Video Games - a general discussion thread — Page 234

All i'm saying is you get excited and blurt things out. 

I am pretty sure he didn't say anything that anyone who has so much as looked at the game box wouldn't know.

Johnny Ringo said:

All i'm saying is you get excited and blurt things out. 

*checking list*

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Damn, that would have made a good mom joke.

I'm trough with the Portal 2 single-player-mode. It was fun, tough short. I agree that the test chambers are more fun, than getting behind the scenes, but I'm definitely going to replay it a lot.

I'm really happy with the german translation and voices. Wheatly is dubbed by Tobias Meister, one of my favorite Voiceactors, who has done the voices of Brad Pitt, Jack Black, Robert Downey Junior, Kiefer Sutherland, Gary Sinise, as well as Darth Maul in Episode I and Yoda in Episodes II, III and Clone Wars (both series).

TK-949 said:

I'm really happy with the german translation and voices. Wheatly is dubbed by Tobias Meister, one of my favorite Voiceactors, who has done the voices of Brad Pitt, Jack Black, Robert Downey Junior, Kiefer Sutherland, Gary Sinise, as well as Darth Maul in Episode I and Yoda in Episodes II, III and Clone Wars (both series).

Wow, that is weird to think about the same voice actor doing all those voices... you really should play it in English one go through though, to me Stephen Merchant totally makes the character of Wheatly, it would be a shame to completely miss that.

bkev said:

Those are some diverse dubbing roles he's had - the guy must be genius.

When a turret hit you in Portal, the wall behind you had bloodstains and bulletholes.

BTW: did anyone notice that GLaDOS looks like tortured woman? Captivated and gagged, and hung upside down. Some guy on the internet has drawn a picture:

Some guy on the internet needs help.

TV's Frink said:

Some guy on the internet needs help.

Yeah, seriously! That is a really disturbingly weird connection to make. Who'd have thought GlaDOS works as a bit of a Rorschach test...

More than once!

1) Balcony scene on Coruscant w/ Palps.

2) Talking to Holo Palps on Naboo ("Yes, my master")

Three times!  He spoke twice on the balcony!!!!

!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally beat Limbo. I bought it, played it more than halfway through in one setting, got really stuck in one section, took a break, got busy, and just never made it back.

I liked it. It is visually pleasant and the puzzles can require a bit of thought to solve without being overly difficult or frustrating. But the trial and error game play is a bit annoying. Most of the time you have to die from an obstacle in order to even know it is there. The first time you play the game everything that can kill you will kill you, and the amusing overly violent deaths only amuse the first few times you see them... and you're going to see them a lot.

As much as I liked the game, I am not quite sure why it has been as popular as it has. Seems like since its release I've seen this thing ranked among the big boys on every list of top Xbox games of 2010 or top Xbox Arcade games of all time. Was it really such a bad year for new games? Or was there some really shining aspect of Limbo I somehow completely failed to see? Personally, I think Braid is ten times the game Limbo is and far more intelligent, too. While Braid was popular, I don't recall it ever getting anything near the praise and hype of Limbo.

I don't think Limbo is worth anything near its $15 price tag either. I bought it when it was on sale for 800 MS point ($10), but I'd encourage others to wait until it is on a 50% off sale; 600 MS points is just about the perfect price for the game.

The demo is a very good representation of the entire game. In fact, it is a good representation of the first portion of the game where there are giant creatures trying to impale you and you are running around in a cool overgrown outdoor setting. Later your biggest enemies become giant cog wheels, electrified signs, and long drops; the first portion was much more imagination inspiring. If the demo didn't really do it for you, then don't even consider bothering. The fact is, I played the demo, it did it for me, and I really wanted more but couldn't justify the full 1200 MSP, so when it dropped to 1000 MSP I didn't hesitate to jump at it.

My review may have came off as overly harsh. I really did like the game. I am just puzzled at the mass hype it has gotten. I am used to having to justify some of the stranger games I like, this feels like it ought to be one of those games, yet instead it is getting superlatively high praise. Maybe it just really strikes a chord with the emo/goth/Hot Topic crowd.

EDIT: By the way, I just one 400 MSP and it expires in a month. Anyone have any suggestions? I also happened to have a relatively useless 359 MSP (I don't even know how that happens!) on my account, giving me a total of 759 MSP, less than a buck short of buying a shiny new 800 MSP game (like The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile, which I really want. I loved TD: Dead Samurai).

Okay, so that totally read like an April Fools joke, but is actually legit. I am not going to say I am not amused, at least they are doing something amusing with the whole zombies thing (and no, the dumb Pentagon level was not in the least bit amusing).

However, Call of Duty's zombie game modes are ridiculously unenjoyable. Call of Duty has this reputation of being a game for the dumb inbred masses, and the whole zombie mode definitely supports that notion. It is the pointless, shallow, Michael Bayesque answer to Left 4 Dead.

Shortly after Blackops was released, I was in a Gamestop and overheard a forty-fifty year old woman who was purchasing the game. When the clerk asked if it was for her son, she responded with, "Oh no, no, it's for me! Nazi Zombies! Best part of that whole game!"

:(  Wow. I didn't even know what to think in response to that... still don't.

For all the work they put into this stupid zombie crap, I'd so much rather just have one more multiplayer map... or a more reasonable price tag... $15 for five maps and an incredibly worthless new zombie level. Might be worth it if they actually did something new and exciting with the additional zombie levels, but it is always the same thing with some new voice over slapped on and a newly designed map. I guess if it provides countless hours of entertainment for inbred children, then it has a charitable purpose at least...

^My most Skyjediesque post yet! I am quite proud.

Awesome! I bet you'll be able to enter one end of the wormhole and come out the other! That's be totally sweet and original! Nobody has ever done anything like that before. Now if only they made it really shallow and pointless and hire well known actors who don't get a lot of work these days and/or make the characters a comical combination of historical figures... then it might be the greatest aspect of any Call of Duty (nay, video game) ever!

No, you misunderstood.  The wormholes are enemies, and you can only shoot them with a special gun.

Are wormholes kind of like doughnut holes? Or Life Saver Holes (anyone else remember those)?