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  On 5/12/2012 at 9:17 PM, Squee said:

  On 5/12/2012 at 9:11 PM, Philip Glass said:

I have a question about the Arma II DayZ mod... I don't get the full concept. Zombies are AI, but are all humans real players? It's some big MMORPG or there are servers with 64 people max? It would suck if there's only 64 humans max in an entire 200 square km map

 

I think that's the beauty of it. It's the apocalypse. Everyone you meet is a survivor.

Oh so it kinda sucks, you could be weeks before ever finding another human being. What's the max # of person on a server??

Yeah, unfortunately it's buggy as hell...

  On 5/12/2012 at 11:48 PM, Philip Glass said:

  On 5/12/2012 at 9:17 PM, Squee said:

  On 5/12/2012 at 9:11 PM, Philip Glass said:

I have a question about the Arma II DayZ mod... I don't get the full concept. Zombies are AI, but are all humans real players? It's some big MMORPG or there are servers with 64 people max? It would suck if there's only 64 humans max in an entire 200 square km map

 

I think that's the beauty of it. It's the apocalypse. Everyone you meet is a survivor.

 

Oh so it kinda sucks, you could be weeks before ever finding another human being. What's the max # of person on a server??

You could but I believe there is some way you can spawn on friends when you enter a map... I watched them play it at GiantBomb the other day and they were able to do this somehow.

You can download the free version of ARMA 2 here

http://www.arma2.com/free

I can't remember the max number of players on a server but it's a LOT of players. Don't know if the same goes for this mod.

OH SWEET! So you can really play the Day Z mod with Arma II free 4 free??? This is good news, I understand that it's really buggy right now but this seems like it would be really fun with a bunch of homies either way.

I feel I probably now need a Playstation Move to counteract the insane wranglings I've tried to perform with my humble regular controller over the last hour or so -

there's a nice 12 page write-up in the new game informer on elder scrolls online. I think this game is going to be the shit.

wow that datura game looks like it could be interesting.

i still need to buy Journey, but ever since the PSN online breakin way back when Im nervous about putting my info on there.

Yeah i saw Datura on the market yest.... intriguing.... im wondering if its like dear ester except with some interactivity?

I want to play journey but 15$ is steep for a game thats only a few hours long.

  On 5/13/2012 at 4:00 AM, Blanket Fort Collapse said:

OH SWEET! So you can really play the Day Z mod with Arma II free 4 free??? This is good news, I understand that it's really buggy right now but this seems like it would be really fun with a bunch of homies either way.

Uhh it's looking like Arma 2 Free doesn't allow mods. :(

And it looks like Day Z is made for Arma 2: Combined Operations expansion.

i have a question, no idea if anyone here can answer.

There's a great website, <Abandonwarez link removed> and i downloaded some of my fave Sierra strategy games when I was a young lad....

how the hell can i get this to play on my comp? driving me nuts? anyone else try to play old WIN95 games on Vista?

I finally got the opening prompt to come up but its still asking me to insert a cd....wtf

I've removed the link as it's actually still available (and patched to be playable on new machines/operating systems) here - http://www.gog.com/gamecard/lords_of_magic_special_eddition

  On 5/13/2012 at 4:46 AM, sneaksta303 said:

Yeah i saw Datura on the market yest.... intriguing.... im wondering if its like dear ester except with some interactivity?

Yeah it's sort of a mixture of dear esther (if set in a woods rather than by the coast), lsd: dream emulator, silent hill shattered memories, and myst (sort of). The standard (non Playstation Move) controls are a bit yucky though

Fffffuck... Fez is doing my head in.

  On 5/12/2012 at 11:56 PM, Squee said:

  On 5/12/2012 at 11:48 PM, Philip Glass said:

  On 5/12/2012 at 9:17 PM, Squee said:

  On 5/12/2012 at 9:11 PM, Philip Glass said:

I have a question about the Arma II DayZ mod... I don't get the full concept. Zombies are AI, but are all humans real players? It's some big MMORPG or there are servers with 64 people max? It would suck if there's only 64 humans max in an entire 200 square km map

 

I think that's the beauty of it. It's the apocalypse. Everyone you meet is a survivor.

 

Oh so it kinda sucks, you could be weeks before ever finding another human being. What's the max # of person on a server??

 

You could but I believe there is some way you can spawn on friends when you enter a map... I watched them play it at GiantBomb the other day and they were able to do this somehow.

You can download the free version of ARMA 2 here

http://www.arma2.com/free

 

I can't remember the max number of players on a server but it's a LOT of players. Don't know if the same goes for this mod.

Yeah it seems like 64. In a way this is good and bad. It's like the Zombie apocalypse *really* did it's job, more than there's a good faction of living human beings trying to push it out. 99.99% is the casualty rate, not 95%.

Still playing some DayZ with a friend. And although it's a big part of the charm, even with 2 players it's very hard to stay alive for long. Seems like the best thing you can do is work as a large, communicating and focussed group to keep constant awareness of your surroundings and have a large resource buffer. I love the intense feeling of hords of zombies running after you after shooting your last bullet though. We need more of these "emergent" multiplayer games. Hopefully the success of this mod will inspire other developers.

I'm also giving Alan Wake another chance (went DRM-free on GoG.com) and getting into it now. Still don't care much for the main character but I love the distorted visuals and suspense.

  On 5/13/2012 at 3:06 PM, mcbpete said:

I've removed the link as it's actually still available (and patched to be playable on new machines/operating systems) here - http://www.gog.com/g...pecial_eddition

 

  On 5/13/2012 at 4:46 AM, sneaksta303 said:

Yeah i saw Datura on the market yest.... intriguing.... im wondering if its like dear ester except with some interactivity?

Yeah it's sort of a mixture of dear esther (if set in a woods rather than by the coast), lsd: dream emulator, silent hill shattered memories, and myst (sort of). The standard (non Playstation Move) controls are a bit yucky though

ahh ok nice... so when you say yucky, does it ruin the gameplay or what? What makes it so bad?

i just bought starcraft anthology but fuck i needed to delete music and shit to install it :(

  On 5/14/2012 at 4:07 AM, sneaksta303 said:

  On 5/13/2012 at 3:06 PM, mcbpete said:

  On 5/13/2012 at 4:46 AM, sneaksta303 said:

Yeah i saw Datura on the market yest.... intriguing.... im wondering if its like dear ester except with some interactivity?

Yeah it's sort of a mixture of dear esther (if set in a woods rather than by the coast), lsd: dream emulator, silent hill shattered memories, and myst (sort of). The standard (non Playstation Move) controls are a bit yucky though

 

ahh ok nice... so when you say yucky, does it ruin the gameplay or what? What makes it so bad?

It uses the motion sensor of the 6-axis/dual shock pad for the bulk of the interactivity which is kinda clunky. Moving and looking around the place is fine, but when doing things like opening doors you have to physically rotate the control pad 360 degrees (usually several times as the technology in the pad doesn't register it properly) which results in very stop-start progress and kind of pulls you out of the immersion of the game. I mean it's not enough to ruin the experience (it's not for example as soul destroying as controlling 'the arm' in the old PC game Trespasser), but I can see how the game would be much better if I had a Playstation Move.

If I were to give the game any award though it would be for 'Best pig animation in a game', sounds like I'm being facetious but when you see it you'll be like "Fuck me - that is an awesome realisation of a pig !"

  On 5/14/2012 at 12:18 AM, Ego said:

Still playing some DayZ with a friend. And although it's a big part of the charm, even with 2 players it's very hard to stay alive for long. Seems like the best thing you can do is work as a large, communicating and focussed group to keep constant awareness of your surroundings and have a large resource buffer. I love the intense feeling of hords of zombies running after you after shooting your last bullet though. We need more of these "emergent" multiplayer games. Hopefully the success of this mod will inspire other developers.

 

I'm also giving Alan Wake another chance (went DRM-free on GoG.com) and getting into it now. Still don't care much for the main character but I love the distorted visuals and suspense.

Yeah but don't you think that a realistic zombie mod should have realistic zombie interraction? They shouldnt be able to run! They should have kept with the "official" zombie-survival-guide rules lol

  On 5/14/2012 at 11:57 AM, mcbpete said:

  On 5/14/2012 at 4:07 AM, sneaksta303 said:

  On 5/13/2012 at 3:06 PM, mcbpete said:

  On 5/13/2012 at 4:46 AM, sneaksta303 said:

Yeah i saw Datura on the market yest.... intriguing.... im wondering if its like dear ester except with some interactivity?

Yeah it's sort of a mixture of dear esther (if set in a woods rather than by the coast), lsd: dream emulator, silent hill shattered memories, and myst (sort of). The standard (non Playstation Move) controls are a bit yucky though

 

ahh ok nice... so when you say yucky, does it ruin the gameplay or what? What makes it so bad?

It uses the motion sensor of the 6-axis/dual shock pad for the bulk of the interactivity which is kinda clunky. Moving and looking around the place is fine, but when doing things like opening doors you have to physically rotate the control pad 360 degrees (usually several times as the technology in the pad doesn't register it properly) which results in very stop-start progress and kind of pulls you out of the immersion of the game. I mean it's not enough to ruin the experience (it's not for example as soul destroying as controlling 'the arm' in the old PC game Trespasser), but I can see how the game would be much better if I had a Playstation Move.

 

If I were to give the game any award though it would be for 'Best pig animation in a game', sounds like I'm being facetious but when you see it you'll be like "Fuck me - that is an awesome realisation of a pig !"

ahh gotcha. i've had my ps3 for going on 2 months now, and never knew it had a motion sensor inside the controller.

Been on a gaming hiatus as of late but I think I'll download the PixelJunk 4AM beta and see if I can make music with the Move controllers.

I am sorta in a wierd spot where I'm getting bored of Dark Souls but can't figure out what to play.

I was playing Uncharted 3 but I got stuck at some level where you have to sneak around instead of just blowing up stuff. Totally ruined the mood for me.

I was playing ME3, but I wanted to finish a specific playthrough of ME2, and as such can't bring myself to try to finish off that final level.

I tried out ICO the other day, which wasen't bad, but after about 5 puzzles into it, I sorta got bored, found a couch and haven't played it since.

I'm sorta hoping Diablo 3 is going to break my Dark Souls addiction.

  On 5/14/2012 at 5:27 PM, Joyrex said:

I think I'll download the PixelJunk 4AM beta and see if I can make music with the Move controllers.

First time I've heard about that game. The concept sounded good but the trailer really hasn't filled me with much confidence, seems like you just fart about adding extra noises to a background beat.

The worrying thing is that even in the trailer the guy fails to bring in any of the sounds and effects with any kind of timing...

Anyone here playing Xenoblade? No idea how much people around here care for JRPGs but this ones quite a lot of fun

  On 5/14/2012 at 5:51 PM, sergeantk said:

Anyone here playing Xenoblade? No idea how much people around here care for JRPGs but this ones quite a lot of fun

It looks like a great JRPG until the 480p visuals set in... urgh.

  On 5/14/2012 at 5:49 PM, mcbpete said:

  On 5/14/2012 at 5:27 PM, Joyrex said:

I think I'll download the PixelJunk 4AM beta and see if I can make music with the Move controllers.

 

First time I've heard about that game. The concept sounded good but the trailer really hasn't filled me with much confidence, seems like you just fart about adding extra noises to a background beat.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGTTVo_6S8M

 

The worrying thing is that even in the trailer the guy fails to bring in any of the sounds and effects with any kind of timing...

Yeah, I felt the same way, but this is Q Games/PixelJunk we're talking about, so hopefully this is more than just an interesting experiment.

Diablo 2 because of Diabloness