Video Games - a general discussion thread — Page 17

Author: TheSessler
Time: 20-Dec-2004 11:18 PM
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Its seems like there are also overly long pauses between waves of enemies in certain parts of the game too.

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Author: Darth Chaltab
Time: 21-Dec-2004 12:07 AM
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If they had somesort of pointer or radar blip telling you where to go, it would be really helpful. I constantly end up running around shooting regenerating Forerunner drones for ten minutes and often die because I didn't see that obscure door/pathway/piston over there in the dark corner.

Author: TheSessler
Time: 21-Dec-2004 11:17 AM
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Yeah, those damn pistons.

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Author: Darth Chaltab
Time: 23-Dec-2004 1:44 AM
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I've been gone a while:

Yeah. Who ever heared of PISTONS being used as a door in a game?

Author: TheSessler
Time: 23-Dec-2004 1:53 AM
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I have no idea.

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Author: Darth Chaltab
Time: 23-Dec-2004 2:00 AM
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!!!!!!

Gamespot's GAME OF THE YEAR awards are in!!!

and the big winner is...

World of Warcraft... Wow. The consoles really got screwed over on that one. Actually. I can't believe Paper Mario 2 got gamecube GOTY and that Burnout III got Xbox GOTY.... There's three unexcpecteds.

PS2 was GTA SA, no surprise there.

GBA's GOTY went to Astro Boy, also not surprising.

Author: motti_soL
Time: 23-Dec-2004 7:39 AM
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world of warcraft was not unexpected, that game is fantastic!

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Author: oojason
Time: 23-Dec-2004 8:08 AM
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I'm struggling to think of a Game of the Year at all for the GameCube - which makes me very sad...

Any ideas?

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Author: TheSessler
Time: 23-Dec-2004 11:56 AM
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Metroid Prime 2?

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Author: Darth Chaltab
Time: 25-Dec-2004 7:53 PM
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Either that or Paper Mario 2.

This has not been a great year for the GC.

Author: Count Dushku
Time: 26-Dec-2004 1:00 AM
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What's weird is that it still feels like Ninja Gaiden just came out....and that was in March.

Which is the more foolish, the fool (the OT) or the fool who follows (the PT)?

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Author: PSYCHO_DAYV
Time: 26-Dec-2004 11:33 PM
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HAVE ANY OF YOU TRIED RRS 1980'S FRIEND'S GAME OVER IN THE FLASH CARTOONS THREAD ???

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Author: TheSessler
Time: 27-Dec-2004 11:20 PM
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I've just finished MGS3 and I've got to say that I haven't gotten such a great sense of satisfaction for beating a game like I did for MGS3 since I beat MGS2 back in the day.

This is definitely a must buy for everyone, you won't regret it(except maybe Chaltab).

Now to work on getting further into KOTOR II...

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Author: Count Dushku
Time: 27-Dec-2004 11:23 PM
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Had MGS2 on Xbox...hated it. Must have been the controller, having to click the joystick just to pull out your gun...but I"m always willing to give it and the other games a chance someday.

Which is the more foolish, the fool (the OT) or the fool who follows (the PT)?

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Author: TheSessler
Time: 27-Dec-2004 11:39 PM
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MGS on XBox just doesn't work, besides the fact that the controls were all wrong, the version for the XBox was by far the inferior version because MS shipped it way too early and as a result it was full of bugs and lacked many game-play modes that its PS2 counterpart had with few bugs.

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Author: Windexed
Time: 27-Dec-2004 11:45 PM
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I just could never get used to the controls on the Xbox one. I got Metroid Prime 2 for xmas. My first new GC game in almost two years.

40,000 million notches away

Author: TheSessler
Time: 27-Dec-2004 11:50 PM
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The only part I don't like about MGS3 is that they didn't include a Demo theater like they did in The Twin Snakes, which means I'll have to play through the game again to see the cutscenes(probably Kojima's point of not including one).

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Author: Darth Chaltab
Time: 28-Dec-2004 3:23 AM
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Originally posted by: TheSessler
I've just finished MGS3 and I've got to say that I haven't gotten such a great sense of satisfaction for beating a game like I did for MGS3 since I beat MGS2 back in the day.

This is definitely a must buy for everyone, you won't regret it(except maybe Chaltab).

Now to work on getting further into KOTOR II...

I still mentally kick myself for buying TwinSnakes everytime I count my money.

Author: motti_soL
Time: 28-Dec-2004 4:56 AM
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*points his finger at chaltab and makes his best imitation of helson.

ha ha!

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Author: ricarleite
Time: 28-Dec-2004 3:27 PM
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Helson? A mix between Hanson and Nelson?

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Author: Darth Chaltab
Time: 29-Dec-2004 3:07 AM
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Laugh it up fuzzball..z...

Author: Windexed
Time: 29-Dec-2004 3:42 PM
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I was reading about Halo 2 where someone from Bungie explained the pop-up during the cutscenes. Supposedly the flickering/pop-up is because Halo 2 uses the in-game engine to create the cutscenes, rather than pre-rendered ones. Apparently they made this decision because pre-rendered cutscenes would require loading screens, which they said they felt would "detach the player from the flow of the game". And pop-up doesn't???

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Author: Bossk
Time: 29-Dec-2004 4:35 PM
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What's this Pop Up you are talking about? I just played Halo 2 for the first time this past weekend and loved it. Please explain.

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Author: Windexed
Time: 29-Dec-2004 5:00 PM
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Well, it's arguably just nit-picking, but it still kind of bothers me. Basically, any time a new cutscene begins, there is pop-up for about a half-second. Within this half second, whatever the image is, it shows up in layers. For instance, when it cuts to Miranda Keyes in the bridge of her ship, the only thing visible on the screen is an animatic/skeleton, then her face gets filled in, then the wall behind her gets filled in, then anything else in the backround gets filled in. All this takes place sporadically over the course of a half second. Yes, it's only a half second, so what's the big deal? But once you start noticing it, it gets annoying (at least to me). My question though was whether or not this is preferrable to a loading screen.

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Author: Bossk
Time: 29-Dec-2004 5:44 PM
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Hmm... I never noticed it. Granted I didn't play the game long (only three levels; and I got to drive that big-ass tank across the bridge. Sweet!), but I don't recall seeing it happen. Maybe I just glossed over it or, since we may have known it was a cut between, I may have been talking to my friend at the time. C'est la vie. I'm not sure which I'd prefer.