Video Game News and Miscellany
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I haven't played MK in a loooooooong time, but hasn't Raiden been non-playable for awhile?
Oh, I might have been thinking of, uh, Liu Kang, maybe? I think he died in one game and was gone from the roster?
Shit I dunno, I haven't played an MK since the first 3D one with weapons.
Shit I dunno, I haven't played an MK since the first 3D one with weapons.
They're trying to build hype the way Nintendo is doing with Smash Bros, but the thing is that the Smash roster manages to be unpredictable and anticipated because there are so many popular characters who could be in it, since it's a cross-series mash-up. You can't really do that with a single source fighting game. I saw a parody of the Raiden announcement before I even saw it in actual gaming news.
I doubt anyone's upset; it just invites mockery, and that's what it's getting. Again, first time I heard about it was a from it being made fun of; didn't even know about the video beforehand. But yeah, the reveal part that would suggest it's unexpected is only in the title, so blame the marketing, not the ... marketing?
It's possible for them to cut Raiden, but that would be more of an announcement than Raiden being included.
Doing the Smash Bros route only works for other cross-over fighting games, like Marvel vs Capcom, or ... the other ones. You know them.
MK3 had Cyrax though, who basically plays like Scorpion.
But they aren't. They're doing a gameplay trailer.
IGN wants it to seem differently. Probably because they crave attention.
The screen at 0:11 calls him...Kotal Khan? Who I assume is related to Shao Kahn in some way? And that when they were growing up Shao Kahn used to bully him mercilessly over his stupid, stupid name.
Metal Gear Solid just gets weirder and weirder as the series goes on. I was discussing it with a friend and I think the strangeness of the series can be summed up like this:
"Defeating an entire squad of Spetznaz soldiers in close quarters combat using non-lethal takedowns, or a harrowing ten-minute firefight through a burning oil platform while dragging a wounded buddy to the safety of the extraction chopper? Cutscenes. Taking creepy-ass fetish pictures of dying women, molesting enemy troops, and occasionally having your character jerk off to pinups? Totally interactive."
"Defeating an entire squad of Spetznaz soldiers in close quarters combat using non-lethal takedowns, or a harrowing ten-minute firefight through a burning oil platform while dragging a wounded buddy to the safety of the extraction chopper? Cutscenes. Taking creepy-ass fetish pictures of dying women, molesting enemy troops, and occasionally having your character jerk off to pinups? Totally interactive."
Club Nintendo Elite Rewards 2014
Pretty disappointing. Last year there was some cool stuff, and I encouraged my wife to build up her rank for this year along with me. I was expecting Nintendo memorabilia or soundtracks or something, like they've had in the past. There's nothing here she would want for her Gold status.
Pretty disappointing. Last year there was some cool stuff, and I encouraged my wife to build up her rank for this year along with me. I was expecting Nintendo memorabilia or soundtracks or something, like they've had in the past. There's nothing here she would want for her Gold status.
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GasBandit
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Do not question the Jay, he will judge all before him regardless of things like facts.
Also, he's french canadian, so, you know... who knows how those people think.
GasBandit
Staff member
His posts and replies have been very terse lately. In my mind, he is trying to condense his thoughts into the most tightly compacted, quickly deliverable packages possible, because he can't get an instant to himself as his daughter constantly toddles from one potential disaster to another, and daddy has to intervene.
To be fair, they had a lot of solid work on SNES and even PS1 and 2. I think last gen is where things started getting weird and bad.
You have to halve the framerate, so you have to be able to get 120fps reliably in order to get 2x60fps stereo.
Either that, or it's the innate bias the world seems to have had (since the FX5xxx series came out) about preferring to use NVIDIA cards for 3D.
--Patrick