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At 7/10/12 06:32 AM, akmeteor wrote: You guys accept an American stationed at Mildenhall? :D

Anyone's welcome as long as they're over 18.

And remember their I.D.

At 7/24/12 04:42 AM, Halberd wrote: What do you thing Newgrounds?

A nutjob is a nutjob. Doesn't matter what media they interact with, you can't blame anyone or anything but the person themselves. Even if we banned all TV, Videogames, Movies, Comic Books, Internet sites, Books etc a nutjob would still commit a senseless act of violence. Why?

Because he's a fuck nutjob.

At 7/24/12 12:58 AM, OreganoKicker wrote: I am depressed for no reason right now, and this happens a lot. What do you do when you're depressed that helps your depression?

Talk to a therapist perhaps.

At 7/17/12 04:07 PM, Painbringer wrote: Yes, I do remember the 2006 Wii and Playstation 3 launches.

Thoughts?

My thoughts? I think you haven't thought this plan through. The Wii sold by the bucket because, among many reasons, it was pretty damn cheap. The PS3 could barely shift squat until they lowered the price.

At 7/19/12 12:50 AM, dragoswrath wrote: You know, I think the OP is right about valve milking TF2.

I disagree. Valve's monetization of TF2 is quite simply a brilliant move. Introducing the hats and item economy and adding standard free to play shortcuts via cash meant that the game could go free-to-play many years after it's release, drawing in new customers...

To Steam. And Steam is where Valve get their fierce customer loyalty, sales, corporate responsibility and reliable servers (usually) means that by providing one of their most popular games for free they lure new people into Steam to potentially buy games, which makes them more money than they would if TF2 was the same as it's release.

Also, TF2 is the same as HL2? What you smokin' OP? HL2's deathmatch is more like classic oldschool shooters whereas TF2 is a class-based objective/deathmatch game.

GUY GUYS, GUYS I GOT THE BEST IDEA EVER!

"What?"

YOU KNOW HOW MUCH WE RELY ON TOURISM FOR OUR NATIONAL ECONOMY?

"Yeah, probably about 1/3 of all the money we make is a result of some form of tourism"

YEAH, I HAD LIKE, THE BEST IDEA. WE TAKE THE BIGGEST TOURIST ATTRACTION IN THE COUNTRY. AND SMASH IT. THE TOURISTS WILL FLOCK TO EGYPT TO SEE THE RUBBLE!

At 7/9/12 07:09 AM, Bahamut wrote:

At 7/8/12 10:17 PM, CockGobbler wrote: Fedoras and long skinny beards.

Just wondering if you guys actually think this looks cool or if you realize it looks hilarious?

The right individuals to ask are Idocreating for the fedora and Coop for the "long skinny beard".

Diss the fedora if you must, but no-one mocks the Coop beard.

At 7/7/12 07:35 PM, AnarchistOverman wrote: Although I did have a bit of fun with the FPS on the 64.

We don't talk about that around these here parts son. You just move along now.

Quite simply, there's no market for sim dating games outside of Japan.

YOU may buy them, but the rest of the culture has the prodominat attitude that's it's wierd and not something that's worth paying for. Infact, you'll rarely find dating sims that have been developed outside of Japan, or that were developed for a market outside of Japan.

At 7/8/12 08:59 PM, Hybrid-Of-Souls wrote: - It's glitched for me these days. Greed doesn't show up when he's supposed to.
- There have been instances where even after I'd take my last hit, I'm still alive, and invincible to top it off (at least until I get a health-related pickup).

These are bugs that we're recently fixed. Check your version.

I heartily approve. Will be dragging along me bro's for post-birthday boozing and gaming.

At 6/18/12 07:25 PM, kakalxlax wrote: ye sorry, what i ment is that both of them are "optional"..... well in fact most companions are optional thus you can reject them from joining you, although i dont see why anyone would do that

Now that we know what happens to Morinth in Mass Effect 3, any speculation of what may happen with her around is completely up in the air. I don't know if she shows up if you let her get away in Samara's loyalty mission, but if she survives the suicide mission her only appearance in Mass Effect 3 is as a Banshee in the final level.

Prior to that, you could make the logical assumption that a particuarly Renegade Shepard would conflict with Samara's Justicar code in Mass Effect 3, thus making it a far more prudent decision to kill her to avoid having to deal with her. For me the decision was always going to be to kill Morinth but I'm very let down that there's only one outcome for her in Mass Effect 3, no matter what you do or how you interact with her.

At 6/18/12 09:53 AM, ZeldaFan64DS wrote: Earthbound

Oh boy, Earthbound has one of the most evil anti-piracy measures in gaming history. Right at the last boss the game will spazz out, freeze and when you reset the console, your save file is gone.

Someone talking about difficulty in a Final Fantasy game and isn't mentioning the Crystal Tower in FF3?

DISREGARD EVERYTHING ELSE.

At 6/16/12 11:18 AM, Oliver wrote: Laptops can never be gaming machines. No matter how hard they try

This. In order to make a laptop a true gaming machine it needs to be easily upgradable to keep it at the cutting edge of current technology and to use the most powerful components of today.

There's just a few problems with that. Namely that powerful components like graphics cards suck up power like a fat guy at a banquet. So the whole portability factor of the laptop is nigh useless as it will barely be able to game for half an hour before crapping out.

No laptop is easily disassembled to replace the parts. A modular laptop that allows such a thing sacrifices build quality too much, which results in components getting damaged from the most minor bumps, leading to a bad reputation and lost sales.

Finally, components for laptops need to be a certain size. Even a behemoth 19 inch laptop cannot fit the latest Radeon HD 7000 series card into it. Hell, high end graphics cards are massive space hogs already, some requiring 2-4 PCI slots in a regular PC. Simply put, the best components cannot fit into laptops.

TL:DR. The advantage of a laptop (Portability) directly works against it being as good a gaming machine as an equally priced PC.

At 6/17/12 08:12 AM, Bahamut wrote: Whining

I know the cure. Mega Drive Emulator + A friend + Streets of Rage 2.

Pretty sure the dole office would not approve me spending my JSA on this.

"What on earth are you playing?" My mother is a rather disgusted tone of voice in response to this creepy dream dequence scene in Zelda: Twilight Princess.

Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones was a game that came out on the GBA and on the 3DS as part of the Ambassador program.

Am enjoying it, though I've discovered the game can be far too easy for it's own good, especially in the later levels. So I've set myself a challenge run with self imposed limitations to see if the game can be made that little bit tougher, the rules being:

1) Game must be set to Difficult.
2) Neutral units (Green) all must die. None may be recruited.
3) Recruitable Enemy units (Red) may not be recruited, they must be killed.
4) Friendly casualties are unacceptable. If you get a unit, it must survive the entire campaign.

So far these rules have really spiced up the game for me, making strategic positioning far more important both in terms of keeping the weak units alive and getting tough neutrals like Garcia killed. Currently up to Chapter 6 which unloads a ton of cavalry and kills at least one of my men.

Interested to see how far anyone else can get under these conditions.

At 5/16/12 07:52 PM, BigFatKid wrote: But as far Mexicans, I'd agree Mexico is a sucky country but I like some aspects of the Mexican culture. The country, however, is very impoverished.

That's like saying that the sun is a bit hot and Crips and Bloods sometimes have a bit of a falling out. Certain cities have had to actual draft in the Mexican army in order to deal with the drug cartels that operate in the country. Murders in broad daylight, it's such a terrible place to live right now I'd rather be in Baghdad than Mexico City.

At 5/17/12 11:20 AM, Idocreating wrote:

At 5/16/12 12:43 PM, kman355 wrote: Do you guys think my Radeon x1550 would be good enough to play this?

Go to Can I Run It.com and click on Diablo 3 in the dropdown box. It'll check your hardware and tell you if it can run it.

Hate to doublepost but I can give you a resounding "No" to your question.

Minimum Graphics Card Requirements: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT or ATI Radeon X1950 Pro or better

At 5/16/12 12:43 PM, kman355 wrote: Do you guys think my Radeon x1550 would be good enough to play this?

Go to Can I Run It.com and click on Diablo 3 in the dropdown box. It'll check your hardware and tell you if it can run it.

At 5/17/12 09:18 AM, Kytraal wrote: Tera's combat wont make up for the lack of content and bad pvp.

From what I've heard, Tera's pvp is a lot more reliant on proper positioning in fights than other MMO's. Makes it a lot harder to do correctly among random players but co-ordinated players should have some interesting fights.

At 5/12/12 11:04 PM, Fluttershy wrote: Get a fucking console, and stop wasting your money on graphics cards every two weeks.

Had this PC for nearly two years. Spent £900 on a pre-built machine, as I wanted a 64 bit Windows and a new screen (15 inch to a 24 inch widescreen) and it worked out cheaper to get it as part of the deal rather than building it myself.

Can run almost any game on high settings even at 1920*1080 resolution. You don't need to replace your card that often if your smart about keeping it functioning (IE: Don't overclock the shit out of it) and are ok with things looking slightly below top quality as the years go on.

At 5/11/12 05:09 PM, Protagonist wrote: Fallout 3, New Vegas

I've only played New Vegas but I've found it a damn enjoyable game. Love how the choices in sidequests, unlike Skyrim, does actually have an effect on the ending. Would love to know what you consider flawed about them.

It's not a flawed game, but I find the combat of The Witcher 2 to be excruicating to play through. The fighting style is basically only setup for one on one fighting and the game constantly expects you to fight tons of enemies at once, making combat a tedious case of "Light Strike, Dodge Roll. Light Strike, Dodge Roll" until the enemy eventually falls over dead. I only stick with it because I've pretty interested in the story at this point, slapped the difficulty down and it's still really hard!

Being able to tweak the graphics in detailed ways. Rage is an example of doing it badly.
It should be able to be run in Windowed Mode or at least not throw a hissy fit when you alt-tab. Mass Effect is guilty of failing this.
Any Multiplayer should actually work, preferably through it's own system. Borderlands forces you to use Gamespy, but it's all done ingame and functions at least. While not ports, Indie PC games have a bad track record for working multiplayer (Terraria, ORION: Dino Crisis and Magicka have all had/have issue with Multiplayer connectivity).
Mod tools are a must for some people to extend to replayability of a title.

Your looking for One Chance. You can replay it by lower the memory space you allow Flash to use to 0 and raising it again.

Your looking forOne Chance. And yes, this does belong in the Where Is/How To forum.

At 5/1/12 08:43 AM, Dean wrote: I just don't think it would be in the industries favour to put kids in games like that.

Agree with most of your points Dean, but Skyrim is an exception for me. If Bethesda didn't want me murdering those kids, they shouldn't have made them such utter massive cunts.

At 4/24/12 11:30 AM, Korriken wrote: biggest problem would be rooting out the drug cartels. By my figuring, with America's technology, we could find and eliminate them rather easily. I personally love that Mexico has been using its military to fight the drug cartels. War on drugs indeed.

Ho ho ho! What naivety! If it takes America a decade to find one guy in the mountains they're never going to put a dent in the Mexican drug cartels. You want to know why Mexico's troops are having to take them on?

BECAUSE THEY'RE FUCKING SCARY BASTARDS.

Seriously, I'd rather be starving in Ethiopia or working in Kabul than spending even a day in the rougher parts of Mexico. I think only the slums of Brazil can rival it for criminal dominance of an area.