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Is that 50 million official? It sounds like a bit much. Couldn't that amount of money be enough to secure the actual game as an exclusive? Or if Take2 was really asking for that much or more, they could have spent it on getting other big-name exclusive (MGS4, FFXIII, etc). In any case, unless coop is announced, this game isn't really on my radar. This Fall will be interesting, though, given how much GTA3 and friends actually sold last-gen.

Dude, don't diss on FO3. It's going to be great. Experienced storytellers from the esteemed team that made Oblivion are going to reinvent the tale of a young nameless vault dweller, leaving the comforts of the vault in order to find out what conspiracy has led to his or her father's (voiced by non-other than the one and only Qui-Gon Jinn) disappeared. Amidst betrayal, suspence, AND drama lies an epic journey of portable nuclear launchers and nuclear-powered cars that will leave your enemies in a mushroom cloud of regret. Regret that they have crossed you. Yes, for the first time ever, you get to be Qui-Gon Jinn's son and/or daughter. The legend begins! That, and one of the stats they keep track of is the number of corpses you've eaten. For all the necrophiles out there, this is a boon to gaming. It was, after all, the greatest feature in (FO-wannabe) The Fall as well, where upon character creation you had the option whether to allow the government to use your corpse as food when you died or the feds killed you - rewarding you with a small sum of money if so. Now, to be fair, the VATS system in and of itself doesn't sound outright bad per say. As a FPS combat system with a pausable 'special ability' menu using action points that regen over time, it could work. My only small concern is that Bethesda hasn't the slightest clue how to implement choice & consequence in RPG fashion, has writers unable to write themselves out of a toilet bowl, and whose past few games have had the worst real-time combat systems of all time. Trivial issues at best. The gaming media doesn't mind, after all. /Hades

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Psychonauts was pretty ace, though that last freaking bloody stupid final level was torture, especially with the repetitive constant taunting by the 'boss'.

Your face is a medical condition.

Erm, this is coming out for PSP *and* DS. So far, only 3 screenshots from the PSP are available. I'm guessing the differences will be the usual. Nicer graphics and widescreen, vs dual screens and the stylus (which will probably be fairly convenient for a TB game). Who the bloody crap is the developer?

Jack Bauer in space is 70s, 80s Sci-Fi style?

Pfft. Yar yar hump hump incident > this.

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Yeah. FO3 will flop horribly because all the Dark Ravens in the world will collaborate and boycott it. Todd Howard to apply for McDonald's. You heard it here first.

You'd have nothing to do with it anyway. That's kind of what quitting gaming forever implicates.

Bethesda could do so much more. Wimps.

I would also buy the Fallout franchise so as to drive it into the ground even more.

We already know about your tendencies.

As Obsidian CEO, I cannot confirm or deny this. This really isn't pathetic at all!

There are only two categories of games - good games and bad games. Any further classification is superficial crap.

Nick and me are trying to survive TMNT Arcade version. We can get into the technodrome, but we never even make it to Krang. 5 bucks of credits apparently isn't enough. Best arcade game ever. <3 Xbox Live Arcade. Otherwise, we're going through Gears of War on insane difficulty. Which isn't actually that difficulty, but we've done our share of dying. In-between, we're also slowly going through the Rainbow 6 Vegas coop missions on realistic. I just got Carriers of War, a WW2 naval wargame focusing on individual battles (the original apparently included every freaking single carrier battle during the war). It certainly sounds interesting. I just finished the tutorial - haven't actually played. If it turns out great (which is what I'm expecting from other players' impressions), I'll drag the other two morons into it. Minish Cap is love.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?type=wmv&id=20691 http://www.gametrailers.com/player.php?type=mov&id=20691 New dev diary video. Nothing particularly new, though it is nice to see the BD completely beat the crap out of the other loser near the end of the video. They're really overplaying the BD/LS characters, though.

Completely different games, but weapon degradation in Fire Emblem was pretty cool. Finite inventory per character, finite resources, and having to balance out use of weapons with each of them having finite uses. Nice touch for a SRPG. In any case, I too want FO3 to be as much a bastardization of the franchise as possible, so that I can play martyr again! Then I can justify quitting gaming forever. Until the next franchise ready to get butchered. Or until I want more attention. Whichever comes first (the latter!). You can call me Mr. Morbid Curiosity!

I quit gaming forever too!

Hahahahahahaahahaha, this is going to outsell FO1/2 combined multiple-fold.

i think that the touch screen is the stupidest thing ever . Yeah, nice thread.

I don't have a PSP, so this is completely one-sided. The two games I'd be interested in on that are Valkyrie Profile and Tales of Eternia (which are PSX ports, yes, but portability is awesome). Loco Roco looks like a pretty innovative game, as well. That being said, I haven't been paying too much attention to it recently, what with the titles mostly not appealing to me specifically (my main interest in console gaming is coop). I'd sooner get a PS2 than a PSP, and I haven't even done that yet. The stylus controls for the DS are one thing I love about it. When games implement it in a tacked-on fashion and it adds nothing to the game, it can be pretty awkward and detrimental. Properly-implemented, though, and it can be pretty great fun. Games like Kirby Canvas Curse, Meteos and Trauma Center (yeah yeah yeah, Wii port, but the game controls completely differently) offer NEW experiences. Even drawing maps in Etrian Odyssey is pretty fun. I'm very interested in how the new Zelda will be implementing stylus-only controls. The dual-screen is a matter of convenience, in terms of displaying maps, inventories, stats, different areas. I wouldn't want Nintendo's next handheld to revert back to a single screen. The main thing is the games, though. The DS is pretty much the last stand when it comes to 2D gaming. The good original games coming out for it are pretty nice. Though, like any popular system, it has its pile of crap, though. Having access to the GBA library is pretty ace (the Fire Emblems, the SNES Final Fantasies, the Nintendo platformers/action adventures), since I didn't have one before. The future looks nice enough. Dragon Quest IX should mean a good influx of JRPGs. There's a fair number of SRPGs on the way (the main one I'm interested in being Front Mission 1st - but where's my Fire Emblem DS ;_; ). More Phoenix Wright titles are always a good thing. And I'm really looking forward to the upcoming Megaman. There are a bunch of others, but this isn't a pissing contest. The main thing is that this isn't a bloody competition, you freaking morons. It doesn't matter if you own a DS or a PSP, just go play Puzzle Quest.

I'd post one if I wanted to associate with people like Eddo!