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Welcome to GameRevolution's new feature: Top 112. Think Top 10s are cool? What if someone multiplied that by 11.2? This week in the Top 112, we demonstrate how easily we're psychologically manipulated by marketing by showing you people in outfits specifically designed to pedal products, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of the companies who chose to use those techniques. Can I get a what-what? Like, as in, what?
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00:32 - Nier 2 Way More Platinum Than Square
01:29 - Platinum can solve Nier's problems
02:48 - Holy crap, a positive Kickstarter Story!?!?
04:25 - Teens love their game boxes! (This is news?)
07:29 - Video game music saving the symphony
09:00 - "Bleeps and bloops"
11:08 - Cultural differences in reception for Video Games Live
13:15 - "The Uncharted Guy" confuses Uncharted 2 for Uncharted 4
14:55 - TGS is not super English friendly. Should attending writers speak Japanese?
16:30 - Miscommunications happen even if you do speak Japanese
18:32 - The Placebo Effect changes how you view games, says study
19:45 - Blame Game
25:56 - IGN joins the party with incorrect images
28:33 - Hey, I like single-player shooter campaigns. Where are they going?
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There's no excuse for posting a huge editorial blasting Naughty Dog for "Uncharted 4" when the writer was playing Uncharted 2. There might be reason for him to make the mistake in the first place, because the Nathan Drake Collection looks great and it's been years...
But the editor absolutely should have realized that Uncharted 4 wasn't at the show. No one else was writing about Uncharted 4 at TGS, so wouldn't he realize something was wrong?
I don't agree with the finding of that placebo effect using Don't Starve. The second time they played it they were told the AI was more adaptive and a lot of people said they could tell it was better. Well ... the first time they played it they just 'played it', while the second time they played it they were signposted on what to look for, which they did. That's not a good test at all. If they were told to look at the AI in their first playthough and THEN told it was improved on their second playthough, then that would have been a valid test.
From what I've heard I don't think video game music translates well to the symphony. The older stuff that was "chiptune" to begin with, I mean.
“Best of” TGS Awards followed by quickfire game evaluations of a whole stack of others.
00:45 – Best New Game in an Old Game’s Clothing Award
04:09 – Best Game Existing in an Archive Award
05:09 – Best Surprise (that we actually kind of knew about)
07:47 – Actual Surprise Award
09:25 – Biggest Letdown Award
14:59 – Other letdowns
16:14 – Blackest Ops Award
18:47 – Least Charted Award
20:55 – The Darkest Soul Award
23:42 – Rudest Bear Award
23:51 – Listener question
26:06 – Pavilion
29:30 – Thumper and Mushroom 11
36:27 – Other rapid-fire impressions: Walden
37:29 – Ace Attorney 6
38:59 – Hyrule Warriors for 3DS, YIIK: A Postmodern RPG
40:18 – Zodiac, Sara and the Viper’s Crown, Back in 1995
43:51 – Holy Potatoes! A Weapon Shop?!, Kineo and Usuko, Reel Blade, and Rabi-Ribi
Tokyo Xanadu needs a western release. XSeed does Falcom stuff these days...but are they bogged down with too many other projects?
Tokyo Xanadu looks really good but i feel like we don't get to see this until fall next year :(
Pat keeps sending me to the Tokyo Game Show “because it’s cheap” even though all I do is get lost and interview Omega Force over and over again.
Yay for booth babes.
Hahaha there's one in a bath tub?
Never change, Japan. The world needs you just the way you are.
Never change, Japan! :D
It's time to move to Japan.