Dvader said:

_Bear said:

Hey Vader what do think of this pak for $10?

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00AG21KGU?tag=cheapassgam08-20

Now that is an amazing deal. Generations alone is worth $10.

Hey man thanks! I went for it DLING generations now! Also going to DL racing tonight. For $ 10 wtf! If I have a need to go back I have a lot to choose from!

robio said:

But... but.... it's a girl's name. And a girl's icon. How could it not be a girl?

You're right, that was cruel of me.  I'm sorry.   You two should Skype!

Dvader said:

Hurry up and play the new stuff.

I'm using the embargo as an excuse to be lazy. Not having played the 3DS version, I'm not even sure what the new content is (feel free to tell me what it is lol). And I can't play Raid Mode as it should be played for obvious reasons.

EDIT: Okay, so the new stuff is just Infernal mode and other extrasf I would have been getting anyway; and are presumably excellent as the balancing of everything item and enemy related is just great. Anyway, I can tell you that Infernail mode looks pretty ridiculous (should be right up your alley). As soon as you go inside on the ship you are already fighting a lot of ooze monsters, and they can survive a right bollocking. I'm surprised it wasn't included on the 3DS tbh. (Though maybe because of the controls it wasn't.)

I played through and finished this (lol@the subtle pixellation in this shot):

I got it working, and then started this:

My worst fears about this were realised. Time to play it on easy and throw it up to hard when I come across new bosses, me thinks:

Holy Crap Sonic  Generations is great! Well worth the $10 I paid but I got nine  other sonic games too! I love Steam and Amazon! it was 12 but one is DLC  for  SG  the Casino Zone!

Foolz said:

I'm using the embargo as an excuse to be lazy. Not having played the 3DS version, I'm not even sure what the new content is (feel free to tell me what it is lol). And I can't play Raid Mode as it should be played for obvious reasons.

EDIT: Okay, so the new stuff is just Infernal mode and other extrasf I would have been getting anyway; and are presumably excellent as the balancing of everything item and enemy related is just great. Anyway, I can tell you that Infernail mode looks pretty ridiculous (should be right up your alley). As soon as you go inside on the ship you are already fighting a lot of ooze monsters, and they can survive a right bollocking. I'm surprised it wasn't included on the 3DS tbh. (Though maybe because of the controls it wasn't.)

Also raid mode should have a two new characters and maybe a new level or two.

Wait you cant play Raid mode? Why? Thats the game. The best thing about Revelations is Raid mode, the story mode is the bonus in my eyes.

I hear rumors from my brother about the new 360 having 12 gigs of ram, having the actual console at their event and having it playable by the press. According to this MS insider rumor you should set your expecations to high because they are going to be introducing all kinds of new things.

This is a second hand rumor (that I dont even have a link for lol) so take that as you will.

I am excited to watch their reveal on Spike Tuesday though.

Very hyped for MS, should be a fun week!

_Bear said:

Wow Sonic 4 EP 1&2 are really not that bad, I'm set for Sonic for a while!

Ok now you went a bit too far.

Dyack on Kotaku's article

Why did it take so long to respond to the article?

- Dyack did not think that people would believe it

- He is now coming forward as it's impacting the fundraising campaign

Email from Andrew McMillen

- "There is no hard evidence apart from non-credible anonymous sources"

- Email from Andrew McMillen, which was forwarded to SK.

- Wired did not decide to go ahead with the story

- When McMillen was confronted with only having 8 anonymous sources, he said that it's fair enough

- Dyack: McMillen was aware that it would ruin SK and Dyack's reputation

Funds were diverted from X-Men Destiny to fund ED2 prototype

- SK put more money into X-Men Destiny than they received from Activision as they wanted it to be better than their last game

- Half way through the project, Dyack sat down with Activision executives and talked about how to improve the game after having paid 2 million more than they got paid

- Activision was stunned by this; they appreciated it and even told Dyack it was not a good business move

- Dyack sorry about how the game turned out

- Dyack also sorry about having said certain things in the past, he learnt his lesson and is now not involved in business decisions at Precursor

- Article says that 8 people totalling 45 years of experience were interviewed; Dyack says that people with only 5 years at SK would not know the budget allocation; those people who knew the allocation were not interviewed

- SK had open policy when working with partners; used Perforce and Hansoft; Activision could look at both databases and see which employee worked on what project

- External audits confirmed this

Allegation of why Silicon Knights left Nintendo

- Relationship between Dyack and Nintendo still close

- Iwata recommended that SK would become a second party

- Nintendo and SK went different ways because they wanted to create different types of games

- Nintendo were not oppressive but constructive

Allegation of claims that artists are a "dime a dozen"

- "Nothing could be further from the truth"

- Average salary 25000-30000$ higher than St.Catherines area and comparable to that at large publishers in larger cities

- People like Kevin Gordon would not work with him for over 20 years and many others stayed at SK for 10-15 years

Allegation of Activision demanding to know about staff leaving

- None of that was true, they did not feel out of the loop

- SK went through difficult time with layoffs and departures, but there was no exodus

- Turnover rate was low

- Former SK employees congratulated to Precursor campaign, Dyack does not believe this would have happened if they were treated poorly

Allegation of Activision changing the credits

- Dyack made the final call on credits, not Activision

- Allegation is untrue

Denis Closing Thoughts

- "I made a lot of mistakes"

- "I said a lot of things I should not have said"

- "Learnt my lesson"

- Focusses on creative design now