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Also, Erik Wolpaw and Chet Faliszek from the website Old Man Murray are writing the script for Valve's upcoming Portal.

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An upcoming PS2 JRPG by Atlus. That scan doesn't really contain any more substantial information.

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It's clear this is very early footage -- quite obviously there are only models and minimal bits of levels so far, no actual gameplay or even enemies -- and it will look much better at release.

That said, yeah this still says nothing good about the game. First, from the point of view of game design, the fact that they decided to make Gabe a pugilist seems to indicate they are planning to make the game a bland 3d co-op licensed brawler along the lines of Shrek 2: Team Action -- what the fuck?

More fundamentally, what were they thinking, making it 3D? Haven't their years of commentary on the game industry taught them anything about game development? It's very difficult to make 3d games look good without large bags of moneys -- bags that this project doesn't appear to have. I was expecting something sensible like a early-nineties-Sierra/Lucasarts-style 2d adventure game with Penny Arcade artwork, not this.

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Whatever I do next, it will be less ambitious. I'd like to do a project that I can actually push through to the end.

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Few people seem to have noticed that I chose the name Dolores as an allusion to Nabokov's Lolita in the first place!

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But the US produces games like SimLife and Spore anyway without anybody making a peep, and this is only a tad more offensive to fundies. In truth censorship of games from Japan usually has more to do with localisers covering their asses than American culture. If there is a controversy, which I doubt, it would only increase the sales of the game.

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Like forgetting to buy shampoo and buying the wrong t-shirt?

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Snood is putrid scum dredged from the tar pits of Crapulon V. Its popularity among "casuals" is enraging, yes.

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Yeah to be fair though we expect Penny Arcade to know everything about games because that is their job, but still it's natural that they have a lapse now and then when they churn out commentary three days a week. They're not attuned to minor Japanese games, I agree, but most of us here aren't attuned to minor Western games.

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That's not a reference to abortion, but there was a teen pregnancy in FF6.

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Yep, it's unusually blatant copyright infringement for this kind of project, without a legal leg to stand on. Whoever owns Lemmings now must have a pretty slow-on-the-draw legal team if they haven't threatened this project yet.

What he should be doing is, instead of distributing the assets himself, providing a converter program that takes assets from one of the original Lemmings games and builds the DS ROM from them. Then although his users would be pirates (unless they have an old copy of Lemmings lying around), he himself would be distributing nothing that he does not have the copyright for. Also, he needs to rename his project to something not involving the word "Lemmings" to avoid trademark violation.

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Not outside classical economists' fantasy land they don't. Don't think that human emotions like fear don't play a large part in the necessarily hazy and subjective business of predicting future market conditions. Not to mention, if you must take an exclusively incentive-oriented view, company-wide incentives are imperfectly transmitted to smaller-scale actors through the medium of company politics, thus a suboptimal move may be made by one department to, for example, cover their ass.

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If that shit was a Transformer and you could fold it into a Famicom, now that would be awesome.

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I don't know why Mario keeps changing princesses and replacing them with differently-named princesses that look almost the same.

I guess ol' M isn't the commitment type.

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Yeah waving the Wiimote in DDR is pretty much a gimmicky addition that adds little to the game. To those who would say it may make it more like real dancing, I think imposing rigid movements in the arms as well as the legs would make it even less like real dancing. And as more of a score-oriented player myself, I'm concerned that it may be difficult to have accurate timing in the waving.

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New trailer for the Penny Arcade game out. It's... a JRPG!?

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I still don't see why Warzaid's WWII-with-skeletons isn't very popular. I always thought that was pretty great myself.

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Valve is still the king of everything.

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At least it isn't shit like HCFx2 or HCB,DPF like there is in e.g. Guilty Gear XX. That kind of nonsense just wastes my time on boring muscle memorization when I could be learning the actual mechanics.

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Oh duh. Now hitting my head on a Stupid-Looking Pot.

I somehow thought that Oboro thing was the subtitle of Shiren 3.

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Those blood splatters look procedurally generated. I've never seen gore look this good.

I don't know KBL, as for me it still doesn't register as real violence at all. The against, Kill Bill didn't really either, so maybe it's more a question of style than realism. The only thing grotesque here is the player ninja's silly getup.