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Posting this here for Gate because I remember him being a Battle Fantasia fan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdxiSGQJf7g

Steam release with improved graphics and some balance tweaks.

NotMiki · « **Reply #583 on:** July 02, 2015, 05:48:40 AM »

Cross that off the long list of things I would have never thought would happen if I had thought they were likely enough to even consider ever maybe Battle Fantasia on Steam? Really?

NotMiki · « **Reply #584 on:** July 03, 2015, 02:01:13 AM »

http://abovethelaw.com/2015/06/jiggery-pokery-sparks-scalia4kids-breaks-the-internet/

some pretty high level entries here.

Excal · « **Reply #585 on:** July 03, 2015, 12:15:44 PM »

Man, "Questionably convicted murderers, go the fuck to sleep" is one of the most morbid and beautiful pieces of black humour I have ever seen.

The Duck · « **Reply #586 on:** July 03, 2015, 03:39:44 PM »

This isn't to do with the Jesse Jackson AMA, but reddit is becoming a bit of a shitshow because it let go of the person in charge of its AMA's.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/03/reddit-ama-victoria-taylor-subforums-shut-down-protest-sacking

Grefter · « **Reply #587 on:** July 03, 2015, 08:25:07 PM »

Specifically they fired the main coordinator without doing any kind of announcement of a handover or how to coordinate confirmation off AMA participants. So people trying to do AMAS were left unable to do shit and had to cancel a bunch of AMAs because they couldn't communicate.

Reddit is a pile of fuck at a baseline but for a site that pretty much is field by community management that is a colossal fuck up. A big straw to break the camel's back, but it is mostly about moderators flipping their shit because reddit as a company dictate from on high and don't interact with the bulk of the people that make the site work.

Also protests about mod tools being piles of crap as well (shock)

NotMiki · « **Reply #588 on:** July 03, 2015, 09:34:57 PM »

Quote from: Excal on July 03, 2015, 12:15:44 PM

Man, "Questionably convicted murderers, go the fuck to sleep" is one of the most morbid and beautiful pieces of black humour I have ever seen.

"Harry Potter and the Prisoner Who Didn't Get a Miranda Warning, is in Solitary Confinement, and is Going to be Executed"

DjinnAndTonic · « **Reply #589 on:** July 04, 2015, 02:06:40 AM »

SMT #FE talk:

That trailer is horrifying. The actual gameplay itself sounds a lot less... bubblegum. It actually sounds like a fun mixture of Persona and FE. When exploring dungeons, players can attack on-field enemies to stun them, allowing them to have an advantage in battle or avoid them altogether. Battles in the game incorporates systems from both games, including Fire Emblem rock-paper-scissors mechanic of melee weapons and Shin Megami Tensei elemental properties. In additions to the various skills each party member possesses, some skills trigger Session Attacks where all party members attack in a combination. During these sessions, sub-characters can be called in to attack, and pairs of characters can activate combined techniques. Outside of battle, players can interact with characters, visit shops, and access a texting system.

The game takes place in Shibuya in Tokyo, following the lives of the young members of the Fault Entertainment talent agency. These youths become "Mirage Masters", who have the power to merge with Mirages, souls of warriors from another world. While some Mirages are kind-hearted and help out the Mirage Masters, others seek to cause chaos and draw power from the emotions of innocent people, and it is up to the Mirage Masters to stop them. There's also the appearance of other Fire Emblem antagonists as bosses with radically different designs like the main Mirages themselves.

The conceit is basically Persona with a fledgling pop idol agency, which sounds like it could work honestly. Persona usually has a somewhat dark take on the idol industry. More Perfect Blue than Hatsune Miku. I'm cautiously optimistic. Mostly because I think it's neat how each of the PCs is literally supposed to embody one of the various FE job/classes.

Also: Slightly less horrifying trailer because it shows actual gameplay~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fS24IxelBA

DjinnAndTonic · « **Reply #590 on:** July 12, 2015, 01:21:41 PM »

http://www.imperialsaga.jp/

Sweet. Apparently FFRK is doing well because Square Enix has basically made a SaGa Record Keeper...

It looks so freakin' awesome...

Meeplelard · « **Reply #591 on:** July 12, 2015, 02:43:06 PM »

New Batman/Superman trailer launched.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WWzgGyAH6Y

It's better than the "DO YOU BLEED!?" trailer since it at least tries to convey something going on than "Superman is fake Jesus! BATMAN WILL EXPOSE HIM!" nonsense. Actually, if anything, it seems like it's going the exact opposite direction. It seems like Batman is being treated as the antagonistic one in this, with Superman being more victimized than anything. Definitely prefer this approach because it's stupid when Superman is the bad guy for non-Mind Control reasons; it spits in the face of his character and everything it stands for (no, Dark Knight Returns was not a good handling of it, don't get me started on that please), so the fact that the movie seems to be going "Batman is the one who started it" is something I approve of.

The action sequences look promising; in particular, for once we're seeing Batman doing cool things, something we haven't seen since like...89 Batman. I'll grant Nolan batman was because it was Batman in a more realistic setting, so they had to tone down the gadgets a lot, but here, that's obviously not the case, so seeing him actually use the Grappling Gun mid-combat? Yeah, that's a breath of fresh air.

Unfortunately, the movie still seems to be the same DARK AND GRITTY tone rather than hyping it as MATCH OF AWESOME or something. I'm aware it's probably because DC wants their own thing, knowing if they try to emulate Marvel people will just compare the two, but you don't have to go off that extreme. Also, Lex Luthor looks pretty blech in this movie.

So yeah, better than the "DO YOU BLEED!?" trailer but doesn't completely dispel my fears.

Sierra · « **Reply #592 on:** July 12, 2015, 03:18:22 PM »

DARK AND GRITTY with unknowingly ironic capitalization is the only thing Zach Snyder knows how to do, Meeple. I don't know if you've seen any of his other movies, but his other movies are precisely why I have zero interest in this one. (I didn't actually watch the trailer, mind, because see previous comment.)

The Duck · « **Reply #593 on:** July 12, 2015, 03:29:42 PM »

Zack Snyder cannot be trusted. As much as I'm fatigued with Marvel movies, at least there's a semblance of joy there. This looks like more of the same boring misery-fest that was Man of Steel (from the muted color palette to the casual large scale destruction without regard to consequences), and that was unfuckingbearable.

At the very least, there are some potentially interesting things coming out of the Marvel pipeline in terms of story, but everything Snyder does is going to be completely uninteresting to me if he keeps making this same movie (and he is slated for the Justice League as well).

Fenrir · « **Reply #594 on:** July 12, 2015, 03:37:56 PM »

Quote from: DjinnAndTonic on July 12, 2015, 01:21:41 PM

http://www.imperialsaga.jp/

Sweet. Apparently FFRK is doing well because Square Enix has basically made a SaGa Record Keeper...

It looks so freakin' awesome...

Weird how they only seem to care about the Romancing ones.
I guess these sold a trillion more than the others.

DjinnAndTonic · « **Reply #595 on:** July 12, 2015, 04:29:35 PM »

The Romancing SaGa games are looking like the 'base' set of things available. There appears to be a decent focus on SaGa Frontier 1 and 2 as well, but I suspect they are akin to the 'wow cool event characters like Asellus!'

And they at least -have- the logos for the remakes of SaGa 2 and 3 (and Unlimited Saga) on the site, so perhaps they'll be including the amazing Mr. S!

Meeplelard · « **Reply #596 on:** July 12, 2015, 05:11:29 PM »

To be fair, SaGa 3 (the original) was the only one with real consistent characters of the original three, though yeah SaGa 2 did have the Temp PCs which I suspect they'll be using. SaGa 1/2 were in FF1's style of "Create your team!"

That said, SaGa isn't as big of a series as Final Fantasy in terms of raw scope. It has 9 games total I believe? The 3 originals, 3 Romancings, 2 Frontiers, and one Unlimited, and after that it's been remakes. Japan seems to favor the Romancing Saga games (which go figure are the ones we didn't get here save Minstrel Song) from what I've seen, so makes sense that would be their focus for this, with Frontier games being later add ons.

To be honest, I'm kind of surprised Dragon Quest Record Keeper wasn't their follow up, given Square-enix likes to go "hey, this idea worked, let's do it with Dragon Quest!" Doesn't matter if it's their own franchise or not; I mean they saw Hyrule Warriors and went "Let's do this with Dragon Quest!" for example.

The Duck · « **Reply #597 on:** July 13, 2015, 02:45:55 AM »

Satoru Iwata passed away.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2015/150713e.pdf

This is a bummer. He was still young and was instrumental for Earthbound, which was a huge game for me as a kid.

Captain K · « **Reply #598 on:** July 14, 2015, 01:58:17 AM »

https://www.youtube.com/user/MTV?v=crjkQHnDYu0

Shannara getting a tv series. Looks pretty good, although being on MTV makes it a bit suspect.

Fenrir · « **Reply #599 on:** July 14, 2015, 12:31:54 PM »

Gourry -> http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-07-14-earthbound-director-shigesato-itoi-pays-tribute-to-satoru-iwata

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