iga_bobovic said:

Anxiety lead to fear. Fear lead to hate. Hate leads to suffering. Suffering leads to PAIN.

I finished watching Blood + BTW. Really enjoyed it overall, especially the character dynamics. I felt that the epilogue probably should have been stretched out like the end of Return of the King - extended edition. They seemed to wrap everything up in 20 minutes then left us with a few little teasers. I hope they make another series.

GG, remember when we were talking about Double Agent and I mentioned that I heard the 180 version was the better game? Well, I found a copy at the store and picked it up, and so far....I wish I bought this version originally. It is better.

It just plays more like the previous games, and doesn't try all the dumb crap that the 360 tries (which made it worse). Granted, I'm only on the first mission, but its totally different so far. The only thing that seems to be the same is the basic story, and the settings. When it comes to level design, they are completely different games.

In the 360 version, this first level is actually one of the worst. Here in the 180 version, its fucking awesome. Classic SC. I have to play more, but so far there's no doubt this is the better game. Graphics are about on Chaos Theory's level, so great, in other words.

If I'm not mistaken, the 180 version was done by the real SC team also, and the 360 version by Shanghai. No wonder its better.

Shit I did around 34 updates and it's just impossible to cover everything. I will have to stick some junk in a post I think.

iga_bobovic said:

Nah, there isn't anything left. All the badguys are dead. Now get started with Elfenlied!

Is that a series or one off?

edgecrusher said:

GG, remember when we were talking about Double Agent and I mentioned that I heard the 180 version was the better game? Well, I found a copy at the store and picked it up, and so far....I wish I bought this version originally. It is better.

It just plays more like the previous games, and doesn't try all the dumb crap that the 360 tries (which made it worse). Granted, I'm only on the first mission, but its totally different so far. The only thing that seems to be the same is the basic story, and the settings. When it comes to level design, they are completely different games.

In the 360 version, this first level is actually one of the worst. Here in the 180 version, its fucking awesome. Classic SC. I have to play more, but so far there's no doubt this is the better game. Graphics are about on Chaos Theory's level, so great, in other words.

If I'm not mistaken, the 180 version was done by the real SC team also, and the 360 version by Shanghai. No wonder its better.

Yeah I remember hearing that. I sold my 360 Double Agent after I got sick of it. I still can't believe how many games you play man. LOL do you remember the bullshot Wii screens of the game Ubi put out and then the eventual N64 looking game?

edgecrusher said:

I don't get it....so they're saying Monster Hunter would be better if it played like DMC?

Awesome Far Cry 2 pics. Game's gorgeous.

Hey, I just read the wii music thing. Turns out the game is doing something quite special. Not that I understand half of what the guy is talking about. Glad you like the Far Cry 2 pics. Can you shoot or run down wildlife? Not that I would or anything

EDIT:

I get what they mean, they want MH to be faster and more nimble with more enemies that are easier to defeat. Where MH seems like a game where you have few, powerful enemies that you really have to hack at to beat. It seems to me very much like PSO.

You know the MH games on PS2 didn't do nearly as well saleswise as the PSP versions, so it will be interesting to see how it does on Wii. I'm not sure it's my kind of game, but it now has a confirmed offline co-op. Ugh, damn terminology, two player splitscreen, we used to call it in the old days.  

gamingeek said:

I want this game.

gamingeek said:

steelattack said:

I want this game.

Did anyone see the Valhalla knights footage? What is this a PSP port?

You know what's sad?  That compared to the consistent failure of third-party Wii titles, that actually doesn't look that bad.

yodariquo said:

gamingeek said:

steelattack said:

I want this game.

Did anyone see the Valhalla knights footage? What is this a PSP port?

You know what's sad?  That compared to the consistent failure of third-party Wii titles, that actually doesn't look that bad.

Ugh, gamewise it looks like something you might want to pick up. If only visually it didn't look like a ripe turd. I think the PSP VKnights recentely got like a 5/10 review.

angry_beaver said:

gamingeek said:

I'm not sure it's my kind of game, but it now has a confirmed offline co-op. Ugh, damn terminology, two player splitscreen, we used to call it in the old days.  

Yeah, but "two-player splitscreen" doesn't distinguish between competitive and co-op, so "co-op" is more specific.

Klonoa... never had any of them, but I remember the nice music constantly eminating from a PS2 kiosk at a nearby Wal-Mart. Flappy ears.

Damn you, the logic defeats me. It used to be called multiplayer! My brain hurts.

EDIT:

Oh my word Phoenix Wright fans click here:

http://www.capcom.co.jp/img_common/tgs/title_dl_gyakutenkenji.jpg

Penis!

AKA White knight story

steelattack said:

WKS is really shaping up in an awesome way.

There is a lot of text on the screen which worries me. Sometimes I wish that rpgs could be more user friendly but still deep if you know what I mean. That boss fight looks epic though.

So there were a couple of tidbits that caught my attention today. A couple of weeks back we were talking about this subject so it's interesting hearing what John Scappert of MS has to say:

"The innovation criticism is almost ironic to me," said Schappert. "You've got the Xbox, which is the console that pioneered hard drives, broadband gaming, online gaming, Achievements and gamercards. It's the console that arguably pioneered first-person shooters in your living room, wireless controllers... I could go on.

"I think we've earned our chops in terms of innovation," he added. "The games division has some brilliant people who have done amazing things, and who have shaped the industry forever. I think we've done a great job of innovating and we continue to lead."

Schappert said that he thinks Nintendo's Miis are "wonderful," but Microsoft's introduction of avatars is not a copycat move, just an extension of the 360 gamercard.

"With respect to Avatars - Miis are wonderful. Nintendo has done great things," offered Schappert. "But avatars are just a logical extension of what we've had already. We've had a gamercard and a gamer pic; I want to take that to the next level. Now we've got Live parties, we launched the first video store... So I get a little riled there.

"I think we've done some great things for the industry and for gamers," he said

Then on Wii MUSIC

Like a lot of people, I barely thought about Wii Music during most of that period unless a joke needed a punch line. Having written it off in July (even nominating it as one of the show's most disappointing titles), Wii Music was in the same gutter with all the other games that don't warrant much of a mention.

Nintendo's Media Summit last week started to change my mind. Through a series of demos, I found that the game's ability to remix or even remake songs is deeper than had been previously reported. I experienced how the musical gameplay can follow a song directly, or allow players to do more or less exactly what they want within the basic rhythmic framework. And I saw that, with a little effort, even that framework can be massively altered by determined players.

There's also the fact that the virtual drum set, which sadly but perhaps inescapably requires the Wii Balance Board, is actually responsive and fun. More important, it is flexible in ways that the Rock Band drums aren't, and appears to be easier to work into songs than the drums in Guitar Hero: World Tour's studio mode. And by recording drum parts slowly, then speeding up the tempo (which doesn't affect pitch at all), novices can record speed metal-worthy rhythms.

Granted, there are loads of controls to memorize to make the drums really work: buttons to activate cymbal hits; analog stick rolls to make tom-tom hits register, instead of snare and hi-hat. But with a few minutes' practice, I could play many basic patterns except for traditional rolls across the toms. With a practiced player on the "sticks" (the gent demoing at the Summit was excellent, and a good teacher), there's no question that the Wii Music kit is a neat piece of software.

With up to six players -- each of which is allowed to choose between 60 instruments -- those tracks can be wholly manipulated. Choose to play a tango version of "Material Girl" with ukulele and accordion, record the performed track, then add different drums and gradually re-record other instruments (with bizarre options like the Beatboxer and Kung-Fu artists) to make the track as original as possible.

The issue of miming along to the music also remains. Would I cringe if photos of me playing Rock Band instruments ended up on the Internet? Never. (Good thing. Happens all the time.) But a public snapshot of me playing a Wii remote like my very own Ocarina of Time? Ouch. Why is that the case? Shouldn't a fake plastic guitar be just as embarrassing, if not more so, than an air guitar augmented by remote?

Shaking the perception of childishness that pervades the image of Wii Music is going to be tough, and air instruments aren't going to make it easier. In the long run, what could tip the scales in Nintendo's favor is that this is more a platform than a game. As inflated a claim as that may seem, this is a title that offers ways to interact with and manipulate music seen in no other game. Is that enough to win the battle against gut-level resistance? Talk to me in a couple of weeks.

Oh yeah and Bill Murray was almost Batman:

http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/10102008/5/murray-nearly-dark-knight-0.html

Wow, would have liked to have seen that.