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I'm keeping my eye on this game though. Capcom always manage to sucker money out of me. It honestly doesn't take much.
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I won't dismiss Lost Planet 2. Because the 4 player co-op seems like it has the potential to be something special. And in the demo, I didn't completely suck and ranked 1st quite a few times - which bodes well for me...I hope!
If I'm feeling like splurgin' 40 quid and am a little spontaneous when it releases, I can see myself buying it.
11/27/09
How about 30?
[www.zavvi.com]
I went for it, now I just hope to get lucky on ebay for that Wesker & gun DLC
11/27/09
That price is the best I've seen it going for so far. For £30, I'm more willing to take the plunge.
Thanks for the heads up!
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11/27/09
The Mercenaries is what saved RE5 for me, because the mode is awesome! And it touched on that sense of enemy overwhelm and watching each your partners back that I didn't really get in the main game. I'm addicted to it like crack! But you don't tend to get many gamers on it any more :(
Capcom could do with releasing some new content for it. Preferably for free, but this is Capcom we're dealing with.
11/27/09
This goes for RE5. The game was well done, but I didn't really like the game as a RE series game because I felt it strayed too far from survival horror. But playing it co-op bumped it to a "must play" game.
Plus moments like this make co-op fun!
11/28/09
And you cant use a well crafterd tv spot to enforce your arguement. That add looks awsum..but the game never made me feel like that add says it would.Thats the point of the Add tho. But anyone who bought the game knows better.
11/28/09
The co-op only hurt the game for me because Capcom didn't do enough with it. The co-op feels better realized in The Mercenaries than it does in main game - which is why I spent most of my time playing it.
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I personally love Monster Hunter and I know alot of people who share my view.
I'm personally interested in both but I wouldn't belittle one or the other based on my own personal taste.
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I just take issue with baseless jabs such as this.
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Never said they had no relation.
11/27/09
i don't think it was neccesarily implying that Monster Hunter was bad, more cut back the marketting on it and promote LP2 because it suits a western audience better.
11/27/09
You maybe seek to much into it, giving it substance where there is none. Having said that, i'd love Monster Hunter on a console.
11/27/09
It's a specific reason why a Capcom rep said Monster Hunter Frontier (the PC version MMO-style MH) has almost 0% chance of coming out in the West.
11/27/09
Personally, I see Monster Hunter as being to Diablo and other dungeon crawler games the same way Mechwarrior 2 fits to Armored Core: Both are the same general genre of game, but play far differently because one focuses on jumping in and having fun (dude, I have a laser sword!) while the other offers a more immersive hands-on experience by making you manage and perform every little bit of minutae manually (dude, I have over 10 keys to change my walking speed!) Some people will find that a welcome change and get way more into it than everyone else, and others will just find it needlessly complicated and tedious.
Personally I played a bit of MH... I think it was 2 on PSP and I was starting to get into it, but then I was wandering around a lifeless environment gathering herbs to mix, and skinning monsters, then setting up a barbecue, and trying to cook the meat to whatever arbitrary shade it was looking for (brown's not enough, but brown is just right, just don't let it turn brown or it's ruined!) The part that really turned me off though was that I played the game for about a week and it still seemed like I had miles to go before I could just finish the tutorials and start playing the game, so I got sick of it before I really got to play. I suspect a lot of the North American audience takes it like that. :/ The only game I've played with a bigger tutorial section was Eve Online, and that's like taking a college course on a game you haven't started to play yet.
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11/27/09
It probably just depends on what type of genre you like, and there's definitely a distinction between types of games popular in the West and popular in the East. There's really no right or wrong like some people seem to feel, but people who live in the West that enjoy games popular in the East get disappointed sometimes because games don't make it overseas.
But at least with the new gen consoles PS3 / 360 (I never imported a 360 game but I'm assuming it's region free as well?) you can import games and play it, so the only real barrier is language.
11/27/09
You also couldn't use joke-sarcasm, which isn't really sarcasm as it's joke-sarcasm, the opposite. it'd then be the irony of joke-sarcasm which is a whole other story in itself..
So... i'm affraid not, jon..
*evil laugh*
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I hope it comes out AFTER Q1 2010, because I would have to sell a kidney if it did.
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I quite enjoyed the demo of LP2, the co-op was very fun. I may pick it up for Christmas or my Birthday early next year. #lostplanet2
11/17/09
Now GS, try to get Nintendo to put more playables in New Super Mario Bros Wii... #lostplanet2
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11/17/09
Going back and rereading things about LP2 they're describing Monster Hunter....in space...and a competitive multiplayer mode. #lostplanet2
11/17/09
Lame. #lostplanet2