The Gamer's Quarter

dessgeega · Posted: Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:59 pm Post subject:

man, harvey james, you like miss management.

i thought you would be glad over me liking a gamelab game.
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JasonMoses · . Joined: 15 Oct 2004 Posts: 407

I finished Crisis Core today. I was buffeted along by my perverse interest in seeing just how bad each successive cutscene and story revelation could be. It's definitely one of the worst video game stories I've seen in a long time, if only because it somehow manages to take a story that I already sorta kinda knew and make it less comprehensible overall.

There is a moment when it is revealed that Zack's greasy black hair is the only way to prevent the villain (who is not Sephiroth) from "degenerating." We then see one of the cronies of said villain eat his hair and transform into a giant Tetsuya Nomura zipper beast, which you have to fight by pressing the X button a bunch. This plot development is never mentioned again - it's only there to make sure that a wacky boss monster can appear at that very moment, as far as I can tell.

SuperWes · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 9:35 am Post subject:

Hey guys, so I'm still playing Wow (and, incidentally, Shiren and Crisis Core while in bed). I have a crew now consisting of my wife, her sister, Matt!, and Matt's wife. It's fun! I need to come up with a guild name now that we're all playing together though. Any suggestions? I suggested The Crude Bastard Swordsmen and The Zombie's Quarter (since 4/5th of us are undead).

Also, I got the Genesis Collection thingy for PSP this weekend and it's really, really good. For $15 (at Target) you get like 90% of the worthwhile games ever released on the Genesis with trivia, video interviews, and unlockable arcade games, customizable display options and wireless multiplayer. All the genesis Phantasy Stars, all 3 Golden Axes, Sonic 1 and 2, Shadow Dancer, Shinobi 3.

-Wes
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dhex · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:22 am Post subject:

wait so after all of shape's horror stories of family friends who went native and grew giant beards and lost their homes, he's playing wow now too?

sheesh.

for some reason last night i started up steam and had it re-download both bioshock and vtm: bloodlines. i think i'm ok with rpgs for the time being.
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dhex · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:26 pm Post subject:

right, that's what i meant. i.e. nwn2 pissed me all the way the hell off.

anyway, why the living hell are you playing wow? i used to laugh at all the "so he broke off all contact and is totally lame and stopped bathing" stories and you'd be all "hey, that's not funny!"

so like, what?
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dhex · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 3:04 pm Post subject:

i don't want to make fun of you; it's just that you, of all people, showed me the tragic side of this which (temporarily) overwhelmed my "their lives must have sucked terribly to begin with" impulse when it comes to "this game/cult/political movement made person xyz suck" type scenarios.

so i am perplexed. and confused!
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Well, as I was telling Ryan, I've been getting back into PC gaming for the first time in about 5 years, and since then MMOs have become a major staple in PC gaming. I don't feel like I can rightly ignore them and have a good understanding of "gaming" in general. In an attempt to figure out what is good about them I picked up the game that seemed the most connected with my style of play which was an MMO: Tabula Rasa. I played it about 15 times over two months (most sessions were two hours or less) and was left disenchanted. So, to further research what people enjoy about the current MMOs I downloaded and started WoW on the same day which I canceled my TR account. This was only about two weeks ago, around March 24th. So it's not like I'm coming out of the dark after months of playing these.

I have this entry ready for my blog where I chronicle my TR experience but it's quite long and I'd need to go in and prune some of the more boring parts out of it. So I haven't finished it up. I basically slowed down on most PC games after NWN. So, like, yeah. I don't know.

Be afraid for me dhex...
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

God, Keiron is so over-dramatic, I can never read his stupid articles further than three sentences.

Bloodlines is also not nearly as good as I remember it. I re-played it a few months back and realised how much of the game is ill-designed and uninteresting. The best parts are the hubs when you just talk to people because the writing is great, but most of the missions are just awful.

I also gave up on MASTERS OF DOOM. It's just too horribly written, and there is nothing in here of interest that I didn't know already. Plus it feels like it was written for people who don't know what a videogame is, and explaing the most basic things like I don't even know what a computer is. Like a crappy Time magazine article about Halo or something. Gah.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I really liked what I played of bloodlines. I got to a point in the game where I couldn't find the next thing to do no matter what I did. I spent hours looking for it and going back and completing everything else. There are parts of the game and the writing that are done much better than many "better rated" games, but it is quite buggy even with that fan patch.
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“The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

I never had encountered any serious bugs on my first play-through a couple years back. The second time a side-quest bugged it which made it impossible to complete, but it was just a side-quest so I didn't see it as a huge deal. For some reason, I hardly ever have major problems with games that everyone complains are buggy as all heck.

Except Boiling Point. I got attacked by flying tigers one too many times.
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sediment · Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 10:51 pm Post subject:

Never had too many bugs with Bloodlines, and this is coming from someone who completed it twice before applying the fanpatch.

Actually mods really make the game dramatically buggier, in my experience. The fan patch does really lend a lot to the game's stability though.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

So it turns out Gears of War isn't as worthless when played co-op. I'd go as far to say it's the only way to play the game. The lag got a bit annoying at times, though... and many of my original complaints with the game remain the same. There really are lots of silly design choices here.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

You know, I liked Gears both times, though local multiplayer is the way to go. It's really over the top in a Die Hard-esque kind of way and a lot of the strange design choices were made to highlight this. I enjoy some really awesome action sometimes, even with some flaws in it.
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“The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

The strange design choices I'm talking about do anything but highlight over the top action, they're just annoyances that hold it back! Really, I still have huge problems with the game and think it's very over-rated, but it was lots of fun playing with the Bleakster this evening.
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dhex · Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:52 pm Post subject:

i actually started a new playthrough of bloodlines last night. it's amazing how much better their voice acting is than so many other AAA titles.

boiling point was so fucked, which is too bad because the promise was there. but i will check out white gold.

i never got past the kill you in one shot guy in the pc version of gears of war. i don't think i'll be going back.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I came back from work (James has a job?!?!?!) to find my dad had been playing through Super Mario Galaxy all day. By 8pm, he had 4 stars!

Things that my dad got hopelessly stuck on:

-Baby Dino-Piranha.
-all the bits where you have to fly from one flower to another.
-the bit where you're standing on a big hollow star and you need to use pull stars to get to the gold star in the middle. To him this was a conundrum of a fiendishness akin to the Enigma Code!

helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

I maintain that your dad is the most endearing part of this forum.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Yeah he's a lot easier to get along with now we've got this dynamic where I go out and earn the dough and he stays home and makes house. It's a step up from the months between this job and when I last got fired!

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daphaknee · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 1:19 am Post subject:

wow, jojos dress up game? are you serious? harveyjames we should blacklist dess for a week for this

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Yeah you should be making her write YOU letters about how she's a bad girl, seriously

posting from work eye tee tee

daphaknee · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:37 am Post subject:

good idea hold on im going to email her now

harveyjames phoenix wright three NEVER ENDS

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I've never played a Pheonix Wright game! Nintendo DS emulation needs to hurry its ass up

dessgeega · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:50 am Post subject:

you never played jojo's fashion show either! you're judging it entirely by the art and theme. (and admittedly if i had judged it by the art and theme i never would have played it.)

it's actually a game, unlike miss management, which has character and cuteness but little else. miss management is boring and involves no skill!
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

What! I played it, look:

The game is crappy, it doesn't let me say an outfit's finished until I've given them trousers or a skirt. What kind of shit is that? That's like saying a game isn't finished until it's got a robot ninja in it. Which I do say, and that's just one of the reasons why Jojo's Fashion Show gets two thumbs down.

dhex · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 11:24 am Post subject:

that's not a terrible outfit. but chucks go with everything.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Chucks and no trousers. Style never goes out of fashion. baby!

daphaknee · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:07 pm Post subject:

sediment · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:16 pm Post subject:

well,

so far jojo's is cute, but it's basically colour-matching with a timer. it's like playing columns with clothes, except things don't seem to amp up as much.

(but i'm playing the demo).
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Oh you clowns will all play Jojo, sure! I had more luck trying to juggle soot than I did getting people to play Miss Management!

daphaknee · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:27 pm Post subject:

people dont trust your snobby opinion because you dont like sam and max harvey james
youre such a snob
snobby snob british snob

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

dess you should express your thoughts on this fashion game on your blog!
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sediment · Posted: Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:30 pm Post subject:

harvey, you were trying to get people to play miss management when i was in freaking maryland. i'll try it. Razz

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daphaknee · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 2:20 am Post subject:

its weird that you dont think its funny, since ican appreciate british humor and still think sam and max is funny

actually its not weird, since you instantly over-simplified it, which is ridiculous, especially since you're someone who plays videogames and you can oversimpify ANY game and make it look stupid

i think your arguement against it was just bad is all, and made you come off as a snob, much like the time you FREAKED OUT when i posted a panel of transmetropolitan on my livejournal and you got rightly trolled by dracko!

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oh man i am on episode four of the first season now and it really sucks that they made the first episode SO HORRIBLE compared tot he rest, like i feel dirty for ever playing through ep1 now

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

I think NOT FUNNY is a pretty good argument against something which is meant to be funny. Also applies to Transmetropolitan which looked like a big bag of shite, too. You're just letting them off easy because they're games/comic books. If the same dialogue was in a film you wouldn't stand for it, you would say 'THIS DIALOGUE IS SHITTY'. You obviously hold the mediums of games and comics in quite low regard , huh!

Anyway stop bothering me I'm at work, GOD

P.S. <3

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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Welcome to the crazy world of sarcasm!

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

hey harveyjames im watching the goodies, remember them
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daphaknee · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 6:59 am Post subject:

i dont care that you dont htink its funny i just think you're stupid for not thinking its funny with your high and mighty sense of humor

and of course i hold comics and videogames to low standards THEY ARE FOR NERDS

<3 harvey

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

My sense of humour isn't high and mighty, I think Youtube Poop is funny! LINK WE MUST FUCK SPAGHETTI. GREAT, I'LL GET MY STUFF!

Look maybe I just looked at the wrong Sam and Max episode. I've always liked the characters, and thought the original game was funny. Maybe the writers are different! I dunno! It was like the difference between an old episode of the simpsons with Lionel Hutz and Nick Riviera and a new one with ; _ ; and D:

daphaknee · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 7:23 am Post subject:

did you play the first episode? because that one sucks

harveyjames i am just yelling at you to yell at you ok

sediment · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:19 am Post subject:

I HATE IT WHEN MY MOMMY AND DADDY FIGHT
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Lestrade · Posted: Thu Apr 17, 2008 11:17 am Post subject:

I have finally convinced my wife to quite WoW for a few months, because it's been ruining our lives. I wish I was kidding; stay away from it like the plague. It's a fucking abomination.