#41

Yeah get out was well noisy for me too, but in a good way

#42

Christ

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#43

:kissing_closed_eyes:

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#44

FFS

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#45

I get two films at a time and don’t pay for the Prime streaming of things because the selection was pretty poor.

I find it easier to watch a film on DVD in my house than make a decision on hundreds of shit ones on Netflix (and I obviously pay for Netflix too.)

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#46

fwiw the wife finished it but didn’t like it much. said the game was fine but overlong and the story was dumb, which from what i saw seemed true. plus i hate the modern trend to have bad voice acting every other second ‘huh? what’s this? a ladder? i wonder what could be up this ladder. i guess i’ll climb the ladder and find out’ SHUT UPPPPP. you’re always just some bozo with a shotgun running around a massive, empty map doing nothing for 100 hours. who cares?

#47

but the REAL QUESTION is

can you get games from Lovefilm or any of those things then?

#48

I don’t want to seem out of line here or anything so please don’t take this the wrong way but your wife repulses me to the core.

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#49

just a dumb zombie film that i would never watch transmuted into a game, dunno why everyone loves it so much

edit:
also please stay on topic

#50

Sorry for saying that thing about your wife. It was done for comic effect, not my actual sentiments.

No point arguing the toss about this obvs but for me it’s one of the rare examples of storytelling in a game that surpasses equivalents in other works of fiction. It’s got an awful lot of heart and connection.

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#51

used to have it but get real, streaming stuff is WAY better.

getting sent some random film you do want to watch but not right at that moment was bloody useless.

#52

streaming quality is nowhere near bluray quality. yeah you probably get sent stuff you cba with but i’m just as likely to waste 20 minutes looking through netflix and amazon and then not watching anything coz there’s nothing on them.

too much choice aint really a good thing

#53

I think HD streams are usually fine. Can you really see a lot of difference between, say, an iTunes rental and a BluRay? Maybe it’s 'cos my telly is small, but they look the same to me…

#54

Had this until last year, they were utter pricks about when I changed debit card and forgot to update my account and sent me a load of “we’re sending some goons round if you don’t return your DVDs” type emails so I didn’t bother continuing. Bristol has an actual functioning DVD rental shop with as good a choice as Lovefilm which is not run by tax-avoiding scumbags so I don’t miss it.

#55

does the shop do ok? Don’t think there are any at all in Brighton

#56

Yeah i can but it’s my job and i’m fussier than most. My tv is 32" so not crazy but you can get some pretty nasty pixellation in dark areas of streams which i find really nasty to look at.

#57

What is your sort of game? Is it just the “Let’s try to make this an interactive movie” aspect of these games? Like you’d happily play Thief the Dark Project or Quake? Does Half-Life do too much of this too?

#58

Seems to, they’re in a rent controlled shop and they all run it part time in tandem with other jobs so I think costs are quite low. They also have a mini-cinema in the shop which they hire out that seems to do quite well too.

#59

i can’t really get on with many FPS games coz they make me really motion sick which is a bummer, I’ve never played metroid prime coz of it. tried playing half life recently but same deal.

my favourite series’ are zelda, final fantasy, metroid, resident evil/silent hill but most of those have been dead for a decade. it’s mostly the open world thing i don’t like and typically prefer japanese developed stuff to the US, there’s been such a move toward bro action games that has totally left me behind.

#60

Have you looked into indie gaming much? The natural successors to the games you mention are being made by small studios these days, while the big boys churn out Assassins Creed: Annual Edition etc for the masses.