Pete - not really except that they let someone who liked games write it for once.
I like the idea of the slumping modeler!
Also huzzah for the 70% increase. This is before you factor in the 20% tough client tax, right?
Simon: You are my beautiful sister. River: I threw up on your bed. Simon: Yep. Definitely my sister.
'War Stories'
Gaming 1: You are likely to be eaten by a grue
A thread for the discussion of games: board, LARP, MMORPG, video, tabletop RPG, game theory etc. etc. and all attendant news, developments and ancillary subjects thereof, as well as coordinating/scheduling games either online or IRL. All are welcome to chime in, talk about their favorite games or learn about gaming of any sort.
PLEASE TO WHITEFONT SPOILERS for video games, RPG modules or anything for which foreknowledge of events might lessen one's enjoyment of whatever gaming experience.
hippocampus - Apr 28, 2008 4:08:19 pm PDT #241 of 26132
not your mom's socks.
billytea - Apr 28, 2008 4:11:17 pm PDT #242 of 26132
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
It's not like I'm getting pwned. I'm beating myself.
If you were Trudy, I'd be asking "Good lord, did you really just say that" around about now.
Laga - Apr 28, 2008 5:51:40 pm PDT #243 of 26132
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Have I ever mentioned that violent video games make me laugh uproariously?
I had such fits of uncontrollable laughter when I was driving a city bus the wrong way on Lake Shore Drive (in Midtown Madness) that my firends were afraid to let me play again.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Apr 28, 2008 6:07:08 pm PDT #244 of 26132
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
Also huzzah for the 70% increase.
Well, it's what I've asked for. They may be considering it but that in no way means I'm getting it.
ETA: I played a few Halo games tonight and just got beaten from one end of the screen to the other. Frankly I've never liked the game as much since they upped the power of the melee attack about a year into the life of Halo 2. The game is more about punching than shooting frankly and it just irks me.
Oh well, thankfully I have only a little time to wait until I can have fun with the 'new hotness'.
Kalshane - Apr 28, 2008 6:34:17 pm PDT #245 of 26132
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
ETA: I played a few Halo games tonight and just got beaten from one end of the screen to the other. Frankly I've never liked the game as much since they upped the power of the melee attack about a year into the life of Halo 2. The game is more about punching than shooting frankly and it just irks me.
I was actually very happy when they upped the power of the melee attack. It was a very useful part of your arsenal in the first game, and in Halo 2 as originally released, it was positively anemic.
I just wish they had upped the power in campaign mode as well. It drives me bonkers that Elites can sometimes kill you with a single club from their gun, but you can pound on a Grunt for days before he finally drops. The Chief can flip a tank over with his bare hands. His punches should hurt. A lot.
Polter-Cow - Apr 28, 2008 6:41:02 pm PDT #246 of 26132
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The game is more about punching than shooting frankly and it just irks me.
Yeah, when I'm playing Halo 3 with my cousins, it usually degenerates into a bunch of pistol-whipping because it's the quickest, easiest way to kill someone. It's slightly irritating since you have all these cool guns, dammit! And they're fucking worthless when all someone has to do is run up to you and smack you a couple times.
billytea - Apr 28, 2008 6:56:23 pm PDT #247 of 26132
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
It's slightly irritating since you have all these cool guns, dammit! And they're fucking worthless when all someone has to do is run up to you and smack you a couple times.
This? Is totally what they should have on Charlton Heston's tombstone.
omnis_audis - Apr 28, 2008 7:04:23 pm PDT #248 of 26132
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
The bad part about Mario Kart Wii online is learning the cold hard fact that I SUCK.This is me with just about any game. Hence, my gamertag motto: I'm here to make you look good
As long as I have fun, that's what counts.
Pete, Husband of Jilli - Apr 28, 2008 7:46:27 pm PDT #249 of 26132
"I've got a gun! I've got a mother-flippin' gun!" - Moss, The IT Crowd
I'm here to make you look good
And you have! Mission accomplished.
Sometime we should have another Infection tournament. They built a really nice map where the humans spawn inside a 'house' and the zombies outside.
omnis_audis - Apr 28, 2008 9:25:44 pm PDT #250 of 26132
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
I'm game. How about tomorrow? Busy? j/k