Watch YouTube movies to get the basic idea of the plot of AC1, then play AC2...

DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME PLAYING IT ! ! !

phantom_leo said:

Watch YouTube movies to get the basic idea of the plot of AC1, then play AC2...

DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME PLAYING IT ! ! !

Don't listen to this man. Don't deny yourself from the chance of first approaching the outskirts of Damascus, horseback riding, then entering the city to learn about your target.

Like I said before, the key here is keeping chores to a BARE MINIMUM, in order to enjoy the sights, sounds, and breathtakingly crafted gameworld of AC.

Steel did you celebrate? Cain the first Mexican HW champion in any combat sport. He made Brock Lesnar dance.

Not that the PSP's piracy problem hasn't already been severely beaten into the ground, but here's just one more reminder of how bad it has gotten.  God of War: Ghost of Sparta is scheduled for release nine days from now - Nov. 2nd. Today it has already started to show up on bit.torrent sites.  Ouch.

robio said:

Not that the PSP's piracy problem hasn't already been severely beaten into the ground, but here's just one more reminder of how bad it has gotten.  God of War: Ghost of Sparta is scheduled for release nine days from now - Nov. 2nd. Today it has already started to show up on bit.torrent sites.  Ouch.

Leaks from inside sources are hardly PSP exclusive. Imo the piracy issue on PSP appears more bloated than it is because there's no interest in purchasing the games for it. It's a platform on life support. But if you'll get the stuff for free then you'll get them anyway so piracy remains strong while software sales dip. It's easier to pirate on Wii and DS, but piracy doesn't appear as bad on either, many titles that achieve mainstream appeal still sell (although some still love blaming piracy when unknown niche title with no marketing #X fails to sell half a million copies). It's the same with PSP it's just rarer that such titles appear on it. Monster Hunter and its clones in Japan but in the West, nothing much that appeals to people gets released. Even efforts like God of War sour buyers by being way too short. It's not piracy's fault. Some of the most popular titles with the best sales are leaked early too, like The Sims on PC. It doesn't mean piracy as a whole is any worse, it just means some fucker got it early and leaked it.

Piracy is just a good excuse for people involved with the games and hardware, it's something that is out of anyone's control once a system is cracked so it's a good scapegoat like the "casual" audience is on Wii or whatever else. Sony fails to make the system a choice for gamers, companies fail to release games that appeal to them, in turn only pirates play it. In Japan where they release games that appeal to people, the system does great. If the system wasn't cracked, chances are the pirates would focus on other cracked systems and legit buyers still wouldn't give it that much attention. It's a Sony failure as far as I'm concerned. I own an uncracked PSP, I buy one game every several months at best, since I have two other systems that I prefer their games so I only buy stuff that are really special, like Valkyria Chronicles 2 and Peace Walker. I regret getting Soul Calibur though.

I double checked the last few Media Create charts to make sure some of the above still stands (it does, PSP gets a good number of titles in the charts and certain titles like Monster Hunter and Phantasy Star do really really good) and noticed something interesting related to a title I was just playing. The PS3 version of Sengoku Basara 3 has disappeared from the charts for weeks while the Wii version remains still (although very close to #50). Prior to that, outside the launch weeks where the PS3 version devastated the Wii release, they were neck and neck in ranking. I'm confident it would have done much closer to PS3 numbers if Capcom hadn't focused its marketing on PS3. There were practically no screens or videos of the Wii version on release, only one story trailer from a year ago. Kind of like the Call of Duty releases in the West. Not to mention the lack of an online mode. Oh well.

gamingeek said:

  

Well guys I started to play Okami again. Seriously this game needs some help with the dialogue and names. It's like reading LOTR for the first time where everyone and everything has 3 names each.

I sitting there trying to get back into the plot after 26 hrs and you have humans turning into dogs and masked blobs telling me that Ezo has captured taruki in the miane forest and that Sukyaki has gone to darbil to find the tajin stone where the quozil has met with Yiroki.

F*** this shit.

i went through something similar trying to get back into muramasa.  i think i'll probably be better off starting again even though the story isn't really of any consequence in this game

It's not like it's because I'm just revisiting the game now, I am in a completely new area and they are just throwing a zillion new weird names for people, places, temples and items all at you at once. Even when I'm slowly reading and trying to remember everything it just gets to a ridiculous point.

Part of the problem is that it never introduces you properly to these characters like say a Zelda game would. They just throw names in left right and center and expect you to somehow distinquish them.

That's going to be cool as hell to race with the Mii's in Sonic. It's been a while since I've seen a creative use for the Mii's. Should be fun.

I wasn't even looking for something to get, after buying Disgaea 3 yesterday, but I found something at the game store that I couldn't pass up on.

I feel like a freshly incarcerated inmate, just before his first butt-rape at the showers.

i was never a sonic fan i just liked 3 sonic games with that said i don't trust reviewers inless i know the person personally  i have seen to many bais reviews over the years