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So...What Are You Playing Now?
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Finished the witcher 2 today and i loved it. It's deffenitley in my top ten favorite games also playing painkiller and dark souls.
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So...Dead Pixels got an update. I won't go too much in-depth on it (Hurley went over it on the site - http://gear-fish.com/?p=2099) but since I know Dave and Gratz enjoyed the campaign and there's more to get into (especially with the Solution's pre-made characters), it might be worth a mention. Certainly not at all because some particularly attractive blogger is featured in an element of the DLC, that would be ridiculous.
In all seriousness though, I've been looking forward to this for awhile and I'm glad it's finally out. John (gorgeous Scottish bastard he is) deserves credit for putting together this 8-bit love letter to zombie games and...yeah, more than a little bit of RCR. -
Not expecting too rough a semester, so I'm going to try to learn to use the fightstick I've got laying around. So far I can't shoryuken. I feel like I do when I try to write/crack eggs/throw anything with my left hand, everything turns out wrong and I look down at my hand disappointingly, because while it knows better it's just too retarded to do it right.
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I have been sick for the last few days. I played like 20 hours of Fallout New Vegas. I LOVE Old World Blues. My favorite Fallout anything. Capsule version:
It's '50s sci-fi b-movie themed. You go to an old rundown drive-in movie theater and get transported to a secret mad science research center called BIG MOUNTAIN, which is ironically named because the mad scientists accidentally exploded the mountain in an experiment so now it's a big blast crater.
Also the mad scientists are brains in jars and they can't remember anything. But they do know that for some reason they can't remember, they've exiled one of their members and now he is out to get them
with his evil robo-scorpions.
One of the brain's voice actors I swear to god is Dr. Venture, or an incredibly good impresonation... One of them is a dude obsessed with this girl that shunned him in high school in favor of a jock. One of them is this really creepy chick who calls human bodies skinvelopes and thinks humans have five penises on each hand. She's their surgeon.
And the first thing that happens when you get there is they kidnap you and surgically remove your brain, spine, and heart and replace them with cyborg parts.
I actually finished New Vegas without my brain, heart, or spine. My brain is living its own life in Big Mountain and eventually became an egomanical dictator years after I died of old age.
Incidentally, I beat the game on Hardcore mode and finally achieved my goal of fucking over EVERYONE. I destroyed three armies, ruined Hoover Dam, and killed and ate pretty much everyone in a position of power in New Vegas. I am horrible. -
karaokeninja said:
I have been sick for the last few days. I played like 20 hours of Fallout New Vegas. I LOVE Old World Blues. My favorite Fallout anything. Capsule version:
It's '50s sci-fi b-movie themed. You go to an old rundown drive-in movie theater and get transported to a secret mad science research center called BIG MOUNTAIN, which is ironically named because the mad scientists accidentally exploded the mountain in an experiment so now it's a big blast crater.
Also the mad scientists are brains in jars and they can't remember anything. But they do know that for some reason they can't remember, they've exiled one of their members and now he is out to get them
with his evil robo-scorpions.
One of the brain's voice actors I swear to god is Dr. Venture, or an incredibly good impresonation... One of them is a dude obsessed with this girl that shunned him in high school in favor of a jock. One of them is this really creepy chick who calls human bodies skinvelopes and thinks humans have five penises on each hand. She's their surgeon.
And the first thing that happens when you get there is they kidnap you and surgically remove your brain, spine, and heart and replace them with cyborg parts.
I actually finished New Vegas without my brain, heart, or spine. My brain is living its own life in Big Mountain and eventually became an egomanical dictator years after I died of old age.
Incidentally, I beat the game on Hardcore mode and finally achieved my goal of fucking over EVERYONE. I destroyed three armies, ruined Hoover Dam, and killed and ate pretty much everyone in a position of power in New Vegas. I am AWESOME.
Fixed that for you.
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I am playing "Zelda Skyward Sword" It is pretty awesome, but my arms hurt after cutting air :S
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Started playing Atelier Totori today. Its freaking fantastic (although I should say that I love every game that Gust puts out). They basically took the broken and terrible parts of Atelier Rorona and fixed them to make everything more streamlined and well organized.
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Just beat Saints Row 3, a few months after the rest of the world, I'm sure. Nothing really new there, being essentially the same game as 2. That's not bad though, since I thought 2 was a fun criminal sandbox.
Although, in 3 they did allow you to buy invincibility to various kinds of damage if you reached max Respect level. This was both bad and good for me.
Just playing, I had managed to get invincibility by the second to last mission. In the mission you are given a choice, kill a bad guy, or save your friends. I chose to save my friends.
As a result, I had to fight a ton of enemies and some helicopters and tanks, leaping and dodging and rolling through fire, laying waste to my foes while "I Need a Hero" played, urging me on to larger than life acts of bravery, making me feel like an invincible god out to set right what went wrong. It was pretty awesome.
But then the final boss was a cake walk, since I couldn't die.
So, if you haven't played yet, be aware that while buying invincibility is fun, it REALLY takes urgency out of the game. -
I really liked Saints Row 3 although the story was better in two and for the most part the connections to the gangs was deeper in 2. But 3 controller looked and played better so there are always trade offs. I don't know what it is but i just can't support luchadors being a gang... it is just lame.
Also went down to California to go to my mother's funeral a week ago. Since I was staying at the other grandparents place that I absolutely despise i just stayed in the RV i was sleeping in alone and played DS for a week. Beat Phantom Detective and Radiant Historia both games were extremely gratifying.
Also I beat Capcom Vs. SNK Cardbattle which yeah it is stupid as it sounds but I can't stop playing me some card battling games. (considering I loved me some pokemon card battling game back in the day).
AAAAALLSO beat rhythm Heaven which was awesome I was stuck on Maui DoWhoop 2 forever until I finally figured out after failing a certain game a number of times you can just clickc the coffee cup to skip it... So yeah....Fuck Maui Doowhooop.
Phantom Detective was extremely well written I feel like and is one of the few games I never had a moment where I really wanted the game to be over because I was done. Very well recommended.
Radiant Historia = eh. Stocke is a fucking stupid name and bothered me the whole game. Any time my party wasn't full of my beefy muscle men of Rosch and Gafka I was not super happy. (see previous comment of extremely gratifying about both games and replace gratifying with 'eh')
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I've never heard anyone call ghost trick by it's subtitle before.
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It took me a moment to actually connect the two. That game is super fun.
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Apparently it's out on iPhone. Which is cool. Only a year after it came out in America, even though it was out on iOS in Japan when it came out in America.
Whatevs, game's awesome. Now maybe a lot of people can play it. -
Ahh yes Ghost Trick duh. I was so caught up on being a Phantom Detective it overwhelmed me. I hope I get hit by a meteor...
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Just picked up the first Valkyria Chronicles, trying to decide whether to use the english or japanese voices...
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I used English. Need to hear Wendy chuckle and say Boom a lot.
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She's pretty good in Japanese or English, but she doesn't say 'yay' in Japanese.
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I think I'll be going with English also. From what little Japanese I know, the first bit of dialog didn't match the subtitles very much at all, then I turn on the English language and it's the exact same... oh well, seems like a pretty decent dub anyway.
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I don't think I've ever switched to a Japanese vocal track on a video game ever, come to think of it.
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I've heard of many things that help with childbirth, but apparently the subtle vibrations of tank treads and cannon fire make for the smoothest of them all.
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Soul Calibur 5. Anyone else pick it up?
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A_Tasty_Sub said:
Soul Calibur 5. Anyone else pick it up?
That dropped? Dang. I might need to run out and get it immediately.
Edit: And done. Now to blow hours on it. -
I'm trying to let my family get it for me for my birthday. We'll see.
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Is Soul Caliber a franchise that I can just jump into if I've never played one of their games before?
I think I need something to hold me over until SFXT -
Yeah, you can just pick it up and have fun.
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Stryxe: PS3 or Xbox?
God: I haven't really played one since 2, and I'm really liking it. My roommate who has never touched a Soul Calibur game before is finding it pretty accessible too.
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A_Tasty_Sub: PS3
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EvilPenguin said:
I think I'll be going with English also. From what little Japanese I know, the first bit of dialog didn't match the subtitles very much at all, then I turn on the English language and it's the exact same... oh well, seems like a pretty decent dub anyway.
I'm a subtitle anti-dub snob, and I actually played it in English. It's actually an interesting experiment to compare the two: parts of the English script are edited to make Alicia less of a ditzy incompetent anime girl, for instance. Like, when she arrests Welkin by mistake, the Japanese script is like, "I can't do anything right, now I'll be grumpy UGUUU." and the exact same scene in the English script says, "Well, you can't blame me for being cautious, I had to make sure you weren't a spy."
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On the topic of Valkyria Chronicles dubs, this is what I spent my weekend doing because I have literally nothing better to do with my life:
Playing it just to record quotes reminded that Valkyria Chronicles is very close to my favorite game of all time. I mean, I remembered that I liked it, but I really didn't remember just how much I like it.
Which is a lot.
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This game sold me on the PS3 before I'd even played it. Anytime anyone even half-heartedly brings out that old saw of PS3NOGAEMS I always cite this first and foremost; one of the best games I've ever played. Which reminds me I should actually go finish it at some point. And of course, we'll never get a true console sequel devoid of the excessive anime-ness of it's PSP brethren.
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I'm told the third game is way less anime, but it's looking like we'll never get it here. Oh wells.
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I guess that we can always say that it looked like we would never get the second one over here and then hope for the best...
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I still haven't gotten around to the second. I just wish they'd have made them for PS3. Or at least put out Wendy DLC missions.
Stryxe: Yeah I just finished the story. Ugh. I'm on PS3 as well, same name as forums if you ever want to try and get a match going. -
Take your time getting to the second. The anime stuff in it is really bad. They put a shitload more guns in, which is fun, but the maps are tiny and repetitive, which can be lame.
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I've got a psp, and it sees very little use, but I haven't been able to bring myself to pick it up for the bad anime stuff. I don't want to ruin all my fond memories of the first.
Soul Calibur online seems to run pretty well, and I love that you can chat and spectate. Only concern so far is my connection, I seem to drop out of 1/3 matches, though no one else really is. -
I don't agree with the anime stuff in VC2 being "really bad". Its mediocre.
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If it was REALLY bad I might like it more. Everything in VC2 is so by the numbers. I'm not interested in plucky go-getter main character, stand-offish secondary male character (for slash fanfiction purposes), and ditzy female character with a heart of gold. Nor am I interested in quasi-retarded thirteen year old who doesn't know what a butterfly is.
It had a decent supply of good tertiary characters, nowhere near as many as VC1 and even the best ones (like my favorite, Franca) were saddled with fucked up fan-baiting traits (uh, like incest). -
I apologize for the incoming all caps, but WHY IS INCEST SOMETHING THAT HAS FANS? WHY JAPAN WHY?
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That is the exact question our podcast has been trying to answer for six years.
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Do you want to know the real answer? This book has some interesting thoughts on the topic: http://www.amazon.com/Permitted-Prohibited-Desires-Mothers-Censorship/dp/0520219902/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328727272&sr=8-1
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I want to spend as little time thinking of it as possible, so I'll pass on the book. Just hearing that it was added in VC after beating Soul Calibur's incest ridden story mode put me over the edge. I shudder to think of the damage that question has done to Dave and Joel's psyche after 6 years.
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To be fair, anyone whose spent an extended length of time with Anime or Manga has probably suffered at least the same amount of psychological damage. Unless... You know, you like that kinda thing...
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The only people who are fans of incest are people who have never had siblings themselves. I hope.
Also, how does incest factor into SC5, exactly? Cuz that being the case, I think we can officially declare the Soul franchise a glorified panty fighter at this point. -
karaokeninja said:
Do you want to know the real answer? This book has some interesting thoughts on the topic: http://www.amazon.com/Permitted-Prohibited-Desires-Mothers-Censorship/dp/0520219902/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1328727272&sr=8-1
I'd argue it goes much further back than just contemporary Japanese pop culture. One of the oldest surviving texts from ancient Japan, the Kojiki, aside from detailing creation myths, tells the tale of Karu-no-Mikoto, a crown prince in love with his sister Karu-no-Iratsume. In any case, the people are creeped out by him wooing the princess, he's exiled, but she goes after him, and they commit double suicide (while exchanging songs and poetry, as was the fashion at the time). Probably more relevant than the actual incest part is the fact that their romance is doomed and can only be consummated in death, which is a common theme in Japanese lit/theater. Also common is the conflict between personal feelings and societal obligations. Of course, this isn't the ONLY thing that explains this in popular culture, but it is part of it.
Long story short, and that's why we have Koi Kaze. -
The story mode is you playing a dude who is all about hooking up with his sister under the guidance of the spiritual image of his mother, who, in his mind, is wearing a sheet. And that's the only story in the game now. No other characters get anything.
That said I still love the versus. I wouldn't call it a glorified panty fighter (Arcana Hearts) because it is still a solid game and characters like Astaroth, Nightmare, Voldo, Yoshimitsu, etc. help cancel out a lot of the inserted perversion. Though the create-a-character is already ruining my hopes for other people, as instead of making cool costumes/characters it seems 3/4 people that use it are either A) Furries B) Just sticking a pointy object on a character's crotch or C) Both. I did enjoy facing the one guy that was clearly trying to make other game characters and had a poor grasp of spelling and love of capitalization, who's characters included NINJAGADEN and RADEN MK. -
That's actually interesting if you consider incest in Japanese media to be this sort of ultimate rebellion against societal norms. Like society just represses you so fucking bad until you explode in the most taboo way possible. Don't know how easily you cold draw a correlation, but it's an interesting thought.
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Can't they just stick to Rock n' Roll? I mean, even if it started as a rebellion thing I think that part got lost along the way to Koi Kaze.
That said, a bunch of religions/myths involve incest at the highest levels of creation. Yet it's not glorified as incest as much as the only way procreation is possible, or as the joining of immaculate beings for the sake of existence. -
Greek mythology is full of incest. Adam and Eve's kids all had sex with each other and shit. It's pretty normal.
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According to the bible we are all descended from incest at lest twice. Not only Adam and Eve's kids, but noah and his daughters. The Noah one his daughter is all like, lets just get him drunk and lets get this over.
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That an interesting story. I always assumed it was because in Japanese culture, it seems like it's really hard to approach people and therefore even start building a relationship. With a relative, you already have a relationship made for you, so it's easier to rely on that inherent emotional connection between siblings or a child/parent.
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kaazuwulf said:
According to the bible we are all descended from incest at lest twice. Not only Adam and Eve's kids, but noah and his daughters. The Noah one his daughter is all like, lets just get him drunk and lets get this over.
I wondered why this world was so messed up.
