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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

I would just like to point out that I used to work with two guys who were on the QA team for Prince of Persia 3D.

Oh, the stories they had!

fish · . Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 113 Location: montreal

do tell!
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

I sort of liked Prince of Persia 3D, despite its flaws. I was impressed by how realistic the sword fighting was.
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

I think my favorite story was when they were talking to one of the designers and they got all excited about their latest addition, which was apparently a hallway that took the player something like 3 minutes real-time to run down, with the same textures the entire way and halfway down the hallway, there would be this lethal trap that you couldn't actually see until it triggered and killed you.

The designers felt that this was hilarious.

fish · . Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 113 Location: montreal

it is!

dont hate the game, hate the player.
hell, punish the player!
the player loves the abuse.
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Mr Mustache · . Joined: 26 Oct 2006 Posts: 167 Location: Queens

dessgeega · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:59 pm Post subject:

i spent a little time with the snes prince earlier today. it's by konami, and in addition to totally changing the graphics, they've made all of the stages twice as big, with seemingly no regard for how it changes the play of the game - the time limit's doubled, but dying and replaying a stage becomes much more of a chore when the stages aren't quick little minutes-long setpieces but huge, epic arenas. i am willing to conclude that the live version is probably better - a checkpoint after every foothill is preferable to climbing the same mountain over and over again.

i am trying really hard to like geometry wars, but it's impossible to see enemies when there's lots of action on the screen. when i die i never feel as though i saw what killed me. i'm wondering if it's because my television is so small - but i'm pretty sure i was having the same problem on nana's superbig tv.
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Wall of Beef · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 11:52 pm Post subject:

Judging from the few pictures I have seen of your TV, I am sort of amazed you even bothered hooking a 360 up to it. I can only imagine all the text that is nothing but a blurry mess. And I can't imagine it would make for a quality Geometry Wars Retro Evolved experience.

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 3:21 am Post subject:

yeah. it also doesn't have stereo sound.

i want to switch to my spare vga monitor at some point, once i figure out what exactly i need to hook the xbox up to it.
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Pijaibros · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 8:29 am Post subject:

You just need to buy the VGA cables for Xbox360.

One end goes into the Xbox, the other goes into your monitor. The cable also has red/white stereo plugs so you can connect them to a set of speakers

kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:03 am Post subject:

yeah, i've been playing live arcade games exclusively, so i havn't had to do much reading.

the thing with my monitor is it only has one cable coming out of the back, and nowhere to plug anything in. so i need some sort of flip/flop tool.
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Wall of Beef · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:00 pm Post subject:

kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

Perhaps... there's still some screen door effect and what not but its nice overall. but needs a very dim room.

Anyway, text ain't TOO big of an issue, and I think these new systems are interesting for the worlds they might create not just pixelcount.
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Pijaibros · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:22 pm Post subject:

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:25 pm Post subject:

story of my life?

anyway, i think andrew mister toups told me the same thing. so i'll get on that. is there any way to have my xbox log me in automatically when i turn on the console? it seems silly to sign in when there's only one live account on the machine.
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SuperWes · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:58 pm Post subject:

Pijaibros · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:07 pm Post subject:

Yeah Dess, why are you holding back?

Jump In

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:10 pm Post subject:

what, this thing?
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SuperWes · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:43 pm Post subject:

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 3:45 pm Post subject:

are you sure? it doesn't look like it's listed in the description.

anyway, i've been playing the demo of crackdown (aka "super white dude takes back america" because holy shit). i'd played it before at nana's but i didn't really get a chance to dig in. i really appreciate that this game has such a strong vertical element - it's something we havn't seen enough of since platform games went three-dee. i managed to kill two of the stereotypical latino criminals, took back a bunch of supply points, and leapt from building to building collecting magic green jump balloons.
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SuperWes · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 3:48 pm Post subject:

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 3:51 pm Post subject:

SuperWes · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:00 pm Post subject:

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 4:04 pm Post subject:

i knew it. female-female connections solve everything.
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aerisdead · . Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Posts: 254 Location: Toronto, Canada

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Jun 21, 2007 5:13 pm Post subject:

yeah, my guy was actually chinese. still! what i'm trying to say is that the game seems to be about fighting those damn latinos, those damn russians, and those damn chinamen. criminals all!
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dessgeega · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:40 am Post subject:

i just spent the entire demo jumping from building to building collecting agility orbs. i love that everytime i grab one, i look up and there's another sitting on an adjacent building. i collected exactly 82 before the demo timed out (and in between i managed to kill three of the four demo bosses).

crackdown is probably the retail game that impresses me most on the 360 so far. (sorry dead rising!)
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purplechair · . Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 378 Location: in my pants

I loved the Crackdown demo, but I'm not sure the full version would really live up to my expectations. I used to tell people it was like Mega Man dressed up as Grand Theft Auto, but having run around in my friends' finished game saves, it doesn't seem to really change all that much - that said, all the bosses were already dead by that point, so it wasn't really anything like playing the gamer proper. But, like, despite everyone being dead, the mooks were still all crack shots? I thought the point was they'd be a disorganised shambles by then?

I'd like it if there was more to the melee combat than just hoofing people with your giant foot. You should be able to pick people up (while they're still alive, I mean) and throw them into oncoming traffic, piledriver them off the tops of buildings, or blast them up with a grenade, catch them in mid-air, and do an epic backbreaker over your bionic knee.

Also, I want to be able to do a sliding tackle under the wheels of a small car, and use my body as a ramp to flip it into the air. And then leap up, grab it, and piledriver it. With people inside. Come on... that'd be fucking cool.

kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

Crackdown never did live up to its magazine ad, the one that showed a semitruck that had been forcibly stopped by running into an agent, leaving a cylindrical hole where the agent had been when the truck wrapped its grill around him...

Less weapony than Mercenaries, less super-powered being crushing and throwing huge things than leaping from building to building than Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, and way too few voice samples for the various gangs (with too many stereotypes) but overall it was good. The city was very nicely destricted out.
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Mister Toups · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 11:44 am Post subject:

dessgeega · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:34 pm Post subject:

my sister and i went to the gamestop where her boyfriend works to embarrass him (it's his first day), and i picked crackdown up off the shelf. then i looked at the price tag and set it back down.
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kirkjerk · . Joined: 12 Apr 2006 Posts: 1227

yeah, the 360 is still a while away from a great big heaps of bargains stage.
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SuperWes · Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 9:38 pm Post subject:

Check the Clancy thread for a coupon that will net you Crackdown for $30 (or Splinter Cell for $17)...

-Wes
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dessgeega · Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 3:20 pm Post subject:

you know what's interesting? stainless games, who did the centipede / millipede remake on live arcade, holds a number of other atari licenses for live arcade - including tempest. i say this is interesting because there's another prominent game developer who's produced a game for live arcade that is vaguely tempest-inspired.

so when's sensible soccer out?
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dessgeega · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 1:20 pm Post subject:

could my expectations for this game be any higher? i mean, it's a gamepro editors' choice!
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aerisdead · . Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Posts: 254 Location: Toronto, Canada

I just beat it last night, funnily enough!

Terribly over-rated - in retrospect.

Has some really nice moments but way too much filler, in my opinion. Interested to see what you think.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I don't know where you read about it being over-rated, but I felt that from the places I normally get my opinions that HL2 was understated.

With that said, why did you buy that Dess? You're going to get the Orange box this fall you stated already, which will have that in it, but you know, like better looking with solid frame rates.

Also, Dess, Gears of War needs to be on your radar.

And, the whole "I want this game" then get to the store and hold it in my hands and go "... not at this price" happens to me quite a bit now.

Also, I totally got Shadowrun for $10 because of trade-ins. God its so amazing and so terrible all at the same time. Like, it's a really great Half-Life mod, but it's not even close to a "full retail game" experience.
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dessgeega · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 2:12 pm Post subject:

i can buy the orange box this fall for full price, or i could buy a used copy of the xbox version now for five bucks. and then i'll know whether i want to spend sixty dollars in fall on the orange box.

and yeah, i'm going to try and rent gears of war, if you'll give me one of those live trial codes.
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SuperWes · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 5:23 pm Post subject:

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Mister Toups · Posted: Mon Jun 25, 2007 7:40 pm Post subject:

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dessgeega · Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 1:30 pm Post subject:

ok.

so hey, how do movie rentals work? pan's labyrinth just came out on the xbox and i kind of want to see it.
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Dracko · . Joined: 10 Oct 2005 Posts: 2613

Don't get your hopes up. It isn't del Toro's best.
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Mister Toups · Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 2:35 pm Post subject:

dessgeega · Posted: Sat Jun 30, 2007 3:24 pm Post subject:

hey if i buy pan's labyrinth how long do i have to watch it
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Intentionally Wrong · Posted: Sun Jul 01, 2007 9:30 am Post subject:

I think it's worth watching once. I have been known to have bad taste, though.