Sorbicol Posted September 7, 2010 Share Posted September 7, 2010 Is this the best thread for this? Anyway, Gaming Daily are currently running a blog diary of a play through of X-Com. Part 1: Initial Set up Part 2: First Contact Part 3: Arms Dealing for Fun and Profit Part 4: Terror Down Under I find it very depressing that people writing for established games blogs admit to being too young to be playing X-COM on original release. He's also playing it on Beginner if I'm any judge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 He certainly is. Anyone want to do one on Superhuman? >:] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted September 8, 2010 Share Posted September 8, 2010 No sooner have I started than not one but too aliens Too aliens? Too aliens? Argh, I'm too old for this shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorondor Posted September 29, 2010 Share Posted September 29, 2010 "What we're really doing is building an augmented version of humanity" says Google CEO. :: 'We'... reminds me of something... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted September 29, 2010 Share Posted September 29, 2010 Eric Schmidt Dreams Of A Future Where You're Never Lonely, Bored, Or Out Of Ideas In the future, I will not exist, then. Basically. It's amazing how connected we're all becoming. Smartphones, iPads, Kindles, etc are quickly becoming technology that more and more people own and carry with them all the time. How long until we start getting stuff implanted? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted September 29, 2010 Share Posted September 29, 2010 How long until we start getting stuff implanted?Been done for a long time. Mostly therapeutic (pacemakers...) but I'm sure enhancements of all kinds are incoming BIGTIME. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted September 29, 2010 Share Posted September 29, 2010 I meant for communications, smart arse! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted September 29, 2010 Share Posted September 29, 2010 I tried inserting my iPhone. The results were not good. Oh, you were talking about implanting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azrael Strife Posted October 1, 2010 Author Share Posted October 1, 2010 I tried inserting my iPhone. The results were not good. Oh, you were talking about implanting... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted December 26, 2010 Share Posted December 26, 2010 My Four-Year-Old Son Plays GTA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bomb Bloke Posted December 26, 2010 Share Posted December 26, 2010 Quite an interesting read, but... um. If the kid had started checking out the mission markers, that "innocence" wouldn't've lasted long. Free-roam under parental supervision is one thing, but it'd be a really good idea to hide the disc when Daddy isn't around to play with the boy. And, because I've played the game to death, I feel the need to point out that you couldn't deal drugs in SA if you wanted to. It takes quite a negative stance towards them as part of the main plot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matri Posted December 27, 2010 Share Posted December 27, 2010 And, because I've played the game to death, I feel the need to point out that you couldn't deal drugs in SA if you wanted to. It takes quite a negative stance towards them as part of the main plot. That's pretty much the entirety of the plot. Also, despite your choices when talking to any of the dealers, you'll always always go hostile on them. Which is fine, because they carry a *x-rated expletive deleted* load of cash on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 Quite an interesting read, but... um. If the kid had started checking out the mission markers, that "innocence" wouldn't've lasted long. Free-roam under parental supervision is one thing, but it'd be a really good idea to hide the disc when Daddy isn't around to play with the boy. Seems to me like the kid would have refused to do the tasks required. If he's morally against jacking a car, he's not going to burgle a house or carry out a dri' by. The point I believe the writer is making quite effectively is that humans usually have morals, and playing games does not instantly corrupt those morals. Which is at odds with what the media says 90-95% of the time. Just because you go on a killing spree in GTA does not mean you are any more likely to do it in real life, unless you're a nutter who is going to go on a killing spree anyway. Lovely knee-jerk reaction from an idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorondor Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Article (...) data strongly suggests that there's something strange going on with top-antitop quark production in higher energy collisions. The obvious question is what. The leading theoretical candidates aren't the usual sorts of things people talk about finding with the LHC, like a supersymmetric particle or the Higgs boson. Instead, the possibilities seem to be extra dimensions or exotic particles.:: Good thing some of us have actual other-dimensional training from X-Com Apocalypse then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted March 24, 2011 Share Posted March 24, 2011 The point I believe the writer is making quite effectively is that humans usually have morals, and playing games does not instantly corrupt those morals.And I like that point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorondor Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 A digital (dis)Connection Perhaps somewhere on the way to the merger of the online and offline world, we had all stepped across a line without knowing it. (...) Then the moment passes, the BlackBerrys and iPhones are reholstered, and we return to being humans again after a brief trance.:: It may well be we are seeing the last remnants of true human connection... Charlesmi and AdokKam 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azrael Strife Posted June 20, 2011 Author Share Posted June 20, 2011 Terrible ideas from great developers. And, featuring first place is the single reason I can't play Oblivion Oblivion's Level ScalingEven though Bethesda's epic Elder Scrolls IV was released five years ago, it still manages to hold its own as one of the best role playing games of this generation, even against top-notch newcomers like Dragon Age II and Fable III. But between the countless quests, epic scenery, and Patrick Stewart lies a horrible problem: Bethesda's awful level scaling system. Unlike other RPGs, the NPCs of Tamriel level up alongside the player, so that the same level of difficulty is retained throughout the game. That's the theory, at least. The extent to which you can customise your character in regards to certain skills Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorondor Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 I have to, in the end, refute 2K Marin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Aww, lovely article. Give that man some extra AP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted August 28, 2011 Share Posted August 28, 2011 Aww, lovely article. Give that man some extra AP. :P @Thorondor: thanks for the link. I like it when the debate is dancing around a resolution whether a theme is alive or dead and in reality it is vibrant and all around. https://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/SpaceVoyager/Smiley/beer_girls.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorondor Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 Me gets bonus APs?! :: It's boogie-woogie time, Sectoids!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullAuto Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 IIRC it's a 80/20 split for the writer and finder of an article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silencer_pl Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 As long as it is enough for auto shot... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Voyager Posted August 29, 2011 Share Posted August 29, 2011 As long as it is enough for auto shot...THAT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorondor Posted September 11, 2011 Share Posted September 11, 2011 This is not an article but it sure packs far more wisdom than your average one... :: Come to papa, bonus APs! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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