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The Bard
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The Far Cry games don't tend to be "system sellers," likely because they're ubiquitous in the platforms they appear on, whereas you have to buy a Nintendo platform to play Nintendo games; they use well designed games to sell mediocre and bafflingly ill conceived hardware, and you can see with respect to how well the Wii U is doing that the law of diminishing returns is catching up with them.
They didn't make a full game out of Blood Dragon because that whole add-on or whatever you want to call it was the most one note joke in the history of the medium.
I really enjoyed Far Cry 2 and 3, although I played the second one in its entirety while listening to podcasts, so most of the narrative and tone was lost on me (which is what the Idle Thumbs guys love it so much for), and the third was almost offensively stupid, but still such a joy to play. I'm kind of fatigued on open world shooters for the moment though, I might give this one a pass.
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I think mostly the fact that it's not out until the 20th and like literally every other game AAA game there are review embargoes until release day.
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This looks fantastic
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Dude, I just just was about to post the Chrono Trigger music. Twelve years after I first played it, it's still my favourite game of all time.
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@Charlie, there's something to be said for transparency though, and there is a degree of backhandedness to presenting your game one way and then equivocating for why it isn't the way you'd said it was going to be, a few weeks before launch, where for most people, just the inertia of having preordered it will be enough to keep them from reconsidering.
It's interesting to see your side of the argument sometimes because you often tend to advocate for the side of the businesses rather than the consumer, and I understand that PR wants to show no weaknesses, especially for a game that reportedly cost $500 million to make, but it's still fucking annoying.
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Why? If there's less consumer spending, it follows that consumer electronics brands are going to suffer? Apple are different because the variety of services they provide (iTunes, Apple TV etc) are palatable to a huge range of people, and they've been building that cachet since before the recession hit. Are you going to buy a device that's made to run with the ecosystem of services that you've grown accustomed to over the last few years, or are you going to say "fuck it, I have no cash, but I'm going to take a gamble on a windows phone"? Apple products tend to be reliable, and in an austere economic environment, what better incentive do people have to buy their stuff?
And I wasn't pegging everything on the recession, I meant that it was a factor that had to be taken into consideration. People were just spending less money because they had less money to spend.
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Only £50 cheaper than the non-kinect bundle. That's interesting.
Yet another U-turn. I wish Nintendo did this with the gamepad 12 months ago lol.
Came here literally just to say this. I give Microsoft shit for being the slightly square, argyle sweater wearing cousin of the gaming world, but at least they catch on pretty quickly about what consumers want.
I think it's only £50 cheaper coz they already just dropped the price of the console by £30 a couple of months ago.
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There was also a global recession the last five years; shit happens.
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Sony won't go under, they're a national staple and one of the most recognised electronics brands in the world. The problem is that they have a tendancy to focus almost exclusively on the high-end high price market for their consumer electronics, especially when they're a pioneer in that particular sphere. It's a sort of old hat business practice that favours charging premiums for high end devices, and non standard features that raise the expense bar exponentially and then are either dropped completely from subsequent models, or decrease substantially in price. I'm talking specifically their 3D televisions, blurays and the forthcoming 4k displays. All of which are or were prohibitively priced for the general consumer, and feature very few decent quality, low price variants, the sort that any average consumer is going to want in their home. They have a chance to get in on a level playing field by aggressively pricing their 4K displays, but I doubt they will, just because they insist on throwing every random gadget they can think of into devices that don't need them.
PS4 and Xperia are doing well though. Sony'll be fine, they might just have to give up their fief on such a broad swathe of electronics.
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I'm genuinely very excited for this game. Whoever up there (can't be bothered to double check) said that it looks like Killzone... yes, because The Third Reich made its aesthetic choices based on a mediocre FPS franchise.
It's also being made by Machine Games, which was formed by all the heads of Starbreeze, (I have Magnus Hogdahl specifically in mind, who a lot of people call Sweden's John Carmack) and who made two of my favourite games of the last generation (Escape From Butcher Bay and The Darkness), and in addition, everything I hear has sounded incredibly positive.
Anyway, being a Starbreeze game in spirit, you can at the very least guarantee that it'll be well written and artistically well put together; two firsts for the Wolfenstein franchise.
Also, the boxart looks great.
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If some clues have multiple users attached to them...how long did this take you to make?
I'm imagining you dressed in all green lycra, a pimp cane and a bowler had with a big ass question mark on it.
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@MoogleViper Unlike @Cube, I am cretinous.
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]Dead Kirby at the bottom would be @killer_kirby?
The boy with the flame pendant, would probably be @flameboy
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...what have you been doing all this time?
What did you think it did?
That's why I never quote people! I just thought it was some sort of occult forum paraphernalia that wouldn't bear being tampered with. I figured it out just now when I joined the Idle Thumbs forum where they have a "multiquote" button, and I had an ohmygodthat'swhatitis moment.
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I just discovered what the + Quote button does. My life has momentarily swung from herp to jerp, and I'm so excited.
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Have Nintendo ever re-released this on anything but VC? I can't imagine that they'd leave a game this classic to fester in obscurity for people who want to legitimately own it (not everyone is going to know or be savvy enough to emulate it). If they haven't, it's fucking boggling, considering the amount of re-releases LTTP and Super Mario World have gotten.
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Arguably more games make better use of a second screen outside of the Wii U ecosystem than within it.
Seriously, where are all the champions of second screens when Nintendo aren't involved?
Same thing happened when Nintendo "appropriated ("ripped off" is the term the Nintendonauts used when Sony did the same borrowing) the TrackIR that'd been used for years and years in flight sims and gesture controlled mouse emulation. Except because it's Nintendo, the human lice feel the need to crawl out and infest every space where games are discussed, and declare it a revolution.
Other console manufacturers have pretty solidly proved again and again that there are more elegant ways to implement Nintendo's own ideas in a way that's unobtrusive and doesn't fuck people who want to opt out.
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If you know you have big feet and tiny shins, you can understand why someone would think you shouldn't wear shoes that blatantly highlight that. That's the help I'm trying to give you no matter how much sarcasm and 'satire' you keep trying to protect yourself with.
Is that..are those inverted commas around satire...in a post complaining about sarcasm?
The irony levels right now would chart on a fucking seismometer.
I find it interesting that you focus on the deformity of my feet and completely miss the tyrannosaur claw of a right hand. But of course, perspective and concavity don't come into it at all...
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One thing I'd love to see is having all the DLC (it has to be included this time) properly merged with the game, so they get given to you throughout the game (instead of all at the start) and they feel more like part of the story.
Yeah, it really messed up the pacing, and made it difficult to properly keep track of all the plot points. Which sucks especially for DLC like Shadow Broker and Leviathan which were pretty much essential to the story.
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I didn't get pissy, I assumed abrasive manner and wording of a forum post in order to satirise the abrasive manner and wording of that forum post.
I just have big feet and tiny shins, I'll cop to it. But I like the idea of needing help here, enlighten me oh sagacious sartorial sage.
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Your avatar and text combo make you look like a deviantart trawling weeaboo who humps his chobits pillow to sleep every night. But it's your loss
.What I meant by "compensating for perspective" was that in slightly concave mirrors, and depending on angle of vision there's a distortion effect that makes extremities appear elongated, hence the clown feet.
Thanks @Emma
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I don't get why you would wear a baseball jacket. They're baggy, and entirely uncomplimentary. I could see why they might appeal to somebody more rotund; it will hide their shape, whilst looking like it's supposed to be baggy and not just a sack. Whereas if you have a decent body, as you do, wear something that fits properly and makes you look good.
That's fair enough, the problem is that almost everything I wear is really close fitting and I got tired of my nipples peeking through every item of clothing. It's essentially just for variation, but I get your point - the arms are fucking ridiculously baggy; they didn't have any in a medium size. Also it makes people mistake me for a jock, which isn't completely unwelcome after the obvious stereotypes that come after a lifetime of wearing black jeans and metal t-shirts.
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If they do bring Mass Effect trilogy to PS4/Xbone, it'd be nice for them to fix the fact that Mass Effect 3 couldn't support a holster animation because the systems it was made for didn't have enough RAM. I shit you not, when Orbis and Durango were announced this was the thing I was most excited about.
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I'll be watching the Sony conference this year as I'm not holding out much hope for Nintendo coming up with the goods.
Quick question: Game are selling pre-owned 320gb Playstation 3 consoles. I don't fancy buying a new one at 160-180 or so when I can just keep saving a bit moar and can pick up a PS4 later this year. How..."dangerous" is it going for a pre-owned console these days? Is it likely to be borked?
Now that I know that the likes of The Last of Us and Tomb Raider are on PS4, that's two major reasons for me to get a PS4. Is it true that FlOw and Flower are on there too as I really want to play these two.
Not sure if this stands for pre-owned PS3s in general, but I bought one in February 2013, and by September it was fucked; would just randomly shut off about half an hour into play, no lights, no nothing. The only way to get it to turn on again was to unplug it from the mains and then plug it in again after waiting about five minutes.
In general, tread lightly with last gen consoles pre-owned. Part way through production a law was passed that put some sort of sanctions on lead based components in electronics, and the sauter they used had to be replaced with something flimsier that wasn't cut out to handle the heat dissipation you typically got with those consoles. Which is what caused the RROD and the PS3 errors as well. The longer those consoles spend from the production line, the likelier some sort of fault is going to be.
I'd say just hold on and get the PS4.
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Lol, that's a little bit of a misrepresentation.
Project Cars is basically Slightly Mad Studio's response to having a fixed deadline and gameplay constraints with the NFS games they developed. The degree of simulation in that game is pretty insane (as well as fully customisable), and it looks pretty good too. At the moment, it's a work in progress, as well as being crowdfunded, which just means that there's a degree of transparency to the proceedings in development that there isn't for drive club or Forza (hence the...well, bullshots, or representations of the game selected specifically for marketing purposes). The tracks have been stripped down, unfinished versions, which is expected with a game in alpha, but I've never seen anything as spectacular as the car, lighting and reflection models in that game. Looks goood man.