Videogame News Thread [Archive] - Page 7

Emperor Smeat

10-27-2010, 07:10 PM

For those with PS3s, Sony officially starting the beta version of Playstation Rewards program. The program itself will be available to everyone else starting April 2011.

To be included, you either need to be a Playstation Plus or Game Advisory Panel member.

The program has three reward tiers: Select, Pro and Legendary. Members advance through each tier based on their level of engagement and actions including playing new games for the first time, buying content from PlayStation Network in PlayStation Store or PlayStation Home, downloading movies and TV shows, or engaging in communication with PlayStation like taking surveys.

The program is set up to recognize the most loyal, most prolific Playstation members, with about 20 percent representing that top tier, Panico said.

Right now only PS3 users are allowed but Sony wants to include PSP users into the program at a later date.

http://kotaku.com/5673849/playstation-rewards-fans-with-new-loyalty-program

D Mac

10-28-2010, 03:28 PM

Pinball FX 2 is cool. And If you have 1, you can get the upgrades into 2 for free.

Funky Fly

10-28-2010, 04:46 PM

There's 2 versions of Pinball FX 2. A free one and a $10 one.

Emperor Smeat

10-28-2010, 06:34 PM

Preview of Donkey Kong Country Returns confirms the game's difficulty won't take a hit and will be very similar and at times harder than the original SNES series of games. While people complained Kirby's Epic Yarn was too easy, DKC Returns won't follow the same route in terms of no dying.

Also confirmed is Retro Studios recreated the entire "Rare" experience for the game and didn't put their own style or "Metroid Prime" style into the game.

The game is still on schedule for a November 21 release date at a $50 price.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/10/500x_dk1.jpg
http://kotaku.com/5675560/50-deaths-in-donkey-kong-country-returns-in-one-sitting

Jeritron

10-28-2010, 07:04 PM

I love the original DK on top of the temple

D Mac

10-29-2010, 01:19 AM

There's 2 versions of Pinball FX 2. A free one and a $10 one.

Yeah the free one will let you get the upgrades of the 1 tables for free. And you can play demos of the new tables.

Extreme Angle

10-29-2010, 07:19 AM

Fable 3, Rock band 3 or Deadly Premonition?

Drakul

10-29-2010, 07:29 AM

Fable III since you already have Kingmaker etc.

#BROKEN Hasney

10-29-2010, 07:52 AM

Probably say Deadly Premonition, until you can get pro instruments unless you want a keyboard, then RB3 takes priority.

Fable would be 3rd, but DP is so cheap you can probably pick both up. DP also only has a limited release so you'll be able to pick up Fable anytime but DP may vanish from store shelves.

Drakul

10-29-2010, 10:12 AM

Keiji Inafune leaving Capcom

Guess Capcom legend Keiji Inafune wasn't kidding around when he said he hated his job : the Capcom exec said today he's leaving the company he's been with for 23 years at the end of the month.

His full job title had been Head of R&D Management Group, Consumer Games R&D Division and Contents Management Division (phew). In a blog post titled "Sayonara", Inafune explains why.

"A manager's work means evaluating your subordinates and speaking your dreams. Anyone who can do both of those can be a manager. I thought that when I came here, and I still think that now."

The problem being, Inafune believes he can no longer do both those things.

He also reflects on this 23 years at Capcom. Inafune started out as a character designer but, as he points out, he's now reached the top of Capcom's development structure. "There's nowhere higher for me to go."

"I'm leaving Capcom with the intention of starting my life over", he adds. Inafune says he's looking for his next challenge and will not be taking a break.

"People that really know me, can see where I'm coming from. I'm not a regular dude. It's probably because I'm strange."

He closes saying he'll do his best and with a "thank you".

In an interview with 4Gamer.net, Inafune states that he wants to work for Capcom. "Honestly, the situation has become such that I can't." Inafune could be referring to the reasons he gives in his blog post.

However, Inafune has increasingly taken more heat online — especially in Japan — for controversial remarks like stating that the Japanese game industry is "finished".

Inafune has also resigned from his position as CEO of Daletto, a Capcom subsidiary. Aside from Mega Man, he is best known for creating (or helping create) other notable Capcom franchises like Dead Rising, Lost Planet and Onimusha. In his post, he gave no indication of what he's moving onto next.

Source (http://kotaku.com/5676403/mega-mans-creator-quits-capcom).

I wonder how this'll effect the Megaman series etc. Megaman Legends 3 in particular.

Fignuts

10-29-2010, 01:20 PM

Dunno about Legends, but Megaman isn't rocket science. Keep the tight controls, and good level design, and they can do whatever they want to the rest of the game.

#BROKEN Hasney

10-29-2010, 03:01 PM

Why do you think Legends 3 has votes on the designs? It was suspected this would happen.

D Mac

10-29-2010, 04:12 PM

Got Hasbro Family Game Night 3 and Clue is pretty disappointing. You can't just play the classic Clue game, you have to play with their stupid Minigame rules. :(

Emperor Smeat

10-29-2010, 05:47 PM

Sony of Japan denies any chance of Demon Souls II ever being made any time soon even though the company and development team loved the game in terms of sales, praise, and actual work on it.

Only thing confirmed is if it ever gets made, no PS Move support unless Sony forces it as an optional configuration.

http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/82577/one-day-we-could-bring-you-another-demons-souls-says-scej/

10-29-2010, 09:49 PM

So why are they dropping the servers so soon for DS?

Emperor Smeat

10-29-2010, 10:09 PM

Either because Sony needs them for upcoming games or lack of players similar to MAG dropping servers a couple of months after it was released.

It has been about a year since the US and Japan release of the game so it probably is more related to lack of players filling the servers.

Kalyx triaD

10-30-2010, 07:26 PM

Good luck, Keiji.

OssMan

10-31-2010, 11:55 AM

Seiken Densetsu 3 - Really fuc*ing hard. Takes forever to level up. Insane boss fights right after each other. At least it's better than Secret of Mana.

XenoGears - I am really not about this game so far. Read for an hour, go find your friends, battle for 30 minutes, get lost in a sewers, read for another hour.

Kirby's Epic Yarn - It is so easy.

Funky Fly

10-31-2010, 03:04 PM

AssMan, have you ever played any of the Tales Of series? I get the feeling you might like the storylines, but hate the actual gameplay.

OssMan

11-01-2010, 01:24 AM

Have never played those. Is Skies of Arcadia part of that? Cause I want to play that one. Was going to eventually play Tales of Symphonia probably. What is the gameplay like

Funky Fly

11-01-2010, 01:56 AM

Arcadia is its own IP. Every Tales of game is "Tales of _____". Most of the games are real time 3D 4 player 3rd person combat. A couple of the titles are 1 player real time side scrolling combat.

Most of the series is like this:

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A few are like this:

<object style="height: 390px; width: 640px"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/xkMul6kh8O4?version=3"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/xkMul6kh8O4?version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="640" height="390"></object>

OssMan

11-01-2010, 11:40 AM

Sounds feasible. Looks kinda like Star Ocean or Final Fantasy 12. I liked both of those, would have liked Star Ocean a lot more if it wasn't for a few obnoxious flaws in the battle syste.

Kalyx triaD

11-01-2010, 03:15 PM

XBL working again wooooooo

Fable 3 scratched to hell boooooooo

Funky Fly

11-01-2010, 03:24 PM

Symphonia is glorious, def get it. Also, get Abyss and Legendia, the 2 released on PS2. The one on the Wii is a sequel to Symphonia, but it's kinda weak by comparison so you might just wanna bootleg the motherfucker.

Fuuuuck, Vesperia is sooooo good. Love that one. It's on 360 rn, but a suped up version is on PS3 in Japan. Their shit is region free, so I dunno. Dunno if it's ever going to come to American PS3s.

Emperor Smeat

11-01-2010, 05:34 PM

Microsoft rumored to be considering bringing back the Project Gotham Racing series as a way to compliment their Forza series. Original studio behind the PGR series was bought by Activision in 2007 and helped create Blur in 2010.

One rumor is to have the Forza developers also work on PGR 5 but Microsoft is looking more for a European developer to take on the series on its own.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/11/pgr.jpg
http://kotaku.com/5678552/project-gotham-racing-making-a-comeback

Kalyx triaD

11-01-2010, 07:41 PM

Eh.

#BROKEN Hasney

11-01-2010, 07:50 PM

Yay, I love PGR.

Vietnamese Crippler

11-01-2010, 08:06 PM

Word, PGR was a fun series.

Kalyx triaD

11-01-2010, 11:25 PM

Next Resident Evil Game American?:

Following in the trail blazed by Dead Rising 2, the next Resident Evil game may come from the Great White North. SOCOM developer Slant Six Games could be the latest studio tapped by Capcom to create its games.

A document forwarded to Kotaku indicates that a new, team-based Resident Evil game is currently in development at Slant Six. The developer is responsible for SOCOM:U.S. Navy SEALs Confrontation for the PlayStation 3 as well as two iterations for the PSP, Tactical Strike and Fireteam Bravo 3. Named (or codenamed) in the document as Resident Evil: Raccoon City, Slant Six looks to be staffing up to bring even more zombie game development to Vancouver.

When contacted for comment, publisher reps said "Capcom does not respond to rumors and/or speculation."

Slant Six Games writes on its official web site that it is currently in development on "an amazing new project" that is unannounced. That project is being developed in conjunction with a "new publishing partner on a world class franchise." Several Slant Six current and former employees list an unannounced "multiplayer action game" for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 on their LinkedIn profiles.

In March of this year, Slant Six solicited work for a "Japanese translator/interpreter."

Capcom has looked outside of Japan for help on some of its better known franchises, including GRIN (Bionic Commando), Ninja Theory (Devil May Cry) and Blue Castle Games (Dead Rising 2), another Vancouver based studio that had its zombie project leaked well in advance.

This really sounds cool. I like the dev team and RE5 paved the way for the tone (in both action and multiplayer). Since RE had several spin-offs, I trust this won't be in the official line anyway. This is much easier to swallow than DmC, and may prove to be a good move like Dead Rising 2.

Blitz

11-02-2010, 12:11 AM

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Dynasty Warriors 7 is PS3 exclusive only in Japan. NA and Europe get Xbox360!

[IMG]http://www.destructoid.com/dynasty-warriors-7-coming-to-xbox-360-in-america-europe[/IMG (http://www.destructoid.com/dynasty-warriors-7-coming-to-xbox-360-in-america-europe)]

No one cares about this except me.

alvarado52

11-02-2010, 05:33 AM

Next Resident Evil Game American?:

This really sounds cool. I like the dev team and RE5 paved the way for the tone (in both action and multiplayer). Since RE had several spin-offs, I trust this won't be in the official line anyway. This is much easier to swallow than DmC, and may prove to be a good move like Dead Rising 2.

did you play confrontation? That shit blew...bad.

Kalyx triaD

11-02-2010, 08:50 AM

I thought that was pretty decent. I didn't put hours into it because I don't have a PS3, but the little I played didn't turn me off. And I'm not too crazy about the SOCOM series at all, but Confrontation wasn't bad.

Under proper direction, these guys good do a decent kind of RE, especially if it's actually based on the Raccoon City era (I'd place it somewhere else but RC is the rumor).

Kalyx triaD

11-02-2010, 11:55 AM

Glancing over my nephew playing GTA San Andreas and... there's some shit I would have liked to see in GTA4. Namely the occupation modes when you get in a firetruck, ambulance, or police car. Were they added in any of the expansions or what? I think you could hunt criminals in GTA4 using the police website, I think.

Drakul

11-02-2010, 02:28 PM

Yeah you could hunt crimials from a "most wanted" list or just listen to the police radio for random crimes that are happening at that time.

I guess they took out the other jobs for the sake of realism? Though I'm not sure how it would be unrealistic to have an illegal immagrant being a taxi driver when it's ok to give him the ability to be a cop.

D Mac

11-02-2010, 02:43 PM

LOL Power Gig: Rise of the Six String got a 4.0 from IGN. Another Rock Revolution I guess. This actually has some songs I want on Rock Band. Like The Night by Disturbed, and Awake by Godsmack.

Funky Fly

11-02-2010, 02:54 PM

The game is actually called Power Gig: Rise of the Six String? The game deserves a 4 for the name alone. Sheesh.

D Mac

11-02-2010, 03:00 PM

http://dsmedia.ign.com/ds/image/object/064/064651/power_gig_sixstring_360boxart_160w.jpg

Kalyx triaD

11-02-2010, 04:06 PM

Full transcript (70+ pages) of this morning's violent videogame hearings in Supreme Court. Good stuff in there. (http://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/08-1448.pdf)

BigDaddyCool

11-02-2010, 04:08 PM

Video games are violent.

LoDownM

11-02-2010, 06:26 PM

I know there is some Dynasty Warriors fans on here. Dynasty Warriors Online open beta started for the US and it think Europe. http://dynastywarriors.aeriagames.com/news/10345/open-beta-announcement

11-02-2010, 06:49 PM

did you play confrontation? That shit blew...bad.

Is it strictly online? I searched for any single player info and it said nothing but online stuff.

Kalyx triaD

11-02-2010, 10:39 PM

NBA Elite 11 officially canceled.

alvarado52

11-02-2010, 10:47 PM

Is it strictly online? I searched for any single player info and it said nothing but online stuff.

yeah, its just online.

Emperor Smeat

11-02-2010, 10:54 PM

NBA Elite 11 officially canceled.

Can't fault EA for the decision since they managed to lose over $200 million in the last 2 months alone and ate about 1/3 of their entire 2010 profits.

Kalyx triaD

11-02-2010, 10:56 PM

Seems harsh. Development will head over to the Madden team.

#BROKEN Hasney

11-04-2010, 06:13 PM

The worlds first 3D no-glasses portable has hit Japan... And it's an Android phone.

Comes pre-loaded with ports of iPhone games RE: Degenration, Ghosts n Goblins and the original Mega Man... In 3D!!!111!

#BROKEN Hasney

11-04-2010, 06:15 PM

NBA Elite 11 officially canceled.

Lies. Just bought it.

#BROKEN Hasney

11-04-2010, 06:16 PM

For iPhone.

Emperor Smeat

11-04-2010, 06:24 PM

Microsoft reviving the episodic "tv show" plan for a new gaming show revolving around online poker. Same studio and marketing that was behind "1 vs 100" is developing the new game show.

Beta invites and applications have already started with the initial batch being picked by e-mail.

Most likely Microsoft will support this new show better due to lower costs to maintain and easier to setup for shows and tournaments unlike 1v100 that became too expensive over time.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/11/fullhouse2.jpg

http://kotaku.com/5681607/microsoft-is-beta-testing-an-episodic-xbox-live-poker-game-show

OssMan

11-04-2010, 07:15 PM

http://www.nerve.com/archived/blogs/ten-reasons-why-secret-of-mana-sucks

Found this article. Want to see the rest of it so bad. Can't figure out how. WTF

Funky Fly

11-04-2010, 10:21 PM

Children of Mana, now there's a shit game.

Kalyx triaD

11-04-2010, 11:58 PM

My god...

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/8/2010/11/340x_afmblood.jpg

D Mac

11-05-2010, 01:16 AM

#BROKEN Hasney

11-05-2010, 07:53 AM

The copy protection on the new dashboard/games has been worked around. Good times.

alvarado52

11-05-2010, 04:30 PM

The copy protection on the new dashboard/games has been worked around. Good times.

its all a matter of time. I hear the current LT firmware is fine to be online with, so long as youre using a retail AP25 game online.

OssMan

11-06-2010, 04:16 PM

Gonna go play XenoGears.........................

OssMan

11-06-2010, 05:43 PM

XenoGears just got pretty interesting, was tedious up to this point.

Funky Fly

11-07-2010, 01:58 AM

XenoGears just got pretty interesting, was tedious up to this point.

A lot of RPGs are like that. 5 hours of "oh, ok this is the boring part" before you get to "holy shit, this game is sweet". Even Mass Effect suffers from this. Dragon Age worked around it by giving you 6 origin stories, so it's all mad different.

OssMan

11-07-2010, 01:59 AM

:eek: XenoGears

But it was more like 25 hours of the boring part.

Xero

11-07-2010, 08:39 AM

lol, playing DKC and never really read any of Kranky Kong's scenes before. Pretty funny stuff.

OssMan

11-07-2010, 10:34 AM

XeroGears. There is an odd Super Mario 64 reference in Cranky's Save Cave in DKC3. But Cranky has the best music in DKC2.

Drakul

11-07-2010, 10:50 AM

It's Wrinkly's cave, not Cranky's. Cranky is at the minigame stand in DKC3.

11-07-2010, 11:30 AM

the reason is Donkey Kong Country 3 came out after, or near the same time as the N64, so they were just advertising/referencing it in DKC 3.

I remember buying DKC 3 and the N64 almost at the same time.

Kalyx triaD

11-07-2010, 02:21 PM

Yeah that was strange. Should have just ported the game, but I guess that infringed on the whole 3D era bullshit we rushed into.

Xero

11-07-2010, 07:16 PM

Were there any original 16-bit-style games on the N64 at all?

Emperor Smeat

11-07-2010, 07:31 PM

Were there any original 16-bit-style games on the N64 at all?

There were games that used sprites with a 3D background (ex. Killer Instinct Gokd).

Maybe Paper Mario but never played it on the N64.

Xero

11-07-2010, 07:49 PM

I guess Killer Instinct is close to what I'm thinking of. Definitely not Paper Mario.

BigDaddyCool

11-08-2010, 11:15 AM

I don't think I should suffer through 5 hours of boring shit on a game I spent money on till it gets good.

Xero

11-08-2010, 02:23 PM

http://www.duelinganalogs.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/fps-map-design.png

Funky Fly

11-08-2010, 03:15 PM

tbh, I like the 2010 version better. Far less motion sickness and getting lost and somehow getting into an area without having the right colour key yet and all that other shit.

BigDaddyCool

11-08-2010, 03:17 PM

I hate you funky fly.

Funky Fly

11-08-2010, 03:19 PM

You know what? If real life were more like the 1993 FPS, it would take me forever to find you and stab you with my gun. However, since real life is closer to the 2010 FPS, I'm gonna stab you with my gun right quick, asshole. :foc:

BigDaddyCool

11-08-2010, 03:23 PM

bring it, honkey.

#BROKEN Hasney

11-08-2010, 03:34 PM

Hate modern FPS so much. Just dullsville.

Emperor Smeat

11-08-2010, 04:56 PM

There are some good ones but the problem is everyone either just copies Halo, Call of Duty, or whatever shooter game ends up becoming popular. Also doesn't help that Microsoft basically created the Xbox 360 as a "shooter"-heavy console and Sony followed after initially make fun of them.

Emperor Smeat

11-08-2010, 06:31 PM

Konami announces Metal Gear Rising will miss the late 2011 release date they wanted and now is set as a TBA 2012 release date. Earliest the game could be released now is middle to late 2012 since an early 2012 date would have been announced by now.

No reason why the game is delayed but the Metal Gear series does have a history of delaying games past original release dates.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/11/rising.jpg
http://kotaku.com/5684211/metal-gear-rising-is-gonna-cut-you-in-2012?skyline=true&s=i

Kalyx triaD

11-08-2010, 07:03 PM

Take their time, I say. This is bold new ground for the series, I'd hate to see it come out as a so-so action game.

OssMan

11-08-2010, 07:10 PM

I don't think I should suffer through 5 hours of boring shit on a game I spent money on till it gets good.
XenoGears is so amazing after all the boring part though. Definitely worth it.

RoXer

11-08-2010, 07:21 PM

I gotta get Xenogears
That's the type of game that relieves my fears
Get it from overseas to here

OssMan

11-08-2010, 07:22 PM

I have 2 copies of it .....

Kalyx triaD

11-08-2010, 07:26 PM

I love my XBL pic. Drakul's as well. RoXer has a cool one.

Fignuts

11-08-2010, 09:15 PM

Mine is best.

RoXer

11-08-2010, 09:48 PM

I gotta get Psychic Force
Authentic arcade that I can endorse
They got me liking imports

RoXer

11-08-2010, 09:51 PM

Rival schools, Batsu purchase you ought to
It came with one free CD, it's like I bought two
I hope they make part II for Dreamcast
'Cause games I've seen in mags, you won't believe they have

OssMan

11-08-2010, 09:56 PM

Shenmue is so in depth
But very tedious might I suggest
You only play it if you have a strong will

BigDaddyCool

11-09-2010, 10:15 AM

XenoGears is so amazing after all the boring part though. Definitely worth it.

I'll never make it through 5 hours

Y2Ant

11-09-2010, 10:32 AM

Seiken Densetsu 3 - Really fuc*ing hard. Takes forever to level up. Insane boss fights right after each other. At least it's better than Secret of Mana.

SD3 and SOM are two of my favorite games of all time, absolutely adore them. I've played through SD3 seven times so far, to do like every class/character combination :'( dunno about taking forever to level up but the 8 mana beasts are a bitch if you're not the right level when you fight them.

OssMan

11-09-2010, 01:15 PM

I hate Secret of Mana so much. Might be the worst game I have ever played, worse than Star Ocean: Til the End of Time. So far I have yet to find one person who loves Secret of Mana who didn't play it when they were like 8 years old. I feel like that's the only value it has to people.

Boomer

11-09-2010, 01:28 PM

Bringing back the Gunbound love, huh Assman?

(h)

BigDaddyCool

11-09-2010, 01:33 PM

I had an Afghan flag in gunbound.

OssMan

11-09-2010, 02:52 PM

I always sported a SARS Protector :wavesad:

Emperor Smeat

11-09-2010, 06:00 PM

Rockstar to release trailer to the long delayed L.A. Noire game on November 11.

The game has been through 3-4 development studios since 2004 and been funded initially by Sony until 2007/2008 when Rockstar took over.

Rumor has it one of the secret deals involving the GTA Episodes being "exclusive" to Microsoft meant this game had to be exclusive to the PS3. Once Microsoft lost the exclusive deal to the Episodes, this game became a multi-platform game to appease Microsoft.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/11/lanoire_debut_640.jpg
http://kotaku.com/5685282/finally-a-new-la-noire-trailer

Kalyx triaD

11-09-2010, 06:57 PM

Games with turbulent development histories usually show it. I hope R* managed to get something out of it.

Jeritron

11-09-2010, 07:19 PM

So is that game going to be a noir gangster free roam? I'm guessing it will be to noir movies what Red Dead was to westerns?

If so, that's incredible. Although GTA has touched on so much of noir and crime films, despite being in a modern setting.
I don't think it will be as refreshing as RDR was. I'm not sure what other time-period/genre they can tap into though.

Emperor Smeat

11-09-2010, 07:48 PM

More like your a detective investigating a major crime or series of crimes but using the GTA model for free roaming and world. They want the game to look like the old 1940s and 1950s style detective films in appearance.

I forgot how the game was shaping up when the initial team and then Sony were making the game but it was going to be a bit different in style than what Rockstar is doing. Sony kept rejecting and changing stuff during development which explained why it cost almost $60-$100 million before they sold it to Rockstar to finish.

The other game Rockstar is doing called Agent is completely different since your a spy during the Cold War.

Fignuts

11-09-2010, 08:00 PM

Agent sounds better. Any more info on that?

Emperor Smeat

11-09-2010, 09:39 PM

Agent sounds better. Any more info on that?

Nope just that as of now its exclusive to the PS3 (Sony is funding the game), the setting is the 1970s Cold War era, and your either a spy or secret agent.

Jeritron

11-10-2010, 12:50 AM

By tapping into westerns and now noir, they've really touched on the two film genres that have the most distinct identities.
I'm curious what they will do after that. Agent sounds cool. Hopefully it's a love letter to Bond/espionage films.

Jeritron

11-10-2010, 12:57 AM

I wonder if they could do a single character sandbox game about World War 2. It would be unorthodox but I think it could be done.
Wouldn't be suprised to see something set in Medieval times, or a pirate world.

LoDownM

11-10-2010, 02:06 AM

Drakul

11-10-2010, 02:56 AM

What we really need is a caveman sandbox game. Hunt dinosaurs, be hunted by dinosaurs, tribal warfare, discovering fire, the wheel and other inventions etc as you expand your tribe threw good health (plenty of food, water, warmth, safety etc) and mating. Meanwhile merging, enslaving or wiping out other tribes.

Imagine RDR, Populous and Monster Hunter all rolled into one. Fighting a T-Rex with just your spear and a couple of AI tribesman where you have to scale the Rex "Shadow of the Collosus" style and take him down to provide meat for the tribe and reduce the threat of attack by T-Rexs' to the tribe.

I could go into so much more detail because I have a bunch of ideas but you get the point. Throw out "minor" details like humans never actually lived in caves or when dinosaurs were about and you could have a pretty awesome game.

Lionhead had plans for a caveman game called B.C. but scrapped it.

RoXer

11-10-2010, 03:57 AM

Pitch it to Kalyx

BigDaddyCool

11-10-2010, 11:24 AM

Pitch it to Kalyx

so he can ruin it

Xero

11-10-2010, 11:31 AM

BigDaddyCool

11-10-2010, 01:01 PM

Lasso a dinosaur. And then they could come out with a zombie expantion. Zombie T-Rex.

Xero

11-10-2010, 02:57 PM

Zombie Cavemen

How is this not a movie?

BigDaddyCool

11-10-2010, 02:59 PM

RIDING A SABER TOOTH TIGER!

Emperor Smeat

11-10-2010, 04:38 PM

Only a day after CoD Black Ops gets released Activision is already spilling the beans on what the next future Call of Duty game might be about. Since Activision is now on a 3 studio rotation for the series, its either going to be from Sledgehammer Games or another studio they own.

Plan is for the game to take place farther in the future than Modern Warfare series into the sci-fi/space warfare range. Won't go as far as Halo in the future but at the same time might not be a pure FPS. Activision wants the series to branch out into the Action-Adventure genre with the new game.

http://kotaku.com/5685668/report-call-of-duty-goes-back-to-the-future-recruits-space-marines

Fignuts

11-10-2010, 05:53 PM

So no MW 3 next year?

Emperor Smeat

11-10-2010, 05:56 PM

No but it should arrive in 2 years since its now unknown studio, then IW, and then Treyarch for Call of Duty series rotation or at least Activision's plan for the series.

Fignuts

11-10-2010, 06:03 PM

lol ridiculous

D Mac

11-11-2010, 12:59 AM

Call of Duty: Future Warfare.

jcmoorehead

11-11-2010, 08:24 AM

http://www.pwgaming.co.uk/?p=1328

K2Networks has purchased defucnt MMO All Points Bulletin.

Interesting move by them, APB was a game with a good concept behind it but unfortunately the game itself was... well for lack of a better word crap. Balance issues, performance issues, gameplay issues it seemed rushed and with the exception of the customisation needed a hell of a lot of work.

Not really sure what K2 can do with it but there might be life in it yet.

Edit:

http://www.pwgaming.co.uk/?p=1340

Harmonix has also been put up for sale by Viacom.

Emperor Smeat

11-11-2010, 07:41 PM

Apparently some companies think Valve and Steam are killing the PC market mostly because of how efficient and good Steam is. Some retailers and Digital Distributors in the U.K. are already telling some gaming publishers they will refuse to carry games that require Steam or be playable on the service (ex. Steamworks).

This was one of the actual reasons given to why they hate Steam:
"Publishers don't give a shit, they don't care what happens to the customer. Which is the crucial point, because Steam do," the director of "a fledgling Steam rival" told the site.

Its assumed most of the "hate" is coming from Direct2Drive and other distributors and are actually willing to kill their sales if it means they can also kill off sales for Steam. Retailers threatening to drop PC games makes no sense since they make the money off of the game sold and not Valve if its a boxed copy.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/11/steam.jpg
http://kotaku.com/5687187/valve-is-killing-the-pc-market-apparently

Funky Fly

11-11-2010, 08:54 PM

Wait what? I don't understand. So because Steam is good to their customers, other companies won't sell their game discs? Huh?

Someone help me here, I think this is actually breaking my brain.

11-11-2010, 08:58 PM

jealousy plain and simple

Funky Fly

11-11-2010, 08:58 PM

Ok, the article itself is clearer, but it's common sense. If you want to sell better than Steam,be better than Steam.

As for the brick and mortar guys, it makes sense in a way, but some people (like me) prefer to actually have physical media. Thus when the option arises to buy digital or physical, I opt for physical.

Kalyx triaD

11-11-2010, 09:05 PM

LOL

Love the free market 'system'.

Funky Fly

11-11-2010, 09:42 PM

I dunno. Steam is gonna end up being a monopoly, but not by underhanded tactics. They just do really good at what they do. It's kinda scary, because that's how google got so big too.

Kalyx triaD

11-11-2010, 09:47 PM

If they're good, they're good. Instead of bitching, as people have already pointed out, perhaps competitors should cowboy the fuck up and provide better service. It's not like Steam's crooked and a public option is needed for the people.

Emperor Smeat

11-11-2010, 09:53 PM

Its similar to what iTunes did for the music industry when it was in a slump and Napstar was dominating downloads. Apple changed the idea of buying music to buying songs cheap and it ended up helping the music industry. Years later the music industry started to hate iTunes dominance and Sony tried to create an alliance to take out iTunes and increase music prices per song.

Valve did something similar in helping the PC market when a lot of developers and publishers moved to consoles. Over time, Valve improved Steam and managed to prove the PC market can be strong enough to survive. Now since the model worked out very well, their competitors want to knock out Steam even if it means weakening the PC market again.

Vietnamese Crippler

11-12-2010, 12:44 PM

Gran Turismo 5 re-dated: Nov. 24, 2010.

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/113/1133328p1.html

Funky Fly

11-12-2010, 02:03 PM

Nah, dude that's a typo. It's Nov 24, 2100.

Emperor Smeat

11-12-2010, 08:27 PM

After 5 years of the $60 price tag being the new price for "HD" games, THQ realized maybe it isn't such a good idea to make every game cost $60.

After having a bad year, THQ noticed most of their sales came when their games were $40 or less (ex. Red Faction) with only their best games getting good sales at $60 (ex. UFC 2009).

THQ's problem is every game they make, they assume its a AAA-quality game so they charge $60 regardless if they didn't spend much to make or made no effort for quality. Before they just blamed the Wii or handhelds for lack of sales but this year their "HD" systems are loosing sales as well.

Now THQ thinks $40 might be the real sweet spot but also said they can easily make up the $20 "loss" on DLC without having to change their thinking on making games.

http://kotaku.com/5688119/a-publisher-doesnt-want-to-sell-60-games-any-more

11-12-2010, 10:13 PM

Gran Turismo 5 re-dated: Nov. 24, 2010.

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/113/1133328p1.html

1031 cars (http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-11-12-gt5-a-list-of-1031-cars)

Fignuts

11-13-2010, 12:36 AM

That is completely and utterly unnecessary.

Actually feel pity for achievement whores if there is some sort of "use every car" achievement.

Funky Fly

11-13-2010, 02:19 AM

I'd be like fuck this game if it were like that, and I am only a part time whore.

#BROKEN Hasney

11-13-2010, 12:52 PM

What's wrong with choice? Fuck getting them all, but if some guy wants to use a Clio ahead of my Civic, then more choice is more power to us.

Vietnamese Crippler

11-13-2010, 03:02 PM

500 variants are Nissan Skylines, I'm sure :shifty:

Vietnamese Crippler

11-13-2010, 03:03 PM

Can't wait to drive the Top Gear Test Track, btw.

D Mac

11-13-2010, 03:50 PM

The new Need for Speed, Hot Pursuit is getting damn good reviews already. Might be picking it up next week.

Emperor Smeat

11-13-2010, 06:52 PM

Developers of Angry Birds planning to release the game on Xbox Live Arcade and Wiiware but haven't decided on a release date. They also plan to release the game on PSN and the handhelds at a future date but for now XBLA and Wiiware is getting the game first.

Also announced was no sequel is being developed although they hinted the next game might take on the role of being the Pig in the current game.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/11/angrybirds_01.jpg
http://kotaku.com/5688964/angry-birds-planning-xbox-live-wii-releases

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In other news, Assassin's Creed Brotherhood's manual is only 1 page long since the rest of the manual is inside the game itself and also assumes you owned previous Assassin's Creed games.

It is very similar to EA Sports manuals that are short but assume you've played previous games in the series.

Funky Fly

11-14-2010, 09:07 PM

Hate EA sports manuals for that very reason. 23486723576239456935 million things that never get explained.

Emperor Smeat

11-15-2010, 07:49 PM

Blizzard rumored to be bringing Diablo III to Xbox 360 and PS3 based on rumors of them starting to hire more console-specific programmers and staff. PC and Mac versions still expected to be released first.

Currently the game is being developed for the PC and Mac but Blizzard has ported their RPG games to consoles before in the past although nothing since the PS1/N64 days.

It is expected that Blizzard will either use the PC version and downgrade the game on consoles to make it work or less likely "water-down" the PC version to make all versions as identical as possible.

http://kotaku.com/5690583/blizzard-seeking-diablo-iii-talent-for-console-development

RoXer

11-15-2010, 09:34 PM

otification of Temporary Suspension: Inappropriate content in your profile [ DO NOT REPLY to this email address. It is not monitored. ] This email is to notify you that your Xbox LIVE account privileges have been temporarily suspended due to inappropriate content in the profile for your gamertag. The inappropriate content was discovered in the Motto, Bio, Location, Name and/or Personal Picture. The following content for the gamertag associated with this Windows Live ID was brought to our attention and was determined to have violated the Code of Conduct and/or Terms of Use: Motto DispensingAnErection Your profile was brought to the at

RoXer

11-15-2010, 09:35 PM

Well that didn't copy/paste correctly.

I was banned

Kalyx triaD

11-15-2010, 09:37 PM

Somebody ratted you out.

Drakul

11-15-2010, 11:17 PM

I'm guessing because it had the word "erection" in it. Although, technically, the erection you were dispensening could have been a statue or monument. :shifty:

The motto is only rude if the person reading it has such a mind. It's not like it said "Dispensing a RAGING boner".

Drakul

11-16-2010, 01:53 AM

Suddenly have the urge to play Sims 3 on PC. Did a test and my pc just falls short of the requirements. The website that tests the pc came back with all this stuff I don't even understand. My pc failed in just two areas.

RAM
Minimum: (XP) 1 GB RAM; (Vista/7) 1.5 GB RAM
You Have: 895.2 MB

[I]Video Card
Minimum: 128 MB Video Card, with support for Pixel Shader 2.0 (NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 or above / ATI Radeon 9500 or above / Intel GMA 3-series or above)
You Have: GeForce 7025 / NVIDIA nForce 630a

Features: Minimum attributes of your Video Card
------- -------------Required-- --You Have
Video RAM:-----------128 MB---- 512.0 MB
3D:--------------------Yes---------Yes
Pixel Shader version:----2.0---------3.0

Now I understand the RAM issue and how to fix it but I don't understand how my video card can be insufficiant when it has more RAM tham required, has 3D and has a higher version of Pixel Shader.
I must be missing something here. Can anyone let me know?

It says I can run Spore without any issues but Im put off by the things I've read about Spore installing monitoring software on your PC. Is that true or false?

LoDownM

11-16-2010, 02:22 AM

What you mean DRM?

Drakul

11-16-2010, 03:00 AM

Yeah, I looked it up and I think that's what I meant. Not sure why I read it was a monitoring software. It's actually some kind of rootkit.

#BROKEN Hasney

11-16-2010, 05:18 AM

Is the graphics card on-board, as in not seperate? I'm guessing it is judging by the amount of RAM you have (as the video card will be hogging some).

I'm guessing your video card fails in terms of model number, as on-board cards can be clocked a lot slower than dedicated ones.

D Mac

11-16-2010, 06:30 AM

A Marvel Comics pinball table is coming to Pinball FX 2. :cool:

BigDaddyCool

11-16-2010, 10:26 AM

Vietnamese Crippler

11-16-2010, 10:50 AM

#BROKEN Hasney

11-16-2010, 10:55 AM

Are you a girl? Because that game is for girls. My girlfriend loves it, but it is cool because she is infact a girl. If you want to play it and you aren't a girl, you become a girl, and no one likes a tranny. Well besides Hanso.

I like The Sims as I am a massive sociopath and enjoy killing members of a family in pools of their own urine after breaking up said family by sleeping with everyone in the neighbourhood.

BigDaddyCool

11-16-2010, 11:12 AM

The Sims is for girls, faggots, and fat nerds that don't know happiness.

Drakul

11-16-2010, 11:27 AM

Playing a game that simulates you being a god or having complete control over peoples lives doesn't seem girly to me.

Running around in muddy arenas full of sweating macho musclemen with large over compensatory weaponery on the other hand, sounds like something a girl would enjoy or maybe a gay man. Gears of War being the biggest example. Plunging your red hot "chainsaw gun" into another mans sweaty, quivering body doesn't exactly gain it any hetero points either.

No idea if you play GoW at all but just saying Sims games are no where near the gayest games in the mainstream.

BigDaddyCool

11-16-2010, 12:52 PM

No, sims is gay. I don't play Gears of War, but Sims is gay and lame. "I'm going to pretend I have friends and a family, then I'm going to just make them fat and die." That is what girls do. Men go out and kill things face to face with a chain saw gun.

BigDaddyCool

11-16-2010, 12:53 PM

I'll agree overly macho games are for 13 year old boys "who don't grasp the difference between being a real man and being a macho meat head" and closet fags. But Sims is still gay. I play Red Dead and Monday Night Combat.

Emperor Smeat

11-16-2010, 09:15 PM

Activision willing to get rid of Bizzare Creations after owning them for 3 years. Lack of sales and reception to both Blur and James Bond: Blood Stone made made Activision want to drop the studio.

Before the move to Activision, the studio was responsible for Geometry Wars and Project Gotham Racing series on both the Xbox and Xbox 360.

Activision's current plan is to sell the studio but if no buyers appear, they are willing to shut the studio down for good.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/11/bizaare.jpg
http://kotaku.com/5691455/bizarre-devs-took-a-chance-may-get-closedbizarre-devs-took-a-chance-may-get-closed

alvarado52

11-16-2010, 11:16 PM

In other news, i bought the new xbox controller

Xero

11-16-2010, 11:48 PM

Congrats.

alvarado52

11-17-2010, 12:02 AM

Its pretty good actually. The D pad is very passable for fighting games. My gf had a habit of knocking my controller off the couch, so both of my old controllers RB's went to shit.

So i figured why not. That, and Amazon is selling it for $51, plus i had $20 credit with them.

Kalyx triaD

11-17-2010, 12:34 AM

Want to try the dpad. KoF2002 bitches.

And Street Fighter.

OssMan

11-17-2010, 12:41 AM

Just finished my file of Final Fantasy 9 that I started maybe a year ago where I got everybody up to level 99 and did pretty much everything. I ended up getting almost exactly 100 hours total.

Funky Fly

11-17-2010, 01:13 AM

Kalyx triaD

11-17-2010, 02:26 AM

I happen to like Blur. Another victim of the "_____-Killer" type marketing. You just don't do that.

Funky Fly

11-17-2010, 03:17 AM

I played the demo. Seemed like a decent game, but it's not better than the game it claimed to be better than. It's not mind blowing, but I'd bargain bin it. Seems like Activision killed off what made them great by making them do things outside of the way they do things. I'm sure if BC were left to their own devices they'd have more interesting shit to offer.

#BROKEN Hasney

11-17-2010, 03:18 AM

Not really just the marketings faut, it wasn't bad but it sure as hell wasn't good either.

Also the timescales wouldn't have helped. Think Blur was the first game they released on time, every PGR and MSR were delayed.

Kalyx triaD

11-17-2010, 03:28 AM

Blur was feature rich and more strategic than Mario Kart. It actually played closer to Diddy Kong Racing, which I personally preferred to Mario Kart... so it was my cup of tea right off the bat. I also find the online community pleasant compared to the Reach and CoD fraternities. Overall I think it was well made, hearkened back to good times.

Bad marketing, I say again, because most complaints I heard referenced the anti-Mario Kart promotion.

#BROKEN Hasney

11-17-2010, 03:31 AM

Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, that marketing played a part, I just feel it wasn't the only reason for it failing.

And most small communities online seem much more pleasant if there's no guns involved.

Kalyx triaD

11-17-2010, 03:34 AM

I guess yelling "Tetris, bitch!" and being a jock over the more casual fair would make you look silly.

That's a YouTube parody video in the making.

#BROKEN Hasney

11-17-2010, 10:38 AM

Codemasters: Pre-Owned games could lead to piracy.

Many inane things have been said by publishers and developers about pre-owned games, but Codemasters CEO Rod Cousens has, quite possibly, made the most ridiculous argument yet -- stating that secondhand games pave the way for piracy because of reasons.

"Pre-owned isn't actually new -- in 1981 there was Buy and Try, and that type of stuff," says the Codies overlord. "The difference was that it wasn't a significant percentage of the market, and it was never promoted as aggressively through the retail community as it is today.

"You could argue for the retailer in that context, but also what it's done is kill things like subsequent exploitation in platinum and classics ... and it expands the potential for piracy by default. They would argue that prices would suggest otherwise - I would say not, because by the time you get down through the food chain, a thing gets more and more ripped off."

Cousens does suggest that retailers and publishers find a middle ground, which is reasonable, but his unjustified assertion that pre-owned could create more piracy reeks of the kind of scaremongering tactics found on wartime propaganda posters. Pre-owned games are to publishers was communism was to America in the sixties.

Yeah, fuck off with that

http://www.destructoid.com/codemasters-pre-owned-games-could-lead-to-piracy-187879.phtml

#BROKEN Hasney

11-17-2010, 10:46 AM

Hell may have forzen over though, I'm totally agreeing with Kotick here:

Activision CEO and rust-flavored harbinger of Hell's eternal night Bobby Kotick has said something that isn't evil. In fact, he's criticizes the rather sleazy "online pass" initiative that Electronic Arts and THQ have recently embraced, because the scheme isn't in the best interests of the consumer.

"We can do some of these things that EA and others have done," he explains. "We actually don't think it's in the best interest of the gamer, and so we've chosen not to.

"From a financial perspective you look at it and say, 'Okay, well the retailer is not paying us anything for the privilege of doing it and you know we invest all this capital in making a game and we are not getting any credit, any return on their resale of the game,' but, you know something, the best way to keep people engaged in your game experience is keep giving them more great content.

"I think you always need to be sensitive to that relationship and not crossing the line to a place where the customer feels like they have been taken advantage of."

Of course, it's in Activision's best interest to make sure everybody has free and easy access to the multiplayer, because then it gets to sell more $15 map packs. This, of course, throws up an interesting question -- what would you rather have? Expensive DLC, or online passes? Exactly which is the lesser of two evils?

http://www.destructoid.com/bobby-kotick-criticizes-online-passes-187795.phtml

Emperor Smeat

11-17-2010, 03:58 PM

To be fair, he did try to come up with a way to have all future Activision games be on an online subscription or pay-to-play model regardless of consoles. It wouldn't have been as bad as the online pass since he wasn't as upset over used sales as EA and THQ were.

Only reason it didn't occur was due to every studio Activision owning being against the idea.

Funky Fly

11-17-2010, 05:03 PM

Frankly, Rock Band, Oblivion, Fallout 3 and Burnout Paradise have it right. Support your fucking games. Keep that DLC coming until you've got the next game out.

Oblivion and Fallout 3 have plenty of DLC supporting the games and keeping them interesting after the initial sales window closes. Then long after the games have come out but far before the next one hits, you get the game of the year edition with the DLC included. That is a friendly way to combat the used market.

Rock Band (meaning the series here) and Burnout Paradise are prime examples of how you treat the consumer:

"Thanks for buying Rock Band 2, here's 20 free songs."

"Oh, changing discs sucks? No prob, Bob. We can't make it free, but here now all your RB1 songs are in RB2. Don't worry we'll keep it cheap"

"So glad you like all our DLC you spent money on, here now it carries over to the next game"

"Glad you like our cars. Oh, btw, here are bikes FOR FREE"

"Not enough? Here's some massive tweaks and a free car pack from time to time mixed in with these paid DLC additions"

Yeah, and don't get at me with the expensive horse armour or the paid local multiplayer. Local MP was never intended for this shit, considering how much they poured into online. And it's fucking horse armour. You don't need it, so don't lose sleep over it.

Kalyx triaD

11-17-2010, 05:29 PM

Tony Hawk Shred Bombs:

According to Cowen & Company analyst Doug Creutz, the second plastic skateboard installment of the Tony Hawk franchise only managed to move 3,000 copies during its first week of release.

11-17-2010, 05:43 PM

dunno how old this is, but lol

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/comment/9/2010/11/825a20a70c906f5b5d475b14ef577350/340x.jpg

Kalyx triaD

11-17-2010, 05:48 PM

wtf

Emperor Smeat

11-17-2010, 09:05 PM

Gamestop leaks out plan by Sega to release a compilation disc of Dreamcast games. Its expected to include the games released on XBLA and PSN with a potential for a few unreleased others.

The article and picture is mostly about the collection coming to the Xbox 360 but other places have confirmed it also planned for PS3.

Expected price is about $29.99 and a Feb. 15, 2011 release date.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/11/500x_gamestop_dcc.jpg
http://kotaku.com/5692792/theres-a-dreamcast-collection-coming-to-xbox-360-says-gamestop

11-17-2010, 09:37 PM

oh shit, who would want a complication disc. nothing but a headache

11-17-2010, 09:37 PM

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Kalyx triaD

11-18-2010, 05:17 AM

OnLive, the streaming service that has the potential to change forever the way we play (and purchase) video games, will begin selling its small TV "console" tomorrow. And it's got a rather attractive price-point to go along with it.

The small unit, which plugs into your internet connection and then into your TV - bringing you the OnLive service - goes on sale for $99, which when you consider the service now no longer includes a subscription fee, is a pretty good price, especially since a control pad is also included.

In addition to the box and pad, purchasers will also be given a $50 credit with OnLive, which means you'll get your first game for free. While OnLive will begin taking orders for the box tomorrow, consoles won't ship until December 2.

OnLive has been available for a little while now on the PC, but it's expected this "console" will be the service's bread and butter.

Gotta say, I like the 'console' controller. Wings are kinda fat but I love the dpad.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/11/onlinepair.jpg

Xero

11-18-2010, 12:25 PM

Emperor Smeat

11-18-2010, 08:47 PM

id Software or more specifically John Carmack (Doom series creator) wants to create a game for Kinect but also hints it might be better as an XBLA type and a non-shooter.

Ideally, they would develop the game similar to how they develop games for the iOS platform instead of being a full-blown Xbox 360 or PS3 game.

"I can't use Kinect for our real games; there just isn't a place for our current FPSes on there," Carmack said. "But it's an interesting technology, and an Xbox Live game would be the perfect platform to do something like that on, at about the same scale of [a game for] an iOS device."

http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQhMQQ1LZ5PH4zmXIhQ8dGMYJGRVnIxyS6fCYqqM6OtqAjDt15V8g
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/11/18/carmack-kinect-xbla/

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In other news, former president of Sony of Europe division hints that its possible in the near future (10-15 years), Microsoft and Sony might merge their video game companies together or at least co-develop a console as a way to reduce rising costs in hardware and gaming development.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=276488

OssMan

11-18-2010, 09:25 PM

Just turned on my 77 hour file of Pokemon Red that I hadn't played in a while, probably 75% of those hours were spent in the Safari Zone trying to catch Tauros. Anyway I beat the Elite Four just now, not sure if it was first time in this file mates

Emperor Smeat

11-19-2010, 09:06 PM

Gran Turismo 5 optional install range anywhere between 256 MB and a few minutes for the basic installation to around 10 GB and 50 minutes for a full install.

The benefits for the 10 GB install is mostly to speed up waiting for an online race and quicker loading screens. Both benefits can be negated if other racers in a track don't install before racing online since the installation is not mandatory.

More space is needed due to the game installing/unzipping itself while you play since the initial install only uses up 6GB and then does the rest while playing.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/11/gt5delay.jpg
http://kotaku.com/5694720/gt5-install-hope-you-have-10-gb-and-an-hour-to-spare

Kalyx triaD

11-19-2010, 09:08 PM

Fuck. Gotta admit, though, after seeing the difference in Halo Reach after installing it - I'm gonna install just about every game in my 'Box.

Xero

11-19-2010, 11:57 PM

Feels like I should play a JRPG, but I have none. Except FF9, which I am missing the first disk to.

Funky Fly

11-20-2010, 01:54 AM

Go get Lost Odyssey.

Kalyx triaD

11-20-2010, 01:56 AM

Some Capcom news later today...

#BROKEN Hasney

11-20-2010, 02:01 AM

Take it to the Videogame Announcement Of Upcoming News thread.

Kalyx triaD

11-20-2010, 02:26 AM

Listening to Eminem on YouTube while looking at movie trailers right now.

RoXer

11-20-2010, 02:27 AM

BUT NOT WATCHING FRINGE

omg

Kalyx triaD

11-20-2010, 02:28 AM

That reminds me, gonna go catch some X-Files.

Drakul

11-20-2010, 02:56 AM

Some Capcom news later today...

It's rumoured to be more characters for SSFIV AE.

Kalyx triaD

11-20-2010, 04:08 AM

I was thinking a proper announcement that AE will be DLC but we'll see.

#BROKEN Hasney

11-20-2010, 05:06 AM

Hopefully it's of Rainbow Edition. Need fireballs coming from my lightning kick.

Kalyx triaD

11-20-2010, 06:30 AM

Super Famicom is 20 years old. I repeat, the SNES is a 20 year old console.

OssMan

11-20-2010, 02:04 PM

http://www.the-king-of-games.com/kog/zoomup/img/nt0042r-001.jpg

I want this shirt so bad

Xero

11-20-2010, 04:26 PM

From 1UP:

http://www.1up.com/media?id=3862499&type=lg

With Electronic Arts' new NBA Jam receiving critical and commercial success, it now appears that they may be planning to revive another classic Midway over-the-top arcade sports franchise: NFL Blitz.

Giant Bomb reports that a "trustworthy" tipster told them a new Blitz is in development at EA Tiburon, the same studio behind the Madden NFL series. Besides the fact the studio has tons of experience making football videogames, this would also make sense since Mark Turmell, one of the original creators behind the Blitz series, is currently employed there as a senior creative director. The game is reportedly very early in development, and likely won't be ready until 2012.

While this is completely unconfirmed by EA (so far they've only given a "we don't comment on rumor or speculation" response), it's worth noting that it is at least possible -- EA didn't just pick up the NBA Jam license from Midway, but a few of their other defunct sports franchise licenses, including Blitz.

Speaking of licenses, if it turns out EA is indeed making a new Blitz, then that likely means the series will once again be able to actually use the NFL license. Since EA has had exclusive rights to the NFL license for videogames since 2004, the last couple of Blitz games from Midway were forced to use generic teams and players.

:y:

#BROKEN Hasney

11-20-2010, 04:33 PM

I actually love what they've done with Jam, so I'd love this.

Emperor Smeat

11-20-2010, 05:04 PM

I thought the NFL didn't want the brutal hits, taunts, or over-the-top action Blitz was known for which is why there hasn't been a Blitz in years.

NBA, NHL, and MLB didn't oppose the "Blitz" style in their arcade games which is why Midway was allowed a lot of freedom in making them.

#BROKEN Hasney

11-20-2010, 05:07 PM

It might still just be Blitz, which I wouldn't be opposed to. NBA Jam needs real players, Blitz has dudes in helmets!

Xero

11-20-2010, 05:13 PM

Fucking TV-PG NFL...

OssMan

11-21-2010, 02:14 AM

What happened to you not liking sports

D Mac

11-21-2010, 06:40 AM

I love the "Bone Breaking X Rays" in Blitz the League. Probably won't be in the new one. :(

#BROKEN Hasney

11-21-2010, 06:42 AM

Yeah, it will be like the arcade Blitz, not The League.

Which is a damn shame actually, loved The League.

D Mac

11-21-2010, 06:59 AM

Xero

11-21-2010, 05:10 PM

What happened to you not liking sports

I hate sports. I enjoy video game sports.

But arcade-style games. Not a fan of Madden or the NBA games but love Blitz and NBA Jam.

Found a Blitz 2000 arcade unit at an arcade this summer. The joystick was broken but it was still awesome.

Kalyx triaD

11-21-2010, 05:27 PM

NFL Street 2 >>> Blitz series

Fucking miss that gem. The series bombed after NFLS2. Street 3 sucked. Tour sucked. Madden Arcade sucked.

#BROKEN Hasney

11-21-2010, 05:34 PM

Nah, NFL Street always sucked hard.

Kalyx triaD

11-21-2010, 05:44 PM

You also like Virtua Fighter more than Tekken.

#BROKEN Hasney

11-21-2010, 05:51 PM

Exactly. Glad you see I'm right about this NFL Street thing then.

Kalyx triaD

11-21-2010, 06:08 PM

Sure.

11-22-2010, 01:09 PM

#BROKEN Hasney

11-22-2010, 01:13 PM

The REAL driving simulator.

Vietnamese Crippler

11-22-2010, 01:50 PM

That was amazing.

Vietnamese Crippler

11-22-2010, 01:50 PM

Also, I can't wait to play GT5 :mad:

#BROKEN Hasney

11-22-2010, 03:12 PM

To be fair, Go Karts don't usually have reverse gears and one forward gear and a typical reverse gear has the same range as a 1st gear. Reverse was probably added because if you spun a kart, it would stall and you'd be out.

Kinda hate them for having that in though, of you're trying to make it hyper real, make it fucking hyper-real.

RoXer

11-22-2010, 03:43 PM

DaveBrawl

11-22-2010, 05:29 PM

I don't like the fact that they don't seem to have the Nascar Dodge Charger in the game even though they have they Ford, Chevy and Toyota.

Vietnamese Crippler

11-22-2010, 07:41 PM

How is the NASCAR license handled? I know they've got a lot (or all?) of the cars but how many tracks do they have? And will there be a season mode? Or will be racing a generic oval track against 5 other NASCAR class cars all taking the same line in wonderful Gran Turismo fashion?

Not a NASCAR fan, just curious.

I'm pretty sure it'll be like all the other games and NASCAR will be it's own "challenge" (e.g. you have to win five races to clear the challenge).

Emperor Smeat

11-22-2010, 07:54 PM

Sony to unveil a new "Exclusive Playstation 3" game in a special event showcase the day after Spike's VGA show occurs.

So far its rumored to be Uncharted 3 (to be shown at the VGAs) or another game already announced in the past.

Unlikely it will be a brand new title or series but the odds are the game gets leaked before the event since Sony is horrible at keeping secrets.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/11/playstation_3_reveal.jpg
http://kotaku.com/5694814/sony-has-exclusive-playstation-3-reveal-the-day-after-spike-vgas

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In related news, Sony set a embargo on all Grand Turismo 5 reviews until November 24 and even then no online servers are being set to help the reviewers. Also leaked was the game itself is around 19-21 GBs in disc size.

Funky Fly

11-23-2010, 02:47 AM

Review embargos suck hard. It's usually a sign that a game is not at all up to par. It's Gran Turismo, so I expect the game will still be good, but if they're being gay about it, it's probably not gonna live up to the hype.

Kalyx triaD

11-23-2010, 06:37 AM

Fignuts

11-23-2010, 11:57 AM

What the hell was that?

BigDaddyCool

11-23-2010, 12:09 PM

Cause it looks gay as fuck.

Kalyx triaD

11-23-2010, 12:45 PM

Some new fighting game. Looks like Blazeblue with tagging, so I wanna play.

#BROKEN Hasney

11-23-2010, 12:58 PM

See how it plays, but it's looking awful in that vid...

BigDaddyCool

11-23-2010, 01:52 PM

Seriously, who still plays 2D fighting games?

Xero

11-23-2010, 02:02 PM

Nerds.

BigDaddyCool

11-23-2010, 02:06 PM

Are they even nerdier than you?

Emperor Smeat

11-23-2010, 08:46 PM

Bethesda announced they are working on Elder Scrolls V and it will be a direct sequel to their ES IV: Oblivion game released 3-4 years ago. The game itself has been in semi-development for 2 years but hasn't gotten a full team working on it until after Fallout New Vegas was done.

Since its using the old Oblivion engine, its assumed there will be big worlds but also a lot of bugs since Bethesda hasn't fixed their engine after all these years. It is also assumed to be arriving on PC, Xbox 360, and PS3 but only PC was specifically named.

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/11/elderscrolls.jpg
http://kotaku.com/5697047/report-elder-scrolls-v-is-a-direct-sequel-to-oblivion
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In other news, Nintendo returns to CES expo after 16-year absence and most likely will show off more of the 3DS and its games.

16 years ago, Nintendo and a few other game companies got upset CES would always "neglect" video game companies in their booth and press placement and decided to form their own expo called E3.

11-23-2010, 08:49 PM

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2010/11/bttfscreenshot2.jpg

Fignuts

11-23-2010, 09:02 PM

After Fallout, I really don't care to go back to the oblivion setting unless they overhaul the engine. Mainly because Dragon Age just does the fantasy setting so much better.

#BROKEN Hasney

11-24-2010, 01:39 AM

I disagree. Dragon Age doesn't have the full feeling of a living breathing world like Oblivion does. I love both, but in totally different ways.

Funky Fly

11-24-2010, 02:22 AM

Wanna play that new fighter. Looks fun as hell. Woo Elder Scrolls V.

#BROKEN Hasney

11-24-2010, 03:34 AM

I'm probably goinna love GT5, but this last paragraph of the Joystiq review had me loling

Here's the deal: If you're one of those car nuts I mentioned earlier, here's your game. Have fun, we'll see you in a year when you finally leave the house. If you're not in that group -- you like, even love racing games, but care less about tuning and more about the thrill of the race -- GT5 is like walking in on a group of physicists discussing string theory and asking who wants to go toss around a ball for a bit. You're looking to have fun; they're only interested in studying the math behind how it bounces.

D Mac

11-24-2010, 05:17 AM

YESSSSS Elder Scrolls 5

Kalyx triaD

11-24-2010, 09:52 PM

http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/188432-dress-up-your-xbox-360-avatars-like-tron/Anon%20with%20disc%203-noscale.jpg
http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/188432-dress-up-your-xbox-360-avatars-like-tron/Abraxas-noscale.jpg

OssMan

11-26-2010, 03:01 AM

I win Xenogears

#BROKEN Hasney

11-27-2010, 07:12 AM

Because my 360 is a launch day core model (still RROD free!), it doesn't have the AP25 protection. Word lyf.

Xero

11-27-2010, 09:53 AM

Yeah, keep bragging about being RROD free.

Drakul

11-27-2010, 01:07 PM

Colonel Sanders is in the new Phantasy Star for PSP btw.
http://cache-04.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/11/20101126-034627.jpg

http://cache-03.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/11/20101126-034750.jpg

http://cache-02.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/11/20101126-034817.jpg

http://cache.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/11/20101126-034842.jpg

In other news. When I bought Pacman Championship Edition DX, I didn't get charged. So I got a pretty awesome game for free.

Anyone interested in ilomilo, the XBLA game due out in a couple weeks, can get it now through this secret (and legit site) here (http://wp7supersecretaccess.ilomilo.com/page_2.php). You type in the code and get an XBLA code to DL the demo. You can then buy it if you like it for 800 MSP.

I enjoyed it and bought it with what should have been my Pacman MSPs. It's a cute puzzle game where you have to navigate these two thumb like characters around strange 360 degrees level to get them to meet up with each other.

Fignuts

11-27-2010, 01:11 PM

lol what

Drakul

11-27-2010, 01:13 PM

Accidently left out the best picture.

http://cache-01.gawkerassets.com/assets/images/9/2010/11/20101126-034829.jpg

Kalyx triaD

11-27-2010, 01:41 PM

lol what

Xero

11-27-2010, 02:50 PM

Sega loves KFC.

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g122/sandman3g/The_wrong_way-431x300.jpg

SlickyTrickyDamon

11-27-2010, 03:20 PM

Sega loves KFC.

http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g122/sandman3g/The_wrong_way-431x300.jpg

Medical Marijuana depository!!! Rasta!!!

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Emperor Smeat

11-27-2010, 04:41 PM

Sega set to reset or clear all Sonic 4 leaderboards due to massive cheating. No word if Sega will also ban the cheaters but the game's community has been requesting something be done for the last 3 weeks.

Xbox 360 leaderbaords have already been reset but no news on when the leaderboards for other systems will be done. Also not discussed was how Sega is going to deal with cheaters once Episode 2 arrives next year.

http://kotaku.com/5700177/rampant-cheating-results-in-sonic-scoreboard-reset

OssMan

11-27-2010, 10:01 PM

Just got Xenosaga
Samurai Champloo Sidetracked
Red Dead Revolver

SlickyTrickyDamon

11-27-2010, 10:58 PM

Just got Xenosaga
Samurai Champloo Sidetracked
Red Dead Revolver

Red Dead Revolver? The original? Where did you pick that up and for how much?

OssMan

11-28-2010, 12:30 PM

At this local video game store www.estarland.com and it was like $12.

Emperor Smeat

11-28-2010, 05:47 PM

Looks like there won't be an NBA Jam sequel for a long while based on pre-Black Friday sales and potentially if Blitz fails to sell, forget the whole Midway arcade style games from EA.

NBA Jam sales so far are around 94,000 for the Wii with 10,000 for PS3 and 15,000 for Xbox 360.

To put it in perspective, NBA 2k11 outsold Jam on the Wii with a later release date and outsold Jam on PS3 and Xbox 360 since Jam's release on the HD systems.

Xero

11-28-2010, 05:54 PM

A. Shouldn't have been a full-priced game.
B. NBA Jam isn't really something that needs yearly sequels. I'd be happy at once per generation.

Funky Fly

11-28-2010, 05:57 PM

Red Dead Revolver? The original? Where did you pick that up and for how much?
Should be able to find a copy in pretty much any bargain bin for $12 - $15. I wouldn't bother though. The game wasn't made by Rockstar, so it's pretty run of the mill for an early current gen shooter.They only bought it for the story.
Looks like there won't be an NBA Jam sequel for a long while based on pre-Black Friday sales and potentially if Blitz fails to sell, forget the whole Midway arcade style games from EA.

NBA Jam sales so far are around 94,000 for the Wii with 10,000 for PS3 and 15,000 for Xbox 360.

To put it in perspective, NBA 2k11 outsold Jam on the Wii with a later release date and outsold Jam on PS3 and Xbox 360 since Jam's release on the HD systems.

lol I wouldn't pay more than $15 for an NBA Jam title today. I guess most people agree with me to some extent.