Why would anyone want to punch out Doc Louis anyway? Sure, the guy stole your bike, but that was back in 1987. Let it go. The man's changed, he's massive and eats nothing but chocolate. Plus he had that role in The Wire.

He's a war hero. You don't punch them in the fucking face.

It could be just me, but I don't like either of the two prizes. Both are pretty lame, and I can't decide which is the better of the two to get. I'm never going to wear the hat and the game doesn't interest me at all. : /

Seems MadCatz might be doing some more TE sticks, though not tied into SFIV this time:

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Some good news and some bad news floating about today, though the good news also includes a bit of a WTF? moment.

Good news (if your name is Skills):

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R-Type Tactics II: Operation Bitter Chocolate?! Erm, sure.

Bad news (especially if your name is Qwarky):

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Boo.

You know, if they wanted more copies to be sold I'd slam all three games together. They have to have a shit ton of copies rotting in warehouses. And if not just all three games on one or two discs. For 60 buck I'd totally buy that.

You and no one else.

Also yeah, I read about that today. It's such shitty news, but not at all surprising. Meanwhile, Sonic Riderz will probably get a second sequel eventually because Miles probably bought that but not Yakuza 2. Most likely because it has black and white manual or something :mad:

MIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIILEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES >8U~

I wonder if Atlus will pick up the second one. Pretty awesome, regardless. I know enough about the mechanics of the first one to probably bullshit my way through the second, provided it's not a total overhaul. Importing if I have to.

No Yakuza 3 stateside? FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFffffff.

That news made me :(

The second Yakuza? It's been out in English, for quite some time.

20bux for a pretty awesome game.

Are you serious Taco. He's talking about R-Type... OP even said "Good News if you're name is Skills".

On topic though, I know SD is sorely disappointed in such low reception of Yakuza. He's a fan of the series too. I laughed when I saw him punch and kick a TIGER in Yakuza 2.

Aww, dammit. I guess there's no chance in hell that Yakuza: Kenzan! will make it either then, let alone the possibility of it ever getting an EU release.

I would have played the hell out of that game =(
Well, it's off my list, so I won't frequently be reminded of how much SEGA suck.


:sega: = :emo:

Well, Sega came out and publicly backtracked a bit, saying they still haven't decided.

Doesn't really mean anything, but I suppose you don't have to give up hope about Yakuza 3 yet.

An interesting bit of news from Konami regarding the PS2:

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That's pretty awesome if it reaches EU too. I've never played MGS2 because I all I ever find is Sons of Liberty while browsing pre-owned games. Granted, I haven't put a whole much of effort into getting it, could just ebay - but this would make it easy to just pick up a scratch-free disc when I feel like having a go at it.

I wouldn't need to work that hard to find SH3 if that comes to yurop.

Even though I already have this, more copies of it available are never a bad thing :)

Also a question to Konami: why not Suikoden 3-5, why Tactics? :\

I wouldn't mind grabbing a copy of ZOE2 on the cheap if I ran across it. I've already beaten it as a rental many years ago, but it was quite a bit of fun. Even moreso once you get the teleportation ability at the end.

Wow, Microsoft just kicked Australia in the balls big time:

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Whoever's idea it was to allow each territory to price individually in such a haphazard way needs a good slapping, along with the arsehole who decided 6000 MSP was reasonable for a download only version of a game. Fuck that sideways.

What blows my mind is they didn't learn from the Xbox Originals failure.

Sometimes "Try, try again" just doesn't work, boys.

Buying both games on disc, in the one package = $50

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Buying both games as digital downloads = $100.
Downloading both games = almost hits the monthly download limit for a lot of people (lolworstinternetintheworld).
Digital distribution future = frown.gif

Yeah, I checked the CAD price for COD2.

40 dollars.

Gamestop's used version of the GOTY edition with the 15 extra dollars worth of map packs?

7 dollars.

YEAHHHHHHHHh BOI

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Well they must think people will buy the things at this price or they wouldn't have set it like that. Microsoft spends a fucking fortune on market research, they haven't just put a load of random prices into a hat and pulled one out. I'd imagine that they're relying on the fact that most people in Australia live a ten minute drive from their next door neighbour, let alone a Gamestop and as such, downloading games is much easier than trying to get to a shop. I'm not sure how many bush ranches have broadband mind you.

It's like charging for avatar stuff. Most of us here think it's retarded but then we're all well informed as a rule so we know better. For every one of you facepalming at the idea of paying for avatar clothes, don't forget there's me over here facepalming at you lot spending an extra $5 to get your game in a metal tin rather than a plastic case. We all have different ideas of what constitues stuff worth spending money on and Microsoft obviously think there's enough people who think avatar clothes or full price games from five years ago are a good deal, otherwise they wouldn't have bothered launching the stuff.

They can spend all they want, it doesn't make sense.

Xbox Originals was a commercial flop because of it's high prices. If you're going to set a downloadable game above it's retail price and give less features (no GOTY edition DLC), you just haven't done your homework.

They have an opportunity to make it a success after learning from the mistakes of the Originals line, but they are making the EXACT SAME ONES, and if it isn't a miserable disaster again I'll eat my hat.

Edit: To their credit, they did pick a better lineup to launch the service with this time. Mostly games people have heard of and those of which reviews are favourable, not the "pick one or the other" that was the Originals line.

I still don't think the average consumer is dumb enough to make this a success again though. It failed before and it will fail again unless they price accordingly. (See PSN for mostly proper pricing strategies for their DLC PS1 games. 6 bucks for the most part for something like Wild Arms 2, which is reasonable. Most of what's up there resells for more than it's price up there. Versus here where it's the opposite scenario.)

I won't buy any, just because of the fact that I might want to sell the game down the line. Did that with a lot of PC and PS games a few years back.

Technically the RRP of Halo 3 is still £45. That nobody would ever pay that much for it is beside the point, in Microsoft's stock list it costs £45.

Of course this is a rather blinkered view point and one would hope that they are usnig more than their stock sheet to set prices but like I said, they've set a price they think they can make money from. After all, it's costing MS fuck all to make these things available online so any sales they do get are pretty much pure profit and I'm often reading people here say they've not bought certain games because their local store doesn't have it and they've apparently never heard of Amazon.

They have missed a trick though. If they priced the stuff much lower, they could pretty much wipe out the second hand game market which I know is something a lot of developers would welcome. I guess MS and co need the games stores to get their message out or something so they don't want to extinct them just yet but I'd suggest that they'll be a lot fewer mainstream game shops about in ten years time once digital distribution really kicks off.