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    What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

    in General Banter

    Posted · Edited by Raktorn

    "GoldenEye X". Think of it as "GoldenEye 007" on steroids: they're taking the engine used to make "Perfect Dark" and they're rebuilding "GoldenEye 007" within this engine. So this means they have some really neat touches: reloading animations, new weapons, dynamic lighting, et cetera. The mod started out as a revamped multiplayer, but the modders working on the project recently added three new playable campaign missions in the latest patch.

     

     

    Here's some loser nerd explaining it through video, though this probably makes it much less appealing than how I described it.

    which means i won't have anybody to play multiplayer that's on here :(

    What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

    in General Banter

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    Been playing some "GoldenEye 007" romhacks recently. Some of the levels are pretty unimpressive where they're just levels from the original game with a few redesigned textures or something, but others are total conversions of levels from the ground up that look amazing. The "Island" level is personally one of my favourites.

     

     

    A small handful of the already existing levels from Multiplayer ported to be a single player mission aren't bad, though. I especially like the fact that someone ported the "Grid" multiplayer mission from "Perfect Dark" to become a solo mission.

     

    What Video Games Are You Currently Playing

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    with them only shipping 2million units to begin, + not having even sorted out the live account membership for launch, + kind of weak launch line up. i get the feeling 2017 will be a slow year for the switch. hopefully 2018 is the year they attack hard with an actual line up of games to get excited about ..

    I'unno if I'd say the launch lineup is weak, per se. They have stuff including Nintendo's IPs, but I'm just kinda wondering how it's gonna fare in the years down the road, as it felt like the Wii seemed to have a much healthier lifespan full of titles than the Wii U did, forgetting about the shovelware people just kept making for the Wii like clockwork during those six years before the Wii U had retail availability. If the same thing happened with the Switch, it'd be kinda depressing to witness.

    New Aphex Twin 10" [TECH-004]

    in Aphex Twin

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    When you first listen to a record, there is a tangible effort made. You must put the wax on the platter, drop the needle…it has a feel and a smell, there is surface noise which is individual to your copy and turntable. There is more interface with what is going on, but with mp3s it’s often streamed on a laptop while you do something like eat a sandwich and read a buzzfeed article on the migration of owls. There’s less focus, less participation. I think this makes physical format music – vinyl especially – something more than just the music.

     

    Secondly – vinyl retains value. You can look at your collection and see it in real space, not just data. There is something of a sense of digital entitlement since the Napster revolution – where we feel *because* something exists, somehow we are entitled to have it in our preferred format. It returns the joy of crate digging, searching out records in charity shops (and of course, the downside is Discogs scalpers – but nothing is perfect) There’s something special about having something the way the artist intended.

     

    Let me tell you this: if a painter sold only a limited number of framed prints of their work, would you get angry with them that there wasn’t a lo-res .jpg of it for your iPhone wallpaper?

    Most annoying post of the year? Top 10 surely

     

     

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