Miscellaneous Links from 2013

[Anthony Edward Stark]

http://www.jp.square-enix.com/dod3/#/story

Somehow, Drakengard 3?
- Same director as Drakengard 1/2/Nier
- Main character 1 is probably younger Kaine from Nier with a flower growing out of her eye
- Main Character 2 is Manah from Drakengard
- Graphics are terrible
- Hoping for: Babies, weapon stories, Nier music and a translation.

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Not sure I mentioned this before.
Fully realized Mario 64 music
The video makes me laugh everytime:
http://www.p4rgaming.com/?p=530

It's too bad that when you said the main character was Kaine with a flower growing out of her eye, you meant it metaphorically. It would have been the first game with a character who was confirmed to be hermaphroditic. And, judging by the alt costumes that came with the DLC, Kaine packs.

[Grefter]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/14/nuclear_reactor_salt/

Science!  Old concept but great to see it looking usable.

[Fenrir]

That fact about Kaine is maybe the best thing about Nier. Gaming news outlets were thinking this was a mistake.

I like how "Kaine" is metaphoric and "a flower growing out of her eye" isn't.
I'm sure it's her daughter or a clone or something though. Maybe? Ok, Manah and something related to Kaine, being together at the same time, is extremely unlikely, but whatever. I'm glad Manah is back anyway. I missed her.
Nier's composer is working on it too. We'll have to get the OST.
Literally the only full price games I've bought day 1 since... FF12, are Dark Souls, Dragon's Dogma and Nier.
Hype.

Sorry Trips, PS3 only

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Ridiculous. The best thing about Nier is the great and powerful Grimoire Weiss!

That said, the more I think about it the more sense it makes they they might bring Kaine back. She and Emil aren't Repilcants like everyone else so they continue living, and unlike Emil, Kaine's not established to be hanging out in the same place for the next 5000 years.

[Sierra]

And, judging by the alt costumes that came with the DLC, Kaine packs.

Bwuh, Nier had DLC?

[Anthony Edward Stark]

It had one. Added in a bunch of challenge fights, two sets of alternate costumes, and three totally overpowered weapons. The inter-level scenes are, of course, super-cryptic statements that allude to shit from Grimoire Nier. You also play as the other, shittier Nier and not the awesome Dadass, which is the only way to do so with a US copy.

[Fenrir]

The whole DLC is a vague tie in to Drakengard 1 too.  You get Caim's weapons IIRC. But really it's mostly challenge fights (and new music!!)

Zero looks like she has the same personality as Kaine, and the flower is probably the same as Nier's.
Also: Emil and sister were number 6 and 7, Drakengard 3's two sisters are 0 and 1. I doubt they'll just ignore Nier alltogether.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

You ever read the translated stuff from Grimoire Nier? Kaine's grandmother was pretty important in the end of days.  0 could be her.

E: the original her.

[Fenrir]

I wanted to but then completely forgot about it.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

The story about Kaine and her grandmother before society collapsed is in here:

http://youtu.be/74DCfV5fYr0

It's part of the drama CD. Kaine's grandmother is a bonafide historical figure!

[Anthony Edward Stark]

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/03/22/ducktales-remastered-capcom-wayforward-video-game/

Now, we all know that Ducktales for NES is one of the best games ever, licensed or not.  Capcom has decided they're going to do a shot-for-shot remake of it that will be a downloadable game.  I'm optimistic.

[Lady Door]

http://hellmode.com/2013/03/21/this-isnt-the-article-i-wanted-to-write-about-tomb-raider/

re: the new Tomb Raider

Better for feminism than Other M?

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Isn't everything?

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Yoichi Wada is stepping down today, several years too late, from the leadership of Square-Enix.  Hopefully most of the higher-ups will go with him after Square posted a loss of 10 billion yen this FY.

[VySaika]

http://www.amazon.com/The-Assassination-Orange-Foreworld-ebook/dp/B00B797JAM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1364831288&sr=8-1&keywords=assassination+of+orange

So one of my best freinds has gotten his first published story that's fully him instead of part of a group. It's just a short story, and still part of the Foreworld/Mongoliad setting, but I figured I'd toss the link around. Joe is a pretty good writer(better then me by miles), so it's defintaly worth a look if you like historical fiction.

[Grefter]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/03/iain_banks_cancer_diagnosis/

Another respected author dying.

[Fenrir]

France: Our political scandals are easily the best

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/02/jerome-cahuzac-france-offshore-account

[Shale]

Re: Gref. Fuckity fuck fuck fuck.

Also, Disney killed LucasArts. Not that they'd been making good games since, oh, the 1990s, but it's still a sad end to a studio with a great history. Hopefully they license out the adventure IPs along with the orgy of Star Wars games.

[Hunter Sopko]

I have a bad feeling it'll end with a lot of Good Idea, Bad Idea.

Good idea: Ressurrecting X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter

Bad idea: Giving that license to EA.

[superaielman]

France: Our political scandals are easily the best

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/02/jerome-cahuzac-france-offshore-account

Oh man, French right wing reaction to this must be amazing.

[Fenrir]

Everybody's acting super shocked now but the right actually defended him before he confessed. Just about every politician defended him!
That's because the exact same thing happened with the right wing government last mandate, and it directly involved former president Sarkozy. (But there hasn't been any proof yet) Both former budget ministers were close too.


I can't even joke about Italy anymore


Interestingly, the same online newspaper revealed both scandals. It has said from its beginning that it has chosen to live on a subscription based model, to stay truly independent and be able to resist political pressure, unlike every other news source.
Medias are looking about as bad as politicians to me now

[metroid composite]

EDIT:
Actually, this article is more interesting, so I'm putting it first:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/psysociety/2013/04/02/benevolent-sexism/




You know, I always wondered if there would be a scientific study some day that said "men are actually better at doing X, that's why the gender gap in that field has never really gone away."  Funny story...

http://www.fastcoexist.com/1681690/women-have-better-decision-making-abilities-than-men-make-better-corporate-leaders?partner=newsletter

Well that's awkward....

(Although I don't know if this necessarily indicates a gender disparity, so much as it indicates that the kind of women who climb to a CEO position are people who question the status-quo, and it turns out questioning the status quo is good for business).

[Idun]

I don't deny benevolent sexism doesn't exist, but what goes behind writing obituaries and including information is completely lost in that article. Glaringly deficient is the response of the family. What if her stroganoff was a strong family reference to simply knowing her as an individual beyond accomplishments? Anyway, there are bizarre statements made about males in obituaries, and even weirder references occur when an individual isn't nearly as "accomplished" in awards, research and other shiny things.

[Grefter]

Dunno about the Obituary bit, but the OMG UR HOT SCIENCE GIRL!!!! bit definitely rings true to the point.

[Idun]

It's sort of hilarious that a study necessitated propelling this conversation, since it's existed early 20c without this psychosocial label that second-wave fems brought to national discourse. The author (and whoever else) choosing an obituary to continue a not-new conversation is very dumb though.