Aimless Podcasts - Latest Comments

Re: Aimless Babble Z 222

MonkeyKing1969 — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 13:52:42 -0000

Trioptical, I think for your PS2 games you could turn down the Sharpness on your HDTV, maybe set it to O or negative numbers. That will make the jaggies look less sharp, that may or may not look good to you.

Re: Aimless Babble Z CES 2014 minisode

Trioptical — Thu, 09 Jan 2014 14:52:04 -0000

Mis-remembered my conversions here, it's actually 8 bits in a byte.

Re: Aimless Babble Z 214

MonkeyKing1969 — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 18:29:27 -0000

Technical difficulties...? Sounded like stuffing a dead hooker into a trash-bag.

All the things they say about XB360 are true. It coming out first mattered for it. They fact that XBL worked and had some great functions early on mattered for it. XB360 just got better versions of 3rd party games. In fact I think it was 360 race to loose...and shockingly I think they did/are. Inexplicably while ahead MS has been dismantling itself for some reason. It raised the price of XBL, it sold off/let go/dismantled 2nd party studios it owned, and it came up with a plan for next gen that was not about games.

As a PS fan I could see where PS3 was lacking...it was obvious what it wasn't doing in 2006...and it really did take PS3 three whole years to catch up enough. As a Sony fan it was a hard slog going through 2007, 2008, and 2009 waiting for PS3 to have most of the functions it needed, most of the tools it needed to be a real contender. It was in 2009 before we got Uncharted 2, Infamous, Demon Soul, etc that made owning a PS3 worth it.

I said in years ago, but I think the BEST thing that happened to PS is the screwing up so badly. Sony fixed PS3. Sony planned very well for PS4. And I think Sony not only has a better plan now, but I think they they that at this point PS3 is a better system when compared to XB360. It might not get noticed by the games media, but I think what PS3 does and they games ist will get tip the balanced it for it. I think the tail end of PS3 and 360 for the next three years will be all about PS3 gaining ground. When the final tally is made of sales PS3 will be ahead, and just a tiny bit behind Wii. That how PS3 will end...second...but a glorious well respected 2nd full of well loved games, not Wii's embarrassing 1st place that put a company in the red.

Re: Aimless Gut Reactions: Xbox One Reveal

Trioptical — Wed, 29 May 2013 20:09:48 -0000

Yep, but the types of RAM will be different. The PS4 will be using 8GB of GDDR5 RAM where as the XBOX One will be using 8GB of DDR3 RAM with only 5GB of that being available to games.

Digital Foundry has a pretty good analysis on what the difference could mean for games: http://www.eurogamer.net/ar...

Re: Aimless Gut Reactions: Xbox One Reveal

MatthewMelange — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:17:06 -0000

Both the ps4 and xbox one will have 8 gigs of ram if my memory serves me correctly.

Re: Aimless Filler vol.5 Fully Baked

theDude — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 06:01:34 -0000

i don't mind the filler eps at all, personally. but seeing your site filled with the same smiling, shushing, cooking milf lady pic makes me wonder if i'm about to get some sexy baking tips or gaming discussions

Re: Aimless Podcasts Episode 199- When Doves Cry

MonkeyKing1969 — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:04:23 -0000

Mass Effect 3 was unsatisfying. But I think there were three groups who were saying that who had three different desires

1) People who said, "Meh, I was hoping for more and a better effort in differentiation of the last choices of the game...but whatever." Such people didn't need an update they just wanted to tell Bioware to do a better job for the next series.

2) People who said,"What the FUCK?" Such people played this series based on the choices, but their choices were totally negated at the end of the third game. Moreover, all the ending were so much the same, so where is the choice ins THAT sort of ending. Such people wanted they fix, and it didn't help the main writer Tweeted days after launch that the orginal script was changed thus creating a conspiracy.

3) People who said, "I guess the ending sucked...I quit playing before the ending...but I'm pretty upset that other people said I should be upset." Such people didn't care either way, do better next time or change the ending they could care less expect that SOMETHING should be done.

What should have Bioware done? That answer for me is simple...they should have done the game-story-plot progression right the first time. That game Bioware set into motion was one based on choice from the first game onward. The whole series stressed "Its you choice" throught, yet then at the end they garb the reins and tell people to sit back. WHAT? WHAT? You can't change the rules Bioware, you can't just let people define their own story and then at the very last second tell people how it ends. That is teh reason Bioware has no defense...they broke their own rules...they deserve to have to make chnages. And....

.....Any self respecting fan of Mass Effect should resent the reins being pulled out of their hands. There needed to be endings to satisfy three or four way the story could have ended. There is no other point of view a game based on choices needs to end with choices....there is no other point of view. No TKKNMSTR, there is no other point of view. ;-)

Re: Aimless Podcasts Episode 199- When Doves Cry

MonkeyKing1969 — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:40:09 -0000

When gamers say, "Where's Pikmin?" they mean where is Pikmin, where is next huge step in Pokemon, and where the next totally new IP.

Reggie is full of shit, he knows that Nintendo Europe and Nintendo America need to be making new games and expanding the base of IPs. He knows that other console holders manage to get more games on their consoles. Just look at Sony....

Sony makes games - period. Sony has Japanese, European, and N. American developers making great games on a yearly basis and they have multiple studios doing it concurrently. In that way, NOBODY ever really has a reason to complain about "What's next?" from Sony for very long. Sony surprises gamers with new games, while continuing to supply the current properties,and they dip into their back catalog as well. Sony makes big games and small games too.

Re: Aimless Podcasts Episode 198- Aimless Goes Free-To-Listen

kenji — Sun, 15 Jul 2012 16:53:58 -0000

Spec ops completely blew me away. i was not expecting such a great sp campaign out of this title but i love how its a military FPS that actually shows PTSD and the mental/psychological side-effects of war. also that you're battling fellow soldiers and civvies in an amazing environment.

i really felt for the squad and was 'tripping out' along side Walker during some of the cutscenes and could see where the Line had been crossed and there was no going back. +1 on the multiple endings as well.

i also think Tribes:Ascend and BLR shows how the F2P model can be done. just have to be ingenious with what you have and how you offer it.

Re: Aimless Podcasts Episode 198- Aimless Goes Free-To-Listen

Vampiric — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 13:23:14 -0000

Nonsense

f2p is garbage

constant dlc packs wouldnt stop people from wanting new games in the same series

Re: E3 2012: Sony Press Conference Gut Reactions

MonkeyKing1969 — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:35:53 -0000

Even without a Apocalypse I find myself wanting to 'jump' people and 'chocking them out' if they even look at the bunch of supermarket bananas I am looking at . Sure there are other bananas I could take...but the ones that lady is grabbing which are the 'yellowest" and "just four, not six". World wide crisis or not.... I WANT THOSE DAMN BANANAS!!!"

Re: E3 2012: Nintendo Press Conference Gut Reactions

MonkeyKing1969 — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 07:24:16 -0000

You guys seem to have talked yourselves out of buying the system. And, I can't say you're wrong. I just don't see 3rd parties supporting the Wii U Pad functions unless all three consoles start using touch screens on their controllers.

That's the real question: who will follow Nintendo's concept of a controller with a touch screen?

The answer is likely nobody else. The common input is a joypad with two sticks, d-pad, and 8-10 buttons. Unless the "most common" control changes there is no reason to change games.

Re: Aimless Podcasts Episode 193- Meanwhile on Aimless Island…

MonkeyKing1969 — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:59:23 -0000

And, people DEFEND creative works, where as they don't praise utilities like Comcast, Verizon, or AT&T. In the same was people defend Coke, whereas they don't defend the water company....because Coke tastes good takes effort to make (like games) where as internet data is just F__CKING water from the tap. Supplying the pipes (cables, towers, etc) for data which was paid for decades ago (DECADES AGO) does not constitute effort, it is just mad greed to change the plans. ;-)

Re: Aimless Podcasts Episode 188- Vita Las Vegas!

Trioptical — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 19:17:20 -0000

It is pretty strange. I think early on, there were some GAP people playing Battlefield 3 on my friends list, but with the difficulty of joining games while keeping a party together and the voice chat issues early on (that persist still), once MW3 came out, I started to see fewer and fewer.

I still think MW3 is rightly the higher rated game overall for these reasons and more, but looking solely at multiplayer gameplay mechanics and design, it really just seems to be a matter of preference.

Now that I've maxed out my riot shield level, playing alone, I prefer to play Battlefield 3.

Re: Aimless Podcasts Episode 188- Vita Las Vegas!

MonkeyKing1969 — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 19:02:58 -0000

The problems with Battlefield 3 is ....NOBODY....N-O-B-O-D-Y on GAP plays it. You turn on the game, playing 16 hours a day for five days and nobody on GAP will play with you. That why most of us play CoD - people play. We might gripe, but we all play together.

That's why last year I asked OVER AND OVER again, "Hey, guys who's gonna play BF3?" And, people assured me "Oh, man I gonna play BF3...CoD sucks." But few of those people play the damn game. Better game? Really...then why ain't ya playin' it?

I'd play Bf3...but why bother when GAPers won't play?

Re: Mario Vs. Sonic: Mini Colors Mayhem Impressions

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Re: Question of the week: Trends in gaming you’re tired of

Dillz — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:56:51 -0000

Hmmm. Well I know that I have a distaste for zombie games at this point. Companies trying to shoehorn in motion controls into games that don't need them(Mass Effect with Kinect and Bioshock Infinite with Move) is really starting to get on my nerves. Retailer specific pre-order bonuses. I have to stop myself or this comment could get out of hand. Love the show, keep up the good work.
P.S. What do I have to do to get a spot of the F 'Em list?

Re: Question of the week: Trends in gaming you’re tired of

MonkeyKing1969 — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 11:24:54 -0000

Tired Trends- Middle eastern people shown only as enemies in war games. Moreover, the Chinese always portrayed as puppet masters of terrorism, but never a partner to western governments.- The ever increasing level of melodrama used in Japanese video game stories. Not every story needs to be amped up to eleven, and not every enemy needs to turn into a ninja-vampire-robot. - White men being the protagonist (or team of protagonists) in military shooters. Where are the women? Where are the characters of non-western European racial extraction? If the game is historical then that is fine....whatever...but maybe pick another era of part of history so we can see another other people!- Zombies are tired, but can I PLEASE tell the game industry that I am pre-tired of vampires too. If you make a vampire game just know I’m already tired of it. I’m tired of wolf-men, mummies, and xenomorph-bug aliens too. I want more robots and cats.

Re: Question of the week: 2012 predictions

MonkeyKing1969 — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 10:36:13 -0000

Predictions 2012

1) Both Sony and Microsoft do that"We're not gonna tell you about our new systems...but oh man the future is bright!!!" speech at e3.

2) By year's end everyone will notice that despite Microsoft pushed very hard with Kinect, there still won't be "killer apps"...hardware sells game will not.

3) Sony will be even worse. The hardware will have sold fair, but not even Sony will talk about it or even fake enthusasim. [Price is Right Fail Horn]

4) Someone will hack a PS Vita and will show it doing some AMAZING thing while jail-broken. It will be a crazy 'not possible with another device' thing. A decent surge in sales will occur with geeks dropping $300 to by a Vita...but no software sale to help Sony.

5) At the Sony booth the word will be "That Last of Us" is THE zombie game done right. Leaving e3 it will be the hot Sony property people talk about breathlessly.

6) Halo 4 will get botched or disappoint on some level. At e3 it will look good, but as it approaches launch something will screw up....maybe previews before release will be lukewarm.

7) Wii U will have weak sales after the first few weeks, expect deep price cuts, bundled games, and every trick in the book to jump start sales.

8) Apple will deal with the Foxcon issue because some workers will do somthing that is shown on the nightly news ...people on fire/dead bodies in piles....it will make a huge change HAVE TO occur. The human cost of technology becomes a big story.

9) Todd Howard is booed by several members of the audience at his GDC keynote. Nobody will remember his speech everyone will remember the boos.

10) Sometime in January 2013 a leak will occur about the Next XBox. It will be a spot on, with all the facts release. Microsoft will scamble to cutoff the leak, but it will be too late.

Re: The Rise to Power Begins Now With Dragon Age II

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Re: The Smashed Bros. Podcast – Episode 4

MonkeyKing1969 — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 08:31:35 -0000

Crap! I had no interest in this game and then you all start talking about it ...so I watch a video about it...now I want to play it. You are all jerks.... ;-)

Re: The Smashed Bros. Podcast – Episode 4

The Doctor — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:14:14 -0000

Actually it's Arysia, but I hate her, I'm VORPAL-BLADE, Republic Trooper.

Re: Aimless Podcasts Episode 181- Family Ties

Jenna Villegas — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:12:07 -0000

Beat boxing the "News Song" was amazing.

WOW! TKKN, you like Batman AC a little too much.

Re: Aimless Podcasts Episode 178- The Aimless Guide To Villainy

Trioptical — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:24:33 -0000

Heh. Nice. Sorry about that though. Gremlins got into Pamela.

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