Random Gaming Talk Thread

[Joe Molotov]

there is an achievement in asura's wrath for staring at the boobs of the only female character featured in the game

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Give in to your male instincts.

There's an achievement in Lollipop Chainsaw for staring up the skirt of the main character, too.

Stay classy, Japan.

Also there's an achievement in Asura's Wrath for staring at the chick's boobs.

HORY SHIT WE ARE STUCK IN AN INFINITE LOOP

Combo breaker

[The Sceneman]

lol Gundam why did you have to fuck it up

[Mr. Gundam]

lol Gundam why did you have to fuck it up

That's what Gundams do best.

[Beezy]

 

[Owl-faced Wizard]

http://www.siliconera.com/2012/05/04/ys-origin-comes-to-steam-with-english-text-in-may/

Ys Origin releasing on Steam this month, yay.

EDIT:

Fixed.  Whoops.  Thanks archnemesis.

[archnemesis]

The link above is broken. Use this instead.

I've already played the Japanese version and it's my favorite Ys game. You should all pick it up.

[Owl-faced Wizard]

I really wish they would bring back the run-into-dudes combat.  That was the best.

[Bebpo]

I really wish they would bring back the run-into-dudes combat.  That was the best.

  

Deep Combat >>>>> Shallow combat.

[archnemesis]

The first two games still hold up really well, but I suppose most people prefer the jumping and button-mashing of the newer entries.

[Owl-faced Wizard]

 

Deep Combat >>>>> Shallow combat.

  Killing guys with your dick > anything.

[Bebpo]

The first two games still hold up really well, but I suppose most people prefer the jumping and button-mashing of the newer entries.

??

Oath is anything but button mashing and you can't even jump in Ys Seven!

[demi]

I played Ys 1 on PSP (havent really started 2 yet) but I definitely do not prefer the bumper cars combat. Horrible for boss fights.

[archnemesis]

The first two games still hold up really well, but I suppose most people prefer the jumping and button-mashing of the newer entries.

??

Oath is anything but button mashing and you can't even jump in Ys Seven!

I honestly don't think the games feel that different from each other. It's more about learning to read the tells from enemies and memorizing patterns. If you cause damage by ramming or by mashing a button makes little difference to me.

[Eel O'Brian]

they're so damned cheap at gamestop right now, you could walk in with $20 and walk out with several month's worth of gaming

[demi]

Maybe some average to poor games, they jack the prices up on the "hard to find" games and the "decent" games. Even reprints wind up being $20-30 by themselves.

[Mr. Gundam]

they jack the prices up on the "hard to find" games

I'm really surprised by how much Ar Tonelico Qoga goes for. That game must have had a crazy small print run.

[Joe Molotov]

I was going to buy Silent Hill 3 a few months ago before they announced the HD release, and it was $30 at GameShit. 

[Takao]

they jack the prices up on the "hard to find" games

I'm really surprised by how much Ar Tonelico Qoga goes for. That game must have had a crazy small print run.

I'm pretty sure NISA celebrated a game selling like 25k once. It was one of their moe moe PS3 games.

[Bebpo]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=472851

Some game no one heard about or cared about for Vita was cancelled, so Vita is now more doomed than it already was.

[Joe Molotov]

they jack the prices up on the "hard to find" games

I'm really surprised by how much Ar Tonelico Qoga goes for. That game must have had a crazy small print run.

I'm pretty sure NISA celebrated a game selling like 25k once. It was one of their moe moe PS3 games.

Probably Atelier Rorona. That has to be their best selling PS3 non-Disgaea game (going off the fact it hasn't gone out of print yet).

[magus]

anybody feels like biting?
surely it's better than any janky euro rpg no?

[Joe Molotov]

Will buy as soon as it hits Steam.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Maybe some average to poor games, they jack the prices up on the "hard to find" games and the "decent" games. Even reprints wind up being $20-30 by themselves.

This was my experience as well.  To try out some PS2 emulators, I wanted to buy a few good games at Gamestop for $50 at most.  Boy was I surprised how much a lot of the games I wanted were going for.

An example is that I wanted Tekken Tag Tournament (dat Tekken Bowl ) but at the price they were asking for it, for about $5 more I could just get Tekken Hybrid for PS3.

[Mr. Gundam]

I'm pretty sure NISA celebrated a game selling like 25k once. It was one of their moe moe PS3 games.

Probably Atelier Rorona. That has to be their best selling PS3 non-Disgaea game (going off the fact it hasn't gone out of print yet).

Their best-selling PS3 non-Disgaea game is Cross Edge.  Rorona and Trinity Universe also passed 25k.

The PS2 days were definitely kinder to NISA, they passed 50k on a lot of different things pretty regularly.  These days they have stuff that sells under 5k in the opening month.

The Atelier titles are the only NISA PS3 games that don't seem to go out of print. I have no interest in getting Qoga, but it pretty much came out, was available in stores for like 2-3 weeks and was then out of print.

[magus]

I am a twenty-nine year old man on the verge of tears. It is remarkable and wonderful how many new ways our future allow us to recreate our childhood for us to enjoy all over again.

clearly written by bebpo or himuro or maybe both

[Maximus]

Hey guys; I lurk most times and post the odd time but I’m using this opportunity to do a little personal spam
This is a game I’ve been working on for over a year; releasing in June, It’s called Jellyflug; check it out



You play as a bacterium in a platformer spanning 15 levels from the Kitchen floor to the human body
It’ll be $1.99 on the Appstore, let me know what you think and if you like it share it around it always helps

[Maximus]

you love it really

[demi]

demi, leper that filth

Why? You love Angry Birds. Go suck a dick polack.

Chaos Rings

[Maximus]

I'd love to sell at $0.99 but then I'd have to pay my staff buttons instead of money; sorry Borys

[Takao]

That rumor about another RE on 3DS with the two movies is amazing given who released those two movies.

It's equally as amazing as the fact that a Sony owned animation company is making a 22 minute commercial for a 3DS game.

[MCD]

I'd love to sell at $0.99 but then I'd have to pay my staff buttons instead of money; sorry Borys

Would love to support all my bore friends but

Windows Phone user here. Sorry or maybe you are sorry for me. lol.

[Maximus]

Cheers though; Yeah Windows Phone is one of the few platforms we probably wont get Jellyflug on.

We use Unity3d you see and it has some reason for not having Windows phone which one of our programmers told me and I promptly forgot.

We're hoping for android by the end of the summer though; we just have to change the pricing structure a little as Android owners are cheap bastards; myself included.

[MCD]

Windows Phone 8 AKA Apollo software update will most likely make things better for you regarding that.

So give it another look once that out by fall or next year in general.

[Cerveza mas fina]

That looks pretty cool Maximus, when is it out on Android?

[Himu]

I am a twenty-nine year old man on the verge of tears. It is remarkable and wonderful how many new ways our future allow us to recreate our childhood for us to enjoy all over again.

clearly written by bebpo or himuro or maybe both

out of the two of us (bebpo and i) i think i am the bigger FF6 fan (it is my third favorite FF) but i'm not 29 so i'm guessing borys

[Maximus]

Windows Phone 8 AKA Apollo software update will most likely make things better for you regarding that.

So give it another look once that out by fall or next year in general.

Yeah hopefully so; more platforms the better.

That looks pretty cool Maximus, when is it out on Android?

thanks yeah its probably going to be August on Android; get everyone a few weeks off for a rest after the long development and then a month to optimise and it should be ready to go

[Himu]

Hey guys; I lurk most times and post the odd time but I’m using this opportunity to do a little personal spam
This is a game I’ve been working on for over a year; releasing in June, It’s called Jellyflug; check it out



You play as a bacterium in a platformer spanning 15 levels from the Kitchen floor to the human body
It’ll be $1.99 on the Appstore, let me know what you think and if you like it share it around it always helps

maximus

ios where all the creative handheld games are these days

if you want, i'll plug it on Something Awful, they have a huge ios fanbase and many developers.

[The Sceneman]

hey maximus, your game looks cool. Post in June to remind us when it hits the app store, and I'll pick it up

[Takao]

So apparently Sony has sold 1 million torne things in Japan.

Sony can't even sell 1 million PSVitas in Japan.

I can't even remember the last time a Sony published game sold 1 million in Japan.

[Momo]

Lots of amateur games reporters out there

[chronovore]

So apparently Sony has sold 1 million torne things in Japan.

Sony can't even sell 1 million PSVitas in Japan.

I can't even remember the last time a Sony published game sold 1 million in Japan.

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Torne is about the only thing my PS3 is used for in Japan. Also, it's like ¥8000 on its own, and I believe there was a recent bundle where the Torne and PS3 were about the price of the PS3 standalone.

Keep in mind that streaming video services are only just now taking off in Japan, and PS3 is one of the first devices to support DMM's service, and Hulu.jp

[Bebpo]

ALIENS.FROM.SPACE

THE GAME

spoiler (click to show/hide)

the background is the US flag lolol

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[Maximus]

hey maximus, your game looks cool. Post in June to remind us when it hits the app store, and I'll pick it up

No problem will do;

Hey guys; I lurk most times and post the odd time but I’m using this opportunity to do a little personal spam
This is a game I’ve been working on for over a year; releasing in June, It’s called Jellyflug; check it out



You play as a bacterium in a platformer spanning 15 levels from the Kitchen floor to the human body
It’ll be $1.99 on the Appstore, let me know what you think and if you like it share it around it always helps

maximus

ios where all the creative handheld games are these days

if you want, i'll plug it on Something Awful, they have a huge ios fanbase and many developers.

Thanks; yeah if you could do that that would be great; I'd really appreciate it.
I had these great intentions months ago of setting up forum accounts on big sites like that but working 12 hours a day fixing bugs put a dent in that plan.

[Takao]

(Image removed from quote.)

ALIENS.FROM.SPACE

THE GAME

spoiler (click to show/hide)

the background is the US flag lolol

[close]

I actually like that cover.

But I still think Nihilistic is about to take the biggest shit ever on that franchise. Resistance Retribution 2 RIP

[Great Rumbler]

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-05-07-gree-dena-stocks-plunge-as-japanese-government-cracks-down

The game mechanic in question is known as "kompu gacha" (complete gacha). Gacha is a game mechanic based on the coin-operated toy vending machines you find everywhere in Japan; it's essentially a lottery spin to get a virtual item. Nearly every game from DeNA and Gree use the "gacha" mechanic, as do games like PopCap's Bejeweled Blitz. With the "complete gacha" players who want to get a special/rare item must get a set of other items through gacha first. For instance, the user must first get item A through gacha, then item B (also through gacha), then C and D - and only if they can get items A-D (complete gacha) do they get the rare item.

Konami's stock dropped 18 percent on the news; Namco-Bandai's stock declined 9.5 percent, and Capcom's stock fell by 6.6 percent. "The market for social games may shrink if the warning is issued," said Makoto Sengoku, a Tokyo-based market analyst. "This would ruin profit pillars." A ban on the complete gacha game mechanic could reduce Gree's net income by 18 percent and DeNA's by 6 percent, according to David Gibson, a Tokyo-based analyst at Macquarie Securities Ltd.

[chronovore]

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2012-05-07-gree-dena-stocks-plunge-as-japanese-government-cracks-down

The game mechanic in question is known as "kompu gacha" (complete gacha). Gacha is a game mechanic based on the coin-operated toy vending machines you find everywhere in Japan; it's essentially a lottery spin to get a virtual item. Nearly every game from DeNA and Gree use the "gacha" mechanic, as do games like PopCap's Bejeweled Blitz. With the "complete gacha" players who want to get a special/rare item must get a set of other items through gacha first. For instance, the user must first get item A through gacha, then item B (also through gacha), then C and D - and only if they can get items A-D (complete gacha) do they get the rare item.

Konami's stock dropped 18 percent on the news; Namco-Bandai's stock declined 9.5 percent, and Capcom's stock fell by 6.6 percent. "The market for social games may shrink if the warning is issued," said Makoto Sengoku, a Tokyo-based market analyst. "This would ruin profit pillars." A ban on the complete gacha game mechanic could reduce Gree's net income by 18 percent and DeNA's by 6 percent, according to David Gibson, a Tokyo-based analyst at Macquarie Securities Ltd.

What the ffff..... How can the mechanic be illegal? I mean, gambling is illegal in Japan (except for a few exceptions), but this doesn't even have a real payout. These are virtual goods, aren't they?

[Bebpo]

Apparently the Japanese government needs to watch out for game-obsessed citizens so they don't bankrupt themselves!

[Bebpo]

Probably less Yakuza involvement in this stuff.

[chronovore]

Yeah, it's getting looked at cuz people are getting bills in the mail for like 700,000 yen from their kids' phones and bitching about it. 

I mean, I think gaming as an addiction does need to get more attention, but to me, cracking down on this while fucking pachinko keeps rolling is pretty damned silly.

Yeah, pretty much that.

There should be a means of controlling purchases on a phone -- carriers should implement a capping mechanism, so that parents can say, "My son's phone maxes out at ¥20,000 each month" and it just shuts itself off when it hits that number. Kids would learn quickly.

Or, hey, tell the kids "Don't buy a bunch of this stuff; I'm not paying for it. If you screw up, you'll lose your phone privileges."

[Owl-faced Wizard]

I have a flatmate that is hopelessly addicted to League of Legends and it is destroying his life.  He just broke up with his gf and I don't think I could say that wasn't part of it.  He is using up ALL our broadband too, which pisses me off because I wanted to use it all keke.

[The Sceneman]

shit 

thinking about an intervention?

[Takao]

Someone who posts on GAF really uses IE? Uh... I guess that's their work comp or something.

[archie4208]

Half-Life is such an overrated series. 

Episode 2 was the only good one and that is because it was mercifully short and had good pacing.

[Joe Molotov]

I have a flatmate that is hopelessly addicted to League of Legends and it is destroying his life.  He just broke up with his gf and I don't think I could say that wasn't part of it.  He is using up ALL our broadband too, which pisses me off because I wanted to use it all keke.

How much bandwidth does LoL use?  Unless he's just streaming porno while playing LoL, which is normal.

[magus]

borys use internet explorer?

[Owl-faced Wizard]

I have a flatmate that is hopelessly addicted to League of Legends and it is destroying his life.  He just broke up with his gf and I don't think I could say that wasn't part of it.  He is using up ALL our broadband too, which pisses me off because I wanted to use it all keke.

How much bandwidth does LoL use?  Unless he's just streaming porno while playing LoL, which is normal.

He might be, but I doubt it - he's living in the lounge right now which isn't a private place.  He just plays it a fuck of a lot, and so do a couple of the other flatmates, but he's home way more often and never gets off when he is.  Our internet went on the fritz last night and he got withdrawl symptoms.  Fuckin sad.  He has a real crappy too PC so he has all the settings real low  - I have no idea how he can play that purple shit.

[magus]

wow megaman fans are reaching the same level as earthbound fans

[Positive Touch]

  :'(

[brob]

"Neither of us are particularly social people and we are especially tight-lipped about our fan projects"

[MCD]

Give him a monocle and then we will talk.