Official Video Game Thread

The idiocracy theory shares a few borders with the darwin awards: Stupid people that would have otherwise died from their chronic stupidity are instead supported by society and saved by modern medicine. This moves evolution from favoring the most intelligent, cunning, able to provide for themselves, etc. to favoring those who simply reproduce the most.

You can guess what happens next.

I believe there was also a movie on the subject.

Now playing Fallout 3. Beat it twice before but never played the expansions and wanna get those in before I play New Vegas.
Oh, and playing Battle for Middle Earth

Mousesquisher wrote:Now playing Fallout 3. Beat it twice before but never played the expansions and wanna get those in before I play New Vegas.
Oh, and playing Battle for Middle Earth

Save Mothership Zeta for last if you can. Out of all of them that one is the most difficult.

http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/113/1133245p1.html -Rumor: Call of Duty Heading to Outer Space

...Because...you know...it was only a matter of time before they had to start actually copying Halo.

SD wrote:

Mousesquisher wrote:Now playing Fallout 3. Beat it twice before but never played the expansions and wanna get those in before I play New Vegas.
Oh, and playing Battle for Middle Earth

Save Mothership Zeta for last if you can. Out of all of them that one is the most difficult.

Mothership Zeta was awesome... you get the alien blaster for free from it! those Deathclaws weren't a problem after the!

SD wrote:http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/113/1133245p1.html -Rumor: Call of Duty Heading to Outer Space

...Because...you know...it was only a matter of time before they had to start actually copying Halo.

Call of Duty has turned into quite the whore these days...
They seem to be just pumping them out left and right. I mean, Modern Warfare came out in 2007 and World at War MW2 came out within pretty quick succession. Now with the release of Black Ops and this upcoming one in production it seems that they're just trying to lessen the gap between each game. Now, in theory, that doesn't sound that bad...but it gets to a point when they're just oversaturating the series. I know it has a huge fanbase and the games get really good ratings but how long before they squeeze the well dry? "Lets see how many wars we can cover and frontiers we can rip off before we start losing our touch!" Ugh. Even Medal of Honor, which is where I started my FPS genre, is jumping on the bandwagon. But I digress...I could go on a long rant about how these corporations are just trying to milk their franchises for every penny but what's the point? C'est la vie. By the way, I heard the next CoD was geared for Vietnam... I hadn't heard of the futuristic spin. We shall see where this goes.

Nilo Kaal wrote:

SD wrote:http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/113/1133245p1.html -Rumor: Call of Duty Heading to Outer Space

...Because...you know...it was only a matter of time before they had to start actually copying Halo.

Call of Duty has turned into quite the whore these days...
They seem to be just pumping them out left and right. I mean, Modern Warfare came out in 2007 and World at War MW2 came out within pretty quick succession. Now with the release of Black Ops and this upcoming one in production it seems that they're just trying to lessen the gap between each game. Now, in theory, that doesn't sound that bad...but it gets to a point when they're just oversaturating the series. I know it has a huge fanbase and the games get really good ratings but how long before they squeeze the well dry? "Lets see how many wars we can cover and frontiers we can rip off before we start losing our touch!" Ugh. Even Medal of Honor, which is where I started my FPS genre, is jumping on the bandwagon. But I digress...I could go on a long rant about how these corporations are just trying to milk their franchises for every penny but what's the point? C'est la vie. By the way, I heard the next CoD was geared for Vietnam... I hadn't heard of the futuristic spin. We shall see where this goes.

totaly saw this coming...

Rocking some Assassin's Creed. Almost inspired to try parkour again, but the last time I tried that I was limping for a few days.

Goldeneye then and now

Portal 2 has been delayed....again.- http://pc.ign.com/articles/113/1135601p1.html

Anyone who's surprised or disappointed probably doesn't know about Valve's habits when it comes to release dates. Still, Valve time is such an annoyance.

SD wrote:Portal 2 has been delayed....again.- http://pc.ign.com/articles/113/1135601p1.html

Anyone who's surprised or disappointed probably doesn't know about Valve's habits when it comes to release dates. Still, Valve time is such an annoyance.

Does this happen often with Valve?

Night Dragon wrote:

SD wrote:Portal 2 has been delayed....again.- http://pc.ign.com/articles/113/1135601p1.html

Anyone who's surprised or disappointed probably doesn't know about Valve's habits when it comes to release dates. Still, Valve time is such an annoyance.

Does this happen often with Valve?

Yeah...often is a good word to use.

SD wrote:

Night Dragon wrote:

SD wrote:Portal 2 has been delayed....again.- http://pc.ign.com/articles/113/1135601p1.html

Anyone who's surprised or disappointed probably doesn't know about Valve's habits when it comes to release dates. Still, Valve time is such an annoyance.

Does this happen often with Valve?

Yeah...often is a good word to use.

How about frequently? Or Eventually? or Inevitably?

Teasealot wrote:

SD wrote:

Night Dragon wrote:

SD wrote:Portal 2 has been delayed....again.- http://pc.ign.com/articles/113/1135601p1.html

Anyone who's surprised or disappointed probably doesn't know about Valve's habits when it comes to release dates. Still, Valve time is such an annoyance.

Does this happen often with Valve?

Yeah...often is a good word to use.

How about frequently? Or Eventually? or Inevitably?

All of the above.

SD wrote:

Teasealot wrote:

SD wrote:

Night Dragon wrote:

SD wrote:Portal 2 has been delayed....again.- http://pc.ign.com/articles/113/1135601p1.html

Anyone who's surprised or disappointed probably doesn't know about Valve's habits when it comes to release dates. Still, Valve time is such an annoyance.

Does this happen often with Valve?

Yeah...often is a good word to use.

How about frequently? Or Eventually? or Inevitably?

All of the above.

punctuality? in my valve?

Top 3 things Valve is best known for- delayed releases, epic games, and um...Source. I didn't think of a third one.

it took "nine years" for team fortress 2 to come out, Valve is really bad at the whole getting things out on time thing...


.... GabeN

Nilo Kaal wrote:Top 3 things Valve is best known for- delayed releases, epic games, and um...Source. I didn't think of a third one.

Steam, apparently.

Does it normally take Steam roughly 16 HOURS to download a game that you can install from a disk in 8 minutes?

Teasealot wrote:Does it normally take Steam roughly 16 HOURS to download a game that you can install from a disk in 8 minutes?

Not sure, I don't use digital download when a physical game disc is available. Although I did get Fable 2 when it was free on Xbox Live and that only took...a couple of hours to download.

Teasealot wrote:Does it normally take Steam roughly 16 HOURS to download a game that you can install from a disk in 8 minutes?

the answer is yes.

Cuboos wrote:

Teasealot wrote:Does it normally take Steam roughly 16 HOURS to download a game that you can install from a disk in 8 minutes?

the answer is yes.

No, the answer is EASILY.

It depends on a lot of factors... your internet speed, how clogged the servers are, how big the file download is, etc.
I can usually download a ~7GB game in roughly 20-30 minutes and that's with a wireless connection. You never can tell...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejX0Rym0NZw

Damn things just got nasty !

Blackwolf wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejX0Rym0NZw

Damn things just got nasty !

The more I see these the more I consider getting an EvE account. But...I'm not sure if I would use it regularly enough.