en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/58601 Comments by Dave http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/02/ngr-episodes-38-39-mutiny-high-seas/#IDComment57576261 Fallout was a game where I was ok with it at first, kept playing, and then just loved exploring every nook and cranny. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:29:37 +0000 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/02/ngr-episodes-38-39-mutiny-high-seas/#IDComment57576261 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/02/ngr-episodes-38-39-mutiny-high-seas/#IDComment57576147 Oh and speaking of shadowrun, if you guys do ever feel like playing a game just send me a message on xbox or something. We have been playing it a bit more lately and we might even have a couple of more friends we know getting the game. If that is the case we could have a decent game without having to play online with other people and just have fun on our own. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:28:19 +0000 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/02/ngr-episodes-38-39-mutiny-high-seas/#IDComment57576147 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/02/ngr-episodes-38-39-mutiny-high-seas/#IDComment57576027 Yea if I didn't have the group of friends that I do online I would not care nearly as much about achievements as I do. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:26:38 +0000 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/02/ngr-episodes-38-39-mutiny-high-seas/#IDComment57576027 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/02/control-russian-matters/#IDComment57575527 I am just glad I didn't pay 60 bucks for it. It was a christmas gift. I would have been even less happy with it. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:20:34 +0000 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/02/control-russian-matters/#IDComment57575527 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/02/control-russian-matters/#IDComment57575433 First off great article, hope to see more from you at some point. The 'No Russian' thing is a very touchy subject. I can see the reasons behind why it is in the game and I can see why people are in an uproar about it. Other games have you killing civilians, so I'm not sure why this one stuck out to people. GTA is one games that come to mind. Civilians are basically an obstacle in that game. You hit someone with a car and you just think "Whoops." I can see why some people could get upset by it. It is not something for everyone. I would never expect a 13 year old kid to play this game. If you don't like this kind of stuff then don't play it/buy it/ or whatever. When I got to that level I had no idea what the fuck was going on at that point. I didn't understand the whole story of that game. (Apparently I was playing as 3 different people! Who knew?) As lost as I was on it I still understood that the game was telling a story. People need to understand this. People who complain and fuss about sex and violence in games usually will never play the game they are talking about in their live. I remember something I heard recently about Adam Sessler saying to a girl complaining about alien ass in Mass Effect if she had even played the game or understood the context of the scene, to which she replied "No of course not, games are for children." To me it all comes back to the public being completely ignorant to what is happening and when someone tells them something is bad it is BAD. People seem to still cannot grasp the concept that video games are in many ways a story telling medium. They are not something that kids do when they are bored. I don't know what to say about this anymore. I just bothers me that people can not see things through anything but their narrow view. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:19:39 +0000 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/02/control-russian-matters/#IDComment57575433 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/02/control-russian-matters/#IDComment57573904 I hate online CoD. I am proud to say I have 0% multiplayer completion. So for me the game is a short campaign with some co-op. Not happy with this game. Just a side note. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:05:33 +0000 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/02/control-russian-matters/#IDComment57573904 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/02/ngr-episodes-38-39-mutiny-high-seas/#IDComment57572565 I'm not sure how to react to your opinions of achievements. I agree on some level that there should be more for doing a certain activity or whatever in game. Like how in Brutal Legend you get more health and stuff along side the achievements. But that doesn't mean all the other achievements don't have a point. I said this in a comment on another article. To me achievements work as a way to show off what you have accomplished in a game. I hope I am not stepping out of line here, but you guys don't seem to have a very strong connection to the xbox live community as I do. Everyday I am on there talking to friends and seeing what games they have and are playing. When a major game comes out and we are all playing that game the best way to see what the other person has managed to do in the game is through their gamerscore. Achievements are as good as the developers want them to be. When I bought shadowrun I had a couple of friends buy it to play with, and the achievements in that game basically tell you to play the game a fucking lot. This pushed us into playing the game more and more until we played 100 games as each race and that turned into a love for the game. Now we have all 1000 gamerscore and still go back to play it just because we fell in love with it. I And I guess you could say some achievements are pointless but it gives you something to do. No matter how small. Microsoft knows that the achievements and gamerscore system is a huge part of the xbox live experience.It is a major selling point in a lot of games for a lot of people. I know people who will not buy a game solely based on its achievements. Like Troy said, if a game decides they want to add the most insane challenging achievement in a game it loses value to a large group of people. I was looking to getting the assassin's creed 2 DLC but with no achievements for the DLC it lost its value to me. I will not pay 10 dollars for an hour long extension with no replay value and no achievements. I have a lot more to say about this but I don't want to have TOO long of a comment. Oh and Calin, everyone hates the achievements in assassin creed 1. I guess it is just disappointing to see you guys miss the real fun and enjoyment of achievements and the value they could have in a community of friends. I'm done ranting. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:52:05 +0000 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/02/ngr-episodes-38-39-mutiny-high-seas/#IDComment57572565 http://cutest-date-ever.com/2010/02/my-valentines-day/#IDComment57357265 Man oh day. I don't even know what else to say about this. Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:11:40 +0000 http://cutest-date-ever.com/2010/02/my-valentines-day/#IDComment57357265 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/02/ngr-episode-37-artistry-video-games/#IDComment57084005 Art in video games is always a hard topic to discuss. There are way to many different aspects in a game to consider. With other forms of art there is usually one sense that is needed to appreciate it. Whether that is sound, vision, or audio. Video games have all of that and then you have the story telling power of a movie or book AND the interaction between you and the game. Tue, 16 Feb 2010 14:31:05 +0000 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/02/ngr-episode-37-artistry-video-games/#IDComment57084005 http://thewiire.com/blog/post/6214-de-blob-2-sequel-coming-to-wii#IDComment55334703 First game was pretty good. Would probably pick up the second one. My only issue with the first one was it got very repetitive. Thu, 4 Feb 2010 15:09:44 +0000 http://thewiire.com/blog/post/6214-de-blob-2-sequel-coming-to-wii#IDComment55334703 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/01/illusion-choice/#IDComment54481871 It happens. I usually make a new hard save everytime I stop playing. So I have about 20 saves. Sat, 30 Jan 2010 06:17:09 +0000 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/01/illusion-choice/#IDComment54481871 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/01/illusion-choice/#IDComment54120581 You better have a super good gaming computer. My xbox had a hard time handling all of the stuff going on in fallout I can't imagine how a computer will do. Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:33:59 +0000 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/01/illusion-choice/#IDComment54120581 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/01/illusion-choice/#IDComment54032749 I would recommend it. Especially since now they have the game of the year edition, which as all the DLC. Wed, 27 Jan 2010 04:11:27 +0000 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/01/illusion-choice/#IDComment54032749 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/01/ngr-episode-36-current-affairs-1/#IDComment53942512 Good stuff you guys. Even without calin. I just wanted to throw this out there. I tried listening to some other game news type podcasts (kotaku radio to be exact) and found myself to be more bored in that one hour than I ever was listening to you guys talk about Ron Jeremy's porn career. That is a complement. You guys don't worry too much about forcing the news or the topic down our throats and it makes it a lot easier to listen to. And a fuck ton more fun to listen to. Keep it up you guys. Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:29:51 +0000 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/01/ngr-episode-36-current-affairs-1/#IDComment53942512 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/01/secret-admirer/#IDComment53942062 I always enjoyed getting every little item and finding secrets in a game just to say that I did. I like that you used an image of Wind Waker. There was no real reason for getting every single piece of heart. Especially if you have already beaten the game. I did it anyway. It took me for fucking ever. Still felt good when I got the last one. I've never had a friend that was into games too much, so I never had the experience of telling or receiving cool secrets about a game I just bought. Still felt the need to beat a game and do everything I could possible do in a game. I beat Mario Galaxy twice. Once as mario and once as luigi. I collected all stars in both games. Achievements somewhat pushed that further for me. Not only do I feel good about finishing something but now my friends can see that they are little sissies and I am awesome. I don't care if someone has a higher overall 'gamerscore' than I do. That number means nothing to me. I have seen a 13 year old child with 67 total xbox games on his record. So yea his gamerscore was a little high. But looking at each individual score is where I think achievements really matter. He hadn't even beaten 10 of the games he had. I don't mean he had all the achievements in the game I mean he didn't even beat the main story. Point is I look at my friends games list and look for any game we both own and see what he has been able to do that I haven't. I will usually proceed to ask him how he did it, any tips or tricks, or what have you. I don't think that there should be any collectible in any game thats only reward is an achievement. (Prince of Persia.) Game developers should take the time to add some kind of simple in-game reward for accomplishing any feat. An achievement should be there let everyone else know that you did finish that part of a game. Sorry for the long comment. Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:24:55 +0000 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/01/secret-admirer/#IDComment53942062 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/01/illusion-choice/#IDComment53940002 Great article (again) Calin. Not much I can say about it. I think Fallout 3 is the best game of how choices can change a little but never force a major plot to change paths. Mass Effect is way more linear and the choices you make basically change whether or not you are a dick. Honestly I didn't like Fallout 3 when I got it. Then I just kept going back to do one more little thing. Oh I GUESS I could find this one behemoth. Oh look 5 side quests I never found. I wound up doing every fucking thing I could find in that life sucking game. I have every achievement in that game. I don't know what happened. I just kind of got into it, and all of the choices you could make. Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:08:50 +0000 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/01/illusion-choice/#IDComment53940002 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/01/illusion-choice/#IDComment53939486 Not sure if you played fallout 3 or not so I won't say much, but the ending never changes. There is one last choice you can make at the end but it still happens. The choices shouldn't change too much but they do change the story of YOUR game. The goal is never going to change but the way you got there and the choices you made is what makes fallout 3 a really fun and always new experience. Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:03:32 +0000 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/01/illusion-choice/#IDComment53939486 http://thewiire.com/blog/post/6183-rumor-new-zelda-wii-details-leaked#IDComment53086203 Interesting to see what unfolds. I'm surprised they would go back to the OoT and MM time era. Especially since MM wasn't as favored (personally I love that game). Hope to hear something soon from nintendo though Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:31:00 +0000 http://thewiire.com/blog/post/6183-rumor-new-zelda-wii-details-leaked#IDComment53086203 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/01/ngr-episode-35-goodbye-2009-2010/#IDComment53066160 Nope that was my bad. I didn't realize Black Mesa Source wasn't a Valve project. Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:27:13 +0000 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/01/ngr-episode-35-goodbye-2009-2010/#IDComment53066160 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/01/ngr-episode-35-goodbye-2009-2010/#IDComment53027704 Just saw on Kotaku that it won't be coming this year. Can't tell what this mean since its Valve. They are also working on a Half-Life 1 remake on Source, but as usual they only hint every blue moon that they are actually working on it. Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:26:27 +0000 http://www.newgameplus.net/2010/01/ngr-episode-35-goodbye-2009-2010/#IDComment53027704