Agreed on pretty much all counts. I hope the sequel brings more length.

gonna pick it up with Code of Princess on Amazon if I can find a copy for about ten bucks.

Man, were people not ribbing all the next gen consoles a few months ago? And now they're excited for them? That just reeks of two-faced opportunism. Unless they're excited to see how badly they do, which is only marginally better or worse, I guess.

>>182718
Early adopters. It's still going to be a year or maybe even two before either the XBONE or the PS4 are viable gaming platforms. The Wii U is finally starting to show signs of life, and even it's still probably got another year or at least half a year before it's really worth buying.

>>182697
>>182701

But is it worth 16$?

>>182729
Absolutely.

So, Full Spectrum Warrior is a weekly deal on steam. That was a pretty fun strategy game. I may have to get it. I loved it on Xbox.

And, I really need to get around to trying Scribblenauts. It looks weird. I like weird.

We Touhou now.

So what the fuck is Namco High? I'm confused.

>>182865
It is a Namco/ShiftyLook dating sim directed by Andrew Hussie and written by a bunch of people from the webcomics world including Brian Clevinger. It seems to be very silly and all right-thinking individuals want to date the Galaga ship.

>>182865
>>182866
I also remember it being described as a browser game.

>>182866
>>Hussie
Urgh...

>>182865
>>182868
INFO! GET YUR INFO HERE!
http://www.namcohigh.com/
http://www.p4rgaming.com/namco-president-unsure-who-approved-namco-high-dating-sim-game/

Aaaaand to start getting some blood boiling; pic related. It's one of the characters in Namco High.

>>182871
>Terezi

I thought you were trolling.
If only you were.

I actually like Homestuck but that's straight up bullshit.

I'm not really seeing the problem here. Didn't Namco approach him for the project? If anything, they're probably the ones who requested the cameo.

Does Namco really have a homestuck fantard in a position of power who can approve something like this?

The fanbase really is a cancer.

>>182871
>info
>p4rgaming
Good one.

>>182865
Namco High will be a comedic dating sim you play in your browser. It'll have 15 dateable Namco characters and 3 Homestuck characters. At the get-go, you will be able to play the "date lines" for Albatross, Anti-Bravoman, Galaga, Lolo, Meowkie, and Valkyrie. The rest of the date lines, including the 3 Homestuck ones, will be considered "premium content" being put behind a pay wall (because Namco Bandai needs to make some money back for paying their assembled creative team). At the moment, you can purchase a $15 pre-order that will unlock all premium date lines and net you some digital goodies like wallpaper and the original soundtrack. When the game is officially released, you'll also be able to purchase date lines individually if you only want to date a certain character (Individual pricing not yet disclosed). Release date as of now is "Holiday 2013."

As for the Homestuck stuff, I'm definitely not the biggest fan of Homestuck myself, but come on, they're just characters in a dating sim. You don't have to date them or even interact with them in any way whatsoever. Heck, you don't even have to unlock them. I most likely won't.

>>182877
-_- If you could get over your hate-boner, you might understand why this makes sense:

ShiftyLook is an initiative that Namco has been running lately to try to get people more excited about their old properties by having webcomics run based on those properties. Many of these are being written and drawn by people who have some weight in the webcomics world, like Ryan North, Yuko Ota and Ananth Panagariya, and Scott Kurtz.

Namco High is a game featuring mostly characters from those ShiftyLook webcomics, often with art for that character provided by the same people who do the comics for those properties, and with writers taken from the same pool of people.

Whether you like it or not, Andrew Hussie is pretty much the most successful webcomicker in history. This whole thing is a ploy to tap into more of the webcomics market, and the reasoning behind getting Andrew Hussie to lend his name to the project is inherently obvious.

>>182878
Yep. Its there for humorous purposes. If you don't like having a giggle, than disregard it. the other link is legit.

>>182880
Premium content, eh? At least they will be squeezing money out of this somehow.

Let's not play Need for Speed: Rivals

A game that's broken by design.

I still have no idea what Homestuck is about other than that it's apparently some 1337 shit starring a bunch of gray skinned people with glowing horns and Kamina glasses. Is it like MLP where the source material is actually alright despite its reputation for awful fans or is it more like Hetalia where the original is terrible schlock aimed at drawing in similarly terrible people?

All I know about the fanbase from personal experience is that most members of the fandoms I do follow that also like it tend to be obnoxious shitlords, and that it has so many vocal SJW that Andrew Huss wrote a whole character specifically to take a swipe at them. Granted you could say that about anything big on Tumblr but seriously so prominent even the creator gets pissed? That's kind of terrifying.

>>182885
Homestuck had promise at one point but Andrew has climbed straight up his own ass in the writing and drags things out even worse than he did the final boss battle of Problem Sleuth.

I used to read it but after a certain point it was indefensible, got out and never looked back.

>>182886
Man, I remember when I was still excited about Homestuck. That was when Hussie was still vehemently insisting that it would end after a year. How long ago is that now? Stopped reading when that timetravel-or-whatever-it-was shit started. With the robot troll. My memory's kinda vague on it, not that the plot was anything but. It had some genuinely cool moments before that, though. Even one or two that involved the trolls.

>>182885
Homestuck is about four friends playing a video game together.

Although keep in mind, that description is about as helpful as saying "Problem Sleuth is about some rival detectives teaming up to fight a mobster."

>>182888
Wow, so you stopped before [S] Cascade? I would think if you're going to get far enough to see the trolls, you would at least want to get as far as Cascade before quitting. It's generally considered one of the finest scenes in the comic.

Also I remember some of you guys mentioning on one of the Kickstarter threads that Huss put up a thing where if you pay $10,000 he'll write your OC into the comic? What happened to that? And did anyone actually take him up on that offer?

>>182890
>I would think if you're going to get far enough to see the trolls, you would at least want to get as far as Cascade before quitting.
I quit because I got tired of it. Precisely because of the trolls. How the fuck would I know that there's "totally some interesting flash animation coming up in the future, dude" before I quit? Please tell me your rad future sight secrets.

>>182891
Pretty sure that was originally supposed to be a joke, what with the $100,000 reward being listed as "your character will survive for longer than one page" and the $1,000,000 reward being something like "your OC is now the main character of Homestuck". It kept going on and getting more and more ridiculous.

After two people went for the $10,000 one, Hussie closed all of those options.

The two OCs appeared in one panel, and died in the next. They had no speaking lines.

>>182892
The trolls are pretty much the source of the decay.
The terrible fanbase feeds on the appearance of the trolls, Hussie feeds off the energy of his terrible fanbase, Hussie writes more trolls scenes/creates MORE trolls.
I stopped some time around close to when the new kids and their universe/game started (I really held on for far too long, should have stopped reading sooner), how many new trolls did Hussie create after that? And what if you add all the trolls and AU trolls in the afterlife to that

>>182894
>when the new kids and their universe/game started
I didn't even know that was a thing. Jesus Fucking Christ.

>>182892
Most people archive binge Homestuck rather than having read it from the start. I assumed you were reading after Cascade was already out. I apologize for offending you so gravely.

>>182896
Yeah, I guess there aren't a lot of people around who have been reading since Problem Sleuth in relation to the people who haven't. I didn't think. Sorry for belittling you. You couldn't have known.

>>182895
That makes it sound like it's a "The Next Generation" thing, which it isn't--the "new session" is still part of the completion of the original session, but the details on why that's the case are down to a lot of details that make sense in context but would be boring and probably a bit confusing if I explained them to you outright.

>>182898
It still amounts to Hussie dragging his shit out for as long as possible, and creating a bunch of throwaway characters like his name was Tite Kubo.

>>182899
Eh. This stuff was foreshadowed very early on. And I mean actual foreshadowing, not accidental foreshadowing, which is usually Hussie's stock in trade. One of them was playing a role in the story as early as Jade's first appearance.

They may not have been planned for from the very inception of the story (very little was, after all), but Hussie has confirmed that they had been planned for a very long time, as opposed to his usual fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants method of writing. Now the second set of trolls were unnecessary padding in a lot of ways, other than Meenah and Aranea, but they did provide him the opportunity to absolutely mock the shit out of his fanbase, and for that I salute them.

>Implying that the other session kids were not part of the story from the very beginning

Hell, they were hinted at before the Trolls, even. Unbunch your panties.

>>182899
It is awfully reminiscent of the current state of former Big Three shonen manga (with the possible exception of One Piece): the end has been seemingly in sight since forever but the distance between looks insurmountable since literally every character is apparently incapable of accomplishing things.

Which is also why complaining about Homestuck comes off as a bit goofy to me. Who cares enough about Naruto/Bleach/Homestuck to still actively hate it? It's as bad as it's been for years.

>>182900
As a note, just because a development's been foreshadowed doesn't guarantee that the execution was good. Or that it wasn't an irredeemable idea to begin with.

>>182903
Sometimes you actually come across people who claim that Naruto/Bleach/Homestuck is still good...

>>182904

My expectations for Homestuck were shaped by my experiences with Problem Sleuth; it has not disappointed me yet. Self-consciously drawn-out silly bullshit is Hussie's jam and I am totally down for it.

>>182906
Fully and completely agreed.

>>182903
>As a note, just because a development's been foreshadowed doesn't guarantee that the execution was good. Or that it wasn't an irredeemable idea to begin with.
True, but it does mean calling it "padding" is silly. I am not arguing against people disliking what Homestuck has become--I still enjoy it, but I don't give a fuck whether I am "right" to do so. I am more concerned about using inaccurate descriptions of why you dislike it.

"It took too long and failed to keep up the momentum of the early acts so I just stopped giving a shit" is absolutely fair. Even "It got too dense and keeping track of what all was going on got to be too much of a chore for me to keep wanting to read" is, too. "The alpha session is unnecessary padding" is not.

>>182904
Yeah, but you don't have to care about them either. Because they're the same as they've been for years.

I think maybe we should stop filling the /cog/ general thread with homestuck discussion, like lets make a concious effort to stop discussing the series because we have clearly gotten past talking about the Namco game. We have an entire board which is /mspa/ to contain this sort of discussion.

>>182910
Then do you have any new information regarding the Namco game?

>>182912
This is a general thread, we can discuss other gaming things here other than the Namco dating sim.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/11/19/nba-live-14-review
Oh EA Sports. You're always there to make us laugh.

>>182697
So apparently the new Adventure Time game is pretty lackluster.

People are saying it feels like it should be a free webgame.
And that its not explicitly BAD, but its just so mediocre and underwhelming that its getting shit ratings

>>182919
Sadness. I had so middling hopes for that game. Looks like I'm gonna wait till its 20$ used. It can't be helped.

Do you think they'll make a DuckTales 2 Remastered?

>>182939
Wow, I actually never knew there was a DuckTales 2. Or I did and I just keep forgetting every time I learn of it. But I would have to guess no. Remastered is great fun and they did a great job, but I don't think remastering 2 will do just as well for them for the time and money they'll need to spend. Better just to allocate that time to Shantae or something else.

So what's the word on this game? I played it a bit at Comic-Con and found that I was able to skip over large sections of the stages with Mordecai's insane jumping.

>>182941
It's one of those titles that fall of the radar because they come out at the very end of the console's life when everyone's moved on.

>>182945
I-I got it when it came out in my country...
It's pretty fun. Way easier than the first game, if I recall. Maybe I should give it some love sometime.

http://www.gearboxsoftware.com/community/articles/1112

Borderlands 2 "Ravenous Wattle Gobbler" Headhunter Add-On Coming on Nov. 26

https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly

This week its Pinball FX2 and a ton of tables for 6 bucks. Its a really good pinball simulator.

Playing Lego Marvel and I dunno, even though flying is faster and you can go everywhere, there's something still pretty fun about webslinging, I love it.

Sooo opinion time.

Super Mario 3d World: First impressions are overall good. I've only played as Peach. But she plays nice... biggest problem though is that she doesn't hover NEARLY as long as she did in Mario 2 so I'm disappointed about that.

Tearaway: Pretty nifty! I like the aesthetics. I think this might be one of the few platformers that's meta but not unfunnily jokey about it.

Playing more of GTAV, I think that the initial reactions I saw to the main characters perhaps miss the point in certain respects. Spoiler'd below

I don't think Trevor is meant to be representative of the modes of thought of actual players in GTA, though he certainly embodies the mayhem well enough. I feel like Trevor is more Joe Pesci to Michael and Franklin's Robert De Niro and Ray Liotta. Trevor's a fully formed psychopath, the kind of absolute monster that you simply must deal with when you make crime a career. The friendship between Trevor and Michael seems forged by their seeming darkness; Michael is a competent criminal who has to deal with Trevor but he finds himself enjoying certain aspects of Trevors' personality, a certain charm to the madness, especially in a world that, while ultra violent, seems to eschew violence within its' media much as the real world does. The aspect that ties Michael, Trevor and Franklin together seems to be their skill at violence, their ability to be effective in a world routinely portrayed as ineffective. Obviously this doesn't have a bearing on the real world, but I thought several reviewers, particularly the Escapist crowd, were over thinking Trevor a bit too much.

>>183102
I think that's a more accurate way to put it, sure. He's someone who ACTS like the player-controlled version, and his personality is reverse-engineered from that.

>Replace 3DS' SD card with a slightly more respectable 8GB card.
>Start redownloading games from the eShop.
>Some are missing, not a big deal
>Cave Story, for some reason, needs to be bought again for $9.99
>Call up Nintendo to ask why, see if they can just gift it to me instead.
>So have you been downloading them from your download menu or just searching up one by one?
There's a page?
>Yes there is, eshop menu, settings, your downloads.
Wow, thanks, I didn't know that.
>Lemme just look up your histo - oh wow, you have a big library
Thank you.
>cute assistance giggles
>You're very welcome. Seeing as you're in the ambassador program, I could ask and see if we can j-
Wait, whoa whoa whoa, holdong a minute. I'm in the Ambadassador program?
>Yes sir, if you just go to the third page
>Thought I missed the chance for the last two[sic?] years
>Metroid Fusion
>Yoshi's Island
>That third game I can't remember
>Super duper stoked
>Chest hurts from sheer stoked.
>Download that shit.

>>183115
>half-hour after downloading
>Metroid Fusion
>Sector 2, fighting Zazabi
>Right shoulder button busts
>Ten minutes later, the Left shoulder

Wow, now that we have a lit version of him for reference Box Man is MADE of bad touch.

Is Assassin's Creed 4 fun? I'm really interested in the pirate aspect of it but I've never played an AC game. I dunno whether I should play the other games first or just jump right in.

>>183132
If I understood Yahtzee's review correctly, the assassin stuff just kind of hangs out in the background, with most of the focus on pirating.

>>183136
shame the future stuff to me has gone from interesting side/back story to weirdly immersion killing according to his critique IMO.

OM NOM NOM THE TEARS FEED ME

>>183145
>Persona 5 was supposed to be on Wii U/3DS
What?

Only rumor and assumption.

>>183145
That's a troll post. Sure of it.

My good ol' DS finally gave out. Now I need a new handheld for the 4+ hour train rides when I visit my parents and I'm kinda torn. The 3DS has a bunch of games I'd like to play, like Fire Emblem, Monster Hunter, Ace Attorney, the new Zelda, etc. (no interest in Mario games or Pokemon, though). BUT the Vita is WAY cheaper in my country. Like, a Vita + 10 games bundle costs €140 and a 3DS XL without any games costs €200. But there aren't quite as many games on Vita that I'd really want (mainly Dragon's Crown and Soul Sacrifice). Though, I also never owned a PSP, so are there some must-haves that might sway me more in that direction?

>>183182
Jeanne D'arc is one of my favorite games and a really good time eater.

If it was me I'd go Vita.

>>183182
The one real advantage the Vita has is that PSN has far more things to get off of it than the Eshop, mostly due to the huge PS1 classics collection and certain PSP titles.

The 3DS is still probably the better purchase though.

>>183182
Eh, both would be good decisions. If you had had a PSP previously, I wouldn't be able to say that about the Vita (really, the only game for Vita that I feel strongly enough about to recommend is Persona 4 Golden), but since you'll be able to download PSP games off of PSN in addition to the Vita games, it should be plenty.

With 3DS you can still play your DS games of course, so that's a benefit, and the 3DS has a much stronger library of games specifically made for it than Vita does so far.

So like I said, either way you should get your money's worth. Just keep in mind that you will not be able to play any disc-based PSP titles on Vita--I think at this point all PSP titles are available on PSN (because of the PSP-go), and of course you can get a bunch of emulated PSX games on PSN as well, but don't buy any UMDs with the Vita or anything.

>Tumblr taking Social Justice Wario seriously
>I don't even fucking know how to add to this, I'm just inexplainably pissed off.

>>183213

That's like getting mad at 4chan posting "le happy merchant"

So how the Saints Saved X-mas is the next bit of DLC.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/8510-Exclusives-Showdown
Ready? FIGHT!

>>183213
Honestly, that's hilarious.

>>183213
>Social Justice Wario
What exactly is the deal with it? Funny pun aside seems to be another Reddit thing, except on Tumblr?

>>183218
>that mohawk robot
so did Miller build himself an Aigis because his brown waifus wouldn't put out or what?

>>182987
Just played this.
Torge back story everywhere. Grandma Flexington is a cool Grandma with long ass stories. Torge's middle name is High-Five.
Tributes everywhere.
I really liked this DLC.
It's short, but fills me up with that age old Thanksgiving tradition of blowing up the Turkey with a shotgun because you on a drinking binge just before you started cooking and fuck those assholes who make cookbooks because shotguns are a valid way of tenderizing meats and making salads.

>>183229
Cyborg Shaundi from Christmas Future.

>>183237
Oh, I thought they finally gave SR2 Shaundi a body.

>>183229
>waifus
Asha and...?

>>183238
Maybe its not really clear as of yet just the future ghost bit. Hair may indicate such.

>>183229
>Aigis
>implying Mitsuru is not the far superior girl

Shame Russian boss from 3 didn't come back since she was my favorite. Also would've made the Miller and Pierce romances extra hilarious on a meta level.

>Downloading Skyrim
>Come back later, because my network is slow as hell
>it's switched to download something else on steam
Well, that's annoying.

>>183254
Any P3 girl who isn't Elizabeth has no claim to being "superior."

>>183272
Tara Platt is olev.

http://www.tylerdoak.com/aceswild/

Look at this video game. LOOK AT THIS FUCKING VIDEO GAME.

This is a character action game, from a universe where Kamiya stuck to 2D instead of 3D.

>Rune Factory Development Studio Closing.

Well Crap. Guess I'll pick up the Fourth game at some point.

>spend a few days away from PC
>come back
>suddenly notice the hand grime that's been accumulating on my mouse

>>183334
Nothing a little rubbing alcohol can't fix.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/130164-Just-Cause-2-Multiplayer-Will-Launch-on-Steam

>>183334
>>183335
Even during the summer when hands are prone to getting sweaty, I seem to have very little problem with hand grime on the part of my mouse my hand actually holds, but the little plastic gliding pads on the bottom are an absolute magnet for dust and such.

So, I beat RAGE.
Honestly, not bad at all. The only thing that really sucked was the non ending and the fact that you can't get rid of the Authority. The visuals, the gunplay, racing, references, sound, and music are all pretty great. I wonder why it bombed so hard.

>>183383
I remember lots of complaints that it was incredibly buggy/unoptimized at release, to the point where it took a half second after an object comes on-screen for it to even render.

>Got Blood Dragon yesterday
>accidentally hit crouch button while sprinting
>POWERSLIDE

I'm probably going to be doing this every twenty seconds for the majority of the playthrough.