Random Gamer Silliness

[Recidiva]

Mostly blues type stuff with rock and punk thrown in. Which reminds me I need to get some thinner picks. I recently set up my guitar with heavier strings and the picks I normally use don't flex enough for playing fast chords. Too much drag I think. Sounds messy

What's a song you think you could play well enough for an interested visitor? If you have a link to a performance close to yours or your interest, I'd love to hear it.

 

[remy_lebeau8]

What's a song you think you could play well enough for an interested visitor? If you have a link to a performance close to yours or your interest, I'd love to hear it.

*drifts over to music page*

A cover I did of crossroads blues. Gave it more of a rock feeling
http://soundcloud.com/billyboyblue/crossroads

An original. How the cards lie
http://m.soundcloud.com/billyboyblue/how-the-cards-lie

Both are kinda rough. Just me and an acoustic. Can't play drums worth a shit and electric sounds empty on its own

Edit.
Bad religion. You are the government
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ysm9lI5ye2U

Albert king. Born under a bad sign. Fun as hell to play

http://youtube.com/watch?v=26qBxol3Lx0

 

[remy_lebeau8]

I think ima buy gta V tonight. Or maybe dragon age two.

 

[Sean Renaud]

If I wasn't saving for Arkham Origins I'd be all over GTA V and I'll probably next year pull some kind of crazy video game binge but I've been seriously planning on doing all the Megaman games.

 

[Recidiva]

*drifts over to music page*

A cover I did of crossroads blues. Gave it more of a rock feeling
http://soundcloud.com/billyboyblue/crossroads

An original. How the cards lie
http://m.soundcloud.com/billyboyblue/how-the-cards-lie

Both are kinda rough. Just me and an acoustic. Can't play drums worth a shit and electric sounds empty on its own

Edit.
Bad religion. You are the government
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ysm9lI5ye2U

Albert king. Born under a bad sign. Fun as hell to play

http://youtube.com/watch?v=26qBxol3Lx0

That was...I kept trying to think of words great enough...and I am not there yet. Thank you so much for sharing, I asked and I did receive! Smiled all the way through.

It's wonderful to hear passion and technique.

 

[Recidiva]

I think ima buy gta V tonight. Or maybe dragon age two.

Ooh, decisions, decisions.

 

[Recidiva]

If I wasn't saving for Arkham Origins I'd be all over GTA V and I'll probably next year pull some kind of crazy video game binge but I've been seriously planning on doing all the Megaman games.

How long does that take? Do you have them all?

 

[remy_lebeau8]

If I wasn't saving for Arkham Origins I'd be all over GTA V and I'll probably next year pull some kind of crazy video game binge but I've been seriously planning on doing all the Megaman games.

Oh shit I forgot about that! Gta will wait and ill spend the couple of bucks to get dragon age 2 from the bargin bin.

 

[remy_lebeau8]

That was...I kept trying to think of words great enough...and I am not there yet. Thank you so much for sharing, I asked and I did receive! Smiled all the way through.

It's wonderful to hear passion and technique.

Thank you!

I honestly don't like my voice so I've never played live. I know the material is there I just don't think Im good enough for a crowd

 

[Recidiva]

Thank you!

I honestly don't like my voice so I've never played live. I know the material is there I just don't think Im good enough for a crowd

Yeah, but that's what it's about, commitment and passion, for me anyway.

It just sounds like you have FUN.

 

[Sean Renaud]

How long does that take? Do you have them all?

I have all 10 classic Megamans not counting the Gameboy versions or Sega Genesis odd mash ups. I have 7 of 8 Megaman Xs, 2 of the Zero series (I'd have to hunt down the last one but I think there is a three in one on the DS for them. I don't have any of the ZX series or the two Legends games.

I'll probably skip Legends cus I hated the the first one but I was 13 or so, maybe it's grown on me since.

How long? In days? I'd guess two, three weeks. Megaman games are challenging but they aren't really all that hard or long since they are part of the land before save states. I think they are on average about an hour and a half long so if the mood struck me I could probably rip through 2-4 a day especially if I wasn't doing something absurd like megabuster only or no E/Sub tanks. I've occasionally put some absurd qualifiers on myself to keep things interesting.

I'll either do that or Final Fantasy but because of stupid Japan vs America I've never actually beaten Final Fantasy III (got most of the way through it on an emulator I think), V, I just didn't finish VIII or XII. XII felt like it was playing without me and was more asking my advice than anything else. Which ironically made for some really hard bosses when the game actually needed me to figure something out.

Oh shit I forgot about that! Gta will wait and ill spend the couple of bucks to get dragon age 2 from the bargin bin.

LOL. You forgot about Batman?! Shame on you, shame on your family, shame on your ancestors, shame on your fuzzy cow!

 

[Recidiva]

I have all 10 classic Megamans not counting the Gameboy versions or Sega Genesis odd mash ups. I have 7 of 8 Megaman Xs, 2 of the Zero series (I'd have to hunt down the last one but I think there is a three in one on the DS for them. I don't have any of the ZX series or the two Legends games.

I'll probably skip Legends cus I hated the the first one but I was 13 or so, maybe it's grown on me since.

How long? In days? I'd guess two, three weeks. Megaman games are challenging but they aren't really all that hard or long since they are part of the land before save states. I think they are on average about an hour and a half long so if the mood struck me I could probably rip through 2-4 a day especially if I wasn't doing something absurd like megabuster only or no E/Sub tanks. I've occasionally put some absurd qualifiers on myself to keep things interesting.

I'll either do that or Final Fantasy but because of stupid Japan vs America I've never actually beaten Final Fantasy III (got most of the way through it on an emulator I think), V, I just didn't finish VIII or XII. XII felt like it was playing without me and was more asking my advice than anything else. Which ironically made for some really hard bosses when the game actually needed me to figure something out.

LOL. You forgot about Batman?! Shame on you, shame on your family, shame on your ancestors, shame on your fuzzy cow!

Yeah, I am curious because I do the same thing. I tend to tackle an entire series and do it in order.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I don't always do things in order. The games I usually do in order (Final Fantasy is the exception for me) are games where either the story continues so playing in order is important like Halo or Batman. I only play Megaman in order because you get damn addicted to those nifty powers like sliding and charging. It's part of why I wait multiple years before going back (and I'll probably do 1,2,9,10,3-8 when I play Megs this time around.) I know you aren't big on games that require lots of reflexes and stuff but I am and there is nothing worse than having your muscles remembering that you can do such and such and then trying it in a pinch and getting nailed.

Which also means as much as I'd love to play prequel games where they fall chronologically I often can't because this might be earlier but that guy still remembers how to Flash Step and the Flash Step became my entire style.

 

[Recidiva]

I don't always do things in order. The games I usually do in order (Final Fantasy is the exception for me) are games where either the story continues so playing in order is important like Halo or Batman. I only play Megaman in order because you get damn addicted to those nifty powers like sliding and charging. It's part of why I wait multiple years before going back (and I'll probably do 1,2,9,10,3-8 when I play Megs this time around.) I know you aren't big on games that require lots of reflexes and stuff but I am and there is nothing worse than having your muscles remembering that you can do such and such and then trying it in a pinch and getting nailed.

Which also means as much as I'd love to play prequel games where they fall chronologically I often can't because this might be earlier but that guy still remembers how to Flash Step and the Flash Step became my entire style.

Yeah, it's funny how you get preferences. I love Fable but I despise the Hobbes Cave sequence and I just won't play it again because of that. It just frustrates me so much in its game design, not the story, that I give up and wander off.

Fable II I'll play over and over, Fable III I still haven't gotten through because they usually get into a long Arena event and I usually get irritated by it and at least twice I've stopped there. Although Fable III has one of my most favorite quests ever based on gamer silliness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVa_sGD5HNg

You do a quest where you agree to play a game, and you become a piece and the players are all arguing over the game and it is AWESOME.

Fable III just bugs me because you have only one save point and you can't save right before this quest and play it over again, the only thing you can do is play the game again up to this point and that's a bummer. I like save points.

 

[Sean Renaud]

I didn't didn't mind the Hobbe Cave other than the fact that it's really too early in the story and as a result is a hyper bitch unless you've trained a specific way. I had some magic build once that just Roflstomped through the cave so easily that I had to wonder what the fuck I'd done wrong the first couple of times through. Turns out I didn't do anything wrong normally, I did something very right that time.

II didn't hold my hand enough and coming off Fable and Oblivion I promptly decided that if I had any interest in finding my own goddamn way I'd play something else. The fun for me of Fable was being held loosely enough that I could go find my way if I wanted and do some side shit but ultimately I could just head back to HQ and they'd fucking tell me where to go. I just never picked up III.

God I want to play Mass Effect again and I'm having flashbacks of that goddamn bouncy car and thinking I might just watch a Lets Play.

 

[Recidiva]

I didn't didn't mind the Hobbe Cave other than the fact that it's really too early in the story and as a result is a hyper bitch unless you've trained a specific way. I had some magic build once that just Roflstomped through the cave so easily that I had to wonder what the fuck I'd done wrong the first couple of times through. Turns out I didn't do anything wrong normally, I did something very right that time.

II didn't hold my hand enough and coming off Fable and Oblivion I promptly decided that if I had any interest in finding my own goddamn way I'd play something else. The fun for me of Fable was being held loosely enough that I could go find my way if I wanted and do some side shit but ultimately I could just head back to HQ and they'd fucking tell me where to go. I just never picked up III.

God I want to play Mass Effect again and I'm having flashbacks of that goddamn bouncy car and thinking I might just watch a Lets Play.

I just hate escort missions and I hate whining and that's a fact. I just wanted to kill the kid myself. I figure that's where the story ends. But I did the world some good.

III is really good and I'm not sure why I didn't finish it, but I haven't at least five times. I do love Stephen Fry as Reaver but it isn't as funny the third time for some reason, just mean.

 

[Sean Renaud]

As escort missions go I don't hate Fable, first that Kid isn't that bad but more importantly they magically warp to you if you make it to the next door. I'd just run into the middle of the Hobbs. Force Push (or whatever it's called), drop a summon and sprint to the next screen. Easy shit.

You want escorts I hate? Goldeneye. Stupid Natalya not only wouldn't do as you wanted worse she had a bad habit of standing between you and the bad guys and then putting her hands up and freezing. Elvis in Perfect Dark is even worse cus he's a bad ass. I died three times at the end of the level, like literally standing in the exit but Elvis was being a bad ass and fighting off an army. Granted if I'd helped we might have won but I was half dead and scared.

It's not an escort mission but Left 4 Dead with computers tops everything. Dear god don't heal me while there are zombies! Order operations idiots! Clear the room, get people on their feet, get someplace safe, heal. That order, every single time. There is no point in healing if there is still an angry incredible Hulk galloping about fer fucks sake. And as angry as the computers would make me the real people doing it made me twice as angry cus they should know better.

 

[remy_lebeau8]

I think I might make a video of me playing rocksmith. I should reserve the new one and new batman tonight

 

[Recidiva]

As escort missions go I don't hate Fable, first that Kid isn't that bad but more importantly they magically warp to you if you make it to the next door. I'd just run into the middle of the Hobbs. Force Push (or whatever it's called), drop a summon and sprint to the next screen. Easy shit.

You want escorts I hate? Goldeneye. Stupid Natalya not only wouldn't do as you wanted worse she had a bad habit of standing between you and the bad guys and then putting her hands up and freezing. Elvis in Perfect Dark is even worse cus he's a bad ass. I died three times at the end of the level, like literally standing in the exit but Elvis was being a bad ass and fighting off an army. Granted if I'd helped we might have won but I was half dead and scared.

It's not an escort mission but Left 4 Dead with computers tops everything. Dear god don't heal me while there are zombies! Order operations idiots! Clear the room, get people on their feet, get someplace safe, heal. That order, every single time. There is no point in healing if there is still an angry incredible Hulk galloping about fer fucks sake. And as angry as the computers would make me the real people doing it made me twice as angry cus they should know better.

I'm not sure if you watched X-Play at the time, but they had a review of a game that was supposed to work on voice commands and it was awful. You'd tell her something and she'd just say "So you want me to run, right?"

Whenever Ulaven or I want to point out being purposely obtuse by design, we say "So you want me to run, right?"

NO! NO! No running. STOP RUNNING! AAAUGH!

 

[Recidiva]

I think I might make a video of me playing rocksmith. I should reserve the new one and new batman tonight

Cool! I'd watch that!

 

[remy_lebeau8]

I'm not sure if you watched X-Play at the time, but they had a review of a game that was supposed to work on voice commands and it was awful. You'd tell her something and she'd just say "So you want me to run, right?"

Whenever Ulaven or I want to point out being purposely obtuse by design, we say "So you want me to run, right?"

NO! NO! No running. STOP RUNNING! AAAUGH!

I dont remember the game but I remember xplay bashing the bad voice recognition. Cool concept though

 

[Recidiva]

I dont remember the game but I remember xplay bashing the bad voice recognition. Cool concept though

Yeah, sometimes I just get irritated at the game itself.

This weekend I was ridiculously frustrated with Final Fantasy because of one fight that is so badly planned out. I died, we died, everybody died, everybody blames me, the healer, who doesn't have enough mana.

Okay, so I apologize, I back out, I don't queue, I do something else, I wait for Ulaven to get to level so we can try it out. I died, we died, everybody died.

It's very hard to keep people's health up when they melt, avoid the corridor damage, the pools of acid that heal the boss, and heal everybody's constant poison.

It's possible, but at a certain point I realize it's the game, not me, and I am just trying to be polite to the fifth tank telling me it's my fault.

I take some time off, I switch classes, gain some other abilities that still might fail, but with Ulaven there, yeah, I get that it isn't me. It's a stupid-ass fight and I absolutely have to do it to progress through the rest of the story. So I'll do it, but I'll be irritable for a bit at some people.

You can't just tell the party 'cleanse' when the damned spell is Esuna and I can't cast that because I'm damned well busy chain healing you and if I move two steps, I don't have enough stability to heal the tank who is running the opposite way.

So they bumped up the game difficulty in a few choke point spots and the gamers are all blaming each other when it's the game. Okay, I get that. I'll level up and try with a better party. I can solve this problem, I just may not want to.

Gah!

 

[Sean Renaud]

I'm not sure if you watched X-Play at the time, but they had a review of a game that was supposed to work on voice commands and it was awful. You'd tell her something and she'd just say "So you want me to run, right?"

Whenever Ulaven or I want to point out being purposely obtuse by design, we say "So you want me to run, right?"

NO! NO! No running. STOP RUNNING! AAAUGH!

It was a Playstation 2 game that took place on a boat. I never played it but I saw in a store once. I heard it doesn't handle well. For me that's the kind of game that I think we would have gotten a good version of had the XBone not backed down on their Kinnect plans. Because if the programmers just had it lying around people would start playing with it and sooner or later someone would get it right.

I really think a Pokemon Game using a mixture of that and the FFXII engine could be brilliant. Just like the cartoon they have a pretty decent idea of what to do without you but in a pinch you can start telling them what's what and with only four moves (maybe more if they add in some kind of standard melee attack and allow you to tell them to focus on dodging for a while means that it wouldn't get bogged down trying to understand hundreds or more commands just four per monster. The only problem I see there is two people in one room shouting over each other.

 

[remy_lebeau8]

If I got final fantasy and my fiancee wanted to play could she make s character under me or would she need her own account?

 

[Recidiva]

It was a Playstation 2 game that took place on a boat. I never played it but I saw in a store once. I heard it doesn't handle well. For me that's the kind of game that I think we would have gotten a good version of had the XBone not backed down on their Kinnect plans. Because if the programmers just had it lying around people would start playing with it and sooner or later someone would get it right.

I really think a Pokemon Game using a mixture of that and the FFXII engine could be brilliant. Just like the cartoon they have a pretty decent idea of what to do without you but in a pinch you can start telling them what's what and with only four moves (maybe more if they add in some kind of standard melee attack and allow you to tell them to focus on dodging for a while means that it wouldn't get bogged down trying to understand hundreds or more commands just four per monster. The only problem I see there is two people in one room shouting over each other.

Yeah, and Hard Rain also got the innovation bump and boot. New way to interact, I didn't make it far. I spent the tutorial as the husband thinking my wife was a complete controlling bitch. Didn't make it far.

It's interesting to see what gets tried and what fails. Voice recognition is hard. We still don't have it. Problem is accents, now you can't actually sell a video game with voice recognition to multiple audiences unless you release it for several languages, and even then, individual voice profiles make it very hard to not make some gamers feel they completely wasted their money. It is probably not a good idea until the tech advances a LOT.