Hey let's catch up on some video gaming in the sandbox

Anybody want free copies of Half-Life 2 and Episode 1? I just noticed that I somehow still have these in my Steam inventory.

yes plz O:)

i as well; never got them for pc.
steam name is same as ilx name

Can we talk about the Ocean Marketing Strategy debacle because

http://kotaku.com/5871400/cut-paul-oceanmarketting-christoforo-a-breakhe-probably-just-has-roid-rage

I find this all very amusing.

You just got told bitch . welcome to the real internet check kotaku in 2 weeks when they are reviewing free PS3 Avengers we send them as well as G4 and all the other majors hell yeah , don.t forget to check Amazon, gamestop.com, play n trade , Myers , Frys and a ton of other local stores coming your way you think you speak for billions son your just a kid you speak for yourself no one cares what you think that.s why were growing and moving 20-50 thousand controllers a month. We do value our customers but sometimes we get children like you we just have to put you in the corner with your im stupid hat on. See you at CES , E3 , Pax East ..? Oh wait you have to ask mom and pa dukes your not an industry professional and you have no money on snap you just got told.

is there really such a huge market for very specialized controllers?

dude linked to this off HIS OWN TWITTER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqV9kx40RG0

whattamarooon

Oh, saints row the third, you are glorious and stupid

oof Vita getting stomped on during its launch in Japan - Vita Ambassador program incoming?

ended up at a mall on boxing day (canada's answer to black fri) b/c my gf needed to... buy smoothies for her sick brother (who may have gotten sick bc he drinks these ridic booster juices every day and missed a day or two). I realized there was an eb games in the mall so I popped in and the deals were insane but the lines was real slow so I browsed for 5m, picked up some games, and waited in line for 45m... BUT! I got Catherine, LA Noire, Darksiders, and 2 copies of no More heroes 2 (one for my little bro) for about $50 total all used). So stoked to get back to my gaming rigs and try them.

ok I am not getting on with the Terraria controls, the combination of moving around with keys but only being able to interact with the thing you've moved to by clicking the mouse, which does nothing else, is doing my head in

(disclaimer: i am on a laptop with an awkwardly positioned mousepad, but it seems weird anyway)

ok so i am prob going to go grab dead island tonight, but knowing me i will also walk out of the store with some other shit that is on sale/cheap. this is why i never finish games.

got myself BF3 for christmas

like skyrim and all but sometimes it just puts me to sleep

does anyone else think John Marston (Red Dead redemption) sounds like Bender (Futurama)?

also that Ocean Marketing Strategy tale his hilarious. i know people who talk their way into marketing gigs through pure bravado and bs and i hate them all.

FUCK YOU HAVEL YOU FUCKING FAT PRICK

holy shit you guys, I got a skyrim in a cider wrapper and it works perfectly

If it works perfectly then it can't be Skyrim.

Ok I can't speak to the game yet, but the intro to dead island is one of the most jarring things I've seen in games in a long while. That may not be a positive thing per se.

whats your rig river wolf

also that Ocean Marketing Strategy tale his hilarious.

Please, it's Ocean Marketting Stratagy...

(better get it right because he's bff's with the mayor of Boston, Crocodile Dundee, and the Wizard of Oz)

Terraria is worth purchasing. Wound up playing far too much of it last night.

stayed at a friend's and played various ps3 things i hadn't seen

arkham city has amazing combat but i wanted to skip everything except the fighting - detective stuff a chore, stealth always a chore, open world with nothing in it a chore. -- plot a total nonsense. if you're playing the goddamn batman the plot shouldn't depend on your being surprised and overwhelmed three times in the first ten minutes; this is narrative-breakingly bad. on the other hand this is the least of the narrative's problems so. i mean, it's really, really fucking stupid. this after batman movies have managed to claw themselves back to moderately not-dumb

deus ex i was awful at because i can't aim with thumbsticks and combining that with a cover system made me completely hopeless, so i just watched the first half hour and asked questions. enjoyed that the apparent major plot twist was obvious in the first two minutes. this game seemed stupider than the original, i must say. -- in the first one at least the immediate HEY CONSPIRACY HEY stuff has the benefit of being totally ott; here it's just lame third-hand cyberpunk, which not even adam jensen's subdermal mirrorshade implants manage to tip over into actually amusing camp

then we spent two hours trying to beat gain ground on one of those sega compilations

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/gainground/gainground-genesis3.png

it's 2011 and gaming has yet to get any better than this

yea, p much. my sister and I try to beat gain ground every couple of years but always get overwhelmed towards the end.

viking guy rules btw.

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/gainground/verbal.jpg

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/gainground/zaemon.jpg

^ love this guy. always end up dying comical deaths due to total unreliability tho

totally. have a similar relationship w/the bazooka guys.

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/gainground/kid.jpg

^ 'kid' is also p excellent. I'm into his little twirl move.

whats your rig river wolf

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2011 iMac 21"
2.7 GHz i5
12 GB RAM

ffffffffffuuuuuuu

macbook pro why u suck for gaming & braek heart

lol macs

gaming (and brokedness) is the only reason I have a pc desktop.

wellll that and not wanting to be a bad person but im sure theres a real ilx thread for this argument

i feel like i should be nervous about this wrapped bootleg (viruses? HACKERS???), but it's running so smoothly that i'm just going to hum a happy tune and ignore it

ok im going to give it another couple hours tonight but the first hour or so of dead island def doesnt kick you into high gear - as a dude who loves the sorta not right in the head games i feel like theres maybe something great in there, but its pretty yawnworthy so far - pro tip designers, starting out the game with a totally in comprehensible cut scene and then a whole lot of suitcase looting w/o combat or action is def NAGL for the modern era. also i HATE HATE HATE the 4 characters you get to choose from.

goty
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-12-29-games-of-2011-dark-souls-article

Yeah so dead island is pretty much terrible :(

skyrim is eating my life. thank god I'm on vacation

so im thinking about getting an xbox 360 and im wondering if the 4GB model is enough? im mainly planning on using it to play current gen games but also XBLA stuff like ikaruga, radiant silvergun, bangai-o, etc. dont really plan on downloading movies or any other media. will i regret it if i dont get more HD space? is the HD easily upgradable?

some of those xbla games can be pretty big (radiant is about 500m iirc) and they go upto about 1GB; a lot of xbox games run more smoothly when installed to the HDD too (about 6GB installation)

you don't necessarily have to get the 250GB tho because you can use USB sticks as memory (limited to 16GB sticks)

i would get the 250, i install most of my games on my 360 too.

i regretted not getting the larger ps3, i have to keep deleting games to make room.

Apple's "12 days" freebie today is that sonic kart racing thing, haven't tried it yet but it reviewed pretty well, probably worth grabbing.

def interested in corpse party for the psp:

http://www.destructoid.com/review-corpse-party-218252.phtml

looks like some kind of jrpg/visual novel/survival horror/battle royale hybrid which is right up my alley tbqh

what's the deal with ILG steam group, I just joined (I'm 'nerd' on steam) and seem to be the only member in the sea of admins :V

guys king cashing on iOS is free, addictive and terrible
please don't download and play it ALL DAY as i've been doing

Watching my kids play inFamous 2 - looks better than the first one which I really got into. Need to find time for it, dunno how :/

xpost

i like this bit in the description of King Cashing in the app store:

Here's a little fact about the game: I got the idea while playing Kairosoft's Game Dev Story! At one point in the game, I made a game with the Slots RPG combination and that got me wondering what a real Slots RPG game would look like. So I dropped the game and started taking notes of what came to mind. I also drew some mockups to have a better idea of what I had in mind. 5 months later, here's King Cashing! So, hum, thanks Kairosoft!

king cashing is 2$, not free