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General Discussion / Re: [???] What do they kno? Snoooooooooo (Happy thread)
« on: September 26, 2014, 04:09:32 pm »
Or maybe it is.... holy shit?
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General Discussion / Re: [???] What do they kno? Snoooooooooo (Happy thread)
« on: September 26, 2014, 03:52:54 pm »The only things that can fuck them up are:That process actually works with non-soups, too.
Madness!
No I agree but soups are kind of... I don't know, well suited for the purpose. Soups and stews both. They are generally pretty damn hard to fuck up.
A) Ungodly combinations (only a few people lack the common sense required to do this)
B) Defecating in the pot.
How is B not included in A already?
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Other Games / Re: Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor
« on: September 26, 2014, 03:50:33 pm »Fakeedit: I Am The Night mode I think it was called. You had to win without dying once, enemies can kill you in one or two hits if they have weapons (pipes, bats, knives and such) and guns kill you instantly, even with max armor upgrades later on you simply can't afford to tank attacks ever.Yeah, that sounds more tedious than interesting. Putting the game on bullshit-difficulty does not make a game with a bland combat system interesting, it just makes it a game with a bland combat system and bullshit-difficulty.
You still have the issue of enemies mobbing you, standing around, waiting to get smacked down, engaging you one at a time. Hugely telegraphed attacks (even without the "markers") and repetitive button mashing. It just makes it so you have to redo it all over again if you fall asleep in the middle of a combo and get hit.
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Doing the challenge modes and trying to get your combo super high is fun as all hell, too.Depends on your definition of fun. I find it repetitive and dull.
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I think you haven't played the game very much.You would be correct, I finished the first two games once and I have no intention of playing another one. Now I quite enjoyed the games none the less, but it was in SPITE of the combat, not because of it.
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Life Advice / Re: Reliable headphones needed
« on: September 26, 2014, 03:37:45 pm »
I'm using a pair of sennheiser pc363d which are quite incredible. Might not be classified as "not too expensive" though, depending on your audiophile level. (Soundstuff can get REALLY expensive, really quickly).
I do recommend you look at "audio"-brands like sennheiser instead of "computer"-brands like steelseries and corsairs and stuff, you will get more bang for your buck that way in my experience. (I have owned two pairs of logitechs and a pair of corsair headsets, all of which broke far too soon and the latter of which had some real bad issues with feedback).
I do recommend you look at "audio"-brands like sennheiser instead of "computer"-brands like steelseries and corsairs and stuff, you will get more bang for your buck that way in my experience. (I have owned two pairs of logitechs and a pair of corsair headsets, all of which broke far too soon and the latter of which had some real bad issues with feedback).
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General Discussion / Re: [???] What do they kno? Snoooooooooo (Happy thread)
« on: September 26, 2014, 03:30:09 pm »That process actually works with non-soups, too.
Madness!
No I agree but soups are kind of... I don't know, well suited for the purpose. Soups and stews both. They are generally pretty damn hard to fuck up.
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General Discussion / Re: [???] What do they kno? Snoooooooooo (Happy thread)
« on: September 26, 2014, 03:18:35 pm »
I like making soup, it is the easiest thing to experiment with in foodmakery. Just throw random stuff in a pot, add water and boil.
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Other Games / Re: Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor
« on: September 26, 2014, 02:22:31 pm »3) The combat looks like the same crappy batman one button combat I have grown oh so tired of but seems to pop up in every game nowadays.Er, p sure batman is the only other game in recent memory that's a 3D action beat 'em up with a combo system that earns you instant kill moves when you hit a certain multiplier.
It does seem a bit outrageous that they'd just straight rip it with apparently no real changes, even the upgrades are similar, but its produced by the same company as the Batman games so it's no small wonder they'd reuse a fun system that's from one of their other, extremely successful games. Batman games were fun as hell, so yeah for now I'm quite down for Dark Knight with morder. :v
It is not the only one, there are several games that basically copied the batman/ac system more or less. And I really don't see what is so fun with it, there is no challenge involved whatsoever. Get mobbed by enemies who look at you while you press one button and watch out for the hugely telegraphed attacks that can be instantly countered.
Some reviews have already went up, and the combat seems extremely tight. I don't know what you mean by bland but to me personally is looks fucking awesome.
Not from anyone I care about, and the combat seems tight in the same way that batmans did. In an incredibly bland way. See the spoilered video in my previous post for what I mean with this.
Either way, I'm not here to rain on anyones parade, if you are excited, go forth and enjoy it. I will hold off
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Other Games / Re: Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor
« on: September 26, 2014, 01:01:59 pm »
Colour me mostly skeptical with a dash of curiosity. I like the "idea" of it, a one-man guerilla war in mordor sounds like it could be interesting buuut there are too many red flags for me to allow myself to be excited.
1) The assassins creed of it... I grew tired of AC after the second one. Have not finished one after that.
2) The "nemesis" system. The cynic in me tells me it will not work. "There are no generic canned enemies", the whole randomization thing inherently contradicts this since the enemies being randomized means they can't possibly have an actual personality other than something like [select x random traits from pool].
3) The combat looks like the same crappy batman one button combat I have grown oh so tired of but seems to pop up in every game nowadays.
4) The Dishonored magic abilities that may be there to act as a crutch for the game, ie the magic vision, we wouldn't want anyone actually getting lost for a second, we better make sure everything is highlighted with huge glowing arrows and neon signs.
5) Play your way... this has ruined so many games for me. In the effort of making all playstyles possible (stealth, "guns blazing" etc.) it usually turns into a bland mess.
6) QTE's...
Uhh... I realized this turned out to be way more negative than I had intended from the start but yeah... these are my thoughts at the moment. I am a little bit curious but I will certainly wait. I would say for reviews and stuff but seeing as there is already a season pass out and this game isn't in the *souls series I will hold off until some kind of complete edition, that is, if it's not shit.
1) The assassins creed of it... I grew tired of AC after the second one. Have not finished one after that.
2) The "nemesis" system. The cynic in me tells me it will not work. "There are no generic canned enemies", the whole randomization thing inherently contradicts this since the enemies being randomized means they can't possibly have an actual personality other than something like [select x random traits from pool].
3) The combat looks like the same crappy batman one button combat I have grown oh so tired of but seems to pop up in every game nowadays.
Spoiler: relating to point 3 (click to show/hide)
5) Play your way... this has ruined so many games for me. In the effort of making all playstyles possible (stealth, "guns blazing" etc.) it usually turns into a bland mess.
6) QTE's...
Uhh... I realized this turned out to be way more negative than I had intended from the start but yeah... these are my thoughts at the moment. I am a little bit curious but I will certainly wait. I would say for reviews and stuff but seeing as there is already a season pass out and this game isn't in the *souls series I will hold off until some kind of complete edition, that is, if it's not shit.
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General Discussion / Re: [???] What do they kno? Snoooooooooo (Happy thread)
« on: September 26, 2014, 02:00:52 am »
I got the chance to try an Oculus Rift yesterday.
My fucking god, it was amazing. And I was wanting to buy one before, but now, how the hell am I supposed to hold out until the consumer version. It was like a bloody religious experience.
My fucking god, it was amazing. And I was wanting to buy one before, but now, how the hell am I supposed to hold out until the consumer version. It was like a bloody religious experience.
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General Discussion / Re: Cutes Thread: Babby Elephant Edition! ✧ (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
« on: September 25, 2014, 01:40:46 pm »Spoiler: Attention on deck! (click to show/hide)
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Other Games / Re: Steam Thread
« on: September 25, 2014, 01:37:21 am »Quote
Now it’s easy to listen to your music collection while you play games on Steam.
Uhh... valve... dear.... I think all this steamboxing and console talk has gotten to your heads. Steam ususally runs on pc. It already IS easy to listen to my music collection when I play games on steam.
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DF General Discussion / Re: Dwarf Fortress 40_13 Starter Pack r2
« on: September 25, 2014, 01:33:52 am »An updated version of Dwarf Therapist was just posted which fixes some windows crash bugs, so I guess those might be the problem. Does it work without DT? If so you could get the update now.
I'll check it out when I am home from uni and report back.
EDIT: Yep, it seems my issue was the old version of DT. Using the new one I get no crashes. Wonderful.
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DF General Discussion / Re: What would microsoft do?
« on: September 24, 2014, 03:38:57 pm »As someone said "If you hate your job and get offered two million dollars to quit your job then you better believe I would quit my job. They should be saying 'You get two million dollars AND get to quit your job'"
I feel compelled to point out... you are off by several orders of magnitude. It wasn't two million dollars.
It was two BILLION dollars. With a B. BILLION. As in, Sagan.
Toady would sell DF for 2 billion. Who wouldnt? I think any of us would sell a baby to Satan for 2 billion dollars. As RPS wisely pointed out in their article on this, the idea of 2 billion dollars makes the brain shut down.
Two billion, pff, it was only two milliard. Silly [insert nationality using the silly system] and your nonsensical system.
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General Discussion / Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« on: September 24, 2014, 11:22:52 am »Went for NBC article clickbait on Comcast's home page, to see and laugh about how the iPhone 6 can get bent.
Scrolled past the bottom where there's a second video about people picking up their new phones and saw....wait, what?
Scrolled back up....is that....Jontron? Somebody must've known who he was, his "cameo" is the preview still for the video.
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That does indeed look like jontron. The video editor might be a fan :p
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Other Games / Re: Steam Thread
« on: September 24, 2014, 05:12:01 am »I totally detest the way it forces 'popular new releases' upon you on your home page, and doesn't allow you to select ALL new releases at a glance.
Why do I want to know about games that other people think are decent? I want to see all available offerings, I might like something the majority doesn't.
I would like that option, if it also came with the sub-option of opting out of any and all titles published by strategy first :p New releases tended to get horribly clusterfucked by shitty shovelware and 10 year old titles being rereleased as "new".