I think video games are too demanding for a comprehensive list to ever actually be made. Movies are 2 hours, and a person can probably watch the majority of the world's best cinema. With video games there are so many which are loved, and some of them require 100 hours to fully understand them.
Then with interactive media and its methods of storytelling, there's really no definite type of ending that is universally accepted as the best. I would assume that the list is listing off the best movie-style endings.
Long story short, an expectation of a quality list with video games is a little unrealistic. #speakup
I just won these in a Ebay auction for a cool $50. This headset is the Psyko 5.1.
Even though I am very happy with my Sennhieser HD280, I thought It would be fun to get these headphones a shot based on the technology behind them alone. :D
You see, these dont have the speakers in the earmuffs like other headphones. The speakers are on top of the headband! Using what they call 'Psyko Waves Technology' they funnel the sound into the ears.
An Australian in a Starbucks made a threatening statement to Matt Groening, Al Jean and the people who gave Julian Assange his guest role in the Simpsons' 500th episode that "They'll regret giving the scourge to all governments another 15 minutes of fame that would entice him to leak more stuff". He adds that Australia should also censor the 500th episode off their TV channels, video websites based on Australia and other places.
Haters be hating I guess. At least, he didn't attempt the 'Cartman attempts to cancel Family Guy.'
Australia gave him their equivalent of the Pulitzer prize for outstanding journalism, so complaining about The Simpson's episode just sounds ridiculous.
For the record, I think he absolutely deserved the award, and it's shameful that our government is crushing investigative journalism. People criticize the internet in China, but don't care when it happens right here. #speakup
As Shinta said, I think he should be more unhappy about Australia's award to him rather than the stupid Simpsons episode. I don't agree with threatening Matt Groening or anyone like that, particularly over something stupid like this. I dislike Julian Assange and disagree with what he has done, but making threats and stuff like that is just absurd. He's an asshole and possible criminal; so what? #speakup(Edit comment)
It's ALWAYS easier to criticise when it's someone else. So it isn't even that people don't care when it happens in the US, it's that they're blind to it.
I'm not going to comment on people threatening the Simpsons guys' lives because idiots will overreact to anything. But having watched the new Simpsons episode, I didn't even notice Julian Assange's cameo. I only noticed Michael Cera. #speakup
I'm about 6 months late, but I just found out Decapitated put out another album. It's totally awesome. I saw these guys live and it was the best metal show I've ever seen, and easily the best guitar player I will ever see in person.
Also ... the drummer died in a tragic car accident a few months after I saw them. They're back with all new members except the guitar player, who is carrying on with the band despite their truly tragic past. #speakup
Why? What? Why is this a comment? Maybe you should edit this and remove the Speakup tag.
It sounds so mean when you cut it out of context. Though, sure. He's a fine fellow, but he does have real issues with obsessions and blatant, unrelenting bigotry. But, hey, a lot of people in this world have their own issues with bigotry. It's sad to see, but it's true. I believe he can get around them, absolutely, but these obsessions with WRPGs and the developers at Bethesda has just become unhealthy.
I think eatplaysleepmore represented his positions far better than deux. epsm shows that you can dislike a game without obsessively disliking a game series and developer, and you can disagree without talking as though your word is god. It only bothers me because it's more of a shame than anything else, as there are real issues here which muddle a good person's simple desire to be heard and understood to become the rantings of a horrible egotist. #speakup
Ohhh, I posted this on the Speakup thing? This was a response to you! I just found that comment you made extremely funny, nothing against the guy! #speakup
ha. Well, I'm glad you found it funny. It's a tumultuous situation, as he's one of the rare people here on Kotaku that I don't really care for. I agree with him a decent bit, but when he disagrees with someone, he seems to become Cobra Kai. #speakup(Edit comment)
I love Soundcloud, that place is a treasure trove of great musicians, some of them are even generous enough to give their songs for free even though I can say they are worth purchasing.
I'm not sure if there's really a spoiler in this, but uh... could you take down the image?
Possibly just put it in a reply?
The staff have been pretty clearly against posting spoilers or links to spoilers for Mass Effect 3, and I'm not sure it's appropriate. It's one thing to talk about the game, but to post up possible spoilers, that's suspect. :\ #speakup
Heh, I've seen this image before. Hilarious. As someone who is not a Tali fanboy, her being a bunch of spiders would be fine by me.
Edit: For truthtellah - The dialogue is all from ME2. This came out before the script was leaked, though it sounds like they're going to make a reference to it (probably one of the usual "What's under her mask?" type things).
Armor wise: Since the EFGF were expecting to face Zeonic tanks on ground combat the armor of this tank were expectic to be very thick against the Zeon Megella 175mm gun. Of course the introduction of Zaku pretty much make armor thickness useless, but it would've been a though monster to face in traditional warfare.
Weapons: the twin 150mm guns would be a nightmare against MBTs of its days, even against our modern MBTs. The gun can most likely penned the armor of a Zaku. The effectiveness of the gun was questionable since it lack the elevation needed to hit the Zaku's critical part. Not to mention the added cost of having an extra loader, gunner, and ammo can weight down the overall speed of this tank.
So in term of overall effectiveness, it would've been the EFGF's Tiger I, feared in traditional combat but hampered by design flawed and limitations against the numerous and mobile Zakus. #speakup
Nice, at least Type 61 tanks are able to be mobilized to help infantry in area too narrow for mobile suits. Magella tanks OTOH is quite questionable, it can detach itself from the main body and fly like a plane, but to fly it need to use lighter armour to help it lift off the ground easier. Maybe Magella is a light tank? #speakup(Edit comment)
The Zeon's Magella tank are most likely designed for infantry support in operations without Zakus. The upper hull is designed to be a sort of 'escape pod' but it is poorly qualified for such a role as it is the most likely area to be targeted by small arms fire, not to mention the limited fuel placement would unlikely to allow to be in air for more than a few minutes.
Also I double checked the Type 61 weapons with my next door dorm-mate, she believes the twin guns are using an automatic loader system housed at the bottom of the turret basket. So it should make it lighter and slightly more maneuverable. #speakup
Ah yes, the back of Magella top half is exposed a little bit too much as it not covered in armor plating but afterburner exhaust for its flight mode and the cockpit is exposed a little bit too much too.
I think that's how the feds able to capture one of the Zaku, they simply use lots of Type 61 with auto loader system to bombard one of them until it dropped. #speakup
Not to mention that most Feds doctrine of ground combat at the time were massed armor warfare, so a squad of Type 61s firing in volley at a Zaku from an elevated position can easily drop one. #speakup(Edit comment)
Actually that's how you capture a zaku in Mobile Suit Gundam: Gihren Ambition (for PS2). If you start as the Fed you will only get Type 61 tanks and Tin Cods planes. If you succeed on taking down a Zaku team, there will be a cutscene where the Feds start developing mobile suits using the downed Zaku. #speakup(Edit comment)
So, I was never able to get the $60 I paid at launch back from Bethesda, despite Skyrim being broken on the PS3 (and despite it breaking MY PS3, by corrupting my HDD) and their being a 90-day warranty Bethesda wouldn't honor (of course the store wouldn't take it back, as it had already been opened -- which goes against the ridiculous DMCA). Think Bethesda will do right and at least honor their warranty by giving me a code to play the game on Steam on my PC?
I really, really want to finish the game. And after paying $60, having it break my 360, dealing with Sony for hours, I think a code to play the PC version isn't asking to much. Anyone think this would be possible, or does Bethesda really not care that they sold me (and all PS3 owners) a broken game that still hasn't been fixed?
Oh come on, then why have they improved their bugs and have been working on new patches for months? They aren't just leaving gamers out in the cold. It's a shame that the PS3 version has had problems, but that does not speak to the bigger game or what Bethesda cares about. You can believe them to be the big white devil, but they're just another game developer that is trying to fix what is wrong with their game. From what I've heard, the latest patch has helped most people with the PS3 version, and I wish that were the case for Sloopy here. #speakup(Edit comment)
They are a company, so I dont think theyll give you an extra steam code, honestly if you find the game you purchased too buggy you could always torrent it. #speakup(Edit comment)
"but they're just another game developer that is trying to fix what is wrong with their game"
It would help if they actually waited till their game was actually stable until they stopped patching it instead of "slightly more stable than launch" or they weren't so lazy or blatantly lieing (New engine!) during the dev process. Oblivion remains the ONLY game I have had 3 fan patches for and STILL encounter regular obvious bugs and crashes. #speakup
I've already explained to you before that it -is- a new engine. When you start out with an engine and then replace parts until none of the original parts remain, causing you to not have to even pay for licensing on the original engine, that's a new engine.
Skyrim is a lot less buggy than any previous Elder Scrolls game, and while I do wish they had a little more time on debugging, that doesn't mean they don't care about gamers or don't care enough to work on getting the game working. The PS3 was a unique case thanks to the console's memory infrastructure, and it has fortunately been fixed for most. As a developer, they are at least going in the right direction. I look forward to their next game that should be even more refined than this one.
The Elder Scrolls games will never be Japanese games, but they're still good games. With the new Creation Kit out, the game will continue to be fun for quite a while to come. #speakup
"I look forward to their next game that should be even more refined than this one."
This was their third game on the PS3, and apparently they still couldn't get it right. Second game with the same equal problem, Fallout 3 also had the framerate issues.
I don't see how they are improving, better animations that seem like they came from 2007?
They really should be more about quality over quantity. They obviously can't do open world game right, they should take a break till they get better at coding and not release patches that break the game even more. #speakup
Exactly: New engine=we replaced the parts we have to licenses.
The exact same bugs fans have identified and fixed were still present. That isn't "didn't have enough time for perfect QA", it's "we're incompetent". #speakup
ha. "They obviously can't do open world game right"? Despite the fact that they released the highest-lauded and best-received open world game of the last decade?
Come on. They remade the engine and that improved things. They do need to start from the ground up on it, but I don't think there's any reason for them to just stop making games like this. No one else truly makes games like this, but they seem to make it work. Sure they're rough, but it's not a lack of polish. It's just an odd part of this sub-genre of sandbox RPG games. They're far from a perfect developer, but they're also trying and achieving things many other developers simply couldn't do.
I don't appreciate the bugs either, but I've only personally seen a few. In comparison to their past games, this has been an amazingly smooth experience. No one in their right mind could consider Skyrim "not getting it right" in comparison to the past. They got it right. Not perfectly right, but right.
truthtellah, somehow I think if you played my PS3 copy, you would change your mind.
If getting it right means playing the game for 10 minutes before the frame rate drops, stuck on loading screens, backwards flying dragons, textures not loading up properly, not being able to enter cities then I can't imagine what it's like if they get it wrong.
I played STALKER, every single one of them. They are the buggiest fucking games I've ever played and I still think they are the best franchise out there. Skyrim is not, not even close will ever be to achieving that in my mind. They need to go back to Morrowind and see what they did right, with story, actual interesting characters and an amazing experience all around. #speakup
Also, I think we're off topic. I'm not saying I think they shouldn't help Sloopy out. I think they should, as the PS3 version has had real problems due to its unique architecture. I was simply disagreeing with deux who gets in his jabs whenever given the opportunity. He can't seem to let any opportunity go by without petulantly spouting unrelenting vehemence on Western RPGs of this type. Sloopy has good reason to be complaining here, but deux is just bandwagoning on any possible discontent like a leech on negativity. He has no concern for anyone but himself and his own dogmatic view of how things are. #speakup(Edit comment)
I'm sorry that your experience with the PS3 version has been so bad, but that hasn't been the case for all of us who have enjoyed the game on various platforms. I've enjoyed it on the 360 and PC with few bumps in the road. So, you certainly have a case for complaining about the PS3 version and possibly getting some help from Bethesda or Sony, but as for the larger game, it is still far better and more stable than previous entries in the franchise. You can like Stalker more, but I would disagree. I have no issue with you having your own opinion on this, and I hope you will get appropriate help for your time with Skyrim. #speakup(Edit comment)
I don't have a problem with WRPGs at all, in fact I bought Recoking to support 38 Studios since I don't want Bioware and Bethesda to be the only ones around.
I just feel that people who defend the game and say that it's still fun despite the bugs, they obviously didn't have a firsthand experience on what we are going through.
We are paying customers, they even seem to be AWARE of the problem since they didn't ship out PS3 copies to reviewers. They wanted to hide it, it's obvious that they did. #speakup
They replaced a few parts and then replaced every previous part left over from the old engine. That's a new engine. They didn't just stop with a few parts. You can say they're lying when they say they've rebuilt every part of it, but that's what the developers themselves have said happened. I do believe there are legitimate issues here, but not on the absurd scale that you suggest with every comment. You'd think Bethesda had killed your mother or something the way you go around to anyone who mentions a Bethesda or Western RPG game and just lambast them. People know how you feel about the games, deux. We know where you stand. There's no reason to continue your campaign against any Western game that isn't perfect or any Japanese game that doesn't live up to your vision of how they should be. At a certain point, your unrelenting complaining just becomes like the horrible buzzing of an old television set. If you are going to complain, you're going to have to at least change it up a bit and perhaps get some new tactics, but right now, it has simply become stale and sad. #speakup(Edit comment)
I know you aren't against WRPGs. Anything like that is me referring to deux and his obsessions. You're free to be displeased with the PS3 version. I can't vouch for how bad that version is. I can only say that the 360 and PC versions have been quite nice. I'm sorry to hear how bad your PS3 experience was. My issue isn't with you. I wish you the best of luck in convincing the developer to help you out and accommodate your concerns. (Edit comment)
Does anyone out there have a game that has affected their life and perhaps shaped what you are now?
I do, and here is the story as to why.
When I was growing up, I played games. I wasn't really big into them though, I had a NES then a SNES but I would have rather played outside than play them. I would play them occasionally on rainy days, when it wasn't raining though I was out playing sports with my friends or just messing around outside. Then at around age 7 I was diagnosed with a thing called Sever's Disease, which basically meant my heel bone had stunted growth due to all of the sports I was playing... I was told by my doctor that I couldn't play sports or really do anything until the problem had fixed itself. I got this news near the end of the school year when all the sports were kicking into gear. I was devastated... I could no longer do the things I loved, I just sat around depressed, hating life. I started to grow further and further away from my old friends as I could no longer do the things we used to enjoy. My parents noticed how depressed I was and decided to take the whole family on vacation. This was my first time ever flying in a plane... It turns out that going on that flight was probably the best thing that could have happened to me.
On the plane my brother started complaining about how he wanted to sit by the window. So I let him. I didn't really care either way. I was bored on the flight and not having a good time at all and decided to look at the various magazines in the pocket in front of my seat. I noticed something in there besides magazines. It was a gameboy color. I never had one before, I never thought of getting one either. Inside the gameboy color was a copy of pokemon red. I turned it on and started playing. I was instantly lost in the game. I had never played anything like it. I had chosen charmander as my starter pokemon and with him I went on fantastic journeys and did things I wished I could do in real life. I had friends again, they were virtual friends but that's all I really had at the time. I was enthralled by the game, I couldn't put it down I sat there and played it the entire length of the vacation, and the plane ride back. That game brought me so much joy, and I couldn't put it down.
I really felt happy again. A year passed most of the friends I had once had started making fun of me for playing it, but I didn't really care. I had made new friends (not the pokemon either) who shared the same interests as me. We shared tips secrets dueled eachother and just enjoyed playing the game. However... times change and they started releasing more and more pokemon games... but I didn't care about them I just cared about my pokemon red game. I could never get into the rest of them, I just felt like they were throwing the things I loved away for newer things. I wasn't depressed again but I never did get another of the games.
From that point on I got into more and more games, but I still go back to look at my copy Red every once in a while. I reminisce about the good times I had playing it, all of the crazy things I did in it, Such as getting a charmander to level 70 before going to brock's gym. How I caught all the pokemon in red and blue and got them all onto my copy of red then leveled them up to max level (without abusing rare candies). I must have spent thousands upon thousands of hours on that single game. Sadly I played it so much that it broke. Still have the game in storage though.
That game pretty much introduced me to many great games in the world it's what really got me into gaming in the first place. If it wasn't for that fateful day on that plain I doubt I would be half as interested in games as I currently am.
Anyone else have a game like that in their life. Or just have a game they really enjoy?
My game like that is definitely Final Fantasy VII. I spent so much time in that game just leveling up, loving the characters, racing chocobos, and just really doing anything. I have a ton of great memories from that game that I will always remember.
I spent a ton of time in Pokemon as well. I should say that you shouldn't have felt like you would lose something by going on to Pokemon Gold/Silver! You could transfer your Pokemon and continue your journey with them! #speakup
Just didn't recognize the meme. Know CAD is a terrible web-comic, just didn't connect "CAD" to it. Also thought it could have been a MLP meme (I'm sure the show is fine but I just don't watch TV in general anymore, sure it's made by the people behind shows I liked when I actually did watch TV, but it's cable) #speakup(Edit comment)
I haven't heard that it is my fellow .Hacker. The Vita is region free though you will need a seperate memory stick for each region you want to have an account under. It is a lengthy process that IGN has a video on. #speakup(Edit comment)
had freezing issues with WipEout 2048 for PSVita, deleted it and redownloaded it with my PS3. Transferred it from PS3 to PSVita...my save file is gone.
how do you retain your save file if you want to clear up space on your memory card? #speakup
thought of that, but it backs up everything, including games, so if I was to delete a game and try to recover a save file from the back up, it would put the game back on it. #speakup(Edit comment)
My PS3 controller is dusty as all hell in every little crevice!
How do people usually clean these things? Normal cloth? Tooth brush? Just with water?
Reminds me of the time my controller's d-pad was sticky and I had to open it up. Took me over an hour to put it back together with the triggers working properly... #speakup
See, my comment can go both ways. On the one hand you might be surprised I do it so much.
On the other hand, you'd be surprised how little I do it.
Either way, I need to do it more. I consistently get into discussions I regret, and make posts I regret. But on the other hand, it's much better than when I was younger and greener. I'm proud of the progress I've made in 5 years. (One day I'll write a book about all the stupid shit I did as a teenager. Doing drugs? Partying? Getting a chick pregnant? Nah man, that stuff's casual. When I was a teenager, I posted stupid shit on the internet, got trolled reaaaaaaaaaaaally hard, and generally made myself look like the child I was. That's new age Teen Stupidity if you ask me.)
It also helps that the comment system on Kotaku is so great....
Yeah, it happens to me occasionally, I just dont hit cancel anymore, I scroll down and see if theres another comment I want to reply to, if not I just close the tab so the cancel glitch doesnt happen to me.
Guiness Video Game Best Ending Award
[games.on.net]
#speakup
#tips
#WTF
This proves that just because something is popular, doesn't make it good.
(Edit comment)I think video games are too demanding for a comprehensive list to ever actually be made. Movies are 2 hours, and a person can probably watch the majority of the world's best cinema. With video games there are so many which are loved, and some of them require 100 hours to fully understand them.
Then with interactive media and its methods of storytelling, there's really no definite type of ending that is universally accepted as the best. I would assume that the list is listing off the best movie-style endings.
Long story short, an expectation of a quality list with video games is a little unrealistic. #speakup
(Edit comment)A lot of those popular games have really great endings. Some of 'em, not so much.
Not the worst I've ever seen, at the very least.
#speakup
(Edit comment)So.
I just won these in a Ebay auction for a cool $50.
This headset is the Psyko 5.1.
Even though I am very happy with my Sennhieser HD280, I thought It would be fun to get these headphones a shot based on the technology behind them alone. :D
You see, these dont have the speakers in the earmuffs like other headphones. The speakers are on top of the headband! Using what they call 'Psyko Waves Technology' they funnel the sound into the ears.
Either that or some form of witchcraft.
Should be fun. :D #speakup
(Edit comment)Witch! Burn it with Destruction Magic!
Wait, that must mean...
I am a Witch, too... ....
*hands a knife to Shinta*
Kill us both. :| #speakup
(Edit comment):D #speakup (Edit comment)
I needa get rich #speakup (Edit comment)
During the Valve Power Outage, I got to play Team Fortress 2 like it used to be. No specialty weapons, no hats, no trading, just good times.
Sometimes, power outages can be good for us. #speakup
(Edit comment)WATCH OUT, ADELE!...J. COLE IS DOING HIS BEST RICH BOY IMPRESSION! #speakup (Edit comment)
ha! How silly!
Adele is so awesome. A lot better Grammys thanks to her presence. :) #speakup
(Edit comment)And now... something creepy.
#speakup
(Edit comment)On a side note, The River is awesome.
Cant wait for the next episode. :D #speakup
(Edit comment):D #speakup (Edit comment)
[www.bestweekever.tv]
From The River. :3 #speakup
(Edit comment)I will get you back eventually, Kagami. #speakup (Edit comment)
Looks like you could use a hat. :3 #speakup (Edit comment)
Oh tsk its a secret source that I can't disclosed yet. :3 #speakup (Edit comment)
Reminds me of this.
[www.weebls-stuff.com] #speakup
(Edit comment)ooo That gif is so beautiful. Very nice.
I am jealous, Sgt. #speakup
(Edit comment)An Australian in a Starbucks made a threatening statement to Matt Groening, Al Jean and the people who gave Julian Assange his guest role in the Simpsons' 500th episode that "They'll regret giving the scourge to all governments another 15 minutes of fame that would entice him to leak more stuff". He adds that Australia should also censor the 500th episode off their TV channels, video websites based on Australia and other places.
Haters be hating I guess. At least, he didn't attempt the 'Cartman attempts to cancel Family Guy.'
#speakup
(Edit comment)#TheSimpsons
Australia gave him their equivalent of the Pulitzer prize for outstanding journalism, so complaining about The Simpson's episode just sounds ridiculous.
For the record, I think he absolutely deserved the award, and it's shameful that our government is crushing investigative journalism. People criticize the internet in China, but don't care when it happens right here. #speakup
(Edit comment)It's ALWAYS easier to criticise when it's someone else. So it isn't even that people don't care when it happens in the US, it's that they're blind to it.
I'm not going to comment on people threatening the Simpsons guys' lives because idiots will overreact to anything. But having watched the new Simpsons episode, I didn't even notice Julian Assange's cameo. I only noticed Michael Cera. #speakup
(Edit comment)I'm about 6 months late, but I just found out Decapitated put out another album. It's totally awesome. I saw these guys live and it was the best metal show I've ever seen, and easily the best guitar player I will ever see in person.
Also ... the drummer died in a tragic car accident a few months after I saw them. They're back with all new members except the guitar player, who is carrying on with the band despite their truly tragic past. #speakup
(Edit comment)*cracks up*
Why? What? Why is this a comment?
Maybe you should edit this and remove the Speakup tag.
It sounds so mean when you cut it out of context. Though, sure. He's a fine fellow, but he does have real issues with obsessions and blatant, unrelenting bigotry. But, hey, a lot of people in this world have their own issues with bigotry. It's sad to see, but it's true. I believe he can get around them, absolutely, but these obsessions with WRPGs and the developers at Bethesda has just become unhealthy.
I think eatplaysleepmore represented his positions far better than deux. epsm shows that you can dislike a game without obsessively disliking a game series and developer, and you can disagree without talking as though your word is god. It only bothers me because it's more of a shame than anything else, as there are real issues here which muddle a good person's simple desire to be heard and understood to become the rantings of a horrible egotist. #speakup
(Edit comment)Whut...
*slowly realizes what just happened*
Ohhh, I posted this on the Speakup thing? This was a response to you! I just found that comment you made extremely funny, nothing against the guy! #speakup
(Edit comment)ha. Well, I'm glad you found it funny. It's a tumultuous situation, as he's one of the rare people here on Kotaku that I don't really care for. I agree with him a decent bit, but when he disagrees with someone, he seems to become Cobra Kai. #speakup (Edit comment)
I do hate that. It's the worst.
I recommend watching an inanely boring video or listening to NPR. #speakup
(Edit comment):O What!?!?! How It's Made is one of my favorite shows!!
Come on, really... did you know we eat Honey with beeswax still in it? #speakup
(Edit comment)Yeah, I usually watch TV or read to fall back asleep. When I try to just close my eyes, it doesn't work and I end up on the internet...
..oh wait. #speakup
(Edit comment)I love Soundcloud, that place is a treasure trove of great musicians, some of them are even generous enough to give their songs for free even though I can say they are worth purchasing.
Here one of them: [soundcloud.com] #speakup
(Edit comment)Mass Effect 3 leaked script here, but mostly stuff people have seen before.
[dana-duchovny.livejournal.com]
Picture is relevant, because someone at Bioware apparently like it enough. Hint hint.
[chasing-the-redline.deviantart.com]
#spoilers
(Edit comment)#speakup
I'm not sure if there's really a spoiler in this, but uh... could you take down the image?
Possibly just put it in a reply?
The staff have been pretty clearly against posting spoilers or links to spoilers for Mass Effect 3, and I'm not sure it's appropriate. It's one thing to talk about the game, but to post up possible spoilers, that's suspect. :\ #speakup
(Edit comment)It's not really a spoiler. Just that a few lines of throwaway dialogue references it, which is pretty amazing for a piece of fanart.
Also, I want to freak people out. #speakup
(Edit comment)Heh, I've seen this image before. Hilarious. As someone who is not a Tali fanboy, her being a bunch of spiders would be fine by me.
Edit: For truthtellah - The dialogue is all from ME2. This came out before the script was leaked, though it sounds like they're going to make a reference to it (probably one of the usual "What's under her mask?" type things).
(Edit comment)OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!!! :D :D :D
[www.hlj.com]
#speakup
(Edit comment)#dowant
Armor wise: Since the EFGF were expecting to face Zeonic tanks on ground combat the armor of this tank were expectic to be very thick against the Zeon Megella 175mm gun. Of course the introduction of Zaku pretty much make armor thickness useless, but it would've been a though monster to face in traditional warfare.
Weapons: the twin 150mm guns would be a nightmare against MBTs of its days, even against our modern MBTs. The gun can most likely penned the armor of a Zaku. The effectiveness of the gun was questionable since it lack the elevation needed to hit the Zaku's critical part. Not to mention the added cost of having an extra loader, gunner, and ammo can weight down the overall speed of this tank.
So in term of overall effectiveness, it would've been the EFGF's Tiger I, feared in traditional combat but hampered by design flawed and limitations against the numerous and mobile Zakus.
(Edit comment)#speakup
The Zeon's Magella tank are most likely designed for infantry support in operations without Zakus. The upper hull is designed to be a sort of 'escape pod' but it is poorly qualified for such a role as it is the most likely area to be targeted by small arms fire, not to mention the limited fuel placement would unlikely to allow to be in air for more than a few minutes.
Also I double checked the Type 61 weapons with my next door dorm-mate, she believes the twin guns are using an automatic loader system housed at the bottom of the turret basket. So it should make it lighter and slightly more maneuverable. #speakup
(Edit comment)Ah yes, the back of Magella top half is exposed a little bit too much as it not covered in armor plating but afterburner exhaust for its flight mode and the cockpit is exposed a little bit too much too.
I think that's how the feds able to capture one of the Zaku, they simply use lots of Type 61 with auto loader system to bombard one of them until it dropped. #speakup
(Edit comment)None can stand before the Imperium! #speakup (Edit comment)
So, I was never able to get the $60 I paid at launch back from Bethesda, despite Skyrim being broken on the PS3 (and despite it breaking MY PS3, by corrupting my HDD) and their being a 90-day warranty Bethesda wouldn't honor (of course the store wouldn't take it back, as it had already been opened -- which goes against the ridiculous DMCA). Think Bethesda will do right and at least honor their warranty by giving me a code to play the game on Steam on my PC?
I really, really want to finish the game. And after paying $60, having it break my 360, dealing with Sony for hours, I think a code to play the PC version isn't asking to much. Anyone think this would be possible, or does Bethesda really not care that they sold me (and all PS3 owners) a broken game that still hasn't been fixed?
#speakup
(Edit comment)#tips
#ps3
#pc
#steam
#bethesda
"but they're just another game developer that is trying to fix what is wrong with their game"
It would help if they actually waited till their game was actually stable until they stopped patching it instead of "slightly more stable than launch" or they weren't so lazy or blatantly lieing (New engine!) during the dev process. Oblivion remains the ONLY game I have had 3 fan patches for and STILL encounter regular obvious bugs and crashes. #speakup
(Edit comment)I've already explained to you before that it -is- a new engine. When you start out with an engine and then replace parts until none of the original parts remain, causing you to not have to even pay for licensing on the original engine, that's a new engine.
Skyrim is a lot less buggy than any previous Elder Scrolls game, and while I do wish they had a little more time on debugging, that doesn't mean they don't care about gamers or don't care enough to work on getting the game working. The PS3 was a unique case thanks to the console's memory infrastructure, and it has fortunately been fixed for most. As a developer, they are at least going in the right direction. I look forward to their next game that should be even more refined than this one.
The Elder Scrolls games will never be Japanese games, but they're still good games. With the new Creation Kit out, the game will continue to be fun for quite a while to come. #speakup
(Edit comment)"I look forward to their next game that should be even more refined than this one."
This was their third game on the PS3, and apparently they still couldn't get it right. Second game with the same equal problem, Fallout 3 also had the framerate issues.
I don't see how they are improving, better animations that seem like they came from 2007?
They really should be more about quality over quantity. They obviously can't do open world game right, they should take a break till they get better at coding and not release patches that break the game even more. #speakup
(Edit comment)Exactly: New engine=we replaced the parts we have to licenses.
The exact same bugs fans have identified and fixed were still present. That isn't "didn't have enough time for perfect QA", it's "we're incompetent". #speakup
(Edit comment)ha. "They obviously can't do open world game right"? Despite the fact that they released the highest-lauded and best-received open world game of the last decade?
Come on. They remade the engine and that improved things. They do need to start from the ground up on it, but I don't think there's any reason for them to just stop making games like this. No one else truly makes games like this, but they seem to make it work. Sure they're rough, but it's not a lack of polish. It's just an odd part of this sub-genre of sandbox RPG games. They're far from a perfect developer, but they're also trying and achieving things many other developers simply couldn't do.
I don't appreciate the bugs either, but I've only personally seen a few. In comparison to their past games, this has been an amazingly smooth experience. No one in their right mind could consider Skyrim "not getting it right" in comparison to the past. They got it right. Not perfectly right, but right.
(Edit comment)truthtellah, somehow I think if you played my PS3 copy, you would change your mind.
If getting it right means playing the game for 10 minutes before the frame rate drops, stuck on loading screens, backwards flying dragons, textures not loading up properly, not being able to enter cities then I can't imagine what it's like if they get it wrong.
I played STALKER, every single one of them. They are the buggiest fucking games I've ever played and I still think they are the best franchise out there. Skyrim is not, not even close will ever be to achieving that in my mind. They need to go back to Morrowind and see what they did right, with story, actual interesting characters and an amazing experience all around. #speakup
(Edit comment)I don't have a problem with WRPGs at all, in fact I bought Recoking to support 38 Studios since I don't want Bioware and Bethesda to be the only ones around.
I just feel that people who defend the game and say that it's still fun despite the bugs, they obviously didn't have a firsthand experience on what we are going through.
We are paying customers, they even seem to be AWARE of the problem since they didn't ship out PS3 copies to reviewers. They wanted to hide it, it's obvious that they did. #speakup
(Edit comment)Does anyone out there have a game that has affected their life and perhaps shaped what you are now?
I do, and here is the story as to why.
When I was growing up, I played games. I wasn't really big into them though, I had a NES then a SNES but I would have rather played outside than play them. I would play them occasionally on rainy days, when it wasn't raining though I was out playing sports with my friends or just messing around outside. Then at around age 7 I was diagnosed with a thing called Sever's Disease, which basically meant my heel bone had stunted growth due to all of the sports I was playing... I was told by my doctor that I couldn't play sports or really do anything until the problem had fixed itself. I got this news near the end of the school year when all the sports were kicking into gear. I was devastated... I could no longer do the things I loved, I just sat around depressed, hating life. I started to grow further and further away from my old friends as I could no longer do the things we used to enjoy. My parents noticed how depressed I was and decided to take the whole family on vacation. This was my first time ever flying in a plane... It turns out that going on that flight was probably the best thing that could have happened to me.
On the plane my brother started complaining about how he wanted to sit by the window. So I let him. I didn't really care either way. I was bored on the flight and not having a good time at all and decided to look at the various magazines in the pocket in front of my seat. I noticed something in there besides magazines. It was a gameboy color. I never had one before, I never thought of getting one either. Inside the gameboy color was a copy of pokemon red. I turned it on and started playing. I was instantly lost in the game. I had never played anything like it. I had chosen charmander as my starter pokemon and with him I went on fantastic journeys and did things I wished I could do in real life. I had friends again, they were virtual friends but that's all I really had at the time. I was enthralled by the game, I couldn't put it down I sat there and played it the entire length of the vacation, and the plane ride back. That game brought me so much joy, and I couldn't put it down.
I really felt happy again. A year passed most of the friends I had once had started making fun of me for playing it, but I didn't really care. I had made new friends (not the pokemon either) who shared the same interests as me. We shared tips secrets dueled eachother and just enjoyed playing the game. However... times change and they started releasing more and more pokemon games... but I didn't care about them I just cared about my pokemon red game. I could never get into the rest of them, I just felt like they were throwing the things I loved away for newer things. I wasn't depressed again but I never did get another of the games.
From that point on I got into more and more games, but I still go back to look at my copy Red every once in a while. I reminisce about the good times I had playing it, all of the crazy things I did in it, Such as getting a charmander to level 70 before going to brock's gym. How I caught all the pokemon in red and blue and got them all onto my copy of red then leveled them up to max level (without abusing rare candies). I must have spent thousands upon thousands of hours on that single game. Sadly I played it so much that it broke. Still have the game in storage though.
That game pretty much introduced me to many great games in the world it's what really got me into gaming in the first place. If it wasn't for that fateful day on that plain I doubt I would be half as interested in games as I currently am.
Anyone else have a game like that in their life. Or just have a game they really enjoy?
#speakup
(Edit comment)Pokemon Red was a good time! I can't think of any of my own personal stories, but you might want to head over to this site: [www.gamessavedmylife.com]
It is a site created and ran by Ashley Burch (of HAWP fame). Gamers share their testimonials at this site and I think you should submit your story.
Have fun. #speakup
(Edit comment)Great story man. Really enjoyed it!
My game like that is definitely Final Fantasy VII. I spent so much time in that game just leveling up, loving the characters, racing chocobos, and just really doing anything. I have a ton of great memories from that game that I will always remember.
I spent a ton of time in Pokemon as well. I should say that you shouldn't have felt like you would lose something by going on to Pokemon Gold/Silver! You could transfer your Pokemon and continue your journey with them! #speakup
(Edit comment)I might just do that, it seems like a really cool site
#speakup
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Gawker is failing me again:
[knowyourmeme.com]
(Edit comment)How so? They don't recognize the meme/joke?
They don't... They don't "Like" CTRL ALT DELETE do they? #speakup
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So, apparently McDonalds Japan has a new mascot.
Thoughts?
#offtopic
(Edit comment)#speakup
I'm not sure, but it has been making the rounds today. My local anime convention mentioned it; so, I thought I'd bring it up.
A lot better than some of Japan's previous McDonalds mascots. Their old one was a geeky white guy...
(Edit comment)They don't use old Donald McDonald any longer? Weird.
I say go for the loli girl. That sells crap in Japan still right? #speakup
(Edit comment)Id eat her.
[instantrimshot.com]
#speakup
(Edit comment)Donald?
Or Ronald McDonald? #speakup
(Edit comment)...
[en.wikipedia.org]
(Edit comment)#speakup
heh. The Curse of the Colonel is unfortunately not very well known.
Though, I think they'll still have Ronald McDonald statues. They may just be using this girl in advertising. #speakup
(Edit comment)Does anyone know if the Vita game Ciel Neosurge is getting an English-language release?
Or if the Vita is region-free at least? But more the first question... #speakup
(Edit comment)had freezing issues with WipEout 2048 for PSVita, deleted it and redownloaded it with my PS3. Transferred it from PS3 to PSVita...my save file is gone.
how do you retain your save file if you want to clear up space on your memory card? #speakup
(Edit comment)Maybe this will help?
[manuals.playstation.net] #speakup
(Edit comment)My PS3 controller is dusty as all hell in every little crevice!
How do people usually clean these things? Normal cloth? Tooth brush? Just with water?
Reminds me of the time my controller's d-pad was sticky and I had to open it up. Took me over an hour to put it back together with the triggers working properly... #speakup
(Edit comment)When replying to a post, if you hit "Cancel", it posts the reply instead of... well canceling.
Anyone else having this happen? Seems intermittent..
#speakup
(Edit comment)Aye, happens to me more often than it should. :\
#speakup
(Edit comment)I... don't think I've ever even hit the Cancel button.
... #speakup
(Edit comment)See, my comment can go both ways. On the one hand you might be surprised I do it so much.
On the other hand, you'd be surprised how little I do it.
Either way, I need to do it more. I consistently get into discussions I regret, and make posts I regret. But on the other hand, it's much better than when I was younger and greener. I'm proud of the progress I've made in 5 years. (One day I'll write a book about all the stupid shit I did as a teenager. Doing drugs? Partying? Getting a chick pregnant? Nah man, that stuff's casual. When I was a teenager, I posted stupid shit on the internet, got trolled reaaaaaaaaaaaally hard, and generally made myself look like the child I was. That's new age Teen Stupidity if you ask me.)
It also helps that the comment system on Kotaku is so great....
...Except for when bugs like this happen!
(Edit comment)Yeah, it happens to me occasionally, I just dont hit cancel anymore, I scroll down and see if theres another comment I want to reply to, if not I just close the tab so the cancel glitch doesnt happen to me.
#speakup
(Edit comment)I always have the opposite happening. I hit cancel on accident, rather than reply. Then I lose.. however many minutes I wasted typing up my response.
The worst thing is that it ALWAYS happens when I type up a large response. Never when it's a short snarky quip. #speakup
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