Yeah, so once again, Galaxy is fucking insanely hard to put down.
Like REAL hard.
I know how you feel.
It's cut into my end of the year school work, and I've missed a few classes to play.
I'm going to have to not play tomorrow so I can catch up.
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If you're cutting class to play video games you may want to rethink your priorities
Hey hey, I just got through 0, 1, and 3 of RE:UC co-op. We played it on hard and apparently it only counts your end times to your game clock so it read about 3:45. But we played for more like 5 and a half hours. It was pretty damn enjoyable.
I enjoyed the outbreak stuff Redeemer, mostly because 3 is my least favorite of the games. All the subway stuff? I think we killed around 400 hunters on that end part, yeah it was probably 400.
The critical hits are hard to pull off, and we averaged about 6 a scenario/chapter, but they are soooo satisfying. Especially multiple ones in a row. It also has a nice difficulty curve.
Now I have to go through the solo bonus chapters to unlock the Russia scenario for tomorrow.
edit: It wasn't a 5 and a half hour chunk of play. We broke it up with bouts of SMG, GG:AC, and Mario Strikers. I am drained. So it was a like, 9 hour chunk of playing...
From playing Ratchet and Clank (maybe some others had it, I forget) I wasn't looking forward to the planetoids in Galaxy. It's a fun game but fucking hell they should have had someone play Ratchet and Clank so they'd realize, holy shit does planetoid gameplay suck. The camera feels like it's being controlled by a cross-eyed drunk. Just go ahead and swing wildly in the air so I have no fucking idea which direction to push now. I enjoy the worlds that are more like traditional platformer stages. Those shitty planetoids, where the camera will end up flipped upside-down and tilted towards the sky so that now when I press left I run back and to the right, can fuck right off though.
I enjoy the worlds that are more like traditional platformer stages. Those shitty planetoids, where the camera will end up flipped upside-down and tilted towards the sky so that now when I press left I run back and to the right, can fuck right off though.
So basically you want something like New Super Mario Bros instead of something that is actually new?
I enjoy the worlds that are more like traditional platformer stages. Those shitty planetoids, where the camera will end up flipped upside-down and tilted towards the sky so that now when I press left I run back and to the right, can fuck right off though.
So basically you want something like New Super Mario Bros instead of something that is actually new?
I said that I enjoy portions and others control for shit. I didn't say anything about how I would change the game. Quit trying to be a smarmy dick.
Yeah, I've seen shots of that game that look awesome, but that's not one of them. Also, taking a screenshot where the guy's hand is going through the sword handle in the foreground is bad form. Why does this picture look so shitty?
He is a weeaboo johnny knoxville with a goddamn lightsaber
If that doesn't make you love him you are undeserving of the milk that your mother gifted you.
That's basically the one thing I've heard about the game that I don't like. But then, I hate fanservice, and I really hate nerd masturbation. Two quick examples of blatant nerd masturbation, because that's what I do:
1) Fantasic Four 2: Richards gives a whole "yeah I'm a nerd and I have a hot chick and you have to come to me for help, so give me some goddamn respect" speech when the army guy makes a nerd/jock reference. This is obviously pandering to the audience's feeling that they're smarter than the football team and it's unfair that girls won't talk to them, because they're inherently better. It also builds on the myth that once you get out of school, hot girls will suddenly stop finding the jocks attractive and will swoon over you. The only case where this is true is where the girl is the rare "hot nerd chick" or where the girl's gold-digging and you're making good money and are clueless, thus making you easy to string along.
2) Transformers: The chick with the British accent who gets hired by the NSA and cracks all sorts of codes and shit...she's seated between two stereotypical comic-book-store nerds, one of whom looks just like Kevin Smith. Just the initial scene with that character basically said "OK nerds, you're in the movie, and you're helping Optimus Prime (indirectly), and in with the ranks of you unattractive nerds are hot, inexplicably foreign women, and they never recoil at your body odor."
Yes, I saw both of these movies at someone else's request. I would not have seen them otherwise, and as it turns out, that would've been a good decision.
Defender if you have a problem with hot chicks and lighsabers then there is something seriously wrong with you.
Who said I had a problem with either of those things? I pretty clearly stated that I don't like fanservice and nerd masturbation. Not hot chicks and/or lightsabers. Where do you people get this stuff?
Defender if you have a problem with hot chicks and lighsabers then there is something seriously wrong with you.
Who said I had a problem with either of those things? I pretty clearly stated that I don't like fanservice and nerd masturbation. Not hot chicks and/or lightsabers. Where do you people get this stuff?
Ok, so lets ignore the original post, now you have said that you have no problem with lightsabers. But when are lightsabers not in nerd masturbation/fanservice?
Yeah, I've seen shots of that game that look awesome, but that's not one of them. Also, taking a screenshot where the guy's hand is going through the sword handle in the foreground is bad form. Why does this picture look so shitty?
Ok, so lets ignore the original post, now you have said that you have no problem with lightsabers. But when are lightsabers not in nerd masturbation/fanservice?
Boo-yah.
Man, I'm so out of it right now.
Yeah, I think you are pretty out of it, because this shit you're saying makes no sense.
Yeah, I've seen shots of that game that look awesome, but that's not one of them. Also, taking a screenshot where the guy's hand is going through the sword handle in the foreground is bad form. Why does this picture look so shitty?
Maybe it's just the handle of the sword.
You know, something like this.
Nah, look closely, the hand is clipping through the handle. The middle finger is clearly just poking through the metal grip. It's just a little flaw in the animation, they probably didn't animate the finger joints ("rock hands") and as a result the hand geometry goes through the handle. That's an OK flaw, it's a pet peeve of mine, but given that hands and faces have extremely high bone-count-to-screen-space ratios, it makes sense not to physique fingers in games that don't run on high-end systems. It's just a peeve of mine...but still, you shouldn't take a screenshot where the error is front-and-center like that.
EDIT: Also, that nitpick aside, the post-process stuff they have going on there is just ugly as fuck. Maybe in motion it looks cool, I could see that, but it looks horrible as a still shot.
But I'm also at PSU for a comp degree, luckily all gigs and rehearsals are taking a break when PSU is, so not only do I not have classes for a week, but I have absolutely no rehearsals or gigs for a week. I've gone from 16 hour days 6 days a week to 0 hour days for 9 days.
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Defender, the hot Australian girl in Transformers wasn't really "fanservice". She didn't actually hook up with any nerds, she just hung out with them. Plenty of nerds are friends with hot girls that they will never stand a hope in hell of asking out/dating, so it's not that unrealistic.
Unless you're calling the presence of hot girls in the movie in general fanservice, which it is, but to men in general and not nerds specifically.
Also, I'm Australian myself, but whenever I hear a single Australian accent in an otherwise all-American movie it actually sounds foreign to me. Kind of an aural illusion or something.
Defender, the hot Australian girl in Transformers wasn't really "fanservice". She didn't actually hook up with any nerds, she just hung out with them. Plenty of nerds are friends with hot girls that they will never stand a hope in hell of asking out/dating, so it's not that unrealistic.
Unless you're calling the presence of hot girls in the movie in general fanservice, which it is, but to men in general and not nerds specifically.
No, no, I was referring to her as nerd masturbation, not fanservice. Let me go over that again...
The NSA is hiring, "right out of high school," comic book nerds to do their kickass computer hacking. OK so right there we already have nerd masturbation, predicated on comic book nerds thinking that because they got As in pre-calculus "without even studying all that hard," they're fucking world-class geniuses. Then we take it further by putting a really hot chick right between two godawful nerds, which feeds into the "once you're out of high school, hot girls will magically start finding you irresistible" bullshit, so I'm going to say that this is furthering the nerd masturbation theme. Then the hot chick is revealed to be basically the best hacker in the world as she single-handedly cracks a completely alien code without even having support from her superiors. And then, of course, we see that her friends are all hopelessly unattractive guys, and there's no Human Torch underwear-model-on-a-motorcycle boyfriend to be found. All of this screams "YOU HAVE A CHANCE" to the never-kissed-a-girl high school nerd crowd.
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I know how you feel.
It's cut into my end of the year school work, and I've missed a few classes to play.
I'm going to have to not play tomorrow so I can catch up.
I enjoyed the outbreak stuff Redeemer, mostly because 3 is my least favorite of the games. All the subway stuff? I think we killed around 400 hunters on that end part, yeah it was probably 400.
The critical hits are hard to pull off, and we averaged about 6 a scenario/chapter, but they are soooo satisfying. Especially multiple ones in a row. It also has a nice difficulty curve.
Now I have to go through the solo bonus chapters to unlock the Russia scenario for tomorrow.
edit: It wasn't a 5 and a half hour chunk of play. We broke it up with bouts of SMG, GG:AC, and Mario Strikers. I am drained. So it was a like, 9 hour chunk of playing...
Have not gotten to 3 yet.
So
Fucking
Cool
what are those things in the HUD
pretty rad
I have no fucking idea
I just know it's cool.
where are you getting that vibe from
it just looks distractingly ugly to me
Well maybe you should just kill yourself because you suck so much.
And I have no idea about what is going on in that image.
If that doesn't make you love him you are undeserving of the milk that your mother gifted you.
So basically you want something like New Super Mario Bros instead of something that is actually new?
I said that I enjoy portions and others control for shit. I didn't say anything about how I would change the game. Quit trying to be a smarmy dick.
Most reviews say the camera could use some minor improvements but that it is pretty damn solid throughout otherwise.
Yeah, I've seen shots of that game that look awesome, but that's not one of them. Also, taking a screenshot where the guy's hand is going through the sword handle in the foreground is bad form. Why does this picture look so shitty?
That's basically the one thing I've heard about the game that I don't like. But then, I hate fanservice, and I really hate nerd masturbation. Two quick examples of blatant nerd masturbation, because that's what I do:
1) Fantasic Four 2: Richards gives a whole "yeah I'm a nerd and I have a hot chick and you have to come to me for help, so give me some goddamn respect" speech when the army guy makes a nerd/jock reference. This is obviously pandering to the audience's feeling that they're smarter than the football team and it's unfair that girls won't talk to them, because they're inherently better. It also builds on the myth that once you get out of school, hot girls will suddenly stop finding the jocks attractive and will swoon over you. The only case where this is true is where the girl is the rare "hot nerd chick" or where the girl's gold-digging and you're making good money and are clueless, thus making you easy to string along.
2) Transformers: The chick with the British accent who gets hired by the NSA and cracks all sorts of codes and shit...she's seated between two stereotypical comic-book-store nerds, one of whom looks just like Kevin Smith. Just the initial scene with that character basically said "OK nerds, you're in the movie, and you're helping Optimus Prime (indirectly), and in with the ranks of you unattractive nerds are hot, inexplicably foreign women, and they never recoil at your body odor."
Yes, I saw both of these movies at someone else's request. I would not have seen them otherwise, and as it turns out, that would've been a good decision.
Anyway, regarding fanservice/nerd masturbation: Please don't do that. It's really, really patronizing.
Who said I had a problem with either of those things? I pretty clearly stated that I don't like fanservice and nerd masturbation. Not hot chicks and/or lightsabers. Where do you people get this stuff?
How many times do you see lightsabers that aren't in nerd masturbation?
Hot chicks granted are a little more plentiful.
Yeah, pretty much that.
Boo-yah.
Man, I'm so out of it right now.
Maybe it's just the handle of the sword.
You know, something like this.
Yeah, I think you are pretty out of it, because this shit you're saying makes no sense.
Nah, look closely, the hand is clipping through the handle. The middle finger is clearly just poking through the metal grip. It's just a little flaw in the animation, they probably didn't animate the finger joints ("rock hands") and as a result the hand geometry goes through the handle. That's an OK flaw, it's a pet peeve of mine, but given that hands and faces have extremely high bone-count-to-screen-space ratios, it makes sense not to physique fingers in games that don't run on high-end systems. It's just a peeve of mine...but still, you shouldn't take a screenshot where the error is front-and-center like that.
EDIT: Also, that nitpick aside, the post-process stuff they have going on there is just ugly as fuck. Maybe in motion it looks cool, I could see that, but it looks horrible as a still shot.
What is your job?
But I'm also at PSU for a comp degree, luckily all gigs and rehearsals are taking a break when PSU is, so not only do I not have classes for a week, but I have absolutely no rehearsals or gigs for a week. I've gone from 16 hour days 6 days a week to 0 hour days for 9 days.
it is a not-lightsaber
Unless you're calling the presence of hot girls in the movie in general fanservice, which it is, but to men in general and not nerds specifically.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
No, no, I was referring to her as nerd masturbation, not fanservice. Let me go over that again...
The NSA is hiring, "right out of high school," comic book nerds to do their kickass computer hacking. OK so right there we already have nerd masturbation, predicated on comic book nerds thinking that because they got As in pre-calculus "without even studying all that hard," they're fucking world-class geniuses. Then we take it further by putting a really hot chick right between two godawful nerds, which feeds into the "once you're out of high school, hot girls will magically start finding you irresistible" bullshit, so I'm going to say that this is furthering the nerd masturbation theme. Then the hot chick is revealed to be basically the best hacker in the world as she single-handedly cracks a completely alien code without even having support from her superiors. And then, of course, we see that her friends are all hopelessly unattractive guys, and there's no Human Torch underwear-model-on-a-motorcycle boyfriend to be found. All of this screams "YOU HAVE A CHANCE" to the never-kissed-a-girl high school nerd crowd.