The Official Rant Thread

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 11:58 am

Yeah, playing the C&C3 demo, it was actually amusing there. It's just annoying in this. And no, I don't have the expansion yet. I'll probably just survive on the normal version.

Apparently my teammates in Grifball think that "Don't use gravity hammers when the bomb carrier is running at the goal" means the opposite! How nice.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:02 pm

shadowkhas wrote:It's just annoying in this. And no, I don't have the expansion yet. I'll probably just survive on the normal version.

Yeah, I didn't find any of the campaigns very interesting...basically, all you need to watch is the ending cutscene for each faction and you get the whole story. Spoilers, whoever you're playing as wins.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:11 pm

GametagAeonFlux wrote:Yeah, I didn't find any of the campaigns very interesting...basically, all you need to watch is the ending cutscene for each faction and you get the whole story. Spoilers, whoever you're playing as wins.

That's stupid. I thought it would be like Starcraft, where each campaign is separate, but in the same timeline. Oh well. Beta testing it was fun, and I might be having a LAN with some people who have it as well. That should be interesting.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:14 pm

shadowkhas wrote:That's stupid. I thought it would be like Starcraft, where each campaign is separate, but in the same timeline.

Funny you mention that, because in the expansion, there's only one campaign...so they pretty much ignore two of the endings as far as canon goes. >_>

Granted, there are scenes after the credits for each campaign there's a short sequence...I think all of them are canon.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:39 pm

GametagAeonFlux wrote:Funny you mention that, because in the expansion, there's only one campaign...so they pretty much ignore two of the endings as far as canon goes. >_>

Granted, there are scenes after the credits for each campaign there's a short sequence...I think all of them are canon.

¯\(°_o)/¯

bibbit · Post by **bibbit** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 4:49 pm

Some person recently tried to break into a house in our neighborhood, and now the cops are all over.

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 5:49 pm

Why is it that the HL2's facial textures and technology still kick new games asses? They still look so much better than so many other games.

[GU]boxersh0rtz · Post by **[GU]boxersh0rtz** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 6:10 pm

ScottyGEE wrote:Why is it that the HL2's facial textures and technology still kick new games asses? They still look so much better than so many other games.

I agree.

I might have to spend another night at my grandmas working on there computer.

shadowkhas · Post by **shadowkhas** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 6:34 pm

ScottyGEE wrote:Why is it that the HL2's facial textures and technology still kick new games asses? They still look so much better than so many other games.

The best example of old > new is Starcraft's cutscenes. Amazing. Could've been so much better if they weren't 256 colors and low-res. Starcraft 2's should be exponentially cooler.

GametagAeonFlux · Post by **GametagAeonFlux** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 6:53 pm

ScottyGEE wrote:Why is it that the HL2's facial textures and technology still kick new games asses? They still look so much better than so many other games.

I disagree. Source is dated, and it's really starting to show. They're good at taking advantage of everything the engine's got, I'll give 'em that, but it only goes so far.

Pyroman · Post by **Pyroman** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:10 pm

Dammit dammit crap piss dammit!

Dark Knight was sold out across the board tonight...But we are going back tomorrow afternoon to try again...

ScottyGEE · Post by **ScottyGEE** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:28 pm

Yeah, the cinema I went to last night was full, and when we came out of the cinema, there was a massive queue for the next session...Normally at 930 at night on a Saturday, the mall there is all closed and empty, there were lots of people around for the movie

Also, GTAF, what I mean is how the faces in the game look detailed and are able to convey emotions. I can think of games like Mass Effect and MGS4 that beat it, but most games just map one emotion onto the characters face and it never changes.

turk645 · Post by **turk645** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 7:39 pm

I was reading online and from what it looks like my PSP battery that i have isnt good for making pandora batteries so i have to buy one.

DrXThirst · Post by **DrXThirst** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 8:02 pm

Ok, so I'm in Florida at a Condo with all of my family. There's only 6 of us, with 3 rooms, so it's not that bad.

However, after being excited to find out about free wireless internet, I found out it had a password. I got the password, and came back. After connecting, I started surfing the internet and talking on AIM. The internet speed was pretty decent, better than what I had expected.

So, we left our room and went to see my Uncle's condo. (He's in the condo across the street.) I got him to check his speed on http://www.speedtest.net.

Here's his results:
Download Speed: 512kbps
Upload Speed: 1.5mbps
Ping: 1ms

So, I thought that was extremely good for gaming. He brought his Xbox 360, and sure enough, his host was really good on Xbox Live. Zero lag.

After we left his condo, we came back to ours and I tested our speed.
Here's my results:

Download Speed: 1.3mbps (Actually get 124kbps)
Upload Speed: 24kbps (ARE YOU SERIOUS!?)
Ping: 367ms (LAG much?)

Also, the internet isn't even decent anymore. It's really slow. I'm assuming that it's because it's 12:00 and everyone is inside on the internet instead of outside at the ocean.

Pyroman · Post by **Pyroman** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 8:43 pm

Playing drums on RB, and in the middle of playing Limelight, my red pad fu**ing just falls off. It's hanging by the wire right now, and I just requested an RMA so I should be getting replacement pads soon...

The plastic must of been taking a lot of bending and it finally just snapped. What the hell.

RIP - Second set of drums

[GU]boxersh0rtz · Post by **[GU]boxersh0rtz** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 8:47 pm

Pyroman wrote:Playing drums on RB, and in the middle of playing Limelight, my red pad fu**ing just falls off. It's hanging by the wire right now, and I just requested an RMA so I should be getting replacement pads soon...

The plastic must of been taking a lot of bending and it finally just snapped. What the hell.

RIP - Second set of drums

mine hasn't broke yet. so far it looks like guitar hero world tour will take the stage with its more sturdy hard ware.

my grand parents are like part omish they use technology but yet they don't think i should use it or know so much about it =S

Andrew_b · Post by **Andrew_b** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:37 pm

Amish. Omish is not a word.

Cobain · Post by **Cobain** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:43 pm

****ing *** *** **** **** mother ****ing rubix cube
no one will ever figure this thing out....its a lie!
i allmot had it, then my brother messed it up...i was working on it for a whole half house, and had 4 sides....

oh just FYI those things that look like censored words, aren't really censored words...they are just stars that i typed =]

Andrew_b · Post by **Andrew_b** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 10:47 pm

lol, its easy to beat those, You just need the technique.

M715ForLife · Post by **M715ForLife** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 7:27 am

I cant connect to XBL! WTF?!