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by Mr.Stevenson » 06 Nov 2008 22:29
Evo wrote:I wonder how long until this becomes a tabloid issue ...
A Canadian boy who ran away from home after his father took away his Xbox game console has been found dead in a cornfield, local media said.
by icycalm » 07 Nov 2008 00:13
Our hearts go out to Crisp's parents.
by RemyC » 07 Nov 2008 17:29
by icycalm » 09 Nov 2008 22:06
I can’t tell anymore if nothing interesting has been happening lately or if I’m losing track because I’ve been really busy lately.
by icycalm » 25 Nov 2008 00:32
Tim Rogers wrote:Hell, the New Yorker caved in and wrote its first-ever in-depth feature on game design because of Gears of War 2.
by BlackerOmegalon » 25 Nov 2008 07:38
It is Videogames: The Videogame.
by RolandDeschain » 25 Nov 2008 09:20
by icycalm » 28 Nov 2008 16:32
Brandon Sheffield wrote:I want to believe that game developers care about more interesting things. We should be showing more of this in our games. We need to present a diversity of viewpoints, themes, and gameplay styles to the people who are absorbing and internalizing our content (when we do it right).
Last year proved that games with vision can actually be popular. So now, the only limiting factor is our own creativity.
Brandon Sheffield wrote:Games need to grow up.
by Macaw » 04 Dec 2008 07:27
The game's difficulty level is a bit strange due to the way continues are handled - like R-Type, the game uses a checkpoint system when only one player is active, but if two players are playing, either can continue at any time as long as the other is alive. This makes the game much, much easier for two players to complete - especially considering that many of the early bosses seem to be designed assuming only one player is in the game. This makes a bit of a dichotomy between playing with one and two players; it becomes a game which is frustratingly hard for a single player, but fairly easy for two players. Given the rate at which two players can burn through the lifebars of even the toughest enemies, I doubt that it would take more than a fistful of quarters for a pair of moderately skilled players to blaze their way through the game.
On the whole, apart from a handful of very nice 'cutscene' graphics, the sound and graphics are unremarkable - quite frankly, they don't stack up particularly well against some of the year's Super Nintendo games, let alone competing arcade titles like Batsugun or In The Hunt.
by Recap » 04 Dec 2008 14:58
random dumbass wrote:He's not saying that modern shmups aren't hard, he's saying that you're a baby for giving up. And for some reason he thinks that if you don't like the game, then you've given up and therefore are a baby. Basically, if you give up at difficult things that only he and like 200 other people in the world like and you become a loser and you shouldn't talk about it because losers are wrong. Only people who like it know what they're talking about. While you are a loser you shouldn't complain about it and accept your fate as a loser. And you only like GTAIV if you are a loser. No one cool likes that game because weak people are not gamers. Not one single person who likes shmups like GTAIV. In fact, they had no idea it came out. They had special filters put on their browsers to block out all of the letters G, T, A, I, and V and F,H,B,J,U, and W just in case.
Look, dude, we all know your stance on shmups and all you do is come to these forums to rant about how we don't see shmups the same way you do. It seems like you only read our articles here to get mad and start an argument about how we don't get things. You fail to see that we also think you are the one who doesn't get it. So why bother to read our articles in the first place if you know that we feel this way?
Perhaps you like the fight or the sound of your own voice. Perhaps you think you are running a crusade to help the powerless little noobs that would otherwise become shmup gods, but we soiled your favorite game's image so they won't even try. Whatever, get over yourself and stop treating games like they are perfect just because they were released that way. Hell, all games have imperfections and I'm not talking about sloppy ports here. I mean every game that was released as it was intended is inherently imperfect simply because of taste, preference, point of view, experience with the game, age of the game, the fact the humans created it, etc.
Please, you can say your opinions all you want and start a discussion about how you feel, but do not pass your opinions off as facts. You seem to have trouble differentiating which things you say are facts and opinions. Perhaps you live in an isolated shmup chamber (aka forum) and fail to notice that a consented opinion there has grown as a fact in your mind.
by raphael » 04 Dec 2008 15:16
by icycalm » 05 Dec 2008 04:08
I hope he plays similarly -- slow, methodical, simple yet convoluted.
by mees » 13 Dec 2008 02:45
Should that pilot die because you failed to eject from an exploding mech before it went critical, or should you lose so many mechs that you don't have enough credits to purchase another one, the game ends--and erases your pilot's save data. Game over, big time.
The game is a mech sim that recalls the feel of the location-based BattleTech mech combat simulators.
Actually, considering you could merely back up your pilot to a memory card to circumvent the finality of death, this seems more like an inconvenience than something that adds to the game's realistic atmosphere.
by JoshF » 13 Dec 2008 04:24
http://sega-16.com/review_page.php?id=575&title=Mortal%20Kombat%20IIIThe combo system worked similarly to the one featured in Killer Instinct, which popularized the concept of combo's, or moves that when used consecutively, would create devastating attacks. Extra points were awarded for combos, and the victim of the attack would be unable to respond until the combo was complete. Often, the combos would be so quick, the opponent wouldn't be able to respond at all. This kept the fights short and intense.
by Jedah » 15 Dec 2008 16:20
by Bradford » 16 Dec 2008 04:27
DVD Style Content
Neversoft promises a "Pandora's box" of extras for the game, including photos, set lists, fan club videos, and rare live and behind-the-scenes footage.
by BlackerOmegalon » 19 Dec 2008 00:24
by icycalm » 19 Dec 2008 00:52
And again, honestly, I don't see that we have discussed much about our issues that hasn't already been talked about at length and in a circular fashion by both ourselves and our audience, and it remains to be seen whether some of our shared, unanswered questions can arrive at a definitive answer
by icycalm » 19 Dec 2008 00:59
by Hamlet » 20 Dec 2008 08:27
No one here hates you. If the word 'hate' is to have any meaning, it should be used only when referring to people who might have killed someone's brother, or pimped his daughter, or burned down his house. All we are doing here is laughing at clueless people who review games they can't even play. Just check the thread's title.