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Video Game Industry Thread: Master Chief -- script delivery boy

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  • Ninja Snarl PNinja Snarl P Registered User regular
    I guess People Can Fly are just going to stick their collective heads in the sand and ignore the fact that Bullestorm was pretty overvalued at its original price?

    Don't get me wrong; I recently got Bulletstorm from a Steam sale and holy crap did I enjoy the hell out of it. They did things with the Unreal engine that I've never even seen anyone else try. But it was still more or less a straight-up shooter campaign running a dozen or so hours and has little in the way of replay value other than just enjoying the game again. A steal at 5 bucks, but a waste of money at 50/60.

    It is a lot easier to blame piracy for poor performance, though.

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  • TheSonicRetardTheSonicRetard Registered User regular
    I just got back from driving across Houston to pick up a listing from craigslist. For $75 I got:

    Shining Force III
    Guardian Heroes
    Dragon Force
    Shinobi Legions
    Legend of Oasis
    Panzer Dragoon Zwei

    all complete with box and manual. I already own some of those, but hot damn that's an incredible deal. I'm guessing the lady who sold me these did not buy these herself, nor did she know how much this shit was worth.

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  • mrt144mrt144 King of the Numbernames Registered User regular
    I just got back from driving across Houston to pick up a listing from craigslist. For $75 I got:

    Shining Force III
    Guardian Heroes
    Dragon Force
    Shinobi Legions
    Legend of Oasis
    Panzer Dragoon Zwei

    all complete with box and manual. I already own some of those, but hot damn that's an incredible deal. I'm guessing the lady who sold me these did not buy these herself, nor did she know how much this shit was worth.

    But are you gonna sell it? It's not worth anything if you don't sell it.

  • TheSonicRetardTheSonicRetard Registered User regular
    I probably will not sell them, actually.

    EDIT: Although, I may trade them with people on forums to try and get Panzer Dragoon Saga without having to spend the $250 it goes for online.

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  • mrt144mrt144 King of the Numbernames Registered User regular
    I probably will not sell them, actually.

    EDIT: Although, I may trade them with people on forums to try and get Panzer Dragoon Saga without having to spend the $250 it goes for online.

    You own a Sega Saturn...Ho-lee-shiet.

  • Undead ScottsmanUndead Scottsman Puts his name on his helicoptor.. ..so everyone knows it's his.Registered User regular
    mrt144 wrote: »
    I probably will not sell them, actually.

    EDIT: Although, I may trade them with people on forums to try and get Panzer Dragoon Saga without having to spend the $250 it goes for online.

    You own a Sega Saturn...Ho-lee-shiet.

    ....His name is TheSonicRetard.

    I'd be more surprised if he DIDN'T own every Sega system know to man.

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  • TheSonicRetardTheSonicRetard Registered User regular
    mrt144 wrote: »
    I probably will not sell them, actually.

    EDIT: Although, I may trade them with people on forums to try and get Panzer Dragoon Saga without having to spend the $250 it goes for online.

    You own a Sega Saturn...Ho-lee-shiet.

    Since launch!

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  • mrt144mrt144 King of the Numbernames Registered User regular
    mrt144 wrote: »
    I probably will not sell them, actually.

    EDIT: Although, I may trade them with people on forums to try and get Panzer Dragoon Saga without having to spend the $250 it goes for online.

    You own a Sega Saturn...Ho-lee-shiet.

    ....His name is TheSonicRetard.

    I'd be more surprised if he DIDN'T own every Sega system know to man.

    True...very true.

  • SynthesisSynthesis Registered User regular
    Wait...are Saturn's hard to get recently? I thought they were still pretty easy to get on eBay or elswhere (more expensive than Dreamcasts, but yeah)...

    Orca wrote: »
    Synthesis wrote:
    Isn't "Your sarcasm makes me wet," the highest compliment an Abh can pay a human?

    Only if said Abh is a member of the nobility.
  • TheSonicRetardTheSonicRetard Registered User regular
    I do have every commercially released Sega system made, and got them all during their life time, too. I also have quite a few Sega arcade boards, including a Naomi 2, a Sega Titan V, an Atomiswave, and a few stand-alone boards, including Virtua Fighter 2 (which I can't play because I don't have a 22 hz tv), Sonic the Fighters (same reason), SegaSonic Arcade (which I CAN play and IS awesome), Fantasy Zone, Alex Kidd: The Lost Stars, and Altered Beast.

    The main pieces of Sega tech I'm missing are a Sega Megaplay, at least one System 16 game, a System 24 game, a model 1 and 3 game, and the big motherfucker - A sega lindberg, which I vow I will own one day.

    Quirkiest piece of Sega tech I own would probably a Hi-saturn Navi, which I picked up several years ago without the LCD screen. Beyond that, I also have a Mega PC, sadly without the Sega branded monitor.
    Synthesis wrote: »
    Wait...are Saturn's hard to get recently? I thought they were still pretty easy to get on eBay or elswhere (more expensive than Dreamcasts, but yeah)...

    A plain-jane sega saturn is relatively easy to come by. I use my model 1 saturn, the same one I've had since launch, but I also have a spare model 2. Specific revisions of sega saturn can be tricky to come across - a skeleton-mold sega saturn from japan can get pricey, and today a Hi-Saturn Navi will run you several hundreds of dollars. I've never seen one for sale on ebay, but you can find them from time to time on Assembler, and the going rate usually begins at about $800.

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  • mrt144mrt144 King of the Numbernames Registered User regular
    Synthesis wrote: »
    Wait...are Saturn's hard to get recently? I thought they were still pretty easy to get on eBay or elswhere (more expensive than Dreamcasts, but yeah)...

    It's not that they are hard to procure, but more of a question of "why would you"

  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Chareth Cutestory Lawyer of the SeaRegistered User regular
    mrt144 wrote: »
    Synthesis wrote: »
    Wait...are Saturn's hard to get recently? I thought they were still pretty easy to get on eBay or elswhere (more expensive than Dreamcasts, but yeah)...

    It's not that they are hard to procure, but more of a question of "why would you"

    Hey

    You can put your favorite CDs in and then give all the singers Alvin and the Chipmunk voices

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  • SynthesisSynthesis Registered User regular
    Sakura Taisen 1 & 2 have been remade for Dreamcast.

    So that knocks them out for me. Though if I wanted to play Crusader: No Remorse on a console....

    Orca wrote: »
    Synthesis wrote:
    Isn't "Your sarcasm makes me wet," the highest compliment an Abh can pay a human?

    Only if said Abh is a member of the nobility.
  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Chareth Cutestory Lawyer of the SeaRegistered User regular
    I didn't know what Crusader: No Remorse was so I wiki'd it

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    How the fuck was George Lucas not sued

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  • GaslightGaslight It's not your fault Video games are amazingRegistered User regular
    How the fuck was George Lucas not sued

    Crusader: No Remorse came out in 1995.

    I can only assume you meant to ask how George Lucas hasn't sued.

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  • SynthesisSynthesis Registered User regular
    Because it was better than a good 90% of the stuff Lucas had put out by 1995?

    Or he lacked the foresight to trademark the helmet with a T-shaped visor.

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    Orca wrote: »
    Synthesis wrote:
    Isn't "Your sarcasm makes me wet," the highest compliment an Abh can pay a human?

    Only if said Abh is a member of the nobility.
  • HenroidHenroid Baba Booey to y'all Tyler, TX (where hope comes to die!)Registered User regular

    His personal history is pretty intense. As for the professional though... The C64 was the first computer I'd ever been exposed to. When I was a kid I used it to just play shit like Mario Bros. and Knight Games and such. Okay, admittedly, that's all I ever used it for. But when I was a kid I usually needed my family to set the games up for me to play. When I was about six though I read the manual and learned how to operate the computer for myself, which kinda blew everyone away. I was still using my C64 too, up until about... oh, 2005 maybe, whenever I would visit my mother. Then my mom trashed it when she moved. That didn't please me at all.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Chareth Cutestory Lawyer of the SeaRegistered User regular
    No

    How was Lucas not sued

    Lucas should be sued

    By them

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  • HenroidHenroid Baba Booey to y'all Tyler, TX (where hope comes to die!)Registered User regular
    I just got back from driving across Houston to pick up a listing from craigslist. For $75 I got:

    Shining Force III
    Guardian Heroes
    Dragon Force
    Shinobi Legions
    Legend of Oasis
    Panzer Dragoon Zwei


    all complete with box and manual. I already own some of those, but hot damn that's an incredible deal. I'm guessing the lady who sold me these did not buy these herself, nor did she know how much this shit was worth.

    Man, when I was younger and the Saturn came out, those two games are what made me want one most. Panzer Dragoon previews in magazines were the worst for me to have to go through. I never ended up getting a Saturn. :(

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  • GaslightGaslight It's not your fault Video games are amazingRegistered User regular
    It came out in 1995.

    What year did Boba Fett first appear in Empire Strikes Back?

    Come on kids, you can get this.

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  • SynthesisSynthesis Registered User regular
    ...he wasn't in the film when it came out in 1980?

    Wow, well, there goes all the Star Wars nerd cred I might have had.

    Orca wrote: »
    Synthesis wrote:
    Isn't "Your sarcasm makes me wet," the highest compliment an Abh can pay a human?

    Only if said Abh is a member of the nobility.
  • TheSonicRetardTheSonicRetard Registered User regular
    mrt144 wrote: »
    Synthesis wrote: »
    Wait...are Saturn's hard to get recently? I thought they were still pretty easy to get on eBay or elswhere (more expensive than Dreamcasts, but yeah)...

    It's not that they are hard to procure, but more of a question of "why would you"

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Chareth Cutestory Lawyer of the SeaRegistered User regular
    I am talking about the Clone Troopers, not Boba Fett

    I could buy that it coincidentally looks like Boba Fett's helmet

    But the all-white suit with the same damn helmet, that is a goddamned Clone Trooper

    Also PS Boba Fett is lame and anyone that says differently is wrong, he's in Empire for like two minutes and then he's killed by a blind Han Solo and screams like a bitch while it happens. Random tangent I know but I really hate all the attention and love that Fett gets

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  • SynthesisSynthesis Registered User regular
    Holy shit, SonicRetard.

    The game I've been wondering about the last 15 years was Shining Wisdom?

    I saw an ad for that in PC Gamer that long ago, didn't remember the title, and never figured out what it was for.

    I salute you.

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    Orca wrote: »
    Synthesis wrote:
    Isn't "Your sarcasm makes me wet," the highest compliment an Abh can pay a human?

    Only if said Abh is a member of the nobility.
  • HenroidHenroid Baba Booey to y'all Tyler, TX (where hope comes to die!)Registered User regular


    UV, Boba Fett got a lot of attention when the character was a fairly ambiguous space-badass. Of course, like many things, when detail gets added the character is ruined. Yes yes, "but he wasn't really a character, he had a few lines," but maybe sometimes in art there's a benefit to the viewer extrapolating their own interpretation. He said enough to get a point across that he wasn't someone to be fucked with and people liked that.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Chareth Cutestory Lawyer of the SeaRegistered User regular
    Jesus TSR

    You could have spoilered those or something!

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  • HenroidHenroid Baba Booey to y'all Tyler, TX (where hope comes to die!)Registered User regular
    Jesus TSR

    You could have spoilered those or something!

    They still would have loaded anyway?

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  • SynthesisSynthesis Registered User regular
    I was right about 1980.

    Sweet! Cred restored!

    Orca wrote: »
    Synthesis wrote:
    Isn't "Your sarcasm makes me wet," the highest compliment an Abh can pay a human?

    Only if said Abh is a member of the nobility.
  • GaslightGaslight It's not your fault Video games are amazingRegistered User regular
    I am talking about the Clone Troopers, not Boba Fett

    I could buy that it coincidentally looks like Boba Fett's helmet

    But the all-white suit with the same damn helmet, that is a goddamned Clone Trooper

    The Clone Troopers' armor is, both canonically and behind the scenes, based on Jango Fett's/Mandalorian armor.

    If anything, Lucas could have tried to sue claiming the Crusader character was a ripoff of Fett or the Stormtrooper design.

    Also PS Boba Fett is lame and anyone that says differently is wrong,

    That's nice. Nobody cares.

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  • GaslightGaslight It's not your fault Video games are amazingRegistered User regular
    Synthesis wrote: »
    I was right about 1980.

    Sweet! Cred restored!


    Of course it did, and of course Fett was in it.

    Crusader: No Remorse came out in 1995.

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  • UnbreakableVowUnbreakableVow Chareth Cutestory Lawyer of the SeaRegistered User regular
    Henroid wrote: »
    Jesus TSR

    You could have spoilered those or something!

    They still would have loaded anyway?

    None of those pictures are huge file-wise

    They're just pretty tall images and there's a bunch of them!

    I bought a Saturn years back because I was really into VF4 and wanted to try out VF2, and NiGHTs always sounded interesting to me. Ended up really disliking NiGHTs, but VF2 was great! Eventually got the original Tomb Raider and Resident Evil on it among a few other games that were probably on PS1 as well

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  • Xenogears of BoreXenogears of Bore Registered User regular
    Wait, MM8 Saturn had a US launch?

    Did not know that.

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  • TheSonicRetardTheSonicRetard Registered User regular
    Alternatively:

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  • SynthesisSynthesis Registered User regular
    Also Pocket Fighter (which I didn't see up there).

    Which is still my favorite Capcom fighter to this day.

    ....I'll get my coat.

    Orca wrote: »
    Synthesis wrote:
    Isn't "Your sarcasm makes me wet," the highest compliment an Abh can pay a human?

    Only if said Abh is a member of the nobility.
  • TheSonicRetardTheSonicRetard Registered User regular
    Synthesis wrote: »
    Also Pocket Fighter (which I didn't see up there).

    Which is still my favorite Capcom fighter to this day.

    ....I'll get my coat.

    I purposely excluded all the Capcom and SNK fighters because of the inevitable "why not get them in X collection/get a neo geo/buy a CPS2/etc" posts. The above games are either saturn only, or the saturn version is far superior to all others (like Duke Nukem 3D, which is even better than the PC version).

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  • AthenorAthenor Dapper Storyteller Registered User regular
    <snip 'viral commercial'>

    Wat, Nintendo.

    Okay. That was actually hilarious. How did Nintendo's marketing become so good?
    And why does Sony's blow chunks right now? They had a good thing going with the Kevin Butler stuff. Why did they regress?

    I saw Kevin Butler's actor on another commercial this weekend while with my family. It was on the Discovery channel - he was a new guy, playing 3rd man to a pair of other characters.

    I wasn't surprised.. just sad. His charisma didn't have time to show through.

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  • SynthesisSynthesis Registered User regular
    Synthesis wrote: »
    Also Pocket Fighter (which I didn't see up there).

    Which is still my favorite Capcom fighter to this day.

    ....I'll get my coat.

    I purposely excluded all the Capcom and SNK fighters because of the inevitable "why not get them in X collection/get a neo geo/buy a CPS2/etc" posts. The above games are either saturn only, or the saturn version is far superior to all others (like Duke Nukem 3D, which is even better than the PC version).

    Makes sense. Though for me, Duke Nukem 3D was also about the huge modding community--which I assume didn't translate to the Saturn....

    Orca wrote: »
    Synthesis wrote:
    Isn't "Your sarcasm makes me wet," the highest compliment an Abh can pay a human?

    Only if said Abh is a member of the nobility.
  • Xenogears of BoreXenogears of Bore Registered User regular
    It's a hard argument to say that SS Resident Evil is the best one.

    It's better then Director's Cut but not Dualshock, and it might not be better then PC.

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  • TheSonicRetardTheSonicRetard Registered User regular
    Synthesis wrote: »
    Synthesis wrote: »
    Also Pocket Fighter (which I didn't see up there).

    Which is still my favorite Capcom fighter to this day.

    ....I'll get my coat.

    I purposely excluded all the Capcom and SNK fighters because of the inevitable "why not get them in X collection/get a neo geo/buy a CPS2/etc" posts. The above games are either saturn only, or the saturn version is far superior to all others (like Duke Nukem 3D, which is even better than the PC version).

    Makes sense. Though for me, Duke Nukem 3D was also about the huge modding community--which I assume didn't translate to the Saturn....

    No, it didn't, but the saturn version used a custom engine written explicitly for the saturn, which featured improved graphics, and much better lighting. It also featured online play, and a full sequel to Death Tank, called Death Tank Zwei, as an unlockable.

    Basically, it's what GL Doom and all the true 3D doom fan engines out there are to the original Doom, to the original Duke Nukem 3D.

    It also supported KEYBOARD AND MOUSE.

    Let that sink in. A sega saturn game, in 1997, with KB&M, and online play. Sega was so, so far ahead of their time.

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  • TheSonicRetardTheSonicRetard Registered User regular
    It's a hard argument to say that SS Resident Evil is the best one.

    It's better then Director's Cut but not Dualshock, and it might not be better then PC.

    It has better graphics than any PSX version of the game. The saturn version models use almost twice the amount of polygons as the PSX version. The PC version is, in fact, based off the saturn version.

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