Whoops, forgot this was /cog/. Oh well, too lazy to delete.

I'm tempted to say that Uncharted is really more of a shooter than anything.

It's definitely not the kind of game where you can "roleplay" and sometimes just going in guns-a-blazin is the best option.

I will however say this as a negative of Uncharted 3. It felt... really anticlimactic in comparison to Uncharted 2.

I mean OK Drake and Sully are reunited, Drake fights some "Dijin" turns out the water's a super drug and the British woman and her assistant (who we never find out why he survived a gunshot wound) and then he and Sully fall into the pool, see the bronze jar that apparently has the Dijin inside of it, we don't find out WHAT'S inside of it and what it's powers could ultimately mean. If it IS a real Djin or just some kind of weird plant or something. He just blows it up.

Then they gun-fight their way out, the woman sinks under a bunch of quicksand with Drake's ring, he knife-fights that guy, shoots him in the head to save Sully then they escape and get out of there as the city sinks into the sands... yaay?

I mean. Say what you will about uncharted 2 but it's final confrontation actually FELT like a climax! You were in a gun-fight against a horrible war-criminal who'd just drank the fountain of youth! This? This just feels like "WE STOPPED THEM FROM OPENING UP THE GEENIE'S BOTTLE, OOP SHE'S DEAD! LETS KILL THIS FUCKER AND GO HOME NOW!"

Kind of disappointing really...

>Ace Attorney 5 announced
OH GLORY JESUS MARY MOTHER OF GOD YES.

They're totally gonna drop Apollo or make the entire game about Phoenix again and I know it :I

>>145808
If it's post-AA4, I hope they bring Maya back for at least a cameo.

>>145808
>Ace Attorney 5
>released outside of Japan

>nuka break episode 6 is released
>cliffhangers everywhere
>only /possible/ second season

>>145813
Seriously, god damn it. Why they do this?

>>145802
First off, Talbot just wears a compact bulletproof vest.
Second, I actually kind of love that we don't find out what's in the jar. Drake doesn't even want to know anymore. The last time he sated his curiosity for the supernatural instead of just stopping the bad guy, he ended up with a hulking, near invulnerable Russian tank of a man trying to blow his head open with a shotgun. Drake's learned his lesson for once, and that made me so much happier than "WAIT, LET'S SEE WHAT'S REALLY IN THERE," would have.

>>145815
To encourage the next season to actually happen.

It rarely works.

>>145820
donate now

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr7wovtbcYk

Oh god...is this what I've really been doing to people?

>>145827
It's just a videogame dude.

>>145827
Dude has some serious framerate issues.

>>145808
>>145809
Yeah, I'd really love to play as Phoenix Wright again. AA4 and AAI really made me miss him.

>>145811
Eh, if Phoenix Wright is the lead I wouldn't rule it out, but I wouldn't hold my breath that much, either. Though I could also see Nintendo stepping in to take care of western distribution of the game.

>>145831
Companies with assumed licenses (i.e. Capcom of America regarding Capcom of Japan titles) should use Kickstarter for translating niche titles when they're not sure about the sales. Then we could establish very quickly whether or not they'll get the ROI they need, and unlike petitions and letter-writing campaigns, people who said they would buy it would actually be held to it, so they'd be sure they'd get their money if the thing got totally funded.

>Replaying MGS3
>Decide to see if EVA having implants is true
>It is
>She also has proctitis
EVA you kinky whore.

So I've really had a hankering for a pure hack and slash. Something where I can just run around chopping everything apart, maybe using the odd spell or having light RPG elements, but more often than not I'm stabbing something.

Recommendations? I have a PS2, Wii, Dreamcast, 3DS, GBA, and above-decent PC.

>>145841

Have you played Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles for the GC? Multiplayer is a hassle to put together because everyone needs to have a GBA (well worth it though), but it's perfectly fun single player. RPG elements are light, and the world is pretty. Four available races, and if you go Lility than you can pretty much just tank through everything.

Or maybe the two Champions of Norrath games for ps2?

Kinect is fun for all AHH OH GOD MY FLESH

Quite possibly the best cameo ever.

>>145846
>The Floor is now lava
>The video game

>everyone's face when ADG will never be allowed a decent fan remake of KQIV

Activision confirmed for dicks.

I find myself overwhelmed with games.

Bastion
Braid
Deus Ex
FEAR 1 and 2
Fallout 3
New Vegas
GTA IV + Episodes
Hitman: Blood Money
Monkey Island 1 and 2
Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus
Rock of Ages
STALKER
Serious Sam HD 1 and 2
Terraria
Splinter Cell + Chaos Theory
Trine
Vampire: Masquerade
VVVVVV
Worms Reloaded
Zeno Clash

As well as a bunch of unplayed Wii/PS2 games.

All of which are supposed to be good, and I own all of them, yet I have never played them. Not even tried. Instead I keep going back to online games like TF2. It's not because I don't have time either, in fact I have so much free time it drives me insane. It may be because I'm too lazy to wait for them to install/update for hours eating up my bandwidth, or because it's an RPG and I'll eventually use a walkthrough, or because I'm afraid everyone will say it's good yet I'm disappointed by it.

At first I thought I was just burned out and needed a month or two to slow down. But this has been going on for at least a year.

>>145890
Starcraft 2 already proved that IMO Whoopie the second part of its coming out this year/next year..and I don't really care. Yea its continuing the "storyline" in a way but I don't think its going to have the same Wild West overtones that Part one had and that being one of the reasons I was really interested in it.

I'm totally fucking late to the party, but holy shit Dungeons of Dredmor is awesome.

So I've been playing Sonic Generations recently.

My consensus:

Level 1: HEY! I remember this level!
Level 2: HE HEE. Purple water making him nervous. It's funny cause that's how I felt at chemical plant too.
Level 3: AWW YEA!

Metal Sonic Boss: TITS

First Boss: SHIT DAWG

Level 4: Oh hey I remember this level from this game!
Level 5: ... another city level... OH WELL I guess these were the most memorable from each.
Level 6: Oh hey. I kind of remember that level from heroes... I guess. Probably says more about Sonic heroes than anything.

Shadow Boss: Well it's better than the fight in the actual game. Nice improvement new sonic team!

Second Boss fight: AHHH MEMORIES

Level Seven: All of my :| I can't tell if them making the worst level in the game thus far off based off the worst console Sonic game was them just trying to get past that part (cause they HAD TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT) or if it was some work of mad genius going on behind the screens.

Overall thus far though? I give it a solid B+

Not amazing, but not horrendously broken like a lot of mid 2000 Sonic games.

The game still looses points for having lives. Yea yea call it a pet peeve but... fuckit I just don't like lives. Also why isn't there a Sonic CD level? I want a Sonic CD level ;_;

>Sony president Kazuo Hirai, who took over the role recently, has admitted that the company has tough times ahead, thanks to "one issue after another."

>Hirai was named the new Sony president and CEO earlier this week, having taken over the role from former president Sir Howard Stringer. He was instrumental in the early marketing success of Sony's then-new PlayStation video game brand in the mid-1990s.

>However, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Hirai said, "I thought turning around the PlayStation business was going to be the toughest challenge of my career, but I guess not. It's one issue after another. I feel like 'Holy shit, now what?'"

>With Sony's stock at a low, plus third quarter declines in revenue and a swing to losses year-over-year, Hirai also noted that he needs to make some tough decisions about the future of the company.

>"We really need to buckle down and be realistic," he explained. "I don't think everybody [working at the company] is on board, but I think people are coming around to the idea that if we don't turn this around, we could be sitting in some serious trouble."

>He added, "We can't just continue to be a great purveyor of hardware products, even though some people expect us to do that."

Source: http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/40089/Sonys_Hirai_We_could_be_in_serious_trouble.php

>>146077
Speaking for the company as a whole, they need to apply focus in each individual area and stop trying to sell each of their products as luxury items. They think they're Apple, when they're not.

>>146078
who the fuck are you?

>>146077
So, the only time you faggots talk about anything Sony related is when there's bad news? Well, fuck

Xbox 360 is number one again; Bill Gates smiles from above (his mansion):

http://www.geekwire.com/2012/xbox-360-tops-wii-ps3-1st-time-yearly-global-sales#utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+geekwire
+%28GeekWire%29

>Microsoft’s Xbox 360 has been dominating its home turf for the past couple of years, sitting atop the monthly sales charts for the U.S. video-game console market, but the Redmond company has just taken the title of top-selling home console worldwide, as well.

>Sony’s earnings report, issued yesterday, puts the PlayStation 3 at 6.5 million units sold worldwide for the holiday quarter, topping the 5.6 million units registered by Nintendo’s Wii for the same period — but falling short of the 8.2 million Xbox 360 sales reported by Microsoft.

>According to data compiled by GeekWire, it’s the first time that the Xbox 360 has led worldwide holiday sales since 2006, when the PlayStation 3 and Wii were just being launched, posting a partial quarter and not yet ramping up their manufacturing to meet demand.

>Here’s the bigger news: The Xbox 360′s strong holiday quarter also put the Microsoft console ahead in worldwide sales globally for the full year of 2011, with 14.9 million units sold, compared with 14.1 million for the PS3 and 10.33 million for the Wii.

>According to our data, compiled from historical earnings reports, it’s first time the Xbox 360 has topped the worldwide console market for a full year of head-to-head competition with the PS3 and Wii.

>Microsoft’s surge reflects the strong reception for the Kinect motion sensor and the expansion of the console as a home entertainment device, enabled by regular software updates.

>Don Mattrick, the Microsoft video-game chief, had predicted last year at the E3 conference that Xbox 360 would become the No. 1 console globally.

>On a cumulative basis, Nintendo is still the king of the current console generation, with 95 million Wiis sold worldwide, compared with 66 million Xbox 360 for Microsoft and 62 million Ps3s for Sony.

>>146085
Does it take into acount how many of those were replacements for things like RROD?

Just got a beta key for Gotham City Imposters on the 360.

Can't wait to play it tonight.

>>146089
Probably not.

>>146077
Goddamn, that sucks.

>>146089
I don't think there's any way to quantify that, even if they were so inclined. Remember, financial analysts aren't video game geeks, a unit sold is a unit sold. Besides, I thought the RROD issues had been mostly solved?

Additionally, this:
>On a cumulative basis, Nintendo is still the king of the current console generation, with 95 million Wiis sold worldwide, compared with 66 million Xbox 360 for Microsoft and 62 million Ps3s for Sony.
This is a fuckload of consoles. I don't think any console generation has had this level of saturation (the previous generation, even when throwing in the Dreamcast and PS2 sales up to the present day, was 20 million consoles short), especially not one that's still ongoing. Another remarkable thing is the comparative diversity of the market. No one console has ran away to dominate the generation, a state of affairs which hasn't been seen since the SNES/Megadrive days.

By all accounts, we should be living in a golden era of innovation and popularity. So why doesn't it feel that way?

>>146102

>By all accounts, we should be living in a golden era of innovation and popularity.

Cause we're old?

>>146104
>By all accounts, we should be living in a golden era of innovation and popularity. So why doesn't it feel that way?
Because we're cynical bastards who believe the grass is always greener and rarely find satisfaction in things we have?

Although, I don't see the correlation between sales and innovation. At a glance, it seems general society gets gradually more receptive to games as time goes on, if only because more and more adults grew up with the things.

>>146105
It's not the sales, chiefly, but rather the competition that I thought might foster creativity. The early '90s saw an explosion of unique and peculiar content as the two major consoles tried their utmost to undermine each other (the PSX wasn't a sure thing in its generation, so I feel there was a lot of overlap as developers tried to get to grips with CDs and three dimensions in games). Generations with a runaway leader, like the Atari, NES and PS2 days, tended to sit on their haunches and let third-party developers (or in NES's case, the toy department) shovel as much nonsense as they pleased, which barring indie developers feels a lot more like the current generation. I think maybe because almost all games nowadays are multi-platform, and cost shit-tons of time and cash to develop, there isn't the atmosphere of intense competition there was back then.

Or maybe it's because the pinnacle of human sophistication and culture was when I was twelve, I dunno. Maybe I am a cynical old curmudgeon.

Football is not gay part 2

NSFW in a cartoony way, but totally worth it otherwise.

>DA Syndicate co-op demo
Aw fuck yeah sweden!
It just like Resistance 2 co-op but with one 4 players and evreyone is a healer. Yes!
And I want to have gay sex with that Combat Shotgun. MMMMMM~
So happy I prorderd this instead of The darkness 2.

>>146102
No, fiscal analysts are very sensitive people that if given any kind of negative information make the market go down. So I want to know where they got this information and how thorough they were willing to be with it.

>>146076

Haha yeah, Crisis City is fucking terrible. The Classic version's not as bad, but...

>>146136
...Really? What's so bad about it? I never found a problem with any of the levels.

>>146154

Well personally speaking I found it ironic that the level based off Sonic 2006, the game practically KNOWN for having bullshit deaths and bottomless pits starts you off with a fast run RIGHT INTO a bottomless pit.

>>146157
That sounds like the opposite of ironic.

I didn't have any problems with Crisis City. Planet Wisp was pretty obnoxious, though.

>>146160

I get "ironic" and "coincidental" confused a lot, alright?

>>146154

Basically any time it looks like you can boost, boosting will get you killed.

Bottomless pits. Bottomless pits everywhere.

That fucking fire-tornado.

>>146178
God forbid the game punish you for treating the game as "Boost to win".

There may be a lot of pits...all of which placed in spots that make sense and you can easily see.

The fire tornado was awesome and made the last part of the level that much more intense.

We unlocked the Hero's Trial in Four Swords Anniversary.
Boy is that really hard.
Not just with the ludicrous amounts of enemies, the puzzles are pretty tricky too.

I can appreciate the garnishes they added here and there in the modernization process, but any song Assault did, it did better. Is this the best the 3DS's sound hardware can do?

Playing God of War: Origins.

Chains of Olympus wasn't all that great. The ending seemed rushed, there were many glitches here and there, it felt more repetitive than usual, and overall it just wasn't as good as the console games. But hey, it's the first Handheld title. I can understand if they were just getting used to the hardware and format. And it was still good for what it's worth.

It's just...Persephone, of all people, is the final boss? Really? What about Morpheus? Isn't he supposed to be the main threat? Do we ever SEE Helios? No. And why the fuck is Kratos responsible for Atlas's fate? In all incarnations of Greek mythology, isn't Zeus the one who does that?

Is Ghost of Sparta supposed to be better? It takes place between GoW 1 and 2, so I'm actually going to be the God of War, which should be interesting.

Oh wow, this game still looks incredible at medium settings. Can't believe I almost missed out on it, just because I can't possibly play it at high/ultra settings.

edit: woops posted the original PNG

>Muramasa arrangement album

It's...beautiful...

>Sejuani
>Frozen Heart
>Frozen Mallet
>Rylai's Crystal Scepter
>Banshee's Veil
>Boots of Swiftness
>Ignite + Cleanse

THERE IS LITERALLY NO ESCAPE

PC version of Prototype is

a) Enhanced with bonus features
b) Remastered from the ground up to take advantage of the platform's strengths
c) Delayed until July 24

Additionally it has a special version that would have been a REALLY good idea if not for the fact it's a special edition called Radnet that supplies DLC to winners of weekly challenges, up to 55 Specialized DLC abilities that work in game.

Official PROTOTYPE 2: RADNET Edition Content

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/01/13/new-xcom-enemy-unknown-screens-are-very-reassuring/

WHY WAS I NOT ALERTED TO THIS

This game, man. This game. Normal mode is like flossing teeth with barbed wire and easy mode is completely insulting. I wish they had at least found some modicum of balance. I can't even imagine what hardmode and higher are going to be like. And I have yet to wrap my head around the not-attacking-where-you-actually-point-but-in-the-direction-of-some-random-autolock mechanic. I die constantly because I keep hacking the air instead of the enemy in front of me.
But it's still oh so pretty.

>>146327
I take that back. I'm a fucking idiot. Turns out you should check your equipment once in a while in an RPG...

Age of Mythology - Egyptian Theme
BEST
THEME
EVER

>>146350
>>146327
Wait until you get to the fight with Letho (?). I don't know if it's been changed since release but it's one of the most sudden and brutal difficulty spikes I've ever seen in a game.

>>146327
>>146350
The Polish developers of CD Projekt RED are not people to take lightly. They took the difficulty of the first game and decided to first make a difficulty setting that will delete your save after one death and then a "dark mode" that makes essentially all enemies the equivalent of a boss in terms of challenge for the reward of dark items that are otherwise cursed unless you collect and wear the complete set of items from special sword to armor pieces.

They are the second coming of brutal NES programmers. But The Witcher series is almost endearing in learning to adapt to its difficulty and then plow the game like a whoreson.

I finally found Metal King Slimes in DQIX! Yay.

>>146400
Witcher 1 wasn't actually that hard, since you had the Group Style and almost every sign you had affected an area instead of a single enemy. Witcher 2 you need everything at your disposal to deal with any group larger than 3. And even then you can get unlucky and get crowded and that's pretty much insta-death. And it really tends to throw ridiculous amounts of enemies at you at once (that fucking Nekker cave).

I knew Minecraft was popular, but I don't know Knotch had that kind of money

http://kotaku.com/5882961/minecrafts-creator-wants-to-put-up-money-to-make-psychonauts-2-a-reality

>>146435
Well, damn, I'll stop giving Notch shit.

>>146435
He's made like 4 million sales for $25, so yeah, he's got the cash.

>>146436
YUP.

>>146435
Watch Notch pull out at the last minute because Tim Schafer said the word "fuck".

>>146469
I would totally play Happy Action Theater if my house wasn't so cramped and if I had a Kinect.

>yfw Psychonauts 2 is a Kinect exclusive

>>146435
Notch, if you get this made, I will seriously join the Notch Defense Squad forever.

I'm mildly upset that you don't get Waffle's robot from Tail Concerto for beating the game. At least the last boss fight isn't as anticlimactic this time.

>>146435
Don't Stop Believing Journey lyrics

► WTF Is... - Snuggletruck ?

Someone made a commercial version of Boat o Cross

>>146527
That's... kind of dickish, to swipe it entirely like that.

>>146528
I overstate the similarity but uh, as you see the video you'll probably think the same thing.

So I've picked back up Apollo Justice, and I'm on the last part of Case 4. Please tell me this becomes epically epic some time soon. So far it's extremely underwhelming, especially because we got to play as Wright but there was no Maya to play off of. The first three had great Case 4s, but nothing will live up to Case 5 of the original DS version.

>>146534
No, Case 4 is an incredible disappointment.

>>146534
The last case of Edgeworth 1 is even worse.

Sonic Generations Tails Mod - …
Hijinks!

The highest of jinks.
Sonic Generations Espio Gameplay
Sonic Generations - Shadow in Crisis City

>>146491
This game would be a guilty pleasure for me. It looked good.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/66710809/double-fine-adventure

Double Fine needs $400,000 to make a a new point-and-click adventure game. You, the reader, have money. Give Double Fine your money.

The rewards for backing up the project are:

>$15 +
The finished game in all of its awesome glory on Steam, exclusive access to the PC Beta on Steam, access to the video series, and access the private discussion community.

>$30+
HD download of the documentary series with extras, Digital game soundtrack, and all previous reward tiers.

>$100 +
Original "Double Fine Adventure" poster (suitable for framing) exclusive to the campaign, special thanks in the game’s credits, and all previous reward tiers. (posters will be shipped for free in the US, and for $10 internationally)

>$250 +
"Double Fine Adventure" Poster autographed by Tim Schafer, Ron Gilbert, and the rest of the design team, and all previous reward tiers.

>$1,000 +
Mini portrait of YOU, painted by the game's artist, and all previous reward tiers. (89 of 100 remaining)

>$5,000 +
Larger original painting of art used in the final game, and all previous reward tiers.(7 of 10 remaining)

There's more rewards at Double Fine's official website.

>>146627
Already contributed. Also, the YouTube video on the project page on Kickstarter is actually pretty funny.

Vigilante 8 2nd offense (PS1) Main Theme
Man, this game was awesome back in the day.

>>146627
Can I pay $5 now, $10 later, and then get $15 reward?

>>146627
>$10,000 pledge
>Lunch with Tim Schafer and Ron Gilbert, a tour of the Double Fine offices, and all previous reward tiers. THERE ARE MORE REWARDS but we can't post them here because they're too big! For premium rewards past a $10,000 pledge, see www.doublefine.com

>>146627
HELL FUCKING YES

>>146636
You don't pay straight away, only when the project ends.

>>146627
Watch Notch pay for Psychonauts 2 AND all the sweet loot up to and including Day of the Tentacle.

>>146639
I get that, but will it recognize cumulative donations when it considers which rewards I can get.

Although that doesn't matter anymore, because as you pointed out it will be charged at the deadline or not at all, so I just pledge $15 right away.

>>146640
http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/1379462386

Unless this just a mimic, he already has.

Also
>already at 76% funding
>donation started less than 7 hours ago

This really got some momentum.

>>146643
And now it's at 106%. Oh my.

So Letho wasn't actually that hard. Since it was 1-on-1 you could just use Yrden all the way through and not get hit once. And it turns out I can actually play it on High Spec, if I use a frame limiter to stop the FPS from jumping all over the place. SO PRETTY!

>want to contribute
>don't have a credit card
>no paypal option
Goddammit.

>>146558
>>146561
Shoot, I hadn't thought of that at all. I just got the PC version because it was the cheapest.

>>146563
I'm sad to see CyberConnect2 return to being a .hack sweatshop.

I like the Darkness 2 and I think the reason why other people are having trouble doing so is that this game ceaselessly shifts between comedy and FPS visceral horror.

>>146659
I'm guessing it's mostly because the PC version is a terrible joke of a port.