http://kotaku.com/5889507/why-a-colo...ag=%20wielding

Pretty good article about the American setting. Highlights some of the complaints such as lack of large cities.

The setting will work out fine considering one of the key aspects about the Revolutionary war was all the ambushes done by both the Indians and Americans. Its a good fit and probably means a lot more wilderness and areas to travel than in previous games.

Probably going to deal with the Free Masons or other secret societies which occurred in America at the time.

I hope they add more shit into it. Revelations was a let down for me, all that was new was the hookblade imo. I don't count the tower defense shit, shit fucking sucked.

It's going to be awesome running around like that, blending in with 18th century colonists, when I'm the only dude who looks even remotely like that.

At least in the previous time periods, there were SOME people dressed similarly.

Oh, they'd bitch, just not for historical accuracy. They'd complain it violates the character.

They should make an Assassin's Greed game where u play as a greedy banker who runs around stealing money and things from people.

Some of these points are dumb.

Look, New York City had plenty of big structures, but who needs big structures when you have trees to hide in...heh.

Truth be told, I'm not exactly a big fan of trying to play it both ways at once. Thing is, a good chunk of New York wasn't built that high at that point. That's the sort of thing that takes a lot of time and either a lot of need or a lot of excess, neither of which New York City would be known for for a few decades.

And part of the reason these games are fun is parkour. hiding in trees isn't quite the same.

Look ma, my history is shit!

Or maybe it's just a slight bigoted notion that Injuns used tomahawks and whites used swords.

Colourful characters.

Okay, I kinda like this one, actually, but they have to walk almost as fine a rope with George Washington as they do with Muslims being portrayed. Amurrrrrricans, one of the big game-buying audiences take their founding fathers seriously (albeit unrealistically).

Ubisoft's only saving grace here is that they're in France, which most Americans can't find on a map. Or spell.

n then u can fuck lots of hot woman with todays gaming tecknology

We still don't know if there will be nature ambushes..we are just assuming at this point. As you stated, there was American cities at the time such as New York and Boston that had plenty of buildings.

Of course we don't know. I was pointing out that the points put forth were shit, not that they were fact.

Are you next going to tell me "That's just your opinion!" when it was clearly so?

Also, I didn't really point that out. What I pointed out was that there were limited high places in said cities.

You can also steal their cars. And join gangs. And sell drugs. And carry an unseen arsenal of heavy weaponry. And kill pigeons. In fact I think I can draw up some concept art to go with the whole idea!!!!

We don't know anything, but when has that ever stopped bitching and conjecturing.

That sounds stupid. It'll never sell.

Damn that Kane Knight for responding to speculation....*shakes fist*

Well, we could always dumb down the seriousness and just rip off the original, add a lot more unrealism, hell even add shit to it. But keep it essentially the exact same game.

Yeah wasn't referring to you.

A potential HD remake of the original game or even a new game in the Baldur’s Gate series could be in development.

Beamdog studio who worked on last year's MDK 2 HD remake teased they are currently working on something involving the Baldur’s Gate franchise.

The official website for the series also teased an announcement could be arriving soon based on a hidden poem found deep within the website's source code.

Earlier it was discovered the series will be having a special re-release on Steam titled as the "Steam Complete Collection" with a release arriving in the near future.

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http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...r-maybe-sequel

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Daily Recap:
1) BioShock Infinite will be having an October 16 release date for the US/Canada while everyone else gets the game on October 19. The PS3 version of the game will include the original Bioshock game on the disc as an extra bonus.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/biosho...-october/4014/

2) Rumored images from Doom 4 were recently leaked showing off a few potential settings to be in the game.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...leaks-internet

3) Concept images for the original design of the Wii U tablet controller reveal Nintendo originally planned for the tablet to include actual analog sticks which were eventually removed in favor of sticks similar to the 3DS sticks.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...lasses-free-3d

Was that just a minigame or was it actually mandatory? I haven't played Revelations yet, I honestly didn't really care for a lot of the stuff they had added to Brotherhood as far as minigames and escort missions so I stopped paying attention to Revelations after I beat that Brotherhood.

In a way I'd like to get into it in order to expand on the story, but I really disliked the last 2 games especially Brotherhood. The only part of the game I enjoyed was the final boss, rest of it just felt like a chore.

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It's pretty neat. The dpad twists and the little dial or whatever descends into the controller which makes the dpad a little bit more accurate. I'll put it to the test next week with SFXT

I can't find a thread about the Amazing Spiderman game. Putting this here.

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Well, it is the best colour.

I just want you all to know how excited I will be when the new Assassins Creed comes out, and that I will be buying Iop a facial merkin.

I like that he needs a handler.

Can't get my new Triton headset to work. :/

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I think AC3 could probably get it's own thread now.

I tried. hasney deleted it and called me a bad word.

Take the news with a grain of salt but the next issue of the Official Xbox Magazine has been rumored to be teasing the debut of a new Killer Instinct game.

The game is being teased as a reboot game with no other details nor status on if Rare is actually making the game or if a different developer is working on the game similar to what was done with the XBLA version of Perfect Dark.

The potential game also could just end up as just either the original KI game or KI Gold being added as an Xbox Live Arcade game.

The next issue of OXM is expected to go on sale on March 21.

http://i.imgur.com/1rVxS.png
http://testyourmight.com/threads/oxm...t-issue.14528/
http://www.screwattack.com/news/oxm-...ame-next-issue

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Daily Recap:
1) Capcom hints due to both the strong reception and sales from Revelations and Mercenaries on the 3DS, they are interested in making more Resident Evil games for the handheld.
http://ds.ign.com/articles/121/1219750p1.html

2) According to a leak by online retailer Amazon, Sony is planning on releasing a Ratchet & Clank HD Collection set this year which includes all the PS2 games and the 2 spin-off PSP games in the series.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...lection-coming

3) The Xbox Marketplace's website accidentally leaks the release date for the upcoming Trials Evolution game with a release date set for April 18.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...e-date-leaked/

Whether its KI1 and/or 2 coming to XBLA or a whole new KI, I'm interested.

Wonder if it'll live up to my nostalgia.

Don't think it'll live up, better to reboot it. Then again, an XBLA release makes sense to gauge the consumer.

I don't see Killer Instinct being able to hang with modern fighters from a technical standpoint. At least not without changing much of what makes it Killer Instinct.

It could do well financially due to western popularity, in the same way Mortal Kombat was successful, but I don't see it being taken that seriously by fighting game fans.

Considering KI was more related in style and gameplay to Mortal Kombat, if MK could do a good reboot, then KI could easily.

The bigger question involves who would be developing a potential game considering the current Rare has no desire nor remote experience in making a fighting game. Microsoft's other choice is to hire a different studio to work on the game like what was done with Perfect Dark on XBLA.

If they do release KI for Ecks Blah, I'll definitely try it. I think I still have muscle memory for all the combos. If there's a new KI, they had better release a demo, because I am NOT buying on faith.

Oh for sure, KI definitely would appeal more to western audiences than most fighting games. I was just talking about the tournament scene.

I bet after that speculation, it's just Ninja Gaiden.

KI1/2 arcade versions do hold up. If you've got MAME, give it a play.

I swear I'm the only fighting game fan in the world who could not give a shit about Killer Instinct.

Had a cool style, but it has a lot of catching up to do.

I had it for N64 back in the day, but it's a different time now, and it's not really the type of gameplay fighting game fans are looking for.

Despite all the improvements the recent mortal kombat made, it still had stiff, rigid dial-a-combos. KI has always been similar in that regard.

It wouldn't be a bad idea to release a new one though. As I said, the casual audience would probably eat it up.

You mean a game series whose last release spans back almost twenty years won't be on par with the competition?

But only if it's brown, first person, and has Team Deathmatch.

As far as gameplay, which actually changes very little in the genre, yes - they have catching up to do. Sensationalist auto-combos probably won't fly and they will need a new/updated metagame. Being that it was 2D, people are much more educated about how a 2D game should work (controlling space, safe/unsafe attacks, etc) and that wasn't a big deal for KI back then.

KI has style, cool characters, and it found a place between SF and MK back in the day. But it has a lot more comp now, and now's not the time to expect Orchid's double Ds and dial-an-Ultra Combos to carve out a place. They have catching up to do. There are a few fighting games/systems that came out in KI's time that are still very playable today.

New Forza game has leaked. Forza Horizon is due out in Fall/Autumn this year.

Thinking the new KI, if OXM is refering to KI, will be revealed on Monday.

Won't be buying a new Forza this year, that's way too soon.

They have a short teaser but it's just video, not game footage. I read someone suggest it might be a spin off cross country/rally game. I think that sounds possible.

The footage shows desert etc and the name "horizon" does suggest long distance driving to me.

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http://stabyourself.net/mari0/

Just released. Gonna try it out.

From eventhubs.com

Killer Instinct can suck a dick. I want me some Darkstalkers.

This is likely. I thought SFxT was on the SF4 engine, didn't think they started from scratch as far as the system goes. I guess the SF4 models and certain animations were the only crossovers.

Not necessarily. The sfxt engine could simply be a new version of the same engine. Like if I were going to make an AKI wrestling game, I'd modify No Mercy and work from there as opposed to fucking with the original and still having to create a ton of modules that would otherwise already exist and only require minor modification

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Based on a recent rumor from the UK, the Hlao Reach engine is being used to help develop Bungie's next game which is meant for release on a next-gen console.

While Bungie separated from Microsoft after Halo Reach was released and joined as a developer for Activision, the studio did keep rights to their Reach and other Halo-based engines for future game development.

EGM also thinks the next-gen game could be a potential Halo game but Bungie themselves have stated their involvement with the Halo universe officially ends at the end of March.

It is also rumored the engine itself is being used for a game called Destiny which was hinted to be currently in development by Bungie.

http://www.egmnow.com/wp-content/upl...2/03/reach.jpg
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...next-gen-game/

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Daily Recap:
1) Art Style: CUBELLO (WiiWare), Mario's Picross (3DS VC), and Radar Mission (3DS VC) are this month's game rewards for Club Nintendo members.
https://club.nintendo.com/rewards.do

2) Valve confirms Counter-Strike Global Offensive will have a Summer 2012 release date and has at least 7 maps confirmed so far to be included with the game.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...w-screenshots/

3) Rumored image of the prototype of Valve's Steam Box console have been leaked.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumo...ox-could-be-it

4) According to recent sources, the bosses for UK retailer GAME are leaning towards shutting down the company due to the lack of confidence the company can survive long enough with mounting financial losses and lack of major titles as the key factors.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/real-...retailer-game/

What idiot at EGM thought their next game was a Halo game after everything that's been said? Jesus.

Reach was the only Halo game that I truly had a lot of fun with, so this is good news for me.

Them and Gamestation are the equivalent of Gamestop and pre-buyout EB Games here.

I thought Smelly Meatball lived in the US.

I do.

Normally don't post news not involving the US/Canada area unless its something big or an on going story like with GAME. Also remember what UK's version of Gamestop because of Kotaku in the past having news and sales charts from the UK.

I ask because you said GAME and Gamestation were the equivilent of Gamestop and EB here. The "here" making me think you might be in the UK.

"Here" was supposed to reference the US equivalents.

I see. I had it completely the other way.

Valve announces some good news and some bad news in regards to the upcoming Counter Strike Global Offensive game.

The good news is the game is still on track for a Summer 2012 release date and the feedback has lead to a lot of tweaks and changes in the game. The game is still set for 7 maps to be included at launch with all being based on classic CS maps.

More good news was revealed for PC owners of the game as Valve announces the PC version will be given top priority in terms of both frequent and amount of post-launch updates to the game. This was due to the strong feedback from PC beta users.

Now for the bad news, similar to every other Valve game released on consoles, updates will be a lot less frequent while Valve hasn't gotten as much feedback from console beta users. The initial goal of PC-PS3 cross-platform play was also dropped due to the feedback and difficulties experienced during the beta.

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http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...bal-offensive/

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Daily Recap:
1) Epic Mickey 2 official debut will occur on March 27 with Disney having Warren Spector provide all the details and footage for the new game.
http://kotaku.com/5891011/epic-micke...cts-this-month

2) Take Two is rumored to have brought in the Mafia series developers, 2K Czech, to help Rockstar with the development of Grand Theft Auto V.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...-iii-underway/

3) The demo for Dragon's Dogma will allow characters and stats to be exported from the demo version of the game to the retail version although the demo only limits the choices between 2 characters.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/drag...ble-characters

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MovieBob usually does non-gaming stuff, but since this touches on the douchebag coach who was dogging his own teammate....

Play.com leak a couple Vita games, including a new GTA.

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Source.

http://xboxamerica.com/?r=stw-20584

If you could help a brother out. Optional of course. If you live in the UK, just lie and say you're from Canada like everyone else does there.

What are we supposed to be doing Ermax?

As part of Final Fantasy's 25th anniversary this year, Square-Enix teases a new Final Fantasy game might be on the way.

Besides Theatrhythm Final Fantasy which was released last month for the 3DS, the company also announced next month a special commemorative set of Final Fantasy themed playing cards will go on sale in Japan.

The company also could be teasing a new game in development as the anniversary section for the official Final Fantasy website was updated. The biggest rumor right now is the company is considering remaking Final Fantasy VII with the twist of it arriving on the 3DS.

Previously Sony owned the exclusive rights to Final Fantasy VII due to their role as a publisher of the game and partially providing the funding needed to move the game away from the N64 and onto the PS1 at the time.

If the remake does arrive for the 3DS, then it would be another game in the series for the DS/3DS line which Nintendo has provided the funding and publishing rights.

However a different rumor could be pointing to a remake of Final Fantasy V for the 3DS if it is true.

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http://www.screwattack.com/news/myst...nting-new-game

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Daily Recap:
1) The rumored Vita games shown in Drakul's post have been debunked after it was revealed the image for GTA Vice City Nights was actually just a shopped image from 4chan while only Monster Hunter has been confirmed but not announced if its just a remake of the PSP game.
http://www.gamedemption.com/debunked...vita-and-more/

2) GAME announces starting today all pre-owned games will be having massive firesale discounts as a last-ditch attempt by the company to generate a short term boost of cash.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/game...ation-firesale

3) Peter Molyneux's announces he is leaving Lionhead Studios once Fable: The Journey is finished. He will keep an advisor role with Lionhead Studios should they need his input for future Fable games.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/peter-...-journey/4022/

Can't imagine the absolute rage that would happen, if an FFVII remake was a DS exclusive.

Well, it has been a common thing in the few years.

V makes most sense as they did III and IV on the DS in fancy 3Dness. I hope it is, purely because it would mean a 3D VI remake is closer and I would squee.

more shitty remakes please

All of the DS remakes were good, actually.

Click the link, join the site, done?

It's just a stat site that ranks you based on your xbox gamerscore in your state and in North America.

Oh, I was already a member, I thought you needed help doing something else.

The next Xbox and PS4 could be a lot more expensive than people expect due to Epic Games wanting "bleeding edge" technology as the top priority for both consoles.

Epic Games believes the potential losses and costs for these consoles can easily be subsidize by the software.

The studio also hinted if it doesn't occur, Apple will be getting a lot more support from the company.

[quote]It was also implied they would prefer if the console market shifted a bit more towards Apple's iPad style than keeping the traditional long life cycle.

Epic Games previously was very influential in the development of the Xbox 360 with their main contributions being the advantage in RAM and better GPU than what the PS3 contained. The studio is also rumored to be once again providing some suggestions towards the development of the next Xbox.

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http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...bleeding-edge/

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Daily Recap:
1) Ninja Gaiden 3 will be having an online pass with the standard reason of locking out multiplayer for used copy owners.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...s-online-pass/

2) Valve will not be making a new console and instead admits the leaked pictures was an in-house box meant to test out the upcoming Steam user interface for television screens.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/valve-...ime-soon/4027/

3) Sega will no longer be making Marvel movie-based games after Disney terminates its contract due to them being unhappy with the results from the recent movie-based games produced by Sega.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/disn...-games-anymore

A new console every year or two sounds like a perfect model for another video game crash.

Epic can go choke on a big fat black cock.

Dunno if it was mentioned in the Mass Erect 3 thread, but it's been confirmed that the totally not-on-disc DLC is actually on the disc. It's very likely Bioware lied to us about it (though it's possible there's another explanation, albeit unlikely).

Also, what Captain of Fun said.

Yeah, same shit is happening with Street Fighter X Tekken. 12 characters and 2 sets of alternate costumes for each character.

Though in this case, I don't recall if Capcom ever stated whether there would be on disc dlc or not.

Capcom's official statement:

There's no way to know for sure if this is bullshit or not, so whatever.

It's bullshit. They released costume catalogue dlc for ssf4 that allowed you to see dlc costumes when playing online with people who have bought the costumes.

MCV "exclusive source" says next Xbox will have solid state retail games and no disc drive. Probably a good way to get more storage space without paying Sony for Blu-ray.

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/exclu...xt-xbox/092534

As Funky pointed out, it's really easy to put up a free patch or whatever for multiplayer compatibility.

Still, it's not as bad as SRtT (for sheer volume) or Bioware (who insisted this was stuff being worked on after the disc was finalised), so....

Oh dear. Please tell me you're not one of those morons.

Depends. I'm not one of those morons who believe that Microsoft would refuse to give money to Sony because it's Sony, but I am one of those morons who heard that it was prohibitively expensive to license the technology for blu-ray.

I've just Googled it and read that in 2010 that it dropped from $20 a license to $9.50 for blu-ray hardware, so it might be more feasible these days.

You mean...They had the audacity to ask a comparable amount for Blu-Ray licensing in the past when compared to DVD technology?

That makes sense. I mean, Microsoft didn't pay DVD licensing fees last gen....

It was $15-20 when they released the original XBox, but some of that cost was MPEG-2 licensing as well, which was disabled unless you bought their dongle remote control. There is a huge possibility I've read all this ages ago and not comprehended it right.

If it is true though, as long as it's a fast medium and doesn't bump game prices up, I'm all for a solid state medium.

It will jack the price up, but okay.

So would it mean all the next Xbox games are only downloadable titles or use SD-like cards?

Probably going to hurt them at least in the short term if the next console is digital-only considering how poor internet speeds are on average in the US and that is their main stronghold. Could also piss off retailers or at least the non-big ones which hurt the PSP Go when it tried to remove retailers for selling games.


Edit: Nevermind, missed the line about the games being on a card in the article. Probably also means no chance of backwards compatibility unless its done like the PS3 and Vita where you have to rebuy your games in a digital form although at least it won't have the same problem the Xbox 360 had with bad disc drives and the RRoD.

RROD was a completely different problem.

Also, backwards compatibility has been a pretty big deal for the last couple gens. removing it would be damaging in the short term, I think, since Sony's unlikely to abandon the BD format and even the Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-U will have BC.

Plus, pretty sure the cards would be prohibitively expensive.

A blank 64 gb SD card costs $60

Thats what you would need to replace a blu ray disc with, storage wise anyway.

Current game discs are maxed out at 10gb, a 16 gb card costs $18.

Im guessing though that their format will be proprietary to hold back piracy for a while. If you cant buy blank cards and you cant buy the hardware to read/write them yourself, it would be pretty hard for the average gamer to do much, at first anyway...

Current game discs are maxed at 9ish, with the 360 only having 7.something useable. More games are going to end up multi-disc, and game devs are chomping at the bit for more storage space.

Would twice the storage space satisfy them? A look at some of the popular games on Steam would indicate no, or at least not for long. A decent chunk of big games run at 10+ GB.

With proprietary cards, price goes up some, too. Even mass produced. You can have two tiers of cards, but then it becomes an issue of who eats the added costs for more expensive cards.