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

[milkmandan]

Fuck yes the future rules

[milkmandan]

I just realized that strafing would be extremely awkward on a device like that. Maybe the future needs to wait a bit.

[james]

You'd have to develop an entirely new sort of game for it. Even then I don't think it would really be all that interesting.

[Necrometer]

did you see the demo of the guy strafing? it looks so weird



dude's face...

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oh my god

The rate at the one near me was something like $5 for 3 minutes, if I remember correctly!

yeah it was insanely expensive - that vid says $8 for 10 min or something, which is a lot in dustbux

[Necrometer]

I would love to gokart/lasertag/battletech with you dudes for sure

[Necrometer]

http://hinklefamilyfuncenter.com/attrac ... attletech/
CA ROADTRIP?

I would love to gokart/lasertag/battletech with you dudes for sure

that would be the best day ever. love family fun centers. WE LIVE IN CALIFORNIA WHY DOES THIS NOT EXIST HERE

I'll be frank - those things would be next-level with a few drinks... I presume family fun connotes teetotaling?

[The Bill]

Arguably the worst one is the most expensive. I'm a coin flip away from getting the original even though I didn't care for what I played back in the 90's.

[spacehamster]

Is the RE5 DLC any good? I never played that because it wasn't compatible with my imported game, and I didn't want to buy it again because I sank about 80 hours into unlocking damn near everything in the game and didn't want to start over, but now that the full game seems to cost about as much as the DLC originally did...

[guardianoftheblind]

dark arisen is today. getting pretty favorable reviews. i know the game isn't perfect but i'm still super stoked

[The Bill]

Yeah, I ordered that. I have a very good feeling about this one. If it gets to me by Friday, I'm putting DMC aside (maybe even sell it back without finishing it). Interesting that I seem to only be interested in games that have some sort of companion tied to the game play. Damn you, Bioshock!

[Necrometer]

Dude, these days you can even go drinking in parts of Disney World. I just looked at a local Six Flag to go to this summer with my woman and some friends and they have places you can tie one on too ("responsibly" of course ).

My point is, many Family Fun places understand dad needs a pop or two...

Speaking of Six Flags, one of the only downsides of the bay area is that there are no world-class amusement parks in the area. Going to one that's inferior to Ohio's Cedar Point is just going to be a disappointment. I guess that's the problem with the abundance of all-natural outdoor amusement to be had

[The Bill]

If it gets to me by Friday

WHOA! Just arrived. I didn't select same day nor any other type of express delivery. A sign?

[spacehamster]

Does anyone here but me care that there's a Ratchet & Clank movie coming out?

.......well, nevermind, then.

[The Bill]

Does anyone here but me care that there's a Ratchet & Clank movie coming out?

.......well, nevermind, then.

Not really, but I'm more interested in why they think now is the time when one would venture it's past the peak of its popularity?

On a similar subject are any game based animes any good? I know there's 2 Dead Space ones, I think a Dante's Inferno, Sin... all I can think of but I'm sure there are a ton more.

[Gookstorm]

http://steamcommunity.com/id/djk29a/sta ... hievements
But that's not the that I'm talking about - 0 deaths, 1 country lost... for that Ironman Impossible game.
http://steamcommunity.com/id/djk29a/screenshots

I hardly have a need to play it anymore since I can't do any better without going for all achievements. I think someone showed it's basically impossible to not lose any countries on Impossible difficulty without an immense amount of luck, which I think I got with the zero deaths if you ask me.

On a similar subject are any game based animes any good?

The Dante's Inferno anime was strange but alright - multiple artists in one movie with several styles. Maybe we'll see a Darksiders anime before another game given it's in IP hell from the THQ auction taking a turn for the weird.

[spacehamster]

Does anyone here but me care that there's a Ratchet & Clank movie coming out?

.......well, nevermind, then.

Not really, but I'm more interested in why they think now is the time when one would venture it's past the peak of its popularity?

Given that the game series is basically dead creatively, I'd say moving the franchise to movies is actually the only place to go with it at this point... but I'm sure it's just because whatever Hollywood dealings have been going on for years have finally fallen into place now, and nobody knows what they're doing.

[james]

3D animated movies for kids are almost always a safe bet... I guess video game adaptations aren't common, but I mean they'll base those things on absolutely anything... and you can sell any fucking goddamn thing to kids.

If you take a bucket of gabrbage water and put a colorful sticker on it and show it on a commercial where kids pay with it, you will sell at least 40,000 of them.

"Joey are you asleep?"
"Yeah mom I am goodnight!"
cut to kid wearing sunglasses playing with bucket of garbage water with a flashlight under the covers

Fun Fluid... for kids with attitude. Say no to mom

[spacehamster]

The thing is also that the good Ratchet games are halfway there already anyway. Quest for Booty and Crack in Time are basically Pixar movies with shooter gameplay. All you need to do is take out the shooter gameplay and tighten up the story a bit. And they seem to know it, too, they're even keeping the voice cast.

[The Bill]

Oh boy! Hey, look ZZZZzzzzz

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*spoiled for size

[james]

i would play one of those games if you shot real ghosts

[The Bill]

i would play one of those games if you shot real ghosts

No shit, me too. They need to gussy up that series before it's so late that it brings down the entire FPS genre with it. I'm thinking it's somewhere between self-parody and blatant sheep herding. Meet the Spartans 8. I'm much more likely to play Legendary than another COD game at this point:

[Friendly Goatus]

I think it's more so their servers don't get slammed with traffic all at once

[canon.docre]

Legend of Grimrock. Words cannot describe how fucking rad this game is. Eye of the Beholder pt. 4 motherfuckers.

[electronichamz]

Legend of Grimrock. Words cannot describe how fucking rad this game is. Eye of the Beholder pt. 4 motherfuckers.

I am about ten hours into this. I stopped when I actually got motivated to play Skyrim. I forget where I am at, but I am getting my ass handed to me. A buddy of mine is into all the downloadable content. I guess it supposedly delivers.

Fuck the mushrooms that shoot shit at you

[copstache]

Next Xbox revealed on May 21st.

At 10am after everyone is at work. On a tuesday.

This is like a time the government tries to quietly pass unpopular bills.

Seems they may be a little sheepish about it...

yay for jobs who won't give a shit that i'm watching this on my second monitor!