Lamp, broken circa 1988
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I'm putting all of my support behind the Dynamic Duo in this one. MVC might have better individual wrestlers, but the Duo is the more cohesive tag team, both in ring and as an act.
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I was under the impression that most of the staff of a development team was let go after every release anyway. I always thought it was a few key staff that stayed on and went from game-to-game, but the majority of programmers and designers only worked on one game and then moved on, like Hollywood. Maybe I'm wrong though.
Close to right! That's definitely industry practice, but they're hired as they enter crunch time and not from the start of development. They're also shed closer to post-launch. A game studio tends to have a solid core, and the bigger the studio the bigger the core. Flushing everyone but a handful is, as far as I know, unprecedented.
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I love how "hundreds lose jobs" gets spun by most of the press as "ken levine's creative rebirth!"
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I'm in the PC Titanfall beta.
Basically, if you think it looks rad from what you've seen, it's that rad. If you're not moved by the footage, there's nothing happening that'll change your mind.
I have an extra XBone code for some reason? I don't know anyone who has one, so, first come first serve. Ends on Tuesday though.
EDIT: After completing two games with zero deaths I'm going to give the secret: I AM THE BEST AT TITANFALL
no, uh, keep moving, abuse the cloak, and use the shotgun. The melee has a long ass windup so people are figuring out how to use it, and some of them are overly cocky about when they fire that thing off. Step to the side, perforate them. The spread on it is pretty damn good too, so if you're on opposite sides of the same room two or three shots works out pretty well.
Also, try to be better at using the actual titans than I am. I basically just wait for the Epilogue and then throw as many missiles as I can at the dropship. I never deploy it in the actual game because I'm too useful without it.
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Microsoft is shutting down GFWL, that's true.
Origin is probably not going anywhere. EA hated dealing with Steam, and my understanding is that Origin makes its operating costs back. Something really drastic is going to have to go wrong to get them back onto Steam.
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Titanfall's coming out through the EA Partners program. All EA has a say in is the publishing and having the right to lock it into Origin instead of Steam. Everything else (creative decisions, economic model, maintenance) is on Respawn.
So if EA shuts down Origin in the next few years, yeah, there might be a problem. That is an exceptionally pessimistic expectation, though.
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The motherfucking Constantines are reissuing Shine A Light and playing some shows around the anniversary. If they come to California they'll get to see a grown man weep while he sings along to every word.
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GBA games what are awesome that don't really get brought up:
MOTHER 3
hahaha just kidding they'll never release this*. it's probably the best RPG ever, though, because it is both a story written with thought and told with prose, as well as being a Video Game You Can Play, a key feature many RPGs lack.
ASTRO BOY: OMEGA FACTOR
FACT: Treasure released the best action games every year from 1993-1998. In order: Gunstar Heroes, Dynamite Headdy, Alien Soldier, Guardian Heroes, Mischief Makers, and Radiant Silvergun. They missed 1999, but made up for it in 2000 with both Bangai-O and Sin & Punishment. They missed 2001, but made up for it with Ikaruga in 2002, simultaneously inventing and murdering bullet hell.
FACT: Dr. Frankenstein envies Treasure.
FACT: Treasure was the best at side-scrolling action games. Look up there again.
FACT: The GBA was really, really good at doing super crisp 2D action games.
FACT: Astro Boy is a weird setting.
FACT: Astro Boy: Omega Factor is a 2D action game from Treasure on the Game Boy Advance.
FACT: Astro Boy is even better than the sum of all prior facts, mostly because in between beating the unholy fuck out of everything, there's a lot of story. You are rewarded for caring about that story, for if you catch on to subtle nuances you can make new branches in the story appear, and then beat up more things, which then makes you better at beating things up.
FACT: Everything Treasure made after Astro Boy: Omega Factor is kind of garbage, except for that one Bangai-O game on the DS. The one with the mapmaker mode that generated maps from sound files that you played into the microphone of the DS. That game was alright.
FACT: Everyone should play Astro Boy: Omega Factor.
MARIO GOLF: WHATEVER THE SUBTITLE WAS
There's one key difference between the GBA game and the Gamecube game, and probably that new one they're making too: hitting the golf ball feels REALLY satisfying. The tiny speaker threatens to tear apart as you wind up, and then there's an enormous explosion of sprite effects when you hit the ball. This is enough to justify playing all of this game, if you feel like you want to play a golf game.
NINJA FIVE-O
I know, having sweet ninja powers you can only use to help pigs is like winning infinite food and permanent comfortable shelter for breaking your mother's nose in front of your father without ever being able to tell them why you did it. Stick with me. For one you can jump around like a ninja. Pretty awesome. For two, you get a grappling hook that is also a chain. This is important because chains are cooler than ropes, and because you can use this in combination with your ninja jumping powers to do insane ninja bullshit. For three, you never actually interact with any cops, only goons and hostages. So you just do their job for them. For four, when you upgrade your ninja stars, it goes from a ninja star to three spreading fireballs to a railgun. If you are good, you throw like a railgun, while ninja sliding into giant grappling hook jumps. For five, the game is called Ninja Five-O. Play Ninja Five-O.
WARIOWARE
This could just be a DVDVRMB thing, or this could just be a "i've had two concussions" thing, but I never see anyone bring up Warioware when talking about good games for the GBA. Even if Warioware isn't the Best Game, it's certainly the Most Game. It's brilliant that the main menu is a tree, because as it grows it becomes Even More Game for you to pick the fruits off of and just play for hours and hours. See the story. Fly paper airplanes. Play that weird shoot out game. Play one microgame until you will never get it wrong again if it pops up in a stage you want to replay. Play the stages until you get all the microgames. Let Wario's mad laugh fill the air for hours, wherever you go.
WARIOWARE: TWISTED
I don't think this will come out either, but seriously how hard would it be to let people use the Wii remote to simulate the gyroscope. That doesn't seem like too dramatic of a fix. Plus playing it on a TV would solve the "tilt this thing you're looking at" problem.
THE TWO CASTLEVANIA GAMES THAT DON'T HAVE THAT SOMA CRUZ GUY
He sucks, and so does Metroidvania. You know what's better than Metroidvania? Metroid. The two Castlevania games without Soma Cruz are basically just Metroid with magic spells and a weapon that has an actual justification for being short range. Why would you make an arm cannon that only shoots ten feet in front of you. Why would you buy that arm cannon. Why do I have to use it. This sucks. I wish I had something tangible, like a whip. Castlevania's 2D Sprite Whip still feels totally great to use. It's the one thing they've reliably not fucked up through the years of letting Castlevania keep happening. The whip in the 3D games feels like a suggestion, when whips are made for orders. Order the death of skeletons with Castlevania: The First One On GBA and Castlevania: The Other One On GBA*seriously, never. the story is so bleak and the ending is traumatic, but it has just the prettiest, nicest cartoon art. MOTHER 3 is a good game to ruin a child's life with.
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alright, how about The Roots? Exceptionally talented, major presence, never seen anyone say "my favorite band is The Roots" ever.
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The Animals are actually a pretty amazing answer for this, both in the possession of talent and the sheer unlikeliness of someone saying that their favorite band is The Animals. I guess by proxy War would also work out pretty well as an answer.
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Smash Mouth?
also DQ on Matchbox20 and Everclear based on "best musician/band that is no one's favorite." They are barely the best bands with those names.
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I've said this before, but I have a lot of trouble dealing with living in this world where the Shellshock is not only over but impressive as well.
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I want to say U2, but surely there are some Joshua Tree-era fans who will still swear by them. That's probably the cut-off point, though. I imagine everyone who came in around the Achtung Baby era probably hates the band they became in the 00's. And I can't imagine anyone falling head over heels for their more recent stuff, even though they had a run of big hits.
Sorry, but I have to put this one down. I have met people that fawn over modern U2 in algebra classes, speaking of them in hushed tones. "Yeah I'm gonna miss these classes, and yeah it's going to cost hundreds of dollars, but IT'S U2. You've gotta go see U2!"
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speaking of how dead rock is, here's new songs from The Men!
This one's called Another Night
This one's called Different Days
And if you missed it they also put out this one, called Pearly Gates
And here's an in-studio radio performance of another one, called Settle Me Down.
goddamnit i need this record
EDIT: for a fun reminder, here's what they sounded like in 2010, back when they were a three piece band
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Tuesday, this girl I really like and have been talking to for a few weeks asks me out. We set something up for Thursday.
Wednesday, I shake one guy's hand while on campus (Bio lab partner that recognizes me at the 200 person lecture I go to), and then have like a tiny cough the rest of the day. I take an allergy med when I get home and KO.
Thursday, I wake up with bronchitis.
I am going to bodyslam that motherfucker the next time I see him.
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Fuck you all. All 4 of them are cooler than everybody else ever.
Anyways, just interrupting Caring About Grandpas to shout out the new record from Carla Bozulich (Evangelista/Geraldine Fibbers/Ethyl Meatplow). It's called "Boy" and it's fucking fantastic and out very soon.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Xq4o-kE-j8
Sometimes they rock and roll
Sometimes they stay at home and it's just fine
This heart's on fire
This heart's on fire
This heart's on fire
This heart's on fireI am my mother's hen
And left the body in the bed all day
We don't know what to do
This heart's on fire
This heart's on fire
This heart's on fire
This heart's on fireA thousand made-up loves
What makes the sound of surf once you know you're alive?
This heart's on fire
This heart's on fire
This heart's on fire
This heart's on fireIt's getting better all the time
It's getting better all the time
This heart's on fire
This heart's on fire
This heart's on fire
This heart's on fireAnd you're my favourite thing
Tell it everywhere I go
I don't know what to do
This heart's on fire
This heart's on fire
This heart's on fire
This heart's on fireSometimes they rock and roll
I'd rather stay at home in real life
This heart's on fire
This heart's on fire
This heart's on fire
This heart's on fireIt's getting better all the time
It's getting better all the time
It's getting better all the time
It's getting better all the timeThis heart's on fire
This heart's on fire
This heart's on fire
This heart's on fire
This heart's on fire
This heart's on fire
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Special fun time reminder time! This one goes out to all the people that posted their lists in here and then floated away.
We're closing in on two months until ballots are due, and there's all sorts of rad shit that's been pimped in here. Check it out! And the rules dump is still over here.
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I'm just saying that the idea that the grammys have fuck all to do with music as an artform is ludicrous. The grammys are just spectacle, and spectacle has nothing to do with the artful uses of sound and silence. Spectacle might incorporate music, which is where you might be getting this all twisted, but the point has never been music.
Something that would make the grammys actually interesting is if they gave up the artifice of honoring the achievements of an art form and presented it like a playoff game. Experienced sports commentators crunching the business numbers and talking about the stories of the artists leading to their moment of supreme profitability. Tested veterans against young underdogs, long-standing fringe characters taking on financial forces making the same power moves. That'd build some actual tension for the awards!
basically my main point is that peyton manning is daft punk and they can all burn in shit forever
and also fuck the grammys
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why are you guys talking about television in the music thread
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oh man alien hominid i'm gonna go dig that up
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Seattle.
This has come up elsewhere, but I hate my hometown (San Diego). The way that it's so thoroughly landscaped eats at my psyche bit by bit. So every time I go up to Seattle, when I'm at the outskirts of the city and I can see how the woods try to push in, I feel healed.
Also a small town in Idaho, but if I give the name it can't be my secret anymore.
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You guys need to play Leisure Suit Larry.
You need to go expose yourself to how women in the games industry get treated by the kind of people I'm talking about. Start with Zoe Quinn or Jennifer Hepler. Then see if you're still okay with the ass-backwards way videogames portray relationships.
EDIT: Also, holy fuck, did you seriously use "Women As Adversaries: The Adventure Game" to try to quash this argument?
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