Posts by Section_Ei8ht

  • Uncharted 2 - Among Thieves

    Quote from Skjalg

    I just think she's extremely annoying and obnoxious and I hate her. I hated her in farscape, and had to stop watching the show midway through. I tried to forget her, but then she showed up in stargate sg-1 as well and ruined that show for me too.I'm not saying she's a terrible actor or that you guys should hate her too, it was mostly just me joking a little about it, but I really do hate here and she ruined the game for me

    Fair enough. I happen to like her in Farscape and I think she's a great actress/voice actress, but I see what you mean. You hate her for the same reasons I hate Jack Black, which is the reason I refuse to buy or play Brutal Legend.

  • Uncharted 2 - Among Thieves

    Finished it yesterday. It is pretty amazing, but I had the same complaints as Taylor. It was very difficult at times to figure out what the game expected me to do, and most of the time when you deviate from that you end up dead in a frustrating manner.

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    The Siege

    chapter was just annoying; too much impossible gunplay (damn one-shot-kill grenade launchers, but then again I like the puzzle/platformer aspect of the game more than I like the combat.

    Also, concerning the ending:

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    The end boss fight also to me felt like an annoying joke: run around in circles, stopping every 5-10 seconds to turn around and shoot the resin. Granted, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune's end boss fight was a cakewalk of quicktime events, but at least that end fight was cinematic and had a spectacle to it. The entire game was set up that way, so it works well to have it finish that way; it all just fit nicely together. Drake's Fortune's boss fight felt like a satisfying ending to a satisfying movie, whereas Uncharted 2's was a bland boss fight hurt-the-evil-guy-in-the-only-one-way-you-can-until-he-goes-down. The spectacle of Uncharted 2's ending is probably supposed to be in escaping via the crumbling bridge, but that doesn't mean the boss fight had to be as lame as it was.

    Regardless, it's still an excellent game and I'm damn glad I bought it and will play through it several times in the future. Don't know about Game of the Year, though. Right now, Uncharted 2 is taking the position of "If I can't think of a better game by the year's end, it'll be my game of the year". I hasn't really clenched the title for me.

  • Borderlands E3 walkthrough

    http://www.joystiq.com/2009/10/07/randy ... re-than-i/

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    Randy Pitchford has a thing for making headlines. Referring to the hugely popular Steam digital distribution platform, the Gearbox boss recently told Maximum PC "I don't trust Valve." Having started his company making Half-Life expansions, Pitchford quickly couched that statement saying, "I, personally, trust Valve. But I'm just saying, honestly, I think a lot of the industry doesn't."Of course, the idea that an independent video game developer would perceive one of the most successful digital distribution platforms for PC games in existence being controlled by essentially a competitor as troubling is ... well, it's enormously understandable. The question then is, why haven't more developers spoken out? While Apple's iTunes Music Store regularly gathers plenty of music industry grumping, Steam has coasted by on a wave of industry support.

    The solution? Says Pitchford, "It would be much better if Steam was its own business." If Valve spun off the content delivery system, it would also remove the perceived conflict of interest Pitchford takes umbrage with. "Steam helps us as customers, but it's also a money grab, and Valve is exploiting a lot of people in a way that's not totally fair," Pitchford says. "Valve is taking a larger share than it should for the service it's providing. It's exploiting a lot of small guys."

    Yeah. We expect to hear more on this all week long.

    Um... what?

    So let's just forget the fact that Introversion Software would probably be bankrupt right now if it wasn't for Valve putting Darwinia on Steam... is he serious?

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    I don't trust Valve

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    I, personally, trust Valve.

  • Tactical Intervention

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    ":3qcfdnyx]Show's sceptical face.

    Agreed. I mean CS was _the_ reason I got into online gaming, but I haven't played it in years because it just got too damn boring to play. I'm pretty much done with CS type online games. Mad props to Gooseman for doing his own thing and living the dream. Only reason I'd probably buy this is to support the Goose.

  • The Way it's not Meant to be Played

    Sounds to me like AMD is whining. If what NVIDIA is saying is true, then they helped out Rocksteady implement AA into UE3, which, being NVIDIA, of course they're going to show them their way of doing things. If the feature is not guaranteed to (but it _might_) preform on ATI cards because of code "hacks" NVIDIA has, then of course you're not going to let ATI card uses use that option because there's a risk of it not working. An option on the in-game menu means "we support this option". If they didn't actually implement and test it, but put it in anyway, the phones would be ringing off the hook from pissed off ATI users about their game crashing.

    As a software developer, I'd rather have people call me complaining about something that's not there, rather than something that's there but broken.

  • Wolfenstein

    Just finished the game, and after giving it a second chance I can say I did have a lot of fun playing through it. Everything does work really well as a whole and all around it is a very solid shooter and looks pretty darn good.

    Kinda got me a little excited for Singularity now

  • Gamer (Movie)

    Saw it last night. My friends and I were somewhat drunk and were looking for a movie that we could "Mystery Science Theater 3000" our way through, and that's exactly what we got. The movie is _horrible_. We had a great time making fun of it all the way through, though

    I am, however, glad that I saw this movie because now I can answer "Yes" to the question "Have you ever seen Ludacris play Air-Hockey?".

    (The movie did have two things in it that I thought was highly appropriate and highly awesome: 1.) At the very beginning during the first battle, about two seconds after I leaned to my buddy and remarked "This is a highly inaccurate representation of online game play. I don't see any teabagging", a clip shows one of the slayers teabagging a dead body with an off-screen voice yelling "Quit fucking teabagging!". [although this was probably more of a "you had to be there" moment, because of the timing] 2.) Near the end,

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    Kable confronts Castle, and a fight ensues between Kable and Castle's mind-controlled goons singing and dancing to the tune of "I’ve Got You Under My Skin" from Sammy Davis, Jr. I found that to be hilarious, awesome, and quite appropriate.

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  • Muse - The Resistance

    Quote from Ginger Lord

    I sort of agree, it's hard to compare all the different albums as each is markedly different from the others (except perhaps Showbiz/Origin) but each definitely has a time and a place.

    Whole-heartily agree. I'm just not a big fan of the current time and place

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    It's definitely more mellow than previous albums but thats not a bad thing in my book, now I have some Muse that won't get my heart pumping whilst driving and end up hitting 100mph...

    I thought I was the only one with Muse-inspired speeding tickets

  • Muse - The Resistance

    I am a rabid Muse fan, been so since Origin of Symmetry, but I gotta say I'm a tad underwhelmed at the moment. I appreciated the different direction, but it just doesn't sound all that epic to me (compared to the last three albums), with the exception of the Exogenesis symphony. Don't get me wrong, it's a great album on it's own, and I'll be picking it up, but when you put it next to Absolution and Origin of Symmetry, it would fall flat if it wasn't for Exogenesis.

    It probably just needs time to grow on me. I was a bit baffled by United States of Eurasia at first (a bit too "queen"-esqe for my tastes), but it has certainly grown on me. Uprising, Undisclosed Desires, and Exogenesis are awesome, but the rest just didn't have that same awesome punch that previous Muse has had.

  • Disney buys Marvel for 4 billion

    anybody else think that $4 Billion (while still a shit-ton of money) seems a bit cheap for Marvel? I mean, Disney's getting the rights to all their characters, and considering the gross revenue from the X-Men, Spiderman, Iron Man, etc movies... don't know, it just seems $4 Billion seems a bit cheap. Only way I could see this as a good deal was if Marvel was starting to tank as a business so now Disney can pick up the slack.