-Zero game. Hey, maybe Kid Icarus Wii will become a reality!

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TalkBack / Re: Treasure's First Wii Title Announced: Bleach: Versus Crusade

« on: September 15, 2008, 01:48:27 PM »

Guess he doesn't such effort put in a game based on a popular shonen action license.

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TalkBack / Re: Treasure's First Wii Title Announced: Bleach: Versus Crusade

« on: September 12, 2008, 11:28:45 PM »

Uoo! Now there's more bankai! Hopefully this game will do a better job than the first one.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Announces WiFi Router for Wii/DS

« on: September 10, 2008, 01:36:03 PM »

Ah, I didn't know they discontinued the USB connector. Well, an actual router will be much more useful in using WiiConnect. I wonder if it has Wi-FI g. Probably not, I guess?

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TalkBack / Re: EA Confirms Release Window for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

« on: September 09, 2008, 12:09:08 AM »

The fifth one was pretty ambitious iirc. It was the first to have a free roaming Hogwarts. I hope the extra time will make this game avoid being movie-game schlock for once.

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TalkBack / Re: Farmyard Party: Featuring the Olympigs Coming to Wii

« on: September 09, 2008, 12:06:15 AM »

Bolt Boar will dash in at under 10 seconds!

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General Gaming / Re: Left 4 Dead

« on: September 08, 2008, 05:59:45 PM »

Oh... Well, playing a FPS on a console is just silly anyway.

Yeah because sitting on a comfortable couch and playing on a nice, big tv screen is so silly. 

I've seen nothing on this game but that description has definitely got me interested.

Well, with the proper cash and effort, you could do just that with a PC. Most new TVs these days ought to have a VGA plug-in and mini 8 plug-in anyway. Just either get long-cabled or wireless keyboard and mouse and you're good to go! Playing AudioSurf on a big TV screen is quite a trip.

As for Left 4 Dead, its a missed opportunity that the hand on the cover art isn't a left hand.

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TalkBack / Re: EA Confirms Release Window for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

« on: September 08, 2008, 04:36:29 PM »

The sensible choice! I wonder if they will take the extra time to polish and maybe add a few trinkets.

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General Gaming / Re: Steam ID Rollcall

« on: September 08, 2008, 01:58:26 PM »

Enner

Really though, save yourself the headache that is Steam and obtain the games through other methods. It's bad enough that you have to use Steam for newer Valve games.

Steam seems to work pretty well and without a hitch these days. Well, at least I don't hear as many complaints as I did when it first launched. Also, I like all the community things the service has. Though, I have heard that things can get wonky with the in-game Steam dashboard sometimes.

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TalkBack / Re: This Week's Virtual Console and WiiWare

« on: September 08, 2008, 01:43:42 PM »

Suggestive themes of MAN-WESOMENESS!

So, who's plopping down the points for the Man Beam?

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TalkBack / Re: Tecmo Rejects Square Enix Offer, Moves Towards Merger with Koei

« on: September 04, 2008, 12:19:56 PM »

With a transformation sequence that has enough lightning to fuel multiple Lords of Thunder games.

I don't see how much Koei will get out of a merger as I assume they make a tidy living off of the umpteenth Musou action game and Romance strategy game installment. Maybe they want to give Zhen Ji and Okuni breast physics or something.

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TalkBack / Re: Square Enix Offers Friendly Take Over of Tecmo

« on: September 03, 2008, 01:27:36 PM »

Consolidate! Consolidate!
I wonder if they're trying to become the Electronic Arts/Activision-Blizzard of Japan?

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TalkBack / Re: Wii ARPG Ougon no Kizuna revealed

« on: September 02, 2008, 12:56:37 PM »

Uhhh, it's an ARPG...Quite a bit different from the standard traditional JRPG...

More fun to play, but still not an RPG.

Well, maybe the game will have somewhat robust character creation and interesting quests. Then again, this is Japan and they never seem to be too interested in those two things.

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TalkBack / Re: Disaster: Day of Crisis to See European Release This Fall

« on: September 02, 2008, 12:51:32 PM »

Bear wrestlin' to save the day! Here we go!

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TalkBack / Re: Games Convention Planning Event in North America

« on: August 27, 2008, 06:31:32 PM »

German convention domination! Hurrah!

Maybe they should consider somewhere on the east coast as a venue? Seeing as how most major North American game conventions are on the west coast.

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TalkBack / Re: Hudson Reveals More Details on Bomberman WiiWare Title

« on: August 26, 2008, 03:03:53 PM »

Ooo, shaping up to a downloadable game with very nice features. Yay for Mii support!

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TalkBack / Re: Replacement Okami Covers Now Shipping

« on: August 25, 2008, 02:16:34 PM »

I almost forgot about this. Well, okay, not really since everytime I happen upon an Okami box I check for that IGN watermark.

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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo to Host The Conduit at PAX 2008

« on: August 19, 2008, 02:42:59 PM »

This is great news and such a lucky opportunity for High Voltage Software. It would be perfect if Nintendo picks up the publishing tab since it might be a double hit to release it along side Wii Sports Resort. I think High Voltage said they would be supporting the Wii Motion Plus, right? Or am I mistaking it for that Red Steel 2 news?

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TalkBack / Re: Japanese Weekly Software and Hardware Charts for August 4-10

« on: August 19, 2008, 12:25:46 AM »

And another Namco-Bandai exclusive (I wonder when or if Ace Combat 6 or Vesperia will be ported to the PS3) is pushing X360 units in Japan. Lets see if the set of Square Enix games, Infinite Undiscover and The Last Remnant, will sell a few more boxes.

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TalkBack / Re: First Person Shooter C.O.R.E. Announced for DS

« on: August 18, 2008, 07:36:25 PM »

Ought to tide those over until a Quake DS ever comes to fruition.

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TalkBack / Re: EA Announces Partnership to Publish Mikami-Suda51 Horror Project

« on: August 15, 2008, 10:47:59 PM »

"They are a great partner who shares our commitment to quality and innovation while respecting our independence as a studio, which is very empowering."   

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

lol
Well, it looks like EA Partners is a service that independent or other developers can buy to cover all those other things attached to games besides developement. Sounds kinda nifty. Who knows, maybe the new head guy behind EA will turn the publisher back to something like those nice days of Desert Strike, Road Rash, and others.

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TalkBack / Re: EA Announces Partnership to Publish Mikami-Suda51 Horror Project

« on: August 14, 2008, 11:29:09 PM »

Aww, this is sweet. EA is trying to make up for it's developer consuming days.
Still, another horror game? I guess EA is aiming to be a contender with Dead Space and now this.

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TalkBack / Re: Capcom's Bionic Commando Not Approved for Virtual Console

« on: August 13, 2008, 02:14:06 PM »

No exploding heads for us
A darn shame.

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TalkBack / Re: Mega Man 9 to Include Screen Flicker and Slowdown Options

« on: August 05, 2008, 04:29:36 PM »

I would be laughing if Capcom makes Mega Man 10 after this and ignore any preconcieved notions about how a Mega Man 9 would be a bridge to Mega Man X.

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TalkBack / Re: Wall Street Journal Interviews Iwata

« on: August 05, 2008, 04:20:49 PM »

Almost two years in its life and Nintendo is finally done with some of its initial concepts for the system! Yay!
Here's to looking forward to phase 2.