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I don't have an end or insert key either. Like i said, this keyboard is terrible.

I'm looking forward to the Guilty Gear XXAC+ remake for XBLA/PSN. I never got super into Guilty Gear when it was relevant, but through BlazBlue i have developed much more of an appreciation for ArcSys's games.

I hate my keyboard, it is awful. The case is warped, and the keys randomly miss keystrokes when i type too fast. I need to get a better one. Ideally something cheap, widely available, clicky and responsive, with a complete layout. (Who decided i don't need a home button? What if i actually need a home button?) I want a... like... retrofitted model m, those things were always awesome.

Oh hey, this new board autosaves posts while you're typing them up? It's like the future! I have definitely lost a lengthy post or two for varying reasons. The "view new content tab" is also awesome. I am mostly okay with this new board.

I think there's actually been a few, the biggest one i think was posted incorrectly to the general gaming board. I'm pretty sure... There it is.

It's Nolan North. It's only natural that you would recognize his voice, he's pretty much everybody in everything. Sometimes multiple characters in a single game. (I don't think the list on that Wikipedia page is even complete!)

Capcom gets a lot of shit for the first few Resident Evil games, but those don't have anything on their PS1 MMX games. LISmPmdUhYA It is a very awesome game, i would encourage just about anybody to give it a chance. The tone is completely silly throughout, and it's built around just absolutely the coolest combat system i've ever seen in a JRPG.

I am totally amused by the renaissance of FMV games we've been seeing.

Resonance of Fate: an awesome, awesome game. You could also probably populate this thread with terrible cutscenes from just that one game, somebody really went the extra mile, heh. 5pWvKx1x1pk cpME4riPI1k There are much worse instances of writing in the DMC games, particularly any time it tries to be dramatically serious, but these amusing and self-aware nonsequiturs are way more entertaining.

The bigger domestic cats generally require much more attentiveness and care, they're quite smart and will get into a lot of trouble. (My cat figured out how to open doors very soon after i got him.) They also aren't as aloof as common domestic cats, they can be big attention seekers. A totally different experience from the cats i had growing up.

There's been stories that guy hung around the Ubisoft booth for the rest of the show after the presser wrapped up, heckling the staff of surrounding booths and generally being a total asshole.

So i've been playing Akai Katana for a few hours now, and perhaps it comes across as a forgone conclusion that i'd be way it, but i think this game is really something special. Mechanically, it is a remarkably dense game, and the differences between the remix modes are probably more dramatic than i've ever seen in a shooter. I'll go into it more if anybody wants to hear it, or has any questions. Otherwise i'd probably just be wasting breath.

Watching the Giant Bomb quicklook really soured me on the game. I was kind of looking forward to it, but i don't think i'll play it now. The writing doesn't really have that tongue-in-cheek hard-boiled noir flair of the Remedy games, and there's some really obnoxious stylistic visual artifacts smeared all over the game. The lack of the graphic novel conceit also kind of makes his internal monologue seem a little out of place. Also the cover system, and the constant QTE-like things. MEH.

My cat has been doing much better, doesn't seem to be in any serious pain right now. He's supposed to be kept confined so he stays still and rests, give him time for scar tissue to form around the injury or something, so the thing I'm mostly worried about right now is a bored cat. He strains a lot to pick himself up when he needs to walk over to his litter box, and he keeps tripping over himself and kind of just flopping down on his side. He's definitely not really able to track where his hind legs are going, but at least he's able to walk. He's a Maine Coon cross, if anybody is curious. A big orange one. Looks like a tiny Lion; is adorable. Maybe I'll post pictures if anybody wants to see. (Is there a thread for pet pictures?)

I was wondering that too.

God, i love reading about EVE, just such an incredibly interesting game. Did you guys see the amazing two part piece on Rock Paper Shotgun? You had things like the developers talking, somewhat tongue in cheek, about their need to find ways to "engender hate" between people to create economy sinks. They were even drawing correlations between themselves and arms dealers. Absolutely fascinating. EVE is the only MMO i really tried to get into, and i really loved almost everything about it, but ultimately decided that i couldn't afford the investment of time and money. (I also wasn't really willing to go to the incredible lengths it would have taken to survive in nullsec space; by far the most fascinating part of the game, with all of its politics and espionage.) Anyways, isn't Dust also coming out on the PC? As for the free-to-play thing, i imagine it's the only way it'll work out. CCP wants Dust to become an important part of the EVE universe, which means people need to play it. Easiest way to make that happen is to make it free. I mean, and while it plays into that universe in a very direct way, it's a different side of it. I suspect that the people who are way into the internet spaceships side of things won't feel particularly trounced upon. They're paying for the deeper and more involved part of the universe, and they are the people that the dudes playing Dust will be taking orders from.

My cat was wandering down a hallway and kind of flinched and started howling and wigging out. Had to take him to a vet in the middle of the night, it was so bad. Apparently he somehow messed up a disc in his spine and needs to be kept still for like six weeks to try and help it heal. God, i've never seen a pet of mine freak out like that, just screeching and staring at me with crazy eyes like i'm supposed to fix what's wrong. He seems fine for now, but is still in a real bad way. He can barely walk, and it obviously pains him to do so, and the vet thinks he doesn't have any feeling in his hind legs. At some point i'm going to have to make a real hard decision based on how much he's recovered. Also, vets are really expensive. What a shitty couple of days.

Yeah, the 3DS has completely turned around. It's selling extremely well and the software is catching up fast, a lot of really excellent games came out on that hardware this year. The price cut was so drastic that they're producing that hardware at a loss though, which is standard business for the other platform holders, but something Nintendo has never done. (It's something Nintendo can't really afford to do, with how narrow their interests are.) The Wii has also totally imploded, it's just done. That thing is over. So Nintendo took a massive hit this year, but it's expected that they'll be in the green again by next. (Unless the Wii U is a huge fiasco, who knows.) Given the way the 3DS has recovered after everybody was so ready to declare it dead on arrival, i wouldn't be willing to count the Vita out quite yet, but Sony is going to have to do something drastic. Losing Monster Hunter probably hurt them more than anything else, it basically lost them Japan. (Because, seriously, Monster Hunter is that important in Japan.)

My predictions for the big three: Big blow-out for the Wii-U, and probably a big confidence display about how much the 3DS has turned around. Maybe an initial tease for the PS4/Orbis/whatever, but i think their emphasis will be on trying to salvage the Vita. No 360-next, Microsoft will want all eyes on Halo 4. There's rumored to also be a reveal for a new tier of Live, so now you can pay more for the same thing you've already been paying too much for.

Brad gave a perhaps unexpectedly positive opinion of Akai Katana in Giantbomb's quicklook for the game. He struggles with the densely layered mechanics of the game, but otherwise fares pretty well. (In my own reading, i've seen it said that Akai Katana is actually pretty accessible by the standards of a Cave game.) Though he comments at one point that he was bummed out about the slowdown, something that is there by design. (For example, when Aksys localized Deathsmiles, they "fixed" a lot of the slowdown. Cave's response was to spend months trying to patch it back in.) Additionally, today is ostensibly the release date for the game. If anybody is interested in the game, i would encourage tracking down a copy. The market for these kinds of games, the good ones at least, is such that copies may quickly become either very difficult to obtain or extremely expensive. I hadn't realized that this was a Kenta Cho game. I don't really follow doujin stuff very closely at all, but that is a name i recognize. Oh, oh, i had heard of it. Just haven't played it. When i eventually get around to pooling some money together for a new PC, it's a game on a growing list of things i mean to catch up on.

Hey now, i really like Fear, and this rig ran it just fine. It was quite a powerful PC for the time.

Old computers... I am running a seven year old PC. I built this system to play FEAR.

Ok, so i've been thinking about this question a bit, and have a lot of possible answers. In the most reductive sense, i love video games because they're awesome, and video games are awesome to me because i love them. I started playing games when i was a kid, and that was it, it was over for me. They're stuck in my brain. Narrowing it down for the sake of being interesting, one of things that crossed my mind while mulling this over is that i just enjoy seeing elegantly designed game systems that are equipped to play out in interesting and sophisticated ways. Having rules that can be stressed by knowledgeable and skilled players without crumbling, particularly in the context of a good action game. Having a simple set of tools where every option presented is a valuable one for some permutation of the scenario. I admire the hell out of that, i think that can beautiful to experience. I don't want to go to the "It's like Chess" thing, but... You know. That doesn't really cover everything though, to me RPG's tend to be about exploring the developer's constructed world, for example. I also just love chasing new kinds of experiences, seeing what else the medium is capable of. (I have ended up with an incredibly schizophrenic library of games on account of this.)

The buzz is that this game is in real, real trouble. Been rebooted in development a half-dozen times, trying to go after the CoD crowd, no real vision behind it, and a ton of lame gimmicks. Then you've got advertising like this that just smacks of desperation. Quite a shame, i've always thought that Ghost Recon was an excellent series. (Played a ton of the GRAW games.)

xPWs6ioNZoI I guess these play randomly in player-created levels for the new Portal 2 level editor? I was absolutely in tears at some of this stuff. Absolutely loaded with sly film references.