Author Topic: Miscellaneous Links 2009 - The Re-Vengeance (Read 140763 times)

Monkeyfinger · « **Reply #1125 on:** November 21, 2009, 08:08:08 AM »

Looks promising. They've been making ARPGs for a while now, so it's not like they're bumbling into this format with no clue what to do.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1126 on:** November 21, 2009, 08:48:03 AM »

Maybe this will be a Lufia game worth playing. It's still hysterical, but at least it's worth a look.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #1127 on:** November 21, 2009, 09:14:07 AM »

Looking at it, holy fuck either they made Guy an enormous muscleman or that's Scott Steiner.

Dhyerwolf · « **Reply #1128 on:** November 21, 2009, 10:01:17 AM »

I kind of laugh at the going the ARPG route because turn based games are overdone...because it's feels like half the RPGs that some subsidiary of SE makes is a fucking ARPG.

Talaysen · « **Reply #1129 on:** November 21, 2009, 05:52:56 PM »

Quote from: Dhyerwolf on November 21, 2009, 10:01:17 AM

I kind of laugh at the going the ARPG route because turn based games are overdone...because it's feels like half the RPGs that some subsidiary of SE makes is a fucking ARPG.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #1130 on:** November 21, 2009, 06:53:06 PM »

Quote from: Talaysen on November 21, 2009, 05:52:56 PM

Quote from: Dhyerwolf on November 21, 2009, 10:01:17 AM
I kind of laugh at the going the ARPG route because turn based games are overdone...because it's feels like half the RPGs made these days are ARPGs, and the other half are SRPGs.

superaielman · « **Reply #1131 on:** November 21, 2009, 07:37:40 PM »

Lufia 2 had a good core combat system in place. No idea how that'll translate to the ARPG setting, but we'll see.

Dunefar · « **Reply #1132 on:** November 21, 2009, 08:15:02 PM »

I lack words.

Dunefar · « **Reply #1133 on:** November 21, 2009, 08:16:39 PM »

No seriously, WHAT? Why does Maxim look like Luke?

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1134 on:** November 21, 2009, 08:22:44 PM »

Honestly, it's an improvement in quality.

Excal · « **Reply #1135 on:** November 21, 2009, 09:45:28 PM »

Yeah, though I was skeptical at first, those pictures don't look half bad. So I suppose my reaction is the exact opposite of Rob's.

Cotigo · « **Reply #1136 on:** November 21, 2009, 10:20:58 PM »

What's this? More Nostalgia on the DS? yay.

Unoriginal · « **Reply #1137 on:** November 22, 2009, 04:08:45 PM »

http://opus-xero.com/contents/music.html

Remix site. Haven't gone through all of them yet, but what I have gone through has generally been good so far.

Dhyerwolf · « **Reply #1138 on:** November 23, 2009, 06:04:10 AM »

Quote from: Cmdr_King on November 21, 2009, 06:53:06 PM

Quote from: Talaysen on November 21, 2009, 05:52:56 PM
Quote from: Dhyerwolf on November 21, 2009, 10:01:17 AM
I kind of laugh at the going the ARPG route because turn based games are overdone...because it's feels like half the RPGs made these days are ARPGs, and the other half are SRPGs.

There's FFTA series and VP:DS. What else?

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #1139 on:** November 23, 2009, 06:13:00 AM »

SMT:DS, WAXF (WA4 and 5 for that matter take heavy inspiration from the SRPG mold), Valkyria, N1 and FE of course are still making them pretty much exclusively, nevermind some of the turn-based games that still have some random elements focusing on positioning (Persona 1 remake, Annie) ... while an upswing in remakes and nostalgia-based games on the DS has brought more standard turn-based affairs there, I distinctly remember a period in 2008 where pretty much every game I could play was either action or strategy.

Grefter · « **Reply #1140 on:** November 23, 2009, 12:39:29 PM »

Time to throw on Metallica - One because Pyro linked some totally awesome news.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1230092/Patient-trapped-23-year-coma-conscious-along.html

Real life Johnny Got His Gun shit. Goddamn. Not something going to stop me from supporting Euthanasia though.

Cotigo · « **Reply #1141 on:** November 23, 2009, 01:58:06 PM »

The Daily Mail is a tabloid. I wouldn't take it too seriously.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #1142 on:** November 23, 2009, 03:46:28 PM »

Yeah, I'm not sure I buy that story. He doesn't seem damaged enough, psychologically. People who are in solitary even a few months start having the social centers of the brain restructure themselves. 23 years of not being able to interact in any way and you'd be fuuuuuuucked up.

That said, I'd rather they kill me off a bit before 23 years go by. Preferably in an awesome way, and afterwards maybe mixing my bones in the coffin with a dinosaur's so that future archeologists will be confused as hell.

Grefter · « **Reply #1143 on:** November 23, 2009, 09:32:49 PM »

I just like to take any chance to link anything with song I like and literature.

Cotigo · « **Reply #1144 on:** November 23, 2009, 11:46:08 PM »

Eh. The thing with the DailyMail is that, unlike the Onion, it's not obvious that it's a tabloid. Plenty of plausible things get published and for a while I didn't pick up that it was a tabloid, until someone pointed it out to me.

superaielman · « **Reply #1145 on:** November 24, 2009, 01:09:35 AM »

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34109227/ns/health-more_health_news/?GT1=43001 AP and MSNBC are running with it, for what it's worth.

Ultradude · « **Reply #1146 on:** November 24, 2009, 04:40:32 AM »

Quote from: Unoriginal on November 22, 2009, 04:08:45 PM

http://opus-xero.com/contents/music.html

Remix site. Haven't gone through all of them yet, but what I have gone through has generally been good so far.

moAbi stuff is usually pretty good.

superaielman · « **Reply #1147 on:** November 24, 2009, 02:11:49 PM »

http://accessories.us.dell.com/sna/products/Games/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en&s=dhs&cs=19&sku=A3028216&dgc=CJ&cid=24471&lid=566643 L4D2 for 30 bucks at Dell. Get it, slackers.

Shale · « **Reply #1148 on:** November 24, 2009, 03:09:03 PM »

Like hell I'm falling for that again. It's a trap!

Cotigo · « **Reply #1149 on:** November 24, 2009, 04:35:42 PM »

Ugh. I can probably get my roommate to pitch half since he plays more than I do anyway, but I'm not entirely sure I even have 15 bucks.

EDIT: Re: Coma guy

So! It turns out the scenario was real, in as much as the guy exists and the claim was made.

BUT!...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31388323/vp/34111007#34111007

So, just watch from about 0:12 to about 0:35. This is what convinced people that he was still conscious and capable of communicating.

Someone else typing on a computer for him.

People are fucking stupid, far too apt to buy into these deluded fantasies that their lost loved ones are still around. The fact that the media picked it up and ran with it is only slightly less depressing because I expect that nonsense.

EDIT2: It would also be less depressing if this "phenomenon" didn't ALREADY have a name ("Facilitated Communication") and hadn't ALREADY been largely discredited by the scientific community.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitated_communication

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