Random Gaming Talk Thread

[Himu]

Think about how much this guy gets paid per hour. Think about how many hours he's spent writing up posts defending the use of a single word.

Yeah.

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At least I think he gets paid, he might be doing all this for free.

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Think of how many times he's jacked off to Loli anime porn.

[Great Rumbler]

Think about how much this guy gets paid per hour. Think about how many hours he's spent writing up posts defending the use of a single word.

Yeah.

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At least I think he gets paid, he might be doing all this for free.

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Think of how many times he's jacked off to Loli anime porn.

Why would I want to do that?

[Rahxephon91]

Man I never knew that Ace Combat 3 was this amazing story heavy game.

I started playing Ace Combat 5 again for what seems like the thousandth  time. I've actually only played the PS2 and up games. So I just thought I'd google about the other ones and then I read about how amazing AC3 is with this story that sounds like Ghost in the Shell meets Macross Plus complete with branching story lines and anime cutscenes. Only to find out Namco took that all out for western release. Like what the fuck? AC3 sounded like the most interesting one. Makes me want to import the Japanese version. Guess it's another thing to add to my list.



It just looks cool. Something right up my alley.

[Himu]

Why in the world did namco do that when the game was released during the apex of the anime boom?

[Joe Molotov]

Probably didn't want to bother translating all them words.

[magus]

Probably didn't want to bother translating all them words.

AC3 isn't even the first example of namco botching a translation, tales of game pre-vesperia have tons of voice work cut out which is especialy hilarious in the case of gamecube symphonia where you have to watch the character flap their mouth like they are a bunch of fishes gasping for air



wow, someone on neogaf compiled a full list of namco translation fuckups!

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2772926

my favourite is nightmare of druaga, it's a roguelike based on tower of druaga so like tower of druaga there is a lot of stuff hidden that you can find by using vague hints... well guess what? namco removed all of the hints! so you have absolutely no idea what the fuck you are supposed to do

good jon namco

[Positive Touch]

ahhh wtf I always wanted to pay Druaga dammit! fucking Namco, easily the worst of all the old big Japanese publishers.

[Himu]

If we are talking their primes, easily. But even namco gave us ridge racer 4 and Point Blank.

[Takao]

so flappy bird guy made a new game

can't wait for the android market to be swarmed by flappy swing, swing birds, copter birds, fluctuating gyro and what else

No need to wait. Never underestimate Google Play:

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Dong's Entertainment

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https://twitter.com/___discovery/status/502481188838469632/photo/1

Also, I hope you're happy that Medabots has turned to the uguu school of character designs:

I was just gonna post that in here.

I dunno if I'm gonna buy their stuff as long as he's employed there anymore. Or until they tell him to stop doing PR.  Or until they put a leash on him. Whatever works.

Damn fool.

Outside of Falcom's stuff (of which XSEED will have little new to publish in the future, given Falcom's Trails focus) and maybe Corpse Party, it's not like you'd be missing much. Their parent company has become a Harvest Moon and boob game factory.

[larrydavid]

what i've learned from that namco fuckup thread is that ethel really liked tales games and 2006 era duckroll was concerned about bikini and panties related edits.

[magus]

so flappy bird guy made a new game

can't wait for the android market to be swarmed by flappy swing, swing birds, copter birds, fluctuating gyro and what else

No need to wait. Never underestimate Google Play:
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jesus fucking christ on a jumping pogo stick

[Rahxephon91]

Why in the world did namco do that when the game was released during the apex of the anime boom?

Apparently from what I gathered from a fan translation website was that actually work had started on the localization. The game was even advertised here as having all this stuff. The game was even programmed in a way to allow for an easier English localization. They had even hired the lady who did MGS2's translation to I guess do a test run.

It's just that Namco for whatever reason decided to cut the localization budget.  The website offers ideas that maybe it was because it was such a late release PS1 game and the PS2 was on it's way out. Also that despite being such a big game it did'nt sell that much better then 2 in Japan and there was no big clamor for a story heavy game.

I still like Namco and even with all the shitty changes to thier games I never felt like they were un-cared for. The Tales(some anyway) and Xenosaga games still had quality translations and voice acting. Which is more then I can say for some other efforts.

Namco still has some of the best artists and musicians till this day. A lot of thier games had and still have really nice production values.

[bork]

Man I never knew that Ace Combat 3 was this amazing story heavy game.

I started playing Ace Combat 5 again for what seems like the thousandth  time. I've actually only played the PS2 and up games. So I just thought I'd google about the other ones and then I read about how amazing AC3 is with this story that sounds like Ghost in the Shell meets Macross Plus complete with branching story lines and anime cutscenes. Only to find out Namco took that all out for western release. Like what the fuck? AC3 sounded like the most interesting one. Makes me want to import the Japanese version. Guess it's another thing to add to my list.

It just looks cool. Something right up my alley.

Yeah, I have the Japanese version.  It has so much story that it shipped on two discs.  Back in my game store days, everyone was impressed with the GITS/Macross style presentation.  Then the American version came out and we knew something was wrong when it was only a single disc.   

[I'm a Puppy!]

Feel like dusting off my PSP. Anyone got suggestions?

Already played:
Ys I and II
Valkyria Chronicles II (played the first few hours and the cried and cried and put it away)
Lunar SSSC (I didn't like it)
Jeanne d' Arc (loved it)
FFT (loved it)
Tactics Ogre (liked it)
Pangya golf (surprisingly one of my favorite games on the system)
FF: Crisis Core (it was possible)

[demi]

Kangdom Hearts: Slip it in while asleep
Metal Gear Acid: Cards got me laid
Final Fantasy 4: After Years Fuck Yea
Parasite Eve 3: Lollllllllllll
Growlanser: So frail, so young, so sexy
Class of Heroes 2: Victor Ireland thanks you for your donation
Star Ocean: Stupid Sexy Rena
Persona: The ones that arent 3
Wild ARMs XF: Support one of the best series ever, dickface

[archnemesis]

These are all good.

The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky
Metal Gear Ac!d
Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth
Ys: The Oath in Felghana

[chronovore]

Man I never knew that Ace Combat 3 was this amazing story heavy game.

I started playing Ace Combat 5 again for what seems like the thousandth  time. I've actually only played the PS2 and up games. So I just thought I'd google about the other ones and then I read about how amazing AC3 is with this story that sounds like Ghost in the Shell meets Macross Plus complete with branching story lines and anime cutscenes. Only to find out Namco took that all out for western release. Like what the fuck? AC3 sounded like the most interesting one. Makes me want to import the Japanese version. Guess it's another thing to add to my list.

It just looks cool. Something right up my alley.

Yeah, I have the Japanese version.  It has so much story that it shipped on two discs.  Back in my game store days, everyone was impressed with the GITS/Macross style presentation.  Then the American version came out and we knew something was wrong when it was only a single disc.   

It was the localization costs, IIRC. It may have also been some SCEA hijinks over shipping a two-disc set -- Namco may have been cut a break by SCEI, but SCEA were on the throne and wielded their judgmental powers with fierceness by that point. The marketing department at the time was not buying into the advance wave of anime popularity, and was always lowballing estimates on sales. This is the same marketing responsible for Klonoa having something like a 30K initial print run, which sold out despite a total lack of marketing/sales support.

[Rahxephon91]

Yeah well it's for sure on my list of games to get for that dream Japan visit. Used copies are sure to be cheap right? It just sounds exactly like the kind of game I'd like.

[chronovore]

Yeah well it's for sure on my list of games to get for that dream Japan visit. Used copies are sure to be cheap right? It just sounds exactly like the kind of game I'd like.

Um, maybe? I don't know; I'd offer to take a gander for you, but between my backlog and Xbox Games On Demand sales, I haven't been visiting game shops very often. I'll try to remember to peek next time I'm out and about.

[Rahxephon91]

It was a more of a rhetorical question. I actually forgot you lived in Japan.

You really don't have to do that. It wold probably be a year and a half(College Graduation mayybe) before I'd even have a chance to visit Japan

[bork]

Shouldn't cost much; I see there's a copy on Ebay right now, complete, with a buy it now price of $20.

[chronovore]

It was a more of a rhetorical question. I actually forgot you lived in Japan.

You really don't have to do that. It wold probably be a year and a half(College Graduation mayybe) before I'd even have a chance to visit Japan

There are days I wish I could forget that I live here.

Yesterday I found out the small shop which sells exotic foreign foods, such as tortillas, cheddar cheese, and beer with flavor, as well as some really good whole bean coffee, will be shuttering its local storefront in a week.

[Rahxephon91]

I can only imagine. I don't think I could live out of the states. When I was away from home in WI, I missed chains such as Popeyes and White Castle. I'm not sure how I could deal with being even further away from the foods I like and have to settle for what I may see as off beat versions. I mean I love Chinese and Thai food as that's all my Grandmother cooks, but even then I love a hamburger or some fried chicken. I'm really less versed in Japanese food beyond the obvious.

I also don't know if I could deal with living in a country like Japan, surrounded by well lots of Japanese people. Part of the reason I want to kind of get out of Chicago is that I dislike the segregation of the city. I don't like just being around just one kind of people. I want a mixture of people, maybe because I'm mixed. I feel uncomfortable around just African Americans as I do just Caucasians. So needless to say I'm not sure how I would fair in Japan. Even visiting the place is kind of uneasy. Not because, I'm some weeboo who thinks it's this nerd mecca, no that phase of fetishsising the place ended around high school. It's just I don't I'm kind of scared of visiting a foreign place.

I don'y know. This probably should have gone in the Japan Thread.

[magus]

so today there was another smash leak, but wait a second! this one looks pretty legit because it features an actual belieavable looking video, i'm putting this on spoiler for the occasional andrex

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so this rumor say that shulk,bowser jr, the duck hunt dog are the missing new characters, dr.mario is coming back, there is a dark pit coming out as a pit clone, and the ice climbers,snake,lucas and wolf are getting cut and reintroduced later on as DLC alongside rhythm tengoku chorus men, the video show shulk and bowser.jr in action







well there you go guys, it's bowser jr. the official herald of "we ran out of idea's!"
also ganondorf is still a captain falcon clone
duck hunt dog is our last hope

some extra image showing trophies and mode

http://imgur.com/a/PzeCw#sDjoQb8

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[Joe Molotov]

What characters were you wanting that aren't in it?

[magus]

What characters were you wanting that aren't in it?

well the nintendo essential are all there so honestly at this point everything is extra, but i still can think some things they could have done instead

- make the clone their own character instead of having more of them (i still can't believe that a character as important as ganondorf is still a clone for the third time!)
- how about promoting some character from assist trophy to actual character like samurai goroh and jeff? f-zero rooster is HUGE and full of cool design and i'm pretty sure we can pick more stuff from earthbound, how come captain falcon is still the only f-zero character?
- how about putting andross and have a star fox character that plays differently from BLASTER/DASH/CHARGE/SHIELD guy?
- how about some of the more lesser know kirby character like the nightmare wizard from the original kirby game? (EDIT: he's one of the new assist trophy... goddammit nintendo )
- ridley from metroid has been suggested a lot of times and often cited as "not possible because he's too big" we all know that's not a problem so....
- how about letting me play as professor oak? he's truly the most iconic pokemon character after pikachu and you could make him use pokemon for his special moves like he could pull flying pokemon for his recovery move and such
- how about asking capcom and namco for more characters? i don't know how flexible such a thing would be but their history is HUUUUUUUUUUUUGE and certainly more interessing than most of the new character introduced... i know several arcade item from namco game appears, that's good at least

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- how about letting me play as kamek? he's been there forever and always play a role in all of the mario rpg! he's more important than fucking bowser jr!

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tl;dr i wanted to play as the old codger and nintendo just want to remind you there is a new fire emblem game on the 3DS!

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that's why i love the idea of the duck hunt dog possibly being there, he's a shining beacon in a possible list of character that feature DARK something

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[Positive Touch]

how about the fat uncle from startropics

[Beezy]

magus

[magus]

how about the fat uncle from startropics

you are not demi!

magus

yes, i pretty much expected this when i decided to wrote that but i still went with it because i don't know any better, i wish i could spit on joe for tempting me to do it

[Takao]

Are there any reps from that Dinosaur Pokemon-clone RPG thing Nintendo has? It's still an active property (rip starfy and custom robo) and it's got a few games under its belt.

[tiesto]

Feel like dusting off my PSP. Anyone got suggestions?

Already played:
Ys I and II
Valkyria Chronicles II (played the first few hours and the cried and cried and put it away)
Lunar SSSC (I didn't like it)
Jeanne d' Arc (loved it)
FFT (loved it)
Tactics Ogre (liked it)
Pangya golf (surprisingly one of my favorite games on the system)
FF: Crisis Core (it was possible)

Every Extend Extra
Half-Minute Hero
Wild Arms XF
Trails in the Sky
Ys 7

[demi]

Just bought Illusion of Gaia off eBay because me and a bearbud were randomly slapping our hogs over it. True Classsssix

[Yulwei]

 

[Positive Touch]

Just bought Illusion of Gaia off eBay

my condolences

[StealthFan]

I fiddled with FF XIV on PS4 yesterday. I bought it Saturday but couldn't get into it. It's alright I'll wait until I get into a dungeon before I quit. That's the only reason i even got the goddamn thing.

Metro Redux arrives from Gamefly today. Gonna be good. It's two weeks until Destiny tho, and then two weeks after that for Shadow Warrior. After that it's flavor country, with a new release pretty much every week.

[Squiddy]

Smash bros 

[Takao]

Sony, when you become completely irrelevant, please don't do something like this:

[Joe Molotov]

lol, is that from the animators of gdgd Fairies?

[I'm a Puppy!]

Sony, when you become completely irrelevant, please don't do something like this:

I bet the dreamcast girl dies quickly in every challenge.

[deepest throat]

lol, is that from the animators of gdgd Fairies?

same dude directed and animated that so 

[Great Rumbler]

lol, is that from the animators of gdgd Fairies?

Yep, along with some people from Fireball and Straight Title Robot Anime.

[Joe Molotov]

That's what I figured. Sega only warrants poverty-tier CG animation these days.

See also:

[I'm a Puppy!]

You know, Nintendo's whole ideal of "It's a losing game, so why compete at all? We'll play this our own way." Is goddamned brilliant and is exactly what I'd suggest they do if they engaged me as a consultant. So how is it possible that they can get it right there, but then screw up nearly everything else just so badly. There's no excuse for the virtual console being as bad as it is. The Wii U was a series of missteps (even if you like it, you gotta admit that). Marketing? That's a mess too. They have moments of brilliance followed by months of stupidity. It's such a mixed bag.

[larrydavid]

It's really surreal listening to old episodes of Retronauts where everyone complains about how awful each Virtual Console week is. "Only one good game and three okay ones this week!! Come on Nintendo!!!!"

[seagrams hotsauce]

Is TWD Season 2 worth ten bucks? I liked the first one enough, but I still don't trust Telltale enough to buy it without asking around first.

[Mr. Nobody]

I hope Layton vs. Wright is good.

Investigations 2 really let me down

[archnemesis]

Is TWD Season 2 worth ten bucks? I liked the first one enough, but I still don't trust Telltale enough to buy it without asking around first.

It's not as good as the first season, but still worth playing through. It's more of the same with less likable characters.

[Takao]

I think the excuse for the Virtual Console is that most games don't pull in much money at all on it, probably less than the cost of ESRB rating them.  The rest is just hubris and conservatism, both things Nintendo has in spades.

Do publishers still have to pay for ESRB ratings on those? I know they stopped charging certain digital games. Unaltered ROM/ISO dumps shouldn't need to be re-rated.*

*I know that there's a bunch of pre-ESRB games on the eShop.

[I'm a Puppy!]

Goddamnit! Monster Hunter Wii U is $16 on the eshop? I tracked that down and plunked down $60 for it.

[demi]

came out a year ago.

[demi]

Volume 1 of the "Digital Devil Saga" novel

[Takao]

This looks like janky fun. But not $80 worth of janky fun.

[SpeedStats]

Rockman DASH3: Prologue just got released for people who didn't bother buying the $35 disc. It's all free, download's here. http://rockmandash3.blog.fc2.com/.

There's an English version of the game included in the zip file, too.  It's all right so far.  It's basically playing like a regular jump/run n gun with text.  The English text, um... well, they tried.  It's good enough, I think! 

It's also controller-compatible.  I looked at the default keyboard controls and decided to go with the controller instead.  You can also double-tap to dash if you'd like instead of using the dedicated button. 







Rockman 4: Minus Infinity is still my fave Mega Man hack/fangame, though.

[Takao]

it looks really nice for a fan production, but it's kind of missing the point of mega man legends by making it a 2D sidescroller

[brob]

Chasing after Housemarque with the geometry wars license smh

Cakebread wouldn't have done me like this.

 :'(

[brob]

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/08/29/the-dreams-in-which-im-dying/

The underlying expectation here—that without Western civilization humans would become monsters—is a psychic tic of game designers, who tend to be overeducated upper-middle-class men whose primary lens for understanding the world comes from commercial entertainment. If your worldview is built around a series of compromises you’ve made to secure a comfortable salary building eidolons of human narcissism into restricted-admission dream-states, paranoia and projected self-loathing are in order. And when these labors make you servant to an economy of Moore’s Law and inescapable obsolescence, the competition for scarce resources (conveniently abstracted in the game with overlaid icons, as if Google Glass were the only thing to survive the collapse of human civilization) must seem like an especially poetic prism.

Non-enthusiast publication reviews of video games

[Great Rumbler]

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/08/29/the-dreams-in-which-im-dying/

The underlying expectation here—that without Western civilization humans would become monsters—is a psychic tic of game designers, who tend to be overeducated upper-middle-class men whose primary lens for understanding the world comes from commercial entertainment. If your worldview is built around a series of compromises you’ve made to secure a comfortable salary building eidolons of human narcissism into restricted-admission dream-states, paranoia and projected self-loathing are in order. And when these labors make you servant to an economy of Moore’s Law and inescapable obsolescence, the competition for scarce resources (conveniently abstracted in the game with overlaid icons, as if Google Glass were the only thing to survive the collapse of human civilization) must seem like an especially poetic prism.

Non-enthusiast publication reviews of video games

Is that from a review of PAD?

[Joe Molotov]

Michael Thomsen is a writer in New York and the author of Levitate the Primate: Handjobs, Internet Dating and Other Issues for Men.

 :joel

[I'm a Puppy!]

http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/08/29/the-dreams-in-which-im-dying/

The underlying expectation here—that without Western civilization humans would become monsters—is a psychic tic of game designers, who tend to be overeducated upper-middle-class men whose primary lens for understanding the world comes from commercial entertainment. If your worldview is built around a series of compromises you’ve made to secure a comfortable salary building eidolons of human narcissism into restricted-admission dream-states, paranoia and projected self-loathing are in order. And when these labors make you servant to an economy of Moore’s Law and inescapable obsolescence, the competition for scarce resources (conveniently abstracted in the game with overlaid icons, as if Google Glass were the only thing to survive the collapse of human civilization) must seem like an especially poetic prism.

Non-enthusiast publication reviews of video games

Wow. I'd call that pretentious but even that doesn't do it justice.

[Rahxephon91]

And Dead or Alive 5 gets another version. This time joining the pS4/xone up-port trend.