Author Topic: The Gaming Postwhoring Thread (Read 1162612 times)

Kid_Alpha · « **Reply #1520 on:** September 25, 2011, 05:05:07 AM »

The puzzles in Professor Layton make me feel so dumb. ._.

I suck at logic and all those obvious in your face questions make me want to punch things.

Damn this game for being so addicting.

zoolander · « **Reply #1521 on:** September 25, 2011, 08:09:41 AM »

This is pretty good. IGN headline generator. Now I know how they come up with such stupid articles.

http://www.jocchan.com/stuff/IGeNerator/

"Why Catherine should be a first person shooter."
"Top Ten most epic poop jokes in videogames."
"Should every game be a Facebook game?"
"What Minesweeper could learn from Minecraft"

Tuffty · « **Reply #1522 on:** September 25, 2011, 11:02:15 AM »

Rarely pre-order games in game shops within town, but I do pre-order games I know I'll like and have been looking forward to for a long time e.g. a Final Fantasy game. Other times it may just take that couple of early reviews for me to get the pre-order in ahead of time. When it works for game shops near me then it's awesome. I remember on my birthday being handed a receipt by my parents and they told me it was for Final Fantasy XII which came out on the same day, so went to the game shop on the same morning and got it no sweat. But pre-ordering from Amazon or somewhere similar is better as I don't have to deal with some idiots serving. I have similar feelings towards it as Ryan from Giant Bomb:

coachie · « **Reply #1523 on:** September 25, 2011, 11:34:56 AM »

Dragonball Baseball the Game??? LOL

Tuffty · « **Reply #1524 on:** September 25, 2011, 01:59:32 PM »

After putting it off once again, I put in Tales of Vesperia once more. That game just keeps going and going! Haven't even beaten the story and it's been 2 years since I got it

It's a great game, one of the best JRPG's out there and I definately recommend it. Just make sure you will be committed to it cause when you think it's gonna end, it doesn't!

Was playing it and they've just now opened up a Gold Saucer-esque mini-game arena where you can play poker, slot machines and this digitised 8-bit side scrolling bullethell game. Of course, any chips you win can be built up and used to buy rare items and equipment so there's plenty of incentive. Plus it's where you can listen to the game's soundtrack or view any of the animated cutscenes. Can only imagine FFXIII-2 will work the same way with it's mini-game location.

The one thing I have against the game is how they handle side-quests. With any other RPG you either have a specific side quest giver/vendor or some big huge '!' icon over someone's head telling you there's a side quest. You don't get that in this. I hate having to ask every single NPC in the hope they have a side quest for me and it's even worse at this stage when you can fly all over the world map. Cause at that point, side quest givers can be literally in any single town you visited. There are potential side quest givers too, but that quest won't become activated until you reach past a certain part in the story. Except you don't know when that part in the story is, or whether they'll even give you a side quest afterwards and there's no indication from the game telling you about it!

Also, some side quests are just shut off from you completely as you progress. There are these mini-bosses around the world which you can fight, something similar to Weapons in FFVII right? Well your incentive is to beat them for a good deal of XP, money and potentially new items. But there's a side quest giver who gives you an extra incentive to beat those monsters, for gameplay and narrative reasons, but you can only talk to him and activate it until a point in the story very early on. So the quest has been shut off early in the game for me and there's nothing I can do about it. So frustrating, it's the type of game where if you want to unlock as much as possible, it can't be done unless you have a guide to tell you when and where these quests will be activated and that's never been a good thing for me.

Anyway, rant over

JFC · « **Reply #1525 on:** September 26, 2011, 06:15:15 AM »

Can't help if this was part of the reason why there's been such hype over NHL 12.

http://tinyurl.com/3z7fk8w

Big props to Mr Tom_Green for finding and shooting the link over to me.

Tuffty · « **Reply #1526 on:** September 26, 2011, 08:47:03 PM »

The demo for FIFA 12 also has some....odd physics

Speaking of which, it's out Fri. I'm gonna cave in and get it. Reviews are highly positive right now, I like the sound of online play this year and I liked the demo. Time to get my created player playing for Utd once again, build up my Ultimate Team and school some fools in online play.

Also, I'm in two minds about getting Dark Souls. It looks and sounds epic, I read a good review of it in the GamesTM magazine, I just worry that the difficulty might be too much. Ah whatever, I'll probably cave in as well and buy it

Our very own Sexy Beam is putting up her own gaming vids on Youtube. Show her some love!

Tuffty · « **Reply #1527 on:** September 27, 2011, 09:55:42 PM »

Wow just.....wow! So let me paint the picture here. A mainstream TV channel, ITV, showed a documentary this week on Col Gadaffi's links to supplying firearms to the Real IRA. In this documentary, they had obtained secret footage of IRA soldiers using these firearms to shoot down a helicopter. Shocking stuff I bet you'll agree.

Except....it's not 'secret footage' at all. All of it is gameplay taken from Arma 2 and it looks pretty fucking obvious to anyone that it's not real.

Robotic movements of the soldiers, the truck jumping at 0.43 and a helicopter shot down by a turret that obviously isn't firing. Well done ITV. It's funny because the media is all too happy to label gamers as people unable to discern gaming from reality, when in fact, they're the ones who seem to have the difficulty.

Quote

"No-one died in this incident"

Yeah little fucking wonder! They just respawned!

Shoddy journalism, I hope they get pulled up for it.

heiji · « **Reply #1528 on:** September 28, 2011, 03:44:26 AM »

Damn, the video was taken down. Any other sources for this, please?

Tuffty · « **Reply #1529 on:** September 28, 2011, 08:00:49 AM »

I've updated my original post with another source. Grab it while it's hot!

Kid_Alpha · « **Reply #1530 on:** September 28, 2011, 03:50:02 PM »

I just finished Professor Layton yesterday, the ending made me cry.

Hart · « **Reply #1531 on:** September 28, 2011, 10:24:28 PM »

^ which one?

For me it was the third game that made me the saddest, followed by the second.

That reminds me, I forgot that I have a couple of Weekly Puzzles that I need to solve in Unwound Future.

Deft-Monkey · « **Reply #1532 on:** September 29, 2011, 06:51:11 AM »

I think I'll be pissed off when the PS4 is launched. Mostly because I feel that I haven't gotten satisfactory use out of my PS3. Sure, there have been some good games, but I don't get the feeling that it's done enough to move on to the next level. The PS2, on the other hand, had certainly delivered to the utmost extent when the PS3 was released. I guess a part of me knows that I don't play games as much as I used to and that there's a slim chance of me getting a next generation console.

Asmodai · « **Reply #1533 on:** September 29, 2011, 02:15:27 PM »

Saint's Row 2, Uncharted 1, 2 and 3, Mass Effect 2 and 3, Tekken 6, Soul Calibur IV and V, Valkyria Chronicles, Force Unleashed, Pixeljunk Shooter... I think I've gotten more from my PS3 than my PS2. PS1 still reigns supreme for me - but I was at a different point in my life then.

Deft-Monkey · « **Reply #1534 on:** September 29, 2011, 06:48:29 PM »

^ Maybe I was just lucky with PS2. I never owned a game that I didn't like on it.

That said, I haven't played most of those games you mentioned. While Saint's Row, Tekken and Soul Calibur aren't my type, I have been meaning to try the Uncharted games as well as Mass Effect. Force Unleashed was a bit of a failure for me, due to a lack of lightsaber combos.

Tuffty · « **Reply #1535 on:** September 30, 2011, 01:00:45 AM »

As a heads up, the Battlefield 3 beta is out now on 360, PS3 and PC, free to play. About 1.3GB download too. Tried it out myself and really enjoyed it. Didn't experience any issues that are widely reported elsewhere (EA servers lol) so I had a mostly lag free couple of games. It's a solid shooter, having never played a game in the series before, even Bad Companny 2, it's a different beast from COD. It's all about teamwork, which is both good and bad. When it works then it's awesome, there was one moment playing as a Defender where we were close to winning when a bomb was planted and myself and a number of others rushed back to defuse and me and another guy held off 2 attackers as the defuse was going down and we did it in time. That's great. What's not great is having other team mates who let you down through not understanding or making use of the finer mechanics like tagging enemies when they're seen, it's a great thing to use as the whole team knows where an enemy is but if you don't use it then, it makes it that much harder to succeed. Also doesn't help when one guy successfully clears a room, but doesn't defuse a bomb for some bizarre reason.

So yes, ideally I'd like to play with a group of mates who you can communicate with. You're not going to get that with randomers. Also should mention, the guns feel satisfying to use, they sound cool and the game itself looks great. I do believe I will get this when it's out.

Asmodai · « **Reply #1536 on:** September 30, 2011, 01:06:37 AM »

Quote from: Deft-Monkey on September 29, 2011, 06:48:29 PM

^ Maybe I was just lucky with PS2. I never owned a game that I didn't like on it.

That said, I haven't played most of those games you mentioned. While Saint's Row, Tekken and Soul Calibur aren't my type, I have been meaning to try the Uncharted games as well as Mass Effect. Force Unleashed was a bit of a failure for me, due to a lack of lightsaber combos.

I think game selection is pretty key. I have some friends who's first console was an N64 when they were 15 and still maintain it's the best system ever because they owned the half a dozen or so great games for it.

Somewhere out there, someone is cursing that they discontinued the Virtual Boy (well, probably not...)

Kid_Alpha · « **Reply #1537 on:** September 30, 2011, 03:52:02 AM »

@HartAKL85: The first one, I just started bawling.

EternalSkies · « **Reply #1538 on:** September 30, 2011, 04:44:09 AM »

Went to the local Game store at midnight to pick up Ico/Shadow of the Colossus. Beautiful looking games and I've wanted them for a while. I never realized how much I'd suck at both of them. Ico is rather tricky as there are no on screen instructions of what to do so I spent 37 minutes just trying to figure out how to get out of the first room with the girl before realising you had to walk over to the set of odd statues blocking the door. Shadow of the Colossus is slightly easier to understand as it at least tells you instructions as you're playing. However it is still very difficult as within the first 5 minutes of the game you're facing your first Colossi and I struggled. I couldn't get very far on it. I'm giving them both a break right now ready for another attempt tomorrow after my lessons.

Hart · « **Reply #1539 on:** September 30, 2011, 04:48:57 AM »

@Kid_Alpha: Well, prepare to set aside a few more tissues if you decide to play Diabolical Box and/or Unwound Future.

And don't forget to enter the code from Diabolical Box into Curious Village if you want to see more extras.

Now I just have to wait until Last Specter comes out in 3 weeks.