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Official Video Games Thread VI: Somebody set us up the bomb

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Was downloading the 'welcome back' content to my PS3 yesterday (inFamous) when my hard drive failed. System hung up when trying to do a shut down, held the power button down for about 10 seconds and it restarted itself, gave me a "hard drive is corrupt" message. Tried doing all of the restore options on the safe mode screen - no luck. New hard drive on the way from Amazon now. Not sure what I'm going to do with 320 gb of space - I probably only used 20 of the original 80gb hard drive it had.
 
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DisplacedCornellian said:
Was downloading the 'welcome back' content to my PS3 yesterday (inFamous) when my hard drive failed. System hung up when trying to do a shut down, held the power button down for about 10 seconds and it restarted itself, gave me a "hard drive is corrupt" message. Tried doing all of the restore options on the safe mode screen - no luck. New hard drive on the way from Amazon now. Not sure what I'm going to do with 320 gb of space - I probably only used 20 of the original 80gb hard drive it had.
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I just filled my 80gb. So I too ordered a new HDD. Ended up getting the 500gb WD from NewEgg for $54.

Now I can actually put music, games and movies on there instead of just DLC and save content.
 
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It's a Wii with HD and an iPad. Looks like yet another console from Nintendo I won't use.
 
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ME3 now has an official release date: March 6, 2012.

New trailer out, too.

Also, the announced the collector's edition: steel case, soundtrack, hardbound art book, extra DLC, and a few other random goodies.

I'm a sucker for soundtracks, so I'll probably get it even though I'm sure the soundtrack will become available through iTunes at some point.
 
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Jimjamesak said:
It's a Wii with HD and an iPad. Looks like yet another console from Nintendo I won't use.
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Despite that it will probably outsell Sony and Microsoft again.

Much like Apple, it seems like anything they put out for hardware is a success.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
Despite that it will probably outsell Sony and Microsoft again.

Much like Apple, it seems like anything they put out for hardware is a success.
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And it's fully compatible with all the games and remotes/nunchucks anyone's had to buy for the Wii.

One live blog I saw said that a golf game was previewed where the user saw the golf ball on the new Wii-U remote/tablet, placed the tablet at his feet, and teed off with a wiimote. The ball disappeared from the tablet and appeared in flight on the presentation TV.

A LOT of third party "mature" games were announced for the system upon launch:
Darksiders (THQ)
Dirt (Codemasters)
Aliens: Colonial Marines (Sega)
Ghost Recon Online (Ubisoft)
Metro: Last Light (THQ)
Tekken (Namco Bandai)
Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge (Tecmo)

And, EA said they would be building online into their sports games. Oh, and it sounded like Wii friend codes will be obsolete.
 
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JF_Gophers said:
Despite that it will probably outsell Sony and Microsoft again.

Much like Apple, it seems like anything they put out for hardware is a success.
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Unfortunately this is true. And Nintendo does the same thing as Apple, release something then a few years later change it a little bit and release it for more money from suckers.
 
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aparch said:
And it's fully compatible with all the games and remotes/nunchucks anyone's had to buy for the Wii.

One live blog I saw said that a golf game was previewed where the user saw the golf ball on the new Wii-U remote/tablet, placed the tablet at his feet, and teed off with a wiimote. The ball disappeared from the tablet and appeared in flight on the presentation TV.
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Saw this video, it was Wii Sports golf with the tablet on the floor showing the lie of the ball. Fairly ho hum actually.

aparch said:
A LOT of third party "mature" games were announced for the system upon launch:
Darksiders (THQ)
Dirt (Codemasters)
Aliens: Colonial Marines (Sega)
Ghost Recon Online (Ubisoft)
Metro: Last Light (THQ)
Tekken (Namco Bandai)
Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge (Tecmo)

And, EA said they would be building online into their sports games. Oh, and it sounded like Wii friend codes will be obsolete.
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Here's the question: Will anyone who is a "core gamer" really trade in playing these games on a 360 or PS3 to play on the Wii U?
 
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Twitch Boy said:
Is Nintendo TRYING to get made fun of?
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Nintendo cares not for your mocking whilst swimming through their swimming pools of money.

Also, **** COD. Never played Bad Company but it looks like they finally made gun play not require 50 bullets to put someone down.
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Nintendo's new system can be competitive with Sony/MS if they pack in the standards -- Upgradable HDDs, HD video, 8+ button controller -- and then make sure their processing power and graphics output are 'at least' above the current gen.

That would make the Wii U viable for at least another 4 years.
 
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Graphics look fine though it'll depend more on the developer.

(video quality isn't as good as what was shown on tv)
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Call of Duty MW and MW2 are half price today on Steam. DLC as well. So you PC shooter fans can get your fix! :)
 
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JF_Gophers said:
Nintendo's new system can be competitive with Sony/MS if they pack in the standards -- Upgradable HDDs, HD video, 8+ button controller -- and then make sure their processing power and graphics output are 'at least' above the current gen.

That would make the Wii U viable for at least another 4 years.
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Well from reading the press the hardware is supposed to be more powerful. The controller seems to have standard buttons but that looks *ing horrible to handle. And no HDD, Flash Cards only.
 
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Installed my new 500 GB HDD to my PS3. It went much easier than I expected. Although I did enough reading I was over prepared for the task. After partitioning and formatting with the PS3 OS I ended up with about 415 GB of space to use.
 
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Foxton said:
Nintendo cares not for your mocking whilst swimming through their swimming pools of money.

Also, **** COD. Never played Bad Company but it looks like they finally made gun play not require 50 bullets to put someone down.
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Holy ****. Im never playing COD again.
 
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