Meet up for video game players

GTA4?

I think you mean Gran Turismo 4?

GTA would be Grand Theft Auto.

Was pretty nice, but a bit quiet; I guess most people were watching the footy.

There were Ninja Gaiden 2 and The Bourne Conspiracy for the new games, but I found a copy of Sega Bass fishing for the Wii, and finished it off Also played lotsa guitar hero with beers

On Saturday this week they have 6 pc's running the full version of the new Civ game, but that aint my thing...

I spoke to the guy who organizes the thing, and I can bring you guys along next time if ya want.

That would be very sweet mate. That's not until next month though, right?

What did you think to Bourne? I played the demo before and while the hand to hand combat is pretty cool, it feels like that the game is basically showing off the things that you could be doing whilst letting you negotiate the less cool bits.

Nope, its every 2 weeks, I'll link to the flyer when it comes out.

Bourne looks good but had waaay too many quicktime events for my liking. I didnt really see enough to give a full review... Maybe thats a job for DrunkenGamers.com??

but thats taken... maybe wasted/pissed/sloshed/inebriated/intoxicated/pickled gamers is available?

The Drunk Gamers Council sounds good.

Authoritarive, even

I contacted the people who own the domain name drunkengamers.com and asked them could we have it. Of course they'd ask for loads, but I thought I'd ask anyway. Of course there's always the Ubisoft style "Drunkengamerz.com"

Drunk Gamers Council does sound much better though

Yeah, right right. Hmm, I wonder if it would work on GTA4?

Please, let's not do a Ubisoft.

DrunkenGamersCouncil to too much to type...

what about a hyphen?

of course, too many beers could lead to www.flaccidjoystick.com... hahhahaaa

anyway, it doesnt have to be a .com.

Just call it theDGC.com .net or .whatever

Hey, those of you who pick up Metal Gear today, be sure to let me know how it is!

I'll be waiting for mine to be delivered...mrrrr.

6 pcs running the new civ? They must be talking about the colonization addon for civ 4, or they are talking about ps3´s/360´s runnin the new console game... itäs definately my thing, but is about as far away from being a social game as one can get. It´d be a couple of hours at least to finish a game. Plus it is 5 players max. It would be right up my alley if there were a few others there nerdy enough to get into a faux historical ruckus.

My favorite store with my favorite bespectacled rotund employee/owner, who always gives me the heads up on import deals and whatnot (Despite me never buying anything because the wife has the gaming budget directed elsewhere atm) Had civ rev in today, for ps3 and xbox (maybe ds as well). They also do imports, NG2 uncut for instance. They had mass effect in english for about 30e, and heaps of other stuff. A bit pricey (59 euro for new stuff) but has a good enthusiast atmosphere, without the dungeon style decor and bad attitude that usually goes with it (see nerd alley in hauptbanhoff).

I was heartbroken when I passed a gamestop near Mikey D´s a few hundred meters away, just getting it´s interior together. Itäs weird, but the big flatscreens seem to be the first things they put in there. Will it drive him out of buisness? Maybe not, it certainly cannot compete with the import and USK18 games section.

Oh, itäs Vince by the way, wifes login was the last used and I can´t be bothered fixing it. Honestly, itäs not mine!

Also, why donät we call ourselves Inebriated Gamers? Same thing, different nomenclature. Sounds highbrow, even with all the bad spelling. Or maybe call ourselves Drunkgamers, but use german?

Inebriated Gamers sounds good, but i'm just worried that our target audience (other inebriated gamers) may have trouble spelling it! Still a cool name though. While we're at it we should register as many domain names as we can with random nouns+z on the end, and reap the benefits once Ubizoft get round to making the games, which shouldn't take too long really, judging on the quality of them so far!

sorry i missed the last meetup it sounded really good, i am definatly in for the next one though

Oh man, Ubisoft crack me up with all their shovelware.

It's a good job they still manage to pull out some great games as well, Assassin's Chore less so - "I'll have your hand for that!"

"Thank God you came when you did, otherwise they would have made off with me..."

STAB

"Could you spare some coins?"

*backhand*

Any of you lads fancy joining the 20 somethings crowd at Die Bank tonight for a few beers? I'll be there about 8 ish, I'd imagine.

Yes, even you Dave, you old bastard

woulda come last year, when I was a wippersnapper at 29...

we should get this website up, and set up a forum site,, then can can have a whole "bitch about ubiosoft" section!

Age is but a number, mate.

We need a good plan of action for this website of ours - preferrably discussed over beer.

Here here!

or is it "Hear Hear"?

Anyway, I suppose I could use the multimedia skills to help out with this site, although they are a bit rusty as I haven't used them so much since completing the degree 4 years ago (just the odd website here and there).

Between us I reckon we could come up with something pretty nice!

So, when should we arrange this meeting for, or should be wait until Brennan gets back?

We could do something next week as sort of a preliminary discussion/piss up. Once Brennan gets back we could probably finalise the plans.

I've been looking into some video capture hardware/software, and I've found a few things that could be useful - apparently the PS3 is a bit of a bastard to capture using HDMI because of the HDCP support required - the work around for that is to use HD component cables. Either way, if we do decide to do some video reviews/features I've probably got most of that kind of crap covered. Most of the stuff will end up being downscaled anyway, lest we all want to become broke due to hosting costs.

As for the page itself, my idea was to first setup a WordPress page that we can all use/contribute/publish to and then fill in the blanks around that framework (forums, hosting etc). Hosting is probably the biggest issue really, as you can never tell exactly how much traffic we're going to get.

The only missing things following that are finalising the name, getting some graphics produced and a few other loose ends here and there (email accounts etc.)

Of course we should downscale; let youtube host everything! We should go the cheapest hosting possible, and scale up when (and more likely if) we get more that our mates/girlfriends to watch it.

Lets get a domain name sorted out now on this thread. I suggest we each put forward one or two unused domain names (tested via whois etc), then we decide which is best. How about we try and have the name picked out by Monday evening?

Then one of us can volunteer to pay the 15 euros or so for registration/bargain hosting for the first year, and we meet up soon at a bar to talk about contents/design/gaming and pay back the volunteer in beers all evening.

Does that sound like a plan then?

Definitely sounds like a plan.

Vimeo or DailyMotion would be better for hosting the video though.

Oooooh. What kind of site will it be? One where our honest opinions of games we purchased with our own hard earned garner us a loyal fanbase and ad revenue and then free games and then we sell editorial space to Ubisoft and give the new prince of persia and Rainbow Six Vegas 3 heaps of soft preview copy and a 9.5 out of ten score despite being worse than Warrior Within and then lose all credibility? Or will it just be an awesome forum, hidden from the upturned noses of the judgemental masses? Either way I`m in.

My one skill is I can talk a lot of shelf toilet quality drivell. Usefull in both the above scenarios.

Yea lads that sounds good to me! I can definitely cover the graphical side of things too. So then, domain name suggestions? Are we sticking with the general theme of drunkenness and gaming then? (I'm a fan of it anyway)

thedrunkengamers.com ?
thedrunkgamers.com ?
drunkengameralliance.com (and shock: dga.com is also available)

drunkvideogamers is also available for various domains, ie. .com, .de, etc.

I'd prefer a little of column A and a little of column B. Successful with added credibility, eh?

Is baronvonbullshit.com available?

www.bavarianbeerbandits.org

www.alcoholicandobvious.com (doh! something like this is taken.) www.

hmmm... bit too beery, if there is such a thing.

www.supersmashedbrothers.net or variation.

Thats got it all and reminds me of the Bitmap Brothers. May not be all encompassing enough though. Plus, maybe nintendo will send ninjas to cut our throats while we sleep for bismirchin their good name with the non-pg slur of substance abuse.

Come to think of it, I have no good ideas right now. Time to pass the buck.
Best gaming site name ever, and maybe best site as well, was Old Man Murray. That name dosn´t mean anything, maybe ours dosn´t either?

doh! They had the bad augustiner in tengelmans last night... i still feel a little bit like death.

*edit to say*

+1 for "baronvonbullshit"

it`s regal, philisophical. A hint of integrety without the seriousness and lack of humility found in most gaming sites. Plus it makes me think of Penn and Teller.

dga.com is gone... was it really ever available?

baronvonbullshit sounds cool, but sounds like a single reviewer, not a team effort

Pete, shop us a pic of Baron Munchausen or however it is spelt, that awesome Gilliam film from way back when, but put a wiimote in his hand in place of the rapier. Just to see if it would work.

Damn, Iäm too excited to find a proper pic to edit, I`ll keep looking...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventure...aron_Munchausen

And it had Uma Thurman in the raw! If you could work that into the site it would be even better.

edito= Actually, that photoshop idea is shit. But the name is cool. Having a persona behind the site, like with old man Murray, would help set the theme and style really well and stop things getting bland. But may discourage contributors as like Dave said, it wouldn`t seem so colaborative.

In reference to this Slashdot article:

careerpirates.com

Slightly off-topic here, but apparently the Pixies' "Doolittle" is to be the 3rd album turned into DLC for Rock Band.

Holy awesome, batman.

hmmm, I also am keen on the alcoholic connection, so how about:

drunkenated.com
drunkenlegion.com
inebriatedreviews.com
gamerstavern.com

The hell? dga.com was available last time I checked on whois.com.

Maybe we shouldn't discuss such plans on a public forum?

Doolittle? That was seriously the first cd I ever purchased. And still probably the best. I will bring mucho beer to whoever hosts a RB jam with that album.
Now maybe the missus will let me spend the six million dollars rockband costs.

Though I am nurse shithouse at music games... except for this one. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b...Taiko_psp_f.jpg

How about we each make up personas of super hot chicks (maybe we each have a cool little anime style avatar) and and make something like:

naughtygirlgamers.com

and we could write reviews containing stuff like "we played this after our frenzied pillow fight last night".

...and watch the traffic soar.

(gamerstavern sounds cool though, we could design the site like the interior of a local pub or something)

GamersTavern sounds good.

Seems like GamersHaven.com might not be taken either, although it does look like Gamer Shaven

We'll see how it goes I suppose, don't rule anything out just yet!

we could do double reviews, games together with alcohol.

Or a section on how to make homebrew and halflife mods...

Cocktail recipes and cheat codes...

drinking games and...ah that's already both

We could post rambling diatribes at 2am in the morning whilst eating kebabs and playing Gears of War.

Note: since I've had it, I've only ever played Gears of War whilst drunk.

hey, kebab reviews aint bad either...

but we should let the creative juices flow a bit longer, maybe an awesome idea will pop up over the weekend. But then we should definitely get started. How about ninja gaiden 2 as the first review? maybe with a selection of saki? Asahi beer?

OK, my mission this weekend shall be to complete Ninja Gaiden 2.

It was anyway.

http://www.doener365.de/

Someone's beat us to it. Damn!

I've yet to get Ninja Gaiden 2, plus I've got No More Heroes finally on the way.

You can have a lend of Ninja Gaiden 2 when I'm done.

/Eyes No More Heroes

Sure, you can borrow my No More Heroes when I'm done with it (or when MGS4 arrives, whichever is sooner)