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argh halo! you suck! why do i play you???

another round?

hmm.

ok

anyone else paying the new pacman game on the PSN?

addicted to it right now but damn if it doesnt get me down when i look at the scoreboard and i'm in place 21,125 and the #1 score is something unimaginable. seriously how did you eat 800 ghosts in a row when my top score is 99!!!!

  On 3/24/2011 at 7:42 PM, Gravity said:

  On 3/24/2011 at 7:38 PM, Joyrex said:

and the constant 'rat-race' of having to upgrade just to play the latest games in a decent quality (or at all).

 

That's actually gone down quite a lot in the last couple of years, except for Crysis and a few others.

yea, i've only upgraded my pc twice in 5 years, +2Gb ram and a radeon hd 4850 instead of nvidia 7900gt, the only game from which i couldn't get a satisfactory performance was gta 4.

play what you like doesn't cut it, developers who were making decent computers game are forced to indulge fat lazy americans and their 3 button console mashing habits. it went from baldurs gate to dumbass dragon age 2 and mass effects, deus ex to invisible war, no development of decent graphics engines to make pcs truly stand out and so on. it's just a gradual lowering of standard to appeal to the masses, it's horrible and it should be protested.

at least there are more indie games popping up lately..

http://social.bioware.com/forum/1/topic/304/index/6661775&lf=8

david gaider lays the smack down on a whiny homophobe who was ~GrOsSeD OuT~ by

in dragon age 2

i think i want to play it again lol. just because of this comment.

no one cares i know. i will shut up now.

lol

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there should have been much more focus in on making sure us male gamers were happy.

  On 3/25/2011 at 12:20 AM, Haldermaniac said:

lol

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there should have been much more focus in on making sure us male gamers were happy.

yeah that slayed me. also all girls play the sims. every single one.

  On 3/25/2011 at 12:59 AM, disparaissant said:

yeah that slayed me. also all girls play the sims. every single one.

the readings are inconclusive

  On 3/24/2011 at 4:44 PM, Terpentintollwut said:

  On 3/24/2011 at 12:51 AM, Obel said:

I found it funny. Thanks Kaini, forget these fucking ungrateful bastards. You didn't ruin their day, they ruined their own goddamned day by being all up in arms about a video you innocently posted for other peoples enjoyment. But OH NO... it's not good enough for them. No internet memes or lolpenis, just someone having a crack, amusing themself by making a video of something they enjoy with some silly commentary. Fuck this. It should banned. Motherfuckers. Fucking with my head.

 

lol, lolpenis

 

I like Kaini. But the video guy was unfunny in a way I guess that reminded us complainers of ourselves in situations where we tried to be funny and didn't succeed. Hence the need to pelt him with rocks.

It was the fact that he exaggerated what we all think while playing the game for humourous effect. He put it on display and that's why it's funny. It's juvenile but fun humour, the way more Lets Play/Walthroughs should be done if you ask me. But I don't want to be a bore and explain why things are funny so you know, different strokes for different folks etc. Except me and Kaini's stroke is obviously far better of course!

I see ......................

The shelves were re-stocked at Walmart today so I bought a Playstation Move controller and a navigation controller today along with Playstation Move Heroes. Played it at my buddies house first. Seems pretty cool. Will get a second Move controller and Sports Champions when I get paid next at the end of the month. Now I can finally use the PS Move controller charger that I won from PSU.com. Nothin' like a free gaming accessory.

Dear lord mother of christ, I helped my holmie build a 16 hundred dolla newegg machine and played Crysis 2 on it. 32x Anti Aliasing with everything jacked flawless 90+FPS SO BEAUTIFUL even in directX 9.0c that Nvidia 580 displays godliness. So smooth and buttery. It was like seeing heaven and walking back to purgatory going from that to playing on my now mediocre-ish machine (even though the game is far far more optimized than Crysis one and Warhead and still plays really well), can't imagine going from that to playing it on consoles with the shitty controls/low fidelity by comparison. They definitely improved the AI a lot from the almost 2 month old leak dramatically from the half an hour my jaw was dropped trading off on the release build campaign. Really disappointed they didn't add CO-OP. Hopefully someone will make a CO-OP mod because New York Nanosuit mercing on mass fools is good fun.

All my irl nerd friends were too patient to play the Crysis 2 fake lan leak MP so I waited till it came out to fully get into it. Fucking fun FPS, much more entertaining gameplay to Call Of Duty anymore. Glad they ripped of CODs MP Ranking/upgrade system. It's nice having parties but be able to go into selected real pinged dedicated servers with ranked games. I really don't understand why they refused to adopt dedicated servers for high budget console MP blockbusters. Anyway, I'm still drunk/stoned, no work tomorrow can't wait to wake up and play some more C2 MP with some IRL PC homies.

Pretty sure I'm buying an arcade stick for SF2HDRemix and Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 on 360. Finally going to buy Limbo too.

  On 3/24/2011 at 11:34 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

anyone else paying the new pacman game on the PSN?

 

addicted to it right now but damn if it doesnt get me down when i look at the scoreboard and i'm in place 21,125 and the #1 score is something unimaginable. seriously how did you eat 800 ghosts in a row when my top score is 99!!!!

I like it a lot too, although I haven't had the time as of recent to play it further...

I finally beat god of war 2 and now the 3rd one makes so much more sense. It starts exactly where the 2nd game ended. Now I have to go play the first one because I completely forget what happened there, it has been years since I've played it. Kind of fun playing games in reverse, I'd like to do that with the metal gear solid series, haven't played the second one in years either and I just bought a used copy that doesn't work at all.

crysis 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m51gp_F29k

im playing it on my pc though, and i've got to say it's pretty cool / amazing looking so far.

^LOL

Tony Montana jr. makes a video game review.

LOL that is hilarious. I can understand his frustration a bit though, they shouldn't have even released Crysis 2 ps3, Crytek said they didn't like developing for it and couldn't get it as optimized as they wanted.

Crysis 2 MP on PC is very fun, smooth, addictive and beautiful but if they don't add more maps with more varied gameplay it's going to get a little old in a few months. I'm happy they made the MP and the game in general more focused than the original but I wish they would have done at least 2 huge maps with vehicles similar to how Crysis 1 MP was.

i actually bought dragon age and da2 after beating mass effect but I'm having a hard time getting in to them. If this is what happened to the people that made baldurs gate, where is the pseudo-hardcore rpg these days? everything seems to be decided for you, and you cant really explore anything. after playing through ff13, fable 3, and both mass effect games this year, my interest in rpgs is really starting to wane. I have a WoW account, but come on, if mmorpgs are the last bastion of content heavy rpgs i think i might just quit playing video games.

I've been replaying Final Fantasy IV (Final Fantasy II, American). What a great game. When the dwarven forces sweep down in their airships to save the day, it gives me chills.

Massive jazz:

Just finished Doom 3 - I'll rate it 3.5/5

I know I'm 6 years late to this but i typed up a mini review so.... :

Doom 3:

I really actually liked the game in the end. Main gripe being the samey layout (same ol military complex vibe), but it does change about 80% thru the game so I'll give them that. Liked the weapons, the story was good, the voice acting in the pda logs was REALLY good, very convincing. I liked the use of the pda's in general, and the comical martianbuddy.com stuff. I thought the Hell Guardian boss was the hardest, only because I couldn't figure out that you had to hit the light above him, until after like 20 tries. Beyond that, most the bosses were pretty easy, Sarge being 2nd hardest only because he keeps painting you nonstop with bfg shots. Final boss was pretty easy imo, but enjoyable to play, so not *too easy*.

(Rest of the review in spoiler)

Good timing, they're going to show off Doom 4 for the first time at this year's QuakeCon. August 4th to the 11th.

  On 3/26/2011 at 6:53 PM, Haldermaniac said:

i actually bought dragon age and da2 after beating mass effect but I'm having a hard time getting in to them. If this is what happened to the people that made baldurs gate, where is the pseudo-hardcore rpg these days? everything seems to be decided for you, and you cant really explore anything. after playing through ff13, fable 3, and both mass effect games this year, my interest in rpgs is really starting to wane. I have a WoW account, but come on, if mmorpgs are the last bastion of content heavy rpgs i think i might just quit playing video games.

yeah i'd like mass effect a lot more if it was an actual rpg. i was enjoying da1., probably 3/4 through it, but then i reformatted my pc and 2 weeks later i realised i hadnt reinstalled da. then i realised i didnt give a shit.

guess i'll wait and see how much they dumb down elder scrolls 5. already know the story will be generic shit.

i wish they made games for adults. not elves n goblins fanfic with swearing and lezzo fantasies for 27 year old basement dwellers, but actual adults.

imagine a china mieville game in the elder scrolls engine. or a james ellroy game in the gta4 engine. how sweet would that be?

  On 3/26/2011 at 9:54 PM, Gravity said:

Good timing, they're going to show off Doom 4 for the first time at this year's QuakeCon. August 4th to the 11th.

w00t!

Just read this from John Carmack

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Doom 4 is being built on id Software's id Tech 5 game engine. Gameplay-wise the game is set to resemble the action-orientation of the classic Doom games more than the horror style of Doom 3

I'm down with that. I think that's what I was really missing.

where is this coming from?!?!? if thats true i am freakin stoked. i think the original games are scarier than doom 3 to this day , and funner

From id themselves.

They were actually supposed to show it at last year's QuakeCon, but it wasn't ready. A lot of people were pretty pissed.

  On 3/26/2011 at 10:13 PM, MAXIMUS MISCHIEF said:

where is this coming from?!?!? if thats true i am freakin stoked. i think the original games are scarier than doom 3 to this day , and funner

http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Doom_4

http://www.myfoxhouston.com/dpp/entertainment/games/110128-upcoming-games-for-show-play-at-quakecon-2011