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The story behind MGS2's localization

Digitalguardian — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:43:34 -0700

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/metalgear/agnesskaku.htm

Ninja Gaiden 3: Did I just hear them say "learning curve"?!

Jon_Ball — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 17:59:29 -0700

http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-ninja-gaiden-3-preview/17-5597/

Maybe British mercenaries just suck but this looks like a much easier Ninja Gaiden game.

I liked to use the previous games as a type of brick wall to test my mettle (hitting the wall with my face) so I'm kind of sad to see this trait disappear.

I'll tell you what though; hawk saving looks pretty cool.
Perhaps a bad-ass animal for each device you save to... and then cycle through them in rapid succession.

Battlefield 3

Getter — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:24:10 -0700

Who else is playing this? I love this game but I hate having to play as the lone gunman all the time.

Assassin's Creed 2

SeanHiruki — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:47:29 -0600

The teaser is out http://assassinscreed.us.ubi.com/assass ... -2/teaser/

I'm going to neglect setting an opinion on it as of now. But, I will say that the use of DA Vinchi's art was interesting. Though I have a feeling that Ubisoft has read The DA Vinchi Code one to many times.

Steam Trade/Gift Thread

furyk — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:21:28 -0700

So Steam is apparently giving away a bunch of games and what not during the holiday sale thread. Being super lucky, I won a copy of Portal 1 which I believe everyone may have at this point when they gave it away for free last time. If they don't, I've got a copy of Portal 1 if anyone wants to trade/wants it for free and missed out on it last time.

The Last of Us

Digitalguardian — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 19:25:57 -0700

Z.O.E. 1+2 and MGS 2+3+PW HD remakes on 360/PS3

Digitalguardian — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:49:42 -0600

MGS2

Peace Walker

Batman: Arkham City

Spankminister — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 13:58:24 -0600

So I figure we need a discussion thread for this game since everyone's playing it:

Re: The Catwoman "bitch" thing, I found this article to be pretty interesting:
Caution, CAPS

Also, I watched my roommate start the game last night and am a little confused about the story. I've consumed Batman media since I was a kid, and played through the first game, and when my wife asks, "What the heck is going on? Is this entire city run by criminals, and why was Bruce Wayne arrested just then?" and I don't have an answer for her, maybe this is a little bewildering.

Marvel vs. Capcom 3

kusanagi02 — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 18:02:54 -0600

So it looks like this game has gotten confirm from Capcom and is slated to come out Spring 2011. The game is in the look of Tatsunoko vs. Capcom/SFIV in that its 3D characters/2D playstyle which is good in my book.

L.A. Noire (Hey this game is actually pretty cool)

Digitalguardian — Wed, 18 May 2011 08:19:22 -0600

I'll give you the quick rundown in case you hadn't heard anything about this game until now. You play as a cop in late 1940's Los Angeles, a veteran who joins the force to ameliorate the actions he took during WWII.

http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/215667/the-most-impressive-thing-i-saw-at-e3/

The most incredible thing about the game is the way they did the facial modeling for all these characters. This is not mocap, this is 32 HD cameras rendering an actor's performance. It looks pretty fucking cool.

It's out now, Brad Shoemaker seems to like it a great deal. Giantbomb also has a quick look.

Very minor spoiler about 6 hours in, it doesn't seem to have much to do with plot but I'll spoil it just in case.
[spoiler]During the WWII flashback, a character remarks that he respects the Japanese and that he understands the reason we were at war with Japan wasn't just because of Pearl Harbor. It's an admirable trait but I'm not sure I buy that a person living in that era would be like that. What do you guys think?[/spoiler]

PS2 Games Now Downloadable on PSN

Digitalguardian — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 07:46:10 -0600

http://www.siliconera.com/2011/10/03/odin-sphere-god-hand-and-grimgrimore-coming-to-ps3-as-psn-donwloads/

Soon, PlayStation Network will add a list of downloadable PlayStation 2 game. Sony is putting niche third-party titles like Odin Sphere, GrimGrimoire, Maximo: Ghosts to Glory, Ring of Red, and God Hand in their own section titled "rare classic games." It’s unclear if these titles will be updated with trophies or any other PlayStation 3 specific features.

These will be released on October 4 (tomorrow!) as part of Sony’s "Only on PSN" marketing campaign.

Variance in current games

PaniPoniDoom — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 12:53:49 -0600

This might be out of the blue, but I am having a real problem with settings in the last couple I have played to completion. Right now I am sitting with Rage for the Xbox paused in front of me and the thought occurred to me that although I have have a total of 8 hours of play time in the game I feel like I have no advanced at all. The central quest hub is sending me back to the same places I just dungeon crawled through 2 hours ago.

Now this is not the only game to have done this Dragon Age 2 was terrible with setting variation and even Deus Ex felt like visiting the same places over and over (although I think that China was an very well done level). What the point I guess I am trying to get at before I ramble on about bullshit too much is that:

In your opinion do you think it is better for developers to put so much time and detailed work into so few settings that they send you back to time and again or would it be better spent making more places to discover and make you feel rewarded for putting your time into it, but with the sacrifice of attention to detail?

Of course not all games can do this because this doesn't pertain to the plot the story is going for. For example I am sure you never go to tropics or Africa in Red Dead Redemption. Dreamfall: the longest journey and Beyond Good and Evil were made tremendously better I think because of the fact that as you progressed through the game you actually felt like you were making progress and seeing new places. Now as I get ready to unpause Rage I almost dread what the next few hours of post apocalyptic mayhem will entail(I can only assume more mutants and the "Authority").

Trenched

BrokenMagnum — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:38:01 -0600

4 player co-op Tower defense/3rd-Person mech actions game for Xboz, who's in?

Orcs Must Die!

Gokiburi_Chachacha — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:24:01 -0600

So, with the mystical intervation of a certain Canadian and his magical Steam codes, I landed a copy of Orcs Must Die!, and I've been enjoying it immensely so far, even though I'm currently doing a playthrough on Super Baby Mode to get a feel for the terrain and the tools. It's a 3rd person tower defense game, where your character, the War Mage, runs around in real time setting traps and casting spells to prevent legions of orcs from overrunning the Dimensional Rifts. The story is pretty hilarious, too, and it's revealed in a very Godhand fashion, with voice-over and the occasional title card sequence between levels instead of cutscenes.

My only complaint is that the game lacks co-op, although I'm hoping a later DLC would fix that.

BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger

YotaruVegeta — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 14:54:26 -0600

Anyone play this? The name stuck in my head from way back; I've only seen one awesome screenshot and some good reviews.

Why do you like Zelda?

Digitalguardian — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:45:54 -0600

Yeah I know, but I want to know how you feel about Zelda. Did you ever like it? Do you still like it?

Dead Rising 2

Railith — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 11:11:25 -0700

http://www.giantbomb.com/news/dead-rising-2-formally-announced/919/?linktags=home,home-news

I hope Frank comes back.

Gear Fish contest(!) \ XBLIG

NateGraves — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:13:49 -0600

tl;dr version: Contest | "I like XBLIG, you should like it. Let's be friends."

So...at least a couple of you actually check the site or Fast Karate has some seriously dedicated bots. So, hey...thanks bots/dudes. I wasn't going to dedicate a topic to it originally, but figured this makes more sense than randomly linking to shit in other places.

RIGHT. We're giving away some free games this week (details are in the latest Rundown) - one of which is Wizorb, probably one of best Brick Breaker/Araknoid type games I've ever played. I fucking hate these kind of games with a burning, furious passion, so when I say it's actually pretty solid, hopefully that adequately stresses the point. There's also Astralia (space shooter/RTS...kinda on both, it's unique), Dark Delve and...Sherbert Thieves. Yeah, that last one just kinda got thrown in.

I'm also putting up a 1600 MSP card or (if the winner has Steam/PSN instead) making it easy with a straight $20. Just comment on the Rundown, or follow and tweet at us on twitter (@GearFish) - that's it. Easy.

Alright, free stuff accomplished. Part 2 is extra credit. Extra credit that isn't worth anything. So we're clear.

[spoiler]
The reason "XBLIG" is in the title is because I'd like to talk indie for a minute. Some reiterated ideas here. Sorry. Like most people, I pretty much ignored the 360's indie marketplace. More or less for good reason, things like Techno Kitten Adventure don't exactly help to sell the idea that it's anything more than a dumping ground for shitty flash game ripoffs. On a secondary level, because almost no one really covers it very well. Sure, there's scattered websites out there, Armless Octopus and Two Fedoras are both good, although the Indie Gamer Chick probably sports some of the best reviews, but they've all got failings. Pretty shortly after actually starting the site, we started covering independent titles just because they were cheap and usually pretty short. Then I started actually talking with devs, realizing how much things actually suck for a lot of them going through Microsoft. The XNA community gets pretty much no support beyond policing itself and teeth must be pulled in order to get so much as a Dashboard spot (which actually happened for the Indie Game Summer Uprising).

Just as an example: I've probably mentioned this elsewhere but Sequence (which finished 3rd in the dream.build.play contest MS held) had barely broke even as of late June/early July, but usually as soon as an XBLIG game disappears off of Recently Released titles, sales disappear unless something exceptional happens. Parasitus, a favorite of mine, spent four years in development and mid-August when I talked with the head of their essentially three man team (Brian Farina pretty much IS Heart Attack Machine), they'd sold like 300 copies. That fucking sucks. Don't get me wrong, this isn't a charity case or anything. There's some seriously flawed / trash titles up there, and spending a ton of time and/or money developing a mediocre game might be sad, but it also doesn't make it suck any less.

To the point: I've been talking with Kairi (Indie Gamer Chick) about this mostly, but one of the issues I think hurts the scene as much as anything is that what little coverage exists (from a review standpoint) is pretty much worthless. Most indie reviewers are total cheerleaders, operating on the smaller, cheaper version of the IGN/Gamespot/etc 7-10 review scale. This is total short bus material, because devs release crap games, indie sites jerk them off, and no one tells them "Hey, dude, your game is busted - here's why." People wander into the indie tab (which is already basically hidden compared to other stuff on the dashboard) download a trial for some godawful game and then never bother going back. Nothing changes.

There's a ton of great games out / coming out, so why care anyway? Well, even if you're rolling in bills, it's still pretty sweet to pick up solid titles for a couple bucks. Dead Pixels (which Dave mentioned in the gaming thread) is a dollar, and it's a solid game, for chrissakes the stupid Gears weapon skins cost more than a decent full XBLIG title. More than that, the open nature of the marketplace allows for a lot of new ideas that you're just not going to see elsewhere. I never thought I'd be championing the platform, but it deserves consideration. Something to think about the next time you buy a $10 map pack with only two new maps and a lazy re-skin of an old one.

Anyway, ranting aside, I also want to improve coverage, so I'm basically putting the question out there: what do you / would you want out of a game site? Why do you check any one place over another?[/spoiler]

If you're just here for the contest: well...hurrah! Good luck! Everybody loves free things. Go get those free things.

Gears of War 3

Spankminister — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:56:46 -0600

Do we not have a thread for this game already? Got it the other day, played it with my wife, we got all the way through the game on Hard, to the last boss, and after an hour of trying, had to switch it back to normal, and we breezed through the encounter in 5 minutes. I have trouble recalling another game with a last boss disparity of that level, even stuff like Lost Planet I eventually was able to power through.

Anyone have general thoughts on the game? I recall Dave saying he wasn't fond of the TWEESTs, which is fair... but the emotionally manipulative moments were fine for me, because they came sandwiched between such memorable lines as"SHIT YEAH" and "LOCK AND LOAD." Honestly, more than any of the first two, the majority of dialogue is either action movie cliches or Jack Bauer-style, "There's no time to reveal this plot point right now, we'll talk later, after this battle!"

Nevertheless, there were great moments and setpieces, like [spoiler]Defending the fort, and having to fall back repeatedly. "Score a Point for the Cougars" put a smile on my face as a sort of Eyeshield 21 moment, and giving Cole a little more meat to him than Terry Tate, Office Space Marine.[/spoiler]

I'm getting regular sessions together, so post your gamertag here if you're interested. We had some connection issues earlier, so make sure your NAT type is OPEN, and hopefully we can avoid that. The multiplayer is pretty balanced, and it's no longer skewed towards rushing with shotguns.

3DS

Digitalguardian — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 08:59:59 -0600

The slide pad is going to be ¥1500 (~$20) and it requires one AAA battery. It will be released together with Monster Hunter 3G on December 10 this year. It's compatible with Monster Hunter 3D, Metal Gear Solid: Snake Eater 3D, Resident Evil: Revelations, Ace Combat 3D Cross Rumble, Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance, and the latest Dynasty Warriors game.

Looks like those rumors of a hardware revision with a second stick might be true. Thoughts?

Dead Island

Dave — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 08:12:55 -0600

Apparently the big failure after we got things working was their multiplayer servers went down, which is why we kept seeing "failed to create an internet session"

And then it didn't work when we tried to use Hamachi because we were still set to 'internet' instead of 'lan'.

SO MAYBE IT'LL WORK TONIGHT IF WE DO ALL THIS BACKWARDS SHIT. :D

Street Fighter 3 again? Maybe...

Creaty — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 21:01:42 -0600

Since I'm not sure if there's already an older SF3 thread.

It feels really good and matches last way longer than SF4.
On the DC I gravitated towards Alex because I'm egotistic like that but I hated him. This time around after having played grapplers more I like him and Oro as mains.

Borderlands 2

Dave — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:21:49 -0600

So, borderlands 2 is actually looking surprisingly solid. Don't get me wrong, I had fun with the first game. It's just a question of how much fun was due to the game itself. Interviews suggest some cool shit in the new one: like enemies having actual AI instead of just running towards you in a giant clump. If they announce removing all of the "humor" from the game that doesn't involve WHATCHU WANT or THIS WHERE CARS LIVE then I'm sold for good.

Parasite Eve Triple: PSP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MitchyD — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:57:43 -0600

http://kotaku.com/5032271/final-fantasy ... -psp-bound

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! YAY!

How is there not a Deadly Premonition thread yet?

mattytehhax0r — Sun, 16 May 2010 09:47:40 -0600

I just got my copy today. It's amazing how Shenmue-like this game is. I've been running around picking up trading cards and I just finished a side quest which involved me taking a part-time job to earn a discount card.

Zone of the Enders 3ds?

Manabu — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:20:51 -0600

https://twitter.com/#!/HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN/status/103269075823755264

Gundam MMO

karaokeninja — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 18:40:27 -0600

So normally I am not interested in MMOs since I never have time to keep up with them and I don't like paying monthly fees. There was a Gundam MMO a few years ago in Japan that I was dying to play, but of course it never came out here. Eventually they took the servers down and that was it. Except fans put up a free server. I have a giant roboner about this like you wouldn't believe. Is anyone else interested in maybe trying this out with me?

Mega64

The Last Otaku — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 15:15:51 -0700

I guess I would put this here even though its not a game, but videogame humor. If you haven't seen any of their stuff yet, go watch it was www.mega64.com.

Windows Phone

cueball939 — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 14:28:58 -0600

Does anyone have one? I really like the idea of playing some XBL games on the go but the only one I see available for my carrier (Sprint) is the HTC Arrive, and its pretty expensive! Even with the contract re-up bonus. D&J don't think much of the "achievements" but I can't help it!!! I love em!
I have a Palm Pre now, which is ok but the battery life is so terrible that I really wanna get rid of it.

Megaman Legends 3

kaazuwulf — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 17:22:43 -0600

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/24147
I will have to buy a 3ds for this.