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    Ignition Has A Deadly Premonition For 360 Owners

    Cursed Mountain: A Religious Experience

    Resident Evil 5 Review: A Mutation of Fun

    Cursed Mountain Screens Are Cursed, Mountainous

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    Image of Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair) Cptn.PaxtonAstypalaea(Corsair)
    11/10/09

    In reply to Ignition Has A Deadly Premonition For 360 Owners
    It looks like an interesting game... but those graphics looked pretty dated.

    But then, not every game has to be AAA grade, and I could do with a good Minding F-ing Survival Horror... #deadlypremonition
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    Image of Dodge2002 Dodge2002
    11/10/09

    In reply to Ignition Has A Deadly Premonition For 360 Owners
    Who gives a flying toss if the graphics are shit? Did you forget about the more important thing like um story and uh gameplay!?
    This is just a wake up call to how easily we've been enticed by flashy things #deadlypremonition
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    11/10/09

    In reply to Ignition Has A Deadly Premonition For 360 Owners
    The graphics look very last-gen, and the setting looks a lot like a Silent Hill game. Top that off with the uber Akira Yamaoka rip off score ... and it looks like we have a Silent Hill clone. I honestly thought this was for the PlayStation 2 there for a second. They could've at least made a better trailer for this. Yikes. #deadlypremonition
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    Image of BxB402 BxB402
    11/10/09

    @d_r_e: Not suprising, since this game IS Rainy Woods, the Access game that was sent to dev hell for ripping off Lynch/Twin Peaks. New Publisher, New Name, New IP to look just a little too much like......same ugly ass game. It's Sad. #deadlypremonition
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    Image of MightyMike235 MightyMike235
    11/10/09

    @d_r_e: They definitely should've waited until they were further in the development process. If that's how the game is gonna look (not to mention the horrendous glimpse of gameplay), then this game is going to have a hard time selling.

    Did anyone else have a hard time believing this game is actually going to be scary? I know it was just a teaser but this has nothing on Dead Space. #deadlypremonition
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    Image of RicoTheSaboteur RicoTheSaboteur
    11/10/09

    In reply to Ignition Has A Deadly Premonition For 360 Owners
    Access Games are the people who made Spy Fiction on PS2. Anyone played that? #deadlypremonition
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    Image of Taggart6: I don't always drink beer, but when I do... Taggart6: I don't always drink beer, but when I do...
    11/10/09

    In reply to Ignition Has A Deadly Premonition For 360 Owners
    I think a Horror game staring Tracy Morgan would be awesome. Make him a downloadable add-on please. #deadlypremonition
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    11/10/09

    @Taggart6: I don't always drink beer, but when I do...: A Tracy Morgan horror would be casting him to play Othello. #deadlypremonition
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    Image of ninja_squirrel ninja_squirrel
    11/10/09

    In reply to Ignition Has A Deadly Premonition For 360 Owners
    So many critics and only from the first trailer. Is that what most people have to say, simply to criticize it at first glance. Jeez , people ask for new IP and when a trailer for a new IP comes out, with not even that much information , just a trailer with a couple of seconds of gameplay there are already people complaining. #deadlypremonition
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    11/10/09

    @ninja_squirrel: The lesson as always: Don't release a trailer that sucks.

    Marketing 101. If they can't get that right, chances are they didn't get much of the game right. #deadlypremonition
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    11/10/09

    In reply to Ignition Has A Deadly Premonition For 360 Owners
    You know what a girl wearing a choker means, right? #deadlypremonition
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    Image of SmilingPolitely SmilingPolitely
    11/10/09

    @Yossarian: Big hands. I mean feet. I mean penis.

    I mean... what were we talking about again? #deadlypremonition
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    Image of Dr Durdon Dr Durdon
    11/10/09

    In reply to Ignition Has A Deadly Premonition For 360 Owners
    Are you sure this isn't on the PS2? #deadlypremonition
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    Image of Gruntybreath Gruntybreath
    11/10/09

    In reply to Ignition Has A Deadly Premonition For 360 Owners
    Man, that trailer was too revealing. I practically know the entire plot now! #deadlypremonition
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    11/10/09

    @Gruntybreath: In other news that trailer made no sense. #deadlypremonition
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    Image of subnet6 subnet6
    11/10/09

    @Gruntybreath: Thanks for mentioning that. I've decided not to watch it based on your comment. I like games like this and I hate it when they give it away in the trailer. #deadlypremonition
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    Image of Gruntybreath Gruntybreath
    11/10/09

    @subnet6: That was sarcasm, sorry. Its just silly cinematics that mean nothing though. #deadlypremonition
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    11/10/09

    @Gruntybreath: OH, whoops, my bad. I totally thought you were serious. Now I feel silly. :) But yeah, I hate when suspense movies basically give it away in the trailer, about "who did it" or whatever. I'm always amazed that they do that. #deadlypremonition
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    Image of Strider_Kaijin Strider_Kaijin
    07/29/09

    In reply to Cursed Mountain Screens Are Cursed, Mountainous
    Haha, love the title of the article. Very The Onion-y.
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    Image of Kanji08 Kanji08
    07/21/09

    In reply to Cursed Mountain: A Religious Experience
    @ the article: It looks to handle religious beliefs in the same way that most games due: As a source of influence, but not necessarily accuracy, in order to spin the material into a more entertaining medium. As long as the game's not doing anything directly offensive to the material it's based off of, then I can't see the harm in it; Even if it's not the most accurate depiction of said religion.

    Games like ActRaiser, Devil May Cry, and a handful of others all use Christian influences and imagery to mold the concepts of their game without doing anything I'd consider in poor taste, and this game seems to be no different. Granted, I'm not well versed in Buddhism, but something tells me reincarnation and enlightenment didn't involve zombies.
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    Image of Bakeroo Bakeroo
    07/21/09

    @Kanji08: You'd be surprised. Tibetan Buddhism in particular is full of some scary stuff.
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    Image of diagorus diagorus
    07/22/09

    @Kanji08:

    Why should devs go out of their way not to offend the religious?

    I've seen games portray scientists as mad, atheists as book burners, or even women as giant bowling ball sized water balloons with a person attached to it - but generally people don't get mad, because its fiction, a concept that most humans understand.

    Now put a muslim song in little big planet, and the dev pulls it because of complaints. Assassins creed even hired specialist to make sure they didn't step on the toes of anyone's religious beliefs. Its not even an issue of accuracy either - as assassins creed decided to make the templars also atheist. Its pure appeasement.

    I'm sure the Buddhist's wouldn't be too happy if a game was made about the Baron Von Ungern Sternberg, possibly the maddest man ever to obtain power - who was a Buddhist and even called an incarnation of a God by the Dalai Lama of the time.

    What if a city sim game based on 1940-50s Tibet where you controlled the theocratic feudalistic society, and oppressed the serfs and punished them by amputating limbs and gouging eyes, as well as demoting them to a slave position, ensuring that any children they have will also be born into slavery.

    Most religions don't want accuracy - because reality isn't pretty for them.
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    Image of octaslash octaslash
    07/21/09

    In reply to Cursed Mountain: A Religious Experience
    That was extremely boring... he just went on and on.

    The game looks cool. There's been a real lack of survival horror game lately.
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    Image of jayislost jayislost
    07/21/09

    @octalass: He was pretty monotonous.

    I heard dispatching ghosts required Bhuddist prayer gestures. And I thought it would be interesting if they could leverage the counter-intuitiveness of having your arms open during the "scary" parts.

    But there's some kind of gun in this video. That's new, right? I think, for this game, being able to shoot ghosts sounds - and looks - like jumping the shark.
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    Image of excel_excel excel_excel
    07/21/09

    In reply to Cursed Mountain: A Religious Experience
    Thats really interesting. very unique premise!
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    Image of elmorepow elmorepow
    07/21/09

    In reply to Cursed Mountain: A Religious Experience
    Mountain is a woman? Reminds me of "Arcadia of my Youth."

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3as6x5kcZ2Y

    Nice story! I wish for PSP port!
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    07/21/09

    @elmorepow: Thats a new one, normally commenters asking for a PS3/360 port.
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    Image of elmorepow elmorepow
    07/21/09

    @excel_excel: I'm portable fan :) - and PSP port could seem more likely since they only have to downgrade some of the graphics.
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    Image of excel_excel excel_excel
    07/21/09

    @elmorepow: Well thats a logical answer. God damn you!
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    Image of RyuuzakiBjorn RyuuzakiBjorn
    03/13/09

    In reply to Resident Evil 5 Review: A Mutation of Fun
    The ending is so Predicable I could cry. Jeez.
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    Image of RyuuzakiBjorn RyuuzakiBjorn
    03/13/09

    @Ryuuzaki: *Predictable
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