Brandon Strader

It was because I thought they were the same thing and had never seen/heard of a different PSX in my entire life, you sir have just educated someone, nice work.

I forgot to mention they are multi-platform, so divide that by 4 or 5 and you should get a more accurate number of games released on multiple platforms... So it's not quite as many as the 95 single-platform Nintendo games just for Mario.

Why get an Xbox One for TV stuff when you could get a cheaper alternative that isn't like $600

Male power fantasy is a dumb phrase Anita made up. It is the way she chooses to see things because she sees men as being powerful and having ownership of some kind over women. Talking about "male power fantasies" or "female power fantasies" is completely ridiculous and laughable. I think the only game with legitimate power fantasies were games like "Black & White" and if I recall that game had gender neutrality.

3 days left. PLEDGE! http://www.rockethub.com/projects/23343-zoltan-game-inspired-fantasy-death-metal-album

Oh you silly people "We believe over the next five years we can break a 100 million unit installed base," said Mehdi. Read the article :/ Considering 360 sold 77.31 million units and original Xbox sold 24.65 million but most of which are probably not hooked up anymore... I'm sure there's some that are. *shrug* 100 million is not a lofty goal, it's actually below what I'd say they should be expecting. The 1 billion thing is theoretical, though I think it'd be more likely if Xbox came built-in to TVs. You're not gonna push that many units on your own.

The only reason people think I hate on the wii U or Nintendo is because I have to come in here and point it out when unfair or incorrect information is shared. First of all, most of these Nintendo franchises started in the 80s. Whereas something else like Halo started in 2001. Zelda started in the 80s. Gears of War started 2006. Sonic the Hedgehog came out in 1991. God of War came out in 2005. Having an extra 20 years can definitely help something have... I dunno... 20 years worth of sales more? Especially in a 90s market that isn't full of game saturation like it is now. The figure of 95 Mario releases definitely helps demonstrate that it occured over a 25 year period. But let's also not forget that Nintendo pretty much owned the console race from 1983 until the launch of the PSX. Some history: The PSX's origins date back to 1988 where it was originally a joint project between Nintendo and Sony to create a CD-ROM for the Super Famicom. The PlayStation made its debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in June 1991 when Sony revealed its console, a Super Famicom with a built-in CD-ROM drive. However, a day after the announcement at CES, Nintendo announced that it would be breaking its partnership with Sony, opting to go with Philips instead but using the same technology. The deal was broken by Nintendo after they were unable to come to an agreement on how revenue would be split between the two companies. The PSX was eventually released in December 1994. Now just a bunch of statistics so people can have the information at their disposal. These are global totals. Consoles/ PSX Sales: 104.25 million NES Sales: 61.91 million PS2 Sales: 157.68 million SNES Sales: 49.10 million Xbox Sales: 24.65 million PS3 Sales: 77.33 million Wii Sales: 99.83 million Xbox360 Sales: 77.31 million Wii U Sales: 3.07 million Games/ Halo series: 56 million God of War series: 21.57 million Gears of War series: 19.71 Uncharted series: 17.59 million Mario series (between 95 different titles, over 25 years): 504.04 million Pokemon series (between 43 different titles): 218.47 Zelda series (between 21 different titles): 70.67 million Metroid series (between 14 different titles): 17.55 million (on par with Uncharted, despite releasing in the 80s) The Call of Duty release schedule is somewhat similar to Mario game release schedule these days, let's take a look just for kicks. Call of Duty series, since 2003, has had 44 game releases and 162.78 million sales Over a period of 25 years, if they kept up the current pace, this would amount to 406.95 million The 100 million shortage could possibly be because they haven't released Call of Duty Kart yet. -edit- Forgot to list Gamecube. 21.74 million sales. Nintendo 64 -- 32.93 million sales

I haven't read the original Dante's Inferno to know how close the game was to the original story, but the way it was presented in general seemed pretty faithful. As much as someone who never read the original could even suggest such a thing. Hah, I have no idea. I thought the game's treatment of Beatrice was pretty classy, all things considered. I'm getting older and uglier, I take it where I can get it

Yeah I found that completely idiotic to use as an example

UPDATE: Video has been fixed, putting link in first post. Part 2 of this thingy might be online as soon as it stops being deleted from Youtube for violating terms of service, as seen here: Was probably someone who reported it who got it taken down, and you know youtube doesn't really look into reports before taking action. They're all about automated takedowns.

Damn, now I feel like I should wait for an HD port instead of a re-release of the Wii version

Well the guy who runs the notable gaming site made his post, no word on the ocr coverage. I like booklets in general, even if they just have pictures of ducks or something.

Nothing fun about bumping the thread with anti-news!

Not gonna happen bro.

Why, soytenly, my good man! Thanks for your hard work and for meeting the July 1st wip date. Just pop me over a pm or something with it! And I'll take it from there! And I totally still need to do your FF2 one, but no worries, that'll be happening hopefully next month, it's only a few days away.

Damn. It's been so long since I've seen it, but I think we can all agree, even though I got most of the facts wrong, I still had the general gist of it. Has anyone heard anything about when Earthbound is coming out? (to stay on topic ;p)

I knew it costed $500, if he drank 300 cups I guess it wasn't Starbucks.

Oops, I ain't gonna have no wip for June 1st, that's far too soon, but I did express my concept for the song to ToN when I claimed it.

No worries man, sometimes I do similar stuff, but I've been really zen lately. I've drank so much coffee, I'm probably like that episode of Futurama after Fry drinks like 200 cups of coffee, you know the one. Anyway yeah, I'd probably be most-likely to get Kirby Super Star and Kirby's Dreamland 3 and then Dream Course for free... I don't guess it really matters if they all cost the same. I don't know if I want to leap at this deal though, because I only have so much in my Wii U wallet and I kinda wanted to spend it on Earthbound.

Yeah, I don't think the amount raised will even cover printing and shipping of 500 CDs... that's pretty sad, but I don't know what else I can do to help get this funding.. I did ask Larry to tweet about it, he said he'd do it tomorrow. Apart from that, I dunno. We need to figure out how to get some really good coverage from a community that really loves metal, some kind of metal website. edit: I asked someone else who runs a notable gaming site but he said they're wary about posting about kickstarters anymore because of snafus by irreputable folks... but he's still going to share it on some social media sites, maybe. That'll be good.

It was a pleasure to help, thanks for the kind words I think the violin might be in personal taste territory. I know the OCR Judges say you don't have to have thousands of dollars worth of libraries, it's more about mixing and producing it the best you can. I've even heard live violins that didn't sound as good as what you have, and there's pretty much no library that truly captures the sound of a live violin. If you have a really good violinist, you just can't replicate that with samples. But I do honestly think you have taken this about as far as it can go, but as you've chosen to tweak it some more, it can only get better. The fact that you still want to improve it proves that you are really an artist. There's nothing wrong with stopping when someone says it's good, but to go above and beyond is pretty admirable, so nice work.