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#1 Posted by Artemesia (1041 posts) - 4 hours, 10 minutes ago

I think your overreacting. It's a screenshot, Halo 3 had insane amounts of light blooms or whatever they are called and it didn't effect gameplay at all. It just looks nice, why don't you wait to see the game before passing judgment.

Halo is a much different style of game and the levels were made so you were never really looking directly at the sunshine in a situation where you would not want to, nor has Halo ever really been a series that force feeds you its graphics. Battlefield, however...

#2 Posted by Artemesia (1041 posts) - 5 hours, 1 minute ago

@soybob said:

If it's brown, flush it down.

If it's yellow, let it mellow.

If you live with other people you are a serious jerk

#3 Posted by Artemesia (1041 posts) - 19 hours, 43 minutes ago

@shagge said:

The Russians (yes, all of them) put out a hit on the dog, who then goes into hiding. Ten long years later, he emerges, having built himself a super-tank: The Sherman Shepherd. Mowing down filthy, filthy commies by the dozen, he suddenly runs out of fuel in the middle of Moscow. Robo-Gorbachev aims a shotgun at the dog and quips: "Every dog has his day, comrade. You already had yours."

BLAM. Fade to black.

The credits begin to roll.

Suddenly, America happens all over Russia's face in the form of the USMC unloading fully automatic freedom into Robochev's steel casing. After Russia is forced to become America 2: The Squeakquel, the player's character looks at the camera and salutes. As he lowers his hand, you see a message emblazoned on his forehead: "Freedom Isn't Free".

The credits resume.

Afterwards, a shot of the cave in which the dog built his tank comes into view. Puppies begin trotting out. A voice-over: "Call of Duty: Ghosts 2: Bark Ops, 2015".

threads over everyone can go home now

#4 Edited by Artemesia (1041 posts) - 19 hours, 47 minutes ago

@minipato said:

I don't know why the concept of a zombie cure is so heavily avoided in zombie fiction. I mean, they do tackle it, but it almost always ends up as "there is no cure! No hope! You can only delay the inevitable!" I don't get what's up with zombie writers and their obsession with bleak hopelessness.

Probably because the zombie is conceptually just the monster movie version of ourselves. The whole idea of a zombie and part of what makes the zombie apocalypse setting so exciting for most people is that zombies are just human beings with all of the rational parts of us removed. It turns us into mindless animals whose only instinct is to eat and highlighting that when the shit has hit the fan and we are surrounded by literal monsters, humanity has the capacity and the will to become the moral monsters and justify it as survival, and when you make that choice, you are so much worse than something that is only doing the only thing it knows how.

To have a make it all better solution would remove the drama of deciding what kind of human being you truly are at the core when it comes between doing the right thing and doing what is best for you and living with those consequences.

#5 Posted by Artemesia (1041 posts) - 21 hours, 39 minutes ago

@legion_ said:
@tarsier said:

you also might be depressed.

I'm actually worried about that. I sleep more than usual, and my girlfriend claims I seem indifferent to most things. Don't know why would be depressed though, so I guess I'm just bored. I tend to get that way after living in one place for long. I'm somewhat of a restless soul. Never been bored of the viddja gamez before now though.

Sounds like how I feel. I sleep between nine and eleven hours a night and I have a lot of difficulty being excited about just about anything. Depression can cause feeling indifferent or bored towards most things in your life. Depression also doesn't necessarily have a cause every time you feel down, you can just BE depressed.

#6 Posted by Artemesia (1041 posts) - 21 hours, 53 minutes ago

I find myself getting burnt out on games pretty easily because they are basically my one single hobby. That's not true, it isn't JUST playing games that burns me out, it's being around the ability to play games all day that ends up making me feel like they're a chore or "just something to do" rather than something that should be fun and amazing. Sitting at my computer all day leads to me becoming uninterested in the 250+ games I have on steam. I find that when I work three days in a row or I go out and just do things all weekend, then come back, my games are fun and exciting again.

Try and change your environment a little. I know how difficult that can be as I suffer from extreme depression and I social anxiety so just getting out and being around people is both a chore AND scary for me, but exposing yourself to other things might be just what you need to reignite that spark.

#7 Edited by Artemesia (1041 posts) - 22 hours, 16 minutes ago

This looks very, very interesting. I'm glad to see people exploring other possibilities in a zombie setting other than RAGGHH EVERYTHING'S SCREWED SIDEWAYS

#8 Posted by Artemesia (1041 posts) - 22 hours, 24 minutes ago

@jimbo said:

It's CoD so it'll probably jump onto a nuclear missile as it's launching, chew through the casing and rip out the targeting computer just as the missile breaks through the atmosphere (this will be a QTE sequence). The dog will last be seen barking The Star-Spangled Banner as it rides the missile out into space (and this). You'll think it's dead, but actually it'll be back in Ghosts 2 because something something America and will become the first dog President of the US.

IRL it'd just go chasing off after a butterfly and get run over by a tank.

@fourwude said:

Dog commits suicide after returning from war and realising his kennel has been foreclosed and his girlfriend leaves him because the relatiinship has become increasingly abusive. Alienation from the society around him turns him into a recluse. Anger and resentment at what he was forced to do eat away at him. Days while away. Even basic rational thought becomes difficult. One night sitting in a blacked out motel room, perpetually imprisoned in his own thoughts, he pulls the trigger. His body is discovered 3 weeks later.

Best answers. I would accept either of these.

#9 Edited by Artemesia (1041 posts) - 1 day, 56 minutes ago

Metroid Prime is one of the best games of all time. Its sequels are no slouch, but the first is amazing. If you can get a copy of that game, do it!

That about sums 'er up.

#10 Edited by Artemesia (1041 posts) - 1 day, 9 hours ago

@jeust said:

I don't know but that Rare picture sure looks... medieval. A Fable remake maybe?

The time is right, with Peter Molineux gone and all.

Banjo Kazooie: Swords 'n Boards

Earn the trust of the Jinjos. Use them to build your own kingdom(or just use the blue prints if you're a lazy shit like I am). Then take the fight to Grunty.

Use your keyboard!

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