That sure is nice.

edgecrusher said:

Is this bioshock package just the usual PC versions at max settings or is there new stuff?

Don't know anything about it yet other than box art.

So I've got a few games in the rotation right now.

• Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze                                                            

Overall its a very solid game, no surprise. But, there's also NO suprises...which makes it feel pretty by the numbers. Its just a very pretty DKC game. Seems to have the same kind of slightly annoying difficulty level as DKCR...I just hope the end isn't as bad. That game pissed me off way too much at the end.

• Pokken Tournament                                                                                      

I have no idea what a typical Pokemon game is like...in fact when I was younger I used to get annoyed at the sight of Pokemon. However, this game is a solid fighting game that plays just like Tekken. There's something hilarious about watching these characters beat the shit out of each other. How about a Fire Emblem Tournament?

• Final Fantasy Type Zero HD                                                                          

I've put this one off for ages, so I said hey why the fuck not? I really like it....it has a dark vibe & the whole class system/school environment gives it a very Persona-like style. Different from the usual modern FF, but it feels fresh.

• DOOM 3                                                                                                      

With DOOM 4 around the corner, I said hey....let's go the fuck back to DOOM 3! Honestly, I didn't like this one that much back on the XBOX. This was one of the few games back then that could put me to sleep at a normal hour when I shouldn't be sleeping. Not what you want from DOOM. But I did finish it...and sometimes after a long period goes by you can appreciate something more than you used to. We'll see. It certainly had great production values. Still holds up well.

I am in a war with smerlus on the other site because he thinks nearly all "survival horror" game is better than old RE games which is just absurd. So I gave my amnesia impressions and explained why so far it's not that great:

Further amnesia impressions, only like 2 hours in. The grand majority of the time I have done nothing but walk around and look for stuff. I guess I have to stay on the light and manage my oil and candles but there is so many that it is never an issue. For a good hour and a half nothing happens, creepy atmosphere but it’s a bunch of parlor tricks, no real danger.

There was some locked doors and passages, like the classic use acid to burn creature obstacle which has been done to death in RE. Here we had to find four ingredients and then the game just has you put them in a device and press a button. At least RE makes you think by needed to look at notes, figure out which ingredients need to be added in which order to get the right combination, so an actual puzzle. So already RE has better puzzles than this game. That may change, I am at some complicated level puzzle thing so maybe that one will require actual thinking to solve.

So during the boring trek through the empty mansion I entered a flooded hallway and all of a sudden splashes were seen in the water coming at me, wtf?! Boom dead. A message says stay out of the water. Now I am in a section where I need to jump from crate to crate, throw limbs to distract this invisible monster and open doors while this thing is coming at me. Where was this game? Actual gameplay, an actual scenario where I am engaged. That was awesome. And it lasted all of 5 minutes, back to exploring an empty house.

That’s the difference right there between something like this and old RE. If you are not engaged or paying attention every second in that game you can die. Every single room has some purpose to it, some gameplay situation for the player to over come. You enter a room and there are 5 enemies between you and the item you need but you have 3 bullets left and half health, what do you do? The entire game is filled with that, there are very few passive moments. The key to great gameplay is engaging the player, making sure the player is always doing something, managing something, at risk to lose a life, not just meandering around looking for an object in an empty world.

If the rest of amnesia is more like the water segment then it will be a really good game, if it’s mostly just walking around doing nothing well then it’s obviously not a good game.

The graphics in RoTR is blowing my mind.

Good evening gents.

200 hrs into XCX and I'm pretty much finished with everything.

SupremeAC said:

What's the drawing?  Is that...  Kirby?

That image was found on Miyamoto's workstation.

This was also found:

SupremeAC said:

So Apple announced a new Iphone and Ipad Pro...

Any Apple fans in here?

I like their iPhone and iPad but I wouldn't say that I'm a fan. Don't really care much for their home computers though.