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At 3/19/09 03:34 PM, Gooroon wrote: I've just decided i'm gunna try that strategy see if it works (probably not unless you are mega skillful)

I don't think I'm 'mega skillful'... just a well practiced talent at best.

I learned early on to run circles around the map and how to lead my shots so my enemies walk into their own headshots without me having to aim.

I get frustrated when enemies or players try to hide... it just prolongs things that don't need to be prolonged so I go after 'em. I found that, because I'm prepared for close range, I usually win it. Games are pretty good about regenerating health for you and those that don't have plenty of life lying around so taking a few unneccessary hits isn't a big deal. Usually, because I move so much... I can find where health and ammo packs are early on so I can always run straight to them mid fight if I need too.

It's why I like the standard guns... pistols for when you need accuracy (far ranged battles), and machine guns for everything else. AI is smart enough to duck when shot at so in really bad situations, you can usually deal out your own cover fire while you head to a health pack. If you're lucky, you'll get in some cheap shots on the way.

Plus, because I don't focus on any one enemies, they all start dying around the same time... so any game that gives bonuses for quick kill succession usually plays in my favor.

I think so...

To me, the flaw with Nintendo is how the manage themself after the console is created. I mean, look at the Wii for a classic example. Everybody who plays it loves Wii-Bowling, it's the best Wii game on the market and it's a shitty free demo game that came with the system.

That's cool, but surely in testing Nintendo had to realize that Wii Bowling was going to be a hit. So why didn't they stop right there, and get to work on a Mario Bowling game to release a few months after the consoles release?

Motion based controls are perfect for both Boxing, Golf, and Baseball... yet here we are 3 and half years later and as far as I know there is still no Mario Baseball and Punch Out is still months away. Why weren't these games planned from the start?

There was a Mario Golf on the original NES... why wasn't this remade, or re-released on the virtual consol with themotion controls shortly after the Wiis release?

In the mean time, what do we have? Almost nothing. There's no new Pikman, Mario Galaxy was just average, and the Zelda game was released on the Gamecube. Nintendo is sitting on a gold mine of a console that does something no other system out can do... and they've yet to do anything with it. They've given us a second animal crossing and more party games then we know what to do with... which have turned out to be disapointing considering that Mario Pary 8 doesn't have any online play regardless of the fact that the Wii ships with a built in wireless modem.

I'm just stumped... it's like they half-ass everything they do. Then, after making the decision to buy one anyways, you can't even get your hands on one because they half-assed the production and forgot to make enough for everybody.

In the end, it's just not worth the hassel or the frustration... I'd just rather not own a Nintendo system then hunt the stores for months, pay three times the selling rate online, and have to wait 4 years for a decent collection of games to own.

When playing an RPG... just button mash your way through any and all character text as quickly as possible, especially in towns. Nobody ever has anything important to say and waiting for the text to scroll is boring and rude to everybody else in the room watching you play.

lol, it looks kind of lame and a bit jerky (just a bad video?) but regardless... it also looks silly and amazingly fun.

Consider me sold.

At 3/20/09 04:12 AM, Hemlok wrote: I'm hearing Bioshock 2 will have multiplayer. Should be great!

I just read that there is no Co-Op, but multiplayer is still there... meaning what, exactly, nobody knows. But it's probably going to be your standard Deathmatch and Capture the Flag type stuf... but with plasmids.

Should be fun

At 3/19/09 05:19 PM, Pyrotek7x7 wrote: ...I'm not really seeing the problem here.

They have dicks.

At 3/19/09 05:15 PM, MrSaint wrote:

I love Bob Marley.

Yeah I love Bob Marley too. He is my fave from the the Reggae Genre.

This is also why I dislike Reggae... it's as if the whole style of music only revolves around one artist. Nobody ever says... "Reggae is awesome, Buju is the best!"

It's always Bob Marley or nothing.... I never go over to a stoners house and hear a diffrent regge artist. It's always the double disk Marley collection.

No disrespect to Bob or anything... but still, why do people claim to love Reggae when they really only love Bob and could really care less about everybody else?

I walk around town, and it's always Marley shirts... where are the other reggae based clothes?

Just an observation... that's all.

I see why people like it, but I'm personally not a fan of it.

So far, the only reggae artist I like is Eek-a-mouse... and only because he speaks in gibberish that I found humours when stoned.

ma-me and da-de a say we so poor
we use have sleep on ze floor
Ba-ba-biddy-bong-bong-hubiddy-ja-biddy-b ong-ba!!!

Fucking awsome.

At 3/17/09 12:45 AM, thoughtpolice wrote: Personally, I just point people to python. It's intuitive, simple and you can get shit working quick. Beginners need motivation. ...

I would think VB.Net would be better. A few clicks of a button and you can have a windows application. You can create an MDI form in about 2 minutes... complete with toolbars and File Menus.

Plus, it suppots OOP and uses the .Net framework so what little you learn can easily be transfered over to other similar languages that are far more advanced IE: C# or C++.

If the person goes all out and gets visual studio, the VB experiance will also help familurize themself with the VS application and it's helpful debugging tools.

I've never used Python so it's kind of an unfair judgment for me to make, but I'd still say VB.Net mainly because I've never needed to use Python. I've yet to run across any code that uses Python in my job, but I have, however, ran into plenty of VB in my days... even if it's just VB script in Excell worksheets, it's still VB.

Then again, I only make Windows apps... that may have something to do with it. :)

At 3/19/09 02:30 PM, All-American-Badass wrote: if thats the case, then Beckham should've made soccer popular again he didn't. Soccer is still as unpopular as it's ever been.

The MLS wanted him to make soccer popular again but it didn't work out... mainly because he didn't play a good chunk of the games due to previous obligations he had with other teams. It seemed like everytime I turned around Beckham had yet another excuse to get a paycheck from the Galaxy without actually playing for them. He was always injured or away doing international games for his home team.

The fact that the Galaxy went on to suck complete ass and lose just about every game they played didn't help either. Especially after we changed our uniforms to please him... in the end, the whole Beckham deal looked more like a huge waist of money and a failed marketing scheme then it did the signing of a good player and the advancement of the sport.

At 3/19/09 02:46 PM, Tykwa wrote: Ive got one of those awesome bruised kidneys, It might be ruptured, I dont know,

aparently, you don't know how to take care of shit... not even yourself. :)

At 3/19/09 01:09 PM, H-A-X-O-R-Z wrote: Dead Rising had it's share of problems anyway, but I believe the majority will be fixed in the sequel.

Like what? Not arguing... just asking. The only thing I disliked was the survivor AI. They liked to run right into zombies even though I had cleared a path to their left.

Plus, they had bad habbits of stoping to cry at the worst times possible.

But I personally found the rest of it genius... even the save feature and hard-to-manage time system. I don't think the game would have been any fun if you could save anywhere, and weren't in a hurry to do things.

to me, that would have taken all the 'surivial' out of the game... the way it is now, it's a constant adrinilne rush of pressure and challenge... saving survivors isn't as easy as just going to them whenever you want.... you have to save them when they need saving or they die... just like it would be in real life.

It's the first zombie game that actually made you fear the zombie invasion... managing food, staying alive, and grouping together with other survivors was hard... and mistakes almost always resulted in death.

I'm actually hoping, these things stay in the sequal... it won't be Dead Rising without them... but instead, just another sandbox game with zombies.

I've always assumed it was because of our lazy culture.

We claimed to have invented baseball... the slowest and laziest sport on the planet. American football isn't much diffrent. You run a play, you take a minute or two to rest, you run another play. a 90 minutes game takes 3 hours and everybody is happy.

Soccer, not so much... it's fast paces with no stoping. I assumed that, if there wasn't enough time between plays to grab another beer and a hotdog, we weren't interested.

Basketball being the exception only because you need next to nothing to play it, making it popular in poor parts of town.

But I'm just making all of this up, I have no real sources outside of pesrsonal observation to back up my claims.

On a side note, I'm American... and I like Soccer. Donovan and Galaxy ftw!. (Piss on Beckham though, he didn't do shit but raise a fuss, make us change our colors, and suck ass the few times he played)

I love my friends to death... I grew up with them... but it's a lot of the same for me as well.

I listen to and help my friends out all the time, but it seems as if they never return the favor. Everything is always about them or some sort of way for them to work in a lame gay joke.

It really sucks and wears you down pretty hard... it's fine when everything in life is good, but when you have a problem and realize you don't have anyone to turn to it really sucks.

What really blows, is that it's hard to call them out on it. I mean, how do you tell their friends to stop being selfish when you have to tell them to think about you? I mean... listen to how stupid and hypocriticial this sentance sounds:

"When are you going to think about me?!"

It sounds like something a woman would say... and would probably just bring on further insults and lame jokes.

I've just learned to take all my problems and bottle up deep inside until I find the time to drink or smoke them away. It's probably seriously unhealthy (which would account for my massive bouts of anxiety and occassional benders) but whatever... they're still my friends and regardless of how stupid or selfish they may be, I still love 'em and wouldn't trade any of them for anything in the world.

Such is life... nobody said it would be easy or fair.

When I play a game... I rarely worry about stategy or diffrent weapons. I just turn it on, run into the middle of the battlefield and play with the mentallity that I can hopefully kill them, before they kill me.

There's a lot of running around and close combat gun fights... I've never been the type to use cover or switch weapons. Not even in games like Gears of War.

It's not uncommon for me to beat shooter games (FPS or 3rd person) with the gun they start me out with in stage one.

Strangly though, I've grown fond of this fashion. On rare occasions where I do have to use diffrent guns (required to kill bosses, playing on a friends game, etc...) I find other weapons just don't compare the standard burst fire machine gun and secondary pistol.

Sniper riffles shoot too slow, explosive weapons are hard to aim, etc... but every game always has to perfectly average guns and they're almost always the two guns you start with. I don't even waist my time looking for others.

I'll beat games, and never have any idea what those other guns do... there are always exceptions to the rule (Half Life 2, Perfect Dark Zero) but 9 out of 10 times, I stick to my starting weapons.

I don't even use gernades.

It goes way back to my days as a wee lad playing Contra on the NES when it was new. Everybody wanted the spread gun... but not me, all I ever wanted was the machine gun. If it was unavailable, Rapid-Fire would do just fine.

Anybody else do this, or just me?

At 3/18/09 06:40 PM, Final2Legion wrote:

At 3/18/09 06:04 PM, IWasBanned wrote: the wii remake stinks... xbox 360 DR= 1000 zombies on screen. WII DR= 50 zombies on screen.
There were also problems with the controls...
/Thread

1000 my tan ass more like 250

Electronic Gaming Monthly reported that there can be up to 800 zombies on the screen at once.

Take it as you will... I'm not going to go into the tunnels at night, towards the end of the game, and count them but feel free. :)

Actually, you're probably both right. The 360 game is probably capable of handeling up to 800 zombies on screen at a time but probably rarely does due to the fact that it would be really hard to get 800 zombies within Franks vision without Frank dying.

800... that's a lot of bad guys trying to kill you at once.

Regardless, I don't think there's any question that the Wii is less powerful then the 360... thus the wii is incapable of handeling the same amount of zombies. Wether the zombie limit drops on the wii to a point where it no longer feels fun or threatening is up to the player... I wouldn't know since I've never played the wii version.

Firewall blocks NG pics so I had to do a google search... from the pics I saw, she looks like every other teen girl on the planet so I'm going to assume everybody is just freaking out about absolutly nothing.

Girls have had long hair and dresses for ages... what's the big deal? It's not like her tits are hanging out or anything. Hell, in the pics I saw, you couldn't even see her bellybutton.

I've seen Disney Chanel teens wear far worse...

Good... teachers can't do shit to control their students anymore because everybody always overeacts to everything. It's gotten to the point where the kids feel like they are king and spend their days doing everything but learning.

And why not? The worst that can happen is a trip to the office... but the prinicipal can't do anything either.

I say we go back to the days where the teacher is the law and you do what he/she says or face the punishment he/she hands out.

Maybe then kids won't be such obnoxious twats all the time.

I admit, I was one too... that's why I realize it's a problem.

What episode are you talking about? The one where he plays golf with OJ? Before the show started they ran a thing talking about the fact that the show was "lost"... it was originally suppose to air a few years ago. But it sucked so they never showed it... until now.

So since that episode, they've made a few more seasons which obviously didn't suck meaning it's not going to get cancelled.

Although I wish every channel but fox would cancel it... it's annoying to find that it's on 100 times a day.

I'm actually under the assumption that often times bad things just do continue to happen to the same people and outlook and attitude have nothing to do with it.

Sometimes the universe just places one of it's many cocks deep in your ass... realizes it's nice and tight, and continues to keep it there for the rest of your life.

I make everything a joke and always see the bright side of things. But strangly, things rarely work out for the best. I've gotten use to it... it's kind of funny now that I'm older.

You have to travel to the Woods of Forsaken Gods and play the Tumbling Wind song on your harp to make the wood-nymph appear.

He'll give you a key that opens the gate to the Fire Temple that holds the artifact inside a chest. Look online for a mp of the Fire Temple if you still need help.

lol, old lady swallows.

At 3/16/09 05:45 PM, MarchelloBB wrote:

At 3/16/09 05:40 PM, DroopyA wrote:

At 3/16/09 05:37 PM, MarchelloBB wrote: Some things (like DroopyA) he should've never created

You're wrong!

Sorry, I made a mistake somewhere.

Don't worry, I fixed it for you again. :)

I use two knives... that way the PB and J don't get mixed up in the jar.

PB goes on one slice of bread. The J goes on the other.

I put them together, have a circle jerk over the top of it, and feed it to the loser.

At 3/16/09 05:41 PM, kindmortal wrote: And when you sustain life, it's possible to invade each other.

What else is there to do? Once you master space travel... the only left is war.

At 3/16/09 05:37 PM, MarchelloBB wrote: Some things (like myself) he should've never created

fixed

FPS where you're some sort of random guy living in the future where everybody travels through space regularly.

For whatever reason, probably involving your girlfriend, you end up in a building with little or no power with dead bodies everywhere. You find awesome guns everywhere and use them to battle mindless aliens who attack you with no real strategy or plan... they're stupid and pre-evolved regardless of their ability to somehow master space travel.

A few squads of space marines where sent in but they all died and ocassionally you find one mortally wounded who hands out keycards or hints as to how to get past certan security features. Nobody questions how you, an untrained nobody, can survive where well trained and well equiped space marines failed.

You eventually find out that the aliens have some secret birth behind them... be it, created by the army, a genetic vacine gone wrong, or possibly a rarely discovered egg that was hatched in a labratory that broke out... probably a refrence to Nazis and WWII. Regardless, you find that man-kind has brought this on himself because the idea that monsters can just be monsters is no longer allowed.

You'll save or do whatever it was you where there to find or do and you'll have a big epic showdown in a huge empty room with random lab tables and weird tubes everwhere with a queen alien... all aliens worship queens, man is the only creature in the universe to have kings... also, we're the only creatures in the universe that don't all spawn by the millions from the butthole of one person.

Durring the fight the queen will shoot acid spit at you and send minions in groups of 3 or 4 at you. You'll have to do something completly unfun and tedious to take her out... she's the only lifeform completly immune to bullets even though her childern strangly arn't. The fight will be long and the queen will also have the ability to change shape 3 times... because everybody in the universe can change their physical makeup at will except man... they all also wait to use their strongest form until their almost dead because they're too stupid to realize they could have killed me from the start had they taken their strongest form to begin with.

The queen will die, a self destruct sequence will begin, and you'll have a short race out of the building. Scroll boring ending credits featuring an awesome explosion.

The main character will be quiet and weak... yet he'll have a super hot girl to save who is "just a friend" to start but becomes his sexy hot lover by the end of the game. This is to appeal to all the gamers out there who are in love with their friends but not confident or outspoken enough to get a girl to actually fall for them. Don't worry, I'm one too. :)

They'll be a lot of plot holes... excuses to make sequals.

I'll hype it for a year in advance but the game itself with be average getting scores of maybe a 7.5. I'll sell millions of them in the first few weeks so it won't matter how much it sucks... I'll get my money before word gets out to just rent it. EA will publish it, there will be 3 of them in the series as well as a really bad port to the Wii.

Multiplayer will feature zombies.

At 3/16/09 05:13 AM, flakmonkey wrote: 1. Are you Male or Female:

A) Male

2. Your age:

D) 22 - 24+

3. Which game genera would you prefer:

A) Arcade

4. Which is your preferred console:

B) XBox 360

5. Which in game camera angle to you prefer:

B) 3rd Person

6. Out of these classic arcade games, which do you prefer:

C) Starfox

7. Which would you prefer in a game:

A) In-depth story

8. In the classic arcade scrolling shooters, which appealed to you:

C) The weaponry

9. Which would you prefer in a game:

D) Dynamic gameplay (select your path, activate goals/ triggers for bonus levels, upgrade)

10. What do you prefer as a reward for your efforts:

C) New available upgrades

11. How do you acquire your games:

A) Purchase at a store

Katamari...

Roll up society into a ball. Kill everything in ball by compressing ball to solid mass. Throw ball into far regions of space and forget all about it.

At 3/12/09 09:17 PM, thePariah wrote: The menu is viewed in live-action...

why do devs think this is a good idea? I've never played a game with this implemented where it's made the game more fun.