The Arcade Random Thoughts Thread

[Maynard]

dragon age origins on the pc is amazing. i changed the resolution to 1900x1080 in the game and it looks like a totally different game. the game looks 10 times better then the 360 version as is....but when i made that change to 1900 it took it to another level....WOW

i figured out another way to keep my shit cool. i took off the side panel to allow more airflow. adding the psu and all of its glorious extra cables didnt leave much wiggle room in the case....taking off that panel took off about 7-10 degrees

i would have loved to build my own PC. i just priced it out with the components i would want. including the gpu and psu i already bought i would be looking at $1400....i would still need a mouse and keyboard...fuck all that. im happy with my i5 processor. but i look at the i7 and think fuuuuuuuuu. this is why i hate PC's. as soon as you buy it its obsolete. and they are so dam expensive

[Garrett67]

dragon age origins on the pc is amazing. i changed the resolution to 1900x1080 in the game and it looks like a totally different game. the game looks 10 times better then the 360 version as is....but when i made that change to 1900 it took it to another level....WOW

i figured out another way to keep my shit cool. i took off the side panel to allow more airflow. adding the psu and all of its glorious extra cables didnt leave much wiggle room in the case....taking off that panel took off about 7-10 degrees

i would have loved to build my own PC. i just priced it out with the components i would want. including the gpu and psu i already bought i would be looking at $1400....i would still need a mouse and keyboard...fuck all that. im happy with my i5 processor. but i look at the i7 and think fuuuuuuuuu. this is why i hate PC's. as soon as you buy it its obsolete. and they are so dam expensive

i5 processors are no joke. They are VERY overclockable , and give the i7 a run for their money. A very good run!

[JBregz]

Picked up the Sly Cooper collection along with the God of War I and II collection a week or so ago. I wish I would have gotten into the Sly series when it was out on PS2, but there were so many cartoony platformers out at the time, it slipped past me. I'm really enjoying the game, but the camera control can get a little tricky.

p.s. If any of you 360 Borderlands players need an extra for co-op, I need to finish Moxi and Claptrap Robolution.

Such a fun game, I loved stealing coins of enemies with Sly's sickle.

[JayDizzle]

Yet another game I need to play. How bad was the PS3 version? Everything I read/heard said it was almost unplayable but I guess not if you played through it.

I want to beat the first one before starting that one though. The problme is that I was about halfway through way back on the Xbox1 and stopped playing for whatever reason. Then I restarted it on my 360 but the backwards compatibility for that game is horrendous. The radar didn't work worth a shit and it would freeze constantly. I ended up picking up a PS2 version and I'll start over on that because I know it will play fine on my PS3, unlike the Xbox version.

Just beat the game tonight... not going back to clean up for trophies for a while because I have Just Cause 2 and BF3 to get back to.

Mercs 2 is okay if you look past the need for a great story and something else to do in the game besides blowing shit up for free money and gas.

Shit starts off small with you making pals with the locals and the immediate oil conglomerate as you play all sides against each other; very "Yojimbo."

Eventually, the Chinese and the "Allied Nations" (U.S. troops backed with international funding) step in and you have to choose a side as to who will own Venezuela at the end of the game.

Playability-wise, it's fine.

There's pop-up on occasion (trees pop up on the ground when you're flying in a chopper; rocks dot the road in the middle of a race) but nothing that'll kill your game experience.

The killer for this game might be the lack of server support though; more specifically, if you load this game up while logged in on PSN, the shit will freeze almost immediately because it can't find a server to attach itself to.

You CAN however play it off-line but know that you'll never be able to Platinum the game because half the trophies require you to be logged in online and/or playing with somebody in co-op online.

[Swarley]

Made it about halfway through Dead Space 2 tonight. Love the gameplay, jury's still out on the story though.

[Swarley]

God of War 4 coming soon?

Composer Timothy Williams updated his resume recently, and appears to have added that he has done some work on a new, not yet announced God of War game.

Doing music for a new God of War would certainly fall in line with Williams' other work. He has done music for many films including 300, Conan the Barbarian and Shark Night 3D, as well as video games like Rise of the Argonauts.

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2012/01/03/god-of-war-iv-appears-on-composer-39-s-resume.aspx

[IamMedellin]

just Finished Dead Space 2 DLC

The atmosphere and tone is still pitch perfect, the Necromorphs really can get you from anywhere and every little sound makes you tense up and make sure you have a full clip ready...with that said..

That was a Fucked up ending

MORE DLC OR ANNOUNCE DEAD SPACE 3 ALREADY

[Swarley]

just Finished Dead Space 2 DLC

The atmosphere and tone is still pitch perfect, the Necromorphs really can get you from anywhere and every little sound makes you tense up and make sure you have a full clip ready...with that said..

That was a Fucked up ending

MORE DLC OR ANNOUNCE DEAD SPACE 3 ALREADY

I definitely agree, every time I hear a sound I hit the reload button and start franticly looking around the room to see where it's coming from haha.

Also...downloading inFamous: Festival of Blood right now.

[IamMedellin]

I definitely agree, every time I hear a sound I hit the reload button and start franticly looking around the room to see where it's coming from haha.

when youre put off by the sound of those bouncing betties and shooting dead bodies out of fear that they may turn into necromorphs....

oh And cringe at the prospect of an elevator ride...

you may be too into it...but thats ok, cuz Dead Space 2 is the shit

[SethMode]

So I got Catherine from Gamefly after debating for the longest time whether or not to give it a go. Conceptually, I thought it seemed really interesting and unique, and I really liked Persona 4. Started it up last night.

Needless to say, it is already on its way back to Gamefly. FUCK. THOSE. STUPID. BLOCK. PUZZLES. That game was fucking BRUTAL. Controls? Bad. Camera? Attrocious. General interactivity? Nonexistent.

The story seemed...interesting enough, and the pseudo anime graphics are gorgeous, and most of the voice acting and writing is pretty okay for a localized game...but absolutely NONE of that was enough to make up for the fact that the most "fun" part of the game was when you were essentially doing nothing. To put it another way, I had more fun reading the Wikipedia plot synopsis than I did actually playing the game.

[JayDizzle]

So I got Catherine from Gamefly after debating for the longest time whether or not to give it a go. Conceptually, I thought it seemed really interesting and unique, and I really liked Persona 4. Started it up last night.

Needless to say, it is already on its way back to Gamefly. FUCK. THOSE. STUPID. BLOCK. PUZZLES. That game was fucking BRUTAL. Controls? Bad. Camera? Attrocious. General interactivity? Nonexistent.

The story seemed...interesting enough, and the pseudo anime graphics are gorgeous, and most of the voice acting and writing is pretty okay for a localized game...but absolutely NONE of that was enough to make up for the fact that the most "fun" part of the game was when you were essentially doing nothing. To put it another way, I had more fun reading the Wikipedia plot synopsis than I did actually playing the game.

It's not a game for casuals or for those who don't have the patience to sit through the same block puzzle for hours at a time.

I'll admit I have this one on hold at the moment due to all the other games I've bought but it's not the worst puzzle game out there.

It does suck that in order to progress the game, you need to beat the puzzles... BUT... once you do, you can replay the game and SKIP THEM as you look towards alternative endings, etc.

...not that a person would want to after finishing this beast.

TL;DR - Shit was made by Atlus, the game company that makes it point to put out BALLS HARD games.

It's not for everybody.

[SethMode]

It's not a game for casuals or for those who don't have the patience to sit through the same block puzzle for hours at a time.

I'll admit I have this one on hold at the moment due to all the other games I've bought but it's not the worst puzzle game out there.

It does suck that in order to progress the game, you need to beat the puzzles... BUT... once you do, you can replay the game and SKIP THEM as you look towards alternative endings, etc.

...not that a person would want to after finishing this beast.

TL;DR - Shit was made by Atlus, the game company that makes it point to put out BALLS HARD games.

It's not for everybody.

I love Atlus. It's harder games (Demon's Souls and Dark Souls) are two of my favorites, and Persona 4 might have been in my top 10 PS2 games. This game isn't hard though, it's bad. The block puzzles aren't overly challenging, the controls just suck and are FAR to slippery for a game that requires the utmost in precision (one push instead of a pull or pull instead of a push can mean a retry).

It's just, at the end of the day it's not a game. It's a stripped down simulator portion of Persona 4 with a really bad puzzle game tacked on. You do shitty puzzles, you wander around in a bar and talk to about the same 8 people, and you monitor a "morality" meter based on a few random conversations and how you respond. I don't know why anyone would even want to play through the other 7 endings after beating it considering 1) how shitty the "twist" is and how it ruins the story; and 2) at that point without the only interactive part (the puzzles) there, why not just go watch the shit on YouTube?

I am with you that Atlus games are not for everyone, but this isn't bad because it's hard, it's bad because it's BAD.

[Swarley]

I've decided that there will be no sleep for me tonight until I beat Dead Space 2. I'm right at the beginning of chapter 8, and if I remember correctly, there's 15 chapters. Time to do some work on those necromorphs.

[JBregz]

God of War 4 coming soon?





http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/a...-s-resume.aspx

[JayDizzle]

I love Atlus. It's harder games (Demon's Souls and Dark Souls) are two of my favorites, and Persona 4 might have been in my top 10 PS2 games. This game isn't hard though, it's bad. The block puzzles aren't overly challenging, the controls just suck and are FAR to slippery for a game that requires the utmost in precision (one push instead of a pull or pull instead of a push can mean a retry).

It's just, at the end of the day it's not a game. It's a stripped down simulator portion of Persona 4 with a really bad puzzle game tacked on. You do shitty puzzles, you wander around in a bar and talk to about the same 8 people, and you monitor a "morality" meter based on a few random conversations and how you respond. I don't know why anyone would even want to play through the other 7 endings after beating it considering 1) how shitty the "twist" is and how it ruins the story; and 2) at that point without the only interactive part (the puzzles) there, why not just go watch the shit on YouTube?

I am with you that Atlus games are not for everyone, but this isn't bad because it's hard, it's bad because it's BAD.

If you're an Atlus fanatic, I can see playing it another 7 times for those endings (plus gathering the booze trivia and knocking out all the conversations... but even then, it shouldn't take more than 3 turns through unless you save/reload).

I know I won't change your mind about the game, but I'd rather see stuff like Catherine than another FPS or a faux-RPG that's really a 3rd-person shooter with loot and fetch quests attached.