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Reply #630 on: December 05, 2008, 10:33:30 AM

My endgame was a bit anticlimactic. I had a named plasma rifle, gobs of ammo, maxed out energy weapons skill and very high sneak skill. I was 3 shotting Mutant Masters, occasionally sneak criting the for insta ash.

I should get back to nature, too.  You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer.  Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached.  Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe

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Reply #631 on: December 05, 2008, 11:07:28 AM

Now to figure out what becomes my next big home game to play. 

You have Rygar and Call of Cthulhu (which I suppose is Dark Corners of the Earth).

The answer is clear.
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Reply #632 on: December 05, 2008, 01:27:31 PM

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Reply #633 on: December 08, 2008, 01:58:51 AM

Anyone who hasn't played either of the God of War games might as well pick them up from Amazon for $8 each (today only).
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Reply #634 on: December 08, 2008, 04:03:23 PM

Hmm.. I might just do Rygar.  The thought of dying via running away from Deep One hybrids in Call of Cthulhu because I didn't open a door and make a leap out of a window in the exact time the game wanted me to sort of horrifies me.  Especially since I would need to restart the game on the 360 to do so.

That game was delayed for HOW long and they made it so unfairly hard?  In those years of delays nobody once said "This might be too tough, maybe we should make it easier or throw in a difficulty level"?

REALLY?

I did finish Guitar Hero World Tour's main tour as a medium Lead Guitarist.  Final Tier was more me staying alive than actually playing them well.  I fear for the songs in Asgard.  I don't do complicated changeups very well, and every mistake I make tends to breed more mistakes.  (Which is why it took me over a year of GH playing to move from Easy to Medium, which I have been at for over a year and a half now.)

Commander is fun, but Germany takes it on the chin circa 1943.  If I haven't conquered all of Europe, have the UK shut down in the ocean and air, and am slamming Russia like a porn actor in a less than nice scene (HATE THOSE WANT HAPPY FUN NOOKIE PLZ) slamming .. well you know.. I am doomed by 44 and playing out a losing game for 24 more turns to get endgame score doesn't seem like a fun use of my gametime.

Historically accurate but not so much fun.  I guess I could play it on an easier difficulty level but that doesn't really seem fair either.




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Reply #635 on: December 08, 2008, 05:26:44 PM

Hmm.. I might just do Rygar.  The thought of dying via running away from Deep One hybrids in Call of Cthulhu because I didn't open a door and make a leap out of a window in the exact time the game wanted me to sort of horrifies me.  Especially since I would need to restart the game on the 360 to do so.

You are still in the fun part of the game.

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Reply #636 on: December 08, 2008, 10:08:43 PM

Cthulhu is easy as hell. Those are the best parts in the game.

Well, that and what happens if you fail a puzzle way later in the game.

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Reply #637 on: December 08, 2008, 11:29:04 PM

Since my 360 is still away sick, and I have too much work to do, for work. Should be mostly clear on that by tomororw night, except for a couple of bits of paperwork.

I've been dabbling in a very small amount of WoW. Also went back to Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. Mostly out of bloody-mindedness in wanting to finish the damned thing. So then I'll be able to uninstall it, and then never speak of it again.




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Reply #638 on: December 09, 2008, 05:49:29 AM

Cthulhu is easy as hell. Those are the best parts in the game.

Well, that and what happens if you fail a puzzle way later in the game.

What happened to me was the CD slipped back into the case and never reemerged.

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Reply #639 on: December 10, 2008, 06:14:17 AM

I also uninstalled the game after being unable to get past the tentacle monster thing after trying for like 2 hours. Then I read it only gets worse. It was already too 'shooty' a horror game for my liking, so I just stopped.
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Reply #640 on: December 10, 2008, 09:11:51 AM

It got a bit shooty on the later bits, but the ending IMO more than made up for it. I finished it, and I don't finish a lot of games like that, so it can't be that hard.

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Reply #641 on: December 12, 2008, 10:50:24 AM

Been playing Da Blob lately, and some My Life As A King since the Wii is already on.  Also Monster's Den.

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Reply #642 on: December 12, 2008, 12:07:37 PM

Talking about shooty bits in Cthulhu and the RE5 stuff, along with the non-zombie survival game thread, got me thinking about the old  Beating a Dead Horse

Why all the shooty? Because it's easy? The GC remake of RE and RE0 are a couple of my favorite games, mostly for the atmosphere and puzzles. The slow-moving zombies were enough of a threat to keep you from just standing around. But the bosses and any shooty-type fast-moving stuff was just annoying and getting in the way of a good, slow-paced game.

I'm tired of shooting things in almost every game I own.

Almost enough to make me load up Thief 2 and ghost it.
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Reply #643 on: December 14, 2008, 11:39:11 AM

I sacrificed my Cthulhu dvd to Yog-Sothoth. He ate it with some fava beans and a nice chainti.

I'm currently playing the shit out of L4D and occasionally hopping over to CoD5: Not-so-modern warfare. (I refuse to call it World at War).

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Reply #644 on: December 14, 2008, 06:27:00 PM

dude, Persona 4. awesome, for real

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Reply #645 on: December 15, 2008, 06:39:04 AM

Space Siege, finished with this one. Mildly entertaining for a bit but overall a crap game.
Assassin's Creed: Had good fun but what a horrible storyline implementation. Probably made by the same guy who designed the retarded menu structure.
I'll give Rise of the Argonauts a whirl in the coming days. It looks like it could be decent RPG.
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Reply #646 on: December 15, 2008, 07:20:53 AM

A month and a half later?


Fallout 3.


Same playthrough.
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Reply #647 on: December 15, 2008, 03:52:45 PM

Finally sidelined Fallout 3.

Just WOWing for now. Ever since I managed to get the English WOW to work with the Korean servers, it's my new happy pastime. Only problem is that I can't see the Korean. I mean, the quests and AH and mobs and NPCs are all in English. But the player names and chat show up as question marks. Or sometimes little clumps of question marks. Oddly enough, same thing when they hotlink items or such. I can click the link and get the English, but the link itself is a question mark clump enclosed in brackets in the appropriate color. Oh well. Still better than trying to figure out quests in Korean.

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Reply #648 on: December 15, 2008, 11:25:31 PM

I think it's as simple as adding the correct font to your wow directory somewhere. It has been done before, the fonts should be somewhere on the internets.
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Reply #649 on: December 16, 2008, 12:07:39 AM

Right now I am in a holding pattern I guess.  Reign of Swords on my iPod Touch, and home gaming is a casual mix of continuing my FF12 game if nothing else for Fran's badonkadonk and it doesnt require much actual thought or effort to play (its kinda like Dungeon Siege except its prettier and boss fights require me to do more than dully stare at the screen and try to see where the maps are blanked out and thus requiring me to visit it and cast Cura a whole lot..) and the Allied side at normal difficulty in Commander.  Late 42 and I have already had UK troop drops in France and early 43 has me assaulting Paris.  Too bad taking it back has failed to bring France in the game.  My endless mass of Aircraft Carriers and Battleship bombardment should count for bringing those froggy bastards back under direct control dammit! 

Curse you France!  But at least Rackham is HQed in your country so at least IRL you have a purpose and reason for existing...

With luck Russia can hold out.  Leningrad fell one turn before some armor would have relieved the city.  So close yet so far....  Moscow has fallen too but I have so many Russian troops around the city holding it will prove hard for the Germans.  I can only hope virtual Stalin died in the assault and did not escape to the backup capital...  But with my combat drops in the west, the Eastern Front should at least be eased off.  And I have pretty much OWNED the ocean.

I thought about Call of Cthulhu but decided not to.  If I want annoying fish men I would go back to WoW for a month.  Not Deep Ones, but Murlocs are cute in their own little way!

I played a bit of FFX 2 because I got it used for 10 bucks.  Tried it out as to see if it still worked otherwise FYE would be getting it back ala their used guarantee thingie.  15 minutes of play and I felt like a dirty old man. 

City of Heroes Mac open beta still hasn't started yet, and my Mac copy of Heroes of Might & Magic 5 has yet to arrive and I may need to have a talk with Freeverse about their slow shipping.

Eschalon Book 2 still aint out and thus I can't have some proper old school RPGing and the first one is only male character and download only at this point.  I dont mind not being able to play a nubile cutie, but paying 20+ for a digital download is a big nuh uh to me.  Plus its only 800 x 600 resolution and is an 07-08 released game.  Wasn't I running Voodoo 5 5500 titles in 1024 back in 2000?  I think I was!  Its pretty, but it looks off on a 24" iMac screen with a 1900 x 1220 native resolution. 

The whole DL only thing is the same reason I haven't bought Midnight Mansion, which is a Mac only homage to Montezuma's Revenge only with more levels and a level editor.  Again its fun, but is it pay for virtual product fun?

VMWare not accepting my password so I could order Fusion at 50% off and thus finish my game of Icewind Dale also is ticking me off and thus I will get it at less of a discount but with another program I need next year, probably around February when my DONT BUY FUN SHIT BECAUSE YOU SPEND TOO MUCH DICKHEAD vow ends.

So I am in a mix of a holding pattern slash too many games to play.  Those of you who buy a shitload of games every month blow my mind.  Ive got so much to play I am virtually paralyzed with what to play.

It was actually better as a teenager when I had a small selection of games to play.  I appreciated and played through more of them.  I got my money's worth. 
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Reply #650 on: December 16, 2008, 12:13:32 AM

Persona 4.  I'm very early in but it's shaping up to be an improved experience on last year's masterpiece.  Quite an accomplishment, even if the camera sucks teh balls.

WoW.  I'm afraid of starting my DK in Northrend at 68 and scared of playing him with no rest EXP.  I'm not looking forward to possibly being underleveled at times.  Still, love the DK.

I want Christmas to get here so I can introduce LBP back into the ranks. Can only take so much grindy mechanics.


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Reply #651 on: December 16, 2008, 08:01:06 AM

WoW Because I'm weak.

Just picked up a PS3 so I bought Wipeout right away and am enjoying that in small intervals before bed.  Waiting to see what Amazon puts up for Thursday Gold Box to see if I can pick up a new Uncharted and LBP on the cheap.
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Reply #652 on: December 17, 2008, 09:48:11 AM

LotRO is slowly consuming more and more game time.  It really is super, and I don't mean that in a I'm-addicted-to-MMOs-and-will-play-anything way since I think the last time I spent this much time in a MMO was when some of us got into EVE back in 2006(?).

Otherwise I am just dabbling in places with my limited free time.  Saint's Row 2 made a comeback, a bit of My Life as a King (which is turning grindy) and various other small-time bullshit.

Castlevania: Order of Eclesia is taking up a significant amount of my time, in contrast with everything else other than LotRO.  Killjoy has already abandoned this because it is too hard, but I believe WoW is turning him into a massive pussy.

Finally, I have had entirely too much fun learning to implement Getopts::Long in a perl program.  Entirely.  I'm going to try to bend this enthusiasm into implementing a pair of crosslinked dictionaries in C#.  Or play some Mana Khemia.

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Reply #653 on: December 17, 2008, 10:44:16 AM

My wife and kids are out of town, so I've taken my projector out into the living room where I have a massive wall (double ceiling) to project on.  So I turn out the lights, crank up the home theater and have been playing Deadspace on about 180 inches of screen.  It has me squealing like a little girl, and is completely awesome.  Don't think it would have the same impact on an ordinary screen, not after doing it like this.  Awesome.

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Reply #654 on: December 17, 2008, 11:17:55 AM

A buddy of mine just got me World in Conflict for the PC, so I'm dicking around with that. It's pretty, and seems like a decent RTS. I'm just not sure how much RTS I'm in the mood for now.

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Reply #655 on: December 17, 2008, 11:25:56 PM

Still Fallout 3 for me. 2 weeks of 4+ hours a day (my back loves the PS3) and only just getting to the point-of-no-return in the main storyline quests. What an awesome game!  Heart

Just picked up a PS3 so I bought Wipeout right away and am enjoying that in small intervals before bed.

BTW, discovered a fun game the other day: The Wipeout Inappropriate Music Game.  See if you can find the funniest music to play it to. Our winner so far was Leonard Cohen. Oh god I nearly did myself an injury laughing so much  why so serious?
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Reply #656 on: December 18, 2008, 06:37:53 AM

Yackety Sax makes every game better.
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Reply #657 on: December 18, 2008, 12:52:31 PM

Bob Newhart during Forza 2.

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Reply #658 on: December 18, 2008, 05:24:43 PM

I would be trying to test out the City of Heroes Mac beta but oh, it can take up to 48 fucking hours for the account renewal to be put in the system so I can play my old characters, and making an open beta client it insists my password or login info is incorrect.

FUCK THIS FUCKING SHIT ASS FUCK I JUST WANT TO PLAY THE GODDAMNED GAME.  And I can only play it tonight and unless tomorrow is a blizzard and I use a weather day I won't be able to touch the game till Monday.

I had my computer downloading it since TUESDAY EVENING.

PLAY NOW DAMMIT.

And even worse I am not even sure my Mac will get into the game itself because I DARE to not upgrade to OSX 10.5 which apparently every new fucking Mac app needs these days even when in 10.4 days developers were happy to continue to allow older OS revisions to run the damned programs.

I'm not buying 10.5.  I am skipping it and waiting for 10.6 in the late winter-mid spring timeframe. 

This kind of fuck ass shit is why so many people go consoles.

GAME INTO MACHINE.  MACHINE TURN ON.  YOU PLAY.

(Ok, Xbox 360 users don't always get this, but its a shittily manufactured machine.  THE CONSOLE GAMER JOKES AT MICROSOFT'S EXPENSE ARE ALL FUCKING TRUE AREN'T THEY?)


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Reply #659 on: December 18, 2008, 08:06:56 PM

Take your meds, dude.

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Reply #660 on: December 18, 2008, 08:59:26 PM

They make me fat otherwise I would.   I barely eat as is.  Normal people can have Christmas cookies with the sprinkly goodness or the frosted tree or snowman or santa kind of cookie and all.

I cannot.  And even with exercise I generally just maintain my barely acceptable weight (roughly 170 with 150 desired) so something that makes me gain weight is not worth taking.  Which means I get to be more worried, pissed off, and depressed about shit.

And angry.  Lots of that.  Stupid game.  I had my heart set on bringing Agent Rolf, Cadette Babette, Fieros Rangerbot, and Ozohc Bandit out of retirement for at least a month. :(

Even NCSoft can't figure out what the problem is and has thus sent the ticket to a higher priority.  So instead of being able to do some superhero smashy smash I am here watching Macross 7 episodes for something to do since playing another game just doesn't feel right when I want to play one certain game.

Its like asking for a Millennium Falcon for Christmas and getting a couple Micronauts figures instead.  Its nice, but not what you wanted if that makes any sense.
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Reply #661 on: December 18, 2008, 09:03:18 PM

They make me fat otherwise I would.   I barely eat as is.  Normal people can have Christmas cookies with the sprinkly goodness or the frosted tree or snowman or santa kind of cookie and all.

I cannot.  And even with exercise I generally just maintain my barely acceptable weight (roughly 170 with 150 desired) so something that makes me gain weight is not worth taking.  Which means I get to be more worried, pissed off, and depressed about shit.

And angry.  Lots of that.  Stupid game.  I had my heart set on bringing Agent Rolf, Cadette Babette, Fieros Rangerbot, and Ozohc Bandit out of retirement for at least a month. :(

Even NCSoft can't figure out what the problem is and has thus sent the ticket to a higher priority.  So instead of being able to do some superhero smashy smash I am here watching Macross 7 episodes for something to do since playing another game just doesn't feel right when I want to play one certain game.

Its like asking for a Millennium Falcon for Christmas and getting a couple Micronauts figures instead.  Its nice, but not what you wanted if that makes any sense.

TMI.
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Reply #662 on: December 19, 2008, 06:48:24 AM

That's one of the biggest remining gripes about Apple. Forced obsolescence. You can play any game off the shelf on XP, but most mac apps aren't happy unless you have 10.4.

We're entering a shitstorm now that Adobe cut off 10.3 and earlier for Flash 10. If people can't use their flash apps on our public computer, there will be a bloodbath.
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Reply #663 on: December 19, 2008, 10:22:44 AM

Linger in Shadows

I just downloaded & "played" this on a whim cos I had £2 excess on my PS-Store account. Wow. Very odd and very gorgeous.

Are there any real games that have a graphical style like this?

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Reply #664 on: December 19, 2008, 11:37:08 AM

That's one of the biggest remining gripes about Apple. Forced obsolescence. You can play any game off the shelf on XP, but most mac apps aren't happy unless you have 10.4.

We're entering a shitstorm now that Adobe cut off 10.3 and earlier for Flash 10. If people can't use their flash apps on our public computer, there will be a bloodbath.

I have 10.4.  Most new Mac programs seem to insist on 10.5.  There is no NEED for it, but they do.  Like Boot Camp.  Was fine and happy in 10.4 but once 10.5 came out it mysteriously only worked with it.
(Of course this .5 requirement saved me from getting saddled with Spore so I guess that's a blessing in disguise!) 
I will most likely get 10.6 to install on the 2.8 dual core intel machine, but my G5 probably won't run it, and apparently some of the .x.x upgrades to .5 have borked some OSX games so itll be nice to keep the G5 as a legacy machine.
If the rumors are true 10.6 will be like the anti Vista and make shit run a LOT faster.  Some hoo hah with multicores and shit.

I think Microsoft tried to make stuff Vista only, but that sort of didn't go so well if I understand things correctly. 

Last night I did try that Transgaming app that officially supports a whopping 10 games.  Since Guild Wars was one I gave the demo a shot.  It runs pretty damned nicely.  Doesn't allow for Antialiasing options, but the game runs with 1900 by 1200 resolution which is pretty much better than AA anyhow.  Get a solid 30-66 FPS in the various newbie areas with all settings upped to maximum.  Im not paying 40 bucks for an app that officially handles a teeny subset of games, but I can use it for a week. 

And still no response from NCSoft on my login issues.  Assholes. Its a blizzard outside so I might be home tonight. 
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