Thompson

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  1. Unity3D

    My friend's been working on an RPG in Unity for a few months, seems like a great platform, but he is starting to run into the boundaries of the free license. Being able to quickly compile builds of the game and send them to people for testing without them even having to install anything is excellent.
  2. Recently completed video games

    I only ever had one scenario where it was useful, if i'd had the choice I would have just used troops and artillery. Maybe a barricade or two.
  3. Recently completed video games

    Atom Zombie Smasher Picked it up in the HB3 and it's probably my favorite game of the lot, just loads of zombie wasting fun. I'm not really done with it yet, but I finished the campaign a few times and it's a great game. Love the art style and the whole atmosphere, it reminds me of DEFCON in the way it goes for an aesthetic and nails it. The units and special weapons are ultra satisfying, (although Zombie Bait is terrible) and the victory points race mechanic is excellent. I'm a little baffled by the sound design though; the game was made by Blendo Games, who are based in America, yet the radio chatter seems to all be Australian accented people. My only actual complaint is the terrible achievements. Not that it's really important, but i'm never going to get most of those.
  4. Obligatory comical YouTube thread

    So it's not comical, but it's pretty interesting. eabtzkY_jNs
  5. General Video Game Deals Thread

    Meh, for the first time one of Steam's big sales really didn't catch my interest at all.
  6. A lot of things about Bad Company 2 were broken from day one, and never got fixed. The launch of that game was laughably, spectacularly atrocious, and they only ever did enough to make the game barely playable, if you fought it enough. Random CTD's, an awful server browser and terrible UI hurt that game enough that by the time you actually got to play it you didn't want to be playing it anymore. Fingers crossed that Battlefield 3 is a big enough property for EA that DICE will be forced to put a lot more shine on it before they puke it onto Origin.
  7. Hmm. We'll probably never know the full truth behind it, but i'd like to know what the policies really are, and why EA is apparently the only company flipping out over them.
  8. Flying around in his private jet, like a boss.
  9. Granted, 1 of those is a Business Developer, and another is Managing Director, plus i'm fairly sure they're not all full-time. BUT STILL. 9. I agree though, i'm almost certain it's far less efficient than it could be because they're focusing pretty hard on content. So good and bad.
  10. The threat of Big Dog

    Fg_JcKSHUtQ
  11. Feminism

    I think the point is that charging male drivers on the whole more because a larger proportion of them are idiots than women (at least in terms of driving, anyway) is unfair to those men that ARE safe drivers. Of course insurance companies are still greedy corporations and all that, so who cares if it's sexist or racist or what have you? TL;DR: I'm on the fence on this one.
  12. Did you Google translate that? I'm not sure everything can be blamed on the world design, it's certainly cool to be able to log onto the server and be instantly amazed by cool shit, but I get the feeling that a large part of the reason is simply apathy. This is what, the fifth epoch? The server, and more importantly Minecraft, have been around for quite a while now. A lot of people have just had their fun with it at this point; as you can see if you read all of this thread or god forbid, talk to people, a lot of them are just plain busy. I come to this from the standpoint of a member of a CoD clan that slowly ground itself into the ground, in large part due to boredom with the games and real life commitments. On a smaller scale, this is pretty much what i've seen happen to the Minecraft server. Perhaps 1.8 will reinvigorate the community and bring everyone running back, perhaps then the costs will be covered for a few months, who can say? It's important to know when to throw in the towel and I think Tabacco has picked the right time. Thanks to Tabacco for paying out of pocket to keep the thing running for so long and thanks to everybody that played for making some truly insane shit.
  13. General Video Game Deals Thread

    From: The Humble Indie Bundle. That looks pretty bad. Hopefully it's just the difference in volume of sales that is driving the Windows number lower.
  14. Catherine

    Exclusive behind the scenes cake photo! I got that from a dude who works at Atlus.
  15. Collector's/Special Editions

    Oh, but that's because Australia's exchange rate is crap, right? Right?
  16. New people: Read this, say hi.

    *Tumbleweed* Welcome, loads of us are still around here! I don't really understand why, but hell, there's got to be something good about this place! Right?
  17. Unnecessary Comical Picture Thread

    I wish there were a way to make that display at all times to everyone single person on the internet.
  18. Wizaaaaaards!!

    Have Wizards been relegated to mere cheap decoration? What a sad fall from grace.
  19. Rage

    UrtwJYuUI-0 Been cautiously interested in this game for a long time now, but it looks like it could turn out alright. I just hope Bethesda knows how to make a game that isn't Fallout 4, because I really dislike Fallout. Or Brink 2. *Shudder* So enjoy this trailer, featuring Old Weathered Survivor #8378 and tough but attractive female sidekick #6474.
  20. Obligatory comical YouTube thread

    4w0hyU85kAE Everything about this video is amazing. On a related note.
  21. Feminism

    *Flashback to talk of Mirror's Edge*
  22. Bizarre News

    Wasn't sure where to post this, so I figured a new thread was in order. Post weird/bizarre news stories!
  23. Bizarre News

    Update. My assumption is that some dude decided to extort money from this family by holding the daughter hostage by proxy with a fake explosive device. Update 2. This story just gets weirder and weirder.