General Discussion - Page 13

quote SpartanNinja

Only been to the British Isles as a layover to Kuwait but it was raining when we got there and when we left lol.

Haha, yep that sounds about right for GB Hmm, that's a pity you weren't made to feel more welcome though; we're not all unfriendly snobs that like to glare at people over here I promise

Ah, that's understandable in regards to the moving thing; that really sucks about the place's apparent 'deathly history' then - the least you deserve is a nice, normal place to feel comfortable living in for your first longer length home...

I've not played Demon/Dark Souls either actually; could be something for me to try somewhen. I have quite a small selection of games overall - it seems to be that I tend to play the same thing continuously for months on end, getting completely absorbed into it, so as such, I don't end up playing that many different games But then I think the time I spent on the likes of Reckoning, the Uncharted games and the Dynasty Warriors franchise has been well worth it; just the way I role I guess

the_FAMAS_pro I think some of Linkin Park's stuff is awesome but some of it I don't like at all, which kinda makes things a little bit awkward Essentially, I'm not a fan of rap or of the screaming type stuff in music, so it boils down to pretty much disliking the LP stuff that has those elements in, but I like their sound overall, so the tracks without those things I often really like. I'd love to go see them live performing the stuff that I like, but I know there'd equally be a load of stuff played that I wouldn't enjoy so am not sure that'd work too well...

quote Artirtico

Haha, yep that sounds about right for GB Hmm, that's a pity you weren't made to feel more welcome though; we're not all unfriendly snobs that like to glare at people over here I promise

To be fair it was a miserable day and we were heading to the field, and there was around a 150 American soldiers rolling into a public airport with weapons (no ammo though). No lie we are literally carrying M4s and SAWs and the like and they still wouldn't let us have nail clippers or knives bigger than 5 inches (13cm).

And there was a few that were very friendly, and the kids were curious but they are curious everywhere. On our way home we went through Germany and they partitioned us off from the rest of the airport. People are taking picture and were sleeping around the airport like hobos cause we hadn't slept in 2 days. Ah good times.

But yeah it was just that once and they weren't all mean.

quote Artirtico

I've not played Demon/Dark Souls either actually; could be something for me to try somewhen. I have quite a small selection of games overall - it seems to be that I tend to play the same thing continuously for months on end, getting completely absorbed into it, so as such, I don't end up playing that many different games But then I think the time I spent on the likes of Reckoning, the Uncharted games and the Dynasty Warriors franchise has been well worth it; just the way I role I guess

fair enough, I used to be the same way but games came out less and were better every year and still every year, and so I picked up a lot of games over the years... currently staring at my 100 something games across 8 systems. In fact except the exclusives on the Xbox and L.A. Noire I don't have any games for Xbox I couldn't get for PS3...

I need to slow my rol cause I have yet to beat a handful. Might I suggest all the fables then? yeah its not stellar but its till a pretty cool game and you will see the heavy influence on KOA, seeing as how its highly unlikely that the IP will survive now that the company is banked out.

the_Famas_pro

quote Artirtico

Essentially, I'm not a fan of rap or of the screaming type stuff in music

I agree with this, except I can tolerate it to a degree if the song itself is not bad or the screaming is not very loud like Avenged Sevenfold.

quote Artirtico

That's quite an impressive collection of games you have there and very much agreed that there are a whole lot of good games released; I can certainly understand why people get so many. I still have quite a few more PS2 and Playstation games than PS3's (always just stuck with playstation); I suppose back then, the likes of Crash Bandicoot etc didn't ever take that long to play through and as such I ended up getting more games then than I do now

Thanks you but they aren't all good games unfortunately. And its sad but I think I have every game Naughty Dog ever made, Crash Bandicoot, Jak and Daxter, and now the Uncharted series, and soon The last of Us will be coming and that looks even more amazing, and whats more it apparently takes place in my neck of the woods. Starting in Pittsburg and ending in Philadelphia, you probably don't recognize those two cities but I live right smack dab in the middle of them so fun times.

But yeah went and beat the original Crash off of PSN and beat it in about 3-4 hours(coincidentally thats how long it took me to beat Homefront and Journey...), a far cry from when I was 8-10 and In wasn't coordinated enough to beat it let alone in 4 hours.

but yes good times.

And yes the Army life is odd sometimes,
"sir can I have those toenail clippers? "
"um but I have a machine gun..." shows her
"I know sir but you're not allowed to have the toe nail clippers "
"... fine "
Its like that everywhere...
And once we were there a few hours they didn't seem to stare anymore.

I must say that I enjoyed the Airports in the UK and Ireland more than Germany or Italy though, seeing as how I can actually understand what you guys say lol. Fun fact airports in Areland have sugns that has Irish Gaelic or something like that.

But anyway enough of my army stuff I have a question for you Oh Great Moderator in the Sky.

I can't access my DLC content for KOA, you think I should just uninstall and reinstall or something? I don't wanna mess up my save files. I have internet access and whatnot its corrupted I think...

Anyway I will play something else and try later...

quote the_FAMAS_pro

Hey, SpartanNinja, Do all army bases have those rappelling towers? my dad has a friend in the army, so when we feel like popping a few rounds, we can head on over there and start shooting targets. I tried out the tower, it was FUN. Just like Call of Duty

Most of the big ones do... And usually you aren't shooting from the rappel tower itself. You can however pretty much go over at any time and shoot at the ranges as long as a range safety guy clears you, which takes five minutes and they usually say yes.

And I think your trolling but its not like call of duty at all. It was fun though yes. We did ours at Fort Knox in the rain.

If it aint rainin we aint trainin!

quote the_FAMAS_pro

NO! NO TROLLING! MY grandfather was good friends with one of the soldiers, a sergeant, up until he died i asked him, but he said even he doesn't know..so we have friends inside the army. But it felt like it, just grab an airsoft gun, preferably a pistol or an MP5K Also, i saw 'Surviving the cut' on Discovery and it was harsh Is actual training THAT harsh or even worse?

May he rest in peace, but naw if your going to shoot something then shoot the real thing. Real guns I mean not real people lol . And yes training is very difficult for those particular schools of the military, I went and watch all of these or at least glanced through it but yeah.
Season 1
"Ranger School"
"US Air Force Pararescue"
"US Marine Recon"
"Special Forces Divers"
"Navy EOD Final Certification"
"Marine Snipers"
Season 2
"Naval Special Warfare Combatant Craft Crewman"
"US Army Sniper School"
"US Air Force Special Operations Dive School"
"US Army Sapper School"
"US Army 160th SOAR (A)"
"Naval Special Warfare Combatant Craft Crewman

Yeah these are highly specialized troops and they want only the best. So It is indeed tough to do those, EOD in particular is VERY long, there AIT in the Army is 18 months... whereas the average advanced training is usually about 2-4.

Warrant Officer training is particularly tough to get into as well but Warrant Officers can be anything but are usually the way to be pilots without being an officer.

Anyway if you see movies about basic training or bootcamp then you are getting the romanticized version, its tough, mindbreakingly tough maybe, but it isn't going to break most people. but they do have suicide watch for a reason I suppose.

So how are you enjoying the tim e the_FAMAS_pro surely your not still going to classes?

quote Artirtico

Good point regarding the games being that much more difficult back then through being so much younger...

one caveat is Super Mario Bros which I can't beat now for my life but could beat it back when I was a kid.

quote Artirtico

Nah, I 'know of' Pittsburg and Philadelphia, but I couldn't tell you much more than that they're cities That'd be awesome if you were to recognise some of the places within the game; even more worthwhile getting then

Its just a rumor as far as I'm concerned but thats what the coming down the grapevine apparently and yes it would be cool to recognize those two and some places in between.

quote Artirtico

so I think re-installing the DLC would indeed be the best way forward. I'm pretty sure the main game file and the save files are separate from the DLC, so I don't think there should be any problems with those...

Yeah I just tried it and it seems to be working fine but I'll see. Been playing Gravity Rush anyway.

quote Artirtico

Hmm, I don't appear to be able to access the Reckoning site any more to check it up on there either... I suppose there's nobody left in charge of it now after all.

Sad right? Well you can't really blame Rhode Island (?) for wanting to recoup their losses but sad they didn't wait a bit longer.

Well unless fans want to front the site out of there own pocket or ads I doubt we will see a return, as for people coming here, well its odd but I actually stumbled upon this site quite randomly and it was another 2 years before I actually made a profile. Then around 2008-9 it became my go to site alongside gamefaqs.

So as for people coming here its possible but whenever I found it it was fairly low on the google list lol.

I hope they do to, and not just those people who make a profile and post like 1-100 times and then stop, I'm talking about really semi-regular users.

Hell man except for 1-5 regular users per game (minus the new games or those still getting dlc) the forums always become slowed and dead.