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I don't think you're understanding. Stop posting about video games and play a friggin video game lol.

There is duo mode. Let's play some duos till we get a squad!

I'm in, let's go.

Not much activity there... do you see it where we should leave it out where it is? Post it up.

Maybe if you played the game the forum is named for once in a while, you could post in there and drive some activity.

I would be 100% fine with everything being digital if I didn't have to fight storage space problems on my Xbone. Discs are a hassle for PC games these days if you're hard drive is big enough. My gaming laptop doesn't even have a DVD drive.

92% of the way through Dying Light. Important note: it's friggin hard from the start and doesn't get much easier.

Also, have zero clue what the campaign is about since Spartan likes to skip all the cutscenes haha.

Seems useful so far, will continue to monitor.

A couple of years ago I stumbled across a free private PSO server called Ephinea. There are a few main private servers and this is one of them, but I really enjoyed the community there and they strive to keep the game vanilla with a few quality-of-life upgrades here and there.

Welcome to check it out! It's Phantasy Star Online: Blue Burst so it's Episode 1, 2, and 4. They've created a ton of side quests and quest bonuses to keep things interesting. Let me know if you're thinking of joining and I'll definitely hop on to play and help out.

https://ephinea.pioneer2.net/

Well, a couple of things. I have a few friends who use it religiously and have said it works great for them so that's the main reason I got it to begin with. Some things I've heard and some things I know:

• I've heard that the main reason they do this is to gather movie-watching data to eventually sell to marketing firms. Who knows.
• When I was reading the stipulations, it sounds like we are almost put on some sort of list for the movie we choose to see. Then, we have to check in 30 minutes before the movie. There was something written that if the movie is full, we may not get in. I don't know if any of you are familiar with aviation rules, but it almost sounds like a "standby" list where you only get in when it doesn't sell out. So you are basically taking seats that would have (theoretically) been empty anyway. Part of why they probably get away with being so cheap.
• You can't see any 3D or IMAX-type movies (makes sense).
• We've had some questions about activation and I can confirm that their customer service is not great.
• You can see one movie a day (as long as it's not one of those 3D or IMAX ones).

I'm not sure how much the theaters are involved with this, but if they are working with MoviePass to provide a discount, I imagine it's not a huge loss if they are giving away seats that are otherwise unsold while making ridiculous money off concessions.

Sorry to derail the Black Panther topic. It's still on my list to see but probably going to be a couple more weeks with how my schedule has been.

I started up my Phantasy STar ONline account with MAster Mario lol... and he gave me some money.

Haven't done much outside that in PSOBB... yet.

We better friggin play dude!

Been playing a little of that and some Starcraft 2 (Mafia custom games). Also a little PUBG and Dying Light. Dying Light is friggin hard. More of a chore than a game haha.

It's 9pm, time for PSO or PUBG!

Pubg, lets go friends!

Who owns and plays on the Xbox One?    What are your thoughts on the system?  If you have a Playstation 4 and Switch... what are you thoughts on the XBONE versus those systems?

Post it up!

I made a strategic decision to not buy into Xbox One... this is because I am working to buy a bit less and have less of a pool of games to play.  Since all companies (Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony) are charging for their online service... I don't want to pay for all 3.

Unfortunately, I left the XBOX to the side.

No wonder you have so many posts...responding to yourself. Tsk tsk.

I've got the Xbone and have had it for a while. Mostly got it for Destiny even though I only played it for 10 hours or so and never came back (because my friends beat it without me over one weekend I was gone and anyone who knows me knows I rarely play single player campaigns haha).

Now I play it for NHL18 and Battlefront 2 (even though you can play them on other systems) and I have Halo 5 but haven't busted into that yet either.

Haven't seen it yet but want to. Holding out till my MoviePass thing shows up in the mail so I can use it (if you haven't heard of it, it's that thing where you pay like $10/month and you get to see 1 movie a day for free).

Leftover DQ icecream cake from my birthday. Nom Nom

Happy birthday!!

LOL... well... some of the amazon ones are based on search history... SOOOOOOOooooooo.   

I'm pretty sure Amazon is pushing ads from your search history because it was showing desk lamps and IU polos.

I get the ads, but dear Lord, you don't think this is excessive? lol.

Put it in the forums or no more birthday topics for you!

Check EGA.

Thank you both.

Spartan and I are usually pretty good at powering through even the crappiest, hardest co-op games. But, there are two co-op games we gave up on and I don't believe we were even on the hardest difficulty on either one.

Game 1: Perfect Dark Zero.  I'm pretty sure we weren't even playing the hardest difficulty, we were playing the second hardest (Perfect Agent IIRC). The checkpoints were ridiculous, the AI was extremely smart, and our weapons were terrible. I think we got to level 12 or 13 on this difficulty (out of 14) and quit. Never going back, but I'll never forget how terrible this was.

Game 2: Command & Conquer 4. We'd played C&C games for years but this one was impossible. There were parts of C&C: Red Alert 3 that were frustrating and near impossible, but we got about 2 or 3 levels into C&C4 and quit. Not only were the missions hard, but I think the gameplay itself was rough and different than other C&C games. I'd like to try this again someday (especially since I don't think there have been any C&C games since), but I'd have to be pretty bored haha.

Anyone else come across games you'd consider "unbeatable", or at least unbeatable in their harder difficulties?

What if the servers are still running in 20 years? I don't think this would be a good metric to consider something retro or not but that's just me. PS3 servers are being shut down more quickly than 360. Hell, there are some current gen servers that are being shut down now and people are pretty pissed about that.

Well, I don't think there's currently a lot of precedence for something like that to happen. I think we've typically seen that once the console developer decides it's not worth it to keep the servers up due to lack of interest, they're pretty good about turning them off. We'll see some third party servers pop up after that, but once the manufacturers give up on it I take that as a pretty good sign that those console's time is done.

Obviously there are exceptions for some classic games like the original Starcraft, but those are more one-offs.

I don't know if there is a right answer to this question though haha. I just don't feel like the 360 is old enough to be retro because I was still playing it 5 years ago.

Happy Birthday, Retro!!

FYI...I didn't get a birthday topic on the 10th when mine rolled around so I'm going to remember that.

Spartan would know better, but I wonder if it's possible to link to a Discord page or something. Discord is more and more popular each day.

Speaking of SNES... I'm breaking out UN Squadron.  It's one of my favorite SNES games.

Prove it!

I don't consider these three systems retro. Anything before that, I would. I mean, hell, the Xbox 360 game servers are still running.

I don't mind them.

Apparently

Sometimes I'll play the standard puzzle games like Candy Crush to kill time, but usually I'll download an emulator onto my S7 and play some old school Nintendo games. Mario Party, Mario Golf, Mario RPG, Pokemon, whatever. Most things run pretty well. Usually you can run pretty much every N64 game or older pretty easily but I haven't really found a good GC emulator yet. Controls can be tough when joysticks are heavily used in game but I did buy a Bluetooth controller I never use haha.

Done. My only issue was that apparently I never had a Steam profile set up so it took me about an hour to figure out how to do it haha.

You wanted more members so I went and posted the link to this forum all over Facebook and Reddit, thought you wouldn't mind.

We should add in there somewhere... I think we beat ODST on  the Thanksgiving LAN night. lol

I believe you are correct. That was a good run. Solid game, too.