Random Thoughts & Topics

[AnonymousBroccoli]

PlayStation also came out on September 9th in North America. They've got a few things about the 15th anniversary on the PS.Blog.

And I'll just throw this in here as well, because it's fuckin' funny.

 

[sbofn]

Goozex, maybe?

Thanks, AnonymousBroccoli, but I found the site I was looking for (glyde.com).

 

[KingPK]

PlayStation also came out on September 9th in North America. They've got a few things about the 15th anniversary on the PS.Blog.

And I'll just throw this in here as well, because it's fuckin' funny.

That's worth $4.95/month right there. Gerstmann looks like Paul Bearer with that beard.

 

[AntiLeaf33]

So, it looks like Devil May Cry is getting a reboot now? The new Dante doesn't look anything like the "classic" one.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

We wrote ourselves into a corner, so let's start over....

I'd kill for a game all about Nero. I really enjouyed playing as him in DMC4.

 

[Kageho]

So anyone hear how SquareEnix was going to re-name Chocobos into Horsebirds? And that FFXIV was developed in China?

...honestly, what the fuck.

 

[Smues]

So the local Gamestop has started doing something that annoys the shot out of me. In the past they'd have a coming soon rack for each system and it'd have cases for the games marked 'for promotional display only' or some such. Then when the game came out those went away. Now for some reason they keep the promotional display only cases out and just move them to the 'new release' shelf. So you have no idea if a game is actually in stock or not without asking an employee, which often means you have to wait Through the line first. I of course say fuck that and if they only have the promotional display cases out I leave and go buy my game elsewhere. Seems like gamestop comes up for something new for me to hate on a monthly basis, and yet I keep going there. I don't know why.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Hey, remember the Nerf guns we had as kids (for those of us in our mid-to-late 20's)? Stuff like these:

Arrow Storm

Bow & Arrow

Ballzooka

Eagle Eye

Razorbeast

Sawtooth

Nowadays, the kids get this:

N-Strike STAMPEDE ECS

That's right. It's a full-auto NERF GUN with a 60-dart capacity magazine that comes with a tripod and a blast shield to deflect enemy fire. It's battery-operated, oddly lightweight, and FULL FUCKING AUTO. They also have this, for defending your team's HQ:

N-Strike Vulcan

That's a BELT-FED, fully automatic heavy machine gun, designed specifically to reign down foamy hell on anybody unlucky enough to get in its way.

Man, kids these days...they get all the good shit!

 

[Mattdotcom]

It's not kids playing with them anymore. It's dorky, stinky college kids who run around and play with them on campus after they meticulously repaint them so that they look like real guns or guns from Halo.

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Well, I guess I'm going to be joining that latter camp once I can get enough people to do some HVZ over the course of a weekend, and I'll be using it for defense during the horde finale of next year's Boston Zombie March. The ECS-50, I mean.

 

[Broward83]

So the local Gamestop has started doing something that annoys the shot out of me. In the past they'd have a coming soon rack for each system and it'd have cases for the games marked 'for promotional display only' or some such. Then when the game came out those went away. Now for some reason they keep the promotional display only cases out and just move them to the 'new release' shelf. So you have no idea if a game is actually in stock or not without asking an employee, which often means you have to wait Through the line first. I of course say fuck that and if they only have the promotional display cases out I leave and go buy my game elsewhere. Seems like gamestop comes up for something new for me to hate on a monthly basis, and yet I keep going there. I don't know why.

No longer working for them, I don't give a shit...but, to answer you, it is more than likely done so that way they don't have to gut a copy of the game.

Everyone wants to bitch about Gamestop having to gut a game to put the box out there, so they put out the promo art in the new release section so they don't have to gut the game anymore. Granted, they don't continue that practice and keep the art out there for when the game gets moved into the general wall inventory and wind up gutting the game..but meh.

 

[Sabre]

So you have one.

 

[Black Lushus]

ha! My brother had that bow and arrow, it was sorta cool.

Back in out my we had Entertech:

battery powered water guns

 

[Mattdotcom]

okay those look badass

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Those are so good looking I want to get one and hold a radio station hostage with it!

 

[Smues]

The gutting of the games is mildly annoying but I'd much prefer it to leaving the promo cases up there as they are now. If 'promo case on shelf' always meant 'game in stock' it'd be fine. But it doesn't.

 

[Thoth]

It's not kids playing with them anymore. It's dorky, stinky college kids who run around and play with them on campus after they meticulously repaint them so that they look like real guns or guns from Halo.

I got that CS-Recon adjustable gun for my birthday. it's a pistol or an assault rifle with laser sight. You can change the parts as you want. Clip-fed.

 

[Mattdotcom]

Best one is

anyways.

 

[Haws Bah Gawd]

Hey, remember the Nerf guns we had as kids (for those of us in our mid-to-late 20's)? Stuff like these:

Arrow Storm

Bow & Arrow

Ballzooka

Eagle Eye

Razorbeast

Sawtooth

Nowadays, the kids get this:

N-Strike STAMPEDE ECS

That's right. It's a full-auto NERF GUN with a 60-dart capacity magazine that comes with a tripod and a blast shield to deflect enemy fire. It's battery-operated, oddly lightweight, and FULL FUCKING AUTO. They also have this, for defending your team's HQ:

N-Strike Vulcan

That's a BELT-FED, fully automatic heavy machine gun, designed specifically to reign down foamy hell on anybody unlucky enough to get in its way.

Man, kids these days...they get all the good shit!

I got Arrow Storm for Christmas one year. Thing was awesome, even if the arrows were limp as noodles. I still have my Sawtooth around here somewhere. I remember my redneck Dad thinking the transforming ability of the toy was pretty awesome. I also remember having the Bow and Arrow, though I'm not sure if I still have it.

Take a look at this other new Nerf gun:

 

[Big Papa Paegan]

Yeah, I saw that. Apparently, all of the clip-fed N-Strike series are compatible with the drum that the Raider CS-35 uses, which severely increases your capacity for sending a dart into somebody's eye.

 

[KOAB]

Yakuza 5 Of the End TGS 2010 Trailer Video from GameVideos

What a weird yet awesome way to "end" a beat em up series of games.

 

[AnonymousBroccoli]

Netflix Canada is up today. Selection looks quite limited, but it's only $7.99/month for unlimited streaming. (No discs offered at all.)

http://www.netflix.ca/

 

[KingPK]

Anyone pick up Civ V? Giant Bomb's quick look of it is really great for showing newbies how uncomplicated it actually is. I'll probably wait until Steam goes nuts and puts it on sale for $10 at Christmas. It does make me want to waste more of my life on Civ IV, though.

 

[muzzington]

Picked it up today but it doesn't activate on Steam here in Australia till midnight.

Blegh.

 

[sbofn]

Played the Enslaved: Oddessy to the West demo today. The lead looks like Batista.

 

[oldskool]

Grinding through the new Professor Layton game. Good thus far, into chapter 7, though a couple puzzles were just "whaaaaaaaaaaat" absurdly nonsensical and far too many (although really just a handful) were "Circle the object, but the answer is some obscurely-placed object that is obviously the right answer if you happen to notice it & make the connection that it's circleable".
For example,

Spoiler

One puzzle shows five shapes, all different colors, painted on a wall & asks which color has painted the most bricks.
The answer, of course, is the background color objectified by a paint bucket tucked down in the corner, away from the five conspicuous ones right in front of the wall.

 

[Thoth]

Grinding through the new Professor Layton game. Good thus far, into chapter 7, though a couple puzzles were just "whaaaaaaaaaaat" absurdly nonsensical and far too many (although really just a handful) were "Circle the object, but the answer is some obscurely-placed object that is obviously the right answer if you happen to notice it & make the connection that it's circleable".
For example,

Spoiler

One puzzle shows five shapes, all different colors, painted on a wall & asks which color has painted the most bricks.
The answer, of course, is the background color objectified by a paint bucket tucked down in the corner, away from the five conspicuous ones right in front of the wall.

First game did that in a couple places, too. Chalk it up to lateral thinking.

 

[AnonymousBroccoli]

I got Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock yesterday. And... it's Guitar Hero. I don't like Guitar Hero. I don't know why I got Guitar Hero.

 

[KingPK]

Well at least it's the first one to come out this year instead of the fourth. Aren't there songs in that game that are available in the FIRST Rock Band game?

 

[AnonymousBroccoli]

It's possible. "Interstate Love Song" was early DLC, and it's on there.

Actually, doing a quick check, I think the only RB1 repeat is "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath. Though that was a cover in RB1, and was one of three tracks to not be exported. And GH:WoR's is a live version with Metallica.