Niyeaux

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    I just got an email this morning from D3 Publisher, saying that the North American localization of Earth Defense Force 2025 is going to be playable at PAX Prime this weekend. YESSSSSS.

     

    For those who don't know, this game is the direct sequel to Earth Defense Force 2017, which is in my opinion one of the most enjoyable games of the current console generation. The Japanese version of 2025 was released in July, but the North American version is taking its sweet time. Current prediction is for a February 2014 release.

     

    Nonetheless, I am stoked to play it at PAX, and stoked to buy it when it finally reaches our shores. This is the proper sequel to EDF2017, developed by the original Japanese developer Sandlot, who didn't actually do that crappy offshoot title EDF Insect Armageddon.

     

    Here. Watch these trailers and revel in their excellence:

     

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    Oh man, you should go in there sometime for sure. I doubt it is long for this world, and it is a seriously awesome place. They have some great games from the golden age of arcades, (Street Fighter 2 and 3, Raiden, 1942, that sort of thing) and the atmosphere of the place is exactly how an arcade should feel. Seedy, kind of gross, but unique and exciting and awesome.

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    It could be worse, you could be bogged down in a "hip-hop vs. rap" kind of nonsensical semantical nightmare. "This isn't a video game, it's an INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCE."

    This is pretty off-topic, but the distinction between hip-hop and rap is actually super simple. Hip-hop is made up of "four elements," of which rapping (ie. emceeing) is one. The other three are DJing, break dancing and graffiti writing. Thus, all rap is a form of hip-hop, but not all hip-hop is rap.

     

    To quote the wikipedia article on hip-hop, which actually puts it pretty succintly:

    "[Hip hop] is characterized by four distinct elements, all of which represent the different manifestations of the culture: rap music (aural),turntablism or "DJing" (aural), breaking (physical) and graffiti art (visual). Despite their contrasting methods of execution, they find unity in their common association to the poverty and violence underlying the historical context that birthed the culture."

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    I think pretty much everyone turns it off. It's an eyesore most of the time, and it's a huge pain in the ass to try to hold the thing at just the right angle for it to not look like shit.

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    I like watching the struggle, because the struggle is never validated. Everyone is still miserable and unhappy because they do not have direction. It may not ask the philosophical questions that The Plague does, as 'direction' is a societal creation rather than a cosmic question, but it beautifully shows how an absence of direction and expectation does not increase freedom and opportunity, but instead creates a sense of emptiness within the self.

    This. This is why I like this book, and a lot of other Hemingway stuff. It's such a deadpan presentation of the realities of the time. Not deadpan in the way it's written - the prose is quite beautiful at times - but deadpan in the way the narrative itself unfolds. There's no great revelations, no boys becoming men, no sudden changes of heart, and certainly no happy endings. It feels like a look into people's lives in a far more believable (and maybe cynical) way than a lot of other stuff I've read.

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    I've become super disenchanted with New Leaf. I played about two weeks worth, did a couple house upgrades, built one of the public works projects, that sort of thing. Now it just sort of seems like a grind to the next Bells milestone. Next house expansion, next public works completion, whatever. The gameplay loop has become: go to island, fill box, come home, sell all that crap at Re-tail, dump all that money into house loan/public works donation box, rinse, repeat. Am I missing something, or is this really it?

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    Man, people who think fighting games need to be more accessible are the biggest weirdos. I don't get it at all. Fighting games are so accessible if you're a player who has no idea what they're doing, and you're playing against someone else in the same boat. The two of you can literally just mash buttons and watch cool moves happen, and maybe figure out a couple specials and spam them at each other. It's great fun.

     

    Why do you even care that there's super hard combos that you can't even begin to execute? Does the fact that a formula 1 driver can apex a corner like Jesus make you hate driving your Corolla? There's no reason the inclusion of an incredibly high execution challenge/skill ceiling should ruin your enjoyment of entry level play.

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    2) Getting so sick of the internet as a raging platform for who are probably teenagers trying to be cool. I think it was Jonathan Blow who tweeted that maybe an open democractic internet isn't really an ideal, considering what it's filled with mostly. I'm starting to see the merit in that point of view.

    This seems silly to me. The whole advantage of the internet is that - unless you are a famous person like Fish - you can choose who you interact with. You can form communities with the people you want to associate with, without anyone telling you when or where. For an excellent example of how one of these communities can turn out to be a great place where mostly-like-minded people can hang out and have intelligent discourse about a variety of things, you may want to check out this cool forum here.

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    Wait, who the fuck are those guys in the Game Grumps video? I watched the original Game Grumps videos when they started that channel, and their names were Jon and Aaron. That guy is named Dave? I am confused.

  20. Posted

    But how else do you enjoy things, be they books or forms of media, without buying them?

     

    I guess software pirates are the only true people free to identify with anything.

    When did I say not to buy things and enjoy them? I just said don't define yourself based on the things you buy and enjoy.

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    Reading stuff about this on other sites and forums (NeoGAF included), and then coming here an reading this thread, makes me realize how much of an oasis in a shit-desert this place is. Thanks for being awesome, guys.