toblix

It would be a great copy protection feature to punish pirates by slowly increasing the IPD or something.

The problem with playing around with fov and perspective is that people start vomiting everywhere. They've spent so much time developing techniques and guidelines to prevent the Rift from being known as the new thing you put on your head and vomit. So, even though it does seems like a really cool thing to experiment with, you most definitely won't see any games doing it (unless they're intentionally breaking all the rules to make you puke.)

This may be unrelated, but I just realized all URLs contain :/

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Very excited.

Speaking of big butts, that is the location where I encountered the first battle I failed and had to retry. I guess another thing I didn't love about the combat was that it was very hard to tell if a weapon was effective or not. I still don't know if the big guns you can lug around are better/worse than the rocket launcher attachment or the laser gun or whatever.

Do you use a web browser and tend to have a lot of tabs open? Do you also sometimes use multiple browser windows? If so, WATCH THE FUCK OUT. Both Chrome and Firefox do this weird thing when you shut them down (well, it's not that weird from a technical standpoint, but horrible from a usability one,) and only remember the state from the last window you close. So if you have, say, your main browser window, with ten or twenty open tabs, maybe your email and other stuff pinned, and another browser window as well, maybe to test a web page or something, and you close the main window first, YOU'RE TOTALLY SCREWED. I guess not many people use multiple browser windows (or I don't know what I'm doing.)

Have you learned nothing?! Open tabs are fleeting things, easily lost like tears in rain should the browser crash or fuck up. Just look: Among those anonymous gray tabs are cool stuff I'll get around to, like updating my resume, a cool t-shirt, some youtube videos that were too long to watch at the time, a bunch of Cara Ellison articles, a Hearthstone strats page, an article on the linguist who made the language for Game of Thrones and much more. At any time, the slightest error in any of thousands of interacting software components can delete all this in the blink of an eye, and I'll have no way to recall their existence. It's crazy. It's 2014, apparently we can "put a man on the moon" but not keeping track of a couple of tabs is apparently an impossible problem in the field of computer science. Just fucking write them to a file or something! Jesus. Oh, speaking of having many tabs. Whenever I restart Chrome, all the Soundclouds and Youtubes start playing at once. This is software developed by the company Google. At least Firefox has the sense to not automatically load all the tabs.

It's so hot here that my computer up and blue-screened, and since Mozilla is a garbage organization employing only useless hacks that only produce terrible software, all my tabs were lost. I had about fifty or so, and they were all cool things I wanted to read or watch, but didn't have the time for then and there. Now I only have the four pinned tabs, and nothing but the Idle Forums. If you have a cool tab open, can I have it please?

Oh, so did everyone see the Simpsons/Family Guy crossover episode they're doing? It's the best! Bart and the Family Guy baby were doing prank calls to Moe, and the baby was like "Moe, your sister's being raped!" Too funny! Can't believe I stopped watching those shows!

A brand new 2D Broken Sword is being kickstarted! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/165500047/broken-sword-the-serpents-curse-adventure If there ever was a time to drop the Kickstarter cynicism or skepticism and get back into the kickstarting saddle, if even just for one last time, this is it. Fucking kickstart the hell out of this shit. I beg you.

Just finished this, and: I really loved this game. I could spend an infinite amount of time in these levels. The level of detail in every nook and cranny is just mind-blowing. I enjoyed the combat probably about 95% of the time. I loved the parts where I could sneak around and stealth-kill guys like a ninja, and on the occasions where I fucked up stealth and went berserk, being able to lean and peek over stuff made the combat fun. Revealing collectibles on the map was a nice reward for stealth-killing commanders, I thought. All in all; leaning, stealth, dual-wielding and weapon modes really worked well throughout this rather long game. The 5% of the combat I didn't enjoy were the more hectic battles with lots of enemies with heavy armor. Switching between weapons and weapon modes was not easy, and I died a lot of times because I lost track of what was going on weapon-wise. I loved the consistently high amount of custom assets throughout. Very little repetition of stuff, and lots of little things happening as I played. I'm a bit torn on whether I thought the whole Nazi thing was fine. There's something that fascinates me, in a creepy way, whenever nazis are used as fictional bad guys in video games. The way they went all-out with the Nazi aesthetic, the architecture, the swastikas and German text and voices and concentration camps and the Volkshalle – the way it's all rooted in actual things that have happened makes it more, I don't know ... effective? Visceral? However, part of me thinks that you shouldn't fucking make cool robots and pulpy video games and creepy fictional Joseph Mengeles based on this fucking horrible thing that actually happened a few decades ago and living people can still remember. I don't find Indiana Jones offensive, though, so. The adventure gamey stuff back at the base was awesome. Oh and I wonder if it's really necessary for games like these to have the steep difficulty curve right towards the end, where you have to fight more and more and tougher and tougher enemies right as you near the ending. Obviously I get how it maps to the narrative and the increasing excitement they want you to feel as you near the end. However, since the exact difficulty curve is impossible to set just right, for a lot of players, such as me, I suddenly start having to retry a bunch of combat scenarios. For me, this affects my enjoyment of the game negatively. For most of the game I've been savoring the combat and puzzles and exploring all the environments, and suddenly I'm filled with dread and just want to get things over with, praying each combat set piece or boss stage really is the last one. There's a boss fight at about 85% of the game which turns out to have sort of a puzzle solution – that would make for a much better ending than the one where you just empty all your guns at a thing, hoping a cut-scene will trigger before you're killed.

Wait, is there a theory that Blazkowitz skinned the nazi, tanned his skin and then artisinally designed and created a fine leather jacket complete with zippers, pockets and a fur lining?

Do you want to play a game?

Wait it is iceland?

Found it!

Where is ireland

I look away for one year, and this thread suddenly becomes amazing. You all have cool faces!

So they're making another Tex Murphy game. The same two designers, Chris Jones and Aaron Conners, will be doing it, and it'll be similar to the three last Tex Murphy games (FMV, 3D environments). I loved those games, so I'm backing them, and if you did too, you should too also.

Oh shoot, I totally missed this on account of being at a birthday party! Thanks, everyone! And happy birthday Subbes! Special thanks to Tegan for my wonderful birthday avatar, which I'll be wearing for the next week, known by most as Birthday Week.

Oh this is going to be sweet, and it's coming in 2011.

Pretty excited about this, especially since it looks like Disasterpeace is on board for the new soundtrack.

I was hoping against hope I would be able to transfer my saves from PS3 to PC when it came out, but I guess I won't be finishing all the single-player side-stuff. Probably just as well.