Evening Reading

by Garnett Lee, Jan 11, 2011 5:00pm PST

Well, it turned out that my gut feeling about Oregon was misplaced. Both teams played their hearts out after a slow first quarter, but in the closing minutes Auburn showed how battle-hardened playing in the SEC had made them. Only a few NFL games left too, but boy are there some great match-ups taking shape--big time rivalries like Ravens vs. Steelers and Jets vs. Patriots, two exciting offenses in Falcons vs. Packers, and the Cinderella story Seahawks vs. the Bears.

While we're ticking off the time for the games to arrive this weekend, here's the top video game stories from today on the Shack:

Tiger fans, you've earned this: WAR EAGLE! Enjoy a well-earned championship.

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Favorite game UI's?

Jan 11, 2011 10:26pm PST

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  Bad Company 2. : greasyjohn
  - Ugh, I hate the BC2 UI. I was about to say the worst I've used, but I don't think that's probably true. :... : gimpi
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    You have to be joking. All Dice games have bad UIs, but BC2 is like a new level of shitty UI design and i... : stuka
    - What about http://bit.ly/98un7w : greasyjohn
  - DICE always has shitty UI design. I'm surprised someone even mentioned them. Saying nothing of the games ... : K1Bond007
  - I agree actually, first UI DICE has made (for a Battlefield game) that hasn't been utterly unusable. I... : MeestaNob
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    So why is everyone shitting on the BC2 UI? What's wrong with it? It shows everything you need to know. : Hemtroll
    - Except a compass. : Zoopy_Iscariot
- EVE Online : MikkleThePickle
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  Anything but the shit that is Eve. : boarder2
  - actually, I'd argue that X3:TC's UI is even worse. EVE's UI is just overwhelming for new people. There ... : JuffoWup
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  dead space : eeeealmo
  - Good pick. : Johnny Law
  - This. : Snipergen
  - Great UI design. : MercFox1
- Diablo 2 : R@zzle
- Dwarf Fortress : indosauros
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  I hate you all. : PixelPie
  - Honestly, I don't know. The best is one I don't notice, maybe. It's nice to just be able to intuitivel... : Nixx2004
- Doom ][ : watcherxp
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  Dirt/Dirt2/Grid : dchavez999
  - Yep! : kallanta
  - The menus were my favourite bit of the game : gingerninja
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  Steel Battalion : -=kodiak=-
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    The progression of cockpits was a great part of it. Moving from black and white to the latest tech produc... : Greymatter42
    - in addition to the controller, it honestly felt like you were controlling a big badass robot. When you ge... : -=kodiak=-
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  Ico : pyide
  - I guess that's more of a HUD preference (or lack thereof) than User Interface. I can't really think of a ... : pyide
- Whichever version of Civ is your favorite? : Volatris
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  Far Cry 2. Love how the ui was integrated as in-game objects. : blender81
  - Yeah, best thing about the game so far. Really cool idea. : BlackCat9
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    Sudden flashes of the healing animations. Fun. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWjoadyb2Eg : supaLink
    - That's was painful : zuff
  - wing commander did that more than 10 years before >:( : Nitrium
  - another vote for total immersion : umegastar
- starcraft 2 : threeup
- Assassin Creed 2 and Wipeout HD both have great UI design. : Frozen Pixel
- CPMa : anhero
- Nethack : harold.johnson
- Certainly not Dance Central or Kinect Adventures. I haven't gotten to play Your Shape, but I'm looking... : Agrona
- i love the use of pie menus in The Sims : electroly
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  Not what you're asking but: game UI that initially seemed really cool and then progressively annoyed me m... : dfay
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    Sounds consolized. : Nixx2004
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      Not really, I don't think it's really consolized at all, although it obviously was released for 360 as well. It was more an attempt at immersion that initially succeeds quite nicely but then annoys you with it's repetition after the 100th time.
      
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      Not really, I don't think it's really consolized at all, although it obviously was released for 360 as we... : dfay
      
      Yeah, good point. There were other interface issues that got 'fixed' with mods on PC though. : Nixx2004
      
      I don't believe that, if they had PC in mind they would never have omitted it. Fact is, consoles don't ha... : Tchest
  - Mass Effect 1 on the PC had the slickest damn interface by look and sound, but it ended up being clunky. : Volatris
  - Yeah it got annoying after awhile. It actually lagged me to open Pip : PixelPie
- Oh, I thought of one that impressed me! Altitude. It gives you everything you need/want right up front an... : dfay
- Probably Metal Gear Solid 4 both the UI and the HUD itself. Really liked the minimalist style and the an... : cetra00
- Dragon Age : Wisp!
- Limbo : ventro
- TORNADO BUTTON SMASHING!!! : Sludgehead
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  http://img822.imageshack.us/img822/341/indexni.jpg : picknerd
  - You sir are mentally challenged. : PixelPie
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  Unreal Tournament, Deus Ex : GreatGooglyMoogly
  - These and Doom 3. : Marrbe
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  Metroid Prime series. : BlackCat9
  - This time a million. Probably the most immersive FPS HUD ever. The effects on the visor were so great. Al... : s2jason
  - Winner. : Tincan
- UT99, HL2 : marmite
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  I really like Jane's Longbow's and Freelancer's Virtual Cockpits, where you can click the monitors and HU... : AxeMan808
  - SU-27 Flanker probably. LoMac and IL2 have some pretty fucking awesome cockpits too. I wanna replay Fr... : PlanetPerfecto
- Super Mario Bro's 3! : HL3dsx
- Half life 2 : Gylis
- World of Warcraft. You can play Peggle in it for crying out loud. : dpgagnon

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