Ben X
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I'm starting to go off those a little, actually. Perhaps it's because I did a ton of them in a row, then one of them culminated in a Big Sister fight. It just feels like 'Big Daddy fight -> mini-siege -> mini-siege -> Big Sister fight' is a bit much every time I want to get some Adam. They do at least put them next to cameras and oil slicks and what have you, which is helpful.
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I think it does more than imply it! But yeah, looking at it again perhaps he means 'if you're enjoying BS2 you should play MD too as it is very good'. EDIT: anyway, here's a quite good video on the cleverness of the Fort Frolic area from the first Bioshock: EDIT 2: and here's a long interview with Ken Levine and Shawn Robertson hosted by Geoff Keighley. (My suggested feed is full of Bioshock now!) Biggest reveal: Ken Levine is the voice of the Circus Of Values machines!
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I am aware of both of those things, but Kolzig said that I need to play it before I can talk about Bioshock 2.
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A Dedicated Thread For Talking About Star Trek Episodes
Ben X replied to BigJKO's topic in Movies & Television
http://www.cracked.com/article_24963_7-crazy-as-heck-star-trek-plots-we-narrowly-avoided.html The writing is very, um, Cracked, but some interesting discarded Trek plots here. -
Can you explain why without spoilers? It is on my list, so I'll be playing it with a Sniper Elite break in between the two (assuming I can figure out how to run it in Steam).
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I stalled at the refinery and played a load more BS2. Still enjoying it, mostly for the art design like the museum with all the tableaus. The mini siege sections while LSs raid corpses are pretty tense without being infuriating. And the brute splicers chucking props at you are cool. I am finding myself low on ammo a lot, though. I'd be up for L4D2, deffo.
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No, there's no continuity (except perhaps some easter eggs), it's an anthology show. You may feel a bit of a change going back to seasons 1 and 2 as they were made by a different production company and so are pretty much exclusively British, but all the seasons are great. The San Junípero episode is generally seen as the only episode!
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I can't stop playing Crysis 1 now! I thought I'd quit at the tank bit but I somehow breezed through it on medium this time whereas it was a real struggle on easy when I first played. I'm onto the refinery bit now, though, so I guess I'll be quitting pretty soon and back to Bioshock 2.
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Important If True 27: Join and Undermine
Ben X replied to Chris's topic in Important If True Episodes
A robot continuously powered by their own tears or happiness would be a perpetual emotion machine. -
That's a really good video (though as a BTTF fanboy I feel duty-bound to point out that this is the second video in which he mischaracterises George McFly's peeping as being portrayed as acceptable or normal). I'm glad I gave up on Big Bang Theory after the first 5 minutes because of bad jokes and creepy leads. These are good illustrative tools of how awful BBT is in those respects too:
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Sounds good! Now, do you have any of those Max hats..?
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Ooh, I also forgot a nice touch in Bioshock 2 is when you walk under some dripping water you can hear it tapping your metal helmet. I did some online multiplaying tonight! First we did Killing Floor which is a wave-attack co-op thing. It was okay. It was definitely fun chatting with @osmosisch and @Jutranjo (who needs to remember to post that Crysis vid if it's not the same one that was posted earlier here) while we played. It was not fun when some randoms showed up and started welding doors shut to make the game shitty for everyone, but hey at least as a tourist I got a little taste of toxic online gaming culture! We also played Mirage, which is a deathmatch game so I had no chance of enjoying it, just as I never enjoyed real-life competitive sports. It seems from everyone else's comments that it was not that good in general anyway. I might at some point go through the tutorials of TF2 and see if I fancy trying it, but I'd prefer to play a co-op campaign (like, say, play through HL2 with people or something). Maybe I'll look into that at the end of this too. Thanks everyone for all your help and companionship in the big scary world of online gaming!
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I wish there was somewhere near me doing that. I've only ever tried VR out once for about five minutes on some pretty vanilla tech demos a few years ago.
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Ahhh, this makes sense. They also have controller button prompts on all their menus which looks hella ugly.
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Hmmm, yeah I guess 'left = shoot' in my head too, so it's probably best to keep them as is.
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Huh, I hadn't fully clocked that. I think I was distracted by the fact that they bind your left hand to your right mouse button and vice versa. The obvious reaction is to rebind them, but I'm worried there's a good reason for having them this way that I can't think of!
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Laaaacooooo! Well, I started Bioshock 2. It's obviously fairly familiar stuff, with a few new touches. The biggest difference is that I'm playing a Big Daddy. So no running, but more plasmid slots immediately open and a satisfyingly heavy melee swing. It's all very polished as usual (lots of cool underwater bits, including a glimpse of the sunken plane from the first game, and actual animated characters speaking on the televisions rather than the portrait cards which made the first game feel less real) and Rapture feels even more oppressive and broken down. Other little things - remote hacking, a new hacking mini-game (hit a key to stop a needle on the correct part of a scale) which so far I prefer but seems like it may leave less room for error once the difficulty goes up) and some proximity mine things. I'm enjoying it, but that 'not sure I can be bothered to search everything thoroughly' feeling has hit me already. Not the game's fault, I don't think, it's just that I'm playing it so soon after the first one.
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Okay, yeah, the Section8 'campaign' is absolutely just a CTF match with bots, so I've given up on that and moved onto Bioshock 2. I've also kept Crysis installed because I'm having lots of fun bulling through it a bit at a time.
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I've PMed SAM, Osmo and Paul re. Killing Floor co-op. I also got a couple of other Steam friend requests, but I'm not sure if they're for co-op or just general (and in one case I'm not sure if it's a Thumbs forumite or just a random!)
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I did bring this up with @Laco when they offered me the key, but they recommended it anyway...
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Sweet! I'm TimeGentleman on Steam. Everyone friend me, and in the meantime I'll try and figure out headset stuff - my PC was made by a mate and I often have issues with mic in/out, that kind of thing. I won't be around for the next 15 or so hours at least, though. (Just played a bit of Crysis and the action bubbles are immediately more fun and challenging. Enemies definitely got nerfed in Warhead, or the difficulty levels are a lot different...)
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Ha ha ha! Ah, these game devs, eh? So creative.
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Ooh! Does he say "yer man" lots?
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Finished. That was only a little man-shooty bit before a fiddly avoid-the-aliens-and-pick-up-a-mega-weapon and shoot the EOGB about five times with it before the game ending (with another awful and weirdly sado-masochistic cutscene). Disappointing. Both Crysis games so far needed to look at their core gameplay (the supersuit powers in the non-linear 'action bubbles' full of good AIs) and just iterate on it, rather than keep putting a load of linear gimmicky/fiddly shit in there. I wouldn't even mind the aliens showing up if they provided a clever variation on using your suit powers (e.g the invisibility doesn't work on them, and rather than shooting at you they melee attack you, so you have to use speed and strength to circumnavigate them then throw shit at them). I had great fun in the fun bits, but they were too diluted. Also, again, I feel like the game was intentionally less stealthy and a bit nerfed overall, which was a shame. (In fact, fuck it, I'm going to reinstall the first game now and see if that feeling is accurate.) It always looked lovely, though, and felt slick. A rather negative review which I agree with a lot of (most reviews were very positive, I think) Post-mortem 'shaped' by @Chris! Write-up of a GDC post-mortem (I can't find a video of the original presentation) And oops, forgot the Crysis 1 forum thread previously I didn't say much about Mirror's Edge when I played it: Retrospective Making of Postmortem Thumbs thread (another one started by @toblix! So it's now onto Killing Floor (if anyone fancies some co-op with me and I can get it all working) and Section 8 which I know nothing about!
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Okay, I got through the siege section by taking to higher ground (not sure they intended that, it was suddenly a cakewalk) and got back to shooting men in corridor-room levels which was good fun again! Throwing explosive barrels is the way forward. Invisibly laying landmines for vehicles to run over is good too. I just did the train bit, which is an on-rails section but good fun basically because it's dead easy and the explosions look great. I got through the alien turret-siege bit at the end of it pretty easily as well. It's back to another on-rails bit now, though, I think. Hopefully I'll get some proper outdoors man-throwing again soon. As with a lot of these super-power FPSes (Bioshock etc), it never lets you off the leash properly or soon enough. It'd be great to just have a section where I don't need to care about health and there are explosive things everywhere, I can pick up trucks etc. EDIT: okay, there wasn't another on-rails section (though there was a stupidly long cutscene where Psycho's mate dies so he slowly drowns an anonymous Korean soldier then sits there crying for a bit). I am now back in the jungle infiltrating a compound! Yay! Also, something I forgot to mention earlier, the optional objectives, are back, which is cool.