Random Gaming Thoughts

[Exhuminator]

fully sapient robots that are basically human, aside from being made of metal instead of meat. They have opinions, think for themselves, and even fall in love. But if they turn against humans in any way, which includes wanting to go their own way and be left alone like Repliforce in X4, then they're considered to be Maverick and are killed

I think the idea was inspired from the renegade replicants in Blade Runner.

[noiseredux]

so this GTA San Andreas thing on Steam is weird to me. There was an update to the game which fixed controller support, but it also took out some resolutions as well 17 songs. Now I can understand licensing and all, but to me it would be rational to think that if you bought the game BEFORE the licensing expired, then you paid for those songs as part of the game and you'd keep them, whereas anyone buying it AFTER would not receive those 17 songs as part of the game. It's just weird to me that it would work like this.

[Ack]

so this GTA San Andreas thing on Steam is weird to me. There was an update to the game which fixed controller support, but it also took out some resolutions as well 17 songs. Now I can understand licensing and all, but to me it would be rational to think that if you bought the game BEFORE the licensing expired, then you paid for those songs as part of the game and you'd keep them, whereas anyone buying it AFTER would not receive those 17 songs as part of the game. It's just weird to me that it would work like this.

Welcome to one of the criticisms of digital media and distribution.

[Kkasino]

In Balloon Fight for NES :

Is there any advantage in rapidly mashing A button and just press down B button ?

[Gooseberrysoda]

What would you guys say are the best 3rd person shooters on PSN (for ps3) for $20 or less?

[Stark]

There's some disturbing implications to the term "Maverick" in the Mega Man X world. The Reploids are fully sapient robots that are basically human, aside from being made of metal instead of meat. They have opinions, think for themselves, and even fall in love. But if they turn against humans in any way, which includes wanting to go their own way and be left alone like Repliforce in X4, then they're considered to be Maverick and are killed. It's actually a bit Orwellian when you start to think about it; the robots suffer from the thought police.

Things that make you go "Hmmm."

[isiolia]

What would you guys say are the best 3rd person shooters on PSN (for ps3) for $20 or less?

Vanquish and Binary Domain are both $19.99 - though physical copies may be cheaper, and they were both on PS+ at one point or another.

If you've got credit or something, I'd just wait for a sale.

[prfsnl_gmr]

...though physical copies may be cheaper...

If you don't mind physical copies, can make it to a Gamestop, and have a rewards card, you can get Bionic Commando, Dark sector, and all three Uncharted games for just under $20.

[ZeroAX]

so this GTA San Andreas thing on Steam is weird to me. There was an update to the game which fixed controller support, but it also took out some resolutions as well 17 songs. Now I can understand licensing and all, but to me it would be rational to think that if you bought the game BEFORE the licensing expired, then you paid for those songs as part of the game and you'd keep them, whereas anyone buying it AFTER would not receive those 17 songs as part of the game. It's just weird to me that it would work like this.

I think the problem is that this is a port of the smartphone version which probably didn't have those licensed songs included either. I don't know what "improvements" it has over the original PC version, but it seems that Rockstar thought they were worth the sacrifice of the original OST....that or they just used it as a marketing ploy to get a "new" version of one of the best selling games of all time out, in case more people buy it out of curiosity (I still have my original PC disk, thank you very much)

[Gooseberrysoda]

...though physical copies may be cheaper...

If you don't mind physical copies, can make it to a Gamestop, and have a rewards card, you can get Bionic Commando, Dark sector, and all three Uncharted games for just under $20.

dang, that's a good deal. wound up spending the credit on Katamari Damacy and uh don't regret anything