baconian

Somebody said it reminded them of duke nukem 3d. Totally. Along with all the immature game design that goes with that. Well, it wasn't really immature then, but for some reason I felt like I was having the same experience as I had ten years or so ago with duke. 'Twas the first FPS I completed so I suppose I might pick up Prey out of nostalgia. That in itself seems a bit odd to me though. Buying the newest, beefiest game out, for nostalgia.

two words: offline mode.

Remember the movie Project X? Where a room full of kids are playing games, but in reality they are remotely piloting warplanes? Or was that another movie? Well, Steam can do that now! Probably. Also, someone playing battefield 2 was the one who actually took out Zarqawi. Well, almost. In backwards land.

Is Ergo Proxy any good? Someone reccomened it to me, but that someone is a bit flaky.

Steam is great. I was having annoying problems with my credit card on it though, but I figured it out. You should go ahead and use it if you want any of the games. The support team will do whatever they can to help you. It's just the vocal minority that have had deal-breaker problems that make so much noise about its shortcomings, I reckon.

It actually makes the thing more ergonomic, really.

NewSMB is great. The marioVsLuigi thing is fun, reminds me of the old 2 player minigame from SMB3 that has the power to obliterate any friendship. BIG SPOILER... The Lite is very comfortable, it's no wonder Nintendo are doing so well with it, it just feels like a quality gaming experience.

you so don't get it.

Disturbing like a fox.

I get jokes.

I smell a smiley (see attachment)

controllers: GC > Xbox > PS2 > = is better than The PS2 sticks get all wongly and puttyish after a while, and on lots of pads I've used, one of the sticks gets stuck in a position for the split second when you really don't want it to. 'Playstation standard'? Sony only used that crappy, sore thumb-making, inferior D-pad, because nintendo patented the original 'standard' one. This is all FACT. Objective truth, if you will.

best episode since the resident evil special.

'Cause if that happened, then I could take my xbox back off my brother so he can play it on his 360.

A Waluigi FPS (or FPB...) seems like it'd be a good way for shiggsy to show people how to do FP on the Wii, cause if he can't figure out how best to do it, no-one can. Al Wapone:tup:

That's what they want us to think.

I'm taking my time with this, also I suck, so that might explain why Alyx actually did die on me. I thought she was invincible, but no, enough zombies, grenades, and accidental shotgun shells to the back of the head, and you get a 'Alyx Died' message. Also, one time she was round the corner behind me, and I heard a headcrab attack her, and she went 'aargh', so I rushed back and said to my monitor 'you alright, babe?', and guess what? She said 'yeah'. And my microphone wasn't even switched on. I reckon that pretty much rules.

mmm, velcro girl.

let's have a poll and see if we can name it. I nominate 'Dog'.

weeeeeeeeeeeeee

The hitman games do this thing really well where you think you've fucked everything up and made the mission uncompleteable, but somehow you pull a random idea out of your ass and it happens to work. Thinking of different ways out of sticky situations is encouraged. Of course, maybe the fog of nostalgia is making me only remember the times when that stuff worked, cause I know there was plenty of times when it didn't (ie. the jungle base from the first one, aargh). The crowd stuff does look great.

two words: god game.

You're right, the first game had a seriously engrossing tutorial that completely sucked me in, and probably made me want to complete the game more than anything else in it did. I still remember it more fondly than the second one. Never played three. I don't think I'm interested in it any more, especially after your post. We'll see. I wonder is it even the same devs any more? hang on Ill check. Yep. IO. might give it a shot, it looks well polished.

completely off topic, but segued into... gamespot streamed videos completely crapify my internet connection. It just dies and I have to restart my modem. I had to wait to download the nintendo e3 conference. So Annoying.

Have you seen the movie Immortel? It has CG characters in it, that are meant to be real humans that have had surgery to look like they're computer generated. These characters and real actors exist in the same world. Quite interesting, and the jarring feeling you get when you realise that the CG characters are supposed to be real seems to be cancelled out by the thematic exploration of human falsity... right Ill shut up