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Dark Age Iron Savior · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 12:16 am

http://kotaku.com/5355784/electronic-arts-tests-journalists-greed-with-cash/

urgh

also apple is still saying that the iPlatforms are beating the DS and PSP at gaming, and I unfortunately fear that while that isn't true in the sense that better games are coming out for the Apple products, it's true in the sense that dozens and dozens of interesting games are coming out for iPhone/Touch while most Western devs still pretend the DS doesn't exist and the PSP is still being...the PSP, usually.

Dracko · a sapphist fool Joined: 06 Dec 2006

Halo: ODST includes an ARG-style meta-game designed by old 42 Entertainment designers within ODST itself, where you can find clues and traces of a story about a lone civilian, with artwork done by Ashley Wood.

It's like they're going back to the kind of creativity that made me fall in love with the Marathon franchise and kept hinting back at with i love bees and the terminals in 3.

Loki Laufeyson · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 2:15 am

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"Kind of" being the operative term.
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Dark Age Iron Savior · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 6:04 am

d'oh.

just as I suspected, Jelcom is really Jaleco, and as I should have remembered, WiZman's world is their upcoming RPG with a 2chan poster in it (like so). At least we now know it's on DS.

http://www.jalecogames.co.jp/rebirth/wizmans/

I wonder if Jaleco has ever really known what it's doing.

Felix · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 3:40 pm

The iPlatforms are a much, much better home for indie dev, and while that's gone nowhere except in terms of aesthetics for a couple of years now, the DS is an animu wasteland except for an average two or three games out of the year.

Dark Age Iron Savior · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 6:32 pm

http://www.siliconera.com/2009/09/10/tatsunoko-vs-capcom-ultimate-all-stars-roster-leaked/

I'm not holding to it as truly accurate at the moment, but....Frank West in a fighting game! Woo!

BotageL · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 7:20 pm

I can't actually believe they put Frank West, photojournalist, in the game. I'd been asking for that since the game was announced, and Capcom just doesn't do nice things like that.
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Looks like we now know what kind of wars Frank covered.

smartblue · Ph. D in Awesome Joined: 05 Dec 2006

Also that rumor is forgetting that Tekkaman Blade was confirmed official on the website, making the total five new characters right there. I doubt there's a second version of Zero as that leak source speculated, as the other characters were figured out the same way that they're talking about figuring out a second Zero. That file name is the alleged proof that there's a Zero in the game at all.

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either zero (mmx or, uh, zero series zero) sounds like a good addition. so long as he's not too similar to karous.
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spinach · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 7:53 pm

Loki Laufeyson · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 7:57 pm

it's surprisingly bad.
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spinach · Posted: Thu Sep 10, 2009 8:19 pm

wouldn't have it any other way
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it would have been an enjoyable if stupid little romp if the controls didnt take five seconds to respond to input

spinach · Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:09 am

well duh you're 500 ft tall your nervous system's gonna have some lag
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Loki Laufeyson · Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:10 am

no, you control helicopters and tanks and stuff trying to control the rampage of the giant bikini model
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Marshmallow · just call him badass Joined: 05 Dec 2006

you don't play the giant woman, spinach

you're in little vehicles trying to distract her with giant cakes and shit

Loki Laufeyson · Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:15 am

yes, and using some kind of beam to "acquire data" on her boobs and bottom
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spinach · Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:16 am

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isn't there another simple 2000 game with the same giant bikini woman, just normal-sized, that's some sort of casual parappa-style rhythm game where you watch her do SEXY YOGA POSES and stuff?

Loki Laufeyson · Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:24 am

that sounds familiar. she's also playable in zombie hunters 2 (aka The Oneechanpon ~The Neechan 2 Tokubetsuhen~ ), and one of her attacks in that game is to do a string of model poses. she is (or was, at least) tamsoft's mascot type character. although she isn't in oneechanbara x on 360, not even as dlc. maybe that series' popularity has made tamsoft replace her with aya?
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Dark Age Iron Savior · Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 1:27 am

http://www.gamefaqs.com/features/company/13221.html

Party Girls?

Dark Age Iron Savior · Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 7:42 am

what a wonderfully delayed segue: an unofficial translation of Love Plus has begun. There's currently nothing really translated, but the guys doing it seem to be quite serious about it.

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More Tetris news!

Some screenshots of the upcoming Tetris the Grand Master 4. The theme is tenderness/caring/kindness, which totally caught everyone off guard. No word on the gameplay exactly but screenshots suggest Arika was given complete freedom to maintain their Sega-derived rotation system. Here's hoping the gameplay beneath the flowers, hearts and rainbows is meaty.

Also, Sega has put "Deka Tetris" on location test. Roughly translated it means "Huge Tetris" and the game has a somewhat unique gimmick:

Notice the rotation buttons placed on the oversized joystick, because presumeably you'll need 2 hands to move those things. As an interesting note, Sega made that game and is publishing TGM4, so they are kind of competing with themselves. Though given past examples, TGM4 might not see actual release for some time.

luvcraft · Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:27 pm

guys, I haven't played Tetris since the pack-in version on the Gameboy (and the two NES versions and the original arcade version before that).

How is this Tetris different from that one? I see that it now tells you the next three pieces instead of just the next one, and it looks like you can "hold" a piece (someone please explain to me how that works). Is there anything else?
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The other differences are subtle and don't really effect most players. Things like each piece having a signature sound as it comes up in the queue so you don't have to look away, or the way the rotation works (what part a piece rotates around, how it rotates when it's already landed). colour_thief is more qualified to explain than I am.
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luvcraft,

Persona-sama · Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2009 3:53 pm

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Bungie interview Keiji Inafune (Under the photo of him posed with a sniper rifle).

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Braid is 4.99 on Steam for the weekend. I'm torn between buying it or waiting for WHENEVER it comes out on PSN.
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There's nothing wrong with the PC version of Braid, so I would go for it. The only minor issue is poor gamepad support, but that's easily solved with joy2key. It's only 5 bucks so you can always buy it twice.

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It got a little choppy on my system, which runs, say, Source games pretty fine. Maybe it's just me.
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For some reason, the PC version of Braid is really blurry on my system and there's no advanced video options to fix that. :(
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Persona-sama · Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 5:02 am

To summarize the premise: loli aliens crash into the prime minister and house of congress of Japan, killing everyone. To cover up their mistake, they find a high school girl walking by and brainwash the entire world into thinking Japan is a democracy with a president and make the high school girl the president of Japan.

Hijinks happen when the tzar of Russia, who is a hot blooded, military supremecist big busted high school girl, comes busting in and causes moe trouble.

It's like shitty animu Metal Wolf Chaos. It'd be almost good if it wasn't so moe. :/
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