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

Since all the characters in Mass Effect have interchangeable personalities, it'd be fucking ACE if they actually bothered to do something cool like take a look at your last game's save file and kill off all the characters except the ones you used the most during that playthrough. That way you get a new cast of morality waffling nobodies that no one gives a shit about AND everyone gets their favourite characters in the sequel.

Hey, I can dream right?

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I'm not sure how much "simpler" one game is than the other, considering 2 is a couple of physics parameter changes and a bunch of new weapons. And the occasional inconsequential transparency effect.

I'm pretty sure if you can do one, the other would require a negligible amount of additional effort.

I'm feeling the idea of the double dip being more profitable being the main reason behind this.

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Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

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It pleases me greatly to see some other folks noticed this. There's some truely great work done here from both an atmospheric and technical standpoint. I'm glad that the game has gotten at least some of the accolades it deserves.

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I know the submission process is bullshit, but the PC version had these fixes a year back. While I'm appreciative, too little, waaaay too late is the understatement of the year.

Maybe they'll add a delay in fire rate for some weapons so assholes with shit like this end up losing out.

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Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

I saw some news today that had Ubisoft saying that they're starting to prepare for the next generation of games consoles. Fuck that. Perhaps it's just me, but I don't even feel like we're even at the mid-point of this generation's life yet, let alone near ready to be thinking about another one.

I tend to think of this as a good thing, most internal Ubi games are lucky to be development for half an hour before they're shit out onto a conveyor belt, so something with some degree of work effort thought put in instead of diarrhea in a jar like usual might be a good thing.

How ya doing, buddy?

Well, obviously it's literally just them pondering over unfinalized tech specs, but even if all they do is even contemplate a fucking tech demo, that's still far more effort put in than the average Ubi brick of condensed dog shit in a box that lines our store shelves.

I am merely joking about how garbage they are, not making any serious comment regarding anything else

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

I saw leaked internal documents that stated Prince of Persia's name while in development was "Project Namco-Bandai"

FELIPE NO

That's From Software, Game Arts, and a game made by two people in 1989, none of which were touched by the internal dev houses that make up Ubisoft's shitfactory these days.

The correct answer would have been Vegas, the latter Silent Hunters, and Chaos Theory.

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Um, yeah. Duh.

But this entire time I was referencing them as a developer, see.

Thank you for pointing out the flaw of my comment, in that people can't tell the difference. I know Shin knows. I'm just throwing this out there.

A++ will never assume anyone knows anything again.

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Well, that was one big clusterfuck then. Let's pretend our unfunny asses haven't said anything for the last four posts and let's continue on with our day, then.

How ya doing, buddy?

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.

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Correction.

No one buys Wii games because they don't exist.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

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.

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

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

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

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.

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FELIPE NO

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.)

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

Originally Posted by Marco

I bet at least one of the big companies will probably attempt a download-only version of a console. It would cut down on so many costs, and with terabyte hard-drives at like $70 space is becoming less and less of an issue.

Isn't there a PSP coming out without a umd drive? I can see some people would be interested in a (arcade like) xbox 360 step-down which can only download games. Think about it, virtually no load times.

Yeah, installed games have no load times whatsoev...wait what

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Took them long enough to talk about it. They've been dropping jobs left right and center for weeks. It's a crying shame, too.

I wouldn't be counting on a Bionic sequel based on it's sales, rather than on this unfortunate newsbit though, to be quite honest.

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Wasn't that supposed to kick in as soon as the end of the month?

In before the cost of the Wii goes up, instead.

Anyway, I hope they reduce the costs on the HD upgrades to go along with this, but I'm sure that won't happen at all.

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