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Hey all. Trying out Google Ads on the site, let me know

Hey all.

Trying out Google Ads on the site, let me know what you think.

I want them to be available yet not annoying. I hope Google can provide them such that they are beneficial to you.

Love to hear your thoughts.

Tungsten wrote on 03/06/2012 at 03:44am

I don't know...
Ads = money
Mo Money = Mo Problems

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 03/06/2012 at 03:47am

Its true. I am about ready to have a money fight over here so I think I need to put on some gloves so I don't get a paper cut. The money is pretty fresh....

Travis Admin wrote on 03/06/2012 at 04:56pm

They're fine, small and unobtrusive. I'd even suggest putting some in at the bottom.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 03/07/2012 at 01:19am

Good idea.

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 01/24/2014 at 02:58am

2 years later, I don't see any ads, I like! LOL

Travis Admin wrote on 01/24/2014 at 03:11am

You must be using Adblock :)

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 01/24/2014 at 03:15am

Oh Travis, how smart thou art!

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Playing through the game, and doing a lot of side quests,

Playing through the game, and doing a lot of side quests, the game almost felt *too* big to do what I really wanted it to: a full scale war.

Now things have happened, and the war is in motion!

(Trying to not give any spoilers!)

Lets do some math: Deus Ex: $15.99 ÷ 36 hours ≈

http://www.gamechosun.co.kr/dataroom/article/20120208/86159/0208sk1.jpg

Let's do some math:
Deus Ex: $15.99 36 hours 44/hr
Skyrim: $54.99 213 hours 26/hr
Portal2: $49.99 23 hours $2.17/hr

And you know what, Portal was worth every penny.

It was my favorite game of last year, over Skyrim, over Deus Ex, over... everything. Shoot, there should have been an option to leave your web-cam on during the entire game so that you can go back and just watch your own $#!? eating grin for hours on end.

There wasn't a part of that game that I didn't think was about perfect.

Possible my favorite part is this: you go through an entire game without hurting a fly (unless you count personality cores or turrets). No, I'm not a huge pacifist, and I have zero... Read All

jdodson Admin wrote on 03/05/2012 at 06:51am

I agree. I'm on my second play through and it still awesome. The game art is great and it's paced very well.

I've never broken out a game in terms of value per hour. I should. Wonder what my Borderlands value per hour would be? I got the game of the year on sale for $20 on Ps3. Such a great deal.

Tungsten Post Author wrote on 03/05/2012 at 06:54am

Shoot, I wish I knew how much time I put into Minecraft.

jdodson Admin wrote on 03/05/2012 at 05:40pm

Did you do any Portal 2 co-op?

Tungsten Post Author wrote on 03/06/2012 at 03:00am

I never did it. I took some time with the single player campaign and by the time I got around to it, the only people I could find had already run it. Puzzles are no fun when the other person knows the solution.

Travis Admin wrote on 03/06/2012 at 04:57pm

I didn't realize the new Deus Ex had gotten so cheap. Adding that to my list of things I missed last year to pick up.

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Some people actually created a Super Mario Brothers with

Some people actually created a Super Mario Brothers with portals game. Looks pretty awesome.

http://stabyourself.net/mari0

Can download it for Windows, Mac and Linux.

From the site:

"Two genre defining games from completely different eras: Nintendo's Super Mario Bros. and Valve's Portal. These two games managed to give Platformers and First-Person Puzzle Games a solid place in the video game world. But what if Nintendo teamed up with Valve and recreated the famous Mario game with Portal gun mechanics?"

Anyone here still playing this one? It has been a bit

http://bulk2.destructoid.com/ul/218410-why-steam-drm-is-better-than-no-drm/Valve%20more%20HATS-noscale.jpg

Anyone here still playing this one? It has been a bit frantic since out went free, but I still pick it up from time to time, you know, looking for hats.

Ive been seeing reports that Valve may release a Steam Box

http://asset0.cbsistatic.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim/2012/03/03/steam_box_610x454.gif

Ive been seeing reports that Valve may release a "Steam Box" to compete with Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft in the console market.

The picture above is from a patent application filed by Valve last year for a "game controller having user swappable control components."

"Apparently meetings were held during CES to demo a hand-built version of the device to potential partners. We're told that the basic specs of the Steam Box include a Core i7 CPU, 8GB of RAM, and an NVIDIA GPU. The devices will be able to run any standard PC titles, and will also allow for rival gaming services (like EA's Origin) to be loaded up."

Some more interesting bits from The Verge:

"Part of the goal of... Read All

Tungsten wrote on 03/03/2012 at 10:03pm

I think it would be pretty cool. I'm loving Steam over Live with all the indie titles, but I'm already wondering about my hardware. A steam box would be the near of both worlds.

That said, have you seen the RAZOR gaming tablet? Throw steam on that and I think you'd be set.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 03/03/2012 at 10:06pm

Ive got a pretty decent gaming rig but its fairly new. A Steam Box seems like it would be as beefy as a PC and have something devs can target that is more open than a PS3 or XBOX. Then again, the price might be very very high.

I haven't seen the RAZOR yet, ill check it out.

Tungsten wrote on 03/03/2012 at 10:18pm

It's not something that I thought would be cool, but a few people I (kind of) trust have said they like it.

vdogmr25 wrote on 03/04/2012 at 03:40am

It seems like a cool idea. It would really open up the PC market in a way by allowing a cheap way to get a solid gaming machine and games. If it allowed for mouse and keyboard, I might bag one down the road.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 03/04/2012 at 06:18am

I kind of hope it supports mice, keyboards and standard controllers. Be cool to put a Steam machine in the living room.

Timogorgon Member wrote on 03/05/2012 at 07:50pm

I'm very interested in seeing what this will look like. At the moment it sounds like you're basically buying a gaming PC. So, uh, why not just buy a gaming PC instead? However Valve seems to know what they're doing and Steam has been a huge success, so I'm looking forward to hearing more about what will make the Steam Box stand out over the other consoles and regular PC gaming.

The controller looks cool, but I can just see all the pointless add-on's third parties are going to make for this thing. Just look what they did with the Wii-mote to get an idea.

Tungsten wrote on 03/06/2012 at 03:03am

I'm all for a relatively cheap standard box. It's kind of like phones now: older models are slowly just losing the capability to play new things. You could buy one years steam box, use it for 2-3 years, then it will just stop being able to play some games until you upgrade to the next steam box.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 03/06/2012 at 03:32am

I think the reason why people still use PC's is because of games else you could just have a Mac or Linux laptop. Ill admit, owning a console is simpler to play some games because I don't have to track down extra RAM or an upgraded video card. If the Steam Box offers an advantage I won't mind upgrading. Wonder if it will be able to run non steam games?

Tungsten wrote on 03/06/2012 at 03:35am

They said EA Origin would be a possibility, so it'll have to run some sort of stripped down windows. I don't see EA playing nice with a linux box. No technical reason, just a feeling.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 03/06/2012 at 03:37am

Plus it would be hard for publishers to support Linux when its hard enough for them to support a Mac. Its not technically impossible its prob just more work than they want to do. Id say, for Valve, start with the platform on Windows and get users and developers to adopt. In a later iteration worry about the API changing to something better.

Tungsten wrote on 03/06/2012 at 03:40am

Shoot, if sony can get people to develop for the cell, then anything is possible.

What about OnLive though? Wouldn't that put a big fat nix on the way we play games now?

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 03/06/2012 at 03:45am

I'm not sure people are ready for OnLive. I am not sure the market is ready for OnLive yet. When I see people chatting about OnLive it seems lag is a major issue. People don't seem to trust that if they pay for a game in OnLive it will last them as long as they would like.

I think two things need to happen before OnLive is the next thing:

1) Internet Speeds get wicked fast so streaming a game lags out as much as a modern game that can run at like... 30-60FPS or equivalent. Right now, my Netflix is pretty flakey and Netflix is a huge company with a ton of smart people. I imagine its a harder problem with game streaming.

2) People want to move to a rental model for games. Lets face it, I don't own anything with Netflix and OnLive is no different.

Timogorgon Member wrote on 03/08/2012 at 10:41pm

Looks like valve has said they're not working on a steam box at this time.

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/03/08/valve-debunks-rumors-of-steam-box-console-pc/

Tungsten wrote on 03/09/2012 at 03:57am

No Moar Hats :(

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 03/09/2012 at 04:01am

Ok, what they said is they are working on having Steam work in the living room. I think, it's possible they are first making it so Steam can work in the living room and then later a Steam Box?

I don't know but it wasn't great, I really wish we had a new "open" take on consoles.

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This is one of my all time favorites, providing me with

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y163/mj12commando/Fallout%20Tactics%20LP/Mission%209/FalloutTactics32Sep292143.jpg

This is one of my all time favorites, providing me with hours of quality entertainment.

jdodson Admin wrote on 03/03/2012 at 05:46am

jdodson "I started the Fallout series with Fallout 3 and loved the game. I dug the brotherhood of steel stuff quite a bit. I played good so they didn't attack me all the time ;)

Travis Admin wrote on 03/06/2012 at 05:00pm

Fallout 3's Brotherhood was quite different. The Brotherhood Outcasts are more like the rest of the Brotherhood. Maybe a little less friendly due to being outcasts. The Brotherhood from New Vegas was more true to the original.

That said, I liked where Bethesda took them in Fallout 3.

jdodson Admin wrote on 03/07/2012 at 01:20am

I agree, Fallout 3 was epic. Cool to hear New Vegas is a bit different, or more to the original game style.

Travis Admin wrote on 03/08/2012 at 07:31pm

New Vegas was made by Obsidian for Bethesda. Obsidian has quite a few people from Black Isle, who made the first games. So they *know* Falout. It was very different but I still prefer Fallout 3 overall I think.

jdodson Admin wrote on 03/09/2012 at 03:58am

Awesome.

Is New Vegas worth checking out?

Travis Admin wrote on 03/09/2012 at 07:10pm

Oh yes. You said you liked Fallout 3, correct? It's really tough for me to decide if I prefer 3 or NV. I think 3 inches ahead of NV but they are damn close.

jdodson Admin wrote on 03/10/2012 at 01:40am

OK, ill check it out if its that good.

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Anyone else ever played this one? It is the must

http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2010/05/15/frozensynapse2.jpg

Anyone else ever played this one? It is the must frustrating/exhilarating game I've played in a long time, and its turn based.

Basically, both teams tell their team what to do at the same time. Once you have it ironed out, the teams just go. Everything is broken down into 10s chunks, and you'll spend an hour coming up with the most perfect, intricate plan, and when some guy you didn't see pops his head through a window and takes out everyone you had pointing the other way, you'll curse and scream and toss your keyboard through the monitor.

If anyone has ever played the Vicksberg War Game, it reminds me of that, just not as lopsided.

This game scared the crap out of me the first time I played

This game scared the crap out of me the first time I played it. I liked it. Mixed success with Wine, almost need to have a windows partition around to play it.

This games goal in life is to destroy the player. Its hard.

This game's goal in life is to destroy the player. It's hard. The enemies are tough. Low level minions can still kill you with relative ease if you aren't careful, and the bosses can often kill in two hits or less. Did I mention the enemies level up when you die? It also auto-saves whenever you die or change gear or reach a certain point. Fun times. Fun times. While this game is tough, it's not impossible. It requires that you take things slow and think. You'll survive 9 times out of 10 if you don't get ahead of yourself. I love it for that. The other part of the game I enjoy is how everything is linked to souls. You get souls for killing enemies and they are used as... Read All