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Just finished my first game with the Undead, was so disappointed they were left out of the original (then again, they weren't in the original Board Game either). So much fun :DQuote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
Still having a bit of a DirectX issue with my PC, games keep crashing. Something is wrong with DirectX and I don't know what :(
We beat it, started collecting our missing star coins.
Figured I would start by asking here before digging through google results.
I plan to sell my Xbox 360 tomorrow, with the 250gb harddrive. I want to back up my harddrive, because I plan to use the sale money towards a 360 S. So I can't do a direct transfer since I won't have the new system yet.
The 360 supports 16gb drives, can I move my 360 harddrive contents over to my PC, 16gbs at a time? Or will the PC not be able to recongize the file structure? So that when I can get the new system, I can transfer the files back, 16gbs at a time.
I know this is a "try and see" problem, but I'm at work, and I've got a lot of yardsale shit to plan for when I get home. If I had a solid answer before hand, it would help save a lot of time.
Target had a pretty good on their Kinect bundle. $299.99 for the xbox package, and $20 gift card. So I figured I would sell my 250gb jasper unit for $150 and get this newer unit (wireless!) with kinect. Not impressed setting it up. New xbox doesn't appear to have a more efficient power brick over the jasper unit, and the kinect needs 2-6 feet of vertical clearance. So its velrcoed to the top of my TV. Only positive aspect is that its the perfect size for the Wii sensor bar to sit on top of it. Also not happy about Microsoft making the hard drives incompatible between units, but I knew that going in; luckily I can get an OEM drive online for under $60.
Currently downloading my 2nd update while trying to make my way through the setup process.
alright, I admit the Kinect is pretty impressive with its depth precision and ability to track the active player. This is one example of playing in my living room.
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and the game played without issue. Yeah, it uses a shitty cellphone quality camera, but its still able to understand whats important. I was playing with Scarlett running all over the place, climbing on the couch, even dancing along, and it never registered her as an invalid player.
Only issue I have is with the shitty as shit camera quality. It makes me feel like they want a Kinect 2.0 sometime down the line. The quality really messes with your ability to use the device during menus, because it can't track the finer details.
What would make sense:
Placing your hand over an option and closing, or opening it, to select it.
What you have to do instead:
Hover your hand over the option for several seconds without moving.
Tolgerias and Lavok can eat a squirrel :up:
I haven't played Civ5 yet. I wanted to play Civ5, but I don't, so much, any more.
http://www.garath.net/Sullla/Civ5/whatwentwrong.html :
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After 150 turns of peace, suddenly all my allies hated me. I think they got mad because I razed some Arab cities, but who really knows? The game sure wasn't about to tell me. It felt like a relationship with an overbearing girlfriend: "Well, if you don't know what you did wrong, I'm certainly not telling you!"
The latest patch has added a little bit of transparency to the process, while keeping the same underlying system in place. (Note that this is essentially an abandonment of the original design goal of "surprising" the player.) As I said above, the problem is that this transparency reveals the AIs to be totally nuts. They get mad at you for expanding. They get mad at you for settling near them (or not - sometimes they say this when you aren't even remotely close!) They get mad at you when THEY settle next to YOU. They get mad at you for building wonders. They get mad at you for having a large army. They get mad at you for having a small army. They get mad at you for going to war. They get mad at you for not going to war to support them, and then they get mad at you again when you do join them in their conflicts. They get mad at you for trying to win the game, and in fact the AI is specifically programmed to dogpile the human player when he/she gets close to victory, in the old Civ1/2 bullshit manner. Wow. With friends like that, who needs enemies?
Same deal in Civ2 I think. (*FACEPALM*)Quote:
The only exchange of any consequence that remains takes the form of resource trading, and indeed selling resources to the AIs for gold has become a staple of high-level Civ5 play. This has created a further problem, however, as Civ5 foolishly returns to the Civ3 model of "anything purchasable with gold per turn income", allowing players to trade 30 turns of a luxury resource for a lump sum payment and then immediately declare war to break the deal. Or you can trade 50 gold/turn for 1000 lump sum gold, and declare war to avoid paying anything. You can even sell cities to the AI for thousands of gold, then use the gold to cash-rush an instant army and retake the same cities back once more. Exploitative, much?
*FACEDESK, REPEATEDLY*Quote:
When it did release to the public, Civ5's MP turned out to be worse than anyone imagined. Not only is the game almost completely unplayable online, with drops and connection issues limiting games to a maximum of four total players, Civ5 lacks an incredible array of basic MP features. Not only are these features dropped from their previous inclusion in Civ4, it's simply hard to imagine how a mainstream game released in 2010 could possibly be so crippled for online play. Let me run through a quick list of these issues:
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- Note that there is no eight-second delay in Civ5 either, and unit movement rates are much increased, so be prepared for all sorts of insane double-moves of units. Have fun dealing with that Companion Cavalry that moved ten tiles across the turn split window before you could react. This is a major reason why "battles" in Civ5 turn into crazed click-fests to see who can move first. (More on this below.)
I think a large part of these failures may have to do with not recruiting sufficient beta testers... I actually I had a chance to beta-test this game. If I had a better computer and more time, I would have, and maybe would have pointed out some of these flaws.
Oh well! Maybe it'll be fixed in a few years.
New Sims 3 stuff pack, but I hardly played with it at all today.
Bought the kids Wii Sports Resort, and wound up absolutely loving the table tennis game on it. Played a few of the others, too, it's fun. So once they're at school tomorrow I'll spend some quality time simming, I guess.
Why I don't play CoD games
Download here:
http://www.thedutycalls.com/download.html
Found my last statue in Assassin's Creed 2 last night. Fucking Pluto. Perhaps the closest one to my front door, but I missed it cause it was positioned perfectly out of my line of sight.
Thats at least one filler fetch quest that I've finished.
Formatting my computer re-installing Windows in order to get rid of my DirectX problem so I can play the games that aren't currently working. A bit extreme maybe but haven't done it in 2 years anyway and getting rid of a lot of crap and making stuff more organised in the process. In the process of rearranging my files at the moment on my HDD's, uninstalled everything on my PC apart from display driver and Firefox now. Once I've got my files sorted neatly I'll take the current drives out, put in a new HDD I bought today, install Windows, then plug the old HDD's back in. Done this a few times before on IDE, never on SATA before, hoping it can understand correctly that the new Windows I'm about to install is the one to boot from, not the old one. Once done, I'll move files from my old directories into my new one, then format to get rid of the old Windows only once everything's fine.
I've done this repeatedly for nearly a decade now, got about 5 folders deep of "Old PC's files" of crap I've never got round to deleting which seemed important at the time from each generation of machine. Even though my current machine's already SATA, still got my last ever IDE drive plugged in. Still got files from about 4 PC's and 7 HDD's ago this way.
You may have to tell the BIOS which drive to boot first, but most motherboards pick the SATA ports first anyway.
That's the thing, I currently have 1 SATA and 1 IDE HDD, which the SATA one has my current Windows. In past I'd put my new Windows on the Master and old one on the Slave under IDE.
My new layout will be 2 SATA (new one, old one) and 1 IDE still just for storing stuff. I'm not sure how to ensure which SATA is prioritised. Got another HDD I bought for this purpose months ago before I moved but lost it in a box that's not been unpacked yet so will eventually have 3 SATA (each 1 TB) and the 1 IDE if I can be bothered to keep it (0.5 TB is still useful).
Absolutely typical!
So a couple of weeks ago I bought some new games, got home and opened one - and the case was empty. Went back to Game and they apologised (and took my word for it thankfully) and gave me the disc and manual. Manager said when I asked its not too unusual with the number of temps they employ around Christmas. Problem 1.
So then I try and install it and can't, it can't get past installing DirectX and the programmers didn't allow you to skip the DirectX install. Problem 2.
So just rebuilt my machine. So far got it running fine, no problems. Windows 7 doesn't seem to involve that many changes, not yet plugged in my old HDD's but all running OK. So install game, it speeds through installing DirectX (afterall its already installed) and then the game, no problems. Game finishes installing, choose to play it and it wants to download latest updates. Done, simple. Then it asks for the Product Key - oops. In the last few weeks I've lost the manual, can't find it now.
Turns out the new Xbox 360 S design doesn't require special hard drive enclosures. A correct model, properly configured, 250GB drive can plug right in :D:up: After learning that I managed to sell my old Jaser Unit Xbox 360 for $100. Which means I ended up with a new Xbox 360 S with a 250GB hard drive, and Kinect for a grand sum of $200. :up:
Found the manual, put in the product key and now reached strange problem 4: It keeps wanting to download updates, I'm now on the fourth update in a row. Not that strange you might say - perhaps not but they're all in German. Patrician IV is now "Patrizier IV" and the whole update install software is in German, I'm just clicking Next and Finish by a not-so-random guess of "Well that's where you normally click to continue". Hoping by the end of this my game will still be in English.
I think I had that same problem with Patrician 4. The game ended up in english at least, or I was somehow able to make it turn back into english. I think they just forgot to localize some bits.
Got to playing the game eventually! :D
It's fun, and in English. The software patch installation was in German but none of the game is, its all in English :). Quite fun, never played any in the series before - but played Port Royale II which was by the same original makers of the original Patricians I believe. Very, very similar style.
Acitivision strikes again!
Guitar Hero is cancelled, the development unit canned, and the same goes for DJ Hero and the guys behind those games.
If you haven't played either, now is a good time to start looking for clearance deals.
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Picked up Bayonetta for $12 from Target on the way to work, really want to play it, but damnit I need to finish AC2.
Is someone else going to pick up the Guitar Hero brand? It's very successful.
According to the number crunchers it was successful but will continuing with the brand will result in significant losses.Quote:
Originally Posted by RandBlade
Black Ops has been too successful and the old genre bandwagoning is back in vogue.
The Plastic crap games is a niche market now. Activision milked it for what it could and didn't like the diminshed returns it was delivering now. You can only get so much innovation when you push out 20 different Hero games in 7 years (not to mention the 10+ Band games in the past 5 years) :bulb:
Some people go for that, just like the Madden series.
The success is in the rhythm, which is why Haramonix jumped ship to Dance Central.
I really wish there was a strictly multiplayer shooter... like call of duty but theres so many different eras of maps you can play and there would be an extremely in depth map creator, more so then Far Cry 2
Could never get into Guitar Hero but I am a Rock Band junkie. I think it all depended on which one you started playing first. Once I started Rock Band, trying Guitar Hero confused me.
Never tried Rock Band, why bother when I already had multiple guitars? Annoyance with Guitar Hero though was we couldn't get the Drums seperately. I already have 3 guitars, two mic's, why would I want to buy the whole band again just to get the drums?
Finally finished Assassin's Creed 2. Got a few side things to do to finish up my achievements, but the game is beat.
To quote the game.
WHAT. THE. FUCK.
Spoiler:
If the game is able to convey this type of emotion, I'm going to be all over it. Amazing trailer for Dead Island
Brothers in Arms: Hells Highway
It's a bit like watching a movie and then playing a game for a while and then going back to the movie...
Oblivion
Just started and going to the shops, buying food, using mortar and pestle to mix the food into potions - or sandwiches I think - then selling the potions back to the same merchant. Making a tiny bit of money from this while increasing my Alchemy and Mercantile skills. Alchemy is a main one from my class so doing this has got me to level 2 already.*
Seems almost an exploit. Worried though I may need those provisions or potions later, do the merchants regain stocks of food after I've done this?
Yes they do and right across the river from where you escaped the sewers, there should be an Aylied ruin where you can get a shitload of loot to sell. Just dont sell the Aylied stones if you find them though because you can use one to get the Finger of the Mountain spell in Chorrol
Started playing Fable III. Also am in love with Space Hulk, Death Angel the card game.
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Fuck everything about achievements that don't add to the gameplay or push along the storyline.
Now to find my next game...
Geeze, Bulletstorm is definitely a game not intended for minors. Fun though.
Dragon Age 2 looks good as well.
Bulletstorm is awesome.
It's a refreshing take on the FPS genre..:up:
I picked up the 1989 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles remake on Xbox Live last night. For $4.99 I bought 400 "points" and spent them on that game and 2 additional levels for a game called The Maw, that the Xbox team sent me for free a few weeks back (and I have no idea why).
First time I've ever used Microsoft points. What a stupid fucking idea that system is.
Don't even get me started on the XBL points. What a pile of shit, wait till you have to purchase a map pack and notice you can't actually buy the right amount of points you need. Then you find out it gets worse as your left with 200 points after purchasing 1500 and nothing to use them on.
Thats why I ended up buying those levels for The Maw. I wasn't going to let my points sit in my account and not get spent. It took me years to finally buy a digital arcade game through them, and I suspect a while longer till I do it again. So I figured I spent $5 on the turtle game and I may eventually play through The Maw.
At least on Games for Windows Live, I can use real cash. Even when the game only costs 90 cents.
Considering all the ChuckECheese tokens I spent on the Turtles and Xmen games when I was a kid, $5 is still worth it.
Not a fan of DLC, still haven't given in to that on Steam yet. So car/character/map packs have always been beneath me. Fuck everything about avatar items too.
The CoD map packs are better than the original content, hence why I buy them. The new zombie map is superb and a lot of fun. However the avatar purchases are crazy, who on earth actually cares about having designer wear on it? Madness.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
Bought Pokemon Black and White today. Amazon is doing $10 gift cards per game, and I figured that was the best deal I was going to find for a while. Likely use that extra $20 to buy platinum/gold/silver in the coming weeks.