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    Game-ending Bugs

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    Wrap your head around this one:

    Castlevania Lords of Shadow: When you go into the last chapter of the game to face the last boss, the game may delete your save file. The game's saving system relies completely on ONE auto-save file. You can't have multiple saves. Unless you backup your file to a USB drive. lol

    And this is a 2010 game.

    Vanquish (XB360/PS3)

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    I played the demo as well, was pretty cool. Now that it's released I've been considering getting the game... then I heard all these rumors of how short it is.. around 4-5 hours and 2+ hours of cut-scene material with almost no unlockables. Question is: Is it worth full retail I price.

    I say nah lol.. 30$ sounds about right.

    Back to finishing Okami for the first time in my life, already 16 hours into that game lol.

    Alundra - Are you ready to get your asses kicked by an action RPG?

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    Alundra... aaah.... the memories, I absolutely love the village in Alundra, it's classic. The music in the game is top notch too.. I'd play this game over and over again over a new Hyrule Rehash lol. This game is immortal in my eyes and ears :-D

    Just bought it again, even though I have the original Working Designs package sitting on my shelf. Getting Arc The Lad 1+2 when 2 is released as well. Games these days need to get their passion factor up because I still think PS1 and 2 beats the crap out of the PS3 era.

    EDIT: Oh... and the puzzles in Alundra smashed my balls to pieces.. had to go stare in guides to get past some of em. :-(

    Castlevania ~ Lords of Shadow

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    Yes, that's the general problem with video game music of today. It's much more important that the music "fits" the game rather than being good. And game designers tend to have a very narrow view on what exactly fits. I recall virt ran into this problem when he was scoring one of Ubisoft's TMNT DS games.

    What fits is ultimately what we make of it. All those old Italian spaghetti western composers didn't use electric guitars and all sorts of quirky shit necessarily because they thought it would fit, they did it because it sounded cool, and in the end people loved it so much it became the established standard for what a western "should" sound like.

    Great points. We're in a time where creators are afraid of utilizing music to its fullest potential. They are so afraid of people complaining about the music that they choose to go neutral so that anyone can listen to it without saying neither THIS SUCKS! nor THIS RULES!

    Or perhaps people are just uninspired because of the large amount of products being made nowadays, that they just look at it as a common job.

    - Who cares, just make it fit what's on screen BS.

    I especially think a Castlevania game should make the music AWESOME at the same time as making it fit like the previous games did.

    And if you guys know what I mean, what's up with the recent Hollywood lick going: du du di di du du di di du du di di du du di di ... This ritual literally makes me sick, I think Hans Zimmer came with that shit, and now everyone follows.

    Castlevania ~ Lords of Shadow

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    *SPOILERS*

    Alright, finished the game. I had some mixed feelings throughout the game, but I enjoyed it from beginning to end. I can now say it's a great game truly worth getting. The story could have done a bit more out of itself but certain twists made me think wooooooooooooo that's sweet.

    The soundtrack is very bland and sucks donkey balls compared to previous soundtracks. It's Hollywoodish boring crap that doesn't stick with you even if you try your hardest lol. But it does the job well, like most other new-age movie soundtracks. Where did the sweet theme based soundtracks for epic games go?!?!? Oh well. Still... buy this game :)

    Again, it's a true shame they didn't keep up the Castlevania music tradition :-( oh well....

    Castlevania ~ Lords of Shadow

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    *minor spoilers*

    I got the game yesterday, I just finished Chapter 4, and I absolutely love it up to this point.. I dig the tons of features they've put into the battle system, and the fact that they haven't gone overboard with nr. of battles taking place.

    As for the music, it's got its effect and it carries the emotions of Gabriel and his situations well, BUT I'll have to say it's got the potential of being the worst Castlevania soundtrack to date.

    HD releases of ICO and SOTC

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    that's the only reason i played it, BS. i wanted to see what the hype was. the movie in the middle of the game was ok, but as a whole i hated it.

    dual dragons, they already released GoW I and II combined for only 40 bucks, and the Sly compilation is going to be only 40$ as well. the only set of games that i'd pay more than that for would be all three of the PS2 FF games - i'd be comfortable with 50 or 60, since it's three games. but more than 20$ a pop and they'd have trouble moving units.

    I haven't played any of the Sly games before. I've barely even seen screenshots from the games. Are they any good?!? Good stories? Childish? Mature? Do the three games connect?

    @CHIPP Damage

    FF X-2 really sucked, but FF VII on the other hand.. now that's a good game! LOL

    HD releases of ICO and SOTC

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    i'm much more interested in the HD-izing of these games than the 3D. people who think 3D is awesome saw Avatar a few times too many - it really, REALLY doesn't work well in the standard living room, and with games that haven't been optimized to the level of Avatar, it slaughters your eyes after a few hours.

    it's the re-releasing of these games, with better art, that matters. first God of War I and II, now ICO and SotC...you'd want to look at other major series that would likely get updates. Kingdom Hearts is a no-brainer, particularly considering the cartoony nature of the graphics. FFX combined with either X-2 or XII (or maybe both) are also no-brainers. i only include X-2 because it's one of the top-rated games of all time over in J-land, i'd personally prefer X/XII.

    beyond that, i don't know what games i'd expect to see. those are the big console-specific money-makers that they wouldn't just make a sequel on the PS3 for (like Twisted Metal and Gran Tourismo). maybe the old MGS games? but i'd expect that to be a multi-platform deal, since MGS sold very well on the xbox as well as the ps2. DMC or RE are possibilities, but with the total series reboot to both of them (DMC upcoming, RE with RE5) i doubt it.

    I guess SquEnix would never release combined titles. If they made stuff into HD they would release every game individually and take full retail price. I would love to see the DMC games in HD though.

    HD releases of ICO and SOTC

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    there is seriously not enough fanboy squealing going on in this thread.

    get to it, people.

    WHEEEE!!! MY GOD!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!! lol

    Well, check this badass photo, looks like they've added some awesome details to the colossi. And it looks cleeeean. No more dirty pixels :-D

    feature-Shadow-of-the-colossus1.jpg

    HD releases of ICO and SOTC

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    Ah, feels good to be a PS3 owner.

    I recently bought ICO for the PS2 and it didn't work on my HD tv, I got pissed and spent a few minutes cursing new technology. lol

    Then I read this article about a HD release of these two games here:

    http://playstationlifestyle.net/2010/09/15/team-ico-hd-remakes-outed-early-by-famitsu/

    And I'm pretty excited about this, as I loved Shadow of the Colossus and I've heard great things about ICO and I'd love to see how well they improve on the frame-rate issues etc. that I experienced while playing the game on PS2.

    Cheers to this good news! *holds up a glass of Nuka-Cola*

    EDIT: Video contributed by Drayzon -

    How long has it taken you to musically get where you are today?

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    It took about.. let's see..

    - 3 years of physical and mental training in the Chaolin temple of Xin Xua.

    - 4 years of running up and down a 100000 step long stairway.

    - 2 years of jump-kicking balloons.

    - 1 year of constantly smashing my head against a wall to find out... I've been doing the wrong things.

    So I just practiced a few hours a day for a month and that's all you need to do to play guitar. lol :-D

    Marvel vs. Capcom 3

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    I feel that any man that can punch boulders in his own game, deserves to be in a fighter.

    Hmm I don't know.. hmmmmm lol

    Well, his trick list would be very small, unless he's learned some new moves since last I saw him. He's more of a gun man.. maybe a slow round-house kick and a regular punch but... eh...

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