"Spiral Of Lo" brings us this curious little image from the newly released Ryuusei no Rockman Official Complete Works depicting a strange PET like device. According to the text, the device will make an appearance in a brand new "Rockman story" that will serve as the successor in the EXE/Shooting Star time line. Who didn't see this coming?
What is this video? It's what you do when the already rough "Trial Mode" isn't man enough for you. It's basically a fun way to exploit a feature of the SFIV Trial Mode Challenges. So long as you do the required moves in a combo, and in the correct order, the game doesn't care what else you're doing in between.
This means you can get a little bit stupid. For an example with notation, look about 1:14 in for the Ryu Trial (word of warning: Desk and Maj are some of the world's foremost combo experts, so don't feel too bad that they make the intentionally difficult SFIV "Trial Mode" look like child's play):
What you
need to do to pass the Trial:
jumping HP, cr. MP, cr. MP, cr. HK. Four
normal moves, just linked together.
What Desk did
instead:
jumping
HP, cr. MP, cr. HP-> FB, FADC,
cr.
MP, cr. MK-> FB, FADC, cr. LK, cr. LP,
cr. MP, cr. HK
The fun part is that Desk's sequence still passes the challenge--so long as it's a combo, and you do the required moves in the right order, you can do anything you like in between. Whee!
So yeah, Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G (we know it as the forthcoming Monster Hunter Freedom Unite!) is like... a juggernaut in Japan. Just how big is that? 3 million big.
How big is that? This ad tells you that it's enough for everyone in the ENTIRE Ibaraki prefecture. Of course, since most of you have no idea how big that is, or even what a prefecture is, this is adorably ineffective gauge. As Kotaku points out, it's kinda like everyone in Kuwait having a copy. Or everyone in metropolitan Chicago. It's a lot, okay?
Via Kotaku
You've probably noticed we've been talking a lot about our upcoming game, Monster Hunter Freedom Unite. For the vast majority of you, Monster Hunter is probably a new experience. So what can you expect from Monster Hunter? What's it all about?
The concept is really simple: Hunt huge monsters, carve pieces off of them to make better armor and weapons to hunt bigger and tougher monsters. Of course, there's also massive amounts of depth to the game aside from just that. The customization alone from armor and weapons pretty much guarantees you'll never run into another hunter with exactly the same setup and look. There's over 1,500 weapons, and more than 2,000 sets of armor to show off.
More cool info and pics after the jump. Read more...
Japan has released a new Bionic Commando trailer made up of TONS of gameplay footage. There's a lot of really cool moves shown in this trailer that are just as much fun to pull off as they are to watch. Get a glimpse of some cool things to expect in the game, like bosses, weapons, and different things you can do with the bionic arm and grapple.
May 19th can't come soon enough! Remember, if you pre-order it on the Capcom Store, you can get the exclusive Chain of Command comic book. Find out more on bioniccommando.com
Times are tough. For you, for me, and especially the small family driven businesses like my all time favorite local bookstore: After thirty years of business, "Abraham Books" is closing up shop, falling victim to the "everything must go" demise. So I dropped by, scavenging for books that piqued my interest when I stumbled upon this little nugget: "Mega Man NT Warrior: Robotic Fish Gone Wild!" a "learn-to-read book" for children.
As you can see to the left, the dialogue is simple and charming, clearly written for first time readers. Older fans won't get much out of it as you can whip through it in under two minutes. What's really cool are the pictures, full color screenshots from the actual episode -- it makes learning fun!
Ever think "you know, I think I WILL count those chickens before they hatch!"? Don't--it's still a bad idea.
Here's a funny video from a tense match at Final Round XII, one of the many places SFIV around the world where SFIV tournaments have been blowing up.
There's about 3 paragraphs of explanation in the youtube info section with some good background, but to sum it up:
Sagat (aka "Liston") thinks he wins, celebrates too early, but then loses. Viper (aka "Kensou") had stood up in defeat, but quickly realized the match wasn't really over, sat down, and beat Liston while he was still doing the happy dance. Hilarity ensues.
Heat Man recently got his copy of Ryuusei no Rockman Official Complete Works in the mail and as one would expect, he graciously posted some photos of the book's contents at The Mega Man Network. Heat writes:"The book is pretty standard as far as the Official Complete Works series goes. It may be understandable why, when the book was first announced, it was tentatively named Ryuusei no Rockman 3 Official Complete Works - pretty much the first two thirds of the book are dedicated to that one title. Numerous pages are devoted to not just showing artwork, but slices of various levels of detail of that artwork. There’s also plenty of unused stuff, such as Pirate and Angel Tribe forms."You can check out the complimentary photos here.
That's right, we're now giving you the entire epic 40 hour experience that is Okami for the low price of $20. That's $20 for either the PS2 or Wii version, so pick the one you want and prepare yourself for one of the most beautiful games ever made!
Wii:
PS2:
- C!
