The Bill's Now Playing Video Game Thread (Now with Bames)

[Wang Mandu]

2013-2014 2015 the triumphant return of the isometric rpg.

SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW

Edit: I hope I'm alive to play these games,

[The Bill]

Knew it was coming, but LucasArts basically shut down, Star Wars 1313 cancelled as well as that FPS they were developing, and pretty significant layoffs. End of an era.

I don't follow gaming studio news unless I read an article here and there, but was Lucasarts a money pit towards the end here? I thought with Disney's backing we might get Day of the Tentacle and Sam & Max PSN/XBLA ports, at the least. Huh?

[abdominalpillaging]

Knew it was coming, but LucasArts basically shut down, Star Wars 1313 cancelled as well as that FPS they were developing, and pretty significant layoffs. End of an era.

I don't follow gaming studio news unless I read an article here and there, but was Lucasarts a money pit towards the end here? I thought with Disney's backing we might get Day of the Tentacle and Sam & Max PSN/XBLA ports, at the least. Huh?

I'm pretty sure they were profitable, or close to it. The force unleashed games seemed to well sales wise. Disney just doesn't want any internal development. They're turning LucasArts to a publisher ala Activision that is going to license out their ip to other developers. So were still going to get Star Wars games from external devs, but it's up to them what they license out and to whom. Disney seems to hate game development from the looks of it.

[The Bill]

Knew it was coming, but LucasArts basically shut down, Star Wars 1313 cancelled as well as that FPS they were developing, and pretty significant layoffs. End of an era.

I don't follow gaming studio news unless I read an article here and there, but was Lucasarts a money pit towards the end here? I thought with Disney's backing we might get Day of the Tentacle and Sam & Max PSN/XBLA ports, at the least. Huh?

I'm pretty sure they were profitable, or close to it. The force unleashed games seemed to well sales wise. Disney just doesn't want any internal development. They're turning LucasArts to a publisher ala Activision that is going to license out their ip to other developers. So were still going to get Star Wars games from external devs, but it's up to them what they license out and to whom. Disney seems to hate game development from the looks of it.

Yeah, I guess it's like some realty company buying a skyscraper but removing the food court from it because they've never dealt, nor want to involve themselves with that sort of business. But they rent out space in front to a hot dog vendor.

[DR. THRAXX]

Well maybe that's because the little bit of money they make off the hot dog vendors rent it worth more to them than the time and effort put into running their own.

[a world of no]

So Mari is unemployed it seems. Poor lass.

[FVBTVS]

2013-2014 2015 the triumphant return of the isometric rpg.

SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW

Edit: I hope I'm alive to play these games,

wow. that is fucking amazing.

[abdominalpillaging]

So Mari is unemployed it seems. Poor lass.

I thought she was at ILM. I could be wrong though.

[Friendly Goatus]

2013-2014 2015 the triumphant return of the isometric rpg.

SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW

Edit: I hope I'm alive to play these games,

This, the new Shadowrun and Project Eternity... These are the upcoming games I'm most excited for, except maybe Darksouls 2. So much

thank you, kickstarter

[Zap Rowsdower]

The music

This was one of the deadly traps for me as a kid. Simon's Quest's music is top notch at least, and was a constant reminder that I MUST be playing a great game, despite what I saw unfold. Eyes and Ears at war for the mechanical soul of the brain.

I started the ROM.

[copstache]

Get a silk bag from the graveyard duck to live longer.

[FVBTVS]

for some reason i always believed part 4 was the best.

[Friendly Goatus]

4 is really fun, no doubt. I think it's funner than Dracula X, thought not quite as difficult. But I feel like 1 and 3 on the NES are better, more pure experiences.

[a world of no]

Someone give me a tl;dr about Simon's Quest. I played it for like an hour when I was a kid. Is it a bad?

[Zap Rowsdower]

Can't believe I hadn't seen that one before.

[FVBTVS]

oh im going to watch the shit out of that. im watching an hour playthrough and just re-raging all over again over 90% of this shit..

music is motherfucking devastating though.

[DR. THRAXX]

Injustice demo is garbage... Wtf. The game looks good, but it feels weird to me.

I'm still going to be a The Bill and buy it day one...

[Zap Rowsdower]

Get a silk bag from the graveyard duck to live longer.

Wut?

[Wolfey]

Injustice demo is garbage... Wtf. The game looks good, but it feels weird to me.

I'm still going to be a The Bill and buy it day one...

I don't think it's that bad. Lex Luthor feels like an interesting character.

A lot of people didn't like the MK9 demo, but that game turned out good. It'll most likely be the same here.

[The Bill]

4 is really fun, no doubt. I think it's funner than Dracula X, thought not quite as difficult. But I feel like 1 and 3 on the NES are better, more pure experiences.

Super Castelvania IV is my favorite because they tightened up the controls and removed a lot of cheap stuff from the originals. Medusa Heads, Igors, and bird things are minimal.

I'm still going to be a The Bill and buy it day one...

There's room for one more.

Speaking of, looks like I'm getting a bunch more Amazon credit rolling my way, so what to pre-order now? How about that Deadpool game? 360 version of Watch Dogs? Resident Evil: Renovations... Retaliation... Revolutions... Whatever? Not getting that game with Juno in it till I force myself to play Heavy Rain one of these days.


I beat Bioshock: Infinite tonight, so a new lottery for Fridays game begins again. I'm thinking Metro 2033. Hopefully they patched it.

[DR. THRAXX]

Deadpool actually looks pretty good, and I hate that character

[Wang Mandu]

This, the new Shadowrun and Project Eternity... These are the upcoming games I'm most excited for, except maybe Darksouls 2. So much

thank you, kickstarter

Wasteland 2 and Divine Divinity: Original Sin too! I won't have to buy any new games once these all start releasing.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lar ... iginal-sin

[Wang Mandu]

Anybody up for some Dark Souls co-op?

http://www.reddit.com/r/darksouls/comme ... immediate/

[Friendly Goatus]

This, the new Shadowrun and Project Eternity... These are the upcoming games I'm most excited for, except maybe Darksouls 2. So much

thank you, kickstarter

Wasteland 2 and Divine Divinity: Original Sin too! I won't have to buy any new games once these all start releasing.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lar ... iginal-sin

Oh man, that looks great too. Thats fucking awesome that the game is pretty much finished and all they're kickstarting for is to hire a secondary team to fill the game with more content. Seems like that means it'll be released sooner than the others.

[Wang Mandu]

Yeah, I like that too instead of funding the start of the game like everything else. It is a great studio too and their last game Divinity II: The Dragon Knight Saga was good but kind of rough in the animations and 3D worldspace. The writing was really good and it had some clever sidequests and dialogue. Not sure if I can back that one as I already pledged $50 to the Torment one but will purchase it on release.