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I'm really curious what the trade-in value for an N64 is at Gamestop. And for the games. I'm sure it's crap. Also I don't see Gamecube on the list?

 
kilik64 said:
You guys are all nuts, I dont ever have the time to play that many games let alone 100 percent or plat them. Congrats!

What a great day. Its freaking gorgeous outside. Its PAYDAY friday. Its the first day of May so its the start of the 3 paycheck month plus the holiday is coming up.

Hope you all have a good Friday.
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The list I had was so long because most of the games I played were flash sale type games that I bought knowing they were super short. There is nothing in that list that could be considered long or difficult with the possible exception of LBP3. That one I had already played a lot of before the month started. I also had the last 3 days off with nothing to do but play games. That made a huge difference since 8 from the list were finished over those 3 days.

For some reason after all that, my backlog list still looks a lot longer than I had hoped it would.

 
I had no idea this existed. I saw stealth and immediately imagined myself as a master ninja. Killing sum bitches left and right and lurking in the darkness like my stalker from Wyoming. When I got home I remembered something, I'm shit at stealth games. I go in guns blazing once I get spotted usually a minute or two into these types of games and run around like a maniac...

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Stealth is fun...

 
Crunchewy said:
Ultratron, a homage to Robotron 2048, out on May 12th for PS4, PS3 and Vita (cross-buy):

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2015/05/01/ultratron-coming-to-ps4-ps3-ps-vita-on-may-12th/?adbid=594124736474451968&adbpl=tw&adbpr=10671602&adbsc=social_20150501_45007406&short_code=2wre6

No gameplay video there and I find it hard to tell what is going on in the screenshots there, but there is a trailer on Steam. 92% positive reviews on steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/219190
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It is a twin stick shooter so I know a lot of people in the thread will be all over that one.

 
Vigilante said:
Do you plan on getting Arkham Knight day-one? At the very least, it's part of Best Buy's $10 cert promo so you could trade it in for $40+ not long after release (though I doubt I'll be doing that).
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Most definitely. I would actually consider going to a midnight release. I thought arkham city was pretty good and what little I've played of origins seems fine I guess, but asylum really mailed the whole thing.
 
MildObstruction said:
Most definitely. I would actually consider going to a midnight release. I thought arkham city was pretty good and what little I've played of origins seems fine I guess, but asylum really mailed the whole thing.
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AA was definitely the best Batman game of the series. Not just for being first, the story and pacing were all great as you said.

 
MildObstruction said:
Anyone want to do a round or two of virtua tennis boosting tonight? I think I'm ready to finish that nonsense off. I'll be rarin to go for some hot ball on grass (court) action around 7:30p CDT.
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I could maybe be up for this, though won't be available until at least an hour after that, probably later.

 
Vigilante said:
Do you plan on getting Arkham Knight day-one? At the very least, it's part of Best Buy's $10 cert promo so you could trade it in for $40+ not long after release (though I doubt I'll be doing that).
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I probably will do this so I can play through it once and then maybe pick up the GOTY down the road instead of paying $40 for the DLC.

 
MildObstruction said:
I'm amazed at what a good game arkham asylum still is. Granted it's only 6 years old but to me there's very little in the genre today even in the same class. The story and acting are excellent, it looks amazing, and the mechanics are brilliant and supremely satisfying once you've got them under your thumbs.
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It was my favorite of the series so far. Not even close really. Looking forward to Knight. I am sure it will be beautiful but a bit concerned it going to be a big open world game with him basically driving a tank. I am not big on stealth games but really like the stealth in Asylum. I liked the small areas vs traveling all over a large city to get to next area.

 
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So my first night of pinball league was pretty fun, but man did I stink the joint up.  Only get to play one game at each table, and I'd only played one of the machines before.  Usually I need a few games to warm up.  So for the night I finished ranked 17 out of 18 peeps.  Ugh.  At least I was top 5 on the Demolition Man table.

Weird feature of the league is that any extra balls you earn are just plunged, so you don't get to play them and just earn whatever points you get from it randomly bouncing around at launch.  They do that to keep the games moving faster.  Makes sense, but it was interesting to me.

 
Crunchewy said:
Ultratron, a homage to Robotron 2048, out on May 12th for PS4, PS3 and Vita (cross-buy):

http://blog.us.playstation.com/2015/05/01/ultratron-coming-to-ps4-ps3-ps-vita-on-may-12th/?adbid=594124736474451968&adbpl=tw&adbpr=10671602&adbsc=social_20150501_45007406&short_code=2wre6

No gameplay video there and I find it hard to tell what is going on in the screenshots there, but there is a trailer on Steam. 92% positive reviews on steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/219190
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The graphics/colors remind me of Titan Attacks. I also agree I could not tell what was going on from the screen shots.

 
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GatorBeerGeek said:
I will be interested to see if you feel the same after Act 3. I really enjoyed the game until that part. There are a couple good puzzles but the whole not dying thing is stupid and frustrating when they add in the enemies in that act.
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Ya, that will be a drag if that's the case, it wouldn't be the first time a dev screws up the ending stretch.

Those not dying trophies really should have been "complete 10 levels in act 2 without dying" and "complete each level of Act 3 without dying" so that you could tackle them individually and if you mess up you only have to replay the levels you died.

 
Zimm108 said:
So my first night of pinball league was pretty fun, but man did I stink the joint up. Only get to play one game at each table, and I'd only played one of the machines before. Usually I need a few games to warm up. So for the night I finished ranked 17 out of 18 peeps. Ugh. At least I was top 5 on the Demolition Man table.

Weird feature of the league is that any extra balls you earn are just plunged, so you don't get to play them and just earn whatever points you get from it randomly bouncing around at launch. They do that to keep the games moving faster. Makes sense, but it was interesting to me.
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In our league we allow one extra ball and any beyond that have to be plunged. The purpose is two-fold. Both to speed games up, and to level the playing field, because the better players will get extra balls more often so playing them is an advantage to higher skilled players. To be more specific, in a 3 ball game we allow one extra ball. In a 5 ball game no extra balls.

Get there early and put in some practice games before league starts - that's your warmup.

 
Crunchewy said:
In our league we allow one extra ball and any beyond that have to be plunged. The purpose is two-fold. Both to speed games up, and to level the playing field, because the better players will get extra balls more often so playing them is an advantage to higher skilled players. To be more specific, in a 3 ball game we allow one extra ball. In a 5 ball game no extra balls.

Get there early and put in some practice games before league starts - that's your warmup.
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Yeah I'm gonna have to do that next week. These peeps are pretty good too. Have some crazy nudging techniques. My nudges weren't nearly effective as they are in Pinball Arcade. I need to find me an analog stick.

It also didn't help that I didn't know the ball baths on lots of the tables. Most people would bump the table right when a ball started coming down because they knew it was headed right between the flippers, but I didn't realize it until it was too late.

Getting a Wrestlemania table next week, so that should be fun.

 
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Learn how to do a drop catch if you haven't already. One of the most useful skills and it's not that hard. Just takes a little practice to get the timing down:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMeWlVv63Yw

 
Arkham Knight comes out in late June now right? I might have to postpone my JC2 play through and play Origins first. There's a good chance that if I wait until Knight comes out I'll never play Origins. 

 
Sagemoon said:
Arkham Knight comes out in late June now right? I might have to postpone my JC2 play through and play Origins first. There's a good chance that if I wait until Knight comes out I'll never play Origins.
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Honestly, it wouldn't be much of a loss if you skipped Origins. It wasn't too bad, but it was obviously not as good as Rocksteady's efforts.

Basically what I'm saying is YOU BETTER NOT PUT OFF JC2!

 
I know there are a few other nerds in here, so hopefully at least some of you find this as interesting as I do.  Elon Musk, the guy behind Tesla Motors, has had his company working on battery technology for some time beyond just what was used for the line of electric cars.  They finally announced the product they have created and showed a couple versions of it.  The consumer model is going to be $3500 which sounds a bit pricey, but if paired with a solar array could power your home completely off the grid.  The question is, how much would a solar array to go along with it cost and will those drop in price as well.  No more electric bills would be pretty awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKORsrlN-2k

 
Vigilante said:
Honestly, it wouldn't be much of a loss if you skipped Origins. It wasn't too bad, but it was obviously not as good as Rocksteady's efforts.

Basically what I'm saying is YOU BETTER NOT PUT OFF JC2!
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I'd recommend playing Origins if only for the story. I was very surprised with how good it was. Probably my favorite of the 3 games. Not required reading for the new game since it's a prequel. Just well done.

 
GatorBeerGeek said:
I know there are a few other nerds in here, so hopefully at least some of you find this as interesting as I do. Elon Musk, the guy behind Tesla Motors, has had his company working on battery technology for some time beyond just what was used for the line of electric cars. They finally announced the product they have created and showed a couple versions of it. The consumer model is going to be $3500 which sounds a bit pricey, but if paired with a solar array could power your home completely off the grid. The question is, how much would a solar array to go along with it cost and will those drop in price as well. No more electric bills would be pretty awesome.
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Retrofitting is cool, but I'd like to see a developer that has the nuts to put a new subdivision together in the burbs where every house has that configuration. The only city power would be for street lights and whatnot in the whole neighborhood.

Edit I suppose street lights could be solar too or maybe wired in to the houses batteries?
 
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GatorBeerGeek said:
I know there are a few other nerds in here, so hopefully at least some of you find this as interesting as I do. Elon Musk, the guy behind Tesla Motors, has had his company working on battery technology for some time beyond just what was used for the line of electric cars. They finally announced the product they have created and showed a couple versions of it. The consumer model is going to be $3500 which sounds a bit pricey, but if paired with a solar array could power your home completely off the grid. The question is, how much would a solar array to go along with it cost and will those drop in price as well. No more electric bills would be pretty awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKORsrlN-2k
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It's also useful if you have off-peak and on-peak electricity rates. The battery charges off-peak, then on-peak it powers your home. I've seen numbers like 4.7 years to break even but it depends on the electricity rates, and they are guaranteeing 10 years of battery life (and of course, perhaps more). Also if power goes out it will work as a backup.

Tesla rocks.

 
mpaullin said:
I'd recommend playing Origins if only for the story. I was very surprised with how good it was. Probably my favorite of the 3 games. Not required reading for the new game since it's a prequel. Just well done.
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I forgot about that. If Sagemoon doesn't go for too many of the collectibles, then I guess it's worth playing.

 
MildObstruction said:
Retrofitting is cool, but I'd like to see a developer that has the nuts to put a new subdivision together in the burbs where every house has that configuration. The only city power would be for street lights and whatnot in the whole neighborhood.
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Honestly, at those prices, I could see it working even better for greenfield applications like that. Build a centralized kids play area where all the shades are solar panels that feed each of the powercells on the homes. In an area with any concentration of yuppies marketing a green subdivision with no electricity costs would be a gold mine.

 
Vigilante said:
Honestly, it wouldn't be much of a loss if you skipped Origins. It wasn't too bad, but it was obviously not as good as Rocksteady's efforts.

Basically what I'm saying is YOU BETTER NOT PUT OFF JC2!
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mpaullin said:
I'd recommend playing Origins if only for the story. I was very surprised with how good it was. Probably my favorite of the 3 games. Not required reading for the new game since it's a prequel. Just well done.
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Yeah, I'd be mostly be playing for story. Not too concerned with the trophies, probably just grab what I can without worrying about it much. The trophies look kind of annoying overall.

 
GatorBeerGeek said:
I know there are a few other nerds in here, so hopefully at least some of you find this as interesting as I do. Elon Musk, the guy behind Tesla Motors, has had his company working on battery technology for some time beyond just what was used for the line of electric cars. They finally announced the product they have created and showed a couple versions of it. The consumer model is going to be $3500 which sounds a bit pricey, but if paired with a solar array could power your home completely off the grid. The question is, how much would a solar array to go along with it cost and will those drop in price as well. No more electric bills would be pretty awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKORsrlN-2k
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I read that as $3500 whole sale to an authorized installer who probably mark it up at least 50% and then tack on labor and maybe an inverter or other required things to get it working. I am semi considering a home generator so it will be interesting to see how this shakes out price and performance wise. Paying all this money for 5 hours of power isn't that attractive to me.

 
jimbo8574 said:
I read that as $3500 whole sale to an authorized installer who probably mark it up at least 50% and then tack on labor and maybe an inverter or other required things to get it working. I am semi considering a home generator so it will be interesting to see how this shakes out price and performance wise. Paying all this money for 5 hours of power isn't that attractive to me.
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Tesla doesn't sell their cars through authorized resellers, so I'm guessing it's the same for these batteries. They will sell them direct. You do need an inverter, though, and I'm sure installation is not free. If you have solar you apparently have an inverter already, but otherwise you'll need to get one.

 
Sagemoon said:
Yeah, I'd be mostly be playing for story. Not too concerned with the trophies, probably just grab what I can without worrying about it much. The trophies look kind of annoying overall.
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Yeah dont trip. Single player requires minimum of 3 playthroughs. Havent even finished up the 2nd. Then theres MP boosting which Im not sure if it actually takes that long, but it is so boring that it feels like it does.
 
TheCro said:
Yeah dont trip. Single player requires minimum of 3 playthroughs. Havent even finished up the 2nd. Then theres MP boosting which Im not sure if it actually takes that long, but it is so boring that it feels like it does.
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Definitely not going to worry about it then. One play through will be enough for me lol

 
Are we still doing a pinball competition? Not much talk of it anymore. I vote we switch back to Pinball Arcade. Chewy will beat us either way, but those tables tend to be a little more fun and scores are easier to track. 

 
mpaullin said:
Are we still doing a pinball competition? Not much talk of it anymore. I vote we switch back to Pinball Arcade. Chewy will beat us either way, but those tables tend to be a little more fun and scores are easier to track.
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I think the problem is Mild doesn't have time to manage it any more. If we made the spreadsheet editable by everybody (at least anyone who's willing to take on that task), that might help (but lock it down like the 4for one).

 
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 Tehcro and I played like 4 hours of awesomenauts last night and tore it up constantly.

it's funny we are posting our games we beat this month, isn't that what the spreadsheets are for.

 I guess ill copy and paste some of the games I beat from the spreadsheet later in the day and post it here...

 
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Crunchewy said:
I think the problem is Mild doesn't have time to manage it any more. If we made the spreadsheet editable by everybody (at least anyone who's willing to take on that task), that might help (but lock it down like the 4for one).
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Yeah, pretty much this. Having a new job is poop. I'll open up the spreadsheet for whoever wants to run it.
 
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