The Mutericator

why are you quoting yourself

I'm with Penny Arcade on this - I don't understand why $10 or $15 or whatever it was is such a ridiculous price point. That's under $20 bucks, which is already an insanely good price for a game.

Anyone who wanted the Doom 2 project got it weeks ago.

There are a myriad of 24/7 2fort maps, some with people playing all the time. Use one of those to get your fix, the rest of us wanna play something new.

I agree with this. Wind Waker was shit, pure and through. The cel-shading was all it had going for it, and the ONE TIME you get to fight everything after getting the Master Sword. Other than that, the game was slow, uninspired, and generally just a waste of time to go through (LOL Triforce Quest). Phantom Hourglass fixed the sailing, and for a handheld Zelda it's pretty damned amazing. Still, nothing can touch Majora's Mask (if you felt the time limit too strongly, that might be a personal problem).

Oh wow, that's awesome.

I always thought crits were determined by time alive... 5% at the start and +1% for every minute alive, and minus some chance every time you die.

Not only that, they have more reason to stay Engineer than other classes have reason to stay what they are. If you switch from Engineer, your stuff gets destroyed, so there's more reason to stay Engy. Someone needs to make this happen, STAT. I would honestly be happier if Sniper was removed entirely.

I still don't understand why someone can't just make a torrent first and send it out to everyone. Then again, I couldn't care less about the site or mirrors - all I'll be doing is going for the .torrent file and letting it run.

Thanks all, I didn't expect this many replies! I'll be sure to check out all of the suggestions (I'm looking for USB mic's specifically, it only has to be mostway decent). Thanks again, all!

I'm looking for something with decent recording quality (i.e. could talk into without huge amounts of background static) for speaking, maybe a little singing. I'm aiming for the $50-100 range, but I'm willing to go a little bit over if necessary. To be more specific, my friend and I are recording a CD where we talk back and forth and introduce songs and stuff, kinda like DJs but with fewer commercials and more verbally beating each other up. I have two questions: A) Is my price range realistic for my goal? and If so, what would you recommend?

bLind, I can't let the man responsible for my fucking theme song down. Name what Suit you want Samus wearing (sans Zero Suit, sorry) and I'll do my best on it.

Ya dun good.

I'll do my best to draw something up.

Prayers for the bLind. Best wishes, my good man.

It isn't just the stickies, it's the nades too. They don't take all that much skill to learn, and once you have you're already pretty ridiculous. Though I'd settle for them buffing every other class, too.

Demos can OHKO any of the lower-end classes without a crit, how is that balanced? They need nerfed. As does Pyro, but we've covered that.

http://teamfortressclassic.com/ Dunno if this was posted yet, but here they're posting the character trading cards and talking about how they're going to balance the Heavy's upgrades (he's next in line).

Arek, Kirby Superstar Ultra comes out late September (27th, I think).

Me. I got to the prehistoric era and got bored out of my mind and stopped. Then again, it seems the only RPG's I can do anything with are portable ones - I couldn't finish FF5 or 6 until they hit the GBA, either.

Tidus' main ability even in FF10 was how ridiculously fast he is. Honestly, endgame Tidus can get three or more attacks in before anyone else in the battle even moves, so it really isn't out of character for him. I guarantee Cloud and Sephiroth are in it, it's a given at this stage in the FF7-whoring plan (and the first trailer had just those two, IIRC). Also I will forgive any other exclusion so long as they put Gilgamesh and his theme music in.

You obviously haven't been paying much attention. He loved Painkiller, CoD4, IIRC he liked Zak and Wiki, he liked Super Mario Galaxy despite (to him) its sameness, he was neutral on The World Ends With You, liked Chains of Olympus (despite, again, its sameness to previous incarnations), and loved the hell out of Psychonauts.

He reacted that way because you sounded really, really defensive with your post challenging if anyone had played it. And yes, newsflash: for every game out there you love to death and get fanboyish about, there's a person who intelligently dislikes it. Same holds for vice-versa. Also without playing MGS4 and just watching a video of someone hurrying through, I noticed he had to stop almost every ten-fifteen seconds of gameplay to skip a cutscene, and only got about twenty-thirty seconds to actually play it before he hit another loading screen. That's just bad design.

You can always build your own (or have prophet do it). I did last year for about $700 including the 20" 1680x1050 monitor. Then you can put whatever OS you want on it.

I think it's worth mentioning Metroid Prime and how the scan system worked like the Bioshock (and, originally, the System Shock) log system and how cutscenes were used to introduce new areas or on the rare occasion Ridley would appear.