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Benza wrote
It's not actually being developed by the main uncharted team though is it Matrix? I reckon you'd probably be better off to wait and see if it's any good first.
That's it exactly. If it was a Naughty Dog joint I'd be all over it, but Uncharted on the Vita is being handled by Sony Bend. They've got an impressive track record of PSP-ising console franchises to some critical acclaim, Syphon Filter and Resistance, but I'm not personally familiar with their work so I'm probably best off swallowing my giddiness and waiting to see.

That's what the rational part of my mind says, but that's rarely the part that operates my wallet icon_wink.gif
I already pre-ordered my Vita from Amazon (about $259 Australian with the fastest shipping option), but I'm wondering whether I reeeeeaaally wanted one or if I was just caught up in the E3 hype. I might end up cancelling and buying one after a couple of price drops because I love Uncharted a lot but maybe not that much.
Under the Red Hood is so good. If I didn't already have it on Blu Ray, and if I hadn't already ordered the Collector's Edition of Arkham City because I'm a chump, I would totally get this.
That Dark Knight Returns skin looks really neat. I always liked that design, ridiculous though it may be.

Nothing else here really interests me, though. It's weird that they'd include Gotham Knight, since it's tied to the Nolan-universe. It does have Kevin Conroy voicing Batman, but you'd think a few old TAS episodes would be a better match. They do that on the Blu Rays for the new DC Animated Originals, at least the Bat-related ones.
Is it bad that I imagine "I spy with my riddle eye" in Kim Jong Il's voice?

I can't wait for this. Seeing the word conundrum reminded me of just how pissed off I am that Letters And Numbers is off air for bloody bicycles, but also how much I loved the idea of solving riddles as a sidejob in the first Batman. I do hope they amp up the difficulty and not make so many "Take a picture of Catwoman's mask" ones, though.
grim-one wrote
Really? You guys are contemplating spending $350-400 on something, anything, Beyond Good and Evil related? Wow
Woooow, I should have clicked the link. That Ezio statue actually costs $400!

I... I don't... How does something like that get so far out of the ideas meeting. How did nobody involved with that ever say "No. Wow, you should redesign that. Seriously, did you sculpt it in the dark? He looks ridiculous, literally nobody in the world will ever give us $400 in exchange for that! How do you still have a job here?"
Ico looks amaaaazing. I only played a bit of it back in the day but I remember it being a Playstation 1-and-a-half looking game, and now it looks unbelievable.

And Shadow of the Colossus was always unbelievable, and now it looks a little bit unbelievabler. I can't wait to see what a stable framerate is going to do for it in some of the bigger battles.
Yeah, I'd be more interested if Ezio didn't look so derpy.

I will buy all the Bee Gee and Ee things they put out regardless of derpiness, though. A model of the hovercraft would be nice.
Robin Williams can grow something like that in a week, though. The world couldn't handle it if he grew a real beard.
I was mildly interested in that robotic dog but it seems like it's just a Fenris mech from ME2. I'll take Urz over one of those any day.

There was a time when I would have been all over this, but I and my wallet are thankful that I don't care as much anymore. I'll be OK with a $44.99 pre-order on Steam, thankyouverymuch.
So I just placed my order at Amazon US. Priority international shipping (2-5 days), PS Vita (WiFi only version): $259 Australian.
At least it's not $450AU like the PSP Go was. I need to be sold a little more seriously by Sony, but importing one from America for $250ish with shipping is an attractive prospect.
I don't expect The Last Guardian to come out any time soon, and if it was going to be shown I think TGS might be a better fit, but I'd be a lot happier about the wait if they'd bloody hurry up and bring out the Ico/SotC HD rerelease things already.
I plan to buy all of these things that say 'Metal Gear' on them. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, all of them. You've got a 6? I'll take it. Peace Walker on PS3? One of those, too. And you're giving Rising to Kamiya? There is literally no better person you could give that game to, that is the best news ever.

Hopefully they'll fix MGS4's ridiculous installing nonsense when it comes to Steam.
My veins: hook it to them.

I adore Metal Gear Solid about as much as I hate my stupid PSP that has been the source of nought but misery to me, and I never got past the first few missions of Peace Walker because I sucked at it. I firmly believe that I had every right to suck at it, though, because using buttons as an analogue stick is awful. I can't wait to play this game for reals with a trusty controller.
I'll take it, I've been wanting to play Quest for Booty and Wipeout HD for a while. I know I'll feel intensely guilty since I almost never play games online and the PSN outage hasn't affected me in the least, though icon_lol.gif
Playing as a Rancor actually sounds pretty neat, sort of like a part in another game that I probably shouldn't spoil but people who've played it will hopefully know what I'm talking about. A certain game where maybe right at the very end you turn into a huge black monster and try to kill some people-sized dudes but the control is really awful and it makes you reflect on what you've been doing throughout the whole game when the roles were reversed.

The part where the controls were awful is what makes it feel Kinect-suitable, though. I feel like the best Kinect experiences would be ones that mask Kinect's downsides; for instance Rancors aren't known for their agility, so players wouldn't necessarily be irritated at feeling really clumsy as they stomp around.

People have always wanted Lightsabre games since the start of this motion control business, but I think Kinect would be perfect for using The Force. You hold your groping fist up to choke people, or you throw your flat palm out to hurl people off ledges, you slowly wave for a Jedi Mind Trick, it'd be great. And any looseness in the control could be explained away by the fact that it's The Force.
There was a little snippet of a cartoon playing in the security office of Donovan Hock's mansion in Kasumi's DLC mission. It just seemed to be a Krogan in some sort of gunfight. I thought they should have called it...

...


...Kroganime.
Re: God of War 4 outed (2 years ago)
I'm hoping they'll update the control scheme if they keep making these games. Five games later the move list for the Blades of Chaos is literally identical to God of War 1. I'm aware that things which ain't broke don't need fixing, but there's a limit to how many times we can play the same game, right? When I started God of War 3 I bumped the difficulty back to Easy because I realised the only reason I play these games is for the spectacle and I literally don't derive any enjoyment from the basics of hitting monsters with my knives on chains over and over again. And God of War 3 brings the spectacle better than any other game, but it's just as unfulfilling to get from spectacle to spectacle as all the other games in the series.

How many Heavy Attacks/Light Attacks games have come out since God of War 1? Are people still clamouring to point their analogue sticks at dudes while hitting Square repeatedly and then hitting Triangle at larger dudes? There are, like, three different control schemes that every single video game thesedays is built around: you've got your Heavy/Light Attacks action games, your Left Trigger/Right Trigger shooters and your Left Trigger/Right Trigger driving games, and there are so few games in those genres that play differently.

Oh boy, I didn't mean to get all pretentious and douchey. I'd probably play more God of War games, I'd just maybe rent them and play them on Easy because I'd rather watch God of War games being played than actually play them.
It's listed under Special Events on the film list, but it's classified as a 60 minute Film Narrative which I guess means they're entering it as a movie. I wonder if they'd approach it differently from, say, a live demo of a game and a regular video game expo.

L.A. Noire definitely seems like the kind of game a non-gamer could actually watch. I mean, even with heavily 'cinematic' games like Uncharted 2 there are still extended periods where the game's camera is perched on Nate's shoulder with a big aiming reticle in the middle of the screen. L.A. Noire is less about the shooting and more about the everything else.
I kind of love the idea that Cave Johnson is the straight-talking gunslinger type, calling things 'panels' and 'crushers', whereas in the GLaDOS-era everything at Aperture is called the Quantum Discontinuatizing Transmorphic Whatchamahoozle.

There are few people I love more than J.K. Simmons, Portal 2 couldn't be more enticing at this point. Unless... I don't know, you got a free Jennifer Connelly with every copy of the game.
People shouldn't really be surprised about this sort of thing. The most popular games are going to be remade and remade with every new console generation. Think about all the movies that never made the transition from VHS to DVD that literally nobody will ever see ever again; right now that percentage is an awful lot higher for videogames. Until we get to the point where backwards compatibility is a given for new generations of consoles and we reach the limit of graphical upgrades that can be applied to older games these remakes are the best option.

There are a few games from older generations that I'd like to play but I never do because I don't want to spent the half hour digging out the old console, finding all the cables and controllers and memory cards, unmounting my TV from the wall to plug it in and then hoping all the individual pieces still work. If I can buy a version of that game that'll work on the stuff I have now and maybe looks better than the original, sign me up.

The ideal situation would be that it'd be cheaper than a full priced new game, but this is Capcom so some concessions have to be made.
Not even an armoured suit could contain my nipples at their current earth-shattering stiffness level.
This is such a wonderful soundtrack, and this version is actually slightly higher quality than the one I already have (it comes free when you buy the PC version from GOG.com). I wish it'd come out in some sort of lossless format, but this is the best quality I've ever heard it in (apart from actually playing BG&E HD).

For those wondering the GOG.com version is 192kbps MP3s while this version is 256kbps.
Weird that this seems to be 360 and PS3 only when the PC version is coming out fairly soon. In fact I seem to remember it being about a week before this Da Vinci Edition.

The PC version of AC2 came out with all the console version DLC on disc, but Brotherhood's DLC doesn't even seem to be coming out on PC. I was originally planning to sell my PS3 version for the PC version like I did with AC2, so it's lucky I'm so lazy.
I'm pretty sure Bee Gee and Eee is available on both Steam and GOG for less than $10. And I'm fairly sure I already own it on both, but I'm totally buying the 360 version too because I choose to believe Ubisoft is releasing it to gauge interest in BG&E2 and I won't be responsible for that game being cancelled. It'll be finished one day, I must believe.
Finally. As everybody knows no form of media is worth bothering with other than film. Video games? Pshaw!
I... do not like that cover at all. Is the detective going to have to choose between good and evil electrical powers halfway through the game? The left side of his suit is bright red; he looks like Tommy Lee Jones' Two Face. I like the mocked up ones much better:
The only Tomb Raider I've played all the way through was Legend, which I really enjoyed apart from a couple of bossfights, but this is sounding excellent. I started both Anniversary and Underworld and never finished them, Anniversary because I didn't have a controller for the PC version and Underworld beecause I just couldn't get the feel of it (it's a weird issue but the game just did not feel right), and I've been jonesing for a more modern Tomb to Raid. Some Uncharted-esque animations would be delicious wrapped around a more platform-focused game, and I adore this muddy, shipwrecked, middle-of-a-monsoon style they've got going. Lara looks like she's crawled through a gauntlet of shattered trees while fighting off tigers and it's beautiful.
Peveus wrote
Lame move redesigning a character @_@
Wat? Caterina Sforza in AC2 is only recognizably human by the barest of margins. Just about every character in the game got a visual upgrade between 2 and Brotherhood, and Caterina absolutely needed it. Lucy also looks much less like a terrifying Fish-Woman.

This isn't an inFamous 2-type of "Drake hair and tribal tattoos poll better with our target demographic" debacle, it's a "We need players to want to save this woman from a castle, maybe we should make her look less like a Wicked Witch's corpse" type of deal.