Topic: Babble about a video game you are playing (Read 236636 times)

Smiler · « **Reply #2480 on:** November 17, 2009, 03:19:04 PM »

The patch isn't supposed to be that stable yet, is it?

Rosencrantz · « **Reply #2481 on:** November 17, 2009, 03:32:40 PM »

Quote from: Smiler on November 17, 2009, 03:19:04 PM

The patch isn't supposed to be that stable yet, is it?

I dunno. I'm probably just going to wait until I have some money and get Swap Magic so I can play it on my PS2 instead of on the computer.

yyler · « **Reply #2482 on:** November 17, 2009, 04:24:15 PM »

Did you try messing with every setting? For a long time I couldn't get KH2 to run at all, and then by chance I got it to run near-perfect with like 15% cpu usage. I don't know much about playing FFXII though.

Niku · « **Reply #2483 on:** November 17, 2009, 05:46:02 PM »

Every time I try to get FFX International running it never runs at an acceptable speed no matter how I tweak with it which sucks even harder now that I know of this FFXII patch

Cthulhu-chan · « **Reply #2484 on:** November 19, 2009, 01:12:50 PM »

God of War collection is pretty damn sweet. GoD2 damn near looks like a proper PS3 game, and even the first is pretty slick. I do wish they'd give up on this balance beam gameplay, though.

Also, Hades sucks.

Brentai · « **Reply #2485 on:** November 19, 2009, 01:20:10 PM »

I always find it amusing that the Hades level is torturous, sisyphean, sudden and unwelcome. If they hadn't said otherwise I'd just keep assuming they did it on purpose.

Also it introduces the best fridge logic ever: if Kratos already dragged himself out of the afterlife once, what the hades does he think suicide is going to accomplish?

Cthulhu-chan · « **Reply #2486 on:** November 19, 2009, 01:24:16 PM »

He was forgiven at that point. Figured he'd go to the Elysian Fields?

edit: Kratos isn't really big on thinking things through. Candidate for biggest tool in video gaming, on account of how much he gets used. Of course, he just turns around and paints the walls with whoever is wielding him, but that's no way to go through life!

Koah · « **Reply #2487 on:** November 19, 2009, 01:26:45 PM »

Either that or Tartarus.

Brentai · « **Reply #2488 on:** November 19, 2009, 01:47:03 PM »

Kratos is bad, but he has a long way to go before he's even in the same league as Solid Snake, whose entire series revolved around the central theme of "Everyone is using you what are you gonna do about it?"

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #2489 on:** November 20, 2009, 07:42:20 PM »

And then when he did something about it they introduced a bigger tool.

Roger · « **Reply #2490 on:** November 21, 2009, 12:10:39 AM »

And then in the end, he was a tool all along.

Doom · « **Reply #2491 on:** November 21, 2009, 10:03:39 AM »

I've decided that I am getting too much sleep so I am beginning a play-through of the first three Silent Hill games in succession.

Also got Aigis in Persona 3. Two weeks until the fourth moon and I'm already at the top of the current block! Maybe I'll money farm a bit. Or spit in Death's face.

François · « **Reply #2492 on:** November 21, 2009, 07:38:49 PM »

For your stated purpose you could keep playing the series until the face room in SH4 and then stop and never turn off your console or TV.

it's random and bullshit and retarded and it's the only thing that ever made me consider quit watching a SH LP

François · « **Reply #2493 on:** November 25, 2009, 10:20:29 AM »

Holy crap, Serious Sam HD is gorgeous. It's jaw-dropping. Everything is sharp and crystal-clear, in a way that only this sort of endeavor can be. If someone had tried to tell me how awesome it was before I saw it for myself, I'm not sure I would have believed them, so I'm afraid any word from me on it would be inadequate. But, uh, yeah. Visual splendor. Indeed.

It's pretty much my first experience with the game too. Almost. I tried the original some time after watching the LP that... errr... who made that LP again? I can't find any trace of it. Anyway. I tried it back then, and there were a couple things that bugged me, like how most enemies just warp in. But I did like it. I actually torrented it; I couldn't find it sold for under 20$ and wasn't sure if I wanted to spend the money. I actually thought, "I got some games I like and haven't finished, and they're prettier, and I already paid for them", and then deleted the game. I'm glad I didn't buy it back then after all, since the way things are now I got a better version and I saved two bucks.

One unique thing that I like about it, other than the crowd factor, is actually the OBVIOUS TRAP IS OBVIOUS element. It's something you don't ever see in a shooter. Sure, sometimes a game will tie an enemy spawn trigger to an item pickup, but that's usually an exception, an occasional dick move. In SS, it's the norm, and it introduces a peculiar risk vs need dynamic. Any given pickup can instantly cause over fifty alien rape machines to teleport directly into your rectum, and after a while it stops being a terrifying annoyance and just becomes a fact of life. If I decide to grab a +100 HP heart, there's the understanding that a gate to Hades will open and that I'll have to earn the right to come out of the fight with more health than I started it with. And I'm cool with that. I'm perfectly cool with that.

Brentai · « **Reply #2494 on:** November 25, 2009, 10:28:54 AM »

I was kind of pissed when that went on sale yesterday and I had already spent my meager moneys on-hand on Christmas stuff. Bah, stuff for other people.

Quote from: ZedPower on November 25, 2009, 10:20:29 AM

I couldn't find it sold for under 20$

Which is hilarious because 20 USD was its price when it was first released.

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OBVIOUS TRAP IS OBVIOUS

Wait until later in the game, when the designers understand that you now fully expect this and start dicking with you for it.

It's one of the few games where the absence of an ambush is incredibly terrifying.

Smiler · « **Reply #2495 on:** November 25, 2009, 11:11:05 AM »

I did not have that much fun playing SS singleplayer. It gets more fun as the number of players increases, however.

Brentai · « **Reply #2496 on:** November 25, 2009, 11:26:07 AM »

8 players, hardest difficulty, enemy numbers and strength multiply by number of players, infinite lives and ammo.

Crazy ass meat grinder.

A² · « **Reply #2497 on:** November 25, 2009, 03:24:28 PM »

Quote from: Brentai on November 25, 2009, 10:28:54 AM

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OBVIOUS TRAP IS OBVIOUS

Wait until later in the game, when the designers understand that you now fully expect this and start dicking with you for it.

It's one of the few games where the absence of an ambush is incredibly terrifying.

A billion times this.

Norondor · « **Reply #2498 on:** November 25, 2009, 04:55:54 PM »

Quote from: Brentai on November 25, 2009, 11:26:07 AM

8 players, hardest difficulty, enemy numbers and strength multiply by number of players, infinite lives and ammo.

Crazy ass meat grinder.

Diablo with smart-ass one-liners

Brentai · « **Reply #2499 on:** November 25, 2009, 05:03:03 PM »

More like TF2 on a norespawn 32-man server except all the Scouts are skeletal dogs.

...wait, that makes it sound terrible. Proceed with your original analogy!

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