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    So I take it I just have to do more and more and more small-time leveling up before I start doing brave things like take on Super mutants?

     

    And if so, can I stash things at the high school(so far nobody has respawned there) until I get a safer house? Guess I could use the ranch house. Aint nobody alive there.

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    Argh. I have found new ways to perish.

     

    Lesse:

     

    Go to the Walmart-like place, get confronted by 3 Merc talons, and die from a car explosion. I almost killed 'em all. Funny thing is, during combat, you talk to a kid who needs help.

     

    I mistakenly go into the "raid shack". Go in the house, kill one person, and 2 come out to chase you. I get charred to a crisp.

     

    I run into my first Super Mutant Brute. Somehow I kill him and I'm in the clear, right? Nope, another one's behind him. Then when I'm retreating, I get TWO raiders after me.

     

    I still can't get past the one raider with the powerful sniper rifle in the Bethesda ruins. Thankfully no respawning. I managed to sneak criticals on all his other friends there. No idea how to get to him. I managed to get several shots on him with the hunting rifle, and he just stands there and takes them. Guess I'm real sneaky.

     

    I'm on level 4 right now, but my problem is that ammo is REALLY scarce here. I can't seem to even legitimately buy any ammo for my trusty scoped magnum, nor my Chinese rifle. Ugh. Guess I'll have to do even more scrounging around, defeating raider camps until I get somewhere. Or, start stealing stuff from Megaton city, at a cost of karma.

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    I was in a difficult position: buy Saints Row 2 or Fallout 3?

     

    For/against:

     

    Fallout 3

    For: I never finished Fallout 1, feel bad about it.

    For: I don't have any RPGs, let alone ones set in the future

    For: Need an Xbox 360 game

    Against: heard it was buggy

     

     

    Saints Row 2

    For: I like GTA-style games

    For: By the time it goes to the $20 bin, all multiplayer fun will be dried up

    For: Looks like fun

    Against: Do I need yet another GTA game in my lib?

     

    I went to Best Buy and there were no copies of Fallout 3, save for the pricier collectors editions. Oddly enough, there was a Fallout 3 "trooper" statue there. I don't recall any tv advertising for Fallout 3(much less any other PC games), but they are going all out promoting Fallout 3 on TV, etc. Strange. Then again, GTA 1 & 2 never got TV ads either.

     

    Well, i bought Saints Row 3 instead. Multiplayer is disappointing. Yeah, I know I would get killed hundreds of times, but the rounds are short & I have to jump through hoops to do another round, unlike GTA4. The jump button is X, not A like I'm used to with other games. I also want to use the triggers for driving, but can't config it that way. Oh well.

     

    I felt I should have bought Fallout 3 instead and got into that. Heck, last night I took out SR2 and put Lego Star Wars back in.

  7. Posted

    Sometimes I wish I had more resources to make the crazy things I think up.

     

    Hear me out. The 3 modern consoles need commercials in a retro flavor. The creepy PS3 ads never worked. Reps from Nintendo zipping around in a Smart car coming to your house? I don't think so. Hannah Montana playing with a DS? Forget it.

     

    You guys need a retro themed commercial. Here's the ingredient list.

     

    1. A scrolling starfield. You need it. It evokes ideas of stuff that's space age and futuristic!

     

    2. Inside scrolling starfield, a floating zoom-in of the console itself. It's flying in space! Cominriteatcha!

     

    3. A shot of a kid putting the game in the console. While on the 2600 it makes a satisfying "click" sound and happens in 1 second, it takes a bit longer for the DVD tray to close(360), but a bit quicker on the other consoles. Either way, we need to show consumers how to put a game in the console. Every time.

     

    4. People! Cue a shot of an excited family, showing their game controllers, enthusiastically playing the game 6 inches from the television. Imagine a family of Chads from RetroForceGO playing the game.

     

    5. A stillshot of the game box & console, saying "console sold seperately" in a Don Lafontaine-like voice.

     

    6. Endshot, a glowing 3-d text of the company's logo, in a starfield. Think Juno First's marquee.

     

    7. Rockin' music. I want 3 vocalists selling the company's name in unison! Or The Tubes singing some sort of quick jingle.

     

    Oh if I had video editing skills & free time, I would have a YouTube hit on my ads. But just imagine any console/game of today, using advertising methods 25+ years old.

  8. Posted

    While Twitch Asylum breaks the 1 hour rule, they are much more professional than RetroforceGO(Chad ruined it), and go deep into early 80s games, whether it be computer or console. Good stuff. And no holier than thou attitude like a certain other retro-themed podcast.

     

    Easily the best retro-related podcast of the bunch.

  10. Posted

    I just saw a commercial for KFC doing some sort of Guitar Hero promotion. Once again fast food & games have come together.

    So what's the history of fast food & video games promotions?

    There was Burger King & 2 xbox titles, McDonald's & Atari. The failed Rax & GTA:San Andreas promo(The "Grove street" meal). Am I missing anything else?

  11. Posted

    I really gotta check out that MicroCenter! It's kindof a long drive (Oakdale to St Louis Park) but gas is getting cheaper now...

     

    Hell, I have a hard time convincing myself to drive to Discland in Bloomington.

     

    Hey, were you interested in my magazines? I sent you a PM about it.

     

     

    I'm broke, even though I just bought an Acer Aspire one.

  12. Posted

    No, those are in the correct order. USA stores get/display RG 4-6 wks after the UK so we're a month behind here...

     

     

    unless you subscribe directly (like me ;))

     

    S1500, arent you in my area? I was told B&N & Borders werent carrying it anymore for lack of interest.

     

     

    I'm in your area. Some B&Ns carry them.

     

    Also, Microcenter carries them as I was there today. They had both the out run & ants issue.

  14. Posted

    I'm watching Chuck right now. Apparently, one of the geeky characters that works at BuyMore was a Missile Command champ. It was funny to watch the fake footage from '83 with this guy having a mullet. The announcer pronounced it "miss isle command".

     

    And apparently the chief engineer for Atari, who is Japanese, has terrorist ties. Never thought I would see an arcade Missile Command in a flash.

  19. Posted

    This week's RetroforceGO! was 2 hrs on Secret of Mana, in honor of its Wii VC release. They love it but I hate RPGs, never played Secret of Mana, & dont plan to. It's the 1st time I got bored listening & deleted it halfway through.

     

     

    PROFANITY UPDATE: over on RobotPanic/Drunkengamers radio, a listener asked them to curb the swearing, so they initiated a "swear jar" type thing where they have to drink a shot when they swear. They were still pretty drunk by the end :)

     

    I couldn't get all the way through RetroForceGO's episode either. I never played it so I didn't have a frame of reference. Besides, I think listening to Chad laugh for 2 hours is considered torture by the Geneva Convention.

     

    Uh oh, another Retrocore update. This is gonna be good. Let's see how long I can go through this one.

  21. Posted

    In the twin cities, there are tons of attack ads being traded between Norm Coleman & Al Franken. I remember the "sega does what Nintendon't!" ads of yesteryear. What's the history of these ads? I'm curious when the first shit-talking of video game marketing occured. We were told the Game Boy's palette was that of creamed spinach.

     

    sadly, these ads seem to be gone. The closest we had was the incredibly stupid things said from Sony PR in regards to the PS3 versus the competition.

  22. Posted

    Wow- retrocore is REALLY AWFUL. Between the sloppy hillbilly drawl of the host & his HAL9000/KITT robotic-sounding sidekick, it's barely listenable.

     

    I listened to the 3-hr "extravaganza" a few min. at a time, & by the last remaining hr, I'd had enough. I cant recommend retrocore to anyone. It's one of (if not THE) worst podcast on ANY topic I've ever heard.

     

     

    Yep, I couldn't get past 2/3rds of it. I am in no position to make fun of anybody's voice or regional dialect. I've been known to mumble, and I have a distinctive Northern accent(as indicated by 2 women from VA I ran into in England). But the delivery is really bad. He's like the anti-Chad(WHAAAAA HA HA HA HA). Hard to keep up on what the heck they are talking about, all the while pondering how the heck is a 3 hour podcast "special". I doubt the hosting provider's wild about it.

     

    Is there some sort of one-upsmanship in the podcasting community to go for the world's longest podcast?

     

     

    Doctor Ashens is great. He's the Jeremy Clarkson of really bad knockoff videogaming hardware. Wonder if he has an RSS feed.

     

    C'mon people QUALITY RETRO PODCASTS!!

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