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Morning Discussion

by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Oct 24, 2007 12:48am PDT
Related Topics – Wack News, Replay Couch

So have you taken a seat at our new Replay Couch? It's like having a little video game channel so small that it doesn't have time to annoy you. Maybe it needs more Star Trek or Man Show? Nah. So while I've mentioned this holiday game glut before, I'm actually pretty excited for the next year too. For all three, this will be about the point in console's lifespan where the third wave of games comes out, where creators are comfortable enough with a machine to truly push it's boundaries and some of the really legendary games come out. Exciting! Oh, and I think we should have a pretty cool contest for you later today, stay tuned.


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    By: Nighteyes This person is cool! x
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    I'd just like to say that I really enjoy the Orange Box for the Xbox 360, but I'm disappointed in a few of the things they left out (at least for TF2).

    When you are gibbed it wont point to your limbs telling you about your gibbed parts, something I thought was a hilarious feature for the PC version. Also, another graphical flaw I noticed was the soldiers taunt when welding the shovel, he screams but his mouth doesn't open. I'd be happy to have the game on 2 discs if it meant having all the same content the PC version has.

    I'm sure there are a slew of other missing content that I just don't know about yet. :(
    Oct 24, 2007 6:54pm PDT
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    There was a TF2 thread earlier in which someone asked if we let our young kids watch us play our favorite games. It's an interesting subject so I figured I'd reply in its own thread.

    My son is three years old. I let him watch just about anything video-game-related, for a few minutes. Then I see how he reacts. Is it affecting his behavior? Does he get skittish, or aggressive, or excited, or anything at all?

    TV shows, which are a lot more realistic, I filter a lot more strenuously. He reacts to photo-realism a lot stronger than cartoony stuff, usually.

    Things that have not affected him negatively:

    Team Fortress 2: The pyros, at first, scared him a bit. "Look it's a fire-man runnnnn!" This has died down a bit, although he still points out every pyro he sees. Usually he calls the color too. "It's a red fire-man!"

    BioShock: This surprised me. I figured it was kind of scary and really dark, but my son showed no interest in the regular course of the game. However, the moment a Big Daddy appeared he got super excited. He loved the Big Daddies and thought they were cute. Cute. Weird.

    Shrek: He loved the dragon, and the goofy characters and the fairy tale creatures. All of the more adult jokes and stuff just go right over his head.

    Tom and Jerry: Probably the most violent cartoon ever made for mass viewing. I loved it as a kid, and my kid loves it now. He's never shown the slightest hint of aggression or anger after watching Tom and Jerry, and certainly has never picked up a hammer and started chasing anyone.

    Things that have an adverse effect on him:

    Anything that's "scary", but dumbed down for kids at the same time. Monsters Inc terrified him. There's an episode or two of Care Bears that sent him running for cover. Older episodes of Scooby Doo freaked him out, but the newer ones don't.

    Diablo II: He got really aggressive after watching me play D2, even for a few minutes. I tried it again a few nights later, same result. D2 is not a kids' game, I suppose.

    Jurassic Park: I didn't let him watch this on purpose. I went upstairs to take a shower and when I came back down he'd changed the channel and it was just after the T-Rex scene. He'd apparently watched the whole segment. Ever since he likes to chase other kids with his hands up and close in, like a T-Rex, hunched over and snarling. It scares the fuck out of other children, and we often have to remove him from play because of it.

    Quake 2 or 3: Again, he got really aggressive after watching even a couple minutes of either quake game, multiplayer.

    Heroes: I was watching Heroes last season when Sylar and Peter and Mohinder have their big confrontation. He was supposed to be in bed, and I didn't see him until he gasped when Sylar uses his TK and starts to cut open Peter's head. That freaked him out solid and it was quite some time before he went back to bed.
    Oct 24, 2007 6:26pm PDT

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    By: rarshow This person is cool! x
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    I finally got a new system and am running older games that used to run rather crappily on my 8 year old PC.

    I've been trying to get Max Payne 2 on my new Windows Vista machine to run with cheats but it just isn't happening. I'm running with the last patch they released (1.01, I believe) and of course have the -developer command line in. Does Vista run parameters differently as well as every other god damn difference or what? I disabled the lame User Operations protection or whatever (Cancel or Allow...allow, the Mac commercial comes to mind)...that didn't fix it.

    I'm pressing tilde once inside the game. Am I missing something else because the console is not coming done like it should. I've also tried running the game with the Run Command prompt (why did MS disable this by default...lame asses) and that didn't work either. Hopefully one of you great guys knows ;-)
    Oct 24, 2007 6:02pm PDT
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