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Tomorrow night a friend has a free parent's house, so three of us are going to hook up 3 huge TVs, with 3 PS3's the 3 copies of Uncharted 2, and have fun for a couple of hours. If you could do with an extra three players, I'll probably be online on PSN, so give us a shout! Will only be on between 2200 and 0000 GMT I think though.

True; though I just meant the experimental effect Valve went for was a multiplayer game with the same aesthetic qualities as a singleplayer one. I.e. characters, story, gameplay, and locations that you can get to know and love in an engaging way, not simply as a set of platforms for combat like most multiplayer games.

Ouch! I also thought I'd recieved at worst around 50, maybe 48 or so. It's always brutal- but the result has actually made me feel more determined to make it up in my other assessments! That's my attitude also! It was such a surprise I just guffawed then told people about it. In general I also feel there's no point getting stressed when you can make up for it soon after. If it's a final or something, not so much though

That's a really good point. It's not like a general, liquid experience that everyone is supposed to enjoy. It's much more specific and tweaked in terms of adventure or story. Though Left4Dead was an attempt at bridging this gap and it was pretty hugely successful?

TNext- enjoy some Killzone 3 split screen, yo I love both types equally, but seperately and for different reasons. I love singleplayer for the start-to-finish experience, the ways you can get to know it or the story, and the adventures you can have. I love multiplayer for it's no-completion-required fun. I can have a game or two weekly and not feel guilty that I haven't finished it, as I get with a singleplayer game I never finished. However singleplayer experiences are often more flawed than multiplayer ones, and multiplayer experiences can be much more frustrating than singleplayer ones, due to your enemies skill level being so variable. With singleplayer games I either play them to completion rapidly, or play them about half way then peter out. With multiplayer games I generally play them for intense periods, sporadically spread out over a period of time, say a year. I adore co-op but don't get to play it enough these days. Also, on the decline of local mp: I wouldn't say it's a decline, so much as a sudden drop in the number of local mp games, though there are still a lot around. I never noticed a gradual decline, just that in the last 3 years or so there have been suddenly very few games with these options- most notably after CoD: MW I'd say. I still find plenty of local co-op and some local competitive games to play. Just ordered Blur- which is great and has up to 4 player split screen matches.

Same. I'll be at my girlfriends also. On the weekend all my evenings will be free though, after 2100 tomorrow and after 1930 or so on sat and sun.

Welll, I just found out I got a 42 in my december exam in English Language, which is not only my worst mark at uni by far, but also the worst mark I've ever had in anything academically, so I should probably do some work on that, seeing as I also have an exercise in it for tomorrow, which I haven't started. But instead, tonight me and the gf are going to a friend's student comedy show, and having a night in. tbh, i probably shouldn't even be here right now. Oh well.

That idea of ragequit limbo makes me think of a segregation system for ragequitters. If someone quits more games than they win they get a "quitter" line in their profile or lobby tag or somesuch. And will typically be thrown into games with other ragequitters as a result of the tag. It would be easy enough for them to get rid of the tag- just stick in with every game they play to make it even, which would probably be like 5 to 10 games or somesuch. While I understand where the "I paid for fun" argument comes from, I don't agree with it. The idea of playing a game, generally, is to get better at it, which will make it more fun. If you drop out of any instance when you are failing, you'll never get better at the game. If i'm losing a game awfully- I may feel pretty crap about it, and feel like I suck, but I know that if I stick in with the game I'll be able to kill/defeat the opponents at least a little bit more, and that'll teach me a lot in future games. Which will make me better, and I'll have more fun.

I'm really starting to hate BAshcraft's obsession and abundance of posts about food. Japanese food. That have NOTHING to do with games, and I'm not interested in. Granted, some of them are interesting, the editors can post about whatever they want, and I'd like to try a lot of that food- but he's just doing it so much now that I'm really starting to hate on it. On that un-starring rampage: I just looked and everyone who I recall being starred seems to have their stars in that thread? Maybe they re-starred them all after complaints?

Funny story. For some odd reason Smooves, raine, and I think a couple of others couldn't connect to me, and I couldn't connect to them- so whenever I tried to join the big group I'd get kicked back immediately, and when I was party leader they couldn't join me, though Dean and Dave could. Sabotaged my ability to play for a good while as I tried to work out what the hell was going on. We eventually had to go for Dean as the party leader- then we could all playlolololol EDIT: She was standing by a warning meter When I caught a glimpse of Rita, Losing all her health from the green grenade (no offense raine, I just love that song =D)

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Yeah, unless you can find Killzone 2 for very cheap you might as well wait for KZ3. Plotwise nothing much happens in 2, but it would set you up nicely in getting used to how the game works. @Smooves: Ah that's a pity, the KZ2 multiplayer is like the best bits of Team Fortress 2, Bad Company 2, and Call of Duty all mixed together. Not to mention in the best graphics/style I've seen in a game, but that's just imho =P EDIT: Oops, on-topic, I'd be up for a game tonight but may be too busy. On the weekend I'll be finishing work at 1900 and back home for about 1945 at the latest, so will be able to Play then.

Big Derp on my part- never actually watched that film start-to-finish, though i've analysed multiple scenes throughout and watched the beginning a bunch of times. I appreciate it hugely though. That is one hell of a spoiler, yo! "Add reply. Preview post. Or cancel."

Hmmm, I can't think of what that's from? Good idea on the synopses though. "I incept dreams. Oh shit limbo."

God, that sucks. Which map? I'll pop on later I think to see if anyone's up for a game. Slightly off-topic, but we should all do some Killzone 2 sometime. The multiplayer on that game is legendary. As much as I hate to admit it, when it really gets going, the KZ2 multiplayer is better than Uncharted 2's (and UC2 is my personal favourite MP game).

The Beatles. Not the old pop stuff that everyone seems to know and love, that I feel is very overrated. "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" and the like I'm talking about the shit that changed popular music forever, their latter less famous albums. God it's good. Fun, too. It's not like arty-revolutionary shit that's interesting but boring; the Beatles stuff is all fun as well as interesting and intelligent. Amazing. Been listening to it straight for about 4 months now and I see no end in sight. (This one is a bit slow at first, but it's through composed so it moves through several different, exciting bits later one)

No jumping?! Don't tell me this is a new Lab-a-type?! I'll be available tonight for a game, probably after 2100 though.

Ahh yes, I've read bits of that. Really rather enjoyable. I'd like to make a production of it =D That's fair enough- though I find in a lot of cases experiencing an adaptation first can make you appreciate the source text a lot more. I think I'll be sticking it out with AmPsych solely because I know where it goes and what themes it touches on; due to seeing and loving the movie. I really, really want to read Maus, I read a bit of it when I was pretty young and haven't had a look since. Ever read Persepolis? What I've read of that was great, and I get a pretty similar vibe from it, on themes of ethnicity and political/social oppression.

'Thread concerns me: unexpectedly visceral submissions' @Thursday + Hot Heart: Nice.

If you read these together, it sounds pretty dirty. At least it does in my mind. :/ Hahahahaha. Inferred meaning taken to a whole other level That poof one's awesome, Thursday Next. (woooo, six words) (... but does the apostrophe "'s" count as another word hmmm?) @Slithy: that's exactly why I like it. You have to be really terse, but still give enough meaning with your word choice to make it readable. @Hot: That open eye kiss one is totally sweet. @Phallus: Yeah, word choice is key as two synonyms can have an identical meaning, but one can be more ambiguous or have slightly different connotations than the other, and that can completely change the tone or story of the sentence. "Him: 'Why, hello. Had enough yet?'"

Niiice. @Caveman: Yeah I hoped that the quick nature of composition would help keep it alive! @Brain: That's awesome. I've found it's no so much about grammar as you can subvert that a lot- like in a newspaper headline- but that word choice is God. Swapping out determiners for adjectives or changing words around can totally change the feel of the story. @slith: those are great, especially the first and last ones. 'Only after death' totally gets the point of the story in the background, and the 'empty house' one is really poetic but the meaning's quite hard to read? @Hot Heart: That's only 20 of the 26, yo! @Phallus: that's pretty sweet- using parenthesis is a really good idea, and surprising you can actually fit it into a six word simple sentence.

That's lovely! Reminds me of the comment that Swedish rehab scientist guy made- that if you don't get a close family member's enjoyment of gaming, pick up and play with them. Must also work as content control that the Dad can enjoy as he exercises parental discretion with his kid ^^ I'm concerned that one day we'll all be old men (and women) rasping at each other over the internet. Or whatever the preferred method is in 30-60 years time. On-topic: me, Dean and Dave did not get easy kills off the old man. Him and his friend were decent. In general, though, we did kick ass over the 3-4 games we played B) the Lab weekend is great too. I love the No Powered Weapons type, games seem much more even and challenging, in a less cheap way.

We also met (read: encountered) an old man. Like, the first actual old man I've ever seen online. He was chatting away to his pal, and hearing those raspy tones over the internet really jarred me. I think his PSNID was live2die. I'm tempted to add him. I'm worried he'll die.

There was a competition in my Uni's student literature magazine, so I'll post their description of the challenge as it's pretty ideal: "Ernest Hemingway believed that a good writer could create a piece of fiction using only six words- a belief which has inspired our next competition. For our second issue, we’re taking flash fiction to the extreme, and asking our contributors to submit us their six word stories. If in need of inspiration, turn to Hemingway’s own six word story: 'For Sale: baby shoes, never worn.'" A few of mine are: "Beyond arms reach, his wife slipped" "Tear stained telephone, off the hook" "Slomo snow falls: torn love letters" "Reasonable man, broken promises, unreasonable world" "Android/hybrid/human: delete as necessary"

That's really, really great stuff Brain. When I read the thread title I was like 'pfffft, in class they told us that if you make poetry too wordy or prose too sparse you get "fragmented text", which everyone knows is shit!'- but this actually works really well. Have you read The Road by Cormac McCarthy? Uses a really simple style that's like this a lot- simple sentences and a lot of missing conjunctions or complimentisers, and it doesn't have chapters or anything but is structured into brief bits of text, usually a few paragraphs at most. You've given me an idea for another writing thread that'll hopefully get some people into joining in!