Hey... shutup. I washed my hair in the sink this morning, at least. I was going to be late for work. And my hair was itchy from not washing it the previous day. BUT IT'S WASHED NOW DAMNIT. Plus, I did douse myself in deoderant. The perfect crime.
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"The only real tragedy in this list is Looking Glass, who was killed off because Eidos would rather divert funds to help Daikatana limp along"
Sure, but it's probably more the fact that while they made great games and we all love them in retrospect, at the time no one bought them. How many people have originals of Thief, System Shock and Terra Nova? Even my copy of TN was an Ebay purchase so I can't get all high and mighty. And my Thief is Thief Gold, so I didn't even get the original. But I did buy the original SS on floppies, one of which failed which I then got sent back to the distributor who was nice enough to send me the CD version back. Even my copy of Car & Driver is a budget copy.
If people had have jumped on their games when they came out, then maybe we wouldn't be talking about them like this. It pains me to think how many people go OMG I LOVE LOOKING GLASS when they probably either have the Red Ant budget versions of their games they paid $5 for 6 months ago, or Kodak CDs with 'THIEF' and 'SYSTEM SHOCK' written on them in texta.
Just stick with Irrational anyway and you won't go far wrong. Warren Spector talks big but then LCD/console fucks his games so he is clearly all about the money regardless of what he says. But Irrational Games did System Shock 2, Tribes Vengenance (...) and SWAT4, which is fucking awesome. And Freedom Force, if that's your sort of thing. Other than the stupid forced single player arena levels in Tribes : V, they really haven't had a miss yet.
I agree, and it's why I generally stick to a well made single player game. Unless you are constantly picking up the newest multiplayer online game, no one is playing online because they've all moved onto the next one. Sure, it's the same with single player games, but at least you're not forced to get the newest single player game all the time cause there is no one else to keep up with.
Also, why aren't people playing deathmatch anymore? Everyone wants to play stupid team based games that require either psuedo-strategy or teamspeak and hours to practice with idiots that treat it like life-or-death. Or endless griefers that think it's funny to mine your tank cause you to it before them (well, that IS funny, but that's not the point). I miss the old days of MOHHA and Quake2, where you just jumped into a server, shot anything that moved, and the second you died you got back up and got on with it. Fun times, and I miss them.
(note : I am kinda addicted to WoW atm, but I still drag myself away to play Hitman : BM and Castlevania DS etc. WoW is zero fun when no friends are online. my solution is to make sure I don't have many friends. having a girlfriend that is into is as well makes it a little harder though)
I don't know if a shield will allow it to 'hold its place in history' but you make a very good point that I probably would have never considered as I don't play FPSs on console. And to be honest I'm not the quicksaving type anyway (if a game is worth playing, it's worth replaying sections until you get it right) so it was never going to occur to me regardless.
In my opinion I think you're reading a little too much into being allowed to possess only two weapons at a time, but hey, whatever floats your boat. And I'm not convinced it was the first game to do this either.
I definitely disagree about the AI. I played the PC demo on Legendary and was met with aimbots that led perfectly regardless of what I did, yet still were tricked by me standing with one of those portable shield things between us and me jumping in front of it and shooting them until they were dead. People will complain about the final boss in DOA4 being cheap as fuck, or the skills required to get thru something like Ninja Gaiden, but will talk up blatant perfect leading/aimbotting as brilliant. My mind boggles, but it's 'each to their own' day, so whatever.
That's because if you're going to do something that has been done to death already a million times over, the only way you'll get people interested is paying for it is if they have a chance of winning money in return. I wouldn't pay for a version of Tetris in a fit (cue people linking Tetris DS saying 'ITS TOTALLY WORTH IT D00D!!!11) yet if I had the chance to win money back, well then maybe I'd be convinced. Cause, you know, I totally saw the space shuttle in the Gameboy version. Looked wicked cool, and means I'm a Tetris GM (Grand Master). Too bad you weren't there to see it.
Introducing multiplayer FPS to the console playing masses ten years after it was first being played doesn't count as innovative. Neither does aimbotting AI that apparently counts as 'legendary' AI. Share with us Halo's innovative features, because you've listed the features for the other games, but included Halo seemingly only because you're a huge fan of it.
Well lets see... pretty much... everyone that owns a PC capable of playing FPSs, plus anyone else that doesn't own a PC, but had spent some time playing a FPS on one.
And yeah... they paid their bill, and couldn't have been more courteous.
Look, both the PS2 and XBox360 are great systems, with lots of good games.
Do me a favour and list those 'lots of good games' for Xbox360. Seriously. Because my 360 just shit itself after 11 days (random freezing issue), and while I'll return it to EB to get a replacement and give them another two strikes before simply demanding a refund, I'm not sure why I'm bothering.
I've got three racing games, one of which I have a virtually identical version of on PSP (Ridge Racer), and one on Xbox1 (Burnout Revenge). I'm looking at DOA4, of which I have DOAU on Xbox1, and Tomb Raider Legend, which I could get on either PS2 or Xbox1 anyway, and... well... yeah.
I take a look at the up coming games to fill my wish list for disposable income, and they are STILL 95% PS2 games. With a high spec PC (which has the dual effect of meaning that there are a lot of games I'll be getting on PC instead, plus I get to actually play decent FPSs so I don't care for the highly overrated Halo), I'm wondering what I was thinking.
And to the people that are inevitably going to mod me as a troll, why don't you instead list the games worth playing specific to this console as well. Note : naming stuff that is multi-format or just a jazzed up version for a next gen console (IE Fight Night Rnd3) doesn't count. Still, I've insulted Halo, so this is going to be a -5 Troll in a matter of minutes anyway.
Holy shit are you joking? The emote has me thinking so, but you linked wikipedia. Maybe the emote is just in case I'm one of those idiots that flip out when someone even jokingly insults them on the internet. It's okay, you're safe.
You're in good company here. I was playing games in the early 80s on my C64, which is still to this day sitting at the base of my TV/entertainment setup. And yes, of course I know Day of the Tentacle, Maniac Mansion, Sam & Max, the Monkey Island games etc, even though I've never been an adventure game fan. I was too busy playing Doom, Magic Carpet, Syndicate etc. The closest I got to an adventure game back then was LBA. And nowadays they are fairly thin on the ground so I imagine if you are a fan of them you're struggling for titles or just booting up DOSBOX or the old 500mhz box that all us older true gamers have sitting around with their 3ghz machines:)
And yes, I'm overly explaining myself in an attempt to burn a little bit more time before I can go home and play more games. Hump day sucks, and so does accounting software programming.
Although again I'm reminded that you cannot make something even vaguely resembling a joke/sarcasm on the internet without spelling.yourself.out. That or my joke/sarcasm failed miserably. Who would have thought that it was hard to convey that sort of stuff over plain text. Well color me suprised. Oops, I've done it again.
Of course, if somehow you reply with 'whats LBA?' then I won't know what to think;)
"Now, like all great plans, my strategy is so simple an idiot could have devised it. On my command all ships will line up and file directly into the alien death cannons, clogging them with wreckage."
It's a fantasy world, in fantasy worlds, women sometimes expose their breasts. Hell, in the REAL world, women sometimes expose their breasts. I guess you might need to 'mod' their underwear with a ten dollar bill, but it happens all the same.
Maybe they DID plan to have them visible at some point, maybe there was going to be a strip club (seriously, I mean, Morrowind had pole dancers), maybe some characters walked around home naked, maybe if you created a female character you could steal the bras from slain enemies, maybe they were going to account for the fact that some armour simply doesn't allow for a bra underneath, maybe they said that the models needed to be complete because of something that may be introduced in the future, or maybe the art guys were simply bored when they were created the models and decided they would add in nipples.
Regardless, they were drawn 'complete', and this whole thing is just a big fucking joke.
I think you got it right with your last sentence. The OP says that there haven't been any good RPGs out in the last year, which is blatantly wrong, before saying that KH2 is a 'very great game'. In other words, FF12 hasn't got it's english release yet so there is nothing else to play and he is all like I DONT KNOW IF YOU REALLY EXIST, BUT IF YOU CAN HEAR ME UP THERE, HELP ME CLOUD!!!
I renamed the last file in the list to the first file in the list, and vice versa. Continue this until the order of the files are reversed.
Start the game, and hey presto, she starts off naked. If you want to get her really skimpy just make her lose $100 once, and she puts on just the tiniest bit of clothing. You know, for the people that like that sort of thing.
This was an interesting hack. A really interesting hack. A REALLY REALLY interesting hack.
Take a look at Batman. The good movies were the ones where they took the time to craft a plot, work on character development, and generally respect the material.
Making Batman a wise cracking, shit-eating grin wearing moron didn't help either. Although you're right, I don't think even Micheal Keaton could have saved those Batman movies.
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Why Game Movies Stink
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Oh no, don't tell me Ultraviolet sucks. I was hoping for such big things for that movie.
Disclaimer : Sure, I'm being stupid, but I am so going to see that in the cinemas. Assuming it doesn't go straight to DVD before it gets out in Australia. Looks like a cool mindless sci-fi action flick. You know, like The Island.
The Xbox name is about as hardcore as rice crispies. The original console is the home of all the lowest common denominator games with a few notable exceptions. They were concerned about it being hardcore? What, with all it's 50 hour hardcore RPGs and quirky action games? Oh wait, it doesn't have any of either of those. And it has ONE sim racing game (more if you count any I'm forgetting outside Forza, which has a real problem with sensation of speed anyway).
The controller has TRIGGERS for fucks sake. Triggers and analog sticks that don't line up horizontally. If that doesn't say "You're going to play nothing but arcade racers and second rate FPS games on this system' then nothing does. It's an LCD system where even the RPGs are majorly-lite (Fable, Sudeki, KOTOR, Jade Empire) and the out-there/hardcore jap action games (Ninja Gaiden, Otogi, PDO, JSRF) are only there because the weak-as-piss-graphically PS2 couldn't handle the intended graphic styles. It's not like the japanese are buying the console, so it's definitely not they reason those games were created for that system.
Find me a 'hardcore' RPG (SMT:N, Atelier Iris) or an ugly 'hardcore'/quirky action game (DMC, Katamari) and I'll retract my entire post.
With the 360, they should be less concerned about something that's not going to happen, and more concerned about people being able to afford it, being able to find more than a couple of decent games for it, and people understand the different packs and add-ons and changes they talk about.
At least you know with a Sony console, you get the bare bones system and if you want ANYTHING else (memory card, ability to play with more than 2 people, etc) then you have to pay for it. Hardly a plus point but it's simpler than the will-we-wont-we, rushing-to-release-like-a-kid-with-a-new-toy, were-going-to-make-changes-to-the-base-system-6-mo nths-in garbage that Microsoft have been all about.
The Xbox is about as hardcore as Halo. Most of us just laughed then, but to all the people that suddenly got their hackles up and are thinking 'but Halo IS hardcore', we're also laughing at you, and I hope you enjoy your school holidays.
*time to sit back and wait for the troll karma to roll in*
Absolutely. Being a Tony Hawk fan that collected all the games on Xbox (I don't know why, I think it's just because my first THPS game was THPS3 on Xbox, and then I got THPS2X and then went from there, except of course I never bought THUG1, I'm not an idiot, I did hire before I bought the newer games), I picked up the original on PS1 from a gametraders... it was awful, and pretty much chucked it up on Ebay the next day, where I found a DC version. Oh, wow. It's, scientifically speaking, a bazillion times better.
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"they keep acting like 1 or 2 games is going to change the entire fate of a system"
Yeah but you can see where they are coming from at least. I mean, just think what might have become of the Xbox had Halo never happened.
Hey ... shutup. I washed my hair in the sink this morning, at least. I was going to be late for work. And my hair was itchy from not washing it the previous day. BUT IT'S WASHED NOW DAMNIT. Plus, I did douse myself in deoderant. The perfect crime.
"The only real tragedy in this list is Looking Glass, who was killed off because Eidos would rather divert funds to help Daikatana limp along"
Sure, but it's probably more the fact that while they made great games and we all love them in retrospect, at the time no one bought them. How many people have originals of Thief, System Shock and Terra Nova? Even my copy of TN was an Ebay purchase so I can't get all high and mighty. And my Thief is Thief Gold, so I didn't even get the original. But I did buy the original SS on floppies, one of which failed which I then got sent back to the distributor who was nice enough to send me the CD version back. Even my copy of Car & Driver is a budget copy.
If people had have jumped on their games when they came out, then maybe we wouldn't be talking about them like this. It pains me to think how many people go OMG I LOVE LOOKING GLASS when they probably either have the Red Ant budget versions of their games they paid $5 for 6 months ago, or Kodak CDs with 'THIEF' and 'SYSTEM SHOCK' written on them in texta.
Just stick with Irrational anyway and you won't go far wrong. Warren Spector talks big but then LCD/console fucks his games so he is clearly all about the money regardless of what he says. But Irrational Games did System Shock 2, Tribes Vengenance (...) and SWAT4, which is fucking awesome. And Freedom Force, if that's your sort of thing. Other than the stupid forced single player arena levels in Tribes : V, they really haven't had a miss yet.
I agree, and it's why I generally stick to a well made single player game. Unless you are constantly picking up the newest multiplayer online game, no one is playing online because they've all moved onto the next one. Sure, it's the same with single player games, but at least you're not forced to get the newest single player game all the time cause there is no one else to keep up with.
Also, why aren't people playing deathmatch anymore? Everyone wants to play stupid team based games that require either psuedo-strategy or teamspeak and hours to practice with idiots that treat it like life-or-death. Or endless griefers that think it's funny to mine your tank cause you to it before them (well, that IS funny, but that's not the point). I miss the old days of MOHHA and Quake2, where you just jumped into a server, shot anything that moved, and the second you died you got back up and got on with it. Fun times, and I miss them.
(note : I am kinda addicted to WoW atm, but I still drag myself away to play Hitman : BM and Castlevania DS etc. WoW is zero fun when no friends are online. my solution is to make sure I don't have many friends. having a girlfriend that is into is as well makes it a little harder though)
You. In the corner, now. You're not to move from that position until you realise that what you did was WRONG.
I don't know if a shield will allow it to 'hold its place in history' but you make a very good point that I probably would have never considered as I don't play FPSs on console. And to be honest I'm not the quicksaving type anyway (if a game is worth playing, it's worth replaying sections until you get it right) so it was never going to occur to me regardless.
In my opinion I think you're reading a little too much into being allowed to possess only two weapons at a time, but hey, whatever floats your boat. And I'm not convinced it was the first game to do this either.
I definitely disagree about the AI. I played the PC demo on Legendary and was met with aimbots that led perfectly regardless of what I did, yet still were tricked by me standing with one of those portable shield things between us and me jumping in front of it and shooting them until they were dead. People will complain about the final boss in DOA4 being cheap as fuck, or the skills required to get thru something like Ninja Gaiden, but will talk up blatant perfect leading/aimbotting as brilliant. My mind boggles, but it's 'each to their own' day, so whatever.
That's because if you're going to do something that has been done to death already a million times over, the only way you'll get people interested is paying for it is if they have a chance of winning money in return. I wouldn't pay for a version of Tetris in a fit (cue people linking Tetris DS saying 'ITS TOTALLY WORTH IT D00D!!!11) yet if I had the chance to win money back, well then maybe I'd be convinced. Cause, you know, I totally saw the space shuttle in the Gameboy version. Looked wicked cool, and means I'm a Tetris GM (Grand Master). Too bad you weren't there to see it.
Introducing multiplayer FPS to the console playing masses ten years after it was first being played doesn't count as innovative. Neither does aimbotting AI that apparently counts as 'legendary' AI. Share with us Halo's innovative features, because you've listed the features for the other games, but included Halo seemingly only because you're a huge fan of it.
Yeah, but if you rock up a week after the event, no one will be there to get the joke.
I bet you have just the prettiest neon glow-in-the-dark glitter puff unicorn posters hanging in your bedroom
I'll bet my Tenderheart Bear AND that My Little Pony whose tail I cut off that mine are prettier than his.
And who said it wasn't a good game?
... pretty much ... everyone that owns a PC capable of playing FPSs, plus anyone else that doesn't own a PC, but had spent some time playing a FPS on one.
... they paid their bill, and couldn't have been more courteous.
Well lets see
And yeah
"How Nintendo could piss all over the competition"
sigh. I'll have more coffee and get a second draft back to you by lunchtime.
Look, both the PS2 and XBox360 are great systems, with lots of good games.
... well ... yeah.
Do me a favour and list those 'lots of good games' for Xbox360. Seriously. Because my 360 just shit itself after 11 days (random freezing issue), and while I'll return it to EB to get a replacement and give them another two strikes before simply demanding a refund, I'm not sure why I'm bothering.
I've got three racing games, one of which I have a virtually identical version of on PSP (Ridge Racer), and one on Xbox1 (Burnout Revenge). I'm looking at DOA4, of which I have DOAU on Xbox1, and Tomb Raider Legend, which I could get on either PS2 or Xbox1 anyway, and
I take a look at the up coming games to fill my wish list for disposable income, and they are STILL 95% PS2 games. With a high spec PC (which has the dual effect of meaning that there are a lot of games I'll be getting on PC instead, plus I get to actually play decent FPSs so I don't care for the highly overrated Halo), I'm wondering what I was thinking.
And to the people that are inevitably going to mod me as a troll, why don't you instead list the games worth playing specific to this console as well. Note : naming stuff that is multi-format or just a jazzed up version for a next gen console (IE Fight Night Rnd3) doesn't count. Still, I've insulted Halo, so this is going to be a -5 Troll in a matter of minutes anyway.
Holy shit are you joking? The emote has me thinking so, but you linked wikipedia. Maybe the emote is just in case I'm one of those idiots that flip out when someone even jokingly insults them on the internet. It's okay, you're safe.
:)
;)
You're in good company here. I was playing games in the early 80s on my C64, which is still to this day sitting at the base of my TV/entertainment setup. And yes, of course I know Day of the Tentacle, Maniac Mansion, Sam & Max, the Monkey Island games etc, even though I've never been an adventure game fan. I was too busy playing Doom, Magic Carpet, Syndicate etc. The closest I got to an adventure game back then was LBA. And nowadays they are fairly thin on the ground so I imagine if you are a fan of them you're struggling for titles or just booting up DOSBOX or the old 500mhz box that all us older true gamers have sitting around with their 3ghz machines
And yes, I'm overly explaining myself in an attempt to burn a little bit more time before I can go home and play more games. Hump day sucks, and so does accounting software programming.
Although again I'm reminded that you cannot make something even vaguely resembling a joke/sarcasm on the internet without spelling.yourself.out. That or my joke/sarcasm failed miserably. Who would have thought that it was hard to convey that sort of stuff over plain text. Well color me suprised. Oops, I've done it again.
Of course, if somehow you reply with 'whats LBA?' then I won't know what to think
I'm not convinced that many people are of the opinion that Hentai games stand the test of time.
Rather, they are simply interesting games, which then become very interesting, then VERY VERY interesting. Then, not so interesting.
"Now, like all great plans, my strategy is so simple an idiot could have devised it. On my command all ships will line up and file directly into the alien death cannons, clogging them with wreckage."
It's a fantasy world, in fantasy worlds, women sometimes expose their breasts. Hell, in the REAL world, women sometimes expose their breasts. I guess you might need to 'mod' their underwear with a ten dollar bill, but it happens all the same.
Maybe they DID plan to have them visible at some point, maybe there was going to be a strip club (seriously, I mean, Morrowind had pole dancers), maybe some characters walked around home naked, maybe if you created a female character you could steal the bras from slain enemies, maybe they were going to account for the fact that some armour simply doesn't allow for a bra underneath, maybe they said that the models needed to be complete because of something that may be introduced in the future, or maybe the art guys were simply bored when they were created the models and decided they would add in nipples.
Regardless, they were drawn 'complete', and this whole thing is just a big fucking joke.
Somebody wake me up.
I think you got it right with your last sentence. The OP says that there haven't been any good RPGs out in the last year, which is blatantly wrong, before saying that KH2 is a 'very great game'. In other words, FF12 hasn't got it's english release yet so there is nothing else to play and he is all like I DONT KNOW IF YOU REALLY EXIST, BUT IF YOU CAN HEAR ME UP THERE, HELP ME CLOUD!!!
It was a masterpiece.
I renamed the last file in the list to the first file in the list, and vice versa. Continue this until the order of the files are reversed.
Start the game, and hey presto, she starts off naked. If you want to get her really skimpy just make her lose $100 once, and she puts on just the tiniest bit of clothing. You know, for the people that like that sort of thing.
This was an interesting hack. A really interesting hack. A REALLY REALLY interesting hack.
And then, suddenly, I wasn't so interested.
Take a look at Batman. The good movies were the ones where they took the time to craft a plot, work on character development, and generally respect the material.
Making Batman a wise cracking, shit-eating grin wearing moron didn't help either. Although you're right, I don't think even Micheal Keaton could have saved those Batman movies.
Oh no, don't tell me Ultraviolet sucks. I was hoping for such big things for that movie.
Disclaimer : Sure, I'm being stupid, but I am so going to see that in the cinemas. Assuming it doesn't go straight to DVD before it gets out in Australia. Looks like a cool mindless sci-fi action flick. You know, like The Island.
Part of what makes FFVII's popularity so enduring is the nefarious power of "firsties" syndrome.
Also see : Halo
Just run Fraps for 120 minutes and torrent it up.
Hardcore?
o nths-in garbage that Microsoft have been all about.
What?
The Xbox name is about as hardcore as rice crispies. The original console is the home of all the lowest common denominator games with a few notable exceptions. They were concerned about it being hardcore? What, with all it's 50 hour hardcore RPGs and quirky action games? Oh wait, it doesn't have any of either of those. And it has ONE sim racing game (more if you count any I'm forgetting outside Forza, which has a real problem with sensation of speed anyway).
The controller has TRIGGERS for fucks sake. Triggers and analog sticks that don't line up horizontally. If that doesn't say "You're going to play nothing but arcade racers and second rate FPS games on this system' then nothing does. It's an LCD system where even the RPGs are majorly-lite (Fable, Sudeki, KOTOR, Jade Empire) and the out-there/hardcore jap action games (Ninja Gaiden, Otogi, PDO, JSRF) are only there because the weak-as-piss-graphically PS2 couldn't handle the intended graphic styles. It's not like the japanese are buying the console, so it's definitely not they reason those games were created for that system.
Find me a 'hardcore' RPG (SMT:N, Atelier Iris) or an ugly 'hardcore'/quirky action game (DMC, Katamari) and I'll retract my entire post.
With the 360, they should be less concerned about something that's not going to happen, and more concerned about people being able to afford it, being able to find more than a couple of decent games for it, and people understand the different packs and add-ons and changes they talk about.
At least you know with a Sony console, you get the bare bones system and if you want ANYTHING else (memory card, ability to play with more than 2 people, etc) then you have to pay for it. Hardly a plus point but it's simpler than the will-we-wont-we, rushing-to-release-like-a-kid-with-a-new-toy, were-going-to-make-changes-to-the-base-system-6-m
The Xbox is about as hardcore as Halo. Most of us just laughed then, but to all the people that suddenly got their hackles up and are thinking 'but Halo IS hardcore', we're also laughing at you, and I hope you enjoy your school holidays.
*time to sit back and wait for the troll karma to roll in*
Absolutely. Being a Tony Hawk fan that collected all the games on Xbox (I don't know why, I think it's just because my first THPS game was THPS3 on Xbox, and then I got THPS2X and then went from there, except of course I never bought THUG1, I'm not an idiot, I did hire before I bought the newer games), I picked up the original on PS1 from a gametraders ... it was awful, and pretty much chucked it up on Ebay the next day, where I found a DC version. Oh, wow. It's, scientifically speaking, a bazillion times better.