Random Thoughts & Topics

[KingPK]

Fuck no. The game is built on interesting characters and their pasts; I have ZERO interest in playing the story with Generic Turian #231 and a Soldier with orange hair who somehow has a pot leaf painted on his armor.

 

[bps21]

I just mean allowing a person to control the 2 people in your party that I'm usually too lazy to tell what to do anyway.

 

[oldskool]

Rumors are flying that Saints Row 3 will be revealed at the VGAs, so the good surprises keep on getting ruined for me.

 

[bps21]

I don't get why Mass Effect 3 needed to be a secret anyway. They said it was a trilogy when the first one came out...and the games have sold well and been critically acclaimed.

 

[Mik]

Fable 3 falls into the same Fable role as a fun game that could have been infinitely better. They always come up with unique premises but don't quite deliver. B-/B.

 

[AnonymousBroccoli]

Twisted Pixel's Christmas card, front and back.

 

[AnonymousBroccoli]

The Humble Indie Bundle is back. Braid, Cortex Command, Machinarium, Osmos, and Revenge of the Titans. Pay any price you like. Some or all to charities. No DRM. Cross-OSes.

http://www.humblebundle.com

 

[Black Lushus]

Is AndrewTS still around? Maybe under a different name?

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

No, he got mad at everyone's poor taste and left.

 

[Black Lushus]

haha what a Gamestop employee

 

[DrVenkman PhD]

So, I don't really post anymore because this board mostly has horrible taste in games at this point, but I noticed Matt Young "Liked" the Action Arcade Wrestling facebook. Props. I'm totally getting that, and I don't like wrestling anymore.

Which, if I recall, ended up sucking.

 

[Mattdotcom]

if only we played more japanese anime rpgs...if only...

 

[AnonymousBroccoli]

Introducing Word Lens

Holy shit.

 

[fazzle]

Mother fucker, it doesn't work with the 3G. Eh, I kinda figured that.

 

[TheSSNintendo]

So this evening I bought Call of Duty: Black Ops for $47.99 at Target. There's supposed to be a $20 off an XBox Live Gold subscription, but there's no code or anything that came with it. Can anybody help me?


Edit: Nevermind. Apparently, you have to buy a 12-month card to get the $20 off.

 

[Mik]

Mother fucker, it doesn't work with the 3G. Eh, I kinda figured that.

It doesn't really work for me anyway. You hold it up and it puts text where none existed in the first place and keeps the text I'm aiming at in English. I don't know... maybe I'm just an idiot.

 

[Youth N Asia]

Thought I got a straight steal at a pawn shop this week. $2 each for Maxi 15 and Death Race for the NES.

Only problem is that I can't get Maxi to work with any regularity. Sometimes I can get it to work, play, no problems. Other times it starts buzzing and actually powers my NES down. I can't sell the son of a bitch (and maybe clear $50) like that. I may as well hold on to it at this rate for the sake of the collection.

And with Death Race I cannot get it past blinking. No matter how well I clean it.

I also have a couple pirated NES games

Some of these have been sold on Ebay, but since they're pretty much illegal copies most of them get taken down. I don't want the damn things, but I can't get any real value out of them.

Picked up a ton of stuff for Ebay resale, but these ones are grinding my gears.

 

[AnonymousBroccoli]

Big-ass Steam holiday sale has started. Bunch of sale-long deals on packs and stuff, including $25 for every Valve game ever. Also daily deals. Today has Super Meat Boy for $3.75, the Deus Ex collection for $2.99, Bad Company 2 for $6.79, Prince of Persia games--$4.99 for current-gen (though the newest has that shitty Ubi DRM), $2.49 for last-gen... I also saw P.B. Winterbottom for 49¢. I mean seriously.

http://store.steampowered.com/

Edit: Valve Complete is showing up at $50 now.

 

[fazzle]

I'm thinking about buying that Peggle complete pack ($8) as a gift for someone.

 

[The Amazing Rando]

I got the Indie Smarts Pack only to find out my computer's graphic card doesn't much appreciate it.

 

[AnonymousBroccoli]

http://store.steampowered.com/

Tuesday's deals:

Aion: Assault on Balaurea - $10.00 - 75% Off
BioShock 2 - $9.99 - 50% Off
Burnout Paradise: Ultimate Box - $5.00 - 75% Off
Defense Grid - $2.00 - 80% Off
Disciples III: Renaissance - $7.50 - 75% Off
Gothic Bundle (4 Games) - $34.99 - 50% Off
Iron Grip: Warlord - $2.50 - 75% Off
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light - $3.60 if you own any Tomb Raider game (76% Off); $5.10 otherwise (66% Off)
Men of War: Gold Edition - $8.75 - 75% Off
The Polynomial - $2.50 - 75% Off
Puzzle Quest - $1.50 - 85% Off
Resident Evil 5 - $10.20 - 66% Off
The Witcher - $5.00 - 75% Off

 

[fazzle]

Why just Puzzle Quest 1? That seems odd to me, why not PQ2, or some kind of pack?

 

[AnonymousBroccoli]

Aliens vs. Predator - $5.00 - 75% Off
Assassin's Creed II - $12.00 (60% Off) if you own Assassin's Creed; $14.99 (50% Off) otherwise
Bully: Scholarship Edition - $3.75 - 75% Off
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare - $14.99 - 50% Off
Day of Defeat: Source - $2.50 - 75% Off
Just Cause 2 - $7.50 - 75% Off
Railworks 2 Train Simulator - $6.00 - 85% Off
Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale - $6.80 - 66% Off
Spore: Complete Pack - $19.99 - 75% Off
Tales of Monkey Island: Complete Pack - $17.49 - 50% Off
Trials 2: Second Edition - $2.50 - 75% Off
Zuma's Revenge! - $8.00 - 60% Off

Dear God, the regular prices on Spore are bogus. I had some inkling to get several of yesterday's games, but passed on them all. Think I'll do the same today. Anything that remotely interests me is over my dollar ceiling for digital purchases, or I already have it. Plus, I got an e-mail to give me the Humble Indie Bundle #1 because I bought #2. That's plenty of games to go around.

Everyone should buy Trials 2.

 

[KingPK]

XBox is also having daily sales up until New Year's. I got Undead Nightmare for something like 600 points yesterday. Haven't seen what today's was.

 

[AnonymousBroccoli]

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light for 600MSP.

 

[Baby Shoes]

While the next Lego game is Lego Star Wars III in either February or March, I just saw the newest franchise in the Lego series will be a Lego Pirates of the Caribbean coming in May.

 

[Black Lushus]

I'm through with Lego games...my son is hooked on them and he wants me to play certain parts for him ALL.THE.TIME! He has Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Batman for the Wii AND DS.

So of course, I got him Lego Harry Potter for Christmas...

 

[Thoth]

My nephew always wants me to help him beat games. I try to make an excuse to not do it because I don't feel like it, and I figure it's his game, he should be able to do it; if I do it for him, it cheapens the entire experience. On the other hand, his reading skills are substandard for his age, for which I blame his parents. So maybe I should help him? I don't know.

I'm through with Lego games...my son is hooked on them and he wants me to play certain parts for him ALL.THE.TIME! He has Star Wars, Indiana Jones and Batman for the Wii AND DS.

So of course, I got him Lego Harry Potter for Christmas...

 

[daileyxplanet]

You could help him by explaining what the text says. Other than that, encourage exploration and problem solving.

 

[KingPK]

I want to get the BTTF game, but I don't think my computer can run it. Maybe it's about time I finally buy more memory.