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Retr0gamer · 29-12-2014 7:06pm

Missed my bus today so went into Rage with an hour to spare. Still nothing worth buying there. Saw they had an NTSC copy of Lufia 2 and got excited. Was hoping for around 60 and they'd have a sale. 120 euro... **** off.

Atavan-Halen · 29-12-2014 10:11pm

D4 is next months free game with the games for gold Microsoft thing. Hurray!

TechnoFreek · 30-12-2014 12:45am

What's this Professor Layton movie starting shortly* on Sony movies sky 323

* (12.40 am 30th Dec)

johnny_ultimate · 30-12-2014 11:45am

In the market for a PC monitor, didn't realise it was going to be such a complicated procedure :eek:

Better off going for a high refresh rate or IPS model? I'm leaning towards the former... Anybody have any recommendations for a particular one (€300-400 mark, which of course narrows down the high res models!)?

o1s1n · 30-12-2014 12:13pm

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

In the market for a PC monitor, didn't realise it was going to be such a complicated procedure :eek:

Better off going for a high refresh rate or IPS model? I'm leaning towards the former... Anybody have any recommendations for a particular one (€300-400 mark, which of course narrows down the high res models!)?

Sony GDM-FW900!

Native Resolution: 2304 x 1440 at 80 Hz
Pixel Pitch: 0.23 mm
Vertical Refresh Rate: 160 Hz
Horizontal Refresh Rate:121 kHz

Feck inferior LCDs :pac:

Nerdkiller1991 · 30-12-2014 1:08pm

I'm very disappointed in myself for forgetting to post this several days ago.

CiDeRmAn · 30-12-2014 1:22pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMli33ornEU

Retr0gamer · 30-12-2014 2:23pm

Bit late to the party but finished Monoument Valley yesterday. Fantastic game but also really perplexed with how they coded it. The 3D perspective is unlike anything else. It has that minimalist art style I usually hate but the game just looks gorgeous, really shows the difference actual talent makes when it comes to art.

johnny_ultimate · 30-12-2014 2:49pm

If you didn't play the DLC, do! Some of the art and puzzle design is even better than the core game.

On a related note, saw this comment underneath the Sailor's Dream 'best of year' article on Eurogamer the other day. Really highlights the type of ignorant attitudes the developers doing imaginative, experimental and impressive things on mobile formats have to deal with:

Retr0gamer · 30-12-2014 3:09pm

Bought the dlc ages ago before I even played the game, kind of knew I'd like it just from looking at it.

That comment really is something less. So if you make an unconventional game for mobile it automatically isn't a contender for game of the year. Saying shadows of mordor is a game of the year contender shows their intellect :P

o1s1n · 30-12-2014 3:13pm

How dare you for liking a game that's not big budget, how very dare you!

johnny_ultimate · 30-12-2014 3:22pm

It'd be funny if it wasn't such a common attitude.

I honestly think that beyond 'ethics in journalism' and good old fashioned misogyny, the bizarre phobia some people have of independent and offbeat games was one of the major catalysts behind GamerGate.

Retr0gamer · 30-12-2014 3:25pm

Yeah some of those phobias are just idiotic. All turn based games are crap, if it doesn't have guns or swords it's **** and 'faggy' nintendo graphics.

DinoRex · 30-12-2014 3:26pm

Yeah. They had an email writing campaign to prevent Gone Home from being released on the Wii U, but GTA5 gets taken off shop shelves of a super market in Australia and they sh*t the bed!

o1s1n · 30-12-2014 3:48pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Yeah some of those phobias are just idiotic. All turn based games are crap, if it doesn't have guns or swords it's **** and 'faggy' nintendo graphics.

It's rather ironic that the testosterone driven muscle men in the games that type of person plays are far more homo erotic.

The type of person that calls Mario 'gay' and then proceeds to teabag someone in Halo.

CiDeRmAn · 30-12-2014 4:02pm

Just watched Pride last night with the better half, turns out the US have it an R cert, apparently their approach to homosexuality in cinema is rate it out of the way of young people, presumably in case they catch the gay or something.
Idiots

Tomo.Murphy · 30-12-2014 4:33pm

o1s1n wrote: »

It's rather ironic that the testosterone driven muscle men in the games that type of person plays are far more homo erotic.

The type of person that calls Mario 'gay' and then proceeds to teabag someone in Halo.

As someone who used to play CoD, Gears of War, Halo, Battlefield and FIFA competitively online, homo erotic honestly hits the nail on the head. There were times when the atmosphere was just downright awkward sitting in the game lobby waiting for the match to start.

Playing Mario Kart 8 now and I haven't had this much fun playing a game online (apart from Portal 2 with friends) since Mario Kart Wii when that launched. Even when you're losing you're having fun and the only messages you can give other players in lobbies are encouraging ones, ha.

CiDeRmAn · 30-12-2014 5:22pm

No fun if you spend all your time falling off of Rainbow Road.
Especially if playing a cheating fecker like Retr0!

Tomo.Murphy · 30-12-2014 5:40pm

I haven't fallen off Rainbow Road yet, ha. I was actually pretty surprised given how crap I was at MK Wii. I don't seem to fall off much to be fair. Maybe once or twice every 2nd/3rd race. It can get a bit annoying when you get hit with 3 green shells in a row and you couldn't hit the wall with one of your green shells, ha.

Doge · 30-12-2014 11:21pm

Any of the Wii U heads play this yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXAOwqsmcRM

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/meme-run

Almost makes me want to buy the console!

Shame I'm not in it tho...

much dissapoint

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 31-12-2014 12:30am

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

No fun if you spend all your time falling off of Rainbow Road.
Especially if playing a cheating fecker like Retr0!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EDQaHf8cT8

Retr0gamer · 31-12-2014 1:54am

So there's a new assault suits leynos game coming for PS4:

http://www.siliconera.com/2014/12/25/new-console-games-cho-aniki-developer-masaya-works/

o1s1n · 31-12-2014 8:49am

Retr0gamer wrote: »

So there's a new assault suits leynos game coming for PS4:

http://www.siliconera.com/2014/12/25/new-console-games-cho-aniki-developer-masaya-works/

Whaaaat?

That's mad news! PS4 purchase confirmed.

I wonder will it get an English release? Part of Leynos 2's charm is not knowing what the hell is going on

DinoRex · 31-12-2014 12:06pm

Really enjoying Dragon Age Inquisition at the moment.

Wasn't a fan of the first one and gave the second one a miss but this one feels like a proper old Bioware game like Jade Empire. It's bloody beautiful too. Am 20 hours in now and the story is just getting going.

Steve X2 · 31-12-2014 12:11pm

Just seen a giant Game Boy DMG-01 getting wheeled into one of the empty units in the CHQ building in the IFSC!
Anyone know if there might be some retro event going on?

Doge · 31-12-2014 12:17pm

Steve SI wrote: »

Just seen a giant Game Boy DMG-01 getting wheeled into one of the empty units in the CHQ building in the IFSC!
Anyone know if there might be some retro event going on?

Sounds more like there was an event last night and went a bit mad on d'oul lsd!

o1s1n · 31-12-2014 12:22pm

Steve SI wrote: »

Just seen a giant Game Boy DMG-01 getting wheeled into one of the empty units in the CHQ building in the IFSC!
Anyone know if there might be some retro event going on?

I think I remember seeing photos from some Dublin hipster type group that hang out in a warehouse down the docklands, they had a giant DMG-01 hanging in the background for extra hipness. Might be to do with them? Similar location.

DinoRex · 31-12-2014 12:48pm

Anyone else have a bunch of Club Nintendo stars expiring today? First time I've noticed them expiring... just cashed in 4000 for the Mario Kart badges.

TechnoFreek · 31-12-2014 12:48pm

Hipsters. Urgh

Steve X2 · 31-12-2014 12:52pm

It could be the hipsters, but they were wheeling it into the main area that's empty, and that's usually used for art displays and events.

There's an area down the end(or up the front depending on how you look at it) that would be great for a retro event to show off the arcade machines and consoles.

Myrddin · 31-12-2014 1:05pm

DinoRex wrote: »

Anyone else have a bunch of Club Nintendo stars expiring today? First time I've noticed them expiring... just cashed in 4000 for the Mario Kart badges.

Yep, just checked there. 1500 expiring for me today/tomorrow. I thought they'd done away with expiry dates for these! I wouldn't mind, but the scutter available makes me not want to waste them just to save 1500 points. Digital wallpaper & ringtones, ffs Nintendo!

DinoRex · 31-12-2014 1:21pm

That said I think a lot of my points might have still been left overs from Game Cube games. Went on big binge of adding codes in about 2 years ago and lots and lots of GC stuff still worked.

o1s1n · 31-12-2014 1:21pm

Steve SI wrote: »

It could be the hipsters, but they were wheeling it into the main area that's empty, and that's usually used for art displays and events.

There's an area down the end(or up the front depending on how you look at it) that would be great for a retro event to show off the arcade machines and consoles.

Hipsters putting on an art display maybe?

Yeah it would be great to organize something like that if the interest was there, it's a good spot for it alright. How about Steve_SI's arcade and retro Emporium? You'd have me as a customer anyway

Myrddin wrote: »

Yep, just checked there. 1500 expiring for me today/tomorrow. I thought they'd done away with expiry dates for these! I wouldn't mind, but the scutter available makes me not want to waste them just to save 1500 points. Digital wallpaper & ringtones, ffs Nintendo!

Ah stop, my sister had a load of points she needed to use up there over the weekend. We had a look and were absolutely disgusted by the rubbish on the EU store.

I think when I last used my points, there wasn't any EU store and it was all from Japan. There was a lot more variety.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 31-12-2014 1:52pm

I never got an email to say my stars were gonna expire but was told it's at the bottom? I don't even look that close at it. I used as much points as I could the last time getting the CD and Pikmin keyring.

Myrddin · 31-12-2014 2:06pm

Do Wii games come with stars codes, I only need 150 more for that Game & Watch thing

DinoRex · 31-12-2014 2:11pm

Yep. Also so do lots of stuff you've probably downloaded on the Wii U for free like Google Street View.

Atavan-Halen · 31-12-2014 2:26pm

Myrddin wrote: »

Do Wii games come with stars codes, I only need 150 more for that Game & Watch thing

They do, some will still work and some won't. I went through all my Nintendo stuff a few months ago to get the DS game and watch collection and found that some codes still worked after the expiry.

Atavan-Halen · 31-12-2014 4:47pm

Don't forget to get the hover boards and Nike mags out tonight guys.

Andrew76 · 31-12-2014 5:12pm

DinoRex wrote: »

Anyone else have a bunch of Club Nintendo stars expiring today? First time I've noticed them expiring... just cashed in 4000 for the Mario Kart badges.

Didn't know they still did that ****e, their awful website doesn't want to let me log in either. :mad:

CiDeRmAn · 31-12-2014 5:56pm

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

Don't forget to get the hover boards and Nike mags out tonight guys.

I'm looking to put a fax machine in the jacks in honour of this coming year. .

Tomo.Murphy · 31-12-2014 6:02pm

Andrew76 wrote: »

Didn't know they still did that ****e, their awful website doesn't want to let me log in either. :mad:

I had that problem on the Wii U. I can log in fine on my phone, but when I try to link my Club Nintendo account in the eShop it says the login information is wrong

Andrew76 · 31-12-2014 6:47pm

Tomo.Murphy wrote: »

I had that problem on the Wii U. I can log in fine on my phone, but when I try to link my Club Nintendo account in the eShop it says the login information is wrong

Not sure it's the same thing. Never had a problem logging into their site before but not today unfortunately, using Chrome or IE. Clicking the Login button just does nothing and the Stars Catalogue or My Account pages don't load at all. Think I've about 7500 stars to spend. :rolleyes:

Atavan-Halen · 31-12-2014 6:59pm

Same issue for me. Was working fine on the iPad and went to order something. Just hung on the final page, then tried using a pc and nothing.

Nerdkiller1991 · 31-12-2014 7:49pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I'm looking to put a fax machine in the jacks in honour of this coming year. .

Maybe then Fujitsu might become an actual Japanese family name. Atavan will back me up on that.

Of course I'm referring to Marty's boss.

Tomo.Murphy · 31-12-2014 7:55pm

Andrew76 wrote: »

Not sure it's the same thing. Never had a problem logging into their site before but not today unfortunately, using Chrome or IE. Clicking the Login button just does nothing and the Stars Catalogue or My Account pages don't load at all. Think I've about 7500 stars to spend. :rolleyes:

Oh right, I just assumed you couldn't log in at all, ha.

I haven't tried it today, but I don't have any stars about to expire anyway. The only thing on it that I was mildly interested in was the Yoshi Plush, but that sold out a while ago and you could probably get it elsewhere at better value.

Los Lobos · 31-12-2014 8:07pm

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

No fun if you spend all your time falling off of Rainbow Road.
Especially if playing a cheating fecker like Retr0!

A friend of mine a few years ago, challenged me to a game on snes rainbow road, me playing normally, him with his feet. I accepted the bet. I even managed to knock him off right at the start of the first lap!

By the end I was a fricking nervous wreck, if there was one more lap he would have won, it was like being chased by a predator or something, needless to say he's pretty good at mariokart playing normally

Andrew76 · 31-12-2014 10:43pm

Tomo.Murphy wrote: »

Oh right, I just assumed you couldn't log in at all, ha.

I haven't tried it today, but I don't have any stars about to expire anyway. The only thing on it that I was mildly interested in was the Yoshi Plush, but that sold out a while ago and you could probably get it elsewhere at better value.

Managed to login now. Says I have 0 stars expiring at the end of Dec 2014 so presumably I'm safe for the time being. Nothing really takes my fancy in the catalogue so will hold onto them for the time being. Phew.

Nerdkiller1991 · 01-01-2015 1:03am

HAPPY NEW YEAR, BRAAAAAAHS!

Myrddin · 01-01-2015 2:04pm

Andrew76 wrote: »

Managed to login now. Says I have 0 stars expiring at the end of Dec 2014 so presumably I'm safe for the time being. Nothing really takes my fancy in the catalogue so will hold onto them for the time being. Phew.

Yeah none of mine disappeared overnight, it now says I've 50 stars expiring at the end of Jan. Yesterday it said 1500 were expiring at the end of Dec '14 :rolleyes: I'll hold off & see if anything worthwhile comes up on it. A Snes Wii Upad would be nice Ninty!

o1s1n · 01-01-2015 3:48pm

So you mean you didn't spend it all on ringtones and mobile phone wallpapers?

Seriously, I can't believe they're offering them on the store. The concept is hideously out of date.

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