Evening Reading

My anticipation for Halo: Reach is nearing an all time high. There are a bunch of people streaming matchmaking; some with legit copies, others with illegal copies. I've also seen Bungie handing out some bans to a few hackers caught playing on Live.

Be sure to read part 2 of my newbie guide for Reach and look forward to more content tomorrow.

Gaming News o'the Day

Links from Morning Discussion

From The Chatty
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    September 9, 2010 5:00 PM

    Must...continue...Amnesia

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      September 9, 2010 5:01 PM

      How scary is it compared to the demo?

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        September 9, 2010 5:03 PM

        I didn't really try the demo :(

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        September 9, 2010 5:20 PM

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        September 9, 2010 5:28 PM

        It's scarier. So far for me it's scarier than silent hill, avp 1 marine campaign, Call of Cthulhu, System Shock 2 and everything else ive played.

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          September 9, 2010 5:36 PM

          GAWD, you're one scared mofo!

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          September 9, 2010 5:38 PM

          wow, i'm interested now

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          September 9, 2010 8:21 PM

          i'm only 50 mins in but at this point it doesn't beat System Shock 2 for me

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            September 9, 2010 9:04 PM

            The reason it's so scary for me is that you can't fight and kill any of the enemies. In all the games I listed yea it's creepy when you encounter an enemy but at least you can kill them. In Amnesia your never safe and the pacing is done quite well too. It feels like the beginning of System Shock 2 for the whole game so far. Once you get some weapons in System Shock 2 it wasn't so bad for me.

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      September 9, 2010 5:21 PM

      I've never had this before, but I was getting motion sickness from the demo. Did anyone else?

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        September 9, 2010 6:47 PM

        I actually was feeling weird after the demo, but I was coming down with a cold and respiratory infection (which sucks!), so I figured it was just my inner ear wigging out.

        I'll try it again when I'm not sick.

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        September 9, 2010 9:02 PM

        yeah, i think im going to have to turn off that effect next time i play :(

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        September 9, 2010 9:44 PM

        take a dramamine. the effect is the movement in the game you have no control over

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      September 9, 2010 5:37 PM

      I'd love to see a youtube walkthrought of the whole story, which looks very interesting, but the whole limited resources (oil and matches) is not my thing :(

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      September 9, 2010 5:49 PM

      Maybe you should forget about it

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      September 9, 2010 5:52 PM

      awesome awesome game... frictional is a superb developer.

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      September 9, 2010 5:55 PM

      If you like the game and haven't played Penumbra yet, do so!

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      September 9, 2010 5:57 PM

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        September 9, 2010 9:05 PM

        aha yea that's where i am now and I'm completely out of oil : (

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      September 9, 2010 5:58 PM

      Even the game reviews and shots I've seen of this game is scary. That's awesome.

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      September 9, 2010 5:59 PM

      I'm so hardcore...I'm waiting for night to fall before playing it.

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      September 9, 2010 6:03 PM

      Are the Penumbra games considered good? I really know nothing about this genre, but the video I saw looked intriguing. Is it basically a First Person Haunted House game?

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        September 9, 2010 6:20 PM

        They're excellent. Start with Penumbra: Overture.

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          September 9, 2010 6:28 PM

          This looks like it's right up my alley...not sure why this never got on my radar!

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          September 9, 2010 6:48 PM

          Well, the first is. The third not as much...

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      September 9, 2010 6:16 PM

      Penumbra and Black Plague were great games and I had completely forgotten this was coming out! This just got purchased with no questions need be asked.... now it just needs to get dark out so I can start playing. :)

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      September 9, 2010 6:28 PM

      is there any combat or intense action in this game? i don't know anything about. could i play on my laptop in bed?

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      September 9, 2010 7:18 PM

      I kind of wish this was available on the 360 :(

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      September 9, 2010 7:21 PM

      Vid review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYeCwtksTgU

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        September 9, 2010 7:33 PM

        I get way too involved in games to play something like this.

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        September 9, 2010 9:59 PM

        Wow, that looks fantastic.

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      September 9, 2010 8:36 PM

      I own Overture but never really played it. Should I play Overture or Amnesia first?

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        September 9, 2010 9:00 PM

        Amnesia is connected only thematically to Overture; you can play either/or first.

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      September 9, 2010 8:53 PM

      Repost: A slapdash Amnesia quick save method

      If you're having trouble at a certain part, or if you want to save lantern oil while you're looking around, you can use the following as a pseudo quick save:
      1. Pause the game and choose Save and Exit.
      2. At the main menu, choose Continue.
      3. When you've figured out what you need to do, or if you just want to create a save point at a safe area because you're too damn scared to keep going, choose Exit, then Continue. This quits the game WITHOUT saving, as the game warns you.

      When next you choose Continue, you'll resume at the point at which you selected Save and Exit. Very convenient if you've wasted most of your lantern oil trying to figure out how to escape a room, solve a puzzle, etc.

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      September 9, 2010 9:12 PM

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