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i take comfort in knowing i keep more than 3/4ths of my money.

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the dodge system id say takes more getting used to, but it tends to work. the hard part is knowing when to use it since the closed in areas usually still means a hit. wouldnt even attempt to use it on nemmy in hallways. the ammo system is nice though. really happy to see it return for RE2 remake.

GameGodOfAll posted...

"Reach the police station without getting any items." Maybe that's how to unlock the costumes? I might just do it real quick to see since that won't take long.

correct. dont pick up anything from the start of the game until you reach the station. just before entering the police station theres a set of stairs going down to another path that leads to where you were. theres going to be a special zombie there that you have to kill for a key to unlock the costumes in the same room with the dark room and lockers. as claire thats also how you unlock the SAA revolver.

and glad you enjoyed it :)

you need both characters finger prints to open the door so only the B scenario character can get it. either person could take the machine gun and get the reload.

the smg is a limited use weapon unless you unlocked the door with the finger print in the lab on claire A.

dunno if youll go after the extra costumes at one point but one of them gives claire an old colt SAA revolver that can rapid fire all 6 shots and reloads crazy fast. kinda her version of leons ungraded pistol which is pretty nice.

its a good game, but i think 2 is the better one.

nothing wrong with not liking the game. it is a very specific kind of flavor and it wont appeal to everyone, but not liking a design doesnt mean its bad. most everything in the game is deliberate and appeals to a certain type of gamer. its sense of exploration (which imo is superb) very obviously doesnt mean what it means to you.

its not about going off to that distant landscape or most likely unlocking the next icon on a map. the entire appeal is figuring out how the world and areas work while overcoming the challenges the game puts infront of the player. this is helped by the art, enemy designs, music and overall atmosphere. the world design of the game in general comes off as deceptively linear than it really is. no, its not a traditional open world where you can go anywhere at any point, but the whole thing is designed to where it does feel like its own interconnected thought out world. this is also a long game, based on how long its taking you so far, maybe even an 80+ hour one. its not going to show its hand to you where you are now.

imo id atleast get to the first REAL boss and unlock your first shortcut which at that point more options and areas start to open up and you can actually get a grasp on what the game is selling.

decent platformer with great art direction. horribly repetitive though and goes on WAY longer than it should. worth $5 tho.

theres the whole problem with gun control. its NEVER enough. you want to bank on laws that may or may not work meanwhile the laws that dont work rarely ever get fixed or taken off. this is how you end up with eventual gun confiscations, mass registrations and eventual gun bans. for democrats in charge if something doesnt work it means throwing more shit at a wall hoping for something to stick with little actual reason. most of them only appeases their conscience and not the public.

and i understand the notion of wanting to do something to feel like youve made progress, but the core issue will never get fixed with what they always propose. weve had AWB's which did nothing, there are magazine limits that barely limit anything, raising the age limit does nothing when people slip through the system and steal what they want anyway. and the list just goes on especially for individuals who could pass anything you throw at them but then at some point years down the line they snap. its impossible to account for something like that.

if you want to work on something then work on fixing what we have. make the government more liable for screw ups and make them actually report what they should. the FBI even came out specifically and said they (and the various other branches) fucked up majorly with a good chunk of the more notable mass shooters weve had(like the church texas shooter, dylan roof, parkland and virginia tech), to which those individuals should have failed their background checks if people actually reported what they should have. with that you also have a lot of people who see the writing the on the wall, but still dont report problems (such as domestic abuse situations). so instead people want to punish hundreds of millions of people for a few who dont do what they should.

not really

good times.

enjoy Leon B. the B scenarios tend to be tougher and add a decent amount of reworked stuff and story beats.

the only real negative i had with 2 overall (and is pretty universal) is that its just too easy. way too much ammo than pretty much every classic style game in the series. sucks they didnt include the reworked difficulties for all versions of the game like they did with version special editions.

as far as 3 id strongly recommend playing on hard for a first time. it can be pretty brutal starting out, but the easy difficulty (which is the only other difficulty) practically breaks the game with just how easy it actually is. 3 also sets it self up to be replayed atleast once more since it uses a lot of alternate scenarios through-out the game based on your choices and order of how you progress. some situations are vastly different and offer different story moments. that combined witht eh new gunpowder system which lets you customize your weapon usage to a degree makes it one of the more replayable games in the series. its length also helps with that if you did want to go through again since it is the shortest game of the 3 classic ones.

you still have a while to go. if you just got to the sewers then youre maybe 65% in.

jumi posted...

The constitution says "arms." Nunchucks, swords, switchblades, brass knuckles, etc. are arms. "Arms" is not limited to firearms.

welcome to the glorious interpretation of the 2nd amendment.

you can thank politicians for that in the 60's and 70's. turns out its easier to ban something that isnt involved with the constitution and no one really came to bat for them to defend them.

that said they are legal in my state and most states who have banned them also have really strict weapon policies (outside of arizona). very few states have also banned them.

this was so fucking stupid of her to do.

VipaGTS posted...

...Or he's a racist idiot who shouldn't own a gun and needs to spend some time behind bars. Nothing about that video should make you want to give him any benefit of the doubt. "well, he kind of angled it up.."...who gives a fuck? that is still something he should not be doing with a gun.

and im not saying hes innocent. he IS probably a racist asshole who did something real stupid with a firearm and he should be punished accordingly, but that angle of the gun accounts for a LOT in an attempted murder case.

not trying to defend the guy, but it did look like that he pointed the gun upwards at the last second and fired (also showcased by repositioning the stock under his arm and showing the extreme recoil), like a warning shot (which is also stupid and dangerous) rather than shooting at a fleeing kids back. i get the feeling that he was not purposely trying to kill the kid, but scare him or atleast he had a change of heart at the last second.

based on my own interactions with republicans, they dont. they are typically not much different than anyone else. you wouldnt even know they were a republican if they didnt start talking about politics. i think most just want people to be responsible for their own lives and actions and stop being talked down to with a holier than thou attitude.

id say its more that they dont think its as big of a deal rather than most not believing in it or just not caring. it doesnt help that no scientist will give even a broad answer as to a timeline to work things out. so with that you have a more natural progression of clean energy instead of trillions going full bore into a solution that no one can factually say will be a solution. especially if the earth is going down this path anyway, nothing we do is going to stop it.

nice to see she got her hi-power back.

nah. we just need more gun control. those women and minorities just need to call a friendly cop who they can trust to protect them.

mhmm

i honestly dont think he'd rock the boat on most issues, atleast no more than kennedy would do.

one alarm, coffee is already by my bed from previous day. gulp half of that down then get on the computer for 20-30minutes to help wake up. get dressed, make breakfast (including more coffee) then usually go to work. if i dont have work or anything else to do i sleep in a few hours.

gp100's now come in 7 shots. check mate.

one of the best games ever made.

hypothetically you wouldnt see a conventional "war" in this day and age. if theres any killing involved it would most likely involve small groups or individuals going after more notable people that they could easily identify. politicians, youtubers, tv anchor assassinations ect. and maybe from one on one confrontations between neighbors or coworkers. there are no real lines in this country that you can easily get behind and have a clear target so that would have to be the only real way to go about it. there wouldnt be large scale traditional battles.

as far as that kind of small scale fighting goes it doesnt take much training to know how to pull a trigger from an individual who bought a $150 hi-point and will always try to get the drop on you when you least suspect it. actual tactics and military training and thousands of dollars of gear arnt going to make much of a difference.

Hawaiian_punch posted...

Getting a lifetime appointment to SCOTUS is getting your life fucked ?

to some degree, yes. getting scotus wont protect him or his family from the mob. he will be harassed, threatened and heckled every step of the way in his daily life and it wouldnt surprise me if someone tried to physically harm him or his family considering how nuts people are over this ordeal. if he never lived a sheltered life before, he sure as hell will have to now.

this is why it doesnt matter at this point. his life is fucked to a degree now.

St0rmFury posted...

From what I gather, this guy is going to screw over minorities if he's appointed to the supreme court and since supreme court justices serve for life, that's going to be many years of screwing over minorities.

his views for the most part are fairly moderate for a republican, about on par with Kennedy's who he's replacing. with the extra shittyness of supporting the patriot act. personally speaking outside of that chances are pretty good he wouldnt have rocked the boat on many hot button issues (like abortion). well, before we was put through the ringer that he is now. hopefully he wont hold a grudge.

theres better black conservatives to listen to than owens. she comes off as a major phony and some of her views (if they really are her beliefs) are batshit to the point of satire.

oh wont someone think of the ice!

Alphamon posted...

considering hes likely going to get confirmed i would say you are wrong.

just because hes on the court now wont stop people from threatening him or his family, heckling and harassing him outside of work and at his home. most likely people will only double down on those now and will try to make his life miserable to the point that maybe he'll "retire" early, but even that wont fully stop since now its out there that he is a potential rapist (despite there being no actual proof). his life will be fucked up now to some degree.

now thats cozy!

im not questioning if something did or did not happen to her. i believe she believes something happened to her. i question if it happened how she remembers. theres a lot of holes and inconsistency and even embellished details that would be in line with being drunk (which makes me question how she remembered she only had 1 beer, but not a lot of other things) with her story. this is part of why the statute of limitations is a thing because the human brain is not reliable over long periods of time.

come to michigan if you want to see some of the craziest fucking weather in the world.

i pretty much disagree with every placement on that ranking.

F2>NV>F1>FT>>>>3>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>4>>>>BoS

iv already hit rock bottom before i was 21. im now 33 and i cant really complain. iv learned to find enjoyment in the little things.

Lord_Shadow posted...

Didn't the Arkham games get fucked up on PC like they barely run at all

asylum was demanding with the nvidia physics for the time, but i recall it being fine other wise and now pretty much anything can run it. city had some issues with dx11 performance at launch, but was fixed relatively fast. origins i dont remember having any performance problems, but its a fairly buggy game in general. knight was mainly a problem if you tried to run it above 30fps. if you didnt it tended to be fine tho i dont know if they fixed that.

chris' campaign in 6 i honestly feel is the only ones thats actually worth playing all the way through. its the most generic, but also the most consistent with what its doing with a decent story. it knows what it is and rolls with it. all the others are a mess of design (not that chris' isnt rough either). Leons especially is easily the worst campaign of the 4. they have some interesting moments, more so than chris, but they also have the lowest points.

and gameplay=/=mechanics. RE6 has some amazing combat mechanics, but the game utilizes them in piss poor ways. while i enjoyed 6 more than most, its a trainwreck of a game. albeit an entertaining one assuming you dont get hung up on every little thing.

specialkid8 posted...

I can agree with a lot of this but I never thought 4 had great atmosphere to begin with. It always felt like an action game trying to be spooky and the only part that halfway succeeds is the village. RE5 goes less for horror tropes but has some tense atmosphere regardless. The opening is extremely tense and feels like anything could happen. You also had the lickers and the lake with crocodiles. Neither game is particularly scary but 5 has a unique atmosphere sometimes. 4 just felt like they'd milked the series, were losing sales, and needed to burn everything down to make more people buy in. 5 was extremely safe but built on a few things that 4 started.

all ill say is that i disagree with nearly all of that =D

i think 5 has intense moments, but i dont necessarily equate that to intense atmosphere. the way 4 setup its atmosphere you had more going on in terms of sound effects (or lack there of at the right moments) and appropriately moody music that tried to put you better in the moment. they may be tropes, but they work for what the game was trying to go for. 5 has a few moments that do those as well, but theres not many and they dont last long and when they try some actually ruin the moment (like when you first see the licker in chapter 5-1 beginning, the camera gets taken away from you and loud obnoxious music plays trying to startle you which as generic as it gets). a lot of the enemies (not all) were just kind of thrust upon you in 4 which made their encounters/introductions more startling.

in terms of design 5 is basically a retread of a lot of concepts that 4 did only not as well and doesnt throw much of its own into the mix. this is why 4 is still top dog. its a 15-20hour game that throws in a lot of unique sequences and setups and keeps the ball rolling with it till the end. thats practically unheard of in an action game.

5's pacing is also really hit and miss. you dont stay in one spot for too long like 4 does, but 4 still had a sense of progression to the level design. 5 just whisks you away to a new environment during a cutscene at several points. 5 also throws the enemies with guns at you to an obscene level. 4 throw those types of enemies in as well, but in sunstantially limited number and they were better designed with better tells and wind ups to account for the limited controls. 5 gives you a half assed cover system and practically tells you to play it like any other cover shooter without the movement system and polish of that system you need for that sequence to work. and while this is mostly personal i appreciate the more connected story of 5 to the main series, but they play it WAY too straight for what is happening and its even more jarring when the VO is actually pretty good and the cutscenes are well done. 4's was campy and goofy, but that was part of the charm. i felt like i was laughing with it rather than at it like in 5. personal preference though.

5 outside of that unlit tunnel sequence and maybe a 1minute hallway with the lickers never really had much thick atmosphere. 4 had the entirety of chapter 2, the sewers and a lot of moments on the island where they set the action back and let you take in the atmosphere. 5 really didnt do that much at all so even as a "horror" game id still give it to 4. even in the daylight sequences the atmosphere the village section showcased pissed on anything in 5.

5 has imo the best presentation in the series and has a lot of mechanically better designs than 4 and is still a lot of fun especially in coop, but on a whole 4 feels like someones passion project while 5 feels like a calculated execution by suits in a board room (not that thats bad of course).

Pus_N_Pecans posted...

So why bother to legalize something that would make it easier for them? I thought my point was pretty clear. If its illegal to own them, we can throw people in jail before they have the opportunity to commit any sort of violent acts, which is the only purpose a 3D printed gun serves.

its already not illegal to make your own firearm. 3d printing is helping to make your own firearm. do you see the problem here that cutting one off and allowing the other would entail? 3D printing is also used to make a LOT of other things than gun parts.

for me personally RE2 was more impactful, but thats because of the effects it had on me at the time and what it got me into. in terms of the games designs overall then SH2. tho RE has always been more fun to actually play.

Pus_N_Pecans posted...

If you dont think 3D printed guns should be banned, youre probably insane. A long range weapon that cant be detected through reasonable means is incredibly unsafe for everyone. 3D printed guns are a terrorists dream come true.

Jeff AKA Snoopy posted...

Isn't the thing about 3D Guns is that they can be 100% untraceable?

doesnt take much to scratch a number off. its also 100% legal in every state to already make your own guns as long as you comply with the gun laws in that state and dont sell them. this makes the whole 3d printing hysteria even more stupid. if someone wants to do it they are GOING TO DO IT.

all men are potential rapists. ban men.

were going down a dark road where 35 year old allegations are enough to not only stop a job position, but potentially ruin your life with 0 proof to back it up and the notion that now everyone is presumed guilty until proven innocent.