Week o Games, 4/26: Super Robot Taisen OG Saga, Velvet Assassin, XMen Wolverine

slash000

Another week, another 7 days of new game releases!

Welcome to the 61 edition of G&T's newly traditional "Weekly Games Release Thread!" - Week 4/26 - 5/2!

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

Super Robot Taisen OG Saga: Endless Frontier




X-Men Origins: Wolverine




Elite Forces: Unit 77




Smiley World Island Challenge

PC

X-Men Origins: Wolverine




Velvet Assassin




Lineage II: Chaotic Throne: Gracia Final

Stalin vs. Martians (this was delayed from earlier)

MLB Dugout Heroes

Reel Deal Slots: Adventure

Play! The Ultimate Casual Game Collection

Evochron Legends

PS2

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

PS3

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

PSP

Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce



X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Wii

X-Men Origins: Wolverine



Fantasy Aquarium World
Burger Island
Party Pigs: FarmYard Games
Tournament Pool

Xbox360

Velvet Assassin



X-Men Origins: Wolverine

WiiWare/VC

dunno yet

XBLA/XNA Community

Banjo-Tooie


Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram Ver.5.66

dunno yet

PSN

dunno yet

Not much this week.

Super Robot Taisen OG Saga comes out for Nintendo DS, and it looks like a pretty good game.

PC is getting a Lineage II expansion or something.

PSP is getting Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce.


Xbox360 and PC are getting Velvet Assassin.


Everybody is getting X-Men Origins: Wolverine


And finally I think XBLA is getting Banjo-Tooie and Virtual On: Oratorio Tangram Ver.5.66.

RichardTauber

What's this Velvet Assasin?

slash000

RichardTauber wrote: »

What's this Velvet Assasin?

I'm not sure.

Kotaku tried to make some hoopla about it, but I ignored said hoopla.

slash000

OK I remember now.

Velvet Assassin is a third person action game taking place in World War II.

It involves both stealth and sometimes shooting action.

You play as a female assassin.


That's the extent of my knowledge.

RichardTauber

Looks like a real hit-or-miss game. Hope somebody picks it up and posts impressions.

Darth_Mogs

I really wish the demo for Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce wasn't complete garbage, because it completely un-sold me on the game. I'd be tempted to buy it since everybody can go super-saiyan and stuff and generally cause chaos with local multiplayer. Stupid/awesome concept (depending on how you look at it) but very poorly executed. No Dynasty Warriors game should be built around -letting- you die a certain amount of times, since it means you -will- die more than the allotted times.

elliotw2

Umm, it looks like a pretty miss week, excluding SRTOG. Maybe we'll see something else good come up before Atlus just goes and takes all of my moneys

slash000

I'm not even into roleplaying games, but Super Robot Taisen looks pretty awesome even to me. Mostly because the combat looks like fun. Whereas most RPG combat engines bore me.

elliotw2

Well, the two GBA games were pretty good, so I expect this one to be just as good, and it looks like it may be better, from what I've heard

Well, looking over some stuff, it looks like next week will be a better week, at least for the niche gamers.

Xenogears of Bore

Don't mistake SRT for Super Robot Wars. This is a regular, non SRPG about breasts.

I will eventually buy it on the cheap, not this week.

In fact I'm going to save some money over the next few months by not buying anything.

Cherrn

I took a look at some Super Robot Taisen videos, and I can't fathom what type of game it actually is.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/48242.html

Is it a SRPG? A regular RPG? Or a beat 'em up?

Edit:

Hey boobs. Oh Japan

TyrantCow

o_O

that is some crazy weird looking boobs/guns/sword rpg thing. wtf is going on with the boob emphasis?

shyguy

TyrantCow wrote: »

o_O

that is some crazy weird looking boobs/guns/sword rpg thing.

Also, surprisingly few, you know, robots.

Pata

It's a regular RPG with a combo based battle system.

Shadowfire

Trailer

I've seen worse looking games, but it does look rather uninspired.

Cherrn

Velvet Assassin has the misfortune of being associated with Saboteur by proxy, which looks infinitely more interesting.

That said, it's been too long since we had a good stealth game that wasn't MGS, so I hope it turns out okay. The trailer was okay, though the name is still terrible.

Peewi

I'd like to point out that Europe gets Rhythm Paradise on 1st of May. I'll definitely get it. The demo on the Nintendo Channel was nice, even though I was horrible at it.

cj iwakura

Pata wrote: »

It's a regular RPG with a combo based battle system.

It's basically the exact same combat system used in Namco X Capcom.

It also has the game's protagonists in it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrX2OFemChg

Both are the main reasons I'm getting this on day 1.

TyrantCow

uhh... that's looks kinda neat.

cj iwakura

And here's the SRT version(2:30)

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

Dusda

Any chance the Wolverine game isn't utterly mediocre?

urahonky

SRT has KOS-MOS? That's sold me already.

cj iwakura

From what I've seen, not just KOS-MOS.

T-Elos is in it too.

urahonky

Holy shit that's awesome!

Shadowfire

Dusda wrote: »

Any chance the Wolverine game isn't utterly mediocre?

It looks like it will be at least mediocre... but I guess we won't know until we play it.

RainbowDespair

It's an XNA Community Game so it doesn't have an official date, but I hope this gets released this week: http://www.xnplay.co.uk/2009/04/26/halfbrick-echoes/

It's an Action/puzzle game where you run around collecting gems. The catch is that every time you collect a gem, an evil echo of your previous actions appears. Touch an echo and you die. The company's previous XNA Community Game was good (a gravity/spaceship puzzle game) so I have high hopes for it.

Brainiac 8

I want the robot game with the boobages.

urahonky

I love the "power up" for the Super Robot Taisen gives them a mandatory reveal of the boobs. That sold me just on the hilarity factor... As well as the :winky: factor.

Brainiac 8

It looks like a decent RPG, plus gives us huge bouncing boobies for when they attack....so it's awesome times two! :shock:

darleysam

I'm waiting on reviews for Wolverine, but being a film tie-in, I strongly anticipate summaries to include "short, repetitive, dull".

I may be wrong, apparently it was finished early and given more time to be polished up (which I'll believe until proven otherwise) and I like the idea of actually being able to rip people to shreds with your claws, rather than just pester them until they fall over. It could potentially be really good, but I can wait.

Kaseius

Darth_Mogs wrote: »

I really wish the demo for Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce wasn't complete garbage, because it completely un-sold me on the game. I'd be tempted to buy it since everybody can go super-saiyan and stuff and generally cause chaos with local multiplayer. Stupid/awesome concept (depending on how you look at it) but very poorly executed. No Dynasty Warriors game should be built around -letting- you die a certain amount of times, since it means you -will- die more than the allotted times.

I downloaded the JP demo (my PSP is tied to a JP account, and I don't know how to change it ) and really enjoyed it, actually.. it seemed a bit hard but the idea was so over the top awesome that I couldn't help but love it. I think I died maybe once or twice and it didn't seem like it was a huge deal or something I had to do. Maybe I'm just weird.

Sterica

I can't believe the DSi Ware is such shit this short after release. It's worse than WiiWare, and that was rather tepid as well.

Darth_Mogs

Kaseius wrote: »

Darth_Mogs wrote: »

I really wish the demo for Dynasty Warriors: Strikeforce wasn't complete garbage, because it completely un-sold me on the game. I'd be tempted to buy it since everybody can go super-saiyan and stuff and generally cause chaos with local multiplayer. Stupid/awesome concept (depending on how you look at it) but very poorly executed. No Dynasty Warriors game should be built around -letting- you die a certain amount of times, since it means you -will- die more than the allotted times.

I downloaded the JP demo (my PSP is tied to a JP account, and I don't know how to change it ) and really enjoyed it, actually.. it seemed a bit hard but the idea was so over the top awesome that I couldn't help but love it. I think I died maybe once or twice and it didn't seem like it was a huge deal or something I had to do. Maybe I'm just weird.

I don't know. I tried a few different characters and never beat the demo level once. At most, I'd make it to the last level and then Lu Bu and his Giant Monster went "Oh hey, so about you living. Yeaaaaah..."

It just didn't feel like a DW game to me, was the big problem. Which is more or less why it kicked my teeth in.

Edit: And this seems like the place to put this. Best Buy is having a $10 sale on a lot of DS/PS3/360 games. Probably worth looking into, at least.

Ah_Pook

im really hoping for a wolverine demo, that game looks like it could be a lot of fun. maybe.

Eight Rooks

Velvet Assassin is the one that's selling itself as based on the exploits of real-life WWII secret agent Violette Szabo, conveniently ignoring the fact she ended up captured on her second mission, imprisoned by the SS, tortured, raped and executed at 23 years old. Not really that attached to my high horse or anything - the game might be good - it's just the dream sequences in skimpy nightgown and trailer with EPIC RAWK MUSIC and NECK STABBING can't help but leave a little bit of a sour taste in my mouth.

And the Dynasty Warriors Strikeforce demo was utterly awesome. It's the ARPG combat system Too Human should have had, basically, instead of that broken, wounded mess we ended up with.

slash000

RE: Wolverine game

Is it a movie tie-in game? Yes... BUT --

a) It's being developed by Raven

b) It began development before it was decided to become a "movie tie in game." In other words, Raven started the game right after Ultimate Alliance with the idea that they wanted to make a more single player experience super hero game.



So there's some reason to believe that it won't be utter trite garbage. Raven is a solid dev, and the game was designed and began development before it became the official movie game.

Ah_Pook

slash000 wrote: »

RE: Wolverine game

Is it a movie tie-in game? Yes... BUT --

a) It's being developed by Raven

b) It began development before it was decided to become a "movie tie in game." In other words, Raven started the game right after Ultimate Alliance with the idea that they wanted to make a more single player experience super hero game.



So there's some reason to believe that it won't be utter trite garbage. Raven is a solid dev, and the game was designed and began development before it became the official movie game.

yea those two things are the only reason i gave it a second glance. but then the previews and dev videos and stuff looked cool too.

lowlylowlycook

Rorus Raz wrote: »

I can't believe the DSi Ware is such shit this short after release. It's worse than WiiWare, and that was rather tepid as well.

This way I can avoid buying a DSi.

UnbreakableVow

I'm getting Wolverine dependant on reviews. If it's anywhere in the 7.0 range I'll pick it up.

jeddy lee

God damnit. Someone play that wolverine game and tell me it's shit already, so I can stop being tempted to buy a shitty game.

cj iwakura

Paying full price for a movie tie-in game is generally a silly idea. They price drop after like a month.