Ive actually never played suikoden but have been thinking of trying them out. I've only heard good things for the most part.

Right now I'm actually finishing up Chrono Cross. Can't believe I never played it until now considering Trigger is one of my 2 favorite games ever.

Open world, proper RPG style.

5 was open world map too.

McDohl would show up, as would Yuber and Persmerga.

I think most of the true Runes make you immortal. I could be wrong though (I think that was mentioned in three, because Geddoe was supposed to be older than he appeared, wasn't he?)

Star Dragon Sword would still be around.

Not to mention you could easily have some other characters who up because of Vicki. Hell, part of the story could be an older Vicki, having mastered her powers, able to take you back in time at certain points and collect some people...

Which would be a great way to finish the Victor and Flik saga, and explain why they were absent in 3.

I still need to play 5.. Sold the PS2 I had tho because I didn't want to spend 15 bucks for a new controller for a console I had no games to play lol.

5 does some things amazingly well. For example, all characters have a pre-fight pose and a post fight pose, some of which are more awesome than others. For example, one character has his sword sheathed at his side prior to the fight, and his pre-fight pose, instead of pulling the sword out, is yanking the sheath backwards and throwing it off to the side.

There's just a lot of little details that made the game great.

BUT, the main character is REALLY effeminate.

Just happy at all the Suikoden talk going on right now.

FFXIII-2 is actually pretty fun, probably the best final fantasy "sequel" not containing the word Tactics.

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Noel got a makeover!

Looks like Phantom is playable.

I knew I didn't need to collect everybody, but it was ridiculous how they did things like make you recruit this one guy if you want to get a world map. I remember finding that guy pretty luckily too. I liked the concept but thought it was executed really poorly, a lot of the characters were useless, and the war scenes seemed unnecessary. I remember it being a lot of fetch quests too, "You need to go to this castle, but go to this dungeon first so you can get something," that was a lot of it. Also the only game I have ever had to mute because the castle music was so annoying. Just seemed so simplistic, again the story could have been good but the way it was told was really lame. I never felt like I was overthrowing anything with this piece of crap group I had assembled.

I respect your input on that, OssMan, I'm just a diehard Suikoden fan and would love to recreate the fun factor I had playing these games from years ago.

VIta recommendations please

Sell. Get 3DSXL.

...Or get Gravity Rush.

Gravity Rush or Uncharted or Escape Plan. Not many great games yet.

I have a 3ds.

I got all of those games but uncharted. i also got table top tanks, mortal kombat, katamari, all for a really good price. Plus I got warriors persona and persona 2


and the beatinator which was an awful choice

I love the people who bitch about Valve's release schedule.

"I'm pissed off for you not announcing or releasing a game that has only been hyped by us!"

THQ said their best-selling nonlicensed game was Saints Row the Third, which sold under 4 million last I checked. So what they want is a game that will sell better than Saints Row the third, likely in a shorter time period.

Good to know that despite Kalyx-level stock prices, they have EA-level ambition.

He was featured in an article in print about a week ago. Not really anything new, except everyone and their momma saying the opposite of what he did.

By the time you get there, Kickstarter will be as worthless as your current projects.

Kalyx can't stop being an idiot. He's proudly rocking that extra chromosome.

Says the guy who staunchly defends Nintendo.

what

what

According to a recent leak from the official Ubisoft forums, Ubisoft is considering another reboot for their Prince of Persia franchise with this time being potentially influenced by the Assassin's Creed series.

Years ago Ubisoft was rumored to be considering rebooting the franchise under the codename of "Prince of Persia Zero" before it was cancelled and replaced with the cell-shaded 2008 Prince of Persia game.

The new leak suggests another attempt at PoP Zero, this time nicknamed "Prince of Persia Zero 2", is currently in the making with the leaked screen showing off the code name.

People are already suggesting the new Prince of Persia game will be heavily influenced by the Assassin's Creed series based on the screen shots leaked with a lot of concern coming from the official forums over the potentially new direction.

Ubisoft has yet to respond to the leak at the moment.

http://www.screwattack.com/sites/def...ebootrumor.jpg
http://d1vr6n66ssr06c.cloudfront.net...12/08/0047.jpg
http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...e-persa-reboot
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-2-screenshot/
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Daily Recap:
1) Update to EA suing Zynga as Zynga claims EA themselves are also copycats with claims of The Sims Social being a copy of Zynga's own CityVille.
http://www.destructoid.com/ea-vs-zyn...o-232634.phtml
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ginal-pokemon/ (Ignore the link name since EGMNow goofed up a bit)

2) Similar to the idea behind Nintendo Selects, Sony announces they have started a new series for their first party games called "Playstaion Collections" with the God of War Saga and Infamous Collection as the first two sets available and a $30 price tag for each.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/play...tles-necessity
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...s-collections/

3) New screens and details were revealed for Darksiders II with a Horde-like Arena mode consisting of 100 waves with rewards carrying over to single player and a full New Game+ mode which allows all equipment and items to be carried over for a new playthrough.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...plus-features/
http://www.siliconera.com/2012/08/06...es-of-enemies/

Some crossover elements? Would be interesting.

Well considering the original Assassins Creed was planned to be a P.o.P game originally but slowly took out the prince element. I can definitely see them using the same sort of gameplay.

Ubisoft should have had a sequel to the reboot that had the beautiful graphics out already.

The fuck are they waiting for?

Forgot to mention Ao2. What this series does not need is a more "gritty" tone.

Kalyx=manchild.

Oh.

""

said Kalyx to himself one lonely night while staring at his ex girlfriend's longerie he bought for their anniversary.

Later that night, Kalyx took a step outside, a deep breath, and exhaled...finally feeling the weight slide off his shoulders from years a fire inside just waiting to come out.

But what to do with his new found freedom? Kalyx thought long and hard, but then a slight smile crept onto his face...

(next poster continues)

what

Indeed. I'm not saying the PoP game after that (the one based off sands of time or whatever) was bad, but that cell-shaded reboot made my day. One of my favorite action games of this console generation, if not ever.

If they say so.

Two years later but the Xbox Live Arcade version of Scott Pilgrim The Video game is getting a new DLC pack according to Ubisoft.

The DLC pack will finally include online multiplayer which was a big complaint against the game and will include the shopkeeper, Wallace Wells, becoming a playable character.

The DLC pack will arrive on August 19 for the price of 400 MS points ($5) with no news if the PSN version will be getting the pack as well in the future.

http://www.screwattack.com/sites/def...er_2453006.jpg
http://www.screwattack.com/news/scot...years-too-late
http://www.joystiq.com/2012/08/07/xb...august-19-201/
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Daily Recap:
1) According to sources close to 2K Czech studio, Mafia 3 is currently in development for the next generation of consoles with at least a next Xbox and PS4 version being hinted.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-gen-consoles/

2) Some good and bad news from THQ as the company made a profit for the fiscal first quarter ($14-!5 million) but have cancelled the upcoming InSane project which was being developed in collaboration with Guillermo del Toro who now owns the rights to the project.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/thq-ca...del-toro/4317/
http://www.screwattack.com/news/thq-cancelles-insane

Valve announces they are expanding Steam to include non-gaming services and programs.

Starting on September 5th of this year, Valve will be offering an "App Store"-like service which will handle all the non-gaming products Steam will carry. These programs and software will also be provided with all the benefits and features Steam currently provides for games on the platform.

http://www.screwattack.com/sites/def...er_2462941.jpg
http://www.screwattack.com/news/valv...types-software
http://store.steampowered.com/news/8584/
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Daily Recap:
1) Sony rumored to be making an official price cut on 17 first party games for both the Vita (8) and PS3 (9) starting next week with Vita games getting the biggest drop in terms of savings.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...rop-next-week/

2) Gameforge announces they have cancelled the browser-based Star Trek Infinite MMO game with the official reason being the studio has been unable to find a publisher willing to help promote the game since last year.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/new-...pped-gameforge
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...ace-cancelled/

3) Hybrid has been pulled from Xbox Live Arcade due to massive server issues which made the game unplayable for a lot of users according to Microsoft and developers 5th Cell.
http://www.destructoid.com/hybrid-re...s-232778.phtml
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...server-issues/

Based on recent job postings, the next Xbox console will arrive within the next 18 months and would include Skype.

Microsoft has been rumored to now be looking at a late 2013 release date after earlier rumors of a late 2012 to early 2013 release won't be occurring.

In another job posting from Microsoft, Skype is being teased as a new feature for the next Xbox console but will also include the Xbox 360 once the project is finished.

Microsoft bought Skype mid-2011 for around $8.5 billion and have been rumored ever since to be expanding the service to every platform with the next Xbox console being included.

http://d1vr6n66ssr06c.cloudfront.net.../next-xbox.jpg
http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...ing-job-report
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...vert-suggests/
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Daily Recap:
1) While Konami has a patch ready for the PS3 version of the Silent Hill HD Collection, the Xbox 360 version will remain unpatched due to "technical issues" according to Konami.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/grea...tched-only-ps3
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/konami...its-hard/4320/

2) Epic Games announce they have opened up a new studio called Impossible Studios which is being staffed primarily of employees from the former 38 Studios and Big Huge Games. The first project for the new studio will be a new Infinity Blade game called "Infinity Blade: Dungeons" for iOS devices released later this year.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/epic...wns-copernicus
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...sible-studios/

3) In an interview with MCV, EA reveals their goal for Origin is to become a huge cross-platform service involving consoles as a way to tie in all EA games into a single service.
http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/the-m...origin/0100960
http://gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=182985

Except Nintendo, I guess.

Duh.

Late Night Update:
 

Blizzard has issued a security alert due to their battle.net network was recently hacked affecting the entire North American region. Also affected are anyone who plays on North American servers even if they are located in different regions.

They have sent automated emails to everyone stating for passwords and account details to be changed as soon as possible.

As of now Blizzard confirms no financial info has been stolen yet but other info was indeed stolen.

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/securityupdate.html

According to a recent announcement by Game Informer and a few rumors, a huge announcement will occur during the upcoming Gamescom expo.

The announcement might be the official debut of Half-Life 3 after Game Informer reveals they are not allowed to show a preview of their upcoming issue's cover since it would spoil the "world premeier" announcement. Also contributing to the rumors of the announcement being Half Life 3 is due to Game Trailers who stated they have a special trailer video dedicated to just Valve which will occur on September 16 or 17.

The announcement is expected to occur during the EA press conference which also is a publisher for Valve games on consoles.

Previously rumors teased Grand Theft Auto V would have been the huge announcement after E3 had passed. The rumors were debunked by Gamescom organizers who stated a mistake lead to the debut trailer being listed on their website while Rockstar themselves have never attended Gamescom nor made an application to attend this year.

http://i.imgur.com/DLsGJ.png
http://translate.google.de/translate...half-life-3%2F
http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/8...-announcement/
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Daily Recap:
1) Bioshock Infinite is currently rumored to be dropping mutiplayer from the games with a mode similar to Spec Ops from the Modern Warfare series and arcade Horde-like mode both revealed to have been dropped.
http://kotaku.com/5933119/bioshock-i...uld-fans-worry
http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...ch-multiplayer

2) According to trademark leaks, Sony has dropped the trademark for The Last guardian project although the company still insists the project itself is still in development.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/sony...mark-abandoned

3) Sony reveals they are having a lot harder time getting third party companies to continue supporting PS Vita development after several have dropped or become disinterested due to low software sales.
http://www.destructoid.com/sony-havi...t-232866.phtml

Sweet, sooooooooooo can Bioshock get released now?

Thats also the same day as the Sony press conference if I'm not mistaken. Could be next-gen console related, perhaps.

I'm hoping it's HL3 though....finally.

The Last Guardian Trademark wasn't dropped per se. Its status as "abandoned" comes from a failure to demonstrate use or file for an extension. It doesn't strike me as unlikely it slipped through the cracks. Though neither will I hold my breath for its release.

I'm kinda thinkin they are going to release it as a ps4 launch window title.