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Reyn is the best.
I'm not one for the Madden games or sports games in general (aside from WWE games), but this is pretty funny.
Right now, there's a glitch if you play the Tennessee Titans and put in linebacker Christian Kirksey.
Fortunately, Kirksey's being a good sport about it. No pun intended.
-"This glitch of me on madden is hilarious might I say!#lol #laughitsgood"
-"No matter how small you are, have big dreams, and live big!#madden #glitch #1'2 #reallyLOL #goodmessagetho"
Right now, there's a glitch if you play the Tennessee Titans and put in linebacker Christian Kirksey.
Fortunately, Kirksey's being a good sport about it. No pun intended.
-"This glitch of me on madden is hilarious might I say!
-"No matter how small you are, have big dreams, and live big!
So I was watching random Castlevania shit on youtube because I'm sick and fucking lonely as hell and I came across this game, called Rusty.
It's a massive ripoff of Castlevania, obviously. But, here's the weird part, when you beat Dracula, you face a big demon Dracula form. Par for the course for a Castlevania game right? Well, except that it's almost an identical fight as the final Sigma form in Mega Man X. Rusty predates Mega Man X by a scant month or two. Skip to 2:30 or so into the video to see it.
Weeeird man.
The game looks cool as hell though and I kind of want to give it a whirl.
It's a massive ripoff of Castlevania, obviously. But, here's the weird part, when you beat Dracula, you face a big demon Dracula form. Par for the course for a Castlevania game right? Well, except that it's almost an identical fight as the final Sigma form in Mega Man X. Rusty predates Mega Man X by a scant month or two. Skip to 2:30 or so into the video to see it.
Weeeird man.
The game looks cool as hell though and I kind of want to give it a whirl.
I didn't watch the whole video, but I'm going to take a guess and say that the ending boss is as much as coincidence as A Bug's Life and Antz.
So the co-director of Final Fantasy XV said something to the effect of, "If Final Fantasy XV isn't a hit, there might not be much of a future for console games." See, in his world view, every other JRPG developer waits for Squeenix and Final Fantasy, before jumping in to the console market. And that might once have been true. And it might even be true in Japan, where apparently handhelds are the dominant force in the market now. (Considering how many Japanese people use mass transit, that makes a certain amount of sense - if you've got a 40 minute commute on a train, why not enjoy some portable gaming?) But there are a lot of extremely high quality games out and coming out for your console, so I have to conclude that he was only referring to Final Fantasy with that statement.
Full article on Kotaku.
My personal opinion? Maybe if Squeenix wouldn't keep producing overstyled boring convoluted-plot linear-grind gameplay shit over and over, more people would want to buy it! I mean, Atlus' Persona series has its spots of weirdness, but it's a consistent quirky weirdness that gives it personality and charm. And the graphics might be fairly simple, they're more memorable - the cast of Persona 4 is a lot easier to describe and recall than any of the last few FF games. "The main character has short grey hair, and wears his school jacket open and shirt untucked. Yosuke wears his jacket buttoned and sports a pair of headphones from the mp3 player in his pocket. Kenji wears a biker jacket and skull t-shirt. Naoto wears her jacket buttoned high, a neckcloth, and wears a cap. Chie wears a green jacket, skirt, and bicycle shorts. Yukiko wears a red jacket, skirt, and black tights." No spiky spiky, zipper, belt, gap, armor prong, zipper, belt belt belt, button, zipper, spiky spiky, feathers, nonsense.
Full article on Kotaku.
My personal opinion? Maybe if Squeenix wouldn't keep producing overstyled boring convoluted-plot linear-grind gameplay shit over and over, more people would want to buy it! I mean, Atlus' Persona series has its spots of weirdness, but it's a consistent quirky weirdness that gives it personality and charm. And the graphics might be fairly simple, they're more memorable - the cast of Persona 4 is a lot easier to describe and recall than any of the last few FF games. "The main character has short grey hair, and wears his school jacket open and shirt untucked. Yosuke wears his jacket buttoned and sports a pair of headphones from the mp3 player in his pocket. Kenji wears a biker jacket and skull t-shirt. Naoto wears her jacket buttoned high, a neckcloth, and wears a cap. Chie wears a green jacket, skirt, and bicycle shorts. Yukiko wears a red jacket, skirt, and black tights." No spiky spiky, zipper, belt, gap, armor prong, zipper, belt belt belt, button, zipper, spiky spiky, feathers, nonsense.
GasBandit
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The way I'm reading that, I'd like to think "nonsense" was a further description of things FF characters wear, than describing the previous list of aspects as collective nonsense.
He's not wrong in that many Japanese developers wait for a Square Enix game before committing to a console... they need the lynchpin game to get everything going, sales wise. It's also usually the case that many Japanese consumers wait to buy the console of their choice until Square Enix has a hit too. This doesn't mean console gaming is "done". It simply means that there is now the opportunity for another company to do what Square Enix does by releasing a MEGA hit. Personally, I think FromSoftware deserves that honor and the game should be Bloodborne, but it's probably going to be Atlus and Persona 5.
Yeah, that's how it was meant. FF characters literally wear nonsense.
And Atlus has chosen Playstation 4.
Oh, I know. But I'm wondering if Persona could ever be the system mover that FF is.
You would think so considering target audiences, but Atlus's production values will never be as high as Square-Enix. Where they pour resources into making a better game that might look rougher around the edges, Square-Enix will pour all they got into tweaking the graphics and making 10-minute long CGI movies.
I spent way too long making this stupid thing for Tumblr. Inspired by the Smash Bros fans complaining there are too many sword-wielders.
"What? The hero isn't an annoying twat who looks like an androgynous pop singer? Screw that!" - the Japanese gaming market, apparently.
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figmentPez
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I felt like now was a good time to have this as my desktop wallpaper again:
Marillo de Oro by pegosho
Marillo de Oro by pegosho
I don't know if he can ever top this, no wonder he hasn't uploaded a video in almost a month.
Some ridiculously pretty modded Skyrim screenshots: New Skyrim Screenshots Set Incredible New Standard
Warning, probably NSFW (or at least risky) due to skimpy modded female armors. Because, as you know, a very large percentage of the Skyrim modder community want to turn every female NPC into a stripper.
There's some disagreement in the Reddit thread about how playable such a graphical setup would be. One camp feels that this mod combination is largely unplayable regardless of how powerful your rig is, since you'd probably get 2 FPS at best. Another camp believes they can recognize all the mods used in the screenshots, and claim that with the right setup, the game is quite playable.
Warning, probably NSFW (or at least risky) due to skimpy modded female armors. Because, as you know, a very large percentage of the Skyrim modder community want to turn every female NPC into a stripper.
There's some disagreement in the Reddit thread about how playable such a graphical setup would be. One camp feels that this mod combination is largely unplayable regardless of how powerful your rig is, since you'd probably get 2 FPS at best. Another camp believes they can recognize all the mods used in the screenshots, and claim that with the right setup, the game is quite playable.
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figmentPez
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That's depressing.
http://shawnelliott.blogspot.ca/2014/09/the-time-that-totalbiscuit-totally-told.html
Interesting little story from Shawn Elliott (formerly of 1Up, CGW Magazine and the best podcast of all time, GFW Radio and Irrational Games and now working for Arkane Studios) about the time Totalbiscuit was kind of a slimy, egotistical bitch and attempted to get him in shit with his bosses at Irrational.
Interesting little story from Shawn Elliott (formerly of 1Up, CGW Magazine and the best podcast of all time, GFW Radio and Irrational Games and now working for Arkane Studios) about the time Totalbiscuit was kind of a slimy, egotistical bitch and attempted to get him in shit with his bosses at Irrational.
Looks like they made nice with each other in the comments, though.
More Shawn Elliott though.
figmentPez
Staff member
I think the most annoying thing about gaming journalism, and most internet journalism in general (and I'm tempted to use quotes around "journalism") is that none of these idiots seem to know how to write a damn article. If I can't figure out what your article is going to be about in the first paragraph you failed. Tell me what the story is going to be about, right off the bat. That is how you write an informational article. This is not a novel where you reveal the twist at the climax. This is not a joke where the punchline flips the story on it's head. This is journalism, and I'm supposed to get the outline of what you're going to say right off the bat, so that I can get the basic understanding immediately, and then read as far as I need to go to get the details.
Shit, does no one know how to convey information properly anymore?
Shit, does no one know how to convey information properly anymore?
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No.
TB's employee sent a blunt message after Shawn INITIATED the ordeal with a tweet that read "Biscuit is fucking gross".
Could TB's employee have sent the e-mail better worded? Absolutely. Yet, kindly note this wasn't written by TB and he's since apologized about the harshness of the e-mail. Could he have overseen how his employee would have sent this out in a more diplomatic way? Absolutely. However, Shawn could use his Twatter account in a more professional way as well.
Shawn then continued his asshaterry while TB moved on. A year later it persists. Why? Because Shawn's company silenced him nicely. Let's not kid ourselves, this was a PR war where someone protecting TB's interests "tattled" to Irrational Games about the situation. He got his ass sat down and even got GLORIOUS KEN LEVINE involved.
In the end, the question remains... if your work for a game company, should you really be tweeting things like "X is fucking gross" when X is a game reviewer with a large following? Heck, should you be doing it even if X has 20 followers?
When you list your employer on your twitter profile, you're automatically acting as their representative when posting.
Don't get your ass hurt when you're put in your place and come up with cute names like "tattlebiscuit". Grow the fuck up Shawn.
*sigh* I don't know why I bother getting into arguments with idiots sometimes. I'll actually try to have a rational discussion with someone on the Gamespot comments sometimes and it never, ever works. It's Sisyphean.
For example, they had an article up recently about the new Humble Bumble. And the majority of the idiots are going on about how Gone Home isn't a game or should be called a game, yadda yadda. Now, I played through it, enjoyed it, and consider it a game. Not every game is defined the same way, after all. Not that these infantile morons would understand that.
For example, they had an article up recently about the new Humble Bumble. And the majority of the idiots are going on about how Gone Home isn't a game or should be called a game, yadda yadda. Now, I played through it, enjoyed it, and consider it a game. Not every game is defined the same way, after all. Not that these infantile morons would understand that.