FUCK YOU KINECT. Seriously. I could not find a new 360 250gb ANYWHERE in town. I found 20 fucking Kinect/250gb bundles. I don’t want a Kinect, I just want an Xbox, pull the kinect out of the goddamn box and throw that gimmicky movement game shit in the trash where it belongs.
Who in the fuck ever thought releasing a 4gb xbox was cool? You can’t do shit with 4gb, and the next step up? Something reasonable like 50, 100? NO, it goes straight to Goddamn-I’ll-Never-Need-That-Much-Space-250gb.
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LOL, don’t you have Amazon?
Also, 4gb is for people who can’t afford to shell out more for a 250gb. If they did a 120gb model, they’d be slated for ‘too many models’. Go figure.
I copy my games to the hard drive, 25 games can pretty much fill a 120gb.
Why do you play video games? And what is your all time favorite game?
I personally play games because i like the challenges some of them present, im not so into the graphics side of things, yes if somethings pretty to look at it enhances the experience but i like playing games that require at least a bit of thought process to overcome.
Case in point i saw on steam the other week they had the original Abe’s Exodus/Oddessy games on dealfor like 7 pound, the game play in those games compared to my least favorite game of last year FF13 is huge. Ye they are diffrent styles of game but the challenge of abe’s games greatly out does ff13 ( not to mention having a better difficulty curve) Where ff13 just about plays the whole game for you! if it wasnt for you having to actually move your characters down those ever linear hallways you would have no input to the game at all.
I s’pose that’s another question im getting at, do you think video games are getting too ‘easy’? I realise games have harder difficulty settings for those looking for a more challenging experience, but these modes dont tend to change things that make the game itself more challenging if you get me? Most hard modes change you characters or the enemies life/ammo/damage rather than the difficulty of in game puzzles or any moral choices that would affect the game later.
The witcher 2 isn’t out until May just fyi. Dragon Age 2 IS out next month though. Anyone else play the demo? I didn’t really enjoy the first Dragon Age but loved the demo for number 2…
Why do you play video games? And what is your all time favorite game?
I personally play games because i like the challenges some of them present, im not so into the graphics side of things, yes if somethings pretty to look at it enhances the experience but i like playing games that require at least a bit of thought process to overcome.
Case in point i saw on steam the other week they had the original Abe’s Exodus/Oddessy games on dealfor like 7 pound, the game play in those games compared to my least favorite game of last year FF13 is huge. Ye they are diffrent styles of game but the challenge of abe’s games greatly out does ff13 ( not to mention having a better difficulty curve) Where ff13 just about plays the whole game for you! if it wasnt for you having to actually move your characters down those ever linear hallways you would have no input to the game at all.
I s’pose that’s another question im getting at, do you think video games are getting too ‘easy’? I realise games have harder difficulty settings for those looking for a more challenging experience, but these modes dont tend to change things that make the game itself more challenging if you get me? Most hard modes change you characters or the enemies life/ammo/damage rather than the difficulty of in game puzzles or any moral choices that would affect the game later.[/quote]
I play games for the “fantasy” meaning I read books to engage my mind to seperate from the reality of my life. Same with gaming and games I like to play. I want to seperate myself from the reality of wife, kids, job, bills, etc. This deload allows me to fully engage in my real life at a high level. Some people of course may not be able to disengage from the “fantasy” but I have learned it is necessary to do this. Because it makes gaming more enjoyable to cycle through periods of not gaming.
As games evolve in my opinion and already being seen is the fragmentation of the genre’s. To capture a larger market specialization must occur. I also think that people that have played games from the begining will have different opinions of where gaming is going good and bad.
[quote]DJHT wrote:
I play games for the “fantasy” meaning I read books to engage my mind to seperate from the reality of my life. Same with gaming and games I like to play. I want to seperate myself from the reality of wife, kids, job, bills, etc. This deload allows me to fully engage in my real life at a high level. Some people of course may not be able to disengage from the “fantasy” but I have learned it is necessary to do this. Because it makes gaming more enjoyable to cycle through periods of not gaming.
As games evolve in my opinion and already being seen is the fragmentation of the genre’s. To capture a larger market specialization must occur. I also think that people that have played games from the begining will have different opinions of where gaming is going good and bad. [/quote]
So do you find certain games more engaging than others? I get what you’re on about, however i seem to find it difficult to engage with a game in this way if the story and characters lack substance, i spose like a good book, but if i dont care about the story/ people envolved i really dont get to that “fantasy” place. Also your all time top game?
The main thing I really hated in TESIV was how anonymous your character was. In Dragon Age, Mass Effect, the Witcher, and even fallout 3 to some extent, your character had a story, and minus Fallout 3, a personality. Its hard to get behind the character when I was the leader of 3 guilds, and Daedric Lord of Madness, but I still had to take Martin’s orders like a bitch. Your character never had any back story at all, you were just some thief who got tossed in the wrong jail cell. I really hope you get a character in Skyrim that you can root for.
I like the new combat engine changes in Dragon Age. You still have to pause and micromanage the game if you are playing on a hard difficulty, but the AI is now smarter, and the FFXII style AI where you can assign conditions and actions is much nicer now. If you build it well enough, you might not need to micro at all. I also like the lack of Friendly Fire from spells. Nothing pissed me off more than having Allistair run into the Inferno spell I had just cast, after I specifically moved him out of it. I usually left him with his injuries as punishment.
[quote]DJHT wrote:
I play games for the “fantasy” meaning I read books to engage my mind to seperate from the reality of my life. Same with gaming and games I like to play. I want to seperate myself from the reality of wife, kids, job, bills, etc. This deload allows me to fully engage in my real life at a high level. Some people of course may not be able to disengage from the “fantasy” but I have learned it is necessary to do this. Because it makes gaming more enjoyable to cycle through periods of not gaming.
As games evolve in my opinion and already being seen is the fragmentation of the genre’s. To capture a larger market specialization must occur. I also think that people that have played games from the begining will have different opinions of where gaming is going good and bad. [/quote]
So do you find certain games more engaging than others? I get what you’re on about, however i seem to find it difficult to engage with a game in this way if the story and characters lack substance, i spose like a good book, but if i dont care about the story/ people envolved i really dont get to that “fantasy” place. Also your all time top game?[/quote]
Yes that is my point about the evolution of gaming, it is becoming more main stream. It is a medium of entertainment that is forever changing. Pressure is being put on the video game designers to create games with more depth of character and story. That is why sometimes the most popular games are not necessary the best graphics etc. To me you have two type of gamers ones that want it as a social medium and ones for isolation medium.
I do play online somewhat but that is just for quick pickup kill time and connect with some family and friends.
My real game “fantasy” experience is spending hours immersed in a great game that engages me and challenges me. I loved and re-played a ton of Fallout 3 that and Resident evil 2 back in the day I would say have been my all time top game. Assasins Creed, Bioshock, and GOW are right up there.
[quote]grayman19 wrote:
The main thing I really hated in TESIV was how anonymous your character was. In Dragon Age, Mass Effect, the Witcher, and even fallout 3 to some extent, your character had a story, and minus Fallout 3, a personality. Its hard to get behind the character when I was the leader of 3 guilds, and Daedric Lord of Madness, but I still had to take Martin’s orders like a bitch. Your character never had any back story at all, you were just some thief who got tossed in the wrong jail cell. I really hope you get a character in Skyrim that you can root for.
I like the new combat engine changes in Dragon Age. You still have to pause and micromanage the game if you are playing on a hard difficulty, but the AI is now smarter, and the FFXII style AI where you can assign conditions and actions is much nicer now. If you build it well enough, you might not need to micro at all. I also like the lack of Friendly Fire from spells. Nothing pissed me off more than having Allistair run into the Inferno spell I had just cast, after I specifically moved him out of it. I usually left him with his injuries as punishment. [/quote]
I doubt you’ll get any more back story in Skyrim, that was part of the point, that your character was a blank slate and you input your own personality, or one you want to input, onto the character and make him/her yours.
^ Yea that is what was amazing to me also. I have been reading about this game for about a year now. Pretty new tech, lets just hope the story is great. It sure sounds like it.
Crysis 2 looks excellent. The multiplayer is COD with nanosuits, but thats not a bad thing. I played the leak, and if you looked past the massive bugs (it was an internal beta anyway), it was a great time. The nanosuits feel heavier and have more momentum than in the last game, and armor is much more powerful.
You can turn on armor and essentially be an unstoppable juggernaut, and the new cloak system (you decloak on attacking, but keep cloak energy and can recloak immediately) makes you feel like a ninja, and eliminate the enemies one by one.I could only play one level because the level loader was bugged, but knifing KPA one at a time was sick.
