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TheRumblefish · . Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 258 Location: Florida

Devil Summoner
Contact

Oh man why did I spend all of my money? Why am I broke? Why did I quit my job to become a professional bumfuck?

On a side note, I just bought my first Criterion DVD. It was the last money I had to! Irony I tell you. It was Videodrome(2-Discs!) if anyone was curious.
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OtakupunkX · . Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 730

My first Criterion DVD was The Royal Tennenbaums. Great movie.

I'm planning to buy the Criterion version of Chasing Amy when I have money. Wouldn't mind having the Kurosawa films they put out either.

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

My first Criterion was Seven Samurai. It was also like my 15th DVD. This was a long time ago.

I also had a few Janus VHS tapes I think, but I don't know if that counts.
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simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

My first may have been Rashomon. Or Seven Samurai or Royal Tennenbaums. I don't quite remember.

I'd really like them to get to more work from Robert Bresson, Kenji Mizoguchi, Masaki Kobayashi, Jean-Pierre Melville and maybe the last few post-war Kurosawas.

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I am working on getting all the Ozu and I almost have them now.

Also Kurosawa, but I have quite a few of those (criterion and not).
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“The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

So I'm pretty much going to buy Rocket Slime and Pokémon Dungeon unless one of our local pretentious indie-gamer types can tell me whether either is utterly horrible, but who wants to tell me whether Okami is too Naviesque / pushy to be any fun? (Mind that Ocarina of Time is one of my least favorite Zelda games.)

Edit: But I like Wind Waker, so the Zeldaclone thing isn't a big deal.
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OtakupunkX · . Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 730

My local GameCrazy is taking pre-orders for the Family Guy game, and it looks like it might actually be an old-timey LucasArts style adventure with other gameplay elements embedded in. Might want to keep an eye out on that one. Now if only I liked Family Guy...

Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

Oh god no one told me that Capcom Puzzle World for PSP has Super Puzzle Fighter II included.

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

I have that for my saturn, but I never really got into it. Mainly because I didn't bother learning how to play it and got owned in the first level. It sure LOOKED pretty radtastic. I think I'm going to make time this weekend to learn it.

I like Baku Baku! I want to find a copy of the saturn game.

In other nudes, I found out Contact is half the price of a normal new game here. I think I'm going to get two copies.

Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

Amazon is telling me Yggdra Union is a month late. I'm not sure if this is widespread (ie: contact) or just Amazon being slow. They're also not getting me the Devil May Cry anniversary set until next month either but that's just Amazon being slow (the price you pay for getting it $10 cheaper I guess).

SuperWes · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:42 pm Post subject:

simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

Fry's just sent me a notice that their FFXII preorders are backordered (they had it for $40, no tax and free shipping), which I guess means they won't sent mine out immediately, which is fine. Gaming shortages around here aren't even visible on the horizon. Shit shit shit is my wallet being mangled lately, between the Toys r' Us buy 2 get 1 free (Clubhouse games, Harvest Moon DS, Super Mario World GBA) and this damnable google checkout deal (Scurge: Hive, Contact, Yggdra Union preorder), plus my intention of going to pick up Juka and place a Castlevania preorder tomorrow. Broke broke broke!

SuperWes · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 12:55 pm Post subject:

Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

Oh Wes, I was at Gamestop today, standing next to a 3 foot stack of your babies, and I got to wondering: do you get any sort of percentage from sales? Cause I'd never buy one normally but if it's supporting you I might be down.

Semi-related: If I'm into FFXII 90% for Matsuno, 5% for the other guys that finished it, and 5% for Final Fantasy, would I be well served by the contents of the GS Special Edition?

Also: A glorious day in the used GBA section! Wade Hixton's Counter Punch and Ultimate Card Games! Zowee!

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I just noticed that some of these games got silently pushed back. Like Starcraft Ghost and Crystal Chronicles DS :(
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

Mr. Mechanical · Friendly Stranger Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 1276

Starcraft Ghost got canceled? What the shit, I've only been silently waiting for like two years to play it. Why did it get canceled? Duke Nukem Forever is supposedly still coming out but Ghost gets canceled. What kind of world are we living in?

Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

Again, basically all their talent got sucked into World of Moneymakercraft.

I'm expecting World of Starcraft in the next three years.

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Ghost sounded a bit crap anyway. It's not the first time they've canned a game because it wasn't meeting their standards. Remember that Warcraft adventure game they were working on?

simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

Ghost really had me excited cause Blizzard bought Swingin' Ape after Metal Arms to fix the project. So if its cancellation means the dissolution of that company, consider me bummed.

FortNinety · Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 7:57 am Post subject:

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I hear that Starcraft Ghost is still coming.

When Duke Nukem Forever comes out SC: Ghost will be the next DNF

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!
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“The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

OtakupunkX · . Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 730

StarCraft: Ghost was moved to next-gens and postponed indefinetly. It was a very sad day when I went to go pick up the money I had pre-ordered the game with a few months ago (I had pre-ordered it sometime during my sophomore year in high school if I remember correctly).

A close friend of mine who used to work at WCRadio (I think that's what it was called) got to miss a week of school to go to Blizzcon last year and was able to play Ghost multiplayer on Xbox. He said it was really, really good, and that's saying something because he doesn't really like console games at all besides Zelda.

There's a picture of him somewhere in front of the demo unit running Ghost, but the unit had crashed right before the picture was taken, so there's no actual gameplay in the photo.

SuperWes · Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 3:51 pm Post subject:

dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

Man, special editions are a scam. Get the normal one for $40 at outpost.

simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

Gamefaqs is free but having spent a good chunk of time trying to 100% Final Fantasy X-2 using the faqs posted there, I am fairly sure that might've gone much quicker had I gotten a guide. Mostly because a lot of the puzzles in FF games tend to be visual and people writing at a fifth grade level have trouble describing that sort of thing.

B coma · . Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Posts: 279

according to a couple of people I know at least one of the dress sphere locations is omitted from the official X-2 guide. incidentally, the descriptions on how to get it in some of the faq's floating around are confusing at best.

antitype · . Joined: 11 Jan 2006 Posts: 292

Totally broke! Augh! And I'm buying a car in a few weeks, so I'll be even more broke!

I am buying FFXII on Monday night, though — the EB near me is having a midnight opening, I believe (I need to call to make sure they're still doing it), so I'll be picking up my preorder. I've got the Special Edition all paid off, and who knows, it may be a scam, but if I'm not pleased with the extra features I'm sure I can just eBay it later and buy the standard edition while earning a profit.

This will be the last game I buy for about a month, which means I'll be forgoing the Wii until at least early December (and possibly buying a PS3 some time next year, as it's looking more and more tantalizing all the time despite its pricetag (I'm still vacillating on whether or not I actually want a 360)). I'm fine with this! I still have plenty of PS2 and DS games to play (not to mention all kinds of PSX, PC, GBA, SNES, etc. etc.), anyway. In fact, I should stop dinking around on the internet and play some more Contact right now.
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Fred · . Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 99 Location: Iowa

Oh my dear jebus how did I not hear about Contact? I will quit playing Okami and purchase this immediately. Do we have a thread for friend codes? I want to collect you all now. FOR MY HOUSE.

dessgeega · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 3:26 am Post subject:

i reactivated my gamefly account to rent contact, because it seems like the kind of game i'd like to play but not to own. and renting it for a month is half the price or less than buying it. i may rent god hand too, because i'd like to play that but i don't really have an ntsc-u ps2 right now and after lik-sang i'm really not interested in giving any money to sony.
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

Wait a minute, contact has wifi gameplay?

*goes and picks up case from bookshellf and looks at it*

So it does!

Lockeownzj00 · . Joined: 16 Aug 2005 Posts: 214

The DS is lookin' mighty sexy right now. My collection is still a pithy 3 games: mario and luigi 2, metroid prime, and animal crossing. I'm eyeballing:

Final Fantasy III DS (I'm a self-professed Final Fantasy aficionado, can you imagine what playing new "classic" Final Fantasy to me is? The whole thing just speaks of sexiness)
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (I never got it, and I ain't buying PoR w/o having played this)

Now, there's a few others, but I have quesitons:

Children of Mana/Mario Hoops--only wifi is local? The games seem great but I only have a few friends who have DS who would play that religiously, and I barely even hang out with them.

Hadn't heard of Rule of Rose--do tell. Intriguing.

I'll also have to suck some dick to purchase FFXII.

Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

Mario Hoops wifi is local only, but don't buy it anyway! It's terrible!

Isfet · . Joined: 27 Oct 2006 Posts: 107 Location: A New York

you could probably skip Children of Mana also. it's not really very good. well, i guess that depends on what you like about the Mana series. the game is all combat, for the most part. you just go to dungeons and fight things, and the level design isn't even very interesting.

edit: looking back at what i wrote, it's sort of a very broad statement and i don't like it. what i mean is this: the focus of the game is on combat, but the combat system isn't very unique or interesting in any way. i enjoyed the exploration aspects of SD2, but LoM was also much more focused on going to areas and fighting than it was on exploration. CoM takes what LoM did and gets rid of anything that was sort of unique or interesting about it. it's fun for a few plays, but there's nothing that really demands your attention for much longer than that.

GSL · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 2:43 pm Post subject:

Everyone who is on the fence about Contact, please do yourself a favor and purchase/borrow/rent/beg/steal (I DO NOT CONDONE THIS!) it posthaste. It is weird and different while somehow remaining very very familiar, and it's damn funny to boot.

Someday soon I'll try to set up my WiFi adaptor and then I'll be down with the friend code swapping thing.

helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Contact just came in the mail for me a couple days ago from Amazon. I was out of town, though, and now I have two challenging papers to write, the GRE in a couple days, and a Teach for America application due. Oh, and ultimate tryouts.

In a week and a half, though, I will be wifi'd the fuck up and ready to do whatever it is you do in Contact on wifi.
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

I broke my rules and opened Contact last night. I played it for half an hour and fell in love.
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dessgeega · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:58 pm Post subject:

gamefly mailed out my copy yesterday. i'm excited!
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SuperWes · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:13 pm Post subject:

After the first few hours, Contact becomes pretty terrible. The first few hours are wonderful, but after that the game seems dead set on forcing the player through tedium.

Good pacing throughout could have made Contact a must-have DS game, but what's there is slightly better than broken.

-Wes
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Fred · . Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 99 Location: Iowa

Maybe I'll hold off on buying it, then. Or maybe not. I really like the idea of collecting your friends, then being killed by them:

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I hear that Toups ended up really enjoying the game
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

GSL · Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 8:19 pm Post subject:

I'm really liking it. I'm several hours in and have yet to see any signs of tedium. It's such a different title that I'm having a really hard time articulating what it is, exactly, that I love so about it. People on the fence about the title should give themselves the benefit of trying it, as my impression so far has been that the things I love about the game are often what people choose to complain about.

If that makes any sense.

ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

I have The Guild 2, sequel to one of my favoritest games ever, but it's PC DVD and my laptop is the only system with a DVD drive. My laptop was never intended as a gaming machine, either. Boo! This and Medieval 2 make me want to get a new system. Need to hold out.

Marvel Ultimate Alliance is like my childhood put on a disc. What? A team of Captain America, Moonknight, Iron Man, and Deadpool? Yes, I do believe I will partake.
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Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

Contact is boring the shit out of me.

Also Okami should have been over about 10 hours ago or so.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Swimmy · . Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 990 Location: Fairfax, VA

Northern snowy-land place. Around 30 hours. Would've made a nice 20-hour game, now it's just draaaaggin' on.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Wow, you know you still have quite a bit to do right?
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“The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"