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Title: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: Jaynestown on December 27, 2009, 09:47:37 AM
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Post by: GamerMan316 on December 27, 2009, 09:50:45 AM
I've only played 28 of those games.
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Post by: Jaynestown on December 27, 2009, 09:52:54 AM
I was quite surprised that mine was only 17, but then when I think about it, I've bought all but one of them (Ghostbusters which I got for Christmas) so that's one game bought every 3 weeks, I didn't realise how many I'd bought until I looked down that list!  :-[
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Post by: GamerMan316 on December 27, 2009, 09:56:00 AM
I only own 2 from those 28, Resident Evil 5 and GH: Metallica all the rest were rentals or borrowed from friends.
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: Jaynestown on December 27, 2009, 09:57:19 AM
I think I'm going to start renting, too many of them were not worth the money!
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Post by: NeuroticSarge on December 27, 2009, 10:40:49 AM
I've only played 9!!!
Bought a couple,rented a couple and borrowed a couple. Not too impressive eh?
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Post by: xnightcrawlerxx on December 27, 2009, 11:43:43 AM
i played 7......no wonder my gamerscore is so low
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Post by: Failed on December 27, 2009, 01:11:12 PM
I've played 52, 1 new game a week.

Some i've completed, some i've started and give up and some i've just played a demo.
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on December 27, 2009, 01:18:12 PM
There are quite a lot in that list that are on my rental list
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Post by: Kyuubi on December 28, 2009, 08:36:01 AM
Woo hoo an almighty 4!
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: DFUSIONITE on December 29, 2009, 11:38:42 AM
Woo hoo an almighty 4!

Just 2 for me and i got both of those for xmas - assassins creed 2 and smackdown vs raw 2010
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: TaraJayne on December 29, 2009, 04:18:51 PM
I have played 9. I have L4D2 unopened too.
I cant afford it anymore but its ok because I have 70 to choose from at home ;D
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: sambo on December 30, 2009, 01:28:36 PM
6 of them I have played.
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Post by: Lukehi on December 31, 2009, 11:24:29 AM
3 for me...WTF have I been playing at!  Gaming is supposed to be a hobby?!?
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Post by: Quintillus on December 31, 2009, 12:00:44 PM
I say have played about 12 of them and just brought 50 cent from sainsbury.
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on June 24, 2010, 03:01:10 PM
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Post by: GamerMan316 on June 24, 2010, 03:07:25 PM
25 Ugliest Games Of This Generation (http://www.nowgamer.com/features/772/the-25-ugliest-games-of-this-generation)
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on June 24, 2010, 03:27:12 PM
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Post by: GamerMan316 on June 24, 2010, 03:31:38 PM
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Post by: GamerMan316 on June 25, 2010, 05:59:39 AM
History's Top 10 E3 Screwups (http://www.gamesradar.com/f/historys-top-10-e3-screwups/a-20100624161620205091)
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Post by: nCogNeato on June 25, 2010, 11:59:03 AM
History's Top 10 E3 Screwups (http://www.gamesradar.com/f/historys-top-10-e3-screwups/a-20100624161620205091)

I laughed pretty damn hard at a couple of those.



... well BAM!!!

Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on June 26, 2010, 06:01:31 AM
20 Heroes who deserve better games (http://www.gamesradar.com/f/20-heroes-who-deserve-better-games/a-20100625153347216065)
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: DFUSIONITE on June 28, 2010, 04:41:54 AM
20 Heroes who deserve better games (http://www.gamesradar.com/f/20-heroes-who-deserve-better-games/a-20100625153347216065)

great read that.
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on June 28, 2010, 05:28:44 AM
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Post by: Astrex on June 28, 2010, 06:21:52 AM
I just played Rogue Warrior and Mickey Rourkes rap at the end is awesome!
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: nCogNeato on June 28, 2010, 10:01:20 AM
I just played Rogue Warrior and Mickey Rourkes rap at the end is awesome!

 :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsusJVaAWf8

Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: Astrex on June 28, 2010, 10:11:24 AM
That's pretty funny init!  :D
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: DFUSIONITE on June 29, 2010, 05:07:42 AM
I just played Rogue Warrior and Mickey Rourkes rap at the end is awesome!

 :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsusJVaAWf8




Next time me and my wife are going to make love i am gonna put this music on while we do.  :D
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on June 29, 2010, 05:09:33 AM
The Ten Most Broken Games of the Last Decade (http://www.nowgamer.com/features/783/the-ten-most-broken-games-of-the-last-decade)
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: Astrex on June 29, 2010, 05:43:05 AM
I just played Rogue Warrior and Mickey Rourkes rap at the end is awesome!

 :D




Next time me and my wife are going to make love i am gonna put this music on while we do.  :D

And prey you don't go soft  ;D
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: sambo on June 29, 2010, 11:44:44 AM
The 10 Strangest Achievements

The Soprana (Saints Row 2)

Achievement Description:Sung Along to the Radio
Worth:10 gamerpoints

Obviously, you don't sing along yourself. That would be mildly disturbing for your co-op partner or anyone who happens to be in earshot, wondering why you're singing Take On Me at the TV. Unless you're a great singer. And hey, you could be! But then you'd be playing Lips and not this. Instead, you have to whack the radio onto the station that churns out 80s hits and wait for your character to sing along.


High Noon (Call in Juarez: Bound in Blood)

Achievement Description:Kill 4 enemies between 12:00pm and 12:15pm
Worth:5 gamerpoints

Every now and then in life, there will be something that you realise you have absolutely no opinion about, so you tend to just follow the crowd and their opinions yet. Vanilla ice-cream, Pixie Lott, Aston Villa... you neither love nor hate them. You're just not sure. The same could be said for this achievement. Is it a good idea? Is it rubbish? Who knows? Nothing like it has been tried before or since. We just don't know.


Let's Do Lunch! (Incredible Hulk)

Achievement Description:Crush 10 enemies by throwing either a taco, an ice cream cone or a doughnut
Worth:10 gamerpoints

You can kill someone with a traffic cone in Halo 3 (or yourself). You can batter someone to death with a rubbish bag in Saints Row 2. You can even take out enemies with a water gun in Matt Hazard. But being crushed to death by a doughnut? That ranks as the most embarrassing way to die in any 360 game. Or a taco. Or an ice-cream. Or even all three. Just don't let it happen to you.


The Great Leap Forward (A-Train HX)

Achievement Description:Complete the game within 5 years
Worth:60 gamerpoints

Some people like to moan about how long it takes to complete a game. Woe betide the developer who ushers you along to the end credits before you've spent at least six hours sat on your behind, for he will feel the wrath of the short-changed gamer slamming his fists against his keyboard to batter out angry posts on an internet forum to show his rage. Perhaps what Angry Gamer needs is a copy of A-Train HX. Look! It's a challenge to finish the game within five years. Good luck, see you in 2015!


Honeymoon (Lost Planet 2)

Achievement Description:Celebrate your six-month anniversary with Lost Planet 2
Worth:20 gamerpoints


 
Firing up the game six months after you get it is an easy way to nab this achievement but really, what are you achieving? Not much. We can't imagine it being anything other than a particularly depressing anniversary. Not that Lost Planet 2 is a bad game per se, just anniversaries are... you know. Not for games. Anyway, what is it with developers being scared we'll get rid of their games? After all, look at the next achievement on the list...


Obsessive (Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway)

Achievement Description:While connected to Xbox Live, play the game once a day for 100 days
Worth:100 gamerpoints

For 100 days, you have to log on, play Brothers In Arms: Hell's Highway, then log off again. Fair enough. Except it's hardly up there with Modern Warfare 2. So really what you have to do is log on, create a lobby, wait 30 minutes for someone to show up, quickly try and start the match, swear at the screen as the other player quickly scuttles off, wait another 30 minutes, give up and vow to try again tomorrow. They didn't really think this achievement through.


Defeat King Poo (Blue Dragon)

Achievement Description:Find and defeat the rare monster King Poo
Worth:30 gamerpoints

Yes, you have to defeat poo for this achievement. But not any poo will do. You have to defeat King Poo! It sounds like the aftermath of a bad night out but it's a legit achievement. Even better (or worse), King Poo is one of the toughest monsters in this game, making this a smelly badge of honour for those hardcore enough to nab it. Just don't forget to wash your hands afterwards.


Hanging Chad (Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11)

Achievement Description:Provide feedback by taking a survey
Worth:25 gamerpoints


 
As strange as all the achievements on this list have been, at least they involve you playing the game in some way, shape or form. This one throws 25 gamerpoints for ticking a couple of boxes on a survey sheet. Even better, if you fire up your copy of Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11, the survey isn't even available yet. Brilliant work there, chaps. We're guessing "do you think this achievement is a good idea?" won't be one of the eventual questions.


Welcome to 2047 (Command & Conquer 3)

Achievement Description:Press the A button 2047 times, the year the game takes place
Worth:20 gamerpoints

For this achievement you have to press A. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. And again. We're not going to type it out 2047 times but you get the picture.


Flushed (The Orange Box)

Achievement Description:Kill an enemy with a toilet
Worth:5 gamerpoints

You know what we said earlier about dying by a doughtnut being the most embarrassing way to snuff it? Maybe getting clanked on the head by a porcelain toilet is worse. The gravity gun in Half-Life 2 lets you fling all sorts of objects about - the razor-sharp discs being a special treat when you find them - and Valve decided to reward those who murder their enemies by flinging toilets about. It's like a Jackass skit gone wrong.
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on June 30, 2010, 11:55:49 AM
Top Ten Video Game Websites that do Top Ten Lists
If you can't beat 'em, list 'em.

From the Top Ten Video Game Crates of All Time to the Top Five Mario Sprites Ever Created, it's difficult not to love a good list. But are you tired of the sheer quantity of list-based features cropping up all over the net? Maybe it's time to make a stand. Here's a list of the Top Ten Video Game Websites that do Top Ten Lists. Oh, the irony...

10. CVG

It's not all that often that CVG publish list-based features, and when they do they're normally the nice kind, spotlighting reader comments and things that happened within the world of gaming that week. Obviously nobody's told CVG that lists aren't supposed to make your regular readers feel all warm and fuzzy; they're meant to bring in the rabid fanboys who'll defend their favourite game to the death, simultaneously sending your page views soaring through the roof. As a result, CVG themselves almost failed to make this top ten, but they had to because we had to make up the numbers.

9. GameTrailers

GameTrailers very nearly placed higher on this list simply for having the audacity to put a separate channel on their website dedicated to Top Tens. To the site's credit, GameTrailers' 'Countdowns' are usually of a very high standard and timely to boot, from the post-New Year Most Anticipated Games of 2010 list to the Top Ten Disappointing Games of the Decade. But much to the list fan's disappointment, it's unfortunate that they rarely put them out.

8. VideoGamer

Amongst the usual fanboy-rousing assortment of 'Games We Hate' and 'Top 10 Video Game Crushes', there's the odd gem tucked away on VideoGamer.com that's actually genuinely entertaining. Neon's advice to 'Turn Professional' while listing the 'Top 10 Ways To Make Money From Gaming' almost screamed of a man desperate to get out of writing these God-forsaken things, while Wes' 'Portugal Don't Need To Be In It' bullet point from 'Why FIFA is better than the real World Cup' raised a certain chuckle in the GamerZines office/Ronaldo hate camp.

7. GamerZines

Let's not beat around the bush, we... heck, even I, have done a fair few top ten features in our time, including this one, obviously. We've even been foolish enough to repeat the same list twice, and we're certainly not going to stop doing the odd list as a result of this article. But are we fools, or are we the modern face of games journalism? Answer: not the first one.

6. Kotaku

Kotaku newsman Owen Good once published an article titled 'The Top 50 Cosplay Cleavage Shots'. Readers, with one hand on their joystick and the other on their mouse, desperately scrambled to their computers to see the epic breastage that Owen had promised. Except presumably upon realising how pathetic it was, Owen decided not to list all 50, instead leaving the 425,000-odd readers who clicked through to the article with five woefully low-res pictures before telling them to go elsewhere for their cosplay filth.

5. Ripten

Once upon a time there was a feature dedicated to asses. Video game character asses. The 'Top 10 Nicest' ones, according to Ripten. And so this little-known US blog was put on the map, drip feeding a new ass onto the net for an entire week. We were hooked. We were horny. We were horrified when the girls from Hitman came top.

4. Destructoid

Destructoid places one position higher than Ripten simply for having the nerve of replicating their idea for the top ten videogame asses. Or in Destructoid's case, arses. Denis Dyack was number one, though, which earned them some brownie points.

3. IGN

Similar to GameTrailers, IGN's lists are usually the polar opposite to the kind of list you'd expect on the majority of websites listed on this page. Rather than being the brash, hastily put together run downs we're used to seeing, they're usually well-produced, filled with content and trivia, and an absolute pleasure to read through. Just have a flick through their recent Top 100 Videogame Villains for proof.

2. GamesRadar

Who knew there were so many things about Halo that you could possibly talk about? Well, GamesRadar did. The site currently has 54 lists with references to Microsoft's shooter hidden away in its archives, including '37 Reasons To Hate Halo 3', despite, you know, giving it a perfect 10/10. And if that wasn't already funny enough, the last feature in their Halo 3 archive is called 'What The Hell Were We Thinking?!?!'. We couldn't have put it better ourselves.

1. NowGamer

There's scraping the barrel and then there's being NowGamer. With a feature page housing 15 of the buggers from a possible 20 at the time of writing, there aren't many other websites as devoted to lists as Imagine's online publication. In fairness, there are wisps of greatness bundled in with all the chaff - The 'Top Ten Most Outrageous Games Industry Quotes' raised a laugh, for example - but when the vast majority of them are directly targeted at riling the fanboys or pulling in horny teenage boys, we've got to wonder, what's the point?
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: nCogNeato on June 30, 2010, 01:17:24 PM
Top Ten Video Game Websites that do Top Ten Lists

Oh, the cleverness ..


... must ... resist ... head ... exploding ...

Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: Failed on July 01, 2010, 05:10:00 AM
Top Ten Video Game Websites that do Top Ten Lists

Oh, the cleverness ..


... must ... resist ... head ... exploding ...



he's messing with the very fabric of the internet
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on July 08, 2010, 07:24:58 AM
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Post by: Astrex on July 08, 2010, 07:44:43 AM
I liked prototype
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on July 08, 2010, 07:46:00 AM
I liked prototype

Me too.
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: nCogNeato on July 08, 2010, 09:17:02 AM
That list is bogus.

Alpha Protocol should have been on it. 

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Post by: DFUSIONITE on July 08, 2010, 09:20:16 AM
I don't remember devil may cry 2 being THAT bad. It wasn't a patch on the first one, but still they are being a bit harsh
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on July 08, 2010, 09:26:24 AM
I don't remember devil may cry 2 being THAT bad. It wasn't a patch on the first one, but still they are being a bit harsh

Awful game mate, 3 was bad too.
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: DFUSIONITE on July 08, 2010, 09:31:47 AM
I don't remember devil may cry 2 being THAT bad. It wasn't a patch on the first one, but still they are being a bit harsh

Awful game mate, 3 was bad too.

3 was worse then 2, i actually quite enjoyed 2, but three was god awful. You hate on a lot of games i like though, well apart from gears  ;D
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on July 08, 2010, 09:40:25 AM
I don't remember devil may cry 2 being THAT bad. It wasn't a patch on the first one, but still they are being a bit harsh

Awful game mate, 3 was bad too.

3 was worse then 2, i actually quite enjoyed 2, but three was god awful. You hate on a lot of games i like though, well apart from gears ;D

Oblivion sucks too  :P

I can't really say that as i've only played it for about an hour  :)
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: Astrex on July 08, 2010, 09:57:40 AM
Why isn't Gears of Crap on there?
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on July 08, 2010, 10:14:22 AM
Why isn't Gears of Crap on there?

No such game  :P
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: knikki91 on July 09, 2010, 05:53:51 AM
Like all these lists it is just someones deluded opinion about what is goo and what is crap  :D

I thought Perfect Zero was a class game and I like Prototype as well.

Think Gears should be on that list as well  ;)
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: Failed on July 09, 2010, 06:00:33 AM
It's not a list about what games are crap, the list is for the most disapointing games.

They were all hyped to amazingness and well, didn't turn out like that.

So Alpha Protocol should have been there. Perfect Dark was never close to the predecessor, even though it was still a good game. I still don't get why Prototype is in there.
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: TaraJayne on July 09, 2010, 09:39:01 AM
Two Worlds and Panzer Dragoon Orta I think it was called on The Xbox. I love Panzer Dragoon on the Saturn
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: sambo on July 09, 2010, 11:47:01 AM
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on July 26, 2010, 08:33:18 PM
Ten Games to Soothe Mel Gibson's Soul (http://gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2010/07/23/games-to-soothe-mel-gibsons-soul.aspx)
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: sambo on July 27, 2010, 07:41:37 AM
Ten Games to Soothe Mel Gibson's Soul (http://gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2010/07/23/games-to-soothe-mel-gibsons-soul.aspx)

LOL. ;D
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: Handshakes on July 27, 2010, 10:17:45 PM
I just played Rogue Warrior and Mickey Rourkes rap at the end is awesome!

 :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsusJVaAWf8



I know I missed this part of the thread by a month, but after seeing that rap I just have to say...

I MUST have this game now.
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: sambo on August 20, 2010, 08:33:02 AM
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: Lukehi on August 20, 2010, 01:00:34 PM
Worst Ideas On 360


Prince of Persia Reboot


The reboot itself wasn't the problem, per se. It was the cel-shaded look, the dramatic change in the Price's personality and worst of all, the lack of dying. It should have made the game less frustrating and more enjoyable. Instead, it made the game less dramatic and more dull. Still, at least the ending was surprisingly bleak and downbeat, showing how brave the designers are. Until they nullified that with DLC. Whoops

I really like this game...very under-rated.
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: Failed on August 20, 2010, 01:10:20 PM
new PoP is better.
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on August 25, 2010, 01:24:40 PM
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Post by: dfusioness on August 25, 2010, 02:07:52 PM
could be wrong but i think elder scrolls oblivion is pretty big if u dont do the missions straightaway you're looking at a big game , especially with the dlc
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: DFUSIONITE on August 25, 2010, 03:34:09 PM
could be wrong but i think elder scrolls oblivion is pretty big if u dont do the missions straightaway you're looking at a big game , especially with the dlc

you are right vicki. I have sunk a good 50 hours plus into that game so far, and i still have loads to do, not to mention the dlc! I actually prefer it to morrowind too, which was also an amazing game!
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: dfusioness on October 14, 2010, 01:11:50 PM
couldnt find where to put my list of games, sorry, but i got a few already !!
 gears of war 1
grid-on its way
gears 2-on its way
red dead redemption
3d minigolf
kung fu panda
fight night round 3
table tennis

 crap list i know but we all have to start somewhere  :'(
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on October 14, 2010, 01:17:58 PM
couldnt find where to put my list of games, sorry, but i got a few already !!
 gears of war 1
grid-on its way
gears 2-on its way
red dead redemption
3d minigolf
kung fu panda
fight night round 3
table tennis

 crap list i know but we all have to start somewhere  :'(

We did have a thread on this i'm sure of it, it may have been on the old site.

You can post you multiplayer games here (http://360fahrenheit.com/fahrenh1_forum1/index.php?topic=1438.0) so people can see what games you play online.   :)
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Post by: sambo on January 05, 2011, 03:14:48 PM
 
      Gaming's 20 biggest myths busted

You know the rules. We all do. For better or for worse, they've become part of modern games design: barrels explode when you shoot them. Necks can be snapped with a single twist. Health packs give you 75 per cent of your health back. But could any of it actually happen? We collected the more common in-game rules and asked the experts what they thought.

Would a soldier really try and throw a grenade back at the enemy before it detonated?

Maybe, but it's unlikely. "The most basic human instinct is to run like hell and dive in a hole if you can," advises Lt Col Frank Keirsey, 24-year US Army veteran and advisor to the Call of Duty series. He's backed up by Commander Richard Marcinko, founder of Navy SEAL Team 6 and star of Rogue Warrior. "Throwing the grenade back is a reflexive reaction, not something you would train to do," he says.

If you did throw it, your chances aren't good. "If your opponent has not 'cooked off' the grenade, you have two to four seconds," says Kiersey. "So if the grenade landed close to your hand, and you were especially nimble, and there was no place to dive - yes, you might grab it and throw it. But I can't recall a recent account of a guy throwing a grenade back." Marcinko isn't sold either: "Not all grenades are the same. How long is the fusing mechanism? What type of grenade is it? Fragmentation? Pressure? Smoke? Flashbang?"

Verdict: No



 
Do zombies exist? If so, is zombism contagious?

Wow: "A qualified yes," says Dr Jude Kelly of the College of the Holy Cross, New England. "There is one disease in particular that the whole zombie thing might have been based on." African Sleeping Sickness, spread by tsetse flies, has a range of unnerving symptoms, including "a change in personality, slurred speech, irritability, and difficulty walking." Victims tend to sleep all day and have insomnia at night. Professor Sanjeev Krishna of St George's, University of London, supplied more details: "This is an infection that carries nightmarish qualities, reducing many of its victims to a zombie-like state before they go into a coma and die." But what about that classic Romero breaking-out-of-coffins thing? Do those zombies exist? No, they don't, our experts said.

Verdict: Almost

When do we get lightsabers? How about the Covenant energy sword?

Not yet. "A blade can't be made of light alone, since beams of light don't repel one another," offers Dr Kelley, although he doesn't rule it out completely. "If you changed the focal point of a pulsed laser along a set distance, the laser would ionise the surrounding air at each point, producing small plasmas. Create enough of these in a line, and you have a blade. It wouldn't block another similar blade, but it could conceivably slice through objects." So duels are out, but you could hurt someone - probably yourself, warns Kelley. "It'd need a huge, non-portable power source, would make a lot of noise, be extremely bright and probably blind or burn anyone you pointed it at."

Verdict: Probably never


 
Can you gene-splice your way to superhuman abilities?

Possibly. It turns out that BioShock's Andrew Ryan was way, way ahead of his time. "Gene therapy is a relatively young field that has shown some promise for the treatment of hereditary diseases," says Dr Kelley. "The simple idea is to replace a faulty gene with a more functional one." However, frost powers are a long way down the list, says Dr Frederick Chen of the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Washington. "We have only recently mapped the human genome, so manipulating it is still a long way off. Superpowers will probably have to wait until after we fix congenital defects, chronic illnesses, and cancer."

Even once Alzheimer's is cured, plasmids will have problems. "Gene splicing toward superpowers would require replacing normal genes with superpowered ones," says Dr Kelley. "You would need to either borrow or create genes that grant superpowers. Real-life genetic mutations usually do more harm than good, so we don't have the raw material we would need for these genes." Dammit.

Kelley reckons it isn't too far-fetched to imagine gene therapy granting more useful powers, though - "immunity to diseases, slower aging, resistance to toxins, things like that."

Verdict: Yes

Do soldiers regularly take weapons, ammo, and other supplies from the corpses of their dead enemies?

"Only if they are working behind enemy lines," says Richard Marcinko. "Of course, there are no defined lines in Afghanistan or Iraq. Special ops guys do it to make sure they have supplies if they're doing true clandestine or covert ops. With terrorists, I'd take it to deny their use by someone else. A seasoned operator will booby-trap what he can't carry."

In more conventional fights, Lt Col Keirsey says some enemy gear might be "thrown into the cargo hold of a supply Humvee headed to the rear, to get tagged." But picking up a newer weapon is unlikely, because a trained soldier is far more likely to hold on the gear they know best. "During the fight, unless your weapon is damaged or out of ammo, your weapon is the girl you brought to the dance," he says. "You have babied it, cleaned it, tuned it, made it fit your style, zeroed it perfectly. Why on earth would you want to pick up some loser-slob's piece? It didn't seem to do him much good."

Verdict: Almost never

Can a commando quickly snap an enemy's neck with his bare hands?

Yes, but Marcinko calls it "a tactic of last resort. Although it can be done, it can be noisy; either the act itself or the body dropping. Being that close to the enemy also invites your own vulnerabilities. Murphy's Law can and will be present."

Verdict: Yes


 
Will playing drums in games train you to be a drummer in real life?

Tricky one, this, because we were asking people before Rock Band 3 came out. "Rock Band has made playing music more accessible to people," admits drum instructor Paul Abbott. "But the step from the Rock Band drum set to an actual drum set... well, that's a big step." Tutor and musician Brian Andres is more scathing: "taking a Breathalyser doesn't make you a better trumpet player." He does admit that Beat and Fill Trainers in Rock Band 2 have "some legitimacy" - at least more than simply following the cues of someone else's song.

Both agree that the biggest problem is that game drums simply don't feel or respond like the real thing. "Even the best electronic sets don't translate into low-latency playability or the feel of a real acoustic kit," says Abbott, while Andres likens using the Rock Band 2 kit to playing "digital Whack-A-Mole."

With the addition of Rock Band 3's pro-guitar and pro-keyboard mode (along with the new pro peripherals and support for the Ion Drum Rocker), these games are becoming more suitable for teaching real skills, but real life still has the edge. So, for now...

Verdict: Unlikely

Can you increase magical powers with a potion?

Yes, according to Bryn Truett-Chavez: herbalist, priestess in the Sisterhood of the Silver Branch, and owner of True Spirit Healing Arts in Los Gatos, California. "Your right brain is open to seeing and experiencing the aspects of life beyond the physical," she explains. "The ingredients in a potion crafted for this purpose will quiet the practical left half of the brain to let the right brain work its, well, magic.

Truett-Chavez says a proper brew "can increase all of the user's capabilities - physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual. These are the faculties which are employed in the use of magic in its simplest, purest forms." Just don't expect an instant power-up; they usually take ten minutes to kick in.

Verdict: Yes


 
Is portal technology possible?

Probably not. Imagine space as a flat piece of paper, says Dr Kelley. "One way to travel across the page is to 'walk' along the surface," he explains. "Another, more clever way would be to fold it so the opposite sides are touching, and cut a hole through the overlapping sheets. Walk through, and you're on the other side of the sheet."

Great! So why don't we just get some really big scissors? "The problem here is bending space to that degree," says Dr Kelley. "Some suggest that black holes do such a thing, but the gravitational forces around a black hole are not something our frail bodies could readily survive. It'd be a one-way trip at best, and we'd probably be unrecognisable on the other side - if there is one."

Verdict: No

Can you really pick a lock with a pin, like in Fallout 3?

Yes, but a paper clip works better and you should bring a tension wrench to finish the job. You can see for yourself how it's done by watching the handy video at http://tinyurl.com/pickalock - which, naturally, we don't suggest you try recreating yourself. How about escaping from prison, as seen in key plot moments from countless games and indeed movies? US prison officer Daylan Kinser says you could probably use a hairgrip to pick handcuffs with "a bit of dexterity."

But you wouldn't actually get out of your government-mandated holiday location: the pin would break if you tried to pick a heavy prison lock.

Verdict: Yes

Can a human being really "double-jump" in mid-air?

To absolutely nobody's surprise: No. "As much as I'd like for it to be true, a double-jump as depicted in videogames is really not possible," says Jarik R Sikat, 14-year scholar of Chinese martial art Wushu. He defines a double-jump as "the ability to jump in mid-air."

When we observe the human action of jumping, our bodies are exerting a greater force against the ground than the force of gravity pulling us to Earth. When that force is exerted we leave the ground. As we rise into the air, the force of the Earth's gravity slows us and pulls us back down. If our bodies were to 'double-jump' in mid-air or at the apex of the jump, we would still need a surface against which we could exert a downward force greater than the force of pulling down on our bodies - but alas, that surface is absent."

There isn't even any scientific breakthrough on the horizon to turn this around. "Unfortunately there isn't any sort of martial or acrobatic technique to overcome this," says Sikat. "Imagine trying to bounce a ball against the air so that it comes back to you. It's just not possible." The closest thing we'll get to seeing something like that, as Dr Chen points out, is parkour runners - the closest gaming is going to get to reality is Faith's leaping in Mirror's Edge. For proof, see the video at http://tinyurl.com/da6bqj.

Verdict: No


 
Can a commando really hide in the shadows to avoid detection from a nearby enemy?

Turns out it's "very easy" to become one with the darkness, and it's ears rather than eyes that give you away. "The key is to move slowly and steady, not in quick dashes," advises Marcinko. "Noise is a factor that has advantages and consequences. Use ambient noise to mask movement and be aware of wild game that can alert others to your presence."

Verdict: Yes

Can a soldier carry nine or ten guns at a time?

A soldier can carry three or four at the most. Forget games in which you collect nine or ten weapons, all of which fit invisibly into one backpack. In fact, forget the number altogether. "The number of guns is not as important as the number of rounds of ammunition that is carried," explains Marcinko. "A practical loadout would be one assault weapon, one suppressed weapon, and one secondary or backup weapon, augmented with comms, grenades, and a functional knife (a tool and a weapon combined). Ten weapons with ammunition cannot be logistically supported on one human frame! Reality kicks in when there are no bullets in the gun."

Keirsey agrees, Soldiers usually carry "only one long gun and a pistol at most. Some outfits will hang a shotgun on their kit if they are doing breaching. A boot knife or a K-bar is on your kit if things really go to crap, but a soldier is already carrying far too much equipment as it is to strap on any additional guns."

Verdict: No


 
Do warehouses really stack crates so you can climb them?

Not since the invention of shelves, says customs house broker Daniel Nolan. "Most warehouses I've seen or worked in mainly use pallet racking and shelving for storage of heavy crates," he says. "The pallet racks are arranged so you can easily drive and manoeuvre a forklift or other piece of loading equipment easily, so there's a good amount of space in between them."

The only things stacked on the floor are things on their way in or out, which won't be stacked more than two high. And they certainly won't be placed for easy climbing to the manager's office to grab the blue keycard. "You could probably climb one," admits Nolan, "but it wouldn't get you anywhere but up, and probably not to the ceiling or rafters."

Verdict: No

Would a commando really infiltrate a building by crawling through ventilation shafts?

It's possible, but Marcinko doesn't recommend it. "Insertion and extractions are very critical points in every mission. Sewer systems are roomier and dirtier, so no one goes near them for guarded access, but they, of course, only get you in a building not through a building."

If you've decided vents are the only way to go, you'd better not weigh much and carry even less. Marcinko says you'll have to be of "slight build" and need to leave most of your gear behind, since it could easily get snagged and only adds weight. "The hangers that hold the ventilation systems were not designed to hold the weight of a combatant. Getting in the system is one process, finding a vent in the target area big enough to get out is another - and getting out can you leave you vulnerable and exposed."

Verdict: Unlikely

Would a barrel of fuel really explode if you shot it? What about a vehicle?

Depends on how you shoot it, and with what. In a drum filled with petrol, "the vapour is more volatile than the fuel, and it needs a spark to ignite the fuel," says Marcinko. If the bullet scraping against the metal wall creates that spark, you might get the barrel to catch, but it's not likely.

Marcinko reckons cars might be a better target. "With a vehicle," says, "there are more metal parts that can cause the friction or spark to get sufficient ignition." Keirsey's not so sure, since gas tanks are generally designed specifically to avoid that kind of thing. "I've seen a large number of rounds fired into commercial vehicles and have yet to see one erupt into a Hollywood fireball," he says, although concedes that it's "definitely possible."

One way to make it more possible: make sure you pack the right explosive ammo. "Tracer rounds bring their own spark," suggests Marcinko. "An old rule of thumb would be one tracer round every fifth round. But if you want to deny your location, don't use tracers because the enemy can see where it came from on its way to target." So you'd need to make sure that your enemy will be taken out by whatever you're blowing up.

Verdict: Yes

Can a medkit really boost your health?

Yes! Sort of. "Most med kits contain plasters and aspirin, hardly the stuff to replenish your life-energy bar," says Dr Chen. "However, there are a couple of medications that produce near-miraculous results. Naloxone reverses the effects of narcotic drugs and can awaken someone from the near-death of a heroin overdose. An epinephrine injection can be instantly life-saving for someone with a severe allergic reaction. They work in seconds but usually aren't helpful for gunshot wounds."

Verdict: Yes

Can bands turn bad gigs into good ones if a musician utterly fails?

Yes, but you have to be a really good band. Kiss guitarist and vocalist Paul Stanley had a heart attack preparing for a gig in 2007. While paramedics resuscitated him, the band still managed to perform 14 songs for the fans, some of whom were invited up on stage to help out.
The mid-gig drop-out was tested by Who drummer Keith Moon. He mixed huge amounts of brandy with strong tranquillisers before a show in 1973 and collapsed during the performance, only be revived with a cortisone shot. After he passed out at the drums a second time, the roadies carried him offstage and frontman Pete Townshend asked the audience for Star Power.

Nineteen-year-old audience member Scot Halpin was handed a pair of sticks and a shot of brandy to calm his nerves, and had 15 minutes of fame playing with the band as they finished the set.

Verdict: Yes

Can you really break open a crate by repeatedly hitting it with a crowbar?

"No way," says Shannon Taylor, of chemical distributor ArmorThane USA. "Not only do you have to pry it open, quite often you have to unscrew it. If you continued to hit the crate, it would eventually split - but only a piece at a time, and nothing would fall out. Crates typically have two-by-fours in the corners that hold them together. They aren't meant to be opened easily." Daniel Nolan agrees: "If you tried to smash a crate with a crowbar, you'd be there a while. Any decent shipping crate would hold up in most cases."

Verdict: No

Do princesses really need regular rescuing?

They used to, says Lucinda Rumsey, medieval lecturer at Mansfield College, University of Oxford. "Romantic inclinations aside, aristocratic families in fiction and history wanted to keep control of who the women in their families slept with," she explains, "because they wanted to know who the father of any children were. Otherwise there could be legal quarrels about inheritance."

Not something that's played a big part in videogames lately, but their being significant characters is more accurate. "Princesses tend to be used as pawns in the games of money and power, so they also get married off to cement alliances or patch up feuds." So the concept of having to rescue a young lady held against her will isn't entirely baseless.

Verdict: Yes

Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: sambo on January 10, 2011, 01:14:22 PM
Moved to all formats chart...D'oh (http://www.thesmilies.com/smilies/ashamed/ashamed3.gif)
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: nCogNeato on January 12, 2011, 03:22:47 PM
Gaming's 20 biggest myths busted

Interesting read.  I'm printing it out for bathroom reading.   :o
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on January 26, 2011, 11:55:27 AM
From bloody-disgusting.com

The 10 Most Unappreciated Video Game Monsters

Screw villains, they get all the glory.  What about the grunts?  You know, the hundreds of generic bad guys you have to shoot/frag/slice/photograph/dialog with between boss battles?  Being a grunt has to be the toughest job in a videogame, yet their faces so rarely lead a marketing campaign. It's a pity really.

(http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/galleryvg/images/lists/10Monsters//0.jpg)

This article is dedicated to them, but I'm not just talking about every faceless grunt you've fought over your gaming career, because that would take a very long time. This is for more than the plethora of featureless baddies that do little more than stand between you and the evil dude you spent a majority of the game trying to reach. That's just not enough to make this list, instead you'll find the grunts that actually managed to frustrate, or worse, embarrass gamers by killing us when we make the deadly mistake of underestimating them. This is for the little guys that caused big problems.

Grunts (Halo)
(http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/galleryvg/images/lists/10Monsters//1.jpg)

Now you're probably asking yourself why these guys make the list since they're really aliens  and not necessarily monsters, to which I'll reply, I write the article so I make the rules. Aptly named, when it came to warfare the Covenant's strategy usually involves sending wave after fucking wave of these little bastards to whittle away our health and ammo until the real threat arrived. Then, once we've decided these things are little more than shiny, annoying gnomes they come armed with Fuel Rod Cannons to really ruin our day. Apparently, the lack of attention has taken its toll on the little guys as I'm sure you've seen, on more than one occasion I might add, a grunt take two plasma grenades and proceed to blow his tiny ass sky high. Stop the suicides people, give the grunts some love.

Ghosts (Silent Hill 4: The Room)
(http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/galleryvg/images/lists/10Monsters//2.jpg)

Silent Hill has introduced us to a plethora of annoying enemies but the Ghosts that we had a pleasure of meeting in the fourth game take the cake for a few reasons. Like pretty much every thing that made the list there's usually more than one of these guys coming at us at once. Second, they only have to get near us to start sapping our health (and your very will to continue playing that damn game). And finally, they can't be killed. Yeah, the designers at Konami are some sick, masochistic bastards.

Swarmers (Dead Space)
(http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/galleryvg/images/lists/10Monsters//3.jpg)

The Swarmer, or what many affectionately refer to as Giblets, are exactly what their second nickname implies. They're reanimated bits of flesh that have somehow managed to learn how to hunt humans and travel in packs. Let's say that again: they're intelligent bits of man meat that are more talented than the average toddler. That's pretty damn scary.

Lambent Wretches (Gears of War)
(http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/galleryvg/images/lists/10Monsters//4.jpg)

We already looked at wretches as if they were horny alien dogs that enjoyed dry humping our bulky man legs until we were incapped so having to fight this same creature with the added feature of a ticking time bomb that makes them go boom after their demise makes these little dudes some of the more annoying enemies in Gears of War's vast arsenal of badass creatures. Honestly, like many of the enemies on this list they wouldn't be all that bad, manageable even, if they didn't come in packs that tend to swarm us before consuming us alive.

Baby Dolls (Condemned 2: Bloodshot)
(http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/galleryvg/images/lists/10Monsters//5.jpg)

Dolls are scary. Maybe it's the way their soulless eyes follow us around a room or the fact that I'm positive  they come to life while we're sleeping to waddle their chubby plastic legs to our bed where they consider whether or not tonight's the night they'll decide to finally eat us alive. And I'm not sure about you but I think bombs are pretty scary too, so I'm thinking it's pure genius that the clever buggers at Monolith decided to combine the two into some twisted baby doll bomb that totters creepily toward us until we're safely inside its blast radius where it then proceeds to pull it's string and go BOOM.

Cherub (Doom 3)
(http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/galleryvg/images/lists/10Monsters//6.jpg)

Doom 3 might not have been the revolutionary horror game some of us hoped it would be but that certainly doesn't mean it didn't have its fair share of terror, much of which that came from the Cherub. If you're like me when you hear Cherub you immediately think of chubby flying babies armed with bow and arrows. Now I'm going to ask you to replace that thought with a monster that's half infant and half insect, armed with serrated claws that you know is about to tear your sh*t up when you hear its twisted, distorted baby babble. Oh yeah, and like everything else these little brats come in groups.

Headcrabs (Half-Life)
(http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/galleryvg/images/lists/10Monsters//7.jpg)

Besides sounding fucking nasty, these things look like massive spiders. Nothing is worse than a spider larger than a quarter and Headcrabs are roughly twice the size of a dinner plate. Headcrabs come in a variety of flavors including original (which doubles as the easiest to deal with), a faster and more agile version of the original and my personal favorite, the poisonous Headcrab. That last guy can do much of what its ugly siblings can and it can also bring your health down to nothing with a single hit.

All that is more than enough to keep these guys nestled safely in the back of my mind where it can haunt my dreams but these guys have yet another reason for us to hate them. Just ask any of the once human zombie-like creatures roaming about any of the games though I don't think they can hear you since they have a frakking Headcrab hugging their face.

Remnants (F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin)
(http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/galleryvg/images/lists/10Monsters//8.jpg)

One of the game's more interesting additions are the Remnants that reanimate the dead and control them to do their bidding. The only way to stop the onslaught of guys they throw at you is to kill the Remnant that controls them. Unfortunately, these guys are incredibly tough so they can take a lot of damage and have a few attacks to keep you from getting too close. But really, the most disturbing thing about them is their ability to control corpses, I mean, if I could do that the first thing I'd do is set up a sweet dance troupe where I would travel the world and make my corpse puppets dance. Yeah, that's the life.

Machine Gun Toting Non-Zombie (Resident Evil 4 & 5)
(http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/galleryvg/images/lists/10Monsters//9.jpg)

I've said it time and time again that zombies should not be able to use guns, but that's not necessarily the main reason these guys make the list. Really, my issue with these well-armed pseduo-undead is the fact that their presence makes the final couple chapters of the last two Resident Evil games incredibly difficult. Resident Evil 4 rocked my socks until it started to tread into bad action movie territory and the fifth game took what its predecessor did and ran with it. I have a love/hate relationship with these dudes, I respect their ability to use complex machinery to kick my ass and I hate them to no end because of all the times they managed to, well, kick my ass.

Puppets (Thief: Deadly Shadows)
(http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/galleryvg/images/lists/10Monsters//10.jpg)

Psychiatric hospitals (and honestly, hospitals in general) freak me out a bit, so the Puppets that silently roam the Cradle are some of the more unsettling creatures I've come across in a game. What are essentially zombies, one of the creepiest things about them is how they spend their days. Not only have these poor lost souls been transformed into mindless meatbags, they've also had to spend a very long time in a broken down asylum. I don't know whether to fear or pity them, though I'll admit I lean toward the former.
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on February 06, 2011, 09:40:35 AM
Top 10 Cinematic Openings on the 360 (http://www.xboxer360.com/features/top-10-cinematic-openings-on-xbox-360-titles/)
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: Lukehi on February 06, 2011, 09:47:26 AM
Top 10 Cinematic Openings on the 360 (http://www.xboxer360.com/features/top-10-cinematic-openings-on-xbox-360-titles/)

Glad to see Lost Odessey was on the list, although it should have been number one...truely awesome start to the game.
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on February 06, 2011, 09:50:19 AM
Top 10 Cinematic Openings on the 360 (http://www.xboxer360.com/features/top-10-cinematic-openings-on-xbox-360-titles/)

Glad to see Lost Odessey was on the list, although it should have been number one...truely awesome start to the game.

It is a great intro, i'm happy with No. 1 but that's because I like the game so damn much.   :)
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: Windedprism on April 24, 2011, 06:09:41 PM
What, outrage no Fallout 3!! Being born and then playing the first few minutes as a wee-un ,priceless.
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: Failed on May 03, 2011, 07:23:44 AM
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: Windedprism on May 03, 2011, 07:48:49 AM
True Mass Effect 2 has a great intro SFX wise ,dragon age origins has a cool one too.Deffo 50/50 thing.But Fallout 3 was one of the more  unique examples.
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: Failed on May 03, 2011, 08:28:56 AM
FF10 is win. Sin tearing your city apart is mint

not 360 though
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: Windedprism on May 03, 2011, 10:29:10 AM
not 360? edit edit ok I get ya. #)
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: nCogNeato on May 27, 2011, 11:39:22 AM
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on October 12, 2011, 08:08:33 AM
Six game franchises Rocksteady should revive next (http://www.oxm.co.uk/34694/features/six-game-franchises-rocksteady-should-revive-next/)
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on October 15, 2011, 07:37:25 AM
Not a gaming list but still a good read, though you'll all already know my answer!   ;D

What Makes Horror Games Scary? (http://eggsayswhut.com/index.php/component/content/article/1-lists/72-nothing-to-fear-but-fear-itself)
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on October 16, 2011, 08:03:19 AM
5 reasons why gaming is going downhill (http://www.msxbox-world.com/features/article/872/5-reasons-why-gaming-is-going-downhill.html)
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: Failed on October 16, 2011, 09:05:30 AM
5 reasons why gaming is going downhill (http://www.msxbox-world.com/features/article/872/5-reasons-why-gaming-is-going-downhill.html)


that's really scratching at the bottom of the barrel.
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on January 22, 2012, 08:09:00 AM
The 100 most anticipated games of 2012 (http://www.gamesradar.com/100-most-anticipated-games-2012/)
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: Sload on January 22, 2012, 10:30:28 AM
Metro: Last Light, Dishonered, Hitman: Absolution, I Am Alive, Far Cry 3, Max Payne 3, Tomb Raider, Mass Effect 3 and Bioshock: Infinite are the games I look forward to the most this year. That said, I'll most likely end up buying Kingdoms of Amalur, Final Fantasy XIII-2 and Inversion, which looks pretty cool. Out of all those games I will at least play Max Payne 3, Metro and ME 3 this year :P
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on January 26, 2012, 07:28:52 AM
Five major horror games that fail to horrify (http://www.oxm.co.uk/38171/features/five-major-horror-games-that-fail-to-horrify/?page=1)
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: Windedprism on January 28, 2012, 12:49:22 PM
FFXIII-2 and UFC Undisputed 3, pre-ordered and ready to roll. More psyched for UFC though!!
As for the rest of the year:
ME3
Kingdoms of Amalur
Batman AAsylum/city
Metal Gear hd collection
maybe the witcher 2/borderlands 2/halo4/forza 4

Gears 3 pass eventually!! skyrim dlc, BF3 dlc.
Title: 5 Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying To Get You Addicted!
Post by: Windedprism on February 12, 2012, 08:31:20 AM
I came across this article this morning very amusing, there's loads of pics intersecting it so no copy and paste. Take a look and tell us what you think :)

http://www.cracked.com/article_18461_5-creepy-ways-video-games-are-trying-to-get-you-addicted.html
Title: Re: 5 Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying To Get You Addicted!
Post by: GamerMan316 on February 12, 2012, 08:49:05 AM
I came across this article this morning very amusing, there's loads of pics intersecting it so no copy and paste. Take a look and tell us what you think :)

http://www.cracked.com/article_18461_5-creepy-ways-video-games-are-trying-to-get-you-addicted.html

Merged this with the Gaming Lists thread  :)
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: zerosum on February 12, 2012, 01:09:53 PM
I came across this article this morning very amusing, there's loads of pics intersecting it so no copy and paste. Take a look and tell us what you think :)

http://www.cracked.com/article_18461_5-creepy-ways-video-games-are-trying-to-get-you-addicted.html

Went another [link (http://kotaku.com/5384643/i-kept-playing--the-costs-of-my-gaming-addiction)] deeper in that article, which was interesting, but at the heart of the matter is this:

Quote
"Some blame can be laid at the feet of developers, making a conscious effort to make their games more addictive. It's analogous to the tobacco industry, trying to make tobacco more addictive. It works to their benefit. That having been said, it's up to the individual to take responsibility for how they play...

Some people can walk into a casino, lose $5, and call it quits. You have to know your own limits, and be conscious enough of them to know when you are in danger of going too far..."


Source: [Kotaku (http://kotaku.com/5384643/i-kept-playing--the-costs-of-my-gaming-addiction)]
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: Windedprism on February 12, 2012, 09:14:12 PM
Cheers Craig I was gonna find somewhere to post it but couldn't find a good place :)

Quote from Kotaku user ''Can someone please explain why there is a distinction between "spending hours chatting about absolutely nothing while smoking cigarettes and drinking countless cups of Waffle House Coffee" and "helping online friends camp a rare monster spawn, or discussing class balance on my guild's chat channel"?''

Eh maybe because the first one involves human interaction and  camping mobs with guild/clan/linkshell members is not. Seriously although your chatting to them over voip/ventrillo/skype it's not the same. And think about what you're doing, you're sitting around at your pc desk waiting for a mob to spawn that someone else might steal and probably has an item drop rate of 5%. Trust me I've been there, there's a huge distinction!!!
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on March 14, 2012, 09:15:05 AM
10 Years of Xbox (http://www.oxm.co.uk/39734/features/10-years-of-xbox-a-four-part-video-retrospective/)
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on March 28, 2012, 02:08:15 PM
Why Mickey Mouse used to be at the cutting edge of video game entertainment. No, REALLY... (http://www.gamesradar.com/why-mickey-mouse-used-to-be-at-the-cutting-edge/)
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on April 02, 2012, 06:18:08 AM
http://www.gamesradar.com/what-video-game-box-art-would-look-if-it-hadnt-changed-30-years/
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: Windedprism on June 18, 2012, 11:26:33 AM
lol that gave me a flashback of when I'd never used a cd/dvd to play a game, sheesh nostalgia! :)
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on August 01, 2012, 09:58:19 AM
10 Most Frustrating Moments in Gaming (http://whatculture.com/gaming/10-most-frustrating-moments-in-gaming.php)
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: nCogNeato on August 01, 2012, 11:23:48 AM
10 Most Frustrating Moments in Gaming (http://whatculture.com/gaming/10-most-frustrating-moments-in-gaming.php)

3. Every Moment in Dark Souls   ;D ;D
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on October 07, 2012, 09:11:59 AM
OXM's 50 Worst 360 Games (http://www.oxm.co.uk/46418/features/the-50-worst-xbox-360-games/?page=1)

I've played 10 of them including number 1!   :)
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: nCogNeato on October 08, 2012, 01:34:17 PM
OXM's 50 Worst 360 Games (http://www.oxm.co.uk/46418/features/the-50-worst-xbox-360-games/?page=1)

I've played 10 of them including number 1!   :)

I've played 4 of them.

15. Iron Man
I managed to finish one playthrough, but did not enjoy it at all.

32. Bullet Witch
I actually really liked Bullet Witch.  One of the first 360 games I owned.  I attempted to 100% it, but the final grind achievement just wasn't worth it.

35. Spider-Man: Friend or Foe
Another one I enjoyed.  It's basically a LEGO game, but without the LEGO theme.  I think a lot of reviewers just didn't grasp that it's a game intended for children.  I did 100% it, and enjoyed most of it the entire time.

41. Onechanbara: Bikini Samurai Squad
I completely agree this is one of 360's worst.  Nothing works the way it's supposed to.  Controls are crap.  Menu system makes no sense.  And to top it all off, the graphics are hard on eyes (ironic since the primary draw of it is the bikini samurai girls).  The camp factor will give you some laughs, but won't hold your attention for an entire playthrough.
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: Smithk4 on October 09, 2012, 03:54:11 AM
I've played 3 of them:

14. Superman Returns (PS2)
The game had a Poor enough and clumsy combat style but it was a game that had to be got at the time.

20. Lost: Via Domus (Xbox 360)
This was a game I picked up to bump up my gamer score a bit. After following the series through to the end I could kind of relate to the game but really both game and series turned out to be poor.

31. Terminator Salvation (Xbox 360)
Again another game aimed at aiding my gamer score. Enjoyed this on though.

Admittedly there's a few more on here I probably wouldn't mind giving a go!
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on October 09, 2012, 05:41:36 PM
Only played 9 in total, I counted Sonic at no.3 but I haven't played it, here's my list and the achievement score for them:

1. Duke Nukem Forever (790G)

2. Avatar (1000G)

20. Lost Via Domus (1000G)

21. Saw (1000G)

27. Rock Revolution (400G)

30. Sniper: Ghost Warrior (660G)

31. Terminator Salvation (1000G)

35. Spider-Man: Friend or Foe (1000G)

43. Damnation (430G)

All rentals except for Sniper: Ghost Warrior, which I borrowed.   :)
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: Jaynestown on October 10, 2012, 02:21:30 PM
3 for me,

Avatar, Lost and Sniper

Avatar took me ten minutes to get the 1000, Lost I gave up on after half an hour 'cos even chasing gamerscore wasn't worth playing it any longer for, and Sniper I got pissed off with 'cos it was just to freaking annoying
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: GamerMan316 on April 29, 2013, 07:57:46 AM
How very rude! Eight of the sweariest games (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/403368/features/how-very-rude-eight-of-the-sweariest-games/?page=1#top_banner)
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: zerosum on April 29, 2013, 10:49:45 AM
How very rude! Eight of the sweariest games (http://www.computerandvideogames.com/403368/features/how-very-rude-eight-of-the-sweariest-games/?page=1#top_banner)

I'm actually surprised how many of those I have yet to play. :P
Title: Re: The Gaming Lists Thread
Post by: Gerard on August 29, 2013, 10:00:07 PM
I only play little games off-line.