Gaming thoughts of the day

[Tuffty]

I do believe I'm at that infamous point in Dark Souls that gives players a lot of grief. Ornstein and Smough. Two bosses at once. Must be at least the 20th time I've tried to get past them now. Fuck my life.

[Crimson Ryan]

Interested in Anarchy Reigns now Sega have said it's launching at £20.

[Bluecast]

Interested in Anarchy Reigns now Sega have said it's launching at £20.

I'm in

[OL]

I wonder why they're going budget with it?
From the demo, it felt incredibly high-quality. One that I'd easily pay the full 60 bucks for.
I could understand dropping it to 50, or maybe even 40, considering that it's been out for a bit already in Japan. But 20 bucks?
Granted, I'm sure they can afford to do it like that since it was already translated in the Japanese release (or at least the demo had full english subtitles and an english dub already in it), so it's likely a bit of a Phantom Dust situation.
Still, they could have easily gotten away with a slightly higher price at launch.

[Bluecast]

^ Well he said 20 pounds so maybe closer to 30$. Still yeah. I think they want to makeup for it in volume. PG games struggle to sell and maybe with a budget price people are more apt to snatch it up.

[OL]

True. Well, good for us then.

Was surprised to see that Aksys actually decided to dub the short anime "prequel" for Virtue's Last Reward.
The game itself is supposed to have both the English and the Japanese voice tracks. As usual, I'll probably be going for the Japanese track first, but it's good to see that some legitimate effort was put into the dub as well.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h4xPoe4w1g[/youtube]

[OL]

Was just recording some footage of the original MGS, and man, that brought me back. It's amazing how despite having played through the game over and over, it can still bring me right back to 1998 every time I power it on. Still impressive as hell, even to this day.
I really miss the old Shinkawa-drawn Codec portraits. As illogical as it may sound, I've always wished they would have kept using those throughout the series instead of switching to 3D models during the Codec scenes.
And while I'm on it, I really wish that Yoji Shinkawa would be given free reign to come up with a game of his own, designing the artwork and characters, then collaborating with the rest of Kojima Productions to turn it into a full game. That'd be amazing. Looking at some of the guy's personal artwork and designs from his sketchbooks, he's just got such a great, original design sense, certainly one of the best in the entire videogame industry. I'd love to see what he would do if given the opportunity to create whatever he wants.

[Bluecast]

We have consoles more than powerful enough now. We need a MGS game even if a non cannon spinoff using the artwork that has been on the game covers forever. Whole game in that style with colors only being accents.

[Crimson Ryan]

^ Well he said 20 pounds so maybe closer to 30$. Still yeah. I think they want to makeup for it in volume. PG games struggle to sell and maybe with a budget price people are more apt to snatch it up.

Yeah, $30. Should of said that beforehand. Probably to try and limit import sales since there was a lot of rage after the delay..

[Bluecast]

US dollar is becoming the new Peso

[Luvly KM]

So its my birthday (not why im posting) and i have a good friend who works quality assurance at sega... He knows that i like shenmue etc etc.. And he has just sent me a birthday message saying that he is currently looking for sailors... Lets just say that I know him well enough to know what that could mean

also, i just finished Nier. Good ending revelation... Although i Thought the character could have been more philosophically shocked and inquisitive.. An idea such as that has the potential for a full blown charlie kaufman movie... A well earned 7/10

[Who Really Cares?]

Happy Birthday.

Now force him to spill the beans on Shenmue HD.

[Bluecast]

I downloaded steam. I thought it's been 5 years since I gave up on it.Guess what IT'S DOING THE SAME SHIT IT DID 5 YEARS AGO! Steam sucks shit fucking monkey nuts.

[St. Elmo's Fire]

I downloaded steam. I thought it's been 5 years since I gave up on it.Guess what IT'S DOING THE SAME SHIT IT DID 5 YEARS AGO! Steam sucks shit fucking monkey nuts.

Agreed, I dislike it with quite a passion too...

[Sonikku]

I remember Steam thinking they were all cute trying to connect to the internet whenever I wanted to play an offline game. (Thank god it now has an offline mode, now it just fiddles with trying to connect to an account every time I launch something before launching the app) Wanna play that Half Life 2 game? TOO BAD. Gotta make you download some big update over dial up on my ATI system to improve performance with Nvidia cards. Also the update isn't optional, you HAVE to download it and you can't play your offline single player games until you do. Of course that is assuming the downloader isn't doing some wonky shit that isn't crashing or hitting some other kind of ridiculous snag along the way to begin with.