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Jan. 8, 2009 - 3:40 p.m.Aaox just commented on Thordain's Topic - This explains everything......
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1. SUPPERMOOSEMAN - Because he is good at point-and-click-'em-ups2. BRAD - He can sooth teh Zambees into subsmission with his voice3. LOUIS - 'Bill's here!'(alt) 3. MacGyver - He can make a gun out of a paperclip and a sock. Why wouldn't you want him on your team?
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Jeep out of nowhere™ is a BITCH.
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Jan. 1, 2009 - 5:04 p.m.Aaox just created a new forum post in the topic 100 things you've learned playing Far Cry 2 in the Far Cry 2 forum
169. Weapon cases are all actually teleporters than can send guns to every house with said cases inside within a 50 km2 range.170. There is no food in africa that is edible.171. There is only one plane leaving the country at a time.172. The Airfields are devoid of planes.173. Foliage magically regenerates.
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I just want to give Giant B|omb a standing ovation. *CLAP CLAP*
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From the mouth of Jeff...
" While all around me has been chaos, I've had a pretty good run with my Xbox 360 hardware. While everyone was running around like maniacs, investigating the Xbox 360's supposedly shoddy hardware, I was sort of quietly hanging out at home, getting achievement points and wondering what the big deal was.
Well, today's the day I join the rest of the world. My 360 decided that the multiplayer mode of Gears of war 2 was too much for it to handle, so it locked up, filling the screen with a checkerboard pattern of static.
Red rings, baby. Three of 'em.
I... might be putting words into my 360's now-silent mouth. I can't remember for sure, everything happened so fast.
The awesome part about having it break tonight is that the Microsoft customer support center is currently working on upgrades. So you can't register consoles or file new repairs until tomorrow. When it rains, it rains, brothers and sisters. When it rains, it rains.
Oh, pours? Well, whatever. You get what I'm saying.
This is the first 360 that I've owned that's given up on me.
Whatever, I won't cry and moan about it, since everyone's been hearing people bitch about the 360 hardware issues for years now. I think that's one part of all this that worked out in Microsoft's favor--the problem went on so long and got so bad that everyone got fed up with all the people complaining about it more than they got fed up with the actual hardware issues.
Still... pretty bad timing. I REALLY WANTED TO PLAY GEARS 2."
FABLE 2 FUNTIMES.
Fable 2
Okay Giant Bomb. You just deleted my amazingly long blog-post. That's not cool. NOT cool, dog. Anyway, I'm waiting for Fable 2 Because I want that game more than any of you. (Including Scott Ramsoomair Of VG Cats fame.) I've been waiting for it- For. Four. INCREDIBLY. Boring. Years. I haven't checked any videos concerning the magnificence that will be Fable 2- other than the Dev. Diary vidocs, that is. And I also haven't checked Wikipedia either (For all of your encyclopedic-type needs, visit Wikipedia- The web's free encyclopedia that ANYONE can edit!). So that's pretty cool. I can't wait for this game any longer- You know how it is, the closer you get to something the further away it seems. Did I just quote a Chinese proverb? I think I did. At least, as far as I know, I did.Now, onto CoD 5." EXCLUSIVE " beta. Yeah, It's not exclusive. About five of the people I know have this thing- There's about 30,000 people on there now (Guess what? Most of them are Jerks). I got the Beta early, but since then I've seen thousand after thousand flock over from other games. The special feeling went as quickly as the new horde of unwashed peasants flew in. I think this is more of a marketing thing now, a sort of 'Hey, guess what? It's just like CoD 4! Come play and buy it! NOW!' People have been giving codes out because they have two. Or five. Or so many, they're selling them for REAL MONEY. (EDIT: This game was not as good as I thought it would be. )
Anyway, it's time for my
Beta Impressions:
Call of Duty: Old timey warfare.
A neat addition to this series is gore. As opposed to CoD 4, CoD: W@W has limbs being blown off (Though not in a Gears of War ' way over the top' kind of way- the limbs are realistically blown off). there's no excessive blood, which is actually kind of wierder than seas of it. It makes you feel immersed, and it makes you go 'That looks painful' as opposed to the CoD 4 'WHAT THE F***?!? post-living talk. Then there's the new primary grenades- The typical Frag, The (Oddly) Sticky, anti tank grenade called the N 74 ST, and the Molotov Cocktail- although more people are using the molotov than the others- just because it's FIRE. And the Mortar Strikes are MUCH more brutal than the Air Strikes ever were. The dogs are a really good addition- you stand a chance against them, which is good- and they kill just as quickly, if not faster, than the Helicopter did. And you get points for killing them, which makes you want to avoid them and gun them down more than usual. It's a nice incentive to get your teammates shooting them, and you won't feel like you're getting picked on, because they're mauling your friend's face, too. The thing that bugs me, though, is the fact it doesn't do that 'Press Right Stick to break dog's throat' thing, they just leap at you. The kife animations have blood, which is nice, because they feel like they're doing something now- as opposed to the *SWIPE= FALL OVER* of CoD 4. Overall, this game feels really solid, and CoD fans shouldn't be left wanting anything. Except maybe decent weapons, but we'll get over that.
But it's only a beta. Or a active advert. Whatever. It's not finished, Okay?
Why indeed?
Yay!
These are getting phenomenally short.
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Fable is a 3rd person Action/RPG game, set in the fictional world of Albion. It's created by English Game producer Lionhead studios, and is part of the Fable franchise. In the game, you control a dynamically morphing player, which depends on whether you do good things (e.g: killing Bandits) or evil things (e.g killing wnadering traders). You never have any direct control of the morphing, but it's not hard to be either good or bad. Eating too much will make you fat, whilst not eating will make you shrink. You can also get absolutley wasted, even to the point of vomiting. You do get control of hairstyles and tatoos, though. You gain expirence by killing enemies and completing certain tasks, which, in turn, affect your alignment. The experience orbs dropped by enemies can be traded at the Guild of Heroes for either Spells, Skills, or Strength. You see what they did there? It's called alliteration. You can also upgrade each criteria up to a maximum of five times.Spells are obviously magical spells, but are divided into two distinct types. There's target spells which usually only effect one enemy, and are therefore good assets in a one on one battle. These spells are rather pointless, though, when you're up against a lot of enemies. That happens most of the time, actually. The other type are called area spells, and, as you may guess, have smaller dammage but affect enemies in your immidiate surroundings. Upgrading target spells increace their power, while upgrading area spells increase range. Skills are actually just archery and thieving. Archery is, as you would probably guess, all about bows and crossbows. Increasing your archery skill allows you to shoot faster, and dish out da pain more with each shot. Thieveing lets you... you know. Steal stuff. And be sneaky. Strength lets you deal out more damage with swords and axes, and increase your health. Overall, I think Fable's a awesome experience, but it's not without it's flaws.
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Before Bad Company, Battlefield games were samey, faceless war shooters that... kinda failed to impress. I hoped that Bad Company would prove that DICE still had some tricks up their sleeves. And thankfully, they proved me right. I enjoyed every moment of Battlefield's single player, although the pretty much unlimited auto-injector reduced the difficulty somewhat. The great thing about Bad Company is that although the online action is the centrepiece of all the previous games in the franchise, this time around Bad Company has a genuinely amazing single player experience. It's strange, but hats off to dice for making a story the is just about as interesting as GTA IV's one. Well, for me anyway. The contros are kind of clunky, but you get the feeling that that was intentional, and that they did that on purpose for the purpose of making it feel more realistic. There's your redneck soldier called Haggard who's the comic relief of the team and shares Jeff's pro exsplosion agenda, then you have your sterotypical seargeant called Redford. Another great thing about this game is that there's no (Quote Yahtzee) "Black and white 'My country 'tis of thee' jingoisim that you see in most war games"(/Quote) It's also genuinely funny and in some places, absolutley hysterical (Spoilers!) for example, the part where Haggard single-handedly invades a neutral country. There's also some great fun to be had in the Multi-player. But here's where the faults come in: The Unlock system is stripped down to only 3 unlcoks availible for all classes, and beacuse you only have one account and can't create new soldiers the 25 unlocks are enough to purchase all the weapons. Also, on the larger maps, the only classes worth playing are the Recon class and the Demolition class. Another of Battlefield's shortcomings: there's only one class that can hurt vehicles to a satisfactory degree. But maybe that's just me. Anyway, I loved this game, and if you're a fan of Battlefield games you'll probably love this one too. You know, if you can forgive the slight dumbing down for consoles. And that phrase is not meant as an insult. If you're new to the genre, 1. WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN? And 2: You could do a hell of a lot worse that this. Just, you know, go buy it. It's a shining example of the genre, and it really sucked me in.
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