>>18197
I had a look at it when I got my new phone. Basically when you sign up you choose a 'team'. Both teams have thousands of players. Basically landmarks have these beacon things that each team has to capture, you capture them by visiting them and (using your phones GPS) 'capture' them. I don't know how the game dynamics really work but that's the very basic explanation.

Around October/November last year I got bored of playing League of Legends, the only game I could play at the time on a sub-standard Acer with integrated graphics, I downloaded this on my phone and began hitting portals around my local area on my way to work. It didn't take me long before I was googling how to cheat at it, two weeks later I was at level 6 and pissing off a whole bunch of hardcore local Ingress players by GPS spoofing.

I even remember once I was a spot where there was about 8 solid good portals all within 100 meters of eachother, I used to spoof there every few hours and farm them for XP/items and one night whilst hitting them another local lad popped up saying, "Anon, you must be either very good at climbing or you are invisible to get past that security in those gardens", I carried on by explaining I was standing at a point where I could reach the portal but unfortunately the lad was at the actual location at the time, he caught me red handed.

After this confrontation I knew the gig was up and immediately turned my city blue overnight but using everything I had in my inventory, pillaging green fields and pissing off the whole Ingress community here. I awoke to furious messages in global from the greenies proclaiming, "SPOOFER! SPOOFER!". I laughed and giggled like a little girl and then deleted my account before I got banned.

Shit game but friendly community, if you've got no life go for it.. possibly make some *REAL* friends there too.

After a breif skim over wikipedia I've come to the assumption that Ingress is basically 'king of the hill geo-cashing'. Couldn't this lead to real life physical violence inorder to stop opponents taking your factions portals?

>>18197
From Wikipedia:

>Augmented reality (AR) is a live, copy, view of a physical, real-world environment whose elements are augmented (or supplemented) by computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, graphics or GPS data.

In practice, this means you point your device's camera at the real world, and something is rendered on the screen as though it were really there, so when you move your camera, the rendered elements move with it. The idea has been around for a while but it's only become popular recently in areas like smartphone apps, Google likes it, the Nintendo 3DS uses it. Search YouTube for examples.

With regards to Ingress, which I don't believe uses a camera, it means the game-relevant stuff is drawn over your phone's map, so as you walk around in the real world, you have to use your phone to see where the invisible 'portal' things are located and capture them.

>>18197
It's a capture the flag type game. You pick a team and then capture areas or portals using your phone's gps. Portals are normally landmarks or points of interest. Players gain points by attacking the other teams portals and linking portals. It is addictive and very geeky.

>>18230
Go to the /vr/ board on the other chan and find the Doom general. The OP[s] always contains a good guide on how to do things Doom-related and you'll find all kinds of interesting material.

>>18232
Why does it have to be sent back to 1994? It's still published by id Software. Your money will still be going to the very people who made the game.

>>18234

Will it? Or will it, in fact, go to Zenimax media and the Valve corporation?

Who cares? id made plenty of money at the time.

>>18234
>Your money will still be going to the very people who made the game.
There's nobody left at id who was there when they were making Doom.

>>17961
>It needs a reboot, perhaps they can bring themselves to stop flogging the stinking corpse that was once Wipeout to make a new one...
They've released two games in the last five years, nine in total over just shy of twenty years. As repeat offenders go the Wipeout series is pretty well-behaved.

I also thought the PS3 game was the best of the bunch, too, and by quite a large margin. Not tried the Vita one.

>>17964

Yeah, but it hasn't been any good since the third instalment; I am only bitter because it was such a good game back then and it should have received far better treatment than a mere token effort each time a new piece of hardware comes out.

>>17966
Have you played the PS3 one? It was outstanding. I agree that the PS2 era games were somewhat mediocre.

>>17967
The portable titles were/are great as well. Playing 2048 on the bus is one of the few things I miss about my Vita.

>>17676

They're not bad. The main disadvantage was mod incompatibility between original and enhanced, but more and more of the popular mods for original BG are being revised and updated for EE. Bugs have been polished now, at least for BG1 EE, and the lack of loading times is a fucking timesaver. It's very much worth the investment, especially if on sale. The additional content shouldn't really be considered as a marketing point, since there's not much added to the core game, but it's like having a BG install with a few lore friendly, stable mods preinstalled.

As time goes by it gets more and more worth it. Personally I've just tried pirated versions since I mod my game to oblivion and BGEE still doesn't have that level of ridiculous content available.

>>18113

Is your mum an effective monopoly then?

>>18114
Yes, she only sleeps with my dad who has an 85.5% market share.

>It's an effective monopoly if one company dwarfs the other.
Er, no, it isn't. It's a monopoly if Steam precludes the existence of other digital stores (or physical ones), and that's quite obviously not the case. Apple have a monopoly on iOS devices, Microsoft have a monopoly with Windows Store on Windows RT, and on Xbox Live, etc etc. Valve do not have a monopoly on PC gaming and the existence of the Steambox doesn't, and can't, change that - short of becoming an entirely isolated ecosystem in itself.

>>18116
No, an overly large company can have a monopoly, it doesn't have to be the exclusive provider, it has significant market power.

>>18099
IS THAT WHAT SHE SAYS JESUS CHRIST I'VE BEEN TRYING TO WORK IT OUT FOR YEARS

>>18089
M&B was never pitched at people with the best PCs. It's a Turkish game published by Paradox. This is more important when you're someone like me who only has a crap laptop and plays Warband on DirectX 7.

Another developer that doesn't bother his arse to finish his games, sadly. They are always half done and clear signs throughout where he's just said "fuck it" and decided to take money for the POS.

>>18094

It's a game that works and is fun to play. What do you care if it has some arbitrary seal of "Completed" stuck on it? They're intended to be almost entirely open-ended anyway. It's not as though all "completed" games don't still have unresolved bugs even a decade after release.
Some gaming experiences are even improved by the process. When minecraft was fresh it was really enjoyable being able to look forward to updates and having time to experiment with them before even more stuff was added.

>>18095

I was talking to the guy long, long before the first one came out as public betas. I know what the game was promised to be to the early adopters and why it ended up with broken and unfinished quests and content and then a series of cheap and shameless cash in pay-for mods to milk it.

When he spunked the budget on motion capture instead of finishing the fucking game content, quests, dialogues, etc. it was clear it was heading for the shitter. The same shitter that indie games were meant to avoid, sadly.

>>18096
>When he spunked the budget on motion capture instead of finishing the fucking game content, quests, dialogues, etc. it was clear it was heading for the shitter
It's not that clear to me, or the other people in this thread who seem to have enjoyed it, or the majority of critics who've reviewed it etc. The games haven't been polished compared to £50 retail releases obviously, but that certainly doesn't make them bad.

>>18082

The game does move very slow, the + and - keys should alter the passage of time. I have no idea how you could spend 90 minutes on the first level, maybe you didn't hear the instructions for an integral part of the game?

I'll buy games when I feel they've finished them. Too many failed and abandoned betas and kickstarters for one lifetime.

>>18083

SupCom is a good contender to be an exception to that. Resource management is extremely important, the maps are fucking huge so there's a lot of scope for actual strategy (as opposed to a complex system of quickdraw rock-paper-scissors) and the units all move relatively slowly so there's no micro. The action queues are so extensive and flexible you can automate factories to produce battle-groups which are automatically picked up by airlifters and taken to a destination where they'll automatically converge on a battlefield in a co-ordinated strike with units built somewhere else entirely. The Westwood and Blizzard school of RTS is more micro-arcade than Cavedog's macro-many-spinning-plates approach.

Not that I've ever watched a high-level game of SupCom be played but the mechanics are there.

>>18084
> I have no idea how you could spend 90 minutes on the first level
My attack forces keep getting destroyed. I didn't know about the +/-, that should speed things up.

>>18087

I don't know if you're talking about the vanilla game or the expansion but neither should take more than 15 minutes for the first level. There are tutorials on youtube.

>>17880

Playing the humble market. Tomorrow, stock market domination.

>>17855
>Speaking of which, whatever happened to Guitar Hero/Rock Band?
Proved it was just a fad combined with oversaturation. Those games were published by the two big baddies of the industry Activision and EA so they tried to milk them of their worth. Low sales of the later ones forced them to stop making them.

Also Rocksmith is out but it's a little more niche as it requires you to use a real guitar which as you can imagine is harder than to use than the plastic ones even if the game is designed to help complete novices on how to play a guitar.

>>17850
>Can someone explain how Parappa is so noteworthy? It's just another rhythm game with somewhat memorable characters. Rhythm Tengoku was way more influential from any perspective. Or am I missing something?
That's a bit like asking why Quake is noteworthy compared to CODBLOPS or whatever. Like >>17855 said, Parappa popularised the rhythm game genre. Rhythm Tengoku is a much better game on almost any metric you could care to apply (and it certainly isn't "the same game" a decade later), but it wasn't first. Parappa wasn't all that great in my opinion (UmJammer Lammy and the PS2 Parappa game weren't any better, either) but it did pretty much create a genre all on its own, and you can't say that of many games.

>whatever happened to Guitar Hero/Rock Band?
There is a limit to how much plastic crap people are willing to tolerate in their living rooms, and the novelty of that stuff wore off pretty quickly. I think that music games are as fundamentally compelling as Tetris, but Tetris doesn't require you to keep a bunch of Made In China junk by your TV. I remember seeing someone refer to Guitar Hero controllers as "virgin trophies" which says it all, really - the plastic guitar was never going to become a fixture of the living room. I believed otherwise at the time, but got just as burnt out as everyone else.

I don't know who this gentleman is but he was very awful.

He wasn't "One Direction on Dr Who bad". However, he was very apparently wedged in there by someone trying to appeal to the "imagery demographic of idiots" Charlie himself spent years warning us about.

They had Labrinth on there because it was a show about how Video Games Changed The World, and his musical style and accompanying videos are heavily influenced by video games.

You lot are woeful sometimes.

Ta for that, I'd probably have missed it.

Noice.

>>17735
Sort out the punctuation, you tit.

>>17738

It is his wife I feel sorry for.

>>17736
Here, it looks like you could do with a bag of spuds...

I don't get this. I don't play games much. I do have a PS3, so is this like a gaming console? Plug it into a TV and buy games off SteamShop or whatever?

>>17743
Yes.

>>17702
Wait a minute, no I didn't. What kind of fucking idiot am I.

>>17702
>>17703

Don't worry ladm8. It made me giggle and that's more important.

>>17702
I just played six games. Half were higher than >>17644.

>>17702
You'll have to get your act together if you don't want me to double your score.

>>17706
Bloody hell, are you a robot?

>>17632

People still wear those where I live.

>>17637

What's it like in the ghetto?

>>17633

A tracksuit is supposed to be worn to keep you warm when you're not on the field, e.g. a sub on the bench or a sprinter waiting for their race. Trousers with popper studs were designed for field athletes, who need to don and doff their tracksuit quickly to keep them warm between attempts, like so:

https://www.youtube.com/v/Srmw9rddrjE

>>17639

Also great for strippers.

>>17388

>It's an okayish game that they've been selling and simply repackaging and duping people into repurchasing for years now.

No, FIFA 08 onwards had massive improvements over FIFA 07, which in turn was build from the ground up to move away from the previous games, most notably the terrible terrible FIFA 2004.