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Everything posted by Spaff
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also because vice city is awesome? ¬¬
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http://www.lik-sang.com/news.php?artc=3680&&
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the us carts were made all whack and square and ugly... so was the console come to think of it. Fuck knows why ¬¬ you can cut away the edges of the japanese / European snes fairly easily to fit the US carts, but you still have to mod them to play the various region games. Sometimes modded ones turn up on ebay. maybe its fairly easy to do jap - USA. yeah I order most of my imports from lik-sang... including my gba micro. I treated myself to a boxed Gameboy from this sale also
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LOOK ive had enough of this shit. you clearly dont like games, GO AWAY.
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The internet is full of weirdos... apparently, I'm one of them
Spaff replied to Alex's topic in Idle Banter
LMFAO thats the sickest fucking guy ive ever seen in my life. -
best ever: Newsnow.co.uk
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mojo has berries... wtf?
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Yeah thats what I said, however, I am the Gaming Fascist, so my opinion is the right one and Tomb Raider sucks. Also, if you remember correctly, i tested it for 9 FUCKING MONTHS* I have earned the right to hate it. P.S My shift key works, I am just too lazy to use it often as i have to use it all day at work and get bored of it ¬¬ * on the N-Gage...... oh the pain!!!!
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that argument donest make any sense some games suck sure, for instance sierra games were always pretty sucky and tomb raider sucked from the word go, thats just one man's opinion though. but saying 'games suck' is dumb
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one vital thing wrong with this argument = games dont actually suck at all.
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Hint: Dont join the army.
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HAHAHAHAHA oh man, 'blades' (laser... blazer.....) its actually hilarious how extreme everything is, 360!!!!! WTF like it will sell more because its extreme. but when it comes down to it, i expect we will own one at some point in our house, its a fucking games console, maybe games will be on it that arent extreme. ¬¬
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DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE
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I'm gonna go out on a limb here and just say this AndyB: your threads make me want to stab and rape you into bits.
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presumably it would have a better set of specs than the DS and have to compete with the psp, a GBA2 would need to the Gamecube what the PSP is to the PS2...
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bonus fact - the ds cannot be used to llinkup to the gamecube without witchcraft the likes of which i am unaware.... also the smaller screen makes the games look like they are in higher res... ¬¬
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ive got one, i got one in america in may it was fun at first, and i think it would remain fun if i travelled lots. but its a bit redundant at the moment... its portable in the sense you can move it but you do need a bag with you at all times... i dunno the emulation on it is kickass, gotta hand it that lumines is also awesome... i wish it were a GBA game though
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erm because some people dont have a DS? I've pre ordered a GBA micro and i wont buy a DS until they revise it and make it less huge and ugly, its a portable system and unless you have a bag its actually impossible to carry a psp or ds around with you. GBA smaller than my mobile phone and twice as awesome? give me. some people around here love playing gameboy games and those people are me, andthose same people (again, me) are looking forward to an even smaller GBA. win. now i shall never be without my games 2 weeks!!
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also, this thread has evolved into god knows what... lets fucking end it. So, if Kamary Damacy has this great inner meaning, and so does America's Army,then computer and video games, at least in your minds, aren't irrelevant at all. So youve answered your own question. You can go on looking for these meanings and the rest of us can go on enjoying games.
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"I thought that some of the metaphysical imagery was really particularly effective.... ...oh and er .... and the interesting rhythmic devices too, which seemed to counterpoint the surrealism of the underlying metaphor of the humanity vogonity of the poet's compassionate soul, which contrives through the medium of the verse structure to sublimate this, transcend that, and come to terms with the fundamental dichotomies of the other,and one is left with a profound and vivid insight into whatever it was the poem was about!"
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ok, what is the actual point thats being argued right now? i'm lost and really dont understand you any more. So i'm jsut gonna write some stuff about.. erm... this "Storytelling is mostly about people. Games are mostly about things, so far. It is easier to create mathematical simulations about things than people." are you arguing that games are currently failing to tell stories effectively and you want them to? quake, double dash, neo contra, pikmin, wario ware, electro plankton, nintendogs, mario bros, sonic, DDR, advance wars, world of warcraft, GT4, ace combat, burnout, street fighter, doom, coh, darwinia, diablo, tetris, lumines, puyo pyo pop, tomb raider. should you come away from these games with an insight into life? should snooker, darts, poker, chess, twister, monopoly etc be about human emotion and storytelling? No. Do they bear any relevance to life? No, only if you make them. Are they fun to play? depending on who you are - yes! thats the whole point of a 'game' so what medium do you want? TV shows and story telling in general are non interactive media with a linear story that reaches an end that you have no say in. Story telling in games is usually a sideline for the game to exist. They give the game objectives more reason to exist giving the player a sense of purpose. sure games with more in depth story lines exist, but you shouldnt just play a game purley to advance the story line to the next point, otherwise the gameplay itself becomes pointless and it may as well be a book or film. kotor, ico, bge, psychonauts... the gaming should still be the primary focus of them... guess what? IT IS! Sure, sometimes I want a game with a good story, but i want to enjoy playing the game and having the story advance due to my actions and enjoying those actions rather than doing something crap and then watching a cutscene for ages i want to have fun playing the game. FUN. And to be honest, an unreal response form an NPC or a terrile piece of voice acting wont ruin my enjoyment of the game. poor controls, bad puzzles, terrible gameplay. those are the things that will make me annoyed. the story is second place, a fucking bonus to a good game. and p.s remember that this conversation started with "But it seems to me that so many games are irrelevant except in terms of being short-lived fun to pass the time with, no matter how good the game. Because, they do not speak of anything particularly relevant to our society. You don't feel as though you have come away with a new insight into society / human nature / life / ourselves after playing a platform game or Doom 3." and my main argument (i guess?) is - good, they shouldnt do that, they should just be fun to play.
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you want double dash to teach you a life lesson Dan?
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ok thats interesting, who doesnt want story? But story, even if it does follow the classic paths of story telling, is different from the poor argument that started this thread. I want story too, but i dont want the game to end and there to be an overall mesage, a lesson to be learned like it's some crappy episode of Quantum Leap* or like the end of He Man where theyre like, "remember dont be mean to you sister!" *just series one folks, calm down, the rest of the show is awesome.