Still alive. You monster.
 

83 hours.

(ish)

((I'm confused by this potato sack nonsense.))

Honestly, I can't recall having eagerly awaited the release of a videogame since Gauntlet on the NES. In 1987.

Duck Hunt 2?

Funny you mention that.

i'm eagerly awaiting GLaDOS boot sequence myself.

even the wife knows what portal is at this point. i bet i could get her to play co op crazy robot with me.

time for a little retrospective on cake:

the cake is a lie

The cake is a lie is a lie.

(Now replaying the original.)

I don't get it, are you a bot or human with boots?

Genius that they're releasing day after tax day...are accounts who finally have time off their main target market?

Either.

Both.

Neither.


Ok, we promise to stop enhancing the truth.




Some people have too much time on their hands.

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some people have even more time on their hands.

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gal lery:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/3010968...626401/detail/

Needs more rule 34

I don't get it.

Needs less jumpsuit.

Apparently many people have too much time on their hands...

And more HEV MK4.

OMG THE CAKE IS NOT A LIE!

^^ Did not know that.

Me too. I'm not sure if you just have to play the new add-on content, or if you have to beat the level somehow. I went through and finished the new amnesia level last night, kinda disappointed in the ending.

Valve is helping to sell "indie" games by releasing portal 2 early if enough people play games included in the potato sack bundle. They're spoofing folding / seti @ home.

I've been doing my part by playing defense grid.

I wasn't really planning on playing any games in the near future but I will have to set aside a hundred hours or so for this <G>.

FWIW, the GTA and Halo releases were much anticipated on my end. The Halo 3 was a big letdown for me as was GTA IV which I quit without finishing. Here's hoping that Portal 2 will be everything I am thinking it will be.



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Me thinks I shall be dropping by the bakery counter at Vons this week and picking up a black forest cake.

Just got back from dinner with the parents. Aunt made cupcake sized chocolate cheesecakes for desert (so much for the diet) and the were delicious. I had two.

Were they delicious and moist?

Few hundred dollars because you don't have a console anymore? This game is like $60, right? Unless I missed something.

Did you try Reach? Much more epic. ODST was meh but really fun.

Dollars = hours?

maybe. time does = money.

I can't say I miss not having halo 3 after the first two on the original xbox. sure it would have been fun but not enough to affix me to a console.

I really tried to get back into gaming a couple of years ago when my sister gave me an Xbox 360 and a copy of Halo 3. Just couldn't make it work. There's only one way to do an FPS, and that's with a mouse and keyboard. I've been able to make the leap from the ole' cursor keys to WASD, but this thumbstick business is just bullshit.


Ah well. It's a hell of a good video playback device.

I went from crappy on a controller and good on a keyboard to awesome on a controller and decent on a keyboard, you get used to it.

Halo was epic for it's time, Halo 2 was long and boring. Halo 3 was prettier and the story was better, Try ODST and Reach, they're fun. Especially the rocket packs in Reach.

Yes, you are missing something.

I did try Reach but didn't think it was as good as the first two. I believe ODST is only for Live (I may be wrong) but since all five of my 360's are banned I'll never get a chance.

As far as console vs computer - I still play all my stuff on console (or I just fire up one of my arcade machines). I don't care about the graphics that much and enjoy using a joystick vs keyboard. Actually, I've never played a modern FPS on a computer so I may not know what I am talking about. The last FPS I played on a computer was in 1997 when I played Quake 2. I would try some computer games now (in fact I have Painkiller sitting over here now to check out) but I don't have the CPU/GPU to play anything modern.


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If you don't mind me asking, how did you get banned from Xbox live? I didn't even think that was possible with some of the retards on there.

I'm still awaiting Duke Nukem Forever, I still have a few mags that talked about it back in '97... Man, I'm one loyal person to wait this long.

Microsoft doesn't seem so evil for banning modded 360s.

Sony hunts you down personally and sues you.

http://gizmodo.com/#!5770473/ps3-hac...-will-stop-him

Yeah, gameplay.

Honestly, some of the best videogames I've ever seen were nothing more than a couple of glowing squares moving around the screen or, at best, some coarse, low-resolution bitmapped sprites (or some coarse, high-resolution vectors).

Pretty graphics and huge, immersive worlds just don't do anything for me. I'm not saying it's bad thing for a game to look pretty, only that there seems to come a point when making the game's universe large and beautiful starts to take precedence over making a game simple to learn and easy to enjoy.



Well, there are some games (or some genres, perhaps) that just seem to be made for controller-based or joystick-based input. I do have a physical USB gamepad that I use when I'm running MAME or Nestopia. Most of those titles have a very simply control scheme. You can move in two axis on a flat map (either up/down/left/right or front/back/left/right), and generally have just one or two "other" functions. Ie: Jump, maybe shoot a weapon, and that's about it.

But there are other games, mostly those employing a first-person perspective which feature the ability to "look around" at the environment as a separate task from moving through the environment, where I find the mouse to be the most natural input method.

And of course, I think that these games are getting far too complicated. I don't want to have to have a printed chart next to be describing the four hundred different actions I can perform with various combinations of button presses. Frankly, it doesn't bother me that Samus' gun never runs out of ammo, and I've never thought that the experience of playing Metroid would be enhanced if I had to remember to load a new clip every fifteen shots.

Personal opinion: stop trying to make videogames realistic. I want to play then to have fun, not to accurately simulate, in every detail, the life of any real-world individual. I mean, in Call of Duty 6, are you going to have to remember to shave, cook breakfast, dig a latrine, have the corpsman check out that weird growth on your leg, and attend sexual harassment training?


Fuck it. Just give me a glowing dot to shoot at, and maybe a "boop" sound when I hit it.



Haha. I also have a copy of Painkiller sitting here awaiting me. Haven't really been motivated to try it.




That's actually a pretty good movie. It's called Der Untergang (Downfall). It's about life inside the bunker during the final days of the European campaign, and it rather interestingly emphasizes the point of view of a lot of the non-military personnel- secretaries, office workers, the wives and children of high-ranking officers, etc.

EO/PoSH training right there in the video game, nice! Are you also going to have to study for and attend a virtual promotion board before you can advance in the game? I could imagine some 11 y/o kid sweating getting grilled by a panel made of virtual Sergeants Major. :D

I like how in your example there are Navy personnel at the same COP/PB where Soldiers are having to dig their own latrines and cook their own breakfasts. :bowrofl:

ODST has a decent campaign, they all do. Better than 2, shorter and probably a little better than 3. Not as epic as jump packing through Reach.

Just under 11 hours now. EEEEE! I'm like an over-excited boy on christmas eve.

Anybody know of any midnight releases? Best Buy, game stop?

Just get it on steam?

5 hours

http://www.aperturescience.com/glados@home/

damn it they just pushed a update and i thought it was a unlock, valve just gave me blue balls

Marathon defense grid operation!!!

I have a bazillion dollars in best buy gift cards and no money in the bank. Hmmm...


Here's a tasty treat to bide your time with. http://nitrome.com/games/steamlands/

Game is live!!!

Huh. I was kind of expecting something interesting to happen on the glados@home website. That was antithetical.

first 45 min.... awesome

Had to work today so I only got to play a few levels before hitting the sack. So far so good! Can't wait for 5pm to roll around:noes:

me: portal comes today.
prez of company: oh yeah? you going to rush home and play?
me: yup... I'll leave at 2 or whenever the truck comes with it.
prez: too bad we don't have that PS3 set up in the conference room attached to the big screen
me: I told you we need to make our head mounted displays stereo HDMI compatible!
prez: hey EE guy!
EE guy: blah blah hdmi 1.4 chips weren't available when this first came up blah blah

sad. I might have to limit myself to non-3D

coop anyone? add tehjeffman

Best Buy wins. I spent 53 dolla and received a 10 dolla gift card.

One of my favorite games EVER was Black for XBox1. I've waited years for Black 2 to come out (for the 360) but the prez of the company said unless they can do something new with the game there was no reason to release another one. I am very interested to know if Portal 2 is just the same old thing as the original. Anyone want to comment on the originality?

FWIW, I've had the game for 3 days but have not gotten around to playing it due to 12 hour shifts (I need my sleep and know that I will not get any once I start).

Ditto. Just got home with the last copy on the shelf, so if anybody else in 92081 is looking for one, I advise you to avoid that particular Best Buy.

And hey, just what I needed, yet another little resident doo-dad hanging out in the system tray. Hooray!

Once I figure out this Steam thing, I'll be logged in as thraddax.

Steam is easy Joe, although is a useless 16mb leech when you're not using it. It's weird to pay the same price for nothing, although I suppose I just end up throwing away my game boxes and never read the pamphlets anyways.

I'm going to get the xbox version, I want it to run smoothly and haven't had good luck with my PC.

IMO playing this on the PC is the only way to go with this game, unless you're really good with the whole thumbstick controller thing which I never was. I also have a pretty beefy gaming computer...

I'm about 2/3 through the game now. Momentarily stuck. Can't find any decent video walkthroughs for the section I'm on now, so it's time to sleep on it and give it another go tomorrow. :)

So far though, this game has been fantastic. Different enough from the first game to keep me interested, but still has the same elements that kept me interested in the first game. 100% recommended. But you DO need to play the original to really get what's going on in the 2nd.

No, amazon is win. PS3 version for $59 with 20 dollar amazon credit.

comes with PC use code. savegames transfer over to the PC version.

Dude, take your time. I went through a few levels last night, then stopped.

Minor gripe: Holy cow, have they gone over the deep end with the graphics on this one. That XKCD cartoon was right. I could easily play the first one with all of the detail & resolution settings maxed. I had to really crank down the settings on P2 in order to achieve a smooth display.


Major gripe: In the original, if you were holding an object, you could release it either by pressing E or with a mouse click. In this one, you have to release it by pressing E, even though you can't launch a portal while you're carrying an object anyway.


Praise: Well, shit. It's Portal. +2 points for clever use of the phrase "lethal military android" in a bureaucratic context.

Nice title change!

If you have to turn the graphics down, you need to do some upgrading.

I just built this computer last year. Quad-core i5, 8 gigs of RAM... The video card wasn't a particularly cheap-ass unit. Definitely not a high-end unit, but it's a GeForce 210 with a half-gig of memory on it:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...SG210C-512QS-H

and THAT is why I don't play PC games...

Ehh I'd say that video card is the reason why. I usually make it a point to spend at least 150-200 on a video card when building a new system.