[Koji]

Thanks for that, zombieman; Kenichi Nishi is a pretty cool guy. Will read up.
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The Ants Parade.

[Gironika]

am I the only one reading VP as Valkyrie Profile itt?



also, new trailer for FF DISSIDIA out, to be found on the off. homepage and probably half of the 'net. Looks like a glorious bad-fanfic-trainwreck, arrival tba.
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[Drem]

Wipeout HD is being priced at £11.99 for the UK, which means it'll probably be $20 in the US. After rumors of it being priced as a full retail game, this is nice to hear.

[Gironika]

[Lurky]

I suspect PS3 is doing a good job capturing the 'buy a system for one game' demographic.

[sam]

hell, most people only buy two or three games a year, and if one of them's uncharted and the other wipeout HD they'll be doing just fine with the PS3.
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[RobotRocker]

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

Man, Square Enix is a total troll. They are releasing the Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories PS2 remake in the US, $30.......by itself. Without KH2: Final Mix+, which is what people actually want.
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[Pijaibros]

I want FFXII International. You know, with that totally redone level-up board made up of classes.

I know that will never happen T_T
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[Tokyo Rude]

[firenze]

Too much information.

[monaco]

[Touran]

Ubisoft has a website up for Armored Core For Answer.

http://armoredcoreforanswer.us.ubi.com/

There's a new trailer up for the game there, with a curious (english) voice-over.

The story is somewhat explained on that website.

Frankly, it looks pretty shoddy compared to From Software's own page for the game.

However, it contains some pretty useful information:

Looks like the game takes place 10 years after the AC4, where the remaining corporations now rule the planet and the war you started and finished in AC4 has destroyed the planet. There's a guild up now that runs really close to how the Raven's nest operated in other AC's, and the pilots are either descendants or survivors from the war in AC4. There's no mention of Anatolia's Merc and what happened to him or the nation. (The player character was the Anatolia Merc in case anyone forgot.) Also, it looks sort of like Joshua O'Brien somehow survived and is still piloting his White Glint, this time for a democratic idealistic nation/rebel group. He may be an AI construct this time.

The game is getting released on the 16th of September 2008. That's only 4 freaking days away!

Information on the Co-Op:

Transitions from multiplayer to single-player are seamless and no longer involve selecting it from the start. There's an option called PARTNERSHIP when you load up a mission and if selected allows you and a friend to form a team and complete the mission together. Not all missions allow this though. :(
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Man, I'm sorry.

[Gironika]

[Leau]

[v84j3gs2uc7ns4]

[Lurky]

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

[BIGZAM]

Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G may come to america

I am frothing so hard for this game, I don't understand why capcom is taking so long or why they aren't officially announcing it.

[Touran]

Having the White Glint pilot be the Anatolia merc would be interesting; having your former PC go up against the new guy, yeah. This would be a first in an AC game, and I can't really think of any examples where this has happened in another series.

AI construct is the leading winner here though Toll. AI constructs competing with humans has always been a central theme in AC, where humanity is always one step away from creating it's own destruction. Nine Ball was always an AI so it makes sense that O'brien would've been the base for the Nine Ball's program - since he was the second best pilot out there and it would add more weight (and sense) to that final battle against him in AC4.

Also, there's a lot of evidence pointing to the fact that AC4 is a prequel to rest of the 'Core games.

Oh, and they spell out the fact that Normals are just regular AC's being piloted by "normal" people.
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Man, I'm sorry.

[dementia]

The Premium SF4 Sticks are going to be $129.99

They will be full Sanwa.

[zombieman000]

Where did you guys get all of these plot details re:AC4? It's a prequel to the first games? Genocide? AI constructs? What the hell?! Did I just not pay enough attention to the game when going through it? I mean, I only beat the story mode by lazily steamrolling everything with a cheap-ass dual-grenade-spam Next. I must have missed some important dialogue while grinding away at the missions. Or maybe it's that I'm bad at reading between the lines.

[Touran]

None of it is spelled out for you, you have to infer what's going on. Kinda like what it would really be like if you were actually a merc.

But all of it is there - you just have to look for it.
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Man, I'm sorry.

[dessgeega]

some of you people like drod, right? they just put out a drod rpg. anyway someone needs to buy it and tell me how it is.

i was interested in drod for the interesting stuff they were doing with storytelling, and it'd be nice to have that minus the meticulous puzzles. but they dropped that stuff in the city beneath and the demo of drod rpg didn't impress me. it's a luckless game with a fixed amount of resources, and it feels cold. i wish there was more story. there's plenty of backstory. i wish the places i was travelling through had stories. journey to rooted hold has that fantastic sequence where the slayer chases you through an entire level; the demo of drod rpg doesn't really hint that there will be anything like that.
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[Pijaibros]

[boojiboy7]

Any of the AC4 players here know about the framerates of the 360 versus ps3 versions? I was playing the 360 AC4 and noticed some frme rate drops when the game got super heckick, and i am curious how well the 360 is going to handle the colossus vessels in AC4A.

I am totally buying the game this week though. SHIT YEAH. Probably the 360 version unless some major issues are reported on it.

[internisus]

Steam has announced:

Crysis + Crysis Warhead
Available September 17th in North America.
Available September 18th worldwide.

The Witcher Enhanced Version
Available September 16th in North America.
Available September 19th worldwide.

OH FUCK YES

[chevluh]

Regarding the PS2 Chain of Memories US release, as far as I know it's still a rumour right, now, there's no announcement yet.

[negativedge]

Crysis is a myth no one can run that game

[EU03]

[Shapermc]

[Toups]

yes, but it looks like ass on low settings.
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[v84j3gs2uc7ns4]

[Wall of Beef]

[BIGJ420COOLDUDE]

[CubaLibre]

[Toups]

[CubaLibre]

you spoiled console brats
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Let's Play, starring me.

[Toptube]

Anti-aliasing is the last thing I go for. I go for effects quality and textures first. Then, resolutions. Then, if I feel I've got enough performance left over, I'll enable some AA. Lately I've been PC gaming on my 720p HDTV, so I've been enabling AA more often because I'm not cranking resolution.

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