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locopuyo
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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Nov 25, 2008 02:58
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immortaldanmx


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Remember it's coming to that time of year when you should be giving, not receiving.


Why not both?


Get sandwiched?

You know the best thing about a wraparound?

Feels like you burst through him.  XP


i don't know what that means and will not attempt to figure it out


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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Nov 28, 2008 00:12
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe and Final Fantasy XIII interviews -

http://games.kikizo.com/features/mortal-kombat-vs-dc-universe-interview-p1.asp
http://games.kikizo.com/features/final-fantasy-xiii-square-enix-interview-p1.asp

- and a Singstar Volume 3 review -

http://games.kikizo.com/reviews/ps3/singstar-volume-3-p1.asp

Bit superfluous perhaps posting the links here when they're right there at the top of the page, but it provides a focus for discussion. The Tomb Raider: Underworld review will be with you tomorrow, and I'm about to take receipt of shiny Prince of Persia review code to replace my shonky old preview code. Word up.

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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Nov 28, 2008 08:35
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immortaldanmx


Iad umboros


Remember it's coming to that time of year when you should be giving, not receiving.


Why not both?


Get sandwiched?

You know the best thing about a wraparound?

Feels like you burst through him.  XP


What. The. Fuck?

If you meant 'reacharound' i might just be sick...

Edwin
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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Nov 28, 2008 11:52
I now regret going out on the piss with Iad the other night...

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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Nov 28, 2008 12:05
Why, did he rape you?

Edwin
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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Nov 28, 2008 12:13
Nope, but now I fear he might.

/buys chastity pants

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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Nov 28, 2008 12:29
You're gonna get fucked in the ass Mr Beetle Juice...

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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 01, 2008 12:03
Roofies one hell of a drug.....

And it's not rape if you shout "Surprise!"
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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 01, 2008 20:31
ff13 interview has picture of mk over it? wtf is this shit??

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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 01, 2008 20:39
You give him a raspberry ripple Iad? Or do you not remember that conversation you and I had? You were pretty shitfaced.
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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 01, 2008 23:47
Raspberry what? You crazy cats.

I feel this thread has been turned from its original holy purpose. Time for another review -

http://games.kikizo.com/reviews/ps3/tomb-raider-underworld-p1.asp

Prince of Persia has also been reviewed - read all about it tomorrow!

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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 01, 2008 23:50
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ff13 interview has picture of mk over it? wtf is this shit??


That is some bad mojo right there. I'll get the Boss on it.

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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 01, 2008 23:53
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ff13 interview has picture of mk over it? wtf is this shit??


Because it'll look better than the garbage in-game graphics.
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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 02, 2008 09:09

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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 02, 2008 11:11
And here's an interview with Microsoft's Kudo Tsunoda about Halo and Gears of War -

http://games.kikizo.com/news/200812/kudo-tsunoda-microsoft-game-studios-interview.asp

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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 02, 2008 11:13
Y'know... it would be nice if you posted in other threads and took part in other discussions too...

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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 02, 2008 11:22
Awwwww :)

I do venture beyond the Q&A thread from time to time but sadly I'm pretty busy - I write news for another site to bolster the old bank balance and am also doing a part-time MA. Still, a man should always make time for frivolous bullshit.

/starts "Official Donald Sutherland's fashion sense appreciation thread"

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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 02, 2008 12:17
Ah but you see... that's the thing....

We don't know anything about you....

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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 02, 2008 17:22
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Ah but you see... that's the thing....

We don't know anything about you....


We know he's a complete and total hottie. And that if you say his name 3 times he becomes life-size.
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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 05, 2008 18:51
If that's what passes for flattery round here, you obviously need a new thesaurus :)

Here be an interview with The Sims 3 executive producer Ben Bell -

http://games.kikizo.com/features/the-sims-3-ea-maxis-ben-bell-interview-p1.asp

- and a review of LocoRoco 2.

http://games.kikizo.com/reviews/psp/locoroco-2-p1.asp

Neither of which you teabaggin' blood-and-guts freaks will be that interested in, am I right?

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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 06, 2008 03:34
You spelled it wrong, newfag. Its "amirite". Now pay the court a fine or pay with your life.
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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 06, 2008 04:36
yeah lern spelling nub
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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 06, 2008 04:56
LocoRoco is amazing.
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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 06, 2008 09:54
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You give him a raspberry ripple Iad? Or do you not remember that conversation you and I had? You were pretty shitfaced.


Of course I remember, but I wouldn't do that to Edwin's nose.  I like him pretty.

Being shitfaced makes gaming more fun, but it means I really suck at COD.  At least in Halo you can drink and drive on a ghost and get mowdowns :)
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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 09, 2008 20:28
The best game you can play while shitfaced is Saints Row 2. Laugh a minute, trust me :)

Here's a single-player preview for Killzone 2 -

http://games.kikizo.com/features/killzone-2-sp-hands-on-p1.asp

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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 09, 2008 20:49
what did you think?

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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 09, 2008 20:58
I thought it was great. As to whether it's "worth the hype" - no, not at present. But then few games are.

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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 10, 2008 08:13
Still stands at an 8.5/10 for now with you?

I havent read the preview write-up yet, so I dont have anything to ask just yet. But something that has been bothering me is the death animations/ragdoll/thing...I watched a few MP videos and sometimes it seemed that instead of reacting to spot specific hits it was just twitching madly for no real good reason. A shotgun blast made the guy look like he was being mowed down by spray and pray machine gun fire. Tho other times it looked like it was rather accurate.

So like is the hit detection and death stuff a step up above other games or just average?

I hated the canned death animation in CoD4, but Rag-Doll deaths (fun to watch mind you) tend to be hit or miss. I was hoping by now that Natural Motion would have their stuff popping up all over, but even so it doesnt seem to be properly used. I played around with the tech and the stuff it can achieve in animtion is the closest to lifelike thus far...

hmm I lost my train of thought a while back... I'm real tired...if you can find the question I was asking then any answer would be cool I guess.


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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 10, 2008 09:12
Multiplayer death throes are canned, as far as I can tell, but single player stuff is all procedurally animated. It's probably a balancing issue as much as a technical one.

Let's call KZ2 an 8.5/10 with really, really strong aspirations towards a 9 at present :) Basically, if they can tell a compelling story and serve up multiplayer maps of the same quality as the three I played in the beta, it's a winn3r.
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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 10, 2008 10:22
Edwin gave Resistance 2 8.5/10 and that game is fucking trash.



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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 10, 2008 11:33
Funny, I guess they must have hidden all the fucking trash bits behind the awesomely good stuff :) Care to elaborate?

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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 10, 2008 12:46
Simply creating a solo campaign that's "better" than the one we played through in the first title still doesn't make it anything other than mediocre at best.

Technically it's a mess. It still has the god-awful environmental texturing found in the first game... which was a launch title. It still has poorly modeled weapons. The particle effects and lighting model are still lame.

The storyline isn't exactly coherent, and you don't feel any kind of empathy towards Hale. In fact, the characters as a whole are dull, uninspired and cliched. I don't know what the budget for the game was but the production levels aren't anywhere near where i expected them to be. It has nothing to offer that we haven't seen in a hundred games before it, and what it does have to offer is subpar.

The multiplayer component is arguably the strongest aspect, but the netcode is shitty and it never approaches CoD4/Gears league. It doesn't matter how big and feature filled it is if the content is weak and it isn't fun to play.

I'd say it was better than Halo 3, ...but that was shit too. With so many good games on shelves this Christmas, it's impossible to forgive the flaws found in Resistance 2. Insomniac should stick to making Ratchet & Clank games because those are awesome. They've had two attempts at this shit now and have fallen well short of the line on both occasions. CoD4's solo campaign may very well have been dreadful, but it's multiplayer component more than made up for it. Resistance 2 doesn't have any strong points to fall back on... it's just meh.


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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 10, 2008 18:47
I agree that the visuals aren't top of their class, the mission structure and core mechanics are so much old rope, and the plot is stiff-lipped action fodder.

On the other hand, there's the usual Insomniac inventiveness with the weapons (and most are more than gimmicks), the game's sense of scale is practically God-of-War-esque, the engine can handle thirty-strong firefights without much trouble and the multiplayer modes are, in a word, cavernous. "Meh", "lame" and "a mess" is definitely stretching it - as is calling Halo 3 "shit". Go chase the dragon somewhere else, you goddamn hippy! :)

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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 10, 2008 19:19
Halo 3 is SHIT.
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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 10, 2008 19:20
AND YOU CAN TAKE YOUR CRACK WHORE FRIEND WITH YOU TOO

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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 10, 2008 22:57

I thought Halo 3 was good.  Way better than Halo 2 and the majoirty of console FPS out there.    
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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 10, 2008 23:08

I thought Halo 3 was good.  Way better than Halo 2 and the majoirty of console FPS out there.   
Campaign maybe, but Halo 2 multiplayer shits all over Halo 3s.

....And yes, Hal doesn't afraid of anything.

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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 11, 2008 00:46
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I thought Halo 3 was good.  Way better than Halo 2 and the majoirty of console FPS out there.   
Campaign maybe, but Halo 2 multiplayer shits all over Halo 3s.

....And yes, Hal doesn't afraid of anything.


Nah, there's no Grifball in Halo 2.  Better than Speedball 2 and Brutal Sports Football.
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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 11, 2008 02:10
who said 'and dosetn afraid of anything'??

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Re:Official review/preview Q&A thread - Dec 11, 2008 02:37
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who said 'and dosetn afraid of anything'??


Its a meme.
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