Quote:Atlus is keeping with it's good GBA support and will release The King of the Fighters EX2: Howling Blood in December and Shining Soul II in February 2004. At one time King of Fighters EX2 was underway at Acclaim, but Atlus must have picked it up. Shining Soul II was created by Sega.
Posted by Ethan Pearson, Founder, Director
I'm glad that I didn't buy EX1! Anyone else plan on getting it? I assume that ABF will...
I've been Lament of Innocence for a couple of hours now and the game really does kick ass. It starts off slow but then really begins to build up, and it's a great combination of the SotN play style and Castlevania IV. The graphics are very nice, the level design is... okay that could be improved upon, the music is really incredible (my vote for best video game soundtrack of 2003), and the combat system is superb. At first glace it does seem a bit like DMC but once you get deeper into the fighting system it becomes very different. It's far more complex, and much more acrobatic. However this is definitely not a straight beat-em-up like DMC is. The emphasis is on exploration even more than it is on fighting, so this is definitely more like SotN and the past three GBA Castlevanias then it is like DMC.
It would be amazing show casing the special effects and having such a deep rich story and universe , To me would be a perfect game.
the only thing I found on the internet was a moded home brewed game of SG1 off the tribes 2 engine.They did have pretty stellar skin model for one of the aliens but there enviroments are little bland,Unless its just a early build.
Has it snowed where you live yet? Colorado has this wierd thing where every year it snows a little before Halloween, and then is dry until February. The mountains get a lot of snow before then, but down lower it is pretty dry for the rest of the year. And yes, it did already snow here a couple days ago (how about you OB1?). Discuss. Or don't.
Okay, I don't really know much about this game, but I saw it today at Wal-Mart and it looked very funny. It's sort of RPG/RTS where you control a knight who has to save the kingdom from evil and presumably make jokes in the process. The box also mentioned something about protecting the kingdom's most precious resource, which is milk btw.
So, if anyone gets it be sure to tell us about it because it looks like something I might get.
I just got Crimson Skies (with that great TRU 'buy two get on free' deal) and although I haven't had time to play it yet (Enterprise is on), I've heard great things about it and was hoping that one of yous was going to get it so that we could get some Live matches started.
EGM has posted a very good, surprising interview with George Harrison of NOA, and I can't believe some of the things he said. Nintendo is admitting a lot of their mistakes and that is extremely refreshing. He's still iffy on the whole online thing but he is admitting how Sony has been doing so many things right which is why they're number one right now (which is a big :shakeit: to lazy and ABF who said that Sony is #1 soley because of "luck"), and he even admitted that the DVD player actually helped sales of the PS2. It seems that Nintendo is starting to wake up and realize that they have to change some things, that they're really getting their asses kicked. Harrison also talks about how the look of the Gamecube gave the system a really bad image, how it looked like a toy. That ties into how successful the GBA SP has been to adults mainly because of the sleeker, more mature look. They really seem to want to change, and I'm starting to become very optimistic for the future of Nintendo.
One thing that does worry me, however, is that Harrison was suggesting that instead of having a new handheld ready to combat the PSP next year Nintendo might just make a whole bunch of add-ons for the GBA SP(like the Pokemon-only wireless link). Hopefully that won't be the case, and that the E3 surprise which Iwata alluded to a few months ago will be something much more than a simple add-on.
