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General / Re: May 2014 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

« on: May 26, 2014, 06:54:41 pm »

Grabbed two more games from Toys R Us with that sale.  Operation Raccoon City, which I know isn't a great game, but I'm gonna fool around with it some more cause I still really dig the concept, and DBZ Ultimate Tenkaichi, both on PS3.  I believe even this DBZ game wasn't very good (I think the two first budokai games were the last reall good ones), but it's sorta like, if I can get something under ten bucks, I'm pretty good with it lol

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Classic Video Games / Re: Game Boy Games in Cassette Cases?

« on: May 26, 2014, 04:38:32 pm »

Cool. I was wondering, because if there was anything good, I was sure I could have convinced you to trade em since it sounded like you were only interested in the cases. But I'm into metal and classic rock, so nothing there I'd want.

Yeah if they were metal cassettes, I'd probably have kept them too lol

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: May 26, 2014, 02:34:32 am »

Ah, I gotcha.  Guess I can repeat that I'm glad I bought it for only 5 bucks lol

$5 is a great deal.

I'm really only bitter because I pad something like 40 or 50 buck for it.

I'm a hardcore Battlefield fan, I know the hardships of paying for a broken game lol

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: May 26, 2014, 02:14:02 am »

Man, Dead or Alive Jiggle Simulator 5 is still such an awful series XD It's kinda fun to fight, but man are these guys lazy with the game.  The jiggling still looks like sloshing water balloons, the lip syncing barely seems to be there and when they do match up, their mouths barely move, and the story is dumb with this really kinda awful looking winding path you have to pick for everything that makes no sense.

Good thing it was only a 4 dollar buy lol

What pisses me off is I bought that game the day it came out and it had all kinds of bugs and problems.

A year later they fixed them all and called it DOA5 Ultimate.

Still haven't bought it.

What were some of the bugs? I had to download a content update from the marketplace to even start the game which was weird.  Auto update at the launch of the game, but something I had to download just to play the game, with no warning, was buried in the marketplace underneath the dozens of costumes they had available to buy.  Poorly thought out it seems.

The more complex levels lag and stutter when you trigger certain things. This was the biggest problem.

They reduced it quite a bit but never completely eliminated it (except in the Ultimate version).

Supposedly they released Ultimate because they had to rewrite significant portions of the core engine to fix it properly.

They also added several stages and characters to ultimate.

Basically 5 wasn't ready but they released it anyway and used the money of early adopters to fund fixing it and then the released the properly finished version as a new game.

Ah, I gotcha.  Guess I can repeat that I'm glad I bought it for only 5 bucks lol

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: May 26, 2014, 12:57:20 am »

Man, Dead or Alive Jiggle Simulator 5 is still such an awful series XD It's kinda fun to fight, but man are these guys lazy with the game.  The jiggling still looks like sloshing water balloons, the lip syncing barely seems to be there and when they do match up, their mouths barely move, and the story is dumb with this really kinda awful looking winding path you have to pick for everything that makes no sense.

Good thing it was only a 4 dollar buy lol

What pisses me off is I bought that game the day it came out and it had all kinds of bugs and problems.

A year later they fixed them all and called it DOA5 Ultimate.

Still haven't bought it.

What were some of the bugs? I had to download a content update from the marketplace to even start the game which was weird.  Auto update at the launch of the game, but something I had to download just to play the game, with no warning, was buried in the marketplace underneath the dozens of costumes they had available to buy.  Poorly thought out it seems.

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Classic Video Games / Re: Game Boy Games in Cassette Cases?

« on: May 26, 2014, 12:52:10 am »

My girlfriend saw me looking at this thread last week and asked me what it was. I told her, and now she really wants to do it so I guess we're on the lookout for cassette cases now lol. I'll probably be hitting you up for your templates sometime soon.

lol I just went to a garage sale and got about a dozen upopened cassette tapes in a box.  They'll be completely clean to use for this

What tapes, out of curiosity?

Most were called "Classic Country".  Time Life music release, assortment from the 50's to the early 70's.  Another was a Hank Williams cassette, and then two blanks from Sony and Zenith.  Was kinda surprised to find them all still sealed up in the plastic box.  They'll make for some real clean looking cases as I've been mostly just picking through ones at the thrift shop for the best quality.

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Off Topic / Re: What Are You Watching This Season?

« on: May 26, 2014, 12:47:32 am »

Lotta stuff been ending lately which has really dwindled things down.  I'm looking to start into True Detective with the season over, heard it was good, so mostly right now, there's just Game of Thrones with only a few episodes left.  About it I think.  Was gonna watch 24, but I just wasn't getting pulled in.

At least next month Falling Skies comes back and I'm hoping Last Ship is interesting.  Need something to keep me going through the summer lol

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: May 25, 2014, 09:20:42 pm »

Man, Dead or Alive Jiggle Simulator 5 is still such an awful series XD It's kinda fun to fight, but man are these guys lazy with the game.  The jiggling still looks like sloshing water balloons, the lip syncing barely seems to be there and when they do match up, their mouths barely move, and the story is dumb with this really kinda awful looking winding path you have to pick for everything that makes no sense.

Good thing it was only a 4 dollar buy lol

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Classic Video Games / Re: Game Boy Games in Cassette Cases?

« on: May 25, 2014, 02:43:52 pm »

My girlfriend saw me looking at this thread last week and asked me what it was. I told her, and now she really wants to do it so I guess we're on the lookout for cassette cases now lol. I'll probably be hitting you up for your templates sometime soon.

lol I just went to a garage sale and got about a dozen upopened cassette tapes in a box.  They'll be completely clean to use for this

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General / Re: What are you playing?

« on: May 25, 2014, 02:41:51 pm »

I'm in the middle of a love-hate relationship with Wolfenstein.  Every time something annoys me in the game - usually the stealth (seriously, STEALTH in a WOLFENSTEIN game?!?!  ) - then something comes along that I really like again (like the detail put into the resistance's hidden base).  But I also think part of my problem is that I'm really not in the mood for a linear shooter right now.  Since I'll be at my folks' house today & tomorrow so won't get to play it any then, and then Watch Dogs comes out Tues...I may end up trading it back in for now and just pick it up later when it gets cheap (doubt that will take long) to finish it up.

But I like that you don't HAVE to do the stealth.  You can do the crazy action like in old Wolfenstein, where you just shoot everything if you want to or you can just stealth it out like I did until you are forced to battle.

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General / Re: Recently completed/finished

« on: May 25, 2014, 12:06:51 am »

I need to get back to Deadpool.  The game crashed on me which never happens on console, so it sorta soured the experience because it has a lot of polish issues.

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General / Re: VGC's Anonymous/"General" Topic:

« on: May 25, 2014, 12:04:07 am »

i have a question, how practical is this battle outfit

We all know that the less a woman wears, the more protected she is because she's distracting them with her exposed skin.  It's science.

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Classic Video Games / Re: What if scenario?

« on: May 24, 2014, 10:39:36 pm »

lol That got me thinking. In another 5 years (let's say) will there be developers making games look like mid-late 90s 3D games to create "retro" appeal? I just can't see someone saying "Oh yeah, we're going to make a new game that has the graphics level of Super Mario 64." At the same time I'm sure some thought the same thing about 8-bit era games.

I want this...I want an influx of 90's 3D retro exploration platformers like Super Mario 64 and Banjo Kazooie.  2D is dead, long live 3D! lol

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General / Re: Pre-Ordered/Waiting for...

« on: May 24, 2014, 08:54:22 pm »

And finally did the Mario Kart 8 pre-order at Best Buy, getting the 10 dollar gas code and using a 20 dollar discount I had saved.  Can't wait for Friday! I doubt they are doing a midnight launch for it though.

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General / Re: May 2014 - Recently Added to Collection/Recently Purchased

« on: May 24, 2014, 04:40:25 pm »

Didn't expect to get much today being that I decided to sleep in today, didn't want to run around on 2 hours of sleep lol I did get a couple games from the Salvation Army, a copy of the standard Halo 2 on Xbox as I needed it for my collection as I have the limited edition.  Then I got a copy of SOCOM 2 just because and then I grabbed something called Mechassault for the Xbox.  I really don't remember this game, though seems like something I would've liked as I loved Chromehounds that came out in the early days of the 360.

Also to note, if you haven't gone to Target lately, they are doing a big clearance sale.  They had a table full of new games all at about 70% off, some of which are good titles, so you could be getting a 60 dollar game for as low as around 20 bucks.  I would've gotten more, but I stuck to the really cheap ones.  I got Dead or Alive: Jiggle Simulator 5 on the 360 for only 4 bucks, Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor's Edge on the Wii U for about 8 bucks (I'm so backed up on my Wii U games now lol), and Twisted Metal on PS3 for about 6 bucks.  Brand new games, should totally get there if you can.  I saw stuff like Little Big Planet karting, the original Rocksmith, and other stuff like Black Ops 2 on Wii U all on sale among others.