The Official Happiness Thread

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:20 am

Played and finished Portal in one sitting. Very kool game, rather funny moments and full of disorientation.

However, it is nowhere near as funny or crazy good as the internetzz hyped it/said it was. Seriously, all I see is this cake is a lie bullcrap and well...To me that wasn't anything that stood out at all in the game. I found the storyy it presented rather good, lots of questions can gather ideas about answers too, I'll have to look up things on it.

The companion cube is the same kind of thing, you are with it for one chamger and have to burn it...Wow that is so awsome! Because of that I'm so totally buying all the toys and shit for it and gonna recreate it in my own time.

Like I said, I enjoyed it thouroughly, but I didn't find it too challenging (hard to get mind around exactly what to do and which portal is the one you have to shoot) but when comparing my thoughts to the internets infinite out of 10 I'd give it an 8 if I were to put a score on it.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:34 am

ScottyGEE wrote:Just to be a ****, you can rename the links up the top you know, so they don't take up so much room.

Meh, I know I could. I don't think it's disorganized and I have way more favorited sites than on that bar.

DarkShallFall · Post by **DarkShallFall** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:56 am

I found a Jolly Rancher

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 11:01 am

Finished at around 4:30am...Murdertown and Convention Center were the only areas that gave us (did them all co-op with a partner) any trouble, and even then it's just because Ubisoft didn't fix the one fucking problem the game has...terrorists not all spawning at the start of the game.

For those unfamiliar, Terrorist Hunt is where a multiplayer map of your choice is populated with AI that you hunt and kill. Sounds easy enough...but you only have 2 lives. If everyone (or in my case, both players) is dead at the same time, game over. So if your partner dies twice and you haven't died at all, you've only got that one life...no respawns for you. Factor in that the enemies know how to use cover fairly well, 90% of them have LMGs or Shotguns with deadly accuracy and can kill you in one to two shots while just your arm is sticking out (I swear I died faster while blind firing from cover than I did from actually aiming from it) and you've got a pretty nasty equation. But as I said above...the terrorist spawns are triggered. Yes, you read that correctly...in a tactical shooter that aims for realism (aka bullets hurt, "armor" is a joke, firing from the hip is ineffective when caught by surprise a majority of the time, etc) you can walk in to a room that you know for a fact has no enemies in it, watch a guy pop up in front of you and get shot in the back by someone who popped up behind you.

But it's over. Woo.

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:04 pm

Is that Vegas 2?

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 1:26 pm

-DeToX- · Post by **-DeToX-** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 3:55 pm

All the fucking DLC on Rockband.

;D

NIN ftw.

JK-47 · Post by **JK-47** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 4:16 pm

-DeToX- wrote:All the *** DLC on Rockband.

;D

NIN ftw.

Even though I like NIN, I didn't find that DLC to be very fun tbh ;x

Supermodder911 · Post by **Supermodder911** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 5:17 pm

Fixed my network Problems.

-DeToX- · Post by **-DeToX-** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 5:48 pm

JK-47 wrote:
-DeToX- wrote:All the *** DLC on Rockband.

;D

NIN ftw.
Even though I like NIN, I didn't find that DLC to be very fun tbh ;x

I love the drumming for The Perfect Drug.

Its insane.

0m3g4Muff1n987 · Post by **0m3g4Muff1n987** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 6:14 pm

Yay. I found a blog by some guy who had some command line parameters that sped up HL2 on my Intel integrated graphics to an average of 30 FPS. This is a landmark moment for me. The game runs flawlessly, so much better than before. And I've still got time to knock on Lag's door and blast it in the face again with the 4GB of RAM coming my way in the mail. Oh, happy happy happy day.

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 6:27 pm

How did he do it? And would portal run at 30fps? I'd buy that with the integrated if that was the case

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 7:27 pm

...you bought 4GB of RAM to speed up games? A graphics card is a much bigger bottleneck.

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 7:35 pm

That's exactly what was I thinking. RAM alone will not help. You could have 4gb of RAM, but getting 1 more GB and say, an nVidia GeForce 6600GT would help a lot more.

Also, do you run 32bit or 64bit? I sure hope it's 64bit, because 32bit can't use more then 3gb of RAM. (At least, I'm pretty sure it's only 3gb.)

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 7:47 pm

ScottyGEE wrote:How did he do it? And would portal run at 30fps? I'd buy that with the integrated if that was the case

-dxlevel 70? ;oP

sneakyn8 · Post by **sneakyn8** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:11 pm

it made me happy that the sig and post went together (occured in rant thread)sorry for huge white box paint is the closte thing i have to a photo editor right now

Jordan · Post by **Jordan** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:24 pm

Could have sworn the quote was actually from Family Guy. . .

Tural · Post by **Tural** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 8:31 pm

Indeed it is.

noscottno · Post by **noscottno** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 9:52 pm

I just fucking beat Banjo Kazooie. No cheats or anything. I actually got all of the notes on each fucking course, and beat Gruntilda in an epic battle.

Kirk · Post by **Kirk** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 10:24 pm

Started a new character as an Adept in Mass Effect... Wow. I never realized how fucking awesome is to use some of the powers though. There's nothing like shooting Singularity or Lift (upgraded so the radius is higher) into a huge hoard of the variety of zombie-like creatures in the game (husks, thorian creepers, etc) then imaging their confused expressions as they go whipping around in circles in the air, while I'm laughing out loud... Then, you do the badass throw move and send them flying against a wall and have them smash to pieces.

Then there's the ramming of them with the Mako...

Christ, this game never gets old :'D