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Lasa Kon
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dessgeega
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dark steve
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| Hurrah for inane Kotaku drivel! |
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DonMarco
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 12:42 pm Post subject: Re: Obligatory news link thread |
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That's pretty fucking amazing considering the price hasn't been announced yet. Dare I say, and I'm not a learned man in any way, mind you, that the PlayStation 3 will launch wwith a MSRP of $49.99 and sell 121 BILLION consoles?
Dare I? |
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special blend
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Sub
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special blend wrote:
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3142151
Bungie threatens bannings
Didn't they already threaten bans when the last big update came? Did that ever happen? |
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special blend
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Sub wrote:
special blend wrote:
http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3142151
Bungie threatens bannings
Didn't they already threaten bans when the last big update came? Did that ever happen?
I guess they're doing it again. |
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special blend
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mmd
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special blend
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mmd wrote:
http://www.gamespot.com/news/index.html
GTA: San Andreas is now rated AO because of sex.
Oh, for fuck's sake... |
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aderack
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Someone with the power rename this thread "News News Linky", please.
Yes, this "obligatory" thing is getting on my nerves as well.
special blend wrote:
mmd wrote:
GTA: San Andreas is now rated AO because of sex.
Oh, for fuck's sake...
PUN INTENDED?
Is this a bad thing? The rating has never really been used, certainly never for a game of this profile. Maybe this will help to put it into more ommon use, and allow a little more freedom of expression? Maybe?
Nice naming scheme. Clever! Is that true about Falcom? |
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eeemmecks
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| This is not a good thing. It's simply costing Rockstar and Take Two more cash to remove a feature that wasn't intended to be a part of the final game in the first place. The ESRB buckled under pressure from loudmouthed politicians and pundits instead of investigating the issue in a level-headed manner. I can't say I'm that surprised, yet the outright idiocy of the situation is hard to ignore. |
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aderack
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Okay. I see now that stores have STOPPED SELLING the game. You can't buy it from Gamestop anymore, for instance. So that's retarded.
Yeah, this isn't a good thing. If anyone had a spine or a brain, it'd be a good progressive opportunity though. |
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Mr. Mechanical
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| Adults Only is like the NC-17 of game ratings. Nobody in their right mind who would want to make some sort of profit off their game would make a game that warrants that rating, "art" or not. Didn't someone in another thread mention something about the difference between Sands of Time and Warrior Within in regards to the ratings? How they simply used the Mature rating to sell more copies when Teen could have worked just as well like it did in the first game. I'm with that guy, game industry politics are bullshit. |
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special blend
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aderack wrote:
Nice naming scheme. Clever! Is that true about Falcom?
No, sir. S'all bullshit. |
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dark steve
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Mr. Mechanical wrote:
Adults Only is like the NC-17 of game ratings. Nobody in their right mind who would want to make some sort of profit off their game would make a game that warrants that rating, "art" or not. Didn't someone in another thread mention something about the difference between Sands of Time and Warrior Within in regards to the ratings? How they simply used the Mature rating to sell more copies when Teen could have worked just as well like it did in the first game. I'm with that guy, game industry politics are bullshit.
Well that's an interesting thought. Aren't we at the point though where the majority of big spending gamers are 18+, though? I'm not so sure that an AO would be the box office poison of the videogaming world. |
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Mr. Mechanical
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 5:28 pm Post subject: |
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| We could get by without having to go to Wal-Mart or other major retailers, sure, but now Gamestop is refusing to sell it. It's kind of hard for people like us to buy it if nobody will sell it to us. |
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Scratchmonkey
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dark steve wrote:
Well that's an interesting thought. Aren't we at the point though where the majority of big spending gamers are 18+, though? I'm not so sure that an AO would be the box office poison of the videogaming world.
You'd think so; however, most of the videogame sales take place at places like Walmart, who won't carry AO games. It's gotten to the point where the big retailers can actually have control over content -- if they don't like a game, there's a chance that the game will have to be changed or cancelled entirely. |
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dark steve
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Well they're probably pretty shocked and appalled right now. They're a big company and this came without any warning, they would need time to write out and legally bulletproof procedures and regulations, train employees to spot fake IDs and all that jazz necessary for the selling of strictly 18+ titles. Thing is, there's never BEEN an AO title that was actually released (unless someone wants to correct me), so there's no infrastructure already place to sell them yet.
And maybe section off a little closet with a divider curtain or something to store the titles.
Dollars to doughnuts the next GTA comes in two vulgar flavors. |
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Tao
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[url=http://www.computerandvideogames.com/r/?page=http://www.computerandvideogames.com/news/news_story.php(que)id=121981]MGS 4 GET!
Almost.[/url] |
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dessgeega
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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you're not allowed to tease about that. it's a delicate subject.
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mmd
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special blend wrote:
aderack wrote:
Nice naming scheme. Clever! Is that true about Falcom?
No, sir. S'all bullshit.
Fuck. You. |
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Baron Patsy
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| Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2005 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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Well.
Why post fake news in a news thread? |
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burnsro
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Lindbergh is not based on Xbox 360.
No shit. One news website predicted that it was on the 360 and then 50 other websites followed. I knew that it'll be based off of Sega's own genius hardware design.
I'm more excited about Sega revealing their next arcade hardware than about those 3 next-gen home consoles. Lindbergh is a crappy name though, it should be Naomi 3 since the Naomi family has been so popular in the arcades. |
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aderack
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special blend wrote:
aderack wrote:
Nice naming scheme. Clever! Is that true about Falcom?
No, sir. S'all bullshit.
Well! It's still a nice naming scheme.
I wonder if Naomi has too much Dreamcast-related baggage. Might be a good idea to start new. |
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surume
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special blend wrote:
aderack wrote:
Nice naming scheme. Clever! Is that true about Falcom?
No, sir. S'all bullshit.
sure? that's not nice. |
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chazumaru*
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aderack wrote:
I wonder if Naomi has too much Dreamcast-related baggage. Might be a good idea to start new.
Well the Naomi family pretty much saved the arcades, is absolutely loved by arcade game makers, is on a Famicom-level of easy maintenance and arcade owner <-> system maker's relationship, is cheap and doesn't break, and is now a nice base for anyone to upgrade their games (i.e. fighting games with more dash and slash behind their original titles)...
Commercially, it makes complete sense. Which is shocking from Sega, yet not that shocking from Sega AM. |
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Scratchmonkey
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 2:30 am Post subject: |
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Why post fake news in a news thread?
Presumably because they're getting their desired responses.
you're not allowed to tease about that. it's a delicate subject.
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Lasa Kon
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exodus
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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burnsro wrote:
Lindbergh is a crappy name though
lots of other people like it though. |
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DonMarco
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Mr. Mechanical wrote:
We could get by without having to go to Wal-Mart or other major retailers, sure, but now Gamestop is refusing to sell it. It's kind of hard for people like us to buy it if nobody will sell it to us.
So what about re-selling old copies to Gametop/EB? Is that cool? |
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special blend
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Scratchmonkey wrote:
Why post fake news in a news thread?
Presumably because they're getting their desired responses.
you're not allowed to tease about that. it's a delicate subject.
To plug my fake news site, duh.
KING KONG AIN'T GOT SHIT ON ME |
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Legal Step
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Lasa Kon
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Sounds like a fun CS map. |
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Dark Age Iron Savior
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I don't know if this is the proper place to raise the issue but Ubisoft has recently revealed that the DS version of the Prince of Persia series will be totally crazy.
I can honestly say that I expected to live the rest of my life without seeing Prince of Persia in a turn-based format. |
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dessgeega
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| Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2005 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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Dark Age Iron Savior wrote:
I can honestly say that I expected to live the rest of my life without seeing Prince of Persia in a turn-based format.
holy nuts. |
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extralife
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| Has Tycho masturbated to this game yet? |
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aderack
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This thread needs both a name change and a sticky. Especially a sticky.
Dalektron -- a Robotron clone coded by a father and son team. Based around the current series of Doctor Who, with Rose Tyler and Mickey Smith instead of "human family" members. |
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dessgeega
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| where are all the ports of the original daleks game? |
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Scratchmonkey
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| Posted: Fri Jul 22, 2005 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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dessgeega wrote:
where are all the ports of the original daleks game?
http://www.koobifora.com/daleks/invasion.html
ETA: It appears that pretty much everything at that page and linked to by it are broken. I'll see if I can find any sites still running it.
EYATA: Actually, the version on the page above works, it just takes a bit to load/is a bit laggy. You can access it directly at:
http://www.koobifora.com/daleks/
He's used Hartnell as the Doctor as well, which is a nice touch.
I didn't know that the guy who originally programmed Daleks on the Macintosh back in 1984 also programmed 'Ingemaar's Skiing Game', which was one of my favorites, along with Pararena, The Fool's Errand, Spaceward Ho! and Robosport (the forgotten Maxis game). |
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Deets
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Dark Age Iron Savior wrote:
I can honestly say that I expected to live the rest of my life without seeing Prince of Persia in a turn-based format.
I like Magic and Megaman Battle Network and stuff, but I have to say that that's one of the least compelling concepts for a game I've ever seen.
Edit: It looks fucking ugly, too. |
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Mr. Mechanical
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extralife
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| Eh. It looks like RE4 with more lighting. |
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Mr. Mechanical
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| Supposedly it has faster zombies and is more 28 Days Later than Night of the Living Dead. |
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dark steve
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 6:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Does that mean they're gonna give us strafing? I can't imagine playing with 4's control scheme but faster, unless I suppose they scaled back the combat. |
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Dark Age Iron Savior
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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dark steve wrote:
Does that mean they're gonna give us strafing? I can't imagine playing with 4's control scheme but faster, unless I suppose they scaled back the combat.
perhaps they added horseback combat.
I know I would certainly not disagree with riding on a horse while pumping shotgun shells into hideous mutated beings. |
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Rud13
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| Posted: Sun Jul 24, 2005 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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| But can you kill the horse? |
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Flackon
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Rud13 wrote:
But can you kill the horse?
I hope so.
Or else it wouldn't be teh realistic!
Nah, seriously, we need more games with horse killing |
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TandeM
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Legal Step
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| Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Is my signature more relevant to current news happenings? |
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