toxicitizen

FF12 doesn't suck! You suck! Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings. It was actually very decent. Never finished it, though. Got stuck on a mission and just kinda stopped using my DS. If they were to package it with XII and HD it up, I'd be into that.

Bring it on, jerkface! Gameplay + TotalBiscuit + Dev interview + longer runtime! Also, mine has 1080p!

Well, I think they meant that the game wouldn't be mechanically altered. But yeah, only 3 of the maps is kind of ridiculous. The game has like two or three dozens maps and after only my second or third run of the campaign I started to want a map pack pretty badly. Anyway, all hope is not lost, though! Some people are theorizing sequel but I really hope it's an expansion. Also, this is just awesome. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTk0Yo1uf4U&feature=youtu.be

Watched Zero Dark Thirty last night. There wasn't a "Last AMAZING movie you saw" thread, so this will have to do. Goddamn that movie was good. I watched The Hurt Locker kind of a long time after it came out, so I'd heard a lot of great things about it but still somehow managed to go in with no expectations. Needless to say, it blew my freaking mind. So, I had much higher expectations for Zero Dark Thirty. And holy shit, I was not disappointed. I can't really think any specific thing about it that made me like it as much as I did. It's just fucking good. Also, it was weird seeing Andy playing one of the special ops guys. Very weird.

14 minutes of gameplay. Filmed off-screen but quality isn't too bad. Also, Dean, it occurs to me that you moved my post from the Bastion thread to here stating that it wasn't Bastion. Yet you posted the Frozen Endzone trailer in the Frozen Synapse thread. What gives?

Man, that is such a bummer for me. When Jake Solomon talked at the BAFTAs and said they would be announcing something within the month, I kind of assumed he meant new content. :/

Yeah, I think with veterans like these guys, it shouldn't be a problem. And like GOH said, most of them have specific roles anyway. If Avellone joins, for example, he won't be taking over lead creative duties or anything of the sort. This is still inXile's game and I'm sure he has his plate full with is duties at Obsidian anyway.

That certainly would've made for a very cool "Oh shit!" moment, but I think I like the ambiguity more. I'm a fan of stories letting you draw your own conclusions on stuff like this. Like the end of Inception, for example.

New stretch goal has Chris Avellone joining in at 3.5 mil. Dream team just potentially got dreamier. This is being called a dream team because the big players involved all had key roles in the development of some of the most beloved CRPGs. Games like Fallout 1 and 2 as well as PlaneScape: Torment and, I think, Icewind Dale.

I also didn't pick up on the whole I think it's fair to say that the game is merely average from a gameplay standpoint (and an argument could be made that that was 100% intentional) but in terms of writing I think it ranks with the likes of Planescape and Deus Ex as one of the greatest game narratives ever. Out of curiosity, what is it about this that made you want to retry BioShock? Last time you brought it up, you really seemed like you didn't like how it played at all.

Yeah, I feel like Sam is central to the series, but if they wanted to make him the head of the new Echelon then they might as well have created a new protagonist. It still would've bothered me but it wouldn't be as bad. As for the reason behind the change, what I've heard is it was about having the same actor do mo-cap and voice work. Supposedly it can feel disjointed when it's done by different guys. Whatever...

Yeah, everything gameplay-related they've been showing the past few weeks has been looking very good. Like a perfect mix of Conviction-style and old-school Splinter Cell. I'm still pissed about the voice, though. Every new trailer that comes out, I get all excited because it looks great. Then Sam opens his mouth and it's like a completely different character. Sam was never a faceless soldier, they always made it a point to give him a personality and make him the core of the series' narrative. Ironside's voice was a very large part of Sam's identity and by changing it they've basically gutted the character. I'm sure it'll be a fun game and I intend to play it when it comes out. But it's hard to get really excited when it feels like they've killed the most important story element the series had. edit: Ugh, even watching that video it's almost unbearable for me. Sam's supposed to be this old-school veteran badass. It's mind-boggingly retarded that they went with someone that sounds so damn young.

StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm. Holy shit, that was epic. Even though it was both easier and shorter, I think I actually enjoyed it more than I did WoL. I really hope they don't take as long to release the next one. edit: Little Inferno. Eh, it was alright. I'm glad to have played it, if only to satisfy my curiosity, but I'm also glad I waited for a sale. It's not really worth 10 bucks.

It was my first time. I think I had only played the Terran campaign back in the days. Wasn't really into RTS back then.

Yeah, the non-base missions in the original can be brutal. Lots of save and reload. And even in the base ones, sometimes you have to be crazy fast if you don't want to get raped.

Well I used the cheats in an act of desperation. I refuse to just read the story and I normally also refuse to use cheats to get past a difficult part (that one's mostly stubborness). But I had to be realistic. There was no way in hell I was ever going to beat those missions on my own. First, I am not korean. Second, even with the cheats, I had to rebuild my entire army like 5 times during the very last mission.

Yeah, it's the most fun rts campaign I've ever played. There's just so much variety to the missions. And being able to unlock permanent upgrades instead of having to research them every single time takes a lot of the "work" out of it. The original was a great game but I played through it and its expansion last year and holy shit all missions are the same: build a base, build an army, kill all the motherfuckers. It got really old after a while. Only reason I stuck with it was for the story and my insistence to not just read a summary of it. I did end up using cheats to finish the last 3 missions of Brood War, though. Holy fuck, those were hard.

I agree. He came off as a huge dick in Indie Game: The Movie, and it did make me lose interest in playing his game somewhat. But at this point I've heard really good things about Fez so I'm not writing it off entirely. I'll probably wait for a sale or something.

I can confirm that he hates pretty much everything.

You and me both...

Pay what you want with a 1$ minimum, I think.

This is awesome. I never got around to playing X-2 so this makes me much more likely to pick this up. You know, when it comes out. In 2016.

Yeah, I debated starting a new thread but it didn't seem entirely off-topic, so I opted for the lazy approach. I figured something like this would probably happen.

Hmm, my post seems to have somehow grown a thread of its own.