Alyxx Thorne

You look kinda like Brad Jones / Cinemasnob

10/10 Aww, you no like ketchup?

Weird...

Battery's back? Or was it just in sweden it was gone ? We've had Battery in Norway all the time, all you had to do was cross the border. Here you can get it in a "home pack" which is basically just 6 cans plastic'd together. Anyway, Dredd was awesome. Karl Urban was a total badass. Effects were satisfyingly gory and bloody, and the music was really 80's like. Easily best action movie I've seen in a long time. Recommend it if you like hardcore badass cop movies.

Played some Guild Wars 2 with Thadeus and drinking Battery Energy Drink. Tonight I'm going to see Dredd 3D.

9/10 Appropriate

I guess I'm just weird like that, loving underwater sections in FPS games. XD

Those are the reasons I enjoy water sections. They always pop out to me.

Yeah, I'm just saying it seems the gaming industry as a whole seems to want to move away from water.

GMan isn't stalking you, Freeman. You're just being paranoid.

Banned for being hot <3

What's up, Farmers? Your favourite gamer girl Alyxx here with a little article on something that's been bothering me with the games industry lately. Underwater sections have been a staple in gaming as far back as Super Mario Bros. on the NES. Super Mario's underwater levels are some of the most memorable in history. And some games were entire underwater sections, like the ones where you drop bombs on submarines or go swimming around collecting stuff while shooting sharks. Who can forget swimming in the vast oceans of Super Mario Bros. 3 with the frog suit and exploring the vast depths of the sea in Echo the Dolphin? Exploring the ocean depths in Donkey Kong Country, in Banjo Kazooie, in Super Mario 64. Diving under the sea to explore a wrecked ship in Tomb Raider 2 was one of the standout moments in the entire game where you suddenly have to fight sharks instead of goons. And carrying on into the 90's, underwater sections quickly became a big part of first person shooters as well, with games like Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, even Half-Life, SiN and finally Deus Ex having great mechanics built around underwater sections. We loved exploring the ocean, and often these places would have totally unique enemies and a totally unique atmosphere. So... what the fuck happened? I am not sure when it started, or how, but somewhere around 2003 to 2009, developers started deciding to exclude underwater sections from their games, and first person shooters in particular. Games like Call of Duty feature some of them but there is almost no exploration at all in them and you're more or less restrained to a linear path. And looking back at Half-Life 2 and Doom 3, was there ANY memorable underwater sections? Sure Gordon took a dip a few times in Half-Life 2 but there were no particular hazards or memorable sections built around it. And I can't for the life of me remember ONCE going underwater in Doom 3 or Quake 4. Looking at Deus Ex: Human Revolution from 2011, it is often hailed as a great game and a great prequel to Deus Ex. But it actually features a lot less than the original in terms of level design. Deus Ex had a lot of secrets hidden underwater, especially in the first level and you could easily find paths that relied on swimming to avoid security and such. You even had a special swimming skill. Not saying Deus Ex HR is a bad game but there was NOT ONCE where Adam Jensen took a dive. NOT ONCE IN THE ENTIRE GAME! Surely he might have waddled in some poop sewage water but that's it. And it's like the developers know you want to, they even near the end of the game crash Adam into the ocean and it COULD have been a great section where he swims to the surface, just a LITTLE TINY section. And the DLC takes place ON A FRIGGIN' BOAT!!! And games like Fallout 3 are supposed to have this big world to explore but completely forgets to make diving underwater interesting. It's a chore, and all that happens is that you get irradiated anyway. And not just Fallout, Borderlands, Mass Effect, Portal, RAGE, games that are huge epic adventures and so beloved and popular, NONE OF THEM have underwater sections. Not once in Borderlands 1 or 2 for that matter do you ever go underwater. And Borderlands 2 teases you with these realistic water physics but there is no use of any underwater sections. Mass Effect spans 3 massive games, there's a ton to do, a ton of missions, but never ONCE do you actually swim anywhere. Portal shocked the world with groundbreaking gameplay but not once does Chell place portals underwater, which WOULD have been a lot more interesting. RAGE is guilty of it too, not giving you any chance to explore the watery depths. Come to mind, the only FPS I can remember recently that gives you underwater sections is Black Mesa, but it's technically a remake of Half-Life so I am not sure it counts. But it just got me thinking of how much I love swimming and how much I miss it in other games. Duke Nukem Forever was a game everyone hated on when it came out, especially critics but they FAILED to notice how great the underwater sections felt. I loved the mechanic of breathing air bubbles to get more air and exploring this vast underwater world with unique designs and a totally unique boss. It added so much variety and flavour to the game and will always be stuck in my mind as my favourite moment in Duke Nukem history. Duke Nukem Forever dared to go where no other games went and apparently, in the gaming industry, that is a bad thing. So developers, why this hatred of water? Why this reluctance to add underwater segments to your games anymore? Is it because people dislike them? Is it because they make the games harder to program? I really don't know, but I know that it's something that I miss in most games I play these days. - Alyxx

10/10 for Johnny <3

Night of the Living Dead Dawn of the Dead Land of the Dead Diary of the Dead

Obviously you didn't get the joke there... hmm. Oh well, speaking of horror flicks. James Rolfe is doing an 80's marathon for his monster madness thing this month.

That confused me at first as well. I was ready to ban whoever made this thread and saw Jek had made it. Dunno if that makes it legit but... I'll give him the benefit of the doubt here. Anyway, another horror flick I recommend watching is Event Horizon. Really psychological horror and with some neat sci-fi flava.

7/10 Good transparency but... what the fuck am I looking at?

You look like you could fit in with the cast of Twilight.

The Thing is in my opinion Carpenter's best horror flick but it was more effect heavy and big budget so I feel it's an unfair comparison to Halloween. Anyway, if you want something really fucked up I really recommend some Cronenberg flicks like Scanners, Videodrome or The Fly (his most mainstream success).

I think there's a whole thread discussing Freeman's stunning ability to carry a small army arsenal in his pockets somewhere on this forum.

I thank you, good sir.

I always watch the original Halloween during Halloween. Rob Zombie's remake is okay but I prefer John Carpenter's version.

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Happy Halloween month

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