perfect dark on XBLA

[niff]

sweet man

[Draxas]

Well, I suppose it was to be expected eventually. Between this and Fallout 3, I guess I have 2 reasons to consider getting an X-Box now!

...Yeah.

[N3B]

I hear they're going to implement online multi-play, though I'm not sure what the limits are -- if you can do co-op and counter-op, use bots, full stage customization, more than 4 human players, etc etc.

And, Alt may appreciate this one: the framerate is allegedly going to be improved to higher values and maintain a constant rate.

[niff]

the only part of perfect dark that annoys me over the years is the framerate. when i bust out the old '64 for a 4 player + 8 sim match (which we still do, frequently, 9 years after the game was released) the framerate gets damn near unplayable, especially when there's explosives in the mix.

now that i live in a house with a 360, i am rather excited.

[N3B]

PD on XBLA is out.

From what I've seen of the trailers, the graphics overhaul was pretty well done -- they upped the resolution, I guess on individual textures as well, made it into a constant 60 FPS (very essential), while still keeping the classic look and style of N64 graphics. They also remodeled all of the faces, which at first is kind of weird, but I could get used to it.

Now, does anyone have a 360 who can actually play-test it?

[niff]

no longer live in the house with the 360, bummer. wish i could play it. everyone on LL is loving it, it's dominating the popular topics list.

hell, you can even speed strafe still.

[Draxas]

This is, so far, the most convincing argument I have for getting a 360. Before this, it was Bionic Commando Rearmed. Noticing a trend?

[Notesurfer]

I thought Nintendo was the one releasing the same games over and over again. (-;

[N3B]

Mar 17, 2010 22:24:28 GMT -5 Draxas said:

This is, so far, the most convincing argument I have for getting a 360.

Indeed. It almost makes me reconsider my decision that a PS3 would be the way to go.

[Razor]

It's out? Damn, I'll need to let my buddy Steve know.

[Draxas]

Mar 17, 2010 23:55:46 GMT -5 Notesurfer said:

I thought Nintendo was the one releasing the same games over and over again. (-;

EVERYONE is. Nintendo has the Virtual Console, Microsoft has all of these retro remakes on XBLA, and Sony offers a bunch of PS1 games for download on PSN. Retro is the new hotness, except that it's been that way since around 2002.

[N3B]

In other news, one of my roommates has stolen my copy of Perfect Dark. With malicious and larcenous intent.

/rage.

[Draxas]

Has he been arrested yet?

[N3B]

Also missing was my copy of GoldenEye, one of my two N64 memory cards, and my GameCube memory card. Due to dexterous skill, I reclaimed my memory cards, and had the opportunity to take the games back, but I figured I'd be "the good man" about it and ask him, instead of "stooping to his level."

Turns out all of the files and data were deleted off of both games (with the exception of two very fresh, amateur files titled "Allen") as if to make it appear that those weren't mine. Fortunately, all of my PD data (the crucial stuff) was on a memory card. But when I asked him about my games, he lied to my face and told me those were his copies.

Considering he never brought those games to the apartment, and I distinctly remember him being excited to see me bring Perfect Dark ("Ooh, Perfect Dark, that's like the one game that I never had"), that I have 3 witnesses vouching that those were mine, that the box in which I brought all of my N64 games is now shallower than it originally was, that mine have suddenly gone missing along with all of his stuff that he took back from the living room, combined with the way he's been acting....

This is the final straw in a set of behaviors and attitudes exuded by this particular roommate which have been persisting for the entirety of this semester. He's been doing all sorts of things to piss us off. A few notable examples: he set the heat at 76 for two straight weeks, 24/7 over Winter Break (we set a rule of 70-max) and, surprise, the electric bill was super duper inflated. Two of us who weren't even there for that billing period paid equal shares just to be "fair" and "equal" about it, despite it being HIS fubar. Which he later lied about ("I had it set at 70.")

Then when it came time to collect the next month's rent he argued that he overpaid last month by $100, which is utter BS because it was me and the other guy who paid way extra for electricity that we had no part in. He makes all kinds of huge messes (in bathrooms, in the kitchen, in the living room) which he refuses to clean up and gets indignant about when we ask him to do it, and eventually have to start hassling him about.

He hosted a massive "Asian Party" at our apartment without giving us any sort of notice, which is simply a major etiquette violation because it utterly disrupted the evening (and night) for the rest of us. We weren't invited, we weren't even told about it. And there was a huge mess afterward (we had just cleaned the place like two days before), which he didn't clean up and eventually the rest of us had to clean.

Then he reclaimed the DVD remote (one of the very few "essential" things he donated to our shared use) so that the rest of us couldn't watch DVDs in the front. He didn't tell us anything about it, so it was basically just a douche bag move. All-the-while he's been super antisocial, never comes out of his room, door shut and locked all the time, avoids us at all possible cost, generally giving us the impression that he resents living with us, and therefore makes the entire living situation awkward, uncomfortable, and now, untrustworthy.

End result: the rest of us are planning an intervention to hopefully call him out on this BS and resolve some problems. But ultimately, we expect it'd just make him even more irritable, and that he wouldn't cooperate anyway. I may not legitimately get my games back, which would mean I cut my losses or steal them back (which is a pain because of how paranoid he's been about holing up in his room and locking the door). But even then, he could just accuse me of stealing "his" games, escalating the matter way too much.

To top it all off, I've been sick, with sinus and ear infections, had to do a ton of experiments and research (still writing up the reports), spent most of my evening the past 5 days painting flats for a theater production, and now I've got all of this crap going on. So I'm in a bottled-up /rage state at the moment.

[Draxas]

This sounds like every college roommate I had. I feel for you.

Take your games back the instant you have a chance. He has no leg to stand on, but it sounds like you'll never get them back otherwise.