Noyb

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  1. I find yours an interesting and very positive thought, Marek, but I don't think it's necessarily correct that the people who post shit like that are simply well-meaning oafs in real life. I think the nature of the internet invites normal, decent people to erupt in stupidity under the banner of anonymity. I'd love it if there were some mysterious didactic force at work that slowly turns every troll into a well-spirited dialectic genius, but I'm afraid that feeling is spread very thin in me and for the longest time all I'll be doing is being supremely irritated at all the stupidity around these here internettian parts.

    From Penny Arcade:

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    Edit: updated link


  2. What's funny is that I *just* got Rez and Ikaruga used for their original consoles this summer.

    Awesome. Get them both. Funny how one is very easy, the other is insanely difficult, yet both are absolutely engrossing in their own ways.

    Toblix, you've really been giving off a self-hating gamer vibe, moreso than usual. Btw, I just played the first Gobliiins game again since not getting too far when I was a kid. It's really charming, but the gameplay was ridiculously frustrating. Too many times it forced you into situations requiring trial and error, and permanently punishing you for making the wrong guess.


  3. It's not the price. I like the price. It's the feeling like I'm paying for the same thing twice, that the addition of those games would have increased the price of the package, instead of the reality, which is valve actually did put those in for free. I admit it's not that logical, because that means I thought more negatively about the current pricing scheme than if HL2 *wasn't* included. Anyway I bought the package anyway almost immediately after my earlier post, this thread rehyped me so much. Whatever.


  4. And here it is.

    Basically, pre-order the Orange Box now and you ge to play the TF2 beta in a couple of weeks.

    What the hell? Wasn't there supposed to be some sort of discounted package for the many, many people who already bought Half-Life 2, and the still significant ones who bought episode one? By Valve's current pricing, it's apparently a $35 savings off buying just the new games individually, but still. Telling me to give HL2 to a friend isn't really a solution (as most of my gamer friends already have HL2) and including it makes me feel like the price would have been cheaper had it not been included. :hmph:


  5. I had no idea that there was such a heavy story and role-playing element to this game. Wrote it off a while back as a generic post-apocalyptic shooter. I'll have to check it out when the deluge of games and work subsides.


  6. I found Super Paper Mario to be tortuously slow, coming as a fan of the first two and the Mario & Luigi games.

    Now that the season of insanely numerous anticipated games is upon me, my hype is diminished some. You may have something there with Bioshock being so good, it's hard to believe that every other game will live up to it's hype. Still looking forward to Phoenix Wright, Mario Galaxies, Smash Bros Brawl, Portal, Mass Effect, Assassin's Creed, and the new season of Sam & Max, even when my bank account isn't.


  7. There's a race against a Leprechaun in a zeppelin which is way too fast for my hovercraft...

    From a gamefaqs guide:

    There's a bug in this level that prevents the hoverboat from reaching full speed, and the only way to get rid of it is by dying (or reverting to the last checkpoint, your choice, the results are the same). When you revert, you'll appear where Larry and you'll have to go get all the gems again, that's why I told you to come here first, to check if you have the bug before getting all the other gems.

    Haven't played the game, but hope this helps.


  8. On the subject of crashing (and BioShock software bugs in general), I'm getting some rather panic-inducing freezes when I do something interactive, like try hacking a machine of some sort. Not all the time, but at least once an hour or two.

    It happened to me in the demo on a Vista laptop. I fixed it by downloading unofficially updated video card drivers, since the laptop company doesn't bother to update them manually, and the official ones are locked out of laptops. So, updating your drivers should help, if you haven't already.


  9. I thought that the regular (non-boss) enemies in Metroid Prime 2 had far too many hitpoints to be fun. Not that they were that difficult, just that killing them took far too long and got in the way of the exploration. Didn't like the combat-heavy Hunters on the DS too much, so I'm reasonably wary about the constant reminders of the greater focus on combat in this one.


  10. Okay, am I misunderstanding something here? I just rode the second bathysphere, and...

    ...for some reason there's a counter that says x/3 gatherers or something, and I have to kill like six of these fucking daddies, and towards the end I'm just reduced to setting him on fire, dying, running back, repeating. What am I missing here? Is dying the new strafing? I used up all my ammo, all my medikits and all my money on this shit.

    The big daddies are tough fights at the beginning, but (mild early gameplay spoiler)

    you don't have to fight them. They only attack you when provoked, either by you attacking them first, or hitting their little sister. The only time you really want to fight them is when they have a little sister in tow, so you can exploit her for adam, used to buy health and eve upgrades, plasmids and tonics, and extra slots for plasmids and tonics. When you do fight them, try and be more strategic about it, using your abilities and the environment to do as much damage as possible. Experiment.

    Plasmids are the active abilities, while tonics are passive abilities in three areas: physical, engineering, and combat. These plasmid and tonics can be swapped out for no charge at gene bank machines scattered through the game, or when you get a new one.


  11. Looks like 2K rethought their activation policies:

    How many computers can I activate this game on at once?

    2K increased the maximum computers you can install the game simultaneously on from 2 to 5. We are also preparing a new “revoke application” that will allow you to de-authorize computers so that you may move the game to another computer without "using up" one of these activations. This increase in the limit will cover most users' issues, and the revoke application should alleviate remaining concerns. Of course, if you still experience any issues, please feel free to contact support.


  12. It looks like Deus Ex underwater?

    I can't find anything wrong with that... :grin:

    Well, you can if you try to describe aloud it to friends that way. I'm not sure if I was failing to enunciate properly, or they have some Freudian issues, but they heard it as "gay sex underwater." :blink:

    Yes, I'm aware that Deus has two syllables. And that Thumbs doesn't need any more questionable google hits.