Isn't that how it generally is? it's like how many game reviewers decided GGXX Accent Core was the same game as Slash o_O but you can't make the "same game, different mechanics" argument for fighting games because apparently the mechanics don't matter to normal folk?

i think those days ended the moment people starting considering most creative works not of monetary value anymore, like when P2P networks became accessible for the "mundanes."

Since I returned mine for replacement to Amazon for crushing my box and never got around to opening Otomedius X jpn version thanks to school, can somebody tell me if the Otomedius G hori controller works with the american Otomedius X release? I'll find out on Tuesday, sure, but I'd like to know know if the touch pad…

I don't remember Otomedius arcade or Otomedius G being THAT free on expert. Of course not on the same level as Ketsui or DDPDOJ, but I don't think babies could finish up Alexandria on expert, much less actually access it.

for an experiment, each gut check should say YES on the picture regardless of the comments said for all games over the next year, just to see if there's a noticeable increase in sales of games, AND do gut checks for smaller releases in addition to the heavy hitters; it would be unexpected to see a gut check for…

I don't think its as much the achievements as much as the ppl's response; the case I'm thinking of is a guy that uses his gamefly plan to rent a game, max achievements out, and then immediately return it to move onto the next title. If your only drive to play a game is to get gamer points, that's sorta silly. If the…

Austin Texas was one of four initially chosen cities to start the dollar coin issuing over the last few years. At ArcadeUFO, we were using them in the larger machines, like DDR/ITG and DJmax Technika, and trying to get them distributed everywhere. But after awhile, it was pretty clear that ppl did not enjoy holding…

A friend of mine and I went Half-Price Books location a couple years back out of boredom and we picked up a copy of COMBAT! on PC for like, a dollar or two. I think the CD case said windows 95/98 compatible, and by that time, I think Vista came out. Pretty sure that game is terrible, yet we managed to snag at least 4…

if the extra levels thing is legit, I have a reason to pick up the 3ds now :3 wasn't going to after megaman legends 3 cancellation, but City Escape City Escape City Escape GOTTA FOLLOW DAT RAINBOW WOOO

I totally understand where you're coming from; but i think the main thing that makes my brain set the line between japan's otaku life and everybody else is that their media costs the most crazy amount of money ever, and they still all purchase entire sets of things. I've dropped pretty much all of my money on that…

I have a friend of mine who is regularly OCD about everything he does, and RPGs is no exception; on the other hand, I try to blaze through every JRPG I get (which may or may not end in failure from being poorly leveled). Comes from me just wanted to hear the story and not playing the game.

while i love stylus+digitizer for taking notes (especially in my classes, since it's all real analysis and engineering stuff), I don't feel like stylus + capacitive screen works nearly as well when I tried it with devices even as large as an ipad, though its a hell lot cheaper than a new digitizer-based tablet pc. And…

I really need to stop getting on the ME FIRST bandwagon; idolm@ster 2, now gal*gun going to ps3? All you companies are killing me inside, $80x2 ain't cheap for each game, not even counting whatever games I get DX boxes for.

i did buy it o.o along with the other 360 im@s games and the dsi one. i thought that's what this thread was about? People that bought it and got screwed lol I brought the other namco bandai games up because I own them too (two of eternal sonata even, since 360 one was region locked for USA -_-) and have been watching…

I thought SF4 was released in 2008 o.o We had it at arcadeUFO back when we opened August 29th, pretty sure that wasn't 2009.

you could make the GOTY argument for all of the games that Namco Bandai has done this with. With im@s 2 at least it's a few hundred dollars of DLC, but with the RPGs, we're talking about added characters and lots of other stuff (and in the case of Vesperia, actual story content; Eternal Sonata was pretty clear in how…

i love it, being the early adopter and then continually getting pooped on, its awesome.

when I was a tiny child, egg and shrimp kung-fu ramen was all i needed :3 the egg really does make the jump from poverty to something nice. It was also the first thing my little brother with ADHD learned how to prepared on his own.

i guess the question is similar to before Motorola went all in with android: are the numbers for sales of new phones or just a large number of existing legacy devices?

We all knew it could potentially be a mediocre game :P We should expect it to be mostly stuck back in the 1997 style of FPS games. The people that buy the game are also probably the kind of people that don't give a crap about how good it is, but more like HEY ITS DUKE. HOORAY!