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At 10/5/11 03:26 PM, roderickii wrote:

At 10/5/11 03:16 PM, SlipperyMooseCakes wrote: Short answer: No.

Long answer:

Blazblue - DLC
Dead or Alive- hasn't made a console game in years
Dragonball Z- better back in the day
Marvel vs. Capcom- rips you off, but good
Mortal Kombat- Awesome
Soulcalibur- meh
Street Fighter-see MVC
Tekken- yeah
The King of Fighters- dlc
Virtua Fighters- haven't made a game in years.
Super Smash- Great
etc.

All of these are highly successful and multi-million copy selling franchises. A lot of these made a come back this generation if anything.

Most of which haven't made a best seller in years. Few fighters come out a year. Only street fighter, MVC and MK came out this year.

This is incredibly untrue.

Marvel V.S. Capcom 3 (2011) ~1.37 million units sold (Has another iteration in works)
Mortal Kombat (2011) ~3.00 million units sold (Has another iteration in works)
Soulcalibur IV (2008) ~2.3 million units sold (Has another iteration in works)
Super Smash Bros. Brawl (2008) ~9.48 million units sold (More than likely will be sequel)
Street Fighter IV (2009) Street Fighter IV has sold 3.1 million units and Super Street Fighter IV has sold 1.6 million units,[13] while Super Street Fighter IV: 3D Edition has sold an additional 1 million copies as of April 2011

I could go on and on and on. They are still alive and well.

This is a pretty interesting thread, I like how it is set up too ;)

I know Game Informer use to do pretty much the same series in the back of each issue, they might sitll do it too. It's good to put nostalgia into perspective sometimes and realize that not all games from "back then" were as amazing as you think. And that not all games "now days" are trash and don't stand up to the classics.

Not all of these are pre 2006 like you asked, but you make be interested in them.

Napoleon: Total War: http://www.giantbomb.com/napoleon-total-
war/61-27879/
Cossacks II: Napoleonic Wars: http://www.giantbomb.com/cossacks-ii-nap oleonic-wars/61-18047/
Waterloo: Napoleon's Last Battle: http://www.giantbomb.com/waterloo-napole ons-last-battle/61-4686/

I'm sure there are many more. You should have a good amount of enjoyment out of those for awhile though.

Short answer: No.

Long answer:

Blazblue
Dead or Alive
Dragonball Z
Marvel vs. Capcom
Mortal Kombat
Soulcalibur
Street Fighter
Tekken
The King of Fighters
Virtua Fighters
Super Smash
etc.

All of these are highly successful and multi-million copy selling franchises. A lot of these made a come back this generation if anything.

At 9/18/11 03:16 PM, RightWingGamer wrote: 3D.

I'm serious. Commentaries made in 3D is the only thing that has never been done before.

http://www.youtube.com/user/Gamester81in 3D

There are actually a handful of people in the gaming community that make videos in 3D now.

I'm hoping I'm not the only one that read the title and thought "I've made my mistakes, got nowhere to run. Life goes on..."

It's something people debate about a lot. Technically Microsoft could cos on by with just having major 3rd party support and still sell a lot of consoles. The only problem is the "core" or "traditional" gamer would like to see more first party IPs. Not only that but they don't want the same ones every year, they look forward to new and original ones.

I think Microsoft really should develop more internal IPs even if it isn't crucial for their sales. It would make the core audience happy and will build a solid library.

If you're into shmups (Shoot 'em Ups) this game is definitely THE game for you. It's great that fans don't have to dish out hundreds of dollars to play this on the Saturn anymore.

At 9/10/11 01:25 PM, Cericon wrote:

At 9/9/11 08:35 PM, SlipperyMooseCakes wrote:

At 9/8/11 10:53 PM, Cericon wrote: I really want to know why Microsoft can't make a console that works the way it's supposed to

I'd also like to mention that my original XBox, which has been sitting in a dusty closet for several years, works as good as it did the day I bought it.

That is all.

You're making an incredibly moot point. It doesn't matter that there old console works fine, what matters is that there new, more technologically advanced console works like shit.
Also you're a prick.

I'm just pointing out you're being dramatic in your topic. You say things like "Why can't Microsoft do things right" and "Why Can't Microsoft make things work the way they're supposed to" but turn right back around and talk about how great the hardware for the original Xbox is.

Yes Microsoft heavily rushed the production of the Xbox 360 and it took them years to get it right, some still argue that they still haven't. But clearly Microsoft is capable of making a sturdy product and have. You're exaggerating.

And love ya too, babe.

While interesting, all you did was copy and paste. You put little to no effort into this topic. Why not be more original?

Anyone up for some cross game chat?!

It's the time of year where dust off the ol' PS3 and put it to good use. I can not wait for Uncharted 3, Ratchet and Clank: All 4 One and Oddworld: Strangers Wrath to release.

Anyone else getting R&C? :(

It depends on what game you're playing and what you're doing in a game. In most cases they do separate things.

Is this honestly a legitimate thread?

At 9/8/11 10:53 PM, Cericon wrote: I really want to know why Microsoft can't make a console that works the way it's supposed to

I'd also like to mention that my original XBox, which has been sitting in a dusty closet for several years, works as good as it did the day I bought it.

That is all.

Also, if you're interested in seeing as to what people are working on the game I found a small list. There are roughly ~200 people working on Halo 4 but a user on Neogaf combined some of the known ones into a list. I bolded some of the people that may catch people's interest.

- Scott Warner @scott_343
- Jesse Snyder - (former Call of Duty lead designer, creator of Nazi Zombies) @thejessesnyder
- Jason Behr (Metroid Prime 1/2)
- Chris Haluke (Design Lead on Killzone 3)
- Dan Callan @danjamin
- Paul Parsons @paul_par
- M.E. Chung @lizmechung
- Kevin Franklin @kevin_franklin
- Paul Ehreth (Shadowrun)
- Kendall Deacon Davis
- Jonathan Schwartz (UI Design)
- Chris King (Volition)
- Kynan Pearson (Metroid Prime series)
- Chad Armstrong - Shishka former Bungie (apparently he's doing the Achievements and Terminals in CEA -yeah i wrote that around e3 time, and i can't remember where i read that)

Art and Animation:
- Ryan Payton (Metal Gear Solid 4) @ryanpayton
- Vic Deleon (Halo: Reach) @vicdeleon
- Paul Pepera (Doom 4)
- Donnie Taylor (ex-Bungie contract)
- Wei Wiharjo Chen (The Saboteur)
- Jonathan Wood (EA Tiburon)
- Johnny van Zelm (Sony Online Entertainment)
- Mike Murrill (Naughty Dog)
- Daveed Kaplan
- Will Christiansen (contract, ex-Bungie contract)
- Tim Diaz (God of War 3)
- Chris Buckley The_DrMouse (Graphic Designer)
- Neill Harrison (Rare)

Producers:
- Dan Ayoub @Danayoub (Executive Producer)
- Gavin Carter (Fallout 3, TES: Oblivion) @gavinc343
- Veronica Peshterianu (The Sims 2)
- Corrinne Robinson
- Alex Cutting
- Che Chou (Forza 3) @chespace
Engineering:
- Joe Waters (Shadowrun)
- Matt Brown (Bioshock 2)
- Peter Kugler (Microsoft SDET)
- Zhi Min Chen (KAOS)
- Corrinne Yu (Gearbox)

AudioVisual:
- Cinematic Director: Brien Goodrich (Forza)
- Composer: Neil Davidge (Massive Attack)
- Audio Director: Sotaro Tojima (Metal Gear Solid 4)
- Schlerf @schlerf (Writer)

Kiki Wolfkill - (Turn10) Producer
Allison Stroll - (MS Publishing) Producer
David Yu - (Pseudo Interactive) - CTO
Bonnie Ross - (MS Publishing) - Group General Manager
Chris Lee - (MS Publishing) - Senior Producer
Humberto Castaneda - (MS Publishing) - Producer/Waypoint
Josh Holmes - (Propaganda Games) - Studio Creative Director
Corrinne Robinson - (McFarlane Toys) - Associate Producer
Scott Parrish - (Industrial Light + Magic) - Lead Creature Technical Director
Christopher French (Propaganda Games) - Designer
Brad Welch - (Pandemic) - Lead Designer
Ray Almaden - (EA/LMNO & Guerrilla Games) - Lead Designer
Armando Troisi - (Bioware & Propaganda) - Narrative Director
Tom French - (Pandemic) - Senior Mission Designer
Dan Ayoub - (Ubisoft & Propaganda) - Producer
Nicolas Bouvier (Sparth) - worked on Prince of Persia stuff and Rage
Tom Scholes - Worked on Guild Wars/GW2
Gabriel Garza (Robogabo) - Guys is insanely good concept designer

At 8/29/11 03:54 PM, tyler2513 wrote: The graphics look nice but that'd be like Bungie making Metal Gear Solid 5

Not at all. You couldn't be more wrong.

The game is still owned and published by the same publisher, Microsoft. The studio producing it is made up of a few ex-Bungie members like Frank O' Connor. This studio is heavily affiliated with the Halo franchise. It isn't an instance where a major franchise is handed off to some 3rd party studio to continue. You can check out Naughty Dog if you're into that.

At 8/24/11 10:25 PM, RightWingGamer wrote: Star Wars made prequels. Yes, they mostly sucked, but they would have been much worse had they been sequels. And don't give me that stuff about the "Expanded Universe". I'm well familiar with the stories of Kyle Katarn, the Yuuzhan Vong, Han & Leia, and so forth, and NONE OF IT is substantial enough to sustain an entire trilogy. Especially since the 6 movies they made were mostly about Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Luke Skywalker. As far as I'm aware, only one of those characters is even alive after the saga.

I know I'm rambling, but the point is that Return of the Jedi and Halo 3 are alot alike in that they were both made to end their respective story arcs. Then there's the fact that Halo's story was never really great in the first place, so it makes even less sense than a Star Wars 7.

You're slightly correct. You have to realize that video games aren't in the same league as movies. I'm not saying one is superior to the other, they're just held to different standards and you can get away with doing certain things in one that you can't in the other.

This new trilogy of games is not a spin off, it is the main and core list of characters and settings as the original Halo. The universe is expansive like Star Wars but can get away with making quality prequels and sequels because it is a video game. If you take a look at a video game series like Metal Gear Solid and Zelda they have done a similar thing. There are prequels, sequels, parallel universes, etc. This can all be accomplished because they're video games. All are top notch video game franchises. Not to mention you have a pretty safe bet that when a new iteration of the series comes out it is going to be a quality title. Excluding a small handful of titles that shouldn't be mentioned. I'm looking at you CDI.

So to wrap things up when I said Halo was like Star Wars I meant that there is so much going on in this universe and there is so much to explore. They will be fine with continuing the universe of Halo and considering you yourself said the original Halo story wasn't so great, perhaps this is their chance to capture your interest with a new story. Maybe not.

The new trilogy is called the "Reclaimer Trilogy" and I'm pretty interested. It has been 3 consecutive releases of Halo games all Masterchiefless. The reason why everybody loved the single player was because of him and the mysterious world surrounding it.

I have a good feeling about this Halo.

-It is a new trilogy (4,5,6)
-Developed by 343 Studios. A lot of former Bungie employees are a part of this studio
-Since it is a new trilogy, it is a new story.

They're not making another installment to the old trilogy. The argument that Bungie tied up all the loose ends in Halo 3 doesn't really hold. Think of it as Star Wars almost.

At 8/3/11 11:29 AM, Crink wrote: If this game is bad, I will be absolutely devastated. This is literally the only game I am excited for this year.

They cannot stop us, they cannot stop the future.

OPM: 8/10
http://www.computerandvideogames.com...w -8/10-in-opm/

OXM: 10/10
http://www.oxm.co.uk/31917/worlds-fi...e w-in-new-oxm/

Play4 Magazine (German) - 88% (XBOX 360):
http://forums.eidosgames.com/showpos...7 &postcount=45

German review of the game on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watc?v=jYzLEk...e _gdata_player

Modern Warfare 3 will outsell Battlefield 3.

I don't know if I will really be messing around with either too much. Battlefield is a good series and I have been playing a few of them since the early PC days. But it seems a lot of people jumped on the bandwagon for the game just to spite Call of Duty. Obviously that isn't everybody though.

At 7/25/11 03:36 PM, Rucklo wrote:

At 7/25/11 03:34 PM, Makeshift wrote:

At 7/25/11 03:32 PM, RightWingGamer wrote: Old news is old.

It's funny how people say to use the searchbar all the time, but posting what is posted twice above them already is completely fine.

i know, rite! :3

i don't even see anyone of the above knuckleheads providing a LINK, fucking know-it-all pissheads ;p I'M SO SORRY FOR NOT HANGING OUT HERE OR KNOWING ABOUT EVERY LITTLE GOD DAMN PARODY HAVING BEEN RELEASED ON TEH INTRWB WTF >:(

The video you provided was uploaded in February, 5 months ago. Uploaded by clayman90 on Feb 2, 2011

Type in "Duty Calls" into the search bar and you get...http://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topi c/1228739

brb demanding your demotion

Holy shit are you late...

At 7/24/11 09:00 AM, GodOfVideoGames wrote: Few know this but if it wasn't for Nintendo we wouldn't have the PlayStation, one of the highest selling video game consoles of all time. You see, when Sega released the "Smash hit" Sega CD, Nintendo also wanted to make a CD based video game console to compete. So Nintendo teamed up with Philips, a company that now makes blank CD/DVD's to make what was going to be called the Nintendo PlayStation. But stuff happened and Nintendo was cut from the mix, leaving us with what is now the CDI. So, in an attempt to continue their pursue to make a CD based system, Nintendo teamed up with another company that also makes blank CD/DVD's; Sony. Same story though, stuff happened and Nintendo was cut. Sony took the name and we were left with the Sony PlayStation. After two failed attempts to make a CD based system, Nintendo finally settled with making another cartage system we know as the N64.

This is actually slightly incorrect.

Nintendo approached Sony first, not Phillips. The reason why Nintendo backed out of their deal with Sony was because they weren't going to have any rights to the CD technology. Sony would manufacture, distribute, etc. A huge part of the profit Nintendo would not see. Nintendo silently talked to Phillips behind the scenes about developing CD technology for them without Sony knowing. Essentially Nintendo backstabbed Sony. Sony feeling betrayed and essentially having a console on their hands with tons of technology decided to make it their own.

Fun Fact: the very first PlayStations made actually had a port that could play SNES games. There were only 200 of these manufactured. The port was removed shortly there after and the new version of the PlayStation came out (the PSX).

To the left you will see an early prototype to the PlayStation. To the right you see what the "Super Nes CD".

At 7/25/11 01:16 AM, Warforger wrote:

At 7/24/11 06:09 PM, SlipperyMooseCakes wrote: That's not what you said. You said "virtually every game from the original Xbox is backwards compatible." That's different from stating that every game that's "good enough for you" will be able to play on your Xbox 360.

wtf? Yah the Xbox had alot of games, many weren't that great and weren't games anyone bought. The major titles which most people played and remember the most are most certainly going to be backwards compatible with the 360 because there is a demand for it. That is why I said virtually because there are alot of games people just won't play ever again.

I know what you are saying now. I'm simply stating that isn't what you originally typed. Whether you meant something else or not doesn't matter.

Alright

At 7/24/11 06:01 PM, Warforger wrote:

At 7/24/11 05:19 PM, Dean wrote:

At 7/24/11 04:03 PM, Warforger wrote: Also don't worry, virtually every game from the original xbox is backwards compatible.

Uh, not true. It's about 50% by the looks of things. See the list I linked before. It has every original Xbox game and the compatible ones are highlighted in green.

Well that's why I said virtually, every game that's good enough for you to replay on your 360 will be backwards compatible.

That's not what you said. You said "virtually every game from the original Xbox is backwards compatible." That's different from stating that every game that's "good enough for you" will be able to play on your Xbox 360.

Definition of virtually The Wikipedia link for a list of Xbox games shows there is 966 available for the original Xbox. Of that 966 games, approximately 51% of the original Xbox library is compatible with the Xbox 360 (as of the 2007-11-27 update). The latest European update was in November 2007, now with a total of 476 compatible games. The latest update for Japan was released on 2007-11-28, with 122 working games.

Anyone caught trolling will be sent to my office. Oh and your nipples will be removed.

Thank you for everyone that has contributed. I have found some pretty cool channels via this thread. Here are some more that I personally have found since and enjoy.

finngamer - Another collector channel. This guy shows an interesting twist on collection and video games because he is from Finland and he works for the biggest video game magazine in the country. He is a lot like Pete Dorr.

Captain8bit - This is a lot like Pawn Stars, which was their main influence. These guys travel the country hunting for rare video games and things within the video game realm. This is a really interesting series.

gexup - If you like platfomers, this is your guy. This guy specializes in platformers and adventure games. He has a vast array of games he has covered and if you like one of the games he reviews you can easily find another game you might like just by looking at the other games he has covered.

SonicCollectibles - Another channel by Pete Dorr. He covers his massive Sonic collection. If you're into Sonic or collecting, check out this channel.

spectreair - Another collector that has some really cool pick ups. He manages to some pretty rare things. He tends to compile his collecting into one video after he has collected for awhile. Always good to see something you might like or have forgotten about.

Action-Adventure/Platformer

They seem to be the perfect mix of gameplay and story for me. I get really sucked into them and am pretty picky with which ones I like and don't.

Runner ups:
Action Adventure (extremely vague)
Real Time Strategy
First Person Shooters
2D Platformers

Genres that I don't enjoy mostly:
RPG's
MMO
Open world games

I love Penn and Teller and video games but I saw this a couple years back and thought this was one of their weakest arguments. They had some good points such as the football one you showed a clip of, but the part where they have the young kid shoot a gun and then cries at the end just didn't seem concrete enough.