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At 7/31/10 06:41 PM, Valjylmyr wrote: How about watching that scene before you criticize it?

Uh, I did. I played through the game.

The only overall game theme I can remember is that of FFVII.

Unless To Zanarkand counts as the theme of X? If so, I guess that one?

At 7/31/10 04:17 PM, umbrashine wrote: how the fuck is it poorly written?

Uh, because of the poor writing.

It is horribly overwritten for starters, with characters repeating the same point at least five times every cutscene.

Then you have the lines of dialogue that are just simply dumb. I don't keep MGS lines in my head, but here's one exchange I remember from the first game.

Out of nowhere:

"Snake, do you think love can bloom, even on the battlefield?"
"Yeah, love can bloom anywhere"

SO CHEESY.

I'm also going to take a few lines from MGS4 off the IMDB page.

EVA: Call me Mama. Big Mama.

Raiden: It was never going to work out for me. It even rained the day I was born.
Solid Snake: You've got it all wrong. You were the lightning in that rain. You can still shine through the darkness.

Vamp: How about it, undying man? Care to die too?
Raiden: I'm sorry but I can't die yet.

I liked the games, but man they contain some of the dumbest, cheesiest dialogue I've seen in a game (well, at least in one that's trying to have a deep story).

At 7/28/10 08:30 PM, LaForge wrote: I saw the whole series when it was airing on AS, it's the type of show you don't need to watch twice IMO. Unless you're the type that needs to unravel philosophical puzzles, don't get it.

I would disagree and say it's exactly the type of show that would stand up to multiple viewings.

While trying to come up with some dumb ideas, I came up with some really dumb ideas.

At 7/28/10 01:07 PM, MuyBurrito wrote: Haha?
No, wasting money on cheap thrills doesn't build toward a future.

That is the first time I have heard anyone call two people trying to build a life together a 'cheap thrill'.

Gay marriage could destroy the religious/spiritual sanctity of marriage.

Inequality for the sake of tradition always seems like a ridiculous concept to me.

At 7/28/10 12:32 PM, MuyBurrito wrote: I base my public opinions on the idea that life and the progression of it is the most precious resource we have, and we should do anything in our power to preserve it.

So uh.

Gay marriage will stop people having children?

At 7/28/10 11:56 AM, MuyBurrito wrote: Wow, dude, relax. I'm sharing the opinions I've developed on what's best for the world and you're threatening to give me a reason to cave your face in with a lead pipe.

The problem is that your opinions seem to be based on this bizarre idea that the world is entirely utilitarian outside of the gay community, and that it's stuck somewhere in the middle ages in terms of social development.

You seem to think that the only thing humanity lives for is to make babies, but there is so much more to life than that.

At 7/28/10 10:00 AM, WaterShake wrote:

At 7/28/10 09:57 AM, Aigis wrote:

At 7/28/10 09:51 AM, MuyBurrito wrote: Feel free to pick this apart for flaws.

Adoption.

Thats what I replied with.

Well geez, you could at least let me think I'm clever and original.

At 7/28/10 09:51 AM, MuyBurrito wrote: Feel free to pick this apart for flaws.

Adoption.

At 7/28/10 09:37 AM, JohnnyDamon wrote: I dunno if it was just cause he was jumping around in skirts and whatnot, but I got a stiffy watching 'Gladiator'.

That sounds like a very awkward situation, and I don't know why you would declare it to everyone reading this thread.

At 7/28/10 09:30 AM, JohnnyDamon wrote: I have to revise that statement. Russel Crowe is pretty sexy.

Man, you must be one sexy beast to have standards like that.

At 7/28/10 09:24 AM, JohnnyDamon wrote: I've never even met a straight man that I thought was hot.

Oh!

How heterophobic!

I literally don't care at all about the sexuality of others.

U-unless they're interested in me?

As I see it, that is a part of a person's life between them and their partner(s). The only way it should affect me is in the words I use to refer to that person's partner(s), or potential partner(s) when discussing such relationships.

At 7/28/10 03:22 AM, EpicFail wrote: What do you guys think of Paranoia Agent? Gonna check it out in a bit, it sounds pretty interesting... Hope I'm right.

It is definitely one of the best television shows of any format that I have seen.

At 7/27/10 05:05 PM, HeavyTank wrote: Yes, but so far you're the first player I've ever talked to that didn't like the game from the first moment he played...

I did like it.

I said I played it for several weeks.

If I didn't like it I wouldn't have played it at all.

Hahaha, wow.

That kid is adorable.

At 7/27/10 04:12 PM, HeavyTank wrote: I mean, every single TF2 player I've seen so far loved the game..

I'm guessing that's because the people that don't love it don't play it, and can't be considered 'TF2 players'.

At 7/26/10 09:06 AM, HeavyTank wrote: You got bored of it after a couple of weeks?Honestly, this is the first time I ever heard that.It's quite shocking actually.

Serious?

You find it strange that a person could get bored of an online computer game?

Team Fortress 2 is good, but it's not that good.

I did play it for like 10 hours or 12 hours or so those couple of weeks.

That's weird, Pyro and Medic die a lot if you don't know how to play them properly..

Maybe I'm just fantastic.

With Medic I mostly hang back, which often enough keeps me out of the line of fire, and with Pyro I've just played it the most so I know more or less what to do.

So I guess nobody actually plays the game on OS X...even if VALVe made it availabe for it, TF2 runs so terribly that whoever was using BC keeps using it?Damn.

Well my Macbook is a late 2009 model, and only has an nVidia 9400m, which doesn't play games well. On a Mac with a more powerful video card (such as the newer models of Macbook, or the Desktop Macs) I'm sure it would play fine on OS X.

At 7/26/10 05:37 AM, Vegemorph wrote:

At 7/26/10 05:30 AM, Haggard wrote: I quote a female friend of mine who once said: "Balls without hairs? That looks just unmanly!"

I quote a female friend of mine: "It looks cute when a guy shaves his pubes."

Cute like a prepubescent boy?

So I guess the Capcom one is going to be a 2D fighter, and the Namco one is going to be a 3D fighter?

Hello everyone. I thought I might join this club/crew, if nobody has any objections.

I've had TF2 for about 2 years, I think. But I played it for a couple of weeks after I first got the Orange Box, got bored of it, and left it until a couple of weeks ago. Now I picked it up again, and have been playing it a decent amount.

I mostly play Pyro or Medic, since they're the only classes I seem to be able to understand and not die in as soon as I walk out the gates. Sniper, sometimes, when I feel like something different, but I'm not particularly good at it (in comparison, as I'm not good with any class).

Anyway, my Steam ID is I_Man (I made it when I was 13 or so, don't judge me). My display name is just Aigis.

And relevant post. I also play it on my Macbook. But I play it on Windows through Bootcamp, since it runs terribly on OS X, I find.

Mine arrived in the mail today.

The quality of the image is much better than what this picture would lead you to believe. Much better than I had expected, anyway.

Perhaps the whole thing is simply an attempt to 'get /b/'s goat' as it were.

As those more 'in the loop' regarding the internet vernacular than I might say, she is performing some form of an 'epic troll', and perhaps is one herself.

Not only is she irritating the users of /b/ by writing what is apparently a poor book about them, she is charging them $14 plus shipping while doing so.

It's really quite genius.

Here's some advice:

Don't make excuses. It makes people want to put you down.

At 7/17/10 07:14 PM, rorypearce94 wrote:

At 7/17/10 06:33 PM, EtchASketchClock wrote: Sounds like you had a Nintendo GaymeCube.

I'm sorry, is that what you meant?

Sounds like you had a severe case of brain damage if you think that's funny.

At 7/17/10 11:11 AM, explodingbunnies wrote: If I didn't play games like Paper Mario and Final Fantasy 6 & 7 (and MANY more games with only text) when I was younger, I would be an illiterate fuck. Those games basically taught me how to read, and use grammar.

I'm a little worried if you learned English from Final Fantasy VII. That game didn't exactly have the best translation.

"This guy are sick!"
"Off course"

I saw Summer Wars, the new film by Mamoru Hosoda, the director of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, at the film festival the other day.

It was amazing.

I enjoyed The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, but I had some problems with its pacing which I felt kept it from being great. Summer Wars on the other hand is incredibly entertaining all the way through. It might be the most entertaining movie I've seen all year.

Plus there is a decent amount of social commentary, which adds some depth to the story.

With this film, Hosoda Mamoru is becoming one of my favourite directors.

I think Final Fantasy VII does have a reasonable amount of depth to its plot, but it does have a lot of flaws.

The characters tend to fall by the wayside after their arcs. The pacing is off in some places. Many things happen with little explanation. The English translation is terrible.

There are other complaints, but I'll not go into them.

Final Fantasy VII does, however, have the groundwork for a great RPG story and when I was young and had not experienced the finer aspects of storytelling, Final Fantasy VII really was the deepest story I had experienced. Now I remember it for what I thought it was, not what it is now.

You can definitely salvage a great story from it. If you tightened up the dialogue, fixed up the pacing, attached more importance to the side characters and in some circumstances added a little more exposition, you could potentially have a great work of fiction.

But the fact that you play as the characters does import some inherent attachment to the characters and the story, which is why people may feel able compare it to some greater works of fiction where you have to be told about characters rather than be them.

And I do think Sephiroth is a great villain. He did have some interesting depth behind the things that he was doing, and in some circumstances I did manage to feel sympathetic.

You can say that Kefka is better because he poisoned a town and destroyed the world but I don't think you can judge a villain based simply on the number of people they killed. The writers in FFVII could just have easily made Sephiroth destroy the world. But I thought Kefka was uninteresting. Kefka was just plain evil, and plain evil isn't interesting to me.

And just as a note:

Recounting the plot of a game in terribly written, brisk detail while using bunch of swear words does not work as an effective criticism of the game's story. You can literally do that to any work of fiction.

"The Lord of the Rings is about some bullshit dwarf hobbit whatever's who find some fucking ring and then they just keep walking to some shitty mountain to destroy the ring and fucking fucking fuck shit fuck."

It just makes you look like an idiot.

At 7/14/10 09:50 PM, IlikeKorn123 wrote: Who here wants to live in japan where there's all the anime, best food and culture?

I dream of japan as a place I wanna live! I even want to learn to speak japanese and learn to work as a teacher there so I can live there!

I think you'll probably end up finding that Japan is a lot like anywhere else.

Only it will be harder to fit in, because of your foreigner status. People will constantly think you're a tourist.