jneeriem

Seconded.

My primary issue with the idea of a western RPG is that I imagine developers would feel forced in some weird indefinable way to include Magic. I'd be into a open world western RPG where things that may have actually applied to people of the old west are pertinent to the game. Like if the character was (as most-all western games begin) some sort of eastwood-esque character, except without all the skills maybe. Perhaps just a gun and the need for income. Then things like the ability to drink water and go for a while without dying, or building up stamina under the hot sun, or (obviously) gun-slinging abilities and animal husbandry (ie horse-riding) would be the "skill trees." What I fear is that someone comes along and says, "hey lets put oblivion/fable/diablo in the American West." What I also fear is that my idea of a good western RPG might feel too much like Fallout in the American West. Replace enclave with some rich prospector and keep the raiders "raiders" and replace the radiation sickness with dehydration and heat-stroke. Keep dogmeat. Add horses as "vehicles." Maybe I'm just being too cynical here, but I feel like it'd be hard to make a Western-Themed RPG that could feel like what we "think" the Wild West was like without someone crying foul over another game that's so similar but just painted in a different backdrop. At the same time if this Red Dead Redemption becomes GTA in the old west with the first Red Dead's game mechanics, I'll buy it. But only if they keep the film grain and perfect sound they had before. Plus the "wild-west" accents. I'm that kind of cheesy.

Well I've "improved it" in some ways....

Have updated the wiki page. Please have urban dictionary nearby for hilariousness.

Ok so I am that IP address on wikipedia. Actually my work is. That's another story. Here and now I commit to waging a war against page only if someone here commits to legitamizing the page as much as possible. I just find it so funny how wiki has this notability criteria but once a page is established they could care less if its accurate

So... Let me trumpet the who cares card. I consider LOST to be one of the truly great TV shows of our time. Guess who owns LOST? Disney... BFD.

Blog makes me happy.

"Get crazy with the cheese-wiz." Ign.com

I seem to think of the microwave power plant in Sim City 2000. Seems old news to me given that.

"this is a game?" - ign.com

"Having singed the horse bag... and then it mounted my cock" ign.com

"This game pulled out a gun and shot physics in the fucking head" - ign.e4.com

"can you honestly criticize a free-to-play game?" ign.com That seems particularly ironic.

"Game!" - ign.com

"Finally, a game peripheral that won't freak out and rape you in the morning!" - ign.com

I found myself going out to shop for laptops yesterday as if I were really interested in the video capture thing. Fortunately I'm in the market for some audio gear for some of my musical endeavors, so maybe some video capture equipment will just tag along...

It could be called Grand Thumb Radio...

Depends on your budget. You can get an HDMI splitter cable for not too much, run one cable to your TV and one to your recording device. Now as far as the data being protected, I'm not as sure b/c I know you're right, with these digital signals there's more than just a stream of numbers representing the screen and how bright each color should be at each point. That being said, you can get video records that aren't in the $1000's of dollars range that accept component. If you use a Mac as your computer this becomes easier, for example, there's this device called a BlackMagic Video Recorder, you can record 720p in component form. Now that just does video, to get the audio I would then split the L/R audio channels and get a separate product for that. If your budget is bigger, you could get something like the Matrox Mxo2 Mini. That's more expensive, but also has HDMI inputs and appears to do monitoring, which means no cable splitting. Basically, I think you set that unit up inline with your TV (so XBOX-Matrox-TV, still need to buy cords just not splitters), and hook the Matrox up to your PC (yes windows) and go from there. This device runs about 450 USD, so that may be way out of the "I want to record friends arsing around" budget, but could come in handy. If you wanted to get the microphone audio included, i would get a seperate non-amplified sound mixer (Berringer makes cheap good ones) and run all your audio through that before going to the video recorder. By then you'd be set up to run your own video game clip website, so maybe this is all a bit out of what anyone here would be interested in. But would be cool.

Oh and if you wanted to do multi channel audio recording, you could probably get the voices to go to your video as well. Though you have the option of sending mic signals through your main speaker feed as well, I just find the quality is pretty bad.

Sorry for being nosy about this, but I'm a bit of an A/V guy, so by TV Tuner Card, do you mean some sort of video capture card installed on your computer? If so, is the ass-backwards-ness a product of knowledge or budget? I would think you either split the HDMI or component output cables, sending one to your TV and one to a video capture card, even the pinnacle thingy would do that aright, and ... ok I'll shut up now. I could talk techie about this but will not for the moment, unless you have an interest in hearing such.

So I work at home on Fridays. Like today. But usually I get pretty bored and fire up the 'ole 360. So who's available to play: Halo 3 GTA 4 Orange Box Unreal Tournament 3 Far Cry 2 TMNT (Arcade or Turtles in Time) Splosion Man Battlefield 1943 ????? Let me know here if you are interested and I'll get my self online. Playing Wii in the main living room until said notice...

Well I'd be up for a round now or then. I like the game, and like arcade fighters, just not enough to study all the special moves...

I wish i read this more often. I am probably so bad at that game that I wouldn't reccomend playing me...

What a fun time. Sorry I had to run out early, I had something real to do. Which is very unfortunate. Anywho, thanks for the invite yesterday!

I find people tend to shy away from conversations where erection, tv and controller all come into play. Thus I usually play the part of "non-gamer" in my normal life. - Edit: I would say that most people think the 13 yr-olds who play Halo 3 until their eyes bleed are the real "hardcore" gamers while people who appreciate games are generally considered obsessed, stupid, or Fat.