Posts by Taylor

Surely the PC needs to start being the groundbreaking platform for innovation before it can continue being it? I've never heard someone mention that word without games like Ico, SotC, Okami or Katamari Damacy coming into the conversation immediately, maybe with a muffled Portal, I will grant you - but then again, there's the Wii...

And you seem to be implying the consoles only do blockbuster titles? I deleted my several attempts to counter argue that because I was getting irate. They most certainly do, hell they're pushing to get small teams cranking stuff out on their highly convenient digital distribution methods as much as possible - that’s basically what XNA and C# are for, and Sony threw Everyday Shooter up double quick time. Sure, stuff like Halo and God of War get sales and publicity, lots of both, but there's still enough love for the cult titles by Nippion Ichi (purely for example) for them to stay profitable.

I was also half-heartedly arguing here that Final Fantasy XI was a (partially) console-based subscription game that enjoyed large success, but I think I've posted enough indirect venom for a crushing, face-burning riposte when I check this tomorrow anyway.

Quote from Fletch

Valve ain't got shit on Nintendo.

This is mapcore, consoles are dumb.

Stage 1

Yeah, I wouldn’t imagine it to be a sandbox kind of deal. It seems to be a series of missions asking you to run a gauntlet across town, with your mobility shtick being the way to not become deaded. The first screen in particular gives a very strong platformer vibe, everything’s nicely aligned and that crane load looks suspiciously traversable.

I really like the look of the thing as other people have said, very clean and vibrant. It’s actually pretty funny/scary how much it draws the eye just because it has colour in it.

The reason you're not in Silent Hill in Silent Hill 4: The Room is because all the Silent Hill bits were added later, when Konami decided they didn’t want to risk creating a new franchise. It’s not really one of the series.

/nerd

I've no idea why they chose to develop this on the PSP, the best thing about the games is the strong atmosphere and it's very easy to get distracted on the bus or whatever. So you’d have to play it at home, where the tiny screen and obligatory headphones aren't as appealing.

Just beat Uncharted. Playing Folklore, Final Fantasy 12 and Mushihimesama... and sadly World of Warcraft has drawn me back in too. I also have Ratchet and Clank and Assassins Creed but I’m not going to touch them yet.

God Hand is an awesome game; it’s a shame most of the Clover staff jumped before it was finished, resulting in the bad presentation – it didn’t get nearly half as much love as it should’ve

I never used to get this with Firefox/NoScript, but my anti-virus has blocked stuff from this site a few times today. Please sort this out! It's probably better to nuke the forums than have this stuff popping up.

Valve are definitely the best company by far for first person shooters, but I'm not quite as excitable about them as you guys. I’m going to make my #1 Capcom (assuming we can merge all their studios) - An obscene amount of stuff has their name on it, and I can only think of a few that weren’t remarkable.

E: Excellent reading skills.

On the day I watch this film, Satan will be ice skating to work.

I think most players would find this thing funny, rather than shake their fists about how they've ruined the game. I find most TF2 players are their for fun, via any means, not rabid pre-teens who need to win the match like their lives depend on it. Of course, it does need to be fixed, especially since there's probably 50,000 scouts about to leap into doors now this has been released.

Also in that article is Mushihimesama Futari, awesome game. It's not being played on the hardest difficulty though, they've just printed limited edition of boards (150) with a new one called

When I suggested Source to D3adlode in another thread I was told to shove my opinion where the sun don’t shine, far enough that it will never dislodge itself, and then roll myself in a blazing razor wire ball across an endless plane of broken glass, broken needles and broken dreams. Or something like that anyway, I probably wasn’t applying tact again.

Jack Thomson is probably dusting off his soapbox as we speak.

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Wassis?

In before HL1 mod teaser?

You'll anger Jesus.

Oh, and the unlocked "Next-gen" fitler is awesome, tints everything brown and turns up the bloom to maximum.

The best thing in that quote is the word ‘initiatives,’ when it slots directly into a trend that has been going on for years, and one that’s going to have a rather disastrous finale. Bigger budgets, teams and development times are going to make the industry eat itself.

SMG, Mario Party and Zack & Wiki will probably justify a puchase for me, but the Wii still contains little in the way of "proper" games.

The sceptic within me also wants to say, though I don't if I should let it, that the reason people are rushing out badly presented wii-remote gimmick compilations instead of fully fledged games is because anything that isn't by Nintendo on a Nintendo console doesn't sell very well. Zack & Wiki's poor sales seem a good case of point.

Well it's still on the first page...

I finished this today. It’s an awesome game, and I’m definitely going to play through it again. The action sequences, cinematic sequences and characters are all reminiscent of cheesy but harmless action films and I loved every minute of it. It also works well when it dips into horror, which was rather surprising. I really like Drake as a character, though I hoped he would display his cowardice more (the demo was a bit misleading to his persona).

Combat was usually solid and exciting all the way through, until the last 3 levels or so when they try and ramp up the difficulty – but because it’s mechanically rather simple this really means making things more frustrating* with a lot of random death.

The only other down point for me was when you solved puzzles, or did some tricky traversal, to get to a secret area. And you’ll be consulting Drakes diary or talking to characters about this secret area - and then two minutes after exploring run into an entire armada of grunts who’ve got in through some convenient back door. Obviously this is so you have something to shoot at and they only support humanoid enemies. I hope this is something they develop on for the next game** as it kind of took the fun out of the exploration sections.

But yeah, two pretty minor flaws. Like Mazy said it's one of the best games this year.

* The second fight in the church with all the snipers and grenade launcher enemies!

** I’m more than certain there will be a sequel to this in the works, there’s a colon in the title! But there's not a cliffhanger ending or anything. It's self contained.

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Merry ChristmasMay the Christmas bring you love

May the Christmas bring you smile

Wish the Christmas bring you both

To make you happy just for a while

To those you love and see each day

and other loved ones far away

To all good friends who mean so much,

And those with whom you're are of touch...

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