Done.

If I had some video recording knowledge on the ps3 I would post some neat stuff on it. I chose the ps3 version because I wanted to be lazy and lay around on the couch ><

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Looks interesting. I might give it a shot.

As far as the video goes, I am not a console guy so I can't help there. I assume that there must be some feature for getting the videos recorded onto transferable media though. Once you get that, I can tell you the programs that I use.

Handbrake is a program that can convert any video format into any other.

VLC is a program for watching video in any format but the main interest here will be putting a copy into one of the handbrake folders. Do that and you now have a full featured DVD ripper that can save the files in any format that you care to use. Right now, I recommend h.264 for the best performance.

Avidemux is for editing the videos you record. You can, if you like get down to individual frames.

Audacity is for audio recording. Definitely worth having if you want to do voiceovers.

Inkscape is a graphics program for adding visual elements such as title and credits.

TheGimp is a different graphics program for editing single frames. Or if you want to “photoshop” a picture.

Blender, well that one gets quite complicated but if you decide to get serious about video editing, it is worth having. That was the software used to model Doctor Octopus in Spiderman 2.

The above are all open source programs so if you get them from the official sources (generally www.sourceforge.net) you can be assured that you will be getting great stuff for no money and no chance of a virus or other malware.

Thanks for the info. I have "fraps" for recording video on the pc and I use vlc player, it plays everything but I might look into sourceforge, sounds interesting. Somehow people capture video on the ps3 and xbox but I haven't looked into that.

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Agreed with you on D2. Although in truth, I kind of want to attach special blame to Blizzard for setting up a situation where that could occur. They should have patched most of what was going on there out of the game altogether. Then, later on when things really were out of control, they started offering special artifacts in a buy back program to get the extra stuff out of the game. Which really did not help because the rewards for turning stuff in had to replace what people were duping. Ultimately, that just encouraged even more duping.

Another thing that always bugs me in this type of game is the practice of running to get easy XP. In guild wars, one of the people that I used to play with was new to gaming in general but once she found out about running, she went out and bought all the extra character slots and built a who boat load of level 20 characters, so that she could offer her service to the rest of the guild.

One problem with that is that it denies me the fun of playing the game honestly and getting to the top on my own. That and you are left only being able to really play out the end game. But worse still was that that engine would set a difficulty level for the whole guild all at once, so when I would go in for some solo runs, I would have to deal with critters who are supposed to be low level but are actually speced for combat several levels higher that they ought to be.

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Well, when I am in single player, I don't mind if a game has an “undocumented feature” that turns out to be useful. For example, in D2:LOD, it was possible to drop two town portals in one area. I don't really know why I never met anyone else who did that but it was really helpful on Meph runs because it was so much easier to get back after having to run out for more potions.

On the other hand, in multiplayer, I tend to like games that have some kind of community behind them. Did you ever try SWG? That was always interesting as the devs would “rebalance” the game every couple of weeks, thus leaving the players to figure out what the next exploit was.

I remember one time when being a hunter was valuable for a while. However, one of the skills that you needed for that was camping. Yes, as in setting up a tent and just staying there while the XP slowly dribbled in. As it turned out, the more people you have in your camp, the faster the XP comes in. So while that was going on, there were pretty much always camps set up right at the edge of certain cities and they always had a bunch of people standing around.

When you went past one on your way elsewhere, it was pretty much a polite thing to stand around for a while if your mission was not time dependent.

Another time, for some reason, buffs had become really expensive, as in not worth the cash for the payoff on most missions. Then one of the people I was playing with figured out a dodge. It turned out that incoming fire was scored on all of your armor at once even though it would hit only one piece. So for a while, we were playing with only head/upper body/gloves. Just to make the point, nobody even wore decorative pants.

So if you ever saw anyone on tattoiene playing in only upper body and irremovable skivvies, that was my group.

I played swg untill the big jedi patch. Loved it and then they made it so everyone would have an easier time getting "jedi" then came "nwg" but I had already left. Enjoyed my pistoleer/teras kasi character so much. Walking around corellia with an at/st out was awesome. The pvp was so much more fun than pretty much any mmo since and yea there was a decent community feel. There were actually a few people that enjoyed dancing in the cantinas and stuff. It was setup for people who wanted to play and for people who just wanted to pretty much chat it up.

I played without any armor at all in pvp and usually kicked much ass. The game did suffer a bit from the fotm syndrome, I really hated it during the month or so riflemen were so op they could head shot you 2x and you were out (during this time people actually did try to 1v1 me I was actually known for my kd buttons) and before that medics were throwing poison through walls ><

The only game I might have had more fun with was early UO. Nothing to this day was as fun as taming 3 dragons and having them follow you to the gy outside of town where 20 or so people would be trying to kill you and your "pets".

My worst experience ever in a mmo and it was my first mmo (UO), a guy was talking to me and my sister who was also playing. He seemed friendly and said he wanted to give us some stuff and we followed him in his house where he promptly blocked the door, killed us and took our newbie gear ..lol.

Ultima Online

Yea there were some sad times in d1 and d2. Really easy to screw with newbs though I never had the heart to do it myself. I have a hard time playing the bad guy in a game. I tried to replay fallout 2 and new vegas both as a bad character but it just doesn't seem fun or right.

Ultima was the best until they made an alternate world identical to the main world called "trammel" where you couldn't rob or pk anyone. Kinda killed the game cause only the hardcore pvp'rs would hang out in the original area. I would play UO again if they rolled it back to the original days much like swg.

You could do fun stuff like go to the bank and try to pick pocket people, if the guards saw you or they caught you and ran to the guards the guards would attack you potentially killing you and everyone could loot your corpse. If you killed someone your name went grey for several minutes and you were open to attack by anyone and guards would not aid you. If you killed enough people you got the title "the murderer" and you could not venture to town, the guards and everyone could and would freely attack you. This made for small bands of pk'ers that would hang out together in the forrest and run through dungeons wiping out the "blue" players. They could then set up a house and vendors and sell the stuff they had been plundering from their victims. On occasion I'm certain people were buying their own stuff back hah.

I was always the nice guy though and usually with a friend we would actually hunt down and kill the pk'ers. Consequently when one killed players they could put a bounty on their head and you could kill them and actually carry their head to a guard for the reward players had put on them. My character fluctuated between the "noble" and "honorable" titles of course. This is just touching on the stuff you could do in the game, you could also fish, build and ride boats, craft your own gear to use and sell and it had your characters mark on it (you could make varying qualities much like swg) you could be a treasure hunter, animal tamer, healer etc not to mention mix up skills much like early swg once again.

I still remember an old lady that would play every day and just sit on a hill near these snake guys healing people and talking. She said in real life she was crippled in a wheelchair but on this game she felt like she was helping people. On the flip side I remember a guy named "Faramir" that would wait untill people went into this snake guy den much further in and then close the door on them and block it, wait for them to die then loot their stuff. Killing people in this manner allowed him to retain his blue character status. He only did this to me once (I would attack him despite his blue status after that) but everyone on the server hated him.

I'm raving about a game that is pretty much gone, but I'm a little bored atm and I miss it.

Yea like I mentioned I was pretty cheap, there was a good kd skill in both pistoleer and teras kasi. Fairly unstoppable in pvp 1v1. I hung around with a bounty hunter friend quite a bit, I always kinda thought they were a little gimped but maybe it was just him, he got beat up a lot and rarely actually found a jedi to attack.  I had a second account with a blacksmith/mayor as well.

I liked the "holocron" thing. You had to just guess and grind professions untill you got the ones that were secretly picked for you when you made your character. They gave out holocrons for christmas and it would tell you one of the professions you needed. Of course I got dancer.

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OK, MP4 is not the whole story or even the most important part. You also need to use a CODEC. There are several and getting that choice right is what will make the big difference.

I don't know much about winCE but the ones that might make the difference are H.264 or Flash.