C3PX

That would actually be kind of cool. I am not much into modern adventure games (though back in the Lucas Arts days I was a big fan), but I would play this one just because I like the world of Bioshock so much.

However, I think you could have a Bioshock prequel with a lot of action. Through audio diaries we learn of all sorts of crazy stuff going on in Rapture. CIA were sending spies, smuggling was running rampant, citizens were attacking small girls in order to get a symbiotic seas slug out of their stomachs, freaky mutant in diving suits were made in order to guard the little girls. Then of course there was the civil war. Yeah, the multiplayer used this period for its setting, but an actual game set at that time could be cool.

I really loved the first Bioshock, and unfortunately have been too busy to beat the second one, but really enjoyed what I have played of it. But I am weary of it getting too popular and destroying its self. The release of the second one made me feel confident that they could keep a good thing going, but I am still cautious.

I actually think putting you in the role of a CIA agent during the early days of Rapture could be pretty cool. You could be sent to find out as much about the place as possible. For enemies you could have local Rapture law enforcement, Fontain's mob, and even Subject Delta could make an appearance as a boss enemy.

Something I never had time for, but was still very intrigued by was the Something in the Sea web game. It made Rapture sound just as interesting from the outside looking in, as from the inside. I'd almost like to see a game take that angle. Or stretch it even further and take things beyond Rapture. Maybe some citizens of Rapture left right when things started to get ugly and began their own city, full of many of the same innovations as Rapture on some remote island someplace. Your character could shipwreck on this island and begin trying to figure out the mysteries of the strange technology he find everywhere while trying to survive against hoards of madmen. Or maybe the Splicers on the surface found ways not to go insane or oversplice and remain normal, but are still opposed to outsiders and intend to eliminate you.

I'd actually like to see something like that above all else. Audio diaries could explain how they foresaw the fall of Rapture and took their families and left. As pretty as Rapture is, we have seen it, and I'd love to see what they could do in a different setting. Fighting a Big Daddy in the jungle, with trees burning from the garnade he just lobbed is something that would get me excited. Seeing a Big Daddy walking along a sunny beach hand in hand with a Little Sister is something that would get me as excited as when I played Bioshock for the first time. Maybe the guys on this island figured out another way to get ADAM without using small girls as hosts to the sea slugs. Honestly, with a world as interesting as that of Bioshock, the possibilities are endless. Unfortunately, imagination is often lost when a franchise outgrows itself. I hope that is not the case with BS.

As much as I like BS 2, I am not sure I would want to play a third game unless they do something really different.

Wasn't it delayed? Either way, Portal 2's release is a long way off, I'll have money for it when it comes.

I don't buy new stuff. Too much money. I wait until it is old and then get it. The reason I want Boarderlands is to co-op it, I think it'll be worth it and is kind of the way I am leaning. I'll grab it used at Gamestop, if I really don't like it I can just return it.

doubleofive said:

Sometimes jokes are better when they are explained. That is one of them.

The joke is that during the writers strike a few years ago, while most people were biting their fingers not knowing what to do with themselves without their precious TV shows, a few of us were enjoying Joss Whedon's Doctor Horrible's Sing Along Blog. 

June 14th - June 20th: "Summer '09 Redux" GOLD MEMBERS ONLY
-Marvel vs Capcom 2 - 560 Microsoft Points
-Shadow Complex - 560 Microsoft Points
-Splosion Man - 400 Microsoft Points
-TMNT: Turtles in Time Re-Shelled - 400 Microsoft Points
-Trials HD - 560 Microsoft Points

June 16th - June 22nd: "E3 Inventory Blowout" THIS SALE IS FOR GOLD AND SILVER MEMBERS
-A Kingdom for Keflings - 400 Microsoft Points
-Alien Hominid HD - 400 Microsoft Points
-Banjo Tooie - 800 Microsoft Points
-Bionic Commando Rearmed - 400 Microsoft Points
-Bomberman LIVE - 400 Microsoft Points
-Castle Crashers - 800 Microsoft Points
-Castlevania Symphony of the Night - 400 Microsoft Points
-Contra - 240 Microsoft Points
-Crystal Defenders - 400 Microsoft Points
-Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved 2 - 400 Microsoft Points
-Magic the Gathering - 400 Microsoft Points
-N+ - 400 Microsoft Points
-Panzer General - 400 Microsoft Points
-Portal - 800 Microsoft Points
-TMNT: 1989 Arcade - 240 Microsoft Points
-Uno Rush - 400 Microsoft Points
-Vandal Hearts: Flames of Judgment - 800 Microsoft Points
-Zombie Apocalypse - 400 Microsoft Points

Those are some very good deals. Quite tempting. Been wanting to try out Shadow Complex, but not sure if I really need it. Marvel vs. Capcom is pretty tempting too.

I am pretty broke though and don't need to be spending the money. Not like I have a shortage of games or anything. Also I have been quite tempted to buy the two DLC campaigns for Resident Evil 5 for 400 MSP each. Earth Worm Jim HD is another big temptation. Monkey Island 2 is coming out soon. And I have also been thinking about buying Boarderlands as of late. Don't want to spent much money on games, so I am going to have to pick and choose what of these things I want to get very carefully.

Any suggestions on all of this. Boarderlands, worth it or not? The DLC for RE5, any good? Shadow Complex, really as great as everyone says?

Just making a few Lost references because they are so ridiculous. Wouldn't actually follow any plot from the show.

Ric Olie said:

Hey doube05, up fer some Solid Metl Haylide 2 tonight?  Ill bring the lickor.

Hey, drunk 3PX is a really good speller. You're mocking me inaccurately.

I still think we should plot out a big grand finale that results in everyones deaths. I liked the "We have to move Naboo!" idea. Maybe CP3S and his ship with Death Star power beams could be given a mission to destroy Naboo, and our little group of misfits could try to stop it, Ric having the crazy idea to move the island, and Anjella having a crazy idea to detonate a nuclear bomb in its core. It could end with Mini Ric blowing up CP3S with his mini death star, and Erica holding a dying Anjella in her arms who tells them "It worked". The end.

ferris209 said:

C3PX said:

No, I didn't mean decapitated by the seatbelt, I meant decapitated by the windshield from not wearing a seatbelt. Head goes through the windshield, and the glass cuts it off as the weight of the body pulls it down.

Oh, I see what you're saying now. That scenario is also completely impossible in every car manufactured after 1927.

Awesome. That clears up my myth.

ferris209 said:

 Never ever seen a seatbelt decapitate or hurt anyone, total myth. Seen lots of people dead because they weren't wearing their belt. Never had to say, "You were lucky you didn't have your seatbelt on!".

No, I didn't mean decapitated by the seatbelt, I meant decapitated by the windshield from not wearing a seatbelt. Head goes through the windshield, and the glass cuts it off as the weight of the body pulls it down. Obviously not very common place, or you'd have known exactly what I was talking about. Anyway, got the info I was looking for. Thanks. A bit to support her argument that I am nuts, and a bit to support mine that wearing a seatbelt isn't a bad idea.

Moth3r said:

Just been reading back over the 2006 thread. (I swear if anyone starts an American Football argument this time around, I'm gonna bust some heads...)

Oops.

His own fault though, he linked to the thread and brought it up.

Warbler said:

C3PX, why single out American football like that?    American football doesn't interfere with Americans playing soccer anymore than does Basketball and baseball and hockey.   We don't not play soccer  because we suck at it.  I don't believe we do suck at soccer.   Seems to me a few years back our woman's team won a Worlds championship in soccer and I believe also won an Olympic silver medal.    Soccer just hasn't caught on in American, and probably never will.

Mostly because you call it soccer.

From now on, I am going to refer to cars as garblenockers. Whenever you say the word car, I am going to assume you are talking about bedposts. Because car is my new word for bedpost. So when you say "I like fast cars" I am going to say, "How can a car be fast? They just set at the corners of your bed, they never move." Then, when I start talking about my garblenocker breaking down, you are going to be really confused. In fact, I can already imagine this discussion being really confusing and not going over very well. Life would just be easier if we all called cars cars, bedposts bedposts, garblenockers garblenockers, football football, and rugby rugby.

My point probably got lost, didn't it? Oh well.

Oh, yuck! Finks been necroposting again!

I think I have described my view on American football here before, probably in this thread. But I am too lazy to look for it.

If you imagine the nations of the world as a playground full of kids you'll find them all happily (though competitively) playing a game together. Except for one lone awkward kid, the kid that represents America. He is trying to play the game, but he is too awkward, unathletic, and for some reason has a really, really hard time grasping the rules and just downright sucks at it. So, he makes up his own game (which is a bit of a copy of another game some of the other kids sometimes play) and goes off to play by himself. He decides to give this game the exact same name as the other kid's game, and in order to avoid confusion in his own mind (but to create it in everone elses), he decides to make up a silly name to call their game that is entirely different from what they call it. (Strangely, he manages to convince one (1) of the other kids to start calling it by that name as well. Damn Munchkins!) In the end we have the image of a bunch of kids playing football together, and one lone kid off by himself, burried under insane amounts of padding, throwing a ball (because he can't kick worth shit) at the brick wall and catching it as it bounces off. The kid giggles and laughs as he enjoys playing by himself. And from time to time the other kids glace over and wonder what he is finding so amusing, then turn away and get back to their big kids game.

I will try, but probably not.

I am moving, and I will be at stages inbetween existence on Saturday. But, I will be staying with a friend who has an Xbox and L4D2, so maybe I can import my gamertag to their Xbox and... anyway, suffice to say it is not out of the realm of possibility for me.

I can believe there was something beyond coincidence with you and your mom both dreaming of your father's death, not that your dad was in danger and you were being warned, but that you and your mom somehow communicated in your sleep.

Seems like things like this happen to me all the time: I'll for no reason start thinking about someone I haven't seen in a long time, throughout the day thoughts of them will pop up in my mind, and then sometime in the evening the phone will ring and it will be them.

Perhaps I was thinking about them because they were thinking about me. Or perhaps they started thinking about me because I was thinking about them so they decided to give me a call. I don't know, it just seems weird when some one you haven't talked to or thought about in months calls you up out of the blue on that one day you inexplicably started thinking about them.

Also, seems like I often hear people answer the phone with the words, "Hey! I was just thinking about you!"

I am not a strong believer in the supernatural, so I don't think it is anything like that, but I believe that we may have some unknown means of communicating with one another that none of us is fully aware of. This is not some strong belief of mine, I don't have any scientific evidence to support it or explain how it might even be possible. It is just that things like that have happened too often to me, and I have often heard other people admitting to experiencing those kinds of coincidences often enough that it makes me suspect they may not be entirely coincidental.

His head explodes on a regular basis, so I am sure he could handle it.

I think they ought to get George Lucas or Steven Spielberg to do it! That would be awesome!

Or Sam Raimi. Be kind of cool to see Middle-Earth take on more of a Xenia/Hurcules universe feel to it, and Bruce Campbell as Beorn would be pretty sweet!

ferris209 said:

nothing mysterious or supernatural, just not common. I picked a guys head up from the ground. Just his head, that was all. Had been severed in an auto accident and the weirdest thing is that it was severed just perfect, like it was intentional. He was looking up at me. Weird.

Decapitation due to the head going through the windshield in an unrestrained auto collision, correct? It is fairly common place for unrestrained individuals to wind up with severed heads right? Just not the perfect severing as you described? Or is the whole thing rather uncommon?

My friend has a theory that seatbelts are not necessary and don't really save that many lives and are just as likely to make matters worse in the event of a wreck. I told her (she was driving during this conversation) that if we had a wreck she'd end up losing a head while I'd walk away unscathed thanks to my seat belt and she laughed at me about the possibility of decapitation via windshield. This made me doubt my belief in the frequency of actual decapitations in auto crashes. In her profession she deals with car crash victims on a near daily basis, but typically she is dealing with the ones who haven't stopped breathing yet.

But, I figure Ferris can set me straight on this one, and add/take away my arguments validity.

Ah, got one. When I was quite small (don't quite remember, going to say seven or eight) my mom and dad tucked me in for bed, then went out for an evening walk. My bedroom door was left open, and the hall light was left on. Just moments after I heard the front door close behind my parents, the hall light turned off, then on again, then off, then on again, then off, then on again. This went on for several seconds, then the light remained on. I could have wrote it off as wonky wiring, or something with the power, that would make perfect sense. But the thing that made my young self's blood turn cold, hair stand on end, and freeze entirely in place, unable to move anymore than other than pulling the covers up to my neck, was that each on and off of the light was accompanied by the sound of the click of the light switch.

The next morning my young skeptical mind came up with the theory that someone had slipped into the house after seeing my parents leave, and flicked the light switch (which was very near the front door) on and off looking for a reaction so as to determine if the house was abandoned or not, and my choking out the words "Mom? dad?" was exactly what this fellow needed to tell him that the place wasn't deserted and that he needed to find another place to burglarize.

Of course, there was also my older sister whose room was down stairs to consider. She was just the mechievious sort who'd try to do something like that to freak me out. But for some reason my young mind, despite the fact that it was always suspicious of her about everything, never considered the possibility of it being her. Maybe it is because I didn't hear her come up the steps, or because she was sleeping over at a friend's that night. I don't remember, but at the time I was certain that it couldn't have been her for some reason.

I don't care what ethnic group he is part of, I think he is cool.

...

Wait? When you said "bunny" you were refering to our bunny/garden discussion in the politics thread a few months ago, right?

I feel an incredible sense of accomplishment!

Yes, I think it is time for Anjella, Erica, and Ric to have a big three way love scene, for Leia to leave Han for C3PS, for Panaka to declare his undying love for Ric Olie, for Ackbar to create the largest trap known to mankind in a desperate attempt to protect himself from everyone elses traps, and for Mini Ric to blow up Tantooine (and possible the entire cast of NNRRPP with his Mini Death Star!

This is great season/series finale type stuff.

Ric Olie said:

Angela

Who?

: Hi, I am TheBoost, and I watched too much Twilight Zone as a kid.

But seriously, weird. Doppelganger. Lucky you are still alive. Good call on speeding out of there. Worst thing you could have done is hoped out and tried to meet yourself.

Or that dude is probably on a Star Trek forum posting the exact same thing, only about how he was pulling into the gas station and the other guy was leaving.

VFP is right though, that one is hard to top. I keep thinking of my life's strangest moments, and they all fall flat. And I have had a strange life...

TV's Frink's super duper ignore list said:

Amras Felagund

Who?

I think Fink is just making up names to put on his "ignore list"... bet he has more than just three people on his real list of people ignoring him.

I like this DuracellEnergizer guy.