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Marvel/DC / DC Cinematic Universe

« on: October 18, 2014, 03:43:35 AM »

A thread for discussion of the DCCU!





The DC schedule for the next 6 years has been officially released.

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (March 25, 2016)
Suicide Squad (August 5th, 2016)
Wonder Woman (June 23rd, 2017)
Justice League (November 17th, 2017)
The Flash (March 23rd, 2018)
Aquaman (July 27th, 2018)
Shazam (April 5th, 2019)
Justice League 2 (June 14th, 2019)
Cyborg (April 3rd, 2020)
Green Lantern (June 19th, 2020)



Discuss and post memes and whatever you guys do.

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General Gaming - The Arcade / Your top *insert number here* games

« on: September 27, 2014, 05:05:45 AM »

Thought I'd make a thread for you to post your top 5, 10, or whatever games, whether in order or no particular order.

I'm letting my brain do automatic ordering by whichever ones I think of first.

Mirror's Edge
Amazing. The feel of flow and speed is so damn good, leaping through the city, whether doing it how the game was meant to be played or using speedrunning techniques.
It is true that the combat, although looks cool breaks the flow and is absolute arse, it's made up for by the spectacular parkour aspect.

Battlefield 2: Project Reality Mod
I never thought I'd like a "realistic" mod. It makes the ballistic physics far more realistic, adds more maps and factions, more guns, makes the sound effects less like a kids toy, enemies actually react when they get hit, and you can't jump from 10 feet with an assault rifle, pistol, battle armour, and 2 - 4 grenades and just keep on strolling.

But god dammit it is so fun. It feels satisfying when you get a kill, whether you sneak up behind and stab your enemy in the back of the head, or throwing a smoke grenade then running in for the kill.
The game can be a bitch when it decides the AI are going to stand in the middle of the road and point their gun at the ground, utterly oblivious to the action around them, you can forgive it with the awesome gameplay and the fact that's it's made by a fairly small modding team.

Burnout Paradise
 OH GOD THE SPEED. OH GOD THE CRASHES.
SO portugaling AWESOME.

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The Side Room - Sport Discussion / Parkour and Free Running

« on: September 13, 2014, 02:46:41 AM »

Parkour and Free Running, discuss, share, whatever.
To clarify the difference:
Parkour is getting from point A - B, overcoming obstacles and getting there in the fastest time possible.
Free Running is similar but adding a personal "flair", with tricks and unnecessary stuff that looks cool.

Parkour example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMppD-bUNWo#t=28

Free Running example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmMPCbRuW2Y

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The Side Room - Sport Discussion / Combat Sports

« on: August 10, 2014, 06:34:45 AM »

Hey, let's talk combat sports! Karate, judo, MMA, cat martial arts, wrestling, whatever you want

And hey, to stir up some discussion, rate how well you can fight on a scale of 0 - 5

0 - Hadouken!.... where's the fireball?
1 - Bitch slap
2 - My grandma showed me how to punch
3 - I did some martial arts as a kid, and can still remember them / I'm doing martial arts now and I'm OK
4 - Doing martial arts now, decent at it
5 - MMA Expert


(I rate myself a 3.5)

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Game Reviews / Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate

« on: August 09, 2014, 07:23:22 AM »

Welp, here's my review of Dead or Alive 5 Ultimate, which, after playing it for 2 hours, is not only one of my favourite fighting games of all time, but one of my favourite games of all time.

Game Type: Commercial, free demo available (only 6 characters, no story mode)
Genre: Fighting, jiggle simulator

First up, the ratings: (using 10 number scale because I prefer it ;p)

Graphics - 8 - Doesn't actually run at all on modern computers as it's a console game, but very good graphics for last gen, however some of the textures are a bit low res.

Gameplay - 9 - Will talk about this later

Immersion - N/A - I'm actually playing the free version, which doesn't have a story mode. I'll update once I have some cash


Now for why you should get this game:

God dammit it's satisfying. Most games slow down gameplay and make it a bit clunky to make you feel the hits... DOA5 is fast as hell... yet you still feel every blow - you feel your characters spine smashing into that fence, and you feel the impact of rolling down a flight of stairs and smashing your face on the concrete at the bottom.

Next up, how dynamic it is. As I mentioned before, you can slam characters into fences and break or bend them, or push them down flights of stairs or out windows and off rooftops. Characters also get sweat and dirt on them as the fight goes on and they take more damage. Crates and barrels roll around as you hit them. You can hit someone into an oil tank and make it explode, sending them flying across the stage, or hit them into the wall and launch an airstrike on them.

Variety of characters - 29 of them - 18 of them female, 11 of them male. I've so far only tried Hayate and Ryu Hayabusa, but they were both damn fun. There's also quite a bit of costume modification.

Story - I've only played the free version which doesn't have it, but it has been criticized by reviewers.

Oh, there's also the selling point which the developers apparently thought it needed even though, IMO, it doesn't.... Boobs, butts, and jiggle physics.
Hell it was rated 17+ over in the US just because of it.



Overall score:
9/10

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General Chatter - The Boozer / Hey guys, check out sword lasertag!

« on: June 15, 2014, 05:47:37 AM »

http://sabertron.com/

Basically lasertag with swords. Multiple modes including health, one hit ko, easy, and more.

Really awesome, I'm getting some for sure.

They also have more info on their kickstarter page:
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/levelup/sabertron-foam-swords-with-electronic-scoring

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General Gaming - The Arcade / Anyone have any ideas for parkour games?

« on: May 24, 2013, 07:18:04 AM »

Other than Mirror's, AC, and Prince of Persia (which doesn't really have proper parkour)

I quite like parkour, despite not being a traceur myself. (complete nerd, fat and suck at sports.)

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General Gaming - The Arcade / R.I.P THQ

« on: January 28, 2013, 02:04:36 AM »

Recently THQ has gone into bankruptcy, and has now sold most of its studios.

Studio information (copied from IGN, link @ bottom of post)

-Sega has purchased Relic, Developer of Company of Heroes 2 and Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War.
-Koch Media has purchased Saints Row developer Volition and the rights to the Metro series.
-Crytek has purchased the rights to the Homefront series, and are currently developing Homefront 2
-Take-Two have purchased Turtle Rock Studios project codenamed Evolve
-Ubisoft has purchased the rights to publish South Park: The Stick of Truth and THQ Montreal
-Darksiders studio Vigil has not been acquired, nor has the WWE Franchise.]

Full article here: http://au.ign.com/articles/2013/01/23/thq-dissolved-saints-row-company-of-heroes-darksiders-devs-acquired

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The Welcome Hall - Start Here! / Ranks/Staff List

« on: December 30, 2012, 10:07:16 PM »

EDIT (11 January 2014): This list is not being maintained. There's a list of current staff here, including links for contact details, a list (hopefully complete) of current and past staff here, and a list of current citizens (including Patrikioi and Megas Domestikoi) here.
STAFF

BASILEUS (Head of Staff)
The Khan
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SEBASTOKRATOR (Political leader)
Dripping D
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TECHNIKOS (Head of technical staff)
Son of the King
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MEGADUX (Content director)
Jubal
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COMMUNITY & CLERISY HETERIARCHES (Section admin for community chat, the academy, RPGs, and debating)
Mother of Dragons
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MODDING & PROGRAMMING DESPOTES (Section admin for modding, gaming & programming)
Comrade_General
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SPATHARIOI (Senior Moderators)
Othko97 & Pentagathus
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TRIBOUNOI (Judges)
Armadillo and Tom---
LOGOTHETES (Junior staff)
There are currently none of these guys.
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HEKATONTARCHOI (Junior moderators)
There are currently none of these guys either.

To find the staff's profiles and contact any of them, there is a second list in Q&S with that information found here:
http://www.exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=17.0
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CITIZEN RANKS

Citizen- Normal citizens have this rank
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PATRICAN - These are citizens that have made a major contribution, and they are often former staff members
Goldyrulz
Colonel_Ryan
CN2
Phoenixguard09
Dimos
The Khan

MEGAS DOMESTIKOS - This is the highest citizen rank, for members who have made huge contributions to the site
Current Megas Domestikoi:
Stormcloud
Marcus
DeepComet5581
Private Clark
Silver Wolf

There are also ranks equivalent to that of citizen for modders, and other people that have made a contribution to a section.

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Announcements! The Town Crier! / Election Results December 2012

« on: December 26, 2012, 12:18:11 AM »

Merry Christmas!

Results of the staff elections December 2012:

Basileus Election

Hobbit of Exilian (ECHO); 0 votes (0%)
Dimos (Independent); 5 votes (50%)
Abstain; 5 votes (50%)

Independent Man Dimos is elected Basileus

Sebastokrator Election

Dripping D (FIF); 7 votes (70%)
Dimos (Independent); 1 vote (10%)
The Khan (ECHO); 2 votes (20%)
Abstain; 0 votes (0%)

Dripping D of FIF is elected Sebastokrator

Spatharioi Election

Dripping D (FIF); 4 votes (22.2%)
Hobbit of Exilian (ECHO); 4 votes (22.2%)
Othko97 (FIF); 8 votes (44.4%)
Abstain; 2 votes (11.1%)

Othko won the election; draw between Dripping D and Hobbit of Exilian, however Dripping D has been elected Sebastokrator, hence Hobbit of Exilian of ECHO and Othko97 of FIF are elected Spatharioi

Tribounoi Election

The Khan (ECHO); 3 votes (20%)
Othko97 (FIF); 5 votes (33.3%)
Abstain; 7 votes (46.7%)

As unavailable candidates (Othko97) took 1/3 of the vote, the election will be re-run.

Party Results:

FIF; 24 votes (45%) [+12%]
ECHO; 9 votes (17%) [-9%]
Independent; 6 votes (11%) [-23%]
Abstentions; 14 votes (26%) [+18%]

Again, Merry Christmas, and have a great holiday!

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Exilian Area / Why do we have nothing here?....

« on: September 25, 2012, 06:21:17 AM »

Seriously, why do we have nothing here?
The TWC guys seem to be chatting away, while we are just leaving our section...empty.

I know I shouldn't really be posting here, but I am kind of on the Exilian side, even though I am a judge.

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General Chatter - The Boozer / Battle of the Browsers

« on: September 25, 2012, 02:24:55 AM »

Seems that over in another thread a debate is starting on the browsers, so I am taking it to this thread to stop it getting so off topic in the other thread.

Anyway, the battle of the browsers; Opera v Chrome v Firefox v any other browser you can think of (except IE, IE is banned)

I personally prefer Google Chrome; because it includes games, helpful addons (ex.Add sweep and AdBlock, which when combined clear all adds), and it is faster for me then any other browser I have used.

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Questions and Suggestions - The High Court / Ranks/Staff List

« on: September 16, 2012, 10:41:44 PM »

EDIT (4 January 2014): This list is not being maintained. There's a list of current staff here, including links for contact details, a list (hopefully complete) of current and past staff here, and a list of current citizens (including Patrikioi and Megas Domestikoi) here.

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Spamfest! / spam

« on: September 09, 2012, 04:07:03 AM »

more spam
*fread l0cked*

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Spamfest! / locked thread

« on: September 09, 2012, 04:03:49 AM »

dis thread is locked