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At 12/25/11 06:32 PM, animehater wrote: To get the master criminal achievement, do you have to have a in all the holds at the same time? I've already racked and paid off big bounties in some cities and hoped to avoid doing those again.

I believe it is all at the same time. Best off to do it in a seperate profile. Start new, set to lowest difficulty and travel to each town with the carriage to get them as a fast travel location then murder somebody, leave and evades guards and move to next hold and repeat.

At 12/23/11 12:34 AM, unconsidered wrote: I'm not going about the idea of "such and such is better than" no, not now.

I'm rather going on about the idea that consoles may give longevity to a game. Take Diablo for example, virtually unplayable on a modern PC or Mac, but they did make a PS version. So hence you just find a copy of the game and a PS and your good to go.

Thoughts?

Diablo 2 still runs fine on Windows 7. That said, Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 just throws a fit.

At 12/23/11 10:55 AM, SaltshakerClock wrote: Water levels, unless executed well.

Which normally, isn't the case.

Ironic punishment: play Hydrophobia Prophecy

How long ago was it released? A lot of gamers will be on the latest thing that came out. While Halo's style and feel is very different to MW and Battlefield, those came out in the last 2 months so players are still gorging on it.

Streets of Rage 2.

That is all. That is where the arcade beat'em up peaked for me, though the Simpsons arcade game comes close.

At 12/22/11 07:57 PM, EmmDubya wrote: The thing about Binding of Isaac is that it's a very cheap game anyway, so that fifty percent off doesn't make too much of a difference. I actually bought it today, and it was quite nice to see the Newgrounds logo in the intro. After a bit of playing I felt I wasn't really enjoying it too much. Sure, it was fun, but the controls just felt really cumbersome and the whole thing felt like a flash game moreso than a full retail game. Perhaps I'll play through it and get more into it sometime in the future, but for now I may just leave it be.

I've been getting a lot of mileage out of The Binding of Issac due to it being about the only game my computer run in it's melted graphics card state. The randomisation of levels and loot can really swing the game's difficulty and it's a bit twatty in that regard. It's got a great aesthetic to it, all the guts and slime presented in a way I know my 10 year old inner child loves.

And I still haven't beaten FFIII on the DS. I've gotten to grips with how to best level the job system and to maximise health for the characters, but even if I could be arsed to grind out that much, the end section of the game is such a colossal slog that I can't be arsed to finish it.

I think the only thing about Final Fantasy that most people could agree on is that the composer has done a pretty friggin' good job on the series. Personally I find the music to be the only thing that's not just consistently good about the series, but also the only thing consistent in the series period.

At 12/22/11 05:06 PM, No36 wrote: I'm still digging the good ol' Windows XP, can't go wrong with that.

Until of course MS drops support for it, then I get to pick up Windows 7. I don't really want to go near 8, looks awful.

I thought Microsoft DID drop support for XP? Or was very shortly going to (2012 at latest?)

What if you were cremated and your ashes spread around say, the ocean. You'd have no real perceptable form as a human being so no senses of touch, taste, sight, smell, whatever. How would you percieve with no discernable form?

Congrats, now Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 won't work.

So you skipped over that scene where Lucius Fox says that while the "Spying on anyone using everyone's phones" device is active he won't work for Wayne again, as well as the idea that sometimes faith should be rewarded (In this case Lucius' in Wayne as the device self-destructs when he types his name in) and that Batman is still a man of morals? They never used to device to spy on people, just to find the Joker.

That said, it has been a while since I've seen it so you'll have to remind me on what scene constitutes as torture. The part where Batman holds the mobster off a ledge and drops him?

I'm going to leap in and get the Transformers referance out of the way nice and early.

At 12/19/11 10:18 PM, BumFodder wrote: The only large retailers I know that sell it are HMV, and Blockbusters to a much lesser extent.

Before it shut down, I spotted a copy of Elfen Lied in my local Virign Megastore. All the episodes (Something like 13) for £50. Was fucking ridiculous.

HMV's section isn't any better, these days the only animes I can spot are either Full Metal Alchemist, Naruto or Studio Ghibli films. That's pretty much it, the UK is languishing in cultural acceptance for anime. I can just tell what was going through my mother's mind when I put The Cat Returns on earlier this week, always gotta pull the "Japanese Disney" arguement out.

The Cat Returns, by the way, is pretty meh.

On a scale of 1-10, 1 being ugly, egotistical bitch who shares nothing in common with me and are only going out with to stop my right-hand looking like that of a steroid abuser and 10 being your ideal partner, I'd probably gawp and then break up with her on the spot if she wasn't at least a 9.

At 12/20/11 11:43 PM, Elfer wrote: Movie execs are simply risk-averse, which is in many ways crippling to the American entertainment industry.

Anyone in large creative businesses are risk-averse. Look at the big publishers in the videogames industry. EA and Activision do almost nothing but churn out sequels and even Nintendo has a habit of constantly rehashing it's franchises (Not that it doesn't try something new now and then).

In regards to the topic, I always assumed that it had something to do with the public's perception of the 2D hand-animated style went way down after the period in the 90's when Disney kept making brilliant animations, but by the late 90's they hadn't made anything all that special in a while and Pixar was raking it in with it's great storytelling in the 3D CGI format.

So people just figured that the 2D animated films were naff now and Pixar solidified the idea that 3D/CGI = Good. I'm probably way off though.

Are those legit? What kind of father would get so pissed off that your son's gotten a girl pregnant that would make you trash his things?

I'd like to say that's too stupid to be true but I have this niggling feeling it's got nothing on what some people have done in that situation.

It's such an absurd concept to make a movie out of that it can only be one of three things:

1) Brilliant.
2) Brilliant in a "It's so Bad it's Good" kinda way.
3) Shit.

At 12/21/11 12:15 AM, FBIpolux wrote:

At 12/21/11 12:13 AM, Gagsy wrote: We used to have this massive thread asking the same thing. Actually we've had several but that one was the biggest. It was just a huge +1 dumping ground as no one ever gives a shit about what anyone else is listening to.

Pretty much. Nobody gives a shit what you're listening to.

Also I'm not listening shit, nor that any of you would care what I'm listening to.

I do believe I was the massive killjoy that led to that thread getting locked up. Same rules still apply, these threads are always a post dump for stat whores.

You cannot be arrested, but you may get assaulted by an angry parent, so wear a good set of running shoes.

Ahh the Daily Mail, so right-wing it fell off the plane.

At 12/20/11 11:55 PM, Kunera wrote:

At 12/20/11 11:49 PM, yt1DER wrote: I guess some parents like to tell their kids santa is real just so they can scar them for life.

Oh dear god, that's one of those stories that sounds hilarious if you look back on it, but was absolutely horrible when it actually happened. I can only imagine how that went.

I can't quite tell if it's a great troll post or one of the those unbelieveable-yet-true stories.

It's worth an outburst if they dwell on your mind more than a few hours after they've annoyed you, after the usual "cool off" timeframe.

Hurrr, reconsidering this trip as my graphics card is beginning to die a slow painful death.

NO. I shall go to the ball- err meet.

Tom does actually win in a few of the toons. Was always in support of him as usually the episodes would pan out as: "Tom's chilling out and Jerry starts being a douche"

At 12/1/10 07:02 PM, andythehedgehog wrote: Doug Walker, he draws girl foxes with giant elephant dicks.
http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Doug_Winger

Doug Walker is a video contributor to That Guy With The Glasses who does shows such as Nostalgia Critic.

You linked to Doug Winger. Big difference.

Off topic: I vote that Luis keeps his christmas icon all year round. That hat is cute :3

At 12/14/11 11:09 AM, Robsterman wrote: This is my reaction to this thread and the fail from within it.

I'm not facepalming yet, i'm still too dumbstruck by the garbled grammar of the OP to figure out what he's trying to say and what the hell his picture has to do with anything.

But i'm close, i've got my hand ready to meet my face.

Was gonna buy Cave Story+ on Steam anyway, so this worked out cheaper and a few extra games to boot. Cheers for the heads up.

At 12/13/11 07:03 PM, Cootie wrote: I'm talking about people who never use swords and claim to be a straight made and yet use armor. Also, I am pretty sure Magicka increasing enchantments work better on robes and hoods. That is what I've been told.

Battlemages normally use melee and magicka.

Pre-existing robes tend to have very powerful enchants on them, far better than ones you could enchant yourself. The only real reason to stick with the Archmage robes, indeed for not using any armor at all, is the Mage Armour perk. Max it out and keep Ebonyflesh up when in battle and your about as tough as someone decked in Dragonplate.