aspro said:

Foolz said:

I just started Yakuza 3. After 2 hours of cutsences, and 10 minutes of fighting, my hand hurt.

What have I told you about masturbating during cutscenes?

But the graphics, man! The graphics.

Seriously, though, I'm thinking perhaps I shouldn't be playing on hard. The combat could get quite handle for my poor old hands. I'll see how it goes. 

Reckon I'm in to deep, what with this being my first Yakuza game?

aspro said:

I did laugh out loud at your first sentence.

Yes, you dumb MFer, change the difficulty down to normal if this is your first game. I'm a 4 game Yakuza veteran and I play on normal.  

 Though I'm still unsure due to broken controller/2D platformer fiascos... Hmm I'll probably try for a little longer. Besides if I skip cutscenes I can probably catch up to wherever I am pretty quickly.

Does the difficulty only affect the combat?

ASK_Story said:

Anything less than Prime will be seen as a disappointment even though the game gets pretty good scores.

I don't think the expectation will be that high.

Yep^

gamingeek said:

aspro said:

I'm freezing. It's like 13 degrees celcius outside.  New podcast should be up in about 45 minutes.

Somewhere in Canada, there are men crying.

We are still in Winter here -- it's 8:35 at night.  Gah!

NEWS

Kinect voice control dropped for launch

No chat or voice command on day one, MS confirms

Here's some bad news for those of you looking to ahem, 'jump in' when Microsoft's Xbox 360 motion cam, Kinect arrives this November; voice chat and voice command functionality will not be included at launch.

That's what Xbox Live EMEA marketing man, Robin Burrowes told trade mag MCV. Apparently, Microsoft "will be announcing when voice control will be turned on in due course," says Burrowes, which is disappointing.

The platform holder's also confirmed that another of Kinect's premier features, 'Video Kinect' chat software, will also not feature as part of the camera's launch.

Previous demonstrations of Kinect have shown users switching between media and dashboard functions simply by 'speaking' to the motion cam.

The functionality has been touted as one of the reason why hardcore games may be keen to pick up the device - indeed it looks cool and was one of the reasons we were looking forward to picking up Kinect on day one.

Expectedly we're disappointed to hear that the voice functionality won't be initially included, but at least we'll be able to have a chat in Kinectimals.

More soon.

[ Source: MCV ]

WTF? Next thing you know they'll take out the motion sensing and save it for a patch a year later.

aspro said:

Foolz said:

Though I'm still unsure due to broken controller/2D platformer fiascos... Hmm I'll probably try for a little longer. Besides if I skip cutscenes I can probably catch up to wherever I am pretty quickly.

Does the difficulty only affect the combat?

Yes. And no skipping!  Though you probably won't enjoy it since you did not play the original. Hopefully at least you watched the catch up videos -- which it sounds like you did.

All the more reason to keep going! But if it made karoake some incredibly hard rhythm game, I'd have to restart immediately!

Skipping just to catch up! Looks like so far it doesn't rely too much on the frist two games.

Well this is weird. There are photos from the filming of Captain America the movie but the pics look like some British war drama.

http://photo.wenn.com/index.php?action=quicksearch&ppid=122386&version=int