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Personal Projects / Re: Dark Moon Densetsu : NES English Translation

« on: March 05, 2013, 02:23:26 am »

I don't recall Dragon Quest V being unfinished.  Perhaps you mean Dragon Quest VI?

That might be it. I'm not exactly a DQ fan, nor was I really around in the translation community when that was going on so I missed it.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Your most recent gaming purchase?

« on: March 05, 2013, 01:53:40 am »

I got El Shaddai earlier today for three bucks.

Holy shit this game.

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General Discussion / Re: Am I the only person on the planet that isn't on facebook?

« on: March 05, 2013, 01:51:21 am »

I deleted mine for one simple reason: all the constant fucking privacy issues.

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Personal Projects / Re: Dark Moon Densetsu : NES English Translation

« on: March 05, 2013, 01:44:02 am »

It could also spur them to release their own version after your's. This happened once before with Mystic Ark. DD released their version, then Gideon decided to finish his version.

Two versions of the same translation by two different groups ain't really a bad thing unless they're both unfinished ala Dragon Quest 5 SNES...

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Modern Game Design

« on: March 01, 2013, 12:59:29 am »

Now this comes as a surprise to me. This thread is so full of twists, might as well call it...eerm, okay I ran out of ideas.

it's as fucked up as a David Lynch film!

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Anyone getting tired of the current gaming market

« on: March 01, 2013, 12:42:36 am »

I would, but the cost is too prohibitive for me. I can take off the blinders, but I would still be looking at something that is wildly overpriced.

Then why even claim the market is mostly FPS games? I don't see the logic. I own an astounding four games out of that list, all but one bought at sales prices(The only full priced one I got was Lego Batman 2, whose full price on PC is 30 bucks).

I mean, the logic is missing. All you have to do is look up current gaming and that's all it takes. A modicum of effort. Why stereotype it?

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Modern Game Design

« on: March 01, 2013, 12:40:15 am »

No, it means you are promoting misogyny by paying the people who made this game.  It also promotes male-oriented hegemonic culture by accepting the game as laudable (see critical reception via popular media).

Please don't white knight for my gender. I'm interested in nu-TR because of the approach they are taking, and have little issue with the violence in and of itself. None of us here have watched concrete footage of the game being played for more than a few minutes. Conan's thing doesn't last very long and is built with the intent of mocking new AAA budget games, so no it doesn't count. If the game is in fact some misogynistic piece of crap, then you'll be right.

Until then though, please stop going around and claiming people who want to play this game are promoting misogyny.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Victoly!

« on: February 28, 2013, 04:30:49 pm »

Playing the PS2 version would be better anyway simply because of the frigging dual analog. Playing that kind of thing on the PSP scares me, otherwise I'd have a copy of that enhanced Gun port...

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Gaming Progress Thread

« on: February 28, 2013, 02:51:32 pm »

*Grabs popcorn*

That is some good stuff, I hope you'll continue and let us know how the story ends

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Anyone getting tired of the current gaming market

« on: February 28, 2013, 02:30:04 pm »

Well I wouldn't know. But from the outside looking in, the current gen gaming market appears to be a seemingly endless string of first person shooters played on gaming-pc-in-a-box consoles. I just don't get it.

There aren't that many FPS games... Take off the blinders and look at games that aren't the super most popularist ever. Or hell, even some of the super most popularistr ever games aren't FPS games. Like, Saints Row 2/3, the two Batman: Arkham (insert name for a place here) games, Alan Wake, Lego Batman 1 and 2, Dragon Age 1/2/the upcoming third one, Mass Effect 1/2/3, Red Dead Redemption, L.A. Noire...

List goes on and on and on. I could sit here spending 30 minutes listing off non-FPS popular games on current gen consoles.

Also, I don't see how the hardware in a console's similarities to PC parts  matters much with regards to the games on it. Tons of games that could only succeed on PC never hit consoles and vice versa.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Victoly!

« on: February 27, 2013, 06:11:54 pm »

I have trouble calling Granstream Saga an RPG... You don't level up and stuff. It plays more like an action adventure game with an upgradable HP bar.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Warren Spector: Hey, You Kids! Get Outta My Yard!

« on: February 27, 2013, 05:27:54 pm »

Looks like you're right, actually, plus the PSX version was the first. I guess I got bad info back in the day.

Apparently the reason the load times were so abysmal is they were doing tricks with the RAM that were not load time friendly.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Warren Spector: Hey, You Kids! Get Outta My Yard!

« on: February 27, 2013, 05:00:49 pm »

No clue, never tried it. I don't own a 3DO nor have I ever read reviews of that version. One can check GameFAQs, I suppose.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Warren Spector: Hey, You Kids! Get Outta My Yard!

« on: February 27, 2013, 04:42:25 pm »

As I mentioned in the other thread: Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain is also great for that. The atmosphere in the game is a lot like Diablo 1, but more expanded. Diablo 1's atmosphere is very limited, as you're stuck with a dungeon and a town. Legacy of Kain takes place all over an entire country.

If you play it, you've basically got two choices. You can play the PSX version with ungodly load times, or you can play the PC version which has a fanpatch to add support for modern OSes and fix some bugs. There's a 3DO version(Indeed, I believe it was release same day as PC. PSX port happened later!) but I believe 3DO emulators still have issues, and finding a 3DO and a copy of the game is highly unlikely.

Edit: it also plays a lot like LTTP, but with a better combat system and, well, puzzles and such. It's one of the best Zelda games ever made.

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Personal Projects / Re: SaGa 3: Champions of Time & Space (GB) re-translation

« on: February 27, 2013, 04:13:37 pm »

There are multiple dialects of English in the UK alone... The small part of Ireland in it has its own dialect, Scotland has its own dialect, Wales, hell England itself has more than one dialect(Chavs have one of their own for example).

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Modern Game Design

« on: February 27, 2013, 04:10:53 pm »

Also for the record I like dark depressing things a lot so

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Modern Game Design

« on: February 27, 2013, 04:05:09 pm »

I just love Blood Omen because it's just so fucking gothic. It drips with the right sort of gothic and it has flat fucking out the best voice acting in any game I've played to date. I first played it in 1998 for fuck's sakes. The writing is also just stellar.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Modern Game Design

« on: February 27, 2013, 03:51:10 pm »

I wonder what it says about me that Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain is one of my all time favorite games...

and so is XenoGears, and Spyro 3.

Three very different games on the morality/etc scale.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Warren Spector: Hey, You Kids! Get Outta My Yard!

« on: February 27, 2013, 02:52:28 pm »

Back To The Future is very, very good, IMO.

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Gaming Discussion / Re: Modern Game Design

« on: February 27, 2013, 01:15:51 pm »

Yeah I like my degree of fictional torture and stuff in the right contexts, but it seems mainstream has gotten a trend explotatively torture their female protagonists because in the not very right context. In the case of tomb raider, it seems lara will get porogressively abused by the plot, including but not limited to, rape, mauling, fractures, gory cutscene death and loads of screaming/moaning.

The Impossible borders on this as well. All the worst shit it could happen occurs to the female protagonist and is quite graphically depicted.

Now I am not saying females should be exempt, but when there is a veeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeery uneven distribution and innaporpiate contexts IMO.

Eh, that rape thing was basically a producer's sick assed wet dream. The actual scene that is supposed to lead to her rape "just" has her being choked to death.

I watched a video of it a ways after the initial controversy. Basically, the producer was projecting onto it his own sick desires.