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General Chat / Re: "Hey I'm new!" Official Introduce Yourself to the Internet Thread
« on: February 12, 2020, 10:04:00 AM »
Not really new but I haven't posted since March 2003....so hello eveeybody.
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Originally posted by: blackfootsteps
I'm enjoying the game but it definitely doesn't feel as polished as it should be. For example sometimes I look at a team mate and press A to talk and... nothing. The frame rate issues (almost universal) and the game locking up occasionally (in the midst of massive firefights) are annoyances.
I also don't think the renegade v paragon idea is as fleshed out as it could be. Sure it's cool to hear random people talk about your character's personal history and some of the decisions that you have to make are pretty significant but you don't gain any powers intrinsic to one side or the other which limits its applicability I think. Also some missions don't seem to have a Dark side conclusion, you either do the mission and get paragon points or you reject the mission and miss the experience (or is it just that my intimidate stat is too low - which seems strange because I've done two planets and have 7 points in that stat). I kinda miss the force persuade type options from KotOR, where you could make people do some crazy stuff.
That being said the game continues to draw me back in, the story is very interesting so far and it's amazing just to talk to people and see where conversations will go. The polish that is missing from the game engine oozes out in interactions and little details in the world, reminding me of a Retro game. The voice acting is brilliant and the codex also has extensive voicing which is quite amazing. The alien races are varied (although some are very similar to those from KotOR) which creates some reveals some interesting insights between party members.
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Originally posted by: nintendogamecube86
Nobody should EVER use NexGenWars or VGChartz. Both sites are well known for making up BS numbers and then changing them when the REAL numbers are made known.
Microsoft flooded the market before Christmas so they could say they met their goal of 10 million shipped. That is why they also announced that they would only be shipping 500K Xbox 360's during the entire first six months of 2007.
The Wii has sold about 7.5 million copies already, and at this rate it will easily pass the Xbox 360 worldwide by the end of the year (maybe even by the end of the summer depending on how well it does in North America). It will take a little longer in North America (the only region where the 360 is still doing pretty well), but now it's just a matter of WHEN the Wii becomes #1 rather than IF.
Also, we do get monthly sales data from the NPD. So it's not just Japan that we get regular data from.
Oh, it's pretty interesting that the PS3 has been under 10K in Japan for the last couple of weeks. The PS2 has been out in Japan for over 7 years, and it has only sold less than 10K twice (both times were in November 2000 when the PS2 was suffering a wordwide shortage).
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Originally posted by: Ian Sane
Such a clever tease releasing Tecmo Bowl before Tecmo Super Bowl.
Sonic Spinball sure has been re-released a lot for a game that is almost universally considered horrible.
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Originally posted by: vudu
Give. Me. Fire. Emblem. Please.
Pretty. Please.
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Originally posted by: KDR_11k
Well, Nano Breaker was Konami, but anyway how many of these got sequels?
Didn't you just complain that they are making too many sequels?
Maybe I should have said "were objectively good enough to get sequels?"
Hmmm....*backtracks*...maybe I should substantial sequels. The Zelda series built on itself with each game, as did the Mario series; Mega Man was basically the same game with different maps and powers. Resident Evil did have an ongoing story, but the gameplay itself remained pretty much the same until RE4, which is so far an anomaly. Same with the Street Fighter franchise; over 15 years and every pretty much every game they made for the series was based on Street Fighter II or Street Fighter Alpha, with minor changes/additions. Most of the games listed didn't have enough to substance for Capcom to retool as sequels.
What I'm getting at is that Capcom may be prolific, but is what they're putting out going to be remembered in 10 years?
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Originally posted by: Darc Requiem
In Japan, Virtua Fighter is the most popular fighting game series. Its more popular than Tekken, DOA, SF, etc. It should have sold far better.
I'm not sure about the arcades in Japan, but VF has been on the decline ever since the release of VF3. Nobody really expect VF5 to that blockbuster that is gonna make Japan forget about the $600 entrance fee to play a game that they've been playing for many many months at about a $1 per play.
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Originally posted by: Blue Plant
Big fat ego.