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Post by Delthazar » Mon Aug 20, 2018 12:15 pm

Well then. :stare

https://youtu.be/q7K4R9nXO7k

I'll speculate under tags 'cause who knows
Spoiler :
It looks like the two neighbour kids from Captain Spirit are the Max & Chloe of LiS2, which makes me wonder if Captain Spirit's Chris could be the Nathan or the Kate or another type entirely.

This trailer seems to confirm that the older kid has the telekinetic power seen at the end of Captain Spirit and is therefore probably the player character. (e: confirmed by follow-up press releases.)

But the most interesting thing here for my money is the likely story setup of this being a runaway road story, which I totally didn't expect at all, and opens up a bunch of cool possibilities. Seattle is the origin point, but I think Captain Spirit was somewhere else in Oregon, and this being a road story means a brief return to Arcadia Bay isn't impossible either.

...that cop drawing his gun on someone or something could also be a really potentially dark piece of storytelling.

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Post by Delthazar » Mon Aug 20, 2018 1:03 pm

Grandia 1 & 2 are getting an HD facelift for the Switch.

https://gematsu.com/2018/08/grandia-gra ... ced-for-pc

Grandia 1 HD will also show up on the PC, which has already had the Grandia 2 remaster for ages.

I have no opinion on the original Grandia but Grandia 2 was probably the best RPG on the Dreamcast not called Skies of Arcadia. It's also the last good game/perhaps the only good game in the series, with Xtreme and Grandia 3 both being varying shades of awful, and then it died.

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Post by John Layfield » Mon Aug 20, 2018 1:35 pm

Grandia 1 is a great game. Will absolutely pick this up for Switch.

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Post by Falcon Critical » Mon Aug 20, 2018 1:40 pm

I remember the first Grandia being really slow going. Grandia 2 was a lot snappier so I finished that one :pac

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Post by Delthazar » Mon Aug 20, 2018 2:41 pm

Sticking to RPGs for a moment, I've also been hearing good things about Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass, an RPGMaker game carrying a heavy Earthbound inspiration.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/7065 ... ting_Mass/

And Shenmue I & II is getting pretty much exactly the kind of reviews you'd expect. It's really all in the headline.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/08/ ... ke-school/

Back to the Switch, there's some really great indie picks on the way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNUSrhEEvL0

Windjammers! And a sequel! Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom! This War of Mine! Everspace! Moonlighter! Night Call! Terraria! Most of all of these are on Steam already or will be at the same time as the Switch versions, but Nintendo continues to be doing good work in this space.

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Post by True Perception » Mon Aug 20, 2018 5:34 pm

Monster Boy looks pretty cool.

I didn't even think that his slow fall might have been because of the neighbors. I might have to replay that. Or, just watch someone else do so. I haven't been watching LPs much, lately.

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Post by DHerder222 » Mon Aug 20, 2018 11:27 pm

I played all three main Grandias, and each time I thought the cast was really weak. I don't know why but the characters never clicked with me in that series. Did anyone else feel that way?

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Post by Thunderhead » Tue Aug 21, 2018 12:47 am

I always felt like the starting characters were pretty good, then they left and got replaced by wieners. Seriously, Sue and Dragonguy were pretty cool, then they get replaced by annoying Cowlady and Rapp. Thor, they sucked. 2 had a much better all around cast, thankfully.

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Post by True Perception » Tue Aug 21, 2018 8:36 am

https://blog.us.playstation.com/2018/08 ... august-28/

Battle Chef Brigade hits PS4 next Tuesday. About friggin' time!

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Post by Delthazar » Tue Aug 21, 2018 12:32 pm

HunterF wrote:
Tue Aug 21, 2018 12:47 am
I always felt like the starting characters were pretty good, then they left and got replaced by wieners. Seriously, Sue and Dragonguy were pretty cool, then they get replaced by annoying Cowlady and Rapp. Thor, they sucked. 2 had a much better all around cast, thankfully.
I'd go so far to say Grandia 2's cast is kinda what made that game work, narratively speaking. The plot itself is nothing special. But the whole thing is uplifted by some good characters and an unusually strong localization for that era.

Grandia 2 is what the better Tales games are today, basically.

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Post by Delthazar » Tue Aug 21, 2018 12:33 pm

itt I make Tina Belcher noises for the next hour

https://twitter.com/gematsucom/status/1 ... 8757271553

http://archives.sega.jp/segaages/ps/

uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Unfortunately this seems to be a somewhat enhanced port of the Master System original and not another remake attempt, or even a fresh port of the previous PS2 Sega Ages remake, and who knows if it'll leave Japan. :pacdown But the Switch eShop isn't region locked if I remember correctly. Switch getting all the certified bangers lately, huh.

PSI with difficulty settings and an automap feature might finally be playable for normcore RPG fans such as myself though

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Post by Delthazar » Tue Aug 21, 2018 12:51 pm

Here's 20 minutes of LiS2 gameplay which I may or may not watch, I haven't decided how cold to go into this thing yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0B6fPNbXLI

I dunno how cold other folks wanna go into it either, so use spoiler tags.

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Post by True Perception » Tue Aug 21, 2018 2:18 pm

Yeah, gonna go full cold from this point on. I know I want it. It's story heavy. Might as well go in without any extra info.

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Post by Delthazar » Tue Aug 21, 2018 6:34 pm

I caved and watched it and yeah, there's critical story setup stuff in there, so y'all keep that in mind.

Also from DONTNOD, Twin Mirror is looking more and more Deadly Premonition-y.

https://youtu.be/2A2rnXj5tQs

...which flows nicely into a new trailer for one of the upcoming SWERY joints...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7fqQK0bl_U

...and ruining this progression entirely: hey, a Battletech expansion!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELKyrmDlTd4

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Post by Falcon Critical » Tue Aug 21, 2018 7:30 pm

LiS2 is gonna be interesting for me... back in the day I played Ep 1 of LiS and then decided to hold off the rest till I could play them all in sequence, and it was amazing.

Do I have the patience to do that again?

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Post by Delthazar » Fri Aug 24, 2018 12:55 pm

I definitely do not, so I'll be hitting each episode of LiS2 as they drop. My initial experience with LiS, discovering it late and playing the whole series in one or two sittings, was kind of revelatory, but also an aberration.

Weird news: Square is pulling The Last Remnant from Steam for raisins as-yet unexplained.

http://www.siliconera.com/2018/08/24/th ... mber-2018/

Last time I saw something like this happen it was with Alan Wake over expired music licenses. Last Remnant is kinda bad, ain't no Alan Wake for sure, but it's such a bizarre game compared to the Square standard it might be worth picking up before the expiry as a curiosity piece if the price is right.

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Post by Thunderhead » Fri Aug 24, 2018 10:29 pm

I have it for X-Box. I don't like it.

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Post by Delthazar » Mon Aug 27, 2018 12:41 pm

Oh shit.

https://youtu.be/M_bgPefCyfA

This is from Dotemu and Lizardcube, the folks who did the recent excellent Wonder Boy remake, so I'd say it's in pretty good hands.

Oh, and here's 48 minutes of Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay from Gamescom, and quite likely the same or similar closed-doors demo press folks raved about at E3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjF9GgrY9c0

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Post by DHerder222 » Mon Aug 27, 2018 4:22 pm

I'm getting very, very heavy Mass Effect 1 vibes from the gameplay. And hey, that's great!

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Post by Delthazar » Mon Aug 27, 2018 4:48 pm

There's a bit of that in the character customization, otherwise (at only six minutes in over here, mind you) I think I'm getting a little more of a Bethesda-era Fallout vibe from the combat specifically, just with the overall fidelity amped up and everything animating a whole lot smoother, and just... a whole lot more going on in general.

ALSO maybe this goes without saying after previous footage and articles and whatever knowledge y'all might have on the original tabletop stuff but this gameplay demo is NSFW as hell so maybe don't watch it if yer in the office. :pac

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Post by Falcon Critical » Mon Aug 27, 2018 6:36 pm

NSFW? Feels great to be working from home :pac

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Post by Thunderhead » Mon Aug 27, 2018 8:31 pm

I'm sorry, did you mention some other game? All I see is Streets of Rage 4.

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Post by True Perception » Mon Aug 27, 2018 9:11 pm

Axel seems to have aged a bit more than Blaze...

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Post by Delthazar » Tue Aug 28, 2018 1:05 pm

Nintendo ain't done yet.

https://youtu.be/UHzsecqX-zU

Some of these are new announcements, some are known upcoming ports just getting dates now, but they're all good gets. Hyper Light Drifter in particular looks to be getting Switch exclusive content, Supergiant has both Bastion and Transistor on the way, and Into The Breach is a big one with a surprise launch of, uh, today, actually.

Also coming to the Switch and everything else... Onimusha?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hiXTQuzz-A

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Post by Delthazar » Tue Aug 28, 2018 8:23 pm

Some kinda Wild Arms thing is happening in a couple days but I have no idea what it is. Which means it'll be a mobile game, obviously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7rnjnhvPnM