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Re: Wii U

Try using the edit button. :nice!:
by OL
Thu Sep 13, 2012 1:19 pm
 
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Re: Online Music Shops

Not silly. Saying that makes it sound like you're embarrassed for being in love. That's a great thing that many never find. Be proud of it. I know its something I will never find. (who wants a Schizoid? :lol: ) Seriously that's kinda cool really.

Oh, I'm not embarrassed about that part. The term "our singer" just isn't something you hear every day, so it sounded kind of odd to my ears.
by OL
Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:06 pm
 
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Re: Online Music Shops

^^Just sent a message to the guy on Ebay, coincidentally. I didn't cite an actual dollar amount (maybe I should have...) but I did mention being willing to pay much more.
Only problem is, I think the seller is set up as more of a professional merchant, so my inquiry might not actually reach the right person who would have a legitimate say in the matter...
I guess I'll find out in a couple days.
I smell Spontaneous trip to italy

:lol:
Yeah, if only I had that kinda cash.
Saving that for the honeymoon, actually.
by OL
Fri Sep 14, 2012 2:32 pm
 
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Re: Bayonetta 2

"WiiU, GET OVER IT."
:lol:
Yes, I think I'll live.
by OL
Fri Sep 14, 2012 1:58 pm
 
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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

I'm thinking I might actually want to get the upcoming Kirby Collection for the Wii. I've never been into Kirby really (wasn't so much a Nintendo kid in the past), but the more I look up on the series, the more it strikes me as a kind of Klonoa-style platformer series, which is actually pretty appealing. Might want to get into that.
by OL
Fri Sep 14, 2012 4:30 pm
 
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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

Starfy is great (only played the DS one). Nemo on the NES always looked awesome (kind of creepy too, since he puts animals to sleep and then climbs inside their mouths to control them :lol: ).
by OL
Fri Sep 14, 2012 4:45 pm
 
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Re: Last thing you bought

Bluecast wrote: I don't know anyone with a double door fridge.


You do now.
by OL
Fri Sep 14, 2012 6:29 pm
 
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Re: Yakuza series

You know, now that I think about it, all three of this gen's western Yakuza releases have already provided me with nostalgia (or, at the very least, memories that will eventually become nostalgia).
With Y3, 4, and Dead Souls, I can very clearly remember getting up early, buying them on release day, making lunch while the install process goes on, playing them as much as I could before work, all the way through to the days (usually sometime in the morning) that I would end up beating them. It really only just dawned on me now, but most current gen releases didn't do that for me. I remember the games themselves, of course, but I don't necessarily have fond memories of what was going on while I was playing them.
The Yakuza releases (and Binary Domain as well) all gave me that sort of "Christmas morning" sense of excitement at finally getting to play them all, kind of like how I can still remember my first time playing MGS or Wonder Boy in Monster World.
That's something special.
by OL
Sat Sep 15, 2012 1:19 am
 
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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

This isn't anything official (otherwise I would have put it in the art topic), but regardless, I think it's a fantastic piece of artwork. For some reason it feels like it captures that 60s action spy movie vibe perfectly. Just great to see this cast mocked up in a movie poster style like this.

http://oi45.tinypic.com/2qbxe7s.jpg
by OL
Sat Sep 15, 2012 2:31 am
 
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Re: Things That Made You Laugh Today

Don't know what that picture is from, but that video felt like a David Lynch film.
by OL
Fri Sep 14, 2012 6:11 pm
 
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Re: Online Music Shops

The ebay seller replied and said that he normally does include international shipping on his listings, but didn't with this one because he thought there would be no demand outside of Italy.
So I clicked "commit to buy" and sent him another quick message, so I'm just waiting for an updated invoice with the new shipping charges added in. Hopefully everything works out.
Honestly didn't think I'd find the cd so quickly. This made my day (provided everything works out, like I said). :D
by OL
Fri Sep 14, 2012 6:04 pm
 
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Re: Favorite Anime Opening/Ending Songs

:lol:
Dear lord, I hate that song so much that I laugh with glee every time I hear it. :lol:
Its title is wrong on the video though. The actual second opening theme was this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZSVSDQa0qk

...which I do actually like despite it's obvious 80s cheesiness. The opening guitar melody is awesome (starts at about :20). Even though it was only used for the very last season of the first series, that melody partly defines HNK for me. Just fits it so well. I'd love to hear it covered in some way with the ultra-heavy metal style of the Hokuto Musou games.
by OL
Fri Nov 09, 2012 1:30 pm
 
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Re: What TV Series Are You Watching

No Reservations is fucking awesome. Makes me envy the hell out of the guy.
by OL
Mon Sep 10, 2012 12:13 am
 
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Re: Kirby

I'm really tempted by the 20th anniversary collection too. If it's out at the game shop tomorrow, I'll more than likely pick it up.
I think the only thing that ever put me off about Kirby was that it was a first-party Nintendo platformer. I'm very much not a Mario fan, nor do I like the Donkey Kong games, or Yoshi, or much else in the same vein. Most Ninty platformers just always struck me as the "bland and dusty" members of the platformer world, so to speak. So little about their personalities ever really appealed to me, and I guess that as a result, Kirby always got lumped into that group simply by way of association.
It wasn't until a little more recently that I randomly watched a video of one of the Kirby games (probably 64... not sure) and felt differently towards it than I ever do with other Nintendo platformers. It felt more like Klonoa, or (now that Segata mentioned it to me) Starfy, or a variety of other similarly-kooky and distinctly-Japanese games I've seen.
And I like that. Quite a lot.
So yeah, I may end up becoming a new fan. Same mindset as Ryudo; never tried it before, but what better way to try it out than with a collection of six games all in one place?
I think I'll enjoy them quite a bit.
by OL
Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:45 pm
 
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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

So I played the demo for Binary Domain.


I...I..liked...playing a shooter........

And the best part is, the demo is relatively light on story. If you ever get to the main game, you'll like it at least twice as much, since the story ends up being excellent late into it. Some cheesy bits here and there, but it's still really well-done with a few incredibly good twists.
by OL
Sun Sep 16, 2012 8:28 pm
 
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Re: Wii U

Oh, I know that. I didn't misunderstand that part.
I was just saying how retarded it was that I was expecting to just hear the quick little sound clip when I clicked on it, but was instead met with an "embedding disabled, watch on youtube" message. Had me laughing at how unnecessary and stupid it was to disable embedding on a two-second clip, something which is practically made for embedding.
by OL
Sun Sep 16, 2012 9:04 pm
 
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Re: What Anime are you watching right now?

^^Trigun starts out good (first five episodes or so), but quickly devolves into crappy animation and major inconsistencies in tone. I'm so torn on the series, since I love those first few episodes to death, but was about as disappointed as can be with the rest of it.
by OL
Sat Sep 01, 2012 3:31 pm
 
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Re: Things That Made You Laugh Today

^^Sorry man, no porn.
by OL
Sun Sep 16, 2012 10:39 pm
 
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Re: Things That Made You Laugh Today

It's okay, I got a good eyeful out of it.
Off to the john with a dixie cup of canola oil.
Wish me luck!
by OL
Sun Sep 16, 2012 10:58 pm
 
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Re: Things That Made You Genuinely Happy Today!

This is the greatest thing I've read in a while.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/dog_paradox
by OL
Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:31 pm
 
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Re: Last Game/System/Peripheral You Bought

Image

Pinkest damn box I've ever bought.
Nice little release though. Haven't played the games yet, but the included art/series history book is pretty sweet. Just reading a little bit into it has me kind of excited to play it already.
by OL
Mon Sep 17, 2012 8:27 pm
 
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Re: Brave Little Toaster remake...except it's an iphone

Fuck that.
Seriously, it's not even the fact that it's going to use more modern technology as the characters. I could accept that, given the right implementation.
The thing that murders it for me is the fact that it's going to be live-action/cg. Which of course implies that there are going to be human characters in more prominent roles, rather than focusing almost entirely on the objects.
No doubt the human characters will play the "straight man" role to the wise-cracking, goofball iphones and whatnot.

This one hurts.
by OL
Tue Sep 18, 2012 1:31 pm
 
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Re: American vs. PAL vs. Japanese

I wouldn't say always.
Nothing wrong with cg, as long as it's used well (the Infamous one isn't cg by the way; it's just computer-colored to have that look).
I prefer the cg US cover for Dirge of Cerberus, for example, as opposed to the Japanese version, which uses artwork.

http://oi46.tinypic.com/2qmg7ti.jpg

http://oi46.tinypic.com/2a613m1.jpg

The problem is, the Japanese cover just looks like a totally random piece of concept art, rather than a legitimate cover design . It's like they opened a book of concept art, closed their eyes, pointed to something, slapped it against a boring gray background, and that's what ended up as the cover.
The US cover may be cg, but it still comes off as a very deliberate piece of covert art, besides also being a very high-quality bit of rendering work.

I also don't see what's so bad about cg in general when, let's face it, the games themselves are cg. It makes less sense to have a shot of artwork on the cover, something which likely never shows up in the game, than it is to have a cg rendering, a more legitimate representation of the game's contents.
by OL
Tue Sep 18, 2012 1:13 pm
 
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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

God, that's heartbreaking.
The silver lining is that he's actually alive though. A while back, he apparently just kind of... disappeared. Nobody could say what happened to him, so I kind of always assumed the worst.
I kind of like the way he's talking though. Pay close attention, and it doesn't seem like he's bowing out from console games altogether. When he says he's "retired" from console games, he specifies that his boss told him he has to say that. :lol:
It sucks that Japanese gaming has basically come down to this, but I still have hope that a great like him can make a comeback. Still one of my favorite developers/personalities in the business.
by OL
Tue Sep 18, 2012 1:21 pm
 
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Re: What Game/Games Are You Currently Playing?

I don't think I've seen the elevator scene... apparently the public demo is different from the one that was with Dragon's Dogma (I think it even says so when you go to download it).
But that's kind of the point I was making to Ryudo before; multiple scenarios focusing on different styles is a good thing. From what I played, I liked Leon's stages most as well.

I love survival horror, I just won't hold the general lack of it against RE4 and 5 when they're so good otherwise.
by OL
Wed Sep 19, 2012 6:00 pm
 
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Re: What Game/Games Are You Currently Playing?

That was... possibly the most random recommendation I've ever seen.
by OL
Thu Sep 20, 2012 1:06 pm
 
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Re: Metal Gear series

First day buy. That looks hella good. Nice to see there's actually some stealth in it too.
by OL
Thu Sep 20, 2012 12:02 pm
 
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Re: Wii U

Don't remember when the biggest games on ps3 were full auto 2 and Ridge Racer 7 (which were just full auto and ridge racer 6 ported over).

I wasn't saying no system has ever been like that, just that I cease to care about a system until there's something truly new and worthwhile on it. As it is right now, WiiU is just set to be a PS3/360 with a touchpad.
The excitement I see people developing over that doesn't make any sense to me.
All I was saying is that I'm waiting to get excited until I see something new, exclusive, and interesting. And right now, almost nothing on it fits that criteria for me.
by OL
Thu Sep 20, 2012 4:33 pm
 
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Re: What movie are you watching right now?

Horrible Bosses.
I actually liked it a lot. Hard not to with the combination of Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis, and Charlie Day (probably three of the most likable actors working in comedic movies these days). It's just a dumb-funny comedy, but there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. The movie was made for a laugh, and it did its job.
Also Jennifer Aniston is fucking hot .
Still .
And she spends the whole movie stripping down and talking dirty.
There is nothing bad about this whatsoever .
by OL
Thu Sep 20, 2012 3:37 am
 
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Re: Catherine

I just feel bad I don't like it. Mainly because niche games are usually my ally and I try and support them esp when quirky and stylish.

I think, if it ever drops in price far enough, you should try it again. The demo is obviously a bit limited. It only shows the bare bones of what the games ends up doing, and it doesn't get anywhere near the real meat of the story.
The gameplay is such that as you keep progressing, and as you keep overcoming new obstacles in different ways, it starts to get addicting. You're constantly learning new ways to do things with the admittedly simple mechanics, and the game keeps surprising you with how unexpectedly deep and functional it actually is. It eventually gets to a near-Tetris kind of addictiveness, and the story does an incredibly good job of constantly urging you forward.

It's not a game for everyone, so I fully understand if it just never really grabs you. But at the very least I'd still recommend trying the full game, as the demo doesn't even scratch the surface of its appeal.
by OL
Fri Sep 21, 2012 12:31 am
 
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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

I'm one of the few that liked JSRF better.

I guess I wasn't aware of the general opinion on one game versus the other, but yeah, I liked JSRF better too. Not that JGR was bad; it was obviously excellent. JSRF just shined it up, was more open, and offered (in my eyes) more appealing design work almost all around.
If only it weren't for that goddamn Birthday Cake song.
Curse that damnable song.
At least JGR had Dragula.
by OL
Fri Sep 21, 2012 1:04 am
 
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Re: Yakuza series

^^I've been feeling the same way. I mean, in the past it's taken them a full year to get each of the games translated and released outside of Japan, and it was done by a relatively small team as far as I know (part of the whole reason we keep getting the games; low-cost localization = more realistic expectations for profit)...
But with a game this size, who even knows how long it would take a team like that?
by OL
Fri Sep 21, 2012 2:33 am
 
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Re: Gaming Merchandise & Collections

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUxKmzSqgWQ[/youtube]
by OL
Fri Sep 21, 2012 3:23 am
 
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Re: Assassins Creed Series

I really don't want to get AC1. Youtube?

You could go that route I suppose, but nothing adds impact to a story like interactivity does. Without actually playing AC1 and experiencing it for yourself, all future mentions of Altair (of which there are many in AC2 and Revelations) will probably be a lot less impacting than they would otherwise.
Just watching a bunch of videos will make him feel like "that guy you saw ", rather than "that guy you were ". And actually being someone holds a lot more weight than just watching them, obviously.
Though I'd say the same for any game, really. It's an interactive medium. In most cases, just watching videos negates the whole point.
by OL
Fri Nov 09, 2012 2:07 pm
 
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Re: Gaming Merchandise & Collections

I'd have to kick myself in the balls though. And that's hard to do.
by OL
Fri Sep 21, 2012 3:17 am
 
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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

Bluecast wrote: ^ I will say whatever I want when I want how i want.


No, you won't. We have rules, and personal attacks are out of the question.
So stop.
by OL
Fri Sep 21, 2012 2:03 pm
 
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Re: Fist of the North Star series

Holy shit.
Just saw some footage of Ken's Rage 2, and goddamn does it look improved. I didn't have much of a problem with how the characters moved in the first game myself, but it's still awesome to see how everything has been sped up, with new moves and animations all over the place.
Having finished the first game pretty recently, the improvements are incredibly obvious just from the first few seconds of seeing it. The environments thus far still look a little empty, but hopefully they'll at least match their counterparts from the anime a little better this time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OSsEfFatMY

And even cooler is seeing the new trailer, which shows off a bit of the sort of "re-interpreted" parts from the first series, along with footage from the bits covering the second series as well. Adult Bat looks like he'll be incredibly fun to play as.
Can't wait to see more of Ein and Shachi too.
And goddammit, I want to see some boss battles now. Hopefully it'll have an actual lock-on button this time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVbuQY-aFmU

This one has me pretty excited. People will no doubt still have their complaints about it, but both as an adaptation of the anime and as a flat-out beat-em-up, this looks like it'll wipe the floor with the first game.
Already bought.

EDIT: I may have to wait on making a video for the first game like I had been planning, and do it on this instead. I was intending it to cover both the game and the anime, so this looks like it'll be a bit more apt.
by OL
Fri Sep 21, 2012 1:55 pm
 
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Re: Gaming thoughts of the day

I'd forgotten all about the voice acting in Jet Set Radio until I played the HD demo just now.
I love how DJ Professor K's voice actor sounds like he's trying really hard to sound enthusiastic, but also totally sounds like he's reading his lines for the first time.
That, ladies and gentlemen... is good old-fashioned videogame charm.

Also it's been a while since I've seen those beautiful deep-blue Sega skies. Just not enough of that in games these days.
by OL
Sat Sep 22, 2012 4:32 am
 
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Re: Three Movies Loglines

A suggestion:

A twenty-something signs up to test high-tech weapons in a series of Duels to wipe his debt. His next opponent proves to be his equal... but if one of them doesn't win soon, both will lose!

Just my preference, but this one combines the mention of duelling to test weapons (which is an awesome freaking idea) along with the idea that one has to kill the other, or neither will remain alive.
I think the "weapons testing by way of duel" is the clincher, the unique twist on action concepts that immediately sets it apart (kind of like the idea of curving bullets in Wanted, for example). And the "both will lose" part makes sure they know that it has a sort of Battle Royale-style requirement for death, which would immediately get someone interested in the possible tension it might allow, since these two are apparently equals in skill.
by OL
Sat Sep 22, 2012 1:01 pm
 
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Re: Official Leaving/Arriving Topic

Who are all these strangers, and why are others changing their names? It's all very confusing , and makes me hate immigration and desegregation even more than I already do.

Thanks to your avatar I imagined that whole thing in Dr. Claws voice.

:lol:
That whole "once you see it, you can't un-see it" concept applies for me here.
Kiba's post just got a whole lot more awesome.
by OL
Sun Sep 23, 2012 4:53 pm
 
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Re: RPG's( NOT Falcom,Square,Bethesda,Bioware)

Send your memory card to Dorian. He'll take care of it. :P
by OL
Sun Sep 23, 2012 4:50 pm
 
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Re: Billie Joe Armstrong losing his cool.

What a little bitch. I admit I used to like them, but then they went all political with their music and suddenly turned into arrogant shitheads. This doesn't surprise me. Behavior of a fucking ten year old.
by OL
Mon Sep 24, 2012 10:05 am
 
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Re: Billie Joe Armstrong losing his cool.

I thought that shit was so funny. Like he's trying to be all punk rock about it. :lol:

I honestly don't think I've ever seen another mainstream band that tries so hard to fit into a specific "scene" label as much as they have. I remember seeing a Behind the Music with them, and half the damn thing was them talking about how every time a new album or song came out, they'd wonder "is it punk enough?"
Hilarious and pathetic all at once.
by OL
Mon Sep 24, 2012 3:52 pm
 
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Re: RPG's( NOT Falcom,Square,Bethesda,Bioware)

The man is making some good sense. I studied all three games and i love em all to pieces, but I gotta say, you ever notice most people play the start of Xenogears, stop, then months/years later play the start again? The game has really bad pacing, it takes over an hour to even get into a fight and even longer to get into an exciting fight, and hours to get into a mech fight.

I still haven't finished the game, but I can't say the reason I've started/stopped/started again is because of pacing. In fact, my absolute favorite part of the game is still, even after having finished over half the game, the very beginning in Lahan village before the fighting even starts. And that's just because of the totally innocent atmosphere.
Not saying you're wrong about the pacing, just that that's never been the problem with it for me.

Personally though, I'd still say the idea of good or bad pacing in an 80+ hour long RPG is kind of a joke anyway. What with the presence of level-grinding, exploration, item hunting, and side-questing, the pace is dictated very much by the player. Can't really see why an RPG fan would have a problem with that anyway, since progressing at your own pace has always been one of the appeals of the genre itself.
EDIT: ...like AG said. Sorry, only skimmed his post befre typing that.
by OL
Tue Sep 25, 2012 12:09 am
 
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Re: New Ecco coming?

just don't tend to fly quite so much anymore (unless they're indie games, in which case they're generally DLC-only).
I wonder if the aspects that made the originals so unique could ever be translated faithfully to a retail game made now...
It depends how they made it. They could go down the route of making it like Sonic 4 with a 2.5D game, that could work. Actually thinking about it, I think it would be better to go down the Sonic 4 route with it, not sure what people think.

That could work, I think, but it would probably feel like a step backwards. They've already covered the 2D route pretty thoroughly with the two Genesis games, and just a little bit extra with Ecco Jr.
If they want to keep moving forward with it, I think the best route would be to go fully-3D, like the DC/PS2 iteration. The series is very reliant on (and is very good with) atmosphere, and I think keeping it in a fully-explorable 3D environment would be the best way to go about utilizing that strength.
Part of what I said also questions whether it could work as a retail game, specifically, meaning one that would be released physically in stores, sitting alongside the rest of the big guns. If it were 2.5D, chances are that it'd be digital-only.
by OL
Mon Sep 24, 2012 6:30 pm
 
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