Morning Discussion
by Alice O'Connor, Mar 22, 2010 5:00am PDTI realised over the weekend that I've now been working for Shacknews for a year and three days. What a monumental landmark.
Let's revisit one of my favourite Shacknews moments again together. Classic.
Go see Céleste Boursier-Mougenot's exhibition at The Barbican, if you're in the London area. There's a video doodad and some finches rocking out. They are nice.
Running a little late today.
New video game releases of 2/13-2/19
Indie Jeff's Weekly Pick: Gunpoint
Daily Filter: Mass Effect 3, Alan Wake's American Nightmare
Blizzard files opposition to Valve's Dota trademark
Twisted Metal promotion blows up Sweet Tooth's truck
Demon's Souls 'underestimated' by Sony
Shack PSA: Skyrim PS3 players should create new manual save
Star Trek to be co-published by Namco Bandai in 2013
MobyGames Classic: Syndicate community stories
This week, the theme will be First-Person Shooters.
Give me a game title and a blurb.
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A lot of people probably know not to buy from Dell already, but I was one of the many unlucky people to buy from them and have to endure their diabolical customer service.
In reply!
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Played 12 games of HoN this weekend. PSR went from 1670 to 1610 and back up to 1655. I know it's been said but AP games are the worst. Everyone picks the crazy, strong heroes that are typically banned and you end up playing the same game. I think SD or BD is the bees knees as AR is too scary against high psr teams.
Looks like 8 W's and 4 L's.
How did yon brethren fair???????????
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John Malkovich, Francis McDormand, and Ken Jeong? What? Could this suck less than Transformers 2?
https://michaelbay.com/newsblog/files/73978045c5496d5271c90be6884209a8-598.html
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Anyway, I come here today to bring you my new game :D. I'm a student at Full Sail and for the last 5 months I've been working on a team with 5 other programmers on our final project game, O.P.S.. It's a first person game with a focus on movement. It's kinda like a stripped down Mirror's Edge combined with a bit of portal style mixed in. The object of the game is just to survive and complete all of the levels in the main story mode. Once you've done that, you'll unlock the Chapter Select which will let you replay the levels with Bronze/Silver/Gold medal times to try and beat.
I'd really appreciate it if you guys would take a look at it and let me know what you think. We worked really hard on it and we're all really proud of it, even if it is still rough around the edges.
Some random screenshots:
Main Menu:
http://www.dan-rodriguez.com/downloads/ops/images/1.png
Bean Bag Turrets:
http://www.dan-rodriguez.com/downloads/ops/images/2.png
Stationary Wall Lasers:
http://www.dan-rodriguez.com/downloads/ops/images/3.png
You can download it here: http://www.dan-rodriguez.com/o-p-s-gold/
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It was like "take me back" or something? It had a guy trying to get a girl to take him back, he was in the UK, then he traveled across europe, showing his for her in different places? He was running around in his underwear. Halp?
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I stand by my opinion that with the CCC maxed out config, motion blur slider all the way up and some AA, it's still the best looking game in existence. I'm finally able to run it at a solid 50fps-ish and it looks like a fuckin cg movie.
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So my question for you all is, what do you do to cure or avoid motion sickness from a game?
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmc9qKWvjO8
Often, when I click on the "ready" button in the spawn interface, that happens. The game freezes up for five to fifteen seconds, then once it unfreezes the models in the third-person camera continue moving in a straight line, sometimes through solid objects. I thought Teamspeak was causing this, because I turned TS off and the lag seemed to go away, but now it's back. I've turned all the graphical details down to minimum, and no unnecessary processes are running. It is still lagging in the spawn interface. I also get frequent freezes when typing in the in-game chat.
I ran the task manager on my other monitor, and there is a clear drop in network traffic at those points. It pretty much stops entirely. What I can't figure out is if this is the game's fault or Comcast's fault. I lean toward the former, since it only happens at these particular times. Any suggestions for further tests I could perform?
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of course i'm exhausted and totally want to go crash on it now, so as awesome as this upgrade is, it is also taunting me.
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So some of the recent chatter about The Road motivated me to watch it yesterday. I thought it was excellent and one of the reviews I read was so accurate when they said despite being so haunting they still wanted more.
I have one question though:
In the beginning, when the cataclysm begins and he wakes up and peeks outside. Why did he then go into the bathroom and start filling up water? Was that because whatever he say caused him to assume that municipal water system was soon to be gone?
also
Did anyone else get the impression that The Man might have been interested in survival before the cataclysm? I felt his will to press on was more than instinctual courage but more about a man's ultimate fantasy to live off the grid.
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The actress playing Alice is really cute..
Also the new Tron trailer looks awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9szn1QQfas
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You know what would be great? Real mouse support on consoles for every FPS and strategy game. Why be too proud to do this? I mean we've only had 30 years of videogame testing by now, and guess what, the mouse IS a motion controller, the best one yet seen. It's just depressing that consoles think they can reinvent the wheel, and they come up with a fucking square one. Same thing with lack of server browsers on console networks.
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The swedish army seems to be serious business!
Come take the test with me! (Flash player required)
http://team.forsvarsmakten.se/english/#/private/YN77pfafRR
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Could you post your OS and version number with a time? I'm not trying to start shit, I just want to know how disconnected from reality I am.
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Is there anything I should know before I fire this up? Also if someone would be kind enough to invite me to the steam group I'd love you long time. http://steamcommunity.com/id/LiquidTJ
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http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2850498
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Deal of the Day: Dante's Inferno for $39
0600 PDT - Arkham Asylum - $30
0900 PDT - Tekken 6? Street Fighter IV?
1300 PDT - Probably Star Ocean Last Hope International Edition?
1600 PDT - Lego Indiana Jones 2?
1800 PDT - No idea. Possibly the Blu Wave remote?
1900 PDT - UFC 2009 Undisputed?
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http://www.27bslash6.com/easter.html
http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html
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