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gamingeek said:

How good are the stealth mechanics steel? Splinter cell good?

I...dunno, lol. Haven't played a SC game like...ever. In order to go unnoticed by soldiers, you rely on two things:

• Crowd interaction: You can get inside any group walking down the street (not just monks like in the first game), and that will grant you anonimity, as long as you stick with the group. You can also hire groups of people to go wherever you want while keeping yourself out of vigilant eyes, such groups include mercenaries (which help should a fight come up), prostitutes (who distract enemy soldiers and take them away, giggity giggity), thieves and the such.
  
• Notoriousness: Should you kill a soldier, steal something and get caught, or do something out of the ordinary, your notoriety will increase (zero equals to anonymous), prompting the guards that encounter you to further investigate and eventually try to kick yoour ass or worse. If you want your notoriety meter to go down, you can either rip off wanted posters with your mug in them, or bribe heralds to make them talk about something else.
  

aspro said:

I'm not buying that Nintendo chipset story at all.  What's with that website? 

 I'm buying it.  That is, that Intel wants Nintendo to use the new Larrabee chips and is pressing them -- I think that's almost a given.  The doubtful part is Nintendo going along with it

gamingeek said:

Archangel3371 said:

Yay! Thanks to Spirit's kindness I now have Castlevania Rebirth and like dvader says this game is FANTASTIC! The music isn't quite as good as other games and I don't like that picking up a different sub-item completely replaces the previous one the rest of the game is great. There looks to be a number of secret areas and alternate paths that increase replayability. Another great addition to the "Rebirth" games and a very good game for $10.

Length man, length.

Contra rebirth was too short. Let me know.

And why aren't you guys getting this instead?

Does that game have the title Castlevania in it? No.

I'll get it one day.

SteelAttack said:

gamingeek said:

How good are the stealth mechanics steel? Splinter cell good?

I...dunno, lol. Haven't played a SC game like...ever. In order to go unnoticed by soldiers, you rely on two things:

• Crowd interaction: You can get inside any group walking down the street (not just monks like in the first game), and that will grant you anonimity, as long as you stick with the group. You can also hire groups of people to go wherever you want while keeping yourself out of vigilant eyes, such groups include mercenaries (which help should a fight come up), prostitutes (who distract enemy soldiers and take them away, giggity giggity), thieves and the such.
  
• Notoriousness: Should you kill a soldier, steal something and get caught, or do something out of the ordinary, your notoriety will increase (zero equals to anonymous), prompting the guards that encounter you to further investigate and eventually try to kick yoour ass or worse. If you want your notoriety meter to go down, you can either rip off wanted posters with your mug in them, or bribe heralds to make them talk about something else.
  

Ah, but what about hiding in shadows and stuff? What about when soldiers are on your ass? Can you hide behind doors or something?

aspro said:

gamingeek said:

So I need to return my duplicate Phantom Hourglass by the 22nd of Jan.

What do I exchange it for? Anything decent out by then?

I wish Silent Hill or Red Steel 2 was out by then

You've played everything I'd reccomend for the systems you own. How about grabbing some old GC games (if they have them).

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I'm not buying that Nintendo (EDIT) Sony  chipset story at all.  What's with that website?

Ack. I hope they can put the money on a gift card and not back on the person who bought it for me's credit card.

Dvader said:

gamingeek said:

Archangel3371 said:

Does that game have the title Castlevania in it? No.

Do you have ass in you? Yes.

Dvader said:

Ravenprose said:

Dvader said:

Warning about Castlevania, there is no save. I got to the 5th level and stopped playing. When I started it up again I had to start from the beginning. Be prepared to finish it in one sitting.

No save feature? That sucks. I wonder how long the game is then.

Looks like it has 6 or 7 levels. About 12 minutes each. You will die a lot of course. I think it would have taken me 2 hours to finish. Now I have to start over but it should go faster up to the point I left at.

2 hrs..... meh

SteelAttack said:

gamingeek said:

Ah, but what about hiding in shadows and stuff? What about when soldiers are on your ass? Can you hide behind doors or something?

You can hide in stacks of hay, small wooden...things, among people, inside open buildings, or sit on a bench, but that only works if the soldiers didn't see you hiding there. If they see you, they'll snoop around and stick their blades in the hay until you come out.

Can you pee through the hay to blind them?

aspro said:

^Sorry. Wrong story. I agree with you I think Nintendo will stay with IBM and ATI.  They have appeared in the past to be hands-off on the actual tech of their consoles, and I see them sticking with what they've done in the past. 

The other story from today was about Sony.  That one I don't buy. 

http://fgnonline.webs.com/

That site's showing up again.  It's a webs.com site.  Somehow I doubt this guy's got an inside line.

Meanwhile, there's no chance they're using the POWER7.  That's PowerPC architecture -- when has Sony ever used that?  I talk about it a bit on the latest podcast (not yet posted) but the story that "Sony moving away from Cell" is FUD -- the details sounded just like an upcoming revision, not just scrapping the whole thing.