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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Madworld

« on: May 16, 2008, 08:54:57 PM »

This game will come out next year, so why are they anouncing it already? Seems too suspicious for me.

Most games are announced well more than a year before their release.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Will the next Zelda game be an FPS?

« on: May 16, 2008, 08:52:45 PM »

My only objection with steampunk Zelda is that steampunk is cliche.  I don't want Zelda to look like some generic anime.  Putting Zelda in another setting and style is a cool idea.  But having it fit specific style conventions is limiting in a similar way that staying in the existing Zelda style is limiting.  Cyberpunk Zelda could also be a potential future Zelda setting but again it would be cliche.  Just because it's the future it has to look like Shadowrun?  No, of course not.  The beauty of creating a fantasy world is that you can literally make up whatever you want.

Steampunk only exists in anime, and cyberpunk only exists in Shadowrun. No exceptions.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Will the next Zelda game be an FPS?

« on: May 16, 2008, 05:31:51 PM »

Steampunk is lame.

YES IT IS

My nerd rage burns with the heat of a thousand suns. If you don't like steampunk, you have no soul.

I can't tell if you're joking, but I'd dig a steampunk Zelda. There's a lot Nintendo could do with the concept. Besides giving the series a new atmosphere and environment to work with, Nintendo would also gain a great opportunity to restart the franchise, especially in the story department. I can imagine a "futuristic" Zelda in which the Triforce, Link and Zelda have become legend and much of the game would involve finding out what happened way back in ancient Hyrule.

I knew I wasn't the only one. There's only so much you can do with the same setting over and over again. Even if it's not in Hyrule (Majora's Mask), it's still the same goddamn thing. Zelda needs something COMPLETELY new, which means dragging it kicking and screaming out of the dark ages.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Madworld

« on: May 15, 2008, 05:10:32 PM »

"Finally, the studio showed off Madworld, a button-mashing, remote-swinging black and white bloodbath directed by Resident Evil creator Shinji Mikami."

YES.  YES.
THIS IS THE KEY POINT IN THIS PIECE OF NEWS.

AFTER WORKING ON ZOMBIES AND NON-ZOMBIES FOR SO LONG, MIKAMI IS NURTURING SOMETHING NEW.  Extreme, comical, and waggle.

You realize that Shinji Mikami was the co-designer for Killer7, right?

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Will the next Zelda game be an FPS?

« on: May 15, 2008, 05:06:08 PM »

The next Zelda game should GTFO of Hyrule as we know it now and jump forward a few hundred (or thousand) years in the future, to a steampunk or futuristic Hyrule.

I'd play it. All the Zelda fans would BAWWWWWWW until the end of days though.

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General Gaming / Re: PC gaming gets even better

« on: May 12, 2008, 03:26:50 PM »

I'm pretty sure you can turn that off, or at least limit it.

That's one of the biggest and most interesting and exciting parts of the game.

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General Gaming / Re: PC gaming gets even better

« on: May 11, 2008, 08:41:16 PM »

We'll re-authenticate when a player uses online features, downloads new content or a patch for their game.

PROTIP: Spore downloads new content THE ENTIRE TIME YOU'RE PLAYING THE GAME.

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General Gaming / Re: Rockstar has a new game called IV

« on: May 11, 2008, 08:38:39 PM »

3. Cars can stall out or are sometimes hard to control - this factor can screw you up big time on car chase missions which can get frustrating.

Cars stall out when you beat the crap out of them. I still fail to see how having an alternative to the car blowing up and taking you with it is bad. Also, they're hard to control because they control more realistically now.

4. On foot controls are clunky - they feel very sluggish and they are not tight at all.

It only seems that way because in the others you could start a sprint from stand-still, and do a 180 instantaneously. Much like the cars, Niko runs more realistically now.

5. Controls are in general mediocre or poor - See 2,3,4 and add to the fact that some button choices probably came out of no where.

How do you mean "out of nowhere"?

6. Minimal HUD - I don't mind the health bar being on the radar but I do mind that they took out what weapon is constantly displayed, the only way to know is switching weapons via the dpad.

I like that. You see the weapon icon when you reload anyway.

[quote[7. Doesn't feel "next gen" - Now I see why some of you above weren't happy that the city feels sterile and it does because its modeled after a really busy and yet New York City Liberty City feels so empty also there are a lot of mechanics that don't feel polished at all.[/quote]

I still can't even fathom how people say the city feels "empty" or "sterile." It's anything but, and is easily one of the best things about the game.

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General Gaming / Re: Rockstar has a new game called IV

« on: May 11, 2008, 03:05:04 AM »

Here is a question.  The GTA series had me desiring to create a sandbox type game around a city.  But I really wanted you to be an average Joe with missions that could literally be resolved several means.

So are there any missions you can accomplish by doing legal means?  Why am I forced to become a criminal basically...a true sandbox game should not be like that.

I always wanted to make a sandbox game with this radical idea that you are going to do very mundane things.  Go to the store and buy groceries for the family on a set budget...now do you want to speed there?  Do you want to obey the speed limit?  do you want to steal?  Whatever...and you can accomplish your goal any way...but if you decide to do illegal things they  have permanent consequences throughout the entire game.  For instance, if you break the law you might just get a ticket...and then lay low.  If you kill somebody and the body is discovered, then the police will be after you, and if you are caught for a crime you will be arrested and possibly sent to jail.  However, if you kill a cop in the game you are a cop killer and they actively seek you out, and will shoot to kill instead of arrest.

Something like that sounds amazing...I know it would mean less crime storyline, but why is that needed.  I really like the idea of forming the story by my actions, not a cheesy plot.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game

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General Gaming / Re: PC gaming gets even better

« on: May 11, 2008, 03:02:35 AM »

They are all EA, so what Bioware says is probably EA policy.

Oh right. I completely forgot that EA bought Bioware. =/

CURSES!

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TalkBack / Re: Nyko Energy Pak Announced for Wii Balance Board

« on: May 11, 2008, 02:58:47 AM »

Wii Remote charging stand? Wireless nunchuk? Battery pack for Balance Board?

Nyko does what Nintendon't: CONFIRMED.

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General Gaming / Re: Rockstar has a new game called IV

« on: May 08, 2008, 05:59:20 PM »

A game is not going to relieve that desire, but actually make it stronger.

No. No no no.

No no no no no no no.

Where do you people GET this stuff? You realize that the OVERWHELMING majority of pedophiles NEVER touch a child EVER, right? And that the same overwhelming majority typically looks at some form of child porn quite frequently?

Looking at visuals does not increase likelihood of performing the act being shown in the visuals. Pedophiles have a fetish just like anyone else. Yes, some of them can't control it, but as I said, the overwhelming majority of them can. You're acting like pedophiles are automatically monsters and ticking time bombs. They're not.

Let's see how consistent people are about this morality in games, would any of you be ok with a game that starred a racist organization (like the KKK) and it nothing but promote bigotry and hatred for a race, with tasks related to lynching or doing something worse to another race.

What up?



And yes I'm fine with it.

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General Gaming / Re: Rockstar has a new game called IV

« on: May 08, 2008, 10:50:52 AM »

That is funny coming from someone like yourself who does nothing but insult people constantly who don't agree with you, with...immature language.

I take offense to that. Just because I swear a lot while I'm arguing doesn't mean I don't have valid points. I'm sorry that you can only read, but not comprehend.

So you'd be ok with a child porn simulator?

They exist, and yes I'm fine with them. Child porn is illegal because it puts children in danger. "Simualators" are not real life, and there are no children in danger. I don't care what you do in your bedroom as long as it isn't hurting anyone else.

PS: If you find me "immature," that's personal.

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General Gaming / Re: PC gaming gets even better

« on: May 08, 2008, 10:45:09 AM »

I still don't see why I should trust a Bioware producer when he says something about Spore.

Because he is apart of the same company?

What same company? Bioware producer=/=EA or Maxis.

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General Gaming / Re: Rockstar has a new game called IV

« on: May 07, 2008, 05:53:47 PM »

Everyone but you is wrong, m i rite?

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General Gaming / Re: PC gaming gets even better

« on: May 07, 2008, 05:48:57 PM »

I still don't see why I should trust a Bioware producer when he says something about Spore.

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General Gaming / Re: Soul Calibur Jumps the Shark, and then beats it with a lightsaber

« on: May 06, 2008, 06:27:19 PM »

I can see them all just fine.

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General Gaming / Re: Soul Calibur Jumps the Shark, and then beats it with a lightsaber

« on: May 06, 2008, 04:53:36 PM »

I can totally see how this as an arena would totally ruin the game.

http://www.slipups.com/images/items/88.full.jpg

Or this.

http://www.elpais.com/recorte/20070330elpepusoc_16/XLCO/Ies/Atardecer_planeta_Tatooine.jpg

Or this:

http://www.sithclan.net/SC4/write_access/depot_images/dossier/trilogie/planetes/dagobah_bog.jpg

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General Gaming / Re: Rockstar has a new game called IV

« on: May 06, 2008, 04:48:04 PM »

Good for you, you like the tedious and annoying cop escape "radius" game, I do not. Building interaction is referring to being able to go into more buildings instead of GTA's painted doors.

It's easier to escape your wanted level in GTA 4.. Two and three starts were stupidly difficult to escape before, whereas  four+ was completely impossible without a Pay'n'Spray. So I still fail to see what you're complaining about. Also, you can go into more buildings in this game than in SA, not counting safehouses.

Fun Fact: There is no reason to limit it to Liberty City AGAIN, the genre is moving past a cramped city. It worked for GTA3 but it is outdated for a series that expanded that.

The city has THREE TIMES THE LAND MASS of GTA 3. That means if you took every island in GTA 3, and put it all together, it would make up ONE of the islands in GTA 4. That is not, in any way, "limiting" Liberty City.

it was a step in the right direction and could have been fine tuned.

Your opinion. (Teehee. See what I did there?)

We all know most women are hookers right? The sexist stereotypes are borderline sickening in GTA games and don't even come close to replicating anything in reality so why not get their "Creative" juices going and try a female gangster working her way up, could make for a unique story.

The entire GTA series is based on stereotypes, satire, and generally making fun of everyone. Women don't get special treatment.

Also, a GTA game with a woman as a main character would be COMPLETELY different than one with a male main character. It's not like Metroid or Perfect Dark where the character being a woman doesn't mean anything. If they didn't design two completely different storylines, one for male, one for female, LOTS of people would be pissed. There's no reason they should have to spend the time and effort on that just to appeal to the 2% of gamers who even care.

I know women who play GTA, and none of them are as BAWWWWWWWW as you.

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General Gaming / Re: Soul Calibur Jumps the Shark, and then beats it with a lightsaber

« on: May 06, 2008, 04:37:58 PM »

Apparently they also have stages...What is this crap?  Link didn't get HIS own stage, and a forest-type stage would have, you know, ACTUALLY MADE SENSE!?  Good job ruining the game even further, Namco...

So giving characters stages=ruining the game?

What's wrong with you?

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General Gaming / Re: Rockstar has a new game called IV

« on: May 05, 2008, 05:10:39 PM »

1. Escaping police is much more tedious

Which is an improvement.

2. Less building interaction

what

3. Less ground to explore (I'm sorry but I like to feel free in sandbox games, which is why I have a soft spot for GTA SA. This is in itself is a reason to prefer aspects of San Andreas to GTAIV)

Fun fact: New York City isn't as big and open as California.

4. Some vehicles have been cut like the airplane (Probably will be in the next game)

Oh noes. They cut vehicles which would be completely useless.

5. Not really related to previous GTA games, but where is progress in character customization?

Rockstar has commented on that several times.

There aren't even exercise related customization.

Because it was f**king stupid.

Pathetic in my opinion especially when games like Saints Row will let you, gasp, actually be a woman! Amazing, some companies are actually getting over their sexist portrayal of women.

Not portraying women as gangbangers is not "sexist." Women make up a miniscule, almost non-existent, portion of organized crime. The women that ARE involved in organized crime are almost always drug dealers, and nothing more.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Go Speed Racer!

« on: May 05, 2008, 05:01:57 PM »

I haven't played it, but it can't possibly be worse than the movie, so I'll probably try it at some point.

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General Gaming / Re: Rockstar has a new game called IV

« on: May 03, 2008, 11:08:58 PM »

I think GP just has his panties in a bunch about something.

If you don't play this game an instantly realize that it is, by far, the best GTA game to date, then you have some sort of grudge.

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General Gaming / Re: Rockstar has a new game called IV

« on: April 30, 2008, 05:36:06 PM »

1.  You can't stand on cars while they're moving for any extended period.

You can't in real life either.

2.  Seems like there are to many cops and the range you have to run away from them is very large, and how long it takes for them to get off your case seem to be forever. (This could change if I played more)

WHAT. COPS ACTUALLY CHASE YOU?

3.  Cops shoot you A LOT.  It results in death A LOT.  (Could change)

Suck less.

4.  You walk weird and sort of weird and floaty, gonna take some time to get used to.

I don't even know wtf that means. Niko walks perfectly normal.

5.  If you "get busted" then resist you can get away but you have 2 starts, it's nice to be able to get away, but 2 stars a pain to get rid of.

So they FINALLY give you an option to resist arrest, and you COMPLAIN ABOUT IT?

6.  The cops are UNMARKED on your radar.  (Could change, but for now, super annoying considering how many cops there are.)

Why should they be marked on your radar? It's ridiculous enough that they're marked when you have a wanted level.

7.  Free aiming seemed to be a pain in the ass get started.

Free aiming works MUCH better than it did in SA.

8.  The cars can STALL and not work any more more often then they will blow up.  Totally annoying and unexpected.

As with the arrest, they finally give an alternative to a car billowing out smoke and flames then exploding, thus taking you and everyone in a twenty foot radius with it (which probably killed me more than anything else in the other games), AND YOU'RE COMPLAINING?

10.  You have a sell phone, and people freaking bother you with it for missions all the time, even if your in the middle of a giant ass car chase.  I don't like that.

So... Don't answer your phone. Problem solved.

PS: Haha. Mr. Jack thinks he'll be able to find this used for $5 when games that came out at the 360 launch are still $60.

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Nintendo Gaming / Re: 7 commandments of videogames

« on: April 30, 2008, 05:26:33 PM »

That list is a pile of crap.