[Multiplatform] General MINOR gaming related news, rumours and things of not-thread-worthy nature

Likewise, I was trying to make a joke about how the only good things with UbiSoft's name on are things they've published not developed themselves.

The joke was rather let down by the fact that I think most people know I'm pretty gay for Vegas and Blazing Angels.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

When I played through Return to Castle Wolfenstein on the OldBox (Which was a great game btw) I got really excited that you could unlock the original Wolf3D when you finished it.

Then I finished it, replayed Wolf3D and was really disappointed how badly it had aged. Doom is still pretty playable now, Wolfenstein is just a bit dull sadly.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

General internet consensus seems to be that it's a new MGS game with Raiden in it, a.k.a Metal Gear Unpopular I imagine.

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Even if it does ever get finished, there's no way it could even come close to living up to the hype. It's been so long coming that should it get released, the expectation would be that it'd be the best game ever made but the continued hold ups in development plus the fact that the original design team are all gone would suggest that it wouldn't be anything like that good. Even if it was a decent game people would still rag on it for not being worth the twenty five years they've spent making the thing.

Just look at Too Human. I like it and so do a lot of other people but the general reaction when it was released after being in development since 1972 was "Is that it?". It had lukewarm sales and now it looks like Silicon Knights have abandoned the project, having gone from promising DLC and sequels in the near future to having made no comment at all since August last and concentrating instead on issuing lawsuits to try and scrape back some money.

Just go and play Quake with Army of Darkness on in the background, it'll be essentially the same experience.

I was speaking idiomatically.

You mean a load of Carry On-esque innuendos delivered in a deep voice? I didn't find Duke 3D that amusing when I was 15, I wouldn't have thought the experience has aged all that well. I assumed people kept banging on about this because it was supposed to be a good game, not for the knob gags.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Deja vu or a glitch in the Matrix?

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Originally Posted by russ

I guess I can continue holding out on buying it until the Game of the Year Edition hits, since the regular version is still full price.

Really? It's been about £20 here in most shops for months now.

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I guess it must not be as popular over here or something. Us Europeans do only play football games after all.

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Originally Posted by Blue Falcon

Nova's not wrong. Considering how much gameplay they remove with each progressive iteration here, I'm actually quite confused as to what they could remove from MGS4 while going forward. It's like performing organ removal surgery on a skeleton at this point. In the end, they'll just pull the spine out and it won't even resemble a game anymore. Just a mass of broken garbage on the floor.

It'll be an on-rails, Virtua Cop style shooter, only to get the best stealth rating you have to not shoot anyone.

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Originally Posted by Denicalis

MONKEY ISLAND MONKEY ISLAND MONKEY ISLAND MONKEY ISLAND MONKEY ISLAND
OMG SO HAPPY

What's the difference between Guybrush Threepwood and 99% of Monkey Island players?



99% of Monkey Island players are already pirates.



This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

According to a Rockstar email today, GTA:Chinatown Wars is coming out on PSP later this year with tweaked graphics and some new missions. Better get your torrent managers warmed up PSP fans.

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But Qwarky, it's the highest rated DS game of all time, how would it not sell?

I imagine the graphical tweaks were done by a work experience kid and they'd already done the extra missions but couldn't fit them on a DS cart, there's no way they've spent any money on a PSP game. I think Liberty City Stories sold pretty well though so we could be underestimating them. After all, the overwhelming majority of DS's are owned by small children and girls whereas PSP's are owned by, well, the Playstation generation (That's us, folks) so are far more the target audience for a GTA game. Ignoring the fact that nobody ever buys PSP games, this could be a pretty popular title.

I was speaking idiomatically.

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.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

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.

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Yeah, the new version of the PSP has no UMD drive. Then again, nobody ever buys PSP games anyway so there's not much of a market to destroy in the first place. I'd be surprised if in the next few years while they develop a new generation of consoles the big players don't consider a move to facilitate a lot more digitally downloadable content. Sony are already doing pretty well with this distribution method and a few developers have suggested they'll be the first out with a new console, to avoid the kicking they got from the 360 coming out a year earlier than the PS3. A new generation is still a long way off though. I think digital distribution would catch on a lot faster if MS let you use any HDD with your 360 rather than an offiical one, given you can pick up a terrabyte of storage for the price of an official 360 100 gig one.

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Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

Microsoft manage to demonstrate their 'excellent' understanding of how to price stuff once again:

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So they're removing stuff and upping the price. Yep, that's going to stimulate sales for sure.

Does anyone actually buy the arcade model though? Surely putting up the price of something nobody buys won't harm their sales figures of none?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Backwards compatability is completely pointless. Everyone on the planet already owns a PS2 and if your breaks you can pick up a decent second hand one for the price of a PS3 game. On top of that, once you have your shiny new HD PS3, you'll probably never be that arsed about playing any old PS2 games ever again. I haven't played an original Xbox game since I bought my 360 and I've not really had any desire to play any of them.

The very slight price drop is pretty cool I guess but I'm still going to wait for there to be more decent games before I buy a PS3. God of War 3 is about the only thing I'm bothered about on it currently.

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Alright, nov completely pointless but I would have thought anyone desperate to play PS2 games would just buy a PS2 for forty quid, rather than dropping three hundred on the PS3. Only one console ever released has been properly backwards compatible and I'd question how many people bought a PS2 just because of that feature.

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Originally Posted by Qwarky

Plus there's a few PS1 games that don't work on PS2 anyway. Fuck Integral though.

And of course the Wii plays all GC games but who's counting right. It's just numbers, you know. Pfft.

I was talking about games consoles, not kid's toys.

Actually I forgot about the DS and SP being backwards compatible and given that even fewer GameCube games got sold than Wii games other than WiiSports are selling now, I'd argue that people ain't buying a Wii for the old school gaming angle.

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Originally Posted by sprouticus

The big thing for me is not having a shitload of consoles lying around hogging up space, taking up inputs on my TV, and taking up plugs on my power strip. It's a pain in the balls to reach behind my TV and unplug one console just to plug in another one that, as you said, won't get played on that much. Sure, I didn't play PS1 or Cube games often on my PS2/Wii, but the fact that I had the option is excellent and I would be amiss if I didn't have it on either of those consoles.

Yeah, I do see your point there but I tend to onlhy play one console at a time. My 360 and my PS2 are plugged in permanently, it takes about 20 seconds to plug in a Wii on the insanely rare occasions I'd want to play on one and the only time I've played a PS1 game in the last 7 years or so has been on an emulator or my PSP. I've not touched an Xbox game since I got a 360 and I can't remember the last time I played a GameCube game, I'd be amazed if mine even still works.

I mean, I'm not saying backwards compatability is a bad thing, just that it's not something I've overly bothered about when choosing a console.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Qwarky

..."PSP" :|

I think it's nice that Sony continue to support the freeware community.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by SuperSonic

If a system has that capability, there are going to be people who will sell their older Sony systems in order to buy a PS3.

You are aware that pretty much everyone on the planet owns a PS2 already right? You'd be lucky to get twenty quid selling one second hand these days, why not just get a proper job and work an hour's overtime to make the money you would have made selling your old system. Backwards compatability is a complete non-issue for Sony. The only people who'd be put off buying a PS3 because of it are cheapskates like Reaver and Sony undoubtedly made a business decision not to market their console at those people.

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In a display of stealing money from idiots so cynical it can only have been the product of the marketing team at Apple, there's a new iPhone App that lets you sign into Xbox Live and manage your account "On the move".

The fact that you could use the iPhone's web browser to visit xboxlive.com and do exactly the same things for free, and could have done the same on any phone with a web browser for years, has either escaped the App's creators, or they're relying on the average iPhone user being that dumb and App-obsessed that they'll actually fork out a couple of dollars to do something they could already do for free.

If anybody is stupid enough to actually pay for this then they deserve to get ripped off I guess, but then to be in a position to buy the App you've already shown yourself to be stupid enough to buy an iPhone in the first place.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

Originally Posted by Tails

Black folk? In a Nintendo game?

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Aren't the new maps already out? I assumed from all the promo stuff on Live that they were, I don't have room on my hard drive for them at the moment.

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