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Post by Justin on Mar 5, 2010 15:34:09 GMT -5
Got my PSP back, and guess what!?!
It has the exact same problems that it had before!
The stiff middle finger just grew 3 knuckles Sony!
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Post by Ashurei on Mar 7, 2010 3:11:00 GMT -5
I think I don't like an audience when playing games. Nevermind the feeling of scrutiny (even in the face of none) - that I can deal with. Watching the end of Valkyria Chronicles just now with my roomie offering up some real classy Mystery Science Theater 3000 style commentary left a sour taste in my mouth. I'm trying to enjoy my damn ending, k? Hush. >_>
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Post by AllenSmithee on Mar 7, 2010 5:16:53 GMT -5
Yeah, that's the problem with me. I'm OCD, so if somebody ruins the experience of playing a game for me... sometimes I just can't deal with it. I restarted NMH 1 AND 2 because there was noise, but it took more than a simple walk-away. No, I flipped...
God, the medication hardly works!
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Post by Incog Neato on Mar 7, 2010 5:45:43 GMT -5
Lord, is it a standard that whenever the good guys are escaping an installation or ship, a Sith Lord appears??? And then a Jedi has to run up to him and duel to hold him off? And on top of that, there's always a door that closes behind them and cannot be opened again!?
Can we get some originality here, please?
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Post by Raison D'etritus on Mar 7, 2010 9:10:43 GMT -5
I completely agree with you guys on audiences during video games. My roommate enjoys a 'communally structured environment'; he likes to have a lot of company when he plays a game, and he obviously cares more about the company than the game itself.
If I wanted friendly banter I'd be doing something -other- than playing a game. Seriously, the dumb bastard just comes in and starts talking right though a cut scene and acts completely surprised when I'm pissed off about it.
It's not a movie, I can't friggin' rewind it!!! I've had to reload and play through a section again too many times because I missed a chunk of plot or instructions on what to do next. He does it with anime too, but DVDs don't require replaying boss battles.
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Post by Incog Neato on Mar 7, 2010 11:33:12 GMT -5
Heh. I remember DDR used to bring in crowds like anything but at the arcades. ^^
I never minded a group of people while playing an RPG ... except the people got bored. ^^;
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Post by Justin on Mar 7, 2010 11:48:08 GMT -5
Lord, is it a standard that whenever the good guys are escaping an installation or ship, a Sith Lord appears??? And then a Jedi has to run up to him and duel to hold him off? And on top of that, there's always a door that closes behind them and cannot be opened again!? Can we get some originality here, please? You better be happy and appreciative that the door closed! That dude is like the T-1000 of the Sith, and he would have stomped your ass. Actually.... he is really hard later :X  Plus  Equals  |
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Post by Incog Neato on Mar 7, 2010 12:09:02 GMT -5
Nevermind HIM stomping my ass, the damn droids around the facility were doing a number on me when I was wandering around alone. ^^; I actually died too. ^^; (Had 5 of them attacking me at once. ;_;)
Fixed that quickly with the editor though! Got me some Ionmaster gun and started taking them down in one hit.
Bastards. TRYING TO MESS WITH ME, HUH!?!?
I think I'll keep to just editing items this time around since it takes way too long to do with I did in KOTOR. ^^;;;;;;;;;;;;
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Post by Ashurei on Mar 7, 2010 12:58:40 GMT -5
On the (talkative) audiences of games: there certainly are games that allow for it, even those that would call for it, I think. With an RPG, which is almost exclusively a single player experience, I would have to say that at the very least talking over cut scenes just doesn't work. I like the way Raison explained things - it's very much like talking over a movie where we don't have a rewind in most cases.
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Post by AllenSmithee on Mar 7, 2010 13:05:08 GMT -5
Well, I do play games with a group a lot of the time, it is just when the group is too talkative at the wrong times. My bros are good for this: They know when to shut up mostly. But playing REZ with somebody on the computer beside me talking just completely ruins it...
Castlevania is good with people as well, because it helps to have ADs if I get stuck. (Has been watching Game Center CX)
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Post by Ascended Mermaid on Mar 8, 2010 11:43:13 GMT -5
Random thought of the moment:
My shorts are animated.
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Post by Nalacakes on Mar 9, 2010 8:09:16 GMT -5
Studying Mandarin Chinese and Japanese is fun. Being roped into doing a dual language presentation on my feelings toward the languages for the East Asian Culture Fair is not. ;_; I shouldn't have told my Chinese tutor that I spoke Japanese. I freeze up and forget my words when I'm asked to speak English in front of people, so I really don't know how I'm going to cope with giving a presentation in two foreign languages, one of which I'm not even very comfortable with yet. D:
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Post by tancients on Mar 9, 2010 10:25:46 GMT -5
I once had to serve (more translate, but it felt like I was doing the sentencing) a cease and desist to a Chinese company who hired me to translate for them at electronic shows in Europe. Turns out one of the systems they had was a copy of Bose. So I had to translate from German to Chinese.
At least I still got paid for the whole thing.
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Post by Ashurei on Mar 10, 2010 12:03:41 GMT -5
So in Phoenixland, I don't think I could have called a single day this "winter" cold. Until today. The bike ride to uni was way cold and my fingers felt like they were going to fall off. Now my hands are dry and cracked a bit and it's super annoying. 80 degrees by next week. I LOVE THIS STATE (no). At least the past month+ has been ridiculously generous with precipitation. This has been a good year so far! I also want to ditch classes and go play more FF13. Alas, I must remain. I don't think I've felt this way about a videogame in *years*, though. It's exciting.  |
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Post by sushi on Mar 10, 2010 12:55:59 GMT -5
I don't think I've felt this way about a videogame in *years*, though. It's exciting. It may well be 'the One', then. xD |
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Post by Ashurei on Mar 11, 2010 0:59:26 GMT -5
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Post by Incog Neato on Mar 11, 2010 8:21:24 GMT -5
It always fascinates me how it seems like it's so easy for Hong Kong people (who speak primarily Cantonese) to learn Mandarin. I mean, they got the writing and reading down since text is the same but the sounds are completely different! There are SOME that you can make out as they sound similar but overall ... man! Even idioms and slang are different (written and spoken)! DDDD:
After watching and listening to a billion shows in Mandarin, I can pick up simple words now though. ^^
Also, completely unrelated to the above thoughts:
Does anyone else find that FFXIII's battle system is a wee bit similar to Chrono Cross'? I mean, they both use "stock points" to determine what and how many actions you can shove into a character's turn. D:
And like CC, you can queue in your commands and then let your chara go nuts on the enemy by him or herself with the attacks you assigned.
Still, FFXIII's is faster and more engaging.
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Post by Nalacakes on Mar 11, 2010 11:21:54 GMT -5
You'll manage.  I've been in that situation before (though not with Mandarin Chinese, yipes!), and somehow, it always works out in the end. -Tom I might be a little less nervous if the audience wasn't comprised mainly of senior students and native speaking exchange students. D: I think I'm the only person in my age group giving a speech. The others weaseled out of it by promising to play a tune or sing a song, but my Chinese teacher shot down my pleas to play a Ghibli song on the piano because "It's an event meant to bring together cultures, and there's nothing that better represents that than a student who speaks both languages!". Blarg. I guess it's not being graded, so I don't have too much to lose. I just have to go up and do my best not to embarrass myself too much. And I don't think Mandarin is too bad~! You get used to tones much quicker than you'd think, and though it initially seems impossible, it becomes second nature after a couple of months. Nowadays I'll come across a word in Japanese with a similar reading to its Mandarin equivalent, and it'll just sound funny without any tones. The basic word order is much easier to adjust to for an English native speaker than Japanese's SOV too, and if you come to it from Japanese you already have a lot of vocabulary under your belt, as many words have exactly the same characters and eerily familiar readings. The only thing I'd say is that the grammar in complex sentences seems very...fuzzy. I usually get things right by following the examples, but I'm not always sure why something that's right is right, or why certain things are where they are in a sentence. ^_^ It's not something I should be complaining about, I suppose, and I'm sure we'll learn more concrete rules as we go along. It's just a bit of a jump after the complex yet carefully structured grammar in Japanese. It always fascinates me how it seems like it's so easy for Hong Kong people (who speak primarily Cantonese) to learn Mandarin. I mean, they got the writing and reading down since text is the same but the sounds are completely different! There are SOME that you can make out as they sound similar but overall ... man! Even idioms and slang are different (written and spoken)! DDDD: After watching and listening to a billion shows in Mandarin, I can pick up simple words now though. ^^ Since I started Mandarin, it's become a habit for my Cantonese-speaking friend and I to throw words back and forth whenever we meet up and see if any are mutually intelligible. Aaaaand...you're sort of right. D: For every word that we both understand, there are dozens I'll say that just elicit blank stares from her until I write them down. ^_^ It seems tricky. I'd love to try learning Cantonese someday, though! Pretty much all of my Chinese-speaking friends seem to come from Hong Kong, and most of them have lived here so long that they haven't really had the chance to pick up Mandarin. It feels sort of weird to be learning a language that I can't actually speak to anyone in. D: |
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Post by AllenSmithee on Mar 11, 2010 11:31:53 GMT -5
For some reason, in my experience of Japanese class (something that I'd like to try again sometime, when I don't have my proper school at risk of failure), I can't see Japanese being a beautiful language. It sounds weird, but I just can't fathom Japanese writing being as poetic as English can be.
That's just me though.
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Post by sushi on Mar 11, 2010 12:30:17 GMT -5
I don't know Japanese, but judging from the Japanese words that have made it into the English dictionary and their respective literal meanings, I'd say it's incredibly poetic.
Like Karaoke. And Tsunami. And Bonsai. They all literally mean something that's quite poetic when you consider their English meaning. To me, anyway.
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I've been in that situation before (though not with Mandarin Chinese, yipes!), and somehow, it always works out in the end. 
