The moral of this story is you to check actual usage of a word from human beings as opposed to urban dictionary, I suppose.
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Re: Video Games Tue May 01, 2012 5:54 am
Hollyღ
Dove in the Moonlight
Jonny wrote:The moral of this story is you to check actual usage of a word from human beings as opposed to urban dictionary, I suppose.
Although every other British slang reference I've checked has mentioned Naff being used in that way, so maybe it's just hilarious mistranslation or trolling.
28 Re: Video Games Tue May 01, 2012 5:56 am
Jonny
Prince of the Squirtle Squad
Apparently people say "naff off", but that sounds like the sort of thing I'd say.
I.e. not in common usage.
I.e. not in common usage.
29 Re: Video Games Tue May 01, 2012 6:25 am
Hollyღ
Dove in the Moonlight
Jonny wrote:Apparently people say "naff off", but that sounds like the sort of thing I'd say.
I.e. not in common usage.
Not common usage, but usage nevertheless.
But games right?
My Xbox360 has been acting up. I think it's the power cord.
30 Re: Video Games Tue May 01, 2012 6:27 am
SQUIGGLES
The 7th Wonder of the World
How much do Xbox360s go for? I'm not really into console gaming but my friend has one and I like all the shooty dakka dakka games he has.
31 Re: Video Games Tue May 01, 2012 6:29 am
Hollyღ
Dove in the Moonlight
Charger cords are running for 20-40 depending where you get them. 360s are probably...I think 300-400 still? Totally guessing but that's the ballpark range.
32 Re: Video Games Tue May 01, 2012 7:13 am
Jonny
Prince of the Squirtle Squad
Rayman Origins isn't half as fun without people to play it with ¬_¬
33 Re: Video Games Tue May 01, 2012 2:14 pm
Moltenfield
VG: I decided to start playing Soul Caliber 2. I don't have any of the others and I kind-of wanted a blast from the past so I got on it
34 Re: Video Games Tue May 01, 2012 3:57 pm
Taiju
Lady Rare wrote:Charger cords are running for 20-40 depending where you get them. 360s are probably...I think 300-400 still? Totally guessing but that's the ballpark range.
Yeah, if you want those new slim ones they're $300.
New old(the bulky white ones) Xboxes'll run you around $150.
35 Re: Video Games Tue May 01, 2012 5:14 pm
SQUIGGLES
The 7th Wonder of the World
What's the difference between the slim and bulky?
Is the slim one better in any way or does it just look cooler?
Is the slim one better in any way or does it just look cooler?
36 Re: Video Games Tue May 01, 2012 5:26 pm
Top Hat Zebra
It just looks slim, and I think it might have a smaller hard drive.
37 Re: Video Games Tue May 01, 2012 6:36 pm
Taiju
There's two slims, one has a 4gb hard drive, the other a 250gb.
The main difference is that
a.) the slims don't get the RROD as often as the bulky one does.
and b.) The slim's Hard drive is built in, while the bulky one has a separate, detachable hard drive.
The main difference is that
a.) the slims don't get the RROD as often as the bulky one does.
and b.) The slim's Hard drive is built in, while the bulky one has a separate, detachable hard drive.
38 Re: Video Games Tue May 01, 2012 6:38 pm
Top Hat Zebra
My Elite has never gotten a RROD. I thought they fixed that...
Also, I'd go for a regular one, Semi. The Slims just aren't worth it, in my opinion.
Also, I'd go for a regular one, Semi. The Slims just aren't worth it, in my opinion.
39 Re: Video Games Tue May 01, 2012 6:40 pm
Taiju
They still get RRODs, just nowhere near as often. The elite has about a 1% chance to get it, while the bulky has about a 50-60% chance.
40 Re: Video Games Tue May 01, 2012 11:51 pm
Hollyღ
Dove in the Moonlight
My bulky one is going on maybe two years now. It's like if your old pet swallowed some time bomb and you're just waiting to see what kills it first - age or the bomb.
That's a terrible analogy, actually.
That's a terrible analogy, actually.
41 Re: Video Games Wed May 02, 2012 12:04 am
Jonny
Prince of the Squirtle Squad
My 360 has broken once and been repaired. It's pretty rickety, to be honest.
42 Re: Video Games Wed May 02, 2012 12:49 am
Bowen
I've had 2 Xbox 360's break on me. Both time the problem was it forgot how to read disks.
First time it took 8 months to get repaired.
The second time, when they promised to just hand us a new, forced us to pay money to send it off to be repaired. Hasn't come back yet. That was a year or two ago.
First time it took 8 months to get repaired.
The second time, when they promised to just hand us a new, forced us to pay money to send it off to be repaired. Hasn't come back yet. That was a year or two ago.
43 Re: Video Games Wed May 02, 2012 12:52 am
JT_the_Ninja
Ninjafleet Captain
My PS3 (bought in 2010) still works fine...so does my PS2 (bought in 2001)...[]
44 Re: Video Games Wed May 02, 2012 4:26 am
Taiju
That's cause they took their sweet precious time with ps3. I got mine back in december '08 and it still runs perfectly.
With the 360, they released it about a half year earlier than the ps3, and a half year earlier than thier original release date. The idea was that since thdey would be the only one on the market, they would make the most money. While this was true (and it worked surprisingly), it also meant they would'nt have enough time to test the system properly.
With the 360, they released it about a half year earlier than the ps3, and a half year earlier than thier original release date. The idea was that since thdey would be the only one on the market, they would make the most money. While this was true (and it worked surprisingly), it also meant they would'nt have enough time to test the system properly.
45 Re: Video Games Wed May 02, 2012 5:38 am
JT_the_Ninja
Ninjafleet Captain
See also: My 11-year-old PS2 still works perfectly....also, I have a working Dreamcast...[]
46 Re: Video Games Wed May 02, 2012 7:11 am
Tacoline
suggestion:
sometime in the future i'd like to record a few of us playing a video game
we can probably use sam's server, and it would be fun.
like this game which is a mod for half-life 1
mostly its just funny
sometime in the future i'd like to record a few of us playing a video game
we can probably use sam's server, and it would be fun.
like this game which is a mod for half-life 1
mostly its just funny
47 Re: Video Games Thu May 03, 2012 10:57 pm
Top Hat Zebra
So, does anyone here play Cortex Command?
If you don't, go get it right now. It may not look like much, but holy surprise is that game awesome.
(I know a lot of you don't like torrents, and I personally hate telling people to torrent Indie games, but I would NOT suggest buying this game. It's not finished, and it seems to have been a while since it has been updated.)
If you don't, go get it right now. It may not look like much, but holy surprise is that game awesome.
(I know a lot of you don't like torrents, and I personally hate telling people to torrent Indie games, but I would NOT suggest buying this game. It's not finished, and it seems to have been a while since it has been updated.)
48 Re: Video Games Fri May 04, 2012 2:59 am
SQUIGGLES
The 7th Wonder of the World
Playing my way through the fancy Prince of Persia games; up to Warrior Within.
They're supposed to be puzzle/platformers, apparently, but I'm really disappointed in the puzzles. The only challenging part is the combat and that's because the main character is the weakest, most pathetic character ever and health restores are painfully few.
They're supposed to be puzzle/platformers, apparently, but I'm really disappointed in the puzzles. The only challenging part is the combat and that's because the main character is the weakest, most pathetic character ever and health restores are painfully few.
49 Re: Video Games Fri May 04, 2012 6:10 am
Taiju
A few of the puzzles in The Two Thrones were difficult at first, but yeah, for puzzle games, the puzzles are pretty tame. Some of the fighting and action sequences are pretty sweet though.
50 Re: Video Games Sun May 06, 2012 4:18 pm
D-Munny
So I read this Cracked article, and it got me thinking on my own idea for a sweet video game. I posted it in the comments, but here it is in spoilers for convenience.
- Spoiler:
- The whole LA Noire style thing seems pretty popular to people here, and it got me thinking just now.
A sandbox detective game where you're a total vigilante. The backstory is that through some convuluted, comicbook like series of events, you lost your family/lover/whatever you had to live for to some horrible crime, and now you seek revenge not only on the dude(s) who did it, but on all crime everywhere.
You start out just beginning your quest of bringing justice to whatever godforsaken crime-riddled city you live in, and the overarching goal is finding out about crimes, and seeing what you can do before the police can, or even while the police are in the middle of their own investigation. You can't become a cop of course, but you can try to befriend one or two and maybe get a contact on the force to help you out, but if you say the wrong thing to a cop, or you go to your contact too frequently and he gets caught giving out information to you that was supposed to remain police business, you'll end up in deep shit as the cops keep a close eye on you for a while after that, so you run a much higher risk of getting caught doing your own vigilante thing.
The detective work itself woudl be similar to LA Noire in some respects, like looking for clues at a crime scene before the cops arrive, but you'll have to hurry because if you get caught at the scene, you could get arrested, or at least become a suspect, which hampers things. (The lesser the crime, the longer it takes for the police to arrive.) If you decide to not take the risk and investigate the crime scene after the police have left, then there won't be as much evidence left to find, which makes your job harder. How you'd actually find out about the crimes is a matter I haven't fuly thought of yet, but maybe you can eventually get a police scanner for your car to make the process easier.
Actually going after the criminal is where you'd really start to veer from LA Noire. Sometimes it'll be a very quick, more action-oriented streetcrime, one that you could even do without the cops on your ass, like chasing down a dude who just beat a guy down and stole his wallet, or stopping a guy who is in the middle of trying to love tenderly a woman, which would be accomplished by using force to subdue the guy, but not excessively or else you get in trouble with the law. The main focus of the game however, would be on more complicated crimes that require quite a bit of time each to solve, but not too much time, or else the police find the guy first, which of course, eliminates your whole vigilante purpose.
Like the police contact idea, you might find some shady underworld kind of guys who you could schmooze, pay, or threaten into giving you info on any significant recent crimes or figures of infamy. If this guy gets exposed as a snitch however, it could mean his death and trouble for you, so like the police contact, you can't rely on him too much if you don't want him to get caught.
Actually finding and dealing with criminals would involve a number of factors. Maybe you're dealing with a total pushover of a carjacker who you could easily take in a fight, but you track him down to a home in a well to do part of town, so there's a higher chance of the cops busting in on you subduing him, depending on how sneakily you get into his house and do so. Or maybe you're tracking down a guy who shot a man, stole his wallet, and then ran back to his house real quick to gather his things before fleeing. Then you not only have to hurry before the cops get there, but, unless you want to keep on his trail for longer, you also have to stop him while he's in the middle of getting ready to run, and at the same time, you'll ahve to take into account the fact that he has a gun, and you may not.
To earn money, maybe you'll put your skills to a bit more legal use, and catch bounties, but those would be far and few between, so relying on that as a sole source of income wouldn't be practical. Less legal ways of earning money could mean anything from being a bodyguard to killing a rival crimelord, but, even if you're working for a scumbag, There would be no jobs where you do anything that is truly 100% immoral. You can torture a criiminal to death, but not an innocent person. You can't do any arms deals or drug deals, but you can crash them and kill everyone involved. I know there's certainly a thin line in all of that somewhere, but basically, if you can't find even the flimsiest justification that matches your code of justice, then you literally cannot do whatever it is you're trying to justify.
Going on this, ther would also be a sort of combined morality/reputation system that would vary on how you dealt with criminals, and just who the criminals were. Maybe you're a ruthless Frank Castle kind of guy who likes torturing the wicked to death. That's all well and good for catharsis, but if the punishment you dish out is far too harsh for the crime (Like say, bludgeoning a guy to death for pickpocketing) then the public will react with horror and you'll run the risk of getting caught by the cops, and getting imprisoned for murder would pretty much mean game over (Unless maybe you get out of custody and spend the rest of that save file on the run.) On the other hand, maybe you're a more noble Batman guy, who simply subdues criminals for the cops to find. The public eye will look at you with more appreciation, and there'll be less heat from the cops, but it won't bring you as much noteriety as more outrageous actions, and noteriety would still be important, as it would mean more contacts, and opportunities to get paid. Overall, I would imagine that leaning more towards Batman would be better in the long-run than leaning towards The Punisher, but that's okay, because Batman is fucking awesome.
The last major thing that I can think of adding is to that whole reputation idea. If you happen to take down a guy who belongs to a crime family, then that crime family might decide to try and rub you out. Maybe they'll start by sending hit squads that you easily kill before they've even started tracking down, but be warned, as the more heat you build up, and/or the more of a ruthless scary bastard you are, the more likely it is that they'll send a guy who's just as ruthless and scary as you are, and possibly even moreso. On the other hand, if the crime family you're dealing with doesn't have much power, maybe it's just a kind of big street gang, then doing enough to them will cause them to back off and refrain from as much criminal activity, which helps build your noteriety and gives you more job opportunities.
I just got this idea about an hour ago, so I know there's probably numerous flaws with it, but I think it may just be possible, if extremely difficult to make into a real game that would contain enough of these elements for people to want to play it.
Oh, one more thing, if you do enough Batman-y things (crashing in through windows before subduing crooks in hand to hand combat, running and jumping across rooftops in the dark of the night, getting the police to actually make a signal for you.) Then you're rewarded a Batman mask for your guy to wear, and his voice gets replaced by Christian Bale's Batman voice.
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