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by **Gretyl** » Mar 31 2011 05:20:16 pm

You probably can't even make it 20m, can you?

by **Gretyl** » Mar 31 2011 05:20:26 pm

by **nippletwister** » Mar 31 2011 05:22:43 pm

got to 4.9 before the drool moistened my shirt too much

by **Fuzzy** » Apr 01 2011 07:46:11 am

it's not retarded, but it sure as shit is frustrating. try the guys other games, they're much more straight forward.

too many ninjas
little master cricket

by **Tom the Cat** » Apr 02 2011 08:21:05 pm

Ending my 9 month gaming sabbatical next week. Any notable entrants on the 360 or PC that I need to catch myself up on?

by **Trevelyan** » Apr 02 2011 10:16:37 pm

I thoroughly enjoyed Limbo which came out last July on XBL. Also, Fallout: New Vegas is a blast, it was out last October, and if you enjoy the series, Fable III also came out in October, it was enjoyable, but not really my style.

by **Gretyl** » Apr 03 2011 07:00:23 am

Tom the Cat wrote:Ending my 9 month gaming sabbatical next week. Any notable entrants on the 360 or PC that I need to catch myself up on?

I'd suggest Crysis 2. Best FPS for a non-militaryshooterfag like myself since Farcry 2.

by **Tom the Cat** » Apr 08 2011 08:30:38 am

Team Fortress 2 has changed a lot in the past year. Yow.

by **Gretyl** » Apr 08 2011 09:12:01 am

Living games change over time, you say?

by **Reagraham Lincool** » Apr 08 2011 10:32:32 am

Gretyl, you're an ass.

by **MarcusAurelius** » Apr 08 2011 05:14:07 pm

Tom the Cat wrote:Team Fortress 2 has changed a lot in the past year. Yow.

summary for someone that hasn't really played in a year?

by **MarkK** » Apr 08 2011 06:56:45 pm

they added hats!

by **Gretyl** » Apr 09 2011 12:15:49 am

and microtransactions to get new hats!

by **Tom the Cat** » Apr 09 2011 07:52:40 am

The basic menu system has changed, they added hats, crafting, and microtransactions... new maps, new achievements, new weapons, etc.

by **Gretyl** » Apr 12 2011 07:49:14 pm

MarcusAurelius wrote:also: gretyl, ur a fag for playing fps on ps3 while complaining that assassins creed is a non-game.

really? I don't see the connection here.

most fps are pointless war power fantasies, crysis 2 (while having a shitty plot with wooden characters) is fun for departing from pure gun-faggotry against [real-life enemy stand-in X]

asscreed strikes me as more of a puppet-show character fantasy than a thematic game presenting challenge and reward (roughly equivalent to New Prince of Persia)

by **MarcusAurelius** » Apr 13 2011 02:02:23 pm

dude, challenge and reward in video games is so 2002.

asscreed is thematic as hell though, have you never played it? at least the first game i really enjoyed the plot, and the general setting and scenery (i.e. theme) is really enjoyable in the others as well.

by **Gretyl** » Apr 13 2011 02:31:13 pm

I've played it. I'm not saying it's not thematic, I'm just saying it's not the game I imagine it could be (that I would find more fun than what AssCreed delivers).

by **Gretyl** » Apr 18 2011 07:34:50 am

Happy Portal 2/new MK midnight release day, everybody!

Who's ready to think with— GET OVER HERE!

by **Talenos** » Apr 18 2011 01:53:21 pm

I downloaded the Back to the Future adventure game this weekend. It did a really good job of re-creating the feel of the movies, and they got Christopher Lloyd to do all the Doc parts. The story was pretty good too but I think they made the puzzles a little too easy. I did cheat a couple times and I never felt like I didn't figure something out, but rather that they had designed a stupid non-obvious puzzle. Anyway, it's $25 for the first "season" which is five episodes, and I've just finished the first 2.

by **Gretyl** » Apr 18 2011 01:59:56 pm

Talenos wrote:The story was pretty good too but I think they made the puzzles a little too easy. I did cheat a couple times and I never felt like I didn't figure something out, but rather that they had designed a stupid non-obvious puzzle.

I think this is endemic to the genre.

by **Talenos** » Apr 18 2011 02:57:10 pm

Gretyl wrote:
Talenos wrote:The story was pretty good too but I think they made the puzzles a little too easy. I did cheat a couple times and I never felt like I didn't figure something out, but rather that they had designed a stupid non-obvious puzzle.

I think this is endemic to the genre.

Very true, but I'm a lover of the genre, so I'm always hoping for the next great experience. My goal is to make the ultimate (ok, maybe just not crappy) adventure game.

by **Gretyl** » Apr 18 2011 04:48:24 pm

Too late, Uncharted's already come out.

by **Tom the Cat** » Apr 18 2011 04:58:41 pm

>implying Nathan Drake doesn't poop hard in his diapers

by **Tom the Cat** » Apr 18 2011 04:59:01 pm

>implying I got any work done while watching GLaDOS@Home tick down today

by **Gretyl** » Apr 18 2011 07:47:22 pm

Tom the Cat wrote:>implying Nathan Drake doesn't poop hard in his diapers

>implying that isn't why i like it

by **Talenos** » Apr 19 2011 08:01:18 pm

Talenos wrote:I downloaded the Back to the Future adventure game this weekend. It did a really good job of re-creating the feel of the movies, and they got Christopher Lloyd to do all the Doc parts. The story was pretty good too but I think they made the puzzles a little too easy. I did cheat a couple times and I never felt like I didn't figure something out, but rather that they had designed a stupid non-obvious puzzle. Anyway, it's $25 for the first "season" which is five episodes, and I've just finished the first 2.

Started playing episode 3. They f'd up the timeline and now they're in an alternate Hill Valley, that's kind of like what Medium Dave would consider his Utopia.

by **nithos** » Apr 20 2011 07:47:58 am

Talenos wrote:I downloaded the Back to the Future adventure game this weekend. It did a really good job of re-creating the feel of the movies, and they got Christopher Lloyd to do all the Doc parts. The story was pretty good too but I think they made the puzzles a little too easy. I did cheat a couple times and I never felt like I didn't figure something out, but rather that they had designed a stupid non-obvious puzzle. Anyway, it's $25 for the first "season" which is five episodes, and I've just finished the first 2.

I signed up for the free first episode, but never got around to playing it. They did send me a $5 off Coupon Code (SBP-ATH-8M6) for anyone interested in playing it. Not sure if it's one use or tied to my account.

by **MarkK** » Apr 20 2011 12:29:00 pm

age of empires online beta keys available at: http://www.curse.com/keys/age-of-empire ... fault.aspx

need to sign up for curse.com, but the free tier is eligible for the keys

by **Gretyl** » Apr 21 2011 05:19:03 pm

New MK's story mode is pretty hot shit. They seamlessly transition in and out of 3-D cutsceney plot points between the 2D-planar fights thanks to the Unreal engine. I'm on chapter 6 (Jax) now.

This was near enough a pity purchase, but it's growing on me.

by **nippletwister** » Apr 21 2011 06:51:47 pm

I would be thrilled with more Half-Life

by **nippletwister** » Apr 22 2011 12:01:49 am

In other news ... is there ever not a humble indie bundle going on? I felt bad for missing the last one, but now I bought another with no idea of what I'm really getting.

by **Gretyl** » Apr 22 2011 05:25:12 pm

Whoa, deja vu!

by **Tom the Cat** » Apr 26 2011 04:27:01 pm

Wow, this PSN shit is bananas. At first I was trollin' my PS3friends about it because lol no online gaming, but the fact that personal information may have been compromised is pretty not funny. I'll be interested to see how this all plays out once they pinpoint the guilty parties.

by **Toilet of Sadness** » Apr 26 2011 05:16:40 pm

Nah, it's still pretty troll-worthy. It's one thing to have a security breach (which is bad), but to wait a whole week before informing your customers that their personal information and probably credit card info has been divulged is incompetence.

by **Tom the Cat** » Apr 26 2011 07:07:37 pm

I'm not saying Sony shouldn't be ashamed of this debacle, but it's in pretty poor taste to make fun of someone who may have just had their credit card information and/or passwords stolen from them through no fault of their own.

by **Wycked** » Apr 26 2011 07:12:41 pm

On the one hand, I will be pissed if anything happens with the card I have on file. Fortunately, the card has 50 bucks on it, so they can't do much with it. Cancellation is easy.

On the other hand, if my various account informations are in danger... well, my online gaming records are pretty abysmal, with the exception of rocking the world's balls off at Pac-Man CE DX, Tetris, and Rock Band 3. No biggie.

by **Cody** » Apr 26 2011 09:26:12 pm

Wycked wrote:On the one hand, I will be pissed if anything happens with the card I have on file. Fortunately, the card has 50 bucks on it, so they can't do much with it. Cancellation is easy.

Hello, this is CitiBank, writing to confirm your new $50,000 line of credit that was opened on 04/21/11.

by **Gretyl** » Apr 26 2011 09:56:49 pm

Toilet of Sadness wrote:Nah, it's still pretty troll-worthy.

This.

by **Gretyl** » May 01 2011 04:15:06 pm

Happy May Day, VGG!

... may we never fight again ...

by **Gretyl** » May 02 2011 04:13:50 pm

Fuzzy wrote:dood

mmm, prinny poops :bigpacaweseome:

by **Gretyl** » May 06 2011 12:18:58 am

Bueller?

by **mrchonkie** » May 06 2011 01:18:42 am

man those commentators were awful. pretty badass combos though

by **Gretyl** » May 10 2011 09:58:38 pm

yikes!, re: Brink
http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011 ... it-yet.ars

by **MarcusAurelius** » May 11 2011 09:28:49 am

yeah i hope all the negative reviews of the console versions means it's actually awesome on PC!

by **Gretyl** » May 11 2011 10:32:56 am

what's grabbing you about the game? just general itching for another fps?

by **MarcusAurelius** » May 11 2011 10:41:08 am

see LTE rant.

the game has a lot going for it. the parkour stuff from mirror's edge, teamwork and classes from tf2, and what looks like a very snappy classic FPS feel. very anti-modern warfare. everything bad i've read (and general reviews are fairly bad) has been from the perspective of a dumbass that thinks cod4 is the greatest game of all time, and is entirely from the console perspective. hardcore pc fps players all seem to love it.

anyways, gonna buy it, try it out tonight.

by **Gretyl** » May 11 2011 05:07:00 pm

PA sez it's best on PC, fwiw

I await your drunken ravings with bated breff

by **MarcusAurelius** » May 11 2011 05:13:57 pm

well, after an hour or so of some coop+bots (the "single player"/coop shit is weird, they just dropped bots in, and they're bad)

i can 100% see why pathetic console fps players would hate this game. it's snappy and fluid, which is the last thing a console player wants. it's very obvious from playing it that it's a PC game ported to consoles, unlike the unfortunate majority of games that are console games ported to PC. it very much feels like FEAR mixed with TF2. it has moving objectives and a little bit of complexity that makes it immediately inaccessible to the legions of mongoloid retards that play fps on consoles.

by **nippletwister** » May 11 2011 07:18:11 pm

<3 PC gaming

by **Tom the Cat** » May 20 2011 09:39:41 pm

I have $30 in Target gift cards and am having trouble deciding between Marvel vs. Capcom 3, LA Noire, or a Kinect. :bigomgwut:

by **Toilet of Sadness** » May 20 2011 11:09:41 pm

why in the blue hell are you considering a kinect, tommacat?

by **Tom the Cat** » May 21 2011 07:10:35 am

because fuck you, that's why

by **Tom the Cat** » May 21 2011 07:12:00 am

No, really, I just think they look interesting and as much as I'm not interested in most of the games for Kinect (though the workout one sounds interesting), the ability to control the XBox with voice and hand-based navigation sounds like something I would get a lot of mileage out of.

by **nithos** » May 21 2011 07:17:57 am

Tom the Cat wrote:the ability to control the XBox with voice and hand-based navigation sounds like something I would get a lot of mileage out of.

This part is not quite ready for prime time yet.

by **Tom the Cat** » May 21 2011 08:17:06 am

Well, then, shit.

by **Talenos** » May 21 2011 01:20:36 pm

nithos wrote:
Tom the Cat wrote:the ability to control the XBox with voice and penis-based navigation sounds like something I would get a lot of mileage out of.
This part is not quite ready for prime time yet.

by **nippletwister** » May 28 2011 05:11:02 pm

Gretyl wrote:don't forget, Redboxen nationwide start carrying vidyagames in June!

One day at a time, like movies?

by **nippletwister** » May 28 2011 05:22:14 pm

two bucks a day. Hrm.

by **Gretyl** » May 28 2011 10:28:37 pm

Apparently, Seattle's been a test market these past couple months. Works as expected.

by **Gretyl** » Jun 02 2011 12:05:15 pm

Anyone got a summer release hitlist set up for theyselves? Codybot, I'm looking at you.

by **Toilet of Sadness** » Jun 04 2011 11:34:38 am

finally finished Red Dead Redemption after owning in since day 1. Goddamn that ending sequence was fun.

by **Gretyl** » Jun 05 2011 11:35:54 am

You did the post-completion stranger mission(s), yes?

by **Gretyl** » Jun 05 2011 11:38:46 am

new Wizardry game on PSN (XBL?)

time to get all dungeon mappan

by **Toilet of Sadness** » Jun 05 2011 12:35:13 pm

Gretyl wrote:You did the post-completion stranger mission(s), yes?

I did. That was satisfying as hell unloading my all 15 shots of my luger in that smug fucker's face.

by **Cody** » Jun 06 2011 09:09:49 am

Gretyl wrote:Anyone got a summer release hitlist set up for theyselves? Codybot, I'm looking at you.

I kinda want to check out Duke and Alice and Deus Ex and Red Faction and Rage, but I'm not really in any hurry, probably won't buy them until the price goes down a bit unless people are shitting themselves over them in the reviews. Also eagerly awaiting announcement of the LA Noire GOTY that bundles everything together so I can finally pick that up. My next must-haves are Skyrim and Arkham City, which are both due this fall.

Someone let me know if I'm missing anything important.

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