gamingeek said:

robio said:

No hating on this week's Nintendo's downloadable offerings.  We've got You, Me and the Cubes!!!  Come on that game looks fantastic.  

First of all it's a known fact that anytime cubes are in a game you've got pure gold.  Need I remind you of Tetris and BoxLife??  Brilliant I tell you!  And this will be the next phase of brilliance.  Rescuing people from falling off of cubes.  Gonna be huge I tell you.

It's like Mario 128, on a cube.

Archangel3371 said:

Archangel3371 said:

Nah. I'm taking a really big pass on what's being offered on the VC this week. With some odd bits here and there I've been quite disappointed with what Nintendo has been putting on there. I know there's tons of great stuff still available to choose from on the VC systems. While a lot of it's up to third-parties I find it hard to imagine many of them would be opposed to what is pretty much free money. Oh well at least I know Castlevania: Rebirth is coming soon.

I'm also very confused why there are still 3rd parties that haven't put their games on the VC.  If you're not doing anything with them or putting them in bundles (i.e. Capcom and Konami) why not put it out there and make a couple bucks?  

That being said, I don't think the VC isn't quite as bad as people say these days.  The Star Wars games all seemed to be pretty well received.  But boy oh boy wouldn't Earthbound be nice?

gamingeek said:

The great thing about VC is that I've ignored it for months so when I actually get on and go through the releases, it has actually had some pretty significant updates. Pilotwings, the Super Star Wars games, great WiiWare stuff like Icarian, arcade versions of Goldenaxe and games like MERCS that I always used to love. But the prices are too ********* high.

Well, not that I'm advocating its use, but there are very high quality emulators available on on the Homebrew channel for the NES, SNES, Master System, Genesis, and even older consoles such as the Atari 2600.  

I perfer Captain Crunch for Salazar.

I agree with you GG about that RE look, I love the old settings. It was all so old 50's horror movie location like, for some reason a police department has creepy art and bell towers. RE5 was different, it started off with Black hawk Down, then it was this boat ride on the swamp, then it became tomb raider, then it was a factory and finally a tanker. It was all over the place but at least it had an nice variety of locations.

While the setting changed, the characters were still there so that kept it very grounded as RE. The star of the franchise was center stage, any time Wesker is on screen its fantastic. Also it was RE4 gameplay which is now what RE is. And the monsters were more old RE than RE4.

phantom_leo said:

darthhomer said:

Leo, tell me a bit more on MUA2. Like, does the Civil War storyline lend itself well to being a video game? Are the Fusion powers somewhat useful? More details dammit.

(I never really read the Civil War story, but it seems to be a pretty good basis for the game.)

The game starts in Latveria where Nick Fury leads a small team of heroes on a mission to destroy Lucia von Barda's Castle because she is supposedly lending aid to super villains, which is viewed as an act of terrorism against the United States.

You succeed in Blowing up her castle, killing her in the process (not really) and shutting down her weapons development there. You learn that this was not a government approved mission though. Fury manipulated the heroes into going. Fury TRIED to get the OK from the government but they basically said "No, we've been providing funding to Latveria, Lucia is an ally of the US; we'll settle this diplomatically."

Cyborg Lucia then leads a terror attack against New York City (!) with a bunch of Super Villains; although she is stopped pretty quickly, it gets the government thinking about having heroes register with the government: (1)For proper training, (2)To become part of a Super Army for the government, and (3)To reveal their identities, so tabs can be kept on them so incidents like Latveria don't happen again.

While the government is trying to pass this Super Human Registration Act (SRA) a Super Hero Reality Show has yet another incident in Connecticut. 611 people are killed in an explosion on live, national television by the villain Nitro as well as almost every member of the team of heroes that was part of the show. Speedball is blown 500 miles away from the explosion (and eventually becomes Penance as a result).

This immediately gives the government the popular vote to pass the SRA and divides the Super Hero community in two: Iron Man leads the heroes in support of Registration and Captain America goes fugitive, protecting the Freedom of the heroes and people of the United States, leading the Anti-Registration heroes.

The bulk of the game is played out in the SRA and anti-SRA heroes going on missions against each other to try and thwart the other sides plans. I am playing on the anti-reg side with Captain America, leading a team of X-Men (Storm, Jean Grey, Iceman and Wolverine). The pro-reg side adds to it's army by implanting nanites in super villains (Venom and Green Goblin, for example)... It's from there (the nanite Villains going rogue... again) that sets up the stage for the Third and final act of the game. This is where I am in the story now.

The characters are limited to 4 super attacks now. You no longer find equipment to wear now; instead you can wear team-affecting Boosts. All of the Heroes upgrading is handled automatically, but you CAN shut this off and customize them slightly. You can basically rearrange how much power goes to what attack and play with their levels, affecting somewhat the extra abilities of each attack. (Does Wolverines lunge knock it's target down, for example.)

The Fusions are cool. There are Three types: Clearing, Targeted and Guided. Clearing is kinda a smart-bomb for a limited area that you can expand by tapping X. Targeted targets one enemy, tapping X powers it up. Guided has you controlling 2 heroes and the area of effect of the fusion for a few seconds. There's something like 266 variations of these fusions. What you have to realize though is A LOT of them are palette swaps, meaning Iceman and Storm produce a White, Ice Tornado that you can direct, for example, while Iceman and Jean Grey produce a Purple, Telekinetic Tornado that you can direct.

Even though the powers and leveling of the heroes is simplified a bit, the equipment system is all but gone (I mean, c'mon though, in the grand scheme of Super Heroes, did it make sense to have Psychic Boots and Fire Belts anyway...?) and the Fusions are somewhat recycled, the game succeeds in the ONE most important area of all: IT. IS. FUN!

The graphics are good (even if they're not totally next-gen), the branching conversation trees that actually lead to stat buffs for the teams are cool to tinker with... The FMV is pretty bad for such a high profile, high budget game... but like I said everything else aside it is FUN. For me, that is ALL I am looking for in a game right now, so it is enough! I would rate it about an 8/10 at this point and have no regrets in buying/playing it at all.

Ah, so that explains how and why you can play as the Villains. Though I actually really liked the RPG aspect of MUA/X-Men Legends, so it saddens me a little that the equipment stuff has been toned down.

The story was a bit of a hang up for me, because I knew that the game was based around two storylines (Secret War and Civil War), but I didn't know how the game linked them properly. Good to know that it's linked somehow in a logical way.

I'll pick up a copy soon enough, just need to wait on a few factors.

edgecrusher said:

Dvader said:

I perfer Captain Crunch for Salazar.

While the setting changed, the characters were still there so that kept it very grounded as RE. The star of the franchise was center stage, any time Wesker is on screen its fantastic. Also it was RE4 gameplay which is now what RE is. And the monsters were more old RE than RE4.

And yet the game felt much less creepy and horror like than RE4 even with the inclusion of those elements.

Yeah, they went for the hollywood blockbuster feel rather than the horror feel. I bet the next game returns to dark creepy locations.

travo said:

Pilotwings on VC? Is this true?

Yeah, it's true. In Europe only.

edgecrusher said:

Does it suck? I heard it has some good ideas but the game is only a hair away from ass. Kind of like every Alone in the Dark I've played.

Not entirely. There are some really interesting ideas which do work, but the game isn't all that fun.