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    3DS: Friend Codes on First Page, OMG THE THIRD DIMENSION

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    Any body try out Nyko's 3DS Battery? Looks like it could assuage many 3DS owners of short battery life gaming.

    Here's the meaty part

    I decided to torture the thing until it tapped out. I put in Rayman 3D, a relatively graphically intense 3D game, and played that the entirety of the testing period. There was almost no time spent on menus or browsing my friends list; it was all play time. I turned the brightness all the way up and made sure I was connected to the Internet. The 3D slider was likewise set to maximum with power save mode disabled. I disconnected the headphones and made sure the speakers were cranking out sound for maximum battery drain. I took five-minute breaks here and there to rest my eyes. This is the absolute worst-case scenario when it comes to 3DS battery life, and has very little relation to real-world use cases.

    With the stock battery, you'd be lucky to get three hours out of these conditions.

    The Nyko battery lasted five hours and forty minutes. Well done! This was accomplished under punishing conditions; if you turn off WiFi, use headphones, turn power save mode on, and dial down the brightness a few notches, you suddenly have a system that's ready for long flights or marathon playing sessions. For $20 this is a great addition to your system, even if the black coloring looks pretty goofy on the aquamarine 3DS. The loss of the charging cradle is annoying, but the additional play time makes it worthwhile.

    Makes me want to reconsider getting one, or at least when and if my old DSLite bites the dust...

    Terrifying Games

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    Clock Tower on the Playstation 1. The pacing is slow and the dialog is pretty bad, but it does such a great job of creating suspense. It's probably the only game that has actually frightened me.

    You should try out the

    with the english patch :)!!

    Terrifying Games

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    I was aiming for the "I am seven years old and this music is fucking scary WHAT THE HELL ARE THOSE THINGS OH GOD" aspect

    seriously when I managed to beat that game it was possibly the most rewarding video game experience of my life

    the genuine sense of dread created by the atmosphere in that game is unmistakable imo

    Gonna have to say that the dread you felt in LoZ:LA was lost upon me, especially when Super Metroid a year later when you got inside the old crashed ship did it better :|

    The only time I could ever considered anything Zelda related actually frightening were the redeads along with "The Well" and "Shadow Palace/Dungeon". Sure the atmosphere helped along withit but considering no matter how much you'd at least killed the floating specters, they keep coming back and randomly appear around you; less dramatic that those damned "Victims" that seep through the walls in SH:4 but not as lethal.

    Terrifying Games

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    "Dreams, they feel real while we're in them, right? It's only when we wake up that we realize something was actually strange."

    —Dom Cobb, Inception

    I don't even remember ever finding it more scary than those red assholes in Zelda II in Death Mountain; Now if you were aiming for the "Freddy Krueger" aspect then maybe. Not to mention it was too easy to glitch through that game ridiculously.

    I also didn't realize this one guy I knew had "Ommatophobia", fear of the eyes, and when he finally reach

    in LoZ:Minish Cap he took the whole ending
    ; sort of a grand personal achievement. Didn't know what it meant to him till he told me about his phobia. 8-O

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    But hey going back on topic regarding Deadspace being scary. It's not so much scary as something that could incapacitate you from doing anything as it's more of light body horror as well as imagining such creatures overtaking humanity ala "grey goo" effect; or rather "organic goo" effect in this case.

    Seriously the idea of this monstrosity overtaking the entire world rapidly is more frightening than actually fighting them. Probably the on thing that makes the Necromorphs less frightening as they can't hide amongst humans as easily as that thing can. Not to mention seemingly much more resilent.

    Worst game sequel

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    Worst sequel to a game series I ever played (biggest disappointment) was Final Fantasy 7. Do I have to explain why?

    Because it's not a sequel to anything..?

    Here's a true sequel compliments of LJN.

    LJN's Terminator 2: Judgement Day on the SNES. I remember buying it from a discount bin in a Sears for five dollars. I was all "OH shit I've seen the movie, it's got to be better than the first one on the SNES!"

    While the links do show someone actually beating the game, I don't think I got farther than the mall section upon which I just got lost all the time.

    Again, this is coming from someone who after having played the SNES version of the original "Terminator" game with Kyle Reese for just a half hour. My uncle got it for me as a "surprise" gift and nearly shut me out of getting something I actually wanted; Darius Twin (SHMUP) which had already been out for a year or so.

    Violent Game law to Kill Call of Duty?

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    Opinion

    In regards to artillary weaponry such ranging from the old catapults and cannons to mortars and well, grenades really you'd have to gauge a variety of issues before firing/lobbing.

    Guns usually you'd center as well but you're better off often aiming slight bit ahead of a moving target before firing. Tracing really. Hell in deadspace aiming dead center is the LAST thing you want to do. :lol: but I digress

    Clive Barker's Undying is not THAT obscure. If anything I'd have to say anything regarding Clive Barker often get shit advertisement. I don't even remember seeing a commercial for it even in the pc gaming sections back in the day.

    It's actually not as different as most fps back then as it provided alternate weaponry as well as a "scrying" ability among other things that acted much like the "Lens of Truth" in OoT. That's as far as I remembered but to me that's no different than using Night Vision goggles in "Half-Life:Opposing Forces"; which was a very good expansion pack to the old half life series.

    CBU is actually not as different as most fps, it just catered to your interests at the time just like any other fps catered to others.

    I've already posted some of my favorites.

    Hell I could name another that doesn't even use guns or combat at all; may as well really call it FPSu (First Person Survival)

    Violent Game law to Kill Call of Duty?

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    What the hell is wrong with the ESRB? Nothing. If a game is rated M, you don't give it to a 10 year old. Period!

    Pretty much, I rather not need a silly law just to ban a certain series that only ends up hurting more than that. We don't need to be another Australia, sorry aussie friends no offense. :L

    Seriously FPS can actually be fun you know...

    Hell I even managed to find

    to be fun despite having some slight shades of CoD to it.

    Story-like music?

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    Edit: Yes like that peter and the wolf. except not reading a story, just a character talking. an example being link leaving kokiri and being like "theres hyrule castle, maybe i should check it out"

    Ah then the closest you'll get in finding stuff like that would be radio drams or "Drama CDs".

    Here's an example of a "Drama CD"

    More often than not, aside from the classic radio shows, Japan does them.

    As for game related "radio dramas" aside from the one's you've shared, I can't say I've heard any one else do it.

    Except for that guy that did the entirety of Okami PS2 version as a playthrough, voicing all the dialogue text. Unfortunately I found him, including the ones you've shared, rather cringe-worthy as they sound very amateurish to me.

    Regardless I'm sure some one with good orating skills could do something like that.

    Story-like music?

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    Ah you want something like radio dramas or just the music itself..?

    One that comes to my mind would be the telling of Peter and the Wolf

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    Here's also another one that's sort of a parody of the media, including using stock soundtracks I remembered being used by both old radio, Ren & Stimpy as well as some other cartoons.

    Here's the non-orated version, just the music sans sound effects.

    Pokémon Black/White: V-Create Victini on Nintendo WiFi until Dec 31st!

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    That bothers me too... I'm afraid that after I've fought every trainer, there'll be no one left to battle and gain experience with :(

    EDIT: So, anyone up for some battles tonight?

    I was browsing over at /v/ and I've noticed this posted on one of the threads.

    There are slight differences. Some towns look different between versions (more technological vs more traditional appearance), Black has a City where you fight trainers daily, and White has a forest where you catch rare pokemon from previous gens. Also the 8th Gym Leader is different depending on the version.

    Hmm... any one able to confirm this about Ver.White in regards to the forest allowing easy finding/capturing rare types from previous generations?

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    Side note, brought over all my psychics and ghosts over; ready to breed them as I loved them so...

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    Pokémon Black/White: V-Create Victini on Nintendo WiFi until Dec 31st!

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    Or you know, breed her and have a stronger Lapras..?

    Serious question though, is there something such as a VS. Seeker In B&W? Curiously through out what I've traveled through I've not seen anything regarding such an item. Would make raising and grindan less tedious than simply diving into the water/grassy/sand areas.

    Not to mention the cash earnings won along side using the amulet Coin...

    EDIT* Never mind, did a longer google search; turns out there is no such item.

    Pokémon Black/White: V-Create Victini on Nintendo WiFi until Dec 31st!

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    It's obviously based on an atlas moth. A fiery atlas moth. You know, the ones that actually exist, as opposed to like, mechanical ants. :roll:

    I like to think of it as some sentient nanotechnology gone wrong and it adopted the ant form out of efficiency/ whatever reasoning works for you.

    Cmon it's not THAT bad.

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    Also I did not realize on the Trainer Card you can change what look you take when you trade. My girl asked me if there was a reason I had the "hiker" avatar. Soon after I was given the explanation of how to change it. :tomatoface:

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    The Ranger's as close as I'll EVER get to the "Raidou Kuzunoha" look

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