General Video Game Discussion

[Kalam]

Any one plays CrossFire (online game) ?

I would if I wasn't so bad at shooters.

 

[Kalam]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjqsYzBrP-M"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjqsYzBrP-M[/ame]

The next TES looks pretty tight.

Another fantastic series. Oblivion wasn't bad and Morrowind was the business.

 

[Ropey]

Fallout Vegas looks sweet. I just got my PS3 within the last month. Been making up for lost time though.

Latest game I just beat was Batman: Arkham Asylum. Such a excellent game.

Fallout New Vegas is a bit slow for me. I find myself going off the game and back to other faster paced games.

But I'm more a total FPS player rather than FPS and strategy together. When I want to play a game, I do not want to do much thinking. If it moves and is not on my friendly list, then it's gone.

I liked FarCry2 and Fear Persius Mandate. Cryisis Warhead was great!

I'll admit I didn't have you pegged as a gamer. Did you also find this to be the case with Fallout 3 or is the gameplay in New Vegas just more sluggish?

My first game was programmed with a commodore vic 20 (3.5k). It was called pong. I've been playing ever since.

There was no drives, no ability to save what one programmed. As soon as the device was turned off (and I had it hooked up to my TV, not a monitor) that was the end of the programming (VIC Basic). Then I bought an external disk drive.

And I was good for the go. I work with EA (Richmond, BC) on data-flow analysis to this day. I am a good optimizer. A good debugger and a poor programmer.

At any rate, Fallout 3 was fine. The gameplay, not the graphics was the issue in New Vegas. Kind of like being on a mission and too many holding patterns.

Now I found that F.E.A.R. became better with Persius Mandate, and Crysis was much better with Warhead. Much, much better gameflow although one needs a pretty smoking system to run it on full.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjqsYzBrP-M

The next TES looks pretty tight.

Another fantastic series. Oblivion wasn't bad and Morrowind was the business.

Morrowind was a great gameplay. Oblivion was boring as such widely open ended games often are to my taste.

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

This game is freaking me out! I played the first one but this one is way more freaky

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIWuQ2Tvj6Y]YouTube - Dead Space 2 Video Review[/ame]

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

Anyone tried Civilization 5?

I'm planning to soon. I've played embarrassing amounts of Civ 4 over the past few years and I'll probably find 5 to be just as addictive. It's a pretty great series IMO.

Has anyone played something from the Total War series? I want to try those out.

I haven't tried those.

yeah CIV4, with the introduction of religion, is very fun.

 

[ogibillm]

My first game was programmed with a commodore vic 20 (3.5k). It was called pong. I've been playing ever since.

Brother, have i got good news for you...

Commodore 64 Lives Again

Packaged in the familiar keyboard the top of the line model will have an intel atom processor, wifi, blu-ray drive and more - for about $860

honestly, i don't get why someone would want one but to each his own i guess.

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

My first game was programmed with a commodore vic 20 (3.5k). It was called pong. I've been playing ever since.

Brother, have i got good news for you...

Commodore 64 Lives Again

Packaged in the familiar keyboard the top of the line model will have an intel atom processor, wifi, blu-ray drive and more - for about $860

honestly, i don't get why someone would want one but to each his own i guess.

Awesome link!


Holy crap.

 

[ogibillm]

My first game was programmed with a commodore vic 20 (3.5k). It was called pong. I've been playing ever since.

Brother, have i got good news for you...

Commodore 64 Lives Again

Packaged in the familiar keyboard the top of the line model will have an intel atom processor, wifi, blu-ray drive and more - for about $860

honestly, i don't get why someone would want one but to each his own i guess.

Awesome link!


Holy crap.

yeah. holy crap is what i thought, but probably not in the same way you are. i'm just not seeing the appeal. granted, it's different than just about anything else out there - and if there were a cheap, easy way (read built-in) to wirelessly connect the C64 to say your 50" plasma i could get behind it...

but as it is i don't see why i would pay $860 for a computer in an ugly casing when i could pay several hundred less for a more conventional desktop with the same specs.

but we'll see... it could surprise me.

 

[nitroz]

Pilgrim and I play MAG on the ps3.
Pilgrim is the leader of BHD and we have alot of haters

So I made this pic to poke fun at his haters (mainly tic2000)

 

[Dude111]

I prefer classic games (GOOD games)

In my opinion games today are crapola compared to stuff like was in the arcades in the early 80s,etc.......

Atari 2600,Colecovision .. NOW THERE IS GOOD GAMING!!

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

I prefer classic games (GOOD games)

In my opinion games today are crapola compared to stuff like was in the arcades in the early 80s,etc.......

Atari 2600,Colecovision .. NOW THERE IS GOOD GAMING!!

Yeah some of the games out today are really not up to par as far as pure, mindless, fun.

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

Dust514 sounds nasty!

 

[Ringel05]

I prefer classic games (GOOD games)

In my opinion games today are crapola compared to stuff like was in the arcades in the early 80s,etc.......

Atari 2600,Colecovision .. NOW THERE IS GOOD GAMING!!

Yeah some of the games out today are really not up to par as far as pure, mindless, fun.

Yeah like Spin the Bottle..........
Strip poker.........
Nude Twister.......

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

I prefer classic games (GOOD games)

In my opinion games today are crapola compared to stuff like was in the arcades in the early 80s,etc.......

Atari 2600,Colecovision .. NOW THERE IS GOOD GAMING!!

Yeah some of the games out today are really not up to par as far as pure, mindless, fun.

Yeah like Spin the Bottle..........
Strip poker.........
Nude Twister.......

nude twister for the win
because I slipped and it fell in

 

[waltky]

SCOTUS rules on violent video games...

Supreme Court rejects ban on violent video games
27 June`11 WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday struck down California's ban on the sale of violent video games to minors, in a 7-2 decision emphasizing the free speech interests of young people and giving video games the same protection of books and movies.

"There is no tradition in this country of specially restricting children's access to depictions of violence," Justice Antonin Scalia said for a majority, as he read portions of his robust opinion from the bench Monday. "Grimm's Fairy Tales, for example, are grim indeed," he said, observing that the California law was the latest in a long series of failed attempts to censor violent entertainment for minors. Before video games, he said, were campaigns against cheap novels comic books, television and music lyrics. Scalia stressed that only rarely, for example in situations of obscenity, has the court allowed exceptions from First Amendment coverage for books, magazines and other materials. In the 1968 case of Ginsberg v. New York, the court permitted an exception that allowed government to restrict the sale of sexually explicit materials to minors. At issue was a New York ban on "girlie magazines."

Today, the majority rejected California's request to expand the reasoning of that 1968 case and carve out another free-speech exception for violent materials. "Our cases make clear that obscenity covers only depictions of sexual conduct, and we have previously rejected attempts to shoehorn violence into that category," Scalia said. The ruling ensures that any limits on the sale of video games are set by the industry, which has a rating system in place. The case came to the court as the nation's gaming audience has been aging and greater demand emerging for video games with more mature themes. The entertainment industry groups that challenged California's law said a victory for the state would have had a chilling effect on video game publishers' willingness to put out games with mature themes, such as the recent game L.A. Noire that has been compared to big budget R-rated crime thrillers.

Only Justices Clarence Thomas and Stephen Breyer dissented from the decision and, writing separately, said they would uphold the law as meeting the requirements of the First Amendment. In his dissent, Breyer wrote: "What sense does it make to forbid selling to a 13-year-old boy a magazine with an image of a nude woman, while protecting a sale to that 13?-year-old of an interactive video game in which he actively, but virtually, binds and gags the woman, then tortures and kills her? What kind of First Amendment would permit the government to protect children by restricting sales of that extremely violent video game only when the woman — bound, gagged, tortured, and killed — is also topless?"

Justices Samuel Alito, joined by Chief Justice John Roberts, joined the Scalia opinion invalidating the law but wrote a concurring statement offering different legal reasoning and emphasizing the potentially serious social problem California lawmakers tried to address. Alito referred to "the effect of exceptionally violent video games on impressionable minors, who often spend countless hours immersed in the alternative worlds that these games create." The Scalia majority, which included Justices Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, spurned California's attempts to show the harmful effects of video games on children. "The state's evidence is not compelling," Scalia wrote. Studies "show at best some correlation between exposure to violent entertainment and minuscule real-world effects, such as children's feeling more aggressive or making louder noises in the few minutes after playing a violent game than after playing a nonviolent game."

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[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

A friend turned me on to Oblivion and while I like the game, I'm having a hard time trying to stay alive. *laugh*

Sitting under the tree waiting for me is "Dragon Age" Reviews are hot for this game so I cannot wait to check it out Christmas day.

Skyrim in 8 days...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic6dKnv3WdU]"The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" E3 Gameplay Demo - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Article 15]

A friend turned me on to Oblivion and while I like the game, I'm having a hard time trying to stay alive. *laugh*

Sitting under the tree waiting for me is "Dragon Age" Reviews are hot for this game so I cannot wait to check it out Christmas day.

Skyrim in 8 days...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic6dKnv3WdU]"The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" E3 Gameplay Demo - YouTube[/ame]

Yeah....this will interfere with poker.

Dragon Age was meh to me.

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

A friend turned me on to Oblivion and while I like the game, I'm having a hard time trying to stay alive. *laugh*

Sitting under the tree waiting for me is "Dragon Age" Reviews are hot for this game so I cannot wait to check it out Christmas day.

Skyrim in 8 days...

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ic6dKnv3WdU]"The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim" E3 Gameplay Demo - YouTube[/ame]

Yeah....this will interfere with poker.

Dragon Age was meh to me.

Did you see the video...graphics are great man.

 

[Dude111]

The best games came out between 1979 and 1983!

From Arcade games to Atari 2600 and Colecovision....THE EARLY 80s WERE THE BEST FOR MANY THINGS..... Hasnt been a time like it since!

 

[PLYMCO_PILGRIM]

The best games came out between 1979 and 1983!

From Arcade games to Atari 2600 and Colecovision....THE EARLY 80s WERE THE BEST FOR MANY THINGS..... Hasnt been a time like it since!

I used to love space invaders, pong, and pac man