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[cavallino]

Brad - we don't get laid much, that's how

[Kopite Girl]

Time doesn't exist in Clark-land. Not at the moment anyway. Long story. Haven't got the time.

[JHS]

Okay, after seeing F1 2010 today and the screenshots that has been revealed I am firmly say this. I'm excited! Shame it comes out in September though!

[mikathegreat2]

Battlefield Bad Company 2=great game!

Single player is awesome, not as funny as BC1 but the action was better! Multiplayer is good too but nowhere near as good as MW2! I'll give it an A-!

[LabradoRacer]

Playing 'Rainbow Six Vegas'. No, it's not a game about six gay bug-chasers staking their lives in Sin City. It's about offing terrorists who plan to take over the world. A pretty original plot, agreed.


About the gameplay, well, you make your teammates flash their moobs at the terrorists. While the mofos are distracted, you flank around, get behind 'em, stick your gun up their arses, and blow their innards out. Repeat this sequence about 10000 times. Still hella fun.

[Kopite Girl]

Red Dead Redemption on Friday and I can't ****ing wait!

[LabradoRacer]

Read reviews & saw some clippings of 'Just Cause 2'. Seems to be a bloody insane game. Hope to play it!

[Kate's Dirty Sister]

JHS, on 17 March 2010 - 04:24 PM, said:

Okay, after seeing F1 2010 today and the screenshots that has been revealed I am firmly say this. I'm excited! Shame it comes out in September though!

It does look awesome!  Why they are making us wait so long is beyond me.  Why not make it for the start of this season not towards the end.  After the winter some of the drivers will be in different teams so after a couple of months the game will be outdated.  You don't get football games coming out towards the end of the season   Besides I want to emulate Chandok winning the title this year..and that won't be realistic in September when it's impossible for him to catch up!

[mikathegreat2]

Kate, on 02 June 2010 - 10:48 AM, said:

It does look awesome!  Why they are making us wait so long is beyond me.

Pfft! You think CM are delaying it by a long time, nothing compared to what Sony are making us wait for GT5!

[LabradoRacer]

Will play 'Necrovision' soon. WW2 meets zombies. 'nuff said.

[mikathegreat2]

LabradoRacer, on 02 June 2010 - 05:48 PM, said:

Will play 'Necrovision' soon. WW2 meets zombies. 'nuff said.

So it's basically COD W@W Nazi Zombie mode, only it's a full game??

[LabradoRacer]

piquettheterrible2, on 03 June 2010 - 12:42 PM, said:

So it's basically COD W@W Nazi Zombie mode, only it's a full game??

Well, that & a lot of over-the-top action. Like flying atop a fire-breathing dragon, for instance. And commanding it to fry the undead fuckers below. Do see a few videos on youtube. You'll be pleasantly surprised at how a shop-worn genre like WW has been given a new spin.

And my bad, it's WW1.

[Kopite Girl]

piquettheterrible2, on 03 June 2010 - 12:42 PM, said:

So it's basically COD W@W Nazi Zombie mode, only it's a full game??

I love Nazi Zombie mode. Those dogs are freaky as hell!

Black Ops is out soon too. Think its based in Vietnam. Gonna be awesome.

[Quiet One]

Yayyyyyyy! Going through my first race weekend at Bahrein on my F1 2010. Got myself a shiny ultrafast Lotus car (And I'm getting paid 500,000 dollars!!! I wil have to check my Skype Banking account soon!) I managed to outqualify Trulli, started from P12, drove through the field in a blink up to P19 , then clawed back to P16. In the middle i decided to teach that pesky Hulkenberg a lesson for interrupting me in the middle of my controlled spin.
I am currently behind Kobayashi who refuses to acknowledge that I am faster than him even though I said the magic words "this is ridiculous" three times (I guess that is something that should be worked in some upcoming patch for the game). All this in a slow day.

What can I say? I am obviously using the easiest setting with all assists on (I wanted to feel the rush of come driving even if very arcadeish rather than spend the whole night trying not to spin my car right at the exit of the pitlane). It looks gorgeous and even at the dumber setting you can feel the car losing some control when close to another car's tail. And...have I said it looks GORGEOUS???

So, this is my bye bye to the forums. Now that I have F1 2010, I can finally say that I have a life outside the forums. See you later, suckers! Hahahaha...ermmm...

[Rainmaster]

I wish GT5 would hurry up and be released already!

[Kopite Girl]

Almost here. I just read the review in opm and its going to be ****ing awesome.

Danny. Add this one T-O-R-R-E-S on the other id i was getting too much hassle off blokes. Shame that some idiots can't accept a girl gamer and not try to crack onto her or belittle or at times try and send photographs of their tiny d#cks through.

[pabloh20]

Kopite Girl, on 25 November 2010 - 02:00 PM, said:

Almost here. I just read the review in opm and its going to be ****ing awesome.

Danny. Add this one T-O-R-R-E-S on the other id i was getting too much hassle off blokes. Shame that some idiots can't accept a girl gamer and not try to crack onto her or belittle or at times try and send photographs of their tiny d#cks through.

Hey, it was a cold night.  Geez, some people are so critical.

[Rainmaster]

Why did this thread ever die? Maybe people weren't as bored as I am now to go searching for random old threads.

Oddly enough, now I find myself here, all I wanted to say is that I've for the most part fell out of love with video games. I always thought that would never happen, that it was a misconception of my parents (and large numbers of their generation) to say "stop playing games, grow up", as if a medium of entertainment was something you grew out of. How that used to annoy me. How absurd would it be to say "grow up and stop watching films" or similar for TV, or books? I thought it was because they just didn't value games as a medium or as something which anybody could be interested in, regardless of age, and they didn't realise that the best games could have more complexity and scope than a lot of films, TV, and yes, even books.

Actually, I still think all of that. I think the real reason I've stopped playing video games is not because it doesn't have value as a medium (at least comparable value to watching most TV shows, films or run of the mill novels, for example) but because of the direction it's all going. Looking at game length, for example, I understand the commercial benefit in all of these "ladder" systems where you have to play for 4000 hours before you can advance to a slightly better level of footwear or a 2% better camouflage, but it really doesn't do much for my satisfaction to have to do that. I have an actual life to live. Skyrim, the last game I bought, was the most unbelievable experience when I first ventured out into its world. Total freedom. But after 50-60 hours I can't believe that people don't find it an absolute chore, because it's just impossible to ignore that levelling system making you feel unfulfilled. Call of Duty has the same problem, except worse still, the levelling system actually affects your experience of the game! CoD is a series that, instead of rewarding skill, just rewards people willing to put 100's of hours of play into it and pay for the downloadable content (another unwelcome development).

I think the second reason is the storyline. Or lack of. The sooner the games industry at large realises a good team of writers is the best way of improving a game, the better off they'll be, instead of masturbating over squeezing another pixel onto the screen. At least Skyrim had this going for it.  About a month ago I replayed Quake 2 (released 1997): it is such a masterpiece. It's short, it has a great soundtrack, it does exactly what it says on the tin. The graphics never bothered me. There isn't much of a storyline, but it doesn't pretend that there is, either. When you play a modern shooting game, it's like watching a really average but incredibly pretentious film, that thinks it's so much better than it is, using over-processed cutscenes to string out a story that isn't really there. Let's be honest: I just want to shoot some generic terrorists/aliens/innocent bystanders. Quake 2 knew that, and respected it. The Metal Gear Solid series was a fine example of a game which had an actual story, okay it was batSh#t crazy, but my God it was an interesting journey, even with all those cutscenes.

I suppose my conclusion is that like most forms of entertainment, games only work when they can trick you into believing they are not a complete waste of time. They can't do that when they take years to conquer and hours to draw satisfaction from. Instead, nowadays, you are just left with a terrible sense of guilt that you could have learnt how to play a musical instrument, taught yourself a language or otherwise been more productive.

Edit: I'm sorry everyone, I don't have a blog and I refuse to start now

Edited by Rainmaster, 04 September 2012 - 01:31 AM.

[AleHop]

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Why did this thread ever die? Maybe people weren't as bored as I am now to go searching for random old threads

In case you get bored again...

http://pica-pic.com/#

There weren't Nintendo DS, Sony PSP, etc. when I was a child, you know? Not even Game Boy.

P.S.- Fortunately we had the best arcade cabinets ever made.

http://www.1980-games.com/

I played some time ago and know it doesn't work properly.

Edited by AleHop, 25 October 2012 - 10:29 PM.

[freaky2]

@George:

I'm not a gamer, or ever will be, so that's basically why I liked your post. It will allow me to rant about videogames in the future

But I thought of something here. Take films, I don't usually watch them because I can't sit down long enough and pay attention (or that's what I say at least). But even if I feel that many new films are commercial and the  3D only wants to confuse me and trick me into thinking that something sh*te was worth it, I will always be able to find a good film somewhere. Cinema is beautiful because many people use it as a means for expression. There is an abyss between the latest Spiderman "cooler than ever" and an amateur short story and that abyss is filled with everything in between.

It seems to me that the videogame world is much more commercial right now, although some people/small ventures are breaking through with fan support (donations towards the completion of the game). And it is not so weird, because to shoot a film you only need a camera and your intuition, whereas for a videogame you would actually need programming skills. But the world is full of programmers! Maybe they only need a push?

Last, but not least, if someone knows more than me and finds this post ridiculous... the monkey made me do it!

[LabradoRacer]

I agree with a lot of what George has said. I've no patience for those games that drag out to infinity & reward with you zit upgrades like more pus, more yellowness.

Played "Batman Arkham Asylum" about a month or so back. Supremely entertaining and marvelous game. Hope to catch "Batman Arkham City" soon.

[Rainmaster]

That Pica Pic site is quite cool Ale (although I don't really like handheld gaming)! Jay, maybe I'll try the Batman game then

Actually, although my post is still true for me, I know the real reason I've gone off games is that I can't really afford to buy them at the moment I would probably buy Borderlands (1&2), LA Noire, get into the Halo series and a few other titles if I had the money.

Tanita, yeah, maybe it's just a commercial thing. It really annoys me that a series like CoD is so successful while nobody is playing a game like Unreal Tournament 3, although I sort of understand why it's the case. It's not like in the film industry where it is actually sometimes impossible for me to understand why a film is commercially successful (Paranormal Activity 4? Really?). It also just doesn't feel like the really successful games are then propping up more creative, "indie", artistic type of games. Whereas in the movie industry, you have the whole "tent-pole" movie idea where something awful like Paranormal Activity 4 means the studio can take a risk on another story which will not make as much money (and yep, I think something like Kickstarter is a great idea for smaller projects). Perhaps the movie industry went through a similar, pandering only sort of phase in its early years? I really don't know, but I do feel games are still a young industry and have some growing up to do.

Maybe games companies are taking risks, I'm probably not involved in/following the scene enough to know. Maybe all I am really complaining about is that so many people have awful taste and I've got nobody to beat on UT3 these days But there's hope in the fact a game like Skyrim does do so well because as much as I did complain about it, it is still excellent. All in all, I don't know. But I did watch this documentary which was decent: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1942884/

Edited by Rainmaster, 30 October 2012 - 01:01 PM.

[Quiet One]

Ahhh I think we have a juicy discussion here. Too bad I don't have the time to dwelve into this as much as I could.

Good things from industry in these past two years: the resurrection of PC gaming (a vastly superior experience, IMHO than the console driven industry with their dumbed down games and, worst of all, NO MODDING!!)

I never understood the pleasure of multiplayer games, as much as I tried. My approach is too casual. I  actually love more reading about games than playing them. But I think that the concept  that is slowly forming if not explicitly is that games are not "games" and thus "something for kids" but pure entertaiment in the same sense as movies are, or theater. So, after years of dwindling creativity and predominance of big industry with a "more money, less gaming" concept is good to see indie industry coming back and some really good big industry games that do not treat their public like brain dead teenagers.

@George: Borderlands (1&2) are wonderful and among my small circle of all time favorites (I am stil to finish Borderlands 2, but man, I love the perfect balance between humor, frantic battles and ARPG action. I am a sucker for true ARPGs)
If you use a PC, I'd also recommend you Torchlight II and, of course, Skyrim gets even better when modded, so I would at least recommend you Skyrim Redone mod (SkyRe). Coupled with the Alternate Life mod makes for a whole different experience. Not to mention the host of little indie games RPS feeds us all the time (have you tried that one with the fractions and frogs? Deliciously absurd)

All in all, was a good year in terms of gaming after a long drought with stupid war-in-some-arab-country-or-world-war-two FPS that cloned each other ad nauseam.

Oh, and do take Dishonored if you can. I am not much into stealth games and games with too much "story" and limited RPG elements (if you always play the same guy and loot is more or less the same I don't like them. That's why I never got much into Dragon Age/The Witcher/Mass Effect titles never cared too much for stories and like silly collecting games like Borderlands) but Dishonored gives so much freedom that I find myself advancing at a snail pace just because I spend so much time merely contemplating how will approach the next mission.

[Rainmaster]

Thanks a lot for the recommendations Andres! Yep, I'm a PC guy and as someone who started gaming on consoles (PS1, PS2 for the most part) I definitely think it's a better experience. Sadly, so many people don't make that leap which is a shame. I just need to upgrade this laptop and then I can buy some more modern games (this thing struggles with even a 2007 spec game albeit an intensive one).

But yes, it's that cultural shift that I think games are still going through both from a public perception pov and from inside too (although the public perception is probably a little behind the curve of the game makers themselves). And all those "shoot an Arab" type games are really not helping with a cultural shift at all (and to me, somehow always just feel like propaganda anyway).

Anyway, I'll check out Torchlight 2 (heard of it but never Wiki'd it) and definitely Dishonoured as I love a stealth game (anybody ever play Tenchu?), and I need to follow RPS by RSS or just visiting the homepage rather than only looking at it via my increasingly occasional use of Twitter!

Edited by Rainmaster, 30 October 2012 - 02:27 PM.

[Kopite Girl]

Assassins Creed 3. Entertaining. Too simple for me though.

I'm still plodding through Skyrim. Love how it seems never ending.

[Rainmaster]

[Rainmaster]

I think it was Andres who said he enjoyed reading about games as much as playing them. I'm the same. I like watching YouTube walkthroughs and gameplay footage, too, sad as it sounds I must recommend this series to anybody who likes games. It's just great.



This guy is a legend amongst the community of people playing the DayZ mod and I'm not surprised. Not only he is a ridiculously smart player of this game, but he's also really nice to the "bambies" (read: noobs) he meets. A very entertaining series.

[AleHop]

I finished all those DayZ vids. I used to play games like that and I got fed up when hackers made imposible to enjoy more than 5 minutes of fun. The guy is great he enjoys so much playing that you get attached to the screen. I might get it as a standalone or bring back those I played in the past now that F1 is over. It's been a long season and a professional Alonso fan needs a break.

[Rainmaster]

AleHop, on 29 November 2012 - 07:34 PM, said:

I finished all those DayZ vids. I used to play games like that and I got fed up when hackers made imposible to enjoy more than 5 minutes of fun. The guy is great he enjoys so much playing that you get attached to the screen. I might get it as a standalone or bring back those I played in the past now that F1 is over. It's been a long season and a professional Alonso fan needs a break.

I'm surprised somebody actually watched it It's great though right! I got through them all in about 3 days or something ridiculous, but he's still making them so looking forward to the next one. Yeah, I need to upgrade to a good computer and then I'll see if the standalone is any good (I think he'll review it for us..) and if not, buy Arma 2 just to get this mod.

[Quiet One]

Yup, it was me who loves reading about games (BTW, about to read a whole novel about games culture "Ready Player One" by E.Cline). I also love videos about games. This one is a favorite at RPS: there's a youtube culture of posting Battlefield videos or similar with plenty of wub wub music and lots of pseudo gangsta talk to make them look cool. Here's a version, based on the thrilling Farm Simulator