Official* HAF Video Game Thread

[karadan]

CRIPES!

If ever there was a game preview to whet the appetite, this is it:

http://e3.gamespot.com/video/6210694/

I'll probably get this game when it is out seeing as i'm a massive Star Wars geek but i highly doubt it will compare to the true majesty of Star Wars Galaxies (pre combat upgrade of course).

Nice.  Looks better than episodes 1,2,3... oh, wait.  Even Lego Starwars was better than them ;-)

Wonder how the gameplay will be handled?

I wanna play Babe-a-Fett!,
JoeActor

Haha. Jar-Jar was my favourite character of all time  :hide:

[Zab]

Prototype Just came out yesterday, and it should be out today on Steam. My poor computer, I'm just going to have to lower some of the settings.

L4D2 made me want to cry a bit, My computer is barely powerful enough for the last campaign on L4D.

I was disappointed that Blizzard didn't show anything off at E3.

[karadan]

Prototype Just came out yesterday, and it should be out today on Steam. My poor computer, I'm just going to have to lower some of the settings.

L4D2 made me want to cry a bit, My computer is barely powerful enough for the last campaign on L4D.

I was disappointed that Blizzard didn't show anything off at E3.

Meh, Blizzard don't have to showcase anything considering their profits are in the billions each quarter...

Thay are actually working on 'something' super secret right now but i doubt we'll see anything about it for a while yet. With the finances they have, i'm actually quite looking forward to seeing what they come up with, just as long as it doesn't have orcs, wizards and enchanted swords. I can't be arsed with that stuff any more.

[BadPoison]

They seem to be promising a lot but that's nothing new I guess. Apparently 100% of items etc will be player craftable giving a nice real-world economy (one of the things which made SWG as badass as it was).

Player run economies are incredible. I never played SWG, but the player run economy in EVE online made the player wealth grind truly dynamic.

I'm not a fan of people being able to spec Jedi immediately though. The Jedi are supposed to be super badass so, having the likes of a normal character duel a Jedi in even combat seems a little bit non-canon to me.

Uh-oh, have I just inadvertently revealed the true level of my geek-dom.

I feel another hide emote is appropriate here...  

Right - I have no idea how they're going to pull off PvP of Jedi versus other classes. Unless they plan to balance the PvP on a group level. If they did that, it would make more sense.

But still, everyone and their mom will want to be a Jedi, so I hope they make it so that a more balance group can take on a zerg jedi group.

[karadan]

Player run economies are incredible. I never played SWG, but the player run economy in EVE online made the player wealth grind truly dynamic.

Right - I have no idea how they're going to pull off PvP of Jedi versus other classes. Unless they plan to balance the PvP on a group level. If they did that, it would make more sense.

But still, everyone and their mom will want to be a Jedi, so I hope they make it so that a more balance group can take on a zerg jedi group.

Yep, the economy in Eve is awe-inspiring. I'm a current player/addict and have been playing for a year and a half. It is a truly great game.

The way SWG handled Jedi vs other classes was this:

Jedi had perma-death. If a Jedi was killed in combat, he/she would lose all their skills. This was enough of a penalty to ensure even the most confident Jedi would stay hidden, considering the time it took to become a master Jedi could be measured in months, cumulative play time. Added to this was the fact that the path to Jedi was hidden. Out of the 36 professions (classes) in the game, you had to master at least 5 (no mean feat in itself) in order to get a summons from the ancient Jedi spirits, or whatnot. Usually it took people between 12 and 24 mastered professions to become force sensitive and you just didn't know which ones you had to master in order to attain the ability to wield a light sabre. I got my padewan after mastering 14 professions but others weren't so lucky. Mastering 14 professions took me 1.5 years.  

The thing which amazed me was how the makers of the game had it so well balanced. In the films, Jedi simply owned everyone. According to canon, the time the game was set, Jedi were immensely scarce. In the game, the few Jedi with the balls to go out into the main population completely kicked everyone's ass. The only class which had any iota of ability to handle a fight against them were bounty hunters. They also had the ability to track Jedi down.

Too many people complained though. There were some who asked for Jedi to be nerfed because they were too powerful. Others asked for the path to Jedi to be easier because they wanted to wtfmcpwnburger everyone without having to work for it. All the Jedi asked for perma-death to be stopped. Sony Online Entertainment shouldn't have listened to any, and should have just concentrated on refining the current system. Unfortunately they tried to listen to all and every demand and ended up killing the game. As of now, you can buy SWG and be playing a Jedi as soon as you log in.  lol) for two people in our guild. Our entire guild attended at one of the most picturesque places in Theed. They did their vows and everyone was cheering. All-of-a-sudden about 30 bounty hunters came out of nowhere and descended on one of our guild mates (who happened to be a Jedi, just in a tux because of the wedding) they killed him quickly because he didn't have the extra stats his Jedi clothing afforded him. It caused a hell of a rant on the forums. They gate crashed a wedding to kill someone, after all! We subsequently found their base and killed everything and everyone  

Wow. Just realised I wrote a wall of words. I'll stop now...

[BadPoison]

MMOs can be just wicked when done right.

Alas, I seldomly have the time to invest in them these days. EVE was one of my favorites, as was WoW. When I got rid of my WoW account I sold it for $850.00 though, so that was pretty neat.

I always loved the group PvP though - and the games where strategy actually meant something were my favorites.

The Old Republic MMO looks awesome - I just hope whomever I'm dating at the time doesn't mind me playing (or plays with me!)

Edit: Then again, the game could end up being another Age of Conan of disappointments.

[Jolly Sapper]

*tosses in 2 cents*

I find that I'm attracted to alpha/beta MMO's, open source projects where nothing is complete and the development team  almost at random implements small barely noticeable changes with a few scatterings of changes that completely change the game environment.

I like watching the dev boards (art, sound, music, map making, suggestions, coding, etc) where you see a few people who've been around since the beginning of the project mingle with people who just popped in one day, spent a week coding a widget/designing a monster/coding AI/creating a map only to disappear into the ether.

I like watching and taking part in the development of a the social norms of the game/player base.  I imagine its like a fast forward version of human social evolution, from small groups who rarely interact with each other and have different customs moving onto large group interactions that force a change in the old status quo/social norm.

 

[Whitney]

Has anyone seen this?  You tell it your gamertag and it makes your xbox blog about you:

http://360voice.gamerdna.com/tag/WHIT1982

It's kinda cute.

[joeactor]

Has anyone seen this?  You tell it your gamertag and it makes your xbox blog about you:

http://360voice.gamerdna.com/tag/WHIT1982

It's kinda cute.

Hmmm... Auto-Blog-Bot?

Did you have to install it on the Xbox?

Can you add entries yourself?

(most of mine would be "Where's JoeActor???")

[Whitney]

Hmmm... Auto-Blog-Bot?

Did you have to install it on the Xbox?

Can you add entries yourself?

(most of mine would be "Where's JoeActor???")

You just tell the blog website your gamertag and it pulls the information from xbox.  I don't think you can add entries yourself.  I'm actually surprised mine doesn't have a where is entry.  I also don't remember playing on the 9th, but it seems to think I did..maybe my husband accidentally played on my account.

[Hat]

Oh, I have a 360voice account cc.
It's a wee bit stupid though. Sometimes updates when I wasn't actually on and what not but I put that down to me changing my gamertag a day or two after I got it. Other than that it's pretty accurate about my gaming habits.

The way it works is you sign up and make everything available to everyone on your Xbox. After doing that you wait two or three days for it to gather up some info and it'll post daily after that. You can write your own entries but I haven't done that yet. I think it's cute : )

Edit
Look @ This You Guys
It's real. No more rumors. There are no words to express how hard I am fangirling this right now.

[MikeyV]

On PS3 all I've been playing lately is:

F.E.A.R. 2 - almost done with it on normal.
Mirror's Edge - a bit difficult to get the hang of, but I like the premise.

On PC:
WoW

I'm on some meds recently that make it difficult to concentrate, so I haven't gamed much in the past 2 weeks or so.

[curiosityandthecat]

F.E.A.R. 2 - almost done with it on normal.

It's good. Hate the physics engine. Story makes up for it. Try it on hard.

[Jolly Sapper]

Im going to vouch for America McGee "Alice".

It was an absolutely stunning game.

I've played Undying, but I never got very far as it was hard (which made it scary-- Think DooM, but with faster baddies and you armed with a six shoot revolver that takes time to reload).

[quizlixx]

Relating to video games, i went to the store and bought Prototype for the 360. It is great so far, nothing like taking control of an unstoppable killing machine with limitless power.