Hyper 191 Feedback Thread

[Darren]

Want to meet a nice Frenchman, put a gaming beast on your crotch and see Power Ranger camel toe? You want Hyper 191!

Where to begin? We go hands-on with the next instalment in the Tekken series, gloves-on with our review of Fight Night: Round 4, and cosplay-on with our tour of this year's Supanova expo. We stealthily infiltrate Ubisoft HQ for a first-hand go at the reinvented Splinter Cell: Conviction, and talk to the company's second-in-command about their plans for the here and now as well as for the future.

Dan Staines plucks out a range of notable games that pushed the technological envelope -- not those that threw an insane amount of polygons at the screen, but games that were, for whatever reason, ahead of their time, or pulled off what should have been an impossible feat. How did Shadow of the Colossus render HDRR lighting using PS2 hardware? How did Elite generate over 2000 planets with a 2MHz CPU? Find out!

Taking a more patriotic turn, we examine the state of the Australian games industry by talking to some of the main players, as well as examining what happened that fateful day when Pandemic Studios had to shut its doors.

More? Okay then, how about a look at the best gaming laptops available, a look at how some classic LucasArts adventure games hold up today, and four pages of DVD reviews? How about a chance to win a home entertainment pack worth over $8000? And did we mention that Power Ranger camel toe?

It's all in Hyper 191, on sale Wednesday August 5!

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[Stevorooni]

pfft saw the cover on Facebook ages ago, old news!

[Watchers]

Great to see Dan Staines writing for Hyper again. Hopefully he hangs around for a while - his articles are genuinely interesting and different.

[Adios]

Drunken reading late at night of the Bayonetta article and Conviction article proves mega reading material. I approve.

Eleventy / 10

[Lazlow]

Should probably pick up 190... have you reviewd Superbike 09 yet, and am I going to rage?

[Frostillicus]

I dont have my glasses on, so correct me if i'm wrong, but i hope that isnt the cover price of the magazine in the top right corner. :eek:

[Stevorooni]

I dont have my glasses on, so correct me if i'm wrong, but i hope that isnt the cover price of the magazine in the top right corner. :eek:

That's the price you pay for quality writing.


(It's actually how much a competition prize is worth)

[Lazlow]

Is Tekken really that technical? :/
More so than Virtua Fighter? >_>

[Australian Ninja]

As soon as I saw / read that cover I was like WTF? Isn't VIRTUA FIGHTER the most technical fighter? I mean, I don't even play VF (well played a bit of No's 1+ 4Evo) preferring Tekken and Soul Calibur for 3D fighters, but damnit - I'm tempted to make a poll now, and stir up some controvesy, harummphh!

[Mike-Towns]

When's Jickle's Avcon article gonna be printed?

[Super Sleuth]

I see Jickle is a fan of last months issue.


:cool:

[Jickle]

When's Jickle's Avcon article gonna be printed?

Next issue I think? I only just finished it on Friday. :p

[Jamin]

Seriously though whats up with the price increase? I was at the newsagent this morning and didnt buy it, $10 is alot for a magazine. I'll prob go back this arvo and buy but seriously $10!
If anyone says I'm not a fan I'll shove your head in my toilet as I show you the pile of magazine stacked up next to it. Been reading Hyper since I was at school and I'm almost in my 30's now. I remember getting the very first issue of hyper from my mum when she was a primary school teacher and confiscated it from another student :) been reading since. Subscribed a couple of times and even won a copy of the first tony hawk game from you guys on my ps1 (thanks for that btw)
I think the only mistake before this Ive ever seen hyper make was when they started putting add's in the pages between reviews (Still annoyed by that).

I'll keep reading hyper cause it will be hard to let go after all these years and i love it but $10 is alot.
Vent over.
Seeya

[grimace06]

Seriously though whats up with the price increase? I was at the newsagent this morning and didnt buy it, $10 is alot for a magazine. I'll prob go back this arvo and buy but seriously $10!
If anyone says I'm not a fan I'll shove your head in my toilet as I show you the pile of magazine stacked up next to it. Been reading Hyper since I was at school and I'm almost in my 30's now. I remember getting the very first issue of hyper from my mum when she was a primary school teacher and confiscated it from another student :) been reading since. Subscribed a couple of times and even won a copy of the first tony hawk game from you guys on my ps1 (thanks for that btw)
I think the only mistake before this Ive ever seen hyper make was when they started putting add's in the pages between reviews (Still annoyed by that).

I'll keep reading hyper cause it will be hard to let go after all these years and i love it but $10 is alot.
Vent over.
Seeya

Dude, wouldn't you rather pay $10 for a quality magazine that you've liked for a long time than pay $16-$20 for an Official mag or Elitist Dribble about Games and Electronics?

[AranchineD]

I don't understand:

$9 - REASONABLE
$10 - BIGGEST TAX INCREASE IN HISTORY

Actually that's what they should do, Hyper should have a little notice on the front of the mag or somewhere that says the extra $1 is the Bear Tax

[Jickle]

I think rising costs of print media is an unfortunate inevitability at this point. It's a shame when the price has to go up, but still $10 isn't a whole lot of money.

[Stevorooni]

but still $10 isn't a whole lot of money.

Sure, maybe on a famous Hyper contributor pay!

[Lazlow]

Seriously though whats up with the price increase? I was at the newsagent this morning and didnt buy it, $10 is alot for a magazine. I'll prob go back this arvo and buy but seriously $10!
If anyone says I'm not a fan I'll shove your head in my toilet as I show you the pile of magazine stacked up next to it. Been reading Hyper since I was at school and I'm almost in my 30's now. I remember getting the very first issue of hyper from my mum when she was a primary school teacher and confiscated it from another student :) been reading since. Subscribed a couple of times and even won a copy of the first tony hawk game from you guys on my ps1 (thanks for that btw)
I think the only mistake before this Ive ever seen hyper make was when they started putting add's in the pages between reviews (Still annoyed by that).

I'll keep reading hyper cause it will be hard to let go after all these years and i love it but $10 is alot.
Vent over.
Seeya


I said it last time, and I'll say it this time.

I can't speak specifically for Hyper's publisher's but paper prices increased in the first half of 09. Some companies slowly adjusted their prices over this period, others did it in one hit with the new financial year.

Where I work, they did the latter.

Inflation's a bitch, deal with it.

[sausage]

You see, this is what happens when the moral police ban those unholy, dangerous porn advertisements.

Oh yes; I went there.

[Stevorooni]

Favourite part of the mag so far is "Mention this article in-store to receive no discount" in Jickle's section

[BB2K]

Ahhh, Zero Suit Samus cosplayer *drools*

(In a Homer Simpson kind of way (you know what I mean))

[Jamin]

I still purchased the mag today (had an old scratchie present with a $2 win on it so got the mag at the better price of $8) Great read but probably will be the last one I purchase until next years e3 report.
Was the price increase the new publishing company idea? Wasnt next media bought out or something?

[fearofthesky]

Curse you, Hyper, for making me get all excited with your "preview" titled Timesplitters 4.

You raised my hopes and then expertly dashed them. Well done, sir.

Still, good to see Free Radical is more-or-less still kicking, under a new name, after the Haze debacle. There is hope yet!

[Super Sleuth]

I see Jickle is a fan of last months issue.


:cool:

You make a good point, Sleuth.

That there is some feedback to your post.

[Jickle]

You make a good point, Sleuth.

That there is some feedback to your post.

I'm confused. Deeply confused!

[Super Sleuth]

Alright, it struck me as a little peculiar that your positive comments were in the feedback section of the mailbag section. You know, cause you write for the mag. You know?

[Jickle]

Oh, right. I haven't actually seen the issue yet.

For a while I liked to think that the non-forum readers would wonder over whether 'James' the writer and 'Jickle' the forum-feedback/MS Paint contributor were the same person. But then I realised that nobody reading would care. :p

[Super Sleuth]

I'm not sure if I care. I do read bottom of the barrel with a hell of a lot more interest knowing you wrote it. So yeah, I care.

What's going on here?

[Darren]

Alright, it struck me as a little peculiar that your positive comments were in the feedback section of the mailbag section. You know, cause you write for the mag. You know?
We needed feedback for the mail section. With the forums down, we went to Twitter. Jickle was among the few who responded to our request. Nothing sinister.

[Jickle]

We needed feedback for the mail section. With the forums down, we went to Twitter. Jickle was among the few who responded to our request. Nothing sinister.

FTR I'll be invoicing you for an extra $1100 for that tweet.

[Jamin]

Not many reviews this month though when I stop in at eb theres always games I havent heard of not featured in your mag, bargain basement no doubt but still would like to see a byte size review so I dont get tricked into purchasing.
I end up having to google.

[T Strife]

FTR I'll be invoicing you for an extra $1100 for that tweet.

I tried invoicing my employer some five odd grand a week ago, after they quoted me in the weekly newsletter.

It turns out that they don't have to pay me for invented services :(

Not many reviews this month though when I stop in at eb theres always games I havent heard of not featured in your mag, bargain basement no doubt but still would like to see a byte size review so I dont get tricked into purchasing.

It's probably stating the obvious, but Summer (Winter for Australia) has a reputation of being a dry season for games releases, at least so far as anything interesting is concerned. Reviewing random budget titles is hardly going to attract people to the magazine when the same page space could be used to include another feature, have Wilks get something off his chest, or just give a little more space to those games few games that are of interest to a lot of people.
Factor in that a lot of these games may be new to she shelves, but may well have already existed for a year or two, and I personally can't see much sense in reviewing them. I might be wrong, of course, but the trail of logic that I'm able to see really doesn't seem to lead towards much of a counter consideration.

[Australian Ninja]

OBJECTION!!!

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[Darren]

OBJECTION!!!

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/3650/phoenixwright1243876727.th.jpg (http://img194.imageshack.us/my.php?image=phoenixwright1243876727.jpg)
Care to elaborate?

[BB2K]

Ok, serious feedback;
What's with all the subtitles in the News section starting with ellipses? Since Tracey Lien is the new news editor I'll assume that it's her fault/choice, but it seems annoying and un-necessary. Also, 75% of people surveyed from Fizzy.com are morons >_>

Oh, and I loved the GameBoffin article this issue. It's not that it hasn't been siad before, it was just written well and hit the nail right on the head. Time for new health bars!

[Super Sleuth]

I hate everyone for getting me excited for that split second when I saw Timesplitters 4 mentioned.

[sausage]

OBJECTION!!!

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/3650/phoenixwright1243876727.th.jpg (http://img194.imageshack.us/my.php?image=phoenixwright1243876727.jpg)

Care to elaborate?



He probably disagrees with your decision not to review new/old obscure games in the "off-season" as it were.

As do I.

PCPP do a fluffing great job in reviewing older games and if sufficient numbers of forummers want a similar section (with newer obscure games) then bloody well listen to the masses and do it.

Don't fall into the trap of limiting your content to what you (or the editors) like or think is right; if the readership want x, give them x.

[Mark]

i can has x ?

[Lazlow]

Totally unrelated, I found a box of old Hypers at home... ranging from about #19 - 40.

Man the art direction has come a long way O_o

Also, was pretty funny to see a reader query about Fighter's Megamix coming to PSX answered with "it'll be a cold day in hell before you'll see a Sega game on Playstation".

[concrete donkey]

Is Tekken really that technical? :/
More so than Virtua Fighter? >_>

tekken is just a button-masher

[concrete donkey]

Dude, wouldn't you rather pay $10 for a quality magazine that you've liked for a long time than pay $16-$20 for an Official mag or Elitist Dribble about Games and Electronics?

bwwaaaaaaaaaa hahahahahaha well done!

[Australian Ninja]

I tried invoicing my employer some five odd grand a week ago, after they quoted me in the weekly newsletter.

It turns out that they don't have to pay me for invented services :(



It's probably stating the obvious, but Summer (Winter for Australia) has a reputation of being a dry season for games releases, at least so far as anything interesting is concerned. Reviewing random budget titles is hardly going to attract people to the magazine when the same page space could be used to include another feature, have Wilks get something off his chest, or just give a little more space to those games few games that are of interest to a lot of people.
Factor in that a lot of these games may be new to she shelves, but may well have already existed for a year or two, and I personally can't see much sense in reviewing them. I might be wrong, of course, but the trail of logic that I'm able to see really doesn't seem to lead towards much of a counter consideration.

(bold added for emphasis)
Care to elaborate?
No, I was just being a dick. I agree with the points made, and actually thought the same thing when I read that post commenting on the lack of reviews in the current issue (hello, what time of year is it....)

Anyhow, T Strife's points so well made and reasonable, that I had to be a dick and put in "objection" Now that I've explained my wild irrational post, it has lost it's spontaneity and makes me look like more of a dick, but I can live with that.:cool:

But while I'm at it.....

OBJECTION!!!

[Cake]

Ok, serious feedback;
What's with all the subtitles in the News section starting with '...'? Since Tracey Lien is the new news editor I'll assume that it's her fault/choice, but it seems annoying and un-necessary. Also, 75% of people surveyed from Fizzy.com are morons >_>

Oh, and I loved the GameBoffin article this issue. It's not that it hasn't been siad before, it was just written well and hit the nail right on the head. Time for new health bars!

Oh noes, ellipses! :eek:

[Adios]

Will Hyper ship out magazines to America?

Or will I simply have a three month back catalogue of Hyper to catch up on when I get back from America? >.<

[Lazlow]

Dude, wouldn't you rather pay $10 for a quality magazine that you've liked for a long time than pay $16-$20 for an Official mag or Elitist Dribble about Games and Electronics?

I enjoy Edge's take on games, they are like the David Stratton of game reviewing. They may be humorless but I don't really see it as dribble.

[Jickle]

I have to say I found the captions this issue much funnier than I usually do. I actually laughed out loud once or twice. Massive kudos to whoever captioned my BOTB article this month in particular.

[Australian Ninja]

I enjoy Edge's take on games, they are like the David Stratton of game reviewing. They may be humorless but I don't really see it as dribble.

For my money Edge and Games TM are both decent mags with good reviews, features etc, along with Hyper and Retro Gamer. I don't have anything against EGM, but I don't ever read it and most people I trust seem to say it's crap, so I take their word for it, but they could be wrong.

The only mags I won't touch - that they would have to pry the money from my cold dead hands for - are the official mags. Specifically the ones (past and present) for PlayStation and Xbox. The Nintendo ones I've read have been okay, but there's been plenty of wank as well.

A much as I can't stand those mags, I've got nothing against anyone working for them, because hey it pays money, and if you've got to work under certain constraints - then it may be part of the job.

It's funny when you see the name of somebody writing for one mag and think "this person knows their shit" and then you can see the same person in another mag and think "rubbish!". It's obvious sometimes that it comes down to the publisher and editorial "rules" etc.

I don't see ANY reason to hate on specific mags though, I mean they change over the years and different people come and go. Hyper has had it's strengths and weaknesses over the years, and it's not the same mag it was three years ago, or eight years ago. Neither are any of the other magazines, they live and breathe with the people who contribute / work for them and the communities who follows them.

My reason for assuming that offiicial mags are mostly shit most of the time is their purpose. In my opinion official mags are there purely to GROW a brand, actualy content is not really important, they could publish blank magazines, as long as they keep their brand in the public consciousness.

Hyper (and some other mags) are not pushing any agenda, or in bed with the big three, no matter the ludicrous letters that editor's get saying otherwise. So no matter how the magazine and it's contributors may change over the years, it's purpose has not changed. Sure it's part of a business that makes filthy lucre, but the intent is to provide news / articles / reviews on mulitiple platforms from non-biased people (they are not being paid by sony, ninty, or microstupid).
*whew* *takes a breath*

[Lazlow]

The only mags I won't touch - that they would have to pry the money from my cold dead hands for - are the official mags. Specifically the ones (past and present) for PlayStation

I still remember OAPS2M giving The Getaway a glowing review, and then defending claims they were being paid off.

Picked up #191 today; the article on Pandemic was heartbreaking, especially so because of the interviewees ties to Ratbag who made some pretty awesome speedway games. Hell I was playing World of Outlaws just last night.

Tekken 6 sounds like they've run out of ideas. The "bounce" feature has always been a part of Tekken in some form (Paul Phoenix's tile splitter comes to mind...), and interactive environments were a key new feature of Tekken 4. And Scenario Mode is just them rehashing Tekken Force mode.

Seeing a Tekken cab in Perth many years ago lead me to buying a PSX, but Tekken 6 just sounds horribly unimpressive.

[Ryan Hayward]

I feel that EDGE needs to lighten the hell up though. Great news section ( Start) and previews, but the reviews are dead boring to read through. Occasionally their features are good but all too often they disappear up their own backsides.
Hyper probably has the best reviews and hands-on previews and Retro Gamer has by far the most enjoyable features. They get the developers talking, lots of fascinating stories about how the games were made.

[aubergine]

Edge is only good to read when there is a new generation of hardware about to arrive.

[Meg]

the extra $1 is the Bear Tax
LMAO. It's like a freakin bear Jambaroo. I was a bit surprised to see it has gone up again, but I always enjoy reading it. Liked the article on Sydney Supanova. Narutards now there's a true statement.

[Lazlow]

Found the Fight Night Round 4 review to be... contradictory. :/

Glen Downey states that one thing FNR4 excels at is "giving the big punches some serious weight". But under "The Bad" is says that the weighting of big hits seems off.

Not to mention the general feeling I got from the reviews was you felt Fight Night Round 3 was a better boxing game;

It's just that for a deep and beautifully technical boxing experience its really hard to recommend Round 4 over Round 3

You're having a laugh right?

Round 3 was fun but its shortcomings as a technical boxing game were immediately apparent; it was a rock'em sock'em fest with no regard for distance or reach, and a bullshit parry system that felt like an arcade gimmick.

And I sincerely hope that DiRT2 is a major overhaul from DiRT1, if "its all realistic" as claimed. Especially after the hovercar garbage that was GRiD.

[punkgorilla]

Found the Fight Night Round 4 review to be... contradictory. :/

Glen Downey states that one thing FNR4 excels at is "giving the big punches some serious weight". But under "The Bad" is says that the weighting of big hits seems off.

Glen was referring to how FNR4 makes your punches feel heavy, like they have some weight to them. "The Bad" section (and Wilk's final paragraph) refers to the weighting (in regards to damage inflicted) of heavy punches in relation to normal punches. I guess an alternative way to write it would be: "The damage inflicted by strong punches is very disproportionate to standard punches."

At least that was my interpretation of it.

[Lazlow]

It that context the statement makes sense... but in regards to fighting it doesn't. A single strong hit ends a fight; an endless serious of probing straights doesn't. There's no real hard and fast rule, so I don't think you can safely claim one hit is disproportionate to another. Its not Street Fighter :/

[Ryan Hayward]

Just finished reading Eleanor's column and feel its her best yet. I agree with her about surprises in games making us feel rewarded. Take Atelier Iris : Eternal Mana as a good example. You were rewarded with little funny cutscenes everytime you created a new item in the magic shop and often enhanced the characterization of the game. I went out of my way to locate hard to find items that were needed for item creation just to trigger another story scene.

Then there's the diablo clone by the name of FATE. You could fish for magical items in town and often got rewarded with much better equipment the longer you tried. It would have been a very boring inclusion without the rewards and unpredictability of what you fished out.

[AranchineD]

I'm sorry, Conker's Bad Fur Day was an awful game? When did this happen, BFD was awesome!

Features were entertaining to read though, and I do agree that Stephen Fry in America is just a brilliant show all round, so I guess it's all good then.

[Australian Ninja]

Yeah, I never really got into Conker on N64, but appreciated the humour and technical achievement of the performance RARE got from the N64. But I don't see why anyone would say it's a bad game. It reviewed favourably upon release and I'd be curious to hear what people don't like about it?

As for Atelier Iris Eternal Mana - the best reward I got from this game was the motivation to stop playing it and move on to something else ASAP. It's enjoyable, just there are 100 better RPG's to play - but it was good for beginners.

[RunningMild]

I'm sorry, Conker's Bad Fur Day was an awful game? When did this happen, BFD was awesome!

Who said BFD was an awful game?

[AranchineD]

Who said BFD was an awful game?

Dan Staines, in the 'games that were made before their time' article.

[RunningMild]

The reason why BFD was good is the same reason why Yahtzee was beating off to Silent Hill 2 this week- the gameplay may not be perfect (but was still pretty good IMO), but the game was story-driven and atmospheric, and it was a raging success in those regards. And Australian Ninja is right, it was one of the most favourably reviewed games in the history of the N64 IIRC.

[Jickle]

I loved Bad Fur Day too. On reflection though it was all pretty juvenile, so I don't know how well it would hold up.

[Sweating Bullets]

Too many references to the Last Boy Scout floating in Hyper.
Borrow Hudson Hawk or Die Hard With A Vengeance ;)

[RunningMild]

I loved Bad Fur Day too. On reflection though it was all pretty juvenile, so I don't know how well it would hold up.

Yeah, it might be like going back and listening to Limp Bizkit and you're like 'What the **** was I thinking?'. :p

Nah, I remember a lot of the BFD jokes and I think it might hold up in the MadWorld sense, ie. it's juvenile and controversial for the sake of it, but in a clever and satirical way so that it's still funny.

Also, I noticed in the review for Let The Right One In that there was some controversy regarding the subtitles, because some DVDs had dumbed down the subtitles. Now, I'm really interested in seeing this film, so how can I tell which DVDs have the 'proper' subtitles that Hyper had on their copy?

[punkgorilla]

Nah, I remember a lot of the BFD jokes and I think it might hold up in the MadWorld sense, ie. it's juvenile and controversial for the sake of it, but in a clever and satirical way so that it's still funny.

Except Conkers Bad Fur Day wasn't clever or satirical. It was just poo jokes. And a few piss jokes.

I re-played BFD a couple of months ago. It really doesn't hold up too well. I wouldn't say it's awful, but it's certainly not great.

[RunningMild]

Except Conkers Bad Fur Day wasn't clever or satirical. It was just poo jokes. And a few piss jokes.

Hang on a second...

Standard poo joke vs Poo monster that sings opera and is a boss fight

Standard piss joke vs Pissing on fire monsters to kill them

Maybe it's just me but the BFD examples sound much more intelligent. :p

[Stiz]

I re-played BFD a couple of months ago. It really doesn't hold up too well.
This. Once the "can he say that" shock factor wears off, which it well and truly has, BFD's appeal diminishes completely.

That said, I was exaggerating a little bit when I called it "awful". It's really more "aggressively mediocre" than anything.

[Twisted Conspiracy]

Also, I noticed in the review for Let The Right One In that there was some controversy regarding the subtitles, because some DVDs had dumbed down the subtitles. Now, I'm really interested in seeing this film, so how can I tell which DVDs have the 'proper' subtitles that Hyper had on their copy?
This.

And I now really want a copy of Shadow of the Colossus... My measly PS2 wants to impress some people... (Namely me...):D

[punkgorilla]

Hang on a second...

Standard poo joke vs Poo monster that sings opera and is a boss fight

Standard piss joke vs Pissing on fire monsters to kill them

Maybe it's just me but the BFD examples sound much more intelligent. :p

I have to admit, The Great Mighty Poo still manages to make me laugh. I even remember all the words to his song. I don't know whether to be proud of that or ashamed...:o

[ThePhotoshop]

Retro Gamer has by far the most enjoyable features. They get the developers talking, lots of fascinating stories about how the games were made.
Most likely because so much time has passed since the game was released that they have absolutely no qualms telling all. It's hard to get that with new releases.

[aubergine]

I was just reading a review up of Batman AA and some performance issues were mentioned. It made me think: something I'd really like to see standard as part of reviews now - for 360 games at least - is a brief test of how it performs installed.

[RunningMild]

And I now really want a copy of Shadow of the Colossus... My measly PS2 wants to impress some people... (Namely me...):D

I managed to find a brand new, unplayed copy on eBay, so there's no excuse really. Gogogo!

(check the UK sellers if there aren't any Aussie ones)

[Twisted Conspiracy]

Sweeeet. :thumbsup:

[Space_Monkey]

I'm happy to read there's some Stephen Fry love in the Hyper Offices.

I'm currently having his autobiography Moab is my Washpot read to me in his luscious, tender voice thanks to the magic of audiobooks.

[Australian Ninja]

Most likely because so much time has passed since the game was released that they have absolutely no qualms telling all. It's hard to get that with new releases.

I disagree. Their in depth articles / interviews etc are just as in depth and relevant when they talk to people who have made something new for an old machine,
or something old for a new machine or any other combination people care to think of.

[ThePhotoshop]

...How do you make something old for a new machine?

[Lazlow]

http://i32.tinypic.com/339k0hi.jpg

Ass-kicking water-cooled steampunk PC (http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/24/asskicking-watercool.html)

[Ryan Hayward]

...How do you make something old for a new machine?

Bionic Commando Rearmed, typically old school gameplay but with a face lift to make it relevant to today's " its all about the eyecandy" gamers....

[Hyperblau]

Wasn't Fight Night Round 3 already in HD, the cover seems to think Round 4 is the first version in HD...

[Australian Ninja]

...How do you make something old for a new machine?

Hmm, well there is Pac-Man on the .......... well everything.

Then there are the untold amounts of reskinned / retro update games etc for various platforms. I can't be arsed typing examples.

If you read any current issue of Retro Gamer, you'll see what I mean, just browse one in the newsagent.

[Kefka]

Loved Dan's the article about awful games you shouldn't play - it was like a bunch of mini Bottom of the Barrels by everyone's favourite Jickle. Hope Dan didn't steal too much future material!

I also quite enjoyed the "how did THAT run on THAT" article in the previous issue... was that also Dan?

[Super Sleuth]

http://i32.tinypic.com/339k0hi.jpg

Ass-kicking water-cooled steampunk PC (http://www.boingboing.net/2007/09/24/asskicking-watercool.html)

That is so very very very awesome.

My hat is well and truly off.

[Australian Ninja]

How does THAt run on THAT. Great picture.

I half expect to look through the side-panel and see a big Daddy lumbering about on the ocean floor (_O_)