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AICN Games: Monki's Weekly Wrap Up!! All Hail Lacey Chabert!!
Greetings humans, Monki here with your weekly dose of all that is video gameage.
This has been the week of pre-orders. PLAYSTATION 3 went pre-order earlier this week, and as of my writing this article, the Wii goes for pre-order tomorrow morning (Friday). I've got a few thoughts on the whole pre-order issue, but I'll get to that later. As always we start with some news!
Press Releases of the Week!
So, I didn't get a whole lot of press releases this week. I will make up for that fact by the following release and accompanying picture:
SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON (October 6, 2006) - SEGA of America Inc. and SEGA Europe Ltd. today announced that Lacey Chabert (Party of Five, Mean Girls) will take part in gaming history by joining the cast of Sonic The Hedgehog, playing the role of Princess Elise. Slated for release this holiday season, Sonic The Hedgehog marks the gaming icon's first adventure on the PLAYSTATION 3 computer entertainment system and the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system from Microsoft.
Lacey Chabert brings her diverse voice acting experience to the Sonic The Hedgehog project. This is the first time in the history of the franchise that Hollywood talent will voice one of the characters in a Sonic game.
"We are thrilled to work with Lacey Chabert for SEGA's premiere franchise, Sonic The Hedgehog," said Scott A. Steinberg, Vice President of Marketing for SEGA of America Inc. "As we take Sonic into the next generation of gaming, Lacey's experience and talent are the perfect match for the game's deeper storyline, delivering the powerful emotional connection that gamers have grown to expect from Sonic titles."
"I couldn't be happier to make my video game debut in Sonic The Hedgehog," said Lacey Chabert. "I've been playing Sonic games since I was nine years old, and I am so excited to be part of his 15-year legacy!"
Sonic is chasing after Lacey Chabert, that lucky blue hedgehog bastard. For those of you who don't know who Lacey is, let me go ahead and do a quick "Pretty Images of the Week!" drop for you.
Sure, she's no pole dancer with a shotgun for a leg, but I do what I can for you folks. You guys really think she sits around and plays video games still? Can you picture Ms. Lacey laid up on a couch, 360 controller in hand with a Dr. Pepper and Cheeto fingers? Maybe you can't, but I'm at least going to try.
Folks at SEGA, if Lacey is doing interviews, I'll gladly volunteer to give one to her...an interview that is!
Okay, before the restraining order, here is another quick release from EA and MTV2. Seems MTV's only music station is finally going the way of it's bigger brother, less music and more everything else.
On Sunday, October 15th at 2 PM ET / PT, MTV2 and Electronic Arts team up for In The Paint: NBA Live 07. This 30-minute special will give fans an inside look at the hottest basketball video game on the planet with unprecedented access to the world's largest motion capture studio as EA shows viewers how this legendary franchise is created from beginning to end! Check out the hottest footage from NBA Live 07 set to the Talib Kweli's latest track, "Listen," watch as NBA superstar Dwyane Wade and MTV2 host, EBRO, get put into the game, and finally, commentary from All-Star cover-man Tracy McGrady as well as some NBA superstars revealing why NBA Live 07 is the must have basketball game for any true fan.
I don't know about you guys, but I loves me some unprecedented access! Also, who calls themselves EBRO? Is that an acronym for something?
All of this makes me wonder if this isn't just a ploy to attract attention away from the fact that there is a huge fan protest against NBA Live '07. Apparently a large group of gamers have joined together to speak out against NBA Live '07 and Electronic Arts due to lax bug fixing and a steady decline in quality. You can check out more about that whole ruckus here.
Second Prettiest Images of the Week!
Cause first prettiest goes to Ms. Lacey...yeah, I'm that pathetic.
Here are some pics of the Next-Gen Sonic game that Ms. Chabert will be in, specifically, these are pics of the character she will be portraying. (She is the one that isn't blue.)
Okay, enough Lacey love for now. The trusty Kambell-Kid has struck yet again, this time he brings us all goodies in the form of dinosaur hunters, phantasy and fantasy.
First off is the "announcement" trailer for the next-gen Turok coming in 2007. Here's a funny fact for you. Did you realize that Turok is actually based off a COMIC book? I have the first issue somewhere in the treehouse signed by one of the artists too. Not a lot in this trailer, seems the budget only allowed for 40 seconds of CG in the 2 minute trailer, still very cool though.
Up next is a trailer for the old-school-reborn game Phantasy Star Universe. This trailer is actually a bit old, but everything I've read about the game sounds pretty sweet. Another MMO for your 360. Also, I love the BIG VOICE trailers, so enjoy.
And finally we end with some Final Fantasy XII. (That means 12 for you non-Romans) This video shows off the first few minutes of the game and its CGI-goodness. Looks pretty much the same as the other Final Fantasys with young looking characters treading very close to the uncanny valley. This video sort of reminds me of Naboo from Phantom Menace, oh well, tell me if you like it.
I have never been a big Final Fantasy fan myself. I did play Dragon Warrior that I got for free when I subscribed to Nintendo Power about 200 years ago. I played the hell out of that game. Damn metal slimes.
Portable Call for Help of the Week!
So, yours truly is about to take another trip. I've been invited to check out the Turks and Caicos International Film Festival. So I'll be ditching the smelly treehouse for some beautiful Caribean weather and beaches. That of course means I'll be leaving my consoles at home for a week while I spent hours aboard planes and in hotel rooms.
I'm taking along my DS and I'm trying to figure out which games to pick up before my trip. Right now I've been mainly focusing on Tetris DS and Magnetica (that Dan recommended to me). I'll be getting a copy of Cooking Mama soon to check out from the publisher, and I'll take along my Brain Age for the sudoku's.
What I need is a game that plays a little more console-esque in that it tells a story over a period of time, but not too terribly long as I'll only have a few hours of game in me over my trip. Any recommendations out there? Drop me a line if you can think of something I can pick up this weekend to take along with me.
Console Pre-Order Rant of the Week!
I hate pre-orders.
Pre-orders take away from the anticipation of everything there is to a launch. Imagine if Lucas had said you could pre-order tickets to Phantom Menace a month before it came out, then just show up on the day of and walk in to the theater. (Imagine this was before we realized PM sucked too.)
Where is the drama? Where is the thrill of knowing your overnight stay will get you that spot to pick up a brand new fresh console. I want the die-hards out in line two days before the PLAYSTATION 3 hits the shelves at Best Buy. I want to walk by, see the eager, sleep-deprived faces of those souls. Those are hardcore nerds. Advertise the hell out of a launch and watch the geeks line up. Let's see some local news reporter try to explain a "Play Game Station Console" to the 9 PM news team. I want the circus.
Well, I may get A circus, but not the one I was hoping for.
It seems as though every Gamestop / EB Games sold out of their PS3 pre-orders within minutes of opening. Get this, the most any one store is going to get is 16. SIXTEEN that is a ONE followed by a SIX. That, of course, is assuming that Sony hits their launch target of 400,000 in the US on November 17th.
This is what I imagine happening. PS3 sells out before it even touch the shelves. Nation-wide. The Wii shows up, pre-orders may sell out, but the second shipments will come in just around the time for the holiday shoppers. The fact that there is a chance of Wiis remaining on shelves should get Sony pretty damn scared. Momma shopping for little Billy this Christmas will see a brand new Nintendo console on sale for $250, probably right there, waiting to be picked up. On the other hand, right next to that new Wii is a "more coming soon" sign for the PS3 with a hefty $599 price tag underneath. I'm willing to bet middle-class America will go ahead and pass on the Lexus and pick up that Honda.
Then the Sony circus starts. Awesome.
Stupid Wrap-Up of the Week!
Well that just about finishes up my Wrap-Up this week. Next week I'll be putting together my piece somewhere in the Turks and Caicos while sipping on a crazy straw sticking out of a coconut. Lacey, if you are in the area, let me know, I'll save a beach chair and coconut for you too!
Before I go, I want to highlight a sweet looking documentary I just heard about. It's called 8 BIT and it looks pretty awesome. The documentary focuses on art and music inspired by video games. The GameBoy band alone will probably be worth checking this one out.
So that does it, I'm off to pack for my trip to the Caribbean to see some sweet movies and get my portable gaming on! Until next week, back up the tree I go! (Lacey, I love you!)
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No... I've got nothing.
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Nope... still nothing.
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video game covers done right > theadvantageband.com // oh, and pick up Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time for the DS.
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I don't know, newfangled controllers, to me, never seem to manage to beat the good ole plus-symbol-with-buttons...
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the new Final Fantasy looks pretty sweet. No love for us 360 owners tho :(
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...or does it rhyme with "gay bert"...? Also, I had a dirty crush on her underage cuteness eight or so years ago when she was on the episode of Friends called "The one where Joey stars in a Lost In Space remake."
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I am of a certain age, and age old enough to have been playing videogames since Pong was new. I remember there were lines around the block to play it at the one place in the state of Northern California that had it, a college bar in my hometown. It had a paddle for a controller. A few years later the Joystick was introduced as the controller - it was revolutionary. I vividly recall first handling a plus-sign-symbol-with-buttons (as you so accurately describe today's console controls). It seemed new and strange. Today I am a PC game nazi and would not deign to play a console game. I can only use a mouse or keyboard to play games. May the march of technology march ever forward under the shining wisdom of our Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il. My point is that the name "Wii" is gay.
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she needs to lend her bare ass tits to the game. Aww, she's so cute...and yet probably such a wildcat in the bedroom. That girl grew up right!
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"Imagine if Lucas had said you could pre-order tickets to Phantom Menace a month before it came out, then just show up on the day of and walk in to the theater."
I don't know about you, but I bought my tickets for TPM about two to three weeks before the movie came out. -
They look more like brother and sister to me.
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and that was.... 12 fucking years ago. The only good one since then has been 9. 7 is the most overrated piece-of-shit tripe ever with its mind-fuck mess of a story (even though it tried to copy the plot/story/characters of ff6) and the beginning of the metrosexual emo stories while the series is slowly turning into CG movies. number-based RPGs are old hat, ancient non-innovation. Someone even downgraded FF12 to NES graphics (8-bit!) and the gameplay worked just the same, just shows you how truly the FF series has "evolved". The only thing PS3 has is the MGS series, and even there Kojima will ride less and less of Sony's cock, i hear snake will bbe oon super smash brawl, and all the MGS ports to Wii and 360 that're eventual.
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Damn you Michael Bay
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Party of five inches in my PANTS!!!!
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I left work about noon and stood in line roughly two hours to get my tickets to Phanton Menace, if I recall correctly. This was at least two weeks before the movie was released. An elderly woman a few places in line in front of me passed out from the heat.
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People will most definitly be putting the PS3 on ebay for a thousand a piece....mebbie more. There is pretty much no reason to aquire it untill seccond quarter 07. Why? No games. Nothing spectacular at least. That being said, i cant WAIT for metal gear solid 4.
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It's pronounced 'shuh-bear'. And I knew she was a hottie as far back as NOT ANOTHER TEEN MOVIE.
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Well, I can't wait to behold the 'masterpiece' that will be... And a cameo appearence in a Nintendo fighter game is a real sign of switching loyalty... Bit of fact, if there's one 'console' Kojima really wants to work on out of all these three, it's the PC, his own words... Also I heard Tetsuya Nomura wouldn't mind having Cloud in Smash Bros too... But no-one from Nintendo's called him to ask... I think they should get on that, and maybe call Bungie and ask for a cameo by Master Chief. That would rock! But as long as Sonic's in there then I'd be elighted...
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Look what it did for Kirk Cameron.
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At least until a year after the PS3 version. There's not much point debating its quality: it's gonna be a good game. But there's also not much point in salivating until gameplay footage is revealed on top of the in-game graphics cutscenes. Kojima has the benefit of riding on reputation alone so that says a lot for him at least. Evidently, the same can be said for Bungie. MGS4 had better be a hell of a lot longer than the other 3 because the amount of time you actually spend controlling Snake/ Raiden in the three MGS games put together amounts to about fifteen hours.
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FF7 is by far the best final fantasy that has ever been made, and I don't think any new ones are ever going to be it, though 13 does look promising. Also, Lacy Chabert is fucking gorgeous, and its pronounced 'Sha-Bear'. And I also bought phantom menace tickets early, about 2 weeks early.
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For one it seems pretty 'solid' that this is Sony exclusive, unless you count on some re-release expansion coming out like Substance. However it's important to note that the port of MGS2 to Xbox was deemed slightly inferior even from a graphical standpoint despite the system being more powerful, and was later released for PS2 anyway. The expansion for MGS3, Subsistence, has not been released for Xbox. The only game released for Nintendo was the remake of MGS1, The Twin Snakes, which was outsourced to another company, Silicon Knights, and even then fans still prefer the original PSOne version. There has not been any other MGS related game for Gamecube. Wii is too graphically and computationally inferior to even think about porting MGS4 to, it ain't gonna happen... Unless again some spin-off happens which doesn't appear anywhere likely. There are even some barricades to expecting a port for the 360. (One) is that Kojima doesn't like ports and judging form MGS3's release, that's his policy from now on unless some other company does it. Kojima wants to create unique franchises for each system that'll make best use of the hardware. (Two) The Cell... this seems unconfirmed, but it's said that things like the Octocam suit are at this time only possible due to the Cell processor's unique archietecture, a point brought up in TGS 05's own MGS4 trailer. (Three)... Blu-Ray and the PS3's 1080p capability. Despite cutscenes being real time rendered and arguments about proper compression aside, it seems they're going to exceed the capacity of a DVD9. Subsistence itself was released on 2 discs, Kojima even saying that they couldn't pack in most of the extras onto it the first time around. Plus Kojima Productions, known for quality titles, intends to make MGS4 run in 1080p. And now, (Four) The PSP! There are plans for incorporating PSP functionality with MGS4 if they can. Sony is trying to develop interest in these two devices working together, Microsoft had shown some wifi type functionality between 360 and PSP before, but it seems limited only for pictures, video and mp3s. Kojima has loved to make use of things like the Rumble and reading from the memory Card and 4thWall-breaking stuff like that. This may spill out into peripheral usage that would be cool but not necessary for playing MGS4. Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops for PSP, will be released this Winter, and is confirmed to work in japan with the GPS peripheral. In Subsistence, one could take photographs in the game and then if you had a PSP and a PS2 with the network/USB adapter, and Metal Gear Acid^2, import the pictures to your PSP and view them in 3D with the SolidEye. So we know that Kojima Productions has been experimenting with the PSP/PS2 connectivity. Now with concern to PS3, Kojima hopes to make it possible to control Otacon's MetalGear Mark II robot with the PSP! There may be other usages as well. And for additional info, IGN thinks that Kojima will make use of the Eyetoy, which brings us to point (Five) Metal Gear Online, a new version will be available for MGS4 due to the success of Subsistence's version. The eyetoy, IGN speculates, will allow you to scan your facial features and use it in the game, judging from a panel in which Kojima talked about using real people's face in the game at this years TGS. We know this is possible right now, becuase Rainbow Six: Vegas does the same thing for Multiplayer using Xbox 360's eyetoy device. Lastly, Kojima most likely intends to keep MGO running free as it did on PS2 on PS3's own online network that will have free online gameplay, unlike 360's Live (though possibly better) Gold service that charges a modest annual fee.
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For one it seems pretty 'solid' that this is Sony exclusive, unless you count on some re-release expansion coming out like Substance. However it's important to note that the port of MGS2 to Xbox was deemed slightly inferior even from a graphical standpoint despite the system being more powerful, and was later released for PS2 anyway. The expansion for MGS3, Subsistence, has not been released for Xbox. The only game released for Nintendo was the remake of MGS1, The Twin Snakes, which was outsourced to another company, Silicon Knights, and even then fans still prefer the original PSOne version. There has not been any other MGS related game for Gamecube. Wii is too graphically and computationally inferior to even think about porting MGS4 to, it ain't gonna happen... Unless again some spin-off happens which doesn't appear anywhere likely. There are even some barricades to expecting a port for the 360: (One) is that Kojima doesn't like ports and judging form MGS3's release, that's his policy from now on unless some other company does it. Kojima wants to create unique franchises for each system that'll make best use of the hardware. (Two) The Cell... this seems unconfirmed, but it's said that things like the Octocam suit are at this time only possible due to the Cell processor's unique archietecture, a point brought up in TGS 05's own MGS4 trailer. (Three)... Blu-Ray and the PS3's 1080p capability. Despite cutscenes being real time rendered and arguments about proper compression aside, it seems they're going to exceed the capacity of a DVD9. Subsistence itself was released on 2 discs, Kojima even saying that they couldn't pack in most of the extras onto it the first time around. Plus Kojima Productions, known for quality titles, intends to make MGS4 run in 1080p. And now, (Four) The PSP! There are plans for incorporating PSP functionality with MGS4 if they can. Sony is trying to develop interest in these two devices working together, Microsoft had shown some wifi type functionality between 360 and PSP before, but it seems limited only for pictures, video and mp3s. Kojima has loved to make use of things like the Rumble and reading from the memory Card and 4thWall-breaking stuff like that. This may spill out into peripheral usage that would be cool but not necessary for playing MGS4. Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops for PSP, will be released this Winter, and is confirmed to work in japan with the GPS peripheral. In Subsistence, one could take photographs in the game and then if you had a PSP and a PS2 with the network/USB adapter, and Metal Gear Acid^2, import the pictures to your PSP and view them in 3D with the SolidEye. So we know that Kojima Productions has been experimenting with the PSP/PS2 connectivity. Now with concern to PS3, Kojima hopes to make it possible to control Otacon's MetalGear Mark II robot with the PSP! There may be other usages as well. And for additional info, IGN thinks that Kojima will make use of the Eyetoy, which brings us to point... (Five) Metal Gear Online, a new version will be available for MGS4 due to the success of Subsistence's version. The eyetoy, IGN speculates, will allow you to scan your facial features and use it in the game, judging from a panel in which Kojima talked about using real people's face in the game at this years TGS. We know this is possible right now, becuase Rainbow Six: Vegas does the same thing for Multiplayer using Xbox 360's eyetoy device. Lastly, Kojima most likely intends to keep MGO running free as it did on PS2 on PS3's own online network that will have free online gameplay, unlike 360's Live (though possibly better) Gold service that charges a modest annual fee.
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She is officially smoking. Oh, and... um... games... and stuff...
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1. For your DS, I highly recommend CLUBHOUSE GAMES. It's the best title thus far for on-the-go, pink-up-and-play gaming.
2. I bet Lacey Chabert's pussy tastes like honey suckled from the tits of Venus.
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I can count. I just can't predict where my crazy fingers will go.
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Name each of the individual characters, for instance, instead of "Barrett", I changed his name to "Nigga" which made for a lot of unintentional laughs, and was a bit racist but funny as hell. All in all the game was good but was not the best Final Fantasy in my mind. That honor still belongs to FF6 with Terra, Cyan, Sabin, and Shadow. Now that's a game that Square should make a sequel to and/or remake. FF8 is second because I liked Squall as the brooding leader, plus Quistis was a hot piece of Teacher ass.
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Time is quickly running out on your career. You are turning into nothing but a cartoon voice lending itself to Nick cartoons and video games. If you want to realize your dreams of being a serious actress, you must act immediately. The only chance for salvation is to act in the screenplay that I've been writing in my head since you were on Party of Five. The one where you play a young teenage actress slowly coming to grips on your budding bisexuality when all the sudden one night, you are shown the path to mindblowing lesbian sex by Jennifer Love Hewitt in a dirty back lot trailer, sending you running for the adult film industry. Trust me - guaranteed Oscar, baby.
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FF6 is the apex of the series (7 was a shitty hollow clone w/ fancy CGI). BTW as much as i'd like to see further stories of Terra, Locke, Edgar, Sabin, Celes, i think it's best Square has left its neo-post-modernist-emo hands off it, look at what happened to FF7 spinoffs, atrociously shitty compilations to an already overrated game. Let's thank our lucky stars they haven't tarnished the memory of 6.
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