Fyrehaar: dude
Fyrehaar: reviews of Dragon tattoo
Fyrehaar: that it is shallow
Fyrehaar: no connection to the characters
Fyrehaar: like, it looks good
Fyrehaar: but that is it
Sonic Rob: SF Gate review has massive, massive fucking spoilers
Sonic Rob: I get why, cause otherwise it’s so shocking you’ll fucking die
Sonic Rob: but goddammit, you can’t do that shit
Fyrehaar: they just assume everyone has read it
Fyrehaar: I feel like a lot of people who read the book didn’t get it at all
Continue reading Chat Box: Now With SPOILERS
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Chat Box: Technology
Sonic Rob: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holographic_Versatile_Disc
Sonic Rob: when is this shit coming out?
Fyrehaar: cool
Sonic Rob: they’ve had the tech for like 5 or 6 years, it’s just not at consumer price levels yet
Sonic Rob: and now with cloud and streaming, physical media may be done
Fyrehaar: yeah
Sonic Rob: it’s the saber-toothed tiger of optical disc media
Fyrehaar: rawr!!!
New Space Marine Maps & Modes Announced, Corpse of Last Week’s Mode Not Cold Yet
Relic has announced a new DLC pack just days after we XBox-owning peons were finally allowed to download and then ignore the Exterminatus co-operative DLC.
Long story short, in December sometime all players get access to a new Capture the Flag gametype. Those who pay $10 for the DLC pack get a Chaos version of the Exterminatus horde-mode game, as well as 3 new maps that work for all gametypes. Also, four new multiplayer skins will be available for $3 each. Finally, 10 new achievements will be added, almost certainly all tied into the new game modes.
Capture the Flag sounds like crazy fun, since Space Marine moves so fast and the maps tend to be on the small side IMO. I haven’t played Exterminatus, so I don’t really know what to think of a Chaos version coming out. I’ve played a ton of multiplayer, though, and having the map count go up from five to eight is… well, almost worth $10 to me. I won’t be buying the skins, awesome as the Legion of the Damned one looks, as the game moves too fast for anyone to notice much about what you look like. Besides, I wear camouflage.
Guest Chat: Getting Excited About Video Games
Sig Fem Seks: Oh man
Sig Fem Seks: I’m getting excited about video games
Sig Fem Seks: Uncharted 3 and Skyrim are so close
Sonic Rob: it is true
Sonic Rob: I just started playing Catherine, so I have high hopes for that
Sig Fem Seks: I almost started Brotherhood yesterday
Sonic Rob: =(
Sig Fem Seks: but I realized that I won’t be able to finish it by the time Uncharted comes out
Sonic Rob: yeah
Sonic Rob: see, this is why being a player of new games sucks
Sonic Rob: you are beholden to release schedules
Sig Fem Seks: I’ve come to a realization that if I start a game and I don’t finish it before I start another game, I will never finish it
Sonic Rob: so don’t start the other game
Sonic Rob: I am sure there will be copies of Uncharted to buy once you are done with Brotherhood
Sig Fem Seks: No but that’s the problem
Sig Fem Seks: I have to play Uncharted ASAP
Sonic Rob: why?
Sig Fem Seks: to avoid spoilers and because I’ve been waiting for so long
Sonic Rob: hm
Sonic Rob: you know
Sonic Rob: I don’t think I wait for games
Sonic Rob: the statement “I’ve been waiting so long for this game that I must play it ASAP” has no resonance with me
Sig Fem Seks: Brotherhood is something I look forward to starting when I have nothing else to play
Sig Fem Seks: because I know it’ll be good
Sonic Rob: wait wait
Sonic Rob: you have to play Uncharted now
Sonic Rob: because you don’t know if it’ll be good?
Sig Fem Seks: Uncharted is on a different level than Brotherhood
Sig Fem Seks: I know it will be amazing
Sig Fem Seks: I know Brotherhood will be good
Sonic Rob: ok, I think I get it
Sonic Rob: you don’t want to be tied up in a good game that keeps you from starting a transcendent game
Sig Fem Seks: It’s like Christmas presents
Sig Fem Seks: My mom got me a baseball bat, BUT HOLY SHIT LOOK AT THAT BIKE OVER THERE
Continue reading Guest Chat: Getting Excited About Video Games
Sonic Rob’s Jump Troop Tactica for Space Marine Multiplayer: Part III
Finishing out my series of posts on how I like to go about playing a jump marine in Warhammer 40,000 Space Marine, let’s discuss my two least favorite maps and briefly touch on the use of Perks.
Basilica
• My absolute least favorite map to play as ASM. There are a lot of covered passages that are can’t be jumped through, as well as long narrow hallways with tall ceilings that basically are setting ASM up to get clay pigeoned by a dev at the other end.
Continue reading Sonic Rob’s Jump Troop Tactica for Space Marine Multiplayer: Part III
Sonic Rob’s Jump Troop Tactica for Space Marine Multiplayer: Part II
Last time I held forth with no real qualifications or justification on how to fight as a jump marine in Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine. Carrying on with the second of three posts on the topic, I’d like to discuss particular maps in the game and how to best use the jump marine’s particular traits in each of them.
Continue reading Sonic Rob’s Jump Troop Tactica for Space Marine Multiplayer: Part II
Sonic Rob’s Jump Troop Tactica for Space Marine Multiplayer: Part I
I’ve been enjoying the hell out of Space Marine’s multiplayer mode, probably more than I’ve enjoyed an online game in some time. It’s pretty thin on maps and classes, but in a way that allows for some very fine tuning. It’s like a really well-cooked steak with nothing on it and no side dishes.
I’ve been looking online for some guides to playing the game, but it’s starting to look like the multiplayer community may be deserted in favor of the big games coming out in the next few weeks. Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 are both waiting in the wings to snap up fans of high-caliber online violence, and Batman: Arkham City just ate all of the nerd gamers. Still, they say that if you can’t find what you need, build it, so here are some thought on playing the easiest class in the game and thus the one I feel most confident in holding forth regarding: the Assault Marine/Chaos Raptor (ASM).
Continue reading Sonic Rob’s Jump Troop Tactica for Space Marine Multiplayer: Part I
Lifecycles
Well, it seems that the life expectancy of a PS3 is about 3.25 years. We bought you on the way back from a friend’s wedding and you gave yeoman’s service. We have streamed more NetFlix and played fewer games via that machine than I really care to address.
Now you are sitting, waiting for me to decide what to do with you while your younger, cheaper, larger, faster replacement takes the place that was once yours.
The Playstation is dead, long live the Playstation!
-fh
P.S. Thanks for lasting until after the price drop!
Good Morning
Hi everyone. I’m really sorry about the pace of posting things lately – I went from a reasonably cushy government contracting job to unemployment and now to a new job in the video gaming industry. I’m really pleased to be here and it’s a great opportunity, but the pace is just blistering my ass; I’m laying down 60+ hours a week with a really long commute on top of it. In some ways, I suppose I’m living a much more ordinary and less charmed working life than I was at the start of the year. I’m certainly beginning to see the appeal of handheld gaming in a way that wasn’t as obvious when my commute was a ten-minute drive.
I’m going to continue writing posts as I’m able, but the length and tone of them may have to change to suit the amount of time I can give to the site. Hopefully we can still have a lot of fun blathering about games and such.
-ssr
Chat Box
Sonic Rob: new Space Marine movie has a tarty IG girl
Sonic Rob: her uniform bares her midriff
FyreHaar: what????
FyreHaar: send this so I may be scathing
Sonic Rob: I am so confuse
Sonic Rob: I may be wrong
Sonic Rob: that could be some tan underarmor
FyreHaar: That was tan underarmour
FyreHaar: there was no tart
FyreHaar: she looked hard
FyreHaar: but there is a dude with my haircut
Sonic Rob: LOL
Sonic Rob: emo chaos marine
FyreHaar: oh totally