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PancakesAreLove said:
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Thanks UglyPete for hooking me up on the games I needed from your list. I told him I only needed 2 games and he broke up the lot.

Easy Peasy!
 
I was *this* close to getting two copies of KH 2.5 HD (Limited Edition) with Borderlands: Pre-Sequel PMed at Best Buy, but the manager noticed that Borderlands became the free game after the PM and shut me down, saying it was one or the other--B2G1 or PM. Sorry, MSU_DVM. :cry:
 
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tylerh1701 said:
fuck yes! Got that Spelunky plat! 7:25 was my speedlunky time.
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Dang, that means you and Chewy both have quicker speed runs than me. Guess I know what my December challenge is now, haha.

I hope you'll still be doing the Daily Challenge often. And speaking of, have the replays been messed up for you again lately too? It's all over the place right now on my end: Sometimes my own runs won't be watchable while another person's will, other times no one's are available.

I really wanted to see how we both managed to screw up that amazing '40+ bombs by 1-2' seed yesterday, lol :D

 
Yo, someone just offered me $300 for my DS game lot, should I take it?

Here's the list of games again:

DS:

9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
Chrono Trigger
Kingdom Hearts Re:coded
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
Okamiden
Pokemon Black
Radiant Historia
The World Ends With You

3DS:

Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion
Fire Emblem: Awakening
Kid Icarus: Uprising (comes with stand)
Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team
New Super Mario Bros. 2
Paper Mario: Sticker Star
Pokemon X
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
Yoshi's New Island

 
uglypete said:
Yo, someone just offered me $300 for my DS game lot, should I take it?

Here's the list of games again:

DS:

9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors
Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow
Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia
Chrono Trigger
Kingdom Hearts Re:coded
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
Okamiden
Pokemon Black
Radiant Historia
The World Ends With You

3DS:

Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion
Fire Emblem: Awakening
Kid Icarus: Uprising (comes with stand)
Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon
Mario & Luigi: Dream Team
New Super Mario Bros. 2
Paper Mario: Sticker Star
Pokemon X
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
Yoshi's New Island
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$350 would be more reasonable given some of the games in there (e.g., Chrono Trigger, Okamiden, Radiant Historia). You may have mentioned this before, but I presume they're all complete and mint?

 
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fucking 75mb Destiny update is taking forever (probably because s lot of people are downloading it). Why is this the only game I own that makes me boot it up before it will download an update?
 
mpaullin said:
fucking 75mb Destiny update is taking forever (probably because s lot of people are downloading it). Why is this the only game I own that makes me boot it up before it will download an update?
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Obviously because all the content is already on the disc and this is just an unlock key that needs to run on a specific date.
 
Vigilante said:
I was *this* close to getting two copies of KH 2.5 HD (Limited Edition) with Borderlands: Pre-Sequel PMed at Best Buy, but the manager noticed that Borderlands became the free game after the PM and shut me down, saying it was one or the other--B2G1 or PM. Sorry, MSU_DVM. :cry:
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Thats okay, thanks for trying anyway. I am sure it will be $20 in a couple of months!.

 
Sophrosync said:
Dang, that means you and Chewy both have quicker speed runs than me. Guess I know what my December challenge is now, haha.

I hope you'll still be doing the Daily Challenge often. And speaking of, have the replays been messed up for you again lately too? It's all over the place right now on my end: Sometimes my own runs won't be watchable while another person's will, other times no one's are available.

I really wanted to see how we both managed to screw up that amazing '40+ bombs by 1-2' seed yesterday, lol :D
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I javent tried watching replays in a while. when my internet is working again illcheck it out.

I mismeasured a jump and landed on some spikes. yeah it was awful after a setup like that.
 
Thermopyle said:
Why's it better on PS4?

Also my PS3 isn't giving me any video. I just have a green light for the power LED and a black screen. Using HDMI, already tried another monitor and cable. :wall:
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There's a way to reset the video settings (by holding down the power button when turning it on until it beeps either once or twice more).

If you go from a TV that say, has 1080p support to a non 1080p screen, it will just show a black screen until you can reset the settings to a compatible view mode.

 
Not Eric said:
There's a way to reset the video settings (by holding down the power button when turning it on until it beeps either once or twice more).

If you go from a TV that say, has 1080p support to a non 1080p screen, it will just show a black screen until you can reset the settings to a compatible view mode.
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Really weird experience. I've got my PS3 hooked up to one of my two computer monitors (I'm running a dual-screen setup.) To test everything, I swapped the HDMI cable from the working monitor over to the suspect monitor; it worked, which proved the monitor and HDMI port were not at fault. Then I tested the HDMI cable. Also good. I took the PS3 to a TV and hooked it up via component; showed up fine there. Switched to HDMI at the TV and manually switched in the settings to HDMI mode; looked fine there. Took the PS3 back to the original monitor...no video.

I'd already tried resetting the monitor to the defaults. Tried power-cycling the monitor and that resolved the issue. Not sue why the monitor would display the computer screen but not PS3 before power-cycling. Sure am glad it started working, though.

 
MildObstruction said:
ac:unity, ignore if you don't like long winded diatribes by people you hate about shit you don't care about:

First off, there might be plot spoilers in here. Protip - there's no plot worth caring about, so don't feel too fucking upset about it. Now that I'm done with unity, thought I'd spill all of my thoughts out on it and have it excised from my body.

I do enjoy the AC games immensely as a rule, so if it seems like I'm giving something a free pass that I shouldn't be that might be why.

Pros:

- It looks good. Really really good. There's actually quite a bit of polish to how good it looks. Having played through the whole game start to plat (not quite 100%) including a bunch of coop I can say that the performance complaints from reviewers have virtually no merit. It chugs here and there, but (for example) AC3 was waaaaay worse just running across an empty field. there are certain big ornate buildings that can get the slowdown effect on demand, but otherwise it's impressive.

- Bunches of people. I scoffed at this and continued to scoff at this being the reason for the game needing to be 900p/30fps. It just seemed like such a silly luxury. Then there's a mission near the end where there has got to literally be thousands of individually animating people and it's a pretty damn cool effect. It's not uncommon when running around to hit a crowd of a hundred or so and that's neat, but the gigantic crowd in that mission really got my attention. despite how douchey it sounds, that really did feel like a 'next gen' moment.

- Historical (main) story. Pretty good, really. They've gotten good at this part - the story in the past. AC4's was fun too with good characters - AC:unity has some fun characters too that don't get nearly enough screen time. It's also just the right length, it doesn't overstay its welcome at all.

- New assassination mission setup. There's a new mechanic where there's optional mini-missions in a main assassination mission that can help your chances of success or change the missions completely. Like you can help a salesman get past some dudes trying to rob him before you go to your target and he'll set off fireworks behind the building to get all the guards to turn around. Or you can free some prisoners to start a riot in the main courtyard letting you walk right past. Or you can set up circumstances to poison your target's wine instead of stabbing. Good idea and fairly well done for the first time out, should get better in the future.

- Helix Rift Missions. Arcade type levels where you collect glowing boxes and stab people for points to go for high scores and bonuses in settings outside of the main story. I thought these were silly fun and could've been a good standalone game on the cheap. Plus they were another excuse to run through the extremely well done alternate Paris environments (WWI Paris at the Eiffel Tower, Medevil Paris and one other?). Not a total waste of time!

- shortest AC plat since AC2 by my reckoning. If you're in to that sort of thing.

Cons:

- Seriously, almost no modern day plot at all. I might as well say none. Unless I missed something, even the ending didn't have much to do with the modern day / futuristic crazy crap of the series except for the end boss weapon (which you see in the intro anyways, so not a big spoil there). Why the fuck not? I guess these are just going to start being historical shorts except for the numbered games? I dunno. The modern day plot is so stupid and silly but I like it and really ended up missing it here.

- Co-op. What an utter waste of time. Turns out you *can* solo them if you want by the time you're all beefed up at the end, but why? The missions are uninspired and uninteresting. There's very little that feels cooperative about it too - I did play just with randoms without a mic, but there was rarely a time it felt like communication would've helped.

- Collectibles. Always a downer in these games for most folks, it's actually something I enjoy - running around the well designed cities and getting to see everything is generally awesome. HOWEVER, they done gone and fucked up my enjoyment of it this time around with the chests. Worst idea. You have to collect something like 296 chests. I'll bet 190 of them have to be 'lockpicked' through a stupid timing mini-game (many of which you can't do until you've puchased all the 'lockpick' skills) AND almost all of the lockpick chests are guarded by 3+ dudes that you have to spend time to kill. So it's not just running around and collecting, you have to run up, assassinate, kill 2 or more dudes, play a mini-game and then wait for the chest opening animation to get ONE of those 296 collectibles. I'll admit this is one of those times I felt stupid going for a trophy. AND THEN YOU DON'T EVEN GET A REWARD OTHER THAN THE SHITTY TROPHY FOR COLLECTING ALL OF THEM. A costume! A helmet! Uplay points! Give some sort of in game motivation for completing the set! BLURGH

- Nostradamus Enigmas. See collectibles. Pointless secondary collectible that isn't fun at all and probably no one on earth will try to do without a guide. Ditto on the no reward if I remember right, but I might be wrong on that one.

- Murder Mysteries. Another pointless addition. The mechanisms they added in to have the protagonist play junior detective were fine and worked well in the mainline missions but you didn't need to have a bunch of auxiliary missions that use the concept.

- Mainline mission extra objectives. Out of the 30ish main missions only maybe 5 or 6 had extra objectives that seemed to follow the theme of the mission. Just a weird departure.

- Remote play. First game I've played where something was off about remote play. It took me forever to figure out, but I guess you have to hold down multiple quadrants of the rear touchpad for it to register for this game (the whole rear touchpad is 'L1', but it doesn't count unless half or more of the touchpad is held down?). That was just annoying, not game ruining.

- No more brotherhood allies. No more pressing a button to rain down assassin terror from a distance! I couldn't remember if AC4 had them gone too or not, but yeah it's completely non-existent in unity.

Overall I'm glad I played it if anything to temper my expectations of the future. If they could buck up and stop throwing so much useless shit in there to artificially extend playtime for ocd people like me they could probably get their games back on track. If they took out: chest collectibles, coop, enigmas and cut in half the paris stories and murder mysteries I would've still been perfectly happy to have bought it at release. Definitely the most technically impressive game they've put out by a mile, but my least favorite too.

EDIT - I should note that there ARE a bunch of people that are getting glitched/corrupted saves and trophies and shit. This isn't the safest game to play right now, but purportedly the next patch will fix 'most' of these issues. I only ever had crashes when I finished a coop mission (thus making it not count) but I already hated the coop so the crashes didn't make me hate it more.

DOUBLE EDIT - Oh right, the engimas were to get the armor that I still don't know what it does. It seems like it's just to play dress up in, but it also felt like I could jump to the ground from waaay higher up. Who knows. Probably google.
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The modern day story was literally the entire point of going back in time and rehashing memories and whatnot. By eliminating the modern day story, they've effectively rendered the entire series pointless.

 
these Golds are bad ass. Didnt realize it right away but I can put away my silly little bluetooth headset for my ps3 now. and if I get that el gato I can use these as a wireless mic which is a HUGE benefit since the computer ill be uploading the stream on from the ps3 will be like 10 feet away from me.

not to mention they're 10x more comfortable than that earbud and the other wiiu headset I had.
 
tylerh1701 said:
these Golds are bad ass. Didnt realize it right away but I can put away my silly little bluetooth headset for my ps3 now. and if I get that el gato I can use these as a wireless mic which is a HUGE benefit since the computer ill be uploading the stream on from the ps3 will be like 10 feet away from me.

not to mention they're 10x more comfortable than that earbud and the other wiiu headset I had.
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Previously I was using a set of computer headphones. I just passed the audio from the PS3 into my PC's line-in jack. Worked fine, but I never realized until using the Golds that a lot of the quality was being lost for some reason. Natural Doctrine also had weird static to the voices that I didn't hear anywhere else, so I assumed it was the game itself at fault.

Haven't tried the mic yet. Haven't played an MP game.

 
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