Morning Discussion
by Jeff "geedeck" Gondek, Nov 23, 2007 6:30am PSTHey, how about we open up a window in here? Yeah that's better. Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving, or failing that a nice Thursday. The fiancee and I weren't really feeling tradition this year, so turkey and stuffing burgers topped with cranberry and sweet potato fries it was. I'm making a note, it was a huge success.
Did 360 Guitar Hero 3 owners see this free song? A bit jealous, as I only possess the Rock Band. Not so jealous of the Romantics suing over a cover that's... too good? That is a Thing That Sucks, people.
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http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/8c52/
suggestions on good places to stick it so that co-worker is annoyed for hours trying to find it?
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just thought I'd share this with you all.
http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/3799/1196210851041tg7.jpg
GOOD DAY SIRS!
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chunky guitar riff, the only words i recall are "don't need you, don't want you" and thats kind of the chorus repeated, the rest of the words are harder to make out. Probably a modern rock type song
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http://www.TheGothamTimes.com/
Contains spoilers for Batman Begins, if you're silly enough to have not seen that one yet.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAbAQEVSiWk
holy crap how i pine for those days :(
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so fucking good. believe the hype.
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so i made my first 2 purchases from them recently. from those with experience, how long does it typically take for their stuff to arrive at your house?
for those wondering i bought the mp3 player from a few days back and the headphones from today.
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So how many episodes are there left in the series? Cause this episode is pretty fucking awesome and I really don't want this season to end.
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It is probably the shortest RPG I've played since Chrono Trigger, but also one of the deepest. Everything had a backstory and an explanation. Except one thing: why does everyone speak English? I would have been happy if they had just mentioned a fancy universal translator and went on, but I guess the galaxy just speaks English in the future. Which is cool, I guess; I'm prepared! Oh well. The dialogue system was phenomenal. It should be copied by every RPG going forward except JRPGs. The story was appropriately epic, with believable characters and everything.
Combat was decent, though it suffered from RPG generic encounter syndrome. It became a lot more fun (and easy) once I learned how to use skills effectively. Also, the planets you explore were nothing more than a combination of skybox, terrain map, and meshes scattered around; that kinda disappointed me. I did nothing but explore planets yesterday and it felt like all of the structures were one of three layouts with the occasional area closed off (though still shown on the map). I also stopped caring about items about 2/3 the way through since stuff I had (and bought) was light years ahead of most stuff I'd find.
One thing that really annoyed me was the loadout menu navigation. I can guess that the goal was to keep button presses down to a minimum, but a lot of the things were unclear. A lot of things game-wide were unclear. I didn't know Mako could zoom in until someone posted it here.
Overall, a fantastic game, though also the buggiest I've played in a LONG time. Bugs I found include:
- Getting stuck on survey markers when they appear after surveying things while exploring planets
- Getting Mako stuck in the same situation
- Getting stuck in things as I fall off them (after mounting them, for example)
- Getting stuck while running down stairs normally
- Getting stuck in the Galaxy Map immediately after spawning at it (I think I held down forward while it finished loading and before it auto-saved)
- Plot item icons grey out once you acquire it or the amount you need, but will ungrey out if you collect more (such as the artifacts and elements found on planets)
- Random dialogue behavior oddness
Then there was the one time I got up to get a drink and came back and two women were about to kiss. Uhhh....
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Die in a fire. Please.
Because this is so majorly unfun. It's amazingly lethal, the "boss" characters have wacky powers that turn you all Stephen Hawkings for 5 seconds, they're inconsistent, and I wasted an hour than I wanted to dig into the story fighting some stufpid asshole.
Video games. :\
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Is www.liquidass.com considered NWS? (the product, not the site.)
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http://prfectjon.com/pics/rockband/rockband2.jpg
http://prfectjon.com/pics/rockband/rockband1.jpg
http://prfectjon.com/pics/rockband/rockband3.jpg
Here's a labeled picture of our apartment's entertainment setup:
http://prfectjon.com/pics/rockband/rockband_labeled.jpg
After we got done with Rock Band, we threw down in some 6 player Saturn Bomberman (I still need a 2nd multitap for true 10 player glory).
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If you mark yourself as having shipped your WE, is your recipient notified, or should I drop him a message?
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I think Robert Irvine is my new favorite chef/personality.
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Is there anything significant I should think about when picking either of these? With my first HDTV on the way I was leaning towards the HDDVD because of the 360 attachment. Are any movie company's making dvds solely in one format? I assumed Sony would be Blue-ray only, right? (At the cost of pissing off their HDDVD fans).
I would hate to have to get both players just to watch the movies I want.
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The one where he flips his cod piece to reveal the smiley face - I'm hearing "CAP'eeeeen" ?? As in, "capping a point". I've read it's "Kaboom" but it doesn't really sound like it...
There's another line he has where he says something like "Get em! Bayo's!". Is that just "Boy'os" as in "Get 'em boys!" ?
Also, wtf does he say just after blowing up the sentry at 55 seconds into the meet the demoman clip!? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNM4eFsX68Y
Crazy black scottish cyclops!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52zSRV_Kgfw
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balls......