pabosher

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  1. Posted

    Pah, I've done it all before. Besides, I went and *won* the Trackmania challenge on Saturday (hell yeah) and played the games I needed to, so that I could write them up when I got back home! Was nice to actually sit back and eat free chocolate and drink free water. :P

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    MCM Expo! I was there...

    Video GAMES:

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    (I am not in this photograph. The closest I came to cosplay was wearing a t-shirt with Donald Duck on it.)

    I too, was there! I spent the vast majority of my time hiding in the Press area, simply because it had seats and free food. 'Twas a good day.

  5. Posted

    I've always loved Garnett Lee's shows, and whilst Weekend Confirmed is no 1Up Yours (yet), it's a damned fine show.

    Plus, last week they;

    A: had John Davison :tup:

    B: read out my question in 4 Minute Warning.

  7. Posted

    Not so bad. Stuck on a ridiculously annoying Standard deviation question, if anyone can help;

    The heights of a population of women are normally distributed with mean X cm and standard deviation Y cm. It is known that 30% of the women are taller than 172 cm and 5% are shorter than 154 cm.

    (a) Sketch a diagram to show the distribution of heights represented by this information.

    (3)

    (B) Show that the mean = 154 + 1.6449Standard Deviations

    (3)

    © Obtain a second equation and hence find the value of the mean and the value of the standard deviation.

    Stuck on C if y'all could help

    EDIT: Nvm, got it. Feel like a king.

  10. Posted

    My wankerish English Language teachers told me that all of the slides/powerpoints they showed us was on the Virtual learning Environment.

    I log on, and there's nothing there. Fuck you English Language Department. HOW WILL I EVER KNOW WHAT HAPPENS IN SPEECH?

    God I hate speech so much.

  13. Posted · Edited by SpeedyDesiato

    Bought the Steam Play Pack (ToMI and Devil's Playhouse) and whilst I'm clearly stupid as fuck (WHY WON'T HE EAT THE FOOD SO I CAN TALK TO HIM?) the humour is pretty astounding. I don't think I've ever laughed this hard at a Video game before, ever.

    Annoyed that Steam Play Pack 2 came out like a day later with Season 2 of SaM for just £15 extra. To buy the season on its own is £21. Damn you Jake. Damn you.

    Edit: Well that was a surprisingly simple and logical puzzle.

  17. Posted

    The prince still looks awful, but I guess that's to be expected. I think this looks good, although I'm not sure how unmoving water is supposed to be easy to climb on or useful to swing on. Even supposing he was turning it into ice for a few seconds, that would probably be impossible. But these is video games, so whatever.

    The game looks nice, I enjoy the environments. The only thing that really sticks out is the hordes of enemies just standing around while you fight one. It's like the army is really lazy and doesn't feel like fighting at the moment.

    Well it's not ice really, it's just... solid water, I guess.

  19. Posted

    Ah, I hope I didn't come across as an ass. That pre-judgement is based on the discussion about that game on the Idle Thumbs podcast. All the criticisms seem like valid reasons for why PoP 2008 might be lackluster in many respects when compared to Sands of Time.

    The trailer for this new Prince of Persia seems pretty evocative of the first game, which makes me excited.

    Oh, not at all! I just read the mention of PoP 2008 and I was reminded how much I loved that game. I can understand the criticisms, but they were the reason I loved the game. The fluidity was fantastic and the game itself was gorgeous.

  20. Posted

    The puzzle platforming they showed looked pretty darn clever. I almost wish I hadn't clicked the trailer because now it won't be special when I run through that specific room.

    PoP 2008 is coming in the mail soon, maybe that will disappoint me enough to make me forget how sweet this trailer is.

    PoP 2008 was my favourite game of that year. Love love loved that game.

  22. Posted

    You are labouring the point somewhat I feel. What will be deemed 'mature' will depend upon what the majority, of the prevailing society in which that game/movie/play/book finds itself, would consider 'mature' to be. Therefore, one could not pigeon hole certain things as being mature or not mature.

    Sure, there are themes that most societies would define as mature, but not all societies would. It's a branch of common morality.

    There is no single definition of 'mature' for this reason.

    Oh, absolutely. Almost any definition of an abstract idea qualifies on the society in which the idea is presented. I am looking more at the "Why does the ESRB label it Mature? What does that even mean?" angle. Or at least, I tried to.

  24. Posted · Edited by SpeedyDesiato

    Hey guys, I know this will probably seem like extremely ghey self-promotion, but I thought you might be an audience that would like to read this sort of thing.

    Basically, I recently wrote an article called 'Rated M for Mature', which tries to explore what it means to be a mature Video game. It's available to read here, but if you could access it via N4G, that would be even cooler.

    I would copy and paste it into here, but it's pretty long and would be a killer to read, so I decided against it.

    The general gist of it is;

    In my view, there are four types of Mature game. One that causes a mature emotional response within the player, one that covers 'mature' ground such as drugs, violence, sex etc., one that includes childish subject matter but deals with it in a mature way, or one that treats the player as a mature individual.

    What do you think is a mature Video game?