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[Canas Renvall]

I'd love to, but uh... I haven't the money. xd  

[Biohazard EXTREME]

Oh well, it's your call.
I don't have the patience to wait until the last second to bid, and then not win it and trying again. If I want something, then I want it immediately. I want to know that I have it, even if it's not shipped.  

[Mr. Kennedy]

Microsoft's reboot of the Xbox Dashboard seems very strange... I don't like it.  

[Canas Renvall]

It looks reminiscent of a cross between the PSP/PS3 and iPhone interface. It's meh-ish. And they completely stole avatars from Wii's Miis. :X  

[Canas Renvall]

I need to make a choice... Go for a 3-game NES lot, each game in its original box and stuff containing SMB/Duck Hunte, Legend of Zelda and Final Fantasy with 7 hours left, even though it's at $2.25 now I know it's gonna fly up...

Or I could go for Alone in the Dark again, a day an a half away it ends and is at $4.25 now...

Or I could try to feel really lucky and go for Silent Hill, which has 6 days 2 hours and is at a cool .99. Hrm...

Edit: Eck, just realized I double-posted. Sorry!

Edit edit: Watching E3 '80 Preview right now on G4 (10AM-noon, then the Sony and Nintendo conferences are from noon to 4PM Eastern), and they had a Silent Hill: Homecoming demo. And I saw some things I didn't want to. For a split second, I saw over-the-shoulder aiming for the handgun and then he said you can switch to first-person mode (a la Alone in the Dark) to examine your surroundings more closely (which might not be too bad, but still). Other than that, it's not looking too bad. There are speech trees (choosing what to say at certain points), and I got to see one of the bosses, the Sepulcher. He's big. razz  

[Biohazard EXTREME]

You know, you don't have to describe things that people can see for themselves.

Here's the link, folks: http://e3.g4tv.com/e32008/videos/26922/Hands_On_Silent_Hill_Homecoming.html

It's disappointing. The programmer needs to be slapped upside the head.
If it's a free floating camera which you can control, then when you rotate the camera, the character should stand still, thus, giving you the opportunity to see the character's front. From what I've seen, when you rotate the camera, the character rotates with it. So just like RE4, we're gonna spend the whole game, looking at this guy's a** too.
Survival Horror is dying.

It's funny how much stuff they took from the movie, the nurse design, the transition to the dark state. What would these guys have done if there was no movie?  

[Mr. Kennedy]

Yeah it looks heavily influenced by the movie. The whole dynamic change of the world isn't too bad though. On the G4 interview he mentioned that hopefully the game will be more playable to people new to the series. Which is not cool, it pisses me off. It sounds like a RE4 situation.

Maybe the story will hold up.  

[Biohazard EXTREME]

No, the change in the world is good, I'm not saying it's bad, I'm just saying it's straight from the movie. So technically, that good idea wasn't theirs.

And yeah, lately the cool thing seems to be, "We want new people to like it." And that seems to be the whole marketing appeal lately, "******** the loyal fans, we want to appeal to the noobs."

I'm hoping the story will be decent. But even if it is, it's the acclaim I'm worried about. This game might get like a 9, on Gamespot... Which gave Silent Hill 2 a 7.7... Which is the dumbest thing in the world, since to this day, Silent Hill 2 is the best Silent Hill game, according to all the fans.
So what I'm worried about the most is the noobs which will give us bullshit like, "The old SH games suck, this one is much better." When no Silent Hill game will be better than SH2. Ever.  

[Javanomicron]

Biohazard EXTREME

Survival Horror is dying.

*SWAT* Survival horror is not dying, don't you even say that!

There are still games out there that will stay true to the franchise. Sure, most of them won't be as good, but at least they won't be some RE4 knockoff. The Forbidden Siren franchise is still going strong, and from what I hear, they stick with the same formula. it's just a shame they probably won't be releasing 2 or 3 in the US anytime soon.

And mainly, it's not really dying, it's just changing it's own meaning and stereotype, much to the dismay of us classic fans (myself included.) I guess the best we can do is hope that they go back to the old style someday once they realise that FPS Survival-Horrors are not scary in any form.  

[Mr. Kennedy]

Siren was friggen scary. And Fatal Frames have always been good too. There's a new one being released on the Wii that im sure is following the classic style. There are still games out there keeping the classic feel alive.

And Bio, you just explained exactly how I feel.  

[Biohazard EXTREME]

The new Siren looks terrible. I mean, first of all, the gameplay mechanics, and even the enemies look like RE4 knock offs. Secondly, and this bugs me more than anything.. Did you see the cinematics? You don't have to listen to the voice acting, just watch they way they move around, they look terrible. I just want to slap everyone who was present in the motion capture studio when they did it.

And if it's an FPS, it's not really survival horror, it's action horror. Survival horror IS dying. I'm not saying it's dead, but it's shrinking and getting weaker. Resident Evil is already dead. Silent Hill is becoming action-horror too. Soon everyone's gonna follow suit. And there will be no sign of what Survival Horror as the veterans once knew it.  

[Mr. Kennedy]

Went to go see the Blood Curse trailer. It doesn't look terrible. Even with the first-person shooting and crap it still looks pretty creepy. But it does seem as you called it, an "Action Horror". Perhaps Survivor Horror really is dying.  

[Biohazard EXTREME]

I honestly couldn't watch those cinematics. The character motions WERE terrible, they looked like they were performing for absurd theater. The only place I've seen motions so over-exaggerated is in Michael Jackson's Thriller video, which is a music video, so it's forgivable. In a video game, it kills the immersion. Real humans don't move around like that.  

[Canas Renvall]

And another thing that made me want to cry. The entirety of Nintendo's conference. crying

I thought they'd have something relating to good games. And the only things I really wanted out of that entire conference are Animal Crossing and Wii MotionPlus.

I thought they would've mentioned the awesome exclusive titles it's getting, but nooo. They had Reggie and his underling playing fetch and swordfighting at a resort.

I wasted an hour of my life after the Animal Crossing announcement. Why didn't they even mention any of the amazing-looking insanely long list of Wii exclusives? D:  

[Mr. Kennedy]

I agree, Nintendo's conference was weak sauce.

Microsoft's conference impressed me, I'm excited. Besides the horrid Dashboard reboot.