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Week o Games, 1/24: No More Heroes 2, Tatsunoko v Capcom, Mass Effect 2, MAG
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Another week, another 7 days of new game releases!
Welcome to the 99 edition of G&T's newly traditional "Weekly Games Release Thread!" - Week 1/24/10 - 1/30/10 !
Where we discuss what we're looking forward to, what we're going to buy, and what we're just now realizing is being released this week that we had forgotten about!
NDS
Legend of Kay *** may be getting release date shoved back
Number Battle
Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans
Imagine: Party Planner
Playmobil Knights
PC
Mass Effect 2
Horrible Histories: Ruthless Romans
Hotel Giant 2
Legend of Vraz
PS3
MAG
PSP
Shadow of Destiny
Wii
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle
Tatsunoko vs. Capcom: Ultimate All-Stars
bittos+ (wiiware)
Xbox360
Mass Effect 2
This is a great week!
The Wii is getting two awesome games this week:
No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle, the sequel to the popular, stylized, crazy action original by awesome/insane game designer Suda51. This one looks to improve on the original game in just about every conceivable way, so if you enjoyed NMH, get this game.
Wii is also getting Tatsunoko vs. Capcom, the latest in Capcom's "versus" series type of games. Take a bunch of your favorite street fighters, throw in some Darkstalkers, Rival Schools, Mega Man legends, Onimusha, viewtiful joe, Lost planet, Dead rising, Mega man X, and okami from capcom... and mix it with crazy shit from Tatsunoko, one of Japan's biggest anime companies. The game just looks awesome. And it's going to support online multiplayer! Woo!
Next up this great week is the Xbox 360 and PC game, Mass Effect 2. Sequel to the extremely popular 2007 game, this sequel will also improve on the original in almost every respect. BioWare tried to address a lot of complaints about the first one with this. There will be improved animation, graphics, and presentation, tons of more variety of weapons, and a bunch more awesome shit. You should be able to load your Mass Effect 1 save file to "continue" your previous character. This is going to be a great game.
Next up is MAG for PS3. This has been described as a massive online multiplayer shooter/action game developed by Zipper ( the SOCOM guys), and the big selling point is the up to 256 players online matches, divided into 8 squads. It sounds fun and I think there was a Beta to test it a while back but I haven't read much else about it.
What else this week. Well, the NDS gets a version of Legend of Kay, which I believe is a port of the fairly well-received action/platforming game from the PS2. Might be worth a look for platforming fans with DS's.
Coincidentally, the PSP is also get a PS2 port, as Shadow of Destiny comes out for it this week. A direct port of the PS2 game, this is a pretty well received adventure / puzzle game. Supposed to have a great plot, so adventure game fans should check it out!
I think that's it!
What's everyone getting?
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Mass Effect 2 this week! Grabbing that on Friday.
I need to get No More Heroes 2 and I really, really need to get Tatsunoko v Capcom ... and Mass Effect 2... and I still need to get a few other games that I missed this past couple of weeks/fall like Silent Hill...
I'm going to have to shave that down I can really only afford 2 maybe 3 this week..
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AND Tatsunoko?
I havent even bought Darksiders or Bayonetta yet!
Mass Effect 2 can wait.
This year is seriously gonna be the 1993 of video game releases for this generation. (If that makes any sense to anyone else)
Buy TvC, maybe a stick.
Ignore the crap out of the rest of the games that only silly geese would buy.
And if you don't buy or at least play Mass Effect 2, you sir are the silly goose.
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No thanks, I was already fooled once by Jade Empire in Spaaaace. They aren't getting me a second time!
It doesn't play anything like Jade Empire
Also it's good
Unlike Jade Empire
My friend is always picking up TvC but I already played the import a while ago. Either way, it should be fun to play around with the new characters and online.
Expensive damn week.
Yeah I'm in the same boat. That's three awesome games that I need to get. Maybe I'll put ME2 off for a bit. I've really been just extremely anticipating NMH2 for a long long time. And Tat v Cap I figure will be one of those games I play on and off in bits for the next several months, like I do with most fighting games.
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To say that the weekly games releases for the PS2 are going to be sparse for the year is an understatement. It's basically going to be rehashes of sports games, licensed stuff, and PSP ports, and even then, the pickings are less than slim. With an extreme few exceptions. But even with everything tallied up it's still going to be like... a single game every month or every few months.
I'll post the PS2 releases when they come out, but as for having a PS2 "section" there's really no point, because almost every week I would only be posting "nothing" in the drop down spoiler list.
The PS2's life cycle may not be officially shut down, but practically speaking it might as well be.
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I did not expect a Shadow of Destiny port to the PSP. It's a great adventure game but it didn't sell too well.
So long suckers.
(Please do not gift. My game bank is already full.)
Could probably save a few bucks if I do some Steam backlog clearing first!
I have very little reason to pick up Mass Effect 2 right away, other than it being awesome. Bioware games have a history of aging very well due to their quality and polish (despite whether or not you hated Jade Empire).
My reasons for picking up Tatsu vs. Cap, is to stay with the curve of people learning the game.
Reasons for picking up NMH2 is a bit more naive but whatever. Suda kept saying how disappointed he was about NMH's original release and said this would be his last game on wii (or something to that effect).
So I'm picking it up to show my support of how much I enjoy a talented developer making quality games on the wii.
Is that Naive of me?
Not really...solid reasoning.
Though if fighting games have taught me anything as far as online goes.
While a decent amount of people will improve over time...most will not.
I can still hop on Blazblue after a few months hiatus and kick quite a lot of ass. Though, I am quite capable at the game.
The great thing that SFIV had was the Championship mode, which pretty much set people into specific tiers of skill. That way once you got good enough to constnatly kick everyone's ass in one tier, you would move up to the next tier and fight a whole new set of people with more sophisticated skill and keep on improving. It was a pretty good system.
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But either way, I'm not sure.
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ME2, so much want, can't afford the time right now, maybe in a coupla months. Want to play through the first again beforehand too. But man, some of the reviews have been unbelievably positive, so resolve may crumble.
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Unfortunately, there isnt a lick of information about the game or a preview at gametrailers.
I swear doesnt anybody advertise video games any more?
Can you imagine how many sales NMH 1 would get if you just mentioned the first words the hero says in the game is "FUCK HEADS!!"?
Once my friends list is full of people all merrily Effecting Masses I'll stop delaying the inevitable.
I didn't even notice that they changed the terrible ME2 box art
Huzzah!
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I can't find any info on the DS version. It seems to be somewhat of a port, I think, of the old PS2 original. The original ps2 game was pretty well received. Nevertheless, it's always odd to me when a game is released without so much as a peep from the publisher. No ads, okay, but nothing else either. There's no official screenshots, no press release, no trailer, no gameplay footage, not even on youtube. Even the legend of kay website doesn't mention it at all besides the original ps2 game...
Maybe this game is getting shoved back. Gamestop lists it as this week, but Amazon lists it as February.
I know. I remember when they changed it. And thinking, "OK, if you're going to change terrible fucking box art, please try and change it something that isn't also terrible fucking box art."
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I mean...what is Miranda even shooting at...and why is she so happy? And why is Shepard neck at such a weird angle?