Son Of General Retro Discussion

Myrddin

atavan-halen wrote: »

Just another plug for all things Japanese on boards!

If you want to talk about the culture it's now all going on in this forum!

Cool, can we discuss how we like our dolphin meat there? Bloody & freshly slaughtered is my particular vice

Atavan-Halen

EnterNow wrote: »

Cool, can we discuss how we like our dolphin meat there? Bloody & freshly slaughtered is my particular vice

You can talk about Japanese delicacies if you wish :P

Retr0gamer

EnterNow wrote: »

Cool, can we discuss how we like our dolphin meat there? Bloody & freshly slaughtered is my particular vice

The same way I like my used schoolgirl panties.

Atavan-Halen

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The same way I like my used schoolgirl panties.

O.O


Just gonna go ahead and ban you from both forums as a precautionary measure :P

Myrddin

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The same way I like my used schoolgirl panties.

Prob the coolest nation on Earth...but man they're not without their issues

Andrew76

atavan-halen wrote: »

O.O

Just gonna go ahead and ban you from both forums as a precautionary measure :P

Hold on, both? There's a "school girl's panties" forum round here too? :eek:

Myrddin

Andrew76 wrote: »

Hold on, both? There's a "school girl's panties" forum round here too? :eek:

Atavan is actually a Cmod of that whole section :P

Andrew76

EnterNow wrote: »

Atavan is actually a Cmod of that whole section :P

"Milkstealer" is starting to make sense now... :pac:

DinoRex

Unsurprisingly enough Dark Souls is starting to annoy me.

I just can't get the kindling thing to work...

Can anyone else playing explain what I'm doing wrong? I'm not hollowed, I have 3 humanity in my inventory but whenever I try to kindle the bonfire it tells me I have no humanity!

johnny_ultimate

DinoRex wrote: »

Unsurprisingly enough Dark Souls is starting to annoy me.

I just can't get the kindling thing to work...

Can anyone else playing explain what I'm doing wrong? I'm not hollowed, I have 3 humanity in my inventory but whenever I try to kindle the bonfire it tells me I have no humanity!

By in your inventory do you mean humanity as an item? You need to have a glowy white number (bigger than zero) up in the left hand corner for kindling to work, as I understand it. I've only done it once, and that seemed to work. You have to use the humanity items in your inventory, basically, to actually make any use of it.

I only found out yesterday what kindling actually does. Now I want to use it all the time. Hmm... ten flasks...

Dr Bob

ah sorry dino I couldnt resist...

DinoRex

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

By in your inventory do you mean humanity as an item? You need to have a glowy white number (bigger than zero) up in the left hand corner for kindling to work, as I understand it. I've only done it once, and that seemed to work. You have to use the humanity items in your inventory, basically, to actually make any use of it.

I only found out yesterday what kindling actually does. Now I want to use it all the time. Hmm... ten flasks...

Oh. So I'd have to use all my humanities to get me above 0 I guess then.

Enjoying it a lot though. Taking my time with it an slowly whittling away at it.

It really is an excellent simulator of what it would actually exactly be like to try and storm a castle filled with horrible undead monsters and demons!

johnny_ultimate

DinoRex wrote: »

Oh. So I'd have to use all my humanities to get me above 0 I guess then.

I think you only need one or so. Not sure how it all works TBH - and you can't expect the game to tell you

It is damn good though. There's an absurd difficulty spike after the first major boss, but once you get used to it it's Demons' Souls, but better.

DinoRex

I'm about 6 hours in... level 22 I think... And I've just gotten by the armored boar which I killed the same time he killed me, so I'm not sure if I got any spirits from it. While fighting we both sort of stumbled into the big burning thing and both burned to death.

Pyongyang

DinoRex wrote: »

While fighting we both sort of stumbled into the big burning thing and both burned to death.

Sounds like a Friday night in Balbriggan.

johnny_ultimate

DinoRex wrote: »

I'm about 6 hours in... level 22 I think... And I've just gotten by the armored boar which I killed the same time he killed me, so I'm not sure if I got any spirits from it. While fighting we both sort of stumbled into the big burning thing and both burned to death.

Is that the one surrounded by hollow warriors? The ones on the upper level are a pain in the arse. Boar wasn't too bad though - when I had finished all the others and went to fight it it only had about a third of its health left for some reason. A fireball or two sorted it out promptly :P

I spent my last big soul influx on magic spells, but they don't make it easy for the magic user I'm fighting a giant butterfly but I keep running out of spells when it has about a quarter health left.

DinoRex

Oh I'm playing as a knight.

Was doing my best to lure it under the bridge so I could jump on top of it, fecker was hard to lure though.

Pyongyang

DinoRex wrote: »

Was doing my best to lure it under the bridge so I could jump on top of it, fecker was hard to lure though.

Now you just sound like a sex pest. What the hell kind of game is this you're playing...?

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

DinoRex wrote: »

Was doing my best to lure it under the bridge so I could jump on top of it

johnny_ultimate

Nearly destroyed my PS3 there with frustration at one boss.

But the relief when I finally destroyed the bastard is a sense of smug satisfaction no other game can offer.

From Software are a mischievous, brilliant shower of bastards.

Jack burton

I saw some of these posts and thought it was a SOTC discussion, is Dark Souls similar? caus it kinda sounds a little similar

o1s1n

Oh joy, I just somehow managed to accidentally delete a 7 hour Dark Souls save.

CiDeRmAn

D'oh!

That's a pain in the nads if ever there was one....

I remember when a blasted xbox clock caused my HL2 autosave to disappear as well, I was well pissed off.

johnny_ultimate

Jack burton wrote: »

I saw some of these posts and thought it was a SOTC discussion, is Dark Souls similar? caus it kinda sounds a little similar

They both have a castle?

Dark Souls is kind of like playing Ico while someone is bludgeoning you repeatedly with a baseball bat. And if Yorda was programmed to stab you in the back every 180 seconds or so.

DinoRex

Hmmm... Do I play some more Dark Souls or continue to try and update my iPad to iOS 5...? both are equally grueling tasks!

Pyongyang

Daytona USA arriving on XBLA October 25th. Hurrah!

Dr Bob

Pyongyang wrote: »

Daytona USA arriving on XBLA October 25th. Hurrah!

Never mind that , its out on PSN as well!

Atavan-Halen

Pyongyang wrote: »

Daytona USA arriving on XBLA October 25th. Hurrah!

Might actually buy some MS points for that!

Daytoooooooooonnnaaaaaaaaaaa!

Optimus Prime

Just spent the day out in Mondello at the Forza 4 event, got to drive around the real track in two different cars, was great craic.

pdbhp

keithgeo wrote: »

Just spent the day out in Mondello at the Forza 4 event, got to drive around the real track in two different cars, was great craic.

Jammy so and so, what cars did you get out in?

CiDeRmAn

Can't wait for Daytona, the 360 controller is made for racers, the PS3 pad not so much.
I wonder if it will be as good as the great DC version, it was outstanding, I have it and the DC wheel, must get them out in preparation!

unky chop chop

Yes Daytoooonnna.Now we just need original version of Sega Rally, Oh and Nights
May well be the first racer I buy for xbox 360.
Sega are really dropping some beauties on xbox live..long may it continue
Any good steering wheel jobies available for xbox?

Retr0gamer

Wish they'd release valkyria chronicles 3

Jack burton

I just bought House of the dead 2 and Typing of the dead for the DC, JAP versions. I really have no idea why I did this

Dale Parish

1 day closer to that car boot sale....

unky chop chop

DinoRex wrote: »

Hmmm... Do I play some more Dark Souls or continue to try and update my iPad to iOS 5...? both are equally grueling tasks!

Dark Souls is the work of the devil.It has many parallels with impossible retro arcade games..You repeat a part again and again,dying many times,until eventually it all clicks and you breeze through it..until the next stumbling block.Kinda like Radiant Silver Gun but with a +5 flaming mace of destruction.
It requires intense concentration
My bird officially hates me and the game now.

Poor woman is unaware Skyrim is on the Horizon:)

Pyongyang

Someone mentioned earlier about upgrading to iOS 5 and had issues? Or maybe I'm going mad and imagining it.

Either way, I've just upgraded my iPad first time with absolutely no problems at all. Extremely smooth upgrade, took not that long at all.

Have to now upgrade my iPhone 4, I hear that's the device causing issues correct?

Steve X2

Zombie Pikachu



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Steve X2

Pyongyang wrote: »

Someone mentioned earlier about upgrading to iOS 5 and had issues? Or maybe I'm going mad and imagining it.

Either way, I've just upgraded my iPad first time with absolutely no problems at all. Extremely smooth upgrade, took not that long at all.

Have to now upgrade my iPhone 4, I hear that's the device causing issues correct?

Apple TV 2 has some issues as well.
I updated my iPad 2 and Apple TV 2 and the Apple tv is dead and I cant find my micro usb cable to reflash it.

Was looking forward to test out the new wireless mirroring feature as well :mad:

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Pyongyang

Ah crap! I forgot, my Apple TV 2 needs upgrading too. Grr... Hopefully the stupid thing will see my iPad for use as a remote control this time. :mad:

edit: Think I'll hold off the upgrade for a couple of days after reading your post!

Steve X2

Pyongyang wrote: »

Ah crap! I forgot, my Apple TV needs upgrading too. Grr... Hopefully the stupid thing will see my iPad for use as a remote control this time. :mad:

Good luck with the apple tv update.

Have your micro usb cable ready

Mine was jailbroken previously so that might have caused the issue with my upgrade.

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Pyongyang

Ah, I never jailbroke my Apple TV 2 or iPhone 4. I had my iPad jailbroken the day I got it, then reversed it back to factory stock. Never bothered since, I'm happy enough inside the walled garden.

DinoRex

You might have got lucky. And it's probably a bit better today.

Their severs were taking a hammering last night.

I made the wise choice to upgrade the iPad first... the clonked out while connecting to the apple server and just got stuck with the apple logo and spinning wheel on the screen... No way to power it off and the only way out of it was to do a full factory reset. And of course it didn't restore properly so I lost a lot... good thing the only thing lost would be a few game save files on the iPad... would be screwed if I'd tried this out on the phone last night.

Will wait a day or two more before trying with my phone.

Pyongyang

FYI I upgraded my iPhone 4 last night straight after the iPad. No issues at all, it took maybe 30 mins roughly to complete each device upgrade.

I'll probably wait a few days to do the Apple TV 2 as SteveSI said his was wrecked.

Any news on yours lads?

CiDeRmAn

Woo Hoo, got my contract this morning for my Clinical Nurse Manager post!!
Waiting for a year for this thing, I've been acting into the role for the past 3 and a half years and now will finally get paid for it!

What has this got to do with retrogaming?

The pay rise means I can buy MORE GAMES!!!!

Happy dippy dappy day!

Andrew76

Congratulations sir!

Pyongyang

Ah that's great news, congratulations!

Retr0gamer

Congrats. I think you should reward yourself with a sit down Sega Rally machine

CiDeRmAn

Its a real nice thing but I'd be divorced, plus it smells like beer and tayto!
Sega Rally is pretty sweet though, but but don't even know if it works!
It lives in the gamesroom of Fingallians gaa club in Swords.

DinoRex

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Woo Hoo, got my contract this morning for my Clinical Nurse Manager post!!
Waiting for a year for this thing, I've been acting into the role for the past 3 and a half years and now will finally get paid for it!

What has this got to do with retrogaming?

The pay rise means I can buy MORE GAMES!!!!

Happy dippy dappy day!

Well done!

Be sure to take good care of everyone suffering from Bloaty Head!