Nicholololas

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    Eh. I think the thread has worth, obviously it's preferable if people post in the game-specific thread (especially if it's active), but if people just wanna give their two cents about some old game they just finished recently I'm not sure most of them would bother creating a separate thread (I know I probably wouldn't). I guess if a post creates alot of discussion it could just be moved to its own thread or something, you know?

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    Community is bar none the best show on TV these days, just a shame it starts out quite slow and it takes them a couple of episodes to find their groove. The second season is even more brilliant if you ask me, with really just one weak episode

    the incredibly meta Abed special, just way overdone

    . Can't wait for the season finale, it's supposed to be an hour long and

    more paintball

    ! Probably the funniest show since Arrested Development, hopefully it won't get canceled just yet.

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    I didn't realize the first number you see is the total of the achievements point you could have!

    It's ... not, though? The first number is determined by TrueAchievements and based on how difficult they consider the achievements to be. They sort of rebalance the achievements so that your score increases if you've unlocked alot of achievements that others haven't (hence the name of the site). The formula is explained on the TrueAchievements FAQ:

    The first thing that the TrueAchievement takes into account is the normal GamerScore for that achievement - we could have abandoned this completely but we felt that the games programmers had chosen how to distribute their 1000 (or 200 for XBLA) games with good reason (OK, maybe not with Avatar) so we would use that as our base.

    We then look at how many people own the game (we decided this by saying anyone that has at least one achievement owns the game - this clears people playing demos out of the stats).

    Finally we look at how many people have the achievement compared to how many people own the game - this gives us a difficulty factor which we multiply the original achievement gamerscore by. We call this maths.

    Obviously there are a hundred different ways we could have decided on how to calculate the score but we felt that this was the fairest way. If 100 people own a game and only one person has a certain achievement in that game then that achievement is obviously very tough to get, so the TA score for that achievement is marked up considerably. Or the game is extremely dull.

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    I finally got the SMILE achievement on Geometry Wars 2: War Harder... but I can't get the one that everyone else seems to find easy: TREATY. Annoying.

    Wow, that's pretty awesome. Sequence is definitely the mode I played the least of in Geo Wars 2 so I never got Smile or the one for just completing sequence itself. As for Treaty just rush through as many zones as fast as possible, with a bit of luck you'll get it eventually. For my money Deadline and Pacifism are definitely where it's at.

    I finished up Dirt 2 last night, or at least the main portion of it - there's still a bunch of events I haven't finished, but I did the final X-Games tourney

    as well as the Colin McRae tribute one

    . All in all I'm pretty satisfied, especially considering I bought it super cheap on Steam during some sale last year. The presentation got a bit too Duder, Sick Nasty Extreme at times but it wasn't really that bad, especially compared to most games who go down a similar route (skate., I'm looking at you), and it never really got too much in the way of the racing, which is ace! For me at least it struck the same balance as PGR did, in being quite arcadey but still having an air of realism to it, making you feel pretty badass for cutting a corner perfectly or generally just driving well. Content wise there's some nice variety, from classic rallying to the more chaotic Baja races. Sort of wish there'd be more of a focus on traditional rally events, and I wouldn't mind a bit more variety in the track department - most of the locales only offered a couple of different routes, or the routes linked together or perhaps backwards - and while there's plenty of sand, dust and jungle, I was missing more traditional forest landscape and not to mention snow. That said Codemasters seem to be taking note of these complaints and are correcting them in the third iteration so whoop whoop I guess.

    Anyway really fun game, must be hellish to play with keyboard but being a Games for Windows Live title it accepts the X360 pad right out of the box which works great. Looks pretty astonishing too, lots of nifty motion blur and particle effects going on. If you're looking for a rally game that isn't too punishing while still offering a bit of a challenge I'd say go for it (or alternatively just wait for Dirt 3 which should be coming out soon).

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    Echoing STALKER, either Call of Pripyat (which I admittedly haven't gotten around to play yet, but I've been told fixes most of the problems with the first two) or the original, which still holds up fairly well, especially if it's your first encounter with the series. Cheap, too. Just don't listen to anyone who tells you to install mods, vanilla all the way. At least the first playthrough.

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    The lack of quote marks on any speech made it feel incredibly numb and cold, too.

    A thousand times this. How sterile and honest the dialogue was just gave me chills all over. I haven't read any of McCarthy's other books yet but I've heard his western trilogy is supposedly just as bleak, so I'll have to check them out soon.

    Not reading anything at the moment, but I ordered This Gaming Life off of Amazon, by Jim Rossignol (one of the Rock Paper Shotgun writers) which I'm really looking forward to. I also got the first three Scott Pilgrim paperbacks to prepare for the movie, Nineteen Eighty-Four (no, I haven't read it, yes, I'm horrible) and the second Phonogram.

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    360 for me as well, as I prefer the 360 pad and expect the 360 version to perform better as usual.

    And yeah this looks pretty amazing, sort of getting a Test Drive: Unlimited vibe from the open lobby stuff, it'll be interesting to see how it works in practice. Roaming the country side hunting wolves with your friends is gonna be a blast for sure.

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    This message goes out to anybody who is not listening to the Gorillaz newest album, Plastic Beach: You really should be!

    Also, Broken Bells, the thing Dangermouse and James Mercer of The Shins collaborated on is pretty good.

    I really wish I could get more into Plastic Beach but I just can't. It's just boring, it's like I'm constantly waiting for it to go somewhere but it never really does. The opening track is pretty cool though, but that's mostly because of Snoop. I'll agree the Broken Bells album is pretty swell though.

    Didn't see it mentioned here, but I recently checked out The Middle East (they're playing a festival near me this summer). Really cool Australian indie.

    QSKrrMb9bnE

    As far as I know the album was released in Australia in 08, but it's getting worldwide release this spring.

  16. Posted

    I haven't really followed Torchlight since I bought it during the Steam Christmas sale, but are there any news on some sort of co-op mod? I remember being told it would be a hell of a lot of work to implement but I thought I'd check just in case. It's a sweet game, unfortunately it just doesn't hold my interest that well without any form of multiplayer.

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    I picked this up for 360 last week and have been playing it most nights since, when you're actually in a decent squad and working together, even in the most basic ways such as tossing out ammo packs and medkits or spawning on one another it really is great fun. Are there any Thumbs playing the 360 version at all?

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    Sorry, I meant specifically DLC that is nothing more than items with higher stats or whatever and don't actually offer anything "new" to the game, which feels very cheap to me. Part of why the dog cone is funny to me is that it doesn't do anything at all except look retarded.

  19. Posted

    Their obviously poking fun at horse armor. It was cheap and I had some leftover points in my bioware account so I picked this up. To be honest I will give these people as much money as I can If it means better games down the road.

    I haven't played Dragon Age yet but I fully support this attitude. There's nothing wrong with charging for it either, it's pretty funny and no one's forcing you to buy it. I feel a whole lot less offended by stuff like this than premium DLC that gives you "real" gameplay benefits or whatever. At least they're being honest.

  20. Posted

    Yeah, that's this week XBL deal. Easily one of the best games on the entire service, and probably the best twin-stick shooter ever. For 400 it's an absolute steal. If you want to compare high scores feel free to friend me, gamertag is Nicholololas.

  21. Posted

    Looking forward to Pacific. On in 40 mins. It looks great.

    How do you like it so far? I've watched the first three episodes and to be honest it doesn't really do much for me. I'm not quite sure what I was expecting considering I found Band of Brothers to be pretty trite, but it just seems like more of the same to me. It's not really bad or anything, most of the actors are decent, the music suitably pompous and action scenes exhilarating enough, but I was sort of hoping for more this time around.

    As far as proper recommendations go, I've been rewatching all the Peep Show series over the past week or so, anyone who hasn't seen it should get the first season immediatedly, it's bloody brilliant. Definitely one of the funniest sitcoms of all time.

  24. Posted

    There's a bunch of Arcade deals on XBL this week:

    - Age of Booty 400 points (usually 800)

    - Defence Grid, 400 points (usually 800)

    - Lumines LIVE, 400 points (usually 800)

    - Mad Tracks, 400 points (usually 800)

    - Rocket Riot, 400 points (usually 800)

    - Schizoid, 400 points (usually 800)

    - South Park Let's Go Tower Defense Play!, 400 points (usually 800)

    - Super Street Fighter II HD, 560 points (usually 1200)

    - Track & Field, 240 points (usually 400)

    - Wallace & Gromit Episode 1, 400 points (usually 800)

    I picked up Age of Booty and Rocket Riot myself, having heard good things about both. How is the first W&G episode, is it worth checking out at 400 points?

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    The first one didn't really do much for me, and to be honest the co-op demo released some months ago didn't seem like much of an improvement. It looks nice enough and grappling hooks are always cool, but the core gameplay always seemed to lack substance and finesse. If it gets rave reviews I'll consider giving it a chance I guess.