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snakeybro said:
Plat #4- Walking Dead: S1(PS4)

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Next game to plat- Walking Dead: S2(PS4)

Xbone is only tree fidy!
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Season 2 doesn't have a plat, remember? :rofl:

 
AvengedBacklog said:
It absolutely doesn't make sense to think Best Buy (or any business) would give $66 for a game that they sell for $60 new and even less used. Come on man.
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Whether you misrepresented my post in the other thread through poor reading comprehension or malice, your post here was absolutely intended to make fun of that misrepresentation of what I said. There is no other possible interpretation of your post. You were being an asshole.

And yes, it didn't make sense...which is why I asked in the other thread. But great job reiterating what I'd already said.

 
bestkeeper14 said:
Microsoft is getting desperate! $50 price cut on all holiday bundles! $350 starting Nov 2nd through January 2nd... Wow!
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Other than maybe Halo I can't think of a single attractive exclusive the XB1 has. Granted I don't follow the system much, but still, a quick look at their exclusives didn't help.

 
from November 2nd, 2014 - January 3rd, 2015

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BA2nTZ0WhQM

 
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Vigilante said:
Sunset Overdrive doesn't look at least partially interesting to you?
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Not really. Granted I've not looked at it beyond the promo stuff they showed at E3 this year. Maybe they just presented it horribly but the tone of the game and the complete lack of a plot really turned me off to it. The gameplay didn't appear to have anything Infamous doesn't (from what I recall,) either.

 
I'll wait a year or two. I'm looking around the same price Vig is so I can get in on things like Sunset Overdrive and the Halo Collection, plus whatever other exclusives hit in the next couple years. Last gen I went Wii->Xbox360->PS3 and I think going PS4->WiiU->Xbone(maybe) is probably the better way to do it. I'm feeling like I easily could have waited a year for PS4 though. Besides playing a bunch of Diablo 3 and Destiny there hasn't really been anything exciting on PS4 for me yet.

 
Thermopyle said:
Not really. Granted I've not looked at it beyond the promo stuff they showed at E3 this year. Maybe they just presented it horribly but the tone of the game and the complete lack of a plot really turned me off to it. The gameplay didn't appear to have anything Infamous doesn't (from what I recall,) either.
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Yeah, unlike Tyler, I value the plot in most of the games I play, so I feel the same way. Infamous is just better in general anyway, but one could argue that you can't grind on pretty much anything like you can in SSO. I do appreciate the vivid color palate, though.

 
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It pains me to think that a game like Sunset Overdrive will only get experienced by the small, tiny, miniscule Xbone crowd, but dems da ropes.

Looks really good and I like the bright color scheme... a big contrast to the dark and dreary environments that are flooding the market right now.  All the brightness and goo splashing around remind me of Mario Sunshine.

 
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Just watched some gameplay footage. Granted it's PewDiePie narrating, but the gameplay...eh. Game is admittedly gorgeoous, but it just looks way way way too busy. The arrows everywhere, the monsters everywhere, the tone, and the feeling of being a comedic Infamous ripoff just don't appeal at all. Even the opening is terrible; a flashback five minutes in to explain what's going on? Why not just start with everybody turning into monsters? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B88au83E_ec

Really pretty game, though.

 
TopsideKracker said:
It pains me to think that a game like Sunset Overdrive will only get experienced by the small, tiny, miniscule Xbone crowd, but dems da ropes.

Looks really good and I like the bright color scheme... a big contrast to the dark and dreary environments that are flooding the market right now. All the brightness and goo splashing around remind me of Mario Sunshine.
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I think it definitely would've sold better on PS4. Seems like a better fit demographically.

I loved Mario Sunshine. I played the heck out of that game before I really considered gaming to be a hobby.

 
Thermopyle said:
Just watched some gameplay footage. Granted it's PewDiePie narrating, but the gameplay...eh. Game is admittedly gorgeoous, but it just looks way way way too busy. The arrows everywhere, the monsters everywhere, the tone, and the feeling of being a comedic Infamous ripoff just don't appeal at all. Even the opening is terrible; a flashback five minutes in to explain what's going on? Why not just start with everybody turning into monsters?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B88au83E_ec

Really pretty game, though.
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*sigh*

 
Oh and I do want to point out one thing; SO lets you create your own character. While this isn't necessarily a bad thing, especially with as amazing as the character designer seems to be, what it does imply is that the main character doesn't have a story of their own. There's the janitor background, but that's probably it; you're just running around in an open world with no real identity of your own. In comparison, Infamous has Cole gets pulled into all kinds of shit but has friends, an ex-lover, plans to marry, and the entire story completely revolves around Cole himself.

Different people enjoy different setups, but I'm not a huge fan of sandboxes, let alone one where the character has no identity.

 
Thermopyle said:
Oh and I do want to point out one thing; SO lets you create your own character. While this isn't necessarily a bad thing, especially with as amazing as the character designer seems to be, what it does imply is that the main character doesn't have a story of their own. There's the janitor background, but that's probably it; you're just running around in an open world with no real identity of your own. In comparison, Infamous has Cole gets pulled into all kinds of shit but has friends, an ex-lover, plans to marry, and the entire story completely revolves around Cole himself.

Different people enjoy different setups, but I'm not a huge fan of sandboxes, let alone one where the character has no identity.
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Unless I'm mistaken, BioWare is the only company to have incorporated a character creation system and given him/her a story of his/her own in the Mass Effect and Dragon Age series.

 
Vigilante said:
Unless I'm mistaken, BioWare is the only company to have incorporated a character creation system and given him/her a story of his/her own in the Mass Effect and Dragon Age series.
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I'm not sure I'd consider what Bioware did to be a character creation system. Character skinning, perhaps. What your character looks like doesn't really mean anything and the background choices you get only change the dialogue minimally. Admittedly I'm not sure how much difference character gender makes aside from the relationship choices. I haven't played through the ME games yet, but I was under the impression that the romance element is pretty small. Maybe there's a bigger impact in DA.

Vigilante said:
Backlog might have been sighing that we're missing out on SSO, not necessarily that he wasn't a fan of the video. :razz:
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Hard to tell.

 
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Cleaner7 said:
Thanks! We're doing a second chance giveaway for prizes for anyone who donates at least $1 then uses the Rafflecopter link bit.ly/TeamDJK-EL
It's mainly 360/PC stuff but there are 2 PSN items too.

I just woke up after posting earlier. I'm starting to feel a lot better and am going to eat now that my stomach isn't upset. I'm about to donate :)
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Hmm. I donated, but when I go to the rafflecopter link I don't see anything in the Enter to Win section. It says "Loading…" for a second, and then it's just blank. This was in Safari. Then I tried in Firefox and it says "This contest is no longer accepting entries". Not a big deal, but figured I'd let you know.

Now Firefox is doing the same thing - the section to enter to win is blank.

 
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Thermopyle said:
Keep in mind the context, which was discussion of spending $350 to be able to play Halo and SO. I'm not saying I wouldn't give SO a try for $5, but spending $400 for it? No way.
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Oh I agree, but that wasn't very clear that you were taking that into context. I'm not buying an XB1 for one game or even 5 that I'd like to play, but it's still unfortunate that I'll have to miss this one. It doesn't seem like it's the greatest game ever or anything though, so I'm not that upset about it.

 
All I am saying is we may see a jump in Xbox Ones sold, since the $50 price decrease includes the SSO bundle, Assassin's Creed bundle, and The call of Duty Advanced Warfare bundle... those could sell, especially since most people loved playing their call of duty on Xbox systems.

Now if PS4 did something similar it wouldn't even matter... PS4 would win hands down... now it will probably be just a little bit close.

Man, $100 off in less then a year, what does that tell you about MS's decisions...???

 
Oh and I meant to mention, if you enjoy platformers in the slightest you owe it to yourself to play Outland. It's really great.

I beat the last boss with only one heart left, it was awesome. I was down to one hit and so was the boss, so I had to time it perfectly to avoid being hit and having to do it over again. Good times.

 
Backlog_Overload said:
Oh I agree, but that wasn't very clear that you were taking that into context. I'm not buying an XB1 for one game or even 5 that I'd like to play, but it's still unfortunate that I'll have to miss this one. It doesn't seem like it's the greatest game ever or anything though, so I'm not that upset about it.
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Yeah--recall the line of conversation started with me saying the only XB1 exclusive I was particularly interested in was Halo, then Vigilante asked what I thought about SO. :)

I do PC gaming as well, though, which colors things a bit. Ori looks pretty interesting, but it also comes out on PC, so not really an exclusive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svYy_c6MWos

Same with Quantum Break:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E087GDdXYl4

 
Backlog_Overload said:
I've always wished for an HD Collection for those two games since I never got a chance to play them.
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Surprisingly they've never gotten much attention for HD retextures on PC. I believe a couple of projects started but never got finished. With the recent HD re-releases of Baldur's Gate I suppose KOTOR getting the same treatment isn't impossible. Disney owning all that stuff now brings in an extra element of legality, though, and there's no telling whether they'd want to proceed with that or not. It'd certainly be a fantastic move on their part and would be a great way to start off their handling of the product.

 
Thermopyle said:
Surprisingly they've never gotten much attention for HD retextures on PC. I believe a couple of projects started but never got finished. With the recent HD re-releases of Baldur's Gate I suppose KOTOR getting the same treatment isn't impossible. Disney owning all that stuff now brings in an extra element of legality, though, and there's no telling whether they'd want to proceed with that or not. It'd certainly be a fantastic move on their part and would be a great way to start off their handling of the product.
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Was the ipad release of KOTOR an upgrade?

KOTOR was the reason i got an original Xbox...

 
Vigilante said:
Yeah, unlike Tyler, I value the plot in most of the games I play, so I feel the same way. Infamous is just better in general anyway, but one could argue that you can't grind on pretty much anything like you can in SSO. I do appreciate the vivid color palate, though.
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I don't really understand how you reach that conclusion with the game not even being released yet. Other than both being open world I don't know why the two games would ever be compared in the first place. I'm excited to give Sunset a spin after reading some reviews. I haven't heard a lot of details about the plot, but I have heard it is well written and genuinely funny. That sounds good to me. Did we not all agree that Second Son's story was quite lame?

 
Backlog_Overload said:
I loved Mario Sunshine. I played the heck out of that game before I really considered gaming to be a hobby.
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Mario Sunshine is my favorite Mario game (second goes to the Mario Worlds) and I usually get a lot of crap about it. I got every secret and star in every Mario game through Sunshine but I've never played Galaxy or the entries after it.

Feels weird talking about that franchise now... like looking back at an ex-girlfriend.

 
bestkeeper14 said:
Was the ipad release of KOTOR an upgrade?

KOTOR was the reason i got an original Xbox...
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I didn't even realize there was a iPad release. I looked into it, though, and aside from touch-controls it seems to be the same as the original.

Regardless of your thoughts on IGN, this video gives a decent impression of the graphics and does a good job describing the touch controls (which sound poor for movement):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leztzZNRI-w

 
TopsideKracker said:
Mario Sunshine is my favorite Mario game (second goes to the Mario Worlds) and I usually get a lot of crap about it. I got every secret and star in every Mario game through Sunshine but I've never played Galaxy or the entries after it.

Feels weird talking about that franchise now... like looking back at an ex-girlfriend.
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Yep, I have a soft spot for the Gamecube in general. I played more Animal Crossing than I care to admit. I had the Game Boy Player for it too, that thing was sweet.

Part of me just wishes Sony and Nintendo would merge, and we could play Mario Sunshine HD with trophies.

 
mpaullin said:
I don't really understand how you reach that conclusion with the game not even being released yet. Other than both being open world I don't know why the two games would ever be compared in the first place. I'm excited to give Sunset a spin after reading some reviews. I haven't heard a lot of details about the plot, but I have heard it is well written and genuinely funny. That sounds good to me. Did we not all agree that Second Son's story was quite lame?
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Blame Therm for bringing up the Infamous comparison. I based my thoughts on this excerpt from Destructoid's review:

The main drawback to this style though is that it can become a bit much, particularly when it comes to the main story. In fact it's not really so much a story as it is a constant string of jokes and references, which hit more than they miss, but leave you with a feeling that something is missing. Before you know it you're back to grinding and blasting like there was no tomorrow, but sometimes it feels like there's no real point to it.
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While SSO looks kind of fun from a gameplay perspective, Infamous (primarily the first and second, and the third to a lesser extent) was fun from both gameplay and plot perspectives.
 
Super Mario Sunshine is great, but there are some really frustrating levels in it. Admittedly I've never been very good at 3D platforming. We got a lot of mileage out of Kirby's Air Ride too. My kids and I played that a lot. Fun stuff.

Also, any game that makes plot secondary to gameplay gets a check mark in my book. I'm tempted by the $350 bundle, but I really don't have the money for it, especially since then I'd be paying for both PS+ and XBL.

 
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Thermopyle said:
Other than maybe Halo I can't think of a single attractive exclusive the XB1 has. Granted I don't follow the system much, but still, a quick look at their exclusives didn't help.
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That's part of the reason I stuck to only the PS3 last gen, the good exclusives on the 360 were basically Forza and multiplayer shooters. Everything else either eventually went multiplatform or is available on the PC.

 
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guardian_owl said:
That's part of the reason I stuck to only the PS3 last gen, the good exclusives on the 360 were basically Forza and multiplayer shooters. Everything else either eventually went multiplatform or is available on the PC.
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I wish I could still say this. I agree with the post, but we bought a 360 because my kid begged for a long time for a stupid Kinect game. My wife caved. He of course hardly ever plays it and continues to play LBP 2 more than anything else. For some reason, my idea on getting a second PS3 instead was laughed at.

 
I'm struggling with whether or not to buy PvZ:GW for $20. If the disc version drops to $20 at BestBuy I'll be able to get it for less than $20 (after GCU) so probably I should wait for that. Then again it would be nice to have this game digital. Hmm. Tomorrow I'll be getting Costume Quest 2, so in the short run that's what I'll be playing, not PvZ:GW.

 
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