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Off Topic / Re: What mental illness(es) do you have
« on: February 05, 2016, 02:13:47 AM »
None that I know of.

I wouldn't be surprised if I have mild ADD, but I've never had myself checked.

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Games / Re: Need for Speed Most Wanted is free on origin for a limited time
« on: February 05, 2016, 02:12:31 AM »
I installed it, played five minutes, then decided that this was literally the worst video game I had ever played.Glad to hear its decent
I downloaded it, played it for 5 minutes and then quit and went back to Counter-Strike.

I didn't realise it would be so painful.

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Games / Re: LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer released
« on: February 04, 2016, 07:09:30 PM »
does anyone remember backlot
I loved it. Not a great game at all, but it was a great waste of time, and it saddens me that my current browsers don't let the downloaded version run.

I don't remember where it was, but I think there was a post on some other forum where someone explained all the hacky development practices the devs used in the game. Some meteor minigame allegedly had every meteor on screen use a different file for a model, even if the model was completely identical.
EVERY. loving. GAME. DOES. THIS. Development is an expensive, time-consuming process, and at some stage developers will use hacks to finish off a game where time doesn't exist. Tt Games is not exempt.

Did you notice that the meteors were all the same in LEGO Island 2? No. Did you notice a lot of the texture hacks used in LEGO Star Wars? No. It didn't affect your game experience, so forget right off.

Development Process != Quality of the Final Product. It may affect the quality, but it is not itself an indicator of the quality.

I can't don't mean to advertise other forums, but "Sins of lego island 2" on rockraidersunited is what I was talking about.
Go look who is at the top of the recent posts list, or at the top of the all time contributors list. I'm well aware of that post, you twat.

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Games / Re: LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer released
« on: February 04, 2016, 06:49:40 PM »
the only non-tt lego games that are actually good and playable are racers 1 and 2
Rock Raiders. Island (especially Xtreme Stunts). LEGOLAND. LOCO. Alpha Team. Creator. Chess. Drome Racers. Football Mania.

Hell, Bionicle, Stunt Rally, Galidor and Friends may not be the best games out there, but damn well if they didn't try to do SOMETHING different to the other LEGO games.

Every LEGO game was trying to give kids an entry point into different genres. The games I listed above are the reason I have such wide tastes for gaming. I thought they were all loving awesome, and to this day they're still great examples of how you can take an IP and a genre and merge them together well.

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Games / Re: Mirrors Edge Catalyst Trailer - I Am Faith
« on: February 04, 2016, 06:29:04 PM »
loving PUMPED.

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Games / Re: LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer released
« on: February 04, 2016, 06:25:32 PM »
but srsly the LEGO Star Wars games were my forgetin childhood
So you missed out on all the other LEGO games that I would argue were a lot better given their variety? What a damn shame. Another lost child who thinks that all LEGO games should be about punching things to collect studs.

I hate this bullstuff.

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Games / Re: LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer released
« on: February 03, 2016, 02:07:34 PM »
And what if you like the games, even if they are so similar?
Then that's your personal taste and that's fine, but it doesn't change my opinion of the games at all.

Right now, I'm playing through every single LEGO Tt Game on Steam to determine how the franchise is going. If you go to this link and filter by "LEGO", you'll see my progress (slow, but getting there). I'm having great difficulty finding the differences between the games. Yeah, there's some minor polish and tweaks and newer titles, and some of the activities change, but ultimately the game mechanics are:

->Primary Attack (out of 5 categories, melee, sword-melee, ranged weapon, magic, zapper)
->Context Sensitive (anything from using the force, opening a panel, building etc)
->Ride Vehicles

That's the entire list, and it's become excruciating over just how many repetitive actions are required to beat the level. Each level is just a Tt designer following a checklist, rather than doing any kind of actual design ("Okay, I need to add a force puzzle here, and then I need a co-op force puzzle somewhere else, and a blaster puzzle here..."). Hell, I'd rather play a Mario title, would they be released for Steam. It gets even worse when you add in Tt's stuffty enemy system and their even stuffter "run towards the camera" segments.

What makes a game fun is challenge, something the new LEGO games lack completely. The old LEGO games were vastly different, and even though there was some hand-holding (Stunt Racers completed the "orange test"), if you play a game like Racers or Rock Raiders, you actually need to get better and work at winning, whereas a Tt game just expects that you just keep playing the same tedious puzzles over and over again. Time devotion != challenge.

I mean, I like Assassin's Creed too, even though I can tell that there isn't an overly significant difference in gameplay between the first game and the latest.
I'm not saying AC is any better than the LEGO adaptational games. All I'm saying is that people shine different lights on them when they are just as guilty of each other of repeating the same gameplay mistakes over and over and over and over and over and over.

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Games / Re: LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer released
« on: February 03, 2016, 01:47:02 PM »
mcjob getting mad his mature lego game has yet to be picked up
More like McJob getting mad that people will call out franchises like Assassin's Creed and Call of Duty for making the same game yearly, but nobody will say anything about Tt even though they make LITERALLY the same game with a different skin at least twice a year.

The only people who I respect in that company are the artists and the programmers (who I know one of which), since they're basically making the best of a really stuffty situation. The designers need to take a big loving step back and start producing some original goddam ideas, as I recall that one of LEGO's core values is "creativity", and I don't see a lot of that in following an instruction manual to build every single one of your games.

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hey remember this

forgetin called it mate
Even I didn't think it'd reach 200 pages, though.

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lol at this point this thread is basically just the blf IRC room
A much slower version of IRC where your thoughts are permanently recorded for everyone to laugh at.

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Games / Re: Need for Speed Most Wanted is free on origin for a limited time
« on: February 02, 2016, 07:35:41 PM »
I don't know why EA isn't making Criterion make another Burnout game instead of having them shove it into NFS where it obviously doesn't belong.
Paradise sold abysmally, and several NFS studios closed, so they wanted to merge the two and try keep profits up. I think it's a pretty stuffty move as well.

I wish EA would actually put up their older NFS games and make them compatible for newer OS's considering I always run into issues when running the older games on my computer.
If you release the older games, people won't buy the newer games + DLC. It loving sucks.

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Games / Re: Playstation Network (PSN) / Playstation Megathread V2
« on: February 02, 2016, 04:38:51 PM »
PSN: McJobless

I still own a PS1, PS2 and PS3. Getting a PS4 soon, and I did have a PSP and PS Vita.

Traded in all my PS3 games except for the Ratchet games.

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Games / Re: LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer released
« on: February 02, 2016, 03:57:13 PM »
A loving horrible idea. I was informed last night and I'm just as mad now as I was then.

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Off Topic / Re: Blockland Unofficial Discord Server
« on: February 01, 2016, 10:15:36 PM »
I sure do love me a meme-war.

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Off Topic / Re: This generation and politics
« on: February 01, 2016, 04:05:20 PM »
It seems more and more people are also separating themselves from society into video games and other fantasies (MLP,FNAF) and this isn't good.
You are an utter handicap.

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