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Fallout 2 was awesome, but the beginning of starting off in that tribal village without even so much as a pistol was ungodly horrible. But later on, the game gets much, much better. Meanwhile, it was horrendously filled with bugs, especially with the car you can get later on in the game.

The Bozar was undoubtedly one of the most kickass guns I've ever seen in a game, though. Shame they never brought it back.

I've only done it for a few games, notably Super Mario 64 (got all the stars) and Goldeneye 64 (finished everything on 00 Agent). Typically, I don't try to do this either unless I really love the game and want to complete it in its entirely.

Seems like most of today's games make it a pain in the ass to get 100% completion, and don't even make it fun to try and do so or don't give any kind of reward for all the extra effort.

Lilies, the six-petal star-shaped ones.

It would make sense for you to not have to eat. As far as loafing around and being considered "sloth," I doubt it. I'd imagine Heaven would make you feel infinitely energetic and lively, and you wouldn't need to just lay down and sleep at all.

Took a drive through Camden, NJ.

The place literally looks like a post-apocalyptic warzone. I've seen places in Fallout 3 look better than this place.

At 7/6/11 08:32 PM, Travis wrote: OR YOU CAN CHARGE THEM AND QS DS LIKE A FUCKING 1337 PRO BITCH!

Or, you can do it the legitimate... realistic way.

Whatever.

I never quickscope. If people are getting close, just switch to pistol or some decent secondary weapon.

Didn't think people were still playing UT2004 after all these years. Exactly how many people are still out there playing this?

Sniper rifles in general. Better if you're hitting them before they even get close.

I know a neat Photoshop trick. But besides that, nothing personally.

22 or 23, but honestly, being 29 ain't bad though.

Battlefield Bad Company 2 probably has the best respawn timing. It's about 5-7 seconds, which isn't too long to the point where it's long and agonizing, but it also allows for medics to revive if they're close by.

Over the Hedge. Everything about that movie is awesome.

Lack of customization.

It's a concept that's so simple but overlooked constantly in today's games. Every gamer has a different style and a different way they want to play, and the way to achieve that is customization, whether it's dressing up or designing their character in different ways, configuring their own abilities in a variety of allocations or setups, choosing what kinds of classes/units they want to use, how they want to build their characters and/or teams, trying different approaches to overcome the same obstacle, and taking different paths to arrive at the same goal. In the meantime, games also lack that sense of randomness that throws them a new curveball they have to improvise for, or gives them something unexpected that maybe they didn't run into the last time they played.

Instead of training a gamer's wits and creativity, they're following predetermined paths, following "scripts" of going here, doing this, and doing this task or quest rather than choosing or inventing their new way to make it through. Now, games punish gamers that attempt to try something different than what the developers intended, or there's a very specific pattern they need to follow and woe on them if they don't.

At 6/29/11 12:01 PM, Malt-Shake wrote: Inception sucks donkey balls.

Begone, troll. Or at least explain your reasoning. I found Inception to be a pretty good and profound movie with a lot of neat special effects, emotion, great soundtrack, action, and fantastic acting. If you weren't too keen on it, that's fine, but at least do it justice to explain why.

Anyway, yeah, Shutter Island, Fight Club, The Sixth Sense, and Inception are those kinds of movies with a surprise ending that will have you thinking long after the movie is done, or will push you to watch it all over again to find those hidden cues that you might have missed before.

I'm Christian as well, though I don't attend Sunday mass. To me, I think the Catholic Church has gotten too full of itself and isn't founded on the kinds of principles that God would approve of. I also had the displeasure of finding out the bishop who performed my conformation was involved in several attempts to relocate priests who were suspected of child molestation so they would avoid punishment. Although I understand the reasoning for attending church, I just can't do it without feeling sick to my stomach. The Church goes on and on about how we should try to seek forgiveness, but they don't admit their own faults and try to redeem themselves. Not a good mix.

I know a lot of people here are atheists, and I don't have a problem with that, people are entitled to their own beliefs and I respect that as long as they respect mine. I just don't like it when these atheists go around and decree that they're universally right and everyone who follows a religion is an idiot. I don't go around telling them they're going to go to Hell, so I would appreciate the same kind of respect.

There are still plenty of Christians out there, and most of them won't likely give up that faith regardless of what they see or are exposed to on the internet.

Not sure if this would be really out there, but how many people would be interested in an Angry Birds collab? There's a lot of fun and crazy things you could do with it, and the characters are really easy to draw. I might have the urge to start it up when I get back from vacation, but for the moment, how many people would like to give this a shot?

At 6/27/11 10:44 PM, ironraven24 wrote: I'm pretty sure that I'm not going to buy BF3 due to the dumb fucking Physical Warfare pack pre order bonus. In no circumstance, should you take content off of the disc, or lock out content for those who didn't pre order you game. If I pay $60 for a game, I expect everything, the fact that EA is taking bits and pieces away is completely fucked up in my opinion.

Just because of that? While I agree it's kind of dumb for them to do that, it's no reason to abandon this and tolerate that Call of Duty crap. It may just mean that people who preorder get the maps earlier than people who didn't. Personally, I think there are better way to promote a preorder, but it's something pretty minor overall.

Great for one playthrough, but I didn't see much reason to play it again. Some more weapons, enemies, and hidden areas would have been a nice touch, but overall, it was a decent game, even though the ending was really ambiguous. They had plenty of room and opportunity for an epic mind-fuck ending like what Fight Club, Shutter Island, and Inception did, but instead, they just let it slip, which was disappointing.

Not a bad game though, it had its moments.

If you're expecting Duke Nukem 3D all over again, don't. It's not that. It is, however, an FPS game that still has generally good graphics, even if they're not the best out there and may feel a tinge bit on the dated side. The attitude is still there, the cheesy humor is still there, the gore and the blood is definitely there, and occasional moment of sex appeal is there also. Most of the weapons are new, it isn't the keycard gathering game the original Duke Nukem 3D was, and it is more on the linear side now. The AI is definitely tougher, the enemies are faster, smarter, and hit harder than DN3D, and there are now a few driving levels added into the mix.

In all, its a decent game, but it's definitely Duke Nukem with a whole new feel. If you're open to changes but still want to see Duke kicking ass, then you'll enjoy this. But if you're looking more for nostalgia, you're not going to find too much of it with this.

At 6/27/11 10:06 PM, KiDX05 wrote: Lets make this a simple debate what would you do in their shoes let people buy your game that you spent years on to make & not receive anything whilst the game stores keep it all to themselves or punish those who purchase it pre-owned slowly killing the side of the game market that kills your profit region.

I'd rather buy a game knowing the money is going to them & not just gamestop or eb or whatever... stop thinking of your own wallet, they are COMPANYS & in this day & age with so many pre-owned sales they have to combat it somehow, maybe we should start treating pre-ownd games as pirate copys since you're not giving the creator any cash for them.

I personally am all for cockblocking people who buy pre-owned.

The thing is, what difference does it make whether a person buys the used game from Gamestop versus buying it from someone at a garage sale or on Ebay? Nothing. Gamestop just takes the risk of taking on a used game they may or may not be able to sell sometime in the future and tried to resell it.

Your argument makes no sense either. If I buy anything from a garage sale, should the original manufacturer of that item come after me because the money is going to the person who originally brought it as opposed to them? No, once the game has been sold to the end user, the end user is allowed to do whatever they like with it, as long as its legal. And selling it to another person is legal. Imagine how much anarchy there would be if used cars tried to do this as well, and suddenly I'm not able to sell my used car to get some cash that could be used toward a new one? What makes the gaming industry so special that they're suddenly excluded from this common business principle? Absolutely nothing.

Also, another concept you fail to recognize is depreciation. A used game from Gamestop will not be the clean, unscratched, pristine disc or cartridge you'd get from a totally new box that's never been opened. So yes, you're paying less because the game you're buying has already been handed down and has seen some wear and tear. You're paying less because the game is old, has already been played, and may have already been out for a while.

Sorry, but Capcom and all the other game developers that try to do this kind of thing have no excuse. Either deal with it, or find another industry to settle into.

Frankly, I think the whole series has been overdone to death and then some. The original was good, Melee was awesome, Brawl was okay, but that's where I draw the line. I don't think there's really all that much else they could do with SSB that would make the experience that much more interesting and exciting. They may add a few more items, a few more stages, and a few more characters, but when you really look at it, it's going to be virtually the exact same thing the previous games were.

Honestly, I think it would be better if they did something else with all of the characters instead. I think a better idea would be to take all those characters, have them cooperate instead of bashing each other, and make an RPG with a storyline that crosses all of the worlds of each of those franchises.

Awesome, the little interest I actually had for this game is now completely gone. Besides the fact basing an entire RE game based off of the repetitive Mercenaries minigame mode wasn't pathetic enough, they go ahead and do something obscenely stupid like this. All they've really done is just motivate the pirates even further. Frankly, I'm not interested in a half-baked game with far less content than an actual RE game, and then having this to deal with.

The entire gaming industry is turning into one vampire trying to suck the blood of another, and in the end, only the customer who actually pays for the game suffers for it.

As long as Battlefield 3 doesn't have little kids screaming, cursing, and singing stupid songs into the microphone, it's already many classes above MW3, which I'm sure will be smothered with that kind of crap. Meanwhile, MW3 looks like they changed absolutely nothing, and could have easily been a DLC for MW2.

Ironically, MW2 couldn't have said it any better. It's just the same shit, different day.

Anyway, I'm hoping that BF3 will be more like BF2 and not BC2. While BC2 isn't bad, it just feels a little clunky and dry. Not to mention I hate the helicopters in that game with a passion.

Slumdog Millionaire told me everything I need to know about India.

I think I'll pass.

At 6/25/11 12:07 PM, IncendiaryProduction wrote: At least you lose an ammo counter when you play hard core. That way you have to count your shots. But, since the assault rifles are automatic (insert rage about how they should be semi-automatic), it's hard to keep track.

I don't mind losing that information, but you should at least be able to tell how many ammo magazines you still have left. In real war, you wouldn't have a personal radar or digital count of how many bullets you still have left, but you would at least be able to count how many more magazines you still had on your belt.

Anyway, I hope BF3 still has the same kind of hardcore mode that BC2 has. That's the only way I play now.

Very basic PC games (Hard Hat Mack, etc.), and then NES.

Funny thing about Hard Hat Mack is that if it were remade today for the current consoles and for PCs using updated graphics, the gore and violence would be insane. Nothing like seeing Mack get turned into a burning husk or get liquidated in a compressor machine.

I've always hated the knife throughout all Resident Evil games. Now that's a series that could vastly benefit from introducing different kinds of melee weapons, but yeah, the knife always felt weak, useless, and usually meant taking a ton of damage for being forced to use it after running out of ammo.

The Chinese Pistol from Fallout 3 is also garbage, especially since the default pistol you get is far superior. And most melee weapons in Fallout 3 and New Vegas, even with a melee skill of 100, do very little compared to even the smallest of guns in Fallout 3. They're really only good for killing Radroaches and only trivial easy-to=kill creatures when you don't want to waste your ammo on them.

At 6/23/11 03:13 AM, Sierra wrote: But there is advertising in your games. Rainbow Six: Vegas and Saints Row 2 both have some advertising system that keeps them updated. For example, I saw an advert for Lynx body-spray when playing Saints Row 2. It felt more realistic though, and it didn't push me into buying their product, so I'm not bothered at all by it.

As long as the ad doesn't block and obstruct what you're seeing, pop-up, or otherwise be a pain in the ass, I have no problem with it. Ads that actually become a part of the game, such as putting ads for real products and services on billboards and using them in terms of product placement is actually pretty smart and effective marketing. It makes the game feel more realistic as well, and doesn't distract the gamer either. Seeing Coca-cola or Pepsi cans in a game would make it feel more realistic than having "Fizzy cola" or some crap like that instead to avoid unauthorized use of trademarks.

I mean, imagine how much more realistic Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 would seem if they actually featured Burger King instead of that Burger Town crap or TGI Friday's instead of Nate's? Homefront featured White Castle and Hooters in their game, and it definitely made what was happening in the game's storyline seem more realistic featuring real trademarks and franchise names as opposed to pumping out lame-sounding fictional brands to be plastered all over the game. Not to mention the franchise owners benefit from having gamers reminded about the brands, which could in turn spark their curiosity to explore more about the product or service and ultimately become regular customers. I guarantee you at least someone played Homefront, saw the White Castle in the game, wondered what the place was like, and actually tried eating there themselves.

To me, that's the ideal and probably most effective way to advertise.

At 6/25/11 09:21 AM, phsychopath wrote: Then you say "Now wouldn't it be nice if this place of ongoing eternal torture simply didn't exist and evolution was the true answer as to why we're here?"

Because it isn't. Microevolution and the long-term development of adaptations is provable, macroevoultion isn't. People who believe humans evolved from apes are apes themselves.

As for the rest of your argument, it's a simple-minded, dogmatic attempt at using your own homemade "logic" to make more people atheist when you really should realize most people who are creationists are just going to shake their heads at this tripe. All you're going to get from making his thread on a online forum is a few gullible and easily persuaded fools who didn't have much faith in the first place.

Also, if God really wanted mankind as a whole to suffer for all eternity with no chance of ever improving our situation, He would have done it already without wasting time playing judgment games. He would have only made Hell and no Earth. No, instead, God gave mankind free will and the opportunity to decide our own fate depending on our actions and faith. If you think about this from God's point of view, why waste time building and creating something for the sole intention of destroying it?

I love Miniguns, but the most memorable ones are from the TimeSplitters series, which are very loud, powerful, and satisfying. Minguns turn traditional spray and pray into spray and certainty.