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Gaming / Re: Sonic Generations (360, PS3, 3DS) - Holiday 2011
« on: December 29, 2011, 04:55:59 PM »
I uhh... I don't enjoy the Modern Stages. At all.
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Gaming / Re: Legend of Zelda - The official Zelda thread
« on: December 26, 2011, 07:22:53 PM »I'm not even sure if we should try to justify this with time travel mechanics; first and foremost it's just that Ocarina is some sort of reboot of the series that adapts A Link To the Past's manual story as its own thing. It's the "movie of the book," so to say.I just wanted to say that I'm pretty sure that this was the original intent of OoT... until everything that came after it. The Imprisoning War was probably something we never got to see in OoT due to Link disappearing for 7 years, but Ganon was pretty much ruling the place (not to mention Hyrule Town did kind of end up completely ruined).
But if we absolutely had to... LttP demands several requirements to be fulfilled:
-Ganondorf acquires the whole Triforce; the Sacred Realm is transformed into the Dark World
-The Master Sword, to be wielded by one of the knight's lineage, remained unused; no hero was found.
-Ganondorf had never lost against a little kid before.
-The awakened sages are Rauru, Ruto, Saria, Nabooru and... Mido?
-Before the sages seal was cast, the Knights of Hyrule died in battle against Ganondorf.
-People believed the knight's lineage had ended, and no one would be able to stop Ganondorf's escape.
-Somewhere, somehow, the knight's lineage survived within the civilian populace, and gave rise to the new hero.
All in all, we cannot eliminate the Hero of Time from time itself, otherwise the flood and Wind Waker would just repeat all over again. In that regard, maybe Skyward Sword presents the most elegant solution. But who knows... waiting for scans and translation still. >.>
Anyways, is there really any explanation of the whole "failed" aspect in the book? If not, it could be several things (Link was defeated at the end of OoT which would mean Ganon acquired the full Triforce and made his wish which put him in the Dark World, or Link never came back after opening the Sacred Realm in the first place, etc). Honestly I understand why they'd toss in a third branch in the timeline tree though with all the games that came out after OoT, Wind Waker in particular probably causing a lot of issues.
I'm thinking the word "failed" is just being taken in a different way than was intended, most likely. Wouldn't be the first time this sort of thing has happened.*cough*Light invented Irregular Virus*cough*
Also went back to my previous post and put in the quotation marks... just noticed that I forgot to put those in. Kind of changes the tone of the post closer to what was intended. I blame 12 hour night shifts
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Gaming / Re: Legend of Zelda - The official Zelda thread
« on: December 25, 2011, 04:00:42 PM »
How fitting that the only Timeline branch I really care about is the one where OoT Link "fails". (With some exceptions here and there, Majora's Mask being the main one.)
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Gaming / Re: Legend of Zelda - The official Zelda thread
« on: November 27, 2011, 06:14:15 PM »
So I played a lot of this to drop some of the stress off work. Here are some thoughts, although there might be some (minor) spoilers of sorts, so behind a spoiler wall it goes!
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Off The Wall / Re: Post Pictures Of Yourself
« on: September 20, 2011, 01:14:25 AM »That Thunder Hammer prop is brilliant.Agreed.
Anywho, here's one last shot:
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Off The Wall / Re: Post Pictures Of Yourself
« on: September 19, 2011, 04:40:10 AM »Question: Is he rather strange in real life? Just wondering.He is indeed. He seems to love the bizarre and ridiculous, so he loves pulling off the roles he does.
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Off The Wall / Re: Post Pictures Of Yourself
« on: September 18, 2011, 09:54:47 PM »
Here's a select few pictures I had taken in the Montreal Comic Con. Some more may follow, still waiting on some to pop up. Will spoiler since these are rather large.
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Gaming / Re: Pre-Alpha footage of cancelled Avengers game
« on: September 18, 2011, 04:14:42 PM »
Studio that was making it was closed down.
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Gaming / Re: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
« on: September 13, 2011, 02:34:36 AM »You can say that about any game with multi. I find it pretty fun, and I've played countless matches with friends. The matchmaking's terribly broken, though.Yeah, it's kind of flawed. Relic had a bit of a hard time with it. We tried to convince them to make dedicated servers available for the PC version, but no dice I'm afraid. The idea was shot down at some point for whatever reason.
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Gaming / Re: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine
« on: September 13, 2011, 01:45:16 AM »
Yeah, it's fun. A protip, don't play the multiplayer for too long, it can get tiring pretty quick. Speaking from experience here, although at least you guys will be able to stop playing if you want to.
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Gaming / Re: Deus Ex General
« on: September 13, 2011, 01:42:45 AM »
Well, I suppose this game deserves it's own thread. Too bad it probably won't gain much traction around these parts.
I know some of the people who worked on it, nice guys. Very devoted.
I know some of the people who worked on it, nice guys. Very devoted.
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DASH / Re: It's dead, Jim.
« on: September 13, 2011, 01:36:16 AM »Different developers have different ways to make money. Valve connects with fans and tries to make what they want. Atlus makes products in a diminished capacity, to serve to a niche audience. Capcom is an entertainment mongul that serves only to the masses.I'd say that Capcom serves what they perceive to be the masses, not the actual masses. I'm probably not part of either group anyways, so Capcom isn't getting any of my money. MML3 was the last straw in a very long list of things that bugged me about their current way of doing business.
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Gaming / Re: Square Enix General
« on: September 05, 2011, 06:05:04 AM »
So... Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I'm talking about it here because technically it belongs here. I thoroughly enjoyed my play time with it from start to finish. If you like slower paced stealth games, this one is definitely for you.
Oh yeah, being the Foxiest of the Hounds is fun
Oh yeah, being the Foxiest of the Hounds is fun
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Gaming / Re: Team Fortress 2 is now F2P forever.
« on: June 27, 2011, 12:55:31 PM »
The game can take some getting used to. It's fun though. If you see me on give me a shout.
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Gaming / Re: Sonic Generations (360, PS3, 3DS) - Holiday 2011
« on: June 24, 2011, 07:10:54 PM »
It could be that they don't want the FPS to vary and jump all over the place quite as much (like the PS3 version seems to do, I'll have to check that out later). It could also be that they haven't quite optimized the coding to handle everything that's going on, although they really should have for the demo level at the very least. I also suspect the Hedgehog Engine probably has it's own issues, but it's only conjecture more than anything else to be honest.
As far as Sonic Colors, I assume it was in the interest of keeping the framerate constant. Chances are they toyed with the idea of having it at 60 frames, but it varied too much to be to their liking. A stable framerate is more important than a higher one in the grand scheme of things. We'll see how it turns out for Generations, although I'm not holding my breath.
As far as Sonic Colors, I assume it was in the interest of keeping the framerate constant. Chances are they toyed with the idea of having it at 60 frames, but it varied too much to be to their liking. A stable framerate is more important than a higher one in the grand scheme of things. We'll see how it turns out for Generations, although I'm not holding my breath.
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Entertainment / Re: GENERAL COMIC BOOK THREAD (MANGA NOT ALLOWED)
« on: June 13, 2011, 04:32:36 AM »
Not too sure if I like the new look they've given Superman. Maybe I'll grow to like it, but for now... eh.
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Gaming / Re: The Playstation Portable 2 Thread
« on: June 10, 2011, 01:22:40 PM »
Remember when Sony was saying they'd have a way to transfer UMDs over way back before the PSPGo was released? Yeah, at least now they're being more straightforward about it instead of changing their mind later on.
Also, I wouldn't get too excited about the GameStop pricerange, they tend to put in placeholders which don't really mean anything. I'd wait for a more official statement from Sony themselves, safer that way.
Also, I wouldn't get too excited about the GameStop pricerange, they tend to put in placeholders which don't really mean anything. I'd wait for a more official statement from Sony themselves, safer that way.
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Gaming / Re: The Playstation Portable 2 Thread
« on: June 09, 2011, 02:00:53 AM »Sony won the conference alone with the Vita.HAHAHAHA... ahh...
Vita already has around 150 developers working on it.Doesn't mean it's guaranteed to have anything good at release. It's not uncommon for devs to have been working on a system for a long time before it's even announced, yet still not have anything of note for launch since they're still getting familiar with the hardware.
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Gaming / Re: The Playstation Portable 2 Thread
« on: June 08, 2011, 01:15:47 PM »
While it's certainly more affordable than expected, let's see what games are going to be available for it.
I'm still kind of worried about the placement of the sticks, to be honest. It looks like it's going to be just as uncomfortable as on the PSP to use them x2 since now there's two of them. That layout works for a controller that isn't flat, but not so much for a handheld which needs to be flat so that it's remotely portable.
I'm still kind of worried about the placement of the sticks, to be honest. It looks like it's going to be just as uncomfortable as on the PSP to use them x2 since now there's two of them. That layout works for a controller that isn't flat, but not so much for a handheld which needs to be flat so that it's remotely portable.
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Gaming / Re: The Official RPM E3 2011 Discussion Thread (June 6 - 11, 2011) - It's Game Time.
« on: June 07, 2011, 01:20:42 PM »
I had to get one of those handheld devil devices due to work... bleh.
Anyways, I'm honestly surprised by the price for the PSV. Still not interested in the least by it, but hey, at least people who are won't have to burn their wallets too much for it.
Anyways, I'm honestly surprised by the price for the PSV. Still not interested in the least by it, but hey, at least people who are won't have to burn their wallets too much for it.
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Gaming / Re: The "What are you currently playing?" Thread
« on: June 03, 2011, 12:14:20 PM »
L.A. Noire. I personally love it, but it's not for everyone.
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Gaming / Re: The Playstation Portable 2 Thread
« on: May 31, 2011, 12:28:01 PM »
Price always comes up for new releases of hardware. I seem to recall having this very same discussion about the PS3 back in the day, and that didn't exactly have the best of starts because of it's price. Definitely getting the same impression here.
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Gaming / Re: The Playstation Portable 2 Thread
« on: May 29, 2011, 06:16:48 PM »Again, the idea of it seems decent.Yeah, it certainly won't be below that price range. Sony has claimed that it doesn't want to set the price bar too high from now on, but with the way they've been designing hardware nowadays it's simply just not going to work that way.
But I still don't think the launch price is going to be less than $350.
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Gaming / Re: Monster Hunter Portable 3rd Goes PS3
« on: May 25, 2011, 01:55:13 AM »ALRIGHTYeah, this might actually get me to give MH3 a shot.
PS3 HUNTERS
NOW WE CAN PLAY TOGETHER
http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/05/22/monster_hunter_ps3/
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Gaming / Re: Official Nintendo 3DS Discussion Thread - Specs, Tech, Price? It's all here!
« on: May 21, 2011, 07:32:08 PM »Why is Pit in a Starfox game?Only finding out now eh?
Still looks like fun to me, although I'm still worried about the camera control on the touch screen. They should have a way to center the camera behind the way Pit is facing, maybe an icon like the one they use for inverting the flight controls.