lumberbaron
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I saw the movie for the first book and loved it. Went out of my way to find the second book and managed to finish that in pretty short order. There are very cracked type gags that they do throughout, but there is just something that kind of sticks about the experience. I don't know if I can really pinpoint any of it, but there are moments that just kind to seem wonderful and funny even though there is a constant stream of dick jokes throughout the chapters. Don't get me wrong, there isn't anything wrong with a well played dick joke, I just think that there were times that it seemed like, "oops, this chapter is too serious. PENIS!"
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Probably because my avatar is so entirely boss.
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Yeah it was one of the earlier ones. They have already appeared later in some story scenes and used the language of "retreated from battle" or something like that. I have noticed that if the game doesn't want you losing someone it is game over though, which is nice I think.
One complaint, though, is that people will randomly appear in battle to join with almost no explaination. Paine is a great example. I really like her dialog with most people outside of battle but she is just kind of there at one point.
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I keeping sinking a some time into the game, mainly playing random battles that keep popping up, and not always advancing the story in large chunks. Normally when I do attempt to go for a story mission there is something stupid that happenes like I move a unit too far in and they get swamped with guys who get a series of lucky hit. I really like the game but I refuse to lose anyone.
I think the only person that I have "lost" was "Marth(?)" in one of the few battles that they join you. Now I am wondering if that is why they haven't joined or if there is a story reason.
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Ninja Scroll is really good, absolutely.
Hey, apparently the remake of the Space Battleship Yamato anime is quite something. Anyone seen it?
I had a friend recommend that to me recently, I am kind of getting the idea I need to give it a watch.
I don't know about best anime, it seems to move around as I watch more stuff. I seem to have a super soft spot at the moment for "Steins;Gate" that show is AMAZING. Time travel looping insanity that oddly seems to have some form of science that works. Also, amazing characters.
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Clearly the fact that I played this game for 5 minutes, didn't know what I was doing, was killed a bunch, and uninstalled it when it first came out might have been wrong. Why does it seem that Shawn Elliot talks me back into things I would have other wise never given a second chance?
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just FYI, 17.5 hours in (just got 3rd party member) and some grindiness is showing (although that may be down to the way I choose to play and might not be strictly necessary to proceed), but my "best ps3/360 traditional jrpg" call still holds. Hey, squeenix, you could do (and let's face it, have done) a lot worse for Final Fantasy than taking a page from NNK and slapping a different skin on it. Just sayin'.
Atlus does a bunch of really good stuff. Granted most of it hasn't come out on current Gen hardware and is more PS2/handhelds, but that is kind of where it seems most JRPGs are being published. That said this would have to be pretty good to knock down Tales of Vesperia from its #1 spot for me.
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I quit on TL2. My issue wasn't connection issues it was social issues. Yet another game that wants me to create yet another login and yet another seperate friends list to play on. I just really don't find that kind of thing acceptable anymore. In an era with Steam, facebook, openID, google, etc etc. There are a zillion ways to sign into something almost all of which carry with them some kind of contact list. I really wanted to get through TL2 but I ideally wanted to play it with a friend or two and that never really seemed to workout.
I am just happy that there are other people out there that didn't finish Torchlight 2. I was mega excited for that game to come out as I played through the first one a bunch of times and bought it twice. Got the second one the moment it came out and just haven't felt the urge to play through it. I think I blame Diablo 3 for being out at the same time and ruining those types of games for me for awhile.
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Yeah, avast! has cute little noises that play when you find a virus, to make you feel like you're a cool sysop in a sci-fi movie, but apparently disabling them does not preclude the program from accessing my sound card drivers.
Anyway, apparently it's something to do with how the game uses XRAM and OpenAL, so when you switch to another program that accesses the sound card driver, the system service associated with it goes down and takes the OS with it. I think. I'm not terribly learned in the language of BSODs, but SYSTEM_SERVICE_EXCEPTION seems pretty self-explanatory.
This is a good game though, really. Just update your drivers and maybe wait until release if you have a Creative card?
Isn't two things using a sound card at once, you know, one of those things that should be checked before anyone releases a sound card? That would be like a computer exploding when you check your email while using the internet.
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I was in the closed beta, it was awesome. Been playing it off and on a bit since the open beta started. I am more than willing to play with thumbs if wanted.
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Trying to avoid wife aggro and not buy any games for a bit after the last steam sale. Kind of hard, because I simply love me some JRPGs.
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i am lumberbaron if anyone wants an add
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I wrapped up my Minecraft adventure by watching 2 Player Productions' Minecraft documentary: http://www.theminecraftmovie.com/
It's really amazing, the story of Minecraft that is. It's great to hear industry vets (various industry press people, but also Molyneux and Shafer) talk about how world shattering Minecraft has been. And yet, we're here 2 years after the Minecraft tornado hit town, and not much has changed in the publisher world. Sure, there has been a shift in other places (i.e. kickerstarts, big names going indie), but not a lot in the EA/Activitsion/Ubisoft/etc world.
That was a really awesome movie. Watching it made me get back into Minecraft.
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I kind of have a feeling that Far Cry is the new Final Fantasy. Just a place for people to try different ideas with a genre from one company. At the very least that is what the series itself kind of feels like at this point
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New expansion came out, anyone else up for doing some Battlethumbing?
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Full retail games? Around 10 that are still sealed. Working at a game store kind of does that to you though.
Steam counts? Too many to talk about and be allowed in public again. Besides Indie bundles the Steam sale does not help ever.
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Just started playing it the other day and have started most levels by trying not to kill anyone, end up running out of sleeping darts and just murdering the rest. Thinking about just powering through as a murderous SOB for the first play through and sneaking around when I know the game better the second time around.
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FTL
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Wow, bought this game the same exact time I picked up Torchlight 2. Both amazing games. I oddly can't stop playing this one, even though it annoys me greatly.
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I am Lumberbaron
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I haven't wanted a downloadable game like this since trash panic.
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FTL
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Don't know if this is pointed out, but it is worth starting the game without playing the tutorial--if only to be so confused that you can't continue on.
I also had fucking Brecon in my first crew. Don't know how I felt about that.
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"Twitter. I give you the greatest news story of all time."
That is awesome.
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Which Video Game Boss would make the best Actual Boss?
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Oh! Does Cave Johnson count as a boss? If he does that is totally what I am going with. That guy seems both crazy, fun, willing to take chances, and probably would openly reward you for being awesome at things.