The Bill's Now Playing Video Game Thread (Now with Bames)

[the awesome Assassin]

Upset?!? I just like shit organized...

[the awesome Assassin]

LOL. You shouldn't be so upset squid... someone's replying to one of your posts!

- too embarrassed

[ghost boner]

hey vern... did you play the secret mini game?

no i dont think so? after the credits it took me to a game of zombies but i didnt play it.


also way to try to rope me into a verning, schwaig. im too smart for that shit now.

[Spooky Apparition]

man, rayman is the shit. definitely going to get it at some point.

[ghost boner]

is it the zombies arcade? ive played that

[Necrometer]

I don't want to gum up the good vibes of the Skyrim thread because I am genuinely happy for (and jealous of) all those about to embark on glorious journeys. That said,

PC, medium settings

SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW

god frost is such a beaner piece of shit i can't stand it

I can't be the only one who looks at an image like this and sees revolting tacky bullshit, right? I'm not trying to claim the graphics are outdated or anything - I'm talking about aesthetic choices. The same shiny sheen of crap made it impossible for me to watch my girlfriend & friends play Oblivion without getting totally detached. It's neither realistic nor cinematic... rather it seems fully devoted to (or accepting of?) the fact that it looks like a game. This is not a ubiquitous problem - certain outstanding games overcome the challenge (Portal & Dead Space games, most "gritty" nowadays FPS, and the ultimate-of-all-time example: Shadow of the Colossus). Eh?

[BroMan]

Steam has been hacked! Go change your passwords, I don't have credit card or barely any info on mine, but I know majority of you guys use it.

[Brut]

I like how Steam doesn't send an email out to it's userbase advising them of this hack, nor allow me to change my fucking password despite the fact that they've been hacked.

Welp, time to watch my Credit Card for suspicious bullshit.

[Friendly Goatus]

I can't be the only one who looks at an image like this and sees revolting tacky bullshit, right? I'm not trying to claim the graphics are outdated or anything - I'm talking about aesthetic choices. The same shiny sheen of crap made it impossible for me to watch my girlfriend & friends play Oblivion without getting totally detached. It's neither realistic nor cinematic... rather it seems fully devoted to (or accepting of?) the fact that it looks like a game. This is not a ubiquitous problem - certain outstanding games overcome the challenge (Portal & Dead Space games, most "gritty" nowadays FPS, and the ultimate-of-all-time example: Shadow of the Colossus). Eh?

[Necrometer]

That's a great example that I would've brought up if it wouldn't have sounded insanely queer in an already queer post - James Cameron talked extensively about how generating the visual feel of that movie (a huge task since the majority is CGI) is absolutely NOT "realistic" and is deliberately cinematic. To round out the cinematic analogies: Avatar works at creating a cinematic feel, District 9 succeeds with a realistic feel, while Star Wars prequels look like videogames in the same way Elder Scrolls games do.

[Necrophilic Mallard]

I like how Steam doesn't send an email out to it's userbase advising them of this hack, nor allow me to change my fucking password despite the fact that they've been hacked.

Welp, time to watch my Credit Card for suspicious bullshit.

WHAT THE FUCKING SHIT

this could seriously put a damper on my SKYRIMING

fortunately I don't store my credit card info online...

[riley-o]

avatar worked at nothing but cheeseball bullshit dude

[Necrometer]

I don't want to argue about that too much... but I hope you get a different visual vibe from this:

SPOILERSPOILER_SHOW

than you do from that weird pastel impossibly flat cap I quoted above!?!?

[riley-o]

well i'm sure it'll be different from this too



i'm still not really sure what your point is ? the graphics look not that great ? or they look video gamey ? i don't think anyone here is playing it for the graphics ? it's not uncharted 3 we're talking about here

[Necrometer]

i don't think anyone here is playing it for the graphics ?

right, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that! I just wanted to hear someone else say it... which is an urge only present because of schwaig's posting of "impressive" pics

[riley-o]

oh weird

yeah i'll admit that all night long, this shit could look like a commodore 64 game if it has a ton of dungeons and skill trees and flower picking

[copstache]

steam hack is only for theri forums, which i'm not a member of

so

win

[Necrophilic Mallard]

steam hack is only for theri forums, which i'm not a member of

so

win

false

http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnyegr ... edit-card/

[copstache]

i'm going tp pee on your toast

just all over it

[Brut]

Copstache, u drunk.

[Spooky Apparition]

this is one of the bioshock infinite directors talking:

"One of the first things we did when we started on BioShock Infinite was to draw a graph with y and z axes, and to say that one of those axes was the number of enemies in an encounter and the other was the range of those enemies," Levine said. "In the original BioShock, the entire game lived in one corner of that graph – few enemies, all at close range - so the Electro Bolt and shotgun were perfect. BioShock Infinite is going to have much greater ranges and, potentially, far more enemies, so we're greatly increasing the spectrum of encounters that are possible, and that requires the player use a broader set of tools."

that was probably my biggest issue with bioshock, so this is awesome. along with mass effect 3 and max payne 3, this might be my most anticipated game of 2012

[The Schwartz]

I'm not sure why you are acting like the last guardian isn't a thing

[Spooky Apparition]

i already had my heart broken this year man. i can't set myself up for that again. until they set a release date for LG in stone i'm pretending like it doesn't exist. it's for the best

[milkmandan]

Anyone else buying Mario today?

[milkmandan]

Game rules so far