tenaciousg

For someone unfamiliar with NBA games, how radical was 2k's overhaul?

EDIT: dont' WWE have a stand at San Diego Comic Con? Could debut somethnig there.

Oh yeah, that could be a thing.

Regardless of gameplay, we've usually seen screens by now.

I know, that's what worries me - either the game's gonna look exactly like 2k14 (IE, pretty lame), or it's gonna be great... but the longer they go, the more I assume it's the former over the latter.

Yeah, I'm really hoping they're gonna get on showing some actual work sooner rather than later. I've heard good things from the E3 reports, but E3 was over a month ago, and the game releases in three months.

EDIT: The last few years, they've had trailers with SOME sort of in-game footage within them by this time. The only reason I'm giving 2K any semblance of a chance right now is because WWE 13 and 2k14 were THQ trying to stretch WWE '12 out for a few years, so of course they had workable footage at this time of year.

Nah; I bought WWE '13 on-release at a Target and got Tyson, and pre-ordered 2k14 through Gamestop and still received Ultimate Warrior. The only thing exclusive to the 2K site is gonna be the (assumedly Hogan-themed if his tweets about signing 25,000 autographs are anything to go by) special edition of the game... and even then, I'm not totally sure about that.

Nope. We haven't even gotten so much as a peek at what the game will look like yet.

Yeah, it's the thing that puts me off MMORPGs, I either want to pay all at once and get it over with, or get the game free and just pay a subscription fee. Doing both just seems incredibly fucked.

That's really the only thing keeping me from playing XIV; well, that and (at least when I was given a free month of game time by my brother) the massive amount of spambots in the spawn cities.

Well, yeah, but TBH both logos are pretty shit IMO.

It looks like a kid's Saturday-morning-cartoon block ate the WWE logo, and that's the excrement.

And if I were you, I'd probably ask the uploader for the raw file; even if someone cuts the logo out for you, it's tilted and lit strangely in the video, so it's going to look weird/bad on an EWR background.

Never trust what an actor says in an interview. The chance of them either lying or flat out not knowing enough information is too great.

That's what I'm thinking - what else is Michelle Fairley gonna say? "Oh, yeah, I'm totally coming back on next season as a hate and grief fueled zombie..."

I mean hell, she technically didn't even lie - Catelyn Stark is, in fact, dead.

Yeah, I get the feeling we're gonna see a lot of people who knew the result ahead of time going "I knew that was going to happen, I just didn't think it'd be that horrifying..."

I would kill for a Mass Effect announcement.

I figure that outside of home-stretch hyping for Dragon Age Inquisition, the proper announcement of the fourth Mass Effect game is probably the biggest thing EA/BioWare can really do.

I've been thinking about picking it up (I'd actually had it pre-ordered until I needed to free up a bit of money), but I think I'm gonna do like JLH and wait it out. If it turns out to be good and it's fairly popular, odds are it'll probably get bundled with the current-gen consoles on Black Friday.

Then here you go.

I'm in that same boat: even though it's my favorite, I can't stand playing VIII without the PSX music. With any luck, the guys who did the Anxious Heart thing for FF7 will do/already have done something like that for VIII.

Yeah, the big disconnect in animation 'quality' between the moves and the selling animations makes me feel like they ripped most of those moves straight from other games.

He's even put the 'parody' disclaimer at the start. Wonderful!

I know. It's like it made Curtis Angel and Ragnabrok less transparently plagiarized!

Eh, I dunno; I'd argue that it's like a Schrodinger's usefulness; both useful and useless at the same time. It's good, because you can teach elemental-themed Aeons the requisite spells to heal themselves and deal damage better, you can teach non-elemental Aeons some white magic, as well as some status attacks... but it's bad, because those all use resources you could use on weaponry and armor for the rest of the team, and have Yuna focus on being a white mage.

I don't necessarily get why this has to be turned into a film. The game's already cinematic enough as it is.

Because it's a good story but not everybody plays games?

I guess that's a valid reason, but...

Because they made a movie about two plumbers, and a movie about street fighters, so everyone should get a chance?

Everyone should get a chance to take a beloved franchise and give it a huge black mark via terrible film adaptations just because other franchises got to?

Like I said in my post, TLOU is already cinematic enough on its own. It's built to be like you're watching a movie. Sony's basically going to pay what's got to be at least a hundred million to re-shoot the game's events, while risking everything fans liked about the game. What if the Clickers look too CGI-ey, what if new Joel and new Ellie pale in comparison to Troy Baker and Ashley Johnson, what if they cut out certain subplots, etc.

Their presence never confused me, because I knew about them (and Penance), but I never knew all the places they end up camping out at.

I don't necessarily get why this has to be turned into a film. The game's already cinematic enough as it is.

So I probably had my favorite moment in my entire history of playing FFX yesterday. I was going against Belgemine at Remiem, and I was on the very last fight, against her Magus Sisters. I'm able to take out Mindy pretty handily, and while it takes either a Mega Flare or an Oblivion to take out Sandy, by the end, I'm left with just Cindy. That was a double mistake on my part, because besides being the beefiest of the Sisters, she also completely gave up the ghost once I'd taken the others out, turning it into as close a war of attrition as I've ever had in a Final Fantasy game. She buffed herself up relentlessly - I'm talking a constant rotation of Mighty Guard, Cura, and Regen here - and while she was only casting those three things inbetween infrequent attacks, there was no way I could get past everything. None of the Aeons outside of Bahamut, Anima, Yojimbo, and my own Magus Sisters could deal anywhere close to decent damage before Mighty Guard, and after, even Bahamut and Anima were fairly neutered; they could hit her for a decent chunk of damage, but her various regen buffs would wipe out most if not all of the damage immediately afterward.

So with nowhere left to turn, I summoned Yojimbo. For a good ten turns or so, I was paying him a reasonably small amount, roughly a thousand gil per turn, and he was striking out with regular Wakizashis. They were doing good damage, and Yojimbo was hitting fairly often, so it was probably biting through some of Cindy's armor. But after that tenth recasting of Mighty Guard, it's almost like Yojimbo gained sentience, and realized how fucking protracted the battle would become... so apropos of absolutely nothing - I didn't pay him a single coin - he struck out with Zanmato and ended the fight.

I typically don't like Yojimbo due to the cost it brings to acquire and summon him, which makes his acquisition in my games of FFX more of a completionist's formality than due to me actually liking him, but after that fight, and especially the self-initiated Zanmato, Yojimbo's a pretty cool guy. Eh kills aones and doesn't afraid of anything.

But don't you need a metric asston of Gil to get Zanmato or whatever Yojimbo's uber one-shot attack is?

I need to make stop in the Cavern of the Stolen Fayth so I can get armor with No Encounters on it.

Also, fun note: when I returned to the Thunder Plains to do the dodges, I accidentally initiated the encounter with Dark Ixion. Since I put First Strike on the Murasame, I was able to have Auron escape, but Ixion proceeded to - on its first turn - doublecast Thundaja on both Tidus and Lulu, hitting them for 99999 damage.

So yeeeeeeeeah, think I'm gonna take a rain check on the Dark Aeons right now.

That's kinda dumb. I guess I'll just go without Tornado on this playthrough then, because I'm not fighting a superboss just to get a sphere. At least not right now.

On that note, I have no idea to this day why THQ/2K used a Superstar Heads version of Punk for the Mania 29 Undertaker/Punk match in 30YoWM mode.

It's weird. I was downed twice at Gagazet by a wolf/machina/dragon random encounter grouping, and both times ended up not saving after Kimahri's solo fight, which is usually one of the most tedious ones in the game for me... but the way I've built him up in my current game - his own Grid area, leading into Tidus' (long enough to obtain Haste and Cheer), and then veering into Auron's - has him in this nice area of being fairly powerful, yet still quick.

I mean, he's still about as useful as he is normally (which is to say, not much), but it's nice to not have a terribly underdeveloped Kimahri in a 2-on-1 situation.

It's nowhere near as big a deal as it apparently seems to look like I'm making it. I've gotten used to it now.