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Please put this Game on XBLA!!!! 05/04/2009

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For the Love of God please!!!
for nothing else more than me to experience the full plot of this game which goes something like this:

you play the President of the United States which has been over run in a coup d’etat, instead of surrendering he decides to say “Fuck that shit!!” and fight the army single handily in the only way he knows how, by using a Mecha suit to blow the crap out all and sundry. guess what country this came from??
JAPAN!!
and they say Western Devs have the edge?? not when I comes to balls out insane plots they don’t!!

The Name of this game METAL WOLF CHAOS

please check out the following video:

please can you localise this?? Nintendo did with Sin & Punishment and all the VC sales Tresure are making S&P2 for the Wii, maybe if this gets enough downloads they might make a sequel. (please have the british PM with some hovering/transforming mech armour as a secondary player!!)

more metal wolf chaos vids can be found here:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=metal+wolf+chaos&aq=0&oq=metal+wolf+ch

Mid-Life Gaming Crisis 04/04/2009

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There is a Quote that goes “When I was a child I spoke as a child I understood as a child I thought as a child; but when I became a man I put away childish things.”
This kind of sums up my outlook in regards to gaming.

As a Man past his twenties and nine years shy of forty. I face a mid life crisis of the gaming kind.

To game or not to game? that is the question

As a child of the mid 80′s and early nineties, video games are in my blood. my gamer heart beats Nintendo and SEGA. I have played many consoles and Arcade machines.
Owned and sold many. handed hard earned pocket and paper round money money to shops and traded my old Gen friends in for the latest and greatest next machines. Machines I wish I still owned today.

there is talk of a classic golden age of gaming around the 8 – 16bit era, when machines at home lacked the raw power of the arcade behemoths. so game play was king, more depth more challenge more replay more innovation , compared to the pure adrenaline blast of the beautiful looking arcade games designed to take your money. I used to justify the price of a console games comparing how many times times playing at home would stack up against the amount spent in the arcades.

but to me the golden age of games died with the end of the Dreamcast. No longer did we have two companies that the hard core felt so strongly about making machines. two rivals who tried to win our loyalty by producing more and more elaborate, creative and wondrous works for us to sink our gaming teeth into. because of this events took place that some thought would never happen back then in those heady times (but a few secretly hoped would) Sega were creating games for other systems and Sonic and Mario appearing in the same Games.

as Gamers of that Generation we have gone from Space Invaders to Mario 64 to GTA IV, Single player to Multi-tap to LAN to Online.
Advances in graphical power, interaction and interface. at the core the way to engage and enchant the players.

but that is the paradox as games get more involving and life like and demand more from players we simple don’t have the time to commit anymore, life and responsibilities get in the way and shifting back to the old adrenaline pick up and play games is what I am craving more.

People would mock Nintendo for the lack of graphical power and strange ways of playing that the Wii and Ds would offer. Nintendo on the other hand have the finger on the pulse of our Generation of gamers. look at the sales they have.
sure GTA IV will help to shift a shed load of Xbox 360′;s and PS3′s but in the long run I doubt it will overtake the Nintendo sales.

My Gaming crisis is many fold. but is summed up in one sentence ” I don’t have the time to play games anymore”

back in the day a couple of hours of Shenmue would turn into an 8 – 12 hour marathon. I could play Actraiser round my friends house for Hours after school.
Now I cannot take more than the length of an hour to play any games.
I buy Mario Kart WII and no more heroes and I havent even played Mario Galaxy through yet But I am not Whining I don’t Lament this I just cannot see how I can Viably do this.
My Fiancée has told me many times she loves the way I am passionate about games (Read Closet Geek) she herself is not a gamer in any shape or form. (except for Wii sports)
but still I couldn’t see myself playing for hours on end like a used to.

I want to play GTA IV but I may pick it up in a few years time for cheaper but as for now I can wait.

for now the DS and the pick up and play games it offers satisfies my game fix.

also the Next problem is this.
should someone my age be playing games still and my Answer is Hell yes!
I don’t see why people should brand what I am doing as sad or anti social.
why can people who support football teams such as Arsenal or Man United support them all their life but a man who is passionate about Games and news relating to gaming be told he is sad? I say screw that!

Gaming is my passion I don’t drink or smoke or am into Football so why is my hobby less of a hobby??

I don’t think it is anti social in anyway I have a friend i have known for over 16 years who I have bonded with over many a game of SF II or micro machines, and too this day we still play the old classics thanks to the VC (much to the chagrin of and bemusements of both our Missus’ )

we are facing a crisis for golden generation many hardcore gamers are now married with kids or in serious relationships with commitments in life. we cannot devote the time anymore that we used to and as the generation at the forefront of gamers when is the time to give up the old ways? I hope we never have to, I wish to continue to play until I am in my old old age. ( I still think on the day I day I will hear the Music played when Mario dies in Super Mario Bros)

To Game or not to Game, There is no Question!!

I just don’t know in what form

Yu Suzuki Retires 04/04/2009

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Kotaku & NeoGaf have reported that Yu Suzuki has left his role as Creative officer at Sega.

SEGA Sammy have a press release stating as such

Does this mean he will still be involved with SEGA or AM2?? Said news indeed.

The man is a legend in SEGA he gave us some great games such as Daytona and The Virtua Fighter Series plus Shenmue, he is easily one of greatest game creators of all time up there with Shigeru Miyamoto.

so many memories of playing his games on the Saturn and Dreamcast, I really hope he is not bowing out for good or if he does please can he join Prope and team up with Yuji Naka and kick some ass, we need a new Daytona or Shenmue III of some kind but what will happen we don’t know only time will tell

and if the worse case scenario  does happen?

Altogether now:

News Sources:

Kotaku

NeoGaf

SEGASAMMY Press Release