[negativedge]

[remote]

[klj5j6li]

They're a huge pain in the ass from what I remember

[another god]

They probably still work. Also PS2 adapters are like $5.
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[Broco]

Also the PS3 controller doesn't always accept charging from PC USB ports.

The Xbox controller can also surprisingly be a bit of a pain because it uses this narrow XInput protocol not really designed for PCs, see http://pinnaclegameprofiler.com/forum/showthread.php?p=59407 for the dreary details.

In summary, get a Logitech or a PS2 adapter.

[remote]

Hm, yeah. I guess I'll try the PS3 drivers (sixaxisdriver is the one I just downloaded), and if that fails the PS2 adapter sounds like a good idea.

I could just play Nier in the meanwhile. I guess I'm in the mood for a new school jRPG for some reason. Maybe it's a comfort thing.
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[Ghost Dinosaur]

i never had any problems with the ps3 controller running on any of the emulators i've tried (have not tried dolphin). never used it for any real games, though.

[koholinttakeout]

[negativedge]

DAIS and Kingdom Hearts have a bit of a relationship--you'll have to excuse the both of them.

[diplo]

dais are you indirectly defending kingdom hearts

[analogos]

i won't pretend to have a completely lucid grasp of what's going on in dais' head just based on reading some posts and having a few conversations with him, but the gist of what i gather is that he finds some sort of profound amusement in the way that there are a billion games out there all iterating and riffing on each other in endlessly curious ways if you've the time or patience to look. if he's "defending" kingdom hearts it's probably not in a way that's especially reliant upon the Time:Value / Does This Immediately Cohere With My Sensibilities metric most of us are inclined roll with for various reasons. i do find myself second guessing my gut reactions to things and taking a moment to see what he might see in a game sometimes, and i've found value in that. so that's mostly what i take away from his flippant responses in these situations, i guess

[negativedge]

basically DAIS' argument is there are games that like don't even boot up so Kingdom Hearts can't be that bad

that and anti-hivemind, but that sort of comes and goes for DAIS

[CubaLibre]

[protoblax]

[Loki Laufeyson]

super scribblenauts is pretty great, but i wish the puzzles allowed a bit more lateral thinking. usually, if you try an alternative solution, it jusr doesn''t work
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[analogos]

almost every level has at least four solutions, loki! you have to retry a stage and then come up with three working alternate situations in one go to get a gold star.

i kind of agree anyway, though. i haven't played it much, but it did feel a bit more like you're trying to come up with one of the half-dozen things they expected you to come up with and less like you're intuitively inventing your own solutions to a given problem. i guess that's to be expected. still, i have seen some pretty good instances of the latter.

[diplo]

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

[another coma]

I split off a lot of the Xenoblade discussion here
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Thanks, B coma.
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[Renfrew]

I started playing Oath in Felghana. for some reason it really makes me long for a PSP port of the first Grandia. Maybe because they both start in mining towns?
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[Moogs]

Isn't the first Grandia up on PSN?

[Sniper Honeyviper]

Yes it is!

The Saturn version is apparently the definitive one, but it's not in English.

[Rud31]

As someone playing the saturn version: If you really like your framerate to be countable the Saturn version is great.

note: never played the PS1 version.
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[radish]

Picked up Nier on the way home from work last night.
I'm about two hours in and it's great so far.

I think this is honestly the first non-fighting game I've played for a console since Halo 3, which is kind of weird.
Probably getting Deadly Premonition this weekend.

[Moogs]

Played the demo for Rock of Ages, which immediately struck me as Katamari developed by the cast of Monty Python. One of the demo levels poked fun at Castlevania.

Also played the demo for Ugly Americans. It's about what you'd expect from a game brought to you by Backbone and Comedy Central.

[notbov]

I find myself bouncing between trying to 1CC Sunset Riders (and failing, repeatedly) and playing too much Bad Company 2 as a part of irrational BF3 hype. I've accepted the fact that I won't hit rank 50 before BF3 comes out, so I chose another goal: get that patch for 500 vehicle destroys. The side-effects of achieving this goal have been the realization that there really isn't any bullet drop on non-sniper weapons and I can shoot people across the map with a machine pistol, and that I'm slowly mastering the art of using the AT-4 against moving choppers. I gain far too much joy out of knocking a bird out of the sky with a guided rocket.
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[luvcraft]

I stopped playing Dreamfall yesterday. I got to a point where you have to go talk to a lady. But to find the lady, you have to talk to a dude. But before the dude will talk to you, you have to bring him mulled wine. But before the innkeeper will give you mulled wine, you have to go across town to get mulling spices. And that's when I decided to stop playing.

I also played through VVVVVV yesterday. It's no Redder, but I liked it a lot more this time around than when I first tried to play the demo a couple years ago or whenever it was that it came out. I got half of the trinkets, and since I barely had the patience to finish the game I doubt I'll have the patience to get the rest of the trinkets. Especially that "Vene, Vidi, Vici" one. Fuck that.
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[Rud31]

I just sent Onimusha:Dawn of Dreams back to Gamefly. I would be surprised if there is any overlap in development teams between The original Onimusha and this one. It has none of the good points of the first game. It feels like a licensed title. The combat suckkkkkssssss.

Onimusha:Warlords (no that's not the SSB-clone) is still pretty awesome.
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[cake]

I am playing two relaxing games, whose value seems to derive mainly from their graphics & character:

LSD: Dream Emulator

and The Misadventures of Tron Bonne.

[CubaLibre]

[Moogs]

[remote]

Yeah, really nice colors/textures in those. I've really got to play both of those eventually (probably starting with MML before Tron Bonne).

Finally getting around to setting up my PS3 controller to work on my PC has me pretty excited to emulate some stuff, so yeah.

On that note, I played Super Mario Sunshine for my first time today—only for a few minutes, but I can see why Bennett finds its water physics and atmosphere so charming.

I must ask, though... Who thought it would be a good idea to stick some ugly, boring, overlong FMVs in a Mario game?
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[cassievania]

well it's becau
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[radish]

So I bought Deadly Premonition today and there's a good chance I won't be able to play much past the thirty or so minutes I've put into it.
I've mentioned before that I can't play horror games because I get too scared, but man, I just had to turn it off in the middle of fighting something because I couldn't take it.

The game looks awesome though :(
Maybe I'll just put it on easy and hurry through the fighting or something.
Or maybe I'll just watch a let's play of it.

[luvcraft]

yeah, as annoying as the endless combat with the juggalos who bleed grape faygo is, goddamn if those juggalos who bleed grape faygo and whisper "I don't want to diiiiiee..." aren't the scariest fucking monsters in video game history.
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[Cynic]

There's no point in playing on anything other than easy.

[radish]

[Dark Age Iron Savior]

yo radish!

1. Do not read the DP thread until you finish the game
2. Do read the following posts copied from that thread in order to vastly improve your experience:

[Cynic]

A few more:
- sleeping passes time and recovers health (the longer the sleep, the more health is regained) but makes you hungry (so food+bed = medkit)
- lunch at the police station forces the clock to 13:00 and refills your hunger meter
- you are NOT required to meet any deadline, regardless of what any character tells you to do. The game very rarely gives you enough free time to do sidequests, you must intentionally delay main plot progress. Like DAIS said, it is worth it for reducing future frustration with almost every aspect of gameplay
- this is a tad spoilery so you may prefer to avoid doing it, but the sidequest submenu in the map screen lists every quest for every character and in what chapters they're available.

[remote]

videogames

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