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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2015 19:46:23 GMT
There's no time for boredom in the military! Oh, I miss the feeling of being bored.  Glad to see you checking in! The time will FLY by because you're so busy - that's a good thing! I can't believe how fast my time in the military went. I never had time to be bored either. Sleep when you can!  One month done, probably 8 more to go! I swore my oath yesterday.. oh boy. |
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Post by Basil on Aug 8, 2015 19:46:34 GMT
I'm spending my saturday evening at home ... on my own, playing Bloodborne and drinking beer. Yay, summer vacation.  |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2015 19:58:46 GMT
I'm spending my saturday evening at home ... on my own, playing Bloodborne and drinking beer. Yay, summer vacation. Now, that's a fine way to spend a Sarurday evening if you ask me. I'll also be at home alone, I'm hopping to finish off some organizing I'm doing so that I can grab a book and spend my evening reading. If not, I think I'll do some drawing. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2015 20:08:04 GMT
I'm spending my saturday evening at home ... on my own, playing Bloodborne and drinking beer. Yay, summer vacation. Now, that's a fine way to spend a Sarurday evening if you ask me. I'll also be at home alone, I'm hopping to finish off some organizing I'm doing so that I can grab a book and spend my evening reading. If not, I think I'll do some drawing. Yeah, I agree it sounds like a nice relaxing Saturday evening! My days of 'partying' are long over and it actually sounds exhausting to get all dressed up to go out to stinky nightclubs. I'd rather watch paint dry. My evenings start once I get my little man to bed (he's 5yrs old) and I can relax with some good reading, a movie or game. Since he's starting kindergarten in a couple of weeks (big boy now lol) I'm considering stuff I can do to go to bed earlier because his school starts at some ungodly hour of 7:30 am.  Have any of you listened to ASOIAF on Audible? I have an extended free account from being some sort of Amazon Prime Goddess for years and I think in 60 days I can probably plow through quite a bit in the series without having to pay for them. Those audio books are more expensive than the book in print! I'm thinking this would be a great tactic to make me sleepy earlier every evening... I like Roy Dotrice as the narrator and could enjoy it. What do y'all think? Here's the link to listen to the prologue bit: www.amazon.com/Game-Thrones-Song-Fire-Book/dp/B0001DBI1Q/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1439064389&sr=1-1&keywords=game+of+thrones+on+audible |
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Post by Basil on Aug 8, 2015 20:31:45 GMT
Have any of you listened to ASOIAF on Audible? I have an extended free account from being some sort of Amazon Prime Goddess for years and I think in 60 days I can probably plow through quite a bit in the series without having to pay for them. Those audio books are more expensive than the book in print! I'm thinking this would be a great tactic to make me sleepy earlier every evening... I like Roy Dotrice as the narrator and could enjoy it. What do y'all think? Here's the link to listen to the prologue bit: I own the german audiobooks and they're pretty good. I often listen to them while I'm driving.  The german narrator gives all the different characters different voices, it's really impressive how he does that, but he has a very stange way of pronouncing the names, like Cersei for example, he says "Karsigh" instead of "Sersee". But you get used to it after a while. I've uploaded a small part of the epilogue of Book 3 on my YouTube-Channel a while ago, it's the scene where Lady Stoneheart is revealed, you can listen to it here if you want: |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2015 20:47:58 GMT
Playing through Telltale's TWD Season 1 now. It's a great game. Take good care of little Clem. Just finished Episode 4... Lee got bit |
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Post by Basil on Aug 8, 2015 21:04:20 GMT
Just finished Episode 4... Lee got bit Yeah, sadly, you can't prevent that from happening. I'm not gonna spoil the ending for you, but I'd really love to hear your thoughts after you've finished. The last twenty or so minutes of Episode 5 were just phenomenal. |
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Post by swordofnightfall on Aug 8, 2015 21:08:49 GMT
Just finished Episode 4... Lee got bit Yeah, sadly, you can't prevent that from happening. I'm not gonna spoil the ending for you, but I'd really love to hear your thoughts after you've finished. The last twenty or so minutes of Episode 5 were just phenomenal. You can't prevent the inevitable either, even if you try everything. Like the Inquisitor said, the ending of the game is incredible. Too bad season 2 doesn't live up to it. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 8, 2015 21:17:34 GMT
Just finished Episode 4... Lee got bit Yeah, sadly, you can't prevent that from happening. I'm not gonna spoil the ending for you, but I'd really love to hear your thoughts after you've finished. The last twenty or so minutes of Episode 5 were just phenomenal. Taking a break right now, but I'm going to play Episode 5 and the 400 Days DLC in a couple hours. |
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Post by Basil on Aug 8, 2015 21:30:16 GMT
Yeah, sadly, you can't prevent that from happening. I'm not gonna spoil the ending for you, but I'd really love to hear your thoughts after you've finished. The last twenty or so minutes of Episode 5 were just phenomenal. You can't prevent the inevitable either, even if you try everything. Like the Inquisitor said, the ending of the game is incredible. Too bad season 2 doesn't live up to it. I am the Inquisitor, son of House Trevelyan of Ostwick, Knight-Enchanter from the Ostwick Circle, fabled Champion and Herald of the blessed Andraste herself. Bow before me, infidels! But yes, I agree, Season 2 wasn't nearly as good as Season 1. For some reason, it was very difficult for me to connect with most of the characters in the second season, well, except Clem of course, I'll always love Clem. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2015 2:04:23 GMT
Just finished Episode 5 "No Time Left". That just ripped my heart out. Don't think I've ever been this emotional over an ending besides FF X. What an amazing game.
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Post by Basil on Aug 9, 2015 5:49:08 GMT
Just finished Episode 5 "No Time Left". That just ripped my heart out. Don't think I've ever been this emotional over an ending besides FF X. What an amazing game. :cry: Yeah, the ending of Season 1 is devastating. I cried a lot the first time I played through the game. The dialogue between those two characters was so well written too and the voice acting was absolutely incredible. Clem saying "I'm little." fucking killed me, and also "I'll miss you." - so good.  The ending of FFX makes me cry too, but for other reasons (FFX spoilers ahead). To see this thing, that has terrorized this world for a millennium, dissolve into pyreflies, was extremely satisfying. But the same happens to your Aeons and your heart just breaks when you watch them go. You see Shiva and Ifrit and Valefor, Yuna dancing, and the music is hauntingly beautiful throughout the whole scene, especially this part: Yuna telling Tidus she loves him (although fun fact, she never says that in the original japanese version, there, she only says "Thank you." which kinda mirrors Lenne and Shuyin, since Lenne also didn't get the chance to tell Shuyin that she loves him before they were both killed), Tidus ghost-hugging Yuna, Tidus and Jecht high-fiving. So many great moments in that ending scene. The speech Yuna gives to the citizens of Spira gets me every time: "The people and the friends that we have lost, or the dreams that have faded. Never forget them."- that's such a good, bittersweet ending to a story that revolves almost entirely around death. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2015 11:04:29 GMT
OMG THE ENDING OF FFX My favourite ending of all time. Of any story told on any medium. It was truly what I would call bittersweet (and devastating). If ASOIAF can match it then..... |
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Post by Basil on Aug 9, 2015 11:15:18 GMT
Let's all watch it together, it's so freaking beautiful ... Praise be to Yevon, that fucking music ... the amount of chills I get from that song alone is incredible. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2015 15:28:18 GMT
I want to get the FFX HD remake on PS4 so much, but I've seen a lot of people say there's two bad bugs that haven't been patched...every encounter is fixed and not random, and the music starts over after every battle so you don't get to hear a lot of it.
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Post by Basil on Aug 9, 2015 15:47:12 GMT
I want to get the FFX HD remake on PS4 so much, but I've seen a lot of people say there's two bad bugs that haven't been patched...every encounter is fixed and not random, and the music starts over after every battle so you don't get to hear a lot of it. SE has recently announced that they were working on a patch to fix those issues. It's not that every random encounter is fixed, it's the entire RNG system that is broken. This basically means that every time you load a save file, you'll encounter the exact same groups of enemies, who will use the same attack pattern and drop the same loot. The good thing about that is, unless you die a lot, you'll probably never notice it happening, it's really only noticable if you reload the exact same save file over and over again. The music glitch is annoying as hell though, I have no idea how they could miss that during testing. The PS4 version is still very much worth playing, in my opinion. It looks slighty better than the PS3-version, you can switch between the original and the rearranged music at any time and there are almost no loading times ... at all. That's probably my favourite thing about the PS4-version, everything loads so much faster than it did on the PS3 and even on the original PS2-version, it's awesome. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2015 15:52:19 GMT
Fucking school starts Wednesday. I've been on holiday since May 30th. Two months have flied over like flies. Or dragons. Or birds? Bats? Severed heads? Er, you get the point. Rewatching all GoT seasons, currently on 1x05. I'm also planning to rewatch Deadwood after hearing of McShane's casting.
And then there's the duty of preparing to become a machine overlord and fighting @stannisforking299al in about 40 years.
Also I really haven't still gotten away from Stannis the Mannis' death.
And it turns out that my uncle and two female cousins watch GoT. Never knew. Uncle though hasn't seen first half of third season for some reason. Well, I guess nothing too important happened, except Jaime losing his hand and NW mutiny.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2015 16:56:24 GMT
It's funny you guys have been talking about FF so much and it's the one RPG game series I never could get into or follow. I was in the beta for the online game that was around for awhile, I don't even remember which FF version or whatever. I actually liked the MMO but since it was "japafied" the characters were all too cookie cutter same for me and I lost interest I think. As for TWD Telltale series. I will probably get around to that one eventually - it's on my B list bucket of games that grows ever larger. I just don't have time or interest like I used to for games. I'm still an avid gamer but I tend to stick with strategy/builder types these days because it's something to pass an hour or two without a lot of emotional involvement or story. Those used to be my favorite kind. Not so much anymore. I've still not even done the latest Game of Thrones TellTale episode! I will get to it at some point haha.
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Post by Basil on Aug 9, 2015 17:42:09 GMT
It's funny you guys have been talking about FF so much and it's the one RPG game series I never could get into or follow. I was in the beta for the online game that was around for awhile, I don't even remember which FF version or whatever. I actually liked the MMO but since it was "japafied" the characters were all too cookie cutter same for me and I lost interest I think. As for TWD Telltale series. I will probably get around to that one eventually - it's on my B list bucket of games that grows ever larger. I just don't have time or interest like I used to for games. I'm still an avid gamer but I tend to stick with strategy/builder types these days because it's something to pass an hour or two without a lot of emotional involvement or story. Those used to be my favorite kind. Not so much anymore. I've still not even done the latest Game of Thrones TellTale episode! I will get to it at some point haha. Apart from FFXI and FFXIV, all the Final Fantasies are actually single player RPGs, so you must have played one of those two. I don't play MMOs, so I don't really know if they're any good, but I know that the series is made up of some incredible games. And with Final Fantasy, you don't actually need to follow the series, every game tells a completely independent and self-contained story, with it's own set of characters and an unique setting. My first Final Fantasy was FF7. But if you don't want to get emotinally involved in a game's storyline, then Final Fantasy is definitely not for you.  All the games have very deep, epic storylines that tend to get very emotional, sometimes even downright tragic. By the way, I don't think you need to like Anime in order to enjoy Final Fantasy. I personally dislike Anime (with only few noticeable exceptions, like for example DBZ) - because I can't stand excessive melodrama. I'd be lying if I said that the FFs don't contain a certain degree of melodrama, but it is completely overshadowed by the great storylines and complex characters. And the soundtracks of all the FFs are outstanding. I can't express through words how much I love Nobuo Uematsu's music. Frankly, I think some of his compositions are on par with the works of Mozart, Beethoven etc. To name a few: Terra's Theme, To Zanarkand, Liberi Fatali. Uematsu's music is truly divine. As you can see, I love Final Fantasy. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 9, 2015 17:51:12 GMT
I had to go look it up, it was Final Fantasy XI Online I played during it's beta testing. Back then I was getting invites to a lot of beta tests because I was so active in the community and part of internal testing on a title (Shadowbane) and trying to get into game development professionally (I'm glad I gave up that idea). I think I only played it for a couple of weeks at most. It was solidly built as far as MMO gaming goes, but it just didn't hook my interest. I'm told it bears little resemblance to the single-player RPG games anyways. I guess that's similar to how Bethesda's Elder Scrolls series is one of my absolute favorites from Morrowind to Oblivion and Skyrim, but I can't stand the MMO version of it. |
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The german narrator gives all the different characters different voices, it's really impressive how he does that, but he has a very stange way of pronouncing the names, like Cersei for example, he says "Karsigh" instead of "Sersee". But you get used to it after a while. 
All the games have very deep, epic storylines that tend to get very emotional, sometimes even downright tragic.