The Batlord

Just FYI, I know I'm talking a lot about how miserable I am playing Alien: Isolation (and I am totally, completely miserable), but I'm so into playing it, that the fact that I'm not having fun in the conventional sense is irrelevant. It's like Metal Machine Music or some other kind of unpleasant music: it's not "enjoyable", but's it's such an immersive and intense experience that I wouldn't trade it for anything. It's all about feeling something more than what boring, day-to-day life zaps from you.

God I hate this game in the best possible way, and I can't wait to beat it and play survival mode just so I can play around with the alien without the distractions of "plot".

Edit: God dam it, I just realized that I'd been procrastinating at a very hateful part of the game, and now I have nothing else to do but hit "Resume Game". I only went for a cigarette break not even an hour ago, but I want another one all the same. I think I'll go for one anyway, just to psyche myself up.

And yeah, I'm not at all ashamed to admit I'm a ****ing pussy. But at least I'm not LiL's purse holder.

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LoathsomePete

The 980 has a higher core/boost clock speed and is 256 bit. The 980 is made for very intensive gaming, especially at higher than 1080p resolution. If you want to game at 1080 than the 960 or even 950 are probably the better bets for price-to-performance. Just gotta make sure your PSU and motherboard can handle them.

Apparently I bought one on Wednesday when I was drunk, and settled on the 500GB one. I don't plan on using it for much outside of a few specific games a year and if I need to I can always buy a new hard drive for it.

If you were to get one I'd wait for the Christmas release and see about getting the 1TB one, or to get a sweet deal on a 500GB one.

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The Batlord

I think I might take this advice and wait for a Black Friday/Christmas Eve sale. Saving up for an XBone at this point is a bit late in the game (a PS4 is unthinkable due to Arkham Knight) but I can't see myself waiting an entire year for one, and I'm not about to pony up $500 dollars.

Also, I've been wondering forever, but is that a Judge Dredd avatar?

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LoathsomePete

If you're feeling gambly you can take a chance on CL around the end of/ beginning of the month. I see a lot of people selling them to make ends meet so you can save and not have to pay tax. If you go this route I would highly recommend trying to put some kind of warranty plan on it though because if it dies you're fucked.

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The Batlord

Don't care if people are sick of my A:I talk, but I just need to get this **** out due to stress and, you guessed it, isolation...

TFW you finally decide to make that beeline for your objective after five minutes of dubious safety, only to hear, *thump, thump, thump* and then frantically make for the only "safety" possible: the notoriously unsafe locker. Worked, but I hated every second of it.

But dear god was I grateful afterward to make a pussyass detour into a random room out of pure fear of continuing straight on, only to find an unexpected save point. I hadn't saved in so long that a death would have been like a kick to the nuts. Like, rage quit kind of game hate.

I don't know how I've made it this long with only one death (all those Youtube vids from Markiplier and Pewdiepie in the medical station clearly showed at least five deaths a piece on this one part alone) so I'm feeling pretty good about my vaginal hiding in one spot for five/ten/??? minutes before venturing out like a scared rabbit.

I seriously spent at least five minutes under several desks in one room after I made it past the door *spoiler!* where I had to enter the code from Morley's office. Previously I'd spent several minutes under a bed in a room not twenty feet away, then made my way to the aforementioned room, only to camp for what seemed like forever (while being terrorized at least once by the feet of the alien approaching within two feet of my deskular hiding place) before continuing on to the next plot point.

After which my terror forced me to go all the way back to the room from the above paragraph (to of course be terrorized again by the feet of the alien) until I checked the map and realized that I'd forgotten an item/weapon of some sort and a map update. Thank god I found the courage to venture forth once again, as I'd previously missed the blueprint to the noisemaker in an earlier part of the game, and was blessed by the metal gods to find that the item/weapon was the noisemaker mark II.

I've watched enough Youtube playthroughs to know that this is the most important item in the game, and so I was feeling mighty exposed without it (no matter how many flashbangs and smoke bombs I'd constructed). So with the noisemaker and a save station, I'm feeling totally rejuvenated (i.e. marginally less liable to piss myself) and ready to do this ****.

Come on, you H.R. Geiger reject! I ain't scurred (I'm totally scurred).

CL? I haven't been keeping up with gaming ****, so I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Is the XBone unreliable hardware or something?


Edit: God damn it! I'm wearing headphones with the volume up as loud as the voice acting will allow, and the alien's footsteps are so loud I can feel them in my skull. I'd say I'm sick of hiding under desks, but that would be a lie.

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LoathsomePete

Craigslist.

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Key

I hopped into a 2v2 match on Rocket League and actually ended up adding all three people I was playing with to my friends list on Steam. It's not every day you get into a server where everybody is on their A-game. We all had a really good time, and every single game went into overtime, and even the overtime games were close games. Definitely a good 3-4 hours spent.

The Batlord

**** you.

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Mr. Charlie

Played Rez HD over the weekend. Had almost forgotten how good it is. And what an amazing soundtrack. It made me wanna drop shrooms.

Unknown Soldier

Currently playing these in an attempt to finish all the games I have before moving onto a next gen machine:

on 360- Mass Effect 3 and Gears of War Judgement Day

on PS3- GTA V and Battlefield 4

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