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Fri Nov 27
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12:10 PM
I also like games that drop the fascade and basically just present the game straight up, but then assume that you know the mechanics well and apply the mechanics at a higher level. My current obsession is the Touhou Project series - and in the Windows games, you can pretty much bet that:
- There are at least 2 core hero characters you can play as. Sometimes there are guests from other games in the series or "team" options to mix it up further.
- Most or all levels have at least a token midboss. All levels have a boss.
- Level 1-3 is for warmup
- Level 4 is where it gets serious
- Level 5 is HARD
- Level 6 is a ton of ambushes and cheap attacks to kill you off quickly because the boss is at the end of level 6.
- You can unlock an EX stage by beating the game, but if you can't beat the game, this stage will tear you apart in seconds. Don't even try fighting the bosses there if you ever somehow meet them.
You play mostly by doding millions of small colored bullets, but there are easily recognized classes of bullets, in different size ranges, usually highlighted in primary or secondary colors for visibility - they're not trying to sneak past you - the challenge is seeing AND avoiding them (except game 10 that has red bullets on red backdrop, or game 12 that hides a thousand bullets behind ten thousand redundant powerups and point items while egging you on to play a metagame at your own peril.)
Anyway, that was farther off on tangent than I'd planned - ultimately I think that until games are truly seamless, we are going to naturally analyze the seams and break the illusion in order to interact with the games on their own level, and sometimes that will spoil them for us as we see clearly which tropes the games are playing into. It only gets worse as the cost of developing big games increases, and to play it safer and safer, the studios begin making sure their game follows all the tropes athat are expected of them in order to not disappoint anyone.
12:04 PM
Fool. Everybody knows it's done by surgical incisions.
11:35 AM
Amazon has the new Dragonball game for $29.99 for the PS3, Sacred 2 for the same, L4D2 for $39.99, ODST is $29.99 right now, Borderlands PC for $19.99, Tekken 6 for $32 ... and this morning, The World Ends With You was only $9.99!
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[www.amazon.com]
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I get money tomorrow.
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY....
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10:37 AM
Deal expires 11/28
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10:36 AM
[store.steampowered.com]
#speakup
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10:23 AM
"L.E.D nation" has me. I feel so dirty and guilty that this song is now on my iPod *click wheels to it with the quickness*
I prefer JulieHally's shit to the likes of say Perfume though: whose music is so souless and may as well have been sung by a Sony AIBO.
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that this competition
is US only
I have perfect pants
to dress as Brian Fury
and show off my junk
Skintight snakeskin pants
worn without any teeshirt
are fucking awesome
(I could go on all day!)
10:28 AM
@exion: fuck it, I'm not legible for the prize, so here's my blatantly not shooped entry to be disregarded :P
09:59 AM
/oldmanrage
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09:57 AM
Ladies and gentlemen, crap!
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11:52 AM
Well..if it ends up that there is no choice and it is an event no matter what...well...I'll think they need a new PR guy(really...I've played many bioware games and while there are many choices...I don't remember events being that dynamic).