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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Gamemako Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 05 2012 at 13:03
Originally posted by sleeper sleeper wrote:

Been playing Metal Gear Solid pretty much for the first time ever. Excellent game, though the PS1 controls were a bit annoying since I'm so used to the more precise controles of 2 3 and 4.

Gamemako, have you tried the Legacy DLC for DA2? I thought it was great, if a little easy, and no more parachuting badies. 


I haven't done any of the DLC except Sebastian. I shelved the game a while back. Maybe I'll take a look again at a later date. Like, closer to DA3's release, when I have the will to look at Dragon Age again.
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I've heard Legacy is a big improvement myself.  Many who dislike the original game like Legacy.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Alitare Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 05 2012 at 18:28
I finished Ratchet and Clank 2 (Goin' Commando) and the first Devil May Cry, today. After watching Princess Mononoke with the family I may start on Jak and Daxter 1, or perhaps Hitman 2. I'm not too excited over either. 
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Henry Plainview Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 05 2012 at 23:26
I just had someone on a Valve server constantly complain that I was hacking for about five minutes because I as an engineer killed him while he was invisible with the dead ringer. Frickin pubs...
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote sleeper Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 06 2012 at 05:57
Originally posted by James James wrote:

I've heard Legacy is a big improvement myself.  Many who dislike the original game like Legacy.

It certainly is a big improvement.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote progkidjoel Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 09 2012 at 17:05
I think my PS3 is finally dying. 
Booted it up today, seemed fine, deleted a whole bunch of saves from my HDD then turned it off. Came back later, turned it back on and it stopped on a black screen. Disconnected from power (wasn't responding to power button/control input) and then rebooted. Said I should format my HDD, or try later.
Selected try later, and now all my games run at ~10FPS if that. :( Sound is also lagging massively.

Backed up my gamesaves and gonna try a file-system rebuild (PS3's equivalent of an HDD defrag) and a format if that doesn't help :(
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote sleeper Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2012 at 16:13
^ Sounds like its about to keel over, how old is it?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote progkidjoel Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 10 2012 at 21:35
^Coming up to 5 years in a few months.

So I did the defrag and that did nothing; I formatted it and it seemed to be back to normal and then it crashed again.
Took the case off and gave it a really proper clean to get rid of the tons of dust inside and did another format and it seems fine now. Still doubt it'll last that much longer, though.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote SaltyJon Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 11 2012 at 00:14
Man...realizing that PS3/Xbox 360 and such have been out for almost what, 6 years now, really makes me realize I must be getting older. LOL
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You know you're old when you remember Altavista Search engine.
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My son and daughter have been hogging the consoles recently so I've been playing quite a bit of DS and am amusing myself with this game right now.




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Been playing Binding of Isaac, finally
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Gamemako Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2012 at 19:02
Originally posted by James James wrote:

You know you're old when you remember Altavista Search engine.


Hah, remember HotBot, too?
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote VanderGraafKommandöh Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 13 2012 at 20:09
I do indeed remember HotBot.

Those were the days... no Google and all you ever used was HotBot, Yahoo! and Altavista on Netscape Navigator.

Although I used Hastalavista as well. Embarrassed
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Gamemako Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2012 at 07:39
ME3 demo.

-Buggy.
-Unresponsive.
-Faces look awful (really, really, really awful -- like someone took the somewhat-blurry faces of ME2, hit the Sharpen button on Photoshop 7 times, then called it a day).
-Animations are often very awkward, in both combat and conversation.
-There are some funny-bad background animations.
-Everyone got preachy. Instead of being straightforward, Shepard prefaces every statement with some pithy nonsense. Even Wrex won't shut the f**k up. Seriously, WREX.
-Clint Mansell's soundtrack sounds promising.
-Everything got sped up except the returning-to-cover-animation, which is now insanely slow. In the time it takes to get back behind cover, enemies can tear off all your shields and half your health.
-Damage seems insanely random at times, especially from melee. Heavy melee is consistent, for the most part, but regular attacks deal somewhere between zero damage and instagib depending on... something-or-other.
-Remember when enemies would skate around in fast motion in Dragon Age? That has now infected Mass Effect.
-Remember how cover, run, and use were all one button in ME2, and how that caused all kinds of problems? Well, now it's also roll. And move between cover.  The result? You roll out of cover accidentally, you try to enter cover and instead roll face-first into a wall, you try to sprint and end up against a random box, etc, etc. It's messy.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote VanderGraafKommandöh Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2012 at 07:54
As it's only a demo, let's hope some of this stuff gets sorted although that's what betas are for.

Hmm... sounds a bit concerning!
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RIP Bioware
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Gamemako Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2012 at 09:31
Originally posted by Triceratopsoil Triceratopsoil wrote:

RIP Bioware


As much as I don't want to admit it, this seems to be the case. It's not the animations or faces, which I don't so much mind if the rest is good. It's the absurd, over-the-top Michael Bay production and pretentious dialogue. One kid gets blown up in shuttle, and supreme a****le Shepard, who roasts factory workers for fun and kills hundreds of thousands of people, gets all teary-eyed. What is that about? Wrex, who is relatively calm and rational even when the future of his people is at stake, gets all emo. He loves a good fight, but is somehow put off by how long Shep takes to complete his mission. Firebrand Ashley Williams has become a slut-puppet whose hairstyle wouldn't pass military inspection on any planet. The Alliance counsel, the head honchos of the human military, are blathering idiots. Military leaders are not weak-willed teenagers commanded by hormones, and they sure as hell wouldn't sit around being insulted by someone who was already stripped of his rank. The whole of the demo is absurd. Ouch
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Although I don't have a problem with Ashley being a slut-puppet, you DO NOT f**k WITH WREX Cry
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