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The New Comic Thread for Monday, March 23, 2009

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  • PonyPony Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    rolo you are sinister

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  • PhonehandPhonehand Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    i know i did it once before, but what is the easiest way to get an abra early in the game

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  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Are Abras still chickenshit little bastards?

    YEAH GO ON TELEPORT AWAY FOR THE 11TH TIME YOU BITCH

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  • CampionCampion Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    They certainly are. You can usually just catch'm on the first pokeball throw before even attacking them, though.

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  • ColdbrandColdbrand Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Javen wrote: »
    Defender wrote: »

    How did FF11 do it?

    Very, very poorly. Poorly enough where it was plainly apparent when a player was using the console, and poorly enough where parties actively avoided these people because they were such a liability in groups.

    Except for the whole part where people playing with a PS2 or 360 can use a USB keyboard and almost always do which basically makes their input exactly the same. Whoops.jpg

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  • Peter EbelPeter Ebel CopenhagenRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Man, can anyone else download the podcast?

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  • RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    LODO Online.... is this like ATM machine, or am I missing an O word?

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  • L|amaL|ama Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    It's like an AMTM machine.

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  • RingoRingo He/Him a distinct lack of substanceRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Diabolical

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  • EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Hail satan


    Seriously Rolo are you archduke lord bastard Vice-Devil of Hell by now or what

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    i chortle'd

    or

    maybe i warchortle'd

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    also yes, hail satan

    rolo you're a devious malefactor worthy of admiration

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  • IvarIvar Oslo, NorwayRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Peter Ebel wrote: »
    Man, can anyone else download the podcast?

    nope

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  • CampionCampion Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I downloaded it through iTunes early yesterday.

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  • GoatmonGoatmon Companion of Kess Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Coldbrand wrote: »
    Javen wrote: »
    Defender wrote: »

    How did FF11 do it?

    Very, very poorly. Poorly enough where it was plainly apparent when a player was using the console, and poorly enough where parties actively avoided these people because they were such a liability in groups.

    Except for the whole part where people playing with a PS2 or 360 can use a USB keyboard and almost always do which basically makes their input exactly the same. Whoops.jpg

    FF11's controls were ass, period.

    Somehow Square designed an engine too complicated to work comfortably with a gamepad, while simultaneously too friendly for a gamepad to work ideally on a keyboard and mouse.

    Just terrible.

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  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    you get used to it though and then it feels fine

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  • TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I'm against a non-portable version of Pokemon myself. I totally prefer actually carting your DS around and meeting people in the physical realm.

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  • TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    When I bought Diamond I was riding back home from Boston on the train one night. There were 3 other people in the car with me and I was playing Pokemon on my DS.

    This dude, about 19, saunters up to me and asks "Hey, uh... what are you playing?"

    I'm all 8-) "Fuckin' Pokey-mans."

    Then he responded with :o "Wanna battle?"

    I was all "Fuck yeah I do!"

    So awesome.

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  • Rhesus PositiveRhesus Positive GNU Terry Pratchett Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I remember organising a battle/trade meet with a casual acquaintance after school so we could trade for the red/blue exclusives. None of this high-faluting WiFi, we had a cable and we liked it, dammit.

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  • A duck!A duck! Moderator, ClubPA Mod Emeritus
    edited March 2009
    Wren wrote: »
    you get used to it though and then it feels fine

    It's weird, you really do. I think the trick to learning it was figuring out that I didn't need the mouse for anything. Once I realised that I had no problem getting through the menus.

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  • ToxTox I kill threads they/themRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Javen wrote: »
    Console controllers are utterly incapable of handling any sort of MMO UI.

    EDIT: Sure you could use a USB keyboard but then if you're going to force players to use a keyboard anyway why bother developing for a console anyway?

    Legally, in order for accreditation, a console game must be completely viable with that console's standard controller. That's why Guitar Hero and Rock Band can be played using the regular controllers. They had to do that, legally, so they made it achievement based, since they didn't intend for that to be the norm.

    I've actually had this conversation with a guy I used to work with. He was a part-timer who's day job was working as a play tester. I can't remember the company he worked for, but he play tested one of the games that came out over the winter. One of the "______ of _______ #" games.

    Damn, I'm so not a gamer.

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  • Peter EbelPeter Ebel CopenhagenRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Campion wrote: »
    I downloaded it through iTunes early yesterday.

    I could never get that shit to work. Guess I'll try it again.

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  • FalloutFallout GIRL'S DAY WAS PRETTY GOOD WHILE THEY LASTEDRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    i played FFXI for about a day, when it came out

    blech

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  • TheySlashThemTheySlashThem Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Coldbrand wrote: »
    Javen wrote: »
    Defender wrote: »

    How did FF11 do it?

    Very, very poorly. Poorly enough where it was plainly apparent when a player was using the console, and poorly enough where parties actively avoided these people because they were such a liability in groups.

    Except for the whole part where people playing with a PS2 or 360 can use a USB keyboard and almost always do which basically makes their input exactly the same. Whoops.jpg

    if you have to buy a keyboard anyway why the hell would you bother getting the game for a console?

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Pretty sure that was my original point.

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  • WrenWren ninja_bird Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    because some people own a console and not a gaming computer

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  • WillethWilleth Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Man was someone hating on RuneScape earlier in the thread?

    fisticuffs

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    guys quick

    what is the best version of harvest moon

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    for which system

    I played the hell out of the original for Gameboy

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    the
    best
    one
    ever



    apparently my new friend has every console ever and he doesn't even use the damn things

    THIS IS MY CHANCE TO PLAY THE GAMES I LOVE

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    okay, I loved that one a bunch

    and the one for Gameboy Color

    And the one for DS.

    Never played the ones for Playstation or anything.

    Getting the Golden Axe was the best thing.

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    another friend lent me his psp and Innocent Life

    and it is hells of weird

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    This looks pretty cool but I haven't gotten around to buying it

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  • RaneadosRaneados police apologist you shouldn't have been there, obviouslyRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    oh my god

    that sheep

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  • AbracadanielAbracadaniel Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    i know, right

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  • Burning OrganBurning Organ Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Smart Hero wrote: »
    This looks pretty cool but I haven't gotten around to buying it

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    It was alright, although some of the boss fights were total bullshit unless you had a really good weapon (Your weapon gains levels if you exchange it with a friend and then take it back and you do that a few times)

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  • Indie WinterIndie Winter die Krähe Rudi Hurzlmeier (German, b. 1952)Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I am willing to buy a Wii just to get a chance to play My Life As A King

    that game looks like crack cocaine to me

    as for the PS3, the only thing that could make me buy that obsidian doorstop is White Knight Chronicle, if it ever gets ported

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  • M.D.M.D. and then what happens? Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I found that it was a rather easy game and I could pretty much go into any dungeon and whoop any boss just had to keep eating.

    I want rune factory 2 now though...

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  • Darth WaiterDarth Waiter Elrond Hubbard Mordor XenuRegistered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Mr. Defecation wrote: »
    I found that it was a rather easy game and I could pretty much go into any dungeon and whoop any boss just had to keep eating.

    I want rune factory 2 now though...

    I'm just waiting for a new Suikoden for the PS3/360. I'm such a huge fag for that series.

    Apparently like someone else here.

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  • JavenJaven Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I think there's one coming for the DS, Darth.

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