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I'm not allowing myself to get it untilEnjoying Arkham City a lot.
Don't think there's a huge amount of play in it though unless you have OCD, which seems to be the market they're catering too as there are zillions of pretty pointless collectibles to get along the way.
a/ I finish AA
b/ I finish doing the last part of the batman gaming retrospective for gamersireland.ie ,dont know why but the first two have taken me aaages longer than my other videos
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Damn,
I have to start Batman:AC
I have to get past the start of Dark Souls
I have to find the fundage for Zelda:SW
And I have to dig even deeper to get the lovely collectors edition of Skyrim!
I have started Batman, got my DLC installed and everything is groovy.
Slight pity that mere, occasional button presses seem to make you incredibly powerful in fact I only feel marginally in control of the fight scenes at all, am I the only one that feels this way?
Otherwise it great.
As for Dark Souls, I hang my head in shame, I never picked up the broadsword and so was trying to get places with a broken sword hilt...
A quick look about after a not so quick hour or so of getting my ass whupped meant I was in the game proper and lovely it is too, once again it ties with Ico for having a wonderful sense of "place" about it, if you know what I mean.0 -
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Slight pity that mere, occasional button presses seem to make you incredibly powerful in fact I only feel marginally in control of the fight scenes at all, am I the only one that feels this way?
It was the same with the first game. The hand to hand combat is really shallow but it works and is fun.
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The videogame music tracks as voted by HG101:
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/vgm/bestvgm2011.htm
As the author says there's a bit too much japanese stuff there but there's some great tracks there I just discovered, especially the one from Higarashi.
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Ciderman wrote:
As for Dark Souls, I hang my head in shame, I never picked up the broadsword and so was trying to get places with a broken sword hilt...
A quick look about after a not so quick hour or so of getting my ass whupped meant I was in the game proper and lovely it is too, once again it ties with Ico for having a wonderful sense of "place" about it, if you know what I mean.
You just need to get past the first few hours. They're really tough, but probably the best game tutorial you'll ever play. Once you get past the Undead Chapel (or church, whatever) you begin making actual progress and the game just transforms through the skills you were forced to learn.
And then addiction sets in. It's just brilliant. It will give you dopamine highs!0 -
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As for Dark Souls, I hang my head in shame, I never picked up the broadsword and so was trying to get places with a broken sword hilt...
A quick look about after a not so quick hour or so of getting my ass whupped meant I was in the game proper and lovely it is too, once again it ties with Ico for having a wonderful sense of "place" about it, if you know what I mean.
Seeing as you love Ico, if I were you I'd put Batman down and stick to just playing Dark Souls. It's damn hard, sometimes you feel like crying, but **** is it a good game! I'll freely admit to having punched the air several times after beating bosses. Total time eater though, I can't put it down. Been on boards a lot less as a result :eek:
I haven't played the new Batman game, but it's many many times better than AA.0 -
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I'm disappointed to see LA Noire isn't listed there. The theme composition is absolutely immense. One of my favourite soundtracks.
When I first got LA Noire I'd leave the game on the title screen for ages just to hear the lovely theme. Haven't bought the soundtrack yet but it is on iTunes so a purchase is imminent.
I'd go so far as to say the theme is one of the 10 best of all time. Yes. I went there.
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glad to see a good few ones I know making it in thereRetr0gamer wrote: »It was the same with the first game. The hand to hand combat is really shallow but it works and is fun.
and Umineko no Naku Koro ni / When the Seagulls Cry is in there too (made by the same people)there's some great tracks there I just discovered, especially the one from Higarashi.
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You'll need a step down converter for one and also maybe something to get RF working on a PAL TV. I heard something about the japanese RF signal being quite different iirc? Perhaps ask the guy from famicomblog?
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atavan-halen wrote: »I knew I might need a stepdown, but is there any other power suppy from other consoles I could use?
Power supply is built in and I'm not sure you could swap a PAL or US PSU into it because the machines are quite different.
It's a ****ty NES clone.
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atavan-halen wrote: »HVC stands for Home Video Computer And the 002 should be the power supply.
Wow talk about learning something new everyday
They must have thought Homocomp wouldnt have been popular:D
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atavan-halen wrote: »Might be buying a famicom tonight off ebay. Console only so what will I need to make it work over here?
Electricity?
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Precisely one hundred and ten volts :pac:Retr0gamer wrote: »Over 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I suppose I'll have to dig out the oul flux capacitor and hardwire it up to the famicom. That should just about be enough.0 -
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Then it's validity/relevance is very questionable.
Not really, they usually have really good taste in music from what I read on the music forum there. They just don't like the current trend of videogame companies getting an orchestra to do the music and churning out really generic music that you'd hear in a b-list action film. TBH LA Noire's soundtrack is quite generic, sounding like any other film set in the 1940's. They aren't averse to orchestrated tracks as there's plenty in the list, it's just they'd want to be very good.
There's a few terrible wailing guitar tracks in the list as well though but polls are always dividing.
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Retr0gamer wrote: »The videogame music tracks as voted by HG101:
http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/vgm/bestvgm2011.htm
As the author says there's a bit too much japanese stuff there but there's some great tracks there I just discovered, especially the one from Higarashi.
Very nice list, have to admit, never played Chrono Cross
very much enjoyed listen to the different versions of bloody tears, didnt inclued this one though which is brilliant
Delighted to see Another Winter in there aswell!
Author is right though, too much Japanese stuff and for all the chrono chross and Castlevania stuff they seriously couldnt find a space for this?!
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johnny_ultimate wrote: »If it's the same one ciderdude had, it took me a while to figure it out, but if I recall correctly the joystick is necessary to change gears. Or something. Took about five minutes of ****ing around with the thing. When I finally got it moving, it moved backwards. When I got it in a straight line, I lost because I couldn't stop it at the station on time.
Good times.
Kind of figured it out. You press right to change from neutral to put it in gear. then you press back to shift up gears. Then to stop you have to press up to cycle down the gears and engage the 8 levels of braking with a final braking gear if you keep holding up. Think you then have to press left to shift it into neutral at a station but can't be sure. I'm not sure if it even registeres me at a station???
Fun times.
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Saw this on Kotaku, and seemed appropriate:
Warning: Nostalgic techie pornography.0 -
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johnny_ultimate wrote: »LA Noire: would have been great if the lead writer had any idea how to write a mystery that wasn't filled with ludicrous amounts of plotholes. The most ambitious failure of the year.
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