Arcade and Retro General Chat in Karkariko Village Tavern: Live Ocarina Music

DinoRex

I do enjoy a good midnight launch.

Clare Hall is just across the road from me now, so I'll probably pop over at midnight.

Retr0gamer

Dr Bob wrote: »

My ps3 bit the dust last month ...and Rockstar hate PC..so its no GTAV for me for a while...:(

The Max Payne 3 Pc version was very impressive and a massive improvement on the console release. I'm pretty sure GTAV will be getting a x86 version for the PC and new consoles after christmas and it will be worth waiting for.

Andrew76

The Last Bandit wrote: »

I'll probably wait till it's retro.

Not arsed with it myself. Might pick it up in a Steam sale some day and play 5 mins of it like the rest of them.

Star Lord

I'm waiting to either get it on PC or on PS4 when I get one. (if they do an updated version)

Jack burton

For everyone who's hasnt seen the latest Break Bad....Prepare yourselves!

Finished a half day at work myself so turned it on when I came home....I forgot to eat my lunch I was so into it!

Andrew76

Jack burton wrote: »

For everyone who's hasnt seen the latest Break Bad....Prepare yourselves!

Finished a half day at work myself so turned it on when I came home....I forgot to eat my lunch I was so into it!

Was incredible. Only two more episodes though, there's going to be a big void on tv when it's over. Not sure 'Better Call Saul' will fill the gap either.

Star Lord

I'll be watching it this evening or tomorrow... Itching to see it after last weeks ending...

Jack burton

Andrew76 wrote: »

Was incredible. Only two more episodes though, there's going to be a big void on tv when it's over. Not sure 'Better Call Saul' will fill the gap either.

It wont, I wouldn't imagine they will try to do have it match BB!

2 episodes left....my guess at what was going to happen looks to be turning out right

Walt goes all scarface on todds uncles lab and all the lads there and ends to whole Heisenberg meth thing and then dies himself

Looks like my dad will owe me a lottery ticket!

Andrew76

Jack burton wrote: »

It wont, I wouldn't imagine they will try to do have it match BB!

2 episodes left....my guess at what was going to happen looks to be turning out right

Walt goes all scarface on todds uncles lab and all the lads there and ends to whole Heisenberg meth thing and then dies himself

Looks like my dad will owe me a lottery ticket!

Think you might be right.

Have a feeling that the ricin will be his undoing, either by his own hand or Jesse's, after he's killed all the Nazis. I hope I'm wrong as I want Walt to live (he's lost his family now) and really hope Jesse get's it in the neck, little rat. Felt sorry for Walt realising that his family had finally turned against him, least he did the decent thing and lie to Skylar on the phone so she wouldn't be arrested (if Marie/Walt Jnr keep their gob's shut that is).

CiDeRmAn

Haven't watched Breaking Bad at all, my poison has been Dexter, and I watched the penultimate episode this morning, pretty awesome, can't wait til next week.
It's in complete contrast to Burn Notice, which finished the other day, they tried to change up the show for the final season and made a balls of it, ah well.
Final season of Warehouse 13 next year too, then bye bye.
The cop/robot show with Karl Urban starts soon, that looks nice, assuming it stays around

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykwxg534yAw

Jack burton

Andrew76 wrote: »

Think you might be right.

Have a feeling that the ricin will be his undoing, either by his own hand or Jesse's, after he's killed all the Nazis. I hope I'm wrong as I want Walt to live (he's lost his family now) and really hope Jesse get's it in the neck, little rat. Felt sorry for Walt realising that his family had finally turned against him, least he did the decent thing and lie to Skylar on the phone so she wouldn't be arrested (if Marie/Walt Jnr keep their gob's shut that is).

Yeah I forgot about that thing....It will have to be used before its over anyway

CosmicSmash

Don't know how it will cope with GTAV

Nerdkiller1991

Monkeykube wrote: »

Don't know how it will cope with GTAV

If the PolyStation 3 can handle it, it can too.

Danonino.

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Seems like everyone is going gone a bit nuts about GTA5, including myself.
When is the last time everyone went this mad over a game or hardware release.
It's a bit cray cray, and da youf say

The housemate is heading down for it at midnight and it has been the talk amongst friends/classmates/everyone everywhere the last 2 weeks. I'm honestly scared ****less to say I'm not that interested in it. I haven't and probably never will ha ha

I'll get it eventually and play half of it till I get bored like Vice City, San Andreas, 4 and Red Dead Redemption.... something about the whole 'make your way across map, kill a group of badguys, watch cutscene, make your way to another point on the map' drives me bat **** crazy and bored at the same time

Dark Souls 2. THAT I can get excited about. Just hook it to my veins :pac:

Mr.Saturn

It's alright, Dano, I'm completely lacking in f**ks to give too.

Retr0gamer

Really not interested either. I don't really get whole GTA thing. I enjoy it but it's throw away entertainment.

That and I'm just too busy.

Dark Souls 2 will be a a day one game!

johnny_ultimate

I am really looking forward to Dark Souls 2. And I can't wait for Everyone's Gone to the Rapture. And I greatly anticipate Disgaea D2. And I've been waiting years for the Witness. But I am also terribly excited about playing GTA V. Because no-one - not From Software, not Jonathan Blow, not anyone - makes interactive worlds quite like Rockstar do. Yes, I have many issues with the GTA series, but if - as it seems - many of the lessons of RDR, Bully and more have been learned, than it has the ability to be the first entry in the series that really and truly lives up to the bold promises its made since GTA III back in the day. I am not expecting a narrative masterpiece. I am not expecting particularly progressive characterisation or thematic depth. I am expecting a lot of driving from A to B. But I also am very optimistic that they will have created an extraordinary, vast world on a different level of scale and detail than anything we've seen in a video game before. And I can't wait to spend hours exploring it, much like I greatly anticipate exploring the gameplay depths Dark Souls II has to offer. Because they're not mutually exclusive, and frankly gaming is so much richer because we have both totally different, equally worthy experiences.

Also - Breaking Bad. Holy ****.

CiDeRmAn

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

If the PolyStation 3 can handle it, it can too.

I'm sure they'll port it over to the two Chinese consoles, of course it'll be renamed GT@5 and it'll look like a Nes game...

o1s1n

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Really not interested either. I don't really get whole GTA thing.

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I'm usually one to say meh to the GTA games but sweet jesus does this look good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNMh3xQWAz4

:pac:

Just finished the latest Breaking Bad episode - somewhat shell shocked right now.

DinoRex

Apparently you shouldn't install the second disc for GTAV on Xbox. Just the made gory first disc or else you'll have video streaming issues.

Retr0gamer

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

but if - as it seems - many of the lessons of RDR, Bully and more have been learned, than it has the ability to be the first entry in the series that really and truly lives up to the bold promises its made since GTA III back in the day.

I found the Rockstar studios that aren't Rockstar North make far better games that the GTA games such as RDR and Bully and Rockstar North doesn't really learn from them. Would be nice if they did for V. I'll probably get it if I don't get a job immediately after this course but I need to get an Apple dev license first, that's taking priority.

In other news just completed the final testing of the game I'm working on. Can't wait to see the back of it. Pity there's a heap of paper work to do as well so can't relax.

You'll see it on the news on the 25th.

CosmicSmash

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I'm sure they'll port it over to the two Chinese consoles, of course it'll be renamed GT@5 and it'll look like a Nes game...

On the page where I found the picture somebody reckoned it was available with Black C**ks 2 but I thought it too risque to mention

Atavan-Halen

I'm going to start queuing from about 10.30 tonight as I don't have a pre-order. I haven't been this hyped for a game since San Andreas or Pokémon Black & White.

CosmicSmash

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

I'm going to start queuing from about 10.30 tonight as I don't have a pre-order. I haven't been this hyped for a game since San Andreas or Pokémon Black & White.

Where are you getting it?

(the game that is)

Atavan-Halen

Monkeykube wrote: »

Where are you getting it?

HMV Dundrum, hopefully!

Atavan-Halen

About 30-40 people queuing already in dundrum. Feckin praying I get a copy now.

Nerdkiller1991

Ehhh. I'll just wait until a PC release.

Atavan-Halen

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

Ehhh. I'll just wait until a PC release.

Free pizza though.

Sparks43

I know im the worst for going off topic but would it be possible to not talk about BB on the thread.

Im a fair bit behind but im looking forward to catching up and i want to try avoid ruining it for myself.

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

Nerdkiller1991

Atavan-Halen wrote: »

Free pizza though.

Hey, this isn't like TMNT for the NES in the US.

Nerdkiller1991

Sparks43 wrote: »

I know im the worst for going off topic but would it be possible to not talk about BB on the thread.

Im a fair bit behind but im looking forward to catching up and i want to try avoid ruining it for myself.

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

Stewie just sums up what I have to say. It only seems like in the past year and a half, people have been going crazy over it, for some reason.

Andrew76

@Sparks: To be fair Spolier tags are always used if something juicy is being said.

@NerdKiller: Maybe some folk were late to the party.

@Atavan: Fair play to your dedication. Now I'm hungry for pizza!

Atavan-Halen

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

Hey, this isn't like TMNT for the NES in the US.

But, I like pizza.

About 120 people in the queue now. I'm about halfway in it.

Retr0gamer

Stuck at a train station waiting on the gardai to arrest a naked man running around the station. Must be disappointed he didn't per order gta5. Fecking gardai have to come from my home town 40 minutes away if they even bother because of all the station closures.

Atavan-Halen

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Stuck at a train station waiting on the gardai to arrest a naked man running around the station. Must be disappointed he didn't per order gta5. Fecking gardai have to come from my home town 40 minutes away if they even bother because of all the station closures.

It's legitimately not me this time!

Can they not just let the train go anyway?

CiDeRmAn

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Stuck at a train station waiting on the gardai to arrest a naked man running around the station. Must be disappointed he didn't per order gta5.

No, he's naked, unless the deposit receipt is in his hand, tucked behind his scrotum or stuffed in his rectum he's unlikely to be able to collect his preordered copy.
Plus, if even if it's the latter two and he has it, they may not want to touch it.

Retr0gamer

Had to stay in case the gob****e jumped in front of the train. Gardai and fire brigade have him now.

Atavan-Halen

About 200 in the queue for HMV in dundrum and 150 or so for tesco.

Sparks43

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Stuck at a train station waiting on the gardai to arrest a naked man running around the station. Must be disappointed he didn't per order gta5. Fecking gardai have to come from my home town 40 minutes away if they even bother because of all the station closures.

Where on earth was this?

Balbriggin or one of the other stations?

Sparks43

Retr0gamer

Sparks43 wrote: »

Where on earth was this?

Balbriggin or one of the other stations?

Rush and Lusk station.

Danonino.

gtavs opening scene was pretty eic to be fair. looks proper great too. Housemate is like a kid at christmas. :pac:

CiDeRmAn

Danonino. wrote: »

gtavs opening scene was pretty eic to be fair. looks proper great too. Housemate is like a kid at christmas. :pac:

Bring out the gif
But the gifs asleep
Well I guess you better go wake him up!

Steve X2

I was hoping the "Toxic" Pibow case for the Raspberry Pi would have the same look as one of my favourite game cases (Burn:Cycle) so I ordered one up the other day. It arrived last night and its looks ok but not the same as Burn:Cycle at all :0(
Why do i like the that gods damn case so much? The game is poo for sure but the case, I dunno, it tickles me in places :eek:





As for GTAV, I think I'll wait for the PC version.

CiDeRmAn

So, picked up GTA V in the last hour in Harvey Norman.
No queue
No fanfare
No comment from the cashier

It might as well have been a kettle I was buying.

There really is something to said for game shops, midnight launches and the like.
At least you get to enjoy the experience of buying something special with folk who can appreciate it.

or am I being weird?

Nerdkiller1991

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

So, picked up GTA V in the last hour in Harvey Norman.
No queue
No fanfare
No comment from the cashier

It might as well have been a kettle I was buying.

There really is something to said for game shops, midnight launches and the like.
At least you get to enjoy the experience of buying something special with folk who can appreciate it.

or am I being weird?

Since when do gamers buy their games from Harvey Norman?

Might explain a lot.

CiDeRmAn

I don't buy games there at all.
In fact the last game I bought there was GTA4s collectors edition!
And that's the point.
No one buys games there so I figured, a couple of days ago, that no one will have bothered trying there for the collectors edition of the game, which was sold out everywhere.
I was right!
I only prebooked it on Friday and picked it up this morning.
It'll probably be Red Dead Redemption 2 or GTA VI before I buy a game there again!

o1s1n

Not sure if it's been mentioned here, but after the 360's mandatory GTA 8GB disc 1 install, do not install disc 2 to the HDD and just run it from the DVD instead.

Some awful pop in issues occurring from a complete HDD install.

Retr0gamer

Kind of annoying it's like that since it means you have to deal with the 360's turbine-esque DVD drive which also has the added bonus or making RROD failures more likely.

I think I'll wait and see what the digital foundry verdict is. I might even be tempted by the PS3 version.

Retr0gamer

Right on cue!:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-grand-theft-auto-5-face-off