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Reply #665 on: December 19, 2008, 03:23:01 PM

I would be playing WoW right now, at this very moment in time, except it keeps booting me off so I'm not playing anything at all.   Heartbreak

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Reply #666 on: December 20, 2008, 11:56:38 PM

Because blogging about things like politics or game design is boring and hard, I started commenting blogishly on on my GamerDNA Xfire feed.

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Reply #667 on: December 21, 2008, 12:08:12 AM

GamerDNA is slow, ugly, and bloated. Why don't you just throw a wordpress blog up somewhere even if it's "just blogging." I mean, seriously, that place is HORRIBLE. I'd rank it somewhere between MySpace pre-redesign and MySpace post-redesign.
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Reply #668 on: December 21, 2008, 04:35:20 AM

Why don't you just throw a wordpress blog up somewhere even if it's "just blogging."

If I put something up on a site devoted to blogging, or using software designed for blogging, people might expect me to say something meaningful. If I ever do, it will be by accident. The perception that I have to be profound places incredible stress on me, and keeps me from writing anything at all. If I toss off "I blew up some shit in Dark Crusade, it was fun" on GamerDNA, odds are the one person who reads it won't even care.

Also, it's already automatically tallying most of what I play via the Xfire feed. I'm using it as Last.fm for games.

Also, I'm lazy. I already had the account from when it was GuildCafe, and the site stores screenshots as well.

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Reply #669 on: December 21, 2008, 04:44:07 AM

What I'm saying is, it's Almost The Ugliest Choice. As in, there's worse... barely.

No one expects anything profound on a blog. Shit, after this weekend no one should expect anything even remotely profound on the whole of the net.
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Reply #670 on: December 21, 2008, 11:51:20 AM

Finally got into CoH on a snow day.  They added in a LOT since I quit (Pre CoV), but its still fighting grind endlessly.  And while its still a beta, it runs sluggishly as shit in the city areas.  Sometimes to horrible levels.  I'm on a fucking 2.8 ghz dual core 2 gig ram machine with a DX10 compatible card.  There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for that kind of performance.

If using Crossover lets a later and prettier online game (Guild Wars) run at 30-66 FPS at 1900 1200 widescreen then City of Heroes should easily be able to do the same. 

I'm not sure how much more of CoH I will play since its still the usual MMORPG grind and the performance issues. 

Even without the issues I have had... its just not there.  Hell, same with bringing Guild Wars back out of hibernation.  I think maybe the MMORPG genre is dead to me for the time being.


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Reply #671 on: December 21, 2008, 12:36:08 PM

CoH draws...a LOT of stuff in cities...same for everyone....

and the grind is -30% or more.

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Reply #672 on: December 21, 2008, 06:19:28 PM

LotRO
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Reply #673 on: December 21, 2008, 06:21:24 PM

Etrian Odyssey 2 (unless the grind doesn't end soon)

It doesn't.
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Reply #674 on: December 21, 2008, 07:07:18 PM

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so, what else?
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Reply #675 on: December 21, 2008, 07:11:00 PM

Dawn of War
Bioshock - figured I was doing myself a disservice by not finishing it.
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Occaisonally logging into Warhammer while my sub runs out.

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Reply #676 on: December 21, 2008, 10:35:08 PM

Yesterday I took a break from furiously playing Lotro and Fallout 3 and went retro on my computers ass. I played Beneath a Steel Sky, since GOG gave it to me free and all. Plus Chrono Trigger on my DS and Monopoly and Frenzic (iPhone) on the way to work.

I'm almost done with Fallout though, so I bought Infinite Undiscovery and The Last Remnant. Oh, if I wouldn't hate playing on the console instead of the PC so much...

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Reply #677 on: December 24, 2008, 02:23:02 AM

I'm still trying to find something to play.  Freeverse still hasnt sent me Heroes of Might & Magic 5 even though I ordered it Black Friday at 50% off.
City of Heroes for the Mac still runs a bit too slow and I can't play on the live servers yet meaning its not really worth playing.  Its nice to know it runs on 10.4 OSX but whats the point of playing a new character for a short time before they go away?
Guild Wars I am just not feeling.  And I sure as hell am not paying 40 bucks to just play it on OSX.  Runs nicely, but for the amount Crossover costs, they should have gotten more than 5-10 games running no fuss no muss.
And given that Icewind Dale 2 and Neverwinter Nights 2 both installed but then refused to actually RUN means I am better off waiting for 10.6 and just bootcamping them even if I don't want to go to the land of Windows XP anymore.  (Or even when it came out for that matter...)

I was gonna go buy some Wii VC stuff and get my sidescroller on but the Wii is DLing about as slow as a torrent program.  Its taken me an hour to update it and it seems to be ultraslow in even updating Dr Mario.  So by the time it finishes itll be bedtime when all I wanted was an hour of running, jumping, and killing.  Without the blood and endless array of brownness. 

I've been putting more music on the iMac from CDs I forgot about.  I was sorta inspired to put Lunar Silver Star Story Soundtrack, the pack in FF4-5 Chronicles Soundtrack, and Final Fantasy N Generation CD on the thing.  Now to decide which ones want to go over to the IPod Touch.

And its giving me old school RPG hankering.  Even though I won't really have much time till at least January 5th to really get my teeth around it.  I sorta want to restart Arc the Lad 2, FF5, Lunar Eternal Blue, or Wild Arms from the top.  Its been entirely too long since I played them and by this point I have forgotten almost everything about them.  (Or for comedy restarts: Beyond the Beyond or Kings Field 2.  The latter would have been awesome for 1996 but last time I tried to get it going it was too slow and primitive for my early PS2 gaming days.

Yes yes I know I am so stuck in the old game days and should embrace the real time high poly count bloom lighting brown and grey modern worlds but I don't fucking wanna.

(The Wii is DLing Alien Crush Returns rather quickly though.  Thats nice I suppose.  Yay early morning internet!)

There are some tasty morsels available.  From games I know and love (Castlevania, Castlevania 4, Landstalker) that I could use on a modern machine in my living room to games I never got to play like Secret of Mana and Mario RPG SNES.

I think given the time I will hold some points till after the New Year.  I have enough to play after all.  Maybe restart one of those PS1 RPGs above.  Sounds like a decent plan.
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Reply #678 on: December 24, 2008, 03:02:12 AM

Jain, have you played Myth: The Fallen Lords? I ask because it runs (or used to....) great on Macs and is old school awesome fun that seems to be little known.


Separate question, does anyone know how to re-enable the tutorial voice-overs in Little Big Planet? I played through the early levels on my own and now my girlfriend wants to join in. Would be really nice to have Stephen Fry telling her how to do it instead of me, he's much funnier than I am and has a far sexier voice.
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Reply #679 on: December 24, 2008, 04:17:43 PM

I played a little of Alien Crush Returns.  Its a very fun little pinball game.  Looks really nice on the Wii VC.  Plays pretty good too.  But its not something you can sink your teeth into like a big meaty steak.  More something to play for a half hour or so.

Thus I had inspiration in the way only my unstoppably dorky ass could come up.

I LET THE D20 decide!  And not just any D20 but my oldest gaming die.  A 20 year old veteran.  My first gaming die.  An ink it yourself 0-9 repeating D20 from the Avalon Hill edition of Runequest, my first tabletop RPG purchase. 

I thought about RPGs and such I might like to finish up or take from the top.  (Some talk on some IRC channels made me realize I forgot a few ideas.  Like Xenogears and the like.  But its a pretty wide list of stuff I can easily run without having to pray to the gods of DOSBox or buy VMWare Fusion which I will end up getting whenever I can afford an original copy of Windows 98 to play those pesky titles XP laughs at.  I needs my Warlords 3 and Moo2 in Windows mode!  NEEDS THEM I TELLS YA. )

This was the list I came up with in a quick fashion:
1: Beyond the Beyond 2: Lunar Eternal Blue 3: Wild Arms 4: Arc the Lad 2 5: Final Fantasy 5 6: Vagrant Story 7: Final Fantasy 9 8: Secret of Mana (Wii VC buy) 9: Super Mario RPG (Wii VC buy) 10: Paper Mario (Wii VC buy) 11: Final Fantasy 10 (continued game) 12: Final Fantasy 12 (continued game) 13: Dragon Quest 8 (continued game) 14: La Pucelle (continued game) 15: Disgaea 2 (continued game) 16: Ys Ark of Napsthim (continued game) 17: Silent Hill 3 18-20: Action game.  Reroll.

My first roll was a 12.  Eh.  I just tried a replay last week.  Decided its Christmas Eve and since I suck I deserved a reroll and a choice between the two.  Rolled a 4, Arc the Lad 2.  Now THAT's an idea!  Check my save file and I only made it 10 hours in.  The packaging date says 01.  Goddamn that was a LOOONG time ago.  I am reimpressed with the quality packaging Working Designs used.  I am reminded I shoulda got Growlanser Generations while I had the chance.  I am also reminded I never got to play the rest of the Cosmic Fantasy series on the TG16 because they were never translated. :(

It looks like I shall be playing Arc the Lad 2 from the top.  Still have my Arc 1 save file so I can transport the gang over not that I remember a damned thing about what happened.  Other than there being dirigibles.  Wikipedia can solve that!



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Reply #680 on: December 24, 2008, 08:32:48 PM

Wot?   ACK!

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Reply #681 on: December 24, 2008, 09:03:14 PM

I think that was what you could firmly describe as a geeksplosion.

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Reply #682 on: December 24, 2008, 09:38:01 PM

That's actually a cool idea. I used to have a dice fetish, though. I took Ye Olde Three Man, the college drinking game and applied it to two ten siders :) I've still got my very first set of dice from 1979. Almost 30!
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Reply #683 on: December 24, 2008, 09:49:15 PM

I think that was what you could firmly describe as a geeksplosion.

Im a giant fucking nerd.  Nobody needs to point out what I already goddamned well know.

It seemed like as good a way to pick a game as any other.  Beats taking a giant pile of games out, throwing them in a pile, closing my eyes and pointing/picking one. 

Besides I have to work tomorrow and what little family I have left alive couldn't even bother to call me so I needed to do something to kill time tonight. 

So play Arc the Lad 2, drink hot beverages, talk to a friend who called me on the phone for a bit, and listen to nerd stuff podcasts while I play a late 90s SRPG released later than it should have been thanks to Sony being full of cocks, and do so on an HDTV so I can see every pixel since I have Component cables.

Whee.  Fuckin awesome Christmas I get to have.
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Reply #684 on: December 24, 2008, 10:38:25 PM

Phildo and I ate cake.
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Reply #685 on: December 24, 2008, 10:46:32 PM

Gonna finally pick up L4D this morning when I get home and treat myself to a zombieriffic xmas. I will couple this with a half gallon of egg nog heavily spiced with Jim Beam and begin what should be a wonderful event.
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Reply #686 on: December 25, 2008, 05:12:13 AM

Just started playing Resistance 2. Fun game! Particularly like the alien gun that has a built-in energy shield and lets you shoot alien badguys through walls. Looking like I'm gonna blow through it pretty fast though, but I have a couple of friends who are up for some co-op multi which should be fun.

Edit: OK I was having fun until I got to Chicago and all the stupid jumping puzzles with unkillable insta-death monsters in the water if you miss a single fucking jump and no checkpoint until you do all the jumps fucking perfectly. Retarded gameplay, seriously.
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Reply #687 on: December 26, 2008, 09:03:40 AM

I too am playing Resistance 2 but mostly multiplayer.  Both competitive and co-op modes are great fun and I can see myself playing them for quite some time.  The single player however, blah... not great but not terrible.

I received Valkyria Chronicles as a gift yesterday and will probably play some of that as well but I'm running out of free time.

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Reply #688 on: December 26, 2008, 06:18:11 PM

Didn't know Chibi Robo was anything besides a sandbox of scrubbing pawprints with a toothbrush, but it's actually really fun. Glad I pulled it off my shelf.

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Reply #689 on: December 27, 2008, 07:22:28 AM

Chibi Robo is awesome, for real, and I don't mean that in the "I like Hello Kitty Online" way or the "I'm a miner in EVE" way.  Decent story and puzzle gameplay.

Castlevania: Order of Eclesia.

GalCivII, where the Yor Collective remembered its abysmal reproductive rate and only built the freebie colony on a nearby planet.  Instead of colony ships, I'm building starbases and troop transports, and taking planets from the Torians... after which I do not improve so as to not bother with maintenance costs, since they won't be generating taxes of any significance.  Thinking of trading planets to allies for (more) tech and invading again later.

Animal Crossing: City Folk.  The series has finally reached the stage it should have been at on the GameCube.  There are quite a few improvements if you have not played the DS version.  The most interesting thing about this game is its relatively light reliance on pointing and waggling.  I actually have the option of waggling to swing my net... so I use the A button like a civilized simian.  The C and Z buttons act like the A and B, so I find that I am able to shake trees with my left hand and eat chips and cheese dip with my right.  Suck it, WiiFit.

LotRO.  My main can do both hobbit dances now, and I run around with a pumpkin on my head.  I'm having a great time in this game.  Too many quests, incredible landscape, epic story, smoking, drinking, and dancing.  What else could a hobbit want?

Cracked open Kameo and played it with my boy.  He thinks this game is great, especially Rubble.  He helps me figure out the puzzles and such while I do the grunt work... such as looking up Kameo's skirt.

The wife has been playing MySims Kingdom.  It seems somewhat better than the first one, but I mean that it's not choppy or ugly as well as expanded a bit.  I can't recommend this to anyone here except maybe Voodoo and the other girls who are not Signe, and even then I might be insulting them.  Haven't tried it myself but apparently it is rather hilarious.

Persona 4 is in the house.  I get it on Birthday Day.

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Reply #690 on: December 27, 2008, 05:01:30 PM

I'm on vacation atm, so mostly portable stuff - I finally located a copy of Phoenix Wright:  Trials and Tribulations, so it and Lumines have been pretty much it lately, aside from random stuff at Kongregate.

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Reply #691 on: December 27, 2008, 08:01:59 PM

Persona 4 is consuming me....for realz.


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Reply #692 on: December 27, 2008, 08:27:36 PM

I played LittleBigPlanet last night because I need something to lighten my mood.  Cute game and pretty fun.  Really well put together.

Likely to go back to playing Persona 4 though.  It's an itch I really feel the need to scratch. It's amazing that they found a way to make the Persona 3 experience even better.

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Reply #693 on: December 27, 2008, 09:16:14 PM

Mostly Persona 4, though FFH's managed to pull me away from it temporarily.  I'm already itching to get back to Persona though.  So damn addicting.  After that, back to Valkyria Chronicles, which Persona 4 put on the sidelines. 
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Reply #694 on: December 28, 2008, 07:09:29 AM

Man, FFH.

I was doing laundry last night and thought, innocently, I'll just play while I do laundry.

Wrong.  Even forgot to load that shit in the dryer.  Hah.  Good times.
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Reply #695 on: December 28, 2008, 07:34:31 AM

Sins of a Solar Empire has an expansion due out on the 1st.  I've been playing some against the CPU just to get into the mood.

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Reply #696 on: December 28, 2008, 09:14:58 AM

Eff eff aytch too.

Still getting in some Fallout 3. Really want to finish that and buy GTA4. I know a lot of folks were underwhelmed, but the fiancee loves the GTA series. Debating whether I should do GTA4 or hold out for Saint's Row 2. Tough call, she likes the soundtracks and the humor. GTA4 has one, SR2 has the other.
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Reply #697 on: December 28, 2008, 02:47:40 PM

I finished Reign of Swords on the iPod Touch and picked up an older portable game to try again.

Dig Dig Digging Strike on the DS.  I have passed my old point, but the game has a flaw.

On one side you have Dig Dug gameplay.  On the other, its attached to Dig Dug 2 gameplay.

You go into the Dig Dug bits to drill deep enough to drop stakes that break up the top world to drop a big monster into the water.

The monsters move about and in some cases leave your carefully set areas to fall in by a smidgen and depending on the level layout you may then have to redo the whole level.  The Dig Dug sections have items and power ups to help (like getting Mr Driller to change the angle a stake will cause a crack in the land, stunning the monster for a moment, and such.)

The story is fun.  Dig Dug (now known as Taizo Hori) is all mad because he is OOOLLD (In Japan terms though anyone over 25 is an old coot though..) and is son Suzumu (Mr Driller of the pink and pastel blue outfit) is all famous and beloved.  The government calls needing help on an island chain (with a President who looks like that Japanese Prime minister with the crazy hair...) but Taizo picks up the phone and runs off even though they want his son's help instead. 

Its a mildly amusing story.

I got the game for like 15 bucks last year at FYE but never really got into it.  Its a good enough portable diversion till I decide to go back to either Front Mission or Etrian Odyssey 2 (and grind my ass off in the snow levels..) or Jeanne D Arc. 


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Reply #698 on: December 28, 2008, 03:21:36 PM

I finally caved in and bought Guitar Hero... I should have done that years ago.

By far one of this years best gaming experiences, simply because it doesnt feel like a game, not yet anyways. It makes me feel like a rockstar! I know Im way behind, but I was never really into music games post Parappa, VibRibbon and Frequency, and simply looked at GH as Parappa with a silly peripheral. But it is the peripheral that makes the experience come together so well.  Brilliant!

Also played Fallout 3 quite a bit, havent finished it yet, and doubt I ever will. The game makes me angry, its GHs Yang, constantly pulling me out of the illusion and reminding me that it is, after all, a game. I really want to love it, on paper it whets my mouth and player agency is riding high. Its just a tad bit too broken and rough around the edges, just like Oblivion with guns (only better).

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Reply #699 on: December 29, 2008, 09:24:28 AM

Animal Crossing: City Folk.  The series has finally reached the stage it should have been at on the GameCube.  There are quite a few improvements if you have not played the DS version.  The most interesting thing about this game is its relatively light reliance on pointing and waggling.  I actually have the option of waggling to swing my net... so I use the A button like a civilized simian.  The C and Z buttons act like the A and B, so I find that I am able to shake trees with my left hand and eat chips and cheese dip with my right.  Suck it, WiiFit.

Haven't played I since launch crack-out-wit-your-catass day, should pick it back up.

The wife has been playing MySims Kingdom....I can't recommend this to anyone here except maybe Voodoo and the other girls who are not Signe, and even then I might be insulting them. 

I'll keep that in mind.


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