I know everyone always says the Vita is an amazing piece of hardware and it's just a shame about the games and all, but man, once you've had it in your hand you can't help but be impressed.
Got the Tearaway bundle. The game is so goddamn charming and adorable, I can't stop grinning while playing.
Also got myself a PS + subscription. Downloaded Gravity Rush and am now downloading Soul Sacrifice. Didn't plan on playing Uncharted, but it's free too, so I might as well.
P4G is on the way. Wanted a physical copy of that, so I had to import it. Overall, I'm happy I made the purchase. For now.

Top 10 Gaming Controversies of 2013!

>>184650
>Anita section

>Skip skip skip.

>>184651
Eh, Joe handled the subject better than most.

>>184656
Surprisingly, this kind of videos of his are better than his regular reviews and the comedy sketches he tries to pull off.

>>184656
Yea frustrates me that the whole character assault keeps from discussing the issues she poses.

Soul Sacrifice is a lot more fast-paced than I thought it would be. I'm having a blast. It's also a pretty dangerous game. The mission structure tends to make you go "Just wanna see what the next one is like." over and over again.

>It is with a heavy heart that I announce today the passing of my friend Greg Martin. Greg was the exceptionally talented illustrator that created the packaging artwork for Flintstones 2, Jetsons, Bonk’s Adventure, several Adventure Island games, all of the early Sonic the Hedgehog games, and dozens more classic covers and many promotional (ads, etc) pieces as well. He was an incredible artist and an even better person.

http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=5&threadid=117907

Which games do you all play to help take your mind of the outside world when it becomes an icy unforgiving hellscape? My go to last year was Super Mario Sunshine but I sunk enough time into it to achieve literally every last thing in the game, so now it's too familiar. My Kirby games, surprisingly, have managed to succeed through where FarCry and Uncharted could not. Maybe it's a platformer thing.

>>184674
Red Dead Redemption, specifically heading down to Nuevo Paraiso. Wind Waker and Black Flag also help.

>>184674
Resident Evil 4 Wii, Hard mode, Infinite Rocket Launcher. Blast through the game in about three hours with good, mindless destruction.

>>184674
Civ V is the utimate relaxing "switch your mind off and play" game. Though only on King and lower. It can become somewhat stressful on the higher difficulties, but since it's turn-based there's still no rush. You can take your time and ponder.

2015 is gonna be a good year.

>>184711
This seems quite different from Analogue and Hate Plus.

>>184711
Are these more or less cringeworthy than the stuff Hanako Games shovels out?

Soul Sacrifice is the goddamn king of retarded-ass armor. Chainmail bikini's got nothing on this shit.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/01/07/february-2014-evolve-768796.aspx

>Few independent studios sport the multiplayer pedigree of Turtle Rock Studios. After years of working on Valve's Counter-Strike series, the California-based developer created Left 4 Dead, a post-apocalyptic shooter that redefined cooperative gaming and landed the number-one spot on Game Informer's Top 30 Co-op Games of All Time list. Now the studio is combining its competitive and cooperative design expertise for a new, next-gen only IP: Evolve. Backed by publisher 2K Games, which paid a whopping $10.8 million for the IP in last year's THQ auction, Turtle Rock is taking full advantage of gamers' powerful new systems.

>The sci-fi multiplayer-focused shooter pits a four-player crew of alien hunters against a separate player-controlled monster that grows larger and more powerful over the course of matches. Each hunter features its own unique items and abilities, and while the monster may be outnumbered, its size and an assortment of devastating attacks make it a more than formidable foe. Like Turtle Rock's previous titles, Evolve is being built with variety and replayabilty in mind; the result is a novel mix of cooperative and competitive multiplayer elements that's unlike anything we've played before. Our exclusive hands-on time with the game's four-versus-one hunt mode left us with plenty to be excited about, and you can get all the details in this month's issue.

>>184715
Best be joking. That shit looks badass.

I bought mount & blade as well as M&B Warband serial keys ages ago.

They aren't installed currently but if I redownloaded and installed them would I be able to add them to my Steam account?

>>184724
I see you're not convinced yet.

>>184738
That's really not-

Oh, that's skin? Yeah, not great.

Still better than monster hunter though.

>>184738
Looks like that one girl from Dragon Age... and a lot of other fantasy outfits.

>>184740
MH has a nice variety of outfits for females. In Unite, I used Ceanataur S (a full suit of armor) for so long I retired it with distinction rather than sell it. A big part of this is MH armor bestows perks which augment character attributes; CeanS is one of the best for its rank and ease of making. So, endgame sets can look rather ridiculous since mixing sets often grants hyper-competitive perks you can't get on most full sets.

But yeah, since the female midriff is typically exposed and supposedly stronger than anything, it's a wonder they don't frog splash all the baddies.

In other news, I think I've wrung the Bravely Default demo dry. Now I'm stuck with the Waiting Game.

>>184743
I hear there's another boss after the dragon, but I'm not sure I want to bother. I've already gotten 9 hours out of the demo, killed all the main bosses, did all the quests, maxed out a few classes, and maxed out my village.

Don't want to get tired of the game before the real game comes out.

>Fanorona

God this is gonna be so nuts, there is like 40 different time periods intersecting all over the place in this game.

Holy shit.
Tech Demo for Pillow Castle's …
Seriously, give this a watch, it's some of the most impressing and innovative mechanics I've seen... I was about to say since portal, but this is way cooler.

>>184752
Okay, I have to agree. That is both unique and pretty cool. The mechanic seems solid, but it needs more; part of the fun of Portal is the environment and character(s), as well as using the portal gun in combination with various other things.

Checked /v/ just to see how the port is. They say it's pretty decent. Very good, if you consider it's a Japanese dev and their very first try. Looks I'll definitely get it, once I'm done with my backlog which is two games.

>>184755
I'm still sailing at full mast here. This shit is fucking awesome.

WELP
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=748925

>>184759
Just went offline, launched, got black screen, but it still launched into processes.

If it were "always on" then it'd tell you "You need to be online to play." At least, logically.

Gamers love their kneejerk.

>@PG_jp @GeneralDysisa It's not DRM, it's just a bug of the Steamworks API. If you use a cracked Steam DLL it actually works. No extra DRM.

>>184762
Really?
Well, that's a relief.

>>184753
Right now it's just a tech demo, so hopefully it'll have some more style and story by the time it's an actual game.

>>184752
I have been waiting for this to be real for 10 years.

>Monsoon
Well, this leans on the side of frustrating.

>>184776
>A frustrating/ difficult Platinum game
Ya don't say...

>>184776
I'd think it would be hard to be frustrated while standing beneath that warm and soothing rain.

>>184776
It's a parry battle, if you want to cheat it a little, EM grenades will immediately put him in a dizzy state.

All of the boss designs in Soul Sacrifice are goddamn great (and they should be, since they're like 90% of the game), but there's just something particularly cool about Cyclops. The first time you see him, you think he's just this huge disfigured giant, dragging a weird club around. But then while you fight him, you notice he's the one getting dragged around, sometimes even dangling as he desperately clings to his obviously sentient weapon, that has a will of its own. And then you read his backstory and it all makes sense. It's just such a fucking cool idea for a boss, that's playing with expectations.

► WTF Is... - Metal Gear Ris…

>>184796
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Revengeance

>Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by C. & G. Merriam Co.

OH GOD

>>184799
>Kamiya bouses /v/
WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT TO YOURSELF?!

>>184802
Pretty sure anyone who's in the industry has at least checked the place out once or twice. Know your enemy and all that.

What are good 360 games? I have a Best Buy gift card, just got a 360, and am thinking of getting a game for it with the card.

>>184803
Yeah. While 4chan doesn't have a media presence like any IGN or Game Informer, it is an odd source of gamer feelings; in addition, because there's no content moderation, it's all raw, so you get a weird "kodak moment" view of what long-term gamers think.

And dicks. So many dicks.

Taking down the hydra attacking the camp? Easy. The bandits down the road to Witchwood? Not so much. I hope Quina doesn't mind waiting a while.

http://strawpoll.me/1003750

>>184810

Eh, sometimes you get real feelings. You also get some shitposting and manufactured rage mixed in there, so it takes a discerning eye.

Before I start listing games off, I want to know what kind of stuff you like to play, if you have a PS3, and what games you possibly can't run but are on consoles. I'll comb through my XBLA titles and see if there's anything I think you might like.

Whenever I try to open GeForce Experience or check for updates now I just get a box pop up with the message
>>Geforce Experience encountered and error and must close

Does anyone else have this problem? And have you then managed to fix it somehow?
I have Windows 7 on my laptop if thats a factor.

have you installed video drivers over others, that sometimes can. cause conflict

>>184834
I couldn't say, I don't know how I would have done that since I've only been getting graphics drivers updated through GeForce Experience.

Like am I supposed to just uninstall then reinstall something to fix this?

>>184835
I can't speak for GeForce stuff directly as I use ATI but usually when there is some error with the driver suite then yea its best to uninstall it and then go with a fresh install with the newest drivers.

though it looks like the error might be in how it resolves its host connection according to what I'm seeing when searching the actual error.

https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/571539/geforce-experience-encountered-an-error-and-must-close-v1-6/

so it might be just changing its port address will fix it.

I got some advice and futzed around with it and it seems to be working now.

But thanks for the help regardless.

Monster Monpiece gameplay mini game 2
Truly the reason I bought a Vita.

I gave war a chance. As a result, I think I dig Platinum Games, now.

EVERYONE GET OUT YOUR WALLETS RIGHT THE FUCK NOW:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/482445197/unsung-story-tale-of-the-guardians

>Playing some Dota 2
>Random Chen, head to the jungle to do my thing
>Clear two camps and then get ganked by a Witch Doctor and a level two Gyrocopter
>I'm level one, have no creep ally (it just died finishing off the medium camp), and I'm a billion miles from any allied help
>Well fuck, I'm dead--
>Actually I can just casually walk back to base
>And then they try to dive me and the Gyro dies to the tower
>Three minutes later they try it again, this time Templar Assassin comes to help me and we kill Gyrocopter again

>>184776
>no problems at all with the game, since I tend to do well with parry mechanics
>welp, but the aiming in blade mode sure is frustrating as shit, good thing I don't have to rely on it
>get to Sundowner

>>184881
Offensive Defense. Use it and abuse it.

>>184743
I actually didn't mean functional value of the armor, I just meant cosmetic style. >>184738 is silly, sure, but it has this... I'm not literate enough in this subject to have the right words. Coherence? Readability? There's a line which that outfit doesn't cross, and which Monster Hunter does. Maybe just a less complicated silhouette?

End result's that MH always struck me as being kinda bulky, awkward, cumbersome and kinda... noisy? Like, I suspect it's an acquired taste that fits the overall MH aesthetic, but it's one I haven't acquired yet.

So I beat Lords of Shadow.

It's alright. I liked the lore actually being based on actual old trolls/faries/goblins folklore. A massive part of the story being hidden in cheap looking animatics in a DLC was a dumb move though. Gameplay's pretty good for a 'GoW clone', but the platforming segments (especially the clock tower) can go fuck themselves.
I loved the scenery and detail. Especially for the castle and music box (And that crystal cave? Are you kidding me? You only give us 3 minutes with that place?). But for most of it, I didn't really feel like I was playing a Castlevania; and I've played em all save for the LoS series and the obscure pachinco game. Story was alright till the DLC segment. How he stole his powers from the worlds dumbest eldrich horror. Who might I add seemed really pathetic outside battle with his constant moaning, out of breath panting, and extremely slow movements. Seriously, you just jump in and take his power as it very very slowly floats back to him as he just stands there waiting.

Overall pretty fun, but I don't think I'll bother with the 3DS one or the sequel.

>>184891
It's best to skip Mirror of Fate. It's the open exploration style of the post-Symphonia games but with sluggish controls and horrible, God of War style whip combat that doesn't work at all. I was looking forward to it but it just isn't fun and fails miserably at combining platforming and combat like either the Classicvania games or the Metroidvanias, and usually just doesn't even bother trying to combine them together so the level design becomes bland and tedious
>Kill monster
>Jump a bit
>Solve puzzle
>Repeat
Fast.

Your First Look at The Last of…

Its released on Valentines Day, yea. IMPLYING, or at least it will be on the Internets.

>>184892
As LOS' biggest defender this is 100% true though you could be WAAAAAY rougher on it.

>>184888
I actually had the revelation that you could just aim with the left stick and then proceed to cut where indicated with pressing X. The aiming in blade mode like that is still hot garbage, but it's not quite as finicky and imprecise as using the right stick, so in the end I actually managed to get rid of his shields. The fight after that is fun as fuck, though. I wish it would've been that from the get-go. The shield gimmick seems like a vestige from the concept work from when Kojima Productions was still working on it.

i fucked up his alignment change AGAIN

this is such horseshit, you're pretty much required to know the right answer for each dialogue beforehand or else it won't happen. one mistake and poof

i don't even feel like finishing this run now

Anyone want a League of Legends "REFERRED BY A FRIEND?" boost?
Just post your user name and play zone area.

Okay. Fuck this shit. Honorable mention as one of the three games I'll never finish.

>>184915
You don't need to slash those, you can run under them.

>>184915
Are you using a mouse and keyboard? Why are you having so much trouble?

>>184917
I'm using a controller. Aiming with a controller is fucking awful and I'll never get used to it. Especially asking for something so incredibly finicky and precise is impossible on for me on a controller. If the cutting line is just a few pixels off it doesn't count and I lose an entire 100%.

>>184915
It's easier to just dodge them altogether.

VN players should be happy to note that Isuna Hasekura's (creator of Spice and Wolf) VN about stock markets and the moon, World End Economica, has shown up on Steam Greenlight.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=216264919

>ArmA 2
>try hards being insufferable
>can't even kill a T-72 with a Javelin (it seeks the target and aslong as you aren't close to it, it's almost a guaranteed kill)
>Whatever, playing with bros
>They start TKing people if they don't pick them up in vehicles.
>Satchel charge detonating targets and not alerting people
>They TK more, then bitch at the people they TK'd.
>Tell one "Hey, calm down, little girl"
>Anger explodes in an amazing way, over such a silly comment.
>"Hey, don't take that tone with me, little girl, I'll spank you"
>He threatens to shove my mic down my throat
>mfw

That was one hell of a boss fight. Too bad about the world going to shit anyway.

> A series /v/ loves
> Main character actually replaced with a girl instead of idiots imagining it
> Japanese-made backer forums

Choo choo here comes the retard train

>>184960
Wait, who is this in the image, and is she American or Japanese?
I mean he has all the cliche markers of being an American character in a Japanese series, the blonde hair & the blue eyes and the cowboy clothing and the american flag designs on her clothing... but she also has Japanese flags on her clothing including some overlapping her stars & stripes.

I suppose she could be one of those "Half jap but with some exotic foreign blood in there, but only half so as not to be TOO foreign"

I'm just curious, I don't even know what game is being referred to by your post.

>>184960
Rule 63 Bandit Keith?

>>184962
>I suppose she could be one of those "Half jap but with some exotic foreign blood in there, but only half so as not to be TOO foreign"

The kickstarter describes her as "4th generation Japanese", so yeah.

Why do Japanese devs even do that?

>>184964
Well in general the Japanese public apparently hate having non-Japanese heroes where possible.

Its why the later Joestar family members become Japanese in later series of JJBA, apparently he was pushed by his editors or whatnot to develop in that fashion.

>>184965
its getting worse isn't it? That coupled with their decline in wanting to have children, I've got concerns.

>>184967
Any population faced with its country's problems seems to double their efforts in denying said problems/making it worse.

KNOW WHAT I'M GONNA BUY ON STEAM? RE 4

KNOW WHAT I'M NOT GONNA BUY? RE 6

>>184968
Japan with its xenophobia and the US with quite a few social issues.

>>184974
If I was forced to make a choice I would even rather live in America than Japan. Japan is just fucked up.

>>184975
Japan is probably great if you're a straight Japanese male. Kind of like how America was amazing if you were a straight Caucasian male back in the 1940s-50s. There's still some degree of that here, but it's a far smaller "thing" and continues to dwindle. Japan's issue with children and xenophobia will either correct themselves or, well, the problems will just stop existing.

Just like the rate of interracial marriage increases here in America, Japan will have to accept other nationalities (even if just other Asian countries like China, but I think they're more likely to accept American blood than Chinese/Korean blood). Thanks to the world economy, in 1000 years time almost everyone on earth will be delicious brown people with porcelain faces...

I think Japan's general world view is also why Nintendo is doing so poorly right now, and even the Japanese aren't going insane over their stuff like they used to.

>>184975
It's a fantastic place to visit given the chance.

>>184978
And I'd love to, as a recovering otaku; but >>184975's comment was about living there, which I would not like to. I spend enough time worrying when I'm around people in America about accidentally offending someone because I don't understand social norms or body cues; but I would just panic attack forever in Japan considering the number of social no-gos and honorifics.

At least if I went to Japan as part of a tour group I would look like a shining beacon of international relations compared to most of the standard Americans that would go over.

>>184977
>>Japan
>>Accepting other asians

>>184983
Which is why I said they'd be more likely to hook up with Americans. As an added bonus, the average cup size would likely increase.

>>184986
That's actually one problem they don't have. Average cup size in Japan is steadily increasing by a huge margin.

>>184969
Why the fuck would you buy RE4 for PC? Unless they did a new brand new port of it and I didn't know about it.

>>184988
:D Based Japan.

>>184990
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/resident-evil-4-ultimate-hd-edition-coming-to-pc-runs-at-silky-smooth-60fps/1100-6417246/
Looks like it's RE4Wii but with standard controller support and hi-res textures. Steam pre-order gets a digital art archive and 62-song soundtrack.

Not bad for $20, assuming you don't already own the game.

>>184991
US has taught them well.

in other news >buying La-Mulana on steam

I blame Spelunky

>>184990
Guess what you didn't know about?

>>184991
I can't wait to do my full TF2 overhaul of the game, so long as the cutscenes are also using the realtime models.

>RE4 models in SFM

>>184998
>all the naughty Chris Redfield SFM gif makers moving onto Leon

>>184999
You act like they haven't been doing this for years.
Personally I'm more interested in the crazy shit people will be doing with the MGR models.

Ah SFM edging closer to surpassing traditional pron as the outlet for fantasy.

>>185002
It makes game-like porn more available, but the next step for porn will be using an oculus rift with something like a Novint Falcon (http://www.novint.com/index.php/novintfalcon) and a fleshlight or something for deep immersion.

>>185035
>something like a Novint Falcon
I think you mean a Ju-C Air.

>>185002
Heh, seen someone working out season 1+2 Clem models. Shame nobody bothered with Two Souls, already did the work for them on that one.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-01-21-indie-devs-troll-kings-candy-trademark-with-game-jam
Really?

>>185036
It might have been a combination. The GIF I saw was definitely a guy (clothed) thrusting away...

Aha! Looks like the actual thrusting video was taken down, o well. This still goes over the setup: (NSFW!)
Oculus Rift's Robotic Tenga Se…

NEW JONTRON ON NORMALBOOTS (right now)!
ProJared - Fantastic Special Announcement!
So, Normal Boots it's back.
Why it dissipated in the first place?

>>185069
>Why it dissipated in the first place?
Because at the time, YouTube was just plain better. Took the hassle running their own site off their hands, and gained them greater exposure. Now that YouTube's taken a massive hit in terms of quality and creative freedom, running their own site again is now the more appealing option.

https://twitter.com/PG_kamiya/status/427285146161512448
Oh god, what? Is he just trolling?

http://www.siliconera.com/2014/01/26/monster-hunter-4-ultimate-coming-westward-early-2015/

>>185072
Undoubtedly.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/01/27/left-4-dead-3-alleged-document-features-map-remake
I want to habeeb.

>>185097
These made me realize that we've reached a point where graphic and technological leaps just don't happen the way they did 10 years ago. I remember seeing screenshots from Half-Life 2 and the E3 Source demo and being blown the fuck away. This looks... pretty, I guess. But nobody would be left incredulous over it.

>>185098
Yup. There are still improvements to be made graphically (namely with multi-body physics, collision/meshing, and water), but we've been crawling out of the Uncanny Valley for some time now and have had diminishing returns over the past few years.

Hopefully the hype over graphics (the easiest thing to improve in games thus far) will die down and the focus will turn to lasting AI (where an "actor" has a motivation that can last and cause event through the entire game so long as it exists), randomized encounters/environments, realtime body movement (fewer and fewer pre-planned animations, instead the game is given a goal and works to move the limbs/body to achieve that goal; this goes back to collisions), and speech synthesis, both in the voice and the contents of the speech.

I'm reminded GTA V had some really pretty water and almost nothing to do in it.

>>185103
And yet it has more to do underwater than any other open world game I can name. That both puts things in perspective and also makes me kinda sad for the lack of things to do down there.

I was hoping for some underwater caves to stash shit in.

>>185104
Mostly such games have no underwater movement, for understandable reasons.

>>185104
Wasn't Endless Ocean an open-world game?

>>185106
Not really, there are different areas linked by a hub. They're also Wii games; as much as I liked playing them, they're kinda low-res, plastic looking.

>>185105 (continued)
I mean, if you're going to go through the trouble of coding for movement, land-water interaction, particle effects, and independent currents moving through large enough bodies of the stuff? Maybe it's easier now, I don't know.

>>185108
>I mean, if you're going to go through the trouble of coding for movement, land-water interaction, particle effects, and independent currents moving through large enough bodies of the stuff?

I think this is just Rockstar's style. What I mean by this is that they have a habit of putting a fuckton of detail into their games that most players will probably never experience. I find it kind of impressive in a way. San Andreas and IV have a ton of dialogue that I've never even heard and GTAV has a bunch of street gangs (like the Korean Mob, for example) that hang around their turf and will shoot you for causing trouble, in spite of the fact that you will not encounter most of these gangs during the missions.

It's a series of neat little details that I appreciate. The downside to some of this is that it leaves you wanting more (in the case of underwater exploration, for example).

>>185108
I think (next gen) ACIV is the first really big game that "does" water, both above and below. I've seen some demos recently about dynamic fluid motion and collision that were very cool (but wouldn't be to someone without knowledge of what a bitch liquids are to code) and if those have already been worked into various engines then we could be seeing a lot more like that.

The thing is that, outside of games like ACIV where much of the action takes place on or near water, having such sophisticated rendering can be kind of a waste of time/space. Take WATCH_DOGS, for example: while there were some bay areas IIRC, what we've seen has taken place entirely on the land. Liquid physics might be useful for fountains and such, but it likely won't have the complexity of ACIV despite releasing after it.

I've found it. The best mod http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=172621441

Got around to beating Mass Effect 3.

I feel like I threw away my money. I was fine up until the ending. Like, I knew it was bad, and I thought I was prepared for it, but then game fucking talked at me in complete bullshit for half an hour. Not even with the context from the Leviathan DLC or the Extended shit, or whatever, made this anyway half tolerable. Seriously, the reasoning behind the reapers and everything? Complete and utter bullshit that seems like there was very little critical thought put into it. What made it worse is I hated all the choices, and I just wanted to vent my frustrations a little bit, but when I shot at the Catalyst, the game got pissy at me and was like "YOu know what, no. Fuck you. Your Commander Shepard FUCKED up so now you failed, you didn't break the cycle, do not pass go, do not collect $200."

Being remembered in the future as "The Shepard", the legend who taught the future how to make the right choice you didn't? Not really a consolation, to be honest. I thought I was ready for this. I wasn't.

It's a shame to, because I was loving that last level, and everything up to when the Catalyst sticks it's stupid goddamn face in. Like the game was okay, except for Kai Leng and this shit. Kai Leng was like they farted in the same room as me. Awful, but at least it dissipated. That ending was like they shit in my lap and then got mad when I didn't like it. The ending I got was the extended ending option, and I could tell because it suddenly felt SUPER passive aggressive all of the sudden.

There. Just needed to get that off my chest, and then never play this fucking series again.

>>185160
Yea Mass Effect 3 is a true show of what happens when your development team fractures and the Publisher does next to no management.

>>185160
Did you play the Citadel DLC? It's really fucking good. As far as I'm concerned, the game ended after that.
Also, Jack confirmed for best waifu.

>>185162

I did. I also played it before the Rannoch Mission, but for some reason neither Tali nor Legion shows up. In fact, I was super dissapointed that you don't really get to play a mission WITH Legion, nor does Legion really show up anywhere aside from the mission you pick him up, and the Rannoch missions.

I was made aware that there is a new Dungeon Keeper game. I wish I would've never been made aware that there is a new Dungeon Keeper game. Fuck everything.

>>185162
That's not how you spell Legion.

Interested in Monster Hunter, but don't have a WiiU?

Select the demo on your 3DS but don't click on it. Down at the bottom, press "Manual."
There are some very basic instructions on how to use the various weapons there.

I would like to separate weapons into groups for you.

Melee and ranged are a given, but let me further divide the melee weaponry.
"Standard" and "Extra-mechanical"

Here are the "Standard" melee weapons, which are very simple and don't require you to monitor or maintain too many parts of them.

1) Sword and Shield: Can be described as "zippy." Attacks fast, moves fast, but is not terribly strong. Can block.
2) Greatsword: Can be described as "brutal." Attacks are slow, and it moves even slower with the weapon drawn, but dishes out a shitload of damage if you can time the charged attacks right. Blocking consumes sharpness.
3) Hammer. Slow to attack, but fairly mobile while drawn otherwise. Can hold R to charge for various different attacks, but consumes stamina. Cannot block. It is suggested that you stop before releasing the R button for the super pound as the spinning attack eats a lot of sharpness but is fairly weak.
4) Lance. Slow as shit, blocks extremely well, can't roll but can hop. Precise, very simple. Poke poke poke hop poke poke poke hop.

http://pastebin.com/S3Rwg3hk

>>185162
Agreed, Citadel DLC was how the how damn game should have been written as a group. Not the fractionated garbage as mentioned before.

We kicked Reaper Ass they learned not to mess with Shep we kicked Cerberus in the balls and then had a party, The End.

If you have your 3DS, The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords is currently free on the eShop. Get it, because why turn down a free game?

>>185185
Thanks for the heads up.

I have enough shit to play right now, but...FREE VIDEO GAMES.

So is the Vita 2000(thats what the new yellow and pink ones are called right?) coming to sweden any time soon?
Because if not I am getting a 3G one tomorrow.

>replaying Halo 4 because friends

Holy shit how did this fucking game actually make it to shelves? I feel my rage meter building every time I try and play it and that's not even a real thing

>>18520
Well guess what I got!

I feel so bad for InFamous Second Son because it has to try SO HARD to ignore EVERYTHING about 2.

Welp found out more about Tomb Raider Definitive Edition and I really don't want them to patch it into the PC version. Sure some of the environment and model tweaks are nice but they changed Lara a bit too much making her too pretty.

>>185274
I'm not the only one who actually preferred the older version of Lara better am I? The lighting was more flattering in the original version.

>>185275
Yea she looked more like what she was supposed to be a regular girl becoming the walking harbinger of death, with the scion of the elder gods by her side. Overall she just looks more realistic not that damned overly cute crap they have in every other female leading a game.

>>185276
Actually I find it the other way around. Newer one is more realistic due to being a more accurate rendition of the face model, but IMO it's less attractive and idealized than original one.

As if playing Civ V isn't enough of goddamn time vampire, now I started looking up the Great People in it, that I've never heard of. This is a dangerous development.

>Deep Down has micro transactions

Ha..ha..HA HA HA HA HOLY FUCK CAPCOM IS GARBAGE

>>185298
Have you not been keeping up with news or did you somehow expect a free-to-play game to try and make a profit on rainbows and stardust? It's been known for quite a while that Deep Down is gonna be terrible.

I had only seen the trailer, forgive me for thinking it'd have been A GAME!

>>185298
I wish I could say I'm a bit more surprised at this, but this appears to have been the inevitable course. I mean look at about half of the titles on the Xbox One; they all have some sort of microtransaction hook in them. And I'm not talking about costumes or extra missions, but straight-up free-to-play-style "premium currency" to bypass things. Full $60 games with the inner workings meant for free-to-play ones. The sad part is there are most likely quite a few people who are falling for it, paying tens to hundreds more on these $60 games.

http://www.giantbomb.com/articles/the-unpaid-bill-that-launched-a-thousand-starships/1100-4857/
I love reading about EVE Online stories so much. Better than any sci-fi novel.

I'm tempted to boot up Quake 3 and let a server run for ages just to see if it even starts showing signs of achieving comparable results. This is beautiful to me for some reason.

>>185303
It was pretty amazing to hear it being told on the giantbomb podcast episode.

I cannot believe that Unsung Story only has seven days left on its Kickstarter and still hasn't met its goal. I thought Final Fantasy Tactics was more popular than that.

>>185357
Has its funds even budged in the last week?

>>185358
Jesus, the first two days got more than $100K each, now there's been a couple days where they got less than $1000.

I don't know if that means they're bad at getting more attention or really good at it, but everyone that cares donated at the beginning.

>>185376
The "bathtub model" gets tossed around a lot but man if this one makes it in the end (and there have been closer calls) then it's going to look absolutely ridiculous.

And I think it's the former, since Kickstarters are supposed to generate new interest in addition to banking on nostalgia. Are literally none of those people pimping it out?

I don't think David Cage thinks very highly of the police.

>>185303
>>185356
Such a great audio summary
Giant Bombcast talks Eve Online 2-4-14

>>185405
>>Try ta catch me coppa! Woop woop woop woop!

>>185405
I wager not, and that homeless are magic sages.

>>185405
Yeah but fuck that guy and his terrible attempts at storytelling.

>>185409
His PS4 demo wasn't offensively bad. Clichéd as it was, I actually got a few chuckles out of it. Maybe he should have stuck with comedy from the beginning.

>>185410
Or atlest give it a try after his dramas has be laughed off stage for the what?
Three time in a row.
A meta "behind the scenes" comedy about games could work.

Just played the Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 demo on PS3. Before I say anything, I will say that I did not finish the original Lords of Shadow. I only played but a few hours of that game before deciding I simply did not enjoy the gameplay nor did the story grab me any to stick around.

First off, I'm pretty bummed out that Gabriel Belmont's main-weapon is still essentially the Combat Cross. All this demonic power and he simply uses it to mimic his old whip. With the new Void Sword and Chaos Fists replacing light magic and shadow magic, respectively, those feel a lot more enjoyable to wield.

Another thing I found curious was the option to turn off QTEs. Unfortunately, I don't recall if this was an option in the first game so this may not even be a big deal. Still I decided to play the short demo twice; one with QTEs on and one with them off. Since the QTEs does not ask you to push a specific button, they're in no way difficult but they aren't exactly enjoyable either. When they were off, the same cutscenes would simply play out in full as though you were successful but without the slowdown effect it gives you to nail the QTE. This felt a lot nicer as the action went much more smoothly, but it does have you sitting there doing essentially nothing until it gives you control again. This will definitely vary among people who will wish to toggle the option or not, so it's at least nice that we're given it.

Lastly, lines like "what is a man but a miserable pile of secrets" and "die monster; you don't belong in this world" being said in the game just felt... weird. It didn't make me nostalgic, it didn't make me chuckle, it was just... weird. I think I can say it also didn't disgust me. Like many others, I actually enjoy that infamous exchange in the original Symphony of the Night, terrible acting and all. But to hear it in this new take of Castlevania... I don't know. I really wish I could describe it better, but then maybe I don't even know how I feel myself.

Overall, it wasn't bad. Nothing spectacular, but not too bad. If you have any partial interest, try it out. The combat feels a bit better, but I don't know how I feel about doing that for something hours.

Finally got around to playing Strike Suit Zero after a couple months hiatus. I have to say, it's so much better playing it with my new flightstick than it was with my 360 controller.

Just got my first mission medal and I just unlocked the Scythe Interceptor.

Also: Strike Suit Zero - Main Theme …

>>185457
Keys and mouse for me, how I've always rocked the Space Flight Sims.

Anybody else here play shitty tablet games like Simpsons tapped out or clash of clans?

>>185388
Only 32 hours to go, and it's at $567k/600k.
I really hope it makes it.

http://www.arma3.com/dlc/zeus

This sounds awesome.

Rebirth Of Strider - Documenta…

To celebrate the return of Strider next week, Maximilian Dood presents a documentary on the game's creation.

>>185509
Sounds like they're adapting the toolkit that they have for VBS1 and VBS2 for ARMA.

I wonder how much it'll have in common with the military version.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2014-02-13-kinect-and-gamepad-are-both-deadweights

Yup.

This just in Ellen Page is a lesbian, wait she wasn't out already?

>>185542
It's been speculated for a long time but she'd been keeping a tight lip on it until now. Never really paid much attention to the rumors regarding her sexuality because I never cared either way, but what was the fodder for it? Was it because of her tomboyishness or was she spotted with a girlfriend or what? It probably makes Beyond Two Souls more facepalm-worthy in hindsight at any rate.

>>185544
>>185542
My personal feeling is kind of meh. If you ever talk to any career actors, they're all a little gay. Good on her for making it official, making it visible and insinuating it more into the culture but honestly? Kinda not vidya, even if she is the face of Two Souls, which I feel like is less compelling than the the Walking Dead and even less compelling than The Wolf Among Us

http://www.gog.com/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=game_subject&utm_campaign=dk_giveaway
Dungeon Keeper for FREE!!!!
Perfect timing~

>>185548
I only tried the tablet version. Fun ideas but it felt incomplete.

>>185557

>>185557
I hope to God you're trolling, but in case you're not:
Dungeon Keeper for iOS is generally considered to be the worst thing EA has ever fucking published. Don't base your opinion of the series on that piece of garbage.

If you want a good recent video on why Dungeon Keeper 2 is awesome, check out this one:
Dungeon Keeper 2 - This is why…

>>185571
I was only judging the tablet version. And in my opinion SimCity Societies was worse.

>Kills:
>34 x Black Fleet Fighters
>38 x Black Fleet Interceptors
>17 x Black Fleet Missile Interceptors
>2 x Black Fleet Heavy Fighters
>27 x Torpedoes
>11 x Corvettes
>20 x Plasma Turrets
>10 x Plasma Cannons
>11 x Beam Cannons
>19 x Flak Turrets
>4 x Missile Turrets
>18 x Wreckage

>Kill Assists:
>11 x Black Fleet Interceptors
>2 x Black Fleet Missile Interceptors
>1 x Black Fleet Heavy Fighter
>3 x Torpedoes
>2 x Frigates
>1 x Cruiser
>1 x Carrier
>8 x Black Fleet Corvettes
>3 x Beam Cannons
>4 x Wreckage

I didn't even think I was doing all that well during the mission. I mean I didn't accomplish the objective to unlock the upgrade for that mission.

>Penultimate mission.

>First wave: More than 200 enemy fighters + a dozen heavy fighters

And that's not even the hard part.

I need to experiment with different load outs to see what takes the least time to take out those stupid corvettes that keep coming in and torpedoing our frigates.

Space Jam NBA 2K14 Mod - The Ultimate Game HD

>>185545
Funny that is now turns out Last of Us Ellie is a Lesbian after Page threw the fit that she did about her likeness in the game.

>>185663
Oh, is that why I'm seeing so many new porn images for Ellie and the new girl from the DLC? I thought it was just porn artists being porn artists.

>>185665
Yep turns out Ellie really had a thing for her.

>>185663
>fit she did

link

CHrist the lag comp on Ghosts is as bad as it was in Black Ops 2

>>185670
http://www.polygon.com/2013/6/24/4458176/ellen-page-says-the-last-of-us-ripped-off-her-likeness

it got spread around a bit.

>>185666
Context: Riley had just been recruited for the Fireflies and took Ellie on the post-apocalyptic equivalent of a girl's night out before she disappears forever. The two are dancing to some beats and Ellie suddenly pleads "don't go", Riley throws away her dogtag, and it's all kinds of charged and adolescent and actually kinda adorable.

Then the infected attack.

I'm too stupid for Antichamber. I just can't wrap my head around it.

>>185673

wow they actually do a whole scene of it?

>>185673
Sounds like this should have been part of the game from the start giving her reasons for her choice, course then she'd have to have been an actual character in the game with it being about her, and we know how well people think those sell.

It's kinda weird seeing yourself in mulitplayer screenshots of someone else.

Bad Tutorials the Game: The Enjoyaning once you youtube for proper help.

>done with my last game, looking for something to play on the weekend
>realize I have Batman Arkham City still in my Steam backlog
>alright, now's a good time to play it
>20 GB
>okay, this is gonna take some time to download and I still won't have anything to play during that time
>oh right, I've got FFIX on my Vita from that PSN sale, I can play a bit of that while I wait
>20 hours later
I didn't really forget how amazing FFIX is, but I was a fool to think I could just put it down again...

Wow, comparing and contrasting RE4 feels SO much better than 5 and I liked 5.

I want to punch babies when I barely miss torpedo shots. I want to run screaming through the halls in joy when they land.

Rocksteady back behind the wheel. We get the Batmobile its NML setting and the Entirety of Gotham will be our sandbox. Scarecrow is the Big Bad for this round supposedly.

>>185920
I'm already hype. I'm glad they're making this the finale instead of milking it for all it's worth.

Official Batman: Arkham Knight…

Sup Tara

>>185924
>>185920
10 to 1 says that the Joker is still alive and the true mastermind behind it all.

>>185926
The ghost of Joker was behind it all! Also, becoming a ghost has made his voice sound different and performed by Troy Baker!

Shaq Fu: A Legend Reborn - Game Teaser

>>185951
Who asked for this? Apart from Shaq, obviously.

>>185952
ME

http://www.polygon.com/2014/3/6/5474722/why-did-irrational-close-bioshock-infinite

Powerful read on what happened at Irrational.

I could run Titanfall at a decent frame rate but I can't even start up Strider 2014, the PC version is fucking HYPER BORKED.

So it looks like Watchdogs went from interesting Hacking Stealthish game to crappy Splinter Cell clone.

Wow what a shame Lords of Shadow 2 fell so short.

Well the toys are back in Konami's hands so I hope they start something classic with it.

Trying out the new hardcore league in PoE.
Holy fucking shit. This shit is just fucking impossible to anyone who doesn't play this game 24/7, but I guess a godsend to those who do.

Finally got around to finishing Strike Suit Zero.

That last mission just takes a bit of practice to get just right if you want to get the one ending.

Also make sure your flight stick is resting on a stable surface. Important for precision flying.

Oh man, these new skills are goddamn ridiculous.

Reading my backlog of Game Informer (cause I'm certainly not playing my backlog of games) I came upon an interview with Inafune over MN9. I thought I'd share this bit, about the indie scene in general (Nov 13, Page 35):

Game Informer:
>The North American and European independent game scenes have been flourishing in the past few years. There have always been independent Japanese developers, but there are fewer new and ambitious projects coming out of Japan. Do you sense that it's changing with the programs like Bit Summit, which encourages that growth?

Keiji Inafune:
>No, it really hasn't changed. Just because you do a PR event like Bit Summit doesn't mean that there are all these opportunities that exist in Japan that didn't before. In the end independent developers are largely viewed as the labor houses for the core concept that the publisher develops. They are really looked down upon, like, I'm going to tell you what to do, and you're going to do it." If an independent developer develops a pitch and shops it around to publishers, most of the time they look at it and say, "No, you're going to do this IP and I'm going to tell you how to do it and you're just going to go make the art and models and be done with it." A lot of times, that's how it works out.

>As long as that core mindset exists, in Japan, the number of opportunities that exist for independent developers there will forever be limited. Additionally, Japan has never been a strong PC market, so being able to have two or three people making a game for PC isn't attractive for the consumer base there. No one is going to buy it. That leaves you one option with is maybe to do a social game with a two- or three-person game for iPhone or Android. But there is a ton of competition there, and you're not going to have the marketing dollars or support to get that up and running either. That's why the best solution is to come up with new, innovative ways that an independent developer can raise money. One of those solutions is going to be Kickstarter.

NOW I AM BECOME DEATH, THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS.

Guys have you played this yet? Breach & Clear? It's in the current Humble Bundle. It's like a mix of Rainbow Six and Frozen Synaps, I never played XCOM but I hear it's similar to that too.

>>185951
Now all I know is that I want a beat'em up with Wu-Tang music playing in the background.

>>186023

I'm still trying to decide if I should reclass him now (He's at level 13) or if I should grind him all the way up to level 30 as a villager and get him to an Advanced Class from Villager.

>>186034
At level 15, he'll gain the Underdog skill, which increases his Hit and Avoid by +15 if the enemy is at a higher level than he is. I would reclass him immediately after that, but that's just me wanting him to start his career as a god of war early.

This fucking game.
Shadowrun Returns was already excellent, but this?

Unf!

Started Hotline Miami last monday, and damn, it's hard and merciless.
Yet I can't stop.

Looking for fun PS3 co-op games, preferably with 3 people. Decent one player mode would be great too so I can play without friends as well.

Dragon's Crown looks like fun, can anyone who has played it give me their opinion on it? Beyond the ugly (to me) character designs and about the game play, I mean.

>>186041
oh delicious hardcore RPG, it being back to luck not getting my ass handed to me in the opening combat because I dumped all my Karma into Int for my Decker. One a related note Cyberpunk is going to freaking Rock I bet.

>>186062
Oh hey never mind if only I had actually googled first I would have found a site listing all the co-op games for the PS3.

How handy.

Goddamn is this addictive

So I need internet for my new desktop and I'm dithering between getting wireless access through a card or a usb.

I've heard usb access is slower, but I don't know how much slower. I don't do much online gaming beyond mmorpgs, so if it doesn't lag that I'll be fine. Anyone had any problems with usb adapters?

>>186108
I used to play TF2 regularly on one; they can work just fine if you're a mild-mannered player, but if you're someone who's at the top of your game the added lag can really make a difference (mainly for FPS.)

Some times you're worth everything else Gamebryo. Sometimes.

>>186108
Not gonna be much difference, I'd think. They're both wireless transmitters. Your signal is going to be garbage without a hardline anyway. That's just how it works. Wireless is great for document loading and web page browsing, but pretty shit for frame refreshes and online gaming.

>>186109
Clarification: Mine was a USB one.

Go ahead.

Try and figure what's dripping off this Kunai.

>>186117
Looks like pus to me.

2013 Vidya Gaem Awards
Well, this happened.

>>186127
Mildly amusing. I ended up watching the whole thing and I didn't mean to.

Made me really want to play MGR though so that's a thing

>>186129
Heh, yeah.
Though I found more amusing the past one, specially the 2012 one.
And I didn't liked the whole GONE HOME GONE HOME GONE HOME IS THE WORST.
Also, Monster Girl Quest 3 winning like three prices? It seems that /v/ has been hanging out too much with /d/.

>>186127
>5th Most Hated Game: BioShock Infinite
I think this is one of the fastest turnarounds from Hype->anti-Hype since Metroid Other M.

>>186136
Wait, unless Other M cycled back into Hype when I wasn't looking, in which case fuck everything.

>>186137
Most people still hate it from what I've seen around the internet.

>>186136
>I think this is one of the fastest turnarounds from Hype->anti-Hype since Metroid Other M.
Not really. That's just how /v/ is now. It's beloved by game critics and had sufficient amount of hype behind it, that means it must be the worst game ever. It's so predictable, it's pathetic. You wanna know why Monster Girl Quest won so many awards? Because it will never get mentioned by any gaming site.

>>186146
True, true. If anything the hype turnaround applies more to this place, which is why I got confused.

lmao people still browse /v/

I'm nearing the end of BD, and it's pretty obvious that this game ran out of budget somewhere along the way. I'm not going to say why because of spoilers, but when you get there, you'll know exactly why.

Still, it's been a fun ride (flawed!...but fun) and I'm looking forward to the sequel when it comes over to NA. Which I'm sure it will, because BD sold pretty well according to Nintendo. 200K in less than a month, counting both digital and retail sales.

After I finish up this, I'm going to wait for the Conception II demo (which drops on the 3DS and Vita next week). The game has been described to me as "Persona with a class system" so I'm interested in seeing that. I plan to get the game when it comes out next month because I am really in the mood for JRPGs right now.

Oh, and the 3DS umihara kawase game comes out in like 3 days. That snuck up on me and I'm not sure if I should buy it or not.

>>186148
>The game has been described to me as "Persona with a class system"
You do know the general premise, though, don't you? Don't just buy it and then get offended later. I'm gonna get it, too. The girls look pretty kawaii.

>>186149
>You do know the general premise, though, don't you?

Of course I do. I was following the series back when we were supposed to get the original PSP game over here.

And there's nothing to get offended about because the series tends to be tongue-in-cheek and they aren't even real babies. You can even hook up with other male players (through streetpass and online) and make babies with them, too. It's called "class-manting" or something.

Fake-babies for everyone!

Too lazy to find the old thread about Sonic Boom.

>http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/03/17/sonic-team-experienced-discomfort-with-sonic-redesign
>The redesign of Sonic and friends in the upcoming Sonic Boom initially caused Sonic Team "discomfort", according to one of the new game's developers.

>Big Red Button’s Bob Rafei told Gamespot that some of the wilder ideas for the redesign borderline traumatised the current head of Sonic Team, Takashi Iizuka.

Whelp. Also:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/02/07/sega-announces-sonic-boom-new-game-tv-show-and-toys
> Sonic Boom will not be released in Japan, and the Japanese Sonic Team are working on titles in parallel with the new western developers.

>While Sonic Boom and its revamped characters are being designed by Big Red Button and Sanzaru for Wii U and 3DS respectively, veteran Sonic Team member Takashi Iizuka confirmed to Polygon that there were other titles in development.

>>186148
That reminds me, how much space does voice acting take? Other costs, literal and otherwise?

While nice, I feel like they could've put more stuff in the game without it. Like make the different, err, areas more different. I realize you can extrapolate reasons for them being similar due to plot, but I've read of people dropping the game upon reaching that part.

>>186163
Depends on how much quality you need. You can throw together some low-budget home-studios pretty easily. You need to do a lot of googling about sound quality and such, and spring for a good mic.

>>186172
Sure, but we're talking about Square here. I read the Japanese VAs are pretty famous and, while they're far from the best, I appreciate that they got some newer people for the English side. Don't know about other languages.

>>186175
Well even bigger companies still budget for releases instead of throwing infinite money at it.

That being said, the issue with BD seeming to run out of budget doesn't have much to do with the VA and a lot more to do with how the game is structured. I don't want to get into spoilers here, just for the sake of those who haven't played.

>Latest AVGN episode
>James apparently has bigass tattoos on his arms and he's reasonably built

I spit my fucking drink. I don't think they're fake either.

>>186189
Which video?

>>186190
Big Rigs.
>tfw also balding
You can hide it for a while longer, Rolfe.

>>186192
Yeah he is starting, he's also one of those people who wouldn't look too bad with a shaved head so he can always fall back on that.

If it's defence of the ancients, is it the ancients doing the defending or the ancients that need defending.

>>186199

The latter. The ancients in question are the buildings you lose if you're gets destroyed.

What is the Best Mega Man?!?

MASTER CHIEF VS. CAPTAIN AMERI…

The Eternal Soldier vs. The Tomorrow Spartan

>>186216

Yaiba is actually worse than I figured it'd be, not only is it painfully unfunny but the game play is shit and repetitive.

Oh and the framerate is in an ever constant free falling combined with an artstyle that's a complete mess.

So there's an educational version of Portal 2 with parts not in the regular version, and it's only available to schools. Why not make the parts available in the regular version? Valve just hates it when people learn outside of school or something?

>>186236
The schools probably got an exclusive deal.

InFamous has FINALLY learned that it's a FUCKING TERRIBLE idea to pull a Mass Effect 3 ending so now that I know Second Son doesn't have an ending that's WAY WAY worse than Mass Effect 3 like 2 did I'm actually going to buy it once the weird PS4 Canadian price increase goes away.

Also, he's Native American and his primary goal is to save the lives of his tribe, which makes his character way more interesting than anything else they said about him in trailers.

>>186247
I never played the previous Infamous games (no PS3), so I can't comment on their endings, but I never understood the complaints against Delsin being a tryhard edgy character. Compared to "Fuck You" Dante from DmC and "Take a suck" Yaiba from Ninja Gaiden Z, he 's practically a saint.

>>186250
Also Delsin's actually kinda amazingly charming at least in the hero play through, he flirts with Fetch and helps her take up non-lethal means and brings Eugene out of his introversion.

He's a pretty neat character and I love the tagging minigames.

It's the clothes and the music that was in the trailer. I knew someone like that in High School, and while not a terrible person like Donte, he was on the obnoxious and annoying side. In any case, I never cared d for the series anyway so it's no big deal either way for me.

>>186254
"These goldurn kids with their music and their clothes why in my day..."

>Spend the last three months amassing a moderate collection of old vidya.
>NES, Super Nintendo, N64, Gameboy, you name it.
>In total have 100+ games.
>Nothing fancy, just the usual stuff.
>Brother in law goes to Edmonton Tuesday to pick up some super rare games, promises to get me Metal Warriors and Cubivore for previous help.
>ohboyohboyohboy
>Start hooking up consoles to T-
>Backup N64 is missing.
>Four NESs are missing, Retro Entertainment System makes loud scary noise when plugged in.
>Basement smells like burning electronics for six hours.
>Gamecube power cord is nowhere to be found.
>Supaboy screen doesn't light up.
>mfw

>>186247
Too bad I don't have a PS4, I guess? Not in much of a position to get a new console, given how much I've been using them, but this seems like it could be worth getting if I was.
>>186250
>Compared to "Fuck You" Dante from DmC and "Take a suck" Yaiba from Ninja Gaiden Z, he 's practically a saint.
Well it's not like I played those games either, but looking at the plot summary it seems like he can be nice enough.

>>186256
That's not what I said at all Tiki.

>>186247
>Native American
Wait really? I thought the character was basically Troy Baker As Himself Costarring Travis Willingham.

Did my submission to the bioware voice contest, not bad for an untrained amateur, but I know there are better out there.

>>186277
Mine sucked ass because it was done last minute when I realized oh shit today's the last day.

>>186278
I'll look into getting an actual mic next time around instead of using my tablet as said it wasn't bad but likely there are better. Just damned hard for me to get pitched right due to the vast difference from the way I sound in my head and the way sound to others. Did find that I can pitch it up and do a damn fine female voice though.

>>186277
Aw man, if I'd known sooner, I would've gave a shot at this too. Oh well, my loss.

These Silent Hunter games satisfy so well. They frustrate the living fuck out of you, but once you get it down? It's awesome.

>>186273
Yeah. It's interesting and done without being stereotypical or token or cheesy like, say, Turok.

CAPCOM DOES IT AGAIN!

>>186270
Yeah, sorry.

>>186273
Yeah, and a pretty good character, Troy at least tries to speak in a much younger tone.

>>186298
Disappoint everyone?

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-03-17-the-future-of-rare

>"I still feel a bit sad with you guys for the article you wrote about Rare being dead," Craig Duncan, the boss of the Microsoft-owned Kinect Sports developer, says at the beginning of our interview, not in an abrasive, confrontational way, but in a genuine, heartfelt way. I listen and believe it did make him sad. No doubt it saddened a few here.

Craig, I get it. If I was head of a company that everyone said was dead, I'd probably be frustrated with it, too. But on the other hand, maybe if your company's game output since being bought out by Microsoft didn't look like this, maybe people wouldn't say you were dead.

You swear up and down that you have a ton of creative talent. So prove it for fuck's sake. Show us the games. Believe me, I would love nothing so much as a Rareware Renaissance. But I can't believe in that until you show it to me.

>>186300
I didn't ever really look for Xbox games for a while, and don't think I had a Game Boy Advance for some time either, and what they did with the Kinect is half the reason I never got one, so I never got the chance to play any of those. Would try out the latest sports one if they actually got back to making characters and I wasn't also never getting an Xbox One because of all the poorly handled things around that.

Speaking of things related to Rare, Tengami is out on iOS, but I think I'd rather wait for the WiiU version.

>>186300
Viva Pinata gets a surprising amount of hate considering it may be the best thing Rare has made following their purchase by Microsoft. I'm not sure about the GBA games and Kameo since I never played them but Perfect Dark Zero wasn't nearly as impressive as it should have been. Then there's Viva Pinata and it's actually pretty engaging for a psuedo Pokemon clone that later became a half-assed attempt at franchising.

>>186304
It was always a half-assed attempt at franchising. The first game coincided with a long-forgotten cartoon.

>>186307
Regardless of franchising attempt, it was still a fun farm/animal/garden sim game thing. The only Viva Pinata title that was even remotely closer to the cartoon was the party game that came later which was admittedly pretty whatever, but the main games were simply just fun to play.

>>186300
The new Killer Instinct is really boss, but to be fair that's largely thanks to developer Double Helix who has since been acquired by Amazon.com.

>>186247
The power sets are pretty damn cool too. Smoke, neon, hard light, concrete, yeah. It's actually got a pretty Darker Than Black-esque IMO which is a big plus.

>/v/ reaction to Facebook buying Oculus Rift

Perfect

>>186319
Burst out laughing when I saw all the replies.

>>186319
>>186320
I don't get it.

>>186321
Judging by the screenshots and the images in them, my best guess as to what's going on is that Facebook is buying Oculus Rift so as to start a program to genetically engineer giant biomechanical titans, paint them up to look like robots, then clone a little girl from their dead wife's DNA and use her to initiate the apocalypse so they can be with their dead wife again.

It's possible I'm misreading them though.

http://www.engadget.com/2014/03/25/facebook-oculus-vr-2-billion/

>Update: We're on the call now, and Mark Zuckerberg is already pointing out Facebook's acquisition of Instagram as an example of how the company is getting experience buying properties and allowing them to continue to operate independently. Zuckerberg called out virtual reality as one of the computing platforms of the future -- following desktops and mobile -- and yes, talked about building Facebook's advertising into it. Specifically, he talked about the potential of a virtual communication network, buying virtual goods, and down the line, advertising.

>talked about building Facebook's advertising into it.

>>186321
And to answer specifically what you are wondering about. The answer is with FB pulling the chains behind the Oculous Rift means that the likelihood of getting to fuck your virtual waifu is looking grim.

>>186323
So Zuckerberg's answer for why he bought Oculus Rift was because he wants to turn the internet into Snow Crash's internet?

>>186324
Yes '90s Cyberpunk with the headsets, Can I just go with the jacked in option and become a digital ghost?

Hatsune Miku DIVA F2nd Announcement Trailer

YES. So happy this and other titles have been seeing localizations as of late.

Bwahahaha, after that MN9 disgrace it's fun to see gamers freak out over something I don't have a stake in.

Sony and Nintendo will not attend PAX East, XBOX and PC titles could do a good showing there. Guess the other two are waiting for the big E3

R.I.P. Oculus Rift
DELICIOUS TEARS

>>186353
Why do these people act like they know that FB is going to fuck up the Oculus Rift at this point in time? What did FB announce about their plans for it that's so terrifying? For all we know they might just be trying to branch out. Just because Amazon owns Double Helix doesn't mean you're going to be able to purchase books by playing Killer Instinct. And Buying Fritos and Quaker Oats didn't mean Pepsico stopped making Pepsi.

>>186355
Majority of people's hate towards this buy tends to stem from a predetermined hate towards Facebook in general, whether they hate the games Facebook already has like Farmville, social media sites, or just anything that a lot of people use. Really, tie anything people like to something that they don't and they'll almost always associate the negative atop the positive, if any positive at all.

So a good or bad thing that a company that got a good amount of its footing from Kickstarter was able to make enough of an impact to be brought into the big league?

>>186357
In this case both. A giant company buying out a small one is almost never a good thing as quality, creativity and most importantly employees always get left behind in the rubble. But at the same time, the massive funding and publicity a company like Facebook can provide is incredibly important for new technology like the Rift to grab hold in the mainstream market and it might graduate from an expensive gimmick that's mostly for flight simulator nutters, like so many periphals before it, to something that most devs will have to keep in mind when developing a framework for games in the future.

>>186356

Let's not give them any credit, many are just mad because they want some of that money. 4chan in particular is mad that there will be a longer wait before they can fuck underage cartoon girls in three dimensions.

Still, upon reflection it's not quite as disgraceful as the whole Dina thing.

>>186359
>there will be a longer wait before they can fuck underage cartoon girls in three dimensions
Not even that. Remember that Sony is developing their own VR headset and most underage cartoon girl games will be for PS4 anyway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwWJXkvt61Q
Oh man, you can give your AI buddies Vocaloid phrases. Really looking forward to this.

>>186362
I have no idea what game this is, but what a cool feature. So what is it, a Monster Hunter game with guns and robots?

>>186363
PS Vita - Freedom Wars | Game …
Basically, yeah.

>>186362
Oh wow. That's the sort of thing I've been waiting for them to use Vocaloid tech for ever since I heard about it.

>>186355

Realistically, the Rift is aimed at enthusiasts. It's aimed at a demographic of this consumer base that is ok with paying high premiums for such peripherals. To be brutally honest, it's going to be a product of interest to SimSpergs like I who would love an added layer of atmosphere, but don't have the time, money, and effort to dedicate on buying a cockpit, making one from scratch, or even tearing out the insides of a derelict fighter/race car to fashion one from that. It'll be of interest to anyone that feels like that, really. "I want my FPS to possess greater immersion and I have $300 to burn."

It's an enthusiast product for an enthusiast crowd that's not full on sperg yet. There will not be any Facebook integration other than probably the token "Upload to facebook" business if at all.

>>186397
>who would love an added layer of atmosphere, but don't have the time, money, and effort to dedicate on buying a cockpit, making one from scratch, or even tearing out the insides of a derelict fighter/race car to fashion one from that.
And of course, if you happen to be interested in more than one simulator, you aren't going to have an entire hall of cockpits at your disposal. Not to mention CAD remote operation.

>>186356
I don't trust Facebook and don't like when other sites use it for their comment system. I also don't think Facebook needed to by Occulus to make money off it, or that Occulus needs Facebook's support to succeed. At the very least it seems too early to decide that. Given the greater capabilities and low cost relative to previous attempts, I think it'd be fair to release the first consumer version before saying it can't be sold to consumers without selling the business.

>>186359
No idea how much of /v/ to take seriously when it comes to that. I mean really, who puts graphics first when it comes to AI girlfriends? Wouldn't you go for an emotion simulation system first?

Got this today.
It's pretty fun so far, even though I have no idea where they're going with it yet.

>>186415
>CAD remote operation.
*CAD and remote operation.

Game Theory: Are Gamers Killing Video Games?

Look at this shit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=wvwlt4FqmS0