This Week In Games, Glorious Games!

28 responses to “This Week In Games, Glorious Games!”

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   ambrew

   March 4, 2013 at 10:11 am

   One more sleep to go for us steam pre-orderers!

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   light487

   March 4, 2013 at 10:17 am

   Tomb Raider is also on PC… releases tonight at midnight.

   I’ve pre-ordered this.. and pre-loaded it.. just waiting for Steam to unlock it 🙂

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      phlaiman

      March 4, 2013 at 10:33 am

      This is the third site I’ve noticed that left out that this is coming out on PC. Pretty weird.

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         ambrew

         March 4, 2013 at 10:56 am

         Its not just this, they tend to forget about pc in a lot of things and all the big websites do it.

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   dimsey

   March 4, 2013 at 10:22 am

   Preordered Tomb Raider online to be delivered, so alas I haven’t joined everyone in playing when the street date broke – but looking forward to getting my hands on it. Also Simcity! Yay!

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   oggob

   March 4, 2013 at 10:27 am

   Thinking about getting Ninja Gaiden for the ‘just because’ excuse… if I do, I know I’m going to pick up the original port for Vita also, can’t have one without the other! lol

   Also interested in SimCity, I never played either 3 or 4, just stopped at 2000. Feel interested to get back into the series.

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   germinalconsequence

   March 4, 2013 at 10:42 am

   I got Tomb Raider last week because Friday late night shopping rocks when games break street date before the weekend. I’ll also be picking up Atelier Ayesha because I’ve been a fan of the series since Atelier Iris 2. Though, what’s up with Atelier Totori + getting an R18+ rating in Australia!? Is it some kind of crazy “Now we have it, let’s give it to everything!” power trip?

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   howiepwnznoobz

   March 4, 2013 at 10:42 am

   I really want to get my hands on SimCity!

   Also, Mirror of Fate**

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   krisx

   March 4, 2013 at 11:16 am

   spent all weekend hoping for an early unlock of tomb raider… lol… preloaded n ready to play! 😀

   castlevania on 3ds is definitely worth a look… i was impressed with the demo

   would like sim city, but i’ll hold off for a while

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   1. 

      light487

      March 4, 2013 at 11:49 am

      I know it’s an 8.8gb download of the main game.. but have you heard of any additional downloads for a HD texture pack? I’ve heard that there will be additional HD textures and stuff.. but not sure if it is going to be a separate download or included in the 8.8gb?

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         krisx

         March 4, 2013 at 12:50 pm

         8.8gb seems big enough to me to include hd textures? haven’t seen anything else, but i doubt we will.

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            light487

            March 4, 2013 at 1:57 pm

            Sleeping Dogs was quite large by itself and then an additional HD texture pack on top of that.. will just have to wait and see I suppose.

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               krisx

               March 4, 2013 at 2:28 pm

               my sleeping dogs folder is 10.3gb… so while i see your point… its not a huge difference… that 10gb is probably including dlc too as steam tends to load it even if you don’t own it for some things

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               light487

               March 5, 2013 at 9:34 am

               Well I didn’t see any additional download this morning when I ran TR.. was surprised I was able to run on High settings without framerate drop.. will spend more time tonight, after work, tweaking the settings.. I might even be able to get Ultra settings..

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               krisx

               March 6, 2013 at 9:08 am

               not if you’re running nvidia, lol… you can run high but you’ll most likely have to turn off tessellation otherwise it’ll crash 😉

               my gtx470 runs it on high no prob… my sli 670’s have no problem on ultra (or ultimate, only difference is tressfx, which i think is ugly personally)… but like i said can’t run tessellation on nvidia at the moment

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   thyco1

   March 4, 2013 at 11:29 am

   While its not a “Gold master” release, ARMA 3 Alpha goes live this week. http://www.arma3.com/buy for all the info

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9. 

   negativezero

   March 4, 2013 at 11:40 am

   Atelier Ayesha is one of the best Atelier games, but Tecmo Koei’s bungled handling of the release has hamstrung it. They’ve basically sent it out to die. Previously all of the Gust JRPGs (Atelier series, Mana Khemia, Ar Tonelico) were handled my NIS America, who would always do dual-language releases with fairly good limited editions and stuff.

   For TK release they outsourced the translation to NISA but only had them do a partial dub of the game, so there are a lot of scenes which are voiced in the JP release which will not be voiced in English. They also have pulled out the JP dialogue completely. And there’s no LE release and basically no marketing for the game either.

   At least it’s being released at a discounted price I guess.

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   1. 

      dnr

      March 4, 2013 at 11:54 am

      I have to admit i havent played an Atelier game since 3, but lovedt he shit out of 2 and 3.

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         negativezero

         March 4, 2013 at 12:29 pm

         Do you mean Atelier Iris 2/3? The Atelier Iris games were a bit different to the other Atelier games. They were more JRPG, where the story was more important and alchemy was on the side. The ‘classic’ Atelier games, Alchemy is the central point of the game. You’re given a deadline or a series of deadlines and you have to manage your time between adventuring, gathering materials and crafting items to supplement your adventuring and meet certain deadline goals – I guess you could make a comparison to Persona 3 and 4. So there’s a strong time management element involved which wasn’t really a part of the Atelier Iris trilogy to the same extent.

         Interestingly Atelier Rorona (the first PS3 Atelier) pushed the deadline stuff really hard and each release subsequently has toned that element down more. They’ve gotten the balance between everything much better now.

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            dnr

            March 4, 2013 at 1:19 pm

            yeah it was Atelier Iris, i loved the alchemy aspect, never played the later games, also never played the persona games so not sure on the comparrison.
            might be worth finaly getting a PS3 to check them out.

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   2. 

      zwa

      March 4, 2013 at 1:08 pm

      I really want to get this, but I also really know I shouldn’t. The previous three games are my worst pile of shame offenders by far.

      Got them all near release. Finally ‘beat’ Rorona just before Meruru came out, although it seems I missed heaps of content due to disappearing into dungeons for months at a time. Totori I played for ~10 hours and never went back, and I don’t think I’ve even put Meruru in my PS3, I could have a dud disk for all I know.

      I really like the idea of these games, but I just can’t seem to get into them. If Ayesha was another iterative release I’d probably be able to just dismiss it, but I hear they’ve shaken the formula up a bit, making me wonder if I’d be able to get into it this time.

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         negativezero

         March 4, 2013 at 1:39 pm

         I have a lot of the same problem. Never finished any of them to the extent that I’d really like to. Mainly I find the planning / time management element a bit stressful because I’m the kind of person who tries to always plan out the perfect arrangement of everything rather than just going along with it. As I understand it, Ayesha doesn’t have constant deadline stuff to worry about, just a final goal and a limited amount of time to get there.

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    negativezero

    March 4, 2013 at 11:41 am

    Also, @markserrels, Tomb Raider is PC as well.

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11. 

    inkk_412

    March 4, 2013 at 1:22 pm

    Playable Jinchuriiki > playable Madara. Silly Mark.

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12. 

    os42

    March 4, 2013 at 3:17 pm

    I’m guessing most of you, like me, spent a sizeable chunk of the weekend playing the game

    Not me. Spent fifteen hours on it over Friday night and Saturday morning, but my Anno game-clock sits at ~35 hours over the course of Saturday and Sunday. Incidentally, I’m somewhat less pumped for Sim City than I was last week (even more so after seeing how small the building area for each city is)… Might pick up a copy of SC, then play Anno until the servers stabilise.

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       light487

       March 5, 2013 at 9:37 am

       Might as well wait for a sale then.. the asking price off the bat is kinda high even with discounts that are around the place.

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          os42

          March 5, 2013 at 12:40 pm

          Oh, yea, I can do that… Still new to this “digital distribution means no worries finding a copy a year later” thing. 😛

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13. 

    mrtaco

    March 4, 2013 at 3:54 pm

    From what I’ve played of Castlevania (demo at EBX ), it’s awful and doesn’t deserve comparison to the trio of raditude that graced the DS.

    But hey who knows, things could have been fixed in the meantime.

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