Vidya games!!

I couldn't even see what the hell it was that made him shit his pants, but lulz were had nonetheless.

Nachtsider wrote:I couldn't even see what the hell it was that made him shit his pants, but lulz were had nonetheless.

The doll on the table on the left, at the very beginning, falls off.

The guys are from "Four Player Podcast", and they have lots of funny videos like that. This one is longer at ~5 minutes so gauge your interest, but it does have some funny moments as well. Also from Fatal Frame 2.

"Oh shit she's attacking!"
"Dude, what's that in her hand? Beef jerky?"
"She's attacking me with beef jerky!"

Manages to turn into a talk about Madonna.

I'm almost certain that no one here has, but has anyone here played Hotel Dusk: Room 215? I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoyed the Phoenix Wright series.


Noir-style mystery set in the 1970s, I think, which is certainly something you don't see too often in gaming. It has some of the best dialogue I've ever had the pleasure of reading in a game. Just finished it a while back. I'm pretty sure that I am the only person ever to have played this game . Someone please tell me I'm wrong

Godot wrote:I'm almost certain that no one here has, but has anyone here played Hotel Dusk: Room 215? I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoyed the Phoenix Wright series.


Noir-style mystery set in the 1970s, I think, which is certainly something you don't see too often in gaming. It has some of the best dialogue I've ever had the pleasure of reading in a game. Just finished it a while back. I'm pretty sure that I am the only person ever to have played this game . Someone please tell me I'm wrong

Played it. Finished it. Loved it.

I recently aquired the Baldur's Gate games. I haven't played them in years, and they're still the best games ever made.

Other than that, I've been playing Star Ocean 2 on my PSP, as usual, and playing Fallout 3. Well, less 'playing', and more 'figuring out what the hell is causing it to crash so damn often'. I also beat Fallout 2 for the nth time. That run was actually a Let's Play you can find on YouTube. Just search up 'Five_X'. Another awesome sorta game related thing is that MangaGamer is releasing their translation of the Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni visual novels some time this month. I've already played (or is it 'read'?) the awesome fan translation of the first arc, and it's surprisingly excellent, even though I've watched them anime before. It's even better, perhaps. I highly recommend you look at buying it (it'll be direct download for the PC) if you liked the anime.

Nuke is Good wrote:

Godot wrote:I'm almost certain that no one here has, but has anyone here played Hotel Dusk: Room 215? I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoyed the Phoenix Wright series.


Noir-style mystery set in the 1970s, I think, which is certainly something you don't see too often in gaming. It has some of the best dialogue I've ever had the pleasure of reading in a game. Just finished it a while back. I'm pretty sure that I am the only person ever to have played this game . Someone please tell me I'm wrong

Played it. Finished it. Loved it.

REALLY?!

You just made my day .
Anyone else?

Absolutely love Uncharted 2 on PS3. Easily the best game I've played in story/polish/gameplay in a VERY long time. (Though I think top game still belongs to Valkyria Chronicles...I'm a sucker for the artwork)

I'm also digging the multiplayer. Gotta love rockets and buckshot.

Just got Prototype fro the PS3. It;s super special awesome!!! I love running though the streets with a car in my hands while plowing people over! XD

Triela wrote:Just got Prototype fro the PS3. It;s super special awesome!!! I love running though the streets with a car in my hands while plowing people over! XD

RAMMING SPEED!!!!!

boomer_gonz wrote:

Triela wrote:Just got Prototype fro the PS3. It;s super special awesome!!! I love running though the streets with a car in my hands while plowing people over! XD

RAMMING SPEED!!!!!

Death Race 2009

Prototype is a fun game, although there are times I feel a little guilty killing all those innocent people and soldiers.

Any game involving killing will eventually make you sick of taking lives. Trust me on this one. It may not occur immediately, but sometime down the road.

Well, it depends how you define 'lives'. Someone sure as hell isn't gonna feel sorry about killing zombies, or robots, or murderers, or monsters. It's not like a message pops up when you kill an ogre saying:

"Congratulations, you've just killed your 10,000th ogre! Thanks to you, the ogre population is crippled and can never recover. Great job dooming another species to extinction, 'adventurer'."

My kill count in video games is much lower than most, but it's still in the hundreds of thousands. I could literally tally up the numbers of what I've killed. I've killed around 200,000 zombies, hundreds of Nazis, 10,000 orcs and goblins, 5000 random enemies from Fallout, hundreds of Locust, and 100,000 non Nazi humans. It's rather ridiculous.

But really, games don't generally tell you the backstory of every thing you kill. But even if they did, gamers would still kill them. I've met some pretty sadistic people, as well. Maybe, if a game was told from the perspective of one character that you play for a while, and get to know what their life and their problems are, then they are killed in a battle, would work. After the player plays that side of the game, and getting all sad cos that character that they got really attached to died, they'd play the side of the character's killers. That'd give some perspective, for sure.

But really, in video games, depending on the plot, atmosphere, and characters, the killing can be justified. The easiest is obviously with zombies and mosnters, of course. But it's really hard to avoid justifying the killing. In general, the players' enemies are attacking first, and it's a kill or be killed sorta situation. Or the enemies are trying to destroy or take over something relatable to the player, like their country, or Earth itself.

I would really like to see a game like the example I posted above, but I doubt it will be made. I could make a really deep Fallout 3 mod, I guess, but I'm not sure how I could do it.

And, games often desensitize people to violence. It's done that to me. I don't flinch at the sight of people being tortured and murdered, beaten and killed, or blown to pieces. But when that rare something, even beyond games, comes along, it's really amazing. I believe I've only been moved to tears, or any real, strong emotion, three different times by a book, movie, anime, or what have you. The two most memorable are when I beat Baldur's Gate many years ago, because that game is a masterpiece of writing, and Elfen Lied, for the same reason. Both made me feel empathy for very well made characters. Although I couldn't care less about the hordes of foes I've shot or sliced, I cried for a misunderstood girl with horns.

It really shows what good writing can do. But I went off on a cosine there.

Basically, it takes real immersion to make a game, or anything really, emotionally impacting enough to make one feel remorse. And as of yet, I'm still not sick of slaughtering people made up of pixels and artificial intelligence. When it comes down to it, the root of this is because they're not human, or they're not sympathetic characters. Plus, many games don't have the option to not kill enemies or you are not encouraged to, the exceptions being Fallout 1 and 2, Metal Gear Solid, and Deus Ex.

So, I'll keep killing zombies by the thousand, thank you very much! And the same goes for monsters, large fearsome animals, and violently hostile humans.

I would hope that most reasonable people would be able to distinguish fantasy from real life, so that by playing Call of Duty and killing someone in the game in no way relates to the act of killing someone in the real world.

As a lifelong gamer, I've probably killed entire population centers worth of various baddies and I certainly don't sit in a chair petting a gun calling it "my precious."

For the topic of desensitization to violence by video games and movies, perhaps there's some truth in that. Then again, look at the news and some of the pictures the Associated Press puts up. The mass news media would be just as culpable then as any Hollywood blockbuster in portraying death and destruction.

That said, there are some unstable people that have (and continue to) take cues from any sort of entertainment as something that they're justified in doing "because they saw it on TV."

But we call those people idiots.

As a lifelong gamer, I've probably killed entire population centers
worth of various baddies and I certainly don't sit in a chair petting a
gun calling it "my precious."

I do.

But I also know the difference between reality and fantasy. I'd put money on the fact that more than half of the 16-22 crowd that loves violent games could probably not sit through an hour slide-show of real-life knife and gunfire fatality picts without whorking their guts out.
Most people can't comprehend the impact of a justified shoot, as in self-defense, until it has happened to them. Many people who defend their lives need real counseling for some time after, which is why cops are always put on leave for at least a week after an officer involved shooting. There is real emotional consequences from an average person taking the life of another.

The really scary people are the ones that do it for fun, see the results, and then continue on. Gangstas fall into that category. There's something wrong with a person that shoots at live-people for sport or on a whim.