Video games?

[e4ian]

Im absolutely hooked on Black ops.

doin' cod4 at the moment bud.started with modernwarfare2 so thought id best get the first 1,got black ops too, still wrapped in plastic. next generation stuff broz.

 

[e4ian]

oh. BIG UP on the mario karts as well. wii system is amazing ,lol with that steering wheel ,your buzzin'

 

[RobMarley420]

MK since 92

Hell yeah. I used to love Mortal Kombat 1, 2, and 3.

I hadn't played Mortal Kombat for years until yesterday when I rented the new MK for the Xbox 360. The game is pretty bad-ass but I suck at it. I had to set the difficulty to "begginer" to be able to win.

 

[e4ian]

aint nobody mentioned the original zelda tho?

look at me!! a real gamehead p. yeah i didnt do the original zelda but spent hours upon hours with 'the legend of zelda.ocarina of time' on the n64 [a real classic rpg].007 goldeneye was fab too.

 

[RobMarley420]

The orginal Zelda on the NES was the best. I remember playing that with my Dad when I was a little kid.

I want to go out and buy an NES so I can replay all those old classic games. I still have all the old games at my parents house, I just need a working Nintendo.

 

[dagnabit]

FUCK NOFRIENDO!!!!

i was a sega kid...

 

[e4ian]

yep had the dreamcast too. first time i really had my own access to the internet,[my brother had the pc yrs before so id use that] i loved the dreamcast at the time no console could touch it. playin' shen-mue on it was a dream,boy i was eager for that game to come out. some boxing game too ahaa got it ready to rumble big lol with that. pgr, revolt etc..
we had good times

 

[BudGood]

I've been playing the Gears 3 beta, Black Ops, and Mortal Kombat. Bought the tournament edition with the arcade style stick, it is sweet!!! Gonna build a little stand to put it and one more on, my TV in the living room is on the mantle, so it'll be just like playing at the arcade, with a much bigger tv (46" Samsung LED ).

 

[GET MO]

FUCKING PS NETWORK>.........

 

[BudGood]

Yeah, really glad I don't have a PS3, I'd be pissed...

 

[mountain_goat]

i dont know shit about games, but that new game "brink" looks badass!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-kVnw4RA80

 

[e4ian]

Yeah, really glad I don't have a PS3, I'd be pissed...

 

[GET MO]

its back on now.

 

[e4ian]

I've been playing the Gears 3 beta, Black Ops, and Mortal Kombat. Bought the tournament edition with the arcade style stick, it is sweet!!! Gonna build a little stand to put it and one more on, my TV in the living room is on the mantle, so it'll be just like playing at the arcade, with a much bigger tv (46" Samsung LED ).

woaaa ,thats beautiful. you cant beat the arcade stick n buttons,
lasts forever.good luck with your stand!
i bet that thing works well on your knees tho'


btw. i had a dreamcast once and also a steering wheel.sounds a bit caveman but i stuck it down to a drinks tray.. worked a treat.

 

[BudGood]

woaaa ,thats beautiful. you cant beat the arcade stick n buttons,
lasts forever.good luck with your stand!
i bet that thing works well on your knees tho'


btw. i had a dreamcast once and also a steering wheel.sounds a bit caveman but i stuck it down to a drinks tray.. worked a treat.

I missed this post. Actually, it has some super soft memory foam cushioning on the bottom, so if it's on your lap, it's quite comfy. I did build the aforementioned stand, and it works beautifully!

Yeah, I actually helped my buddy do something similar with a wheel setup he has, we screwed it to one of those wooden TV dinner trays.

 

[ColoradoOG]

I like the competitive aspect of gaming. I prefer pc l4d counterstrike battlefield ..battlefield 3 looks so yum

 

[Archangel]

I play tekken 6 with my Hori Real Arcade Pro 3 SA stick on ps3 and battlefield bad company 2 on PC.. Sniping is pretty challenging and fun since you have to lead the targets and it has bullet drop. Just preordered Battlefield 3 too.. not sure my computer can handle it but imma check it out until I can update my computer. Im also waiting on tekken tag tournament 2 which I saw a stream of at comic con. looks very nice and I cant wait to try out the new character balances.

 

[PistilPete]

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/08/11/grand.theft.auto.iran/index.html?iref=NS1

'Grand Theft Auto' director's next game explores 1979 Iran revolution

(CNN) -- Vice City. San Andreas. Liberty City. Tehran.

Three of these locales are instantly familiar to videogame diehards as settings in the "Grand Theft Auto" series, which has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide. The latter, however, is more commonly linked to news bulletins about the Iranian nuclear program or confrontational statements by the country's hardline Islamist president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

If Navid Khonsari, 41, has his way, Iran's capital city will soon be much more familiar to gamers. A director of the "Grand Theft Auto" series, the Iranian-born Khonsari's next game has a simple working title whose numerals denote a world of significance: "1979." And the game's tagline? "There are no good guys."

"1979" gets its name from the year when the hostage crisis at the U.S. embassy in Tehran began, which was during the height of Iran's Islamic Revolution. That year marked the overthrow of the dictator, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, by a populist revolt and the subsequent installation of a fundamentalist Islamic state.

The game aims to combine some sandbox, open-world elements popularized by "Grand Theft Auto" with what Khonsari calls a "baton-pass" narrative, which explores this historic backdrop through the sequential perspectives of several playable characters.

Khonsari has an ideal pedigree for an undertaking this ambitious: Besides creating a raft of iconic and genre-defining games, he also grew up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.

"I want people to understand the incredible moral ambiguity of this story, that this was a country with many different ideas and beliefs," Khonsari said in an exclusive interview with CNN. "Growing up in Iran when I did, I saw Iranians in the greatest light, and I saw them in the worst light."

Shortly after the fall of the shah, Khonsari's family fled Iran for Canada. Khonsari moved to the West Coast as an adult to pursue a career as a filmmaker. He later moved to New York City and applied his talents to an up-and-coming studio named Rockstar Games.

"I was the cinematic director for 'GTA 3,' 'Vice City' and 'San Andreas,' as well as the two Max Payne games, 'Red Dead Revolver' and 'Bully,' " he said. "Anything that came out through Rockstar between 2001 and 2005, I was fortunate enough to be involved in.

"My main job, and what grew into my current passion, was bringing that cinematic 'feel' to video games."

After he left Rockstar, Khonsari founded his own game-production company, iNKstories, which he co-runs with his wife, Vassiliki. The duo already have two blockbuster titles under their belt, "Alan Wake" and "Homefront." They aim for "1979" to be the third.

The gameplay of '1979'

At the game's outset, the player is an American/Iranian translator on a mission to rescue the embassy hostages. The player must choose one of three historically inspired ways to enter Iran: By helicopter with a U.S. special forces team, through the Iraq border with Saddam Hussein's army or across the Afghanistan border with the Taliban.

In these preliminary levels, the game plays as a fairly standard third-person shooter, with some linguistic puzzles that will test your character's imperfect mastery of the Farsi language.

"But once you get into Iran, you're no longer the translator," he said. "You take the role of a student demonstrator who was opposed the shah. You've kicked the shah out, but you're unhappy with some of these fanatical elements you see rising up.

"So the game changes, and now your mission is to get this small military group to Tehran, but nonviolently, clandestinely. You want the American hostages out of Iran because you want the country to focus on rebuilding itself, and you've heard all these rumors about a war with Iraq coming."

This, Khonsari explains, is where gameplay shifts to include some morally ambiguous elements of diplomacy, stealth and bartering. Each time the baton passes to a new character, the style of gameplay changes, too. Some characters will focus more on action, while others will feature vehicles and puzzle-solving.

"Not everyone you meet is going to be helpful," he said. "There are going to be aspects of bribery, making exchanges and turning a blind eye to really bad stuff so you can get the job done.

"Maybe, in order to get the group there, you need to sacrifice some stragglers and let them get captured so the others can get away. And then you'll have some extreme choices to make when you get to Tehran: Are you going to invade the embassy, guns blazing, to try to get the hostages back? Or are you going to try to protect the embassy from the Americans?

"People who might not be completely familiar with the game world look at fancy graphics and polished gameplay and say 'this is cutting edge,' " he continued. "But from what I've seen, it's still quite basic. Very much a checkers mentality -- red against black, good against evil. I'm interested in having good and evil within the same character, and for you to experience both. I think that's true to life, and I think you can design a game around that, too."

A multiplayer version is also in the works, with 12 maps planned for release. The multiplayer modes will feature differing combinations of straightforward gun combat with ruthless negotiation and decision-making.

First in a franchise?

Though the game is still in the alpha stage of development and at least a year and a half away from release, Khonsari hopes the success of "1979" will breed a franchise of similar games.

"(This is) the first installment of a franchise where the games will be named after years in which there were CIA operations within certain countries," he said. " '1979' is the first one because it's closest to my heart and I know the story the best. After that, we want to explore what took place in Panama with (Manuel) Noriega, and Libya back in the '70s and '80s with (Moammar) Gadhafi."

Khonsari's heritage is one reason he's not concerned with political correctness in his treatment of one of the United States' supposedly implacable enemies.

"Iranians are going to criticize me because I'm making a game that 'promotes American imperialists going in and shooting Iranians,' " he said. "Americans are going to criticize me because I'm making a game that 'glorifies Islamic fundamentalism,' or something. I'm not going to please everyone, and the point of the game isn't to do that.

"I think that being able to base a game in contemporary historical truths is significant, besides being educational," he said. "It opens people's eyes to look beyond what they're reading in the paper and realize that there's a definite relationship between history and the headlines.

"Most of the people who are playing games nowadays were born after 1980 -- after the Iranian Revolution. People are so quick to accept the official record of things as 'history,' without examining everything that's gone on in the last 40, 50, 60 years. It's important we remember these things, and work to keep them relevant."

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/gaming.gadgets/08/11/grand.theft.auto.iran/index.html?iref=NS1

 

[PistilPete]

Just picked up Medal of Honor w/ the online pass for $13. Decent game, bu it's no Battlefield.

 

[Ganjalingus]

Madden on weed with 3 friends. So awesome...