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Taggart6 is Tiger Woods Mistress 342
05:14 PM

In reply to PS3 Slim Could Have Been Smaller, Used Network Storage
Flash memory is fine as long as you use something like SDHC and not some priority crap like memory sticks.

I'm excited for SDXC which I think should replace conventional console HDs.
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Gruntybreath
04:55 PM

In reply to Girls Night With The Most Male Game Of 2009
There are places, there are times. Gender is fascinating; I, personally, could debate about it endlessly. It never ceases to baffle me that at least half the population of humans aren't the same gender as at least the other half. But in a game as banal as MW2, gender has little place. It's a tremendous, shooty, masculine fantasy. Its as productive as gender studies in the NFL are. These things will only be either what they are now or they will not be.

War, action, and awesome, on the other hand, aren't the domain of just one sex, much less one gender. I'd love to play a game based on some badass pants-wearing Russian partisan men and women.
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Hey_Blinkon
05:13 PM

@Gruntybreath: You know what else is weird? 50% of people have below average intelligence. My boss loves to tell me that one..... :P
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Striderhayasa - Can we get some damn m/kb support?!
04:52 PM

In reply to Sony Brings Up Monthly Fees Again
PSN as it is now should stay free. there's no way in hell I'd pay for services that I've been getting free since the PS3 debuted. That's a deal breaker.

If sony wants to add features to the already established PSN and then charge for those on a monthly/yearly basis, then that's fair. Provided PSN as it is stays free.

Hey Sony, Talk to capcom, See if they'll throw you a bone and release monster hunter on PSN. I'd pay a fee to play that online on PS3 as opposed to playing it on Wii.
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Gruntybreath
04:40 PM

In reply to Heavy Rain Impressions: An Ambitious Sorrow
Oh god, I'm so exited for this movie.
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balls187
04:27 PM

In reply to Girls Night With The Most Male Game Of 2009
How many women are in the infantry?

How many women are in special forces?

How many women are in Brazilian militias?

Seems throwing a woman in the mix would make about as much sense having a panda that knows kungfu on the team.

The middle point of your article kind of answers why boys don't like girls playing video games. We don't sit around talking about which characters we wanna be, or which buxom bimbo we'd like to sleep with.

We just play the game.

I don't try to identify with the characters in FPS. I just run, shoot, wait for the paint to clear, and continue.
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Antiterra
04:12 PM

In reply to Amazon Dishes Deals On Batman Today, PS3 Tomorrow
Just in case there are Europeans reading this and thinking it's a sweet deal, Batman AA is, surprisingly, even cheaper over here.
Zavvi.co.uk have all 3 versions for £18 with free shipping to the UK (which comes to about €22 including shipping to the rest of Europe).
[www.zavvi.com]

They're selling Borderlands for the same price, btw.
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mintycrys is HOT for Bayonetta
04:07 PM

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Had to point this out, AJ: If No Russian had more women in the airport, I can almost guarantee you that some media folks wouldn't have been complaining about killing civilians. They would've been complaining about murdering women. Seeing women associated with scenes of violence is still a touchy subject in this country, and I think Infinity Ward was likely aware of that.

I remember there being more than one woman in the airport, but not many more. IW dodged a bullet, so to speak, by limiting their numbers there.

This was a pretty good article, I thought. Many people are taking it....differently than I did when I read it. Most of these are the same people that crapped on Raven Alexis' article because they were offended that a woman was telling them how to pick up women.
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Jonn
03:47 PM

In reply to Prince Of Persia: Forgotten Sands Is A Prequel And A Sequel
The animations seem a bit stiff in the trailer I saw, especially compared to the smoothness of SoT. If a pre-rendered trailer on a next-gen system can't match the ones on my freaking Gamecube...
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RoboBagins
03:24 PM

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The only thing that gets my goat about the entire article is the bit about Female Helicopter pilot in MW1.

I never saw that as sexist. Hell I never saw that as anything but a touching piece of entertainment that spoke lodes about the horrors of war, without a single corny message or protest slogan.

I wonder how much of the reaction to things like this is actual sexism present in the material or in the producers of the material, and how much is projection by the audience consuming said material.
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Foxstar is in love with Kotaku's two Brians.
03:24 PM

In reply to Sony Brings Up Monthly Fees Again
Well they are already charging the developers and that's resulting in PSN being a complete ghetto when it comes to demos and such compared to XBL and even that's not enough to offset losses, so yeah I see them creating a Gold like service and soon. They don't really have a choice, the investors are having fits and Sir Howard is a staking goat for Sony Japan to offer to the masses.

PSN is something they should have been building back when the PS2 was running wild. There's no reason for Live to have caught them as off guard as it did and now they are playing the worst kind of game, the game of catch up, with someone who has the groundwork laid and has years of networking under it's belt. They really do not have the money needed to out match Microsoft in the online game.
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boopadoo
03:23 PM

In reply to Heavy Rain Impressions: An Ambitious Sorrow
In a way, it sounds to me like Dragon's Lair, where I have to split my time between comprehending the story and looking for prompts.

I would hate to watch a gut-wrenching scene in Heavy Rain, then be prompted to have my character cry. It would just ruin the whole experience.
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ninjaDance
05:14 PM

@boopadoo: Prompts in Fahrenheit were pretty much always tied to tense, action-scene sorts of moments. Running through an office of cubicles from terrifying hallucinations, sneaking through a military base, etc. They were pretty well-chosen, I believe, and you generally saw them coming in that 'something's wrong here' kind of way.
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heretrix
03:03 PM

In reply to Demon's Souls Review: Souls Asylum
An awesome awesome game. It's a good example of how the Japanese can take a Western design, turn it on it's head and make something completely unique and interesting.

Moar plz.
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MrBounce
02:36 PM

In reply to Demon's Souls Review: Souls Asylum
Great review, I'm always glad to see Kotaku using a well-thought out review and not falling back on publishing a number.

I think it's too bad Demon's Souls is going to go down in the books as being a game that's "too hard" for many people. Not trying to sound like an old dinosaur, but in a lot of ways Demon's Souls is a throwback to what RPG-ish type games used to be like. A quick tutorial to get you on your way, and you're thrown out to the world. you explore, you die, you learn. Less hand-holding and real consequences if you wipe.

I'm glad From Software made this game, and I'm really hoping with the popularity among the core crowd that embraced this game, there's going to be sequels, and more games like it by other companies.
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Sonyphonics
02:23 PM

In reply to Girls Night With The Most Male Game Of 2009
I'm quite surprised multiplayer wasn't addressed here. I'm still confused as to why you cannot pick genders in multiplayer where there is no story or anything to prohibit women character models.
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AJ Glasser
03:19 PM

@Sonyphonics: Multiplayer is largely an organic component in games where developers react to the community. The narrative doesn't dictate one way or the other whether or not women should be playable -- sure. But unless the community is asking for it, I don't think the developers would waste valuable time trying to provide it.
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mughhh
03:44 PM

@Sonyphonics: Pretty sure the developers want to keep the game as real as they can.
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Wilson
04:06 PM

@AJ Glasser: Didn't Rainbow Six: Vegas (or maybe just Vegas 2, can't recall) have women available in multiplayer? I think stabilizability is sorely needed in more fps multiplayer and step 1 of that is gender selection. Being able to select ethnicity became a standard option in the past decade, but not gender. It doesn't require remodelling from the ground up, just rescaling a few proportions.
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Sonyphonics
04:18 PM

@AJ Glasser & Col. Craig Bock: I see what you both mean there. From a dev. point, it would be a waste of time. (I guess I secretly wanted to run around owning with the woman in the purple shirt, that is if they just re-used that one character model.)

Perhaps I was just looking into multiplayer a little too much, since now I realize despite the customization options present in mp, there are no options for your character look (outside of equipment). It just came to my attention since a few females I know wondered if they could switch genders in mp.
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Sonyphonics
04:21 PM

@mughhh: I do agree with what you said there, but on the other hand, I don't think women soldiers are non-existant either.
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balls187
04:34 PM

@Sonyphonics: Simple.

Neither the:

SAS, Army Rangers, Spetznas

Allow women.

So that leaves the Terrorists, and the Militias to allow women.
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Sonyphonics
04:35 PM

@balls187: Hmm. ok, sorry didn't go and read up on their recruitment policies. Thanks for the heads up.
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Altima NEO
02:08 PM

In reply to PS3 Slim Could Have Been Smaller, Used Network Storage
The PS3 Slim is hardly slim at all.

Ive got mine sitting atop my 360 and theyre about equal size.

I was hoping for something ala PS2 Slim. That was a nice size reduction there.
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SHOWTIME!
02:11 PM

@Altima NEO: I'd rather have a decent size console than a higher price and an external power supply .
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jristic42
02:38 PM

@Altima NEO: I hope you don't mean you're stacking them. That's just asking for overheating.
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spannu
03:37 PM

@jristic42: Some of us like to live life on the edge.
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Altima NEO
05:42 PM

@jristic42: No, haha. Im moving furniture around, and Ive got them on top of each other while I move the entertainment tower.
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Altima NEO
05:46 PM

@SHOWTIME!: I wouldnt mind an external power supply, I would mind a higher price though.
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