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# Agyness Deyn wannabe

Haircut.
(I helped save b3ta! Killerkitti Like my coffee black, just like my metal, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 1:56, archived)
# Nice peek-a-boo bangs !
(I helped save b3ta! Valin I changed glasses while I wasn't looking, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 2:09, archived)
# If Jeru replies to this post with regards to Dead Set, then he is gay.
(I helped save b3ta! the_rhyme_minister has a little bit of gold and a pager, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 2:22, archived)
# Wasn't your sig Dead set before?
I could have sworn it was. STOP MESSING WITH MY HEAD!
(Jeru War and Piss, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 2:26, archived)
# What?
(I helped save b3ta! the_rhyme_minister has a little bit of gold and a pager, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 2:33, archived)
# QUIT MESSING WITH MY HEAD!
Anyway, captain wow was annoyed that there was no-one on here with Dead Space that she could talk to.
(Jeru War and Piss, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 2:42, archived)
# I'm hardly on during the day.
Someone started a thread on /talk earlier saying they'd completed it. It's fucking brilliant - first good new survival horror IP in a long time.
It's very very obvious which games it takes its myriad influences from but I don't think that's a bad thing in such a linearly progressive medium as video games.
(I helped save b3ta! the_rhyme_minister has a little bit of gold and a pager, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 2:49, archived)
# What's an IP?
I haven't played a huge number of recent games and the ones I have played I have generally been underwhealmed by, which doesn't make me think much of the progression of commercial video games.
(Jeru War and Piss, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 3:00, archived)
# Intellectual Property.
It's one of those pretentious marketing phrases which you can't help but begin to use. I do play a lot of video games but that doesn't seem to matter with Dead Space. It's so cinematographic (I'm amazed that's a word) that my flat mate is happy to just watch me play it on his Xbox.
(I helped save b3ta! the_rhyme_minister has a little bit of gold and a pager, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 3:40, archived)
# That's a pretty atrocious piece of phraseology, especially as it's just a vague legal term to apply to basically everything.
Surely the correct wanker marketing term would be 'Survival Horror content'?

And by cinematographic do you mean (and I assume you mean something) that it looks AWESOME! Because my experience with things which look AWESOME! is that they are generally aimed at the young Americanish Xbox market. Things like gears of war, which looks great when you are hiding behind walls and firing blind over the top of them, or sawing someone in half with a chainsaw bayonet.

But in practice play like shite and have no or very little innovation in gameplay, gears of war basically just consisting of hiding behind a wall and making sure you have enough ammo and the occasional attempt to use the melee chainsaw brings the realisation that it's such a long and easily interrupted animation you may as well just shoot the person.
(Jeru War and Piss, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 3:58, archived)
# TJ: Fallout 3
Oh my christing Buttercups!

No sleep for me tonight.
(I helped save b3ta! Chickenhawk is no longer Arkwright., Tue 4 Nov 2008, 2:27, archived)
# not played it yet - is it that bad?
I'm playing crisis warhead and just waiting for something to jump out at me......

damn these new high end PC games machines.....
(I helped save b3ta! TBL I posted this on, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 2:30, archived)
# Not shocks just so addictive,
I started two characters, a homely christian fellow and a vindictive murderous bitch.

Within a few minutes of play outside the vault each was playing an entirely different game.
(I helped save b3ta! Chickenhawk is no longer Arkwright., Tue 4 Nov 2008, 2:32, archived)
# oh right...
I thought it was one of them daft "monsters waiting to get you in the dark games" like doom 3 was. That really pissed me off.... you can have a torch and a gun. but only one at a time. like they never head of tactical lights ffs....
(I helped save b3ta! TBL I posted this on, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 2:36, archived)
# Nah, more typical FPS lighting
but the RPG element is downright daunting.

I accidentally uncovered an ability called "Dream Crusher", which reduces enemy critical hits on me, after I shat all over someone's ambitions.

Provoked a genuine "lol whut?"
(I helped save b3ta! Chickenhawk is no longer Arkwright., Tue 4 Nov 2008, 2:43, archived)
# It doesn't have power type abilities does it?
Like where you can make people's equipment malfunction or stuff like that. Those types of games always get far too complicated and irritating.
(Jeru War and Piss, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 2:48, archived)
# It has lots of ability options.
If you didn't like Bioshock, Mass Effect, Oblivion etc. then this is one to avoid.

No psychic or magic abilities from what I've seen but lots of ways to customise your character's gameplay.
(I helped save b3ta! Chickenhawk is no longer Arkwright., Tue 4 Nov 2008, 2:51, archived)
# Argh!
That was the most annoying thing about Mass Effect, the fucking powers. The shooting was great but there was too much emphasis on getting new powers whilst only getting marginally improved versions of existing weapons. And the tactical pause menu thing was pointless.

If it's more like bioshock's powers that might be bareable, because they were all basically just close range weapons of various sorts.
(Jeru War and Piss, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 2:57, archived)
# I'd like to play one day
when my PC ain't so shiddy
(I helped save b3ta! Rapscallion is it fashion or disease?, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 3:17, archived)
# Agyness Deyn
is kinda weird looking... and kinda really irritating... Not that I wouldn't...
(I helped save b3ta! Tu9 01100011011101010110111001110100, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 2:57, archived)