The Shrine

PostPosted:**Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:37 pm**

*Does a happy dance*

PostPosted:**Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:52 pm**

I assume you got it for the PS3 so we can't hook up for some co-op

PostPosted:**Thu Mar 12, 2009 1:18 pm**

Zeus wrote:I assume you got it for the PS3 so we can't hook up for some co-op

Darn right I did!

PostPosted:**Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:08 pm**

Eric wrote:
Zeus wrote:I assume you got it for the PS3 so we can't hook up for some co-op
Darn right I did!

Well, enjoy playin' co-op with, um, Bovine maybe?

PostPosted:**Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:19 pm**

Zeus wrote:
Eric wrote:
Zeus wrote:I assume you got it for the PS3 so we can't hook up for some co-op
Darn right I did!
Well, enjoy playin' co-op with, um, Bovine maybe?

I do have other friends to play with you know.

PostPosted:**Thu Mar 12, 2009 2:22 pm**

WHAT? You have gaming buddies outside of our circle? Inconceivable!

PostPosted:**Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:09 pm**

Eric wrote:
Zeus wrote:
Eric wrote: Darn right I did!
Well, enjoy playin' co-op with, um, Bovine maybe?
I do have other friends to play with you know.

I meant ones that take human form :-)

PostPosted:**Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:10 am**

sheva = super retard.

I shot him in the head so I could run up and punch him. You shooting him in the body negates the entire strategy!

Somebody gonna buy this and play it with me? I will start over again just to make the game good. It's no deadspace.

PostPosted:**Mon Mar 16, 2009 3:07 am**

I'll get it before work. Probably be home around 11est if you want to coop.

PostPosted:**Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:05 am**

None of the reviews on RE5 seem too excited about it... kinda looks like a let down with almost-offensive stereotyping, poor dialogue and a story that falls apart half way through. Or is that the norm for RE?

PostPosted:**Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:35 am**

bought it, beat it, love it

PostPosted:**Mon Mar 16, 2009 12:35 pm**

Somebody better be on Live tonight!

PostPosted:**Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:06 pm**

Blotus wrote:Somebody better be on Live tonight!

Monday is a bad night. 2 shows to watch 'til 11pm and I'm still recovering from the early wakeup on Monday.

Maybe later in the week? And we still gotta do L4D some more when those maps come out in a couple of weeks

PostPosted:**Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:15 pm**

Hell yes to more L4D. I haven't touched it in weeks.

Also, I just remembered Bovine and I never finished Gears. I think we're right at the last chapter too.

PostPosted:**Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:20 pm**

Did someone say more L4d?? Oh L4D on the 360

PostPosted:**Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:24 pm**

Blotus wrote:Somebody better be on Live tonight!

will do muchacho.

Seraphina wrote:Did someone say more L4d?? Oh L4D on the 360

if you wanna play with bovine on the pc, let bovine know and bovine will be there. Just not tomorrow. Saints must be celebrated.

PostPosted:**Tue Mar 17, 2009 1:42 pm**

the bringing in of a friend is apparently a bit of a chore, but the game is coop. Without a human being as your partner, you are simply playing dead rising, running through the mall with a civilian that just leeches away bullets and shoots your enemies incorrectly. It is a singleplayer chore and the coop is the only enjoyment to be had. Between the crap controls, the retarded story, and the quicktime events that seem to appear randomly, this game is a good coop experience.

PostPosted:**Tue Mar 17, 2009 3:00 pm**

bovine wrote:the bringing in of a friend is apparently a bit of a chore, but the game is coop. Without a human being as your partner, you are simply playing dead rising, running through the mall with a civilian that just leeches away bullets and shoots your enemies incorrectly. It is a singleplayer chore and the coop is the only enjoyment to be had. Between the crap controls, the retarded story, and the quicktime events that seem to appear randomly, this game is a good coop experience.

there are like 3 total quick time events in the game. all of which have awesome stuff if you fail. I wish you could g back and see all the failure cinematics because some are just fnny. I do love the game though. even single player I had a lot of fun going through and mercenaries is the shit...

PostPosted:**Tue Mar 17, 2009 6:33 pm**

Chris wrote:
bovine wrote:the bringing in of a friend is apparently a bit of a chore, but the game is coop. Without a human being as your partner, you are simply playing dead rising, running through the mall with a civilian that just leeches away bullets and shoots your enemies incorrectly. It is a singleplayer chore and the coop is the only enjoyment to be had. Between the crap controls, the retarded story, and the quicktime events that seem to appear randomly, this game is a good coop experience.
there are like 3 total quick time events in the game. all of which have awesome stuff if you fail. I wish you could g back and see all the failure cinematics because some are just fnny. I do love the game though. even single player I had a lot of fun going through and mercenaries is the shit...

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/user ... t=featured

PostPosted:**Tue Mar 24, 2009 12:27 pm**

It all makes sense now (possible end game spoilers but not really).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh1g8JS5lhM

PostPosted:**Tue Mar 24, 2009 4:34 pm**

I like shooting zombies in their faces, I like stabbing them in their faces when they are on the ground, and I also like zapping the shit out of them with the stun baton. However, this game was fucking retarded.

also, why isn't anyone playing mercenaries with me?

PostPosted:**Tue Mar 24, 2009 5:10 pm**

I am shocked at your poor taste, bovine. Shocked! I just beat RE5 last night and the whole thing was the badness. (In a good way.) Not quite as good as RE4 was in its time, but still spectacular.

PostPosted:**Tue Mar 24, 2009 6:43 pm**

chris's giant arms, the awful controls, the store that mysteriously occurs between levels, the AWFUL story complete with: crap plot, terrible "twist", wesker being generally retarded, everything that happens is a combination of nonsense and rediculous. Then there are the zombies with guns, the retarded buddy AI, the totally random and shoved-in quicktime sequences... the game was just pretty RE4. Is that bad? no, but the flaws of the game are insurmountable. To see this game as a great game, or anything worthy of praise is to have never have played and appreciated a truly good game.

Maybe it's my spite for all those who aren't playing deadspace and saying it's the cat's pajamas, but this game is going to sell millions, be a great success, and dead space is going to get a crappy Wii lightgun shooter intead of an AWESOME sequel. But anyways, this game was (considering the amazing games that have come out recently) a really, really, really average game with good graphics. Killzone 2 was better than RE5.

PostPosted:**Tue Mar 24, 2009 8:40 pm**

bovine wrote:chris's giant arms, the awful controls, the store that mysteriously occurs between levels, the AWFUL story complete with: crap plot, terrible "twist", wesker being generally retarded, everything that happens is a combination of nonsense and rediculous. Then there are the zombies with guns, the retarded buddy AI, the totally random and shoved-in quicktime sequences... the game was just pretty RE4. Is that bad? no, but the flaws of the game are insurmountable. To see this game as a great game, or anything worthy of praise is to have never have played and appreciated a truly good game.

Maybe it's my spite for all those who aren't playing deadspace and saying it's the cat's pajamas, but this game is going to sell millions, be a great success, and dead space is going to get a crappy Wii lightgun shooter intead of an AWESOME sequel. But anyways, this game was (considering the amazing games that have come out recently) a really, really, really average game with good graphics. Killzone 2 was better than RE5.

when did you become Rent?

PostPosted:**Wed Mar 25, 2009 3:08 pm**

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/ ... ent-Evil-5

Yahtzee pretty much nails almost all of my issues with said game.

Still enjoyed the ride, and I like shooting things, but obviously there are the other standing issues. -_-

PostPosted:**Wed Mar 25, 2009 7:28 pm**

Eric wrote:http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/ ... ent-Evil-5

Yahtzee pretty much nails almost all of my issues with said game.

Still enjoyed the ride, and I like shooting things, but obviously there are the other standing issues. -_-

Of course Yahtzee nailed it. He nails it every fucking time.

Just how hard is it to write proper AI code for partners? Here's one for health:

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if ($HP_lost > $item_HP) { use the fucking item; }
elsif ($HP_lost < 30%) { use the fucking item; }
else { DON'T use the fucking item!; }

Easy. Done. I'm smarter than Capcom. Here's something harder, gun usage:

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foreach my $gun (sort { $gun_dmg{$b} <=> $gun_dmg{$a} } @guns) {
   next unless ($ammo{$gun});
   next if ($splash_dmg{$gun} && $enemy_type ne 'boss');
   $chosen_gun = $gun;
   last if ($gun_dmg{$gun} < $enemy_HP);  # try to prevent overkill
}

See, really fucking easy. Why is that so hard for Capcom to do?

PostPosted:**Wed Mar 25, 2009 8:21 pm**

so yahtzee gets it right and I'm rent for criticizing it? Where is the justice?!?!?!?

PostPosted:**Wed Mar 25, 2009 9:19 pm**

bovine wrote:so yahtzee gets it right and I'm rent for criticizing it? Where is the justice?!?!?!?

In my defense I never said you were wrong. ;P

PostPosted:**Thu Mar 26, 2009 1:10 pm**

See, now I don't even need to post here. Outsourcing FTW.

PostPosted:**Thu Mar 26, 2009 7:11 pm**

bovine wrote:so yahtzee gets it right and I'm rent for criticizing it? Where is the justice?!?!?!?

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/ ... Dead-Space

You said Dead Space was good! (Still going to play it. I already bought the game, after all.)

PostPosted:**Sun Mar 29, 2009 3:07 pm**

I am really enjoying mercenaries. It is easily the best part of the game. You can really start seeing the controller deficiencies in this mode in particular, but at least (unlike the campaign) it is more fun than frustrating.

When accessing the inventory screen in RE5 and deadspace, the action is not paused. This may be for realism, it may be for tension, but regardless they did it poorly in RE5. In deadspace, they at least give you a button specifically mapped to using your healing items, RE5 makes you go into the inventory if the healing item has not magically fallen on one of your quickitem slots.

PostPosted:**Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:41 am**

bovine wrote:When accessing the inventory screen in RE5 and deadspace, the action is not paused. This may be for realism, it may be for tension, but regardless they did it poorly in RE5. In deadspace, they at least give you a button specifically mapped to using your healing items, RE5 makes you go into the inventory if the healing item has not magically fallen on one of your quickitem slots.

If the Pipboy did that in Fallout 3, I would be throwing shit at the TV.

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 01, 2009 7:48 pm**

I have the itch. I think Bovine is doing homework tonight, so anybody else want to bang out some co-op around 10EST?

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:45 pm**

Blotus wrote:I have the itch. I think Bovine is doing homework tonight, so anybody else want to bang out some co-op around 10EST?

Such a man whore.

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 01, 2009 9:48 pm**

Eric wrote:
Blotus wrote:I have the itch. I think Bovine is doing homework tonight, so anybody else want to bang out some co-op around 10EST?
Such a man whore.

shoot me an invite. I've gotta finish up a column really quick but I should be done in about 20 or so minutes.

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:18 pm**

FUCKING FUCK FUCK FUCKETY FUCKING FUCK!

FUUUUUUUUCK!

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 01, 2009 11:48 pm**

My condolences. If it's any consolation, I tried stealing your upgraded smg but it wouldn't let me.

PostPosted:**Thu Apr 02, 2009 12:45 am**

Chris wrote:FUCKING FUCK FUCK FUCKETY FUCKING FUCK!

FUUUUUUUUCK!

I demand details.

PostPosted:**Thu Apr 02, 2009 1:34 am**

It's right there in his twitter sig.

PostPosted:**Thu Apr 02, 2009 2:04 am**

Blotus wrote:It's right there in his twitter sig.

PostPosted:**Thu Apr 02, 2009 7:23 pm**

Tell me when you get to whatever the equivalent of Tofu is in this one. I challenge anyone to actually try to finish that.

PostPosted:**Thu Apr 02, 2009 11:31 pm**

Homework is done. Let me know anytime you wanna play the vidiagaymes

PostPosted:**Sat Apr 04, 2009 5:01 am**

Fea wrote:I am shocked at your poor taste, bovine. Shocked! I just beat RE5 last night and the whole thing was the badness. (In a good way.) Not quite as good as RE4 was in its time, but still spectacular.

Post under your own damn profile Andrew!

PostPosted:**Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:17 pm**

Resident Evil versus mode.

Is it worth 800 of my microsoft dollars?

"VERSUS is a new mode available for Resident Evil 5. Take control of Chris, Sheva and other RE5 favorites in online battles of up to 4 players! Compete for points by defeating Majini in SLAYERS or take down other players in SURVIVORS. Fight alone or in a team for a total of 4 exciting variations!※You must have an Xbox LIVE Gold Membership to go on-line and use this mode."

PostPosted:**Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:26 pm**

bovine wrote:Resident Evil versus mode.

Is it worth 800 of my microsoft dollars?

Nope. It should be included in my game or a free upgrade to add value to the game to keep the sales going. Is Valve the only company that gets this?

PostPosted:**Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:28 pm**

my mistake, it's 400 points

PostPosted:**Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:56 pm**

Zeus wrote:
bovine wrote:Resident Evil versus mode.

Is it worth 800 of my microsoft dollars?
Nope. It should be included in my game or a free upgrade to add value to the game to keep the sales going. Is Valve the only company that gets this?

Yes, because that extra edition of Portal is completely free with the Orange Box, right?

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 08, 2009 1:48 am**

Zeus wrote:
bovine wrote:Resident Evil versus mode.

Is it worth 800 of my microsoft dollars?
Nope. It should be included in my game or a free upgrade to add value to the game to keep the sales going. Is Valve the only company that gets this?

Pay-to-see-the-other-half-of-your-content is going to be every publisher's wet dream for a good long while to come, as far as I can tell. The economic downturn means publishers are going to hop on the principle like starving refugees, and as they monetize it there will be no way to go back even if the economy later improves. There's a lot of cash involved and a big draw in terms of "mooooom can i please have some more money to unlock this part of my new game", as the dominant force for buying kids videogames for at least a few parents is to get the kids out of their hair for awhile, and the parents will sigh and realize they're getting taken and then get the credit cards out anyway.

I will watch all of this with clenched teeth and a vise grip on my debit card and refuse to pay for this any of it at all (since it's a slippery slope right to vastly inflated costs on games) until the continued and inevitable development of Internet piracy simply destroys all notions of intellectual property in a massive technological singularity, forever, until the end of time and beyond. That's going to be some pretty gnarly shit, but I can guarantee you we'll all be so sick of micropayment unlockable-content extortion tactics that by then it'll be nothing but a relief.

It kind of reminds me of the camel ride guy my mom and I got a camel ride from when we were in Egypt. It was two bucks for a ride out into the desert and ten bucks for the ride back.

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:42 am**

Replay wrote:Pay-to-see-the-other-half-of-your-content is going to be every publisher's wet dream for a good long while to come, as far as I can tell. The economic downturn means publishers are going to hop on the principle like starving refugees, and as they monetize it there will be no way to go back even if the economy later improves. There's a lot of cash involved and a big draw in terms of "mooooom can i please have some more money to unlock this part of my new game", as the dominant force for buying kids videogames for at least a few parents is to get the kids out of their hair for awhile, and the parents will sigh and realize they're getting taken and then get the credit cards out anyway.

You seem to think that the majority of people playing games like Portal and Fallout are 10-year-olds. They're not.

PostPosted:**Wed Apr 08, 2009 9:35 am**

SineSwiper wrote:
Zeus wrote:
bovine wrote:Resident Evil versus mode.

Is it worth 800 of my microsoft dollars?
Nope. It should be included in my game or a free upgrade to add value to the game to keep the sales going. Is Valve the only company that gets this?
Yes, because that extra edition of Portal is completely free with the Orange Box, right?

Not sure about the PC version but the 360 version of The Orange Box has been hampered by Microsoft's insistence on charging for content. That's why Team Fortress 2 has gotten zero upgrades on the 360 and likely will charge for the Sniper update.

The Left 4 Dead update and Burnout Paradise updates put Valve and Criterion on a bit of a pedestal IMO. They've provided meaty, free content with the idea that they'll sell their games longer and make their money that way. And it's worked. It's everyone else, including Microsoft (that's twice in one post, Blotus; tiny miracle) and Sony, who are too short-sighted to see that.

The Shrine

RE5 tonighttttt

RE5 tonighttttt