Posted November 25, 2006 Just picked up this months OXM and it really is an awesome issue. You get a Halo 3/Gears of War poster, it has a massive feature on Halo 3 itself and many a review for all this seasons big games. Oh yeah and a free bag of M&Ms! Heres a couple of pics and yes the pictures are of poor quality but you get the idea. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 25, 2006 it'll probs be just saying what was in EGM and on 1up.com the past few weeks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 25, 2006 Not only did I finish Gears of War today I also finished Call Of Duty 2 finally Gamerpoints Ahoy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 25, 2006 Some info I found for Blue Dragon, which I cant wait for... * As we have seen from movies, you can see the enemies on the map before battle starts. If you can walk into them from behind rather than the front you get a back attack, which starts you with an advantage (two of the achievements are related to this as well.) * However, that isn't all. It also seems that you will be able to paralyize and cause other status effects to enemies before going into battle. * Furthermore (I saw this in the demo too) one of the options when walking around is "Fight All." A circle expands out from around your character and you can fight all of the groups of monsters within it at once. * The trick with "Fight All" is that some monsters don't like other monsters. If you get two groups that don't like each other in the same battle, they may start fighting each other rather than you. One of the achievements is "Start 100 Monster Fights," you may have noticed, as well as one to fight 10 or more groups at once and beat them all! * Exactly how powering up Shadows works is unclear right now, no status screen availible in the demo, but it seems they have a variety of categories that you can power up. One of these is "Barrier." A barrier called the "Bari- Barrier" allows you to automatically defeat enemies on the map without having to go into battle with them, if they are a certain number of levels lower than you are. This should cut down on pointless random battling (see Mother 2). You also still recieve points needed to powerup your Shadows from killing enemies like this. * The main feature that made the battle system at TGS unique was the ability to charge moves. When you select certain attacks a bar appears with where each of the other characters in battle (both ally and enemy) will move marked on it. But holding down the button you can charge the attack up, increasing its damage but pushing the point at which the attack will activate beyond other characters turns. So the attack comes out later but is more powerful. In the footage I saw of someone else playing the demo this bar appears on the screen a few times when they select an attack, but they don't seem to know how to use it and never charge it up. * No game in the next generation has depeicted drama to this extent. * One goal that couldn't be achieved until now was to totally realize the world of Toriyama. * Playtime is stated at being 40 ~ 50 hours. Sakaguchi says that going directly through the game still takes him 35 hours. * There are 9 categories of Shadow, which can be changed freely at any time. Shadows and characters have different levels and need different experiance to level up. The Bari-Barrier which I mentioned before still gives you Shadow experience, but not much character experience, which is how they balanced that. * Whilst character experience required for new levels continues to go up with each level, like a standard RPG, Shadow rank experience doesn't. So once you get the Bari-Barrier you can go back to the first dungeon, run around and rank up loads. * Equipped skills to your Shadows gives you a great deal of variety. You can get a maximum of 11 skill slots and many skills combine together - e.g. create a magical sword attack that both steals and can be charged up, absorbs HP and MP and sometimes kills in one hit. * The interviewer asks is this level of freedom <certainly sounds insanely powerful> made balancing the game hard. Sakaguchi replies that the staff would keep on coming back to him saying "this combination of skills makes it super easy!". He would get mad but doesn't believe in making the skills weaker, so they adjusted enemy strength instead. * Plenty of little side games and stuff included. Once you can ride in the Mekkat (I guess the flying ship seen in the videos) you can travel to numerous places. Free download content is planned, the first from around New Year, and it sounds like these will be new locations to travel to. * Sakaguchi even took part in adjusting the content of treasure chests. There are around 500 regular chests and around 5000 more searchable locations in the game. Sakaguchi wants the player to have fun with these - e.g. originally searching Zora's bathtub awarded 10 gold. He added +30 exp on there as well. * Sequal is all but confirmed, but not actually officially confirmed, for Xbox 360. The game also seems to be on 2 disc's as the 3rd disc is a sound track. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 25, 2006 Amazon are selling the pro evo 6 bundle for 279.99, so basically pro evo 6 for free - thinking about orderng it. Play are doing a bundle for £269.99 with Gears of War, Great deal. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 25, 2006 wow on the Blue Dragon thing!!! it sounds like the most complete RPG in ages-you get the soundtrack with it too!!!! I <3 Blue Dragon, i also <3 Toriyama. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 25, 2006 I'll probably get Blue Dragon despite my hatred of turn-based RPGs. The art style is great, like all of Toriyama's stuff and I'm sure the story will be neat as well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 25, 2006 Is it worth someone setting up a 360 console bargains thread or something? I'm thinking of getting one in the next few days you see and can't be bothered to go around checking everywhere. I was in town on Friday pricing up different options and very nearly started grabbing random kids to see if they had a Virgin student card for the discount. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 25, 2006 Is it worth someone setting up a 360 console bargains thread or something? I'm thinking of getting one in the next few days you see and can't be bothered to go around checking everywhere. I was in town on Friday pricing up different options and very nearly started grabbing random kids to see if they had a Virgin student card for the discount. This is porbably the best deal atm http://www.gamestation.co.uk/discountaddall.asp?discountid=78 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 26, 2006 Blue Dragon sounds really good. I dunno if it will be as good as FF12 like, but we can see. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 26, 2006 Awesome. I'm gonna get the new Xbox magazine mainly for the poster but still should be a good read. Also the new ONM gave away a big redsteel poster which is kinda awesome and a 10 page zelda review. I haven't read it and might not in the future Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 26, 2006 I just found out that Blue Dragon is scored by the legend that is Nobuo Uematsu - can only be a good thing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 26, 2006 Blue Dragon looks awesome. I've always wanted a game that has these kind of visual, 3D anime type of visuals. hmm that halo 3 poster would go right next to my N-gamer Zelda poster, which i just got today Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 26, 2006 Anyone who has the wireless headset can tell me if its good and stuff, sound quality and loudness etc? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 26, 2006 not sure if you lot seen them so i'll spoiler it, save loading times. well i havnt seen them anyway. tbh, i've yet to finish the first game Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 26, 2006 Anyone who has the wireless headset can tell me if its good and stuff, sound quality and loudness etc? Aye m8 av got one, they are spot on, no complaints Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 26, 2006 Aye m8 av got one, they are spot on, no complaints Cool, I just bought one.. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 26, 2006 *I know that technically this shouldn't be posted in here but I've allready posted in the relevant topic a while ago and want to see if I can get an answer to a PSU releated question* question about the PC version of PSU : - Under the Saving section in the options menu there is a tick box which reads "Do not save game data on server" and it's checked by default, does anyone know what it's for? / if I need to uncheck it or not before I go online? / if I even have to worry about it at all? Thanks. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 26, 2006 Woohoo! Finally got the Dead Rising achievement. Hopefully Dead Rising is going to be a bit easier now, at least I should have a gun now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 26, 2006 dead rising is easy anyways xD i need to clear up some achievments on that, but gears of war and rvs 07 take up my xbox time Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 26, 2006 dead rising is easy anyways xD i need to clear up some achievments on that, but gears of war and rvs 07 take up my xbox time I had no problem with anything other than bosses with guns, where I couldn't beat them cus I couldn't get near enough. So should be ok now Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 27, 2006 just got over 7000gamer points. Let's see if I can complete my goal of having OVER 9THOUSAND before next christmas :P Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 27, 2006 woo just found the last cog tag on gears of war. Now the online stuff to do :/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 27, 2006 just got over 7000gamer points.Let's see if I can complete my goal of having OVER 9THOUSAND before next christmas :P , that vid was hilarious.Played quite a few pro evo matches online last night. Im getting quite good at it, but theres something im diong that must be wrong, as im always playing crap against everyone. But i win against crapper people. So i say im getting good, but im not. I dont know what im doing wrong. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Posted November 27, 2006 I woke up this morning with the sudden urge to pick a 360 over the Wii this christmas.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
