If you make a "videogamey"version of Illmatic I wouldn't be mad. I'd take the beat from NY State of mind, it just needs to be a little faster if I were to use it for like the battle theme.

I mean attached to that image was like 3 emails of 1000 words each about specifications.

MiTT3NZ wrote: I won't be gettin my Mac back til tomorrow, but I've got a very specific violin VST that I ran a shitloada processes over in an attempt to recreate the instrumental for it a few years back. I'll make it my first task.

Now I'm excited.

You should read my twitter in general

Got some concept sketches, time to write another 1000 word email.

Well your avatar looks alot like Transsexual pornstar "Sarina Valentina"

surprisingly safe for work.

http://www.play-asia.com/lost-planet-3-paOS-13-49-en-70-5a2f.html

Only a week after release Lost Planet 3 got put up as a weekly special on play-asia for half the price. Today is the last day of the sale, and there was no media on it, and nobody seems to have bitten most likely because no one cares.

This was a good idea, but Legends 3, nope that'd never have sold.

4 is pretty easy to get into and has references to all the others. Theres also Persona 4 which is kind of the same thing. You can get SMT4 on 3ds, and Persona 4 on Vita.

Possibly, but my goal is to be the Ghostface Killah of NuChallenger. To me money is NOT the point of my business, but rather means to an ends. Having money means I can do what I want, but if having more of it means not paying people, or shitting out something that will hurt my brand I won't do it.

During a design meeting for Beatdown City the subject of money came up. At which point shawn made the best point ever on the subject.

"People treat games are like Milli Vanilli, but they need to realize they're like Wu-Tang"

I just realized some people might not get that comparison.

Milli Vanilli made a lot of money off one song, but it was found that they were just a big scam. Thats what a lot of companies are trying to get away with, they're trying to just keep cutting cost and dressing the product up as much as they can, this is where we get tons of mobile games or stuff thats like 3 hours long but has amazing visuals.

Wu-tang has a fucking story, those who don't know it should pick up "The Tao of Wu" great book about what its like growing up in NY, but to keep it short a group of teenagers does a ton of work and takes risks (like laundering money for gangs) to try and make it big, and as a group was massively successful, and each member of the group was massively successful.

Its basically a story of making a quick buck against putting everything you have into your creative work. Making as much money as possible in as short amount of time isn't actually what the goal should be, but instead building something can sustain itself and constantly providing a service.

So the windows 7 versions are what we're getting, they've got the PSP upgrades built in along with the better sound/graphics quality. I'm doing a perfect BP run on my vita, then I'll do two runs (standard and full bp) when the pc version comes out.

also did a quick writeup of what the series means to me, did my best to avoid spoilers.
http://manamaneco.blogspot.com/

I started typing a response, realized it was way too long and just stopped.

But to keep it short, Dan Houser is a shitty writer.

YES you saw that too!

Am I the only one thats going to wait to purchase GTA5 when its in its inevitable $5 bargain bin 2 or 3 years from now? Its not even close to a need to play asap game... Much less worth spending $60 just to have it day 1. Idk just doesn't seem important to me at all, I don't understand what all the fuss about playing it asap is.

People have different ideas of whats good and not, or what they want to play. I'm not going to wait 2-3 years to play a game if I can play it now. I don't usually buy stuff as soon as it comes out because like FF13-2, Resident Evil 6, Mass Effects, Tomb Raider etc stuff just drops in price within weeks but years is a whole other story, thats how you get a backlog and thats how you miss out on stuff you might have really enjoyed.

No idea, I'm still scratching mine. :(

:lol: I thought you might have been making a pun on not reading the content of that hyper link or something. Sorry, that was a bit of a paranoia moment. Yeah still no clue here either :lol:

As for the article. Hmm, I'm not sure. I don't think R* should be pressured to shoehorn a female protagonist into a game just to satisfy the critics. That isn't equality. I think we do need more good minority demograhic game protagonists, but I don't think badgering a big game developer to stick a female protagonist into a game where none was written, just because it's a very popular game, is the right way to do things. Having a token playable character just for the sake of it would be even more insulting.

If you need to shoehorn you're doing a bad job anyway. Lets look at Max Payne 3 for example, why is that theres never a woman who fires a gun in the entire game. This is fucking UNREAL considering Brazil, Sao Paulo specifically, has tons of female drug lords (like Fabiana Escobar). This is part of what makes Dan Houser a shitty writer, he gets treated like a proper writer, and he fancies himself one, but he doesn't really have scope or range in character. Hence he didn't realize the need for a "Mona sax" type character in MP3. He shoulden't be making token characters, it should be part of his creative process when trying to write a story about "hood life" or "south american drug cartels" to actually include some of the defining characteristics like women.

I don't think there is a necessity that anyone other than the creator can demand, regardless of any realism that's to be expected.

Then what standards do we hold ourselves to? Don't try to sell me realism then when I say "This isn't real" say "but I'm artistic".

do you seriously think its ok that the only time you ride with a woman in this game is if you're trying to fuck her?

The worst part in all this is that it makes the "points" in GTA5 that atry to be political even funnier, not because they're good jokes but because they describe the people who tell them.

Maybe it's like Kids to a lesser degree. In games kids don't exist unless they are saving the world or complete dicks in games you can kill everything but them..or evil themselves or a plot device like LOU. Darksiders at the begining when it's the end of the world. No kids. Skyrim they are creepy dickholes. La Noire they don't exist.

EXACTLY. Kids exist, why are they not in games. One of my favorite things about Star Ocean 1 is that the world had memorable kids, even ones that it KILLS. I wanna play MGS5 BECAUSE it has little African kids as soldiers. I wanna see how that gets handled.

That's why I liked San Andreas. I played CJ, a black dude from the hood. I mean italian mobsters are cool and all but I liked doing things from another perspective .

The trials and tribulations of a male drug dealer is going to be different from a female drug dealer,

=D>


The point I'm trying to make is that Dan Houser is a shitty writer, he's one of the better writers in games, but being a 1st grader that writes at 2nd grade level isn't a good thing. The guy doesn't know how to use females let alone write a really good one. Aside from Red Dead the guy isn't capable and it shows in GTA 4 and 5 because of how serious they try to be.

rpfl I used to indecisive, but now i'm not so sure.

id have rather had Capcom buy them out. Ya Capcom's has been loosing money but atleast they dont strike me as the type of company that wouldnt localize games that would otherwise already be made for Japan. Am I wrong there? When's the last time they didnt localize a major franchise?
Hell it could have been nice if it was Square-Enix. Atleast we'd know they are with a company that values RPG's above all.

So you'd prefer one company that basically put the kibosh on one of the biggest series in gaming history and another company that has converted all but 2 of its ips into mobile games over Sega?

They aren't exactly prince charming in this context but Capcom and S-E are even more likely to abuse the company.

Isn't Kawano the director of loads of Mega Man games? Like Legends series and Zero games?

Real Talk: Kawano is the spirit of Capcom. He's really the person that designed MegMan as a game along with Kitamura, he created all the systems that got expanded in BoF 3/4. He's the real reason Dragon dogma (which was originally going to be a Breath of Fire spinoff) exists.

He essentially made Breath of fire 1 (design/programming) by himself, and in the english version he was credited as Y. Kawano as a special thanks.

Basically when it comes to classic Capcom and game design he had a hand in it.

(and his favorite game of all time is Ys I)

This is a screenshot, holy shit

Anything with bloom lighting and a minimalist concept doesn't make it an ico knock off, this isn't even the same palette. Ico is a good early example of a lot of things, but just because a game uses one or two concepts from it that doesn't make it a knockoff. Is every platformer with a scrolling background a mario knockoff? I just mention it because people go for games like Lost in shadow and surprisingly rain for being knockoffs but they do a lot to be different especially when it comes to gameplay.

Anything with bloom lighting and a minimalist concept doesn't make it an ico knock off, this isn't even the same palette. Ico is a good early example of a lot of things, but just because a game uses one or two concepts from it that doesn't make it a knockoff. Is every platformer with a scrolling background a mario knockoff? I just mention it because people go for games like Lost in shadow and surprisingly rain for being knockoffs but they do a lot to be different especially when it comes to gameplay.

I didn't say "knockoff" even once. That automatically has negative connotations. I said "clone," which isn't a literal term; it's simply used as a means of description and/or possible inspiration, and it isn't meant as an insult in the least. As steeped in videogames as you are, I'd think you'd know that. Darksiders, for example, is a Zelda-clone. Art of Fighting, when it first came about, was a Street Fighter-clone. Saint's Row was a GTA-clone at first. These aren't insults; they're reference points to describe the games in question. The word "clone" has been used like that for years upon years in gaming circles. And yes, Rain appeared to be an Ico-clone when it was first revealed.
You reacted like I was putting Rain down, even though my post was glowingly positive.

I understand the distinction, but you seemed negative about it before, even the first few words "This no longer looks like just an Ico-clone to me." So when it did look like an Ico clone, were you not willing to play it? If you weren't, doesn't that imply some kind of negative?

Intent aside, I don't see it as an Ico clone anyway and thats the real point I was trying to make. Just replace my "negative" sounding "knockoff" with "clone" and then answer the question.

I'm going to try and catch Mark, or see if someone will pull strings to get me in. Thats how I got into the Kojima talk last year.

I'm down to get pissed at GDC if you need info on parties and stuff let me know. You're better off emailing me, CavalierGames at hotmail.com since I'm stuck working so much of the time I don't get on here much.

I'm basically just going to say the same stuff Shawn said, but its all about support. If we can strike a deal we'll send out surveys so you can get whichever version you want.

Theoretically I've been able to run the game on something like 20MBs of ram (like the whole game) so I could get it running on like anything it all comes down to what people are willing to pay for and what companies are willing to have us. If a ton of people support then we'll be in a better position to tell a console maker "Hey we think this will do great on your hardware" and if it all happens before the kickstarter is over then we can just accommodate the change.

So support us, tell your friends to support us, and tell people who aren't your friends to support us, because it will just make the game better for everyone.

Also if you have any questions about anything related to the game, as always my door is open. I don't think people should guard what they do, so my development process and even parts of source code aren't hidden away just need to ask.

It's curious none of the media ever had an issue with Playstation 3 games running in sub HD resolutions when their Xbox 360 counterparts were running in native 720p. Suddenly it's like the controversy of the decade to not run in the highest resolution possible.

Yes, the Xbox one is basically the ps3 of this gen, but not as good(hardware wise). But it was actually worse, Enchanted arms, Bayonetta, resident evil 5...the ps3 got called out on having generally inferior ports. The turning point was FF13 and me and Yama once had an argument over it (I think I still owe him some Papaya over it since I lost the bet)

So this thing is happening.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nuchallenger/treachery-in-beatdown-city-a-tactical-beat-em-up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUnW-vlLqRQ

The funny thing is I just got one (of each) to test on and it runs really well on the Xperia Play and Z.

Would you be interested in doing a video if I put you on a list of channels to get a build?

Thats fine, thanks for being honest. I'm just trying to get gameplay out there since its not an easy game to grasp unless you're playing it.

I have one of those, I once wore it while some people were getting high in my hallway and really fucked up their trip.

*Kenshin Himura* wrote: ^Will get that soon as well

Yo' after TGS I'm driving to your house and raiding your fridge.

^Will get that soon as well :mrgreen:

Yo' after TGS I'm driving to your house and raiding your fridge.

I'll be expecting you then sir.

If you're actually willing to put me up for a night or two I'll make the trip from Tokyo and write it off as a vacation. I'll even bring you anything that I can (legally) bring you from the states.

I cut ass on the game, but its the first game since Phantasia that I genuinely like. No japes at how corny or gay it is (because Richard and Asbel have almost as many romantic scenes as with Cheria)

For a jaded and hateful Tales fan like me thats a hell of a compliment.

If you guys will have me I'd be a gracious guest that brings all kinds of stuff. If she agrees ask her what she'd like and I'll do my best to get my hands on it. I'd imagine some stuff from the states, especially east coast stuff like NY specific stuff is rare out there.

BTW I was playing Ryu ga gotaku on my PS4 earlier and it seems like a game I'll really dive into when I have some time. Also the fact that it runs faster at a higher resolution is fairly noticeable, I think pretty much all next gen games need to be running 1080 @ 60fps

HA I'm OT!

I was always interested in the Gundam Musou games, but was always a bit turned off by that fact that it follows a big mash-up story, rather than actually adapting stories from the series.
But this one uses adaptations, so I'm sold. That video turned me right the hell on. I'm so nostalgic for the Endless Waltz setting/story/music/characters... that's an instant import for me.

Every Anime related musou game has "Official mode" the way Hokuto no Ken does, sadly they've never included stuff like Leos or Aries which kinda stops them from having Official modes for the Wing characters. I can't remember if it was 2 or 3 but there was a really good official mission based on Char's Counterattack where you needed to recreate most of the scenes from it. I really wish they would add some mass produced Wing suits, almost all of the meteor gundams are in the game nw so they might as well add them instead of fucking trashy ass Seed.

^ There are a couple Gundam games that have their own custom story and characters, and dont even use anything from one of the current shows. Also there are a couple that are RPGs and came out in the west on PS2. Always wanted to try this game but never got around to buying it.

Eblem of gundam was really good and was like this nobunaga's ambition mashup with fire emblem (which kinda goes back to Ghiren's ambition on Saturn which was another cool game, but that was all about the actual gundam storyline from the original)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d7RwwCKwYU

I heard the age game was somewhat like MS Story (which I liked alot) been dying to try it since it got announced

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFKk-yIL_w0

Jokes on you, most of the places I go will have free beer.

I think they still need to work on some of the randomization. I'd need to sit and look at why but something about it "feels" wrong. Still its a big step, now if they could focus on offline and co-op experiences we'd be cool.

Logic?! Nah son he don't need that shit he got something way better

Shoulda linked source http://www.dsogaming.com/screenshot-new ... 13-builds/

I'm a little more concerned about gameplay, myself.
And that's not to sound high and mighty in a "gwafix dun't mattah!!1!" way, because obviously they do matter. But in this case, even in its "scaled-back" state, the game still looks nice enough. It still gets the point across, and then some.
Not understanding the fuss, really.

Sometimes it's not a huge deal, though here it seems justified.

It's a game about spotting small details, reading the environment and using that to mess with enemies. Even beyond the fact that it was originally pitched as a very detail oriented game, they hyped people on a certain visual style and then are going a whole other way. Stylistically it looks way different even beyond just the stuff they toned down or removed it doesn't have the same mood as those first few trailers a lot of people feel like its more need for speed-ish and they're right, even beyond car color the rest of the palette is there.

If people were interested because of a somewhat noir feel with the filters and stuff its misleading to totally change the visual feel 2 or 3 months before the game comes out and attempt to just gloss it over. Its like getting all set for burgers and then eating pizza, the pizza might be great, you really wanted the burger.

Thats what I've been thinking since E3 2013

Streaming again and I'm letting some people play the beta.

http://www.twitch.tv/indiemegabooth

Playing los 2, gets repetitive some times but still very fun game, it's somewhere between prince of persia and god of war
the environments are beautiful too

http://i.imgur.com/jAYPbjX.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/HfEyvJN.jpg

Just got pokemon Y

http://i.imgur.com/JhicOEt.png

When I think of Kiba, I think of Adonis standing on a cliff with his mullet blowing in the wind.

mue 26 wrote: Just deactivated my FB account (and I'm never going back baby!). Is my next step towards spiritual emancipation deactivating this dojo account?

BUT HOW WILL YOU USE YOUR OCULUS RIFT!

Just re-launched on kickstarter, at 5k (which we're not far from) we'll reveal a new enemy type. Same deal as last time, I'll answer any question personally and I'm asking that people share it as much as possible.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/nuchallenger/treachery-in-beatdown-city-a-tactical-beat-em-up-0