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DOTA 3? The trilogocalypse is upon us.

Or Left 4 Dead 3. Remember that leaked info from a month or so back?

None of what they're doing with Wind Waker HD seems all that essential, a few debatable gameplay tweaks and a rather minor visual overhaul that, personally, i don't think even looks as nice as the original game.

Oh man, i totally forgot this week, sorry guys.

Teleglitch BAHAHAHA! I'VE FINALLY DONE IT. I HAVE WON. I absolutely loved playing this roguelike-like and will probably continue to do the occasional run every once in a while on account of how awesome a game it is. :tup:

I think they should just announce Half-Life 4, and write it so that it constantly refers to the events of a theoretical Half-Life 3.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but the Wii U pretty much covers every 3DS gimmick a Super Gameboy/Gameboy Player-style add-on would need to have, right? (Short of the stereoscopic cameras, which if are still on the 2DS, are probably required to not break the augmented reality stuff.) Digital games complicate things though, unless Nintendo ever sorts out some kind of actual unified account solution. (Or, because it's nintendo, there will probably be a cable you use to hook your 3DS into the 3DS add-on that you've hooked up to your Wii U so you could hook the 3DS games you own up to the TV you own. Some kind of awful, nightmare-spawned daisy chain of license handshakes.) I would definitely contemplate buying a 3DS player for the Wii U though, and since i don't own a Wii U yet, i'd probably be more inclined to own a Wii U as well. Go on Nintendo, the 3DS is your behemoth right now, use its mommentum and strong library to prop up the Wii U a bit. Also, Etrian Odyssey Untold demo is up on eShop. This one is the remake of the original, but with two full campaigns. (A new story-driven character-focused campaign with new systems, and another one that holds true to the series with player-created characters and minimal narrative.) I haven't looked at the demo yet, but it was a pretty big download. The EOIV demo had a pretty huge chunk of that game, so i'd sort of expect the same from this.

The Giant Bomb quicklook makes it look really fantastic. There is some divided opinion out there about it, but it definitely seems like it has a lot to offer.

Well then i guess i'll go ahead and start my wild, frantic panicking about the future of Atlus.

I ran a search and didn't see any threads for general computer concerns and problems, so i'm putting this one up. If anybody knows more about computer security than i do, some information to assuage my concerns or advice to deal with a potential problem would be appreciated. I use FireFox with Noscript installed, and Noscript just started giving me XSS warnings on Youtube. I looked around and apparently youtube has had advertising-related XSS exploits in the past that led to Google accounts being hacked, but instead of the XSS coming from a google ads domain, it was just coming from "www.youtube.com". That doesn't seem like much of an XSS, so i don't know if Noscript is just bugging out, or if something's up with Youtube, or if there's an issue with my computer. I spent some time searching around and it doesn't seem like this is a widespread issue or anything, it seems to just be me. I'd kind of like to have a handle on what's happening instead of just ignoring it and moving on. Edit: Looks like other people are starting to notice the sudden existence of this issue, so it's not just me, which maybe renders this thread rather pointless. Hey, but check it out, now there's a thread for paranoid security-related problems.

Shit, i've even posted in there, i completely forgot about that thread. My mistake.

Sega has, by most accounts, allowed Creative Assembly pretty much total freedom to operate as they please, so that might be a hopeful indication of how things go with Atlus. If you want to talk about Sega's own tendencies towards localizing niche games, things have been pretty bleak in recent years. I mean, Atlus has built its western fanbase on being willing to localize and release games that sell multiple millions less than games another company would decide are still not profitable enough to localize.

So Sega bought Atlus. Also, EA has a new CEO, but i don't care about that. Holy shit, Sega bought Atlus.

The Master Chief's supposed to be in his mid forties, so he's practically ancient by standards of Video game protagonists. (Fan favorite Avery Johnson was supposed to be in his late sixties, but still fighting thanks to future medicine drawing out the average life expetancy.) Heihachi is the biggest badass in Tekken, but they recently de-aged him with magic potions. (Because Tekken.) He still appears to be a man at least in his 40's though.

I'll probably be good to go for this weekend.

It also had hilariously high power demands, offering two hours of play time off of six AA's. (It also played Genesis/Mega Drive carts, not Master System carts, but i think you're probably just mixing up those latter two names.)

Now that you've finished it once, i'd recommend just using this guy (minor spoilers?) to make it easier to see the other endings. Yeah, it sucks replaying the puzzles, but with the flowchart you can minimize how much you have to do that. (If i'm correctly remembering how the game works, I think you basically want to ensure that you've seen each ending and each room at least once to meet the various requisites for the true ending.) VLR, on the other hand, builds a story flowchart into the game and lets you skip around between sequences you've completed, so it streamlines that whole process significantly. The thing to understand, about both of these games, is that you really have no idea what the game is actually about without seeing the true ending. (It will be both not what you expected and way crazier/dumber than what you expected.) Each bad ending gives you a small piece of the total picture, pushing you towards the true ending. Absolutely don't read any of the forum threads on here about either game until you finish them, virtually any information will be a spoiler... Except for the massive save bug in VLR, you definitely need to know about that. (Never save in puzzle rooms, save only during story sequences outside of the puzzle rooms. A couple of the puzzle rooms are bugged and will brick your save, rarely other rooms will do it too. Just don't save during those puzzle sequences. You can use the flowchart to escape out of a puzzle room if you need to save.)

Hearing that this game does away with a lot of the things i feel make Amnesia so intensely frightening is making me pretty skeptical. (Among a few things, the nyctophobia mechanic is apparently gone, the thing forcing you to make that incredibly uncomfortable choice about whether you're more afraid of the monsters chasing you or losing your sanity.)

If anybody's looking at playing System Shock 2 for the first time, this thread is worth perusing. There are many words written across many different posts about how to tackle that game with something approaching an optimal understanding of its mechanics.

I think the Vita TV thing is pretty damn brilliant. Instead of continuing to fail against the 3DS and other portable devices, they're going after the struggling new microconsole space with a relative behemoth of a hardware platform, and they're still undercutting everybody's price in the process. Their Vita hardware is also probably powerful enough that it will probably hold up incredibly well on a TV screen. I think this could be big.

No, no. Tribunal is balanced around being undertaken after doing Morrowind's own main quest, becoming the Nerevarine and all of that. You should have at least a level 20-30 character before tackling Tribunal. (Additionally, its story loses most of its impact without having first played through Morrowind's main quest, it's very much meant to be post-game content.) I remember Blood Moon being considerably more flexible about how early you can approach it, but Tribunal definitely wants you to have a more fully developed character. (Which honestly makes it kind of bullshit how early on the Tribunal expansion confronts you with its quest when you start a new game. Go as far as getting to the city so the attacks stop, but then head back to the main game until you're ready for it.)

I have totally seen those openings. How about a really awful opening for a really awful cartoon? Also, it deserves reiterating that the DCAU is the best. These were emmy award winning cartoons. So that's Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, The New Batman Adventures, Batman Beyond, Justice League, and Justice League Unlimited, plus a handful of quite excellent animated movies that also exist inside of the DCAU continuity. (There's some other related materials as well, but they don't quite rate a mention.)

So did you do the side quests in LTTP? Did you get the tempered sword and the upgraded armor and the magic boomerang and all that?

I was intermittently getting that error message too.

Did you expect it to be like Paper Mario? That's funny, because those Mario & Luigi games are more like Paper Mario than the last few actual Paper Mario games have been. (I didn't play the 3DS one, to be fair. Everybody i've talked to about it has been incredibly disappointed with it, though.)