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The Press Room Episode #127
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Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:36:48
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My favorite part is the mass effect 3 segment, its just bombs dropping on me, I cant believe the story you got.

BTW to upgrade weapons you have to go to the weapon upgrade desk in the normandy in the bottom floor of the ship. There you attach upgrades to the guns and choose the load outs. There is another place there where you also can pay to "level up" your guns. All the gunplay revolves around this, so if this is what you mean when you said you never upgraded a weapon then no wonder combat is too hard for you. Also remember the more weapons you carry with you the less biotic power you have.

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Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:02:16
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Wait. WHAT?!

You think MGS4 is the best game of this generation?!

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Fri, 24 Aug 2012 16:27:16
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aspro said:

Wait. WHAT?!

You think MGS4 is the best game of this generation?!

Yup. No game has wowed me like that one. Its my benchmark for this gen and every game keeps falling short.

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Sat, 25 Aug 2012 02:34:21
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I really enjoyed the segment about how some of us have really been around since gaming began and the comparison of that to the 90 year old guy who watched every movie ever made and died when Godfather 2 came out. It kind of got me thinking about how I've seen gaming evolve and at the same time how I've watched my kids have taken to gaming and what their specific likes and dislikes have been. I'm going to have to write something up on that because it's actually very interesting. My oldest step-daughter is 22, my youngest is 13 and my son is 6 and they're tastes are all utterly different from one another and largely the main factor has been what their entrance console to gaming has been.

Oh and I also wanted to make a point about Kinect. Do you guys realize even Kinect has been around for almost 2 years? I don't think the price drop has anything to do with trying to get them off the shelves. This is the traditional point in a piece of hardware's life where a price-cut is appropriate and even expected. But damn, who on earth expected anyone to even want a Kinect after 2 years?

Anyway, nice job guys. Vader is utterly wrong about MGS4 being the best game of the gen and even made the point himself why it's not (horrible entry point for new gamers), but yeah nice job.

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Sat, 25 Aug 2012 02:46:19
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Poor 90 year old. That must suck dying just after Godfather 2, rather than just before the original came out. Sad

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Sat, 25 Aug 2012 02:46:59
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I don't think the Godfather 2 would be a bad movie to end your life with. It's not the Godfather 3 after all.

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Sat, 25 Aug 2012 02:52:40
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I don't think the Godfather 2 would be a bad movie to end your life with. It's not the Godfather 3 after all.

If it's not even meant to be as good as the original, then it must make for a horrible way to die.

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Sun, 26 Aug 2012 07:36:44
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Robio, thanks for listening. Good point on Kinect.

Yeah, I still have not been able to fully formulate my thoughts on the group of people who have been around since the beginning. But the thought of a film buff from 1900 through until, say, 1975 lingers in my thoughts.

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Mon, 27 Aug 2012 06:04:29
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Hmm, found the chopping and changing to news stories and the like a bit hard to follow, and it felt more pre-meditated than organic. Some quality segues, though.

Everyone has those same criticisms aimed at all the other MGS games. All the people I know who have played MGS4 without having played the others (or, say just the original) didn't really have any problem following it, and enjoyed it greatly. In theory I agree that it shouldn't work as an entry point to the series, but it would appear that it might not actually be the case. Plus their downloadable book-thingy of all the backstories actually did a great job of recapping all that happened up to MGS4.

I agree with Aspro that you can play any Yakuza and it still be great, but there is really SO much more to it if you play all of them due to the really excellent character development. Though this actually comes across if you don't play them in order. So you may as well start with the best, become a fan, then enjoy everything else.

Games that need manuals? Hyperdimension needs a fucking manual. Hrm

Vader never played Quake?!

“Start with Doom 3, it’s a whole different experience”

ASPRO, FUCK YOU! When I was on you said I was wrong that Doom 3 was completely different to the first 2, and wasn't more corridor shootery---that's one of the big defining characteristics of modern FPSers! I feel betrayed. Sad

“10 years old in the year 1900”

Then he hasn't really started at the beginning of film. Nyaa The guy you're talking about sounds like a total poser!

Please tell me you don’t think The General is slow, Aspro.

NSMB: Art imitating life.

Dude, what did you expect with Red Steel 2 apart from sword swining? LOL Also don't really get the Bordlerands comparison. Apart from being cel shaded, it actually reminds me more of Stranger's Wrath.

"gonna get that shit when I get $29."

When I get $129*.

“Good square is they’re teasing a new World Ends With You game.”

LOL.

Aspro:

"High end piece of electronica."





But Vader, the console Pokemon games are horrible! (Post-N64,)

"Not like Leo; a mail model."

LOL

"It only made 200Million!"

Complete failure, agreed.

“That’s a good idea, we should put that in our game”

Tha’ts totally what they did, and in that exact voice. LOL

Was this how Morgan died?



Once again Mass Effect impressions were brilliant. Great work.

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Mon, 27 Aug 2012 21:22:47

Yeah, I had no games to reivew and wanted to give Vader a rest so I moved up some news items. Sorry about that.

More than half of the things you reference I have no memory of.

That is pretty much how Mordin died.

Mail model... I wonder what on earth I could have been talking about?

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Tue, 28 Aug 2012 02:43:41

Now I can't recall what it's referring to either...something to do with the difference between a company having a mail model (a postal policy) and a male model (Leo).

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Thu, 30 Aug 2012 23:30:09
Listening now.

Super Mario Bros. NES is my #1 choice for first game to play for anyone.  No boring tutorials, no analogue sticks, no shoulder buttons, no 3D disorientation, no real storyline.  The game was designed to show you how to play, assuming you didn't know how to play, and holds up to this day.

I also disagree that the Final Fantasy 1&2 remakes are better.  For recommending to a first in the series is a weird question, but just in terms of "better" I'd say no.  FF1 is balanced around its difficulty, and the remakes throw it out of whack.  I honestly also find the updates to the graphics ugly and songs less unique and catchy.  Something that most would probably consider better in the remakes is that in the original FF1 if you targeted all your characters on one unit, and your first character to attack killed it, the rest of your characters would miss because the enemy's already dead, while the remakes retarget.  Personally I like the added layer of depth to combat to make it less mindless.

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Thu, 30 Aug 2012 23:31:29
Games I would not recommend in a series: Zelda DS games.
Games that story affects enjoyment of sequel: Baten Kaitos (a little bit).  It's the only one that I remember being particularly important because the prequel doesn't really explain the world.

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Thu, 30 Aug 2012 23:43:28
I resent your evaluation of New Super Mario Bros.  The first DS game was too easy, and that was the main problem, not too simplistic.  The thing that made the suits in Super Mario Bros. 3 good was that they were relatively inconsequential and just neat little bonuses.  Mario is not a puzzle-platformer and shouldn't be, but you seem to suggest that there should be more and more complexity and random crap thrown in.

NSMBWii felt directionless.  How do we make this game different and new?  Let's make everything spin!  What they did was slow down the gameplay drastically by having to wait and wait and wait all the time, which is why everyone hated those auto-scrolling levels back in the day.

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Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:43:33
OnLive - "as the Internet improves it will eliminate the lag".  False.  It's not throughput that's the issue, it's latency.  Latency hasn't really improved all that much in a decade.  You're limited by the speed of light.  Fibre optics send data at about 2/3 the speed of light, meaning round-trip across the US the theoretical best you can do is 50ms.  Now, the server's no necessarily going to be that far away, but there's overhead, and it's never going to be perfect.  The actual Internet lines are also not a straight line, and you have to hope between routers, and the server response time itself.  This in mind, < 100ms ping is still very common, and there's not a lot of room to improve.  I have an 18ms ping to Google right now.

tl;dr I wouldn't count on latency improving by any noticeable measure

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