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Moogs
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Final Soldier and... Cho Aniki up on Virtual Console today.
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kiken
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I'd like to try Otomedius, but I don't know if the game is region locked (knowing Konami it prolly is).
Any of you guys order it with that mighty controller? I would love to just see one as it costs $300. Could import a JP system with that kind of loot. |
General consensus is that this game will be region-locked.
And yeah, I preordered the LE release that includes the joystick. I'll take photos when the sucker arrives.
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Tokyo Rude
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 6:25 pm |
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| Man I'd love to play otomedius if every time I've tried to play it I put in my money then it asked me for an ID card that I don't have any it won't give me my money back. |
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Pijaibros
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:17 pm |
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I'd like to try Otomedius, but I don't know if the game is region locked (knowing Konami it prolly is).
Any of you guys order it with that mighty controller? I would love to just see one as it costs $300. Could import a JP system with that kind of loot. |
General consensus is that this game will be region-locked.
And yeah, I preordered the LE release that includes the joystick. I'll take photos when the sucker arrives. |
Mayhaps it be time to eventually order a JP X360 system. I'm very sad that the PS3 wasn't the otaku/2ch system of choice. Shocked actually! I was pretty sure it would the shooter system since it has no region lock. I was counting on this fact to make me buy a PS3 eventually. PS2 was the winner last gen, so it looked obvious.
What are the awesome games that I am missing out on overseas? A big list of all them shooters would be appreciable a I stink at knowing their names off the top of my head. I swear someone wrote down a list of JP-only awesome stuff. Damned if I can find that post, however....
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sam
Joined: 28 May 2007
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maybe this is better suited to quick questions, but it seems on-topic at the moment; does anyone know if XBLA games are region-free? as in, i'm moving to japan soon, and i'm wondering if i can just take my hard drive with me and pick up a japanese arcade on the cheap there? i know about the whole being signed into live DRM thing, i guess that won't be a problem.
it's just that i don't really care about the upcoming western stuff on 360 (i'm sure i can find an HK copy of gears 2), but i would like to play pac-man CE and otomedius on the same box.
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kiken
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Pijaibros wrote: |
Mayhaps it be time to eventually order a JP X360 system. I'm very sad that the PS3 wasn't the otaku/2ch system of choice. Shocked actually! I was pretty sure it would the shooter system since it has no region lock. I was counting on this fact to make me buy a PS3 eventually. PS2 was the winner last gen, so it looked obvious.
What are the awesome games that I am missing out on overseas? A big list of all them shooters would be appreciable a I stink at knowing their names off the top of my head. I swear someone wrote down a list of JP-only awesome stuff. Damned if I can find that post, however.... |
Well, recently import 360s did drop in price, just like the US ones (down to around the $200 mark).
Well, if we're talking shmups, you've got Shikigami No Shiro III and Raiden Fighters Aces (includes Raiden Fighters, Raiden Fighters II and Raiden Fighters Jet) already available. Senko No Ronde received an international release (no doubt against all odds). Additional scheduled releases for the J-360:
Ketsui Kizuna Jigokutachi X
Dodonpachi Daioujou Black Label X
Death Smiles
Raiden IV
Otomedius
Shooting Love 2007* (Triangle Service have hinted at this a couple of times)
It should also be noted that 5pb (the guys porting Ketsui and DOJ Black Label) have stated that they'd like to port more shmups. They're going to see how well these two releases do first though. Cave (who are porting Death Smiles themselves), have stated that they may do another port of a popular arcade title after Death Smiles.
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kiken
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| sam wrote: |
maybe this is better suited to quick questions, but it seems on-topic at the moment; does anyone know if XBLA games are region-free? as in, i'm moving to japan soon, and i'm wondering if i can just take my hard drive with me and pick up a japanese arcade on the cheap there? i know about the whole being signed into live DRM thing, i guess that won't be a problem.
it's just that i don't really care about the upcoming western stuff on 360 (i'm sure i can find an HK copy of gears 2), but i would like to play pac-man CE and otomedius on the same box. |
I really have no idea.. my assumption is that it would simply use your pre-existing Live Account. Either way.. if you buy an arcade pack, it comes with a promo disc that has 5 full XBLA games on it, one of those being Pac Man CE.
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Tokyo Rude
Joined: 28 Mar 2007
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Wii Music is seriously an insult to the concept of entertainment. |
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RobotRocker
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Joined: 07 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 4:41 pm |
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Wii Music is seriously an insult to the concept of entertainment. |
This is it people. Video Games are Finished
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Pijaibros
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:05 pm |
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| This is it people. Video Games are Finished |
Thank the Lord!
I can finally just play Monster Hunter Portable 2G forever and not worry that I am missing anything
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fundogmo
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Wii Music is seriously an insult to the concept of entertainment. |
Forget the haters, if somehow this leads to some sort of homebrew hack that lets you cover the Silent Hill 2 dog ending theme, then I welcome this new revolution with open arms. |
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monaco
Joined: 11 Jun 2007
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Wait, Totakeke IS an instrument/teacher in Wii Music, right?
Right? It has to be!
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Focus
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:10 pm |
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| RobotRocker wrote: |
| Tokyo Rude wrote: |
Wii Music is seriously an insult to the concept of entertainment. |
This is it people. Video Games are Finished |
ha ha ha yaaaaaay dooooooooog.
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BIGJ420COOLDUDE
Joined: 04 Dec 2007
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 7:06 pm |
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| sam wrote: |
maybe this is better suited to quick questions, but it seems on-topic at the moment; does anyone know if XBLA games are region-free? as in, i'm moving to japan soon, and i'm wondering if i can just take my hard drive with me and pick up a japanese arcade on the cheap there? i know about the whole being signed into live DRM thing, i guess that won't be a problem.
it's just that i don't really care about the upcoming western stuff on 360 (i'm sure i can find an HK copy of gears 2), but i would like to play pac-man CE and otomedius on the same box. |
yeah you can totally do that. i mean i have a japanese account on my american 360 anyways and everything seems to work. |
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Take It Sleazy
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:53 pm |
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| They really should have just hired Toshio Iwai to design Wii Music. |
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Dark Age Iron Savior
king of finders
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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The Bleach DS team from Treasure is working on a Bleach game for Wii which will apparently have online play. It is, yes, 3D - although we don't know how 3D yet.
I can't believe there are five Bleach fighting games on the PSP. Geez.
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Toptube
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Joined: 23 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:13 am |
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| Tokyo Rude wrote: |
Wii Music is seriously an insult to the concept of entertainment. |
This is it people. Video Games are Finished |
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CubaLibre
the road lawyer
Joined: 02 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 2:40 am |
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Just goes to show it's a disease and not genetic
Now, we can start in on the homos
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Drem
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 3:55 am |
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Mayhaps it be time to eventually order a JP X360 system. I'm very sad that the PS3 wasn't the otaku/2ch system of choice. Shocked actually! I was pretty sure it would the shooter system since it has no region lock. I was counting on this fact to make me buy a PS3 eventually. PS2 was the winner last gen, so it looked obvious.
What are the awesome games that I am missing out on overseas? A big list of all them shooters would be appreciable a I stink at knowing their names off the top of my head. I swear someone wrote down a list of JP-only awesome stuff. Damned if I can find that post, however.... |
Well, recently import 360s did drop in price, just like the US ones (down to around the $200 mark).
Well, if we're talking shmups, you've got Shikigami No Shiro III and Raiden Fighters Aces (includes Raiden Fighters, Raiden Fighters II and Raiden Fighters Jet) already available. Senko No Ronde received an international release (no doubt against all odds). Additional scheduled releases for the J-360:
Ketsui Kizuna Jigokutachi X
Dodonpachi Daioujou Black Label X
Death Smiles
Raiden IV
Otomedius
Shooting Love 2007* (Triangle Service have hinted at this a couple of times)
It should also be noted that 5pb (the guys porting Ketsui and DOJ Black Label) have stated that they'd like to port more shmups. They're going to see how well these two releases do first though. Cave (who are porting Death Smiles themselves), have stated that they may do another port of a popular arcade title after Death Smiles. |
Can someone explain to me why so many niche games have been going to the 360? I thought the 360 was doing badly in Japan. |
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schild
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| If I had to guess, Microsoft is making this development very, very inexpensive. |
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Dark Age Iron Savior
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NEW GAMES
- Phantasy Star Zero (DS)
Publisher: SEGA
Developer: Sonic Team?
- Character Designer : Toshiyuki Kubooka (IdolMaster, Lunar)
- Scenario : Tooru Shiwasu (formerly in charge of the online quest on the original PSO, now a writer)
- Scenario : Teru Arai (mystery novels writer)
- New in the PSO series
- Multi play over Nintendo WiFi connection
- Chat system supports sending of stylus sketches (Something like Pictochat)
- Blow into DS mic to send msg (??)
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http://www.gamekyo.com/images3_4_28961.html
3D :(
2. Culdcept DS trailer!
3. why did no one ever tell me that Sting (the game developer) had their own Youtube channel?
http://jp.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=stingGAME
There's something like ten videos of Knights in the Nightmare footage, and the most recent video is sampler of the upcoming OST! Or Remastered album that will later be used for the inevitable PSP port. Actually, you probably shouldn't watch that last video, since most of the music is pretty boring.
(also, Youtube apparently has tool-assisted speedruns of Dokapon, which I find rather humorous)
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Brooks
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LBP's manual, apparently.
The Select Button brings up a "Good Grief! Menu" for reporting offensive content via. |
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adol
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| Can somebody explain the hype for this title? I mean, I saw a trailer which had some muchkins running around in a 50s car before a fight with this very tedious throw blocks at me boss, and the only thing I thought was 'wow people should just forget about this and play some bangai-oh spirits instead!' |
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Brooks
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| Can somebody explain the hype for this title? |
A relatively well-executed publicity campaign and completely harmless mascots?
Carelessly assuming the movement/jump physics aren't actually fucked, I'm still hoping the thing'll pan out like a kind of Super Knytt Stories Brothers. Could I only shake the little dread that the game's aesthetic'll put off more genuinely talented potential levelsmiths than it could ever attract.
Am unsurprised at the lack of pre-release enthusiasm, locally. |
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kiken
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| Can someone explain to me why so many niche games have been going to the 360? I thought the 360 was doing badly in Japan. |
Microsoft of Japan actually push the 360 as a niche genre console.
Also, it would appear that Samurai Showdown II is out today for XBLA (for the princely sum of 800 space dollars).
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Pijaibros
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 1:48 pm |
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| Microsoft of Japan actually push the 360 as a niche genre console. |
That's a good strategy. At least someone out there is trying to hook the "hardcore" folks. I thought nobody needed those kinds of people anymore T_T
Kinda sad that my taste leans more towards that kinda stuff, too.
MS Japan almost has me as a customer. Their library is shaping up to be very appealing to me.
Side note: been really wanting to play that Tetris: Grandmaster Ace that was ported to Xbox forever ago. Anytime I've read a Colour_Thief post about high-level Tetris, it jazzes me up for some block action.
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Drem
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| Adol wrote: |
| Can somebody explain the hype for this title? |
A relatively well-executed publicity campaign and completely harmless mascots? |
It always seemed to me that, much like most Sony games that have come out and are coming out, there really isn't much of a publicity campaign at all. Most of the hype has been coming from the gaming press and regular people, and they've been doing the advertising for them (among the gaming populace, anyway). Unfortunately, Sony's other games don't have this fan hype, and anybody who doesn't read video game news or forums will never hear about it.
LittleBig Planet is popular because people like to create things. It's a giant level editor with a cute aesthetic and physics based objects. People just like to think about all the cool things they could/will do with it, even though most people probably won't. |
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firenze
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 5:26 pm |
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| Can someone explain to me why so many niche games have been going to the 360? I thought the 360 was doing badly in Japan. |
Microsoft of Japan actually push the 360 as a niche genre console. |
The 360 is doing badly in Japan as a mainstream system, but the otaku crowd supports it quite well. I'm not sure it's so much that MS Japan is pushing it in a certain way as it is a mixture of chance and niche developers being comfortable with the hardware. But yeah, it's pretty well established that the Japanese crowd that likes these kind of games does support the 360. |
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BIGJ420COOLDUDE
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| Can somebody explain the hype for this title? I mean, I saw a trailer which had some muchkins running around in a 50s car before a fight with this very tedious throw blocks at me boss, and the only thing I thought was 'wow people should just forget about this and play some bangai-oh spirits instead!' |
i see it as a possible starcraft-style minigame-creation mechanism. with starcraft a lot of different things came out of the core scriptability--dota, tower defense, evolves, dbz rpg, risk, etc. hopefully people will figure out how to use it to make better games than the developers have. i'll probably just be spending my time making a steve and barrys that uses a gear system to become erect. |
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invisibleyogurt
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Guys, the 360 recently passed the PS3 in Japanese sales (not in total units sold though).
Due to Tales of Vesperia I would think. Thankfully they haven't even bothered to try to hook any of the mainstream market in Japan, Microsoft's US Xbox advertising is looking more and more like they want to edge out some of the Wii's market with Buzz, Lips and *shudder* Viva Pinata. |
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 9:27 pm |
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Guys, the 360 recently passed the PS3 in Japanese sales (not in total units sold though).
Due to Tales of Vesperia I would think. Thankfully they haven't even bothered to try to hook any of the mainstream market in Japan, Microsoft's US Xbox advertising is looking more and more like they want to edge out some of the Wii's market with Buzz, Lips and *shudder* Viva Pinata. |
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invisibleyogurt
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Guys, the 360 recently passed the PS3 in Japanese sales (not in total units sold though).
Due to Tales of Vesperia I would think. Thankfully they haven't even bothered to try to hook any of the mainstream market in Japan, Microsoft's US Xbox advertising is looking more and more like they want to edge out some of the Wii's market with Buzz, Lips and *shudder* Viva Pinata. |
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Cossix
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Viva Pinata's pretty rad, guys
You probably wouldn't know that unless you played it, though. Instead of arbitrarily passing judgement after I dunno, watching the TV show or some shit. |
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firenze
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| Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 10:23 pm |
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| kiken wrote: |
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| Can someone explain to me why so many niche games have been going to the 360? I thought the 360 was doing badly in Japan. |
Microsoft of Japan actually push the 360 as a niche genre console. |
The 360 is doing badly in Japan as a mainstream system, but the otaku crowd supports it quite well. I'm not sure it's so much that MS Japan is pushing it in a certain way as it is a mixture of chance and niche developers being comfortable with the hardware. But yeah, it's pretty well established that the Japanese crowd that likes these kind of games does support the 360. |
Follow up on that... here's a quote straight from the Guilty Gear 2 devs:
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It was easier for a small-and-mid-sized developer like us to develop a game for XBOX360 than PS3. Also, since the main feature of the game is the network battle, XBOX 360 with organized network infrastructure was considered more suitable for the game.
This GG2 was the first title that we took the overseas development into consideration and since Xbox 360 had been widely used especially in the U.S., we wanted to challenge the system. |
from full article on Siliconera http://www.siliconera.com/2008/09/09/all-about-guilty-gear-2-overture/ |
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Mikey
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Viva Pinata's pretty rad, guys
You probably wouldn't know that unless you played it, though. Instead of arbitrarily passing judgement after I dunno, watching the TV show or some shit. |
I had a lot of fun with it. Those moments when you're trying to coax a new pinata into entering your garden when it's hanging out at the edge are sort of magical - they remind me of being a kid, fascinated by my neighbor's cats that'd creep along the fence but rarely let me come near. Filtered through gamey-abstractions and such, but there's why VP worked for me. |
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Moogs
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Viva Pinata's pretty rad, guys
You probably wouldn't know that unless you played it, though. Instead of arbitrarily passing judgement after I dunno, watching the TV show or some shit. |
But it's okay if I played it and just didn't like it, right? Cos that's what happened. |
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Cossix
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| Posted: Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:48 am |
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| Moogs wrote: |
| Cossix wrote: |
Viva Pinata's pretty rad, guys
You probably wouldn't know that unless you played it, though. Instead of arbitrarily passing judgement after I dunno, watching the TV show or some shit. |
But it's okay if I played it and just didn't like it, right? Cos that's what happened. |
That's fine, but there's probably way more people that hate it than there are sales of the game because it has a cartoony aesthetic on a brown/grey/black system and because it has a TV show that was pretty unwatchable from the episode I saw. |
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Mikey
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| Also VP is sort of perverse - I mean, in order to make one of your pinata species "evolve" or whatever, you have to light it on fire! |
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Cossix
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| That and in order to get some of the Pinata in the mood (for makin' babies), they have to kill another pinata and CONSUME THEIR SOUL. |
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