gamingeek said:

I'm opening my gates. 

16:20 pm GMT

Urgent, if anyone has good turnip prices, let me know now!

 Mine were at 160 this morning... I don't know if that is good or not, and I won't be home to open my gates for several hours.

rragnaar said:

gamingeek said:

I'm opening my gates.

16:20 pm GMT

Urgent, if anyone has good turnip prices, let me know now!

Mine were at 160 this morning... I don't know if that is good or not, and I won't be home to open my gates for several hours.

just saw the message GG.  mine are at 150.  anything above 100 is a profit but 150 or 160 is not too great but it's better than a loss

Just watched the Spore Hero video. I echo the sentiment:

WTH?

Nice visuals though, reminds me of a rare game. So you build monsters and fight or sing to each other?

gamingeek said:

bugsonglass said:

rragnaar said:

gamingeek said:

I'm opening my gates.

16:20 pm GMT

Urgent, if anyone has good turnip prices, let me know now!

Mine were at 160 this morning... I don't know if that is good or not, and I won't be home to open my gates for several hours.

just saw the message GG.  mine are at 150.  anything above 100 is a profit but 150 or 160 is not too great but it's better than a loss

Thanks guys. Rag, the price before 12pm changes. It depends if it goes up when you get home. Which might be too late for me. Thanks for the info though.

Bugs, that sounds great, when can we meet?

anytime, i'm at home doing work.  i had my gates open for a good hour or more just now, don't know if you checked.  just let me know.  18.45 now GMT i'll check back in a few mins

gamingeek said:

In about 35 minutes then?

cool,  i'll open gates.  see you then

I played the InFamous demo for an hour yesterday, yes one playthrough takes that long and I just focused on doing the missions, there is a huge area to explore. You get four missions, two main ones and two side ones. Its classic open world design, missions appear on your map, go to them to start them up, etc. There are hidden shards around the game world to find. I didn't find much else to do in the city, maybe the main game has more, for now don't expect anything like GTA where there is a lot to do around every corner.

The gameplay is where this demo really shined. The best way I can describe it is imagine the building climbing mechanics of Assassin's Creed, mixed with the cover shooting gameplay of Uncharted and your character is a Jedi Knight who lost his lightsaber. Like Assassin's Creed everything is climbable, any thing that is not a flat wall can be grabbed on and use to climb up the many buildings.  The game uses a sort of auto lock feature to make sure the character grabs on to grabble objects so at times it feels like your chaarcter is pulled to a certain object. The jumps are floaty, but I soon found that was cause of what I mentioned above, precision jumping is not needed as all you really need to do is point him at something and the character

will grab on it's own.

Some of his electricity powers take the place of conventional weapons. His standard electric attack, which shoots balls of electricty at enemies is basically a normal gun. He has an electricity grenade, which obviously takes the place of a grenade. He also has a force push power, which is why he feels like a sort of jedi. There are good side powers and dark side powers, they seem to have taken the light/dark idea from the Jedi Knight series. As you play, depending on what side you stay on you gain more powers for that side. If you are good your powers are more about healing and defense. If you are evil your powers are more about added destruction and damage. Both sides actual moves seem to be the same, they just have added side effects depending on your moral choice. Other moves in the demo include the ability to jump up and then come down with a super slam on the ground that causes a shockwave. You got melee attacks, no real combos. You can do this awesome slide on any powerlines, I found myself basically skating on a powerline high above the street raining down death on enemies below. I looked at the menu and there are plenty more to unlock.

As you use your power you lose electricty, to gain it back just absorb electricity from any power source, and there are many in the world. Health works the same way, low on health, absorb electricty. There is a cover system, press circle to enter cover, sort of like Uncharted. But it doesn't work as well as Uncharted, I found it hard to determine what I can cover behind, also since its an open world most of the time enemies are all around you, so cover for one enemy leaves you completly open for another. I say buildings are the best cover, climb up to the edge of the top of a building and use that as your cover.  

There were plenty of enemy types; you had your standard gun bad guys, fireball grenade dudes, missle launcher dudes, and my favorite this teleporting earthquake making mutant. Combat is so much fun, you need to use the whole world to your advantage, use buildings as cover, get to high ground to gain the upper hand, find areas that have multiple electricity sources. Use cars as explosives waiting to happen, force push enemies off of buildings, use powerlines as an infinite power source. I put the difficulty to medium and it was a challenge, enemies have perfect aim, if you are not in cover they will shoot you to death quickly. Like I said before the city is very open so enemies will surround you, you have a sonar like radar you can use to see where enemies are. Enemies mover around, they work in groups, it wasn't a cake walk for me, I did need to use cover and fight smart to get by. You gain exp by doing certain kills like get a headshock (a headshot) or force pushing a guy then hitting him while he is falling in midair. Some enemies stay incapacitated rather than dying, you can walk up to them and decide to leech energy from them or restrain them, one is the good method and the other the bad method. You can also heal civilians the same way, you will find some hurt on the ground, walk up to them and press triangle to heal, or just their energy. This aspect seems like it can get old fast, I hope you are not required to help many civilians to stay good, I saw tons of them hurt all over, I bored of healing them after the third one.

The missions in the demo were pretty damn awesome. The first one was on a train, you need to stand at the front to power the train to move but enemies block your path at many locations on the trip. It's a long well designed mission, it wasn't go to point A, kill people... even though some of the side missions were like that. The other main mission has you protecting a crate of medical supplies from waves of enemies. Toward the end, huge trucks with gun turrets show up to take you down. So the two main missions were fun as hell and well thought out.

I still need to play the demo as a bad dude, causing major carnage everywhere. I tried it out only for a shortwhile, seems like there is no reprocussions for going psycho and killing people, like no police or gang of people rebelling against you. Kind of made blowing up stuff pointless, hopefully I am wrong about that. Overall i loved it, I am going to go back and play it many times. I'm sold on the game, the action is so well done that I know I can spend many many hours just messing around with it.

*Wakes up

Okay update time!

Yodariquo said:

 

The crazy thing is that people are looking for hints for Overkill, though. You aim and you shoot.