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What's also similar is the flow of the boss fights in this game. Once again, the dual bosses are the hardest bosses (because the Soul games can't handle group combat)

I'm glad I'm not the only one to think this. S&O is such a stupid bossfight simply because the game engine can't handle two giant bosses coming at you and freaking the camera out every time.

At least in Demon's Souls case the Maneaters will only come one at time until the first one get's to half (IIRC?) health, but even then you're on a "linear" path to where the camera can't freak out relentlessly while you're fighting them.

But that was welcome considering how broken player combat is in Dark Souls. I don't imagine it would be any different here.

Nope, it's still broken. You ain't missing anything. And again: Glad that someone else agrees with me on this.

But I have to respectively disagree with you on Dark being better than Demon's. I feel the changes (and adding poise!) to Dark Souls made for some worse game design decisions than leaving some decisions alone but tweaking them. For instance, I feel magic was nerfed too hard in Dark (even if it still does "crazy damage") due to the fact that if you pick a mage class you're going to have to return to bonfires to recharge your magic, whereas in Demon's you're simply eating grass to regain your magic. I understand they were trying to make it more tactical but again: why play a mage class when you're main claim to fame/the magic isn't going to be able to be used for 99% of the time? Might as well roll Knight/other warrior class and sub into magic for those rare cases then.

Not to defend Gamestop, but this sounds more an issue with EA/Bioware and other publishers than the retailer itself. Yeah, it sucks they price their used games for $5 less and the publishers want more ("Project $10") for used games but that's the reality that's happened. In the small print, they most likely mention that you need to buy new or pony-up in the store if you bought used.
 
Also if people did more research in their purchasing habits since this shit started, they would be better informed so things like this wouldn't need to happen.
 
Or, publishers can dealwithit.gif and just accept that used games happen and try to get people to buy new instead of forcing them to pay more after buying used because they didn't feel the new product was worth buying anyway.

I've got no problem with him. but good. Maybe we can get someone that doesn't use twitter to get fixes and news out to people. (Oh, who the hell am I kidding?

@Krakn3Dfx said:

Pretty much reads like a support FAQ from their website, but okay.

Used to follow Stepto on Twitter. Guy comes across generally as a douche bag. I guess you kind of have to be in his role as Master of the XBL Hammer, but still.

He could have saved some time and just boiled it down into one sentence: "Yeah, we're going to try and be better about this...but not really."

Yeah, "Stepto" is a huge douche. People like Geoff Knightly, get bumped up in the queue of investigations faster than us plebes. What? That really makes no sense.

Also this interview could be boiled down to that, yeah. There really isn't anything interesting and if Patrick poked into it he could've asked how the accounts are regioned changed. Is that option available in the Live.com site? Why? Is there anyway to turn it off or have it have to be verified before the region is changed? Patrick didn't really poke/investigate the issue more.

Hey, Capcom, if you feel like making a remake of Resident Evil 2, I'm 100% behind you. <---YES. PLEASE.

Or they could just release the long-cancelled Resident Evil 1.5 already. Man. <---Ditto this. Or the people that have the copies of the beta could finally fucking release it instead of sitting on it. :|

After the bad taste and gameplay choices that Biohazard 5 gave us, I want nothing to do with Biohazard 6 unless Jun Takuchi has been fired from the development team and they're focusing on what worked in Bio2 and 4.

> If you send in a letter, you retain your rights and the ability to continue playing Battlefield 3.

I'll believe it when I see it. Because I'm not going to send in a letter only to lose my $100+ worth of stuff on EA AND PSN's services.

Hmm... since it's free to play, I should check it out.

@Branthog said:

Is there a reason we need "blogs" at all? Why not just start a compelling post in the forums? I still fail to see the need for separating things out as they have been. If the idea is "blogs are where good conversation is; forums are detritus" then why even have forums?

And if someone feels some particular need for "blogging", then why not just start one of their own? Domains and hosting are cheap.

Yes, I'm biased. Every website having it's own "blog features" for their members was something every webmaster tried in the early part of the last decade and it should have gone the way of AOL discs and the blink tag.

I dunno. I don't necessarily disagree with you. But there is some posts (like the TF2 map making posts) that are decent. But I do agree: What is the point of separating both for the purpose of "better discussion in one/both" when you could merge both and have a decent discussion in both. Instead of posting comments to just the blog author going "hey, great post" why not post a link in GiantBomb's forum going "this is an interesting article and maybe we could discuss the topic a little?" The author could pop up as well and provide some incites in that thread.

> I don't usually end stories with a question, but are you going to signing up?
 
NOPE.avi Same as with Bungie.net's HD rendering. Not for me and I don't need it. Just give me the stats. The maps can go fuck off until proven to be worthwhile.

>Persona 4 fighting game title
>Persona 3 characters included.
 
All my LOLWUTPEAR.jpgs
 
Still, I'm willing to get it if it's PS3/360/PC + Minato included.