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Dead Rising 2 (PC) and Sonic 4 (PS3).

Dead Rising 2 is a lot of fun, I'm really enjoying it. I can't say the same for Sonic 4 so far, which has left me feeling really underwhelmed.

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DoctorEars

#2946 October 15, 2010, 09:19:15 am

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Civ 5, and it's my first time playing Civ. Loving it.

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Vellfire

#2947 October 15, 2010, 12:03:17 pm

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As soon as my new desktop's built I'll get Civ 5. Been playing a lot of Civ Rev on my iPod during my commute though.

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Grunthor

#2948 October 15, 2010, 01:14:42 pm

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Carrion Crow

#2949 October 15, 2010, 02:52:35 pm

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You know, Vellfire - after our game last night I have not been able to reconnect my PC to the wired connection in my room! I think Fifa11 has confused the DNS servers in my halls and now I am reduced to stealing 56k-esque WiFi from the uni building across the street!

It's gonna be a long weekend!

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DS

#2950 October 15, 2010, 03:14:28 pm

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just google your internet provider's dns servers and use the ip's manually if that's the problem. sounds weird tho.

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Vellfire

#2951 October 15, 2010, 04:32:40 pm

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Quote from: ed on October 15, 2010, 02:52:35 pm

You know, Vellfire - after our game last night I have not been able to reconnect my PC to the wired connection in my room! I think Fifa11 has confused the DNS servers in my halls and now I am reduced to stealing 56k-esque WiFi from the uni building across the street!

It's gonna be a long weekend!

wow that's pretty weird. guess you'll just have to do nothing but play more FIFA ;D

both our games were so rad though. couldn't be bothered to type all this up in ps3 chat since it'd take so long but there was one moment where one of my korean players like....just fell over. nobody hit him, i have no clue why this happened but he just fell to the ground and got back up. i was laughing for way too long about it.

I love this hobby - stealing your mother's diary
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Hello! It's me, Vellfire! FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER! ... Bye! CLICK! @gidgetnomates

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kayo Hairbinger

#2952 October 16, 2010, 02:32:39 am

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I want to play Civilation 5 but I haven't played them before. Is there a free version?

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kayo Hairbinger

#2953 October 16, 2010, 02:33:41 am

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So I can see if I like it and want to buy it

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DDay

#2954 October 16, 2010, 02:58:48 am

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yes there is a demo .

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Evangel

#2955 October 16, 2010, 07:33:20 pm

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playing system shock 2 but its scaring the shit out of me i need to take a break for a while

keep posting...

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thecatamites

#2956 October 16, 2010, 09:03:07 pm

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I finished playing Link To The Past on gameboy advance and now I'm playing Link's Awakening. A zelda spree.... But uh I am kind of enjoying all the little background noise and stuff more than the games themselves. Like the fact that LTTP has a giant octopus-shaped pattern in the desert for no reason at all and the dialogue etc. Also the DARKWORLD and the way it is like partially connected to the other world but not entirely so?? so you can see why some things would make sense but then you have things like the church place inexplicably turning into a giant cave containing an octopus who tells gossip for rupees. It's kind of boring in a lot of ways though.

Link's Awakening is a lot better so far because uh I don't know what the deal is with gameboy equivalents of franchise stuff but my impression from the mario games especially has been that they hired it out to a different team and things turn kind of skewed as a result?? Like not regular boring mario design but like now he is exploring easter island or something and all the enemies work differently. Anyway Link's Awakening feels like a much weirder and looser pisstake/feverdream of Link To The Past. You have some recurring elements and general videogame stuff but it's all exaggerated and warped slightly so you get a crocodile who sells bananas and literally everyone in the game talks like Ramci (whoa w-what!! what's this... JOY). Basically this is a muddled post but it feels like they were freed from having to make everything ~iconic~ and so just got this really bizarre and vaguely mocking fun thing out of it.

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AdderallApocalypse

#2957 October 16, 2010, 10:39:51 pm

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...

What is this? I just typed up a lengthy post in response to thecatamite's statements on Link's Awakening and, right when I clicked "post", I was sent here which meant that the content of my entire post was erased. ;_; I'm reserving this spot to type it again, and Ill become better acquainted with the copy and paste functions or risk losing a portion of my sanity.

Right, as I was just saying. Link's Awakening brings back a lot of nostalgia and memories of my childhood and, if I recall correctly, it was the first LoZ game that I had ever beaten. My favorite aspect of the game was the easter eggs that you could discover, especially the one where you could steal from the village store in Kakariko, and consequently the denizens of the island would label you as a THIEF. Any attempt to reenter the store from that point forward meant that you were met face to face with the angry clerk and a bolt of electricity that jolted you to death. I also have a sour memory of becoming stuck in one of the later dungeons( I don't remember if it was the last or the second to last one, not counting the giant egg.) The dungeon consisted of these large spheres that were integral to some puzzle in the dungeon, and I managed to become wedged in between the sphere and a corner of one of the rooms. It was frustrating because I tried time and time again to turn the game on, mash the buttons, and hope that I would become unstuck - I didn't, at least not for a while. It wasn't until one day that I was able to liberate myself from that notorious little nook. I don't know HOW, but I did. Also didn't Marcus or someone have a lot of trouble with one of the same dungeons? It took him like a year and some contact to Nintendo in order to finally beat it; his story was amusing but I don't remember the details...but, yeah, Link's Awakening

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Vellfire

#2958 October 17, 2010, 01:38:56 am

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link's awakening is my favorite zelda game and always will be. i think thecatamites hit on the reasons why though, i never really thought of why i liked it so much because i just DID so i went with it. but i think what thecatamites said is exactly why i like it the most.

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General Robert E. Lee

#2959 October 17, 2010, 05:17:45 am

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How could you have trouble with Link's Awakening
It's the easiest Zelda game
My favorite is Zelda 2, the hardest.
I can tell you this
When I finished Link's Awakening, I was like "that was pretty fun."
But when I finished Zelda 2, I was felt sad that it was over. That's what a good game makes you feel.

Admiral Robert E Lee: From an alternate reality in which the United States is an archipelago and the Civil War is fought at sea.

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Carrion Crow

#2960 October 17, 2010, 09:43:14 am

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I tried to play Zelda once and I just couldn't get into it. The first RPG I ever played was FF7 though so that probably says a lot about my RPG CULTURE.

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