Yegolev
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Hitting things with the butt of my gun is far less satisfying than it should be, if you ask me.
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stray
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I think I melee'd like once in this game (besides screwing and breaking glass for the fun of it). I'm just weary of melee in any FPS really...
I loves me some grenades though. This game makes pretty good use of them. I'd like to play an FPS with nothing but demolition and grenades. :-D
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schild
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The grenades, grenade launcher, and rocket launcher in Crackdown are about as Fun as demolition gets. Sorry to drop 360 on the PS3 party. Mercenaries 2 should be good.
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Yegolev
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Since we are dogging on it, I find combat in R&C: Deadlocked to be more fun than Resistance, but there's that FPS burnout problem I have.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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stray
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Oh, I would have preferred an R&C launch title rather than Resistance. No doubt. But it's not a bad game either. Besides blowing shit up, my favorite weapon in this game was the Hailstorm. Never enough damn bullets for that thing though. Clip |
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Velorath
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The grenades, grenade launcher, and rocket launcher in Crackdown are about as Fun as demolition gets. Sorry to drop 360 on the PS3 party. Mercenaries 2 should be good.
But EA is publishing Mercs 2. Doesn't that make it evil or something? I can never keep track of how these things work. |
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schild
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I didn't say I was going to buy it.
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Velorath
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Also it apparently just got confirmed for the 360, PC, and PS2 today.
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schild
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360 was already a guarantee. I don't understand why IGN is talking about this being an exclusive. Game Informer all but said YA on it a few weeks ago in the new issue.
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schild
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Split the VF5 talk into it's own thread. More than deserves it.
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stray
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[EDIT]
Reposting in the other thread.
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Miasma
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stray
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Hmm, that sucks. It doesn't say what exactly they're removing though. The EE chip itself?
At least the Euro's are lucky enough to have a launch with a large game selection though. Maybe they'll happy enough to ignore this (not spin....just trying to find a positive here).
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HaemishM
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Aussies get screwed. You'll be paying $1000 Aussie dollars for the PS3 (about $778 US). Ouch.
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Trippy
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Ouch that's brutal. It's also probably a sign of things to come for future PS3s. If PS2 compatibility is important to you and you are in the US or Japan you better get one sooner rather than later. |
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Calantus
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Aussies get screwed. You'll be paying $1000 Aussie dollars for the PS3 (about $778 US). Ouch.
This is why I'm definitely getting a US PS3 just as soon as I get paid for the current job. Oh and Stray, we actually tend to get a few bonus features and fixes for having to wait half a year, so there's usually some mollification. Not enough though. :P |
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stray
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 I like Gundam. I like Musou. And I might as well take advantage of region free play. So I think I'll be getting this. Anyone else? |
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Strazos
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Is that not the same terrible Gundam game that launched with the system?
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Fear the Backstab!
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stray
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No, not even close. This is done like Dynasty Warriors. So far, it's not being released in the States.
Seems like a worthy import though. Cool premise, and it's in a genre that doesn't require too much reading. [EDIT] Though I would rather wait if they just announced a US version.
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« Last Edit: February 23, 2007, 08:58:07 PM by Stray »
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schild
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I'm ordering it also actually. This is the kind of release that region free was made for. Reading is entirely unnecessary. All numbers, and enemy actions describe the actual orders you've been give (blinky red thing! lots of my guys or lots of their guys?).
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stray
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OK, so it might actually get localized. Hmm. Game Watch, Famitsu.com, ITmedia +D Games, Gpara.com, and DengekiOnline.com covered a press event held by Bandai Namco, Koei, and Sony for Gundam Musou. Bigwigs appearing were Bandai Namco Holdings president Takeo Takasu, Koei co-founder Keiko Erikawa, and Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi. Erikawa commented that the title represents for Koei the first collaboration with another company in its 29-year history. She went on to say she wanted the game to sell 2 million copies though Bandai Namco's more modest Shin Unozawa says they're looking to have worldwide sales of 1 million, an achievement that would still make Gundam Musou notable even amongst the best-selling Gundam games. As that implies, Kutaragi is quoted in the Dengeki article as saying "Because Gundam is a work that has fans worldwide, I want to release it overseas quickly." Maybe I'll wait then. I mean, I wouldn't mind reading/listening to some kind of storyline. For my giant robot fix in the meantime, we'll have AC4. For the DW fix, maybe Bladestorm will get released before this... I don't know though. It looks cool. Normally I wouldn't be tempted to import. But this is the PS3. Them's the breaks for now. :-D |
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schild
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Samurai Warriors 2 Empires gets released next week for the 360.
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stray
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*shuts ears* La La La La La  Seriously though, I probably won't get around to the 360 until at least June. I was considering it for March, but I don't have the cash for that and some other things. |
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Margalis
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I don't think I've ever heard of a console re-releasing and removing major features.
It is funny that the press release spins it as a positive. Now we don't have to worry about backwards compatibility so we can concentrate more on new games - cause you know the machines that glue the EE into the PS3 on the assembly line are the same machines that design and code PS3 software...
I suppose this is one way to get the PS3s that are sitting on shelves moving - threaten the consumers with a new, worse version while making the old one unavailable.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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Trippy
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I don't think I've ever heard of a console re-releasing and removing major features.
Sony removed hard drive support when they released the "mini" PS2. Nintendo took out component output in the later GCs. |
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Sairon
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It sucks immensely short term wise, can't argue with that. However software emulation has some clear advantages over the model they obviously seems to have used with the hardware version. For example, texture filtering, post processing, resolution enhancement is all easily achieved when you emulate. How about 1080p for every PS2 game released? It should be a trivial matter now.
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Margalis
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I did remember the lack of hard drive support in the PS2 but the Hard Drive was barely supported anyway.
Software emulation is fine, if they can get it to work. That's a pretty big if. MS was never able to get XBox software emulation working 100%.
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vampirehipi23: I would enjoy a book written by a monkey and turned into a movie rather than this.
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stray
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New firmware is out. Not as big as I thought it'd be.
Features off the top of my head:
Browser Zoom
Background downloading and queueing
Bluetooth KB&M support
Also a better on screen keyboard
Folding@Home
WMA playback (I don't think there's WMV though)
Remote Play through Wi-Fi
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Murgos
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Samurai Warriors 2 Empires gets released next week for the 360.
Bored me to tears. Tried to like it. Played a few scenarios, just couldn't get into it. Didn't have that same feel to me that these games used to have. |
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Yegolev
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Background downloading is a big deal.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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stray
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I guess. I was just hoping they'd include 720p Blu-Ray support for this patch. That'd be a bigger deal to me. I don't expect to download a whole lot off the PS Store for awhile.
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Yegolev
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There you go getting your hopes up again. I keep my expectations low and am always pleasantly surprised. If I were to get my hopes up, it would be for a game capable of 1080i.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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stray
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Maybe I'm missing the joke, but games are fine at 1080i. Not really ideal, but fine nonetheless.
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Yegolev
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Resistance only does up to 720p. Now that I think on it, I don't know about VF5, I didn't check. A quibble, certainly, especially since I mostly play PS2 games.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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stray
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Are you sure? 1080i isn't anything -- it's worse than 720p, in fact.
Or do you mean 1080p? Because I know it can't do that.
Virtua Fighter is 720p as well, but I'm pretty sure it can do 1080i. I don't see why not.
Other games I have (MUA, RR7, NBA2K7) can all do 1080p. I don't remember what Project 8 is (but it's a bad port anyhow).
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