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by Garnett Lee, Nov 23, 2009 6:37pm PSTMy weekend gaming time got completely swallowed up by Left 4 Dead 2. Between bouts of zombiecide I started thinking about the game proved itself a worthy sequel but somehow seemed to not be as big a deal as you'd expect after the love for the first. True, you can draw a line to unfulfilled expectations of post-release support for the first game. And I get that the additional stuff they did still fell short of what many would have liked. Another argument came up this morning while I was over at GameTrailers shooting Bonus Round. Their EIC, Shane Satterfield, flatly said that it lags for not having done much to evolve the basic hook of kill swarms of zombies.
Whatever the reason, the rest of the panel echoed surprise at L4D2 being in the group of five finalists for Game of the Year at the VGA's. When Modern Warfare 2 came up, though, those same points didn't come up despite their being equally valid. It's interesting to me how the perceived expectations for these two games varied.
And for the record, Left 4 Dead 2 definitely stands up as a full-fledged sequel to me. The environmental effects add a lot of tension and fit in extremely well. The enhanced in mission objectives that require a little more than just flipping a lever make it more important than ever to work together as a team. And already I've had scores of OMG how'd we survive that moments and plenty of that's a wipe's too.
During our break from gaming (aka work) we grabbed a couple stories:
- Zombie MMO Announced by WoW Veterans
- Blizzard Has Realized That They Announce Games Too Early
- Study Examines Video Game War Crimes
- Former Pandemic Employees Go Out Office Space Style
- Zombieriffic Trailer for Borderlands DLC
Remember back when the government was concerned for national security over the computing potential of the PS2? Well, the US Air Force is buying 2,200 PS3's to go with the 336 it already owns for a supercomputing research program.
Israel is back in the military tech news, developing a cell phone text message incoming missile alert system. Think there'll be an app for that?
Thanksgiving PSA: How to cook a turkey.
And then there's this man driving a bull around in his car. How do you follow that?
Like, completely.
Fucking.
Rad.
I only played through Dead Center all the way. I got to the finale of Dark Carnival with a friend but died spitting distance from the chopper. Fucking tanks and their rocket arms throwing boulders. =(
Rad.
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http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Panasonic+-+VIERA+/+42%22+Class+/+1080p+/+60Hz+/+LCD+HDTV/9239228.p?id=1218065493446&skuId=9239228&st=panasonic%20viera%2042%27%27&cp=1&lp=3
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKKKgua7wQk&feature=player_embedded
(People lining up for Sarah Palin's book signing in Ohio answering questions about why they love Sarah Palin)
I'm leaning towards 'cry in horror" myself.
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I put it on the kitchen scales: 316g! I should have taken a photo really. Nina is about 16kg, so that's 2% of her total body weight. I'm around 100kg, so that's like me pooing out two large bags of sugar.
Anyway, a marker for all of us. Well done Nina!
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James Randi disagrees:
http://www.randi.org/site/index.php/swift-blog/783-this-cruel-farce-has-to-stop.html
Watch that snippet of video Randi links to to watch the guy "type" on his computer.
SPOILER ALERT : his finger is used like a stylus for someone else typing. It would be funny if it wasn't so sad.
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Shehnaz was burned with acid by a relative due to a familial dispute five years ago.
Irum was burned on her face, back and shoulders twelve years ago when a boy whom she rejected for marriage threw acid on her in the middle of the street.
And more...I'm not even going to link it here, if you want to see acid burned faces Google 'Terrorism that's personal' and go to the blogs.tampabay link.
Damn: "...documented 7,800 cases of women who were deliberately burned, scalded or subjected to acid attacks, just in the Islamabad area. In only 2 percent of those cases was anyone convicted.â€"
So they get away with it, too. Sucks.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJK7dMSd31k
Sidenote - The band's name is Star Trek affiliated
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That Diablo gameplay is time-tested and approved. Shit gets you hooked, REAL FAST. What a shame that I was playing (and really enjoying) Titan Quest just a couple of weeks before. That game's getting put aside, and probably not getting touched again for a year or two couple of months.
$19.99 for Torchlight is just such a steal. Go get this if you haven't already.
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What is your favorite mouse death method?
I currently plan a 3 prong attack of poison, snap traps, and sticky traps. Peanut butter as bait.
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I wonder if they have been subconciously affected in by the hype and controversy, or are they just more on board the Activision money train?
L4D2 is the game L4D1 should have been, either at release or after a years worth of TF2 esque content updates. But at least it is a better game than the original in most ways. MW2's SP is just poor compared to the firsts.
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Do they not support native 1920x1080?
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fyi you need to have preordered either of the versions to be able to use it.
They also have some video tutorials http://www.naturalselection2.com/tutorials
System reqs(same as NS2) http://www.naturalselection2.com/faq
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I hoped Trinity could have been less deranged and unravelled; and more invisible like how Dexter himself is.
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Relevent info:
Steam version. Fan patch not yet applied as it says to run the game once first.
Windows Server 2008 (basically Vista 64)
dual monitors (I've tried disabling secondary and changing to a 4:3 res on primary with no luck)
c2q 6600
4 gb ram
GTX 275
latest drivers and direct x
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That was abrupt :-\
Pretty much the gun-porn and WFT-plot I expected (though I liked the story and separation of 1 better). Great set pieces, and some of the one-off scripted moments were unbelievably awesome.
I'd say overall I enjoyed it. No heaping pile of praise, just a confident thumbs-up, good job.
I'm guessing Demon's Souls is next.
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I am interested in organizing a Shackbattle for this on Saturday Morning at 10am.
Here is the important detail: SoaSE multiplayer sucks balls, because there is no interesting victory condition. The developer is apparently fucking clueless about this because they have designed an otherwise fantastic game that just falls apart because it takes 5 hours to complete a game that was only fun for the first 2.
So to remedy this, we are going to try out a houseruled gametype! We will play a Relic-style "victory location" mode, wherein whoever can control (keep colonized) a specific system for 10 continuous minutes wins the game. There is no official way to do this in the game so we will do it manually. Basically whenever you successfully colonize the victory world, you will chat out in all caps "I HAVE COLONIZED THE VICTORY WORLD" and then I will look at what time it is and then I will send out chats every once in a while saying how much time is left before that player wins unless someone can recolonize that world for themselves. then the timer resets. Essentially it's the same way good RTSs like Dawn of War and Company of Heroes work.
The exact details for how this will work I will determine by Saturday and make sure everyone understands them.
Are you interested in this? Can you guarentee that you'll be available on Saturday at 10am PST?
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http://blog.vh1.com/2009-10-06/sex-rehab-with-dr-drew-peep-the-full-cast/
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http://www.penny-arcade.com/patv/
I... I think it's pretty cringeworthy :|
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I remembered not being too impressed by earlier trailers but this shit looks bananas.
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Ive seen everything Gorden Ramesy has made and enjoyed most of it. (more so the Kitchen Nightmares and F' word). I loved Kitchen Confidential, and anything Anthony Bordain related. I just started watching Iron Chef season 1 and am enjoying it as well.
Are there any great must see shows i am missing? I love to cook, and these shows are entertaining and somewhat educational.
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OMG.
I wish I had Fraps full. I would send a video of, say, any campaign in this game to a friend who would love it. Problem is, I can't explain it well enough to properly represent; my command of the English language is not good enough. So I would just send him the episode and tell him to make popcorn, and he would immediately go out and buy a PC.
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Any shacker interested in buying my warranty fixed Xbox 360? I won't include my hard drive since I'll be re-using it but I can supply the power supply and composite A/V cables plus a month subscription to XBL Gold card. No controller either, unfortunately. I may through in some older games I have too, I'd have to look at what I have. FYI, my Xbox 360 isn't an HDMI version, so you'll need to get component cables for HD.
$100 paypal? I'll cover shipping.
Just got redirected to a gambling site while on my own profile page. :-/
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download only
http://eastore.ea.com/store/ea/pd/productID.138994900
According to the banner, it's 30% off all downloadable games from the EA online store through November 30
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What's the best CSS template site? I like my design to an extent, it functionally works, but I feel like it doesn't have that "wow" factor, which can be attributed to my lack of design skills.
I need to track down some toy sales!
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nws
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSbr2xLKBrA
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/11/24/shakes-head-in-sad-disbelief
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Concept trailer for what to expect from aion in a year or two:
http://na.aiononline.com/board/videos/view?articleID=22&page=1
Damn, that looks shiny.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlwmm3qJdIA
Description: Testing TOW Launcher Disclaimer: It's a test, not final, so get over it.
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I saw this on the news and I find it really interesting. It is not often I see someone with almost the exact same disability as I in terms of brain damage. Her impairment seems a little worse that I but its close from what I can see from the video. Her damaged happened before birth and my damaged happened at 3 months of age so that might account for some of the different.
I have some issues about this case. I don't understand how they didn't know the nature of her disability till she was 27. She is 37 now so that means the first time they put her into an MRI or ran an EEG was 1999. That seems really strange. Doctors knew about my disablity before I was 3 back in 1972. Also her said Michelle didn't have cerebral palsy when in fact she does just that isn't her only issue. Any damage to the cortex and the cerebellum that effects movement development at or around birth is classified as cerebral palsy. Another thing that jumps out at me is how her parents say she can never live on her own. Given what I saw from the video I know about my experience, I find that hard to accept.
I have to wonder if her biggest problem is her parents and who ever her doctors are.
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