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jayc4life

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  1. Great piece to "break through" for such a memorable game.

    Spine tingling.

    I'm not a pitch perfect listerner but I have been listening to remixes for a while now and this one gets my vote.

    What he said. I'm only finding this now but I think he's got the whole tragic feel to the game nailed to this song.

    Although most of you that's posted mightn't have stopped to think about it, but maybe if you're that grief-stricken (assuming this is sung/wailed from Max's perspective, that is) then he wouldn't be too worried about whether he was pitch-for pitch perfect with the original.

  2. And they have to do the Riddler next right? I mean theyve done Scarecrow, Ras Al Gool or whatever, the Joker, and I-wont-ruin-it-for-whoever-hasnt-seen-it-yet. Now theres just the Penguin and the Riddler left, plus some small fries.

    Hmm, who to play the penguin? Samuel L Jackson, thats who.

    1st Par: He was a major part of the viral ad campaign, he's hardly classified as a spoiler

    2nd Par: Hell no. The Penguin was white. Samuel L isn't. DeVito was brilliant as him, and I'd nearly give him another go at it.

  3. ikfighter3bp9.gif

    Is that an improvement?

    LT: Absolutely. Still seems a little dark, so I lightened it up just a bit and added it. I'll look at it later to double check if the brightness level I did was too much, but otherwise it should be set.

  4. Games developed by Sony-owned and Microsoft-owned development houses don't count, as they'll never be ported unless they sell their IPs.

    It's a fair point to make though, XII nearly put Square Enix out of business (reading the backstory behind Yiazmat from XII made sense that way) and they want to recoup as much as possible by making their games available to a much more wider audience in order to boost sales and take in a higher profit margin. It's a viable option, whether us fanboys (and maybe girls) all like it or not.

    From the Final Fantasy Wiki:

    The title of the hunt is "End of a Legend", a reference to how he (Yazumi Ma had to leave the company before the game was complete and the story that Montblanc tells is a reference to how the development team felt about him, albeit with a different end.

    Another theory is that Yiazmat is the game's depiction of Matsuno, and the moogles being the development team and their master being Square Enix. Matsuno prolonging the game killed Square Enix "financially" and the development team felt Matsuno had to be slain as retribution for his actions. The hunt title basically says "Farewell" to a Legendary monster - Yiazmat - both being an homage and an insult to the director.

  5. Gilgamesh, however, was worth the price of admission, himself. 'MUHAHAHAHAH...OOF, AAAAIIII!' Classic.

    Whoever decided to bring John DiMaggio back and give him that role, deserves one of these :nicework: Also, the reworked Clash On The Big Bridge was fantastic. i was humming it for days afterwards.

    However, back on the topic at hand.

    This is the shit hitting the proverbial fan for Sony. While slowly they've been able to get ports of previously 360/Windows only games like Lost Planet and BioShock which is also being ported soon, they've just lost what they were hoping to be one of their biggest third-party exclusives. While the 360 has probably near-peaked now, XIII will make the most of the 360's capabilities, but I just have to sit and wonder how everything will come into perspective when SquareEnix sit down and start translating PS3 dev-code and stuff like that over to 360. It's probably not a complicated process, but i still think while it'll max the 360 out, there'll still be room for improvement in the PS3 version as to levels of hardware usage.

    Spoken like a true fanboy :|

  6. If it's true that Watchmen was being billed as one of the pre-movie trailers, then it's nearly worth it for a glimpse of that alone.

    But sadly I have to wait until next week to see it. Damn living in Europe anyway.

  7. Yeah but what other film are the critics going to brand it a copy of?

    As many films as they can, just so critics can pan it as a bad movie, just because it's based on a game. You can see it happening a mile off.

  8. I'm not sure about them. They're getting a lot of publicity, but I don't see what for. They're catchy, yes, but at this early stage, they're being played to death on the radio. I want to like them, but the overexposure could end up harming them in the long-term, making me hate them as much as I hate Viva La Vida from Coldplay. And for the record, I own 3 Coldplay albums (VLV included), so it's not a biased comparison by any means.

  9. So what'd you think of that last twist at the end?

    Epic. It's the only word that describes it. I have to admit, for making an action game and almost turning it into a tear-jerker that'd put Hollywood out of business, it's one damn fine experience. The ending itself, I was more impressed by the scenes surrounding the ending rather than the actual ending. I don't know how I can put it without blowing the whole thing in one fell swoop, but there's a lot of little things that you pay no heed to, yet at the end their relevance is all pointed out to you and you think "How did I miss that?".

    I thought it was a nice touch the way Drebin jumps off the cannon and lands the in the same pose Snake did when he landed on the tanker in MGS2. That was cool.

    EDIT: For those who find this thread now, get your Game IDs and character names up for MGO. Look out for Grizzly, that's me.

  10. Plagarise with consent:- Borrow and slap your name tag on it.

    Same thing really. Still, glad someone with a moderately high standing within the community gives me the thumbs-up. Even though if I give credit, I shouldn't have to ask, it only feels right seeing whether the artist wants to have his/her work featured someplace else. I call it the Weird Al Rule. He doesn't have to ask for parodies if he credits accordingly, but he does it anyway.

  11. ikfighterzx2.gif

    Generic fighter - International Karate

    © 1984 System 3/Archer Maclean

    LT: Brighten up the color a bit and we can roll with this. Looks really dark compared to other avatars. Genesis ones end up like that too for whatever reason.

  12. I was (coincidentally) considering doing a pre-recorded radio show on another site i frequent, and was going to use one or two OCR tracks as backing music to me talking. I was going to credit it and all, and even offer a trackback to OCR.

    I can has permission to plagarise with consent? (Hey, at least I'm asking)

  13. I only ever played one on the MegaDrive, a demo of it in 2001, and a demo of NFL Street 2. I liked Street, it was what I expected from an EA BIG title. However the "main event" title, I thought that sucked horrendously bad.

    Sounds a bit harsh coming from a European, but it's fact. Then again, I've no beef with buying NHL bi-annually like I do, or FIFA every year, simply because I think it's a more solid game than Pro Evo.

    Other than that, I've noticed that I shy away from a lot of EA's non-sport games. I feel that if there's better elsewhere, then why buy from a company who throws money at low-key developers, hoover up their IPs and proceed to destroy them, as well as their employees with physically shattering hours and no overtime/holiday leave.

    EDIT: And they also bought a minority stake in Ubisoft recently, but are refusing to sell the whole plant to them. Thanks be to Christ, I'd hate to think of how they can annihilate the goodness of the Prince of Persia or Creed serieses.

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