Useless gaming news & chatter

[koro]

I came across this via Sirlin.net, and it struck me as f13-ey, so here you go:

Shoryuken.com: Keiji Inafune Talks to 4Gamer About Leaving Capcom and his Feelings on the Japanese Games Industry

http://shoryuken.com/content/keiji-inafune-talks-4gamer-about-leaving-capcom-his-feelings-japanese-games-industry-2293/

It is long.  It is also, for some reason, entirely in italics.    Despite this, it's a good read.

I find the dichotomy of the Shoryuken.net and NeoGAF comments almost as amusing as the (very long) interview itself. Over at GAF it's all "Inafune's awesome and Capcom doesn't know shit for shit." While at Shoryuken it's all "What a joke. Inafune is a shifty, skeezy motherfucker and a huge hypocritical failure of a developer."

[Yegolev]

For a subset of this subset, there is a holiday sale at the NISA Store:
Nov 22, Nippon Ichi titles
Nov 23, GUST Inc. titles
Nov 24-29, Mystery items
Nov 29, Art books and such

[Thrawn]

Total Annihilation - 50% off, can grab it for $5.

Never played it, has near perfect ratings..but is uh, 13 years old.  Still worth trying or will it suffer from age too much?

[Yegolev]

What distribution system?

[Ard]

It wasn't a game I ever really played for the single player.  Without other people to play it with, it's at best a kick of nostalgia.  It's still honestly the best at what it does, throwing a billion different types of units at you in large numbers, but it's definitely feeling it's age.  If you liked Supreme Commander (1, not 2) and want to see where it came from, this is it though.

edit:  GoG has it for $6 normally.  Impulse has it for $5 on sale right now.

[Velorath]

From what I can figure, this is the very rough outline of what the 2011 game lineup is looking like at the moment:

Dead Space 2 - Jan
Little Big Planet 2 - Jan
Killzone 3 - Feb
Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 - Feb
Bulletstorm - Feb
Deus Ex: Human Revolution - Feb/March
Dragon Age 2 - March
Crysis 2 - March
Child of Eden - March
Homefront - March
F.E.A.R. 3 - March
Shogun II: Total War - March
Portal 2 - April
The Witcher 2 - May
Hunted: The Demon's Forge - May

DC Universe Online - Q1
Darkspore - Q1
Shadows of the Damned - Spring
Ico/Shadow of the Colossus Collection - Spring
Star Wars: The Old Republic - Spring
Gears of War 3 - Fall
Batman: Arkham City - Fall
Rage - Fall


TBA 2011:

DotA2
Rift: Planes of Telara
SOCOM 4
Warhammer 40K: Space Marine
Ratchet & Clank: All 4 One
MotorStorm Apocalypse
X-Men: Destiny
Infamous 2
Twisted Metal
Guild Wars 2
Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Max Payne 3
Sorcery
Torchlight 2
Resistance 3
Trine 2
Mortal Kombat
Some Call of Duty game
Duke Nukem Forever (even with Gearbox working on it I hesitate to list it)

Possible 2011:

XCOM
The Agency
Neverwinter
The Last Guardian
Ni No Kuni
El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron
L.A. Noire
The Secret World
Diablo 3
Starcraft II: Heart of the Swarm

[Segoris]

GamersGate has a lot of things on sale right now. I guess it's week 2 of their holiday sale. Some worth mentioning would be Majesty Gold for $3, Reccetgear for $10, Velvet Assassin for $3.xx, Deadspace for $6.xx, Bioshock for $5.

Overall, it doesn't compare to Steam's normal holiday sale, but there are some games on there some may be interested in.

[Malakili]

Is Marvel v. Capcom 3 going to be out for PC?

[HaemishM]

Isn't Catherine supposed to be out sometime in spring of 2011? I am so goddamn stoked about that game.

[Rasix]

Isn't Catherine supposed to be out sometime in spring of 2011? I am so goddamn stroked about that game.

FIFY

[HaemishM]

That's after the shrink wrap is off. 

[Velorath]

Uncharted 3 announced.

I guess they're supposed to be showing off a trailer at the VGA's.

[Velorath]

NPD's for November.

Black Ops sold 8.4 million copies.  In November.  Just in the U.S..

[Yegolev]

dat ad campaign

[Sky]

My dad's into black ops. Something very wrong when he got into gaming when he retired and now sits around playing games all day while I work. Very, very wrong.

[Stormwaltz]

...he retired and now sits around playing games all day while I work.

I hope I can retire so well.

[Ard]

My dad's into black ops. Something very wrong when he got into gaming when he retired and now sits around playing games all day while I work. Very, very wrong.

My mom's the same way with adventure games on the DS and steam.  It's equal parts unholy and unfair.

[Sky]

I'm trying to improve his taste in games, but he's all about the console FPS. Got hooked with Halo.

[NiX]

I'm trying to improve his taste in games, but he's all about the console FPS. Got hooked with Halo.

You enjoy something that would improve his taste?

[Yegolev]

Hey, Dad, you like Halo right?  Try Gothic!

[Sky]

I was thinking RDR and Madden 11 off the top of my head, or something with decent co-op so I could talk him into getting me a 360 so we could hang out once in a while. 

[Engels]

L4D2 prolly. That would get his FPS on while letting you shoot things with him.

[Hawkbit]

My dad is the same way now that he's retired.  He's really into WoW and has been asking for a 360 to play Halo.  He's actually better at PvP in WoW than I am. 

[Yegolev]

My dad is still pretty sure games are garbage.  This is fine because I still think he's a selfish ass.

[Musashi]

My dad is still pretty sure games are garbage.  This is fine because I still think he's a selfish ass.

[Cyrrex]

My dad doesn't enjoy any form of entertainment of any kind.

So I'll probably get him a WoW sub for xmas.

[Sky]

L4D2 prolly. That would get his FPS on while letting you shoot things with him.

There is cross-platform co-op?

[Xuri]

My dad played some kind of golf game on the Commodore 64. Once.

[Sky]

Leaderboard golf was the first co-op (well, hot-seat) drinking video game I remember.

[Xuri]

Hah! The very same. Thanks =P

[Yegolev]

I feel a new kinship with the group.

[Velorath]

Amazon currently has Enslaved (360 and PS3) for $20.

Picked one up as I had $20 in game credit from a previous order and had heard a lot of good things about it.

[MisterNoisy]

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned either the giant PS3 hacking fiasco that just went down, or anything about the upcoming Sandy Bridge release.  I'd have imagined that either or both would have registered something here by now.

Short form:  
-  A group at 27c3 announced that they'd found a giant security flaw in the (up until now) secure PS3, and Geohot (of iPhone jailbreaking fame) then released the master keys publicly using an exploit based on their work.  

-  Sandy Bridge is pretty fricking awesome for an upper-mainstream processor, with Anand getting the 2600K to 4.4GHz stable on the stock Intel cooling solution and some pretty impressive performance even at stock clocks.

[schild]

The PS3 hack doesn't matter til you can run PS2 games, which may happen but is unlikely. Blu-Rays cost way too much, and downloading the ISOs is just dumb. So, uh, no one mentioned it because it's non-news to anyone that isn't a hacker.

[MisterNoisy]

The PS3 hack doesn't matter til you can run PS2 games, which may happen but is unlikely. Blu-Rays cost way too much, and downloading the ISOs is just dumb. So, uh, no one mentioned it because it's non-news to anyone that isn't a hacker.

I don't know - I found the entire thing somewhat fascinating, particularly the revelation that Sony seeded the keys with a static value, making it (relatively) easy for the fail0verflow group & Geohot to derive them mathematically.  The implications of pretty much anyone being able to sign and run code in the not-too-distant future are also of interest to me, as I'd love to see an XBMC-type conversion in a fairly inexpensive device with a easily replaceable hard drive, network connectivity, HDMI and a BD drive.