Nathan Langdon (Complete)

Phew! Well I have basically blown the first month of Insanity 3 development on escalating my Zbrush/3ds max mastery. Definitely approaching an intermediate level of skill with both programs now.

I'll add more to this post later on when I have a minute to type, watch this space!

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Japan Envy: Limited edition game consoles, Kingdom Hearts edition

Sometimes I feel like I could just throw my money in Square Enix's general direction. I know that's a funny thing to say, given my recent disdain for certain Final Fantasy titles that will not be mentioned, but for some reason I keep going back to Square Enix for more, particularly when it comes to Kingdom Hearts. The release date and a limited edition 3DS for the latest Kingdom Hearts title have been announced, and I am really liking the 3DS's design.

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Even if you don't like Kingdom Hearts, you've got to admit that's a pretty sleek design! I particularly like the pink crown and the contrast it provides. Now, I've never bought a limited edition console before, and I'm definitely not going to start here, but that won't stop me drooling over it a little bit.

Kingdom Hearts 3D will be released on March 29th in Japan, which is soon enough that I think it's high time we catch wind of a localization (c'mon, it's bound to happen). Of course, if you want the 3DS, you're going to have to import. The first print run of the game will also include a limited edition AR card, which unlocks a difficult to obtain Dream Eater in the game.

Square Enix also sent out a few new screenshots for the game. One, in particular, is pretty interesting to me:

Now maybe I've been out of the loop, but I honestly didn't realize Axel would be in the game (those of you who've played Kingdom Hearts should know why). Admittedly I was a bit of an Axel fangirl back in the day, so it's nice to see him make a comeback.

EDIT: Well, it has quickly come to my attention that I am incorrect! That's not Axel, but Lea, as is evident in his lack of certain distinct facial markings. I haven't played enough of Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep to know much about Lea, and I won't spoil it for you all, but needless to say he isn't all that different from Axel. Now finishing Birth By Sleep before Kingdom Hearts 3D comes out is a top priority! 

Though I should probably know better than to get too excited for a Kingdom Hearts title these days, I'm going to continue to be optimistic for this one. Are any of you planning on picking it up when it comes out? 

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King Arthur II - Dead Legions

King Arthur II - Dead Legions - 2DVD

Critically praised by reviewers and gamers alike, King Arthur was received as one of the biggest surprises to emerge on the gaming scene in 2010. Now the Fantasy/Roleplaying RTS returns in a sequel set to push the boundaries of the genre even further. Our story begins long after young Arthur pulled the enchanted sword out of the stone, united the war-torn land ofBritannia, gathered the Knights of the Round Table and secured peace in Camelot aided by the might of the Holy Grail. Where legends normally end, King Arthur II begins on its own gruesome tale...

Game Features:
- Dark fantasy setting. King Arthur is now the Maimed King, trying to mend a land torn asunder as he strives to heal himself.
- Intense boss fights, where the heros forces are pitted against unique and terrifying foes.
- Lose yourself in a stunning story that unfolds over a huge 3D campaign map featuring knightly quests and other special events
-Wide range of camera control options, a revised animations and anextensive tutorial creating a more accessible and visually stunningexperience
- Experience huge real-time battles featuring thousands of soldiers and flying fantasy monsters
- Battle enemies which employ unique war tactics and cast fantastic spells
- Your choices will unlock special content, spells and units with plenty of new and unique possibilities with every choice
- Lead major heroes who possess extraordinary powers

System Requirements:
* OS: Windows XP / Vista / 7
* Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 2.6 GHz or AMD Phenom X3 2.4GHz
* Memory: 2 GB System memory
* Graphics: DirectX 9 compatible graphics card with 256 MB memory
* Hard Drive: 7.0 GB Free Space
* Sound: 100% DirectX 9 compatible Sound Card

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PESEdit 2012 Patch 2.6

PESEdit 2012 Patch 2.6 - 1DVD

PESEdit 2012 Patch 2.6 New Features :
New faces: more than 200 new faces added and optimized.
New kits: Cottbus, Croatia, Eintracht Frankfurt, Fürth, Freiburg, Gladbach, Ingolstadt, Inter, Italy, Kaiserslautern, Karlsruhe, Newcastle, Nürnberg, Paderborn, Rostock, St. Pauli, Stuttgart, Tunisia, Union Berlin, West Ham.
Fixed online mode problems which occured in the last version.
Transfers: Lots of winter transfers until 07/01/12, more than 30 new players created.
    

PESEdit 2012 Patch 2.6.1 Update : (09.01.2012)
* Fixed some ‘dummy faces’
* Added Piszczek face
* New Nike Total 90 Laser IV boot
* More info inside Readme.pdf (inside)

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Sanctum + DLC Pack

Sanctum + DLC Pack - 1DVD

Sanctumis a first person shooter tower defense game where you take the role asSkye, an elite soldier sent out to protect her home town, Elysion Onefrom hordes of mysterious alien creatures. To succeed you have toconstruct and upgrade defensive structures. What makes Sanctum uniquefrom other tower defenses is that when the havoc starts, you jump rightinto the action with your own weapons and play a key role in thedefense. Sanctum has taken the best features from first person shootersand tower defense games to create something totally unique.

DLC Included :
Sanctum: X-Mas Carnage
Sanctum: Cavern
Sanctum: Slums
Sanctum: Penetrator
Sanctum: Aftermath
Sanctum: Violator
Sanctum: Killing Floor
Sanctum: Aftershock

System requirements:
 Windows XP/Vista/7
 DirectX 9c
 2 GHz dual core
 2 GB RAM

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Choplifter HD

Choplifter HD - 1DVD

In Choplifter HD, players take on the role of an up-and-coming rescue pilot asked to join the elite, international helicopter rescue team Pilots will be trained to command a variety of helicopters deployed on 30 different missions. Pilots must bank, hover, touch-down and sometimes even shake zombies from their chopper during lift-off in order to make their rescue and complete their mission.

Features:
Choplifter HD dares players to risk their lives in order to save others!
Players pilot many different helicopter types inspired by current military models
Varied and dangerous terrain including urban areas, jungle outposts arctic bases, and desert compounds with missions taking place at all hours of the day and night Command a variety of helicopters deployed on more than 30 different missions ranging from captured military prisoner extraction to saving survivors of viral outbreaks
Maneuver, fire, and extract under perilous conditions in order to carry out rescues
Original Choplifter franchise creator Dan Gorlin serving as design consultant

System requirements:
System: Windows XP SP3 / Windows Vista / Windows 7;
Processor: Intel Pentium D 3.0 GHz / AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400 +;
Memory: 1 GB;
Video: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT / ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 256 Mb;
Free disk space: ~ 5 Gb

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Dragon Age - Origins + DLC

Dragon Age - Origins + DLC - 3DVD

The game "Dragon Age: The Beginning" marks the return to the origins of the genre developer role-playing games and is a fusion of the best visual effects, thrilling story, dynamic combat, incredible magic abilities and realistic characters. In the dark ancient legend of "Dragon Age: The Beginning" revives the spirit of classic role-playing games.

In "Dragon Age: Getting" The player will assume the role of the Grey Guards, one of the last of the ancient order. When evil threatens the world, seeking to destroy all living things need a hero, able to unite fragmented land and destroy the dragon named Arhidemon. For the sake of restoring peace to the player to make tough decisions and be prepared to sacrifice their friends and loved ones for the benefit of all mankind. As the story over and over again he would have to make a decisive choice that determines the fate of the other heroes of the game.
In addition "Dragon Age: Origins - Awakening" Grey Wardens - the ancient order of protectors vowing to unite and protect the earth - fought with the creatures of darkness. Legend has it that the destruction would end Arhidemona centuries-old threat from the creatures of darkness, but somehow they survived. You - Captain Gray Guard and you entrusted the duty of restoring the Order of the Grey Wardens and the secret creatures of darkness, and how they managed to survive you recreate your order, how to resolve the conflict with the "architect", and how to determine the fate of the creatures of darkness - these are just some of the many decisions that will be part of your hazardous journey to the land of Amaranthine.

Features:

You - a master of his fate. You decide who quarrel and make friends with anyone. From this choice depends on how your own destiny, and events in the world.
Prelude to adventure. Then who will become a hero in the game where he will begin his journey and what happens to them in the future depends on how you live the very first, the initial episode, which serves a prelude to the whole saga.
Unique battle. Thanks to an innovative scalable combat system, you can take part in epic battles. You will perform against hordes of monsters and giant monsters, but, wisely using the unique abilities of your party, you can give a fitting rebuff to the enemy!
Combined magic. Let the enemies tremble before your magic! In the «Dragon Age» You can combine different spells, attacking the enemies of the magical powers crushing power.
What does not kill you makes you stronger. Each new battle harden your soldiers - they gain experience, learn new spells and skills, acquire new talent and gain access to even more powerful weapons.

System requirements:
v Operating System: Windows ® XP / Windows Vista / Windows 7
v Processor: Intel Core 2/Athlon 64 1.6 GHz (Intel Core 2 1.8 GHz / Athlon 2,2 GHz • Windows Vista / Windows 7)
v Memory: 1 GB (2 GB for Vista / 7)
v Video: 256MB ATI Radeon X1900 (for Windows XP), ATI Radeon X2000 (for Vista / Windows 7) or NVIDIA GeForce 8800/GeForce GT220
v Sound Card: Sound device compatible with DirectX ® 9.0
v Free space on hard disk:
- 23 gigabytes in your game
- 5 gigabytes in a folder "My Documents"

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Man of Prey - English

Man of Prey - English - 1DVD

Man of Prey is a tactical  SPM  strategy  with  RPG elements. The game is based on the book  "Marauder" by Berkem Al Atomi and brings you to the  alternate history when anarchy and endless strife  become  a rule. You will play for a marauder who is trying to survive and to settle a comfortable  life  in  this setting.  At  first  you  have  nothing  but  a double-barreled gun and a  handful  of  cartridges. But try to gather "a family" (a  force  of  several men), to arm it and to stay alive in this  constant war of everyone against everyone.

System Requirment
Pentium 4 2GHz,
1024 MB of memory,
GeForce 6600/Radeon X1300,
4 GB of space on the HDD

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The Great 2011 Holiday Haul

I get my jollies from finding games marked down like this. I actually scored this one for $14

Before I begin, I must clarify that by "holiday" I am referring from the month period between mid-December and mid-January. Truth be told, there was only one game waiting for me under the tree Christmas morning (Mario Kart 7), but I did acquire quite a number of titles with Christmas/birthday money and the after holiday sales. But enough of that, on to the games!

That's a lot of Wii games...

Amazingly enough, all of the games I purchased are not included in the above picture. Not pictured are Alice: Madness Returns, Shadows of the Damned, Rayman Origins (all three received from a sweet Twitter friend who works at EA Australia), Cursed Mountain (which I bought today), and Fatal Frame II, which is currently en route (an online order). Oh, and it's also worth noting that Sakura Wars~So Long, My Love~ was also given to me by another awesome Twitter friend who happened to have an extra copy. I cannot wait to try it out!

Out of all my purchases, I'm most excited for Little King's Story and The Legend of Starfy. I have been waiting to find a copy of Starfy new for $20 or less for ages now, and I got mine for $14! Oh, do I love a good deal. Little King's Story is quite hard to find in Australia these days, and I scored it for $13 used at an EB Games, but since I traded in the copy of Mario Kart Wii I got with my Wii console (sad, I know, but I don't think I'll play it now that I have MK7. Anyone want an extra Wii wheel, feel free to ask in the comments), I got it for free!

Endless Ocean 2, Cursed Mountain, and Rayman Origins are the only games I've played so far, and Rayman Origins is really the only one I've spent a significant amount of time with. I won't go into too much detail, but as I mentioned in a previous post, it's definitely one of my favorite games that came out in 2011!! As for Endless Ocean 2 and Cursed Mountain, I've only played about 1 hour of each, so I can't really give my impressions of those yet. With Endless Ocean 2 I have to say I was a bit disappointed by the above water sequences, and some of the goofy tasks it has you do, like fend off sharks with a signature Wiimote waggle. The scuba diving (which is the meat of the game, of course) is great fun, though. Cursed Mountain has a really great atmosphere so far, and I'm really digging the icy mountain setting. I'm a chicken when it comes to horror games, though, so I don't want to play it by myself, or in the dark! Way to ruin the mood, I know...

How come no one told me there was a Princess Apricot in Little King's Story?
Clearly she is going to be my new favorite character

So, I know it's a bit late, but did any of you get any games over the holidays, or make any game purchases that you've been enjoying lately? January's a good month to catch up on one's backlog, I think. So, what have you been spending your time with?

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4 games I'm looking forward to in 2012

This post is coming a tad bit late, but who said I had to follow the herd, eh? As the title suggests, I've wrangled up a few games that I'm particularly looking forward to in this hopefully epic year of the dragon. It should come to no surprise to any of you that all of these are Japanese games. I am very predictable.

Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance


Or Kingdom Hearts 3D, as it is also known... Get it?? Ahaha... Anyways, pretty much anyone save die-hard fans will tell you that Kingdom Hearts has been on a downward spiral littered with obsolete and downright unnecessary plot threads with still no true Kinghdom Hearts 3 (that 3D may be as close as we're ever going to get). But I've been playing some Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep over the holidays and I have to say, its rekindled my Kingdom Hearts spark. And besides... The World Ends with You character appearances? A Hunchback of Notre Dame world? I was in before Disney could utter "Frollo."

Hakuoki: Demon of the Fleeting Blossom


Why look, it's another predictable title on Anne's list. I think all that needs to be said here is "first major English otome game." If you want to read more about otome games, I've written plenty about it. Here's a sample of what I'm looking forward to:

Theatrhythm Final Fantasy


Dream Drop Distance, Theatrhythm... Japan will never get over its absurd use of English in game titles. If you're wondering, the official Japanese site states that "theatrhythm" is a combination of "theater" and "rhythm." Well, it helped me remember exactly how to spell the title, at least.

As a fan of both rhythm games and Final Fantasy, this one is yet again another no-brainer for me. I am decidedly not a big fan of the cutesy art style used in the game's character art, but I'd be willing to overlook that if the game plays as well as I'm hoping. And with three different modes to play all of my favorite Final Fantasy songs in, it should provide many hours of fun.

Pokémon x Nobunaga's Ambition

Admittedly, I'm a bit of a shameless Pokémon fan. Okay, there's not much shame in that, as most of my video game loves are based on silly reasoning, but here's one to take the cake: After I saw these two character designs from Pokémon x Nobunaga's Ambition, I was sold. Also, Pokémon combined with feudal Japan? A fresh take on the old Pokémon formula? Sign me up!

 

Of course, there are plenty of other great looking titles that I am very much looking forward to this year, including, but not limited to: Atelier Meruru: Apprentice of Arland, Final Fantasy Type-0, Rhythm Heaven Fever, and Rhythm Thief and the Emperor's Treasure. 2012 is looking to be a great year indeed!

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