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No.130320[Reply]

How do I get into video gaems again? I've kind of lost interest and get bored after about an hour of playing.

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No.130390

You don't OP. You're old enough now, you've had more than your fair share of vidya game experience. You're wise to the illusion, you don't see the graphics and setting, you see the engine. At a certain point after you enlightenment to the truth that video games are, in fact, for children, it becomes pathetic to continue playing them. Its time for you to embrace more adult things, which are more complex and engrossing.


No.130392

>>130390
Why can't he enjoy those and video games?


No.130393

>>130390
O shit nigga

At the very least, he's currently exhausted from his experience with them and is ready to move on to something else for a time


No.130394

>>130392

He can enjoy them for about an hour. And if a dramatically new genre of game comes out, he could probably binge on it. But at a certain point its just not fun any more, the same old system of gameplay with new graphics. Not that complex, not that rewarding in any useful way.


No.130397

>>130394
I think you play too much of the same video game.



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No.130396[Reply]

Video games that you loved as a kid, but many years later playing it again made you realized how terrible the game was. Picture related. Though I have to say one of the better aspects of Fighting Masters is the wide variety of alien fighters.


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No.130254[Reply]

New trailer for Harley Quinn's Revenge DLC is up:
http://youtu.be/7N3t0jjOz3g

>Badass Robin is playable

Take my monies!

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No.130378

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>>130314
>>130313
>>130268
courtesy of the other /v/


No.130380

File: 1337394517144.gif (1.5 MB, 241x181, 1284870779208.gif)

>>130378
That's pretty damn good.


No.130382

>>130380
Are you high or do you just have really low standards?


No.130385

File: 1337401307531.jpg (22.75 KB, 445x350, deal.jpg)

>>130382
Good as in funny dickbutt


No.130391

Hopefully this rocks my cock.

I REALLY love the Arkham story line, and this seems to be an incredible addition.

Also I want to hate fuck Harley Quinn.



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No.128459[Reply]

I want to learn php and mysql, so I'm going to make a browser-based game of some kind, probably multiplayer. I don't need help actually learning (or I'd be asking on /edu/ or google), but I need ideas for the game and its mechanics. Something /new/ or war related would be ideal.

thanks /v/

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No.128570

>>128503
Well it wont be real-time multiplayer or anything like that. Just turn based shit.

>>128504
according to google, someone else already did

>>128552
I don't want it to be quite as shitty as mafia wars… I'd like gameplay based more on being good with tactics/strategy/logisitics/math rather than on logging in a lot.


No.128859

check out Urban Dead for a very simple grid-based multiplayer. There are also a couple out there on Angels VS Demons


No.130270

>PHP and MySQL
NO.
NEVER.

http://www.python.org/
Download Python, learn some shit in it.
Then use either Flask or Djangoo.
http://flask.pocoo.org/
https://www.djangoproject.com/
Or use Ruby on Rails.

PHP is like iMacs, in the sense that IT JUST WERKS. If you want to make something expansive ( which you will, if you're serious about it ) it will be nearly impossible to make something that looks good and works good in PHP.

Trust me, I'm a web-integrator.
tl;dr fuck php


No.130387

>>130270
Use a framework rather than pure php then (good luck with documentation if you use zeno though holy balls)


No.130388

>>130270
/prog/ pls go



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No.130238[Reply]

Fuck, after a long ass time of watching zelda tell her crappy story with link looking dumbfounded with the same song playing over and over again with no fast-forward past the words option i get THIS!

WHY DO PEOPLE THINK THIS IS A GOOD GAME I DO NOT KNOW!

They will not let me scoop my own potions, seats heal me, Fi fucking ruins everything!, everyone is telling me what to do, and what will happen when i do it, FUCKING BIRDS INSTEAD OF FLYING HORSES!

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No.130255

>>130238
Hey I thought it had fun gameplay and a decent story. I liked the art, music, and temples. It was a bit too much of a narrative for me, but it was fun minus the shitty final boss. Regardless I beat it twice and 100%'d it on hero mode which is actually really easy.


No.130258

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>>130255
A SHITTY FINAL BOSS!?

FUCK, ALL THE BOSSES SUCK, SO THE FINAL BOSS WILL BE WORSE!

NO! the music was shit, some was okay, most was SHIT!
Story, I dont even know what the fuck its about anymore.
Fucking shit story and level desighn.
Shitty gameplay focusing of showing off the graphics.
Shitty characters, shitty dialog.
Shitty ganon and a big black fish monster.


No.130280

OP your picture is just a fucking joke and it went right over your head. It's a goddamn Zelda game; the game is making you know that you're gonna save the princess whether you want to or not. bullshit choices are there because it's making fun of other games that have shameless illusion of choice (see: most modern WRPGS).


No.130292

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>>130280
>IT'S A FEATURE!
xD


No.130386

ZELD DOESN'T EVEN LOOK LIKE SHE I MEANT TO!



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No.129948[Reply]

holy…

pic related (anim00ted)

http://youtu.be/8JKb8XH2o3g

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No.130372

Dead Island was because zero free roam content


No.130374

>>130372
>Dead Island was because zero free roam content

Dead Island also was because zero survival content


No.130377

>>130374
Also the call of duty style, fake feeling map
>lel he made a typo


No.130383

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>>130022
The guy also looks a bit like George Clooney.


No.130384

>drivingthroughdetroit.avi



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No.128557[Reply]

Minecraft general Thread
It’s out!
>Minecraft Xbox 360 Edition XBLA [Many/Adventure/2012]

>1000x1000
>Invisible walls
>Old build: low height limit, no hunger but sparse forestry and dark nights

It’s good for a basic port. The controls are a tad fidgety, but tolerable. The map-size is shit, however: You won’t be exploring the surface and there’ll never be a need for boats.

Does anyone know if local co-op has consistent saves for additional players?

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No.130271

When I bought the Minecraft Alpha, I was promised every other iteration of Minecraft FOR FREE.

I have yet to receive an Android Phone with Minecraft preinstalled, nor do I have received an Xbox 360 with Minecraft on it.

Notch, I will see you in court.


No.130275

I wouldn't mind a PS3 version of Minecraft.


No.130295

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>1000x1000

C'mon… well on the other hand Minecraft has only gotten worse and worse since 1.8 so I think nothing of value is lost.


No.130329

who would actually buy this…


No.130381

>>130329
one of my casual friends.
He even played it on the computer a shitty laptop though, mind you
he likes it better on the Xbox because he can play online and the invisible walls say it "keeps him in order" as there were too big of worlds



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No.130284[Reply]

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/crateentertainment/grim-dawn

>$520k - SURVIVAL MODE! We'll create a new gameplay mode that will be free for all backers (KS or Website Pre-order). In survival mode players will fight to stay alive against increasingly difficult waves of monsters. It will release sometime after the game so as not to delay development.

COME OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON

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No.130290

I would but I'd have to activate my new debit card… actually I should probably do that anyway, it's been a few months since I got the new one.

Ehhh… maybe tomorrow.


No.130294

KICKSTARTER!

GAMES!
Now with 33% more DLC!


No.130342

>$517,204
>$535k - A new faction and story-line! This stretch goal was determined by a fan poll thanks to William Potash for having the idea to run that!

WE CAN MAKE IT TO SURVIVAL MODE


No.130363

>$518,570

WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT


No.130375

$520,222

FEEL WITH IT. FUCKIN FEEL W/IT



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No.130169[Reply]

>that feel when you get salty as fuck
every time I play fighting games, I just get MAD ANGERY

what is it about fighting games that is just so angering? every time I get locked into a combo, I just get 'immediately enraged because the match may as well be over right there and just fuck it nigga fuck it
salt general

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No.130212

>>130205
>That is NOT the end of the world. You can do this.
uh no that pretty much means you've lost the match like 99% of the time

if they can get you down that far, they're probably going to finish the job


No.130216

>>130212

Only in Marvel. And that game has xfactor to ensure that the winner is always the one with the most bullshit.


No.130230

Used to get into fits of rage when i started losing at CoD. Don't anymore.
I was an angry fellow. Now i am almost mellow.


No.130330

I would say fighting games are infuriating because they're 1 on 1 and there's no one you can subconsciously pass the blame to for your loss. It's just you and the other guy, and he beat your ass.

Worst vidya chimpout I ever had was playing SF IV after some guy switched to dan on purpose after beating me a few times and he still kicked my ass horribly. Hurt my pride.


No.130359

I have extreme anger issues and I rarely get enraged while playing
Feels warm inside



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No.130107[Reply]

I just got Wild 9, Mischief Makers, and my favorite RPG Hybrid Heaven. I never would have guessed I would have guessed how many games relied on grabbing an enemy and tossing them around.

I know Mischief Makers is a hit, but what do people think of Wild 9 since I rarely hear of it. By the makers of Earthworm Jim and MDK.

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No.130257

Wild9 was great, although I never beat it.
Ragequitted at some bullshit level where you had to turn lights on and off or something.

That one level where you get a guntoting alien on your head is awesome.


No.130304

>>130257
Oh boy, I can't wait for rage then.


No.130311

Wild 9 is fucking awesome. Wish I'd never sold it as a kid, that game was pretty hard when I was 11 but its probably not that bad anymore.


No.130318

>>130311
I hate that feeling.

But I get it reversed when I play games like Earthworm Jim/Contra 3/Streets of Rage/Golden Axe/Shinobi

I used to kick so much ass at those games on my Genesis, but now I'm goddamn awful.


No.130350

>>130318
Well you were use to those games as a kid. If you poured enough time into them you would memorize enemy patters and spawn points in which you will be awesome at the game again.

>>130311
Yeah it seems so from what little I've played so far. They use the arm very well, for solving puzzles, fighting, and platforming. The thing is I almost NEVER HEAR of Wild 9 when it comes from a nostalgia thread or a PS1 games thread. I've heard good things from game reviews and that it was made by a good company, but people these days never refer to it.



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No.129939[Reply]

The hardest most frustratingly difficult games you ever played.

>Ninja Gaiden
>Devil May Cry

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No.130319

Demon Souls was pretty fucking infuriating until I found out there was a "lock-on" button.


No.130323

>>130319

I have no idea how you guys don't know that. Floe doesn't know either (plays Dark Souls on stream), and it's hilarious and sad to watch him play.


No.130328

>>130323
There's nothing in the tutorial.
I found it while mashing buttons out of frustration.

Then the game was fun.
>A fat girl cashier at Best Buy looked at the game and then up to me and said
"DO YOU REALIZE HOW HARD THIS GAME IS 4REAL IT IS SO HARD PEOPLE HAVE RETURNED IT SO MUCH BECUZ ITS JUST THAT HARD!!11"


No.130347

>>130308
It is well known as a hard game.


No.130354

Frustratingly easy game: Asura's Wrath
I started on hard and rarely died throughout

Still a decent game. It's set up like an anime series, missions are divided into episodes equipped with fake commercial intro/outros called bumpers (think Pokemon, except it's pictures instead of the quiz), opening/closing credits and "to be continued"s
Pretty fun and definitely worth a rent
this was an excuse to talk about the game because I can't make a thread



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No.126756[Reply]

What is your favorite vidya official artwork?

Mine is definitely the hand drawn style in Final Fantasy Tactics series. The same style in Tactics Ogre games, Vagrant Story, etc, are just as good too.

Posting two of my favorite related wallpapers.

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No.130300

File: 1337377562064.jpg (74.27 KB, 500x365, MM moon oil.jpg)

And here is an oil painting of Majora's Mask. Link looks like he was crushed by a steamroller in this one but nonetheless I think it's a nice piece of work.


No.130302

Aaaand for a second there I forgot that this thread is for official artwork, sorry OP.

Anyway if you guys want more of this stuff check out:
http://zetterstrand.com and http://jamesbarnett.net


No.130303

>>130300
Link holds his shield in his right hand and his sword in his left

0/10 would not hang in home or even in cheap motel


No.130306

>>130303
Just pretend he's facing left


No.130325

>>130300

I don't remember there being a forest in the game. Also Link was never bad ass in the I'm going to bring down the moon.



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No.130243[Reply]

>In 2009, a twenty-something female joined Osaka-based game developer Capcom. The new employee was assigned to a couple of different games before becoming a member of the team developing Dragon's Dogma, Capcom's upcoming big budget title.

>At first things were good. But by that December, things got awful—really awful. According to a recently released lawsuit, the new employee apparently felt so bullied at Capcom that she tried to take her own life.

>A senior female employee was assigned to the Dragon's Dogma team, and this senior employee apparently made the young woman's life miserable. Her new boss supposedly reprimanded only her at meetings and assigned the young woman impossible tasks with zero instructions on how to complete them.

>In the court filing, the senior employee's behavior was described as "irrational" and "repeated". The young employee felt isolated on the Dragon's Dogma team.

>The young employee thought the best way she could help Capcom was to create a database to help internal game development become more efficient. It was a huge project, and the young employee's superiors signed off on the project, realizing how important it could be. She thought by creating the database, she could show her worth to the Dragon's Dogma team. In addition to her regular work, the young employee slogged away on the database, working every day in July and August 2010 well into the night.

>Then, suddenly, on October 6, 2010, the young woman was yanked from the Dragon's Dogma team. The database was reassigned to another department. Her boss apparently said, "Even if the database is a success, you are worthless to the team."

>Between October 20 and November 4, two other superiors began attempting to get the young employee to quit, saying "she's problematic", "she abandons her work", "she skips meetings", and "her ideas stink". It got so bad that the young employee supposedly went to Capcom's HR claiming harassment. HR did nothing.

>The harassment did not stop. It got worse and worse until November 11 of that year when the woman sought medical help and was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. And on December 10, the young employee took time off of work. She was deprePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

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No.130297

>>130279
men were the main cause of this incident


No.130298

>>130297

Why do you want to make it a gender issues thing because a woman was mentioned?

Don't you think that shit is a tad overdone on this site?


No.130312

dumb bitches work together and act like dumb bitches to each other

breaking news one of them spins it into a sob story

wake me when you faggots actually have something interseting to say here

this is just women being women to each other and then one of them crying to get attention and sympathy


No.130316

As dumb as this is it is more bad press for capcom at a time where they just admit that on disc dlc is a mistake. The wheels of justice are turning.


No.130317

No pic of the japanese woman in question

>Not sure if waifu material



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No.128649[Reply]

I don't remember seeing a thread about this in February so lessgo.

Analouge: A Hate Story General

This is a sequil to the beloved Digital: A Love Story by Christine Love

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogue:_A_Hate_Story

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No.130259

>>130256

To brainwash whites.


No.130262

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>>130256
I wouldn't mind it if they were able to present it in a somewhat subtle manner.
Instead they just force it on you and claim it's all fine and dandy.


No.130281

>>130262
which it is


No.130289

>>130256
We didn't; people are just cashing in on a "cause".


No.130293

>>130281

10/10 would rage again.

Fuck you



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No.130282[Reply]

So I've been fucking around with Postal 2 and I figured I'd post some info if anyone's interested in playing:

1) it has both native windows and linux clients

2) the Linux one needs OSS sound, unless your ALSA wrapper works properly (use terminal to see if it's opening the sound properly, and if it's not, go to the official OSS site as Synaptic doesn't build the modules)

3) I think both the Linux and Windows ones get more FPS under OpenGL if in the postal2.ini file you set CacheSizeMegs=64 under engine controller and MaxTextureUnits=64 and VARSize=64 under the OpenGL options if your gpu has 64+ texturing units (I even managed to get basically double FPS by setting it from 8 to 16 on an Intel GMA 945)

4) FOV is set manually, easiest way is to go into the user.ini after starting the game once and changing the default and preferred FOV to 106 if you're on 16:9 or 101 if you're on 16:10. Since A Week in Paradise doesn't have the option in user ini, you have to go into console with ~ and enter fov xxx, where xxx is your desired fov. I think it sticks, you may need to be in admin mode.

5) Resolution needs to be set manually, in the awp.ini if you're running AWP you just go down to the Windows or SDL client and set the fullscreen resolution.

6) The game supports forced pretty settings using overrides in both AMD and NVidia driver dialogs

7) MarkC's Windows 7 mouse accel patch is a MUST, because Windows changed the way it handled basic input. If you don't use it, the game has forced mouse acceleration.

8) I don't know if there's a menu mouse speed settings in the inis, or if there's a gui scaling option, but it's not that big of a deal. Normal mouse sensitivity is in the options.

9) I'd recommened playing "Postal 2" first, as AWP adds weapons and limb features which cause unbalance in the former case, or crash out the game in the latter. I couldn't even get the original week without enhancements to load using AWP

10) In the performance options, infinite view distance, highest settings for textures, lower settings for fire/smoke density, and 50 bystanders, 20 corpse, and 5 ragdolls seems to be a good balance. Higher ragdoll count has a chance of crashing out the game, and it seems lower does too if you are playing AWP (it has lots of explosives so many people die at once and float)

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No.130283

>>130282
Oh, and for the Linux one, certain distros don't support running the sh installer off the disc even under root, but copying the disc to the hard drive lets it install fine if the executable permission is set


No.130286

Very interest thread. I'll try playing with these tweaks later.


No.130287

One last thing I forgot, on Linux systems, the config files are located in /home/.lgp/



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