Random Thoughts & Topics v2

[Kageho]

So Atlus is saved from death but bought by the guys who can't figure out what to do with Sonic.

...persona is fucked.

 

[KingPK]

They finally put a release date on South Park: The Stick of Truth, December 10th.

 

[oldskool]

Dead Island: Epidemic (now in MOBA/ZOMBA form!) is entering closed alpha in America (I guess it's been open elsewhere?). I'm in.

 

[Smues]

Jeez no one told me today was National Video Game Day? Well, here's this video about baseball:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTUArx4lvrU

No Virtual Boy baseball? What a rip.

...oh right, evolution. Not devolution. Got'cha.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

...I'm wicked late to the party in finding out how to rip songs off of my iPod...

 

[Broward83]

I'm watching LoL Worlds in what looks like a packed Staples Center.

I have no idea what is going on...but shit seems hype.

 

[Damaramu]

I just finished Saints Row 3 on PS Plus. Yeah, the first time I decided to go after Killbane and not save Shaundi. I'm a bastard.

So I decided to just run through Assassin's Creed Revelations real quick next and yeah....why the sudden better graphics and CG scenes? I don't remember this coming too far after Brotherhood but the graphics increased like it'd been 10 years between releases.

 

[AnonymousBroccoli]

I just played the The Stanley Parable Demo. Which... that's a heck of a thing. You should probably play that, right now.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/221910

I figured I'd download it on my netbook, back it up, and try it on the desktop later. I gave it a shot, and it actually ran reasonably well on the netbook, at native resolution, with most of the visual stuff turned way down. It's a first-person game, which was not working so well with a trackpad. I had the bright idea to try using my right index finger on the Lenovo red nubby thing I never use, and just gets in the way when I try to type a "B", and makes a little checkerboardy imprint in the middle of my screen... and that was actually alright too.

I made my way through the demo, taking my time to appreciate the flavour. I won't give it away--I don't know what I could give away--other than there's this room with some important buttons, and it's uncanny how much it knew me. Anyways. I made my way to a fork in the road, and kind of took the easy way out, rather than answer an important question. Once I saw that door shut behind me, I thought maybe I should go back and tackle the critical issue I'd skipped. The Restart Demo menu option didn't work, so I went back to the main menu, and started again there.

The second time, I rushed through with little flavour. I got back to the vital decision at hand... only to find the game had again seemingly peered into my soul, to find the innate indecision and gridlock in my mind, and thankfully saved me from having to choose a side.

I continued on a little ways more; saw a magazine about ducks. Seemingly nearing the climax, and having an infinite amount of fun with an exciting new button, I thought I'd see what my little netbook could do. I turned up the shaders and textures and all that stuff to max... and the game crashed. Which oddly enough, is exactly in line with the rest of the demo experience.

I give this game 8 out of 5.

 

[AnonymousBroccoli]

Titanfall is Xbone/360/PC-exclusive. The franchise is not, but the first game is.

https://twitter.com/eddiemakuch/status/395304384189304832
https://twitter.com/VinceZampella/status/395325209521029120

 

[vivisectvi]

When all else fails, throw massive bags of money at it.

 

[vivisectvi]

http://www.videogamer.com/pc/the_walking_dead_season_two/news/telltale_working_on_dream_ip_it_cant_wait_to_announce.html

Telltale Games is working on a selection of "dream IP" alongside the upcoming season of The Walking Dead that it "can't wait to announce".

Co-founders Dan Connors and Kevin Bruner discussed the developer's future in an Ask Me Anything on Reddit – hinting at the possibility of a Star Wars title.

"A Telltale Star Wars game would make me VERY happy!" said Bruner. "We've got some IP coming up that pretty much checks all of my personal favourites, which absolutely amazes/honours me."

"Coming from LucasArts we have so many people here that love Star Wars and have worked with the license so that would be a great fit and very cool," added Connors. "In addition we will be working on a few licenses that definitely fall into our dream IP scenario and we can't wait to announce those."

 

[KingPK]

So has anyone picked up Assassin's Creed IV yet? The reviews make it seem like an improvement over 3 but still kind of unfocused. The pirate theme just doesn't appeal to me at all.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

I haven't picked it up yet, but its gotten good reviews. From what I understand, you have to have an internet connection in order to commandeer any ships you overtake in single player mode.

 

[skullman80]

So has anyone picked up Assassin's Creed IV yet? The reviews make it seem like an improvement over 3 but still kind of unfocused. The pirate theme just doesn't appeal to me at all.

I picked it up. I've enjoyed it so far. I didn't like the ship stuff in III, but don't mind it in IV. I've only done one real mission, all the other stuff has been side stuff so far. It's nice they don't coddle and bore you for the first hour or two like they did in III. You get thrown right into the action.

 

[Exslade ZX]

I could have sworn we had a computer help thread...but I don't feel like searching for it..so!

Does anyone have experience hooking their computer up to their Television? I just bought a DVI/HDMI cord, so that I can now display my screen through my television as well. And it looks amazing. So I'm running a "Dual monitor" set up.

Now, how do I get sound to come through my television? I can't figure it out. As of right now, sound is only coming from my computer speakers.

edit- Or is it not possible for a DVI cord to pick up an audio signal, like I think I may be reading? Which just ruins the whole setup I had in my head lol. While my speakers are great, not sure if I like the sound coming from no where near the TV

 

[AnonymousBroccoli]

DVI is a video-only signal. Does your computer not have an HDMI output?

The most basic option for audio would be something like this:
http://www.monoprice.com/Product?c_id=102&cp_id=10218&cs_id=1021804&p_id=665&seq=1&format=2

Out the green jack on your computer's motherboard/sound card (or headphone jack on a laptop), and in... some kind of input on the TV. I don't know if I've ever done that specific setup, so I'm not sure if the TV would manage video through HDMI and audio from another input. (I usually do video from HDMI->DVI to a monitor, and audio to computer speakers.)

 

[Exslade ZX]

Ah, well when comparing the cost of 25ft DVI cable to a 25ft HDMI cable I just went with the cheaper option as I thought they did the same thing. (although after checking, I don't have an HDMI cable on my computer so I guess I went with the right option.)

But thanks for the help. Your suggestion should work. And luckily I have most of the pieces as I've done something similar before when I wanted to run headphones straight to this tv, which doesn't have a headphone jack. So all I need is the jack you posted, or a male to male audio jack.

 

[vivisectvi]

Telltale is rumored to be working on a Game of Thrones game: http://ca.ign.com/articles/2013/11/21/telltale-is-developing-a-game-of-thrones-game

If they can stick with the same episodic awesomeness of Walking Dead and A Wolf Among Us, then this will be amazing. Can't wait (if true)!

 

[vivisectvi]

Oh, Also:

 

[AnonymousBroccoli]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pQ_ZozZIio

 

[AnonymousBroccoli]

This is incredibly stupid. The Giant Bomb crew watch the Giant Bomb Twitch stream on Xbox One during the Giant Bomb Xbox One Twitch stream. Click here, or skip to about 29:53 below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWVEyE_iaCs&t=29m53s

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

 

[oldskool]

Giving Wrestling Spirit 3 a try. In an early storyline where you have to win 4 matches to succeed, and more than 1 loss is a failure. I lose my first match to a random DDT busting me open in a First Blood match, and my second match I miss a finisher Fat Guy Splash & get pinned off of it. My options are apparently to switch to a finisher that'll fail to finish the match 25% of the time or concede the fact that an 85% pin rate on a finisher means a 10% pin rate off of missing it (which I'll do 80% of the time)

 

[AnonymousBroccoli]

Marvel vs. Capcom games and DLC are being removed from Xbox Live & PlayStation Network. Looks like tomorrow is the last day on PSN, while XBL should be available until December 26th.
http://www.capcom-unity.com/combofiend/blog/2013/12/13/last-days-for-umvc3-and-mvc2-on-psnxbla-store

PlayStation Network currently has many MvC items on sale.
http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/12/10/playstation-store-update-323/

Xbox Live will have a sale starting tomorrow.
http://majornelson.com/2013/12/16/countdown-to-2014-deals-start-tuesday/

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ2_1mVQc0o

This is a good one.

 

[Exslade ZX]

Need some PC help gentlemen.

Having a problem with my audio. I can not get a mic to work. Trying to skype and both mics I've tried (which I'm pretty sure work) do nothing. The volume bar moves when I touch the mic, but doesn't when I talk into it. Just found out what the problem was.

I guess my computer is on internal/digital audio or something? As when I played a Youtube video, while on skype, they said they could hear the video playing. Not sure exactly how to get it back to normal. (Am on Windows 7)

 

[oldskool]

Need some PC help gentlemen.

Having a problem with my audio. I can not get a mic to work. Trying to skype and both mics I've tried (which I'm pretty sure work) do nothing. The volume bar moves when I touch the mic, but doesn't when I talk into it. Just found out what the problem was.

I guess my computer is on internal/digital audio or something? As when I played a Youtube video, while on skype, they said they could hear the video playing. Not sure exactly how to get it back to normal. (Am on Windows 7)

Control Panel - Sound - Recording tab - change default device to the microphone you want to use.

 

[Smues]

I wish it said no UAAAHHHHHHHH anywhere, but it's a good start Magfest.

Not sure why pic isn't working. Will work on it later

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

You've got an extra "http:" in there, plus the wrong slash in the closing image tag.

 

[Smues]

Aha. Posting pics from mobile sucks. Thanks, I'll just leave mine broken. UAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.