Need a glass of water Dark Blade.

Well if Saga do close down the online part they WILL have to recall all the non-sold games to change the online specs on the box (online multiplayer 2-12) as any sale with this on the box will be faulse advertising. Making them liable for getting sued.

 

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Yeah and plus there would be a hell of a lot of boxes to to get back from stores and people who bought the game too.

seriously? that sucks. I've been playing from the start. when ever I get bored my friends and I always jump on chrome hounds. I honestly can't beleive they would shut us down like that. atleast come out with a second before hand.

 Evil Ripster wrote:

Well if Saga do close down the online part they WILL have to recall all the non-sold games to change the online specs on the box (online multiplayer 2-12) as any sale with this on the box will be faulse advertising. Making them liable for getting sued.

 

Considering the specs on back of the box have been wrong since this game came out, I highly doubt they would issue a recall now.

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 Evil Ripster wrote:

Well if Saga do close down the online part they WILL have to recall all the non-sold games to change the online specs on the box (online multiplayer 2-12) as any sale with this on the box will be faulse advertising. Making them liable for getting sued.

 

What's funnier is that shops, knowing this will still sell it and not inform the gamer of the non workable online aspect.

Some shops are still selling Tabula Rasa to this day even though it was shut down  quite a while ago, and despite me telling them the game is no longer playable.

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Unreal Warfare your community level is high. How did you get it that high ?

That will leave room for call if dirty and halo sh/t ...

That game was always a disappointment for me , not because of the game in itself but because of the lack of support it got when it came out, resulting in very few ppl playing it around me....

Anyway the game mechanics and the neroimus war are a blast but as always, the good stuffs stay underground.

So, end of chromehounds, no chromehounds 2 that i heard of ....

Another one for the Big bad robots cemetary ...With steel batalion among others ....

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oh god! steel battailion there was the most awesome mech game out there. that one died way before its time.  too bad it's still to this day way to expensive.

I don't understand one thing i know that in france, giant robots are not scoring so much ... but ... one thing i know is that the japanese are really fond of those thing , how come these games do not last with that kind of crowd, even if the xbox is not so popular there, i guess every owner had Chromehounds .... or not ?

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If its money they need to keep the server running, why not make a game update which places advertisments in the game.

"This neroimous war update brought to by the refreshing taste of Coca-Cola"
*Cash Register Sound*

They could even release downloadable emblems representing such brands, and using them in battles with other players could generate revenue.

At the very least, SEGA should release a patch which adds a feature enabling system link play. Its not Neroimous, but at least you could play free battle with your friends.

 X Lobo wrote:

I don't understand one thing i know that in france, giant robots are not scoring so much ... but ... one thing i know is that the japanese are really fond of those thing , how come these games do not last with that kind of crowd, even if the xbox is not so popular there, i guess every owner had Chromehounds .... or not ?

I've often wondered why giant robots don't do well in the US. I have way too many theories to even begin to list a few, but I compare it to why Sci-Fi or anime doesn't do too well. It's not that the genras are unpopular, but more to do with the fact that it either becomes so inudated with bad titles or that bad titles are more esily accessable than better titles.
Take netflix and Anime for instance. Right not the only anime that you can watch instantly is 7 or 8 diferant Street Fighter Animes. These are not the best Anime's aver made, though they are also far from the worst. They do, how ever, perfectly emphasize of the the sterotypes atributed with anime. So people will watch these on thier computers and Xboxs and say "wow, this is kinda lack luster" than not take the time to watch other, more fun and well put together shows.
It's the same with Sci-Fi. When a bad Sci-fi movie's made it not just "another bad movie" it's "another stupid Sci-Fi movie". If you make bad Sci-fi movies, of course people aren't gonna like it. Besides, it's so muich easyer to make a horror movie or a stomp the yard type movie about dancing or raping or a road trip comedy or a disaster movie.
Now you might say that I got kinda off track, but the Giant Robot Genra fololws a very trend to above that the best titles seldom make it to the US but when they actualy do, no one cares because it's not Halo or GoW or COD.

You see, 2 things I can confidently say about the tastes of the majority of Americans is thay we prefer our games and movies to be bland, corigated and high in fiber.
To quote VGcats:
"Why make great games when good games sell better."

I'll mis CH, but sadly I think I've already moved on.

On a side note, Front Mission Evolved looks interesting, kinda like Armored Core slowed down to CH speed. IT doesn't look as deep as far as costuization goes, or even as far as damaginf spesific parts go, but it might be worth a look just the same.

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 Dark Lord Raso wrote:

Besides, it's so muich easyer to make a horror movie or a stomp the yard type movie about dancing or raping or a road trip comedy or a disaster movie.

This typo (or spelling error?) made me laugh, had to point it out, sorry.

A movie about rap would be a 'rapping' movie
A raping movie would be movie about ***. (<< hmm, aparantly the forums filter that word)

 arch3r 87 wrote:

 Dark Lord Raso wrote:

Besides, it's so muich easyer to make a horror movie or a stomp the yard type movie about dancing or raping or a road trip comedy or a disaster movie.

This typo (or spelling error?) made me laugh, had to point it out, sorry.

A movie about rap would be a 'rapping' movie
A raping movie would be movie about ***. (<< hmm, aparantly the forums filter that word)

that would be a major typo.

But I think most people would rather see amovie about that then a well thought out sci-fi movie where aliens actualy uses lasers and space ships to take over the world or something like that,

Well I'd edit it, but apperently Microsft has for some reason (or more likely for no good one inperticular) decided that you can't change it after a certian period of time.

But yer, it's rapping, like to rap. Like an angery poem with some kinda lame beat you can dance to about clubin' and hos and such.

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I know for sure i'll get Front mission if for once and unlike the previous iteration(s) it reaches my retarded country.

I guess you're right in a way, and also ppl have more difficulties to cope with characters struggling in a giant robots war of some sort than with ppl struggling in a german nazi ww2 context , i guess it has to do with imagination and IRL identifications. Although i can't imagine how these people can take some enjoyement in the depiction of real horror facts but that's an other debate.

A good example of this would be the first final fantasy movie where the dramatic final scene could make any viewer cry ...... if it wasn't stupid sci/fi and in CG wich is, in fact, supposed to makes us laugh with singing/talking/fart joking antropomorphic animals. But this can't be a generality cos' it does not explain why everyones praises E.T. and loathe A.I. both sci/fi and emotional movies...

People are strange .... lalalala

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 X Lobo wrote:

I know for sure i'll get Front mission if for once and unlike the previous iteration(s) it reaches my retarded country.

I guess you're right in a way, and also ppl have more difficulties to cope with characters struggling in a giant robots war of some sort than with ppl struggling in a german nazi ww2 context , i guess it has to do with imagination and IRL identifications. Although i can't imagine how these people can take some enjoyement in the depiction of real horror facts but that's an other debate.

A good example of this would be the first final fantasy movie where the dramatic final scene could make any viewer cry ...... if it wasn't stupid sci/fi and in CG wich is, in fact, supposed to makes us laugh with singing/talking/fart joking antropomorphic animals. But this can't be a generality cos' it does not explain why everyones praises E.T. and loathe A.I. both sci/fi and emotional movies...

People are strange .... lalalala

Everything I've seen so far seems to point that Front Mission actualy is coming to America. It must have slipped pased some one's radar or something.
I just hope the multiplayer is as inspired and awsome as CH. As from what I've seen so far from gameplay trailers it has on foot and in mech combat. IT apears that there's a damage indicator on the HUD that's seperated into diferant body parts, so there might be a way to damage individual parts but the demo that was at a game conferance was seemingly tuned to make the player invincable for game play purposes. To that end, I'm thinking it might be some kinda blend between CH's damage mechanic and AC4's bipedal, 4 weapon set up but with manual aiming the kinda boosters back from the PS2 days when you had to use it tacticaly.

Even so, it won't replace CH for me. CH was a trule awsome experiance for me. Tacticle combat with large robots is just an awsome idea. In this age filled with space marines, Navy SEALS and Toim Clancy military task forces (all of which have a time and place and thier own merits mind you) it seems that current game trends seem to prefer focusing on that poor solder with a face that comes from your home town or might verry well be you or a loved one rather than that couragus top gun pilot and is various jets, a tank commander and his super tank or the pilot of a giant robot and his robot.

The end of the CH server really sybolizes, to me at least, another victory of the easily accesable, esilaly player, low thought prosses, high definition, 4 year old next generation, current generation gaming that seems to favor sales figures over doing anything ground breaking.
To quote VGcats: Why make GREAT games when "good" games sell better.

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I for one, couldn't bring my friends to CH so i barely scratched the surface of the neroimus war, i didn't even see once the giant weapons :( , i think it had its flaws in the HQ department mostly but with a truly dedicated gang, this was surely an experience like none other... for me the fact that the servers come to an end without any sequel or whatever being in the work is not a good sign of what the future may hold ... that game was a great balance of strategy , action, and squad management ... at another level than the average headshot soldier you usually play in team based games, and it was more suited to my pace and above all, my tastes .... unfortunately i didn't have a chance to fully enjoy it and now it's almost gone with no hope for a future... hey they could sell the rights to bungie and call the sequel halo something, i'm sure the servers would never close.

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 X Lobo wrote:

hey they could sell the rights to bungie and call the sequel halo something, i'm sure the servers would never close.

lol yeah, if the renamed it Halo Hounds or some crap like that everyone would play it. In fact I find that anything with the nbame Halo or Gears of War will sell simply because of the name.
People who hated RTS games loved Halo Wars, while most people who loved RTS games seemed to find it rather bland and lacking in the stradagy department. Infact I remeber a few of Major Nelson's little Major's Minutes that seemed to truly emphisize exactly how most gamers want to play games these days. He tought all of XBL rush tacticls with the warthog. Then came something about using the profit's orbital laser with a full set of supply depots or something like that.
HAWX is another example of how a name or a developer's home country can effect the way a gamer looks at a game. HAWX wasn't an entirly bad game, don't get me wrong it had some interesting elements to it, but the last 3 or so levels lacked a briefing, all other briefings used stock fotage from End War and GRAW2 and seeming played in a random sequence during the briefing, the machine gun shot little V shaped thing rather than molten lead and a good number of fighter's had gflitched weapons load outs where the missiles wouldn't display on the fighter. AC6 had a giant flying air craft carrier. That's awsome! That's totaly awsome! But it pissed so many gamers off because it made no scense. Because a giant flying Air Craft carrier makes less scense than a since cyborg fighting aliens on a giant ring in space build by an anciant race of aliens.

I think what it boils down to is that many people actulaly don't like video games. I say that because a lot of people seem to prefer games that allow you to win very esily or very quickly over games that take time and are fun.

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Or better, perhaps it is time for devs to adhere exclusively to making client host games. Multiplayer servers that the devs can shut down anytime they either go bankrupt or decide they don't want to support the game anymore feels to me like instead of buying a game I am purchasing a limited use license. There is absolutely no reason that the multiplayer games out there can't be client host.

 X Lobo wrote:

... hey they could sell the rights to bungie and call the sequel halo something, i'm sure the servers would never close.

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Although the neroimus war couldn't, the skirmishes mode could be client hosted ..... but i guess it would be too much work to change that now .... but in a way, it's the least they could do so we can still play the game.

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 The Onion wrote:

 MaxFazu wrote:

C H does not have a critical mass of user that many current games benefit from, but it still has a cult fan base. It sits very uneasy with me that this current gen console title will be scrapped.  I, as a fan, think closing the servers on this game is an abomination.

And I think the opposite is true. this community is merely a shell of its former self. Each passing day the servers stay online its legacy is tainted a bit more. Its like watching Brett Favre trying to make another comeback.

im pretty sure that brett farve is doing an amazing job on his "come back" but to those of us who were introduced to the system later than when it lanched it sucks to know that a game i've heard nothing but good things about is going to loose the part of the game that 90% of the people that bought it for. i guess i'll have to try AC....by the way, "Don't call it a comeback" he's been here for years.

 X Lobo wrote:

Although the neroimus war couldn't, the skirmishes mode could be client hosted ..... but i guess it would be too much work to change that now .... but in a way, it's the least they could do so we can still play the game.

Microsoft has already confirmed that it is highly unlikely that any form of multiplayer will be left, and that we will not be getting the achievements that are online exclusive.

I guess it would be too much work to modify the game to this extent just to please a small community and without anything to gain from it ...

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 X Lobo wrote:

I guess it would be too much work to modify the game to this extent just to please a small community and without anything to gain from it ...

You hit it on the nose.
They don't care about us because we don't generate enough revenue for them. We generate so very little, in fact, we're not worth it to spend money in order to make more money off of us in the long run.
I mean it's not like we're a following like COD or Halo. Now THAT'S where the moeny is. Why should they care about us? I mean after all, if you can make generic games and release the same game year after year and put very little time or thought into new game and almost completly remove any form of inovation or freshness from game and make millions of dollars why in the world would you bother wasting money a a game like CH that brought new ideas to the table. It makes no scense.
Heck maybe game publishers and developers will actual finaly stop trying to even make new games and just start relaseing the same 4 games over and aver again and just slap a sticker with a higher number on the box every 4th quarter of the year and have a big release event for that new sticker. When that happens, Jappanese made games will actualy only be playable in jappan and XBL will only support multiplayer for Halo 3 and select Call of Duty titles, each of which will require thier own seperate subscription.
Then, only after gaming has truly died and become a shell of it's former self and been completly devoured and destroyed be greedy game publishers will people realize what's happened to gaming and that they only have themselves to blame.

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I'm afraid it has already begun.

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ubisoft owns chromehounds now right? atleast thats what ive been seeing everywhere. could that mean ubisoft will produce a ch2? or maybe it means ubisoft just likes to waste money? or then again maybe it just means im an idiot and believe in widely accepted rumors... anyways just a thought that if they really did buy chromehounds i dont think theyd do it for no reason. however if they ever do make a ch2 i can easily see them removing any ability to cover your cockpit.. idk how you all feel but in my opinion that would ruin the game i mean that ability gives ch originality and makes games more fun simply because they are harder... i know all you guys who are new to ch or dont know how to cover it or dispise having to cover it are probably going to flame me for saying that... ANYWAYS if anyone wants to play some ch or needs help building hounds hit me up on XBL my gamertags right there

 cheese0killer wrote:

ubisoft owns chromehounds now right? atleast thats what ive been seeing everywhere. could that mean ubisoft will produce a ch2? or maybe it means ubisoft just likes to waste money? or then again maybe it just means im an idiot and believe in widely accepted rumors... anyways just a thought that if they really did buy chromehounds i dont think theyd do it for no reason. however if they ever do make a ch2 i can easily see them removing any ability to cover your cockpit.. idk how you all feel but in my opinion that would ruin the game i mean that ability gives ch originality and makes games more fun simply because they are harder... i know all you guys who are new to ch or dont know how to cover it or dispise having to cover it are probably going to flame me for saying that... ANYWAYS if anyone wants to play some ch or needs help building hounds hit me up on XBL my gamertags right there

You better do it quick then as the servers usually shut down right before the Xmas holiday and don't come back up until well after new years.   Since they advertise closure 6 Jan, they won't be coming back at all.

It's an age old debate regarding covering the pit or not.  However, if you think about it...all the parts wouldn't be available if covering the pit were not intended by the game devs in the first place.

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