What's impressive is the variety of gameplay. One mission is a straight-up assault on buildings, and then you get to blow shit up and provide cover fire from a helicopter, and then you're on a stealth sniper mission à la MGS. You never know what the next level is going to be like.
I am a large, semi-muscular man. I can take it. Don't hide behind Mal 'cause you know he'll shoot it down for you. Tell me.
Wash ,'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.
Polter-Cow - Jun 01, 2008 11:41:20 am PDT #809 of 26132
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Ailleann - Jun 01, 2008 5:00:34 pm PDT #810 of 26132
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
Anyone have prefs for Windows based video chat client?
It wasn't until I pasted that in the posting box that I grokked the "video" part.
Nonetheless, I will recommend (voice-only) Ventrilo. We've used it for tabletop gaming online.
ION, does anyone else play TtR online?
omnis_audis - Jun 01, 2008 5:51:13 pm PDT #811 of 26132
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
2k8 Baseball on the Xbos-360. Bottom of the 9th. Yankees v Redsox. Wang is pitching a perfect game. 2 outs. 1-2 count. And wouldn't ya know it, Kevin Youkilius hits a dribbler past 2nd to break up the perfect game! I'll tell you what, it was only a video game, but I was feeling the pressure to "make history" No wonder they don't talk about it in the dugout when it's happening. I didn't realize they had no hits until 6th inning. That might have been cuz offense was KICKING ASS (tons of runs, and one of my guys hit for the cycle, and a couple others were close to it).
Crazy and cool. OK, now I gotta eat dinner. Starving.
sfmarty - Jun 01, 2008 6:27:58 pm PDT #812 of 26132
Who? moi??
Just peeked in to post something from another board
For the Buffy fans:
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Named for an award-winning episode from Season Seven of the BtVS television series -- and written by BUFFY Season Eight: WOLVES AT THE GATE author Drew Goddard -- the BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER "Conversations with Dead People" Board is a great game for fans, in this world and the next, to communicate with each other about life, death, and other mysteries.
In the tradition of the Sunnydale Hellmouth, through which countless entities gained entry, fearless souls can let voices from the other side guide the planchette along the board to spell out the answers to their queries. Folks can channel their inner Willow and hone their witchy skills, providing hours of fun for the whole seance. Accompanying the game board and planchette, the BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER "Conversations with Dead People" Board includes an exclusive, comic-style instruction book featuring sequential art by BUFFY Season Eight guest illustrator Paul Lee.
The BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Tarot Deck was written and conceived by renowned tarot writer Rachel Pollack, author of 12 books on the tarot, including the renowned 78 Degrees of Wisdom. She teams with long-time BUFFY artist Paul Lee to create this fully painted 78-card deck, drawing on characters, themes, and legends from all eight seasons of Whedon's masterpiece. This special deck was created by Pollack not merely as a collector's item, but as an actual, working tarot deck: the cards come with a book explaining their divinatory meanings and use. The traditional symbols of the tarot are reinterpreted through the vision of Whedon's BUFFY universe.
The BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER "Conversations with Dead People" Board and BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER Tarot Deck will both be available in September 2008 and retail at $14.99 to $29.99.
Polter-Cow - Jun 01, 2008 9:33:43 pm PDT #813 of 26132
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I played a little of Call of Duty 4 on XBox Live this afternoon. It was my very first time playing online and definitely my first time playing with one of those crazy headsets where you can be talking to a bunch of random people all over the world for all you know. Apparently we were being "owned" quite a bit.
Glamcookie - Jun 02, 2008 7:44:52 am PDT #814 of 26132
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
We finally go our Wii online this weekend and I purchased Dr. Mario Online, one of my all-time favorites. I may never leave the house again.
Glamcookie - Jun 02, 2008 7:45:38 am PDT #815 of 26132
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Also, is there a way to make the annoying shadow thingy go away? I don't recall that in the original...
Miracleman - Jun 02, 2008 9:35:50 am PDT #816 of 26132
No, I don't think I will - me, quoting Captain Steve Rogers, to all of 2020
I am re-reading my SR4 book from cover-to-cover. I think I have a character in mind.
I'm finding I like this system, in theory. It's a lot cleaner so far.
omnis_audis - Jun 02, 2008 10:30:31 am PDT #817 of 26132
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
I think I have a character in mind.Right, I need to figure out what I want as far as that. Whats the premise of SR4? I would think a basic character would be easier to start with, ya? Kinda like the meatshield I have in Sean's DnD. Advice always welcome.
Sean K - Jun 02, 2008 10:39:51 am PDT #818 of 26132
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I think I have a character in mind.
Sweet!
Whats the premise of SR4?
It's a cyberpunk setting -- near future (still this century) where humans have integrated technology directly into their brains and bodies, and even learned to sculpt their genetic coding. It's a semi-dystopia, in that much of the world is in a pretty constant state of fucked-up-ness, but megacorporations bring opulence to those who can afford it.
Add to this that magic and all its trappings have returned to the world -- elves, dwarves, orcs, and dragons (along with multitudes of other stuff).