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Bayonetta 2 Might be Guilty Gear Xrd but I haven't played it yet.

I've since made Sword and Shovelry (which I'm quite proud of) and Bit of Garden (which sucks). Also today I finished Fire Escape for 7DFPS where you have a teleport gun and do some platforming. Web Player and Windows Binary here: http://itch.io/jam/7dfps/rate/13767 Here's a video of the short route - there is a longer one if you can find all the secrets. Spoiler video here.

One important difference between F2P and P2P is in the former players have absolutely no investment in your game and will leave at the drop of a hat, whereas if they’ve sunk some money into already they will be prepared to carry on playing. This means you have to dedicate a lot more time to testing, retention and metrics to make sure these players are still around. This doesn’t mean just have a good introduction, but usually some amount of coddling through an “onboarding experience.” The other difference you’ve probably got covered. F2P doesn’t work if the game is 5 hours long and then uninstalled, but as a competitive multiplayer game you probably only need to chuck on daily log on bonuses or whatever. SMITE entered the MOBA space with pretty much both models. The game is free to play and you can unlock characters with in-game currency, but there is a £30 character pack that just unlocks everyone. Another model you might want to consider is just to go DLC crazy like Magicka or Blah Simulator but it’s tricky to fit this into a competitive multiplayer game. On your last point about F2P... it probably won’t. In a F2P economy you have some players who put a few months in and go “I quite like this game, I owe it £5 I’ll buy a skin” but most of the money you’ll make is rich people just buying everything they can. This is the whole whales/spenders thing.

Why stop at two? Now they're crowdfunding for their DLC. http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-10-30-keiji-inafune-crowdfunding-dlc-for-his-crowdfunded-mighty-no-9 You get to play as Zero. Sorry, "Ray."

MOBA MOBA MOBA MOBA MOBA MOBA MOBA People can still make Team Fortress games even if TF2, the worst Team Fortress game, exists. My only gut worry about this game is, like HotS, the F2P will be turned up to 11 and there will be some rubbish external progression system. Because putting external level values and unlockable perks on everything, especially ones that give an unfair advantage to veteran players, is something game designers seem to have decided is a good idea.

It looks cool and all the classes are trying to do something interesting. Although I've no idea what Robo-Buddha does from either of the two clips! I wonder how much the RPS drama factored into the reveal order.

Darkstalkers Devil May Cry 4

Haven't got a PS4 yet, but with Disgaea, Persona and Guilty Gear on the horizon it's only a matter of time.

I've been playing Bayonneta 2 for 25 minutes. I've already kicked a jet off course, surfed it fighting horse angels, had my partner ride sideways up a building to deliver me blue guns, fought an angel snake, had a fan service fight with Jeanne on a train, grown wings to fight a renegade hair demon wrapped around a skyscraper, and then eaten him with a hair spider. I think I will like this game.

It seems like they are just a pair of plonkers http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showpost.php?p=34410638&postcount=9979

I guess he was... letting off some steam. I've never heard of these people before, but it doesn't take many clicks to find it's not an isolated incident.

Okay, I read False Equivalence: The Thread. I wish I hadn't, but I might as well respond to make it feel like I achieved something. Grand Theft Auto is set in a cynical, attempting-to-be-satirical world where you drive around listening to comedy radio stations, are not required to kill anyone innocent to progress, and killing a pedestrian consists of them snapping into ragdoll and clipping through a post-box while spitting out a spinning +100 Video Game Money collectable. There is no strong parallel with a closed-world game where your only purpose is to kill as many innocent people as gratuitously as possible with canned, violent execution moves through a camera purposely made to resemble police helicopter footage on a public shooting news report. Conflating the two is disingenuous. I don’t think it should be censored or banned, of course, but someone should call the developers mums.

It looks like a daydream I would have when I was ten. Only I wasn't a 30+ year old dude dressed as a Hot Topic clearance sale.

So did the artists go crazy with those dipping birds? I remember all the prototype levels had one per room. Edit: Should have used them as save points.

IGN and Polygon are great internet websites known for their fantastic reviews of video games.

One of my main problems with Mortal Kombat is the lack of diversity in play-styles and I can't tell if the "variation system" (original mechanic do not steal) is going to make things better or worse.

But you can completely automate the game.

You've got 2 weeks, 5 days and 4 hours to brace yourself for disappointment.

Japanese Boy Band Dress Sphere.

I'm confident I would be happier with 2 billion dollars. Worst case scenario everything is the same, but I shop at M&S instead of the Co-op.

$500m and you can't make a game run at sixty.

Pretty hypocritical after the Oculus Rift shit. But you can hypocritical me all night for 2 billion.

KILL la KILL is pretty awesome. It's like 600 minutes of anime screaming.

Posting it here because there's no better place. But, technically contains one perspective camera so it's 3D. Game I've been working on for the last few months. Music, game font, and possibly the obnoxious squawking of Unity-chan are set to change.

Nocturnal Illusion. I got into Silent Hill 2 in a big way. The world and the characters are really well done, and not just James, Mary, Maria, Pyramid Head and Angela, but even the fodder enemies all have a reason for being. I don't know about not wanting to leave, though. And they're hard to love. Persona 3-4 have really cool worlds and characters because they're purposely so pedestrian. I guess in some ways you could argue Persona is a 90 hour anime series, complete with beach episode, but that's not really fair. You’re just a normal kid doing the same old school routine, but have this hidden second life where you and your friends are investigating some phenomenon... but it's all becoming a bit too much for you to handle because at the end of the day you're just kids and not super heroes. I can get behind that.