General gaming news

[Kenai]

That sig is amazing, lol. The old guy probably never thought he'd get to legitimately smile again. Even though he isn't the President anymore, he still holds a lot of shares, and is just raking in the money.

http://i19.tinypic.com/63c4g80.gif

Here's the evil twin. This one is funny too, but it's not for my sig. I still love my PS2. lol

[Kuya]

Why do i feel a strange and powerful hatred for the fat guy to the far left in blue?

[Exoduso]

HS will be bad when compared to previous Action titles in its genre (NG, KH, GoW, DMC) but by itself it should still be a decent game, i'm just not sure it's one that I would pay 60 bucks for but time will tell... I can always just gamefly the thing and if I like it enough choose to keep it.

[Po]

Kingdom Hearts is definitely not in that genre.

But yea, time will tell.

[Exoduso]

For me it is, even if it's much more fast paced than them (KH2 is at least, KH was kind of meh.)

[Exoduso]

BTW, this is one crappy demo.. And if your TV is good enough you can also tell the screen has pretty bad cuts all over the place when you move the camera.

However they did confirm it's a pretty old beta of the game, so we'll see..

Oh and wtf is up with no jump button? lol @ that... and it seems like every time you finish a combo your character is locked for a good 2-3 seconds which is pretty stupid and kind of ruins gameplay.

[Tajin]

why the fuck do they upload some old beta.... -_-

[Exoduso]

God knows... but supposedly the one they showed at E3 was much better than the one they provided here, which leads one to believe that something was fucked up in that new one that prevented them from putting that one up... then again, if you KNOW you're putting a faulty demo on the marketplace for everyone to see, why the fuck do you even put it up? We could've lived without a HS demo for another week or two until they fixed the damn thing and uploaded a demo that is more deserving.

But we'll see... I really do hope that the impressions are just bad because it's an early beta, but if things aren't greatly improved it's not the title I was hoping that would save the PS3's Q4... guess it's up to Lair now, but now I'm kind of anxious about seeing a Lair demo to see if it's just as bad as well because if it is there's nothing we'll actually see noteworthy on the PS3 until MGS4.

[Tajin]

Hi2u GTA4, but yeah so much for exclusive stuff >.>

[Exoduso]

Screw getting GTA4 on the PS3 though lol, 360 version is much more appealing.

[Semitry]

Demos take a while to make and test so that's why it's a pretty old build. I hear the framerate now is better now but not great.

I tried the NCAA 08 at a friend's house and compared it to 07, holy shit at the difference between 30 fps vs 60 fps, wish more companies would focus on framerates over eye candy for action games.

Lair went gold a few days ago so it won't be long before we find out how that game is.

[Exoduso]

The framerate is horrible if you have a good TV that can notice it... on my TV it's very noticeable as far as the surroundings go (you just see the screen cutting and tearing away when you move around, it's pretty frustrating..)

[Tajin]

Demos take a while to make and test so that's why it's a pretty old build.

wut?, does not compute :/

[Semitry]

Demos take a while to make and test so that's why it's a pretty old build.

wut?, does not compute :/

The reason why HS demo is based on an old build because it's not trivial to make and test. Ie Team A makes demo, locks the code while Team B keeps developing and by the time demo is done, Team B made improvements on the code base which isn't included in the demo.

[Tajin]

1 year old code >.> c'mon...

[Semitry]

1 year old code >.> c'mon...

Is the year old code true or is it people conjecturing from "ages ago" off the HS developer.

[Exoduso]

This shit is over 1 year old, and there's already a NEW demo that they have in their posession and released at E3 to the people who were passing by.

I just played through the demo again (it's pretty short, like 5 mins total which is pretty sad all on its own, especially seeing how long NGS's demo was) and the moves with the 2h sword are actually rather sweet and devestating, but using them will cause you to lose health like a maniac because the enemies will completely destroy you by the time you finish your combo... the aerial moves are pretty pathetic and require you to hold L1 and press triangle, and then shake the controller to enter a minigame where you have to hit the buttons you want in time (each combo does something else of course) which in turn shows you the pretty animations of her doing various moves from the air (like that nutcracker thing that graverobber had in his sig a while ago, I can't figure out the combo for it though heh..)

And Semitry, it is a year old code, at least 1 year.

[Semitry]

If that's true that's pretty stupid. I know many have been turned off by the demo, including you Exo lol, so not the smartest move.

[Exoduso]

Yup like I said, it would've been better not to release it at all, because they can't expect great results from this demo unless this IS what the final version is supposed to look like more or less in terms of gameplay and they actually think that this is enough to satisfy the general public.

Oh well... where's SE FFS, I'm sure Versus won't disappoint like this heh.

[Mysterio]

Gamefly this, Gamefly that..

Exo always keeps us up to date on his gamefly lists lol

Haven't played the Heavenly Sword Demo yet, I'm on vacation not at home currently.

I'm gonna read some magazine reviews as opposed to BG reviews on it lol