Mystery Science News Thread 3,000

oh my god this is gorgeous

the X1 is maxwell, the NX will almost certainly be pascal, which means 28nm -> 16nm, which means way fewer thermal issues potentially, or alternately being able to hit xbone metrics

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OMG the mouse in the knight’s armor

this is the only thing that matters, now

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I have a slight FROTH DOWN at how utterly unthreatening the rat guard seems in this clip

But yes it’s gorgeous

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oh, that’s just Brutus

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Shiren 5+ Vita is out. If you are one of the five people left with a Vita, play this game. It’s godlike.

Also from my time spend on the DS game I absorbed the wiki into my being so I can spoil anything if people have questions

What are the party members like

How does non-rescue multiplayer work

I actually don’t know anything about the multiplayer parts, so that I can’t answer.

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I meant, like, what do they add to the game dungeon-crawling-wise

Also Shiren GB already had a cat helper. Although maybe only in the Windows remake.

On your first run through story mode of 5, there is a mandatory NPC you have to bring along. If he dies, you can’t make progress. Unlike classic SFC Shiren they don’t wander off from you freely, at least, so you can use their reliability to fight stuff together. That their AI is completely reliable is both good and bad, and keeping them alive can be hard-to-impossible if you’re in a bad situation, so have to be careful about it.

As far as the game is concerned, they are mostly related to unlocking postgame content. (eg, you have to clear the main story part with certain characters to access certain bonus dungeons.) Some of the postgame dungeons let you bring them in, but most don’t. The real Shiren starts here, etc.

The actual characters come down to melee attacker, a guy who throws money to attack, a panda girl with a boomerang that hits an area for not much damage, the cat above who can harm nighttime enemies, a status-inflicting kitsune, and another kitsune who can morph into equipment for you.

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This must be some official hoax hogwash. It’s one thing customers never cared for: last genish home console performance on the go, except now you can hock it up to your telly when at home. Perhaps there is more to it that is still unknown, but as it stands, i don’t see this gaining any ground.

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I remember when everyone was excited that the Vita was being touted as a portable PS3

And then it came out…

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I would have bought one much sooner if not for the $50 proprietary memory cards tbh

V. disappointed in the waddling “boy armor sure is AWKWARD and HEAVY” animation


Beat Takeshi in Yakuza 6, probably the last game with Kiryu (as the main character? or at all?)

For some reason I doubt it. I really do hope so. As awesome as Kiryu is, he should move on.

Will definitely appear in future games one way or another, I can see him being a mentor to whoever takes on the mantle.

Also holy shit at the cast they have, such heavyweights.

That looks like warm piss

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Neat. Needs apple bite modeling to really impress.