PSNOT 2.0 - I kind of want to subscribe to IndieBox.

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MyWorstNightmare said:
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I saw that movie when I was 7 or 8 and it legitimately creeped me out.

 
Started watching house of cards the other day. Great show. Kevin spacey is great. Everytime he talks to the camera I see his face from call of duty. Its also great that he plays call of duty to blow off steam and asked about a vita one of the kids had in an early episode.
 
A Cubs-Cards playoff series is my worst baseball nightmare. Ugh.

But at least I won a $50 gift card by getting first place in bar trivia!
 
It's the beginning of the end for the Mad Max plat--I have 2 camps and 49 scavenge locations left (unsure about the other "collectibles" since I have one area left to scout via balloon), and I'm at 64% overall.

 
pharmacrest said:
Started watching house of cards the other day. Great show. Kevin spacey is great. Everytime he talks to the camera I see his face from call of duty. Its also great that he plays call of duty to blow off steam and asked about a vita one of the kids had in an early episode.
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Post how you like it as it goes along. I thought s1 was great. Opening to s2 was fantastic and then the show wasn't quite as good otherwise. s3 sucked ass IMO.

 
Yeah that was so fantastic and unexpected. Really had the bar set high for the rest of the season, which unfortunately didn't live up to that.

 
LOL, so now I scored the same points as my opponent in week 4 (107.6 to 107.6) and won the tiebreaker (bench scoring, which was 48.8 to 27.3), but ESPN still gave me the loss.

Riddle me that one.  Maybe standings just haven't updated?  WTF, Commish?

 
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mpaullin said:
Lol at the "strum 1 million times" trophy. I can envision some of you guys constructing some elaborate device out of k'nex or something that will strum the guitar for you. Then you can just leave it on for a few days.
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Come on now! K'Nex are for kids. It would be a complex Lego Mindstorm machine.

 
Pretty sure they wouldnt build something, theyd just figure out a way to do it with their big toe while at work.

Some elaborate vita remote play scheme possibly involving some light electrical work to jury rig the guitar to work with the vita.

 
kilik64 said:
And does tyler still think x1 is going to own oct nov and dec after this price drop?

x1 might win all three but its going to be really close I think.

Edit: If you're a buyer wanting a ps4 and never played any uncharted game before, that bundle is a really good deal. 350 and you get 3 games that are all pretty good with it.
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X1 has some big games coming but 3rd parties are also stacked this holiday. I don't think the X1 is running away with it, they might win but it's not going to be a landslide...mind share goes a long way and right now it's with PS4.

On a separate note (as someone who generally doesn't know) is Halo going downward at all yet? I just thought that Halo 4 wasn't as loved as the previous games (also not Bungie anymore) and then you had the whole Halo Collection nonsense. I'm guessing at least some of the people in the know would be sticking with Destiny? Then again I guess the average consumer doesn't really care to give a shit.

Tomb Raider is big to us and eventually sold well but I'm not as sure it would move hardware. Plus we all know were getting it at a later date...far off but pretty sure PS4 is going to be stacked in 2016.

 
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CAiNiAC said:
It just cause one of those games where its like impossible to die? That trailer makes it look that way.
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In JC2, it was actually pretty easy (though not too easy if you moved around a lot) to die on the hardest difficulty. They probably played on Easy for that trailer.

 
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Vigilante said:
In JC2, it was actually pretty easy (though not too easy if you moved around a lot) to die on the hardest difficulty. They probably played on Easy for that trailer.
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Even on normal difficulty if you got too overwhelmed with gunfire you could die, especially in the beginning before you get many HP upgrades.

 
jkam said:
On a separate note (as someone who generally doesn't know) is Halo going downward at all yet? I just thought that Halo 4 wasn't as loved as the previous games (also not Bungie anymore) and then you had the whole Halo Collection nonsense. I'm guessing at least some of the people in the know would be sticking with Destiny? Then again I guess the average consumer doesn't really care to give a shit.
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I was late to the Halo party since I got my first Xbox shortly before Halo 4 released. I played through all of them and 4 had my favorite campaign. There was a vocal minority that hated it (I guess because it was too different from earlier games), but it sold like gangbusters and reviewed well.

What I played of the Halo 5 beta was freaking great. I can't wait until it comes out. Halo's PVP shits all over Destiny's so I wouldn't think people would find it to be a suitable replacement.

Long story short, I don't think think the Halo fervor is dying down anytime soon.

 
mpaullin said:
Lol at the "strum 1 million times" trophy. I can envision some of you guys constructing some elaborate device out of k'nex or something that will strum the guitar for you. Then you can just leave it on for a few days.
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I've seen some devices in the adult section of Groupon that could take care of that trophy no problem.

 
until dawn postmortem.  I did not care for it (spoilered for long and actual spoilers, beware):

so I thought this game sucked.  more on that in a minute.  here's what I thought was cool:

- it's pretty good looking with the expected amount of jankiness in control/facial expressions

- the story is at least initially interesting

- the qtes and the controller sound is pretty novel.  the qtes are also fast (except for aiming ones).

- collectibles actually add to the game and story (and even affect some of the outcomes of the game).  way better than filler.  as I discovered this morning though it is literally painful to have to sit back through all of the dialog to pick up ones that I missed.

So I know that a bunch of people really liked this game and I have no problem being in the minority.  Maybe it's really great and just not for me.  As far as I'm concerned it doesn't even stack up with the walking dead s1 from telltale.  Here are a couple of the major problems I had:

- no redeeming characters - why make a story driven game where everyone is entirely unlikable?  from the onset with the 'prank' you know it's going to be like this and I guess that it's supposed to follow in the vein of a slasher/horror movie but outside of that cheerleader from heroes (who is absent for a lot of the game) the characters are completely obnoxious.  no fun playing them.

- the illusion of choice/danger - once I discovered that the saw scene with josh/ashley was rigged I started just blowing off a lot of qtes and choices because so few of them actually matter.  you can miss a bunch of the button prompts and still survive with no impact on the outcome.  climb or jump?  doesn't matter, it just seems to change the difficulty of qte (I'll admit I never failed a climbing qte so I don't know if you die or just have to start over).  around chapter 8 I went to the trophy guide to figure out the steps to kill everyone and while there's probably more options than listed there, it's not nearly as easy as it should be to kill everyone given the presentation of 'danger at every step.'

As a manner of combining those two points, if you choose to shoot ashley with chris during the psycho's second 'test' - ashley doesn't seem to be the least bit bothered with chris's decision... until he's in mortal danger and then suddenly she's all like 'fuck him, let him get torn apart'.  if you choose to shoot emily with mike?  sam is totally put off ... for about 5 minutes of that chapter and then the two of them are yukking it up in the mines like best pals.  I get that making a choice have lasting consequences and different behaviors is probably really hard - but then don't make such a big deal about your amazing butterfly effect system unless you can bridge that gap.

I did like the psychosis of josh and the general story of how it worked through that - even the weirdness of the therapist and how the room kept changing was a nice touch (although goddammit all of the interactivity in therapy seemed to have zero impact on the story too making it a big ol waste of time).  the wendigo thing was ridiculous and funny and confusing (anyone that wants to clarify this feel free - there was a cave in at the mines and miners died?  or did they go to the nuthouse and get experimented on?  or did they eat each other in the mines thus triggering the cannibal curse of the mountain turning them in to wendigos?  and why was josh's sister a wendigo?  did she eat someone?)

Anyhoo, I might re-borrow it from the library in a couple weeks just to do the 'save everyone' trophies and finish up the plat.  I still prefer heavy rain/the walking dead.

 
Heroes of Loot leaderboards update. Globally, Wren is in the top 50, Simmias in the top 5, and somehow im still 1st with an 80,000 point lead. yup

 
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Josh's sister ate his other sister, and the miners ate the miners that weren't found (they lied about the #'s) the survivors were put in the mental hospital til they started eating eachother. as i summed it up before. wendigos, wtf

it is a nice one run and its done redbox rental. i may go back for the plat. honestly i never played it yet, just watched my daughter play it and we all just watched like a movie.

 
My morning Rock Star Fruit Punch energy drink is all Mad Max branded for the game, and it had some contest and yada yada yada, I got a DLC code for "unique Rockmaw Brawla game content"

Anyone still playing the game and want it?

 
MildObstruction said:
and why was josh's sister a wendigo? did she eat someone?)
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You didn't get the collectibles which confirmed that Hannah turned into a wendigo because she ate Beth's dead body?
You also pretty much summed up how I felt about the game after getting the plat--after the first playthrough I liked the game, but after doing everything else for the plat, I noticed how "fake" everything felt, especially the choice illusion. I kind of liked getting everyone killed, though, even if some of the deaths didn't make a lot of sense.

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When no one has died in your playthrough, it's weird to watch that scene where Mike and Sam discover where the dead bodies of your friends would be (the room immediately before they find Josh). They both seem to really freak out (including Sam screaming "Noooo!") over just the one guy's body hanging there. It's like the programmers assumed you got people killed, which is just lazy IMO.

 
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It's strange that the "Hearts of Stone" (Witcher 3) physical release listing hasn't appeared at Gamestop when it supposedly releases on Tuesday.

 
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Zimm108 said:
My morning Rock Star Fruit Punch energy drink is all Mad Max branded for the game, and it had some contest and yada yada yada, I got a DLC code for "unique Rockmaw Brawla game content"

Anyone still playing the game and want it?
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Not sure what that is, but the game is on its way from Gamefly. Not sure how many others are still playing it besides Vig.

 
Zimm108 said:
My morning Rock Star Fruit Punch energy drink is all Mad Max branded for the game, and it had some contest and yada yada yada, I got a DLC code for "unique Rockmaw Brawla game content"

Anyone still playing the game and want it?
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I'm still playing, but I don't think I need the code (thanks for the offer, though). The addons that I already got (The Ripper and something else) don't really add anything.

 
Velo214 said:
Heroes of Loot leaderboards update. Globally, Wren is in the top 50, Simmias in the top 5, and somehow im still 1st with an 80,000 point lead. yup
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Aw man, I shouldnt have quit trying to stay alive then I guess. After the 5000 kill trophy popped I was just running and gunning through a few more levels until I died.

 
Vigilante said:
You didn't get the collectibles which confirmed that Hannah turned into a wendigo because she ate Beth's dead body?
You also pretty much summed up how I felt about the game after getting the plat--after the first playthrough I liked the game, but after doing everything else for the plat, I noticed how "fake" everything felt, especially the choice illusion. I kind of liked getting everyone killed, though, even if some of the deaths didn't make a lot of sense.
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I believe since he mentioned going for the all dead run, he would not have picked up that collectible. If he had then Josh would have lived.

Pete, I am glad I am not the only one that liked Heavy Rain better even on the first playthrough. I do not hate the game, but I do not understand all the praise it has gotten. Everyone wants to complain about Telltale games and how the decisions do not matter, but I have not really heard anyone say that about this game. When the most important decision early on is
do I shoot a squirrel or not
then that is pretty terrible IMO.

 
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