Rogue Warrior Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 Episode 1 beats the pants off...err, Episode 1 (The Phantom Menace). Kudos for the opening scene well and truly pulling you in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWally Posted October 3, 2007 Share Posted October 3, 2007 Just control yourself so you don't fall into marathon gaming during Thanksgiving or X-Mas while the family is home. Yeah... I wish I had seen that advice last November. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 Lol. I just got back from World Cyber Games Championships at a convention center down town. Well, they had competition but the main attraction today was a Warcraft 3 tournament, which I wasn't really interested in. But there were some cool things. First of all, tons of shwag, not super awesome shwag, but it is fun shwag. Tons of pens, stickers, 3 Games for Windows blinking yo-yos, lanyards, 4 T-shirts, a deck of cards, and 3 copies of Day of Defeat: Source (!). But anyway, I saw some total kick-ass Gears of War players from Italy playing, and some Korean dude squaring off with a Ukrainian guy in Warcraft 3. Then I got to play Portal for a couple minutes and play a very laggy Crysis for 10 minutes. Crysis was like FarCry on super steroids, but the settings were clearly on max and it was a pain to play because of all the motion blur and the 15-20 fps. They even had a disclaimer under the screen: "Playing on Alpha code with unoptimized drivers. Drivers will be optimized by launch." But the graphics were bad-assed. You can pick up pretty much anything and you're characters hands show if holding it. The best parts was when I was using a tree to hide from a .50 cal which promptly was shredded in two. And another was when a baddie threw a grenade at me when I was next to a building, blowing half of it away- a total "Oh Snap!" moment. It was kind of funny because I was expecting it to happen. And lastly, I made a few guys watching me laugh when I found a chicken and picked it up and threw it at a soldier. I also played Guitar Hero 3, but I didn't like the song I played, I couldn't hear my music, and I played like ****, the guitar felt mushy and you have to select your difficulty BEFORE you select a song! Rock Band was a bigger thing and I couldn't play it, you had to form a "group" before playing it on-stage. Anyway, it wasn't as big as I had thought, there was only a dozen or so stands but a lot of demo units. Also, I was approached by a dude named Erik Chan, the leader of BP Games and I bought a copy of Harmotion for $2. Sure, it's a free game, but I felt good supporting an Indie game studio. I haven't played it yet, but it looks fun. It's a multiplayer Shump, which sounds interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWally Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 Man... I wish awesome stuff like that happened where I live... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 I gave out two of my DoD copies, who wants the 3rd? Let me know. http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/showthread.php?t=429079 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 OOH! OOH! ME! ME! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander Obi-Wan Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 The good news is, I got a job. About ****in' time too. It's nothing special, and it's not great. I work at a movie theatre. I start off at $8.75/hr and get payed commission for each combo, upsize, or adding butter to popcorn I sell. So, once I get my first paycheck (or second), I might splurge and get Halo 3, Xbox Live, and a router. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWally Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 I gave out two of my DoD copies, who wants the 3rd? Let me know. http://forums.facepunchstudios.com/showthread.php?t=429079 I'm too poor to buy things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 Already gave it to Bongo cuz if I don't give him free games, who will? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrion Posted October 7, 2007 Share Posted October 7, 2007 Already gave it to Bongo cuz if I don't give him free games, who will? His many man lovers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 His many man lovers. What?! Bongo! How could you?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Dravis Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 Did they come with a free +1 Mace? What about boots of escaping? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 Did they come with a free +1 Mace? What about boots of escaping? * jmac casts Wish * Bongo turns into a whale Is this awesome y/n? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pie™ Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 * jmac casts Wish * Bongo turns into a whale Is this awesome y/n? You get awesome-points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 I have to admit it only kinda works since I play a sorcerer and not a wizard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Dravis Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 why yes bongo they do. jmac come play with us, even niner is so you have no excuse. make a char and you should be able to get in, we haven't done much yet and are still lvl1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogue Nine Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 i shoot da lasers pew pew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 i want to use my level 23 elven sorcerer. also link or whatever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Dravis Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 get skype and friend me (samueldravis). jae hosts the game and we use the power of the internet to connect to her puter, so there's not really any link to give you. edits: actually, just pm your skype name to either me, jasra, niner, jae or ed. that would probably work better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrWally Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 How on Earth do you guys do dnd over skype? It seems like it would be very difficult... I actually just got back from a session. We started low level and so far I'm just a straightfoward level 2 Druid. But it's quite difficult to plan gaming sessions during the school year, so I'm quite curious about this concept of dnd via skype. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Dravis Posted October 8, 2007 Share Posted October 8, 2007 well sir, jae from SWK hosts the game with this, and the rest of us connect to the game. We use skype to yell at each other and argue over who gets loot. it is pretty easy actually, as long as we do not argue too much. /offtopics (I swear I will post no more of this, mods) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted October 9, 2007 Share Posted October 9, 2007 goddammit i need a mic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Groovy Posted October 10, 2007 Author Share Posted October 10, 2007 Traded in the old PSP and a bunch of stuff I was not playing, and got something I have been drooling over for months: Also had enough left over to pick up the Orange Box! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jae Onasi Posted October 10, 2007 Share Posted October 10, 2007 How on Earth do you guys do dnd over skype? It seems like it would be very difficult... I actually just got back from a session. We started low level and so far I'm just a straightfoward level 2 Druid. But it's quite difficult to plan gaming sessions during the school year, so I'm quite curious about this concept of dnd via skype. I bought a program called Screen Monkey (so I can tie it in to a purchase for purposes of this thread. ). There are several tabletop RPG/DnD programs available, both free and paid, that can be used online--that one happened to be the one that worked best for all of us and didn't cost an arm and a leg. There is a free version that you can use to try out to see if it works on your system. The program has a chat feature and an online dice roller (everyone's on their honor if you don't use it), and you can use their maps or upload yours. You can even draw your own if you like. I'm starting the Shattered Gates of Slaughtergarde published campaign which has maps already. I just scanned and cropped each part of the map and saved as a jpg to upload. There are little icons that each person can use as their miniature to move around the map. I host the game and my computer is the 'server' for everyone else to log in via a browser. It works pretty quickly for me, but I have DSL. The maps I've used so far worked OK except for one that was fairly high res and slowed down the load times for some people. Anyway, once everyone has logged in, they pick one of the icons to serve as their miniature and place it on the map, and move it around as needed on their turn. We use PDF files for the character sheets, so I always have a copy of everyone's character, and we Skype during the game (someone else hosts the call) to say what our characters/monsters are all doing. It works pretty well. PM me if you'd like more info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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