Video Game General 6.4: New Halo? What else?

Mana and Cyberpunk are all I see. Everything else is eh.

Contra Anniversary Collection’s emulation was handled by M2.

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sheeeeit, that Trials of Mana— it’s an action-rpg so that’s definitely catching my attention. hahaha “boOOooo” to turn-based forever. :-1::laughing:

I also don’t care about the Banjo character, but at least that is an infinitely more appealing design than that boring, blocky, ugly-graphics ass nobody muthafucka “Steve”.

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yes yes yes
 more Bloodlines 2 via IGN:

EDIT–haha and as usual, they got someone to play this who apparently has not ever held a controller before
I love the comments on the vid too
someone asked “is the guy playing this ok?” :laughing:

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10 mins of Doom Eternal E3 2019 gameplay!!



You’re welcome.

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Pretty good and lengthy article about the history of Panic Button, their process for approaching a port and how they go about making said ports.

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@mikeohara

According to the amiibo subreddit In-Store preorders for the Link’s Awakening amiibo is live at GameStop It’s also back up on amazon and Best Buy. :+1::+1::+1:

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cool, I’ll go in the morning after I get off work and pre-order it.

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I got me TWO of those suckers off Amazon! AGGGGHHHHHH Clay Link is so cute, it HURTS!!!

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Same. I preordered 2 last night. One to keep in box and one to open. Never done this with any other amiibo. Just everything about it is fucking great and adorable.

Links Awakening is also my favorite Zelda so I want all the things.

When you posted that pre-orders for Link’s Awakening Link were up again on Amazon, I knew I had to pounce on that. I tried the other day and those suckers were GONE. Like, mofos were couching on their computers waiting for the pre-orders to go live, licking their lips in anticipation

If they make a Clay Link pushie, I will be all over that like flies on stink. I know Clay Link isn’t his official name but since he’s got that whole clay thing going on, I’m gonna keep calling him that.

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Link along with snake, and the PokĂ©mon went live on Best Buy pretty much immediately after they were announced. They didn’t go up on Amazon til almost midnight last night. Snake and Link were sold out by sometime this morning.

When I posted amazon had reopened preorders again for Link it was pretty much immediately after preorders reopened.

Hah, that sucks. They did finally re-release Ninja Gaiden II on there and it’s gorgeous and smooth as butter, but now it looks like NGIII: Razor’s Edge won’t get the same treatment.

I hope the PS5 sports a “boost” mode for PS4 games. Games running better is a given, but if they implement something that ups the resolution for free that’d be amazing too.

I mean you have dudes like Stuart Gayden dropping close to that much on lame ass Kingdom Farts CE’s. If people are going to shell out that much for KINGDOM FUCKING HEARTS then of course there will be people who will buy the FF7 CE for 330.

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Something like this shouldn’t be hard to implement (albeit on a per-game basis), with how similar the hardware is between PS4 and PS5. I believe, all it would take is for devs to patch in a second set of settings onto existing games.

Lol Stuart Gayden? Really dude?

XB1 BC ending kind of sucks, but literally every game I still would want to play (minus arcade games) are BC except one.

Test Drive Unlimited.

Other than That, I have:

Skate 3, Fable 2, Saints Row 2, Kingdoms of Amalur, DA:O, DA2. I also still actually have these games, and have played them. TDU was the game that made me go to last generation. I’d completely cooled off on gaming, even when I first started at Gamestop back in late 06, but TDU, the 360, and online interactions
hooked back in, then 2007 was the ‘best’ year in gaming, couple that with me getting the PS3 when Heavenly Sword came out, and working at GS, good times.

Also, are there any Japanese fighting games on PS4 to get other than Million Arthur?

So, even though I’m out of the loop on Call of Duty now, a bunch of videos have been popping up in my feed for an event called Days of Summer. Basically, Black Ops 4 brought back supply drops a while ago, and now they’re putting new weapons in them. I assume (though this wasn’t confirmed) they made a bunch of faux promises a while back that they would never do either thing (to reel people in), and now the fans are pissed. I traded Black Ops 4 in a while ago, but I’m pissed I spent money on it still.

I hate loot boxes & grind walls, but I’m fascinated by just how naked the greed is with them (in games you already paid for). They’re such an obvious “fuck you” to the player base at this point. Nobody really wants them; they’re just there to hook the “whales” at the cost of making everyone else who wants whatever is in them miserable. Publishers actually hide or straight up lie about them until after release now. It’s crazy. I can’t think of another feature in gaming like that, where telling people up front might damage your sales, so you have to sneak it in. The only game I remember with something close to that before microtransactions is Metal Gear Solid 2 way back, when people didn’t know you switched to Raiden after the first chapter.

It’s sad we’ve gotten to the point where we have to scream and holler at publishers to give us extra content (or in Battlefront 2’s case, release-day content) in a reasonable way.

some highlights:

  • When asked if there are plans for a physical release, Minagawa said, “Not at all.” It will be a digital-only release.
  • When asked if GungHo Online Entertainment would consider releasing a PlayStation 4 version, Minagawa said, “We’ll think about it, but we felt the Switch was the console platform best suited for JRPGs, and we are first focused on release for Nintendo Switch and PC.”
  • The code for Grandia is based on the PlayStation version.
  • The ports are being handled by Sickhead Games.
  • GungHo Online Entertainment touched up as many art assets as possible. Most of the user interface received a complete overhaul, aside from a few menu digits that could not be replaced. There is no option to use the original sprites.
  • In the E3 2019 show floor demo of Grandia HD Collection , the battle ability voices were in English despite selecting Japanese voice-overs.
  • The audio quality will remain the same as the PlayStation version, and no additional elements are being added to Grandia .
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ah, finally found a video of someone showing off a little of every game in Contra Collection:


(and of course, the person playing isn’t that great at Contra, apparently
at least they don’t seem quite as bad as the person playing Bloodlines 2 in that IGN vid
 on another note—I never quite got why so many people consider Contra to be one of the hardest games back then
at least the NES version wasn’t that difficult to me. I don’t recall it ever getting to the point of “bullet hell” like so many shootemups typically do, and the bullets from enemy characters usually are very slow and easily dodged in that series)

ok yeah that’s settled, I can’t resist this
sheeeeit, I’m a working man and it’s only 20 bucks
downloading that shit now.

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