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Thorax
01/24/09

In reply to House of the Dead Overkill - Terror, Horror, Flesh, And Ice Cream
I keep thinking this should of been the movie version of House of the Dead that never happened.
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Amy Vrba
01/23/09

In reply to House of the Dead Overkill - Terror, Horror, Flesh, And Ice Cream
"Can't say the visuals in the trailer do much for me"

Of COURSE they don't.

Kotaku writers are so Anti-wii that it's pathetic!
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Gossy... Fortune and Glory
01/23/09

@Amy Vrba: Aaaah they're just giving the people what they want! But I have noticed that a lot of the commenters that are quick to shoot down RRoD comments or "PS3 has no good games" comments practically climb over each other to deliver their hilarious lines about poor Wii graphics.
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The Cap'n
01/23/09

In reply to House of the Dead Overkill - Terror, Horror, Flesh, And Ice Cream
Solid gold trailer, here. I'm not much a fan of HoD games either, Fahey, but I'd gamefly this for a few days.
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Godsbigjoke
01/23/09

In reply to House of the Dead Overkill - Terror, Horror, Flesh, And Ice Cream
I'm not a big fan of anything but the arcade versions either, but I think I'm going to import that Hand cannon thing when it comes out and get this.
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Mister Jack started the Save The Lombax Foundation
01/23/09

@Godsbigjoke: You got a problem with ice cream, little man? EVERYONE likes ice cream.
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odinkorn
01/23/09

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Game looks like it will be fun.Looks like a ps1 game, but as long as its fun, im in.
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HCKPro
01/23/09

@odinkorn:

And when was the last time you actually played a PS1 game? Because that looks nothing like a PS1 game. You might as well say it looked like it was made for the Arcade Card for the Turbo Grafx.
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Torgen got 99 problems but the PAXFlu ain't one
01/23/09

@HCKPro: People are so quick to forget that the PS1 couldn't handle bilinear filtering (let alone trilinear or anisotropic) and the N64 had a 4kB limit on textures.
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Ashurahori
01/23/09

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Game's lookin' awesome.
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Jesse in Japan
12/23/08

In reply to And The New York Times' Game Of The Year Is...
How is the combat in GTA IV balanced? If anything, it's a huge step backwards from San Andreas. And what impressive writing? If that story had been made into a movie it would have been a straight to DVD B-movie, sometimes aired on Cinemax.
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PimpNinja24
12/22/08

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Hmmm most everything that needs to be said was said. So ill go on my personal tangent focusing on GTA IV instead of the actual GOTY discussion
The question is, what do u call a great game? See if i never played a GTA game and just picked up GTAIV, or didnt play many video games period, then my entire focus would be different. I would comment on how alive the city looks, how superior the graphocs are, and what a joy it is to examine the city for a half an hour. As I played, i might get caught up in the story, which, whether u think its good or not, has a epic, movie feel that most non gamers probably dont expect in a game.

But I play games, and all the GTA games specifically.

My impression was that it was pretty. And combat was decent. About hour 3 into the game, it just felt...well, i missed not being able to customize. In San Andreas, my ability to work out make Carl my weight and body type, pick my clothes to a tee, well it made me feel like I was playing the game. Instead I'm now watching Nico live. The relationships, the bulk of missions and sidequests, even the amount of things i could "get away with" before massive police intervention...it just started feeling a little too ...for lack of a better word, real. And real is a litle less fun.

I know its a long post, apologies. Anyway I can understand why GOTY honors were awarded, in future GTAs i hope Rockstar goes more for the sheer fun and less for critcal acclaim, just as i enjoy a lot of "popcorn movies" for entertainment and find most critically acclaimed movies to be pretentious. Please Rockstar, lets get back to the fun.
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Tyber_Zann
12/22/08

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Clap on, clap off, THE CLAPPER!

God damn those commercials.
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NoBullet
12/22/08

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GTAIV's story:

Niko- im looking for someone.

NPC- do this for me first.

*repeat 90 times*

What story was this guy watching?
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Xagest
12/22/08

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I was really afraid the game of the year was going to be Bejeweled.
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exion
12/22/08

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I remember when I got the slow clap... I couldn't piss straight for weeks...
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Milkzhakes
12/22/08

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i wish i could agree with mr. schiesel, but i cant grand theft auto iv was maybe the biggest disappointment of the year for me. GTA IV pales in comparison with its predecessors, GTA IV got rid of so many features that i loved in sand andreas and vice city all for shinnier graphics and a multiplayer that while it was fun at first was pretty dull and dead. the story did show a persons perspective of a crime world that he did not want to go through yet was still forced to do so. i liked that but in the end that didn't really help replayability for me.
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MrBionic
12/22/08

@Milkzhakes: While I was disappointed in the cutting of features from San Andreas as well, what really killed the game for me was the micro-managing of "friends".

Whoever thought that taking the most annoyingly frustrating feature of San Andreas (the dating aspect), and turning it into the MAIN COMPONENT of GTAIV should be taken out into a pasture, buried up to his neck, covered in honey, and then surrounded by fire ant colonies.

That one aspect of the game completely destroyed my enjoyment of it, especially since they based some unlockables on making sure you kept up those relationships. ARGH!

If the next GTA has any kind of 'friendship/relationship' aspect to it, I won't touch it with a 400 foot pole.
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okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)
12/22/08

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The industry has really come a long way in terms of how it's changing the perception of video games in old(errm... traditional)-media. To think that this game used to be considered the "devil".
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chuffhoncho
12/22/08

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He needs to play Fallout 3. NOW.
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MushroomBoy1022
12/22/08

@chuffhoncho: he may as well play with oblivion with pictures of guns taped to his tv. lololololololololol
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Đipic
12/22/08

@MushroomBoy1022: Kill yourself.

Alternatively: Kill yourself.

Either way, please kill yourself.
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MrBionic
12/22/08

@MushroomBoy1022: Because that joke isn't severely played out.
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AngryEddy
12/22/08

@Đipic: @MrBionic: Don't feed the Trolls.
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MrBionic
12/22/08

@AngryEddy: Ahh, hell. You're right. I'm usually good at not doing so. Rough morning.
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Đipic
12/22/08

@MushroomBoy1022: P.S. Kill yourself.

(sorry :p)
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