HOLY SHIT

Portal can now be done in LBP2. At this point it would be easier to list which games LBP2 can't replicate. Can you imagine a mix of Mario and Portal.

I like Billy Joel a hell of a lot now.  Also, funny that he reads TV reviews...

There are plenty of reasons artists license their music for a rhythm game. There's money, certainly, and notoriety. But what about scorn? For Billy Joel, it was more than enough reason to license a dozen or so of his songs to Rock Band 3. Here's his account from USA Today:

"I've never allowed my music to be used in a game before," but an Entertainment Weekly review of NBC's The Office changed his mind. Alluding to an episode in which characters mention a Rock Band featuring Billy Joel, "the critic wrote something like, 'God forbid that ever should happen.' So I called my people and said, 'Get me (on) that Rock Band game.' Then I wrote the critic, saying that every time I get a check, I'll give him a little nod."

We're assuming the songs will cost money, but we'd submit that reading the above story and knowing we'll never do anything remotely that cool is a dear enough price to pay.

aspro said:

gamingeek said:

Senor Steelo.

I was just wondering, you seemed to really take to Mario Galaxy once you tried it properly. Did this make you rethink trying a Zelda or Metroid Prime game? I would like to see your reactions to it.

WTF does Zelda or Metroid have to do with SMG?

Because IIRC Steelo has never played either one, so he's in this position of not caring about nintendo stuff cause he never got into the franchises like most of us did in the 80s and 90s. Which would make his new first hand impressions curiously interesting to read. Love or hate.

ASK_Story said:

gamingeek said:

Spin?

NPD explains why they yanked full numbers, says reports were causing 'unnecessary angst'

So...because the NPD doesn't report on digital downloads, we now miss out on a ton of hardware/software data each month. Someone tell me how this makes things better instead of worse?

Link

That's a lie. Didn't IGN give them a hundred grand to get exclusive numbers first, which is why we were seeing those leaks!?

I wonder what would happen if the source of the leaks was actually traced. Huge lawsuit?

SteelAttack said:

Dvader said:

No, Zelda and Metroid have not been hard since the 80s.

Is that true? If it's not, I'm going to book a flight to Miami and beat the everloving shit out of a certain someone.

You should do that anyway

SteelAttack said:

Then why do people always whine about the water temple or some shit like that?

That was Ocarina, the problem was that suddenly because the temple was water filled you weren't just walking on a horizontal plane, you could swim up and down the dungeon and solve it in a 3D space manner. And the levels and filling water got confusing because the map wasn't that good. Wind Waker and Twilight Princess are easy as pie though.

travo said:

SteelAttack said:

Then why do people always whine about the water temple or some shit like that?

Who complains? GG?

Prime 2 was a major bitch, but you can certainly finish Prime 1 and 3.    Super Metroid is easy enough as well.

I'm great at the water temple and Prime 2. Super Metroid however, godamn I can't beat Kraid. I'm suprised anyone can with controls as shitty as that.

Aspro!

"The Zelda games are not difficult, just boring as hell.  They need to be edited down"

You mother f********** son of a *****.

No soup for you!

Agnates said:

Nice video. I just realised that Goldeneye and Epic Mickey are some of the very few wii games that get this video doc treatment and a constant updating of new media.  

Wow, someone on ebay is selling the jumbo nes coffee table

Developers Pay Tribute To An Icon On 25th Anniversary Of Super Mario Bros.

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Game designers including Hironobu Sakaguchi, Todd Howard, Keiji Inafune, and Hideo Kojima pay tribute to Mario on the 25th anniversary of the release of seminal Famicom platform game, Super Mario Bros.

NEWS

Keiji Inafune was "80 per cent certain" that the company would refuse Level 5's request to collaborate on a crossover Professor Layton and Phoenix Wright game, the Capcom producer has revealed in an interview.

"I thought it would be impossible," he said in an interview in this today's Weekly Famitsu, translated by Eurogamer, in which he spoke alongside his Level 5 compatriot Akihiro Hino.

Inafune said that he didn't expect veteran Phoenix Wright director Shu Takumi to agree to the project because "Phoenix Wright is handled very carefully within Capcom" - also joking that he expected it to be difficult since Takumi is someone who "doesn't listen to what people say".

Hino appears to have been the lynchpin in getting the hugely anticipated crossover game into production, with Inafune praising him not only for managing to charm Takumi into accepting the idea - and subsequently becoming the scenario writer for the project - but for coming up with the concept in the first place.

"Nobody but Hino could have thought of it," he said. "In a sense, we're rivals, so usually you wouldn't want to do this sort of thing..."

The game is a true collaboration, Inafune insisted, with strong involvement from both Capcom and Level 5.

"It wasn't a case of licensing out the Phoenix Wright characters and demanding our licence money. That isn't a collaboration, and users would see that. For this standalone game, we wanted to create a great history, which would have been impossible if both parties were not fully involved."

The Famitsu piece doesn't include a lot of new information about the game, which was announced this week and is currently only for Japan, but Hino did confirm that, as well as working together, the two puzzle-solvers will also face off against each other over the course of the story

"I think the fans of both games want to see a showdown," he explains, "and also want to see a scene where [Layton and Wright] join hands and take on a really big challenge... We want to fill the game with both aspects."

Hino also said Phoenix Wright's influence on the hugely popular Professor Layton games in the interview, acknowledging that "from the outset, Professor Layton owed a lot to Phoenix Wright in some ways...

"We researched the good and bad points of Phoenix Wright, developed the good points and overcame what I saw as the bad points - that's how we created Professor Layton."

Anyone watched the single player goldeneye vids? They're old but I didn't see anyone commenting on them before.

Andriasang has translated The Last Story details from Famitsu. The combat sounds awesome, you auto-attack by moving near enemies or choose to attack via button presses (in both cases you need to manually block and dodge), you have all sorts of abilities tied to the gathering skill, and you can enter a paused command mode to order the rest of your party. It sounds like a combination of standard JRPG, Tales action, and old school CRPGs. You do only directly control the main character as was known but the rest of it isn't random or automatic, you can still choose what your allies do rather than simply react to what they decide. The official website has been updated with the new trailer, probably in higher quality than the YouTube version, but the stream doesn't work for me.

Agnates said:

Meh. If you're getting so into homebrew and like seeing what random people can make, the PC space is the number one place to delve into and get just about anything, from actual (Source, Unreal, Battlefield, etc) mods and total conversions to free stuff which aren't tied to a particular game. Start here and here. Most don't have high requirements as the popular modable games are older while freebies and indie stuff tend to be lower end.

Speaking of things like that, the first demo of that Sonic 2 fan remix is already available for download. There are a few minor known issues remaining still but there you go. They'll soon get a website for the project online.

The website is up but very simple for now. The rapidshare download link is down but you can get it here.

robio said:

Has anyone ever played Again for the DS?  It was developed by Cing and seems to be a point and click adventure game along the lines of Hotel Dusk. It looks interesting but the few reviews out there are all very middle of the road.

Mrs Aspro has it. The reviews are godawful.