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Koji · Posts: 571

Dark Age Iron Savior wrote:

http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=2686

Perhaps not the most reliable source on the entire internet, but I count on them to be paying attention when others aren't (to obscure GBA news). It's quite believable, too.

(They probably got it from a NeoGAF Famitsu topic or one of those French news pages)

You linked me to Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Okay.

Persona-sama · Posts: 1145

RobotRocker wrote:

Persona-sama wrote:

Hopefully the DS card games and Iroha rapeing thing will cover for this!

Yeah, that was pretty much the implication.

Dark Age Iron Savior · Posts: 3148

Koji wrote:

Dark Age Iron Savior wrote:

http://www.gametrailers.com/gamepage.php?id=2686

Perhaps not the most reliable source on the entire internet, but I count on them to be paying attention when others aren't (to obscure GBA news). It's quite believable, too.

(They probably got it from a NeoGAF Famitsu topic or one of those French news pages)

You linked me to Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Okay.

THAT'S AS VALID A SOURCE AS ANY.

Craptastic! · Posts: 151

Season two of VideoGaiden is here and it would seem as though the BBC aren't being douchebags this time regarding online viewing restrictions!

butters4life · Posts: 255

Metal Gear Solid Edition PSP

Rud13 · Posts: 3277

Man. MGSPO really really sucks.

klikbeep · Posts: 485

That's one of the two games that makes an appearance in my TGS Wrap-up!

internisus · Posts: 961

butters4life wrote:

[MGSPO PSP Box Set Graphic Wonder

Very pretty, but I'm not a sucker!

the blueberry hill · Posts: 458

internisus wrote:

butters4life wrote:

[MGSPO PSP Box Set Graphic Wonder

Very pretty, but I'm not a sucker!

But you're so delicious!

LegatoB · Posts: 1546

Rud13 wrote:

Man. MGSPO really really sucks.

Nice try, hater!

Rud13 · Posts: 3277

LegatoB wrote:

Rud13 wrote:

Man. MGSPO really really sucks.

Nice try, hater!

LegatoB, Mister PSP apologist, I've played this game. The controls are very bad.

LegatoB · Posts: 1546

I have faith that the game will be very playable and that I could totally kick your ass in the online mode.

Dark Age Iron Savior · Posts: 3148

Nanostray 2 screens

I'd list ten or twenty simple things they could do with the bottom screen besides put the score on it, but I'm afraid I'd offend the senses of those who prefer purity and simplicity in shooters.

Sigh.

Pijaibros · Posts: 968

Fuck them, tell me what you'd like to see.

Purity is only for vodka

Dark Age Iron Savior · Posts: 3148

Pijaibros wrote:

Fuck them, tell me what you'd like to see.

Purity is only for vodka

After staring vapidly at the message body form for about an hour, then carefully reviewing the screen layouts for both Nanostray and Nanostray 2, I'm going to have to admit that I had only one idea and it's not very good: put one of those funky music visualizers down there. Like, even just the one that looks like crazy sine waves. Make it follow the music and SFX.

.....

I've been firing blanks idea-wise lately, okay?

mechanori · Posts: 623

Yeah, that's a pretty bizarre suggestion.

Judge Ito · Posts: 284

Dark Age Iron Savior wrote:

Pijaibros wrote:

Fuck them, tell me what you'd like to see.

Purity is only for vodka

After staring vapidly at the message body form for about an hour, then carefully reviewing the screen layouts for both Nanostray and Nanostray 2, I'm going to have to admit that I had only one idea and it's not very good: put one of those funky music visualizers down there. Like, even just the one that looks like crazy sine waves. Make it follow the music and SFX.

.....

I've been firing blanks idea-wise lately, okay?

That's not a bad idea. In fact, that's the sort of thing that would be right up Manfred Linzner's alley. I made some neat arrangements with that title screen sound randomizer in Iridion II.

Clash! · Posts: 631

The bottom screen could be like a cockpit view of the pilots face grimmacing and making other faces during battle.

Screen cracks when your killed.

Oh and its gotta be like 80's anime style.

Crazy Bacon Lips · Posts: 783

Oh come on. This is fucking stupid.

For a while I was backing off of Sony, but this is retarded.

Drem · Posts: 429

synopsis for those of us who can't load 1up please thanks

Isfet · Posts: 510

basically, Sony won't confirm the release date of the PS3 in Europe. it's cute.

FortNinety · Posts: 4591

Gee, and then they wonder why Europeans are so eager to import the fucking thing. It would be nice if, when the system finally comes out, if the entire continent simply didn't care anymore.

Mister Toups · Posts: 4943

Isfet wrote:

basically, Sony won't confirm the release date of the PS3 in Europe. it's cute.

On the other hand, it's kind of nice that they're finally owning up to being full of bullshit in the past.

Isfet · Posts: 510

that's true; it's better than not saying anything until the last minute. although with everything else they've done with Europe, it comes off sort of like an apologetic, nonconfrontational boyfriend.

Lestrade · Posts: 817

Oh, the PS3 launches in Japan today/tomorrow, doesn't it? Wow. I actually had no idea. I guess that demonstrates how excited I am. Can't wait to see those TRUE HD images of Genji.

Marvel at the Japanese "Play Beyond" site as a bunch of people explain the raw, awesome power of the PS3. By that I mean, watch the spokeswoman from the progressively-named "Ninja Theory" (OMG a fucking ninja wrote it on the white board) explains how the power of PS3 allows them to create groundbreaking new games about a "beautiful" heroine in "a fantasy Eastern land" and a (gasp!) "prophecy"—my god, people, my god.

The wall-smashing splash movie is nice, though.

extralife · Posts: 3316

Salon has a pretty good article up about Bully that sort of acts as an overview of the politicians vs. violent games thing, for those interested.

Iammadmak · Posts: 210

This isn't really game news per se:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mlQ46H6QII
absolutely insane music video for Castlevania III by the minibosses

somewhere_else · Posts: 26

http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?product_code=307533

Stumbled across this in a clearance bin, while out picking up a wireless mouse today. I seem to recall someone--Dessgeega maybe?--wanting some GameBoyAdvance game cases a while back. This package includes two such cases, a travel case for the GBA-SP itself, a car adaptor, and "Body Armour". Not a bad deal for $2.

My two cartridge cases are translucent white and translucent purple. They hold GBA games very snugly, so it's a bit more of a pain to get them back out than it ought to be, but not any real trouble if you have a short fingernail.

The travel case holds three more games, along with the SP in a little padded area. While the games are clipped in place, there's really nothing holding the GameBoy itself in place except for the latch that holds the entire case closed, but it seems satisfactory otherwise.

The "Body armour" is a stinky, clear wrap of solid rubber for the exterior of the SP. It does seems to perform as advertised, adding shielding to the GameBoy while leaving all buttons and ports accessible, though I value my SP too much to drop it on concrete purposely just to be sure. Unfortunately, it doesn't hold to the back of the SP's screen as well as I'd like. Additionally, as a consequence of leaving the back ports and shoulder buttons accessible, they are also virtually unprotected save by two narrow straps of rubber between them. It seems like they intend it to be left on the SP, even while playing, which seems to work well enough.

As for the car adaptor, it does it's job. The end which plugs into the cigarette lighter seems designed for deeper lighters than are present in my car--a problem I've had before. Fortunately, it has the little power LED some adaptor's I've used don't; and after some fiddling I got it to make a solid connection and played off of the power, having drained my SP's battery previously.

So I guess, if you have an SP and a CompUSA nearby, it's a decent deal.

Re:Toe Jam & Earl, I've only played the second game, but my affection for rogue-likes has piqued my interest in the first.

Also, does anyone know why all instances of a period followed by two spaces, the standard as I understand it, have one space removed from them when posted?

BalbanesBeoulve · Posts: 2126

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/top/foreigners-and-fights-ps3-jpn-launchs-dark-side-214130.php

So the Japanese are ebaying their PS3s just like us. Except they're paying chinese to stand in line for them. This seems pretty messed up. I guess the Chinese in Japan are the equivalent of Mexicans in the US? I can't imagine anybody would pay Mexicans to stand in line for PS3s here.

Quick Shot II Turbo · Posts: 468

somewhere_else, HTML only let's you have one 'plain' space between elements. All the one's after that would have to use a specific space character to appear, but I'm not sure how browsers interpret all these (or if they do at all). Use nbsp, it always works.

Well, shit. It doesn't seem to work here. HTML does not process it. Wadeva.

And a period followed by 2 spaces is NOT a standard.

Judge Ito · Posts: 284

Quick Shot II Turbo wrote:

And a period followed by 2 spaces is NOT a standard.

Every English, typing/keyboarding, and business class I've taken says otherwise, QSIIT.

Sawtooth · Posts: 2350

That's changed, I believe. I still do it out of habit, but I think that's one of those things that switching from typewriters to computer keyboards (also typesetting equipment in general) did.

Persona-sama · Posts: 1145

BalbanesBeoulve wrote:

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/top/foreigners-and-fights-ps3-jpn-launchs-dark-side-214130.php

So the Japanese are ebaying their PS3s just like us. Except they're paying chinese to stand in line for them. This seems pretty messed up. I guess the Chinese in Japan are the equivalent of Mexicans in the US? I can't imagine anybody would pay Mexicans to stand in line for PS3s here.

The trick is to use homeless people, not Mexicans.

TOLLMASTER · Posts: 1977

Persona-sama wrote:

BalbanesBeoulve wrote:

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/top/foreigners-and-fights-ps3-jpn-launchs-dark-side-214130.php

So the Japanese are ebaying their PS3s just like us. Except they're paying chinese to stand in line for them. This seems pretty messed up. I guess the Chinese in Japan are the equivalent of Mexicans in the US? I can't imagine anybody would pay Mexicans to stand in line for PS3s here.

The trick is to use homeless people, not Mexicans.

So homeless people are below Mexicans? Okay, then they're THIRD class citizens, not second.

There was a stir of sorts a while back when the local towns' police started creating a registry of homeless people. Made 'em give their information and get their mugshots and general location and everything, so they could track their whereabouts.

The police responded to the backlash with your general "post 9/11 world" bullshit. I figure if you can't afford food then biological weapons are probably off the shopping list.

aderack · Posts: 5018

So Nintendo's spending more money on marketing the Wii than on any one thing they've ever marketed before.

And it looks like DVD playback is going to be software-based, meaning it'll probably be a download. One more feature introduced down the line to gradually expand the system. So anyone squawking about Nintendo constantly releasing new versions of hardware -- well, Nintendo seems to be addressing exactly that problem. If you buy the system down the road, it'll have the extra features pre-installed. If you buy it immediately, you can just upgrade as they're introduced.

Ethoscapade · Posts: 627

i can buy a dvd license for my wii right around the time i'd finally want to retire the ps2.

beautiful. okay.

Toto · Posts: 498

Nintendo seem to be getting it right this time.

Mr. Mechanical · Posts: 1890

Someone other than people on the insert credit forums complains about Zelda for a change.

I won't even talk about the article in question and instead just mention that the comments section is quite amusing.

extralife · Posts: 3316

Well, this is of joystiq, so of course he has nothing useful to say. I'd rather not be associated with those guys, thank you.

extralife · Posts: 3316

Best Buy says: "Get the fuck off our lawn, hobo-nerds!" I laugh.

Clash! · Posts: 631

extralife wrote:

Best Buy says: "Get the fuck off our lawn, hobo-nerds!" I laugh.

Good!

But I can only imagine the problems/fights that are going to occure when it rolls around to 12:01 AM on the Day of Launch when a bunch of obsessive nerds/moms sprint to the front doors to get first in line.

Fat Mom vs. Fat Nerd: THE ULTIMATE BATTLE!

ReroRero · Posts: 2148

I'm sure that if that happened it would be up on YouTube like every fucking inane thing these days.

Lestrade · Posts: 817

ReroRero wrote:

I'm sure that if that happened it would be up on YouTube like every fucking inane thing these days.

You make it sound like it's a bad thing.

FortNinety · Posts: 4591

extralife wrote:

Best Buy says: "Get the fuck off our lawn, hobo-nerds!" I laugh.

I don't know why, but I really love the first comment. I love when internet forumites believe their word is spread far and wide. $20 says that not a single Best Buy manager reads a single video game message board, nor do they give a damn about what gamers have to say about this PS3 launch, or anything.

extralife · Posts: 3316

The mayor of Rome is apparently intent on banning Rule of Rose from being sold in the city, stating it "must not enter Italian homes" and "there is no way that a violent video game should be sold and distrubuted in our country."

Rule of Rose? Really? Seems to me like this is the first video game the mayor of Rome has seen in twenty years. It's a video game! And it's violent! NO WAY DUDE!

schild · Posts: 536

Oh comeon. Catholicism and little evil bastards go hand in hand.

It hits too close to home.

Leau · Posts: 112

Rule of Rose does not contain enough pasta for Italian gamers.

Mister Toups · Posts: 4943

extralife wrote:

The mayor of Rome is apparently intent on banning Rule of Rose from being sold in the city, stating it "must not enter Italian homes" and "there is no way that a violent video game should be sold and distrubuted in our country."

Rule of Rose? Really? Seems to me like this is the first video game the mayor of Rome has seen in twenty years. It's a video game! And it's violent! NO WAY DUDE!

Man it's not even THAT violent.

aderack · Posts: 5018

I wonder how on Earth he heard of it.

ReroRero · Posts: 2148

Leau wrote:

Rule of Rose does not contain enough plumbers for Italian gamers.