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| News Comments > Star Wars Fighting Game Prototype Footage |
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Re: Star Wars Fighting Game Prototype Footage |
Feb 16, 2013, 12:13 |
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Dead game so none of this matters but.....
1) Why is Darth Maul not using a double "bladed" saber? I would think the tech demo or *proof of concept* would be exactly when you want to show that.
2) A dedicated fighting game like this would suck because one does not simply get hit multiple times by a lightsaber. It tends to be a one cut:fight over type of deal. I am not trying to play the "realism" card in a sci-fi action fighting game...just saying...lightsabers become dramatically less badass when someone can take repeated blows to the head from one and still have a head. This is why that "Clone Wars: Lightsaber Duels" game is $4.99 at Gamestop, I would imagine.
3) I will say this though....watching Anakin get his ass kicked was slightly rewarding.
This particular game looks rather shoddy, but despite my criticisms we all know a well made one with plenty of *shiny*, maybe some voice acting done by the actual actors, and the "Star Wars" brand would sell like crazy. |
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| News Comments > Morning Consolidation |
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Re: Morning Consolidation |
Feb 14, 2013, 11:31 |
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Yahtzee doing a review on a Japanese game? I already know how that is going to turn out...and 'poorly' is the first word that jumps out at me. I think I will take the word of folks that actually like the style and genre.
As I said in another thread, I dig his style and I do use his reviews for certain types of games, generally single player western RPG or action games. He just doesn't seem interested in multiplayer games enough to focus on anything other then the twerps you are bound to run into with any online game. As for Japanese games...well that is just low hanging fruit for his style of humor to pick off. Probably an amusing review from that stand point. As I want to avoid spoilers, I will wait until after I have played the game to watch it. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Feb 13, 2013, 11:07 |
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| My family had an Irish Setter when I was a kid. She was a fun dog with a great disposition...but she was dumb as a dumb gets when it comes to wild animals. Porcupines? Yeah, we pulled MANY a quill from her nose and paws. She is to this day still the only dog I have ever known that got chased and bitten by a possum. Skunks...well they apparently held a special place in her heart. It was like she LIKED being sprayed. She would run up to the hind quarters of a skunk and start sniffing, and then when the skunk propped itself up on it's front two legs she would start running around in circles excitedly as if to say "YAY!! SPRAY ME! SPRAY ME!!" And then the skunk would oblige her. Like 6 times a year or more. The first couple of times we tried to clean her up a bit, after that we just gave up. |
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| News Comments > Aliens: Colonial Marines Patched |
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Re: Aliens: Colonial Marines Patched |
Feb 13, 2013, 10:56 |
Jivaro |
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While I don't agree with the sentiment that you should have to play on the hardest difficulty possibly to be considered worthy of reviewing a game, nor do I agree that you aren't a worthy player if you aren't playing on the hardest difficulty, I would agree that any change in gameplay experience from one difficulty to the other should be part of a review. If the experience of A:CM does change that dramatically when you put it on the hardest level, and for the good, that is something I would think most people who have bothered to take the time to read/view a review of the game would want to know.
Thanks Trav, I am going to go check it out at a buddies tonight (hopefully) and I will give the hardest level a run through to see what I think of it. |
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| News Comments > Ships Ahoy - Aliens: Colonial Marines |
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Re: Ships Ahoy - Aliens: Colonial Marines |
Feb 12, 2013, 11:07 |
Jivaro |
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Slashman wrote on Feb 12, 2013, 09:48:
Hey Darks...where are you now to defend the game we horrible Bluesnewsers unfairly called crappy before release?
He might be playing it because he likes it. I hope so anyway. He was obviously very much looking forward to it.
It sucks that this game is apparently going to fall short of even minimal expectations for a great many people. This franchise seems like it was made for video games and yet it just can't seem to come out quite right.
Hopefully a buddy will take the plunge and let me check it out.  I too was hoping it would be good, but given the reviews so far I won't be purchasing it just yet. A playable demo might be the difference between me buying it on a Steam sale for 5 bucks in a year or so or buying it sooner for 20-30 bucks. I have been known to like a franchise enough to 'overlook' some glaring issues, but only after I have been able to spend some time actually playing it through a demo or at a friend's place. |
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| News Comments > New Arkham Game Revealed |
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Re: New Arkham Game Revealed |
Feb 12, 2013, 10:54 |
Jivaro |
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| I am in, I enjoyed the previous two quite a bit. The fact that they are being comparatively "under the radar" about this leaves me a bit skeptical as to what exactly this game is and who is developing it. Rocksteady isn't doing it...so who is? |
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| News Comments > Tomb Raider Trailer |
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Re: Tomb Raider Trailer |
Feb 11, 2013, 21:13 |
Jivaro |
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| I was a fan of the originals. I even liked the later games. I am a huge fan of the Uncharted games, which this modern reboot really seems to be aspiring to be like. Basically, I can find no reason why I wouldn't like this game. I probably won't have a reason to play it more then one time as once the story is told most of the other game mechanics probably get old really fast....but that has always been the case. Kinda wish they had published a physical copy it for PC though. I like that it is 10 dollars cheaper then the console version, but I would pay the extra to have a physical copy. |
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| News Comments > BioWare Founders Honored by GDC Awards |
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Re: BioWare Founders Honored by GDC Awards |
Feb 11, 2013, 20:41 |
Jivaro |
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Despite the more recent letdowns, I think this is well earned. Many Bioware games are on my shelf and the overwhelming vast majority of them were fantastic games.
Just a shame the end of the ride wasn't that great. |
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| News Comments > etc. |
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Re: etc. |
Feb 11, 2013, 10:32 |
Jivaro |
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| I was just in a Best Buy that had an XBOX 360 display with a demo of Skylanders. There were kids everywhere, parents trying to pull them away....crazy. Looking at the video and the game demo though, if I was a kid in the target age, I would be all over that stuff. My toys in my video games? Sign me up. If all my GI JOE or Tranformers could have been done like that...holy crap that would have blown my 8-10 year old mind. |
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| News Comments > New Wolfenstein Game? |
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Re: New Wolfenstein Game? |
Feb 9, 2013, 18:14 |
Jivaro |
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I have enjoyed the single player of every Wolfenstein game ever...even that old Castle Wolfenstein game on the Apple IIc.  Always skeptical of remakes, but looking forward to it nonetheless. |
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| News Comments > Evening Consolidation |
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Re: Evening Consolidation |
Feb 9, 2013, 15:50 |
Jivaro |
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Beamer wrote on Feb 9, 2013, 15:33:
You guys realize there HAS to be a new Ouya every year, right?
There's a new iPad every year. There's a new Galaxy every year. There are a billion new Android tablets every year. There are new Tegra chips powering these every year.
What do you think Ouya is competing with for games?
This doesn't mean you need to buy the new one every year, just like most people don't buy a new phone or tablet every year. But expect to buy a new one every 2 or 3 years if you want to play the newest games. Just like with your phone or tablet.
Yep. |
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| News Comments > Diablo III Dueling Now Called Brawling |
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Re: Diablo III Dueling Now Called Brawling |
Feb 9, 2013, 15:48 |
Jivaro |
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Verno wrote on Feb 9, 2013, 13:47:
Just chiming in, Ni No Kuni is very much like Dragon Quest 8, it's even created by the same company (Level 5). The familiar AI sucks and it has some grindy elements but its a JRPG so *shrug*. I really enjoy it and I thought DQ8 was about the same. It's nothing earth shattering though, I wouldn't go buy a PS3 for it or something.
Already got a PS3 so I am good there. Thanks for the input, sounds to me like I should add it to my price watch. |
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| News Comments > Diablo III Dueling Now Called Brawling |
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Re: Diablo III Dueling Now Called Brawling |
Feb 9, 2013, 13:23 |
Jivaro |
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Malachii wrote on Feb 9, 2013, 12:17:
I defend this game non stop, but I have to agree this you guys, who the hell care what it's called? I stopped playing a few weeks ago to wait for 1.07 to finish off the last few paragon levels, and them I'm out until more content comes. Honestly, not much else left to do at this point for me. I got my $ worth no doubt, but I have a stack 1.5 feet tall of console titles I have been neglecting and Ni no Kuni is calling my name :-) Oh, and also unloaded my Activision stock I've had for years at 13.5 because of the earning reports.
When you finish Ni no Kuni I want to hear what you think of it. Japanese RPGs and I have a complicated relationship filled with a few disappointments and very few enjoyable experiences. I did like Eternal Sonata for PSP, Dragon Quest 8 for PS2, and Blade Dancer: Lineage of Light for PSP...if that helps in terms of a measuring stick. All of those games I found to have fun gameplay mixed with some entertaining storytelling. On the opposite side I found White Knight Chronicles to be terrible. Poor camera, poor storytelling, terrible pacing, and crappy cinematics.
That is about the extent of my experience with JRPGs however, so it isn't just complicated..it is also short. That probably contributes to my resistance to jump into Ni no Kuni. |
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| News Comments > Diablo III Dueling Now Called Brawling |
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Re: Diablo III Dueling Now Called Brawling |
Feb 8, 2013, 22:21 |
Jivaro |
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| In related news, my kids have announced that when they are taking money out of my wallet I am no longer to call it "stealing" but instead I am to refer to it as "subtracting". They feel it is a title much more fitting to the system. There is a lot of power in a name and stealing conveys a sense of illegality. Subtracting on the other hand better describes what they are actually doing since I am not actually pressing charges against them. There are no actual changes to what is being done, simply to what I am to call it. |
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| News Comments > StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Preview Trailer |
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Re: StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Preview Trailer |
Feb 8, 2013, 21:42 |
Jivaro |
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Krizzen wrote on Feb 8, 2013, 19:59:
Jivaro wrote on Feb 8, 2013, 11:22:
Does anyone else read descriptions of game trailers and immediately decide to not watch them when words like "developer discusses" are in the description?
Nope. I actually prefer such videos. I'd rather hear a developer describing their thought process (laced with PR, of course) behind some actual features of the game. Game trailers typically give me nothing but extremely short clips slammed back-to-back-to-back and lots of CG that doesn't give me any idea about how the game actually plays.
Anyway, I know I don't speak for the majority, but as a hardcore gamer, the absolute best videos are straight, unaltered gameplay footage. Preferably on PC, max settings, and atleast 1080p.
Oh I totally see your point with regards to some of those "trailers". Just like Hollywood, those trailers are made to sell something or get the customer excited not actually give you something with which to base an informed opinion on. I wasn't really including those "teasers" etc when I was writing that post. Since there are so many of them I probably should have. I mean, we have teasers for teasers now...which is ridiculous.
Sounds like we have the same preference though. Give me a straight 10-20 minute gameplay trailer on the best video settings. I just would prefer it was also without any audio other then what comes from the game. |
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