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Reply #990 - Oct 11^th, 2013 at 7:10pm

So this one snuck up on me. At the Tokyo Game Show, a video was released today for a PS4 game called Deep Down. It looks like a quasi-tactical first-person fighting game set in a high fantasy world.

Sony has uploaded a 30 minute playthrough, but there is a particularly amazing moment at roughly 24 minutes into the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p55xaGygCVU&feature=youtu.be&t=24m10s

The player casts a spell to freeze time, then moves around within the frozen world, casting additional fireballs that all launch simultaneously once the time freeze has ended. Very cool stuff!

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(...wants this game!)

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #991 - Oct 12^th, 2013 at 11:49am The first teaser trailer for Hero U: Rogue to Redemption is out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRKycVbHce4&feature=youtu.be -b0b (...schwing!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #992 - Oct 18^th, 2013 at 11:26am Nvidia just posted this, thought it was pretty nifty: -b0b (...now if they'd get off their butts and announce the Titan Ultra, I'd be a happy man.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #993 - Nov 2^nd, 2013 at 10:26am Holy crap, Earth 2150 is on Steam! The entire trilogy is listed at $6.99, on sale for $3.49 through November 8th! -b0b (...is getting it now, squeeeeee!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #994 - Nov 19^th, 2013 at 1:36pm b0b wrote on Oct 12^th, 2013 at 11:49am: The first teaser trailer for Hero U: Rogue to Redemption is out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRKycVbHce4&feature=youtu.be -b0b (...schwing!) The folks working on Hero U have posted a teaser demo: http://www.hero-u.net/demo/HeroUDemo -b0b (...hasn't played it yet.)
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Re: Game Thread!
Reply #995 - Nov 21^st, 2013 at 2:59pm

I started playing Final Fantasy XII again the other day. I thoroughly enjoyed 12 and count it as one of my favorite Final Fantasy titles. It's right up there with VII and IX on my list of most-loved FF games.

I was too lazy to break out my PS2, so I decided to emulate it on my PC. I grabbed a copy of Final Fantasy XII - International Zodiac Job System, which was a special edition that was only released in Japan. You can find a copy on the Internets that already has the English patch installed and works perfectly.

The IZJS version of XII has a number of improvements including some bug fixes, better treasure chest spawn rates, and a totally revamped license board system (if you've never played XII, the license board is a set of abilities you can unlock that are arranged on something similar to a giant chess board). Instead of every character having an identical license board, you now choose a single permanent job class for each character, e.g. knight, white mage, black mage, etc. Each class has its own license board that is tweaked to that job class.

Since you probably don't care about that, here is the best part of emulation. I'm playing at my native resolution of 1680x1050 and I'm using 16x MSAA to remove the horrid jaggies that plagued PS1 and PS2-era games.

Here's what the game looks like on the PS2:

...and here's a screenshot I took last night:

-b0b
(...yay for games!)

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MediaMaster GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline Holy Xenu! Posts: 1884 Detroit Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #996 - Nov 22^nd, 2013 at 1:51am If I may ask, what emulator are you using?
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #997 - Nov 22^nd, 2013 at 8:35am I'm using PCSX2 with an XBox 360 controller. I'm using the latest version of all of the standard plugins. If you'd like, I can write down all of the versions and settings I'm using. -b0b (...is really digging it.)
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The_Fat_Man Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Grand High Overlard Posts: 910 Colorado Springs, Colorado Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #998 - Nov 22^nd, 2013 at 10:19am I'm jealous. 12 is the only Final Fantasy I never played.
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Reply #999 - Nov 22^nd, 2013 at 9:53pm

The_Fat_Man wrote on Nov 22^nd, 2013 at 10:19am:

I'm jealous. 12 is the only Final Fantasy I never played.

You're really missing out! It was an excellent game and probably had the closest thing to a "literary quality" plot of any of the Final Fantasy games. Sure, it had plenty of clichés, but it had a very epic feel. The graphics were pretty amazing at the time and the battle system remains my favorite FF combat implementation to this day.

If you've got some time to burn, grab a copy from TPB and emulate it. You won't be sorry!

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(...an XBox controller is helpful, though.)

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The_Fat_Man Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Grand High Overlard Posts: 910 Colorado Springs, Colorado Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #1000 - Nov 23^rd, 2013 at 1:36am I keep hoping that someday Sony will release it as a "classic" on the PSN. The remastered HD FFX has hyped well so I hope that means we can look forward to the 12 treatment.
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #1001 - Nov 29^th, 2013 at 12:03pm
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X Post Whore FTP Server Offline Truth Is Treason, In The Empire Of Lies Posts: 3903 Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #1002 - Dec 6^th, 2013 at 1:35pm Has anyone been playing Battlefield 4 lately? I picked it up in the last "sale" (sale is in quotes because Origin can barely compete with Steam in awesomenessissity). It's fairly fun...I haven't been as crashing as most people have. I would like to see a little more battle destruction in it though. X
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #1003 - Dec 6^th, 2013 at 5:15pm I need to pick up a copy. I just got a copy of Battlefield 3 a couple months ago and I haven't even played it yet. I'll be on vacation in a week, so I might pick it up next weekend! -b0b (...w00t!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #1004 - Dec 9^th, 2013 at 5:12pm Here's some new game pr0n from Tom Clancy's The Division. It's using a new game engine called SnowDrop. -b0b (...sweet!)
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