Author Topic: Random Gaming Talk Thread (Read 1734782 times)

Cindi Mayweather · « **Reply #6120 on:** July 14, 2011, 01:20:08 PM »

Holy shit. That is one easy 1000.

demi · « **Reply #6121 on:** July 14, 2011, 01:44:06 PM »

Yeah it's overall disappointing for both games. I'll pass and stick with my super cool Cube version(s).

Beezy · « **Reply #6122 on:** July 14, 2011, 01:49:57 PM »

Posted here before?

Cindi Mayweather · « **Reply #6123 on:** July 14, 2011, 01:50:04 PM »

I'm still getting both. Easy 1000, one is an amazing game, the other is an average game.

archie4208 · « **Reply #6124 on:** July 14, 2011, 02:04:41 PM »

magus you should really buy (yes, buy) Dungeons of Dredmor. I know you have a big mancrush on Shiren and it seems right up your alley.

Cindi Mayweather · « **Reply #6125 on:** July 15, 2011, 01:52:05 AM »

playing final fantasy 6 vicariously through this awesome Let's Play

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3418085

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #6126 on:** July 15, 2011, 12:50:14 PM »

Man I wish I'd finished FF6 when I was playing it. I got to the part after the world changes or something and stopped playing. Pretty good game. How far was I himu?

@Beezy

Cindi Mayweather · « **Reply #6127 on:** July 15, 2011, 01:02:47 PM »

depends. if you do all the quest in the world of ruin, half way. if you jet towards the finale, 3/4's.

magus · « **Reply #6128 on:** July 15, 2011, 01:05:03 PM »

the world of ruin is where the game gets boring if you ask me,the plot is replaced by giving the player so much firepower that he doesn't know what to do with it

Quote from: archie4208 on July 14, 2011, 02:04:41 PM

magus you should really buy (yes, buy) Dungeons of Dredmor. I know you have a big mancrush on Shiren and it seems right up your alley.

is there a demo or something?

Cindi Mayweather · « **Reply #6129 on:** July 15, 2011, 01:07:09 PM »

World of Ruin is the most open Final Fantasy aside from FF11 or 12.

I find it refreshing.

The plot is worse in the WoR but still good because the quests make up for it.

Cyan sending letters to the dead soldier's wife was great.

magus · « **Reply #6130 on:** July 15, 2011, 01:13:54 PM »

you might have freedom but you don't see anything interessing with that freedom and most of the quest just give you back character you already have and the funny thing is that you don't even need them,like seriously fuck strago!

Cindi Mayweather · « **Reply #6131 on:** July 15, 2011, 01:16:17 PM »

You get the characters you already had before WoR but you complete their arcs.

How is that not interesting?

This is like saying "why do you have to go on loyalty missions in Mass Effect 2? I already got this character!"

magus · « **Reply #6132 on:** July 15, 2011, 01:38:01 PM »

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You get the characters you already had before WoR but you complete their arcs.

terra mopes a little about being half esper,then make some half assed talk about protecting childrens and then she joins back

EXCITING

the only one that's probably holds some weight is the whole rachel thing with locke,actualy i don't even remember if that happens before or after WoR,though i'm pretty sure it was after?

demi · « **Reply #6133 on:** July 15, 2011, 01:46:51 PM »

gather party members you never used, grind dinosaurs, go to tower finale, get forced to use members you never used

ff6 is fun! not

ferrarimanf355 · « **Reply #6134 on:** July 15, 2011, 03:14:19 PM »

Greatest Doom mod ever.

[youtube=560,345]QLKZhu_dgxA[/youtube]

Doom 4 should have the ability to catch Lost Souls and throw them back at the monsters, that would be awesome.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #6135 on:** July 15, 2011, 03:17:24 PM »

ferrarimanf355 · « **Reply #6136 on:** July 15, 2011, 03:18:14 PM »

Quote from: Joe Molotov® EDGE™ on July 15, 2011, 03:17:24 PM

lmao

It's almost like the comic, that's what makes it awesome.

Robo · « **Reply #6137 on:** July 15, 2011, 03:19:22 PM »

CAPCOM's Christian Svensson posted an interesting response to an oft-asked question re: the limitations of matchmaking (for fighting games, specifically, but applicable to all games) on the CAPCOM-Unity forum:

Quote from: Sven

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Jul 12, 2011 -- 9:00AM, Farplaner wrote:

One concern that I wanted to express is the matchmaking capability. From HD Remix, SF4, SSF4 to MVC3, there's always this frustrating experience: Connection errors. In MVC3's case, when you get a connection error, you even get kicked out to the main menu, which is ridiculous.

What I would hope for in 3rd strike OE, is to be able to set my parameters (for example, same skill, same region, green bars only/maximum ping value), and then just keep trying until I get a match. I don't want to search and select "OK" after connection error over and over again. I would do the arcade mode with online matching on, but that doesn't give me ability to limit by the connection quality (to only connect to green bars).

So in general, can you guys explain if this capability will be there? Or just in general, are there any improvements made in the matchmaking?

I posed the question to Derek as he has more detail provide on these topics:

The short answer is: we don’t handle the matchmaking, not really. Sony and Microsoft do. They provide us with a set of pre-made matchmaking tools that work on PSN or XBLA (and which we are required to use). The main function of these tools is to create and return lists of available games. (We don’t have any control over what games show up on the list.)

That said, it is still possible to do some things to sort out ‘bad games’ from the list. For example, we can ping every player that comes back on the list, and then remove any players with bad ping times, and then show you the list. But this causes several problems: first off, it slows the connection process down, and makes getting into every game (even good ones) take longer. Worse, the amount of time it takes increases with the number of people playing. If there’s a lot of people on the list, it could take a very long while to finish. This isn’t generally a good user experience.

Secondly, the lists we get back from Sony and MSFT are only useful for a short period of time. This is because, while you’re trying to join games, so are other people. This means that the longer you wait between searching for games and actually trying to join one, the more likely it is that someone else will have joined it, or the game will have been taken down, or something else will have happened. Any of these things can cause a connection error, so the longer we delay in showing you the list, the more likely it becomes for a connection error to happen when you try to join a game. For that reason, we prefer to be speedy about displaying them to you. By the way, this problem is worst when matches are filling up, completing, and being taken down very quickly (which is generally the case with fighting games). It is much less noticeable in games with longer match times, or that are server based, or that have a large pre-game lobby to join.

Regarding your suggestion that we automatically re-try when you Quick Match (or something) and a connection error occurs, we’re not actually allowed to do that. Sony and Microsoft both require, and pretty strictly enforce, that we display an appropriate message and wait for confirmation from the user whenever a network error occurs. What we could do (and I think this is what Blazblue does) is get the Quick Match target from Sony / MSFT, ping him, evaluate his stats, and if it’s not what your settings have specified, close the connection and re-search. But we would still have to display a message and wait in the case of an actual connection error.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #6138 on:** July 15, 2011, 03:20:13 PM »

Quote from: ferrarimanf355 on July 15, 2011, 03:14:19 PM

Greatest Doom mod ever.

[youtube=560,345]QLKZhu_dgxA[/youtube]

Doom 4 should have the ability to catch Lost Souls and throw them back at the monsters, that would be awesome.

RIP AND TEAR!!

Positive Touch · « **Reply #6139 on:** July 15, 2011, 04:39:46 PM »

Quote from: magus on July 15, 2011, 01:38:01 PM

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You get the characters you already had before WoR but you complete their arcs.

terra mopes a little about being half esper,then make some half assed talk about protecting childrens and then she joins back

EXCITING

the only one that's probably holds some weight is the whole rachel thing with locke,actualy i don't even remember if that happens before or after WoR,though i'm pretty sure it was after?

its the story in a fucking SUPER NINTENDO GAME jesus christ

you know why the world of ruin is great? because there's tons of content to explore, lots of great dungeons, lots of great loot, and you can do it in any order you want and skip over the parts you dont want to play. its awesome and fun as fuck as long as youre not a lameass who hates fun for petty, stupid reasons like magus or an asspie freak like demi

fuck all the reviewers who were like "ff13 gets fun when you get to the open world part!" no, it was still a shitty, shallow game; ff6 did it right.

demi · « **Reply #6140 on:** July 15, 2011, 04:42:58 PM »

it is pretty stupid though.

magus · « **Reply #6141 on:** July 15, 2011, 05:06:15 PM »

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its the story in a fucking SUPER NINTENDO GAME jesus christ

uh... so what? super nintendo game have a license to have lame plot sequence?

and besides the plot of FF6 is good,it moves at a nice pace,there is a nice villain (even though i'm kinda sick of hearing about how awesome he's compared to sephiroth who's instead gay) lots of stuff happens...
it's in the world of ruin that it gets stupid

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because there's tons of content to explore, lots of great dungeons, lots of great loot

for me most of the extra bits of FF6 are like those lame bonus dungeon they add whenever they do a port,boring padding that shouldn't be there

like you know that part where you can get the sylphy summon in FF4? that dungeon is incredibly boring to explore,it features the most annoying enemies ever since all they bother to do is turn you into a frog,it gives you a reward you don't need in the slighest,and i'm supposed to go? "HURRAY! OPTIONAL STUFF!"

ferrarimanf355 · « **Reply #6142 on:** July 15, 2011, 05:16:12 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on July 15, 2011, 03:20:13 PM

Quote from: ferrarimanf355 on July 15, 2011, 03:14:19 PM
Greatest Doom mod ever.

[youtube=560,345]QLKZhu_dgxA[/youtube]

Doom 4 should have the ability to catch Lost Souls and throw them back at the monsters, that would be awesome.

RIP AND TEAR!!

HERE COMES THE NIGHT TRAIN

Positive Touch · « **Reply #6143 on:** July 15, 2011, 05:18:55 PM »

yep that's a stupid dungeon but there's stuff like the bahamut dungeon or the odin fight that actually do make you go "HURRAY! OPTIONAL STUFF!" just like how in ff6 there's lots of good content like cyan's dream and the phoenix cave to go along with shit like the tower of fanatics.

ferrarimanf355 · « **Reply #6144 on:** July 15, 2011, 05:20:35 PM »

[youtube=560,345]9bAFKYxUFT4[/youtube]

Flipping off a Baron of Hell isn't a good idea...

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #6145 on:** July 15, 2011, 05:56:19 PM »

Can you imagine how badly parents would have flipped out if that stuff had actually been in Doom?

archie4208 · « **Reply #6146 on:** July 15, 2011, 06:28:13 PM »

One month until GOTY is revealed.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #6147 on:** July 15, 2011, 08:42:44 PM »

Final Fantasy VII > VI

magus · « **Reply #6148 on:** July 15, 2011, 08:48:44 PM »

any of you guys played the williams pinball collection? i loved pinball dreams on the amiga and i seems to understand this is a collection of some popular pinball tables? are the wii and the 360 version the sames?

Bebpo · « **Reply #6149 on:** July 15, 2011, 09:25:27 PM »

Quote from: magus on July 15, 2011, 08:48:44 PM

any of you guys played the williams pinball collection? i loved pinball dreams on the amiga and i seems to understand this is a collection of some popular pinball tables? are the wii and the 360 version the sames?

It's amazing. Best Pinball game in years.

WHERE IS MY HD GOTTLEIB XBLA ALREADY....

ferrarimanf355 · « **Reply #6150 on:** July 15, 2011, 09:32:29 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on July 15, 2011, 05:56:19 PM

Can you imagine how badly parents would have flipped out if that stuff had actually been in Doom?

Yeah, I'd be pissed if the Happy Days theme was in the game, too.

iconoclast · « **Reply #6151 on:** July 15, 2011, 09:36:50 PM »

Quote from: magus on July 15, 2011, 08:48:44 PM

any of you guys played the williams pinball collection? i loved pinball dreams on the amiga and i seems to understand this is a collection of some popular pinball tables? are the wii and the 360 version the sames?

I think the 360/PS3 versions exclusively have Medieval Madness (which is a godlike table) and Arabian Nights (which is another great table). It's a great game though, easily the best video pinball I've ever played. There was also a leaderboard around here a while ago, but I have no idea what thread it's in. Probably in the What Are You Playing thread since I got it several months after it came out. edit: This seems to be the most up to date one. Go beat some scores, magus-kun.

Cindi Mayweather · « **Reply #6152 on:** July 15, 2011, 10:26:13 PM »

Quote from: Wrath2X on July 15, 2011, 07:40:48 PM

Quote from: AWESOM-O on July 15, 2011, 06:01:58 PM

The Shadow levels in SA2 where you grind the rails were some of the best platforming levels of the last gen.

There were plenty of great SA levels. Everything that sucked involved the non-platforming characters.

If Sega made a game that was ONLY Sonic/Shadow/SA1 Tails levels with a decent camera, that would be some amazing shit.

Exactly!

And speaking of Final Fantasy 6, I still need to try it but I'll be damned if the game's fans aren't in my top ten of annoying manchildren. I'm not surprised that most of them are nintards.

Most Final Fantasy fans with taste put 6 high on their FF lists. I don't see how 6 fans are annoying manchildren. That's mostly reserved for fanatics of 7.

iconoclast · « **Reply #6153 on:** July 16, 2011, 12:05:22 AM »

El Shaddai got pushed back to the middle of August $:-\$

Guess I'll be keeping Gamefly for another month. I still haven't played Duke Nukem for more than 20 minutes lol

Bebpo · « **Reply #6154 on:** July 16, 2011, 04:02:13 AM »

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

I like how this sounds nothing like EO

It's a really good track though, feels ghilbi

Also sounds nothing like the Hibino I'm used to from MGS in-game music.

The Sceneman · « **Reply #6155 on:** July 18, 2011, 07:11:17 AM »

its a violin arrange version of one of the EO tracks, thats why it sounds unlike EO. Get your facts straight before you start spewing shit all over message boards

my new favourite piece of game music:

[youtube=560,345]ZUgja4wkAO8[/youtube]

imagine doing it to this shit

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #6156 on:** July 18, 2011, 02:55:47 PM »

Quote from: Green Man on July 18, 2011, 02:16:20 PM

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

This looks really cool.

Cool video. Crap narrator.

iconoclast · « **Reply #6157 on:** July 18, 2011, 04:16:50 PM »

Asura's Wrath looks kinda fun, but it seems maybe a little too sloppy and cinematic for me to buy. I really hope they release a demo for it, because right now it's looking like a nice rental.

cool breeze · « **Reply #6158 on:** July 18, 2011, 08:12:07 PM »

that new Driver game looks really fun

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #6159 on:** July 18, 2011, 08:43:47 PM »

White Knight 2 DELAYED UNTIL SEPTEMBER
El Shaddai 2 DELAYED END OF AUGUST

Son of a bitch. Now I've only got RGG Of the End and Catherine to play during summer break.

demi · « **Reply #6160 on:** July 18, 2011, 09:57:51 PM »

Quote from: Mr. Gundam on July 18, 2011, 08:43:47 PM

White Knight 2 DELAYED UNTIL SEPTEMBER
El Shaddai 2 DELAYED END OF AUGUST

Son of a bitch. Now I've only got RGG Of the End and Catherine to play during summer break.

You need more real games... no wonder you are frail and twink. Get some American Meat on your bones.

The Sceneman · « **Reply #6161 on:** July 18, 2011, 09:59:42 PM »

Quote from: Mr. Gundam on July 18, 2011, 08:43:47 PM

White Knight 2 DELAYED UNTIL SEPTEMBER
El Shaddai 2 DELAYED END OF AUGUST

Son of a bitch. Now I've only got RGG Of the End and Catherine to play during summer break.

seriously? You cant find ANYTHING to play?

Bebpo · « **Reply #6162 on:** July 18, 2011, 10:38:47 PM »

PS3-only gaming is tough!

If only Mr. Gundam played PC games or handhelds

The Sceneman · « **Reply #6163 on:** July 18, 2011, 11:33:27 PM »

surely Gundam's PC can run ScummVM or something. There is absolutley no excuse ever for not having any games to play. So many PC classics are freeware now, you can buy PS1 games off PSN. Theres 30 years of games to draw from

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #6164 on:** July 19, 2011, 12:14:04 AM »

I've got a fucking epic backlog of games to pick from, I just wanted to play some new stuff before going back to work at the end of August. Oh well.

The Sceneman · « **Reply #6165 on:** July 19, 2011, 12:22:12 AM »

well youve got Catherine and RGG. Two big games.

go hard or go home

Bebpo · « **Reply #6166 on:** July 19, 2011, 01:06:00 AM »

Yeah, Catherine is all you need all summer. She'll keep your ps3 warm if you know what I mean

cool breeze · « **Reply #6167 on:** July 19, 2011, 03:38:37 AM »

had no idea El Shaddai was delayed

still need to play the Catherine demo in English to see if I want it. Played the Japanese demo and it was a fun and brutal puzzle game but all that other stuff was skipped.

Right now I'm gearing up for Dead Space 2 + Dead Space Extraction PS3. My copy of Yakuza 4 should be arriving today/tomorrow, so after Dead Space, I'll start Yakuza 3 and follow that with 4.

and Asura's Wrath looks good I guess. It's unimpressive stacked next to the Naruto games, but it still has some of that crazy style.

Herr Mafflard · « **Reply #6168 on:** July 19, 2011, 07:20:49 AM »

[youtube=560,345]WQpSD309LJk[/youtube]

ah yes, the quintessential Halo -- can't wait to pop the legendary achievement on it

magus · « **Reply #6169 on:** July 19, 2011, 10:36:12 AM »

nippon ichi announced atelier totori for this september,i wish my 360 was a ps3!

demi · « **Reply #6170 on:** July 19, 2011, 10:37:16 AM »

you could buy one if you had a job - o wait, you would have to buy Totori... nvm. 360 it is

Corporal · « **Reply #6171 on:** July 19, 2011, 04:03:46 PM »

Ok, so I'm probably ages behind the times, but... Dat Megaman Legends 3DS cancellation. Has there been an outcry yet? Will there ever be? Can't say I followed the game, but hey, Megaman legends. Gotta count for something.
Talking about this here.

I kind of feel like I could do with a good dose of nerd rage and fanboy wars. Anything particularly interesting happening recently?

magus · « **Reply #6172 on:** July 19, 2011, 04:29:05 PM »

check the bitching thread on the off-topic forum

though i have seen outcries in other place too

Cindi Mayweather · « **Reply #6173 on:** July 19, 2011, 05:09:54 PM »

check the 3ds thread

Corporal · « **Reply #6174 on:** July 19, 2011, 05:52:03 PM »

...the 3DS? That's like watching a guy kick babies. It's only fun for the first few punts.

I mean, I know that asscreed for 3ds got a carefully-worded do-over-and-rename which certainly does not appear like the project was handed over to that other team in the server closet down the hall next to the toilets. I noticed that saints row won't come either, Sega and other companies appear to be delaying the shit out of their reheated thingamabobs, and now that mml3 has vanished watching rage and trolling happen in 3DS related threads is to be expected. That thing apparently sells like poop in a box, plays barely any noteworthy games, 3rd parties are recoiling in horror at its mere name, and it will remain on life support until Nintendo finally gives in and releases a must own Pokeymans game or some such, which may or may not breathe life into its hideously bloated corpse yet again. Until then: Boring. can't wait for psv to hit. That'll lead to some good shitstorms, I bet.

Ah well. I'll just head over to neogaf and open random threads. Can't take too long...

Random piece of wisdom: if a female friend ever suggests you should watch Disney movies with her all night long, she may actually mean it. I feel like I'll burst into song any minute now. Aaaaaaaaah.

magus · « **Reply #6175 on:** July 19, 2011, 07:03:25 PM »

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Random piece of wisdom: if a female friend ever suggests you should watch Disney movies with her all night long, she may actually mean it. I feel like I'll burst into song any minute now. Aaaaaaaaah.

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

archie4208 · « **Reply #6176 on:** July 19, 2011, 07:03:41 PM »

Welcome to the future of gaming, folks.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #6177 on:** July 19, 2011, 07:07:25 PM »

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Money spent = $1942.50

Vizzys · « **Reply #6178 on:** July 19, 2011, 07:28:28 PM »

he is whats making tf2 free though

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #6179 on:** July 19, 2011, 08:18:23 PM »

Weeaboo alert.

Idolmaster 2 coming to PS3.

Lollipop Chainsaw (Grasshoper) for PS3 and 360. Action game with a high school girl who kills zombies with a chainsaw. Cheerleader elements included as well.

News:

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