Random Thoughts & Topics

[muzzington]

Anyone ever had their Google account disabled suddenly?

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

ZELDA II by Duane & BrandO

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

http://www.gamesradar.com/xbox360/xbox-360/news/sonic-creator-wants-to-make-the-dreamcast-2/a-20101001174813379081/g-20060321132945404017

The man who created Sonic wants to create the Dreamcast 2.

 

[luke-o]

And we should let him.

 

[AnonymousBroccoli]

I just played through a chunk of the Hydrophobia trial. It's kind of a mess. For starters, there are a lot of simple spelling and grammar mistakes in the journal, document and subtitle text. (Also, she's trying to escape a behemoth ship under attack, and there's somehow been time for a journal entry to be written?) One of the little features I really like on the 360 is that there's a few settings that are meant to be universal across all games. Like inverted Y axis for camera movement or first-person look. Hydrophobia's the first game I've come across to ignore that, and I had to go set it manually. The running movement is a little stiff. The audio cuts out at times. The rumble was almost non-existent. (I felt it once. My controller's batteries are low, so I wasn't quite ready to hang the game out to dry. But then I booted up GTA IV, threw myself on a live grenade... Yup. Rumble.) And to top it all off, I was climbing up an elevator shaft, made my way to some open elevator doors, went to climb up to the floor, and for seemingly no rhyme or reason, the burning car fell down on top of me. I'd had enough by then.

Then there's the whole thing where someone at the developer or publisher went about halfway harassing the EIC at Destructoid because the game's reviewer was tweeting negatively about it.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/09/hydrophobia-developer-defends-game-attacks-critics.ars

 

[luke-o]

Sega - "We've made to many Sonic Games"

From Official Nintendo Magazine:

Sega's Alan Pritchard has admitted that the company has been guilty of releasing too many Sonic games within a short timeframe.

Speaking during the week of the release of Sonic The Hedgehog 4, Sega's US sales and marketing man told Joystiq: "Sonic, at the end of the day, is 20-years-old next year. Sonic is our crown jewel," said "We've probably been guilty of bringing too many Sonic games to market too quickly."

However, with three new Sonic games coming to Nintendo platforms in the space of a month (Sonic 4 plus Sonic Colours on Wii and DS) and another Sonic game planned for 2011 it doesn't look like the hog's workload is going to drop any time soon.

Yet, Pritchard believes that Sega should take inspiration from how Nintendo has treated Mario. "Certainly if you look at Nintendo as a comparison, they have been a little bit more strategic with the way they bring their Mario titles to market. If you look at 2006 to 2008, there were a number of Sonic titles coming to market on various platforms with very little time in-between."

He says Sega is focusing on quality over quantity. "If you look at all of the Sonic releases over the last four or five years, there's a real mixed bag out there. A Sonic game can sell if it's a 60-percent Metacritic game, that's not an issue. But is that really what the consumer wants? Is that what we should be doing as a publisher and a developer? We should be bringing much higher quality products to market to deliver a better experience for the consumer."

http://www.officialnintendomagazine.co.uk/article.php?id=20455

 

[KingPK]

Gran Turismo 5 won't be coming out on it's announced release date. I'm shocked.

This is the visual representation of my surprise.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

No big surprise there. The game looks really sharp, but its been delayed so many times. Maybe one day.

 

[Youth N Asia]

I can't decide if I should:

keep playing Red Dead to try and 100% it. Or at least do some more stranger missions
start Batman Arkham
start RE 5
or start the Mega man 1-6 campaign I've been thinking about doing.

 

[Baby Shoes]

I can't decide if I should:

keep playing Red Dead to try and 100% it. Or at least do some more stranger missions
start Batman Arkham
start RE 5
or start the Mega man 1-6 campaign I've been thinking about doing.

I don't think you can go wrong on any of those, I guess just what you feel like playing. You got til the end of next year to complete Arkham for the new one but I don't think the game is very long. I know I want to pick it back up and finish it before I catch any potential spoiler stuff from the first one by looking at previews for Arkham City.

 

[bps21]

Start Arkham Asylum. Game fucking rules. You are the goddamned Batman.

 

[Mik]

It's a pretty fun game and doesn't take very long to finish.

 

[ChrisMWaters]

Arkham is a good one to play. Replaying it on hard when I can now.It does make me wonder though: would the team behind it also be able to make a GOOD Superman game? They do seem to have a love of the comic history...and I'm sure they could modify combat enough for Superman's fighting style compared to Batman's. The trick would be balancing out the powers...

 

[Black Lushus]

The team behind Batman making Superman better...where have we heard THAT line of thinking before? Hmmm

 

[ChrisMWaters]

Lushus: Are you asking in a positive or negative light?

 

[Black Lushus]

No no not being negative at all, just a funny thought...Batman creators always bailing out Superman!

 

[ChrisMWaters]

No no not being negative at all, just a funny thought...Batman creators always bailing out Superman!

...the only time that I can think of for that would be the Timm-team with Superman: The Animated Series.

Then again I don't follow comics, so take that for what you will.

 

[Black Lushus]

I'm just jokingly referring to the Nolan-led Batman Begins/Dark Knight team getting involved with the future Superman film project.

 

[ChrisMWaters]

I'm just jokingly referring to the Nolan-led Batman Begins/Dark Knight team getting involved with the future Superman film project.

Ah, OK.

Still though, wondering if the team behind the two Arkham games could pull off a Superman game.

 

[Baby Shoes]

I'm just jokingly referring to the Nolan-led Batman Begins/Dark Knight team getting involved with the future Superman film project.

Ah, OK.

Still though, wondering if the team behind the two Arkham games could pull off a Superman game.

It'd be interesting and I would definitely have faith in it. The only question mark I'd have, and this is me not knowing a great deal about game developers and studios saying this, is I had high hopes for Batman based on the company's previous work on the dark and gritty Bioshock, which Batman was. Would all the gameplay translate as well in something that won't be as dark and gritty like Superman? It probably would but that would be my only question going in.


On another topic, I think I realized another place I find enjoyment in getting the random-ass games I get: the reactions of the cashier. I was in the store the other day and as the guy at the register saw me carrying up a 360 game he looked at me and said "Oh, getting Medal of Honor"?" Had to tell him no. So then he said with certainty "Ah, you're getting Call of Duty?" I told him he would never guess it and enjoyed the expression on his face as I handed him a copy of Def Jam Rapstar.

 

[ChrisMWaters]

I'm just jokingly referring to the Nolan-led Batman Begins/Dark Knight team getting involved with the future Superman film project.

Ah, OK.

Still though, wondering if the team behind the two Arkham games could pull off a Superman game.

It'd be interesting and I would definitely have faith in it. The only question mark I'd have, and this is me not knowing a great deal about game developers and studios saying this, is I had high hopes for Batman based on the company's previous work on the dark and gritty Bioshock, which Batman was. Would all the gameplay translate as well in something that won't be as dark and gritty like Superman? It probably would but that would be my only question going in.

Well, if they wanted to do something dark, they could always set all or a majority of it on Apokolips.

 

[AnonymousBroccoli]

The only question mark I'd have, and this is me not knowing a great deal about game developers and studios saying this, is I had high hopes for Batman based on the company's previous work on the dark and gritty Bioshock, which Batman was.

I may be mis-reading this, but Arkham Asylum was made by Rocksteady, whereas BioShock was by Irrational Games.

Rocksteady's only previous release was Urban Chaos: Riot Response, which I think I remember Vic Lucas enjoying on Reviews on the Run, if only because it was a rare game that let you play as or with police officers, paramedics, firefighters.

 

[Baby Shoes]

I probably made a mistake then. I know you know your stuff Broccoli. I thought at one point when Arkham was being made that is was the people behind BioShock, so I always assumed that. Whichever way, Arkham Asylum earned enough good faith from me to get my interest in whatever project those people work on going forward.

 

[AnonymousBroccoli]

They certainly went for atmosphere with Arkham Asylum, which BioShock kinda brought forward in recent games.

 

[AnonymousBroccoli]

I don't even know what this is, but I want it.

Super Meat Boy (1st gameplay footage)

Super Meat Boy 90's Commercial

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nintendomarathon

 

[Sabre]

I think the main problem every developer has with the superman license is that everyone wants to be able to fly about and unleash powers on everyone and fuck shit up.

Its hard to have a storyline when the guy is so powerful he can just nuke everyone with lazervision and move on if he wanted to. Superman returns was probably the best superman game they have made, and even it handled like shit.

 

[ChrisMWaters]

I think the main problem every developer has with the superman license is that everyone wants to be able to fly about and unleash powers on everyone and fuck shit up.

Its hard to have a storyline when the guy is so powerful he can just nuke everyone with lazervision and move on if he wanted to. Superman returns was probably the best superman game they have made, and even it handled like shit.

Well, you could put a limit on his powers like they did in the cartoon, and give the right villains to make things a threat.

Also, save for the "city" meter as your health bar, Returns sucked. Now "The Death and Return of Superman" for the SNES and Genesis, that's another story.

 

[bps21]

Yeah...so Super Meat Boy is fucking awesome. And if you buy it on XBLA by the end of the month it's only 10 bucks instead of the 15 it will be. And it's worth the 15...so buy it now.

 

[Smues]

Has anyone here played Ruse? I got a download code for a free copy with my new processor and was wondering if it's even worth bothering to download.