User Information - Ratty

The bitter cynicism on this board brings a tear to my eye. You guys are all swell.

Re: Crysis

Aug 26, 2006, 14:55

The videos that came out around E3 were all in third person and gameplay reminded me of PS1 games. First person has autoaim. Well crap. Made first and foremost for consoles with PCs only a grudging afterthought. I get it. Actually when I first heard about Hellgate London I was surprised, seeing as it was coming from ex-Blizzard guys, that it was in first person and that it would be available on the PC. Blizzard has never been first person to my knowledge and toward the end they were talking more and more about going console-only. I just read about what Crytek did to bring Far Cry to the console. They basically redesigned a huge part of the game. Hell, that's the way to do it, whether you're starting with a console or starting with a PC. I really respect that. Not that a lot of companies are in a position to be able to do that nowdays. Still crossing my fingers about Bioshock ...

Re: Crysis

Aug 25, 2006, 17:27

Hellgate looks like utter crap to me (which pains me to say, there are few games that sounded better on paper) I'm a little bit worried too because I've been hearing what you're saying more than once. It started out sounding like the most incredible game in the universe but as more information has come out it's sounding less and less. I HEAR that but I haven't actually seen anything that suggests it myself. But then again I have no interest in multiplayer, maybe (hopefully) THAT'S what people are complaining about and the SP game will still be great.

Re: Crysis

Aug 25, 2006, 14:43

OMG, I can't believe I forgot to put that one on my list. 4 games now. Yay!

Crysis

Aug 25, 2006, 13:42

News Comments > Penny Arcade Game

Wow, I haven't seen those screenshots before. All the hysteria over visuals aside, it looks like a really fun game. More of the stuff that made Far Cry so great. What designer was it that said "nobody likes to run around large levels?" Well, I sure do! I can add Crysis to the short list of games that I'm actually looking forward to: Bioshock (!!!!!!!!!!) Hellgate London (!!!!) F.E.A.R. Extraction Point Crysis Incidently I finally played all the way through Far Cry without cheating for the first time this week. I hadn't played it for over a year so decided to fire it up again. I'd always given up at the very beginning of the last level "Volcano." Could NEVER get past that first gauntlet of mercs in the small room with the pillars. But managed to do it for the first time a couple of days ago. This comment was edited on Aug 25, 14:43.

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Re: No subject

Aug 25, 2006, 13:25

I really can't see how this could be good. I like PA but I think ANYONE could see this is a really STUPID idea. It's so obviously bad that it leads me to think somebody came up with a really good idea for the game and it will be merely branded as PA. I.e., it was the description of the story and gameplay that convinced Hothead Games and not just the Penny Arcade name. Sure, they're not always funny. What is? But man I've seen some hilarious comics come from them. I wish them all the luck.

News Comments > Evening Q&As

American Magee

Aug 23, 2006, 14:52

God, I'd never seen a picture of him before. Doesn't he look like that Jon Benet Ramsey guy they arrested in Thailand?

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Re: History treasure trove online

Aug 22, 2006, 13:28

www.calisphere.universityofcalifornia.edu Hey! The press release. My job is contributing content to calisphere. I worked on every single collection they mention in the press release. Note though that all of those collections have always been there and available on the web, oh for years now. Calisphere is just the new software and web design they're using to serve them out.

FDA OKs Viruses to Treat Food

Aug 20, 2006, 14:12

Ick. This won't last long. I guess intellectually I know that we ingest billions of bacteriophages and other harmless viruses all the time. And this virus approach is probably preferable to other preservatives put into food. But yuck! Who wants to eat balogne knowing it's been sprayed with virses? No thank you. I much prefer the radiation method, though public fear of that pretty much rules it out as economically viable as well.

News Comments > Evening Q&As

Re: *blink*

Aug 19, 2006, 12:40

Did John Carmack just said that id basically needs to start producing CONTENT, rather than pretty tech demos? Ha ha. No such luck. He's saying id will have to start producing content SOMEDAY soon, but for now knock your socks off graphics is still the most important aspect of a computer game and content still doesn't matter all that much in comparison. The guy's intelligent so when he continues to say things like that and his company continues to produce titles like Doom 3, which sold incredibly well, I start feeling like there's something wrong with ME. Like there's something I just don't get but everybody else does. Maybe I'm getting old and cranky and too attached to the way they did things In My Day, I don't know. Went to the eye doctor yesterday and he prescribed ... GASP ... BIFOCALS!!!

Squirrel attacks

Aug 13, 2006, 15:31

News Comments > Prey Patch, Content Plans

Oh great. Just waiting now for all the squirrel-haters here to come out of the woodwork with their "I told you so's" and new methods for slaughtering the innocent creatures.

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Re: ...

Aug 12, 2006, 13:22

without mutants, without aliens, without zombies, without crazy sci-fi weapons, without cliched ultra-bad guys and set in the modern day (not another WWII shooter)? See, I complain about the opposite. There's just too damn many realistic shooters nowdays and not enough fantasy scifi ones. If I see one more realistic WWII title from an Eastern European developer I will scream. RTCW was good cause it had zombies and futuristic weapons and shit. But things like Medal of Honor, Soldier of Fortune and their ilk hold absolutely no interest for me. I play games to escape from reality.

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Vicodin

Aug 9, 2006, 12:34

Vicodin, oh YEAH. Great stuff. I never take drugs so when I got the vicodin after my surgery it was pretty novel for me. Loved it. LOVED ... IT. I wasn't in a lot of pain but it made me feel good and more importantly let me sleep most of the day away and the night too. It's a good drug because it's not too much but not too little either. Juuuust right.

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Re: HL?

Aug 1, 2006, 15:23

I think Batman Begins was the best of all the recent Batman movies ... Saw Catwoman last night ... You motivated me to go update my queue which has been getting pretty stale lately.

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Re: HL?

Aug 1, 2006, 13:38

Well, first you had that you were questioning Val Kilmer as Batman, then you edited and changed it to Michael Keaton. I guess I should know better than to put one over on xXBatmanXx. I was confused. Both actors were surprising choices to play Batman I thought, but I remember thinking specifically Michael Keaton? Betelgeuse? WTF? Michael Keaton: Great Batman, horrid Wayne. I never thought about that, but you're 100% correct. He was an awesome Batman. I remember Val Kilmer's Bruce Wayne but now can't recall what I thought of his Batman. And another edit cause I just realized Clooney seemed a natural to play Batman as I recall, but turned out he was the WORST one of them all (I never saw the Christian Bale one). Anyway, I now keep an open mind about odd casting decisions nowdays cause I'm so often surprised. This comment was edited on Aug 1, 13:43.

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Re: HL?

Aug 1, 2006, 12:54

News Comments > Morning Metaverse

Heath Ledger as the joker? I said the same thing about Michael Keaton as Batman??!! But I thought he did a pretty good job, a surprisingly appropriate cast. On the surface Ledger seems like an insane choice too (my reaction was the same as yours), but the man is a scary talented actor so I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out. This comment was edited on Aug 1, 12:59.

Love Colbert

Aug 1, 2006, 12:48

Very funny guy and ballsy too. I'm a huge fan of Wikipedia as well. In fact I'm addicted to it! I keep a small pad of paper in my pocket to jot down things I want to look up later because I was always forgetting. Currently I have "Control theory" jotted down. Somebody should do an article on Wikipedia addicts.

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Top 20

Jul 31, 2006, 12:43

News Comments > Morning Legal Briefs

Ha! Thought that said top 20 Greatest Video Game Characters. Didn't look closely enough before I clicked the link. This comment was edited on Jul 31, 12:44.

Re: Social network sites face US ban.

Jul 31, 2006, 12:31

Infuriating. "Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!" I'm getting pretty sick of hearing that. My 12-year old niece loves MySpace and she's always sharing the latest things she's done with me. She's precocious, creative, and SCARY smart. She knows all about online predators. Her mother has done her job. This is one of those purely political moves. Politicians who know better don't dare vote against protecting children. Anybody's kid that's stupid enough to go alone to meet someone from the internet, or even go at all deserves what they get if it's a predator at the other end. Well, I don't know about DESERVE it, but I'd say anybody who's kid would go alone to meet somebody on the internet will probably find some way to do it even without access to the most popular in-the-news "social networking site" du jour. They're going to have to ban the entire internet to keep kids 100% safe from online predators, won't they? Number of molestations this law will prevent: 0. This comment was edited on Jul 31, 12:32.

Re: More proof I was right

Jul 29, 2006, 13:08