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STEAM Announcements & Updates 2014 II - The Definitive Edition
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woo and indeed hoo
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LOL
I hope you are going to tease him endlessly about this. Something like he really was playing the character Daisy from the Nintendo games. Be ruthless! *evil grin*
But, but, it was fun... and I have the game installed on my Nexus 7...
*ducks to avoid incoming nuclear missiles*
EDIT: thanks kuroyume!
See I accidentally thought people were buying this game the first few times I heard them pronounce it that way. http://store.steampowered.com/app/12580/
Left me very confused until I got off chat with them and getting the notifications that they joined a Day Z(ed) game. Of course trying the game myself and having no fun with it what so ever also left me confused as well, but personal likes and dislikes I guess.
Left me very confused until I got off chat with them and getting the notifications that they joined a Day Z(ed) game. Of course trying the game myself and having no fun with it what so ever also left me confused as well, but personal likes and dislikes I guess.
Hmpf. Fine.
Zee is American Zed is English.
Well, the letter Z is pronounced differently in different places. As far I'm aware, it's pronounced Zee in American English, and Zed in British English. That said, despite being British, I've always pronounced it as Day-Zee just because I always thought that was how the developers intended it to be pronounced.
Kiru
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Seems to work pretty well with some lower settings. Plays better than I thought it would.
toddhunter
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DayZee as in z-ombies not zed-ombies.
The Red Wizard
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My God that's ridiculous. I wonder what Jay-Z's lawyers said to the Day Z devs. FWIW I call it Day Zee like Jay-Z.
Seeing all the Castlevania talk the last couple of pages and 2 on the horizon soon I've decided to pop LoS on. I can't remember it looking this good. Played it on the 360 yonks ago but it would have been a crime to art design not to let this game spread it's wings at higher resolutions. Shadow LoD is a bit iffy and 720p prerendered and massively aliased cutscenes don't help but it's got a lot of detail in most of the textures.
Shame EA didn't contemplate Dante's Inferno for PC at the time as that's another such like game that would be a visual treat over the console versions. That and Viseral's engine is rock solid.
I think what made it more funny is that he has a very thick Welsh accent so zee was very drawn out. Day Zee or Day Zed, either is fine I suppose but I've always read it as Day Zed.
Shame EA didn't contemplate Dante's Inferno for PC at the time as that's another such like game that would be a visual treat over the console versions. That and Viseral's engine is rock solid.
I think what made it more funny is that he has a very thick Welsh accent so zee was very drawn out. Day Zee or Day Zed, either is fine I suppose but I've always read it as Day Zed.
Why say Z in a way that can be confused with the letter C on it's own or a "sea" when no one will ever confuse Z sounding like zed as anything else? If you have to spell out something out loud to someone, you don't want to have them mistakenly hear "zee" as "cee" and spell Zaïre as Caïre, that would be rude.
Any time I read Z written I immediately hear "zed" because that's natural for me being Scottish (not English). Growing up with my first dedicated gaming machine was the "Zed ecks" for the ZX Spectrum, not the "cee ecks" like some on this board automatically hear in their head because of how they were taught the sounds.
Now the Japanese are weird. Z can be "zee" or "zed" or "zet" depending on what sound they want. X can be the letter x with the "ecks" sound, or even stranger it can stand for Cross (like on a Playstation controller).
Of course the game is Day "cee" because that's how the creators call it and that's what I go with out of respect and chance for best understanding. Just having not heard it said outloud until last month, how was I supposed to know?
Any time I read Z written I immediately hear "zed" because that's natural for me being Scottish (not English). Growing up with my first dedicated gaming machine was the "Zed ecks" for the ZX Spectrum, not the "cee ecks" like some on this board automatically hear in their head because of how they were taught the sounds.
Now the Japanese are weird. Z can be "zee" or "zed" or "zet" depending on what sound they want. X can be the letter x with the "ecks" sound, or even stranger it can stand for Cross (like on a Playstation controller).
Of course the game is Day "cee" because that's how the creators call it and that's what I go with out of respect and chance for best understanding. Just having not heard it said outloud until last month, how was I supposed to know?
Kaleinc
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I read this one as regular Days just as dudez=dudes.
I'm British and I pronounce it Day-Zee, too. It rolls off the tongue better.
I just say daisy.
Also the one time I played the game, there were these things. http://dayz.gamepedia.com/Zed
If Z is like "cee" in that case, would we call them seeeds? Is there a hidden Plants vs Zombies tie in I don't know about?
If Z is like "cee" in that case, would we call them seeeds? Is there a hidden Plants vs Zombies tie in I don't know about?
You suck. I want one mostly for Fire Emblem.
I'm probably going to pick up SMT IV and Animal Crossing for it right now, but yeah...this month has already been a good gaming month for me (got South Park as well)
Check out the Bravely Default demo on eShop. It's a full fledge and fun stand-alone title of about 6 hours with it's own story to play for free. Might convince you to get the actual game if you want a good RPG.
I've ruined things a bit for myself. I have other shoot-em-ups on Steam I can play, but five minutes in I just think to myself "I wish I could play Ikaruga instead' and I stop. Game can not come out soon enough.
I've ruined things a bit for myself. I have other shoot-em-ups on Steam I can play, but five minutes in I just think to myself "I wish I could play Ikaruga instead' and I stop. Game can not come out soon enough.
Atraveller
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What? So young...
jaundicejuice
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Okay, I was looking for some ideas of who to play after Castille. I only chose them because I've seen them being bandied about in various threads here and playthroughs as being one of the easier nations to start the game with, which is what I needed. You start in a relatively good position and it's easy to stay in that position.
Atraveller
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My thought as well.
I'll check that out tonight then (since I have nothing to play on it anyways)!
Same... would be nice if Cave gave Steam a try, but I don't see that happening now. =\
Sometimes I don't know how I'm meant to be pronouncing things these days (that's the traditional days and not dayz). I go by Scrabble rules, if it's not in the (Oxford) dictionary it doesn't count.
Well at least my madness is kind of justified. Come to think of it isn't Rocket from New Zealand? I'm pretty sure they pronounce their z's zed.
Edit: Well balls to that theory as I just watched a dev video where Rocket did indeed pronounce the game Day Zee. I guess I better apologise to my mate but hey what ever he doesn't know does hurt him
Wickerbasket
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I'm not even sure who's being sarcastic in this thread any more.
If you were doing it like that wouldn't it be "DayZzz as in Zzz-ombies not zed-ombies"? Or DayZee as in Zee-ombies, which sounds even worse.
Just pronounce it however you pronounce the letter "Z". It'll probably differ depending on where you're from, but neither is wrong.
Stumpokapow
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You don't say "zee-ombies", you say "zombies". Which is why the game is pronounced "Dayz", with a "z" sound substituting for an "s" sound, like "daze".
What's even worse is that I watched Catching Fire last night and he got me super hyped.....
toddhunter
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Fair point, but then people think of haze which isn't the best association.
Best to assume the Zee-ombies are all Italian so it works out.
GuardsmanGreg
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While we're on the topic of Zed or Zee, It's Zee-Zee Top, not zed zed Top. Zed Zed Top sounds awful and doesn't roll off your tongue like the name ZZ Top should. Plus they're from Texas. Rush's song YYZ is Why Why Zed 'cause that's how they pronounce it in Canada.
My favorite nation to play as is Portugal actually because of how great expanding into the New World is with the Portuguese. In my current game of EU IV I have most of the East Coast of North and South America under Portuguese control and noone else has managed to get a foothold in the New World. Castille's too busy beating up Aragon and the French are getting conquered by the Provence. Stuff's crazy.
My favorite nation to play as is Portugal actually because of how great expanding into the New World is with the Portuguese. In my current game of EU IV I have most of the East Coast of North and South America under Portuguese control and noone else has managed to get a foothold in the New World. Castille's too busy beating up Aragon and the French are getting conquered by the Provence. Stuff's crazy.
How cool is that you guys fought over a Z sound while I was in ETS2 speeding through every Polish speed trap those guys put in the most tricky places.
Anyway, I like Stumpo pronounciation better than any other, and because his name is red this is now the official GAF pronounciation. Praise the Canada!
...or Zombie or Zombie Flesh Eaters or Woodoo. God that film got a shit ton of different names.
Nope. Wut? Nope.
Damn Mario and Guido Bros! In Italy we pronounce (and write) zombie exactly like you, so it's Dayz as daze/haze/whatez!
"Zombi" without the "e" is an Italianization due to the "transliteration" that we usually did until the 80s with basically every foreign word. AFAIK no one uses it anymore, except old people and those Movimento 5 Stelle (political party) ignorant supporters.
woo and indeed hoo
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So XCOM is still making me its bitch, both figuratively and pretty literally :/. I am near the very end of my [cheaty cheaty re-load] run on Classic and have even been stringing it out with lots of unnecessary missions to get a squad of six with the special ability that is required to end the game. Then I got another battleship mission and couldn't be arsed to play it. So I decided to start a new game but this time as Classic Ironman. It seemed like a good idea at the time . Every time I think things are going okay and I'm getting over the hump I lose a soldier due to my own impatience and/or complacency and then before I know it I've lost all my vets and/or failed a mission with a total wipe out and am having to blood rookies again. Mutons have just turned up, I've lost 3 countries from the project, have 3 low level vets and 3 rookies and that's it for troops. Things are not looking good for old planet Earth!
That's XCOM I guess.
*sigh* time for bed! N'night boys and girls. Be good to each other.
. Every time I think things are going okay and I'm getting over the hump I lose a soldier due to my own impatience and/or complacency and then before I know it I've lost all my vets and/or failed a mission with a total wipe out and am having to blood rookies again. Mutons have just turned up, I've lost 3 countries from the project, have 3 low level vets and 3 rookies and that's it for troops. Things are not looking good for old planet Earth!That's XCOM I guess
.*sigh* time for bed! N'night boys and girls. Be good to each other.
Stumpokapow
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Man, the room with the four switches in The Swapper is bonkers.
Nabs
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Yep. Had to walk away from that one for a bit.
Bizarre late quote but just stumbled across this article that might give you some idea of where they're going with the game world.
http://www.computerandvideogames.com/447382/interviews/interview-castlevania-lords-of-shadow-2-is-not-a-me-too-sequel/
Sounds more Zelda/Metroid Prime 2/Darksiders to me than what I'd call Metroidvania. Then again I suppose when your series has contributed to half of that name people are always going to assume it's like the games of old (despite the devs saying otherwise).
jaundicejuice
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If it's the puzzle I'm thinking of, that's where I gave up.
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