And he can do that forward flip twice and I was pressing every buttn to figure out how to do I but never did it

There's a a lot of mechanics I simply do not agree with. Still feels like an unfinished game. Ugh. The online set-up is ass, even worse than SF4.

How long before I can afford cool items to dress up people? Where do I go to earn money anyway?

In that lame single player mode where you travel around to different arcades.

Fuck that.

Arghhh, why am I at my mums for Christmas when the new Virtual-On hits the net.

People who send friend requests to you just because you were on the same winning team as them. We didn't even chat, coordinate, or anything. C'mon.

Columbus Nova buys out Harmonix from Viacom and MTV Studios for an undisclosed amount and years.

As part of the deal, Viacom and MTV Studios gave away the Rock Band and Dance Central properties for Harmonix to own. The new owners have also green lighted Harmonix to continue working on both series for future releases.

Harmonix is expected to stay as an independent studio but with Columbus Nova as their main distributor. CN not expected to actually be involved in game development or company decisions as part of the new deal. It would be similar to Ubisoft and EA only being distributors for games from Japan (Ubi) or Valve (EA).

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In other news, people started to compare the videos and graphics of PS3's version of Mass Effect 2 to the older Xbox 360 version and found out the Xbox 360 version looks better.

Of course, the differences are marginal and based on what you use for comparisons but it does show EA can't do a clean port of the game while the ME3 engine does have some differences when used to port the previous games in the series.

I've heard this is partially due to the fact that the engine is built on the Unreal engine, which from it's initial design, works better for the 360. I've seen the side by side, and the differences are really minimal. I'm really not a fan of the stupid "comparisons", since the differences are usually so small that no one gives two shits.

It also helped that during the creation of the 360, Epic was asked for advice and they wanted more RAM to make ports easier since the 360 structure was already similar to the PC unlike what the PS3 had for RAM and structure.

Only reason everyone goes to EA to port the Unreal engine is due to them having the experience and the tools needed to do as clean of a port as possible. Valve using EA for games on the PS3 occurred for the same reason once EA was able to adjust the Half-Life engine after a few years for PS3.

Motorola wants a ban or temporary stop on all Xbox 360 hardware sales after it filed a complaint to the ITC dealing with Microsoft potentially violating several patents of Motorola.

This move appears to be a counter from earlier in the year when Microsoft sent a complaint about Motorola charging unfair amount for royalties for their parts.

The US International Trade Commission could issue a temporary restraint on sales similar to when Nintendo was under investigation involving the Classic Controller. At the time, Nintendo stopped producing the controller and when the lawsuit was tossed out, resumed production.

US ITC won't announce its ruling and any order to halt production of Xbox 360s until early 2011.

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http://kotaku.com/5717310/motorola-w...xbox-360-sales

Just ordered Blazblue: CS

Still gotta get that

Does your brother have it? Wanna say yes. Think I saw him playing it.

I win FINAL FANTASY 8

You want I should tell how to get Lionheart?

He has it. I have BlazBlue: CT. Waiting for a price drop for CS after their lack of information on a Canadian release/massively delayed release of CT ended with me paying $124 for it.

SoulCalibur 5 is ON!:

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Ready for the PlayStation servers to be down all day.

I win Zone of the Enders

Been eyeing that model for a while.... want it so bad.

cool I wonder what special characters will be on there.

Honestly I rather they have extra Bonus characters rather than guests. But if it's gonna happen, hook up with Square Enix. They got some weapon swingers.

Yeah, it's in the Steam thread and only for UK.

Bought it for £3.50 like the day I found out about it. Oh well, Steam > EA Download Manager at least.

You can use a UK proxy to get it. I did it, and had no problem linking it to my US account.

Finished Bayonetta's Normal mode (after replaying most of the stages many times). Hard mode is worthy of the title. Much more satisfying, though.

Too many things came out during my hard mode effort. Might have to give it another crack.

Fire Pro XBLA is coming to the west, but it's avatar only fighting.

Yeah, but what's the gameplay like?

Even stripped down, it might be fun.

No, exactly. It's the first 3D Fire Pro and if the gameplay stays the same (and my avatar can still have a Deadly-Go-Round finisher) then it's all good.

Not for me. Too spoiled by FPR and KOC II. I want a new, all out puro game. This thing really does nothing for me.

Hopefully it does well though, and gives them reason to make a real fire pro.

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Leaked playable Zelda prototype!

http://forums.lostlevels.org/viewtopic.php?t=2471

Kind of at a loss as to why everyone is going apeshit over that.

I honestly don't think an easy version of zelda, with mismatched bgm is anything to go nuts for.

It was an unexpected surprise. Loads of us go apeshit over lots, I've got close to 100 Sonic prototypes.

Never even knew this prototype subculture existed.

Yeah, the holy grails right now are Resident Evil 1.5 and Sonic Xtreme. There was a tech demo leaked of the latter, but Resident Evil is a totally different game to what was released.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXnymHTvHrE

The only two I've really known about was the cancelled Sonic one and what Comix Zone was going to be.

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Sketch Turner > Joe Pencil

Legend of Mana, Xenogears and Vagrant Story have been rated by esrb, so it looks like they'll be hitting ps1 classics soon. Been waiting forever for xenogears.

That Sonic video was never playable, only prrof of concept apparently.

Castle Crashers reaches 2 million sold/played on Xbox Live Arcade and to celebrate, The Behemoth is giving a 50% discount for the next few days on XBLA marketplace.

Monday Night Combat having a 50% discount only for today from 1200 MS points to 600 MS points as part of Microsoft's XBLA "Countdown to 2011" sale.

Some dumbass decides to play a real life version of Frogger on a highway and gets nailed by an SUV in South Carolina. http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/8...aying-frogger/

Square-Enix reveals new Final Fantasy game called Final Fantasy Type O with its own logo.

No other details were given but it is expected more info on the game or if its going to be a reboot, side-story/spinoff, or a new storyline when Square-Enix holds its own event in Japan in January 2011.

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You can't "reboot" Final Fantasy when there's no real continuance between the stories other than a few worlds.

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fuck yeah play Xenogears

But you have to grind through the beginning. Don't get discouraged over how confusing/boring it is at first.

That was the mistake I made. I bought it when it came out and played it for a while, but I couldn't get past all of the dialogue. I sold it before I ever got to the good stuff. When you started posted about playing it a few months back, I started checking out videos of it on Youtube and realized my mistake.

That is news?

In other news, I love fat titties.

And with that in addition to the Hardy Boys its official people in the Carolinas just shouldn't breed they lower the nations IQ by 10 pts every time they do.

Ugh

Wonder what they're thinking about now. Let's go with Final Fantasy characters!

Ugh

Woooo

La Parka!

...

Really want to play Constructor for the PC. I had it on the ps1 but it's gone now.

I can't find it anywhere but eBay and I don't want to fork out £15+ for a game that may not even work on Windows XP.
Wish Steam had it up for download. Any sites I should check out for it?

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Thanks for looking it up for me but I'd rather buy it and not download it illegally. Rep for you, anyway.

Ok, I signed up and read their FAQ about pricing. Why are they charging in dollars if they are in Europe? Shouldn't it be pounds or Euros?

Edit: If I bought in dollars, I'd be charged about £10 on top of the actual price. For that money, I'd be as well just buying a physical copy from eBay. So, I deleted my account.

La Parka fits into the soul caliber universe alot better than Vader.

What? That never happened to me, do you have some type of retarded credit card or something?

Oh and don't buy a physical copy. It doesn't work on anything past Windows 98 unless you're willing to piss about with DOSBox.

Am I in the 'Vader for Calibur' camp or something? Don't look at me for that random appearance. I'm a metal blade sort of guy.

Probably. The banks site says if I want to buy something in a currencey other than £'s, I need to pay a fee of £9-something.

Doesn't setting it to "compatability Windows 98" or whatever help?

Why does PC gaming hate me so much?:(

Nah, it's a DOS game and even XP doesn't have real DOS. Sorry dude.

I'll just have to sign back up to GOG next time I have enough spare money to download the game and pay the fee. Still a little tight after Christmas...and buying Kinect.

Unless I can find some other download site selling in £'s. Really appreciate the help/info, though.

La Parka uses a metal weapon. There you go.

There you go.

There I italicise

I will make you endorse La Parka for Soul Calibur 5.

My will is my own!

You know who I wanna see in Soul Calibur 5?


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Also, this guy would be PERFECT to appear on the new Mortal Kombat.

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Maul could have been in SC4 but they dropped that ball. I can see Ash in MK, but he'd be better in L4D.

No, I didn't find those pics ARE TRIED to find a way to post them.

Probably the first part exclusively. I can't speak for him, though.

Viacom sold Harmonix and evidently took a bath on it.

Old news, bro. It's all good, though.

SEGA planning something special for the 20th anniversary of Sonic and Puyo Puyo series by announcing they will release a "variety of projects" involving both franchises for 2011.

Not announced is if there will be a collection disc similar to Mario's 25th Anniversary or other special celebrations Japan received for Mario (ex. Red Wii, Special Mario edition DS, Club Nintendo gifts).

Of the two series, Sonic won't officially celebrate its 20th anniversary until June 23.

http://gamrfeed.vgchartz.com/story/8...sary-projects/

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In unrelated news, Angry Birds coming to PSN store this week. The game won't be remade into "HD" since it is just a straight port from the PC/iPhone version with different controls.

Haha, very good.

Seriously. Dude just watches obi-wan flip over him, and slice him in half. Was he admiring the flip's form or something, what happened?

Obi got lucky is all.

Konami/Suda 51 releases screen-shots of No More Heroes: Heroes Paradise for only the PS3 set to come to the US and Europe at an unannounced 2011 date.

The game is an "HD"-port of the same game that was released in April 2010 in Japan but unlike the game Japan got, the US version is expected to be compatible with Sony's Move controller. The game is also expected to get some extras from No More Heroes 2 but nothing drastically different than the original Wii version.

No price was announced but it is expected to be in the $40-$60 range based on Move prices and the game's price in Japan.

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Always wanted to try those.

Valkyrie Profile blows so much. It is so boring that it made me want to skip to the very end of the game, which I did. Now I'm severely under leveled. Just want to beat the stupid game.

Dude, I'd kill for La Parka in SC5. Especially if they actually license his theme music as background music for his stage so that he can chair guitar.

Also, fuck off with No More Heroes not coming to the 360 in the west.