Morning Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Oct 19, 2007 3:58am PDTWhy hello there! The results of the haiku contest are in, they should likely bring a smile to your face. There's also a Shackcast to greet you this morning, eloquently articulating the gaming news for your listening pleasure. So what will you be playing this weekend? I'm still committed to Disgaea 2's item worlds but regret how lonely I've left the Master Chief. Maybe something can be done about that tonight.
Daily Filter: Planetside 2, Deadlight
Weekend PC digital deals: strategy-o-rama
38 Studios, Harry Potter Kinect - Shacknews Daily: May 25, 2012
Minecraft for Xbox 360 dev working on 'Adventure' update
Demon's Souls servers extended again
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=240
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Especially Remo et al who probably spent the most time there :D
Link: http://www.hellgatelondon.com/underground/subscribers-and-patch-0
From my time there: very rough, at times crude, and repetative. Despite that, it's a blast to play and I can't get wait to get back to it to further explore the wonders of my electrorifle and its effects on zombies and demons. Also, coop is a fricking blast, with magic, fireballs, swords and corpses flying everywhere. And electroBALLS, mustn't forget those.
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That must have taken about four minutes or so.
Did anyone do it just by dropping straight and leaving it alone? I felt like I had to adjust it constantly - and the faster it got the more pronounced slight movements became.
Achievements are awesome - and I tip my hat to Valve for bringing them from my 360 to my PC.
Also seems like a bit of a cheap way to ensure that people play your game for longer - but even though it's a bit obviously cheap - achievements are apparently still satisfying enough that I'm posting about one...
Has anyone on the shack clocked all of the rewards for Portal?
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I wanted to skip this for Rock Band but as RB is so far away here in Europe, I think I'll buy it.
GHIII: Nov. 22.
RB: Spring 2008 :(.
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http://vgchartz.com/hwcomps.php?cons1=Wii®1=All&cons2=PS3®2=All&cons3=X360®3=All&align=1
People are complainging about how no one is playing their Wiis or that the PS3 doesn't have as many big titles as the 360, but they are discounting an entire year. When the games come, the people will follow, and if they don't they should, and that takes time.
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http://www.charlotte.com/200/story/326183.html
It's Dumbledore lolololol
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Please, please, please learn how to build teleporters, especially when on offense. Also, build dispensers on your team's side of every choke point. Having a healthy team on the front lines is worth more than any sentry gun. Period. End of story.
Tonight, on Dustbowl, my team was attacking the last area: the area where you leave the dust and enter the concrete. This is a very, very difficult area to attack. I see the defenders win this point more than any other.
Our team had two engineers, myself and manero. We constantly moved our positions forward. We'd work together to put dispensers up very quickly. Two engineers together can have a dispenser up in less than five seconds. Then we'd drop a sentry nearby to help secure the area. Again, working together, we'd have it up in no time. We'd repeat slightly forward of that with the other guy's dispenser and sentry. At that point we'd drop two new exits and we'd have a very secure forward point.
Some tips and tricks in reply.
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PGR4 Mens
how do i get that endo achievement with the two bikes? i've been doing this like 30min. we've past each other doing endos but can't unlock the trick. wtf?
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Last night I had a bunch of friends over for Poker and we tried to play the Wii afterwards. I popped in Table Tennis and could not get the second controller working at all. Is there some sort of trick to getting the second controller working? I put in all new batteries so Im wondering if they need to resync or something? It fucking sucked because I had a room full of people who wanted to play and we were all drunk and unable to figure it out.
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Even after 10 years this game is still great. After this its onto OP, BS, then the Hl2's.
I sorta hope that valve does the Hl3 as a epic game and then farms out expansion packs to other game companies. I really like the large games vs the episodic content so far, just as the game is getting good it ends vs lets play through a awesome game for awhile.
You ugly.
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20071019_Hey__Were_not_just_fat_-_were_ugly__too.html
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http://cgi.fark.com/cgi/fark/youtube.pl?IDLink=3148426
I promised some people I would make an asian bbq sauce tonight and I was using one of his sauces as a base and I write all my sauce notes in this book and I left it in the fucking cart at the store and it is MIA. I remember most of the changes I was going to make for this sauce but I don't remember how much of this and that in the base sauce.
So far the book stores I've called don't have it in stock either.
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A buddy of mine says he doesn't want to play it because the graphics are the same.
I think he's crazy. The graphics looked much better in EP2 IMO, mostly because of the lighting.
Some examples:
Spoilers are in the pics
http://oatmela1.shackspace.com/ep2
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Drucifer, you have been warned.
http://www.nj.com/hudsoncountynow/index.ssf/2007/10/flaming_squirrel_ignites_car_i.html
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/19/ballmer_wants_to_buy_things/
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It's also one of those films that I can happily rewatch a few times a year and never get bored of
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Final Fantasy Tactics PSP is as good as it was ten years ago. The new art cutscenes are even excellent with the new score, bringing new life into the game.
Man have I been dying to get back to this universe of Ivalice. As soon as I heard the strings of the main theme trickle across in surround sound... god it felt good.
They've added new classes and jobs which I haven't seen yet, but presently I'm in the process of turning my Knight/Dragoon/Chemists into mexican jumping bean dive bombers from the sky while my white mages are growing into their new time traveling selves.
I haven't met a caveat yet, it looks great in widescreen. If you never played this the first time, you're doing yourself a disservice in playing the best FF game that ever was and a game that practically invented the tactics genre.
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heading out for a run, maybe until then someone has posted something as the shack is pretty dead on saturday morning.
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