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RipTen's Review of Deus Ex
"9.5/10" "one of the defining games of the current generation"
ripten.com impressions
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Tales of Xillia Over 50 Hours Long
Namco Bandai expects over 200,000 pre-orders for first original PS3 Tales game.
andriasang.com news
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1UP Reviews Deus Ex
"A" "Best stealth action game since Metal Gear Solid".
1up.com impressions
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"Duke Begins" Is Next Step for Gearbox
After Aliens they will resume work on dormant project.
1up.com news
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Rumour: Fire Emblem on 3DS
OMG - Please have 2D graphics and animation, in 3D
3dsfocus.com news
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Nintendo Conference confirmed for September 13
"a trade show that is “open to industry people, analysts, investors and journalists, but not to consumers.”
foxbusiness.com
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Monster Hunter HD has Visual Options for Remasters
You can toggle bloom and HDR
andriasang.com news
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Nintendojo review Xenoblade: A grade
Stunning visuals, huge environments to explore, stellar orchestral soundtrack, rich and engaging battle system
nintendojo.com impressions
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Rumour: The Conduit was headed to PS3
Seems that PS3 owners dodged the bullet
blogspot.com
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No Porsches in Forza Motorsport 4
EA being dicks. I'd say GT would be next, but by the time GT6 comes out EA won't exist.
robotgeek.co.uk news
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I just finished Fallout: New Vegas....really great game. I don't think it was totally above Fallout 3 as Vader does, but like Kotor 2 to Kotor, it does some things better and some things worse. There are a ton of side missions I didn't try out as I was basically just trying to blast through the main quest so I can contonue making inroads on my backlog. It took me 30 hours roughly to finish, and didn't run into any glitches at all the entire time.
I give it an 8.5 rating. Good shit. Now I am ready for Deus Ex 3 this week!!!
Morning guys. I feel like shit today. Got this weird fever yesterday, headaches, and my body hurts like hell. Hope it's not dengue fever (again). I had the hemorrhagic variety of it a few years ago.
Feels bad, man.
Sounds to me like its time to sit back, down some nyquil and watch some movies curled up on the couch. Do it.
Hope you feel better.
Well there you go, the side quests are the best part of the game.
I am now a part owner of Nintendo, very very small part but still. Now that I have invested in this company I DEMAND Xenoblade to come to America!
Sucks. Hope it's just a cold or something.
Does this mean you'll actually start buying all those good Wii games you refuse to get?
Xenoblade is 5th overall, ok I guess. Damn you guys love Zelda, its porbably cause of 3DS price drop, what other game is there to get.
I buy Nintendo games, thats all that matters.
We all like to make fun of Pachter how we can do his job. Well it's time for me to put my money where my mouth is. I just got some Nintendo stock cause its on a 5 year low and I am pretty damn sure its going up after the 3DS starts to take off this christmas and Wii U hits. Plus Nintendo will have 3 multi million selling games this holiday, Zelda, Mario and Kart. I dont expect the stock to ever reach the heights it did during the Wii but I expect it to go up for sure.
I didnt need to wake up at 6am and work all day while taking a coke break with some hookers to come up with that.
If you don't mind me asking, how much money did you invest? I'm curious.
Thanks for the well wishes, guys.
I've been honing my crafting skills on Xenoblade. The only thing I don't quite understand is when you choose 2 characters and they ping pong the process back to each other. Basically your ether whatever needs to be the same rank, there are 1, 2, 3 etc marks dividing them - to combine. You add gems until one quality (like HP Up or Strength Up) is 100% or over. Red text shows you what will happen if you mix a particular gem. You can pair together different gems to give dual status improvements.
In battle, if I'm not luring people towards me I go into battle, hit B to rally everyone then I try a front attack to break, wait for Reyn to topple then circle around and backstrike for massive damage. My back strike is more powerful than the frigging Monado Buster.
Anyway, complaint time, first complaint and it's a fairly big one: the sidequests.
They aren't really set up properly, I mean I will use GTA as an example. You get a small cutscene setting up a mission. When you arrive at your destination there is a little cutscene before you start. Then usually when you finish there is a pay off cutscene.
In Zelda you get a sidequest and have to return to complete it. In this game the characters are so small and you can't really zoom in to see face detail on these low poly characters. In zelda when you talk to someone the camera moves and zooms in so you can get personal with them, see their character and emotions. In this game you go up to a small, barely viewable character you get a mission which inevitably involves killing some monster. Then when you do the game just auto completes a box by ticking it and saying it's done. It's not very satisfying to do it that way, although it does make things less of a hassle.
Anyway, I hit the Bionis' leg, you know the place
And holy shite, even on a giant HDTV where wii looks crap it was amazing. I almost couldn't believe it was being done on Wii. I love the dino's and horsies that pootle about. Totally epic environment. Love it.
From now on, you have no excuse when it comes to playing games with complex interfaces, you grumpy old fart.
You can zoom in to an extent. I didn't think they were too small myself, just, normal.
Either way it's nothing new for RPGs considering their origin with 2D and later pre-rendered graphics.
Some quests auto complete, others do require you to return to the NPC, it depends on the task.
There's quite a bit of variety to the quests, imo, and several have their own little stories over multiple quests.
Usually from named characters rather than "refugee" or whatever else. You don't have to do all of them.
Just consider the minor quests extra XP for your usual exploring and killing shit, pick up a bunch at once.
I think Monado Buster is just meant for Mechons, not every enemy. Unless I mix up the names.
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while the pessimist fears this is true.
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Blizzard will rename DOTA mod to avoid legal battle.
From GamesIndustry:
[quote]Blizzard is committed to releasing a DOTA mod for StarCraft 2 despite Valve trademarking on the name "Dota" for its forthcoming sequel.
Speaking to Eurogamer at Gamescom, Frank Peace, Blizzard's vice president of product development, said that the company would prefer to rename the product than delay its release with a trademark dispute.
"From my perspective, DOTA is a genre in this space, at this point, and almost a sub genre of the real-time strategy space," Peace said.
"It doesn't seem like something someone would want to trademark, but the US legal system lets people do just about anything they want to try."
DOTA, or Defence of the Ancients, was a mod created for Blizzard's Warcraft 3 that became hugely popular in its own right.
Valve trademarked the name last year after hiring Abdul Ismail - who maintained the original DOTA mod under the pseudonym IceFrog - to lead the development on a sequel, Dota 2.
Last year, Blizzard's Rob Pardo told Eurogamer that, "It just seems a really strange move to us that Valve would go off and try to exclusively trademark the term considering it's something that's been freely available to us and everyone in the Warcraft III community up to this point."
"Valve is usually so pro mod community. It's such a community company that it just seems like a really strange move to us... I really don't understand why [they would do it], to be honest."
Peace wouldn't comment on Blizzard's legal position on the matter, but he insisted that its name is less important to DOTA's identity than the gameplay experience.
"At the end of the day, the name and the label we put on that mod for StarCraft 2 is not as critical as the gameplay experience we create and deliver to the fans. We will not hold back the experience from the fans because of a naming conflict. We'll find a way to get it into the hands of our fans either way."
Dota 2 was unveiled at Gamescom in an invitation-only tournament with a prize of $1 million. Gabe Newell defended Valve's position on the grounds that the name Dota 2 accurately conveys what the product will be, and that the community should be allowed to decide on its propriety. "The community is usually pretty unambiguous in their opinions about stuff, so, now they've had a chance to see the game they're going to tell us pretty clearly whether they think it's an appropriate name for it," he said.[/quote]
Xenoblade charted 7th on the UK. But Zumba still holds number one. Fucking GG.
What's the point of having component inputs but no progressive scan? I hate components, they came out, I bought a few high price, high quality cables and within like 7 months HDMI just leapfrogged it and became the standard.
Also, between the Euro RGB 480i and the component 480p on an SDTV you can barely see the difference. On an HDTV components are better because your TV isn't having to deinterlace a signla before it upscales it.
Wow.
Same here.
I only remembered it when it appeared like the well and the shadow temple, desert etc.
I don't even know how to invest in the stock market. Or where to buy some gold bars.
I can find plenty of excuses.
I only came across 1 quest so far out of like 35 where I had to return. Most of the tasks I've seen want you to beat an enemy or find a few items. But to get the items you have to beat enemies, so it's been a little repetitive in that aspect so far.
I was using the Monado enchant against non-Mechons until I released it was just to allow everyone to hurt Mechons.
Have you been to Bionis' leg yet? It looks sooo amazing.
Yes I'm there and there are lots of quests that require me to return to the NPC, more than once at that, from the ether crystal reserves dude to making a book for a little kid. I like the quests involving killing specific enemies rather than random ones. What else would a quest involve though? Puzzles and riddles? You go somewhere, get an item or interact with something and you're done, the only real gameplay beyond walking around, exploring, and maybe finding your way in a maze-like area or two, is the combat in these games.
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while the pessimist fears this is true.
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Do you guys know what Zumba is? I thought it was just some shitty game till I saw this infomercial on it. It's a dance fitness craze.