THE BORE
General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Kestastrophe on July 29, 2009, 12:00:39 PM
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$15 Released Tomorrow on PSN
Anyone buying?
[youtube=560,345]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lQ6Xb24CWQ[/youtube]
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I'm all over this like a fat kid loves cake.
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Jesus, so much download titles. I can't keep track of this.
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Looks hella fun but I won't be getting it anytime soon. I'm already swamped in games and Madden is right around the corner.
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Will this have a demo? I'm curious but hesitant to try w/o one...
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Will this have a demo? I'm curious but hesitant to try w/o one...
same here. It looks cool, but I've been fooled before. It doesn't help that the game is $15 instead of $10, as it looks much more like a $10 game to me.
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Just based on my time with the beta and not knowing any improvements since then, I'll probably hold off on getting this right away. Biggest problem is probably the biggest solution with time, and that was the terrible lag and glitchy online play. I'm sure others can get into it but it just didn't seem like it would hold my attention. Anyone know what the single player is? is it Zelda or Ys like, or just skirmish with bots? that might make convince me to get it (if it's zelda/ys like)
and anyone play Shatter? people have been saying good things about it, but I don't know if that's sincere or the usual hyperbole surrounding a downloadable game.
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3 months too late sadly
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The Fat Princess beta imo was completely boring, it didn't help it had lag and hit detection issues out the wazoo.
and anyone play Shatter? people have been saying good things about it, but I don't know if that's sincere or the usual hyperbole surrounding a downloadable game.
It's a good game, but it's not "omg downloadable GOTF, completely revolutionary!" I've only played the first two "worlds" though (out of nine total). It's definitely not as overhyped as, say, Ragdoll Kung Fu, though. For $7.99 you can't really go wrong with it.
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yeah, for some reason the $8 price point made it more appealing. It's $2 less than most downloadable games, which is not a lot, but it's compelling because they chose such a random number.
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Did anyone end up buying this? Post impressions
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I bought it.
My initial thoughts were that the game needed a freaking tutorial rather than the 16 page instructions in the option menu but after the first game or so I got a handle on what I needed to do. Now several games later I kinda wish the game was a little more deep than it is - like being able to destroy enemy buildings and additional upgrades like different siege weapons. Overall though, I'm liking it. The presentation is top notch and the online community seems pretty lively for the PS3 (at least for now). I think it might be priced about 5 dollars too high and it'll get a little boring after awhile, but what can you do. I reccommend it.
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How fat?
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I bought it too. I finished the single player campaign but I haven't been able to connect to an online game yet.
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I bought it on Friday, but haven't had any time to play it. The end credits are brilliant, though.
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I bought it too. I finished the single player campaign but I haven't been able to connect to an online game yet.
what is single player like?
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I bought it too. I finished the single player campaign but I haven't been able to connect to an online game yet.
what is single player like?
It's like multiplayer except with bots...lol
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I bought it on Friday, but haven't had any time to play it. The end credits are brilliant, though.
Yeah I wasn't expecting that. :lol
But Jesus, did you see how many people were involved in making this game? Baby Got Back played all the way through 3 times and was starting on the fourth by the time it was all over with. It was like a freaking small army behind Fat Princess.
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So is it worth buying or what?
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its $23.95 here. not wasting my money on it without a demo
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Ran through single player and played a couple online games. This would be a lot of fun if they could fix the broken netcode and find some way to solve the ice mage spammers.
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Eurogamer review wasn't too glowing, only 6/10
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Eurogamer hates lots of good games, but they're pretty spot on with this one. FP is a game that could be a lot of fun that is hampered by lots of flaws.
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I was pretty pumped for this when I first saw videos for it, but if it has online issues then it's instantly useless. Fuck this game.
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problem with online games is that even if I hold off on this and wait for a sale in the future (they happen every once in a while), the community wouldn't be as strong as it is now. then again, more people would probably pick it up when it's cheaper. no real single player past skirmish and experience in the beta are enough to make me pass on it for now.
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wut.
Fat Princess, a charmingly bloody multiplayer PS3 “capture the princess” game, was set to be belatedly released in Japan as “Pocchari Princess,” but that release has been cancelled and delayed indefinitely – allegedly due to complaints over the fact that characters depicted only have four fingers.
Some explanation is in order – the issue derives from claims of discrimination by the hypersensitive descendents of Japan’s “burakumin” caste. In the Edo period, these were families forced to live as “untouchables” in special villages and ghettos as they worked in professions, such as tanning or undertaking, considered “unclean” in Shinto.
Such peoples were subjected to heavy legal and social discrimination, and although the caste was abolished in 1871 as part of the Meiji reforms, the discrimination lingers on to this day, with some people, predominantly in the Kansai region, still attempting to ensure their families do not marry the descendents of the burakumin by way of clandestine and illegal ancestry checks.
The burakumin reaction against this has seen the issue given virtual taboo status, along the same lines as racism in the west. The same reaction has also seen plenty of “anti-discriminatory” complaints and legal activity on their part, and it is here that the matter intersects with Fat Princess of all things.
“Yotsu,” “four,” is supposedly used by some blighted individuals as a discriminatory term for burakumin, and this has led to excessively sensitive burakumin activists attacking what they consider discriminatory usage of the number “four” – a variety of anime and manga have been forced to redraw characters to have five fingers based on such complaints.
Most Japanese likely have no idea this “taboo” even exists, and it is magnificently obvious that developers Titan Studios, situated in the USA, could never have intended this as an attack on burakumin.
Still, the demands of political correctness being what they are, the game has had its imminent November release indefinitely delayed whilst replacement art is secured.
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I've seen C.C. Lemon ads with the Simpsons in Japan. I don't recall them having five fingers. And how about all the Disney characters?
Weirdness.
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I read this earlier today and all I could do was scratch my head.
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Hilariously stupid.
Speaking of which I downloaded the demo recently. It's not much fun playing single-player. I'll give the multi a shot this weekend.
This game sucks. Why would you even bring the notion that it's remotely good by playing a certain way. PS3 has no games. You won't find one.