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Stone Deaf 4evr

Deleted User wrote: »

Doesn't surprise me in the least. They'll be if not already on numbered days here I think. Went in to our local one last week and its now 70% merch. They have selection of new and used ps4 games , not what it was last gen but still better than the pre-owned xbox one section. Same in our local cex ps4 to xb1 4 to 1 id say but don;t get carried away they are not the latest and greatest on either shelf. I'm getting to how this ties you your link, i've had emails from them offering €40 for games like battlefield one, GTA5, Watch Dogs 2 and a few others and with resi 7 out last week I figured wow I can get 80 for BF1 and GTA 5? So resi 7 and a 10er credit? Sold!

Arrived down on launch day to be told after pre orders they had 2 copies for sale (back in stock soon stickers on the boxes on the shelf), of the first AAA title of the year !!!!???? FFS So went to argos and got it and a €5 voucher. Argos usually get 5 copies per store of a new release and are 10-20 cheaper than gamestop who seem to be relying their own preorder stock to be traded in to make money ?????

Its only a matter of time really, if you look back through the christmas threads on consoles, most people were getting better deals from Argos, Amazon or some other seller. Gamestop are consistently the worst value for money.

Retr0gamer

Doge wrote: »

As someone who isnt into anime i never got the whole appeal of the loli concept, so I can see his point. Its not about busty women as you say but animations of busty children.

I cant help but think that adolescent males who are into that sort of thing are borderline paedos.

Japan scares me.

Maybe I'm just out of touch with this generation. :P

Well for the loli/moe thing mostly the girls have no breast, larger breasts are for mature women.

The whole loli/moe popularity explosion has only been a recent event and is thankfully disappearing.

Japan just has a different culture, the age of consent is much lower there and what we would classify as child porn was acceptable there until recently, in some circles it's still seen as acceptable. The government has been trying to change but there's been a lot of industry backlash about it as well.

It's definitely something I'm not fond of put I wouldn't let it put me off a game. I love the Atelier games which have strong female leads but just sigh and get on with it when you get to the obligatory fan service swimsuit scene.

Robert ninja wrote: »

He wasn't talking about anime. It was his follow up forums posts after his Dragon’s Crown moral panic hit piece. http://www.atlus.com/dragonscrown/home.html# Game in question. I see inhuman, stylised super beings. Jason sees sexy kids? I think if anyone's out of touch it's him... with reality.

I never usually agree with you but that Dragon's Crown 'outrage' was complete and utter horse****. I mean the sorceress is quite clearly not a child and George Kimitani was quite clearly putting a manga twist on Frank Frazetta's conan art which so happened to be full of disproportioned males and females as well.

K.O.Kiki

kunst nugget wrote: »

I do find the lashings and lashings of big boobies you find in some games and anime quite juvenile tbf.

Think back to when you were 14.

Did you mind back then? :P

kunst nugget

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

Think back to when you were 14.

Did you mind back then? :P

I was never exposed to it at 14 so I don't know if I would have minded tbf. I probably would have enjoyed it but like I said it's very juvenile - not something I would enjoy these days and find it offputting. The only anime I would have seen at 14 would have been Akira or Ghost in the Shell and the only manga I ever bought was Domu: A Child's Dream. 8 bit or 16 bit boobies were never a huge source of fascination for me at that age.

Icyseanfitz

Tomb raider ruined everything

Retr0gamer

People that think anime is just full of big boobs have never watched anime.

There's always a wide variety of boobie types to cater for different tastes in waifu 😛

K.O.Kiki

Retr0gamer wrote: »

People that think anime is just full of big boobs have never watched anime.

There's always a wide variety of boobie types to cater for different tastes in waifu 😛

FLAT IS JUSTICE /s

Notorious

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

I must stress that this story is US-centric, but the Kotaku report on GameStop US' policies makes for some grim reading. The Irish offshoot get little love here, but the transatlantic equivalent seems to be even worse: http://kotaku.com/new-gamestop-program-leads-employees-to-lie-to-customer-1791874332

I find this story very interesting as it reminds me of similar underhand tactics employed by Game when they were in Ireland. For the last two years before they fled the country they started pressuring staff to push for targets. You had to get a certain amount of pre-orders per shift, sell a percentage of preowned products, sell Gamecare insurance (which was a total scam; I couldn't bring myself to sell it) for consoles, or selling a certain amount of accessories. Then you had to have rung through a particular amount of cash during your shift.

It was a terribly flawed system and it really divided staff. Some relished the challenge of meeting targets, others felt it was total BS. I recall certain staff refusing (without the customer noticing) to push through sales and walking off tills when they realised they weren't getting an attachment to the sale. If you didn't meet a certain amount of targets, the manager would be on your back. Horrible stuff altogether.

The tl;dr here is how easy this situation can arise without management issuing a directive on paper. While staff HAD to meet their targets, the powers that be never issued a directive informing staff to refuse a sale. It was in the staff members interest to limit the amount of mint games they sold, so tactics similar to the Gamestop story above would be employed.

Retail really can be a terrible place.

FFS Saban are some clowns http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2017/02/03/square-enix-is-fixing-ffxv-costumes-because-of-the-power-rangers

Ok the similarity is there for sure but I could name 10 games not made in Japan they could go after too *sigh

Click! on the BBC News channel have a piece with hideo kojima this week, it was interesting enough

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/38739482/touring-tokyo-with-metal-gear-creator-hideo-kojima video is a little way down the page.

K.O.Kiki

FIFA youTubers fined for running FUT Galaxy gambling thing.

(weird how that site is still allowed to exist)

degrassinoel

K.O.Kiki wrote: »

FIFA youTubers fined for running FUT Galaxy gambling thing.

(weird how that site is still allowed to exist)

should have gotten prison for this alone

Video evidence from the Nepenthez channel also showed Douglas telling viewers: "You don't have to be 18 for this, because this is a virtual currency."

SolvableKnave

Everyone remember the Hololens? A version of Portal has been developed for it.

Playground (Forza Horizon games) working on a new open world title that isn't a racing game http://ie.ign.com/articles/2017/02/07/forza-horizon-dev-playground-making-a-non-racing-open-world-game

Struck me as I was playing forza horizon 3 last year that it was a waste of a world in a way to just be able to drive it and not walk around and do other typical open world activities in it.

Varik

Most impressive part of the portal video was the stairs, cube bouncing down that realistically.

Sabre0001

Wish I hadn't spent so much time playing the Karting of Project Cars. Some beautiful shots in the trailer for Project Cars 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnCQEWIOyTE

CastorTroy

Was just reading a Castlevania series is coming to Netflix this year. No other information other than it's Season 1 Part 1

Castlevania Season 1, Part 1 Coming to Netflix in 2017

http://io9.gizmodo.com/netflix-has-announced-a-castlevania-tv-show-for-2017-1792131221

gizmo

CastorTroy wrote: »

Was just reading a Castlevania series is coming to Netflix this year. No other information other than it's Season 1 Part 1


http://io9.gizmodo.com/netflix-has-announced-a-castlevania-tv-show-for-2017-1792131221

Follow up post from Shankar on his Facebook page here. Written by Warren Ellis? Sign me the **** up.

CastorTroy

Of course we all know they've a lot of work to do to better the Simon Belmont from Captain N

Sieghardt

gizmo wrote: »

Follow up post from Shankar on his Facebook page here. Written by Warren Ellis? Sign me the **** up.

Warren Ellis was working on an absolutely dreadful looking castlevania animated film a decade ago, I hope this isnt the same thing revived

gizmo

Sieghardt wrote: »

Warren Ellis was working on an absolutely dreadful looking castlevania animated film a decade ago, I hope this isnt the same thing revived

Hmm, was that the one based on Dracula's Curse? Can't really find much about it outside of some info regarding Koji Igarashi's involvement, the proposed length of the planned trilogy and what looks like some early concept art. With the original idea being three 80min movies I imagine this two season treatment will be different?

Robert ninja

https://twitter.com/Hitman/status/828998853252829184

dunworth1

From Subset games (FTL) comes Into The Breach

http://ftlgame.com/itb.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2rG-mTfelE

gizmo

The Game Makers series has gone live over on the Youtube Channel of Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences. There's a pretty great line up of industry folk interviewed so it may be of interest to some here.

“The Game Makers: Inside Story” is a 10-part digital series that explores the unique process of storytelling, design and directing in the constantly evolving industry. Told from the perspective of 15 video game luminaries (behind some of the biggest franchises and influential indie breakouts) the series examines the choices and challenges faced in creating narrative for cutting-edge games and their iconic characters.

Sabre0001

Ruiner looks a bit mental. Out this summer. Has Devolver Digital's name attached so I'm pretty much sold (though developed by Reikon)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_XtdmugvjM

The blurb:

Devolver Digital wrote:

RUINER is a brutal action shooter set in the year 2091 in the cyber metropolis Rengkok. A wired sociopath lashes out against a corrupt system to uncover the truth and retrieve his kidnapped brother under the guidance of a secretive hacker friend. Combine preternatural reflexes, augmented tools, and the arsenal of fallen foes to tear down and dismantle the corporate titans of virtuality dealers at HEAVEN.

gizmo

After the change in direction following the first entry, I still haven't made it to the third game in the series yet but here's a summary of an interview featuring Ben Wanat, the Creative Director at Visceral Games on Dead Space 3, with Eurogamer. Sounds like it would have been more my thing than what was eventually released.

The full voice interview is on Soundcloud here

kunst nugget

gizmo wrote: »

After the change in direction following the first entry, I still haven't made it to the third game in the series yet but here's a summary of an interview featuring Ben Wanat, the Creative Director at Visceral Games on Dead Space 3, with Eurogamer. Sounds like it would have been more my thing than what was eventually released.

Not had a chance to listen to the interview but I don't think it really deserves all the stick it gets and I enjoyed playing through the whole trilogy. The Awakened DLC for DS3 though definitely ramped the horror element of it and the game as a whole really would have benefited from a bit more of what was on offer in that DLC.

Sabre0001

Peter Moore departing EA and heading for....Liverpool FC. Will be interesting to see the reshuffle at EA.

ERG89

Sabre0001 wrote: »

Peter Moore departing EA and heading for....Liverpool FC. Will be interesting to see the reshuffle at EA.

Can he play in goals or centre half?

degrassinoel

ERG89 wrote: »

Can he play in goals or centre half?

Both if you paid for his DLC