I bought Deathsmiles from Amazon one time but when it arrived I realized I had actually just bought the faceplate for like $15.
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This discussion inspired me to dig out my broken OG Pro and stick the face plate on it. Then i realized itâll be one of the first things I see when I wake up because of where it sits
I donât want them to smile back at me
Youâd prefer death to stare back at you of course.
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2 new episodes of the Virtuacast popped up on my iTunes! Sega Saturn podcast from HeavyViper and Renfrew!
New freebie Remar game.
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This might be the shortest timed exclusive I can think of, after all:
(If you donât want to read a press release, Rise of the Tomb Raider will be out for Win10/Steam by the end of the month.
MS doesnât consider Windows/PC as breaking exclusive clauses (Titanfall, the other âbigâ exclusive, was advertised as being a âMicrosoft exclusiveâ) and Rise already came out on the 360, so
There is no logic to exclusives anymore
I read some rumors that the next Assassinâs Creed game will take place in ancient Egypt, predating all the other games in the series by thousands of years, is starring a character that Ubisoft is considering doing a trilogy for that would send them to ancient Greece/Rome while sailing the Mediterranean, and wonât come out until 2017. And that by then the series will be on a bi-annual release schedule instead of annual.
Hoping thatâs all true even if they donât really end up truly revamping the gameplay. Just having them come out less often and in a more finished state, development-wise, would be really welcome.
Not only are those AC Egypt rumors around, but the game is supposedly being made by the Black Flag team. Thatâs the only AC game Iâve ever really loved, so this sounds like very good news to me.
For 2016, rumors seem to be that Ubi is going to fill the hole of no big name AC game with Watch Dogs 2, set in San Francisco. I actually enjoyed the original game quite a bit other than the dolt of a main character, so Iâm really pretty excited to see where they go for a new entry. Seems likely knowing Ubi that maybe theyâll try alternating bi-annual AC and Watch Dogs games (in addition to the Far Cry and Tom Clancy franchises, and some oddball stuff like the very interesting looking For Honor).
Wait wait wait wait wait why isnât that game called The Descent of the Tomb Raider
Watchdogs San Fran in 2016 sounds to good to be true, wonât believe until it happens.
Iâve been dragging out finishing Driver San Fran because i donât want it to end (sorry poor mr. tanner but you enjoy skipping into Ford GTs as much as I do, right) and having yet-another-SF-game would be a nice treat imho.
xcom 2 looks sort of astonishingly good
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Beagle or go home
the fight with that officer is a good example of why xcomâs probability-based mechanics are a system thatâll never be completely satisfying. but i say this as someone who devotes most of his time to a tabletop game so iâm a complete hypocrite. iâm still surprised that when invisible, inc came out, everyone else didnât just drop what they were doing and ask why they werenât doing that.
the face/body middleware and dressup game are much stronger now, though, which is probably the thing iâm most excited about after actual tactics. also grateful that overwatch-spam is discouraged and that the âpod activationâ metagame looks at least somewhat fixed.
i know that squads implausibly never communicating with each other is a stealth trope, but it still bugs me. itâd be an interesting threat to have to deal with, anyway: it would force trade-offs between staying behind cover and not getting surrounded, keeping your squad together and splitting it up to keep all the enemies from converging at one point on the map, etc.
Made a big olâ thread for XCom 2 since I just realized all the old threads are gone, like tears in the rain.
the old site is still backed up, itâs just that MySQL does not get along with Discourse on this server due to AWS bottlenecks so I have it taken down for now. theyâll be back eventually.
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This would be coolâŚ
Theyâre just referencing the year of the monkey. Donât read too much into it, much like Segaâs Super Monkey Ball picture for new yearâs.
