I see that The Intouchables is now on Instant Watch.  It's a French movie so you get subtitles, but I thought it was really good; funny and touching and all that. 

I have both GRID 2 and The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing that are likely candidates.

So there's mechanical damage but I'm curious what kind of visual / cosmetic damage there is as well... any?

As with most Codemasters games, the damage can be pretty extensive if you...oh, I don't know, happen to go off the road and hit a tree and a guard rail.    And that was a non-fatal crash.  



Oh, and that's a '70 Mach 1 Mustang if it wasn't apparent.

I really love Double Fine so I have to support this, but I can't say I'm all that excited about a tactical fantasy game.  Hopefully the bloodlines thing works out to be really interesting.

I’m interested but their presentation, video aside, is a bit weak.  I want to see gameplay and a look at what the game will actually look like.

Yeah, it seems they're banking entirely on the company's past work and basically nothing has been done on the project up to this point.  They are doing another documentary about it, so I suppose that has to capture the development of the game from the very start.

Maybe if they hit the $220K goal I'll reconsider

I don't think there's any doubt that they will.  They're nearly at $190k after less than 6 days. 

well, I reconsidered, and decided to wait until they hit $750K to reconsider again

You better come up with a new excuse.    http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1590639245/stonehearth/posts/494766

Yeah, I briefly flirted with the idea of making her my tank, but she kept dying so quickly that I gave up in short order.

I guess I don't go around assuming kitchen appliances look like Hitler.  But maybe that's just me. 

Thank you, I didn't get that at all from the original picture.

I had my own code through signing up on their "notify me when Xbox One preorders are up" page, and was able to redeem it for 3 orders just fine.  I didn't feel like pushing my luck.

I might try to fire up LEGO Lord of the Rings (360) finally.  I also have an untouched Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen.

I totally ignored this and bought a trio of new games on Steam instead.  

I played a couple hours of Super Puzzle Platformer (another cool Adult Swim game) and had fun.  Then I was feeling the itch for some Comanche 4 style arcade helicopter shooting and picked up Thunder Wolves.  It didn't quite scratch the itch but seemed OK.

Finally I picked up the Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing and played quite a lot of that.

You're kind of missing the point of "based entirely on the 1st presentation...", Pug. 

I gotta say the Defend the Lair stuff, around early L20s, is unbelievably fun and insane. And bloody. 

I've gotten to the Lair and the ability to set up traps, but I only just turned level 15.  I cleared out absolutely everything I saw up until this point in the game, how are you 5+ levels above me?  Or do you really stay in this same area for that long before you do the defense part of the Lair?

I've already preordered GRID 2 for PC.

FYI, it's also coming out on 360 and PS3 this week despite missing from the list above.

But I have a PC (and no doubt everything will be ported to the PC this generation as, well, both consoles ARE PCs)

Extremely unlikely, IMO. Sony has no interest in the PC, unlike Microsoft. You won't see Uncharted, Killzone, Resistance, etc. for the PC just because the architecture is similar.

I think the assumption with "everything" is that like usual it means everything except 1st party platform exclusives.

Never underestimate peoples' fallability for the monthly payment over up front.

No kidding.  Just tell that to all the people signing up for $2400 2-year phone contracts to save $300 on a phone.

I picked this up today after losing a battle of willpower and so far after maybe 4 hours I'm enjoying it.  As others have mentioned the production quality in graphics, voice overs and music is quite good for a budget game.

As for the loot, I personally don't find it all that overwhelming.  Most of the time the things I'm picking aren't any better than what I already have.  I did happen to immediately pick the perk that gave me a second inventory page, but for the first couple hours I never even used it. 

I really like the concept of doing both ranged and melee combat, and the quick switching between a gun and sword.

However, my biggest complaint is that the melee combat is just not very satisfying.  The swings are slow and don't seem to have much impact, and the lengthy enemy death animations don't help much. 

Based solely on the presentations, I voted PS4. 

Of course I'll still play PC games, and likely also get an XBone at launch, but at least I left Sony's press conference excited and interest in their product.

I was surprised to see 3 people on my Steam Friends list playing this at the same time today.  Clearly this little gem is proving popular. 

I might try to fire up LEGO Lord of the Rings (360) finally.  I also have an untouched Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen.

That would have been better if it was Easy E = MC Hammer squared.

And as is going to become very common for next-gen games, it sounds like they're pushing heavily on the drop-in coop and competitive play.  So if you're driving around as a cop and happen to be on the same street as somebody running from the cops, you will get the dynamic mission to run them down. 

From what I read, it's supposed to be more of a parkour running style game like Mirror's Edge than Dead Island, though it does still have combat.

Timecop vs Time Bandits!  

What do you mean what gets shown?  The stuff that's on the first page is just a small subset of what's currently popular.  They have 10's of thousands of movies streaming.  I would imagine if you're looking for a specific movie you have to do a search.

Hmm, thanks for the impressions, guys.  I had really expected this one to stink it up, but apparently it's a diamond in the rough. 

This is great, but too long for me to post each individual picture:  "Texting a game developer"  http://imgur.com/gallery/cq1Ba   

I would love to see another game like Banjo Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, but I know that will never happen. 

My guess is for a Killer Instinct game.  Probably with Kinect.

So I'm sensing that PS4 might be the way to go this time around?   I didn't watch the Microsoft Betamax 360 unveiling....

If you didn't catch it, here are the highlights: http://youtu.be/KbWgUO-Rqcw

Yeah, that pretty much sums it up.  

[Spoiler]

Who is black tusk?

They're a sludge metal band.  

Spoiler for Hiden:

I'm sure Forzavista is just the same as Autovista was in Forza 4.

Well that was a pretty disappointing reveal overall.

I can't get over how sleek it looks while still looking like a cheap dvd player.

Yeah, that's what I thought.  It looks like a fancy first-gen DVD player.

Steven plays games?  wonder what is tag is.

IPlayedIn1974ButNotSince

They did warn us this wouldn't be about the games.

That doesn't mean it can't be about games in general.

Yay!  More Television!

Never really impressed by the replay cam from a racing game, even if it was recorded in real-time.

I like The National.  But I'm sure you knew that, Ceekays. 

They definitely take the frat vote at this point.  

I want some damn games.  This is an Xbox, not a cable box.