Video Games

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 6:19 pm

Koumei wrote:From the looks of it, you can get the same gameplay experience playing (Dynasty/Samurai) Warriors.

Well, it's made by the same people.

But the gameplay isn't the biggest part that bugs me; what bugs me is a) I can't get Dragon Quest characters and monsters from Dynasty Warriors, and b) Square-Enix has all but abandoned DQ in the States.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 6:29 pm

New Fire Emblem game teaser

Looks like this one has a protagonist faction in NotJapan instead of NotEurope.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 7:02 pm

I hope the new game has a customizable Avatar like Awakening did.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Wed Jan 14, 2015 7:03 pm

I'm pretty sure that's here to stay.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Thu Jan 15, 2015 1:12 am

Oh goodie! I love games with customizable characters. They make me feel all gooey.

... I just realized what that sounds like.

Count Arioch the 28th · Sun Jan 18, 2015 10:21 pm

Okay, my ninja career is on hold because everyone in FF14 has forgotten how to fucking tank. Everyone sees that couple thousand gold and couple hundred guild seal bonus for tanking, and everyone grabs it even though they don't have a fucking clue how to do it...

*sigh*, time to get on my warrior for a bit, because even if everyone else kind of sucks, being a halfway decent tank will allow for more mistakes to be made without a wipe. And if nothing else can be said about my FF14 skills, I play a halfway decent tank.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 12:36 am

So for the last few days I've been watching Let's Drown Out. By Yahtzee and all of his friend, Gabriel.

It's pretty interesting discussion even if you tab out and do something else rather than watching the gameplay, but that was the best way to sell me on Just Cause 2 ever: "we're going to make this completely boring" (failed). I've now ordered it so I can engage in stupidity. Why? Just cause.... 2.

There is a sale on of "Buy one pre-owned, get one free", so I looked over the cheaper pre-owned and now I'm also going to have Duke Nukem Forever. On a console, not PC Master Race. So um, I doubt I'll play it.

I also ended up grabbing, on Steam, Painkiller (Black Edition) and Hexen 2. I'm going to go on a bit of a bender of sort-of-oldschool shooting games, and then might do something completely mental and grab Doom (pre-3). Do people recommend the new Rise of the Triad or Shadow Warrior?

AndreiChekov · Post by **AndreiChekov** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 4:37 am

edit; posted in wrong thread

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 7:14 am

Shadow Warrior. Definitely Shadow Warrior. This one.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Tue Jan 20, 2015 3:30 pm

Nintendo is ending their Club Nintendo service!!

Bastards.

AndreiChekov · Post by **AndreiChekov** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 3:21 am

Shrapnel wrote:Nintendo is ending their Club Nintendo service!!

Bastards.

I will not kill the messenger.

angelfromanotherpin · Post by **angelfromanotherpin** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 2:53 am

This is pretty hilarious: http://www.sbnation.com/2015/1/27/79169 ... s-patriots

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 3:46 pm

Have I ever mentioned how much I fucking hate region locking? Well, I fucking hate it.

Why does Nintendo do that? What could they possibly gain from it?

Maxus · Post by **Maxus** » Fri Jan 30, 2015 6:31 pm

Maybe to cut down on bootlegging or selling games between countries? I dunno.

On my own end, I'm going to get a PS4 with a chunk of my income tax refund, after the chunks going to savings and parents are parceled out.

All the games I really, really want (Bloodborne, few others) aren't out yet, but I think I'll trade in enough stuff to pick up some things.

tussock · Post by **tussock** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 12:50 am

The original idea behind region locking was to market disks in different markets at different times and with different prices. So you'd sell a game in Russia for a handful of Roubles and enough people could afford it to bother with shipping, acting as a marketing test and playtesters for your servers a week or two before you could organise the distribution through the US retail chains were you'd sell it for 50 $US.

Then a couple countries didn't sign on and just made region-free players instead, which ruins the idea except for the locked box approach, like the game consoles or all those tiny Macs everyone's using; where you can only run approved software for as long as they let you and can't install random 3rd-party software or a new OS. Or you can but you lose the online connectivity stuff, which is the fun bit anyway.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 1:00 am

And what it all means for me is that I can't ever play the remake of Dragon Quest VII. Or Dragon Quest Monsters 2. Or Dragon Quest X.

Although, most of that is because Squenix is retarded when it comes to Dragon Quest. I mean, who wants the latest Dragon Quest game when you could play another remake of FF7 or a retardedly named Kingdom Hearts game?

I amend my earlier statement to say that I fucking hate region locking and that I fucking hate Squenix.

Leress · Post by **Leress** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 2:18 am

Shrapnel wrote:And what it all means for me is that I can't ever play the remake of Dragon Quest VII. Or Dragon Quest Monsters 2. Or Dragon Quest X.

Although, most of that is because Squenix is retarded when it comes to Dragon Quest. I mean, who wants the latest Dragon Quest game when you could play another remake of FF7 or a retardedly named Kingdom Hearts game?

I amend my earlier statement to say that I fucking hate region locking and that I fucking hate Squenix.

It wasn't a remake, it's a port, which makes it worse.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 5:36 pm

Never mind, I just realized you meant FF7 was a port. I think.

Leress · Post by **Leress** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 5:43 pm

Shrapnel wrote:Never mind, I just realized you meant FF7 was a port. I think.

Yeah, that's what I meant. Sorry for not being clear.

name_here · Post by **name_here** » Sat Jan 31, 2015 11:54 pm

Been playing Persona Q, and got to the point where the two groups meet up. All the characters remain great, and they're playing off each other entertainingly. Incidentally, the Persona 4 team did not happen to tell SEES that Naoto's a girl. I'm just waiting for Junpei to find out; that cannot help but be great.

Edit:

Mitsuru wrote:From what you say, it sounds like this group date is a rather refined event

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:10 am

name_here wrote:Been playing Persona Q, and got to the point where the two groups meet up. All the characters remain great, and they're playing off each other entertainingly. Incidentally, the Persona 4 team did not happen to tell SEES that Naoto's a girl. I'm just waiting for Junpei to find out; that cannot help but be great.

I hate you, and I hate Atlus for not porting great games to the glorious PC master platform.

Koumei · Post by **Koumei** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 5:09 am

Hyperdimension Neptunia for Steam!

SUCH DIALOGUE!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =384453619

SUCH PLOT! (Not very safe for work)

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =384453858

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 10:35 pm

So, I'm fairly certain no one remembers Shaq-Fu, either the rap or the game. It was a minor historical curiosity and oddity of a video game. I mean, it was the 90's, Shaquille O'Neal was popular, and you could get away with making a fighting game featuring an NBA player fighting against a mummy. I think I might of had it, because I remember seeing as a child a Sega Genesis box cover of a large scary black man wielding his fists at me and growling. Or maybe I'm thinking of the neighbors Pekingese. I was three at the time.

Anyway, flash forward to the present, and people realize that that kind of shit it outrageous in a fun kinda way (the game, not the dog) . In some circles, it's become a cult classic. In others, not so much.

But in 2014 Shaq O'Neil stated that he'd be making a sequel to the 1994 Sega Genesis game, called Shaq-Fu: The Legend Reborn.

No, really.

It gets better, though: the game is being crowd-funded through Indiegogo. The page is so freakin' earnest and the rewards so ridiculous that at first I thought it was supposed to be a parody. But no, I'm fairly certain they're for realz, which only makes it all the more fantastically AWESOME.

Longes · Post by **Longes** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 11:03 pm

Koumei wrote:Hyperdimension Neptunia for Steam!

SUCH DIALOGUE!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =384453619

SUCH PLOT! (Not very safe for work)

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =384453858

Best game ever, amirite?

Shrapnel wrote:So, I'm fairly certain no one remembers Shaq-Fu

Everyone remembers Shaq-Fu. Even people who never played it. It's like The Room or Birdemic, you may not have seen it, but you know it exists.

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sun Feb 01, 2015 11:20 pm

Shrapnel wrote:So, I'm fairly certain no one remembers Shaq-Fu
Everyone remembers Shaq-Fu. Even people who never played it. It's like The Room or Birdemic, you may not have seen it, but you know it exists.

Yeh. I was shooting for irony.