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CiDeRmAn · 16-02-2016 05:16PM

Myrddin wrote: »

Finally got around to watching The Babadook the other night, have to say, I was pleasantly surprised. It's rare anything modern in the horror genre would do anything for me, but this was clever enough to put a different spin on the oh so trodden tropes of the genre.

Loved it.
Especially the end.

I thought it was a clever comment on depression in mothers, which is an all too common issue for women, up to the end when it turned out to be an all too real monster and not all in her head!

Myrddin · 16-02-2016 05:31PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Loved it.
Especially the end.
I thought it was a clever comment on depression in mothers, which is an all too common issue for women, up to the end when it turned out to be an all too real monster and not all in her head!

I was actually left with the opposite impression.

When the Babadook was overpowered by the mother, it instantly retreated back down to the basement - precisely where all the belongings of the deceased father were kept. For me, this represented the mother overcoming her unresolved grief at the loss of the husband, being able to control it, and compartmentalise it. I felt the Babadook was an interpretation of pent up emotion, grief, sorrow, all left unresolved for years, rather than being anything tangible in that sense.

raze_them_all_ · 16-02-2016 05:46PM

Hi Guys, doing work for college and wondering if anyone could tell me the dimensions of the duck hunt screen?

MrVestek · 16-02-2016 05:56PM

raze_them_all_ wrote: »

Hi Guys, doing work for college and wondering if anyone could tell me the dimensions of the duck hunt screen?

https://www.google.ie/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=what%20resolution%20was%20the%20duck%20hunt%20screen

raze_them_all_ · 16-02-2016 07:48PM

Yeah I had tried that obviously, I don't just come on to boards without going to google

Mitchomagic · 16-02-2016 08:58PM

raze_them_all_ wrote: »

Yeah I had tried that obviously, I don't just come on to boards without going to google

From memory 20" screen

Damien King · 16-02-2016 09:09PM

BGOllie wrote: »

Anyone else seen this ?? :eek:
http://oddtales.net/

The animation vids on the front (and only so far) page look amazing

It looks like a full version of "The Last night" very short flash game made in this universe. It's pretty quick and linear but the atmosphere is so blade runner it's not even funny
http://timsoret.itch.io/the-last-night

Reminds me of fear effect

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy · 16-02-2016 10:09PM

Freebies on Steam URL="http://store.steampowered.com/sub/94153/"]link[/URL

eddhorse · 17-02-2016 12:26AM

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy wrote: »

Freebies on Steam URL="http://store.steampowered.com/sub/94153/"]link[/URL

http://store.steampowered.com/sub/94153/

o1s1n · 17-02-2016 06:25PM

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy wrote: »

Freebies on Steam URL="http://store.steampowered.com/sub/94153/"]link[/URL

Golden Axe free?

Are Steam trolling Ciderman? :pac:

CiDeRmAn · 17-02-2016 06:41PM

o1s1n wrote: »

Golden Axe free?

Are Steam trolling Ciderman? :pac:

Thargor · 18-02-2016 12:40AM

Never heard of it before:

CiDeRmAn · 18-02-2016 09:14AM

Thargor wrote: »

Never heard of it before:

Almost as sh1t as a barcode battler

Myrddin · 18-02-2016 09:18AM

You know something's not right when the speaker is where the d-pad should be...

CiDeRmAn · 18-02-2016 10:04AM

And look at the D-Pad, honestly WTF?
I have a feeling you had toy companies trawling toy conventions and, upon seeing some cheap crap, they thought they'd cash in.
Same as they did with G&W, they thought they would just make their own variants, cheaper with more room for profit and only made forgettable muck.
Seems now, it's only the chinese clones that form the backbone of cheap videogames like that, and at least, with google, there's no excuses for parents to be caught out.
I mean, look that the Gamemaster, would any child deliberately buy one? No, it was just a gameboy/gear shaped piece of crap dangled in front of desperate, cash strapped parents, imagine waking up to one of those on Christmas morning.
At the very least, as today, the British public were well exposed to Gameboy advertising and propaganda in the newspapers and TV, meaning that there could be no doubt what was good and what was just nasty.

CiDeRmAn · 18-02-2016 05:00PM

A quick question....
Anyone here live near Mullingar...
Might be something in Gamestop there I need and can't get to quickly enough....

Retr0gamer · 18-02-2016 10:49PM

More awesome Sega freebies on steam today including the criminally under rated Binary Domain and Ciderdude's favourite Streets of Rage 2:

http://www.makewarnotlove.com/results.php

Tomorrow they are offering the painfully average, Edge: '6/10 shit sandwich' Gunstar heroes for free.

johnny_ultimate · 19-02-2016 01:34AM

Binary Domain is the definition of a '6/10' game, and am always a bit surprised at some of the enthusiasm it receives. It's a perfectly decent game, and the combat has a satisfyingly chunky feel. But at the same time a lot of its systems feel half-baked, repetitive and totally derivative. And no the writing isn't sufficiently amusing or OTT enough to get away with being a 'parody' :pac: Still, free is free!

But it has nothing on Vanquish. Ah, glorious Vanquish.

Retr0gamer · 19-02-2016 11:22AM

Totally fair points there. It's a bit like Nier for me (although Nier is way better), half baked but fascinating and I'd rather take that over most boring polished triple A games. It's like a weird mix of a cover shooter and Yakuza.

CiDeRmAn · 19-02-2016 11:58AM

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Totally fair points there. It's a bit like Nier for me (although Nier is way better), half baked but fascinating and I'd rather take that over most boring polished triple A games. It's like a weird mix of a cover shooter and Yakuza.

The voice command feature of Binary Domain doesn't really work that well, does it?

Nier also mixes in Bullet Hell shmup, because why not?

Retr0gamer · 19-02-2016 01:56PM

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

The voice command feature of Binary Domain doesn't really work that well, does it?

Nier also mixes in Bullet Hell shmup, because why not?

I didn't even bother with voice control in BD. I find it stupid and inaccurate in any game I played.

Nier mixes up a whole heap of genres, from beat'em up, bullet hell, survival horror to even text based adventure at one point.

eddhorse · 23-02-2016 04:10PM

Mortal Kombat 1,2 and 3 secrets discovered

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WK1Ec-KVVQ

Combinations or Player 1 block and Player 2 block butons.

MK1 5,10,2,1,2,3,4

MK2 5,10,2,8,2

MK3 5,10,3,1,2,2,3,4

Jack burton · 23-02-2016 10:32PM

Newest data discs announced. Street of rage 2

Looking foreward to this one. One of my favorite soundtracks

eddhorse · 25-02-2016 12:51AM

Atari Ireland is a bit sad

BGOllie · 25-02-2016 11:40AM

surely it couldn't just be a completely empty warehouse

Steve X2 · 25-02-2016 12:35PM

Picked up another Everdrive N8 a week or so ago as my old one was acting up and having issues loading games and just not booting sometimes. I had tested a good few different sd cards so was sure it was the everdrive itself.

Anyway, was setting up a few Raspberry Pi's last night to be used as timelapse and sensor recording devices for my little sea recording project. I was having problems writing to the sd cards, the same cards i had testing on the N8! Long story short, i have 4 dodgy sd cards and my N8 is fine. So i now have two of them :0)

eddhorse · 25-02-2016 12:41PM

Steve X2 wrote: »

Picked up another Everdrive N8 a week or so ago as my old one was acting up and having issues loading games and just not booting sometimes. I had tested a good few different sd cards so was sure it was the everdrive itself.

Anyway, was setting up a few Raspberry Pi's last night to be used as timelapse and sensor recording devices for my little sea recording project. I was having problems writing to the sd cards, the same cards i had testing on the N8! Long story short, i have 4 dodgy sd cards and my N8 is fine. So i now have two of them :0)

All donations accepted

eddhorse · 25-02-2016 12:41PM

BGOllie wrote: »

surely it couldn't just be a completely empty warehouse

Thats what i was thinking, there was a transport company on another side of it, tried to blag my way in, they were very suspect ! Ah well had to try.

Steve X2 · 25-02-2016 12:44PM

eddhorse wrote: »

Thats what i was thinking, there was a transport company on another side of it, tried to blag my way in, they were very suspect ! Ah well had to try.

I'll get my drone and look for an open window

safetyboy · 25-02-2016 05:03PM

Having trouble playing my NTSCJ pc engine with RGB mod on my portable PAL CRT, I have no remote for it but usually the scart kicks it into AV, Ive not tried this on a CRT before, is there any trouble with NTSC and PAL TVs?

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