Posts by Jetsetlemming

  • Deus Ex 3

    Quote from arhurt

    I search every corner I can get to. I'm playing with all visual cues off (so no object highlight) as well as on the "Give me Deus Ex" difficulty. I'm not sure if the latter alters the ammo availability, but sometimes I can walk right past some ammo just because they aren't highlighted =/ but that was my choice and I'm enjoying the game either way \o/

    I really wish this game had an in-between highlighting that pointed out smaller objects without overlaying a big obnoxious visual effect over all doors, cardboard boxes, etc. Or at least just just used simple brackets like DX1 did. I instantly went into the options and turned off highlighting when I walked up to my first door and saw the whole thing go yellow checkered.

  • About to be hit by a hurricane guys wish me luck

    Quote from Chunks

    Dumb weathermen are always entertaining.I'm surprised the death toll was as high as it was for a cat 1. Shit was weak in terms of sustained windspeed and such, it must've been the floods that did most of the damage.

    It hit areas that had absolutely no experience with this sort of thing, that had four days earlier had their first major earthquake in a century. The structural weaknesses for Irene to hit were enormous and widespread.

  • About to be hit by a hurricane guys wish me luck

    So yeah that pretty much went as easily as the earthquake did for me. Just had to clean up a few fallen branches in my yard. My lights flickered very very briefly at like 3AM. That was it. Closer to bodies of water, like inside Philadelphia, shit was way worse (In Philly there were cars getting flipped from the storm surge up the Delaware river and stuff like that), but here it was just lots of rain, and a tiny bit of wind.

    Overall, though, the hurricane was pretty entertaining (ignoring the death and destruction, of course). It brought us things like this:

    http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/fox-rep ... m-20110827

    and this:

    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2a0_1314471184 (nws)

  • About to be hit by a hurricane guys wish me luck

    I'm 23 and this WEEK had my first earthquake and hurricane.

    I can't afford to run. No car, and they shut down public transportation, and the outer edge of the hurricane goes all the way to harrisburg, over two hours' drive away (if I could drive).

    I've made a giant crock pot full of beans/rice/beef for cooked food during the potential power outage (my stove uses electricity to spark fires for the burners, but I can circumvent that with matches to reheat stuff). Put plastic sheets over the bigger windows, like the living room bay window. I'm feeling confident.

    Also apparently the last time any hurricane at all hit our area was in 1989, 22 years ago. Power was off for seven days. Hopefully this time shit goes better.

  • About to be hit by a hurricane guys wish me luck

    Quote from Serenius

    As long as your place was built to withstand hurricanes and you put up shutters, you'll be good. Went through three of those things down in South Florida awhile back. Just hope you have a generator, because if your home is structurally sound, the only part that sucks is being without power for a few days/weeks.

    My place isn't built withstand jack SHIT. It's about 80 years old and Pennsylvania doesn't get earthquakes or hurricanes or tornados or any shit like that. We get mild floods sometimes, and that's it. My house doesn't even have shutters, just storm windows.

    Also no generator. This is kinda a short notice hurricane, very inconsiderate.

  • The new X-COM game

    Quote from Furyo

    They never said it would be XCOM (for one thing they even tried to rename it X-COM), but a shooter based in a loose interpretation of the XCOM universe.Problem with fanboys is that's the kind of message that falls on deaf ears since "they're touching on our beloved franchise and ruining it". Thing is, if you're 2K and you're sitting on this license, you'll try and make a new game that somehow uses the franchise even loosely, since you can at least have some free marketing in the process.

    2K doesn't know how to make an XCOM game, that's not their business. So they don't even try. And that's a good thing. We'll see whether they can make something appealing enough to those with no prior knowledge of XCOM to outweigh the few fanboys that cry wolf

    It's not like they couldn't just, you know, make a strategy game. It's not even like it's a foreign genre to 2K, they publish civ...

  • About to be hit by a hurricane guys wish me luck

    In one day, starting at around 2AM sunday morning, going on for about 12 hours, I'm gonna be underneath Hurricane Irene as it heads up the atlantic coast. Just a couple days ago we had our first noteworthy earthquake in a century and now we get a once in a century hurricane over us. Hopefully the hurricane goes as easily as the earthquake did (my couch just wobbled back and forth for a couple seconds).

    This does however give me a great excuse to stay in the weekend and play Deus Ex (assuming my power stays on).

  • Deus Ex 3

    Quote from Taylor

    Dude

    grabs you from a side room as you're walking down the hallway before the cutscene, and throws you through a reinforced security window, and into some computers. Adam's guts and arms get shredded from all the glass and broken computer debris, you can see how fucked up his torso looks when the bad dude picks him up and chokes him. Then he's shot in the head.

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    Oh, if there was a guy in gameplay I must've missed it. Facing the wrong way, computer hiccup, or something. Just to reiterate I did understand that being thrown through reinforced glass, impaled on a Future Computer, and shot in the face is generally bad for you.

    Anyway... moving on.

    The final hallway of the intro level, before the cutscene starts, there's an open door on the right. When you get close to it, that's when the cutscene is triggered. The guy pops out of that door and pulls Adam in.

  • Deus Ex 3

    Quote from Taylor

    It is a habit of mine. I'll play through the intro again when I get back (unless you care to spoiler tag my stupidity?). I swear I didn't see any cut from there to the final fantasy cutscene, though.

    Dude

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    grabs you from a side room as you're walking down the hallway before the cutscene, and throws you through a reinforced security window, and into some computers. Adam's guts and arms get shredded from all the glass and broken computer debris, you can see how fucked up his torso looks when the bad dude picks him up and chokes him. Then he's shot in the head.

  • Deus Ex 3

    Quote from Serenius

    The cover system also feels a bit weird with the holding the jump button to turn corners, even concave ones (which should just be automatically navigated imo). It's also a bit odd (since I'm used to Gears and Mass Effect) to hold the movement keys/thumbstick to peak out of cover instead of holding the aim button, but I'm sure I'll get used to it.

    Lastly, THANK YOU to whomever allowed the option to toggle going in and out of cover instead of forcing the awful Killzone 2 style of holding down a button to stay in cover. The array of personalization options really shows just how in depth these guys went to letting you play the game the way you want, down to how you move/interact with the environment at the hardware input level.

    I also look forward to seeing just how consequential your actions are.

    Having any sort of automatic cover transition from one surface to another probably would've ended up causing unwanted behavior somewhere in the game, where you accidentally expose yourself to an enemy's view instead of leaning out to shoot.

  • What have you watched recently?

    Quote from Warby

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1191111/enter the void:

    brilliant idea and execution but outstays its welcome (first 20 minutes and last 5 minutes are genius everything else in between is awkward pornographic fluff)

    4/10

    I took "awkward pornographic fluff" to mean you were watching it public, so sexual content became socially awkward. I took this as an endorsement to watch the movie in private. I should not have.

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    on-screen abortion holy shit