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i did try the DVD backup stuff before using 2-3 TB internal hard drives, beware though. I bought TDK's and Sony's that were supposedly the best of the best at that time. they are supposed to be golden for 10 to 15 years, but just after a year of sitting on a shelf in an air conditioned room, 5 out of 250 "delaminated" and could not be read. They had rainbow effect spots in random places. So if you aren't compressing and splitting across multiple disc, then you are losing quite a bit of space at the tale end of the disc (those 300 megs add up). and if you are spitting across multiple disc and have one go bad, you're screwed. best to save up for a cheap hard drive as a backup. even now with blu-ray disc, 50 gigs doesn't go far enough, and the cost is prohibitive. keep in mind that with a hard drive backup, you can have an instant backup ready to go if one fails. I did the disc method, never going back. I have some older 2 TB drives in a raid array for my game drive, and a 4TB being used as a mirrored backup. I get a massive jump in speed from the RAID, and if it ever fails, the 4TB backup takes over instantly. It's easy to convince yourself the disc idea is good, until you are faced with the reality of exponentially increasing the likelihood of a bad disc or write error when you mastered it (you are writing at the slowest speed aren't you?). Save up. It's worth it. And if you think you can't afford another hard drive, you can if you can afford to buy all those disc.

 
Idiotekque said:
Is it some macho thing for everyone to say "lol that game isn't scary" about anything ever called "creepy" or "scary"? Seems like every single time a horror game comes up for discussion, someone has to point out that it isn't scary.

I never said they were super scary games, but they are still horror games. The setting is creepy, they're slower paced, unsettling, etc. It's not CoD, it's Resident Evil. Even if they aren't making you crap your pants, they're still slower paced horror games, albeit they've gotten more like bro shooters as the series has progressed.

I've played RE5 on 360, and like I said, I prefer it as a single player game 100% because of the reasons I've already stated.
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It seems like people point to Amnesia and similar games as the high-water mark for scariness. So anything compared to that is dull to them.

 
MIND LINK said:
It seems like people point to Amnesia and similar games as the high-water mark for scariness. So anything compared to that is dull to them.
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On the contrary, the last time I talked about Amnesia here, I didn't even call it scary. Someone still felt the need to jump in going "lolol dat game wasn't scary AT ALL".

Saying games aren't scary/creepy increases the length and girth of your e-peen. Fact.

 
Idiotekque said:
On the contrary, the last time I talked about Amnesia here, I didn't even call it scary. Someone still felt the need to jump in going "lolol dat game wasn't scary AT ALL".

Saying games aren't scary/creepy increases the length and girth of your e-peen. Fact.
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Ok

 
Idiotekque said:
On the contrary, the last time I talked about Amnesia here, I didn't even call it scary. Someone still felt the need to jump in going "lolol dat game wasn't scary AT ALL".

Saying games aren't scary/creepy increases the length and girth of your e-peen. Fact.
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But I thought they were dicks to begin with (some of them really are >.>
 
zenaphobe zerj said:
Yu iz rite whorror gaems r steel creppy. Dad spaec whaz creppy an maid mi jupm a fwe teyemes.

(In all serious)
I couldn't ever take RE5 serious, especially when going gator hunting as a business woman. My friend and I couldn't give two craps about that game and had fun (I remember him killing me with LAZERS because I killed his best friend George, the spider)

@Mind Link, there's a song about that XP I would know as it's by one of my favorite bands
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gator hunting iz srs bsns
 
Idiotekque said:
This is what I was talking about.
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Ahhh, Steam V8. I remember those days. Seriously though Idiot, we believed you. You didn't have to go hunt down the post. But I do actually remember that exact conversation, and was more than a little peeved that said that. Not a spoiler exactly, but now when I play it, I will be forced to question whether I SHOULD look at the monster. Will I be less scared?, more scared? Will I still enjoy the game, or end up as cynical as the poster in question? questions, questions. Gray area indeed.

 
walkonshadows said:
Ahhh, Steam V8. I remember those days. Seriously though Idiot, we believed you. You didn't have to go hunt down the post. But I do actually remember that exact conversation, and was more than a little peeved that said that. Not a spoiler exactly, but now when I play it, I will be forced to question whether I SHOULD look at the monster. Will I be less scared?, more scared? Will I still enjoy the game, or end up as cynical as the poster in question? questions, questions. Gray area indeed.
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dun luk. 2 scari

 
Motoki said:
mai waifu gaimz iz moar waifu dan urz

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I feel like we've all been Tebowdragoned
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Its like I want 2.50 game for 80off not 66 lol wehn wil re revlation be 80off since 50 now
 
Motoki said:
mai waifu gaimz iz moar waifu dan urz



I feel like we've all been Tebowdragoned
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"This is a forum Game called Claim your Waifu. Where players will do anything for their Waifu!"

I read that as "players will do anything to their Waifu"...

And holy shit, dem rules.

 
walkonshadows said:
i did try the DVD backup stuff before using 2-3 TB internal hard drives, beware though. I bought TDK's and Sony's that were supposedly the best of the best at that time. they are supposed to be golden for 10 to 15 years, but just after a year of sitting on a shelf in an air conditioned room, 5 out of 250 "delaminated" and could not be read. They had rainbow effect spots in random places.
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TDK and Sony? Discs generally are and were considered good or bad depending on who made them, not the label. (TDK just labels, Sony manufactures and labels.) Sony manufactured discs were known for problems, at least back in the early to middle part of last decade. (Not that I went through a lot of optical discs back then and knew not only brands to look for but specific item and batch numbers to look for as well as the ideal drives for both burning and quality scanning. No, not me.)

So, yeah, not really worth the trouble for DVD backups.

 
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When looking through my Enemy Unknown achievements I saw about 30 new, essentially null value, achievements. Looks like Enemy Within is DLC and pretty substantial.
 
Idiotekque said:
On the contrary, the last time I talked about Amnesia here, I didn't even call it scary. Someone still felt the need to jump in going "lolol dat game wasn't scary AT ALL".

Saying games aren't scary/creepy increases the length and girth of your e-peen. Fact.
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I will be the first one to admit to getting scared by video games on a regular basis. Bioshock, System Shock 2, Resistance 3, Half-Life 2, The Last of Us, heck even stuff like Metroid Prime has succeeded in making my pulse quicken/made me jump. Horror movies I can do, but for some reason I've found games even partly horror based rather scary and am easily unnerved by them. I haven't even gotten to anything that actually tries to scare you (Dead Space, Amnesia, Resident Evil, probably something big I'm missing), but I feel you are right on some people having a problem admitting to being scared for dumb ego reasons.

Or m8 b thy r jus 2 hrdcore 2 b scard :drool:

 
MrNinjaSquirrel said:
I will be the first one to admit to getting scared by video games on a regular basis. Bioshock, System Shock 2, Resistance 3, Half-Life 2, The Last of Us, heck even stuff like Metroid Prime has succeeded in making my pulse quicken/made me jump. Horror movies I can do, but for some reason I've found games even partly horror based rather scary and am easily unnerved by them. I haven't even gotten to anything that actually tries to scare you (Dead Space, Amnesia, Resident Evil, probably something big I'm missing), but I feel you are right on some people having a problem admitting to being scared for dumb ego reasons.

Or m8 b thy r jus 2 hrdcore 2 b scard :drool:
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I'll admit that boulder punching action makes me shit my pants

 
MrNinjaSquirrel said:
I will be the first one to admit to getting scared by video games on a regular basis. Bioshock, System Shock 2, Resistance 3, Half-Life 2, The Last of Us, heck even stuff like Metroid Prime has succeeded in making my pulse quicken/made me jump. Horror movies I can do, but for some reason I've found games even partly horror based rather scary and am easily unnerved by them. I haven't even gotten to anything that actually tries to scare you (Dead Space, Amnesia, Resident Evil, probably something big I'm missing), but I feel you are right on some people having a problem admitting to being scared for dumb ego reasons.

Or m8 b thy r jus 2 hrdcore 2 b scard :drool:
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Fallout 3 has scared me the most of any game, or rather startled me the most. Sneaking around in a tunnel, then a fucking fire ant turns your entire screen orange with flame breath, fcuk man! Dat shit be cray. I've also had strange experiences with Fallout 3. I blacked out (in real life) once while playing in Megaton, and when I came to, I was standing over a body in the common house, completely dismembered and a bloody kitchen knife in hand. Wouldn't be that weird, but 1. I'm very picky about how I play my characters, and the character I was on was not a murderer, 2. I wasn't using a kitchen knife, so I'd have to consciously equip it, and 3. the body was completely dismembered, head, both arms, both legs (that dun happen accidentally, brah).

I got issues.

Amnesia is definitely creepy and unsettling, but it's more how it affects your mental state, not so much "omg jump scares!". It's suspenseful and takes smarts. It's really just a good game, not a full horror game.

 
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I will be the first one to admit to getting scared by video games on a regular basis. Bioshock, System Shock 2, Resistance 3, Half-Life 2, The Last of Us, heck even stuff like Metroid Prime has succeeded in making my pulse quicken/made me jump. Horror movies I can do, but for some reason I've found games even partly horror based rather scary and am easily unnerved by them. I haven't even gotten to anything that actually tries to scare you (Dead Space, Amnesia, Resident Evil, probably something big I'm missing), but I feel you are right on some people having a problem admitting to being scared for dumb ego reasons.

Or m8 b thy r jus 2 hrdcore 2 b scard :drool:



I get all jumpy, too. I don't even know why I bought Dead Space 1 & 2 (or any other horror game). I'm never going to play them. I don't do scary games - not well, anyway.

I got Amnesia in a humble bundle. I played 5-6 minutes and promptly uninstalled.

Edit: oh wait, I know why I bought them...
 
I ain't gonna lie, I've been scared shitless by 2.5D pixelated skeleton sprites in Daggerfall.

Bethesda is some scary shit.

 
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Idiotekque said:
Fallout 3 has scared me the most of any game, or rather startled me the most. Sneaking around in a tunnel, then a fucking fire ant turns your entire screen orange with flame breath, fcuk man! Dat shit be cray. I've also had strange experiences with Fallout 3. I blacked out (in real life) once while playing in Megaton, and when I came to, I was standing over a body in the common house, completely dismembered and a bloody kitchen knife in hand. Wouldn't be that weird, but 1. I'm very picky about how I play my characters, and the character I was on was not a murderer, 2. I wasn't using a kitchen knife, so I'd have to consciously equip it, and 3. the body was completely dismembered, head, both arms, both legs (that dun happen accidentally, brah).

I got issues.

Amnesia is definitely creepy and unsettling, but it's more how it affects your mental state, not so much "omg jump scares!". It's suspenseful and takes smarts. It's really just a good game, not a full horror game.
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Or creep up a set of stairs, turn the corner, and suddenly a super mutant is running at you with a rebar club. Those ants though, I ran the heck away as soon as they breathed fire. I still haven't gone back.

 
Not trying to play macho mind-games with anyone but I wasn't frightened by FO3 and I think it was because I was a walking warehouse with the best possible armor and weapons for my character at all times.

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Scariest moment in video games is easily the first time you go down into the bottom of the Kakariko Well in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Something about it transcends the pixels it's rendered with. maybe the music, maybe the green aesthetic, maybe the sense of foreboding, the sense of nothing being or acting like it's supposed to, the complete sense of being lost, the sense of being watched, the screams that take place when your frozen in place by a re-dead specter because you looked at it. Maybe all of the above. It just creeps me the hell out. Like death is really there, or something that would make me wish it was.

 
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One time I was playing Burger Time and a friggin' egg started coming after me.  An egg!  Then I learned that some people put eggs on their burgers.  Amnesia can't compare to mindfucks like that.

 
Man, you guys are forgetting the scariest/creepiest part of Fallout 3: the Dunwich Building. The atmosphere of that building was heightened by the creepy transcripts you read on the computers. I nearly shat myself when
I ran into a purply ghost/hallucination thing at the top of some stairs.

Also, the first F.E.A.R. scared the bejesus out of me. It's the main reason why I loathe jump scares now. F.E.A.R. was chocked full of them and some of there were right in your face and the images were damn scary. Creepy ghost girl doing a fast monkey crawl towards you in a vent? Nope x1000.

 
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now dat iz fuqen skury fuqen last ship in zpice nvidarrz

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spoderman said:
Yeah I finished most of the campaigns in RE6 (all except for Ada's) with asheskitty the other day and had a great time with it. I thought it was a lot better than the reviews gave it credit for, and definitely worth the $8 I paid on GamersGate. The PC ports of RE5 and RE6 are great, so I expect no less for Revelations. Hopefully GG will have a price mistake on Revelations soon ;)
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I really had a blast in RE6's coop. The visuals are very good and surprisingly well optimized (my GTX 660 was pulling 110-120 FPS @ 1920x1200). The story and characters had depth. Honestly I didn't look at the reviews much, better than 75% on Capcom, sold. I found RE6 to be quite solid; I'd guess downer reviews had different expectations. I'd last seen Resident Evil as RE1/2 on PSX.

 
hal said:
Who'd have figured something as simple as going down in a game would create a unique game mechanic?
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It caused a lot of controversy in GTA San Andreas... in a game about corrupt cops, murder, and car jacking, consensual sex between adults is faux pas.

 
Anybody have a positive experience with the new ATI Pacing drivers for xfire? I just got two 7970's and I'm hoping I don't run into the latency issues I did with Far Cry 3 and other games back when I xfire'd my older cards. 

 
Hoarder said:
Anybody have a positive experience with the new ATI Pacing drivers for xfire? I just got two 7970's and I'm hoping I don't run into the latency issues I did with Far Cry 3 and other games back when I xfire'd my older cards.
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From what I've read TechReport There's some very recent article on AT that I havent' read yet, that you'd be interested in.



So what does AMD’s present look like? Quite frankly, it looks a lot better than it did yesterday. AMD set out to greatly improve on their frame pacing situation on their Crossfire setups and they have delivered just that. With just one driver revision we have seen the Radeon HD 7990’s frame pacing go from laughable to acceptable; delta percentages of over 100% have been reduced to 20% or lower in 5 of the 6 games we’ve tested. For those sensitive to micro-stutter and other matters of consistency the difference is at times going to be staggering. At the most basic level, AMD has achieved their objectives.

With that said, there’s still room for improvement, and this goes for both functionality and further improvements in frame consistency. AMD’s triage-like approach means that D3D9, OpenGL, and most importantly Eyefinity are still not capable of using frame metering. These will be covered in future phases of AMD’s rollout of their frame pacing technology, and they can’t come soon enough, but for the time being these are limitations that need to be kept in mind.


From slightly older reading, ATi has supposedly fixed their frame latency issues with single GPUs but their Xfire frame latency is still bad (this might have changed very recently). Nvidia's SLI was still holding the upper hand in multi-GPU smoothness.

 
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Motoki said:
I ain't gonna lie, I've been scared shitless by 2.5D pixelated skeleton sprites in Daggerfall.

Bethesda is some scary shit.
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I've been scared of an ascii 'A' on my screen in Angband.

Doesn't compare to movies though. The Neverending Story. Now that was scary.

 
I'm locked out of Frozen Synapse. I've changed my personal email a few times since last logging into the game, I also have no idea what the password is for the game. This wouldn't be a problem if there wasn't card money involved.

 
Frithsblessing said:
I'm locked out of Frozen Synapse. I've changed my personal email a few times since last logging into the game, I also have no idea what the password is for the game. This wouldn't be a problem if there wasn't card money involved.
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You're not required to log in to get cardz are you? :)

 
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wow RPG makers still pretty pricey. Whys it so expensive? Is it really intuitive and deep or something? I messed with the PS2 one and it seemed meh

 
gilby said:
I've been scared of an ascii 'A' on my screen in Angband.

Doesn't compare to movies though. The Neverending Story. Now that was scary.
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Okay, I was bullshitting.

To this day, every time I see a dog's head I piss myself.

Frithsblessing said:
I'm locked out of Frozen Synapse. I've changed my personal email a few times since last logging into the game, I also have no idea what the password is for the game. This wouldn't be a problem if there wasn't card money involved.
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You can get locked out of FS? Damn.

Send them an e-mail. They're quick. And why does this situation interfere with cards access?

 
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gilby said:
No, no. I'm talking about the really frightening movies of my childhood. You know, scary on the level of Watership Down.
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Watership Down was an incredible bloodbath/gorefest. Could've used some TLC from the marketing standpoint, but otherwise it was a great acid trip of an animated film. Aeon Flux ain't got nothing on two rabbits violently maiming each other underground.
 
asheskitty said:
Avoid Young Sherlock Holmes (1985) then. Similarly Labyrinth (1986) might be disturbing.
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Labyrinth was scary in the way that carebears and clowns are scary.

I loved that movie when I was little. Then the animatronics came in...

Kenshindono said:
wow RPG makers still pretty pricey. Whys it so expensive? Is it really intuitive and deep or something? I messed with the PS2 one and it seemed meh
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It's a fully commercial copy. You can make your game and try to sell it, so that's not really that high of a price for commercial software.

That said, it's dated imo (800x600 res). We're due for a much better program, but it's still a good, easy(ish) to learn program that is fairly flexible. I've used it for awhile.

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Is that Silver Bullet? That shit was scary.

 
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