Posts by Taylor

Papa Shango

Friend of a friend. Rock with a comedy slant to the lyrics. My favourite song was Fight the System, about the introduction of the metric system, but they've removed that one.

Mono

Offically a Japanese, indy, experimental, post-metal band. Which I think makes them a bit obscure, though they're pretty popular if you like that kind of thing, so maybe I fail.

World's End Girlfriend

One-man band, again Japanese and experimental. Can get a few more samples following the album links on wikipedia.

Giant Squid

Default song might be a bit much, as they've gone a bit heavy. I'd recommend Summit.

How many games have id software made, and how many have been bad? I don’t see why people are naturally assuming this will be terrible because Doom 3 fell short, or that they’re set to repeat the same mistakes all over again. Especially since the only information known about the game is the name. I think that kind of scepticism is a bit baseless, unless the first media release is a dark corridor and an article on stencil shadows.

A utopia is an unrealistic, perfect society where nothing is wrong. A dystopia is the opposite, where everything is intentionally evil. And an anti-utopia is a perfect world with a fatal flaw that means it doesn’t work.

I can’t say I’m too taken aback by the prospect of working as a rebel courier, overthrowing an evil government through the power of Fed Ex, but I guess it’s as good as a premise as any. I'm really looking forward to seeing how the player controls work, unfortunately whenever I see the main characters body I think of Trespasser

I'll be playing this for the heavy breathing innovative approach to traversal.

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Played it for an hour, it crashed, and now refuses to load.

Immersive.

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Makes sense to use these strategies instead of just flooding each site with screenshots (over years).

To be honest, that sounds like an almost suicidal strategy for most people. What GTA4 does is largely irrelevant to what other games have to do; it’s the largest gaming franchise on the planet and had lots of money to throw at those viral campaigns. And ultimately, they could’ve released a bunch of trailers that just said “Grand Theft Auto 4, Coming Soon” and still would’ve generated more than enough hype.

Advertising is supposed to hammer an image into your head, or at least the subconcious, the GTA name does this by itself because it’s an extremely successful franchise several titles deep. Other games certainly do not have this luxury, and they need to hammer home exactly what the game is about, and what you will be doing, even to the extent where it’s spoiling parts of the game. Getting people to buy the game is more important than detracting from their experience once they have it, and a punter himself can choose not to look at the media released for a title once they're set on buying it.

PSN:

Taylor - Tayl1r

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I only have a two buttoned mouse

Well, you can ctrl+left click.

And also, what Thirk said.

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It's US only

I've got into every America-only beta I've tried

Two

Yeah I know... Wait, I knew they focused on the Medic, but I was kind of expecting everyone to get these at the same time. Is the first server I join going to be 10 Medics against 10 Medics all trying to convince other people to play scout so they can ubercharge him for the stupid achievement?

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Bloody game.

Anyway, I just cancelled my WoW account for the third, but supposedly final time. I only got into it again because my buddies played, but they’re bored too. Hopefully we can all get into TF2 or something... though unfortunately your hours played statistic isn’t used for calculating rocket damage.

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Image of the Unreal99 map

Ah, I was talking cock there then. That looks nothing like the two in question outside of it being a (nice) boat.

It’s hardly the most unique premise for a map ever, but it’s even more erroneous than that, as apparently Epic’s new map is a remake of one from UT99. I guess it’s just the best thing to use to stick it to the man on the official boards, where this has caused a bit of ruckus.

It just seems like coincidence, this just doesn't strike me as something Epic would do given their history.

Put a video of that mapping essential on youtube.

I stopped playing Persona 3, I simply don't have the patience to do one of the grinds it has presented me with, and as a bonus I’m not so depressed about FES anymore.

I picked up Mountain of Faith again yesterday and finally 1cc’d normal modo, I’m starting extra now and that should keep me busy until the sun expires.

After reading the achievements it makes these weapons seem more like trophies for spending a hundred games playing like a fuckclump.

I'm still sceptical of this mechanic as it seems to fight against the main attractions of the genre. The TF2 implementation is certainly better than it is in some other games, adding alternative options opposed to new levels of power, but it still feels like an arbitrary restriction that effectively halves a newbies (lowbies?) skill set.

I never got into CoD4 at work because everyone who'd been playing it since the start was not only more knowledgeable about the maps and general gameplay; they also had much better equipment. Basically requiring me to bend over for several weeks as I learnt how the game worked, while handicapped because I had to clamber over this artificial barrier as well.

Again, TF2 doesn’t go to that extreme as the upgrades are more to the side than ‘my weapon is better than yours,’ so I’ll wait and see. TF2 is definitely my FPS of choice, but it still gets quite minimal playtime and I’m not sure if I’d enjoy showing up with half the kit.

I was playing WoW at work and a MMO enthusiast sidled over. At some point I mentioned I’d levelled my rogue in 8 days and he shook his head in disapproval and said Everquest took 24. Disapproval! 576 hours before you even start playing the game properly? But I can kind of stomach the leveling process, it's the reputation grinds and honour grinds that are obscene, and the bulk of 'new content' for non-raiders seems to be more reputations.

Edit: Removed BAWWWW

A friend at work told me to watch this because he thought I'd like it (maybe he knows I like the intestines of underage girls) and I found it to be several shades of awesome. I'd seen his previous work Pirate Baby Cabanna Street Fight so knew what to expect, but this could be his magnum opus.

It's clear a ulterior motive of the film, after being awesome, is to set off as many easily-offended people as possible. So don't be a sap and say how zomg sick it is!