Target Earth, awesome game that I was never able to beat without the cheat.

You sexy bastard.
Yeah, Target Earth is a beast. Excellent though. Prequel/predecessor to Cybernator on the SNES (if that means anything to you Thief), but waaay more difficult.

Rocket Knight Adventures starts out pretty moderate in difficulty, but ramps up a short way in. It's one of those where you really shouldn't be fooled by its cartoony aesthetic; this ain't no walk in the park.

One of my absolute favorite games on the system (and I say this having little-to-no nostalgic attachment to it, since I only latched on to it a short few years ago) is Ranger X. Such an incredibly high-quality game in all ways.
I personally don't find it all that difficult, but I've also beaten it on the hardest difficulty setting three or four times now, so it might just be that I know all the ins and outs. But in most coverage I've read about it, people seem to find it especially challenging. I imagine the difficulty for them stems from that fact that the controls are very avant-garde, so there's a bit of a learning curve. There are separate buttons for shooting either left or right, so it's a bit of an odd ball as 16-bit shooters go. But once you're used to it, I don't actually think it's all that hard. But that might just be me.
Even if it ain't hard, you should still play it for the amazing graphics, unique gameplay, and inventive-as-hell levels (there's an entirely vertical level where you scale a building, and even a pretty focused "stealth" mission).
Been wanting to make my own video on it, but it's hard to find any usable information about it since it's so obscure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmkyHnh-lWM

Just snagged this on ebay. Been wanting to find it for ages.

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Soundtrack to the arcade version of Burning Force, and in absolutely excellent condition no less. "Used," but so completely intact it may as well be new.
A cool 20 bucks. Last copy I saw was somewhere around 50, and the condition was nowhere near as nice.
So yeah, pretty excited to get this.

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Freshly arrived :

Some uncommon/rare? clear files, guide book, cards and What's Shenmue

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And to completely contradict what I just said, I've just ordered two things from eBay..

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Limited edition bullet-shaped USB thumb drive branded with Yakuza: Dead Souls. It's only 1GB in size but it'll come in handy for something. A good quality metal enclosure and the novelty of it being a bullet is cool enough.

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Limited edition sauna beach towel with all the clan emblems and "Ryu Ga Gotoku" insignia from Yakuza 5. I won't use it as a towel, instead I had an idea of using as decoration for my room. I think it'll fit nicely..

Next up would be one of those RGG: Ishin hard drive plates for PS4. :eekyum:

New items and some rare Shenmue stuffs :

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Some Japanese sealed copies of Shenmue, card, books, cd, Shenmue PAL EU DC and a rare Shenmue II 2001 promotional poster.

Bio Hazard 5th Anniversary (seems new) :

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And the best part : Shenmue 1999 Calendar only sold during TGS 99 and a set of goods only available during TGS 99 aswell (i've actually tried to find pictures of that calendar before on google, but nothing came out... too bad cause its just beautiful !)

Shenmue 1999 Calendar :

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Its made of glossy paper (?) and very good quality, Render as you can see might not be the best, but right before your eyes, its just wonderful.

And here goes the TGS 99 Set :

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List :

- Bag
- Cards
- Both artbooks (well, one seems more like a pamphlet, the blue one) since it has like no pages... You open it and that's it. However, the other one is heavy and is really like a artbook, awesome stuff
- Shenhua figure
- Strap
- TGS Entry ticket
- TGS Goods selling list (just check the prices guys, thats fucking crazy), the black pen was on sell for 200 yen, rofl... just like 2 euros ? Now its just freaking expensive. Let's not talk about the other one which is the rarest one and was on sell for 2000 yen.

Mugs for 800 yen, posters for 1500 yen... thats just crazy. But i have to say it, the rarest Shenmue item seems to be the original painting for Shenhua, signed, which went for 50 000 yen in 1999. Yet to be seen again, i cant even imagine its price nowadays.
- Shenmue Tshirt
- What's Shenmue
- Main Theme CD
- Mini Notepad Shenmue
- Tattoos

Guess i do have now a nice TGS 1999 set, but i will have to complete it by finding 3 mouse pads (have Ryo's one), 3 posters (have Niao Sun's one) and 2 phone cards (have Ren and Shenhua's one).

Still a long way to go, since there's still the Shenmue watch and some other stuff like all mugs etc. But i will try to complete it within the next 5 years if i can.

So yeah, pretty much, my goal is to get what's left as soon as possible.

If you are selling stuff (you can be a fan but still want to sell something you know :D) or have doubles, let me know ! Thanks !

https://twitter.com/giocorsi/status/436944008934215680

Gio Corsi wrote:#buildingthelist won't announce games until they're real. No false promises, no lies, only real talk. News coming, be ready! #PlayStation

Yeah, I'm hyping again, so shoot me..

Please be good news. I sincerely hope that Sony fucking deliver. If Microsoft are truly bringing back the likes of Phantom Dust then Sony need to step their game up and give these niche games a fighting chance, since they're really boring me lately.

The Yakuza beach towel I bought from eBay. Works quite well as the decoration matches the style of my room.

Embarrassingly, I can only recognise two of the emblems..

Sweet!

Feeling the effects of searching 'Yakuza merchandise' on eBay..

Today's purchases :

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Finally got my hands on those mugs 3/4, missing Niao Sun.

Official OST (no bootleg) complete with cell. And i am done with straps.

Still looking for the last 3 posters i need (quite amusing thinking i have the niao sun one while i am missing her mug lol).

But i am already on a deal for the last 3 posters, but might cost an arm...

If anyone know where i can find the niao sun mug or someone selling it, hit me up !

So Thief (in direct defiance to the implications of his own name, apparently) decided to be supercool and sent some of his Front Mission posters my way. I just swiped these images on the net so I didn't have to take my own (and the last one is just the base image used for the poster, not the poster itself), but all the posters look great. As a nut for both Front Mission and authentic Japanese store posters, this stuff made my week.
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Coolest thing is that each poster is for a different version of the game. First image is the DS version, second is the PS1 version, and I believe the last one was for the SFC version (I think so, at least).

Also, years ago someone on here (for the life of me I can't remember who, it was so long ago) pointed me in the direction of a site called bidJDM where you can buy stuff from Japanese auction sites. So I hopped on there recently and finally decided to try it out. Got myself an original poster for the game Soumatou (which was localized as Deception III: Dark Delusion in the west).
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I just won it this morning though, so I'm still waiting for all the confirmation and whatnot from the site. Having not used it yet, I'm not sure exactly how things go, or how long it all takes.

Oh, and I also preordered Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. The Namco blurbs for it are making it sound like the physical release will be really limited (it's only on Amazon and ClubNamco, and supposedly won't be in stores), with the primary release being on PSN. So I figured I ought to get it while I can.
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Shenhua mousepad and limited edition in one picture (tho some are missing, lack of space)

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The DK31 charging dock for my Xperia Z1 Compact. I previously bought the magnetic charge cable separately, but I've found it too flimsy in cases I need to use the phone whilst connected. This dock makes that aspect slightly less functional but much better aesthetically overall. A trade off I think I'll manage somehow ;-)

FINALLY, after far too long a wait, I got around to ordering the soundtrack to Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage. One of my favorite soundtracks of the past generation, without a doubt, and also one of the best metal soundtracks I've ever heard out of a game.

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One of these days I'll also have to get my hands of the Treasure Box edition of the second game, since it's the only place to get any of the new music composed for that one (such as this face-melting little gem).

OL wrote:

Got these in the summer GOG sale.

I finally started watching Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex 2nd GIG. Its kind of ironic the last couple posts were about anime voice actors in japan reprising their roles, but in this particular case its an american dub of an excellent cast of voice actors reprising their roles. Funny this is also one of the rare animes I prefer watching the dub, for reason I have stated before. I was also thinking about how long I have been listening to these characters and their voice actors, 1998 or so when I first saw the original Ghost in the Shell movie? One of my earliest anime memories is from ghost in the shell when Batou shouts "Get outta the fucking way!" when they are chasing the hacker through the market in the original film.

^^Yeah, it's pretty impressive that some of the dub have actually stuck with it. It's mostly just Richard Epcar (Batou) and William Knight (Aramaki) though. The Major, Togusa, and everyone else had different actors originally.
But yeah, GitS is one of the few cases where I love the dub as much as the original voices. Not sure which I prefer, actually. Japanese is more authentic of course, but the dub is so well-cast that the fact it's in english doesn't detract at all.

Hope you like 2nd Gig by the way. Such a great show. I love the first season of SAC, but I might actually be a bigger fan of how stylish and epic the second season gets. The final few episodes are a pretty tense ride.

As awesome as anticipated. It really helps that the studio are massive fans of the series and are adapting it true to the manga.

I went to anime expo with some friends and my buddy bought this print for me:

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One of my favorite games and such a beautiful print.

I also found this guy who was doing commissions and he drew and colored this in about 15 minutes for me:

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It's Isamu from Macross Plus doing his famous "make hand into Valkyrie" pose.

I freakin' love them both and definitely need to go find some frames for them.

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Only YOU Can Help Bring Yakuza 5 To The West - Do It NOW

As a last-ditch effort to get this series going again in the West, fans on the Official Sega Forums are planning a letter-writing campaign for August 8th, 2014. Fans new and old are being called to take ten minutes out of your day to write a cordial letter to Sega expressing your love for the franchise and your request for Sega to please bring Yakuza 5 to North America and beyond. If each of you reading this would please write a letter, and mail it by August 1st, 2014, it should arrive around the target date of August 8th (depending on the mail system in your country or area, please compensate for the speed of your mail delivery by sending earlier if necessary). Addresses at the links posted.

Can't say I've ever considered writing to a games company before, but it's so painfully easy and even if there's no response, I won't feel I lost a great deal of time and effort. I barely play games at all anymore but I'm still desperate for more Yakuza games..

New fighting game from Namco. I like the over-the-top vibe it's going for, and it appears as if it's going to have more of a free-moving arena style to it, rather than the usual back and forth of most fighting games. Being the fan of Bushido Blade and Urban Reign that I am, that's really appealing in and of itself.
The unfortunate news: it's free-to-play and only slated for PC at the moment.
What a freakin' drag.
Still, if it manages any success, hopefully it'll find a home on consoles in a more legitimate retail form. Looks like it has potential, so here's hoping.

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Wow. The P.T game was fucking incredible to play. The graphics are the best ive ever seen. The lighting is insane. And holy shit was I legitimately scared multiple times. The more I played it the more freaky it got.
This is what the PS4 was made for. And what if they used the Oculus VR headset for this? For those that have played the demo, it would make alot of sense that it would be a compatable game for that kind of thing.
Regardless of that though, simply AWESOME experience. I cant wait for more.

God. Sonic Team used to be so fucking cool.

Yeah, I don't really know, what I was thinking. I like my Snatcher on the Mega CD but this Saturn version is going to be tough. I can't read enough Japanese to know for sure, what option I'm picking and the 32-Bit versions of the game are kinda sucky. The way they've redone some of the graphics and especially the music...

Well, it's still something nice and unique to have and it was pretty cheap, so I'm not complaining.

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Motherfuck.. I really gotta post a pic for a response? That's bullshit.

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Sony Bluetooth Keyboard "BKB10"

My laptop might have an issue with the power board, given it's nearly 5 years old, that's money I'm not prepared to waste on fixing it, so I've bought this keyboard for my Z2. Why do I need a laptop in this day and age if I have a tablet and a keyboard. Will also work with my phone which was a plus.

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Today is a very special and exciting day for all of us at SEGA. Partnering with our friends at Sony Computer Entertainment America, we just revealed our plan to bring Yakuza 5 to the U.S. and Europe at PlayStation Experience in Las Vegas. We also announced that Yakuza 4 and Yakuza: Dead Souls are available on PlayStation Network starting today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0u19ojky4A


We’ve received so many requests from our fans to bring Yakuza 5 to the U.S. and Europe. Yakuza 5 also made the top of the list of Sony’s #BuidingTheList campaign led by Gio Corsi at Sony Computer Entertainment and we were moved by all the support given to Yakuza 5 by the PlayStation community.


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Yakuza 5 continues the epic story of Kazuma Kiryu alongside four other protagonists, following their struggles and conflicts in the seedy underbelly of Japan’s Yakuza underworld. Featuring a new graphics engine versus its predecessor, Yakuza 5 takes players to five major Japanese cities to venture through a life of crime and power.


Yakuza 5 features more mini-games than previous titles, a modified battle system as well as enhanced customizations and interactions in the signature hostess bars of the series. In addition to these features, Yakuza 5 also introduces “Another Drama” which is a series of side stories that focus on each protagonist in-depth and are separate from the main story of the game.


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Allow me to also share messages from Toshihiro Nagoshi, the Executive Director of Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio and the General Producer of the Yakuza series and Masayoshi Yokoyama, the Producer of Yakuza 5.

“After receiving so many requests from fans of the series, we have decided to bring Yakuza 5 to the US and Europe. This title was enjoyed by over one million gamers in Japan. I’m looking forward to seeing how Yakuza 5 will be received by the gamers in the U.S. and Europe.”
- Toshihiro Nagoshi (Executive Director and General Producer)

“Yakuza 5 is the largest and most definitive version of the Yakuza series. The game is filled with depictions of the Japanese way of life, culture, trends, social issues and dreams. You will play as 5 different main characters with a range of different ages, genders and professions and experience their challenges through a variety of character focused, in-depth stories. I hope you can immerse yourself in our rendition of modern time Japan.”
- Masayoshi Yokoyama (Producer)

Yakuza 5 will be available exclusive to PlayStation 3 via PlayStation Network in 2015. Please stay tuned for more information on Yakuza 5!

I have never played any of the Yakuza titles but I'll definitely be supporting this Yakuza 5 release.

The official site has gone live!



That trailer was exactly the same as the Japanese announcements trailer. The only difference being the theme tune has been changed..

Finished off my current Eshop funds with:

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Mighty Gunvolt is exactly what I figured; 8-bit Mega Man style. Super-simplified and fun.
And Sakura Samurai is a pretty cool little surprise. It's all about precision dodging and slicing, and the 3D looks excellent.
I think I'm hooked on the Eshop. There's a lot more I want to get.

Grats on the PS4 AG!!!!

Just got my 3rd Whats Shenmue... lol when its 300 yen you cant just pass it up no matter how many you already have.

Still waiting for Yakuza 5..

I did something I probably shouldn't have...

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anyway, my friends gunna be stationed out in Korea and we're gunna play some FFXIV and RE5 together while he's gone. Main reason I bought one but also because I would like to have a PS3 for MGS games and Yakuza games. (also strangely excited for the new Persona even though I've never really played one much)

Yeah, dodge around the bigger enemies and study their moves; learn to recognize the animations of their slower moves. That's one of the most important things you can do with any enemy. Once you can spot those, wait until they swing -- and I mean as the hit is coming at you, not just as they're starting it -- and fire off a gunshot. There's a distinctive sound that happens, and you can run up to them, melee attack, and hit them for a ton of damage.

And take note, the big guy with the cape? He's there specifically to troll newbies. He's the hardest enemy in that first area. You don't have to kill him since he's back in that little alleyway, so just skip him for the time being.

Also, if you're low-level, don't risk running around with a large amount of blood echoes. If you've got them, go back to the Hunter's Dream and level yourself up. There's no bonus for having more at a single time. Just take note of how many you need to level up next, and always return once you've got that number.
Also, there isn't any way to save your progress as far as defeated enemies go. They always respawn after you've returned from the Hunter's Dream.

Have to say, you're going to hate the first boss. :lol:

Know that you don't have to engage every enemy, like that executioner. And look carefully for hidden paths you can unlock, you can set it up so that you can skip right past those two wolves until you get stronger. They are easily killed if you parry them though. That's the most important skill in the game. Practice that on lesser enemies and get the hang of it, then the game becomes much easier.

super looking forward to this. i really hope all the content stays in there, the only exception being the trivia game.

Dubba dubba post.

Just ordered these.
I wasn't much a fan of the demo I played of MGR... but fuck, I really want to like it. I mean, the MGS4 version of Raiden in his own game? I was so excited for that initially. The demo felt clunky to me... but then I was also trying to play it really quickly, so maybe I just didn't pay enough attention to fully understand the mechanics. So at 11 dollars, I guess it's worth it to try out the full game, see if it's worth another chance.
And I always liked Hitman Absolution, even if the mechanics were a bit odd for a Hitman game. Traded it in a while back, but always meant to rebuy it. The fact that the LE has dropped in price to only 13 bucks is nice, so I figured now or never.

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And this is the first time I've ever preordered a digital-only release, and it'll probably be the only time. But they have it at a discount on PSN at the moment, so since I was going to get it day-1 anyway, now seemed as good a time as ever.

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Nice find! What exactly does that lever on the right do? It looks like it only moves up and down.


I recently saw this on eBay and snagged it. Not a poster like I had originally thought, but still a cool piece of nostalgia.

Suda and the people working on the game have been handing out these cryptic leaflets to people at PAX East, which routes to believeintheinternet.com (the viral website that's slowly spelling out "The Silver Case")

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That's cool and all, but man, I'm still feeling raw over the handling of this whole release. Adding more content to the version I was practically screwed out of just adds fuel to the fire.
--rant deleted for being redundant--
Gonna be a while before I even play the game because I'm still pissed about this shite.