toblix

Okay, I used your hints, and they were awesome. I've made great headway, and I'm at the part where I'm heading towards "the Great Tower". Some questions: Is the game going to be all jungle and temples? Does the rest of the game maintain the balance of 80% shootouts and 20% jumping around on shit?

I went with toblix. So, is there a limit to how many you can have?

Yeah, I would've liked to see that.

I played that game like a motherfucker. Syndicate Wars sucked, though, except for being able to blow up buildings. Obviously that won't be possible in a new game, though, since it would be encouraging terrorism.

Yeah, so when I had this experience again that I had the first time I was buying DVDs, and region free players were more exotic, some requiring special remotes, etc., that primal rage rose in me. I actually appreciate that there's more leniency in the new format, although I expect them to be more horrible to use. I've never used a Blu-ray before, but I wouldn't be surprised to find them more riddled with delays, forced ads, warnings and disclaimers than the most horrible of DVDs.

Yeah, I know that I probably wouldn't miss any of the stuff that's not on the European two-disc edition. They're probably padding the third disc with the crap they discarded when making the two-disc edition. It's the principle, though. Why can't all releases me similar?

Unable to catch the meaning of the smiley, I have to ask. Is Resistance 2 going to be awesome or horrible? I have barely heard of Resistance: Fall of Man. It was a mediocre FPS launch title, no?

Not to interrupt or anything, but what platform is this on?

I think the next generation of consoles will all represent pinnacles of silent, cool-running, stable devices.

Chris you're so busy doing the podcast that you can't even take the time to type "the"?

Just fucking tear it down. Jus the lack of WHIRRRRRRRRRRRR makes it worth owning one.

Thanks for the tips. I'll give it another go after I've gotten the lasagna in the oven.

It liiiiives! I'm late to the party, and bought Uncharted: The cheap version. It's beautiful and plays really well, but Jesus Fucking Christ is it hard! The bad guys take tons of ammo before throwing themselves to the ground, and I run out almost immediately. I just rage quitted after the sequence where you've just climbed down from the plane part and the guys come busting through the gate. I use all my ammo on two or three guys and then I'm out! Is there a way of changing back to easy mid-game?

Okay, this is the most awesome game I've played in a while. What's awesome? Liberty City -- how fucking amazing is this game world? They've basically built this huge enormous fantastic amazing city, with all the different boroughs, the buildings and roads and back alleys. If someone released a game that was basically GTA IV without any story, it'd be the most amazing thing I've played, unless I had played GTA IV. The fact that you can get in a car and drive across three huge islands, looking at all the various environments and buildings, seeing all this awesome shit far in the background with huge skycrapers and large bridges with off and on ramps -- in any other game this would be background graphics projected on a huge cylinder. In GTA IV it's the fucking game coming towards you. You like that skyscraper so much? Why don't you fucking get in a helicopter and land on top of it? You see that ad on the bus stop? Well, it's part of an advertising campaign for a real product that has radio and television ads and a complete web site on the fucking internet -- oh no, I can't tell GTA IV and the real world apart because they are so similar in scope! Taxi AI -- no game feature has brought me more joy than the GTA IV taxi driver. Everything else too -- whenever I speak to people I have this urge to explain how amazing this game is, and it's like I'm the only person in the world who understands! How can people enjoy anything if they haven't played GTA IV? You want me to mention some negatives? Here are a couple: Oh wait, there's only one: that fucking last mission that had some parts where it seemed almost randomly determined whether you had done the right thing. As a side note: Almost all games with a story ramp up the difficulty towards the end. I think they should do the opposite. The ending parts of the story should be told properly, and that doesn't happen when you have to fucking retry 20 times. It should be very easy, almost impossible to fail, so that the story flows properly to its conclusion. Any awesome final fight can be taken care of first, then the closure, without multiple attempts. Or, they should have checkpoints all over the fucking place to ensure that the player doesn't rage quit three minutes before the ending like I did. Anyway, holy shit. They built this awesome city, which is so huge and awesome they could have two full sequels taking place in the exact same city and it would work!

Okay bitches, I just ordered a PS3. It had better be fucking awesome at that price. I also got Uncharted, and I'm going to get MGS4 (and possibly LBP). What other gems are available for this expensive gaming platform I mean entertainment platform, uh, system?

Holy macaroni, I had forgotten how good a d-pad could feel!

So, now that I've all the current-gen consoles, what should be my strategy for picking which console to buy cross-platform games for? I've sort of developed an addiction for the Xbox achievement "plop!" popup thing, and I've the impression PS3 versions are often worse than their Xbox 360 conterparts. Are the developer issues with the PS3 resolved? Currently I'm only considering buying PS3 exclusives on the PS3, but who knows? Whadddayasay, Idle Forums?

Oh yeah?

I don't know anything about this game, but isn't it fair to be disappointed if you buy something that's marketed as a horror game and it turns out not to be? If you order chicken and get beef, you're allowed to be upset even if the beef's good, right? So, with this game, it's like a restaurant marketing their new fabulous chicken dish, and you make reservations and drive down there, order the chicken and get the beef. You're well within your right to, say, take out a gun and start shooting up in that bitch.

Yeah, I'm not saying that PS3 versions are shit, but that I have the impressions that they're slightly worse than the Xbox versions. I've never seen a comparison myself, it's just a... feeling I have.

Just played a couple of rounds of multiplayer with my brother, and I can see this being awesome to a theoretical maximum with enough players. Especially car jack city, where everyone's going after a couple of cars, could be, potentially, hilareious.

That's also my impression too, as well, that it's easier to squeeze the performance out of the 360, and that cross-platform PS3 releases suffer as a result. So I wasn't wrong.

First of both, wrong thread! Second of both, I realized that I've never heard my name (or "name", whatever) pronounced by an English speaking person before, so in a way that is the correct pronunciation. I, myself, imagined it'd be pronounced tobb-licks, but who's to say what is the right way to pronounce a name? Jesus? He doesn't even exist!

Oh, and about the DLC. I'm hearing all kinds of shit about how it'll be a HOLE NEW CITEY! but obviously it won't. I wonder if it'll continue the story in some fashion, or if a new island will appear with some new missions. I'm guessing they don't just want to target those who completed the game (I refuse to accept that more than 1% of GTAIV players have actually completed the final mission), so it'll have to fit in somewhere in the middle of the game without interfering with the main story. Probably some side-story about a couple of criminal guys doing some shit and then bam! they're out of the story again. I've always imagined DLC to continue the game story in some way, but in light of the established fact that only 14.3% of game players finish the game, that'll never happen, right?

Ken Levine sounds like a huge dick. I mean, why else would nobody want to work with him? Because he's too awesome?