I'm not sure why Kamiya even uses twitter. Every time I look at my feed (not amazingly often admittedly) and see a post by him, he's SUPER PISSED about something.

>>173758
Venting grievances seems like a perfect reason for using twitter.

>>173763
It's therapeutic.

>>173763
The thing he's usually pissed about is other people tweeting at him.

The Sims 4 will not require an online connection to play:

http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/14512/article/ea-announces-the-sims-4-for-2014/

>Spicy Horse Games has announced a cosplay contest seeking the world’s best cosplayer to appear in the work-in-progress Kickstarter pitch video for Alice: Otherlands, the still-in-negotiations successor to the American McGee’s Alice series.

>One lucky winner will be flown to Shanghai, China in June of 2013 to appear in a video shoot for the Kickstarter campaign, though all entrants should ensure they have plenty of time to secure a visa for a trip to China.

http://www.fangirlconfessions.com/alice-cosplayer-contest/

Icewind Dale has become a bit of a chore. The main story is quite alright, but it's just really, really linear. I guess there's a reason why it's not held in quite such a high regard as other Infinity games. Also, the ambushes of massive enemy hordes popping in out of nowhere is getting really tiring. I'm tempted to just slide the slider down to very easy and rush through the rest of the game.

This was a DUMB move Disney.

http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/ea-will-make-all-your-star-wars-games-now/1100-4633/

>>173795
Gotta get a head start on their future acquisition.

>>173795
Welp.
Fuck.
Good thing I'm not a huge Star Wars fan; I can carry on my EA boycott without a worry.

Was Skyward Sword made by the DS team? Because a lot of the puzzles, progression, area of invincible enemies you have to find safety from and generalized regions that unlock with story progression feel the same. Like they where going for a sea/land/air sort of thing.

>>173798
I never played the DS games. However, the invincible enemy areas are basically straight out of Twilight Princess, which had the same setup with a slightly different reason for doing so. I think the only difference is that Twilight Princess didn't have the "step in this and wake the Guardians" water. (Did it?)

>>173795
Realistically, most of the later Star Wars games were pretty balls.

>>173800
I don't remember any invincible enemies as part of the tears of light sections. The Silent Realm seems to combine the sort of enemies in the central temples of PH and ST with the gathering property of the tears of light segments in TP.

>>173803
I thought those sections in TP had their own "Guardians" that would chase you if you didn't keep collecting the tears?

It's been some time since I played it.

>>173805
Nope, just mutant rats and flowers and orcs. However, collecting the final FINAL tear did require a boss battle.

BF3 alphaNov
I heard you guys want to get really depressed.

I don't suppose anyone here would like some old D&D 3.5 books for cheap?

I'm moving, and as such need to get rid a lot of shit. I'd be willing to sell any of the following books for 7-15 dollars... plus shipping unless you happen to live in the Lethbridge Alberta area.

I own:
BESM d20
Deities and Demigods
Magic of Incarnum
Secrets of Sarlona
Star Wars Revises Core Rulebook
Expanded Psionics Handbook
Magic Item Compendium
Races of Eberron
Monster Manual 3
Monster Manual 2
Players Handbook
Book of Exalted Deeds
Dragonmarked
Unearthed Arcana
Races of Dragon
Book of Vile Darkness
Weapons of Legacy
Oriental Adventures
Epic Level Handbook
Races of Destiny, Races of Wild, Races of Stone (collected)
Planar Handbook
Dungeon Masters Guide
Creatures of Rokugan
Eberron Campaign Setting
Complete Psionic
Draconomicon
Tome of Magic
Dragons of Eberron

Anyone interested can e-mail me here.

>Desilets has now commented on his departure, telling Polygon that he was in fact fired.

>"Contrary to any statements made earlier today, this morning I was terminated by Ubisoft," Desilets said. "I was notified of this termination in person, handed a termination notice and was unceremoniously escorted out of the building by two guards without being able to say goodbye to my team or collect my personal belongings. This was not my decision. Ubisoft's actions are baseless and without merit. I intend to fight Ubisoft vigorously for my rights, for my team and for my game."

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/07/patrice-desilets-leaves-ubisoft-again

>>173841
Man, videogame industry, why you so 19th century?

>>173859
You expect better from Ubisoft? They're working their ass in an attempt to be the next EA, shit and all.

>>173861
You know, I keep wanting to buy Blood Dragon, I really do. But, when shit like this happens? And, since they shat up WiC, I think I will not be giving them my money.

>>173863
No, stop, don't do that. Do not let this affect Blood Dragon. That game NEEDS to do well because companies really need to see that something like it and Undead Nightmare is a viable tactic. An entire subgenre of AAA titles released at full price, then followed up by these weird genre twists which come out for cheap because they reuse engine and assets. That is a GOOD THING.

Besides, Assassin's Creed blows.

>>173866
>Blood Dragon
>Undead Nightmare

LOL WACKY is a prevailing cancer that is shredding the integrity of modern games.

>>173868
Moe, you are terrible; long single player campaign DLCs are the only ones that aren't utterly blatant cashgrabs.

>>173868
>Lol wacky

Undead Nightmare actually genuinely disturbed me. After spending a whole game with these characters, seeing them under such different conditions was a little alarming.

Blood Dragon I don't actually want to buy because I was not that big a fan of Far Cry 3. It was big and pretty, sure, but I feel like the rest of it was rather bland, and the neatest things about it got shoved aside for a sub-par story and and gunplay that I would describe as "passable". Blood Dragon seems to me like boiling down the game to a 10th of its' size and concentrating that wasn't really that interesting anyway.

>a prevailing cancer that is shredding the integrity of modern games.
If it's a cancer, it's basil cell carcinoma.

The integrity of video games is rotten to the core for a whole shitload of reasons and a few small time titles made for fun (oddly enough, people like having fun with video games) are far, far from even really tarnishing video games.

Truth be told, it'd be like tarnishing the RMS Titanic at this point.

Poker Night 2 makes me really upset.
Sam is a stacking, card-counting bastard.

>>173868
Modern gamers are shredding the integrity of modern games.

http://feedback.arma3.com/view.php?id=1658

Why is this a thing

>if you've always got a friend nearby, that's not very scary. I want players to enjoy the horror by themselves as much as I can. If a friend is nearby, usually it's when you're in some kind of danger and you have to work together to survive. This game divides up its scenes between scary situations like that, and those there the horror is borne from the fact that you're alone." -Shinji Mikami

Take THAT Resident Evil 5 - 6, Dead Space 3 and others!

>>173891
...Why do you have a problem with it? Wanting both genders to have models is not an unreasonable request.

Man between The Evil Within and new Wolfenstien Bethesda is kicking ass.

>>173928
Nothing to do with that actually.

For starters, ArmA 3 is still an alpha: there's whole lot more work to do and time shouldn't be spent on what amounts to an aesthetic.

Also, it's clearly a troll posting. Take a look at the tags and what not:

>" "modern, CIS_priviledge, Combat, combatant, combatants, Female, Female player models, females, feminism, girl, girls, IDF female troops, Ladies, Lady, Model, muh_equality, Woman, women

And the attached file. I'd still hold to my first issue, even if the item were a legitimate complaint or suggestion.

http://www.giantbomb.com/videos/the-minds-behind-dwarf-fortress/2300-7340/

Toady and ThreeToe look way more normal than I'd expect.

http://www.gametrailers.com/reviews/cqmg2t/zeno-clash-2-review

This is the best review, dear god. Just watch the first 60 seconds and you'll see.

I... I caved in and bought Skyrim. Not that I expect it to be as bad as /v/ says it is. Because fuck /v/ something righteous. But I just fear for the time that this game is going to gobble up without me even noticing.

>>174069
That was well done, of GameTrailers.

>>174070
Depends on your tolerance for repetiveness. I had fun with skyrim, but most things realy felt like more of the same.

I literally haven't ever gotten through Skyrim because the intro is so long that I can't give a fuck.

>>174072
Man, really? Just start the game and go do something else while the plot-exposion wagon rolls.

>>174069
Yeeeees. Zeno Clash was fantastic, couldn't finish it because it gave me motion sickness something fierce though. Everything I've seen of 2 looks fantastic too, definitely check it out if you're into batshit.
>>174072
I absolutely don't understand this, Skyrim's intro is pretty much a how to on vidya intros. It tells you everything you need to know, is decently paced and has great atmosphere (particularly that first bit when you're just on the cart and Ralof is talking, his VA is pretty great there).

If you're lucky, gamebryo will even fuck up and the archer will go sliding along, so you'll get a bug intro too (as I did the first time I saw Skyrim).

Anyway:
So Guacamelee is a fun game, and I got up to the point where all that was left was the last level (the Great Temple) and cleaning house. I opted to do the latter, which was a mistake because I found out the Orbs were a thing in doing so.

And that's when I found "Tree Tops."

This is exactly what happened with VVVVV. Great game, really enjoying it, and then suddenly I wander in on something that my pride won't let me abandon in-game and my rage/lack of skill won't let me conquer. In VVVVV's case, i was Veni Vidi Vichi that caused me to just drop the whole thing in frustration, in Guacamelee's it's Tree Tops.

Guacamelee is a cool Metroivania with some decent jokes, fun combat, and challenging, varied platforming. Definitely check it out if you can, it's great, but my own personality has shot me in the foot here.

>>174073
Like, even the running from the dragon and stuff, I just couldn't do it, I get about to the part where I'm given a weapon before I just don't feel it anymore, if I try again it'll be my 8th attempt to start Skyrim.

Oh god, I wans't ready for Skyrim's horrible optimization. I can play Witcher 2 on Ultra with consistent 45 FPS. But I can put Skyrim on High and it still dips to >20 FPS regularly. Jesus Christ, that's bad.

>>174087
Kingdom Hearts 2 must have been hell for you. Hell, almost any Square game made in the last 2 gens.

>>174090
It took me 3 years to get past Kingdom Hearts 2's intro.

>>174090
Not a big Kingdom Hearts fan anyway.

>>174093
I don't blame you.

>>174092
It's like 4 hours long! And at least one full hour of that time must be cutscenes! Why did you tout brand new battle and movement mechanics then deny me the chance to dick around first thing in your little game world, Square?

I actually didn't mind the slow buildup the KH2 intro had, the whole Matrix scenario slowly getting more and more twisted, the plot thickening with every day. I can't say that for 358/2 Days.

>>174105
It was intriguing and almost compelling the first time. Not so much on subsequent playthroughs.

Did I miss something, or does Far Cry 3 not have a second act?

It goes from

>hi I'm JasoOH GOD OH GOD OH GOD

to

>I kill everyone and everything and have my own cult

in the span of like 20 minutes.

>>174106
This pretty much.
My problem was that I used to always play a game for a couple hours without the memory card in, so that in case I screwed something up, like investing all my stat points into Defense to become an unkillable tank, when it turns out Defense does jack shit, I could learn from my mistakes and not have them permanently affect me.
So I made it all the way through the fuckin' intro without a memory card in, then turned it off and tried to go through it with the card in the next day, and just...I couldn't.
And I tried again the next week, and instantly got bored, and couldn't.
And I tried again in a couple months, same problem.
3 years later I managed to fight through how unendingly boring it was and get through it.
Got maybe halfway through the game and quit, haven't touched it or the KH series since.

I actually had that exact same problem with Twilight Princess. Did the same shit, and couldn't seem to force myself to play through the incredibly boring intro sequence a second time.

>Bro hooks me up with CaveStory+ download
Awww yeah.

For those unaware, Chloe Sagal, the dev behind Homesick, attempted suicide on Twitch. She reportedly took some pills and rested on her bed before the channel was taken down. She's apparently okay now and in medical care.

Allistair Pinsof from Destructoid has spoken out on Twitter and confirmed what many suspected of Sagal's suspended fundraiser: it was a cover up for a botched sex-change surgery. What I find disturbing is that he was blackmailed from revealing this info, due to fear of Sagal taking her life.

>>174121
That's probably the most fucked up thing I've heard all month.

>>174121
Reading up on that shit was a bad idea. That Chloe person is horrible in every way. Threatening with suicide to prevent people from calling you out on your scam is one of the most despicable things I've ever heard of.

>>174121
Holy drama, Batman.

>>174121
What's especially sad is if he had admitted that he desired a sex-change operation upfront, a lot of people WOULD have helped him. I've seen people who do commissions for theirs, and they get a decent amount of money.

I'm really annoyed at him for lying to people, but I also want him to be okay. Suicide is a scary thing, especially when you record it live on the internet (or at least, attempt to).

>>174121
Full statement by Pinsof here:

http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rk99tp

>>174124
It's not malevolent, it's weak and desperate.

>>174134
These things are not mutually exclusive. And I'm simply shocked that anyone would defend her actions. It goes to show how effective this stuff is for guilt-tripping people. Suddenly she became the victim. And if you read her posts, it's simply disgusting how suggestively they are worded. She's wording them as if people are putting a gun to her head. Talking repeatedly about how she's in constant danger because people are driving her to suicide as if she has no choice in the matter. She's taking the innocence of everyone involved hostage and is making her victims out to be the villain in this scenario, which is simply disgusting. As someone who had to live through this shit with a sister who attempted suicide (obviously, popping pills with someone there to witness it; wouldn't want to actually die while doing this shit, right?) to get out of paying for a con she got busted on, with a family on its breaking point for years on end, I simply cannot feel any sympathy for this person. I know how these people tick.

>>174149
If she was receiving death threats for being transgender, I do feel for her.

Theres gonna be a Tales of Symphona HD PS3 remake!

There is absolutely NO chance it will come stateside!

>>174158
>PS3
Eh wouldn't have been able to play it anyway.
Glad I picked up another copy for Gamecube a few years back.

I just played through the 2008 Prince of Persia.
I have never played a game so pretty but so pointless.

>>174165
Yeah. A friend bought it, and I was with him when he did, and warned him against it, but he paid no heed. I watched him play for about an hour, in which time we had maybe four or five fights and a bunch of "ball touching parkour".

... What am I looking at here?

>>174173
Refined desperation.

>>174174
https://plus4chan.org/b/baw/src/136792413078.gif

Not till you've seen it in motion it's not.

>>174178
Didn't notice it that much in the still but this could've been hot if she didn't suffer from miniscule torso and anorexia syndrome.

http://www.destructoid.com/nvidia-shield-pre-orders-open-costs-349-253683.phtml
http://www.screwattack.com/news/nvidia-shield-priced-349-youll-need-better-video-card
>Nvidia Shield at $349
>Android based device that can also play PC games streamed from a computer
>But only if you have an Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 or superior, and those are quite expensive

Ahahahaahhaha, nope!

>>174178
Well now its just plain transparent.

She's really not that hot. I dont get the obsession.

>>174173
Vindictus
A pretty fun F2P Korean MMO. That poor girl obviously had all her bodymass sliders set to the absolute minimum, because some dude thinks anorexia is hot. And all that fanservice-y stuff is basically how the game makes money. You can play for free and run around in bad-ass armor or pay for underwear to run around in. Mind you, this is also true for the males. Nothing like going on a raid with some guy in ridiculously tight briefs and a silly hat.

I went to /v/ for a few minutes. That was a mistake. Now I'm slightly sad and annoyed. I don't even know why I did it.

Old news, but I finally found the reason for why they got rid of Space Cadet Pinball in the recent Windows releases.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/20/vista_killed_pinball/

Signing up to Twitch with my actual e-mail was a mistake. Goddamn what a spam fest.

So I think Worms might be the best drinking video game ever.

Steam itself just became a collectable RPG. Wat.

http://steamcommunity.com/tradingcards/

And yet, no HL3.

>>174207
Y-you mean I have to PLAY my Steam games?

And Badges you already have will also count towards your Steam Level, like the various sale badges and the Steam Community Badge. Good thing I worked to get those, so I can get a few levels up early on.

Now they just need to add a battle component to cards, sell boosters, and we'll have a whole new way for Valve to suck money from our wallets.

>>174211
I play Half Life 2, and tap it for 1 black mana.

Man, Skyrim dragons really are fucking chumps. Not that I expected much after hearing so much about how weak and disappointing they were. But goddamn, constantly watching them get slaughtered by various forest animals while sitting on the sidelines and not even lifting a finger is just depressing.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/05/15/ea-getting-rid-of-online-passes
>Electronic Arts will be “discontinuing” its Online Pass initiative.
This surprises me because, despite the consumer backlash, online passes made sense to me. So long as a new pass was a reasonable price, and lacking a pass didn't lock out single-player content on a disc, it would be useful for supporting online servers for a longer time (assuming a centrally hosted system) as well as gauging popularity over time, which is helpful if a game somehow gets a second wind (admittedly rare). It seemed like reasonable DRM.

But I guess I'm in the minority.

ohshit

>>174225
That's just nice to see. James is like the nicest guy in the world and he's going to be a great father.

>>174225
Is that AVGN?

>>174233
yep James and family, behold the future who shall be snarling and swearing at crappy VR games from her childhood. And so the circle continues.

So, XCOM is dece. The stats can be bullshit and it seems like the chance is far too often in favor of the AI. I always love how I lose progress because the GUI shits itself and refused to respond at all.

But, the combat? Awesome.

>>174225
Oh, nice. I bet he does an episode where he has to watch his mouth, now.

Calling it!

I know there's quite a few people who say Skyrim looks like shit. And I agree that a lot of the textures are complete garbage. But godammit, I still think it looks fucking amazing at times.

So does anyone else have this? I've been playing for a bit and I'm having some fun with it.

Bandai why can't we have dumb costume DLC like Japan gets.

>>174207
I have Steam Trading Card invites. Anyone interested? [RAIN]deer on Steam.

Speaking OF cards, I've got an extra Heavy.
Looking for Scout, Demo, Medic, Sniper, and Spy.

I want another Star Ocean game.

>>174294
Cards?

>>174308
See >>174207

>playing XCOM
>Rookie dies
>3 squadmembers panic
>they all target and kill my medic

Seriously? Fuck this shit.

Update on that attempted suicide: This guy got fired.

http://forum.destructoid.com/showthread.php?29659-Chloe-Sagal-Allistair-Pinsof-and-Destructoid-s-Response&p=1164173&viewfull=1#post1164173

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=558898

So I recently got the Alpha pack for Xenonauts. The last time I tried the game was last year with the Kickstarter demo.

That was v10.2, now its up to v16.5.

I have to say, there are a number of changes I approve of. Particularly the fact that Alenium grenades and missiles become standard for no additional cost after you research Alenium explosives. Things used to be expensive as hell to make.

>>174365
>suspended and under investigation
>For outing a suicidal scammer
This doesn't make any sense

>>174368
He was suspended for outing a trans person when he didn't need to. One that tried to kill herself a day before and will likely face more harassment from being revealed.

>>174373
>He was suspended for outing a trans person when he didn't need to.
Except, you know, where she scammed a bunch of people, explicitely because of that reason and threatened with suicide, should he expose her. Which became moot when she did it anyway.

>>174375
This. If he'd just outed her, yeah, that would have been bad. But when she scammed people with her own eventual suicide, she lost that protection IMO.

>>174373
We must deny the existence of criminal [oppressed people]. That is what Social Justice is about! Keep up the great work, comrade!

>>174375
>>174380
No! Bad! Wrong! You are siding with the oppressors! You will regret opposing Social Justice! We already took 4chan from you, this site will follow! Resistance is futile!

>>174383
This isn't even funny in a "Haha, he's acting" sort of way, because people are actually like this. Hell, check out the forum responses for that nonsense. I'm certain the phrase "So what if she was scamming people" actually comes up.

>>174373
No, fuck that shit, she's a con artist, he did the right thing by dragging that shit into the open.

She should have come out and said "I am raising money for this operation." It's not exactly the most WORTHY cause in the world compared to say, feeding starving African children, but if the internet can fund video games, it can fund sex change operations so whatever.

Buuuuuuuuuuut she didn't. She pretended she was making a game, tried to scam the shit out of people, blackmailed a journalist, and then tried to off herself on Twitch. Every detail of this can and should be aired out.

I love how gaming media is an episode of 90201.

I feel the only skill I have some confidence in is creating qt waifus in character creators. No matter the quality of the tools. That's pretty fucking sad.

http://spoonyexperiment.com/2013/05/16/final-fantasy-xiii-review-part-4/
Oh hey, he stopped at the same part I did the first time.
But I did it because I could not beat that boss and just gave up.

So.
Guilty Gear, huh?

>>174480
Are they sprites or detailed 3D models??

>>174491
Detailed 3D models that look almost exactly like the sprites, I think.

This was the last person I expected to see write for Kotaku.

Guys, just a heads up of you're buying the Strike Suit Zero Mega Bundle on Steam:

There was an error that didn't include Strike Suit Infinity in with the purchase. It was fixed quickly, but you should still be prepared to send in a ticket if need be.

Penny Arcade is giving away Steam codes for On The Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness 3 today (while supplies last):
http://penny-arcade.com/static/rainslick-giveaway

All you have to do is a reCAPTCHA to get the code.

>>174504
Well that is 12 shades of cool.

>Kingdom Hearts HD
>new soundtrack

holy shit it's fucking incredible

[KHFM] KINGDOM HEARTS HD 1.5 R…

I was talking to a bunch of friends over how wreaked Silent Hill is and what would make for a good Silent Hill and we started to go towards the roots of medical aspects but decided we should go for something different if we were gonna do it so we went with mental illness born out of "curing" the sane, things like conversion therapy, drowning torture to emulate rebirth, being forced through suffocating sheet tunnels to replicate being born.

The main character would be a repressed homosexual with a complicated past with possible murders and sins to be sorted out, enemies focused on suffocation, alteration, manipulation and deceit.

Classic tank controls with pre-rendered environments.

The main thing to remember is subtlety, Silent Hill really isn't a hard concept to write about and it's sort of amazing it's been so poorly handled.

>>174518
I think there's more to it than that. And that's exactly why we haven't had a Silent Hill that's quite the same flavor or brand as the original trilogy. Because the formula has been compromised and gone from a bag of unknowns that nobody is sure of -why- those things are how they are, to staples of the series. Things people are expecting, and things the fans want to keep putting in. Like the walking corpses in 2, and how they were put in the movie despite having absolutely nothing to do with the story or the first game. In all three games, almost nothing but plot centric stuff is too spelled out for you. You have to draw your own conclusions, be vigilant and look around you. You are, for all intents and purposes, walking through a land and place with its own history, with weird shit walking around that predicates on things you aren't even aware existed yay-long ago. Things that exist but get no explanation of exposition. Some stuff is allegory, some cigars are just cigars.

At this point it'd probably be easier to create a surreal horror game that's only tangentially related. Team Silent isn't doing this anymore, and the big book of SH related information is probably the closest thing to a loveletter to the fans saying, "our influence on this series, and by extension the possible breadth of depth, is over."

Homecoming felt soulless. I never played downpour.

>>174522
But that's what I'm saying, it needs a completely new everything, Homecoming was a movie attempt with Downpour being a bit of a mess but along the right thinking of an original story.

Downpour actually had an interesting idea in that you were going through other people silent hills but ultimately failed to make the story cohesive enough to carry that narrative, it also failed in what is possibly the most important aspect of a Silent Hill game being monster design.

Again I think it's really not hard to write a silent hill game, it's just that the most important aspects are being forgotten, combat should be in the games but most often a bad idea, the story should be subtle with the monsters not specifically named and their shapes obscured enough for multiple interpretation.

Oh and not forgetting to avoid FUCKING STUPID gimmicks like Downpours rediculously stretched meaning behind the rain mechanic, The Rooms absurd ghost shit or being laughably unfrightening like Shattered Memories Raw Shocks and ice world gimmicks.

http://youtu.be/NmcSMAuo8OI

its like they made a game out of Homeworld's cutscenes

>>174524
Isn't moving through an Otherworld fueled by another person's neuroses something SH1 and The Room already dabbled in, though? I would rank Downpour a little higher as a game experience if it had put more thought and uniqueness into the "levels" rather than using the stock horror game environments and reusing enemies, but it's still building off those earlier entries. As for combat you can kill pretty much everything you see in SH2 if you play on the lower difficulty levels and don't suck at scavenging for supplies And not only is that game considered the best, it has the weakest combat mechanics as well.

I just this weekend put in a new SSD and a new video card into my system. I can plug in some more RAM for the cost of a game, and once I do that I've pretty much maxed out my current rig (the proc I have on the board is the second-best the board the can do, so the next upgrade will be a mobo/proc combo). Sure, I could get an even better video card or even *more* RAM, but I'll get diminishing returns on those.

Thanks to past sales, I still have 50ish games just on Steam to even begin playing, so I can easily skip this entire generation (especially with all the console games getting ported to PC; remember when it was the other way?) and miss nothing. And we're a little over a month away from the next Steam sale event...

So with PS4's "We have the option for devs to lock a game to a console, but it's not on by default, but you can be sure that most publishers will turn it on", XB1's "you can play used games if you pay a fee (equal to or greater than the game's MSRP)" and Nintendo's "but it has a tablet and that's awesome, right? Right? Bueller?", not to mention all three giving heavy focus to THINGS THAT AREN'T GAMES, I may just sit this entire generation out and hope they all learn from each others' mistakes for the next round.

>>174536
[CHEERING INTERNALLY]

I can't wait to see what the cook up.

>>174575
Stop bragging. Nothing pisses me off quite like someone thinking anyone gives half a rat's sack about their "specs" except having a shitty computer myself incapable of playing anything and loving video games.

Also this current/next gen's about the handhelds. Called it years ago.
Get yourself a PSP or Gameboy or a high end phone.

>>174586
I know that feel, bro--for a long time I didn't have a capable computer, only a shitty laptop I paid far too much for; at best I could run the original Half-Life. If you have any money to spare, start by getting a good motherboard and lowball the other parts, then upgrade over time. Until then, I recommend looking into SCUMMs/Point-and-clicks and other older PC games that still have plenty of fun and character (like Monkey Island).

Anyway, I wasn't trying to brag (I wrote in generalities, saying nothing specific about my system except that I have an SSD; "hardcore" gamers would blow my system out of the water), just explain why I have no need for this gen after spending the last three snapping them up.

Also I already own a 3DS.

>>174598
It's totally alright to brag. Getting a brandnew PC is a really good feeling. I had the same old shitmill for 8 years straight before getting my current one about a year ago. I can definitely relate and I'm happy for you.

I just found out what the fuck Saya No Uta is!
A prequel too The Last of Us.
Ba dum tss~

Weekly Humble Bundle is Alan Wake: Collector's Edition and American Nightmare. DRM free, but Windows only ($1+ for Steam keys)
https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly

It got fairly good review scores (83 for core game, 73 for AN), so it seems like a good $5 spent to me.

As if not having enough Pikmin left to claim my prize was bad enough, now I have to stand here a metric aeon waiting for the door.
>100 Pikmin Enter, only 1 Pikmin leaves

So, Alan Wake is on the HumbleBundle. Why not?

Man, PS4, make a descent controller and you will DOMINATE this generation holy shit.

>attempting any kind of no damage run in The Binding of Isaac

fucking fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck goDDAMN IT'S NOT EVEN FUN ANYMORE

>>174737
Just a small bit of info. Damage from Blood Banks and Demon Beggars don't count against you for that.

Resident Evil Revelations is great, it's kinda funny though, you can tell they worked really hard on it as an apology.

Like it is straight up an apology for 6.

The only reason I'm even excited for E3 is Dark Souls 2. Couldn't give less of a shit about all this console hullabaloo.

>>174790
It came out well before 6 though.

>>174792
The port specifically though, hence the new costumes and raid mode and dlc.

I love how the plot twists in the Layton series are usually only slightly less insane than the "impossible" situations they find themselves in.

>>174808

Oh god this.

Time Travel is poppycock. But creating a city under London meant to perfectly simulate a future version OF London, paying hundreds of people to pretend to be future versions of people and forming an overly elaborate scheme just to get ONE GUY to follow me along in this so I can bring back his dead girlfriend who actually didn't die and really was sent to the future so time-travel is possible?

Much more likely.

Call of Juarez Gunslinger is pretty damn fun.

Winner Video
Kinda neat.

>>174823
Yeah, pretty cool. Good for the winner. Kind of silly seeing people being up-in-arms about this though. Sure they said it would be "life-changing", but anyone who hoped it would've been anything more than this set themselves up for disappointment.

>>174823
So, a digital scratch off lottery ticket, pretty much.

>>174500
Until the third paragraph I thought he was talking about enjoying both lighthearted/family friendly games and relatively serious/realistically violent ones.

>>174823
>>174825
The whole cube experiment wasn't something I cared much about in the first place. If I was particularly excited about Godus, I might've been upset that at handing over a seemingly crucial part of it to an arbitrary person who presumably likes to repeatedly tap a big cube. Personally, I'd get either a stand-up comedian or that guy who "beat" Sim City.

>Pick up Army of TWO: TDC to play with little brother
>Expect it to be fun and about the same stuff as 40 Days; weapon customization and fun
>less guns
[spoilers]Salem fucking dies in a cutscene in the first mission, and Rios is paralyzed[spoilers]
>Second mission, everyone from TWO we run into dies, bringing the body count of friendly TWO characters up to nine
>Third mission, rescuing a couple of TWO mercs from a hotel, who were also looking for a pair of mercs.
>They head off to regroup, continuing looking for the second pair
>They've already been killed
>It's the third mission, and the current TWO mercenary body count is eleven, and the surviving pair that isn't my little brother and I probably walked into an ambush, and died
>mfw
Holy shit, when did the guys behind Army of Two steal the Modern Warfare book of story writing.

Now in the right thread with working spoilers and desired image

Fuck it, no one's playing AoT for the story anyways and I'm tired.

So if you have any interest at all in sneaking, puzzles, snarky dialog or cyberpunk noir, you shold probably try the gun point demo.

Curiosity - what's inside the …

SHOCKER..not really given the person behind it.

>>Fan: If I spread enough rumors about my favorite company doing something and set up a fake Twitter account claiming to represent the company and/or raise a bunch of money in support of it, I can make them do anything I want!

That...that's not how it works. I'm sorry.

DSP needs a diaper change!

Oh my lol.

I've really, really been enjoying Warframe, the F2P Co-Op game. They've added a lot of stuff to encourage groups and co-op stuff, usually the regular 'grinding' stuff, but for some reason the running and gunning/slashing is rather addictive.

Warframe Profile - Vauban

Only big complaint is that making a co-op game where differnt characters have different run speeds, and getting to the ending makes the map end? Doesn't really encourage some mentality of players to actually play like they're in a co-op game.

>>174891
DSP is such a scumbag.

>>174891
>DSP
>skill

FUSE REVIEW!
Well, that's quite a disappointment.

>>174914
I need to friggin' work on a Vauban.

>>174926
Classic Game Room - FUSE review

Humble Bundle 8 includes Capsized and Hotline Miami, which are about the 2 best 2D action games I've ever played.

>>174939
I shit a brick when I saw your comment on a CGR video.

>In an interview with Pachter, which will be published later this week, Pachter estimates that consumers can expect to pay around $399 for the Xbox One and about $349 for the PS4. "The boxes will both sell out at the above prices," he said, when asked which he believes will have the more successful launch.

>Xbox One: $399
>PS4: $350

http://www.gamezone.com/news/2013/05/29/pachter-both-the-ps4-and-xbox-one-will-sell-out-at-launch

The Pachter has spoken!

>>174964
I don't see them being that far apart in price. PS4 has the much more expensive GDDR5 and a better GPU, while Xbone has the Kinect. If anything I can see the PS4 being slightly more expensive.

>>174964
>Pachter
>Ever right.

But yeah, that does seem like a good estimate.

>>174971
For price I mean.
Them selling out seems a little hard to believe unless the market adjusts for the overall decline in interest in consoles.

>KotOR on ipad
neat.

>thought I was getting a good deal a couple weeks ago trading $10 in TF2 keys for The Walking Dead
>right now I can get a copy through the Humble Bundle for $4.03

Buyer's remorse!

But I still got Back to the Future for a dollar, so what am I complaining about?

https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly
This week's deal is six games (seven, if you pay above average) from TellTale. Walking Dead is the seventh, and includes the entire season. Also has Back to the Future, Sam & Max: Devil's Playhouse, Poker Night at the Inventory, and Wallace & Gromit's Grand Adventure (again, complete seasons for those with multiple episodes.)

Seems like a grand deal to me. Note that Walking Dead is Steam Only and Wallace & Gromit is Windows Only.

Stupid Humble Bundle giving me amazing deals on good games so I give money to charity...

>>175012

Hector is the only one of those I don't have! And since I probably can't give away the extra games, boo I say.

>>175013
Yeah, that's what's always annoyed me about HB--not being able to give away an individual game you already own (in my case, Poker Night 1). It should be noted that you get a separate key for the "pay above average" game, so you can at least give that away (not that it matters, because you could still download the game from HB itself anytime you like), which might be useful for >>175010. (Though you'd have to give away the key instead of trade the game.)

It's that time of the year again.

>>175016
I'm very interested to see what comes out of all of this, even if I won't actually buy most of what's revealed. What new "features" Sony and Microsoft announce for their respective consoles, possible price points, what the devs are going to bring to the table.

Especially interesting will be Nintendo and if they can bring anything to the table to counteract the crap that is the Wii U. We'll probably get the new bundle/battery/WiiMote charger they announced for Japan yesterday(?), more news on Wind Waker HD and LttP2. It will be interesting if they can bring anything to the table that can steal the show's buzz, though something like Zelda U, a new Star Fox or (proper) Metroid title, or a huge amount of info for SSBU might do it.

>>175016
I'm game.

I thought Nintendo wasn't having a show this E3.

>>175021
They're not; in lieu of a live event (as in years past), they're doing a "special" Nintendo Direct, which is what's on the scorecard. (Actually, I think they're doing two or three, each with a different focus, but I can't remember.)

>>175021
They aren't, they'll just be having one of their usual Nintendo Direct streams the morning of E3.

I am so glad I don't read Playstation Lifestyle.

>>175024
This was my little brother until I sat down with him and walked him through what he could and could not parry a few hours ago. Huh

>Hotline: Miami.

I don't get why people love this. It's just tedium.

>>175023
They're still gong to be at E3, but the presentation is being switched out for their own show.

Basically, they're doing it on their own terms outside of the event itself.

>>175034
Whoops, I mean Watch Dogs, not Sleeping Dogs. Shit, I should go to bed.

Konami: Revengence PC release; Something with David Hayter, more metal gear.

Microsoft: Continuing the decent into madness as they chew off their own legs with more Kinect stuff no one in the audience cares about. Revealing of a few exclusives plus a trailer for the Halo TV series. Spend most of their time either backtracking or digging their grave deeper.

EA: Will call whatever new sports title they're producing now "revolutionary". Nothing really new or interesting to most of the E3 audience. Alternatively they reveal Mass Effect 4 to be an XbOne exclusive and I chimp right the fuck out.

Ubisoft: TOM CLANCY! ASSASSINS CREED! ALL SHIT YOU'VE SEEN A DOZEN TIMES BEFORE JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE IN THE LINE UP!

Sony: Will take at LEAST 5 minutes to take the piss on Microsoft, hoping the media keeps punching them long enough to not realize that Sony has some of the same shit people hate about the XbOne. Mostly consists of "Social Sharing" and "Look look! Now you have a reason to buy the Vita! Please oh please god buy the Vita!"

Nintendo: Links and Mario Luigies and Samuses. Nothing unusual or unexpected. Will briefly cover Pokemon, but not anything new, will show a brief trailer for the new Smash bros which will just be a cut scene of Mario, Samus, Link, and Pikachu in a locker room. Mario walks out the door but trips and corrects himself before falling. He winks at the camera. When the lights go back on; the Nintendo staff is met with hundreds of raised middle fingers.

Ok, then.

My prediction for Nintendo: Still no second analog stick for the 3DS.

Ya'll seem to be forgetting Bayonetta 2.

http://www.psu.com/a019581/The-Last-of-Us-review-labels-it-gamings-Citizen-Kane-moment

This is giving me Bioshock Infinite Vibes, though based on the comics I can get thinking like this though it still seems grandiose.

>>175057
If it allows for high drama like cutting off ones finger then Total Biscuit will be all over it.

>>175061
>If it allows for high drama like cutting off ones finger
Refresh my memory, which game was that?

>>175061
But it's a console exclusive; Biscuit will likely just spend the entire time bitching about how his PC is better.

>>175068
Heavy Rain

>>175069
Nah this will be done for the sake of elevating the "art" of gaming.

http://kotaku.com/oculus-rift-developer-killed-a-bystander-during-a-poli-510805442

>>175082
That's just...horrible. I mean jeez.

>>175082
That's awful and the headline more so. Makes the link flip the perspective of the event entirely.

>>175082
Goddamn, man. Some shit just isn't right.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=60537241#post60537241
Just.... wow. Another publisher to add to the boycott list. This industry is just thoroughly fucked. Can't wait for the next crash, so people get their head back on straight.

>>175061
From what I've seen of the game it's primary strength comes from pacing where you are essentially given your instructions by Joel himself as he tries to teach Ellie, enemies are sparse; clustered and dangerous with supplies feeling decidedly like trash rather than med-kits and in the streets.

The most disliked part of the game and seemingly the only disliked by reviewers part being that it has those Tomb Raider hanging trap infinite ammo moments which most people say feels super out of place since you go from like A SINGLE BULLET CAN KILL AN ENEMY IF I'M ACCURATE ENOUGH BUT I'M UP AGAINST SIX GUYS AND I'VE GOT THREE BULLETS to OH MY GOD SHOOT LIKE A MILLION BULLETS AT A MILLION GUY RUSHING YOU!! but most waved saying the segment was small.

Tales of Symphonia HD confirmed not only for release on PS3, but for localization in early 2014! The catch? The game will still use the chibi cel-shaded graphics it debuted in, and will also include the sequel featuring Emily.

http://www.abyssalchronicles.com/?fn_mode=comments&fn_id=1098

>>175092
>The catch? The game will still use the chibi cel-shaded graphics it debuted in

That's a catch? I'm glad they're not ruining the look like they did with Wind Waker HD.

>>175088
I don't understand. Arcane studios loosing money is just as bad for Bethesda. Everyone is loosing massive bank in that situation. The actual ownership of the company is nothing if you can't have the staff to back it up. What actual reason is there for them to own Arcane if they went out of their way to damage it so much the company would be of far less value on every angle? If you want a branch company, make a branch company. Hollowing out another through a self damning project wastes even more time money and staff.

>>175100

Perhaps, but I must say I'm a little dissapointed after how Vesperia handled it's cel-shaded models.

>>175103
I was hoping for a remake for the Vita that used the DOTNW models at the very least but whatever MYSTIC ARTES AND NEW CUT INS NEW ANIMATED CUTSCENES NEW COSTUMES AND SOMEONE SACRIFICE A VIRGIN SO WE CAN GET VOICED SKITS

>>175108

I would sacrifice two unicorns for expanded non-Lloyd character interaction.

>>175082
>Kotaku
Put that in a text file so we don't have to provide that shitty sensationalist website with more traffic and so people won't immediately get the wrong impression from the web address.

I like the chibi ToS.
>>175108
>I was hoping for a remake for the Vita that used the DOTNW
stopped reading there

I'm surprised Prey isn't on Steam. I would've honestly figured it would be.

>>175121
???? dawn of the new world isnt a bad looking game???

just a .... not-great game....

There's a zombie sandbox survival game available next week or so "State of Decay", look fairly interesting.

Anyone know more about it?

http://imgur.com/a/i5WPA

>>175127
That kind of shit is why this universe is so...diggy, like it digs into you.

Familiar dissonance with the real world.

MATT RANTS! Going Off On Microsoft

Feh. Tons of games have shown us more shocking things. Oh the White House all on fire and oh North Korea taken over and oh some signs from a road in a state you may not have ever been in. Hits home.

Just got an idea for a game: Multi-path game with choices affecting story, EXCEPT when you do another play through, the story of your prior playthroughs will randomly bleed over/pop-up for a minute. Kind of like Tears from Bioshock Infinite, but you cross over without realizing it (unless the area suddenly changes) and are pulled back from it.

For instance, you make decision X in an earlier game, and Comrade 1 lives. In a later game, you choose Y, and s/he dies. But, at a point later in the game, she's suddenly behind you and asking you a question she asked you in the prior game due to a Bleed.

I'm sure this would work best for scripted events, but ideally it would be random during gameplay, which could be helpful or hurtful. Maybe a random bleed takes out a building of enemies for a moment, allowing you to quickly skirt it; or, maybe a bleed gives them better cover for a moment, so you have a harder time picking them off.

I love "weird" games, but I find inconsistently weird games to be annoying. If you're gonna go the surreal route, go weird the entire game. Don't have a bizarre aesthetic, but bog standard gameplay and level design.

Sword of the Stars: The Pit - …

I'm really loving the shit out of The Pit.

>>175185
Is there something that set this off?

>>175195
I was watching Game Grumps play Stretch Panic. The game is really weird, but the level design is generic, and there seems to be only one real game mechanic (stretching and flinging things). It reminded me somehow of another game I'd played (I can't remember which one) where the ending was really surreal, but the rest of the game had shown no sign of weirdness. I would have liked a more gradual shift.

WHERE THE HELL IS THE RELEASE DATE FOR AMNESIA: A MACHINE FOR PIGS

*ANGRY NOISES*

>>175208
*ACTIONS IN STARS*

Oh hey a new Fantasia game

Fantasia: Music Evolved Announcement Trailer

>Kinect
>No classical music, only WUB WUB WUB WUB WUB

Fucking disgusting.

>>175230
Bruno Mars dubstep aside, a couple of reports from journalists who saw the game in action say it could actually be a pretty fun game that's also visually intriguing. So I'll give it the benefit of the doubt.

http://kotaku.com/how-the-fantasia-game-plans-to-live-up-disney-s-animate-511284531

>When I saw it last week in New York City, one of the first question I asked was about the art style. Why wasn’t it something more two-dimensional or cel-shaded? “If we took a 2D approach, then we may as well have put it in a museum,” answered Disney Interactive executive producer Chris Nicholls.

Well, that doesn't sound encouraging.

>>175236
Ugh. I remember when the early Naruto/DBZ fighting games caused a huge buzz because their graphics were comparable to the actual shows (and this has only improved since then, Ni No Kuni being the current high bar of simulated animation graphics.) I'm sure people would be far more interested if it was in a 2D style, especially if it was a cartoon 2D style that didn't just have short animation loops like simple children's games, but actually responded fully to interactions. Those that know of and love Fantasia do so, at least in large part, for the animation, so avoiding that is stupid.

>>175236
>“If we took a 2D approach, then we may as well have put it in a museum,” answered Disney
I think I'm going to throw up.

The industries that I once loved as a child seem to be going out of their way to mock what I loved about them.

Playing Oracle of Seasons right now. 90% of that game is fighting with the awful rigid controls. Bosses are a pain and fucking annoying. Zero fun. I don't think I'm going to finish it.

Good for you.

>>175258
Well, that is the combat focused one, isn't it?
You can tell because the logo is red.

>>175260
Yeah, Ages is the puzzler, myself I preferred Seasons.

Honestly I never noticed the discrepancy. Both seemed on the same level of fighting vs puzzles.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/7417-Next-Gen-Buyers-Guide?utm_source=latest&utm_medium=index_carousel&utm_campaign=all

Yahtzee's thoughtful discussion on the Next Generation of Consoles.

Take with as much salt as necessary.

>>175267
His simple suggestion at the end--don't buy any of them--is the proper one. However, it looks like the Wii U is getting Xenoblade 2ish, which is my Dolphin Shagging game, so it's likely I'll get a Wii U within the next year. (Though I'll wait until at least Christmas.)

>>175274
With Monster Hunter, X, Bayonetta 2 and no online bullshit , Wii U might just be the way to go this generation. After the price has gone down, obviously.

>>175277
If Sony and Microsoft can't produce anything at E3 that is both concrete (i.e. nothing like "we're just gauging consumer reaction", "our VP doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about", etc.) and really good for consumers ("our standard MSRP is $40", "we're offering a trade-in for old games where if you send the actual disc in, you can download the game on $console for free", "the console gives up to three blowjobs a day, no mess") and Nintendo can both show gameplay of its major titles and announce the next entries for a number of its other properties, they might still be able to "win" E3.

This is my beat poem about Gunpoint. If you have bongo drums, read it to bongo drums: "Gunpoint. Good game. Portal-like in spirit. Also in duration. Only 9 dollars though. Get it now. Puzzley fun."

http://www.humblebundle.com/weekly
So, this weeks' Humble Bundle is Serious Sam. Only one game is available on Mac/Linux and some are Steam only.

However, a twist is that all sales that are put towards the developer are going to be used to fund Serious Sam 4. It's part charity fundraiser, part Kickstarter. I hope someone does a followup on the results of funding 4, as it seems like an interesting experiment.

New entry in this year's list of Android "consoles": Project MOJO from MadCatz.
http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/07/e3-2013-mad-catz-project-mojo-android-games-console-revealed

Tales of Xillia - Official Trailer
tears off clothes and runs screaming into the sun

>>175402
What is the point of these so called Android consoles and why are people so hyped about them?

>>175405
Relatively low cost, small footprint and easy to hook up to a TV, extremely hackable, and some work with the existing Google Play ecosystem meaning they launch supporting thousands of titles (from crap to gold), some of which you may already own on an Android Phone and so can download there. (Ouya uses a curated list, so you don't have that kind of access out of the box.)

They could also upset the Big Three console makers, especially when all three are being pants-on-head retarded for this next gen.

For me, the big lure (especially for the MOJO) is in a great emulator box that I can hook up to my TV and run thousands of old games off of.

I'm hesitant about the Ouya for the same reason I was initially hesitant about the first XBOX. It's a new console, we don't know if it has any staying power, we don't know how well the console/controller handles.

But even if the XBOX One suffers a hit next console cycle, it still did a lot better than a lot of other consoles did as a whole, so I'm hoping to be proven wrong with the Ouya, too.

New Disney Infinity trailer looks fun

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=oC5ptkg8DSk#!

Did I ever tell you guys how bad of a game Mirror's Edge was?

Mirror's Edge 2 looks like more of the same.From the 1 minute trailer, at least.

>>175574

Mirror's Edge? More like fucking incredible, about god damn time for a sequel SHIT DAMN HELL YEAH?

YEAH YOU HEARD ME I LIKE GAMES

>>175266
I don't know, I picked ages first and so far it's been mostly puzzles.

>>175657

I'm not convinced Mirror's Edge was a video game so much as a tech demo yet.

For whatever reason, DICE has been very closed off with community support in this past generation and have put out games without mod capabilities. This wouldn't be a huge issue on its own unless the games they pumped out also turned out to have garbage map design, which they did.

I would have loved Mirror's Edge if the levels were made with flexibility and flow. They weren't. This could have been made up if they let players make and share their own maps. They didn't. A multiplayer mode would have at least kept me interested for more than 4 hours. That wasn't in there, either.

It's an interesting concept that they delivered on in terms of demonstrating the movement system. Unfortunately, this was dropped into an absolute shitstain of an actual "game" framework that required you to work to actually find it, or in PC players' case, actually break the game to make it work yourself.

I liked it, but it wasn't a game. Not a full retail game, at least.

>>175681
I was wondering why it sounded like you had a bad break-up but couldn't let go.

I guess I'd get mad about games too if I bought them early on, but I can't even remember the last time I did that.

Oh boy. All this Dragon's Crown tumblr shitstorming is only gonna get worse from here, you guys.
Dragon's Crown E3 Trailer | E3 2013

>>175696
That trailer has me hoping more strongly than ever that Dragon's Crown finds its way onto PC eventually.

As for carrying on about what Tumblr thinks about anything:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lrr_VVtyUA8

Jesus Christ, kiddies.

Guys, posting a stock value loss in Microsoft is utterly meaningless without also factoring in earnings-per-share. Not only that, a drop in stock for a company like Microsoft will recover *very quickly.*

Now, if they saw stock prices skyrocket, but EPS stay the same, THEN that means baaaaaaaaad shit is going to happen soon.

>>175696
>>175776
I have not seen a single post on my dash indicating that Tumblr even knows this game exists.

>>175815
I saw one a month ago defending the game from accusations of sexism which apparently seem to have been running rampant, using a lot of the same points I've been seeing on /cog/. Bonus points for actually using the term "slut shaming" correctly for once.

>>175836
I'm on the fence about it. I think they're both really strong (definitely not damsels in distress of any kind) and yet I hate their outfits, but I think it's more because a) I just don't like fanservice, and b) they're impractical than any feminist reason, despite being a feminist.

But yeah, Tumblr's not a hivemind. I see arguments breaking out between users with wildly different opinions every day. I haven't seen a lot of, if any Dragon Crown besides maybe the one post you were speaking of.

>>175843
Well, the Sorceress doesn't really need a practical outfit, since she's magic and all. But I can definitely agree on the amazon. That metal thong gotsta chafe like crazy.

If you are only going to bitch about it you can just as well bump the Dragon's Crown thread.
Myself I am game for a AA beat em up.
Or you could just get: Dungeons & Dragons: Chroni…

>>175875
>>175879
I just want her top up maybe an inch higher so her nipples aren't showing at all.

Why do mages never wear armor, or can only wear light armor? Usually, they're squishier, or enemies target them more. You think in general they'd be wearing more armor than a knight would.

>>175885
Balancing issues?

Particle effects are the new HDR.

>>175900
Fair enough. I think some games make them /too/ squishy, though.

>>175885
D&D explained it with armor interfering with spellcasting gestures.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/06/12/e3-2013-cops-called-to-shut-down-ouya

ESA is hating on the Ouya for "attending" E3 on their own terms, lel.

>Witcher 3 devs putting out combat mod for Witcher 2 to make it more like what they are doing in Witcher 3.

One of the main reasons CD Projekt RED continues to be one of may favorite developers. Hope we get some news about Cyberpunk 2077 this week.

>>175836
>>175836
Wouldn't antipromiscuoutism be a more proper term for it, or would that mean something else?

>>175843
Making them cover up just a bit more doesn't seem like it'd be completely infeasible, though it would mean changing a lot of art. If they're going to do that anyway, I think in some ways it might make more sense to just have an additional two characters to even things out.

>>175903
Just as often complete lack of armor doesn't even matter because magic lets them do everything better than everyone else, including defending themselves.

Especially in tabletop games, because having rules interpreted by a DM instead of a game engine gives a lot more flexibility for player ability in general and magic in particular.

http://www.giantbomb.com/podcasts/we-talked-to-denis-dyack/1600-511/

>>175960

> magic lets them do everything better than everyone else, including defending themselves.

GM RANT MODE ENGAGED

OK listen. Just because D&D 3.5 was made by a wizard-loving fanboy doesn't mean magic has to fucking function this way. It DOES in certain games (IE: D&D 3.5, Mage: The Awakening/Ascension, Ars Magica) but here's the thing you always need to remember about Magic: IT'S FUCKING MAGIC.

It can be as powerful as you want. But it can also be as SHITTY as you want. Hell there are systems out there where magic just plain IS shit and not worth taking at all! Not very GOOD systems mind you, but still. You can say that magic takes you 3 weeks to create like, a small orb of fire. Or it takes you a million years just to lift a small vase off the ground. All of those can potentially be how your magic systems operate because magic doesn't have any set or defined rules! Yes this means magic is prime for abuse by people who just don't know better, but here's the thing. When you're a GAME DESIGNER?

We trust you to make things as fair and as balanced as possible. Yes we understand rule 0 is essential. Yes we understand that there's always going to be elements or rules that might not have been play-tested as hard-set as others, and will need errata or to be outright ignored in some instances. But YOUR JOB should be to make large, sweeping archetypes fair and balanced or at least as close to fair and balanced as possible. Just because "magic" is more of a blank-check than "fighting ability" doesn't mean you have to make it the superior option. If that was the case then you'd have no reason to make ANY OTHER CLASS OR ARCHETYPE! (oh also: fuck anyone who says 'Fighters are suppose to be a beginner class' in D&D. Just fuck you)

Magic is only as balanced or imbalanced as you tool it to be. The fact that it IS magic is no excuse to its pretense of powers or abilities, and how you implement magic and those who use it is FAR MORE important than just saying "it's magic" and then giving the wizard every goddamn ability and power under the sun just because you can justify it better than you can with a fighter.

(this has been your tabletop rpg rant for the day, thank you and goodnight)

>>175965
>Magic is only as balanced or imbalanced as you tool it to be
Right.

I didn't mean magic class are inherently overpowered, just that physical weakness is used as an excuse for such even when it makes no functional difference. That happening is bullshit, is my point.

Getting back to the previous topic, wizards not being able to wear armor is also done so a party will be more diverse in terms of equipment.

Scarlet Blade (PC) Review - DO…
While we're on the topic.

So hey to clairify, Final Fantasy Tactics: The War Lions is a remake of the original FFT right? Because I wanted to download it for my vita and that game looks pretty as fuq

>>175981
Yup, with improved graphics, cutscenes, more jobs, more characters and items.

It is easily one of the best games on the PSP, absolutely perfect./

>>175981
>>175983
It does suffer from massive slowdown.

>>175984
Ended up being the only game for PSP I pirated after buying it just to get rid of godawful UMD load times.

>>175984
That's why you download it.

>>175987
So if I got it off the PSN, that would solve the slowdown issue, right?

>>175990
Yeah I certainly never had any problem with it.

>>175984
Well, I didn't found any slowdown aside some few occasions when you use magic or summons.
Overall, it runs smoothly on the vita.

Sweet action. Thanks guys!

>>175987
I wish I had known ahead of time!

>>175995
Knowing is half the Battle

>>175994
No problem.

>>175994
Go an enjoy that game!
You deserve it.

My favourite thing about playing Sengoku Basara Utage is when the main theme kicks in during the last mission.
Sengoku BASARA 3 UTAGE Opening
It makes every mission awesome.

http://secretvideogamesecret.tumblr.com/

I don't even.

>>175981
I got it for the iOS, definitely recommended- the new translation is FANTASTIC.

>>176031
I heard about the iOS port, and that it was recently (as in less than two weeks ago) updated to improve the loading times, lessen the animation slowdown, and sharpened up the graphics a bit--a bunch of stuff that was in the Japan-only Android version.

I've been thinking about getting it for either my iPhone or an iPad I could borrow from a family member, but heard the menus are hard to navigate because they haven't been resized.

I thought /v/ was being silly and facetious with that whole Adam Sessler drug abuse thing. Holy shit, I wasn't prepared for those videos. That was scary and sad.

>>176039
Wait what!? D:

>>176056
Adam Sessler's Best & Worst of E3 2013 Just as an example. He's like this in all E3 videos.

All these nerds talking about drug abuse...ever been to a conference for four consecutive days with cameras on you every waking hour while you try to scream over all the music, noise, and other interviews going on around you?

Check that again. Four consecutive days. Multiple hours a day. Video interviews. Sitting for hours during showcases. Standing in line at booths. Hour. After hour. After hour. Shouting the entire time. With bright lights strobing constantly.

E3 is fun to watch. It's not fun being there. Not after the first day or so.

SO HEY does anyone know how i'd get the international version of FF12 running on my computer? Im sort of on a kick and the license board system in this seems WAY more efficient

>>176064
I'd like to know as well. I hear FF12 International is like a whole 'nother game, with the license boards acting like classes almost, and infinitely more polished and playable than the original.

>>176064
>>176065
PCSX2 worked fine without really adjusting anything when I played it.
I'm glad they added the fast-forward button in the International release, it was way too slow when I tried playing the original on my PS2.

>>176066
My other worry is like... would an old-ish computer be able to PLAY it? Like it's just a little laptop, you know? It can play half life 2 and team fortress and like. Bastion. And thats pretty much it.

If you can't run it, there's an LP of Zodiac Edition on SA.
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3515317
I've been skimming it a bit, it's informative and really does seem to take care of most of my FF12 complaints.

>>176075
Unlikely then, sorry. PS2 emulators are really processor intensive. Can't hurt to give it a try, though.

>>176077
Ive already played FFXII though. I'm not interested in watching someone else play it, I wanted to try out the new license board and stuff, you know? Play it for myself since I really do enjoy the living hell out of that game even with its obnoxious license board system. The class system just sounds like itd be much more manageable. plus watching other people play video games is boring

>>176078
Dammit. Well Ill give it a shot tonight and hope for the best.

>>176064
Do you not have your PS2 anymore? It's a lot easier to mod a PS2 to play out-of-region games than to get a computer running a PS2 emulator. It's like $25-30 for Magic Disc and a swipe card, and you've got to pop the front off of your PS2 tray thingy, and that's it. Just start the console with Magic Disc, use the swipe thingy to pull out the tray without disengaging the lock, put in the game you want to run, and hit Go in Magic Disc. That's how I played FFXII IZJS.

>>176033
Oh wow, that update does look cool. Yeah, it was an iOS port of the GBA re-release. I didn't really mind the slowdown and stuff, it was manageable. Would be rough if you'd just gotten the device and were still figuring out how to touch things precisely.

>>176087
The PSP re-release, not GBA.

>>176081
Or, you could not spend any money at all and just use FreeMCBoot.

How to Space with Mulle Meck
Its extra funny for me because I know who he is.

>>176161
I'm in the U.S., and I know who he is, but only through a Swedish LP'er I watch often. Wish there was English subtitles.

Tried playing Kingdom Hearts I again today. The camera system is so annoying (L2 and R2 what the hell how did I play this so long ago) that I'm just going to skip it and play II instead.