Ocarina of Time was my first and only experience of Zelda, I've been thinking about the series (especially the older games) a lot recently and I remember being fascinated with the Link's Awakening cover art when it was released, I regret not getting into it back then, especially considering I wasted my parent's money on shite like Rise of the Robots...

Anyway I decided to see if I could find the TV commercial when I stumbled across this masterpiece from Japan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Trl0cvBFgCk

http://i.imgur.com/ZWosa8w.png

As Henry has mentioned in another topic, a beta version of Resident Evil 1.5 has been released. I wanted to wait until a more complete release but caved and tried out the beta. It's really fun to be playing it after all these years but now more than ever I'm glad they went back to the drawing board with RE2.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1kHeeEMe-s[/youtube]

While I love the game. It's overly QTE heavy. I hope LoS2 fixes that.
Just finished the first chapter, here are my initial impressions for what their worth.

Really nice art style, especially some of the environments, there's lots of variety, combat, puzzles, boss fights. I agree there's too many QTE, being forced to hold RT every 2 seconds during that Ice Titan fight wasn't engaging, it was annoying.

Minor complaints would be that to me the voice acting is a little stunted, Gabriel's accent is a bit questionable but you can overlook that, especially when Marie shows up to let you hear what really bad voice acting sounds like, also she had really weird model animation in one of the early scenes.

Like I said these are minor complaints, they're certainly not impeding my enjoyment of the game, not nearly as much as my own retardation is in any case.

On the subject on Lynch.

http://i.imgur.com/UOkG271.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/P3ftOGt.jpg
What, does this freak have some kind of ... furniture and nice weekend fetish? OK, so maybe he's just a down-to-earth, mild-mannered old man who enjoys nice things.

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_18854_the-5-most-shocking-celebrity-twitter-feeds_p2.html#ixzz2LFDrsjFo

OL wrote: It's snowy out right now...
So naturally I'm kind of getting the urge to play MGS1. Always seems to happen when it snows.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyE0UabtLn0[/youtube]

http://i.imgur.com/gTWwY3u.jpg

Bought this for Lauren, unlike me she's really into JRPG.

http://imageshack.dk/imagesfree/4LM52892.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/diiZmsd.jpg

Almost forgot to post this, I was pretty annoyed at first by the flimsy bag it was shipped in but luckily the courier seems to have been quite careful.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9kIq2W7_As[/youtube]

^I take it you know that "we" put Saddam into power as well?

Work is really pissing me off, I gave serious thoughts to just walking out today. They're gonna pick on me early on tomorrow, too. If I still feel so annoyed about it, then the things I'll say could well end up getting me sacked. Probably for the best. I used to be a nice, easy going (but quite opinionated about things, still) sort of person, so if the place has changed me so much (I'm a total dick quite a lot more often now), then I am better off outta there. Finding another one is hard though, and the grass isn't always greener either...
Do you get proper sick pay?

http://i.imgur.com/PpgDT9A.jpg

Video game characters as Mega Man sprites.

http://i.imgur.com/mjHg108.gif
Reminds me of the Treamcast.

Playing Tomb Raider right now. Very very impressed. This game is amazing. And im saying this with all seriousness.. Its better then Uncharted. And thats saying alot from me. I love Uncharted, but this game makes it look like a cartoon in comparison. Tomb Raider does so many things right that anything I could find to be negative right now would be nit picking on my part.
I recomend everyone play this game who enjoyed any of the Uncharted games or any third person action games in general.
http://i.imgur.com/jXyDTXb.jpg

Off topic but Lara's voice actress looks a bit like her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BevWB86UAkg
Policenauts is without a doubt one of the greatest cinematic adventure games ever released. Despite being such a timeless title with a huge following, Konami's multi-console release never ventured out of Japan. The final port of Policenauts, the more complete Sega Saturn version, is finally being fan translated.

Policenauts? You're not alone in wondering what this elusive title might be. In 1994 Hideo Kojima wrote and directed an adventure game featuring a hard science fiction storyline for Konami, which was initially released for the PC-9821 computer platform in 1994. The game focuses around our protagonist, Jonathan Ingram, a detective who travels to the stars into Earth's space colony in an attempt investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding his ex-wife's murder and her new husband's disappearance.

The arrival of this Sega Saturn translation, however, is not the first time Policenauts has been made accessible to English speaking audiences. Game hackers successfully converted all of the in-game dialogue in the PlayStation 1 port to English, releasing their work on Hideo Kojima's 46th birthday. While this feat may have been unofficial, Konami supposedly worked on an official English translation of the Sega Saturn version many years ago, only to scrap development following various complications.

So why exactly should you care about this fan translation patch - especially when there is already a PlayStation 1 version available? The Sega Saturn port of Policenauts features several additional scenes, a slightly modified story and light gun support - effectively making the Sega Saturn edition of the game the definitive one.

The patch to convert the Sega Saturn port's in-game dialogue to English is still in development, however, the team behind this release recently demonstrated their work at the Spanish retro gaming convention, RetroMadrid.
- Source.

Not sure if this has been discussed already but I know it would interest a couple of you.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbV2BKzM88U[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYjgHLFZMa0[/youtube]

http://i.imgur.com/HcHtxz6.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/uSyh2A1.png
http://i.imgur.com/2mkfXXN.png
http://i.imgur.com/OnIWqSM.png

Sometimes I feel bad for wasting so much time on the internet looking through sites like Reddit or Imgur but there's very few days I don't learn something interesting.

Let's Get Sweaty wrote: Second? There have been at least eighteen, apparently.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zXDo4dL7SU[/youtube]

Came across this pic on reddit.

http://i.imgur.com/ysO3jLP.jpg

Walter (Black ranger) doesn't look like he aged at all.Billy on the other hand..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmlcuY8bOUk
Until just recently I didn't know David Yost (Billy) left the show because of homophobic bullying. :|

I just found out the official development kit for the original Playstation was leaked online a few years ago. I remember desperately wanting a Net Yaroze (a kind of watered down development kit) back in the day but the massive price tag made it totally unobtainable.

I know now that I wouldn't have been able to make anything because I'm not artistic and don't know how to program anything but the idea of creating a Playstation era type of game still seems really awesome.

ThyDarkAngel wrote: I don't like that 'School' game you're all talking about. I was playing this spin off one, called 'Skipping Classes', back then. It was alright for the time.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wtPFCPJTSw[/youtube]

Faces of Addiction - Chris Arnade's flickr

http://i.imgur.com/7xQ60hU.jpg

"The stories of addicts in the Hunts Point neighborhood, the poorest in all of New York City. I post people's stories as they tell them to me.

What I am hoping to do, by allowing my subjects to share their dreams and burdens with the viewer and by photographing them with respect, is to show that everyone, regardless of their station in life, is as valid as anyone else.

Its easy to ignore others. By not looking, by not talking to them, we can fall into constructing our own narrative that affirms our limited world view."

- Full gallery here.

Saw some of the pictures on Imgur today and looked out the gallery, it's really sad but interesting and definitely worth checking out.

People aren't just copy/pasted sheep that a lot of people on the internet typecast them as (see the irony btw?)
This definitely, this has always puzzled me. I lurk a lot of communities and it's an opinion that I've seen thrown out on a regular basis. Aside from an actual common interest or point of view, conformity, to some degree is part of a normal social skill-set and I've never particularly cared for those unable to accept it.