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If you love RPGS you should buy the 1st Disgaea then run out and buy Disgaea 2 you won't be sorry.

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I know the idea of a registration has been done with powers before (Marvel's Mutant Registration Act that never gets passed, JSA having to unmask during the McCarthy era, etc) but I like this idea. I always hated how the Marvel U had this line between mutants and people who had superpowers when it some cases it was impossible to differentiate between the two, so making all people with powers register makes more sense.

Also, after reading Ultimates #9, I'm much less worried about Millar doing this than I had been. He can write a crazy tale hitting so many plot points and setting up things great. McNiven is just an awesome artist and one of the few people that can bring the epic scope of Millar's writing into a visual form. After the Bendis invasion of the 616 for over a year, it'll be great to see someone else take the reigns for the big summer event.

Here's the thing though. Not many Marvel heroes even have secret IDs. The X-Men are all known, the Fantastic Four is well known, the Avengers are known save for Spider-Man and maybe Sentry but practically everyone in Marvel has a government file with all their info on it.

Captain America would seem to be the obvious choice to lead those loyal to the government. But maybe it's too obvious a choice. He has been pretty vocal lately about not likeing how things have been going, and how SHIELD has been corrupted.

And when the shit hits the fan Brother eye will release the Omacs .... oh woops wrong universe

I have to ask but other then beefed up graphics whats so next-gen about the 360. Truth be told I feel the 360 was rushed out to beat the PS3 and the Nintendo revolution.

That trailer was incredible. Ill post a link here when i can find it again

Done. MGS4

ALL HAIL THE NEXT-GEN MGS GAME

Can't wait to grandpa snake take out a punk ass.

HELL YEAH I'M FOR IT!!!! I'll drive us there if you want. I'm already saving up money for this thing.

WHOOO HOOOOO!!!!!! Road trip.

but Dirge should prolly get its own thread or somethin...is that sidestory of FF VII, or what's the deal?

It take's place a year after Advent childern.

TOKYO--Given the popularity of Square's Final Fantasy VII, it's almost surprising that it's taken the company this long to cash in on its classic RPG with a collection of spin-offs. But now, spin-off season is in full swing, and the latest entrant is Dirge of Cerberus, a shooting-focused action game starring the mysterious Vincent Valentine.

 

The game is only being shown in brief chunks at the Tokyo Game Show this year, but you definitely get the impression that the game is pretty far along. Cutscenes set up the action by showing Vincent skysurfing past a bunch of airships, firing shots at them all the while. The action featured in the TGS demo, however, is strictly ground-based and is focused on freeing children and other civilians who are getting trapped in a city that's under attack from a bunch of robotic troops.

 

As Vincent, you'll play the game primarily from a third-person perspective, complete with the ability to recenter the camera behind your character using the L3 button. Vincent has a melee attack combo that will land a few hits in a row, and he can also jump and execute tactical rolls, which leave him in a crouched position. While the melee attacks are fairly powerful, Vincent is also very handy with guns, and gunning down your enemies is the game's primary form of combat. Hitting L1 or R1 will drop you into a zoomed-in viewpoint from over Vincent's shoulder. It puts a reticle onscreen, letting you know precisely what you're aiming at. It also has a snap-to lock-on targeting system, so manual aiming is rarely necessary, and is only really useful when you're trying to hit something from a long distance or trying to shoot exploding barrels or other inanimate objects. While many of the enemies in the demo are similarly armed, none of them do much damage, and they all shoot rather slowly, giving you the jump on them almost every time.

 

You'll be able to equip multiple firearms in Dirge of Cerberus. Your primary pistol fires regular shots with R1, but L1 causes it to fire off slow-moving, extremely powerful projectiles. It might as well be a slow-moving rocket launcher. This is great for taking out groups of enemies with one shot. You'll also have to fight large airships in the game, and if you can lead your target properly, a few of these rocket shots will do the job nicely. You can also equip a powerful long-range rifle and a machine gun, which is as accurate as the rest of the weapons but does far less damage than the other guns present in the demo. Hitting R1 and L1 at the same time uses up your MP meter and transforms you into some sort of beast. In this state, your attacks become more powerful, and instead of firing a gun, you simply shoot very powerful fireballs out of your right arm. Doing this drains your MP meter, but the game has more than a few spots around that will fully recharge your MP.

 

The action in Dirge of Cerberus is very objective-based and straightforward. You're making your way through a city that's under attack, and your path is made very linear due to fires that block what could be alternate routes. Along the way, you'll be saving children and collecting key cards, which work to bypass security gates that will block your path in a few spots. In the early missions we saw, there seemed to be robots around every turn, giving you plenty of things to shoot at as you progress. If you take too much damage, you can access your inventory and use items to replenish your hit points, among other things.

 

Graphically, Dirge of Cerberus has a decent look to it. The portion we saw had a handful of in-engine cutscenes that looked pretty good, though the game definitely appears to have plenty of prerendered scenes to watch as well.

 

In addition to the game's single-player campaign, the game will have a multiplayer mode and an online mode, though these options aren't currently available for viewing. We'll have more on Vincent's adventure as it becomes available.

On a side note Kojima said the MGS4 trailer is the minimun bar for the visuals in the game and that he's confidient that the finished game will look even better.

Even if it's not real time it's still impressive Killzone 2

Especially LULU's... omfg. Dodging lightning 200 times!

I somehow pulled that one off.

I also remember what a bitch it was to beat Emerald and Ruby Weapons. Emerald was an especially bad bitch to beat cuz it took me forever to find the guidebook to get the Underwater materia that cancels out the 20:00 minute time limit to beat him.

I beat Emerald by dumb luck. I forgot to take cait sith out of my party when the fight started. I was going to reset but I said what the hell and went for it. I had his limit break at full and used it. I somehow got Instant victory on my first shot. It was the one and only time I ever got the Instant victory limit break. Ruby on the other hand took a while to beat but damn what a great feeling.

272. When you believe that you can jump into the t.v. or computer screen while playing the game to be a part of the game

273. When you actually try to do this

274. When you actually try to do this more than once and end up getting a huge bruse on your head

275. When you already own a copy of FFIV for the PS1 but you still went out and got a copy for the Gameboy cause it's FF. (Yeah, i'm guilty of this one)

276. When you know all the lyrics to the opera house scene

Dude it's metal gear. What more do you want. MGS4

Only watch this if you beaten Xenosaga 2. Xenosaga 3

I just hope the gameplay is good. Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII

kelly brook

"The storyline centers on a secret past that was supposed to stay hidden from even the most trained electric eyes in the sky. Yet, as history will show us, most secrets are revealed in time. And when exposed, combined with events that have been unfolding in public view, these secrets point to new collaborations we never would have contemplated. In the case of The Illuminati, imagine a new world order! Expect such revelations in the New Avengers: The Illuminati. Witness Marvel's secret team ripped apart too soon after revealing their existence!"

Aside from his wolverin run Mark Millar has always done a good job writing a good story and with art from

Steve McNiven. Marvel comic have always had a bit of a dark side to it. Now things are going to get worst if you live in the Marvel U. But it still feels like it's been crowbarred in. The Marvel stories up to this point haven't needed there to be a secret club running things, and it definitely wasn't hinted at, whereas D.C's Crisis had been on the cards at least since Identity Crisis, and definitely since Luthor, all hopped up on drugs, said there'd be one. Marvel's lagging behind on 'THE MEGA-EVENT' stuff, and my worry is that this Civil-Crisis-War-Saga is going to trample on some of the good series that've come out of House of M,but far from the point. Hell, most of the pre-Civil War press seems to be pointing at House of M, Planet Hulk, Secret War and Enemy of the State as the big issues.

I mean, hell... look at how the chess game between whomever is running both SHIELD and Hydra vs Nick Fury is cracking open over in the Bendis books.

then it'll be lame, but I also think it'll be a good deal more involved in that.

And for that matter, how many uber-crossovers haven't involved most of the "Illuminati" members putting their heads together to fix things? The Illuminati have existed for ages in the MU, Bendis is just fleshing it out.

When fans talk about these events, the focus is often on the heroes, but when Brevoort says "Civil War" will impact everyone, he even means the villains. "Some pretty significant changes to the villains will be seen in 'Civil War,' especially once we hit around issue #4 or so. In some ways, we're going to be redefining what it means to be a hero or a villain in the Marvel Universe, so some characters you'd think of as heroes will be branded villains, and some villains may wind up appearing to be heroes."

Can't wait to see how that works out.

Now that I think about it. The Illuminati did appear in Daredevil occassionally ever since Matt was outed, haven't they?

It does make sense in looking back why, say, Dr Strange would give a shit about Matt's identity being revealed publicly, and also Reed Richards. I suppose they dragged Cap and Spidey along with them so it wouldn't look too sus.

Alley Baggett

Let's just post game trailers about game we think are going to be hot and just talk about it.

One good look at Rogue Galaxy and I'm like wow!!! This game looks like a great epic. Rogue Galaxy

I gotta go find the trailer to 4 now

MGS4 Trailer

254. When you can receit all the characters in order of appearence from the first to last game

255. When you can receit the characters names in alphabetical order

256. Including characters that are in item shops. weapon shops ect.

257. At the end of every FF game you start to cry

258. Even when you've already played the game 5 times

259. At the end of AC you cryed and gave a round of applause

260. You where watching the movie alone when you did that

Square Enix has enlisted beverage maker Suntory to develop a Final Fantasy XII themed drink to coincide with the Japanese release of the game next spring. The product is said to incorporate elements of herbal tea and Square Enix is calling it "potion" for now. Planned quantities of this special edition drink have not been released, but they will most assuredly be in short supply. There are currently no announcements about a U.S. release so get ready to pull the importing trigger.

252. You start E-mailing Square Enix 50 times everyday to release FF potions cause the guy down the street with the silver hair keep's beating you up.

Final Fantasy XII Potion

182.Bought the US release of the FFIII soundtrack by mail order back in the day. (point of pride)

Did the same thing and I got the poster while I was at it. Funny thing is that I ordered the soundtrack before I played the game. Wish more games came with catalogs to order stuff.

184. When you have dreams about the characters. Highly detailed dreams...

185. When you keep coming up with more when you thought you had run out.

186. When you quote FF in English class (guilty)

187. When you need FF like druggies need drugs

188. when you reinact scenes

189. when you get sent to an insane asylum and wait for seph/jenova (whatever) to break you out. (Which would be half the people on ths board)

190. when you go to a school reunion and kill anyone with silver/ white long hair

191. When you refer to your money as gil

192. When you want to train your pet dog to use moves such at doggie strike or invincible moon!

193. When you think the lock-ness monster is sin.

194. When you pick up a sword or whip and think you have unlimited abilities with the weapon because of playing ff.

195. when you wander the streets finding items to help you in your daily life

196. When you fall asleep with the controller in your hand

197. When you wake up and resume playing from where you left off.

198. When engaged in a fight you patiently wait for your ATB gauge to fill whilst your unwitting opponent beats you to a pulp laughing his ass off

199. When you tell your doctor to give you an elixir

200. When they say they don't have one, you ask for a potion instead

201. When final fantasy can change the way you look at life and so, try to take things in a differant perspective

202. when you buy ornamental materia off ebay and when it arrives try to cast knights of the round summon...someday

203. When you can give the exact location of any secret location in FF without ever looking at one strategy book. (guilty)

204. Your friends have beaten you up as soon as you mention FF

205. You yell at the characters when playing the game because they've done something you find wrong and then goes off to tell some poor family member about it

206. When your friend ask you if Cloud even is a real person you go; "Well, duuuuuh!"

207. Then starts crying hysterically

208. You quote the characters in real life.

209. when you dress up in something light such as a shirt, tank top, miniskirt, shorts or anything else skimpy when running around in

a) snow

b) hot desert

c) office tower

210. You get hold of every Final Fantasy from 1 to 11 and resolve to play each one consecutively ... (Tho with part three I wish could read Japanese)

211. When you begin to dream that you ARE the characters in the game in specific areas in the game that you liked

212. When you debate with other FF fans on who is the hotter characters (which for some reason we did at a few dork party's. It was the booze that make us do it at least I think it was the booze.)

213. When you try to take materia from off of ebay and put it in your arm like AC and start to get mad when it won't dematerialize into your arm and start to glow

214. When you take marbles to do the same as above

215. When you go around calling people chicken-wuss's cause you thought it was the funniest thing ever and claimed it was your own insult

216. When you think that the next greatest thing that could be created is a Final Fantasy Amusement Park thats as big as Disney Land

217. When you design posters for this amusement park

218. When you wonder if this amusement park would have a gaming area to play other ff gamers

219. when you dont care if this amusment park had rides at all as long as you could dress up as one of your favorite characters and show your skills off to other players at a gaming tent

220. when your art teacher says that you cant draw anymore ff characters or related characters because you've managed to manipulate every project to include ff in it (guilty)

221. when your whole house is dedicated to ff memoriablia and every piece of funiture is someting realted to ff

222. You whistle the battle victory theme after finshing any meaningless task

223. or the chocobo success song in ff7

224. You miss your best friends wedding cause you just played and beat all ff games in six days without sleeping and needed a day to rest

225 ...you beat the games twice

226. you were the best man ( or maid of honor )

227. you were also incharge of the rings

228. when you realize your best friend missed your wedding because he beat all the games twice in six days you say to yourself....man i wish i woulda thought of that, thats freaking awesome!!!

229. you then spend five days of your honeymoon trying to beat your bestfriends record

230. your spouse proceeds to leave you but you continue to play anyways cause your about to finish FFX

231. OR you ( the spouse ) try to beat that record and try and do it in four days and never got upset at your spouse for playing ff instead of going to the beach in Barbados which you are in.

232. Your honeymoney was a ff convention in which you both got to dress up.

233. Your dressing up to the convention was actually what your wore on your wedding day

234. Your whole wedding was based on ff

235. you manage to convince your parents to dress up as ff characters

236. Its actually mandatory for everbody to dress up as ff at your wedding

237. The exchanging of rings is the rings in FFX

238. When walking down the isle after your married the victory theme song is played.

239. Your carage is an ostrich painted yellow

240. You dont ask for gifts only gil

241. Your actually dream to have a wedding like this

242. Your ACTUALLY planning a wedding like this

243. When your wedding dress is the same one as in FFX that Yuna wears

244. when you've written as many as i have just now without having any problem doing so!

How the hell did I come up with this shit. I think I've been playing FF a little to much. I need a break after I beat FFVII one more time.

166. You remember all the details in 1 FF game and when they are rapidly mentioned in another FF you immediately remember them and you go AWWW......

167. if you go into a pet shop and ask if they have any oglogs or moogles on sale

168. you get told you have 3 days to live and you say "shoit! i better start playing all the ff games again!"

169. When you think that blindness, death, zombied and being turned into stone are all happily curiable illnesses.

170. When you can post more and more of these without thnking

171. When you either force your friends to like FF or get new friends

172. When you fill 1GB mp3 with nothing but with final fantasy music. (guilty, and proud of it)

130. If you see everyone as a part of one of the final fantasy series

131.When you're thinking hard and that thought turns into a daydream of you being in final fantasy

132.When you stare at your cat/ a cat for ages and then ask: Where's your pompom kupo?

133.When you post in an FF Forum just because it is an FF Forum

134.when you lit fire using a match you yell fira then get really excited because you thought you could do magic.

135.you try and find a chocobo egg on ebay but give up and buy an ostich egg instead...

136.When being ambushed by thugs you hold your shoulders waiting to escape.

137.When said thugs are muggers and take your stuff you yell "oh S**T! that was my last elixer!

138.When you try to soft reset so you can try the battle with muggers again

139.When you see a black cat and go "OMG! Cait Sith! Where's the Mog?"

140.When you take the cat and attach it to a oversized novelty mog that you created and give it a megaphone

141.On an official form, you give your religion as Yu Yevon (guilty)

142.when you are having a bad day you yell out "ultima!"

143.when you lose sleep because the new FF has been out for 1 day and you haven't got it yet

144.When your girlfriend comes over and see all the bottles of piss you have accumulated because you have to use the bathroom during every single FMV

145.when all your freinds brothers and family knows all about ff and they have never played it

145.When you let the clock start over TWICE!

146.If you think a Burger King crown has magical abilities

146.If you call the biggest tree in your backyard the Tree of the Void

147.If you think a solo monk game of FFI sounds like a fun little walk in the park

148.If you attempt to cast Stop on other people during a race

149.If you're an insomniac and try to cast Sleep on yourself

150. If you try to cast Blizzaga on the roads leading to your school so you can have a snow day (It's worth a shot, tho I do in Florida)

151.When you wander who cast thundaga when theres a storm on outside

152.When you read mythology and say 'Hey, that was in FF'(guilty)

153.When you wake your roomate up at 5:30 in the morning by laughing when you read chicken-wuss (guilty)

154.When you stare at siad roomate and shout Kupo (guilty)

155.When your AIM icon is a Chocobo

156.When you get offended when someone calls it a chicken

157.Then you argue with them for 30 minutes about why it's not a chicken

158.When you recognize an FF song, game it comes from, and when it happens in the game, from one note (guilty)

160.When you stop whatever you're doing when you hear FF music and follow it to it's source

161.When you forego sleep to play FF (guilty)

162.when you use examples from FF in actual debates on stuff like religion or politics(and yes there is one similar but I think it said something about actual quotes and not just reference... Xenogears works better then most FF's for this sort of stuff. But some FF's can work darn well in discusions like that).

163. When you spend alot of time reading into the game, and then discuss those points with yourself

164.When you quote FF games but don't tell people, and they think you're a genius for coming up with it such as "Right and wrong are not what seperate us from our enemies. It's our different standpoints, our perspectives that seperate us. Both sides blame one another. There's no good or bad side. Just two sides holding different views."

165. When you can write down a quote that long straight from memory

127. Painting a chicken yellow and calling it a chocobo

124. acting sick,not going to school, run to the mall, buy copy of FFVII, stay home for the rest of the week playing.

125. Getting chewed out by parent's and teacher's for said actions. Pointing out that public school is more important then a game.

126. Getting grounded for pointing out public school is a joke and you learn more from said game then a public school lacky.

79. you get one of these

80. if you have/had owned final fantasy jewelery (I'm looking your way IC)

81. When you know what Odin, Gungir, Sleipnir, the Midgard Sormr and Yggdrasil are, but you've never even heard of Frigg, Tyw or Loki.

82. You make a post on a fan forum detailing 1001 ways in which you know you're addicted

83. You did something for your girlfriend (significant other), which made her so happy that she jumped and threw her arms around you, and in your mind all you could hear was the Victory Fanfare.

84. Whenever someone talks about a cloud (In the sky) and you anwser somthing like "Yeah his sword is cool!!!"

85. If you try to beat up your friends for EXP

86.If the soundtrack in your head changes whenever you enter a new area

87. If all your friends know everything about your favourite Final Fantasy despite the fact none of them ever played the game.

88. If you try to jump off a cliff because you think an invisible force field is there. And then you die

89. After someone else pulls that stunt, you try to save them with a Phoenix Down

90. You start carrying around marbles and saying it's your orb of light or materia

91. When you get to level 99 on Final Fantasy V....(and that's saying something)

92. When asked why you beat someone up you say "I needed the 15 AP so I could master the use of stashing megaelixirs"

93. When you threaten people with "Bitch, don't make me cast reflect and bounce ultima off my party."

94.When you're in the military and everytime you hear RPG you think Final fantasy games, while everyone else thinks rocket propelled grenade

95. When you watch Advent Children and die inside after the realisation that Tifa isn't real

96. When you actually try to summon espers...(I mean I know if I try harder Bahamut will appear)

97. When you wish that people would change clothes like in FF X-2

98. When you suggest #97 to a friend who is a girl, and knows what you mean and then she slaps you on the face.

99. After doing #98 you try to cast cure on yourself, but wonder why it still hurts

100. If you've been asked who would win, a ninja or a shaolin monk, you say "that's a tough one... Ninjas have the Utsusemi advantage, but monks do some crazy damage. I guess the monks, since ninjas have low VIT, and they'd get hit while trying to bring Utsusemi back up..."

101. If you understood the above

102. When Final Fantasy was the Key factor in deciding your future

103. If you start a new game of FFI and beat it all in one sitting before you realize you've forgotten to turn the TV on.

104. When throwing firecrackers at people's house in the middle of the night, you yell out the names of FF spells

105. You drink a bottle of hair tonic thinking it'll restore your health. You end up in the hospital the next day after getting your stomach pumped

106. If you stand round silently, arms folded leaning against a wall thinking "Man, I'm soooo like Auron now"

107. Hit someone with a stick and scream out "Zombie!!!"

108. If you see a train pulling into a station and yell, "It's the Phantom Train! Run for your lives!"

109. When you take a black rock and try to call forth a meteor to destroy the world

110. If you compare Microsoft with Shinra

111. If you wonder why everyone complains about Edward being weak when in YOUR game he can kill the Antlion in one hit

112. you play sid meier's civilization and name the cities after FF towns, complete with landmarks (Esthar has an observatory, Besaid is an island, and Nibelheim is beside a snowy mountain) and have your very own FF world map.

113. When you stare at the screen playing it the whole day and when someone tell you to turn it off you either don't listen or act like a angry tiger (WOW!! that sound's like IC)

114. you use rpg maker to make an ff game cause you got all the time in the world

115. When you see someone you don't like you get a stick, pretend it's a sword and a say: Back off malboro!!!

116. you've pictured an FF character while having sex (One I'm not guilty of, but know someone who is)

117. if you work out what level you are in real life and how much exp you need to level up and you go on to the street and beat random people up

118. when people ask you your name you wait for the little box to turn up to write it into.

119. You constantly look up at the sky yelling "Arg! Sector 7!" or "Holy Shiznit! Meteor!"

120. When someone compliments your FF costume and you say "costume?"

That's a sweet looking pic, and yeah it was worth it,

72. You make your girlfriend dress like these girls

73. You lady's make your boyfriend dress like this.

74. You and your friends go out everwhere like this.

67. When and if you ran into Death machine (which is about a one in a thousand near the end of the game), and you beat him on the first try. you go out and make yourself a custom trophy to reward yourself . (Now that is hardcore)

54. youve actually invested a portion of your life into "maxing out" your characters, i.e.,, level 99, or 999,999 XP total.

Bonus points if you did this for a non-16 bit chapter.

55 . when you hear the sound "kweh" and you run around looking for the chocobo

56. when you and your buddy get into an argument over which FF chars can beat which. http://www.hondosbar.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=775

57. when you pick up a chefs knife and poke people with it while saying "doink!" then expect them to die.

58. when youre playing spiderman and wondering why he doesnt teleport around the city zapping people instead of swinging and beating people up.

59. when you start to breed chickens to grow them into chocobo weapons to take over the world.

60. when instead of saying thank you , you say "kupo"