General Discussion

Female Characters Sell Games

palelord — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:13:38 GMT

Presented by KOEI, Samurai Warriors 3 is set to be released on Dec 3rd in Japan for the Wii platform.

First of all, let's have a look at the trailer for this game.

Although touting a new system, Samurai Warrior 3 is still a Hack and Slash game like all its former installments. Someone will talk about its storyline. Yeah, its story is awesome, well designed and based on feudal Japanese history with a liberal helping of fantasy. But there is not too much difference comparing to its former installments. Like the Dynasty Warriors series, they are all well - known as being repetitive button mashers.

The question comes. What make this game so hot on sale? Why do lots of game fans pay so much attention on it? One reason may be some small changes to the beat'em up genre and game feature make it a little different. But in my opinion, the most important reason might be its fancy design of many female appearances. The designers try their best to make character's appearance more different and attractive with each new installment.

Here we go. Take Oichi for example, look at the 3 pictures, have you noticed that in every generation, she looks different and becomes more and more mature?

It seems that when video games first gained popularity in the 1980s, female characters were basically there to serve as eye candy for adolescent boys. Although storyline and gameplay are important, games won't go round well without female characters. They make us feel really delighted to play games.

I'd like to introduce my Top 5 female game characters below.

5. Lara Croft - Tomb Raider

Lara is depicted as an athletic woman of English descent, who has brown eyes and frequently keeps her long brown hair in a plait or ponytail. The character's classic costume is a turquoise sleeveless shirt, light brown shorts, calf-high boots, long white socks, fingerless gloves, a backpack, a utility belt with holsters on either side and two pistols, an outfit appearing in nearly every Tomb Raider game to date. Her early incarnations are a big turn-off to most women, but her most recent appearances prove that she's strong, driven, and intelligent, in addition to being well-endowed. Since her first appearance in the 1996 video game, this hot girl has won Tomb Raider game series many fans.

4. Zoe Castillo - Dreamfall: The Longest Journey

Zoe is just about as true to life as you can get for a game character. She's young and somewhat disillusioned, not knowing what she wants to do with her life. She's recently ended a serious relationship, but still cares deeply enough for the man to get swept into a complex story with tons of twists and turns. Spending time with Zoe is like listening to your best friend telling you a story.

3. Alisa Bosconovitch - Tekken 6 Bloodline Rebellion

Named as a Russian, Alisa Bosconovitch is an android created by Doctor Boskonovitch able to sprout wing-like jets from her back allowing her to briefly fly at great speed during fights, sprout chainsaws from her arms (this is one of her stances, "Destroy Form"), and remove her head during moves such as one of her grapples, "Head Explosion". (OMG!) She has pink hair and green eyes. This sweet girl and her new combo attack grant Tekken 6 BR with more gameplay.

2. Ada Wong - The Resident Evil Series

Ada Wong is a red-clad, cunning and formidable secret agent of Chinese heritage with a mysterious past, appearing in the Resident Evil series since Resident Evil 2. Not much is known about Ada Wong's past or motives. What is known is that Ada was a corporate spy working for an unnamed competitor of Umbrella, often referred to as the "Organization", that intended to procure all sorts of biological weapons and specimens. She was also a trained assassin, who was proficient with several types of weapons and fighting techniques. Her sexy appearance and mysterious background make this bloody game more interesting.

1. Yuna - Final Fantasy series

Don't let her soft-spoken and gentle demeanor fool you. Yuna has an unshakable sense of duty and purpose that drives her to make personal sacrifices for the good of all. But she's also driven by love, making her one of the most realistic and relatable game characters.

Yuna is so attractive that the fan reaction to her convinced the developers to continue the story of Yuna and other characters with Final Fantasy X-2.

At the end, let's go back to MMOs. I think things are the same with regard to MMORPGs.

For example, Eudemons Online recently issued Halloween and Moon Festival wallpaper. It makes me feel that this f2p MMO is trying its best to attract adolescent boys to play, although it is a fantasy game based on both eastern and western culture.

What's more? You can wait to see the Blade and Soul's female characters' coming figures. Facts speak louder than words.

Though female characters may not be real but man they are sexy, you can't deny that after playing those games. I don't either have posters of them on my wall, or ask my female friends to go to work dressed up as them, but I do enjoy games more if they have a nice looking woman in it. Maybe I'm a little sexist, lol. I sincerely believe that you guys must think alike more or less, that's why a game with well designed female characters sells well, too.

Whether you agree with me or not, or you think some female characters should also be included, please leave a comment. Thank you!

Chuck Norris vs Mr. T - An All-Out Battle. Who Wins?

concasor — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:29:49 GMT

After Mr. T managed to own WoW with his mohawk grenades Chuck Norris found out decided to challenge him in an all-out battle for survival. :)

Who would win, in your opinion?

Place your vote here to decide the outcome of the battle!

Mytheon has just opened their BETA forum!

hothotguy — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:42:48 GMT

For people who signed up for The Closed Beta and or Won the key for Mytheon Closed Beta. The BETA forums will show up for your account. This is exciting!

I didn't know if this should pop up in the Free To Play Games or not. Closed Beta testing is near for Mytheon though.

New Game: The Legend Of Vraz

Zatun_Jai — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:38:15 GMT

Hi,

My name is Ayush and I am from Zatun, an independent video game development company in India.

We have developed a unique 2D action adventure arcade game for PC titled - " The Legend of Vraz " . This game was created using the Microsoft XNA framework and features a fun filled exciting gameplay of 6-9 hours amidst fantasy worlds created with stunning hand painted 2D art and inhabited by mesmerizing characters.

Our site: http://zatungames.com/

Our videos:

Level 4 Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY-CXrv9HZI
Level 3 Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N52oeYylQXg
Level 2 Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ch8SWSAgZoo

Game Premise:

Vraz the prince is in love with princess Avi and to marry her has to complete the 5 tasks set by Avi's father while battling with the evil lovelorn Vizier and his shrewd accomplices in exotic worlds filled with dangerous obstacles.
Prince of Persia (2D) + Braid style art - blood and violence = Legend of Vraz

Game USP:

A fun, fascinating and a forgiving gameplay providing a unique player experience by encouraging and testing the player's skills simultaneously.
Exquisite and spectacular hand painted 2D Art in Indian Miniature Painting style.
Cute and adorable characters having their own distinct personality and AI (Artificial - Intelligence).
14 different enemies and 15 stages with 4 distinct locations and each location providing a feeling of fantasy of being in an exotic land.
An incredible soundtrack immersing the player completely in the game.
5 different upgradable arrows and the ability to control the prince both with mouse and keyboard or mouse only or keyboard only depending upon the user preferences.

Screenshots:

Thanks a lot for your time and I look forward to your comments.

Ayush

can i speak here?

injerry — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:43:32 GMT

i am a new member here,can i speak my own opinion here?

Naga comp

tonyegg — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:35:36 GMT

curse is an international site but still alot of the comp are USA only surely in this day and age these give aways could be open to all.

just on princaple now i wouldn't buy another razer product

Hey check out my documentary on australian gamers

FaceBot — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:11:35 GMT

Let me know what you think of it please. Any critism will be appreciated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX7yin2geaY

Murloc The Space Marine Contest Thread

DoranM — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 21:34:55 GMT

Thank you for participating! The contest is over and winners will be contacted by Curse Staff!

Blizzard has been kind enough to give us 20 Murloc Space Marine Pet codes to give away in a contest of our choosing! Since the Warcraft universe is so rich in lore and storylines we decided to have some fun with it and give Grunty some lore of his own - player created of course!

Without further administrative banter; here's our Murloc Marine Contest:

Grunty The Murloc Marine first showed his adorable little face at Blizzcon 2009, and has been capturing the hearts of Azeroth ever since! Despite the vast popularity of this little gun-toting stud, most people know very little about his past.

Who is Grunty?

Where did he grow up?

Who makes ammo that small?

We set out to find out as much as we could about the origin of everyone's favorite pet. While researching Grunty, in the oldest of archives here at the Curse HQ, we came across a newspaper clipping from the Azeroth newspaper about a mysterious little fella found in the woods by a group of Worgen and Goblins who were heading home from Blizzcon 2009! Unfortunately the article comes to an abrupt end without telling us what happened to him after the Worgen and Goblins found him, take a look:

So here's where the real questions lie, did the Goblins take little Grunty home? Did the Worgen? What happened as he followed his new found parents around Azeroth? Did he ever grow up and will we see him in StarCraft 2?

To enter the contest:

For this contest it's your job to write about how Grunty got to be in the Anaheim woodlands and, given what we know about the Goblins and Worgens, expand upon who Grunty went home with and why. Did he think he'd feel more at home in Gilneas or were the Lost Isles the place for him? Talk about some of the things Grunty has to do to traverse the lands of Azeroth to get back to the Universe of Starcraft - does he fix up a Draenai ship? Are there hidden portals to other Blizzard worlds? Be creative and include lots of details!

Winners will be selected by Curse staff on November 1st, and will be graded on creativity and the amount of work put into creating the story. Winners will receive their Murloc Marine Code via private message on Curse.com.

Please post all entries in our Murloc Marine Contest Thread!

Its november the 1st, And that means....

zodi2u — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:37:47 GMT

The people who entered the contest for a chance to win 1 in 20 grunty codes kindly donated by blizzard

They should be awarding the codes today

YAY :)

good luck 2 everyone who entered :)

mobile games

uhjpae — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 12:37:26 GMT

What's the best game you have ever played on mobile phones? For me it would have to be Fieldrunners for Iphone. Share yours. ^^

For those of you trying to run Curse in linux/wine there is a fix.

rayban64 — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:50:06 GMT

I was getting the crashing bug. I read somewhere about Installing IE6. I took it a step further and installed IE8. The curse client updated and ran great.

Aion not a good game it is Botalated not populated!

Kakra — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:03:50 GMT

I find the customer service to be Horrible. The only thing I see every day is Bots and Gold spam from private store, You make a message all can see what you are selling these gold spammers and bots going for few weeks now same name, same company. You can not move in areas to quest with out bumping into bots. Sometimes in areas you cant even complete quest.

The funny thing is I only see one gold selling company now aigame are somthing, NCSOFT Does not have there hands in the gold selling and power leveling bots, signs are all over this and Ncsoft is know for this. My rating of this game is 5 out of 10. I bet in time NCSOFT will sell you gear Micro-tranaction. Big mistake buying a Korean game I can see this now.

This game has alot of grinding mindless Grinding 4 to 6 levels on the same mob over and over and over for many areas of leveling.

Gms in game what a joke never seen one ,As I understand it lucky there is a moderator on the forums sometimes. I put a petition in game over a month still has not been answered even after multiple times put in , Also friend sent one in on his charactor with my name and problem no answer . Customer Service is horrible. No communication between player base they patch good luck find out what they did.

I DO NOT RECOMEND THIS GAME TO ANY ONE... Good luck if you allready Bought it!

Its like they release game with no one Driving serious Horrible

Runes Database - runedb.com

deloresdorman — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:21:19 GMT

Curse says that at runedb.com your character profile will be uploaded for viewing by others. However, I have ad the client running for over a month and my profile of my character Zetha has not uploaded. What the heck am I doing wrong. I play nearly 6 hours a day so don't say i'm not logged in enough. I have the curse client running and I have registered and been logged in on the site. The name comes up in search, but NOTHING shows up.

How do i cancel curse account and get a refund??

warspammer — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:31:30 GMT

i paid the 5 dollars and didnt get premium membership or a refund, i need to stop you people from charging me monthly, just simply tell me how or i will sue you

Torchlight Tools coming soon.

taalon927 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:27:35 GMT

I was wondering how many here play torchlight or are planning to at some point, and if we get enough replies we might get curse to host our mods. It would be so much nicer to have a good place to find the mods, one that has catagories rather then tring to dig thru countless forums to obtain a mod or find one. as the game will soon have its toolset out i expect alot of mods, quests, dungeons being built in the next few months. And one nice location to house them and find them all would be nice. If you agree with this please reply to this and maybe we can get the curse guys to create a new page for torchlight.

thanks.

Atlantica Troy

uhjpae — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:16:33 GMT

Have you seen Atlantica Troy? This is so awesome! It's not yet released in KAO but I can't wait for it! I can't understand what it says but here is the link for you to check out!

Atlantica Troy

Dragon Age Origins

reimaru — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:12:02 GMT

hey guys..have you tried this new game from Bioware? the game's called Dragon Age Origins

dang i missed the good old days of baldur's gate and KotOR

the game already got rave reviews from gaming sites and magazine

here's a trailer of the game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqVAjmqgmcY

Spartan UI Help

galace — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 00:59:30 GMT

Does anyone know how to change the size of like ur health bars and mana bars or ur enemies bars? Because mine are to small and it is hard for me to see the percentages and stuff.

heroes of newerth

dimawow — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:35:37 GMT

hey guys anybody of you have any keys left for heroes of newerth i was searching all day but evey site is out of keys and i want it so much btw i can give you my Lol account or section 8 ty :)