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  1. Posted

    Because poeple can't stop talking about how wonderful the experience is once they were allowed to enter their first convention, I'm trying to find a way to attend a gaming convention or exposition normal people can enter for a price that doesn't imply to restrain myself from buying food during a whole month of the year.

    I'm currently trying to fully understand the 'student contract' of GDC so if any of you guys could indicate me some worthy conventions that would help me a lot. Thx.

    Many industry conventions, including GDC, offer free admission and accomodations if you volunteer to help man the doors/do menial tasks for a certain percentage of the time.

  3. Posted

    when I got to the final meat circus race, the game, removed all my object and psi powers.

    I bet you could find cheat codes to get those back on the internet. Maybe at gamefaqs.com

    Also: feature film no, animated TV series YES.

  5. Posted

    Well, regardless of the first, I'd say the last great generation of gaming was the SNES / Megadrive era. Back then there was no internet, so multiplayers actually required multiple players and not just a decent connection to the old three dubya's.

    Games were wild and expensive, and we were all only twelve, so you could only ever own three at any one time. It was a fantastic time to be alive, because it was impossible to fall back on gaming as your sole form of entertainment. If it was a really nice day, you would play football.

    I pity the children.

    Like wise Thrik once said to me, the people whose first gaming experience is Half Life 2 are in a tough situation - games are pointed towards realism as opposed to memorability. I mean, I remember weird, weird things from random games just because they were innovative. I don't remember ever liking a game because it looked "realistic."

    Nostalgist, nostalgist, bullshit bullshit bullshit (welcome to the forums :grin: )

    Back in the age of S/NES, video games were MY primary form of entertainment (besides Hardy Boys paperbacks,) either on the computer or the Nintendo, alone or with friends. I certainly never went out and played football! Egad.

    I don't know if I'd rather be a kid 'coming up' on games now or in the 80's, but I sure am glad that I'm an older gamer now and not then. I don't know how people my age could be big into games back in the 8-bit days, or console games at least. The NES wasn't exactly mentally stimulating. I guess back in the 80's it was a lot of IF and Ultima and Wasteland and Sierra adventures for the hardcore types back then. In any case, I'm glad that games grew up with me.

    And for the record I think games now are better than they ever have been, and haven't nearly reached their apex yet.

  9. Posted

    This one's kind of tough. My dad bought me a Commodore 64 when I was born, so I've been playing games since before I can remember. Some seminal gaming touchstones over the years:

    • Loving Godzilla movies, then playing the Godzilla game on C64; mindblowing!
    • My dad upgrading the IBM's monitor from monochrome to CGA; seeing Carmen Sandiego in full color for the first time
    • Beating Double Dragon in the arcade using $5 in quarters
    • River City Ransom, SMB2, Mega Man 2
    • Playing through Maniac Mansion to multiple endings on the NES (the NES, I say!); unknowingly falling in love with Lucasarts adventures
    • Seeing Sub-Zero's fatality in the first Mortal Kombat from the back of a huge crowd in the local arcade
    • Being re-introduced to adventure games on the PC through the VGA versions of Space Quest, Quest for Glory, and moving on to Monkey Island, Sam & Max, Full Throttle, etc.
    • My dad buying a cd-rom drive for our PC, and installing my first cd-based game (Doom 2)
    • Getting up an hour early before school for weeks to maximize my playtime of Chrono Trigger
    • Borrowing my friend's Origin sampler disc, featuring Syndicate (Syndicate!!!); death and destruction ensue

    By this point I was hooked for life. A few other moments that stand out in more recent years: Having to stay with a friend for his entire playthrough of System Shock 2 to keep him from getting too scared; Black & White whispering my name at 2 am; Innumerable replays of the restaurant and hotel levels in Hitman: Codename 47; Renting a PS2 and playing GTA3 for 16 hours straight without getting out of the chair; Similarly, staying up til 5 30 am to finish NOLF2 in one sitting because it was so goddamn good. Oh, and half the stuff in the first Thief game, which I didn't play til years after its initial release.

    :(why did this post get so long and insane sorry

  10. Posted

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  14. Posted

    Surprisingly, "The 40 Year old Virgin" is a really good movie. It's hilarious, a lot of raucous humor but a touching human story.

    And I think I know the gay non-virgin version of the "The 40 Year old Virgin". Weird, but true.

    Hell yes, you're absolutely right. 40 Year Old Virgin is hilarious and awesome, without being stupid and juvenile. The Daily Show's Steve Carrel + co-writer/director Judd Apatow = WIN. Go see it.

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    The main thing that sucks about this is that without a HD you won't be able to have any sort of backwards compatability, as was promised (for some games). It also leads to the developers having to cater to the lowest common denominator, in this case the cheap version, and thus removing features that might have utilized the HD.

    Man, I was getting all excited for the 360 too :shifty:

    Wait, there's no internal harddrive in the Xbox360?? That was like the only thing the first Xbox had going for it! WTF?

    Also down w/ consoles PC 4 LYFE :oldman::sombrero:

  17. Posted

    Another great one is Mickey Mania especially Mickey Mania CD. Still as wonderful as it was when released.

    Of note: Mickey Mania was God of War director David Jaffe's first game.

    Also the NES Ducktales game, starring Scrooge McDuck and featuring the myriad uses of his cane, was platforming gold back in the day.

    As far as the "last great Disney game," wasn't Aladdin on the SNES supposed to be really good?

  22. Posted

    So you don't think the GeForces are the way to go?

    I basically want something that would last me for a while. I think 200 is my limit.

    Thrik's advice above re: Geforce is also sound. I'd definitely invest in a 256 card right now if you're buying. In my own personal experience I've been happier with my ATI cards than my Nvidias, but they're roughly equivalent.

  23. Posted

    What's your price point? I never buy a video card that's over $200. I have an ATI Radeon 9700 w/ 128mb of video ram right now that I bought maybe 9 months ago, and it runs everything nicely at high/highest settings, but it's going to have trouble with stuff that comes out this christmas/next year.

    You could get a Radeon 9800PRO or Radeon X800, either w/ 256 megs of video ram, for less than $200 on newegg right now. The X800 is the newer variant, so it may support more graphical bells/whistles. I'd go with that.