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I think he's waiting for us to do our own ordering of these 25, or a Save My Angelo's Top 25 Songs, or something.

I'll get right on that ordering after I listen to the ones I'm not familiar with...

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Funny, I just beat New Vegas today. Was watching the credits and there were seriously like 50 names that went by for "additional voices," notwithstanding the special characters done by "real" actors.

Doesn't really bother me much either. I'm used to there only being two total voice actors, 1 male and 1 female, so to even have the luxury of 4 or 6 is kinda nice.

junk factory?? top 25?

If you're getting Oblivion, IMHO, get it for the PC and download a few mods to fix the leveling system. It's the one major thing about the game I find insufferable. Beyond that, it's great. (At least Bethesda has acknowledged this and appears to be changing the system in Skyrim.) Granted, Morrowind's leveling had some issues, too. I have to admit that the series had a unique take on leveling, which is refreshing, but the whole world-levels-with-you that Oblivion specifically did was terribad.

Civ IV

I used to get angry every time I played Halo at my friend's. It's pretty annoying to be scoffed at by 10-year-olds in chipmunk voices telling me how much I suck because I don't know which weapons are better than which or how to navigate the maps.

TomNook7 posted...
azuarc posted...
Enjoy wiggling your thumbsticks while I'm playing my text adventure games.

this aint the 90s anymore chump

enjoy your uninspired witcher gaemz


People played text adventure games in the 90's? Where were they all? I haven't seen a legit text adventure this side of my old C-64. Maybe you're the one a little slow to adopt, hmm? (And no, Myst does not count as a text adventure, even though it plays just like one.)

Sentences are a lot harder to when there's no verb.

Geez, Moonwalker. THAT brings back memories. Somehow I don't think it would have *quite* the same impact today, given that the King of Pop is regarded a bit differently than in the early 90s. I mean, he was still black then, wasn't regarded as guano crazy, was still alive...

Enjoy wiggling your thumbsticks while I'm playing my text adventure games.

E) Try to strike up a conversation with the girl, even if it is hard to charm a gal when you smell like $#!@

For the same reason that I enjoy watching my neighbors have sex, maybe?

<3 settlers

Some day I might get the 6-player expansion, but it seems like I have a hard time finding people willing to play board games outside of the mainstream.

I don't have an official gamepad, although I do own a 360. I haven't had a PC gamepad since my old original Gravis from like '92 that I never used anyway. Even flight sim games worked out better for me on a trackball.

I can understand why someone might want one for Bastion, though, if I'm remembering the right game.

*reads thread*

Yep, nothing particularly exciting for me in Sep or Oct. Has Frozenbye finally given a release date on Trine 2 yet?

yes

And since I missed all the previous days of this, I also remember watching 1, 3, 4, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 23, 24, 28, 29, 32, 34, 40, 44, 46, 49, 54, 55, 57, and 59. A few of the others I glimpsed in passing but never really watched myself.

Dauntless Hunter posted...
From: JaKyL25 | #062
The only reason CDs got cheaper is because everyone stopped buying them. 10 years ago, getting a new one for less than $20 was a real bargain.
I think you mean 20 years ago. 10 years ago, people had already stopped buying CDs.

Not everyone hopped on the Napster train of internet piracy as soon as they caught wind of it. I still occasionally buy CDs because I like having the physical resource. And CDs weren't always $20. Maybe when the technology first came around and people were still buying cassettes. But as long as you didn't buy from Sam Goody in the mall, you usually didn't spend $20 on a CD. $15, tops.

This argument extends far deeper that you realize. Although ultimately I believe it's up to the gaming industry to adapt and not make games with such huge production budgets, there are a lot of different gamer philosophies that are also at work here.

Growing up, I didn't get money from my parents. Instead, I got one game on my birthday and one at Christmas. Maybe. We had a treasure trove of old C-64 games, so my parents essentially expected me to play those, if anything. So the games I got, I treasured and played to death. I learned them inside out and beat them repeatedly. I got a lot of shareware games back when that was still popular for the PC market. I traded with my friends or visited their houses constantly to try to see other games I wouldn't be buying. As a result, I'm a very focused sort of gamer who only buys a few commercial releases each year, and targets ones I'll get good replay out of. In the last decade, a good chunk of my playtime has gone toward MMOs. The rest has gone toward games I'd still get a bare minimum of 30 hours of playtime out of. I treasure my old games and hold onto them. I heavily regret the day I traded in all my N64 stuff, even though I had barely touched any of it for years.

My two roommates are brothers. They grew up in a small house in a family of eight, and never had a lot of money to go around for games either. However because they also didn't have space to keep a lot of stuff and they were strictly console gamers, it plays out very differently for them. Typically, they buy a game, play it for a week, and then trade it back in. They use those funds to get another game. Games come through our apartment faster than bad girlfriends, but I never get a chance to try any of the games they buy because the instant they decide there's another game they want more, it's gone. In spite of my couple-games-a-year budget, I have more actual games on tap than the two of them combined because they each have about 3 or 4 games total remaining.

So I don't see too many different current games. They do. They certainly have the capability to extend one purchase into a 60-hour adventure on some epic RPG, but once they are finished with a game, they don't revisit it and view a game on the shelf as dead money. I take a more nostalgic view. Needless to say, they love the used game market because they are sellers. They don't often buy used because they're always getting the new releases, and thus there's no point. OTOH, if I deal in used games, it's to buy because I'm going back and checking out non-current games I missed. Neither of us is going to change our operating budget for games, but we're very opposite in how we approach the gaming industry.



Oh, and by the way, I absolutely hate "incentives." Maybe I'm jaded because of the couple games I've dealt with that had them, but including a DLC pack that I would otherwise have to pay $15 for and having it come with an expiration date of a couple months after release is pretty bad. Not a move I would have expected from a company like Bioware. Considering that I installed Dragon Age on my old computer, I hope I don't get the itch to play it again now because I'm not sure if I'd still have access to those materials.

And most incentives I've seen are dumb. Buy now and your character gets a hat! Or, buy now and you get a hat in Team Fortress 2! (Um, wtf? Why do I care about TF2 when I'm looking at Skyrim?) No, I don't want companies to "find a way" to get me to buy more games at $60. I want them to sell more games at under $60 so I can buy more of them.

I'm afraid I still don't understand the love some people have for Zero-Two. And oh god, we're only getting a couple at a time now. The suspense!

Current:
1 Save My Favorite PS2 Game
1 Save My DC Character
1 Save My Psychic Pokemon
1 Save My Users Contest
1 Save My Dinosaur
0 Save My Sony Playstation Greatest Hits Titles

Nominated:
1 Save My Harry Potter (character?)

Safe:
Save My Black/White Pokemon
Save My Green Eggs and Ham Words
Save My Random Character
Save My Sword
Save My "Save My" Game
Save My Pirate

Current:
1 Save My Pirate
1 Save My Favorite PS2 Game
1 Save My DC Character
0 Save My Psychic Pokemon
1 Save My Users Contest
0 Save My Dinosaur
0 Save My Sony Playstation Greatest Hits Titles
1 Save My "Save My" Game

Safe:
Save My Black/White Pokemon
Save My Green Eggs and Ham Words
Save My Random Character
Save My Sword

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paulg - I was just working with what was active on the board. Unless there are some other people who really want to extend this, I was gonna keep this one short and sweet. Out of curiosity, what would you want to see added?

SSS - ha, ok. Fair enough.


Current:
0 Save My Pirate
0 Save My Favorite PS2 Game
1 Save My Random Character
1 Save My Sword
0 Save My DC Character
1 Save My Green Eggs and Ham Words
0 Save My Psychic Pokemon
1 Save My Users Contest
1 Save My Black/White Pokemon
0 Save My Dinosaur
0 Save My Sony Playstation Greatest Hits Titles
1 Save My "Save My" Game

With all the "Save My XXX" games going, it's only fair.

* Two save votes required
* One vote per hour

Y'know, standard stuff.



* Save My Pirate
* Save My Favorite PS2 Game
* Save My Random Character
* Save My Sword
* Save My DC Character
* Save My Green Eggs and Ham Words
* Save My Psychic Pokemon
* Save My Users Contest: the P topic
* Save My Black/White Pokemon
* Save My Dinosaur
* Save My Sony Playstation Greatest Hits Titles

little too much Laura love here for me. Positive Force.


and Boomer Kuwanger lost? Geez.

scooby

nyaaaaah

You need a Mighty Mouse stapler.

My ideal afterlife would be to get a chance to observe all the things from this life/world that I didn't have the opportunity to sample the first time, or that I want to relive. Notably, I mean like books, movies, games, music, etc....but I suppose you could apply that to people too if you wanted to.

only the ones I know, because I know how they'll take it. Just as I wouldn't make a black joke to a random person on the street.

pulled down ><

Mjolnir Mix

TBQH, it doesn't matter all that much how either side of the argument tries to spin things. It's really, ultimately, about perception. Blizzard is a company that has always heavily staked their games on having a reputation for creating products of a certain caliber and quality. Paying $15 monthly to play WoW ultimately costs more money, but it's considered acceptable to do so. The move to "split" a game into "thirds," regardless of how it actually plays out financially or even effectively for the playerbase is moot. It makes Blizzard look bad. Anything that makes Blizzard look bad is a poor move in the long run.