The Video Game thread

[Achtane]

So I'm really late to the game, but I just downloaded GTA 3 from Steam and it is freaking awesome. I had played GTA 2 waaaay back in the day, so it's been fun getting back into the series.

I remember the first time I played GTA3 and it was the most amazing game in the world. It was like playing Mario 64 for the first time.

Tonight I replaced the end of my old Xbox controller with the end of a USB cable. It took a couple of hours to find the right drivers, but it worrrksss
Time to play every PS2 game I was never able to.

[futuresailors]

Fuck drivers. I bought one of them adapters for PS2>USB and can't find shit that works. sowheredyoufindyours?

And they want you to pay for the PS3 controller driver.

[Achtane]

Fuck drivers. I bought one of them adapters for PS2>USB and can't find shit that works. sowheredyoufindyours?

And they want you to pay for the PS3 controller driver.

Yeah I have one of those PS2>USB things too but my PS2 controller is half-dead and the joystick gets stuck a lot. At least it didn't suffer the same fate as my old PSX one when I rented Megaman 8...
JUMP! JUMP!
SLIDE! SLIDE!
JUMP! JUMP!
smash.

Anyway, I downloaded XBCD 0.2.7 and then to make Windows 7 x64 actually recognize that the thing I just plugged in was a controller and not some broken usb shit, I had to search high and low for what ended up being...a driver for some really cheap looking xbox>USB adapter
http://www.mayflash.com/?Support/down/
The "Super Joy Box" 9/10/11 one.

The Xbox controller has five wires; white, red, green, black and yellow. Just connect those to the matching USB wires, and get rid of the yellow one, and voila. I think the yellow's for connecting your headset to the controller or something.
There's some really in-depth tutorial where you switch out the insides of the plug and xbox controller so you can plug it into either the xbox or USB, but meh fuck that. I have another controller anyway.
Sucks that they want you to even pay for the driver. They want $35 for an xbox controller with a USB end already built into it.

Gradius V is really hard. I thought it wouldn't be too bad since I'm fairly competent at the Touhou games, but I got a game over on level 2. I really like arcade-style shootin' games though.

[nad]

I beat Splatterhouse a few weeks ago. Haven't done that in about 20 years.

[madmax1012]

finished final fantasy 13-2...major bummer

[coldbrightsunlight]

Bummer that you finished it, or did you not like it?

[madmax1012]

Bummer that you finished it, or did you not like it?

didn't like the ending at all. i enjoyed it literally up until that point. so now, mass effect 3 multiplayer demo. level 83 bitches

[DallasLemonade]

I just bought Garry's Mod on Steam and well... it's not as much fun as I thought it would be. Given, I can't control things worth shit. Am I doing it wrong?

[coldbrightsunlight]

I played it a fair bit a few years ago when it first came out, and it's a really cool idea, but I normally find it more fun seeing what other people have done (some seriously insane stuff) because I can never think of any great ideas.

[Achtane]

I'm burned out on Gmod although it is pretty fun. When I'm given the opportunity to create anything, I just fuck around and build variations of things I've made before. That or I build something AWESOME, but a single object is overlapping another object just barely, so my creation fucking implodes and goes careening around the map like a deflating balloon.

Too much freedom. It's kinda like how every time I go to a record store, I can barely remember bands I've been into lately, much less anything I wanted to look for.

[jfrey]

I think I'm buying a PS3 this week. Any must haves I should know about?

[Achtane]

Metal Gear, uhh, Red Dead Redemption. Dark Souls.
Supposedly Uncharted 2 is really good and an improvement upon the first -- my friend got a pack of the first two games when he bought his PS3 and we've been trying to burn through Uncharted, but it's getting tiresome. The cutscenes are really well-done. It's kinda like watching an adventure movie. The combat (half, if not most of the gameplay) is like playing Gears of War but without the ridiculous feel and with boring weapons. Room after room after room of the same enemies who jump around and shoot like Somalian pirates. It's tedious.
I'm really hoping the sequel is as good as people say.

[jfrey]

Selling an unopened Wii for $75 + s/h if anyone is interested.

[futuresailors]

Metal Gear, uhh, Red Dead Redemption. Dark Souls.
Supposedly Uncharted 2 is really good and an improvement upon the first -- my friend got a pack of the first two games when he bought his PS3 and we've been trying to burn through Uncharted, but it's getting tiresome. The cutscenes are really well-done. It's kinda like watching an adventure movie. The combat (half, if not most of the gameplay) is like playing Gears of War but without the ridiculous feel and with boring weapons. Room after room after room of the same enemies who jump around and shoot like Somalian pirates. It's tedious.
I'm really hoping the sequel is as good as people say.

Uncharted 2 is pretty good. Never played the first, but it's definitely still like an adventure movie. It's sort of a run and gun tomb raider with good controls and not retarded puzzles. The combat can get tedious if you just keep to an assault rifle and shoot them pirate monkeys. But there's a whole other sneaky/hand-to-hand element that's super fun though. "Oh, there's a guard patrolling along the side of a cliff?" "I'ma hang off the edge, inch over, grab him by the ankle and send him on a permanent vacation" ORRRR "I'll just sprint at him and push him off." Making use of the plethora of explosive propane tanks in every level is also a hoot.

[Achtane]

That does sound better. If there's any stealthy jank like that in the first one then I haven't encountered it. You just walk through a doorway, hear "GET HIMMMM!" and pew pew pew for a while.