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Maybe if it was like 2005 and I cared about Flash games any more.

Though I suppose other Flash multimedia is probably gone, like all those Stick Figure Death Theater videos.

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Metal Gear Solid 3 - don't know how I ever finished this as a teenager, I tried it again like ten years later and was fucking terrible at it. But also one of my favorite games.

Resident Evil 4 - Played the remastered version within the past decade but I have a really hard time grasping survival horror in general so I didn't even make it past the opening town scene fml.

myztikrice posted...

How bad are your eyes that you didn't notice HDR was on?

I didn't realize "HDR" was a thing for *Operating Systems*. I'm used to the concept in video games, sure, but didn't think it would be a thing for your standard desktop environment. And mileage varies, for some people the image quality is fine or even better with HDR on but for others, myself included, it can make the image quality much worse.

DarthAragorn posted...

How old is your PC that HDR has a noticeable effect on performance?

It's a really new laptop, actually. Also my issue wasn't just with the performance hit, but also with the fact that the image quality was really off when HDR was enabled. If you look around you'll see many other people had a similar experience.

LonelyStoner posted...

Episodic games have been so overdone, though. Especially through companies like TellTale

Life is Strange is better than most anything TellTale has put out though. It's a different game where you have chances to explore the world and talk to people and learn more about them rather than just playing through the equivalent of a graphic novel in video game form

Turok: Dinosaur Hunter
Tomb Raider II
Pokemon Snap
Duke Nukem 3D
Donkey Kong Country

So many fond memories of these, too. Like printing out my Pokmon Snap pictures into stickers at Blockbuster and the N64 Easter egg in DKC

DuneMan posted...

The main draw of NG+ is changing some of the late game story quests.

You might also want to download a mod to upgrade all the powers to X right away, just to mess with them for a bit before putting the game down. Otherwise you have to grind out catching 1,000 sparklies in zero-g in all the temples... -_-

Also, if you haven't tried it yet, mod the Mantis' ship into a C-Class vessel with 14 particle beams on it and attack The Key with it.

I am more curious about the first and third points... like can you completely destroy the Key?

I doubt I will have enough time to fully enjoy and explore with NG+, gonna do some searching and see if anyone journals their experiences with it.

SicSlayer posted...

how much do you hate yourself

A lot, actually.

Crimsoness posted...

Good job

Thank you <3

I'm just realizing how underwhelming the choices and narration in the game are lol. I played 83 hours and there were only like half a dozen "universe altering" choices reflected and those were mostly the main faction stories. And even then the "consequences" were really underwhelming.

Just one bump, posted it kind of late

is special agent dana scully AB

rexcrk posted...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/5/5777b419.jpg

Louder for the people in the back

biased but like if you join the military, especially out of high school, it's really easy to support a family, though depending on your job and your spouse's tolerance it may be hard to maintain that family. They give you housing, free medical and dental, and a relatively decent salary with practical job experience and training. My daughter will nearly have a free full ride through university, and that includes a housing allowance.

of course it's going to be more difficult if you decide to go the strictly academic route with not a lot of financial support upfront, and even more difficult if you go further for post-graduate education.

Yeah higher education is *way* too expensive and the cost of living in general in too many places is becoming unreal but like this guy's post isn't a great example of that.

Well, all the faction missions and main story. Actually kind of like the philosophy and metacommentary about life in the story, just a shame the whole game feels very bland and empty for the most part.

Also explored a little bit in New Game +, (major game spoilers): it is interesting how things have changed, though honestly I don't... remember the characters in the beginning like Helene Chambers or that kid and his situation with his parents dying lol. I actually only remember the kid himself because I used him and his family in the first playthrough to cheese upgrading my sneaking skill.

I did not get 100% achievements, so I might try to work on that in this playthrough. Or I might just load an old save where I have a gazillion credits and it'll just be easier to build everything I need for 100%.

My games completed this year:

Alan Wake 2 - 1 January
Saints Row (2022) - 19 February
Dragon Age: Origins - 24 February
Starfield - 7 April

Not a great pace lol, especially considering I had started Starfield at launch but I got burned out several times.

A few times at various hotel bars.

Usually talking to the bartender if it is slow or just drinking.

But hey, at least you can finally ungroup windows in the Taskbar (that literally wasn't a thing until like last year lol).

Yawn_Master2 posted...

I dont get why people think hes smart, if not only for his ability to manipulate people into thinking hes smart

Because his followers are dumb, and he repeats what their favorite pundits say, so his followers think he is smart.

The reboot or the originals?

With reboot, lmao no 3 sucks compared to 1 and 2.

With originals idk I liked the 2nd one a lot and never played the 3rd one

i'm a dessert

ButteryMales posted...

It sure took balls to pass something so stupid off as a good thing. You just said

Israel is deliberately killing aid workers and shutting down anti-genocide protests yet when it comes to protests of Gaza aid the right to protest is suddenly sacred.

I didn't say anything about protesting Gaza aid?
My first point was that US support of Israel did not start with Biden or this Congress and Senate. It's been a thing for decades. So to claim that magically Biden is responsible for this is ridiculous. My other point is that Biden did something that realistically most other presidents would not have done, which is start delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza. A third point would be that I doubt most other presidents would have allowed the UN to pass a resolution demanding a ceasefire - yes we used the veto power three times, but allowed a resolution on the fourth.

with just one drop of blood from your fingertip amazon can predict all your future purchases and charge you in monthly installments before you even step foot in a store!

amazon dash cart is just gonna be midgets hiding under mirrors pulling out a scanner gun when you're going to open the fridge for that gallon of milk

DarthAragorn posted...

Is Biden not for the last 6 months actively financially supporting the deaths of thousands of Palestinians

The US has provided more financial support to Israel than any other country since it was established.

I doubt many other presidents would have had the balls to send military aircraft to drop humanitarian aid and cooperate with building ports for delivering even more aid to Gaza.

But the moral of the story here, it's a reflection of greater US foreign policy, not a singular individual.

DarthAragorn posted...

Cool

You're still voting for genocide if you vote for either of them

This is a naive understanding of the American political system, though I do think it is a real shame this is where we are at. It really is just two candidates, though, and one actively wants to demolish basic democratic principles for personal gain and fame and the other is a more traditional politician.

DarthAragorn posted...

And voting for Biden is a vote for genocide

Good job America

I would bet a year's paycheck that this whole situation would be significantly worse if Trump were in charge.

I personally have not had much of an issue with Windows updates, except for the time when it activated HDR for Windows (why the fuck is that a thing) which dropped my performance in a ton of games until I figured out what it was.

was expecting carl cucker and greg gutfeld

I would have said yes but if it has to be a cordial/jovial photograph like that then fuck no. Maybe if it were me flipping him off with my finger to his dumb forehead then yeah I'd do it.

I hate the interface more than 10, and it has a lot of features that impact performance by default.

11 also periodically has update issues and then Microsoft tells everyone a week later how to do some voodoo workaround so your mouse will right-click again until they hotfix it (exaggeration about some of that...).

DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC posted...

Be honest: how far did you get in the article before you figured it out?

Shouldn't have been any later than saying the series was "proof of concept".

To be COMPLETELY HONEST I just saw the headline and the line below that about it being on Netflix. The picture was too hard to read so I tried to search for it online and couldn't find it, then I double-checked the date and realized...

Posted by Misha Collins. Although I did do some digging and it seems like as recently as December there have been talks about doing another season

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c354a3fc.jpg

Oh yeah I loved doing that and reading the manuals in the car on the way home. So many awesome Toys R US memories. Also my dad spoiled the shit out of me and we got a new game practically every month

Ar0ge posted...

Guys.... How are you all forgetting about the actual best star wars character of all time.

Pablo-Jill

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/c/c9fda2c1.jpg

when did star wars have cenobytes in it

I saw two Canada Gooses mount a Swan one time and you know she probably told her friends about it.

I've seen a couple.

Even saw a road prototype thing with the stickers on it just before launch.

ellis123 posted...

That doesn't mean that they are not the best part. The rest could be worse.

lol yeah but the fact that they *are* the best part says a lot about the rest of the game.

CADE_FOSTER posted...

The faction missions are the best the main story ehh

Eh, they are all weak in their own shitty post-Oblivion Bethesda writing way. And way too fucking short.

Ryujin Industries - All the missions are the same. Fast travel somewhere, "sneak" to your objective, open a box or computer, done. It has an interesting conclusion but the missions had ZERO challenge to them.

Freestar Rangers - I had fun going around killing people and then bragging about it and making the main leader guy comment about how that's not the point of the Rangers. But it ends way too soon. You do like... half a dozen missions, mostly just tracking a few criminals down, and then there's a "shocking confrontation" and the questline is over.

UC Vanguard - Thought it was going to focus more on space combat, ended up being nearly a rip-off of Alien. That was cool but the writing sucked ass. Everyone hated me for deciding to do the safe thing and *not* release a modified bioweapon to stop the threat immediately. And like there was that cool twist with that huge war criminal being still alive but his role is so meaningless.

Crimson Fleet was the only one I enjoyed, just because you could actually make choices that affected... something. Hated the conclusion though. I killed all the UC people I could find in my quests because I hated that that guy had framed me for a crime and was extorting my services to snitch on the Crimson Fleet. Normally I play as a good character but that captain pissed me off. But then of course when you confront him at the end you don't get to kill him, you just have a stupid dialogue and he asks "Why did you join the pirates?" and you don't get to answer "Because I hate that you were blackmailing me". So even the ending of that storyline was ruined for me.

I don't even remember if there were any others. I think it was just those four. Also why the hell did they decide that each faction needed its own stupid mission board scattered around the whole galaxy? Why can't I just access all of it from a single board. Annoying.

Already did all the faction missions, just focusing on the story mission now. It is so bad and annoying. Like, I just did one mission that consisted of fast traveling to a space station, talking to an NPC, pressing a computer and pressing on a wrench and that was the whole thing.

Just want this ride to end already. I have 100% Oblivion and Skyrim but don't think I can bring myself to do that with this game.

Easter egg hunt (depending on weather) and dinner with family friends. Trying to relax for the last weekend before school starts up again.

It's pretty much the same as it was before, just with more pointed language. Like the previous EULA says the same thing.

Also the exception for "Original Media" (physical copies of games) still exists in this March 2024 update.

People freaking out over shit because they never read the EULA before. Just like they did when Origin came out originally even though it basically said the same shit as Steam's EULA lmao

Rey was bland as shit. I only saw Episode 7 but it was killed so much by the fact that there was like no tension with her character at all. The whole movie drove me nuts though, just really sloppy writing all around.

for the record I thought her acting was fine, it's just the writing failed to deliver any decent character development at all.

called Brighter Shores.

And it looks... pretty much just like Runescape

https://www.brightershores.com/

I'll probably still check it out but considering I'm never going to complete Runescape at this point I doubt I will get heavily invested in it

It was fun for a few hours, but the awkward fast travel mechanics and repetitive combat encounters got to me and I couldn't finish it.

I've been having Almond milk lately, shit is good. Sweet, kinda creamy, not as thick as milk, better for the environment than milk and it's just plain awesome.

Hell no.

The first one, we never were officially dating I guess, even though she didn't have a problem with me buying her gifts and going on little day trips out of town on the weekend. Turns out she was dating a guy who was married with kids.

One kept pressuring me to get married after we started talking for like three months, and then when I said we need to slow down she said she slept with some guy she met on Craigslist.

Another one was my middle/high school bully, and I thought she had changed but apparently not because when I went to visit her for a week she just treated me like shit (besides dumb namecalling, she got on my case for trying to offer to help with chores around the house).

Another one was racist as shit, dumb, told me her mom thought I was the R-word for wanting to date her, used me when she got upset to make her ex and his friends jealous, and tried to do a homebrew abortion with pills and alcohol.

Tell me why I would ever want to be on speaking terms with any of these people who ultimately had zero respect for me? Not that I harbor a grudge or anything but why would I even waste time and energy going out of my way to talk to them?

I actually saw Snapples in plastic bottles at the local commissary, only a few flavors though.

I think the original pinball machines didn't have a tilt function so you could cheat by tilting the machine. Then they got wise to that and started punishing people for trying to do it.

I just lost it.

Dragons Dogma is one of those games that I couldn't really understand.

I loved the concept of the pawn system and how you and your teammates learn strategies against different enemies, but after a point it all started to feel pretty sames-y. You can only jump on a Cyclops and stab its eye so many times before the charm wears down.

And the questing felt like something out of an MMO