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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Game Thread! Jul 11^th, 2008 at 9:29am Since there are a ton of new games on the horizon (Fallout 3, Diablo 3, Chrono Trigger DS, Call of Duty: World at War, etc.), I though I would start a new thread to keep game-related topics separate from the news threads. Enjoy! -b0b (...loves games.)
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Reply #1 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 9:31am

Here's a mini-trailer for Call of Duty: World at War. It looks pretty sweet graphically, but I'm not sure we really need another World War II FPS. It's been done to death.

I'd like to see a "Cold War gone hot" FPS with the Call of Duty 4 engine. That would be freakin' sweet! Anyway, here's the trailer.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/35341.html

Unfortunately, the people making CoD:WaW are the same people that developed Call of Duty 3. Which sucked. Chances are good that this game will suck too, but it is too early to tell.

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Reply #2 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 9:45am

OMG! Diablo 3! With this many awesome games on the horizon, I'm going to be bankrupt by the end of the decade!

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After the Fire Dancers had left the main stage and the crowds has dispersed, many jubilant, I headed for the jam-packed press conference where journalists got to give Blizzard’s Jay Wilson (Lead Designer on Diablo III) and co-founder Frank Pearce a grilling about Diablo III.

“It’s been in development for a few years. About four.” Wilson admits and of course, when asked the next Big Question: a release date, he gives the typical Blizzard response. “When it’s done,”

Blizzard co-founder Frank Pearce was quick to add that, even after four years, “it’s far too early in development.”

You can download the high-resolution gameplay video here.

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Reply #5 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 11:28am

Stick wrote on Jul 11^th, 2008 at 11:05am:

IMO CoD4 is the best FPS ever.

I love CoD4 as much as the next person, but I wouldn't go that far.

I might even be willing to admit that it's the best modern military FPS ever, but I definitely wouldn't give it the title of "Best FPS EVARRRR!!!!111"

Leave that title to the real FPS blockbusters, like the original Unreal Tournament. That game single-handedly defined a new niche in the FPS genre. Not even CoD4 can't claim that honor.

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MediaMaster GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline Holy Xenu! Posts: 1884 Detroit Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #7 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 12:12pm ya i finally fired up cod4 on the xbox and after the first couple levels i gotta say its pretty amazing. Like playing a movie. kudos to the devs.
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #8 - Jul 11^th, 2008 at 1:14pm Yeah, I was absolutely amazed when I first fired it up. I received it from my mother-in-law as a Christmas gift, otherwise I probably never would have played it. It really took realism to a whole new level. -b0b (...schwing!)
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Reply #9 - Jul 12^th, 2008 at 2:41pm

Jus out of curiousity have any of you played the new Civilization: Revolutions? It looks pretty neat from the commercials and I've been wanting to get a good strategy type game for the 360. Thought about maybe checking it out, but I hate to drop 60 dollars on a game that sucks....

Any opinions out there on it? Briney? Pat?...I don't want b0bs cuz he has a horrible taste in game in my opinion

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MediaMaster GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline Holy Xenu! Posts: 1884 Detroit Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #10 - Jul 12^th, 2008 at 3:13pm It looked like a good regular civ game with a graphical update (finally) it has a sims kinda feel with the advisor's but it looks cool. I didnt get to play it much, we just had the demo at work. But I was thinking of picking it up on that alone. I think it is reviewing well so far.
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Reply #11 - Jul 13^th, 2008 at 7:42pm

The_Fat_Man wrote on Jul 12^th, 2008 at 2:41pm:

I don't want b0bs cuz he has a horrible taste in game in my opinion

Yeah, I've got horrible taste in women, too, but you should be thankful that I keep your mom in business.

I love real-time strategy games, but I'm not a big fan of turn-based games. Might & Magic was the shiznit back in the day, but Civilization never really held my attention. My attention span is too short for that kind of game.

Civilization: Revolutions looks pretty interesting, though. Meredith loves the Civ series, so I might pick it up eventually.

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Reply #12 - Jul 14^th, 2008 at 11:09am

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=19399

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As part of what it calls an initiative to "re-establish itself as an innovative leader," publisher Apogee (Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3-D) has announced it is working with mobile developer MachineWorks Northwest to bring a new Duke Nukem trilogy to unspecified handheld consoles.

Apogee, which was a pioneer in PC 'shareware' gaming, and, it notes, "episodic gaming and online distribution," says it plans to revive "some of its legacy catalogue of 30+ releases as well as publishing all-new properties in collaboration with diverse creators and developers."

To start, the publisher says it will be working with 3D Realms and MachineWorks Northwest on Duke Nukem Triology, a handheld title comprised of three episodes titled Critical Mass, Chain Reaction, and Proving Grounds.

Well at least we will get SOME version of Duke Nukem... Probably before the new game, heh.

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Reply #13 - Jul 14^th, 2008 at 11:30am

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=19394

Wii Is 'Expensive Niche' Says Sony’s Stringer

Wii Is 'Expensive Niche' Says Sony’s Stringer Ahead of this week’s E3 expo and the all important pre-conference media briefings from the three console manufacturers, Sony CEO Howard Stringer has spoken out against the Wii – again dismissing it as not being a direct competitor to the PlayStation 3.

Speaking at a media conference, Stringer was quoted by a new Bloomberg report, as stating, "I've played a Nintendo Wii. I don't see it as a competitor. It's more of an expensive niche game device. We're selling a lot of PlayStation 3s now and it's still the best way to buy a Blu-ray player.”

Stringer dismissed the Wii as a director competitor due to its lack of media features and, according to the Bloomberg report, access to the Internet.

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"I've played a Nintendo Wii. I don't see it as a competitor. It's more of an expensive niche game device. We're selling a lot of PlayStation 3s now and it's still the best way to buy a Blu-ray player.”

Hahahaha! Proof that all sony is trying to make is a blu-ray player. Niche game device... haha What are you trying to make sony? I know microsoft and sony are both trying to push a super multimedia device, but at what expense?

Jan-May 2008 sales:

Ps3: 1.2 million
Xbox: 1.12 million
Wii: 2.8 million

Looks like people want this "niche gaming device" more than your ps3, sir.

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Reply #15 - Jul 14^th, 2008 at 3:39pm

MediaMaster wrote on Jul 14^th, 2008 at 11:30am:

Jan-May 2008 sales:

Ps3: 1.2 million
Xbox: 1.12 million
Wii: 2.8 million

I always love to throw out sales numbers when people bash the Wii. We own all three systems, and the Wii sees more game-related use than the PS3 and XBox combined. Of course, my PC gaming is higher yet...

And what was the BS about the Wii not having Internet access? Nintendo released the Wii browser back in May or June of last year, for crying out loud.

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Reply #17 - Jul 14^th, 2008 at 5:45pm

The Wii is a "niche" gaming device. Its just a really big niche. While most of the games on the Wii are boring to a serious gamer, the majority of people in the world are NOT hardcore gamers.

I know TONS of people who own and LOVE their Wii and you wouldn't probably even guess them as a gamer.

Nintendo is doing things smart, and it kinda pisses alot of gamers off lol

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Reply #18 - Jul 15^th, 2008 at 10:28am

yea i think its silly that people become such huge fanboys of whatever console... What's the point. They all have their advantages and disadvantages. Nintendo knows how to make money, knows how to market to people, that's what they do. Then you have Microsoft and Sony over in the corner trying to outdo each other in the graphics and media machine department.

Basically Sony has blu-ray, Microsoft has shooters, Nintendo has casual gamers (and the rabid nintendo fans). Pick your pleasure and quit raggin on what other people get.

But we can still mock Sony for Final Fantasy 13 going to the Xbox 360.

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Reply #22 - Jul 15^th, 2008 at 12:18pm

and if you keep saying that youll just miss out on a buncha great games till you are 60 and buy the supermegadeluxe console that plays everything ever made and even generates 3d games from classic books like Treasure Island and Robinson Crusoe and displays them directly into your brain!

...orrr buy a console and get some good enjoyment out of it for 3 or 4 years. Costs less than your computer upgrades in the same timeframe.

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and if you keep saying that youll just miss out on a buncha great games till you are 60 and buy the supermegadeluxe console that plays everything ever made and even generates 3d games from classic books like Treasure Island and Robinson Crusoe and displays them directly into your brain!

...orrr buy a console and get some good enjoyment out of it for 3 or 4 years. Costs less than your computer upgrades in the same timeframe.

Or I could just not buy into the console war and find a way to run the games on a PC.

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Reply #26 - Jul 15^th, 2008 at 4:02pm

Patrick you are such a non conformist! I would wish I was like you but then I would be a conformist.

I don't care if you get a console or not, but if you see games that you want to play on them but wont because you "aren't buying into the console war" then you are dumb.

If you are going to get a 42" tv/monitor , why don't you wait for the OLED tvs that are half an inch thick, or whatever is coming next after that. Formats and technology change all the time, the important thing is you get whatever use out of them that you want, while they are out.

If you won't use it, don't get it. But don't knock those that get consoles because they enjoy playing the games that come out for them. Yes, even the Wii. Even though you think its stupid, its fun as all get out to play with other people. And even tho I think it's thin, some people enjoy playing the ps3 *gasp*

meh, to each his own. I'm havin fun with the xbox thats for sure. And when Fable 2 comes out... score!

As for emulation, they still haven't gotten all the ps2 games to work properly on the PC, except for the most powerful machines. So you will be very behind in that regard.

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Patrick you are such a non conformist! I would wish I was like you but then I would be a conformist.

I don't care if you get a console or not, but if you see games that you want to play on them but wont because you "aren't buying into the console war" then you are dumb.

Well there are cars that I want to drive but don't buy either. Sure there are games I want to play, but I don't want to have to spend $800 just to play a $60 game and then have that $800 system be obsolete in 3 years. I just can't see spending so much money for a game either. I don't know why I'm really not into consoles, I guess after I bought my Playstation and saw a few years later, the PS2 come out for $300...I just didn't want to try and keep up.

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If you are going to get a 42" tv/monitor , why don't you wait for the OLED tvs that are half an inch thick, or whatever is coming next after that. Formats and technology change all the time, the important thing is you get whatever use out of them that you want, while they are out.

Oh come now, that's flawed logic and I hope you know it. TVs will be able to be used no matter what new tech comes out. The TV shows run just as well on 1950s TVs as they do today's. I don't need the top of the line all the time, every few years I just want to catch up...as well as with my computer tech....I don't want to have to do it as often as I get an oil change. I know I am of two minds, I want tech to increase but at the same time, I think it's kind of ridiculousness how the consumers seem to get screwed if they don't have the latest thing.
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If you won't use it, don't get it. But don't knock those that get consoles because they enjoy playing the games that come out for them. Yes, even the Wii. Even though you think its stupid, its fun as all get out to play with other people. And even tho I think it's thin, some people enjoy playing the ps3 *gasp*

Psh, I'll make fun of any and all the consoles I want. I like making fun of people who think the Wii is the most awesomest thing like in forever. I liken the Wii players to Fantasy Football players. They make fun of D&D people for being nerds, yet they think they're cool. I just can't stand all the hokeyness that the Wii has including gay little characters, Wii fit, and even the name itself. I find flaws with all systems, even though I might play with them...and yes, I will continue to make fun of them all and all of you who play them.

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As for emulation, they still haven't gotten all the ps2 games to work properly on the PC, except for the most powerful machines. So you will be very behind in that regard.

Oh well, my computer is older than all the consoles out right now...and I can still play the new games today...just think about that. XBox comes out with a chip you swap every 3 years and it makes it a new model...cheaper and efficient. Plus...who has all the room for all these consoles. N64, Playstation 1, 2,3, XBox 1,2, Gamecube, Wii, etc. etc. etc. It just seems really ludicrous. Who knows, if PlayStation keeps their backwards compatibility for their games, I might buy the 4th generation and then only spend $30 or less on the games that are out for the PS2 and PS3.

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Reply #29 - Jul 15^th, 2008 at 5:12pm

X wrote on Jul 15^th, 2008 at 4:56pm:

...but I don't want to have to spend $800 just to play a $60 game and then have that $800 system be obsolete in 3 years.

Where the heck are you buying your game systems?

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I just can't see spending so much money for a game either.

Sometimes, I also have a hard time laying out $60 for a game, but its really not that bad from a historical perspective. I paid $60 for most of my Super Nintendo games, and I used to make about $60 a month during the SNES era.

Of course, some games are much easier to justify. I paid well above $60 for some of my favorite titles like Chrono Trigger and Half-Life 2, and I don't regret those choices at all.

Ultimately, it's a matter of financial prioritization and personal preference, and I can't fault anyone for their economic choices.

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I don't know why I'm really not into consoles, I guess after I bought my Playstation and saw a few years later, the PS2 come out for $300...I just didn't want to try and keep up.

The US got the PS1 in September of 1995, and the PS2 in October of 2000. I think 5 years is a pretty decent run for a game console, don't you?

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Oh well, my computer is older than all the consoles out right now...and I can still play the new games today...just think about that.

Really? I didn't know there were any PS3/360/Wii emulators available yet. I'd love to take a look at some of them!

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Plus...who has all the room for all these consoles. N64, Playstation 1, 2,3, XBox 1,2, Gamecube, Wii, etc. etc. etc.

I do! At the moment, Meredith and I have an NES, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Sega Genesis, Sega CD, Sega 32x, PlayStation 2, Playstation 3, Wii, and XBox 360 all hooked up to our TV and available for use instantly. We also have a VCR and DVD player hooked up.

I bought a Sega Saturn on eBay last week, so that will be added to the collection any day now.

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Reply #30 - Jul 15^th, 2008 at 5:55pm

Yeah I'm not sure why you think you need to spend 800 bucks on a console to enjoy the new age games.

I bought my Xbox 360, granted it isnt the uber Elite, for 225 bucks used and it works fine. Aside from that I may have spent another 100 bucks on an extra controler, Xbox Live, MS points and a headset....none of which is REQUIRED to play my Xbox. Just shit I wanted.

If you are using prices to justify your hatred of consoles you are nuts. I spent more keeping my computer up to date enough to run new age games than I ever have on a console.

I know once I spend 300 bucks on the 360 I'll be able to play every game that ever comes out on it for 4 or 5 years.

I doubt you can say the same for your PC.

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The US got the PS1 in September of 1995, and the PS2 in October of 2000. I think 5 years is a pretty decent run for a game console, don't you?

Not when I first got my PS1 where the money was reasonable to spend. I got it with my first paycheck from detasseling corn.

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Really? I didn't know there were any PS3/360/Wii emulators available yet. I'd love to take a look at some of them!

I meant my computer can play the games that came out for the PC. The point being, that I haven't had to upgrade in a while to even play the high end models.

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Reply #36 - Jul 15^th, 2008 at 7:30pm

X wrote on Jul 15^th, 2008 at 6:53pm:

Not when I first got my PS1 where the money was reasonable to spend. I got it with my first paycheck from detasseling corn.

On an unrelated side note, I also got my PlayStation from hard-earned detasseling money. It was the first console I ever bought for myself, and it was well worth the money.

Wow, that was probably an entire week worth of earnings back then!

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Reply #37 - Jul 16^th, 2008 at 11:34am

THQ released a new trailer for Dawn of War II today.

I got a ton of play time out of the original Dawn of War and its expansions. They really made a new niche in RTS gaming, and each expansion was better than the last.

Hopefully, this new title will bring the same unique touches...

http://www.thq-games.com/uk/thqtv/index/1687

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Reply #38 - Jul 16^th, 2008 at 4:57pm

You know the funny thing about detasseling?

In my travels living in other areas of the country, I have yet to find anyone not from the MI, Indiana area that knows what the fuck detasseling is....

Trying to explain it to people in Colorado was amusing. They all thought it sounded like the dumbest thing in the world, and couldn't understand why you had to pull the top of a corn stalk off lol.

Good times....

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Reply #41 - Jul 16^th, 2008 at 6:52pm

Last trailer of the day, I swear. Of all the game trailers that have been shown at E3 so far this week, the trailer for Mirror's Edge is easily the most intriguing for me.

Mirror's Edge - Trailer
Mirror's Edge - Interview

It looks like it combines the clean beauty of Portal with the depth of Dreamfall, and manages to come up with something entirely different. I'm really looking forward to this one.

What do you guys think?

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Reply #43 - Jul 17^th, 2008 at 10:51pm

Yeah, I worry about that same thing. If the gameplay is off by even a little bit, that game will be the sux0r.

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For the most part, I've now complete my collection of Sega consoles. I bought a Sega 32X a couple months ago for my Sega Genesis, and finally picked up a Sega CD last weekend to complete the set. By the way, I now have an extra Sega Genesis (Gen 2) in case anybody wants one.

I also bought a Sega Saturn on eBay late last week, and it finally arrived today. Here are the two beasts side by side.

Here's the entire game setup as it now stands.

The Saturn is out front for the moment, since it doesn't fit on the shelf. On the bottom row is the Sega Genesis/CD/32X, the Nintendo 64, and the Super Nintendo. The second shelf contains the PS2, FCTwin (NES/SNES), and PS3. The top row holds our DVD player, VCR, and a video selector box. On either side of the TV is our Wii and XBox 360.

Our next console targets are the Dreamcast, TurboGrafx 16 and Sega Master systems. I've got a bunch of old school games to buy in the mean time, so we'll see how that plays out!

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Reply #45 - Jul 18^th, 2008 at 4:20pm

The 3DO is on my list, but it will be awhile before I pick one up. There aren't any 3DO games I'm dying to play, and I've never touched a 3DO system before so I don't have much sentimental attachment to it.

Worse yet, the system is rather expensive on the second-hand market. Games are hard to find, and a complete core system is around $200 on eBay. Even then, only a small selection is available for my perusal.

The system was way, way, waaaaay too expensive, and that killed it before it really even had a chance. It cost $699 at launch, and that's in 1993 dollars! The PS3 got flogged for having a $599 price tag, and that was 13 years later!

Moreover, the game selection kinda sucked on the 3DO. I honestly can't think of a single RPG that was released for the 3DO, and that should have been one of the biggest pushes on the first major CD-based system.

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Reply #53 - Jul 23^rd, 2008 at 10:27pm

Actually, I mostly bought it for school. Even with a 22" monitor, it's a huge pain in the butt to switch between a window for the classroom, a window for the live seminar, a window for Google, and whatever Office app I'm currently using.

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Okay, actually I just want to run a game on one monitor and half-heartedly pay attention to the seminar on the other monitor.

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Reply #55 - Jul 24^th, 2008 at 9:55am

Even after having it for a short time, I'm already wondering what I ever did without it.

It took awhile to get the colors and brightness/contrast on both monitors to look right, but I'm fairly satisfied with it now. The only problem I'm having is that neither monitor has a height adjustment, and the second monitor is about 3/4" shorter than the first. I'm going to have to correct that with the judicious use of a stack of paper.

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Reply #56 - Jul 24^th, 2008 at 12:28pm

Yet another trailer, this time for a game called MAG (Massive Action Game) for the PS3. I hate playing FPS games on consoles, but I have to admit this one looks pretty sexy.

The core component of the game is the large scale, with up to 256 players on a single map. With 128 players on each side, you can have some pretty interesting squad and brigade-level interaction. I haven't seen a game attempt anything like that since Tribes 2 hit 64-players back in ~2000 or so.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=h4nxx4nPXEE

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Reply #66 - Jul 26^th, 2008 at 3:55pm

X wrote on Jul 26^th, 2008 at 12:03pm:

So that's just one more reason WoW and MMOs suck. Not only do you just run around or mine for gold forever, or build furniture for your house...but then you can't even kill a decent amount of people...and you have to get their permission first.)

Worst of all, you have to pay for the pleasure - twice. Once for the software, and again every single month for the service.

Honestly, that is one of the biggest MMO turnoffs for me. It's not that $12-$15 is expensive or anything, but sometimes I like to pick up an old game after a few years and play it again for a couple days. With an MMO, that's not really an option.

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Reply #67 - Jul 27^th, 2008 at 4:52pm

WoW is by far the best MMO when it comes to "Picking up where you left off" they've really made it casual friendly. Much to the disapointment of the hardcore raiders Wink

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And on a pvp server you never need permission to kill anyone Patsy haha....only on non pvp servers....and thats your choice to choose from which type to play on.

I never minded the pay per month thing. Mostly because I usualy spend FAR more than 15 dollars in a month to play a game.

Hell if I only buy ONE game a month that runs me 60 dollars.....and I've been known to buh 3 or 4 lol.

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Reply #68 - Aug 1^st, 2008 at 2:20pm

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In a conference today at Valve headquarters in Seattle regarding Steam, Valve's online distribution platform, the company announced a new remote storage solution for data from games.

This free service, known as Steam Cloud, will extend the Steam service to allow you to save progress from games, options, keyboard bindings and possibly much more from your games on Steam.

There will be no limit to the storage you can use, and all data will be saved automatically to the servers. Even video replays and screenshots can be stored.

As you would expect, Valve's own offerings will be the first to support the Cloud system, including the Half-Life series, Counterstrike and Team Fortress 2. Left 4 Dead will support it from release.

For any developers out there, Steam Cloud will be available in the Steamworks tools.

This sounds kinda nifty. One of the "goals" behind Steam was to make games more portable. You can install a game on your home desktop, your laptop, and your work desktop and play the game you purchased on any system (one at a time, of course). With this service, you'll even be able to take your game saves and configuration options with you, which I think will be pretty handy.

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Reply #81 - Aug 15^th, 2008 at 11:09pm

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EA and Maxis Announce That Spore Has Gone Gold

Long-Anticipated Game from Gaming Luminary, Will Wright, is Complete and in Production; Hits Store Shelves September 7

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 14, 2008--The wait is almost over! Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS) and Maxis today announced that Spore(TM), the most anticipated video game of the year from the creator of The Sims(TM), has gone gold and will be available for the Mac and PC at retailers September 5 in Europe and September 7 in North America and Asia Pacific. Spore(TM) Creatures for Nintendo DS(TM) and Spore(TM) Origins for mobile phones will also be available globally September 7.

Players who preorder Spore or Spore Galactic Edition from participating retailers will receive a coupon good for $10 off their next purchase of custom merchandise at www.zazzle.com/sporestore. For the ultimate Spore fan, the limited Galactic Edition will contain the 'Making of Spore' DVD, 'How to Build a Better Being' DVD (a 50 minute National Geographic Channel documentary DVD hosted by Spore mastermind, Will Wright), 'The Art of Spore' hardback book, an exclusive Spore poster, and a premium 100-page Galactic Handbook.

"We are so excited to finally get Spore into the hands of fans and players," said Lucy Bradshaw, executive producer of Spore at Maxis. "The Maxis studio has had an absolute blast creating Spore, but the fun is just beginning. The most engaging stories are truly the ones people create themselves, and we can't wait to see how players not only craft and explore the Spore universe, but hear what stories they have to tell as a result."

Spore gives players their own personal universe in a box, allowing fans to create and evolve life, establish tribes, build civilizations, sculpt entire worlds and explore a universe created by other gamers. Spore gives players a wealth of creative tools to customize nearly every aspect of their universe: creatures, vehicles, buildings, and even spaceships. Players can then seamlessly share their creations with the world via the Sporepedia(TM) and explore infinite new galaxies created by other gamers*.

For all the latest Spore news, screens, videos community content, and to try out the trial version of the hugely popular Spore Creature Creator, visit www.spore.com.

I can't say Spore is all that appealing to me, but it definitely looks like it will be a blockbuster.

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Reply #83 - Aug 19^th, 2008 at 8:36am

Have any of you guys played Crysis? I got it free back in December with my video card, and just got around to installing it. It's actually a lot more fun than I thought it would be, and it looks frickin' incredible.

The weapon system is really interesting. As you find new weapons, you can interchange accessories (sniper scope, grenade launcher, flashlight, laser pointer, etc.) from those guns with other weapons. It's a really simple concept, but it's a lot of fun (albeit not very realistic) to shoot a commie from 100 yards with a shotgun.

I'll post pics later if you're interested.

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Reply #85 - Aug 19^th, 2008 at 1:21pm

Yea I played it. Multiplayer is not as fun as I thought it would be. The level I played was huge and made it hard to find people.

Also, my graphics card only allowed me to play at 1440x900.At least I think it was the card limiting the game from allowing higher res. With that res I had all settings at high and didn't lag but only a few times.

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Reply #92 - Aug 27^th, 2008 at 2:43pm

FarCry 2 is out, and it looks like a heck of a lot of fun. Check out this trailer...

http://www.steampowered.com/v/index.php?area=app&AppId=5077&cc=US

That kind of pure chaos is what I really love about first-person shooters. I'm still finishing up Crysis, and I definitely think FarCry 2 will be on my shopping list in October!

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Reply #95 - Aug 29^th, 2008 at 7:45pm

Stick,

The LAN is at my place tonight. We're going to eat at Applebee's around 8:00pm tonight, so feel free to join us if you're up for it.

We should be back at my place around 8:30 or 9:00pm. Here's my address...

112 North Lincoln Avenue
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1 (269) 816-0865

Come down 131, turn left onto Michigan Avenue, then go down several blocks to Lincoln Avenue. Lincoln is located between the Elks Lodge and the BP gas station. Turn left, we're the fourth house down on the left side if you include the house/store on the corner. It's a white house with a green roof and shutters. Call me if you can't find it.

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Reply #103 - Oct 18^th, 2008 at 10:27pm

Quote:

http://www.andhranews.net/Business/2008/October/18-Sony-recalls-video-69787.asp

"Japanese electronic giant Sony has recalled a new PS3 computer game on the Koran because Muslims have taken offence to it.According to The Sun, the ultra-cute platform game called LittleBigPlanet was due to hit shop shelves next Friday, but hardline Muslims have expressed fury over a song, which quotes two lines from the Koran. The words used by Mali-born Grammy award winner Toumani Diabate, himself a Muslim, translate as Every soul shall have a taste of death and All that is on Earth will perish.

London, Oct.18 : Japanese electronic giant Sony has recalled a new PS3 computer game on the Koran because Muslims have taken offence to it.According to The Sun, the ultra-cute platform game called LittleBigPlanet was due to hit shop shelves next Friday, but hardline Muslims have expressed fury over a song, which quotes two lines from the Koran. The words used by Mali-born Grammy award winner Toumani Diabate, himself a Muslim, translate as "Every soul shall have a taste of death" and "All that is on Earth will perish."

Hardliners say the mixing of words from the Koran with music is deeply offensive and have asked Sony to take action that could cost the firm millions of pounds. The song has been on general release since 2006.

Copies of the game will be returned from warehouses around the world. It will now be re-released sometime in November."

Seriously, WTF? I honestly don't even know how to respond to this, other than to give Sony and the religious zealots involved in this story a huge middle finger.

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Reply #108 - Oct 20^th, 2008 at 9:08pm

I guess this is more of a movie thread post than a game thread post, but there's a new Resident Evil movie on the horizon! This one is all CG, and features Claire and Leon from the old Resident Evil games. It looks kind of interesting, and I'll definitely be watching it. Hopefully it makes it to theaters!

Official Website
Full Trailer

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Reply #112 - Oct 21^st, 2008 at 1:58pm

Yeah he plays a dark skinned elf who wears a metal bikini top and a thong and carries two daggers. (And can only be female)

And my alt is a 7 foot Elf carrying a Great Axe, wearing chain mail , and who fights with a giant War Lion at his side.

And I'm the gay one....

Yeah.......

And I don't know what you are talking about Stick. Since when are Elves and Dwarves not considered classic Warhammer characters?

One of the most famous Warhammer characters of all time (Gotrex) was a fucking dwarf for gods sake.

I think the most famous Warhammer race are the Greenskins, and they are right there with the rest as a playable race.

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Reply #116 - Oct 21^st, 2008 at 4:01pm

MediaMaster wrote on Oct 21^st, 2008 at 3:36pm:

Anyone getting Fable 2?

I'll probably pick it up eventually, but its probably the lowest on my list of big September games. I bought X3: Terran Conflict this weekend but haven't really sunk any time into it yet. Fallout 3 is #1 on my list of must-have games right now.

Unfortunately, Fallout 3 comes out next week, and I'll be in Bethesda, Maryland the entire week for training. I might try to take off Friday, November 7th and have a three day post-apocalyptic gaming binge. Bring on the cheetos!

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #120 - Oct 22^nd, 2008 at 6:43am FarCry 2 will be released on Steam at noon today. I'm thinking about ordering it at work this morning and starting the download right at noon. But, I'm not sure if I want to throw down $45.00 on it. Decisions, decisions. -b0b (...choose your destiny!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #121 - Oct 22^nd, 2008 at 8:47am I couldn't resist. I ordered it. FarCry 2 will be waiting for me in all of its pixelicious glory by the time I get home! I'll give you guys a preliminary review tonight! -b0b (...woohoo!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #124 - Oct 22^nd, 2008 at 3:35pm It looks like a BioShock sequel is on the way. A new trailer was just released yesterday. http://media.xbox360.ign.com/media/142/14240341/vids_1.html I don't see it on GameTrailers.com yet, but I'll post a link there once it is up. -b0b (...hates IGN.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #125 - Oct 22^nd, 2008 at 10:00pm As promised, here's the GameTrailers.com teaser of BioShock 2. http://www.gametrailers.com/player/41897.html -b0b (...still needs to get those wedding pics uploaded.)
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Reply #128 - Oct 23^rd, 2008 at 4:28pm

Here's my super, super preliminary review of FarCry 2. I only got to play it for about 35 minutes last night, but it's definitely promising.

I can best describe FarCry 2 as a combination of Grand Theft Auto and Oblivion. It definitely has the go-anywhere-anytime feel of Oblivion, but the mayhem is closer to GTA than anything else. The graphics are beautiful, but not on par with the jaw-dropping visuals of Crysis and Crysis: Warhead.

The gameplay is pretty good so far, but there are a couple of annoyances. You're inflicted with Malaria right off the bat and have to seek medicine constantly, which drives the plot along a more linear path than I'd like. Hopefully that element will end soon enough so I can have a bit more freedom to blow crap up.

The physics engine is quite good, and the fire effects are incredible. The game word is 50km², and I'm fairly certain you can get a couple square kilometers of it to go up in flames if you're determined enough.

The NPC AI is incredible. If you shoot an enemy in the foot, they'll hop around clutching their foot in pain. If you shoot them in the knee, they'll drop to the ground in agony. It's very satisfying in a sadistic sort of way.

More later!

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Reply #130 - Oct 28^th, 2008 at 11:00am

Bob, I know youre going to get Fallout 3. Can you post a review up after you've played it a bit? I have read a few, and it sounds awesome, but I cannot stand Bethesda's animators. Bethesda characters are lifeless and zombie-like and the absurd normal mapping they put on the characters just reinforces the plastic stiff look.

But reviews say its pretty in depth and a fun game, so I don't know if the bad animations will take away from it all. Anyway if anyone has played it, let me know.

thanks

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Reply #132 - Oct 28^th, 2008 at 5:05pm

MediaMaster wrote on Oct 28^th, 2008 at 11:00am:

Bob, I know youre going

dying

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Fixed it for you.

I'm stuck in DC and have no way to play Fallout 3. All I've got is a tablet PC, so I doubt I could even get the splash screen to show (although I'm contemplating it anyway).

I'm going to do the same thing I did with FarCry 2. I'll buy the game Friday morning and start streaming it from Steam, so it should be ready for me by the time I get back to Michigan on Friday evening. I'll definitely post a review and some pictures later that night. It's been several years since Bethesda released Oblivion, is it possible their animations have improved?

The only thing I can play on this darned tabled is Peggle, and that game is Ghey with a capital G. Do you guys have any recommendations for other "minimal" games that are laptop/tablet friendly?

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Reply #133 - Oct 28^th, 2008 at 5:08pm

To add insult to injury, I opened up my complimentary copy of USA Today at the hotel yesterday morning to find a full-page, full-color advertisement for Fallout 3. I thought it wqas ironic that the wrecked husk of the Capitol Building was on the front page, since I just saw the Capitol Building in person for the first time the previous day.

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #137 - Oct 30^th, 2008 at 5:02pm X wrote on Oct 30^th, 2008 at 9:29am: No pictures for me...anyone else? They work fine on my laptop via cellular and from a desktop running on a T3 at the training center, so it must be something on your end. Can anyone else see them? If not, I'll put them on the server. They're that good. -b0b (...shrugs.)
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Reply #143 - Oct 31^st, 2008 at 7:55am

The_Fat_Man wrote on Oct 31^st, 2008 at 12:34am:

Why not just go...ya know...buy the game and install it?

Or do they not do that anymore? =p

I'm in DC on business, so I don't have a machine to play it on. There is no way it would run on this crappy fed-issued tablet PC.

I was seriously contemplating buying a copy at midnight on Tuesday just so I could drool over the packaging, but I figured I'd buy it on Steam instead and preload it over the Interwebz. That way, it'll be ready for me as soon as I get home tonight, instead of having to install it from a CD when I get there.

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #149 - Nov 1^st, 2008 at 12:20pm By the way, here's a video of McCain killing a Super Brute outside of Megaton. http://www.xfire.com/video/3b446/ -b0b (...roffled.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #152 - Nov 3^rd, 2008 at 6:09am Have you guys heard of Quake Live? It's an official id Software project that looks like Quake 3 Arena, but it is totally browser-based. I've got to say, it looks pretty impressive. I wonder if they're going to use a subscription model for it? http://quakelive.com/ -b0b (...interesting.)
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Reply #154 - Nov 4^th, 2008 at 9:03am

I played some Fallout 3 at Briney's this weekend and I'm on the fence with the game. It's a good visual style and the setting is fun, but I just don't know if it would hold my interest and if the main storyline is interesting enough. To be honest I haven't followed the main story too far because I usually tend to do every mission and find everything I can. I might try it out on PC first before I finally make up my mind.

As for Mirror's Edge, it's nice to see game companies try to get away from the "normal" game genres but this game looks incredibly boring. I saw the demo played and it just seems a lot of it is repetitive.

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The_Fat_Man Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Grand High Overlard Posts: 910 Colorado Springs, Colorado Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #156 - Nov 4^th, 2008 at 12:38pm Just an FYI for you FO3 players. I've read that when you complete the main story line it's game over. You don't get to keep working on side quests and shit like that. So make sure you handle your business before finishing the main quest line.
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MediaMaster GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline Holy Xenu! Posts: 1884 Detroit Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #157 - Nov 4^th, 2008 at 2:52pm wow, good to know, thanks. I hope thats a good sign of a nice epic plotline. Odd that a free roaming open world game would do that.
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Reply #160 - Nov 12^th, 2008 at 8:01am

The PC version of the Left 4 Dead demo is now open to the public. I started downloading this morning, and I'll post some screenshots later tonight if I get a chance to play. Have any of you guys tried it out yet?

Considering how addicted I am to Fallout 3 right now, I probably won't spend much time on it for awhile, but it looks incredible!

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Reply #161 - Nov 12^th, 2008 at 9:39am

Wow, yea I played the xbox 360 demo for the first time last night and it was crazy fun. The zombies are pretty motionless until you make noise or shoot at them, then they run fast like in "Dawn of the Dead". There are a few different more powerful zombies which mix the game up. I was very bad ass though. I only played the single player though, isn't there a multiplayer where you can play as the zombie or the human? It's the best when they are running fast at you and you blast one in the head right before it reaches you. It's a huge rush. A must play in the dark game.

I also played the "Mirror's Edge" demo and was kind of disappointed. The whole city runner thing was popular for about 2 months, now it's pretty retarded.

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Reply #162 - Nov 12^th, 2008 at 12:34pm

Mirror's Edge sounded really neat in theory, but the general consensus seems to be that the final product is a bit disappointing. I'm definitely going to give it a try anyway, but it will probably be a post-Christmas purchase. There are just too many excellent titles out there that are pushing Mirror's Edge off the map.

By the way, it was 28 Days Later that had running zeds, not Dawn of the Dead.

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #165 - Nov 15^th, 2008 at 12:42am I pre-ordered Left 4 Dead on Steam tonight and bought a good headset from NewEgg so I can use the voice chat functionality. If any of you are planning on getting the PC version, let me know and we can coordinate an online game or something. -b0b (...can't stop playing the demo!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #166 - Nov 15^th, 2008 at 12:44am ...on a side note, I also picked up a 1TB hard drive for $130. They've gotten cheap pretty quickly! Just an FYI, but I also saw a 1.5TB Seagate hard drive on NewEgg. It got pretty crappy reviews, but the first drives are always a bit crufty. -b0b (...needs more room for his "collection.")
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #167 - Nov 17^th, 2008 at 6:36pm Anybody else planning on picking up a copy of Left 4 Dead tomorrow? I'm thinking about taking off Wednesday so I can play L4D all through tomorrow evening and into Wednesday! -b0b (...wants it so bad!)
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Reply #172 - Nov 21^st, 2008 at 12:41am

How does everyone feel about the New Xbox Dashboard? (I refuse to say Xperience... gay)

Anyway, Its cool, but I wish that stupid gray floor/sphere that takes up the bottom of the screen would go away. Its ugly. Streaming Netflix through the Xbox is awesome, I was watching HD programming in no time. The avatars *cough* Mii's *cough* are fun but serve no purpose. I think achievements will be tied to clothes for them or something.

Nice update, streaming Netflix through the Xbox ROCKS and the overall look is a lot less cluttered.

oh and heres my nerdy self... yea

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Reply #179 - Nov 21^st, 2008 at 1:21pm

I'm pretty sure it is Meta4X, but don't hold me to that.

The only games I have played extensively on the XBox 360 are Blue Dragon and Dead Rising, so my profile is probably pretty bare.

I've got to pick up a wireless card for the 360 so I can get it back online. Are any of you guys using the wireless adapter, or are all of you connecting via Cat5?

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Reply #180 - Dec 9^th, 2008 at 7:29pm

This came out a few months ago, but I must have been asleep at the wheel. It's a real, actual gameplay video from Duke Nukem Forever:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/226223.html

It actually looks pretty cool. At this rate, it should be released about the same time as Briney's BFE video.

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Reply #181 - Dec 10^th, 2008 at 11:23am

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By Tim Conneally, BetaNews
December 10, 2008, 9:40 AM

Today, Sony announced that its PlayStation 3 virtual world Home will be officially opened tomorrow, two years after it was initially announced. The free online service is the first console-based metaverse.

Creating a whole world for PlayStation 3 users is no small undertaking. First unveiled nearly two years ago, Sony's Home attempts to combine the online metaverse concept with the entertainment of console-based network gaming. Users create 3D avatars and home spaces where they can customize content, socialize, or play games.

After several delays, and the passing of E3 with no major announcements, the final rounds of the service's beta tests began in October. Home becomes available to all PS3 users as a free download from the PlayStation Store tomorrow, but will remain in beta, according to Sony.

The ultimate point behind creating the first virtual world for a console wasn't to compete with existing services like Second Life, or even to attract new users, according to SCEJ Vice President Junji Shoda. Like Microsoft's New Xbox Experience, Home is part of the gradual move toward a perpetually connected gaming environment for consoles.

Home opens on Thursday in Japan, Europe, and North America, and will be offered in eight languages with region-exclusive content and partners. In North America, for example, the service will launch with game-themed environments for Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, and Far Cry 2 spaces where users can gather and share information about those games. With partners Activision, Disney Eidos, Electronic Arts, Lucas Arts, THQ, and Ubisoft, spaces for the Warhawk, Resistance, Guitar Hero and SOCOM series will be available. In Europe, video content from Hexus TV and Eurogamer will be available.

Like other metaverses, not all content in Home will be free.

It'll be interesting to see if PSN Home gives XBox a run for the money. I'm wondering just how stable the Home environment will be. Who knows, this could be the coup PS3 needs to gain some market share.

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Reply #183 - Dec 10^th, 2008 at 1:58pm

I think I've pretty much played it out for the time being. I have a feeling it will be like Oblivion, and I'll get hooked on it four or five times before I finally put it away for good. Honestly, I'm thinking about picking up Oblivion again once I get some time off for the holidays.

Have you had a chance to play Left 4 Dead yet?

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Reply #185 - Dec 11^th, 2008 at 9:47pm

It looks like Dragon Quest X will be a Wii exclusive. Although DQ never had much market penetration outside of Japan until DQ8 (which sold 500,000 copies), it is tied with Final Fantasy in Japan for market share. DQ has been a Sony-exclusive title since DQ5 on the original Playstation, so this is a break from tradition.

I've always enjoyed the Dragon Quest series, even though it is generally much more light-hearted than Final Fantasy and other similar Japanese RPG's.

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TOKYO, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Japanese game software maker Square Enix Holdings Co Ltd said on Wednesday it plans to launch the newest version of its popular "Dragon Quest" game series on March 28 for 5,980 yen ($64.73).

The blockbuster game is designed for Nintendo Co Ltd's DS handheld gear. It also said it is developing Dragon Quest X (Ten) for Nintendo's Wii game console.

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10th Dec 2008, Nintendo

Long awaited announcement let slip by Dragon Quest creator

At a Wednesday press conference in Tokyo, Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii has let slip that the next Dragon Quest game, will be a Wii title.

Here is a snippet from a liveblog of the press conference:

14:25 -- Horii: "We're currently developing Dragon Quest X on Wii."
14:27 -- Nintendo president Satoru Iwata takes the stage with a huge smile on his face! Iwata: "Thanks very much for announcing Dragon Quest X on Wii!"

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Reply #186 - Dec 13^th, 2008 at 2:23am

It sounds like the new "Home" application on the PS3 blows chunks. Here is Penny Arcade's take on it.

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The Beta for Playstation home is now available to everyone, and now you know what I know: this is what happens when your marketing department tries to make a game. Here is everything you need to understand about Home, if you should accidentally launch it from your XMB: press and hold the Playstation button in the center of your Dual-Shock or Sixaxis controller. From the menu that appears, select Quit.

There are things about Home that are simply beyond my understanding. Chief among these bizarre maneuvers is the idea that, when manufacturing their flimsy dystopia, they actually ported the pernicious notion of scarcity from our world into their digital one. This is like having the ability to shape being from non-being at the subatomic level, and the first thing you decide to make is AIDS.

If you approach an arcade machine and there is a person standing in front of it, you will not be able to play it. Likewise, if you see people bowling and think that bowling is something you might like to do, you probably wont be able to. Unable to play arcade games like Ice Breakers and Carriage Return the first several times we logged on, these games had begun to take on an epic stature in our minds. These were gushing fonts of liquid fun, habit-forming and dangerous - for the good of our virtual society, the supply had to be controlled. When we were finally able to play them, we learned that they were the equivalent of browser games.

There is nothing about the experience of using Home to suggest that you are actually moving through a single, contiguous environment. It is very clearly a handful of walled off zones, where you are confronted by incessant load screens in a desperate search for stimulation. From the moment you enter one of their ultrahygenic "amusement regions," it's clear that all life has been burned away. You get the sense that this is a place in which no interesting thing could ever happen.

There is already a growing school of Home apologetics, fostered by the same Order of Perpetual Masochism that lauded the rumble-free Sixaxis at launch and suggested, hilariously, that Lair and Heavenly Sword were videogames. They're under the impression that because something is free, this places it on some golden dais beyond censure. It's no virtue to give away something that no-one in their right mind would buy. Sony has no idea what this world is for, and that ambiguity infuses every simulated millimeter of it.

This is the terrible secret that roils beneath their false universe: it is nothing more than a cumbersome menu, a rampart over which you must hoist yourself to accomplish the most basic tasks.

I suppose that isn't entirely unexpected. Sony is losing the current console war in a bad, bad way. The sales numbers for November were entirely dismal. Nintendo had the best November sales in console history by pushing 2 million units, and the XBox 360 was a distant second but still managed to double PS3 sales. If that's not bad enough, PS3 sales were 20% lower than November 2007, even though the price has dropped by 20%. That would indicate that sale have peaked, which is a really bad thing for Sony.

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Reply #187 - Dec 16^th, 2008 at 6:31pm

It has finally been confirmed that any hope of seeing Knights of the Old Republic 3 is dead,

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"There are a lot of reasons why we decided not to do KOTOR 3, and why we decided to do this as an MMO instead," said Nichols. "The unique aspect of storytelling, which is really differentiated for this game, is something the KOTOR franchise did very well, and we felt that just doing a single-player experience with a new KOTOR really misses the opportunity to take this out to a much wider audience."

That really is the weakest excuse I've ever heard. Why don't they just admit that it's all about the money?

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Reply #188 - Dec 16^th, 2008 at 11:16pm

yea money money...theyll regret it if the mmo tanks.

Home blows uber chunks we tested it at work. We had this stupid thing last summer in closed beta and they still haven't even addressed the stupid userability (its a word) of the app. It's bland, its boring, I can't believe I have to wait in line to play something, its yet another Sony failure.

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Reply #189 - Dec 19^th, 2008 at 2:06pm

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Electronic Arts Zaps Workforce
Mary Jane Irwin, 12.19.08, 12:40 PM EST

The video game maker will eliminate 1,000 jobs and close a development studio.

Electronic Arts is demonstrating that the videogames industry is not, as all believe, recession proof. After warning earlier this month that its sales next year would fall below expectations, Electronic Arts announced new details of its plans to reduce headcount and close studios.

Due to weaker-than-expected sales of its titles during the holiday shopping season, EA is increasing its layoffs to 10.0% of its worldwide workforce, eliminating 1,000 jobs; this is an expansion on its plan to reduce headcount by 6%, first announced in October. EA's shares rose 4.3%, or 72 cents, to $17.48 on Friday morning.

The company is also closing or consolidating nine of its offices. The team at the Vancouver, British Columbia-based Black Box, which was most recently responsible for the racing title “Need for Speed: Undercover” and the Wii skateboarding game “Skate It” will be moved into a nearby facility in Burnaby. Riccitiello called out the poor performance of “Need for Speed” in particular during a briefing earlier this month.

Black Box's move, said EA spokesperson Jeff Brown, was not punitive. And despite EA's decision to reduce the number of titles it has in production, it will still be making "Need for Speed." Stopping production, Brown said, "would be like Porsche discontinuing the 911." EA will be refocusing its efforts on producing only hit games, but it will still "be committed to taking creative risks and investing in new games."

The Redwood City, Calif.-based company has busily tried to reinvent itself as an innovative and creative company ever since John S. Riccitiellotook the reins (again) in 2007. So far the new mantra has not quite taken with the company or the market.

Electronic Arts expects the reductions to save it $120.0 million annually. In the near-term, the restructuring will cost between $55.0 million and $65.0 million. The plan will go into effect March 31, at the end of its fiscal year.

On Dec. 9, Electronic Arts announced it would miss its year-end guidance of $5.0 billion to $5.3 billion in revenues due to weaker than expected sales. Currently analysts estimated its fiscal year revenues would ring in at $4.7 billion, according to consensus compiled by Thompson Reuters.

You know, I don't think Electronic Arts could possibly do anything to make me hate them any more than I already do. Screw these guys.

I love how the author of the article blames EA's woes on the recession. Maybe the problem isn't the recession at all, but EA's failure to put out a genuinely unique and interesting game this year. Every time they get their hands on a decent game, they manage to screw it up.

Spore is a perfect example. Sure, it wasn't as good as it was hyped to be, but I was planning on buying a copy anyway. Then I found out about the draconian DRM they were bundling with it, and I opted to buy something else instead. Suck it, EA.

Mirror's Edge is another example of a classic EA faux pas. They take a really unique gameplay concept and shoot it in the head by mating it with a muddled story, crappy combat, and a mu-huh-huch too short game length. If they would have play-tested the title and spent more time and resources on level design instead of advertising, this game could have been another Portal (which I think it was desperately trying to replicate).

Outside of those examples, just about everything else put out by EA is yet-another-rehash. Yet another Need for Speed, yet another Madden, blah blah blah. I understand these are "safe" investments that will yield guaranteed returns, but I think gamers (including myself) are getting awfully darned tired of playing Shoot the Gun to Kill the Nazis IV: The Shootening or Someplace Tycoon VII: Build More Crap.

In short, EA needs to reward innovation if they want to remain competitive. Otherwise, their stock will continue to tank, and they'll end up spinning off some of the developers they've been buying up over the last decade (which would be a very, very good thing).

I'll get off my soap box now.

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Reply #191 - Dec 19^th, 2008 at 3:04pm

You've got a point. If a developer really wanted to stick it to EA, they could make a competing sports title and offer free "upgrades" via download for the next year or two that would include player and stat changes. EA only releases a truly new title every few years anyway, with the intervening titles just consisting of gimmicky new features and roster changes.

Of course, last I knew, EA had exclusive contracts with most of hte major sports leagues, so this is likely just a pipe dream anyway.

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Reply #193 - Dec 19^th, 2008 at 9:22pm

MediaMaster wrote on Dec 19^th, 2008 at 4:37pm:

Those studios mostly are not spun off, they are just closed. Thats whats not cool with publishers buying out developers. It happened to the 1st iteration of this company, which made the Descent series.

Please tell them that I love them unconditionally.

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Reply #195 - Jan 4^th, 2009 at 2:41am

WTF is up with game installationss and patching?

I picked up a copy of the Neverwinter Nights 2 expansion Storm of the Zehir tonight. I haven't installed Neverwinter Nights 2 or the first expansion, Mask of the Betrayer, on the Bobulator since my rebuild early last year. So, I set out to install the original game and both expansions, along with all of the patches required for each.

The first game required at least ten patches, requiring a solid hour through the automated patch utility. Even the patch utility itself had to be patched. The second expansion, oddly enough, backdated the patcher to its original version, which then had to be repatched.

Every patch was consecutive and the concept of a patch "rollup" to speed up the process is seemingly foreign to Bioware, and forced me to download easily 1GB of files. This means that many files were updated over and over again, instead of just installing the newest version of the file one time. Since the main executable was updated by every patch, it was overwritten 10-15 times! How efficient is that?

Besides, if a single game requires ~23 patches, chances are good that it never should have shipped in the first place. It's a game, not a frickin' operating system! This whole "sell it, then make it work" concept in PC gaming has got to go.

Imagine the pain that would occur if Microsoft never released a service pack or patch rollup, and required you to install every patch for Windows XP individually. You'd be patching your PC for days!

In short, it took nearly two and a half hours to install and patch Neverwinter Nights 2 and both expansions. This game better be worth it! This is why I buy virtually all of my PC games through Steam. Not only do I not have to screw around with easily damaged discs and easily lost CD keys, but the patching process is done automatically and can be performed off-hours. Atari announced NWN2 was coming to Steam in March of 2007, but it still isn't available and they haven't mentioned anything since.

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Reply #197 - Jan 5^th, 2009 at 8:14pm

Yeah, but I expect an MMO to be patched regularly. It's not only a much bigger world where "sploits" must be patched immediately, but the user base demands at least occasional content updates/additions.

For the most part, MMO's don't get patched 23 times because they were shipped prematurely (Age of Conan not withstanding). They get patched 2,000 times because new content is being added, or some script kiddies found an exploit to take advantage of that needs to be fixed immediately. It's a very different environment from an offline game that is expected to work relatively well out the door.

Don't get me wrong, I don't expect a game as complex as today's blockbusters to be flawless. All of the beta testing in the world isn't going to vet a game as thoroughly as the retail release. That said, the vendor should be fixing critical and glaringly obvious problems after the product is sitting on the shelf (i.e. game-breaking bugs or broken quests).

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2008 may become known as the year of digital rights management, thanks in no small part to EA's bringing the issue front and center with Spore and the ensuing backlash. These days gamers want to know what kind of DRM a game employs before they make a purchase, and for many people the inclusion of SecuROM means a lost sale. All of the sound and fury surrounding the issue has gotten the attention of the Federal Trade Commission, and the government agency is planning on holding a town hall meeting devoted to the subject of DRM on March 25.

The official page describes the meeting and its aim. "Digital rights management (DRM) refers to technologies typically used by hardware manufacturers, publishers, and copyright holders to attempt to control how consumers access and use media and entertainment content," the FTC explains. "Among other issues, the workshop will address the need to improve disclosures to consumers about DRM limitations."

The agenda includes demonstrations of DRM-related technology, panel discussions about how these technologies affect consumers, legal issues surrounding DRM, and discussions on the potential need for government involvement to protect consumers.

You can get involved, as well. "The Commission invites interested parties to submit requests to be panelists and to recommend other topics for discussion. The requests should be submitted electronically to drmtownhall@ftc.gov by January 30, 2009....The Commission will select panelists based on their expertise and on the need to represent a range of views." If you would simply like to have your voice heard you can submit comments or original research as well. This is an excellent opportunity to make your voice heard on this matter, and to explain your feelings on the state of DRM in the gaming industry.

Is this a matter that deserves government attention? Absolutely. Having standards for disclosure of what exactly you're installing with your software, along with easily available tools to remove those programs, would go a long way toward keeping publishers honest about what is shipping with our games.

A recent class-action lawsuit filed against EA is indicative of the problem: "Consumers are given no notices whatsoever that the FREE trial version of [Spore] includes Digital Rights Management technology... Consumers are given no control, rights, or options over SecuROM," the suit alleges. "The program cannot be completely uninstalled." The suit lists some of the potential side-effects of having the program installed on a system, including disruption of fire walls and "complete operating system failure."

Too often, customers have no clear picture of what else they may be installing onto their computer when they buy a game, or how those programs could affect the day-to-day use of that computer. There is no disclosure, no accountability, and very little education going on around the issue of DRM and its related technologies.

It's likely the discussion will be lively, with both publishers and consumer rights associations weighing in. The core issue is a simple one, however: consumers deserve to know what they're installing, and exactly what it does. It's looking increasingly likely that consumers may need the FTC's help to make sure what happens during software installations becomes as transparent and open as possible.

The town hall meeting will take place at the University of Washington School of Law, and will be free and open to the public, no registration required.

Although I doubt much will come from this, I hope it leads to better labeling on games (if nothing else). If I purchase a retail copy or digital download of a game, I most certainly expect to know what is getting installed along with the game. As a consumer, I have every right to know what is going to be installed with the game before I even make the purchase.

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Reply #200 - Jan 8^th, 2009 at 9:13am

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It's been no secret that Ziff Davis has been looking to sell 1up.com and its associated video game publications for quite some time. Rumors that the magazine publisher was shopping its video game publications around have been circulating for approximately two years; at one time it was even reported that Dell would be acquiring 1up.com. While that turned out to be false, Ziff Davis finally succeeded in unloading 1up to Hearst-owned UGO Network, whereupon things took a definite turn for worse.

The sale, it was announced, would bring 1UP.com, Mycheats.com, Gametab.com, and GameVideos.com under UGO's control. In the official announcement, UGO CEO J Moses made it sound like his company wouldn't actually be changing too much about 1up: "The acquisition of 1UP, with its authentic voice, tenured editorial personalities and bustling user community, allows us to expand our base of quality content and represents a major step forward in UGO's mission to become the leader in the games space." The announcement also stated that 1up would, "stand beside UGO as a flagship brand." A few hours later, though, it was revealed that this was far from the truth, as Ziff Davis seemed intent on thoroughly gutting its online publications before it changed hands.

Even though Ziff Davis CEO Jason Young claimed—via an internal e-mail sent to his employees shortly after the sale was announced—that, "many of our employees will travel with this business and become part of the UGO team," it seems that this was not to be. Gamasutra received some inside information that, at roughly the same time, a large percentage of Ziff Davis' Game Group suddenly found itself unemployed. According to various reports, 30 members of the editorial, podcast, and video production staff was promptly told that it was fired. The detailed list of those who are now jobless is rather staggering: this is well beyond a corporate bloodbath, it's a scorched-earth policy with only a few survivors.

Adding another nail to the coffin was the simultaneous announcement that Ziff Davis would be shutting down production on its popular Electronic Gaming Monthly magazine, which has been in production for nearly twenty years: this month's issue will be its last. "With demand for print continuing to decline amongst both advertisers and readers," Young said in his email, "and the content being produced by 1UP no longer available for use in the publication, it simply did not make sense for us to move forward with this business any longer."

When asked about the massive layoffs, 1up site director Sam Kennedy told MTV Multiplayer the answers lay with his former bosses. "Honestly, questions like that have to go to Ziff Davis at this point," said Kennedy. "All I can say to that is UGO held onto as many people as they could to run the business going forward and [kept] a lot of all-star key players."

To say this news is staggering is to put it lightly. 1up has been one of the major players in the industry of video game journalism since it was launched in 2003, and it managed to survive for quite some time in spite of the deaths of several excellent sibling magazines like GMR, Official U.S. Playstation Magazine, and Computer Gaming World. Meanwhile, the fact that Ziff Davis is resorting to cost-cutting measures like these implies that things may be far worse at the magazine publisher than has been let known: while no one expected things to be pretty after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, it seems safe to say that no one saw this coming, either.

BIG SLOPPY TEARS!

1Up.com was one of few commercially-viable sites for hardcore gamers. Their reviews were harsh but fair, and they didn't pull any punches with games produced by their sponsors. That's probably one of the reasons why they're going down the tubes. Of course, their most popular venue by far was their virtually unmatched podcasts, which probably cost them much more money than it brought in. It's hard to get any advertising revenue from a podcast.

The real tragedy, though, is the loss of EGM. I have several issues of EGM from the late 80's, featuring such "awesome" game systems as the TurboGrafx 16 and Sega Master system. Later issues vaunted the awesomeness of the upcoming Sega 32X (which ended up sucking), the TurboGrafx CD (virtually impossible to find), and the Sega Neptune (never released).

The only other loss of a gaming outlet that could make me this sad is PC Accelerator (PCXL). Long live the combination of scantilly-clad women and hot new video games!

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Reply #203 - Jan 8^th, 2009 at 1:16pm

I still have the last several issues of PC Accelerator. Its one of few magazines I ever subscribed to. I remember opening the bag it came in and seeing that same black cover. So sad.

Did you see the special PCXL edition that came out in September of 2007? I nearly screamed with glee when I saw it on the newsstand at the airport when Mere and I were flying out to Disney World for our honeymoon. It was supposed to be the rebirth of PCXL in a "quarterly" format, but it was the only issue that was ever published.

In good ol' PCXL format, the cover article was all about the Frag Dolls.

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Reply #205 - Jan 13^th, 2009 at 8:50am

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ELYRIA, Ohio – Although a teenager's obsession with a violent video game may have warped his sense of reality, the boy is guilty of murdering his mother and wounding his father after they took "Halo 3" away from him, a judge ruled Monday.

"I firmly believe that Daniel Petric had no idea at the time he hatched this plot that if he killed his parents they would be dead forever," Lorain County Common Pleas Judge James Burge said.

Nonetheless, Burge rejected the defense attorneys' argument that Petric, 17, was not guilty by reason of insanity.

The defense didn't contest that Petric shot his parents in October 2007 after they took the game away from him, but insisted that the teen's youth and addiction made him less responsible.

Petric may have been addicted, but the evidence also showed he planned the crime for weeks, said Burge, who found the teenager guilty of aggravated murder, attempted aggravated murder and other charges.

Tried as an adult, Petric faces a maximum possible penalty of life in prison without parole. The judge didn't set a sentencing date.

The teen's mother, Susan Petric, 43, died of a gunshot wound to the head. Her husband, Mark Petric, a minister at New Life Assembly of God in Wellington, also was shot in the head but survived.

After the verdict was announced, Petric turned to look at his father seated behind him in the courtroom. Mark Petric, who previously said he has forgiven his son, gave an encouraging nod.

Mark Petric and other relatives left the court without comment.

Prosecutors said Petric planned to kill his parents because he was angry that his father would not allow him to play the video game, in which players shoot alien monsters that have taken over the Earth.

On the night of the shooting, Petric used his father's key to open a lockbox and remove a 9 mm handgun and the game.

Mark Petric testified that his son came into the room and asked: "Would you guys close your eyes? I have a surprise for you." He testified that he expected a pleasant surprise. Then his head went numb from the gunshot.

Deputy prosecuting attorney Anthony Cillo argued during the trial that the teenager had planned to make it appear to be a murder-suicide by putting the gun in his father's hand.

Defense Attorney James Kersey said that when the teenager fled the grisly scene, he only took one item with him: the "Halo 3" game.

Bungie LLC, once part of Microsoft, developed the Xbox 360-exclusive Halo 3, and Microsoft owns the game's intellectual property. Microsoft declined to comment beyond a statement: "We are aware of the situation and it is a tragic case."

It's a sad commentary when a kid would kill his own mother for Halo 3.

Unreal Tournament? Maybe. Oblivion? Sure. Mass Effect? Understandable. But Halo 3? That's just sick and twisted.

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Reply #208 - Jan 16^th, 2009 at 8:39am

The game console sales numbers for 2008 are finally in, and it looks like Nintendo dominated the competition by an even greater degree than anyone imagined.

The Wii sold 10.18 million units, and DS moved 9.95 million more. The XBox 360 came in a really, really distant third place with 4.74 million, and the PS3 and PSP both moved approximately 3.5 million. Ouch.

The top ten selling games really bring that number home. The top four titles were all Wii games (Wii Play, Mario Kart, Wii Fit, and Super Smash Bros. Brawl). The PS3 only had one top-ten title, and that was the multi-platform Grand Theft Auto IV, which undersold the XBox 360 version by about half. Interestingly, the number ten title was Mario Kart DS, which came out over three years ago.

At this point, I think Sony is going to have an incredibly difficult time getting the PS3 back on track. Their hardware and software sales numbers are so far behind XBox and Wii that they'll have to pay out the butt to get any more exclusive titles. At this point, I think its time to start working on the PS4 in the hopes of reforging their reputation in the next console generation.

You can get the full story with a bunch of pretty charts here.

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Reply #209 - Jan 16^th, 2009 at 10:33am

I really really wish the Wii fad would die a horrible death. Nintendo only cares about making money. They stick with safe titles that are already proven to make money. The only successful games are Nintendo released anyway. Third party Wii games stink terribly.

Most of people i know with a wii just let it gather dust until friends come over anyway. Other than that they go play their Xbox or ps3's where the REAL games are.

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Reply #210 - Jan 16^th, 2009 at 12:06pm

MediaMaster wrote on Jan 16^th, 2009 at 10:33am:

I really really wish the Wii fad would die a horrible death.

What's wrong with a bit of competition? Nintendo is really making Microsoft and Sony earn every dollar, and I'm okay with that.

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That's not necessarily a bad thing.

One thing you have to keep in mind is that all of these subpar games bring in guaranteed cash, which can then be used to support newer, more experimental titles. Every Final Fantasy sequel pays for ten The World Ends With You experiments. Every Sonic the Hedgehog game paves the way for a MadWorld.

Besides, derivative titles can be really, really good. Take Mario Kart, for instance. The Wii and DS versions of the game are a heck of a lot of fun and sold like gangbusters. Nobody cares if they are the 573,382nd iteration in the series. As long as they continue to be unique, interesting, and fun, all the more power to Nintendo!

On the other hand, some of the new, unique, and truly interesting titles don't sell for crap. The Square-Enix DS title I mentioned earlier, The World Ends With You, is a perfect example. The developer took a gamble and made an incredibly unique RPG the likes of which I had never seen, and it paid off in terms of game quality. The title was excellent and was easily one of the best handheld RPG's I had ever played (not that I play many handheld games). It received excellent reviews and lived up to the hype. But guess what? It didn't sell for crap. It only moved 140,000 copies in North America to date.

If people choose to buy derivative games of dubious quality over truly unique games with excellent production values, why even bother? It's cheaper to license a stale property for the thousandth time, and the payoff is higher. You can't blame anyone for making that choice, painful as it may be for us "true" gamers.

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The only successful games are Nintendo released anyway. Third party Wii games stink terribly.

From NPD: "More 3rd party units were sold for Wii than any other home consoles in December for the 2nd consecutive month."

Considering the Wii has outsold the PS3 and XBox 360 combined, that shouldn't be surprising. Nonetheless, you definitely can't say third-party titles aren't selling on the Wii. You know they're selling well if they outsell third-party titles on the 360 and PS3, which don't have much of a first party market to begin with.

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Most of people i know with a wii just let it gather dust until friends come over anyway.

I know of several people with Wii consoles, and most of them play the Wii regularly. We have all three systems, and because of Meredith the Wii probably sees four or five times as much action as the other two. I'm a hardcore PC gamer, and don't touch the consoles very often.

As you've stated, one of the biggest selling points of the Wii is the party-friendly aspect. It is fairly rare that we don't turn the Wii on when friends come over. Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros. Brawl are perennial favorites.

If the PS3 can harness the multimedia friendliness and network support of the 360, or if the 360 can adopt the hardware openness and free multiplayer support of the 360, the Wii might actually get some competition in terms of overall sales. Unfortunately, neither of those seem terribly likely in this generation of consoles.

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Other than that they go play their Xbox or ps3's where the REAL games are.

...and I thought I was a gaming elitist!

Like I said, I'm a hardcore PC gamer and will take a PC port over a console port any day of the week. That said, if I have to play on a console, the 360 generally wins my vote. I abhor having to pay for multiplayer support and the ridiculously overpriced accessories (namely, the hard drive and wireless adapters) make my blood boil, but the XBox dashboard, media support, and game library beat the crap out of the PS3.

I'm not a Nintendo fanboy by any stretch of the imagination, but I think the Wii is a fun system that has carved out a "blue ocean" market for itself. I can guarantee you that Sony and Microsoft will try to grab a piece of this market for themselves as start working on their next generation of consoles.

Competition is a good thing, and so is innovation.

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Reply #211 - Jan 16^th, 2009 at 1:59pm

Yea I agree with you there bob, I just don't want Microsoft and Sony to go backwards as far as technology is concerned. Nintendo just put out a modified gamecube with motion sensing and a retartedly good marketing plan. I have argued with Patrick before because he loathes the wii, but the Wii has its own niche and its own style. My problem with it is that it is not on par with the other two. I don't like it being grouped with them, the wii and the ps3 and 360 and pc are two different groups, and gaming styles.

And sorry for leaving the PC out of the comparisons before, it is still my platform of choice. It's just become the work machine lately.

I guess I don't want to see Microsoft and Sony want a piece of that casual market and shift their focus at all. But like you said they will want to, as the new Xii's and that awful Home.

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Dawn of War II goes gold, will land early
By Frank Caron | Published: January 19, 2009 - 10:20AM CT

Kicking off the year's blockbuster RTS games is Dawn of War II, the sequel to the original Warhammer 40K RTS which established Relic as a key player in the genre. The company has gone on to have a successful stint with action-oriented RTS games, and Dawn of War II looks to be the next leap for the company. Luckily for those anxiously awaiting the title, Relic has announced today that the game has gone gold and will hit stores earlier than expected.

The game, which was originally scheduled to hit stores on February 23, will drop on February 19. The multiplayer beta will begin this Wednesday for those who purchased Dawn of War: Soulstorm and will then open to the public the following week on January 28. Changes that result from the beta will be pushed out as a post-release patch.

Though Starcraft 2 is the talk of the town, Relic's more action-oriented approach to RTS gameplay, which focuses more on using the environment for tactics and cover than on micromanagement and resource gathering, has always been exciting, and Dawn of War II looks to continue that tradition. Watch out for some impressions of the beta later this week and a full review when the game hits stores on February 19, exclusively for the PC.

Hopefully the reviews will start trickling out soon. Relic has become the masters of the RTS genre with Company of Heroes, so I've got high hopes for Dawn of War II.

Hopefully, this will wash away the bad taste left by "Soul Storm." That expansion was total crap, and it is still overpriced.

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Reply #213 - Jan 20^th, 2009 at 10:58am

This is concept art of a dark Obi Wan, from an "alternate history" of the Star Wars universe. It's from Star Wars Battlefronts III, which is "in limbo" at the moment since the developer went out of business. The game was picked up by another studio, but there is no confirmation of whether or not dark Obi will be cut.

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Reply #214 - Jan 21^st, 2009 at 3:51pm

Relic is selling the third Dawn of War expansion for 75% of through next week at $7.50. If you pick up the expansion, you can get in on the Dawn of War II exclusive beta.

I picked up my copy a couple hours ago. Both the expansion and the DoW 2 beta are installing now. I'll give you guys a quick review tomorrow!

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Reply #218 - Jan 22^nd, 2009 at 4:03pm

I had a heck of a time even getting into DoW 2 last night. The post-install "setup" process took almost twenty minutes. Once I got into the game, my microphone was locked open in-game even though I didn't have a microphone connected. I had to disable the "What You Hear" port on my Soundblaster X-Fi to get it working properly.

By the time I was done with all that jazz, I just gave up and went to bed. I'll jump on tonight and give you my impression.

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(...didn't think it looked all that much better than the latest revision of DoW.)

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Reply #221 - Jan 22^nd, 2009 at 8:26pm

There is no point in fighting, guys. EQ1 and EQ2 are equally gay.

I finally got a chance to play a little bit of Dawn of War II tonight, and I'm even more disappointed now that I actually got the game to run correctly. I just can't get into it.

DoW2 has almost completely eliminated base building! You throw up a quickie structure on the front lines which you can "upgrade" twice to spawn more powerful units, and you're done. Each game starts with your single "base" structure already built for you.

The game has a strong run-and-gun feel to it, and if you hold back and try to build up a sizable force you'll get wiped in an instant. As you guys know from Empire Earth and Earth 2150, I tend to be a bit of a "turtle" when it comes to RTS games, so I really don't like the direction they've taken. By eliminating the base building and focusing on incredibly combat-intensive gameplay, it's like they've disemboweled your girlfriend and put a pair of shiny sunglasses on her. She might look a little better at first glance, but she's just not the same.

I also don't like some of the design choices the developers made. The microphone is always on and there is no "mic button," so you have an open mic at all times. One or two players have left their mics on every single game I've played, which is incredibly annoying. The only way to block the sound is to open their "Games for Windows" profile and mute them entirely. Have I mentioned how much I hate Games for Windows?

The game is also incredibly laggy. That would be a problem for any RTS, but especially so for a fast-paced RTS like DoW2. The game displays a message if one of the players is lagging out the rest of the server, but it never does anything about them. From what I can tell, other players don't even get the option to vote on kicking the offender, ala Left 4 Dead. You either quit and look for another group (thereby screwing over the rest of your team) or you deal with it.

Hopefully Relic will get their act together before the game goes live next month, but I highly doubt that will happen. They'll likely push the game out and "fix it later" via patch.

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Reply #223 - Jan 23^rd, 2009 at 2:03pm

The_Fat_Man wrote on Jan 22^nd, 2009 at 8:55pm:

I told you DoW2 was gay, all the reviews said the same thing =p

I'm afraid I actually have to admit you were right. I just don't understand what audience Relic was aiming for with Dawn of War II. If I just want to kill a bunch of bad guys without much thought behind the process, I'll play a first-person shooter.

Don't get me wrong, a good RTS will always offer a "shoot first, think later" option. The infamous "Zerg rush" strategy from StarCraft is a perfect example. I think most RTS players, however, choose other strategies (research, fortification, espionage/sabotage, etc.). Dawn of War has always been biased toward tactics and constant combat, but to make that the sole aspect of gameplay is somewhat retarded.

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Well, at least I didn't have to wait long to disagree with you again!

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Reply #224 - Jan 30^th, 2009 at 1:02pm

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Gears of War DRM Prevents Players from Accessing Game

Gamers who tried to play Gears of War on the PC Thursday ran into a slight snag: it seems that the digital certificate that allows the game to run expired on January 28, 2009. Basically that means if you keep your PC's clock up to date, you can no longer play the game. The official Epic forum is ablaze with complaints about this issue, as the still-kicking community becomes enraged.

"I had this problem this evening, I had to change the date and time (from PM to AM) and I am able to get in just fine," one frustrated gamer posted. "I also changed it back to the current date and time and it didn't work. Change it back to yesterday AM and it works fine... EPIC games won't be on my list anytime soon...."

Unfortunately, DRM can sometimes feel like a rug that can be yanked out from under our feet at any moment.

Epic Games is aware of the issue, but don't expect much hard news about what to do about the inability to play the game. "We have been notified of the issue and are working with Microsoft to get it resolved," a super moderator posted on the forum. "Sorry for any problems related to this. I'll post more once we have a resolution." (Microsoft is the publisher, and GoW is a Games for Windows release.)

Until then? You can either fiddle with your computer's clock or not play. Neither choice is much fun.

Did Epic assume no one would be playing the title once 2009 came around? It's hard to understand why there would be an end-date hard-coded into the title's DRM, especially one that came less than three years after the game was released. Many PC gamers are leery of any kind of DRM that must dial into a central server to authenticate, wondering what happens if those servers are shut down. Now we know—in this case, the game shipped with DRM that was essentially counting down until the game would cease to work.

While it's not rare for games to ship with bugs every now and again, it's pretty shocking when one ships with an issue that causes the title to stop working for everyone who paid. Those who pirated the game, as usual, continue to play with no issues.

I guess this would constitute an EPIC fail!

Get it? EPIC fail? No?

This is a perfect example of why DRM is so incredibly irksome. With games that require constant authentication, you're not really buying the game when you throw down your hard-earned money. You're just renting the game until the vendor decides to take down their server.

We'll see how quickly Microsoft and Epic get their acts together. Considering Microsoft's problem with the Zune 30GB's breaking on New Year's Eve, this appears to be an increasingly common issue for them.

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Reply #225 - Feb 10^th, 2009 at 4:21pm

I've been playing an oldie but goody the last few days. I bought Sid Meier's Pirates on Steam for $10.00 and have sunk several solid hours of gaming into it. I'm really surprised that the 2004 title received so little press attention (or maybe I just missed it). It's a fairly complex game with bits and pieces of several genres rolled into one fat package. You get to build your own fleet, build up your crew, hire specialists, and purchase improvements for your ships. You can represent one or more of the four kingdoms (Spanish, English, French, and the Freaky Deaky Dutch) and attack their enemies, progressing through various ranks with each country. As you progress through ranks, you gain benefits at home ports and receive entitlements of land from the King.

You also have to contend with pirates, indians, and religious entities. You can invade cities with your pirate crews and ransack them for gold, and slowly build your own empire if that's your gig. There are other pirate leaders on the sea, though, and once you gain enough recognition you'll be sure to catch their attention.

All in all, it's well worth $10 and I'd highly recommend grabbing a copy if you're up for something non-traditional. You can only play so many FPS/RTS/RPG rehashes before you need something a little different!

So what are you bums playing these days? Hopefully something other than WoW has captured your collective attention?

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Reply #227 - Mar 18^th, 2009 at 4:24pm

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Online task force: Adults shouldn't play Animal Crossing

An online Missouri task force has suggested that adults who play Animal Crossing should be viewed with suspicion, as they are likely up to no good.

One of the great things about the majority of Nintendo developed games is that they appeal to such a wide variety of gamers. Take Animal Crossing, for instance. While it is suitable for younger and casual gamers thanks to its adorable characters and setting, more than one so-called hardcore gamer has lost plenty of hours trying to pay off the nefarious Tom Nook. However, in spite of this, the Mid-Missouri Internet Crimes Task Force believes that AC is not a game that should be played by adults.

"There is no reason an adult should have this game," Andy Anderson told ABC News, via GamePolitics. Anderson believes that any adults playing Animal Crossing: City Folk on the Wii are most likely doing it for the wrong reasons, suggesting that the majority of these adult gamers are actually child predators.

It's a curious decision to select AC:CF as an example of a dangerous online game, especially considering the limited online interactions players can have, something that is aided by the use of Nintendo's infamous friend code system. While parents should most certainly be aware of what their children are doing online, to suggest that this means that adults can't enjoy specific forms of entertainment is ludicrous.

I suppose I should tell Meredith to go down to the police station and register herself as an "offender." What a bunch of nonsense. Sure, it isn't my type of game, but to say imply that an adult that plays Animal Crossing is some sort of child predator is unabashedly absurd.

The best part of this whole thing? The only way an Animal Crossing player can interact with another player is if they swap Wii codes. In other words, for a predator to stalk a child in Animal Crossing, he would first have to contact them in some other way (i.e. chat forum, instant messaging, etc.) and ask for their code. If they can already contact the child in some other fashion, this is really just a moot point.

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Reply #231 - Mar 23^rd, 2009 at 1:31pm

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Rockstar announces Max Payne 3

Rockstar has announced that Max Payne 3 is officially in development at Rockstar Vancouver, and should be released later this year.

Not long after announcing a sequel to Red Dead Revolver, Rockstar has revealed that it is working on the third entry in the Max Payne franchise. The game is currently in development at the company's Vancouver studio and is expected to be released later this year.

"We're starting a new chapter of Max's life with this game," Rockstar's Sam Houser said. "This is Max as we've never seen him before, a few years older, more world-weary and cynical than ever. We experience the downward spiral of his life after the events of Max Payne 2 and witness his last chance for salvation."

Virtually no details have been released about the game, but it will have players take on the role of a retired Max in a much more violent and darker version of New York City. The first image of the game (below) is a piece of concept art that shows off a grizzled Max splattered with blood.

With Rockstar's history, we most likely won't see much more information until we're closer to the game's actual release. Max Payne 3 is going to be released next winter for the PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3.

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...annnnnnd I'm spent.

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Reply #240 - Apr 10^th, 2009 at 10:34am

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Between battles, the story: Dave Arneson has passed on

The joy of role-playing comes from the ability to do anything you want. The dungeon master can only put a situation in front of you, and it's his job to deal with your creative decisions to get through—or around—those obstacles. This is something Dave Arneson knew very early on. This is the man who helped create Dungeons and Dragons, and he has died of cancer.

We know how Arneson dealt with history lessons in college, and it's telling. "We created the Continental Congress and because I knew things the teacher didn't share with the students we ended up not having the Continental Congress, Delaware rejoined the Empire and New York and New Hampshire were at war," he told GameSpy. "Anyway, (laughs) I was accused by my professor of perverting his exercises… and well, it was true I did, and he was mad at me. The same thing happened with the French Revolution, and he accused me of introducing these random events that were of no historical interest at all."

We should be continually happy that so many bright students aren't dimmed by their teachers. Arneson understood that these things were of historical interest; history stands on the edge of knife, and a few different decisions one way or the other and the world would be a completely different place... we only forget that because we're comforted by putting historical events in a neat order. Arneson wanted to get into the heads of these people and play "what-if."

Arneson understood that real stories came from what happened between the battles. Remember that Dungeons and Dragons came from wargaming; it just filled in the blanks after each war, the epic struggles that made up the majority of gaming at that time. "In our own games we got tired of taking the town, or the hill. So we started thinking about other objectives in a scenario, and to do that we had to give our Generals personality... We found that by doing that players started to identify with them. So, we'd role-play diplomacy and how they'd act out there on the battlefield."

Why a fantasy setting? It cut down on players arguing on what was historically accurate. Why dungeons? Because it was easy to set up on a grid and you had finite space to work in. Much easier for everyone involved. This is yet another example of the limitations of gaming leading to breakthroughs, and Arneson's love of social gaming and imagination helped to steer the ship where it needed to go. What we love about Dungeons and Dragons comes from Arneson's intuitive ability to make gaming stimulating and intriguing, even with no battlefield in sight.

While he left TSR in 1975 after a falling out with Gary Gygax, he continued to work on his Blackmoor games, but his name remained tied to the game that made him famous. "So what's my involvement? I do all the conventions. I talk about it. I use it for my classes. I think I've still had a lot of influence on rules in spite of not being officially involved but it was not until Third Edition came about and they involved me in the playtesting that I again had any direct involvement in D&D."

Arneson died Tuesday night, after a long bout with cancer. He is survived by his wife and daughter. His name may not have been as well-known as Gary Gygax's, but his influence still touched every aspect of both table-top role-playing and video gaming. He helped to create an entire world and industry by asking the simplest of questions: what are these characters doing when they're not fighting?

Get out your classic rule books. Invite some friends over. Keep a chair empty for a fallen friend, and play for a few hours. Not online, in person. Order a pizza. Buy your kids a rule book and some dice. Remember Dave Arneson, a man who wasn't satisfied with the game when his parents brought home an Avalon Hill title. When he began changing the rules, he began changing the world. We'll miss you, Dave.

First Gary, now Dave. The world is an emptier place without them.

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Reply #241 - Apr 21^st, 2009 at 9:39pm

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Left 4 Dead PC DLC Out Now
April 21, 2009, 2:45 pm - Valve - Product Update

The Left 4 Dead Survival Pack is now available for the PC and Xbox 360, free of charge to all owners of the game. The full change list for the PC release is below. In addition, both the retail and Steam versions of the game (PC and 360) are now available for a special price. Check Steam and local retailers for pricing details. For more information about L4D, please visit www.l4d.com

Survival Mode
New gameplay Mode
16 maps including Last Stand
Leaderboards
7 new achievements

Versus Changes
2 new versus campaigns
Fixed a case where versus team score would continue to be recalculated after the score panel was displayed
Fixed an issue with recalculating the versus score health bonus for a player when they are rescued from being incapacitated
Fixed being able to start a swing as an infected, then teleport to the survivors and have the claw swing hit a survivor
Fixed a case where teleporting to the survivors would not reset the ability timer
Fixed an exploit where you could load the chamber of a weapon with bullets by holding down the melee key
Fixed a case where it was not possible to join a game while it was in a finale
Fixed a rare case where listen servers would speed up the game over time
Removed convars related to melee fatigue
Fixed a case where infected players would get a respawn time on their initial spawn into a map

Server Changes
Made ms_force_dedicated_server not require cheats
Add a message when queuing a heartbeat
Simplified setting of game mode
Removed convars director_no_human_zombies and director_holdout_mode
Added mp_gamemode [coop,versus,survival]

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Added lobby join and leave messages

I spent the entire night working on a paper, so this will have to wait until tomorrow. I'll let you guys know how it goes!

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Reply #243 - Apr 24^th, 2009 at 4:08pm

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Red Faction: Guerilla demo is out now, worth your time

The demo for Red Faction: Guerilla is out now on Xbox Live and the PlayStation Network, and it's much better than we were expecting. Go give it a try, and be pleasantly surprised.
By Ben Kuchera | Last updated April 23, 2009 10:39 AM CT

In the Red Faction: Guerrilla demo that is now available for every 360 and PS3 owner—even if you didn't preorder the game—you can take control of a massive walker and use it to simply walk through buildings. It is, very simply, glorious.

For a while, the demo was only available to preorder customers (because who doesn't want to put down money on a game to see if they'd like it) but now the demo is available to everyone, free and clear. I heavily suggest you give it a try. The game wasn't much on my radar before; I found the original merely competent, but in the demo there is a mech, a turret section, and a small area where you can use your throwable explosives to blow up buildings, gas tanks, or people.

Yes, the ability to stick the grenades onto someone's face and watch them run around in a panic before detonation is still there. It's still as good as it ever was.

Watching an enemy take cover, only to blow up that cover and then smack the baddie full on the chest with your hammer, is an experience everyone needs to go through at least once. I won't bore you with other things you can do, leaving you to explore for yourself, but the destruction is wonderful, the physics feel great, and the weapons are satisfying.

This one went from "Eh, I hope to see it at E3" to "give me more NOW" in a matter of minutes. Go give it a download and let us know what you think, or if you pre-ordered and this is old news, feel free to make fun of the rest of us.

Red Faction: Guerrilla will be released on June 9 for the 360 and PS3, and August 25 on the PC.

Interestingly, Red Faction: Guerilla is still showing up on Steam's "Coming Soon" page. I sincerely hope this game really does appear on Steam in August.

I'm a bit peeved that I have to wait 2½ months longer than the console gamers, though. I doubt there is any technical reason for the delay, and this is likely a move to lessen the impact caused by piracy. Any insight, Media Master?

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Reply #245 - Apr 25^th, 2009 at 1:17am

Yeah, I figured you wouldn't be able to say anything. Such is the burden of a worthwhile career, eh?

My brother-in-law and I just spent about two hours playing the demo. It's only a ~15 minute demo, so that should speak volumes! As usual, I suck balls at console FPS titles, but blowing stuff up in the walking robots was incredibly fun. As the review I posted earlier posits, throwing sticky bombs on enemies is an absolute riot.

Volition really nailed this one out of the park. I can't wait until the demo hits the PC, and I hope they don't make us wait until August to get a peek at it!

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Reply #246 - Apr 25^th, 2009 at 1:31am

Stalin vs. Martians!

This game looked so darned cool that I just had to pre-order it on Steam today.

On a side note, you can pick up The Orange Box for only $10 on Steam this weekend. The sale runs through Sunday evening. If you don't own it already, you owe it to yourself to pick it up!

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Bioshock movie put on hold due to high budget

Due to concerns over rising costs, production on the Bioshock film has been put on hold. Looks like we'll have to wait a bit longer before we get to see Rapture visualized on the big screen.

By Michael Thompson | Last updated April 27, 2009 11:00 AM CT

The Bioshock movie that was announced a year ago seems to have hit a bit of a snag: it's been put on hiatus due to budget concerns, and everyone involved is working to reduce costs. Unsurprisingly, the Gore Verbinski-directed film was set to have a fairly substantial budget, but Universal started getting nervous when projected cost raised to $160 million. As a result, things are on hold until the finances get sorted out.

Verbinski, who actually passed on directing the next Pirates of the Caribbean to helm the Bioshock adapation, explained the situation to Variety. "We were asked by Universal to move the film outside the U.S. to take advantage of a tax credit," he said, adding, "we are evaluating whether this is something we want to do. In the meantime, the film is in a holding pattern."

The movie has generated a great deal of excitement from fans of the game, particularly because of the combined talent of Gore Verbinski and John Logan. While it's disappointing to hear that the film has been delayed, fans should take heart that the movie itself hasn't actually been canceled. According to Variety, "All parties vow that Bioshock will not become another Halo, the would-be live-action adaptation of the Microsoft game that was cancelled when U and Fox got cold feet over budget fears." If the film does eventually make it through these budget concerns and into theaters, gamers will probably be OK with the delay so long as the final product is better than most of the game-based movies that have been released so far.

At this rate, if the movie does make it into production, it'll be another Doom/Streetfighter/Mortal Kombat catastrophe.

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Reply #250 - May 7^th, 2009 at 10:02am

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http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/58519

A very reliable source close to Duke Nukem Forever developer 3D Realms today confirmed to Shacknews that the company has been shut down.

The closure came about as a result of funding issues, our source explained, with the shut down said to affect both 3D Realms and the recently resurrected Apogee name. Employees of both entities have already been let go.

Phone calls and e-mails to various 3D Realms veterans have thus far gone unanswered, with publishing partner Take-Two likewise unavailable for comment.

I guess this means we can't bust on Duke Nukem Forever anymore. Alas, poor 3D Realms, we hardly knew ye!

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Reply #259 - Jun 1^st, 2009 at 4:22pm

Microsoft's big E3 announcement today was that another Hideo Kojima production is on the way, and it is coming to the 360!

http://www.konami.jp/kojima_pro/next/

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Reply #260 - Jun 1^st, 2009 at 6:28pm

With all the leaks and early hype these days, E3 rarely throws out a true surprise. I have to say, I didn't see this one coming. Valve has announced Left 4 Dead 2 and has released a couple of gameplay trailers. Apparently, the next game will take place in New Orleans...

Docks Gameplay
Incendiary Ammunition
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More awesome E3 trailers:

Alan Wake (Looks less cool than it used to...)
Metal Gear Solid: Rising
Halo: Reach
Front Mission Evolved

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Reply #261 - Jun 2^nd, 2009 at 6:15am

I have absolutely no interest in the Star Wars MMO, but this has to be the most bad-ass trailer I've seen in years...

Star Wars: The Old Republic

The attached video description is very true: "This cinematic is better than Episodes I-III combined." If only Lucas could make a movie trailer that interesting!

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Reply #267 - Jun 24^th, 2009 at 3:54pm

Stick, did you pick up Prototype? How is it?

I might get it on Steam this weekend.

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In a somewhat surprise move today, Zenimax, the parent company of Bethesda Softworks, has acquired id Software, famed developer of the Doom and Quake series of games. Both companies promise to maintain the status quo at id Software, with all the executives from the company signing long-term contracts to continue their roles with the studio.

“This puts id Software in a wonderful position going forward,” said John Carmack, who will continue to serve in his current role as Technical Director. “We will now be able to grow and extend all of our franchises under one roof, leveraging our capabilities across multiple teams while enabling forward looking research to be done in the service of all of them. We will be bigger and stronger, as we recruit the best talent to help us build the landmark games of the future. As trite as it may be for me to say that I am extremely pleased and excited about this deal, I am."

Zenimax is a private company, and now has Doom, Fallout, Quake, Oblivion, Rage, Wolfeinstein, and Brink in its stable of content. Robert Altman, the CEO of Zenimax, stated, "Our intention is to make sure id Software will continue to do what they do best—make AAA games. Our role will be to provide publisher support through Bethesda Softworks and give id Software the resources it needs to grow and expand.” The interesting bit? EA has already signed to publish Rage, leaving Zenimax with little to do when it comes to id's upcoming title.

While this news is surprising, both companies have sterling reputations in the gaming world, and if id had to be acquired, there were much worse places for it to go—no, we won't name names... We'll continue to follow this story and update with any new details as they emerge.

I guess I didn't see this one coming at all. I had no idea id was on the market. It's sad to see a stalwart lose their independence after twenty years, but they could have done worse I guess.

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Reply #271 - Jun 26^th, 2009 at 4:27pm

The_Fat_Man wrote on Jun 26^th, 2009 at 1:06pm:

That makes it all the better when you crush them and feed upon their tears.

That's very true for competitive games, but for co-op games like Left 4 Dead where you have to play together it just sucks.

The next time some 12-year old punk intentionally shoots me in the back of the head, I'm going to reach over TCP/IP and bitchslap him.

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Reply #274 - Aug 6^th, 2009 at 2:58pm

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RTS misery: StarCraft 2 officially pushed into 2010

Activision Blizzard has sent around a quick blast of news detailing its second quarter financial results. The short of it is that the company is doing well. The expected huge franchises continuing to perform well, with big-name games still on the way. Then the bad news: StarCraft 2 won't make it this year.

"As we prepare for next year, we have moved the expected release dates for two games, Activision Publishing's Singularity and Blizzard Entertainment's StarCraft II, into 2010," Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick stated. "However, we are increasing our calendar year earnings-per-share GAAP outlook and reaffirming our calendar year earnings-per-share non-GAAP outlook and still expect to deliver record non-GAAP operating margins." In other words, the company expects the games it will be releasing in the coming months to see it through. StarCraft 2 will be released in the first half of the year, to coincide with the re-launch of the new and improved Battle.net, a process that's proving rockier than first anticipated.

When are they going to change the name to Starcraft II: Forever?

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Reply #280 - Aug 25^th, 2009 at 8:14am

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Diablo 3 coming in 2011? The 2010 Blizzard two-game mystery

It looks like the speculation can finally come to an end; Blizzard has made it clear that we will in fact see two big releases in 2010... and unfortunately one of them is not Diablo 3. That's right, the game will be coming in 2011, or later.

Shacknews has the scoop. "Blizzard CEO Mike Morhaime has confirmed that just-revealed World of Warcraft expansion Cataclysm and StarCraft II are the two titles the company expects to hit in 2010," the site reported.

With StarCraft II coming in 2010, Blizzard claimed on the Activision Blizzard earnings call that we can expect two big Blizzard releases coming in 2010, but we were then warned not to make any assumptions about what those two games would be. While we guessed—incorrectly, it turns out—that Diablo 3 would be the other title, our dreams have been crushed.

Activision can suck it. We've been waiting patiently for Diablo III since it was announced several years ago. I get the whole "It's done when it's done," but at this point its rather obvious that Activision is forcing Blizzard to delay the game simply to flatten out the release schedule over a longer time period.

Sure, it makes business sense, but it definitely sucks for the customers.

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Reply #284 - Sep 16^th, 2009 at 10:56am

From what I've read, they did a fairly decent job on the PC port. There were only a handful of reviews out yesterday but most of them seemed positive. I guess the development team put some effort into amping up the graphics for the PC platform, which is a nice change from the usual "port and release" policy of console-first titles.

I'm incredibly excited about giving it a shot tonight. Last night was our anniversary so I couldn't really take a gaming break. Roll Eyes

Roll Eyes

If it's good enough, I might take off Friday just to get a solid gaming session in!

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Reply #293 - Sep 17^th, 2009 at 8:54pm

*In anchor's voice*

That's right, Bill, here we have the famous "scape goat" play. This rookie has to be pretty crazy to play that card so early in his season. The fact that sound is considered probably 1/4 of a video game...he's really got to be reachin' with the whole "more important things to fix". Back to you, Bill, and we'll keep you updated on how this rookie will try any other Microsoft excuses in the future.

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Reply #301 - Oct 16^th, 2009 at 11:02pm

If you want to check out Briney's work, Red Faction: Guerrilla is 25% off on Steam this weekend. It'll be $29.99 through Sunday evening.

I started playing it a few days ago and I'm having a blast. The 5.1 sound issue hasn't been fixed yet, which is kinda gay, but the game is incredibly addicting. Think of it as GTA set on Mars without hookers and with the ability to blow up darn near anything.

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Reply #304 - Oct 17^th, 2009 at 1:42pm

yea games for windows live is extremely frustrating to work with. They have to review any changes and do their own testing. There usually is a min of a 2 week wait, but right now its longer cause they have so much stuff to test for the fall season.

It would have been nice to just stay on steam and do online there, but gamestop would not allow it (retailers have a HUGE say in game releases these days). They dont want people making exclusive purchases/upgrades through an online medium they cant control. at least thats my understanding. It's pretty stupid if you ask me.

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Reply #305 - Oct 17^th, 2009 at 11:34pm

It'll be great when publishers can just give retailers the finger. We'll probably pay more of a markup for consoles and accessories that need retail space, but if the PSP Go and PSN/XBL downloads are any indication we're (finally) moving toward a largely download-based marketplace. I'll be a very, very happy man when GameStop dies in a fire.

It's been a long time since SatellaView and XBand hit the market, so it's about darn time!

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Reply #306 - Oct 17^th, 2009 at 11:45pm

Oh, and it'll be even better when developers can give publishers the finger.

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(...of course, that will probably happen right about the time artists give big media the finger.)
(....which happens to be the same day Hell freezes over.)
(.....which will be right after users start putting their files on #%^@ing network drives.)
(......which is about the time fairies start handing out gumdrops on lollipop lane.)
(.......which will all happen before Briney finishes BFE.)

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Reply #312 - Nov 2^nd, 2009 at 9:24pm

In case anyone was wondering, the demo for Left 4 Dead 2 is amazing. It's very much the successor of Left 4 Dead, but the game play/graphics improvements, new characters, new weapons, and new locations are completely worthwhile.

Although I probably won't get around to playing when it hits the shelves in two weeks due to tomorrow's release of Dragon Age: Origins (&*#$ yeah!), it's definitely on my short list of games to play.

I can't tell you guys how stoked I am about Dragon Age. I checked out the Character Creator the other day so I could get my in-game freebie item, and I beat the mediocre Flash game Dragon Age Journeys three times so I could get more in-game freebies. I frickin' hate Flash games.

I finished preloading the game on Steam yesterday. I wish I was a teenager once again so I could stay up until the midnight release and get in an hour or two of game time, but sadly Real Life™ makes that impossible.

I took four hours of vacation time tomorrow afternoon, though, so I'll get to game and get paid for it. Take that, teenagers!

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Reply #318 - Nov 4^th, 2009 at 10:28am

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The Xbox 360 breaks five times as often as its closest failure-prone competitor, the PlayStation 3, a print edition-only Game Informer survey found.

The poorly manufactured, red ring of death-prone console has a 54.2 percent failure rate, compared to 10.6 percent for the PS3 and the Wii's 6.8 percent.

The magazine surveyed nearly 5,000 readers to get the data. And while the 360's rate is alarmingly higher than the others, it's still bafflingly low because it blows the mind to imagine that 45.8 percent of the consoles have not broken. Also, Microsoft's numbers are inflated because 360s are used the most of the three consoles. Results said 40.3 percent of 360 owners use the console three to five hours a day, compared to 37 percent of PS3 owners. Meanwhile, the plurality of Wii owners (41.4 percent) play their consoles less than an hour a day.

Microsoft also seized the gold medal for unhelpful customer service, taking nearly a month to repair or replace a console, while Nintendo and Sony stuck closer to a week. Only 37.7 percent of Microsoft customers found the company's customer service was "very helpful," compared to 51.1 percent fo Sony and 56.1 percent for Nintendo.

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Wow, the repair time really sounds harsh. Wes, is this in line with your experience?

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Reply #320 - Nov 6^th, 2009 at 9:12am

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Modern Warfare 2 for PC: It's Much Worse Than You Thought

Infinity Ward needs to realize that talking to people in the PC community does not end well for the buzz around its game. The lack of dedicated servers was "announced" during an interview with a gaming podcast, and the interviewers were stunned into silence when they were basically told their community, as they knew it, was dead. They would have to learn to adapt to Infinity Ward controlling all aspects of the servers, or move onto another game.

More recently, Best Buy hosted an online chat between gamers and Mackey McCandlish and Ryan Lastimosa from Infinity Ward. The floor was open for questions, and the pair systematically crushed any hope that the PC version of the game would even attempt to make gamers happy, or allow for what the community has been taking for granted for years. We're going to take a look at some of the more telling questions from this session, and give our thoughts on why this is bad, bad news.

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Josh111: PC Question... What will the max amount of players per map be for PC multiplayer on IW.net

Vince-IW: 9v9

No matter how good a connection the host has, no matter how powerful your dedicated server was, the maximum number of players online is 18. If you have a larger clan, you're out of luck. If you're waiting for someone to create a custom map to allow larger groups, don't bother. There is no news on mod tools or the ability to add your own content into the locked-down server structure.

Infinity Ward says the maps are balanced for only nine players per side, but they also say there is no lean in the game because the game "isn't balanced for lean." Remember, you can easily answer any inconvenient questions by saying it would ruin the game's balance.

Somehow, I doubt between the past games and this one they've forgotten how to implement lean. Likewise, with the ability to run your own servers players can decide what size games they'd like to play on, or use new maps that are larger. As the system is set up now, however, that is simply not an option.

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Q: Is there a console in the PC version of the game, so we can change our field of view from the xbox's default 65 FOV to 80 also can we tweaks the weapon damage for each gun, removes perks, graphical debris, breathing sway, also thru console like we where able to before or is this all gone?

Vince-IW: We would like you to play the game the way we designed and balanced it.

The lack of console commands is going to be something that may not make the headlines, but may be one of the most annoying omissions to the game. The ability to tweak and adjust your play experience through the console is something PC gamers have enjoyed since... well, since there has been modern gaming.

There is a long list of adjustments and tweaks gamers can make to titles like Borderlands on the PC in order to adjust settings. Now you're locked into whatever options Infinity Ward sees fit to put into the menus.

This is, for all intents and purposes, a console game that plays on your PC. You won't be able to make any tweaks, you can't adjust anything, and even better? You won't be able to make recordings of your matches. The question in the chat showed just how far the gulf between what gamers want and what Infinity Ward is giving them has become. "Is there a /record feature? Answer yes... please. We're trying to give you a 'chance'," the gamer asked. The answer was a simple "No."

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DudezTY: Since we cannot kick people in ranked matches, how will we stop hackers who get past VAC?

Mackey-IW: Our goal is to ban hackers from the game.

It's a shame that it's impossible to show a jaw dropping on an online chat. There will be no way to kick players, and Infinity Ward seems sure they'll simply be able to keep hackers and cheaters from playing.

That's a pipe dream, of course, but with no control in the hands of the players, no ability to control who is hosting, and no ability to kick or ban players from your game, you're just going to have to take their word for it.

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kaRMa: Please give me a direct answer. On the PC version. Are all games hosted by players, and is there a five-second delay when host migration is in effect?

Vince-IW: yes.

Why is this a problem? Because Infinity Ward also revealed in the chat that the game will pick who hosts. You have no control over it. If the host leaves, there will be a five-second delay while the game picks the next best host. Players have no way of controlling who is hosting, and of course we know there will be no dedicated servers.

The host will of course have a ping advantage, which should be mitigated by the software "having a great tolerance for latency," and a five-second pause if the host rage-quits before the game restarts will ruin any flow the game enjoyed until that point.

What's more interesting is that they said ISPs will have to deal with you hosting games, even if there is language against running servers in their usage agreement. Infinity Ward's response is that since this isn't a "permanent" server, they have to deal with it. When someone else asked what would happen if their ISP throttled traffic that comes from running a server, they were told that "only players capable of hosting will host."

They better hope that no ISPs get upset, because there is no way for any player to control who hosts. You can't opt out of hosting. If the host quits, the game stops for five seconds while the next one is selected by the software. This is good for gamers... somehow.

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Moriarte: Ignoring IW.net, is the PC version a direct port of the console version?

Mackey-IW: No, PC has custom stuff like mouse control, text chat in game, and graphics settings.

This is the amount of work that went into the PC version: you are given the ability to use a mouse, to use text chat, and to adjust graphical settings. Are your fears now put to rest?
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We thought the lack of dedicated servers was bad, but now we can add the lack of console commands, the inability to have a say in who hosts the game, a lengthy pause while the game migrates to a new host if the currently selected host quits, no leaning, no option to record matches, and no way to kick or block trouble players, hackers, or cheaters.

You have to wonder if there are any actual PC gamers working at Infinity Ward, as it will be a challenge to find any member of the PC gaming community that will stand up for any of these omissions, not to mention all of them bundled together. At launch, this will be one of the most locked-down, inflexible, and gamer-unfriendly game ever created.

It won't stay that way, of course. The pirates will have the game up on the torrent sites soon, if they haven't already, and the code will be ripped apart and modded to allow everything gamers want. How quickly will dedicated servers pop up for these pirates? It's hard to say... but we have a feeling it won't be long. Those that buy the game legally will have no choice but to play exactly how the developer and publisher want them to.

You guys know that I'm a PC gamer at heart, so reading this article really feels like a whomp in the jibblies. I really enjoyed the first Modern Warfare, but this gaming is getting a definitive skip. It's really unfortunate this is coming from Infinity Ward because they were always one of my favorite developers. It's amazing how fast a company can flush years of goodwill down the toilet with one utterly retarded decision.

9v9 on a PC is an absolute joke. I remember playing Tribes 2 with 64 players almost a decade ago. Removing the console and leaning from a PC FPS is absolutely ridiculous. I can't even think of the last FPS on a PC that didn't ship with these features. People simply aren't going to play it. I'd be surprised if this game is on the PC sales charts at all after Christmas.

The first nail in the coffin is still the largest, though. The lack of a dedicated server for the PC version is unacceptable. First, I don't feel like wasting my bandwidth hosting a bunch of other scrubs. Second, I don't feel like playing a game hosted on somebody's crappy cable/DSL connection. There is a reason why people pay money to host servers in actual data centers. Finally, I don't want my "fast paced" FPS to pause for five seconds every time some 12-year old decides to rage quit while hosting the game.

What a crock.

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Reply #321 - Nov 6^th, 2009 at 9:25am

Oh, and the price! $59.99 for a digital download that is completely gimped? Only Activision would have the balls to charge $10 more for this abomination than every other PC game on the market. They're going to charge us an extra $10 but they aren't going to give us dedicated servers, the ability to kick players, a console, leaning, etc?

Suck it, Activision.

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Reply #322 - Nov 12^th, 2009 at 1:31pm

Dragon Age has thoroughly captured me in its sweet, sweet embrace. I've put just about every moment of my limited free time into this game. I don't think I've been this hooked in years!

I picked up a second copy for PS3 so Meredith could play too. She's loving it, although she's playing the game in a very different manner. In short, if you buy Dragon Age and you're involved in a long-term relationship, make sure you get a copy for your Significant Other too. Otherwise, she'll start wondering why you've fallen off the face of the planet.

For the love of molasses, get this game!

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The_Fat_Man Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Grand High Overlard Posts: 910 Colorado Springs, Colorado Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #325 - Jan 13^th, 2010 at 12:05pm King's Bounty and it's expansion are only $11.25 this week on Steam, if you haven't played these games before I highly recommend picking them up. They are a blast, and at that price you'd be retarded not to grab em!
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Reply #328 - Jan 14^th, 2010 at 4:33pm

The_Fat_Man wrote on Jan 14^th, 2010 at 11:46am:

I just don't have the time to play as much as I want to...

I'm definitely in that same boat. Between work, school, and a killer commute I just don't have time for games like I used to. Once I wrap up my undergrad this fall, I'm planning on taking a week-long vacation just to catch up on all of the stuff I haven't had the chance to play.

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still working on Dragon Age, and playing WoW at the same time so lol.

Forsake WoW and devote your entire existence to Dragon Age. It's such an incredible experience that nothing should get in the way of it. I got so engrossed in the game that I had to buy Meredith a copy so she could play, too. I'm now avidly looking forward to the expansion in March so I can get back into the game.

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My steam ID is WesDowner

It's highly original, I'll give you that! I'm TheAmazingBob. I'll add you tonight.

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Reply #336 - Feb 18^th, 2010 at 8:51am

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StarCraft II private beta testing has begun
By Eric Bangeman | Last updated February 17, 2010 3:26 PM

It's on. Blizzard has started the closed beta for StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty in advance of the game's launch sometime around the middle of the year. If you signed up to participate in the beta, check your Battle.net account, as the developer says that invitations have already started to go out.

Beyond testing StarCraft II gameplay, testers will get an early look at the revamped Battle.net service that will allow gamers to talk to one another across World of Warcraft realms and Blizzard's other titles. Players will also be able to purchase add-on content and other Blizzard releases via the new Battle.net.

StarCraft II will bring a completely rethought single-player experience to go with the online multiplayer. Single-player missions are organized differently and the way items and units are unlocked makes solo play much more exciting. Unfortunately, there won't be support for LAN play.

I think I'm going to take a vacation day for this one!

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Reply #340 - Mar 10^th, 2010 at 10:03am

But there's no towns!!! how is that FF!?

In other news, I'm off to GDC in San Francisco for the weekend, I'll be sure to post cool pictures. I'm going to the Sid Meier presentation, and Patrick wants me to get him to sign my copy of SMAC. And of course, ask why The white team is so much more powerful than everyone else.
...we should play smac.

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Reply #343 - Mar 29^th, 2010 at 6:28pm

Meredith is playing like crazy, and near the end of the game. She is enjoying it.

I'm having a hard time getting into the game. I'm on chapter five and the battle system just isn't doing it for me. Life is pretty hectic right now, though, so I don't have the time to really get into the game. I'll give it a fair shot before too long, though!

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Reply #347 - May 16^th, 2010 at 11:44am

Just in case any of you don't own Portal yet, Steam is offering it for free if you download it before May 24th. Just jump on Steam and click on the "Portal" button on the right side of the screen.

Steam launched on the Mac platform earlier this week. I'm definitely not a fan of Mac, but I'm glad to see that Steam continues to expand.

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Reply #352 - Jun 14^th, 2010 at 5:53pm

New trailers from E3!

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood

X-Com

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Homefront

Enslaved: Odyssey to the West

Homefront sounds like an incredible plot, but the lack of gameplay leaves it strongly in the "maybe" category. X-Com looks like crap, and I'm sad to see the original IP so blatantly abused.

Enslaved looks absolutely amazing, and I am going to call it the most promising new property I've seen so far. We'll see what the rest of the show brings!

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Reply #354 - Jun 15^th, 2010 at 8:14am

A new XBox 360 model has been announced. It's a fair amount smaller than the existing system, consumes less power, and apparently is practically silent. It ships with a 250GB hard drive (still proprietary, dang it!), integrated 802.11n wireless, and a powered port for the Kinect (formerly Natal) device.

The system also comes with a new power brick that is supposedly much smaller than the existing one. That's a nice touch, but I'd really like to see an internal power supply. This isn't 1985.

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Reply #360 - Jun 17^th, 2010 at 6:37pm

More E3 goodness!

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Kirby's Epic Yarn

Shank

Rayman Origins

Child of Eden

Project Dust

Portal 2

I have to say, these trailers were really surprising. Zelda: Skyward Sword looked surprisingly bland, while Kirby's Epic Yarn and Shank looked surprisingly gorgeous. I love the art direction that both of those titles are taking. I would like to see more gameplay from Shank, though, to see just how well that graphical style looks during extended play.

Rayman Origins looks like yet another campy Rayman title, but Project Dust looks somewhat promising. The producer of Another World is working on Project Dust, so I'm somewhat psyched to see where they go with it.

Portal 2, of course, looks absolutely amazing. That said, I'm a total Valve fanboy (and I've been replaying Half-Life 2 lately), so take that with a pinch of salt. I'm anxiously awaiting the November 2nd release date!

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Reply #361 - Jun 18^th, 2010 at 3:50pm

I wish I could say Nintendo would fall like their suckling child Sega. My proof are these horrendous games at E3. Heck I even like the concept for Epic Mickey...but that and Kirby "Epic" Yawn (see what I did there) seem like a rehash of Mario Is Missing and 3d Mario and a bit of Little Big Disappointment...I mean Planet.

However, Nintendo with their Wii system has open the market to the untapped consumers everyone wants. Those that don't play games, aka the casual gamers, the new gamers, the older folks, the adults who have never picked up a controller in their entire life, and party goers.

These untapped markets, as long as Nintendo will coddle to them, will do well. Because the controls suck, there are no "real" games, and no 3rd part support...Nintendo deserves to fall. Seriously, go to any store and look at the games and tell me one game that is a real game that could appeal to the hardcore gamers? Ya, none...whatsoever.

Please, Nintend...just make one game that I can point to and say, "Yes, I'd break my 26 year and counting pledge of never touching a Wii because I only want to touch real game console"...and FIX YOUR CONTROLS!

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Reply #362 - Jun 18^th, 2010 at 5:02pm

X wrote on Jun 18^th, 2010 at 3:50pm:

Seriously, go to any store and look at the games and tell me one game that is a real game that could appeal to the hardcore gamers? Ya, none...whatsoever.

Here are a handful of Wii titles that I personally found very enjoyable.

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Super Mario Galaxy
Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
Mario Kart Wii
New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
WarioWare: Smooth Moves
Mario Strikers Charged

I'm not sure what your definition of "hardcore gamer" is, but I'm pretty "hardcore" if you ask me.

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Reply #363 - Jun 18^th, 2010 at 5:52pm

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* The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
* Super Mario Galaxy
* Metroid Prime 3: Corruption
* Mario Kart Wii
* New Super Mario Bros. Wii
* Super Smash Bros. Brawl
* WarioWare: Smooth Moves
* Mario Strikers Charged

Let's look at these games:

Zelda and Metroid Prime sequels and the rest are Mario games. Nintendo is just remaking old crap we've all bought in 1993. Where are the FPSs, the RPGs, the RTSs? Games that don't look like a leprechaun threw up rainbow puke on a TV. Where are the games for the gamers who want more M rating and something with a coherent storyline that doesn't even a Princess being put to sleep or taken away? Nintendo just can't hold up anymore and has stopped being unique and creative. I'm sure some of these games are fun...but like Hollywood they are just remakes and sequels.

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Reply #365 - Jun 18^th, 2010 at 11:03pm

Don't get me wrong, I'm a PC gamer at heart and I don't hold any special love for the Wii. That said, Nintendo has two game systems on the market right now that are practically printing cash. I'm also a little tired of Yet Another Mario Game™, but if I were running Nintendo today, I'd be walking the exact same line as the current administration.

I would also offer Square Enix a million billion kajillion dollars to make another Chrono Trigger sequel on my platform.

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Reply #369 - Jul 7^th, 2010 at 8:02pm

Yeah, I'll wait until I see some actual content before I believe that Interplay actually plans on doing anything internally with the IP.

If we want to see any real content from Interplay, we'll be waiting until the sun collapses into a small, dark Walnut. In the meantime, Valve released a metric buttload of new Portal videos:

http://media.pc.gamespy.com/media/142/14237322/vids_1.html

Some of the new gameplay features look really sweet, and I'm looking forward to several more frustrating hours of Portal goodness in the near future!

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Reply #370 - Jul 9^th, 2010 at 10:59am

Bioware has officially announced Dragon Age II and it appears to be slated for 2011. I loved Dragon Age and played the heck out of it, and I'm definitely looking forward to the sequel!

This seems like a surprisingly quick turn-around for such a massive game, especially considering how long the original Dragon Age was in development. Bioware hasn't failed me yet, though, so I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt!

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Reply #371 - Jul 9^th, 2010 at 6:39pm

Yea but since they've done all their tool development, all thats needed is the army of content creators to go do their thing, and some graphics dudes to do some minor graphics upgrades, and they in business!

I can't wait as well, even tho i havent finished the first one yet. Im almost to the end and its been a great rebirth of the bioware epics

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Reply #372 - Aug 9^th, 2010 at 3:01am

http://hellmode.com/2010/08/05/on-morality-and-making-choices-matter-in-video-ga...

A good article with plenty of examples of morality in video games. Eric and I talk about this a lot. We both agree that we like games who have a neutral morality stance but allows you to make your choices. If I want to kill good guy 1 but not good guy 2, then I shouldn't get light side and dark side points that add a little to my stats; it should effect me and my character as a choice I have to deal with.

A good article with good examples and some good dicussion in the comments section...any thoughts from this crowd?

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Reply #373 - Aug 11^th, 2010 at 11:36am

Personally, I enjoy games that present moral choices, but make no judgment (by executing obvious "moral" consequences). Each choice would simply allows the world to continue as if it were real life, with unexpected twists and character reactions. The world of the game and the consequences of choice is completely designed by its programmers and I don't want is a social commentary hidden within the gaming experience. The good/evil bar from Mass effect, Kotor, and Fable is atrocious and pigeonholes decisions into boring adolescent conceptions of good and evil.

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Reply #374 - Aug 11^th, 2010 at 7:08pm

Ironman, I absolutely agree. Bioware themselves have admitted to the shortcomings of the good/evil bar. It bears very little resemblance to real life because it restricts character development to a purely two-dimensional path. The character is either good or evil or somewhere directly in between. There is no freedom to develop a more complex character that sits outside of that scale.

I think Dragon Age was a huge step in the right direction. The "morality scale" is completely hidden from the player and the consequences of actions are believably limited to those NPCs that could realistically know about those actions. For instance, if I commit a crime in a human city, the guards there will react negatively toward me in the future. However, there is no central morality scale, so guards in a dwarven city won't react negatively toward me because they simply aren't aware of the crime. This makes a lot more sense then KotOR/Fable/Oblivion/etc's "aura" that follows characters wherever they go.

Admittedly, these systems are incredibly complex. The good/evil bar is a very easy way to determine how an NPC should react toward a character because only a single variable needs to be monitored. With a game like Dragon Age, hundreds of variables need to be recorded to determine how individual NPCs or sets of NPCs will react to a character's prior actions.

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Reply #375 - Aug 12^th, 2010 at 8:42am

My copy of StarCraft II finally arrived yesterday. This is the first retail video game I've purchased since Sins of a Solar Empire was released nearly three years ago. I was hesitant to buy a retail game since I'm so hopelessly addicted to digital distribution (namely Steam), but I guess StarCraft II is a worthy exception.

Since this sequel has been twelve years in the making and my first retail PC game purchase in several years, I decided to splurge and buy the collector's edition. I've been increasingly disappointed by collector's/limited editions on console over the past few years since they seem to be getting cheaper and cheaper. With StarCraft II, though, I think the extra money was entirely worthwhile:

The first thing I noticed about the package was the size and weight. I threw this thing on the scale and it weighed in at a whopping 5.2lbs. That's a lot of gaming goodness!

The contents did not disappoint, either. The collector's edition came with a beautiful full-size, hardcover art book. I'm a big fan of art books since they seem to add a lot of flavor to the game world. The behind-the-scenes pics really show the love Blizzard poured into this title.

The "dog tag" toward the left-center of the screen is a 2GB USB stick. It comes loaded with a copy of StarCraft and the Brood War expansion, the strategy guides for both, and a couple other goodies. The USB key has a metal shell and is very heavily constructed. If you need a heavy-duty USB key, this is the one for the job!

The pack also came with a behind-the-scenes DVD. These have been standard fare in collector's editions since Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete was released for the PSX. I've never been a big fan of these discs, but I'll probably check this one out anyway. Blizzard has a habit of exceeding my expectations.

The game also came with a comic book and a copy of the soundtrack, but I haven't opened either of them yet. All in all, I was thoroughly impressed with the quality and contents of the package. I'll post some thoughts about the gameplay later.

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It is indeed the email you sign in with. Giving a person your email will allow them to friend request you, and if you accept it will show you on my friends list as long as you are playing at Battle.net game....will even tell you the server or character they are playing on in WoW.

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Reply #379 - Aug 15^th, 2010 at 10:30pm

I sent you an invite! Have you completed the single player portion of SC2 yet? I swear, this game is like crack. I really want to play some multiplayer, but I want to complete the single player game before I move into the practice league. I'm nearing the end of the single player game, but I still need to repeat several maps to get some of the optional objectives.

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Mac gamers got a massive boost when online gaming hub Steam started supporting the platform a few months ago.

The arrival of the online service, which allowed Mac-toting gamers to play the same games as their PC brethren, in some cases simultaneously, created a great deal of debate between the two camps, with the PC crowd pillorying Mac fans for the relatively poor performance of their expensive hardware.

Now it seems that Apple has got the message and has provided a graphics update for OS X Snow Leopard which will go some way towards closing the gap between the two platforms.

"When we launched Steam on Mac OS X back in May, there was a lot of buzz about performance, particularly relative to Windows running on the same machine," says a staement from Steam bosses. "While we met our goal of making sure all of our customers had an acceptable gaming experience at launch, we have spent a large chunk of effort in the intervening months working with Apple and their GPU vendors to close the performance gap with Windows."

Steam reckons a combination of changes to its own code and the latest graphics update available from Apple today removes a variety of software bottlenecks, resulting in significant graphics performance enhancements for Mac gamers.

In addition to low-level implementation changes which have improved performance across the board, Apple has also removed some implementation inefficiencies which allow Steam to improve visual quality, most notably in the area of GPU occlusion queries.

Since the latest update to 10.6.4, Steam has been able to properly impliment 'occlusion query' which is a GPU-based mechanism which allows OpenGL to draw convincing lighting effects, particularly when a light source is obscured by in-game ojects.

"A given light source may be partly or wholly occluded by other geometry in the scene and we use the occlusion query to determine how occluded it is. The percentage of a given light source's screen area which is actually visible is used to scale the intensity of an additive glow sprite which is drawn over the frame without any z-buffering," waffled the techies from Steam.

Steam reckons the joint effort, which also includes improvements in the way the GPU deals with floating point calculations as well as unclogging a number of CPU bottlenecks, provides frame rate improvements anywhere between 15 and 120 per cent

Steam reckons that these latest improvements are just the beginning, with plenty of further tweaks on the cards (pun intended).

"We have been able to measure performance improvements with the latest software update, but we are anticipating even more speedups if Apple implements the uniform_buffer_object extension and GLSL 1.3 in a future update. With these additional features, we will be able to sidestep this particular CPU bottleneck, allowing us to win back a bunch of CPU time and, ultimately, performance."

The gaming outfit is reporting dramatic performance improvements on iMac (Late 2009 and Mid 2010), Mac mini (Early 2009 and Mid 2010), Mac Pro (Early 2009), MacBook (Early 2009 and Mid 2010) and MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010) and MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2010) models. Older systems are generally already operating at the limits of the hardware, and Steam says it's unlikely that any significant performance improvements can be achieved in the future.

In conclusion, Steam said, "We're very excited about the performance improvements that Apple and the GPU vendors have been able to deliver this summer and we are working with them to further improve performance."

The Snow Leopard Graphics Update is detailed here and is available through Software Update under the Apple menu.

There are lots of juicy technical details from Steam here if that sort of thing gets your motor running.

This is good news on so many fronts. This is good for PC gamers in that it shows there is a changing market out there that can produce a profit for those willing to invest again in the system that begs for video games. This is good for Mac users in that you finally get to play kewl games like SMAC finally and your system will actually be updated and improved without throwing away your iMac and force you to try and find the same color to match your drapes. Plus this is great for Steam in that it gives them more power of the market to make changes and pick up profits and other gaming markets!

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Reply #381 - Aug 27^th, 2010 at 9:25pm

I was looking at old LAN pics today and thought I'd share a few of my favorites. If you've got any awesome LAN pics laying around on your hard drive, post 'em!

I guess we'll get things started with a picture of Briney... or two.

Whatever happened to this thing, Briney?

Briney with low disk space, despite the 47 hard drives in his system. It's blurry because Briney was trying to wrestle the camera away from me at the time.

Check out Briney's monitor... ha!

El Brando, looking particularly evil because of my crappy digital camera.

Oh Jutty, where art thou?

Lapper battle! Great for portability, horrible for frame rate!

This is what my network used to look like... (and I still have this thing somewhere!)

Shizza! Anybody have any idea what he's up to these days?

This picture is absolutely dying for a Photoshop!

Stewie, proving that Briney doesn't hold the market on odd expressions...

Ha! Suck it, Ironman! I'm pretty sure our kill ratio was 25:1 in your favor, but still... you have to enjoy the little victories!

Alright, it's not a LAN picture, but I came across this at the same time and it's always good for a laugh.

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Reply #384 - Sep 3^rd, 2010 at 3:19pm

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The news of an upcoming announcement at PAX, followed by a tweet that showed the image of a flying pig. These were the hints pointed at a momentous occasion in gaming history: Duke Nukem Forever will see release late this year, or maybe next year, on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC. Gearbox Software will be taking over development from the now-defunct 3D Realms.

After the studio's closing, litigation began between 3D Realms and Take-Two Interactive, the publisher of Duke Nukem Forever. According to the Wall Street Journal, the suits have now been settled and neither side was willing to discuss terms. The game has not sat still, however:

According to Pitchford, Gearbox began finishing “Duke Nukem Forever” in late 2009. “Clearly the game hadn’t been finished at 3D Realms but a lot of content had been created,” he says. “The approach and investment and process at 3D Realms didn’t quite make it and it cracked at the end. With Gearbox Software we brought all those pieces together. It’s the game it was meant to be.”

The game is actually playable at PAX, for both the press and the general public. If you're there and you get to play, send in your report. We'd love to hear what it's like to finally put your hands on it.

If the release slips into 2011, we won't exactly be shocked.

I'll believe it when I see it. That said, I still can't help but to be a weeeee bit excited!

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Reply #387 - Sep 5^th, 2010 at 8:07pm

The interface is terrible, and has been experiencing severe lag for months now (and not been fixed). I'm talk a good 3 second delay on your mouse movement. And no, it's not just my computer.

The game is ok content wise, but it's levelling system and classes are borderline ridiculous. They have an axe warrior, and a sword warrior, and a lance warrior...etc etc....ridiculous in this modern age of MMOs.

On top of that one of the neat things about FF11 was that it stuck to the old system of "work your ass off to get levels and gear". FF14 has taken the World of Warcraft approach and made the game over easy so that they can reel in the casual gamers. While I commend them on the good business decision, it makes for a pretty lame MMO.

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Reply #390 - Sep 10^th, 2010 at 10:34am

I had that exact same experience, Stewie. My first detasseling paycheck (a whopping $180 I think) went toward the purchase of my PlayStation. I still have demo disc that came with it somewhere.

Shortly after I bought it, Pizza Hut ran a promotion where you could get one of four demo discs with a pizza delivery. The discs were pretty much on par with what you'd get in a gaming magazine. Those discs introduced me to two of my favorite PSX titles, the fighting game Bloody Roar and seriously underrated platformer MediEvil.

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I've played through twice now. Did a Conquest Victory the first time and a Culture Victory the second play through. Both ways of winning were extremely fun and had me playing for hours on end haha. I must say I started on the lowest difficulty and recomend it for the first couple play throughs. They have changed the playing mechanics around a lot and it takes some getting used to. I did however, turn the difficulty up for the second game.

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Reply #401 - Oct 7^th, 2010 at 6:35pm

With the awesome technology at my hands...I decided to play Half-Life again. Although it's pretty fun, esp. for its time there are a few issues I have with it:

1) Was anyone else underwhelmed by the ending? Choose either path and it leads to a few credits and then nothing...doesn't even take you to the beginning screen.

2) Nothing is really explained. What were you doing? Didn't you learn from your counterpart in Doom that opening a portal to Hell is bad? Why is the big baddie...a giant baby with a crystal in his head flaps?

3) Really why is this game even called Half-Life? If it's just a techy sounding name why not Tachyon Field or Erlenmeyer Flask?

4) The assault rifle is total underpowered and sucks for accuracy; compounded that the soldiers attacking you (again, for no good reason) has some great body armor.

This one kind of exists on the good side of the isle for me but a lot of it still has to do with nostalgia. Anyone else?

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Reply #402 - Oct 8^th, 2010 at 11:27am

I replayed Half-Life and Half-Life 2 a few months back. The first part of Half-Life was excellent, but the entire Xen trip was as dumb as ever. I didn't enjoy Xen when I first played Half-Life in the late 90s, and I still don't enjoy it now. It's just not my cup of tea.

If you want to be really crazy, go for the straight-up Half-Life marathon. Opposing Force was an excellent expansion and added several new weapons that I seem to recall "felt" much more powerful. Blue Shift wasn't bad, and it really gives you insight into Barney's background. That's helpful in understanding some of Barney's dialogue in the sequel. The high definition pack really cleaned up the character and weapon models, but the plot wasn't exactly overwhelming.

Of course, you also have to play Half-Life 2 and the Episode 1/2 expansions. This is where Valve really hit their stride. Half-Life 2 and both expansion are absolutely incredible works of art. The graphics, the plot, the setting, and the set pieces are all really top notch. I've played through those three titles more often than any other game in my collection, with the sole exception of Chrono Trigger.

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Reply #403 - Oct 8^th, 2010 at 2:05pm

For no good reason at all, I will attempt to rebut the criticism:

1) A lone mild mannered scientist single-handedly invades an alien dimension in a climactic battle to save the world. Then, you are approached by the mysterious "G" man in a seemingly man-made "interdimension" who then informs you that there are yet bigger things at hand and gives you an ultimatum: Join him or perish. Yeah, he didn't get the girl, but what more could there be?

2) Perhaps some parts of the game were "unexplained" in order to add mystery to the story and add to the roleplaying experience of a scientist who found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. (btw, in the beginning, they weren't trying to open a portal a la Doom, instead the portal was an inadvertent consequence of routine testing)

3) Well, Gordon Freeman doesn't want to end up with a Half-Life...

4) Perhaps it was designed to be a close range weapon. There were many other weapons that had decent range, if I remember correctly.

Anyway, that's what I think of it. Maybe I would agree with you more if I played it now, or perhaps our taste in games is just irreconcilably different. I dunno Grin

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Reply #404 - Oct 8^th, 2010 at 2:57pm

Ironman wrote on Oct 8^th, 2010 at 2:05pm:

For no good reason at all, I will attempt to rebut the criticism:

2) Perhaps some parts of the game were "unexplained" in order to add mystery to the story and add to the roleplaying experience of a scientist who found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time.

"The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world."

I agree completely on the mystery aspect. I think it is fairly clear the Marc Laidlaw (the writer) intentionally left Half-Life very open ended. I believe the best stories from any medium are those that leave the audience with some unanswered questions. Worlds that are left open to interpretation tend to have a lot more staying power compared to those that are served up on a plate with no enigma at all.

Besides, it makes for an easy sequel!

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Reply #405 - Oct 13^th, 2010 at 2:41pm

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You didn't really think you were going to play Gran Turismo 5 in November, did you?

The oft-delayed racer, originally unveiled way back in 2006, has been pushed back yet again and will miss its intended November 2 release date. According to the PlayStation Blog, the game won't be coming out at the beginning of next month, but it will still be ready in time for the holidays. Not that we have any reason to doubt that, of course.

No specific reason was given for the delay, other than developer Polyphony's ever-insistent desire to create a "perfect" racing experience. At this past E3, producer Kazunori Yamauchi revealed the incredible level of detail that is going into the game, going so far as to faithfully reproduce the graffiti found on the Nürburgring track. The game will also be available in 3D, though early demos were less than impressive.

No specific new date was given for release, with Sony simply saying we'll hear something in the "near future."

If Duke Nukem: Forever beats this out the gate, I will have a brain aneurysm.

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Reply #408 - Oct 18^th, 2010 at 1:13pm

Happy 25th birthday, Nintendo Entertainment System!

I have fond memories of the NES. My sister got an NES for Christmas when I was four years old, so I grew up with the "classics" like Super Mario Bros., Bayou Billy, and Paper Boy. I ended up buying that NES from her many years later for $5.00, and still have it to this day. Just thinking about it makes me want to break out Castlevania II: Belmont's Revenge or Super Mario Bros. 3.

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I was one of the last people in school to get one. I was probably in the 4th grade when my dad got one for Christmas from his mom/my grandma. I want to say that it came with, or my grandma included with it, Knight Rider which was kind of a bad game and getting past the 1st level was always hard.

I remember renting games (and renting the movie Tron every other time) like Battle Toads and Robot Baseball Wars or killing my brother at RBI Baseball.

But my game of choice was Super Mario Brothers 3. I don't know how we did what we did without the internet or Nintendo Power magazine. How were we able to find all those secrets? The magic whistles or the coin boats? I still have intends in my hands from the controller and pushing A to swim through those stupid, aggravating water levels. Remember too, this was a time before memory cards (other than a few games like Zelda) so when you sat down you had to play through at least the first 4 levels in the first world to get the magic whistle. Or you just wanted to beat everything. It took some time, esp. with one TV in the house and homework and dinner looming in the background to challenge your time.

A lot of fine memories of blowing into containers and beating the sides to get it to work!

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Reply #410 - Oct 18^th, 2010 at 7:32pm

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I want to say that it came with, or my grandma included with it, Knight Rider which was kind of a bad game and getting past the 1st level was always hard.

I also had (and still have!) Knight Rider, and I have the exact same memory you do. It was the coolest idea for a game, but it was ridiculously, frustratingly, controller-breakingly hard. Bayou Billy was the same way. I don't think I've ever felt such a sense of accomplishment merely from reaching the second level in all the years since!

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Reply #412 - Oct 18^th, 2010 at 9:15pm

Three more hours, ladies!

I pre-ordered my copy last week and pre-loaded the game over the weekend. I'm tempted to call in sick dead tomorrow so I can start playing at midnight, but I'm pretty sure that's against the rules.

Oh well, I might be able to get in an hour or two tomorrow night!

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Reply #414 - Oct 19^th, 2010 at 10:52pm

I got to play a full hour tonight, and I came away satisfied thus far. It's fairly obvious right off the bat that Fallout: New Vegas didn't move too far away from its roots in Fallout 3. The overall graphic design and a lot of individual elements like sound effects, weapons, NPCs, bad guys, and inventory items are direct carryovers. That's a bit disappointing, but I'm still enjoying myself so far.

Hopefully I'll get to climb back into the saddle tomorrow night for more Fallout fun!

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Reply #416 - Oct 20^th, 2010 at 12:34pm

The review I read (on Ars Technica) stated the game was fairly buggy, and this is definitely par for the course with Obsidian. Their games are often incredibly bug-ridden, with Neverwinter Nights 2 and Knights of the Old Republic 2 standing out as glaring examples. It doesn't help when you pair a developer known for buggy games with an engine that has an equally bad reputation for stability issues.

In my limited play time last night, I only ran into one issue in which an enemy fell partially through the map. His head was above ground level, but the rest of his body was obscured. He was unable to move and I couldn't loot his corpse after the coup de grace.

Meredith is playing the XBox 360 version (same as the Ars Technica reviewer) and said she experienced a game freeze that forced her to jump out to the dashboard and restart the game. It's nice to see that consoles are experiencing the same problems PCs usually get stuck with!

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Reply #417 - Oct 20^th, 2010 at 3:22pm

I wonder how much harder it is to patch a console version than a PC?

The good thing to know is that the list for temporary fixes is out there and since there is a list of needed permanent fixes should be done, esp. when you have Steam able to probably put a few more screws to developers. If I had the capital and the knowledge, I would love to compete with Steam. I'm surprised at their prices, support, and absolutely everything in the face of really the only competition being brick and mortar stores!

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Reply #418 - Oct 20^th, 2010 at 3:32pm

Steam has a fair number of competitors in the digital distribution market, but none of them come close to Steam in terms of market share, library, or services. I've got a couple of titles on Impulse, all of which are Impulse-exclusives that were developed by Impulse's owner, Stardock. The only thing Impulse really has going for it is that applications can be purchased in addition to games. That's a nice feature, but I can see why Valve doesn't want to branch out of games and game-related products.

Other vendors like Good Old Games have a niche, and it seems to work for them. As the name implies, Good Old Games specializes in selling older titles, most of which have been updated to improve functionality with newer operating systems. I'd like to see Valve increase its selection of older titles and do more to ensure compatibility with modern platforms. I've got a couple of Steam titles that won't run on the Bobulator because of incompatibilities with Windows 7, 64-bit operating systems in general, or certain hardware specs (more than 2GB of RAM, for instance). Some of these, like Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines are excellent titles and would undoubtedly turn a profit if the license-holder would spend a few bucks to have these titles patched. This would often require implementing a minor workaround that could be done by a junior developer in a matter of minutes.

There are a ton of old titles I'd gladly throw down $5 to $10 for. Neverwinter Nights, the Descent titles, Tyrian, and the Jazz Jackrabbit series all come to mind.

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Reply #422 - Oct 24^th, 2010 at 12:56pm

Sadly, I too picked up Arkham Asylum GOTY edition. I bought the regular version just before the GOTY edition came out, and I wanted the extra maps, dang it!

Fallout: New Vegas is proving to be just as bug ridden as the reviewers said it was. Steam Cloud support had to be disabled because FNV was downloading old quick/auto saves right over the top of new ones. Goodbye, four hours of game time!

If the game wasn't so darn good, I would've kicked it to the curb already.

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Reply #425 - Oct 31^st, 2010 at 3:43pm

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Will The Producers Of DONNIE DARKO and THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA Films Finally Get A MYST Movie Made??

Merrick here...

This really should've been posted yesterday - I was waiting to receive a fun write-up from some MYST-fanatic friends who, well, didn't deliver the goods. The road to hell...

This news is still quite valid anyway, so here ya go.

We've been hearing for a while that a feature film adaptation of the MYST games (available HERE) was feasible at some point, but nothing ever seemed to come of it. Many years of sputters and/or nothingness.

Maybe that'll change now that Hunt Lowry (producer of Michael Mann's LAST OF THE MOHICANS, DONNIE DARKO, and A TIME TO KILL) and Mark Johnson (THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA films, GALAXY QUEST) are teaming up with Adrian Vanderbosch and Isaac Testerman - aka Mysteria Film Group, holders of MYST's film rights - in the hopes of at long last actualizing a MYST motion picture.

As much of MYST's impact comes from its highly atmospheric and exploratory nature, adapting it to the big screen will be easy in some ways (there's already a lot of rich design and style in the game to build from) and challenging in others (there's no hard-driving narrative in the to fall back on when adapting the whole). Deadline says "The filmmakers will draw the plot from the mythology within the games, as well as a trilogy of companion novels Cyan Worlds published around them. [EDIT] One focus of the film will be the influence of a human who entered Myst and inadvertently brought down the civilization."

The original MYST game appeared in 1993, and was followed by multiple sequels (RIVEN, MYST III: EXILE, MYST IV: REVELATION , and most recently MYST V: END OF AGES.

Although the games themselves are many years old, Ubisoft's MYST site is still online and contains further resources for your consideration. The news section hasn't been updated since October 2006 - maybe someone oughta look into that before trying to convince investors that this is a viable property. I mean, I think it is a viable commodity...but a heinously out of date website doesn't exactly assert as much.

The MYST universe is incredibly detailed and would make an excellent setting for a feature film. This makes me want to read through the books again!

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Reply #434 - Nov 16^th, 2010 at 9:37pm

Although the game itself looks seriously creepy, this trailer for a Japanese Nintendo 3DS game makes the tech look pretty fascinating. Personally, I think you could make a frickin' awesome horror game that used the 3DS camera to overlay ghosts or monsters on top of a live shot of your surrounding area. Maybe I'm on to something here...

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Reply #435 - Nov 19^th, 2010 at 1:48pm

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Valve today announced that Portal 2— the sequel to the ground-breaking title that won over 30 game of the year awards, despite missing its original ship date—will now be available the week of April 18th, 2011. This two month slip not only marks the shortest delay in Valve's proud tradition of delays, it represents the approaching convergence of Valve Time and Real Time. Though this convergence spells doom for humanity, it will not affect the new Portal 2 release date.

There's no use crying over every mistake. They'll just keep on trying until they run out of cake.

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1. I out dps you. And I also have more toons.

Pfft, damage is only a minor part of what I bring to a group. I am so freaking dead sexy I distract the mobs.

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2. Nerves of Cold Steel adds 3% hit, which doesn't show on the character screen, I'm actually hit capped at 8%.

Their own site doesn't take talents into account...LAME!

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What server are you on Craig?

Whisperwind, bringing back the rogue to play with some college friends. Also have a gimp DK on Kargath. (yeah yeah mistakes were made)

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So says the lamer who couldn't cut it in EQ...hmmm EQ Cry

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Reply #452 - Dec 21^st, 2010 at 11:04am

Yeah I had the same problem Stewie, I would have had to spend like 200 bucks to buy all the games for those achievements.

They got some great deals going on right now. What games are you buying me for Christmas, James "Money Bags" Rogers?

I just picked up Tropico 3 and its expansion. And it is AMAZING. Nothing like ruling a small tropical island like a commie dictator.

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Reply #460 - Jan 12^th, 2011 at 4:19pm

Video Game open world size comparison charts:

http://unrealitymag.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/large-video-game-worlds2.jpg

Larger games:

http://i.imgur.com/xJU7Q.jpg

Whats interesting is in comparing the games, its important to consider the speed at which you move through the world. Wow is very slow compared to Burnout Paradise, where you'e cruising at 200mph in a sports car. So wow feels a whole lot bigger than 9x9 miles. Same with oblivion. It felt way bigger than 4x4 miles cause you moved so freakin slow.

Very cool charts.

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Reply #462 - Jan 12^th, 2011 at 10:19pm

Just Cause 2 has a huge map. Doing all the side quests, the main quests, and random things I found throughout my play I only got to like 70% completion before I moved on.

It moves fast with cars but it's really planes and more importantly your parachute and grappling hook that makes the landscape go by quicker. It really is that huge with a lot of hills and barriers to stop you from straight driving across like GTA let you for the most part.

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Reply #465 - Jan 20^th, 2011 at 2:01pm

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Square Enix made Final Fantasy XIII-2 official today with an announcement, only days after the surprise was spoiled by a domain name registration. The upcoming sequel to 2010's Final Fantasy XIII is due next winter for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. The game promises a new story and a battle system that builds on those from FFXIII.

Right now details on the official site are sparse, other than the announcement, a logo, and a single screenshot. The first trailer for the game is expected to arrive on Thursday, January 20, and will (hopefully) shed more light on the sequel. But at the very least, it will look cool; this is Square, after all.

I wonder if this will be another JPop-laden "Dress Up and Dance" abomination?

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Reply #466 - Jan 21^st, 2011 at 8:15pm

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Duke Nukem Forever, the once and future King of All Vaporware, is finally nearing release. (Probably.)

2K Games said Friday that it will release the long-awaited title, in development since 1997 and the many-time winner of Wired.com’s Vaporware Awards, on May 3 in the United States. An international release will follow May 6.

I'll believe it when I see the opening splash screen on my own PC.

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Reply #470 - Jan 21^st, 2011 at 11:24pm

Bob I know you probably never thought to hear this from my mouth.

But FF13 was ok at best....the game was WAY to drawn out and slow for a modern video game.

FF14 Online is being dubbed the "worst MMO ever made", and rightfully so I can say as I beta tested it. The game was the most broken mess I have ever played in my life...crashed constantly, levelling was broke, poor animations...terrible....I'm currently beta testing Rift and THAT is real MMO. Possible WoW killer in my opinion.

So you will have to forgive me if I'm not all gung ho about FF13-2 haha

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Reply #472 - Jan 23^rd, 2011 at 8:58am

I wonder if anyone attempted to play Star Trek Online and compare it to FF14 online. I think the title of "worst MMO ever made" would probably go to that.

I heard a lot of good things about RIFT but I'm still waiting for Star Wars - The Old Republic to come out and then a month later test the MMO waters.

Has anyone played the DC Universe Online MMO? Heard anything about it?

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Reply #473 - Jan 23^rd, 2011 at 11:57am

The_Fat_Man wrote on Jan 21^st, 2011 at 11:24pm:

But FF13 was ok at best....the game was WAY to drawn out and slow for a modern video game.

FF14 Online is being dubbed the "worst MMO ever made", and rightfully so I can say as I beta tested it.

I'm not surprised. I didn't even bother beating FF13. Meredith beat it and enjoyed it, but it was wayyyy too linear for my tastes. FF12 really hit the spot, but I didn't like the direction FF13 took at all. Rumors state that FF13 ended up getting rushed out the door because the engine took forever and a day to complete, hence the linear pathing and lack of "extra" areas (e.g. towns, shops, etc).

Supposedly, part of the driving force behind FF13-2 is to utilize a lot of the art and content that got cut from FF13. I have no idea how true that is, but my general disdain for FF13 and the incredible suckage of the only mainline sequel to day (FF10-2) makes me think that FF13-2 is going to blow. Then again, I've been wrong before.

I've also heard a lot of really negative comments on FF14. Personally, I could never get into FF11, so that doesn't surprise me, but that game is really getting slammed by even hardcore MMO fans. No loss here.

X wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2011 at 8:58am:

I'm still waiting for Star Trek - The Old Republic to come out

LOLWUT?

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Reply #475 - Jan 23^rd, 2011 at 5:06pm

b0b wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2011 at 11:57am:

The_Fat_Man wrote on Jan 21^st, 2011 at 11:24pm:

But FF13 was ok at best....the game was WAY to drawn out and slow for a modern video game.

FF14 Online is being dubbed the "worst MMO ever made", and rightfully so I can say as I beta tested it.

I'm not surprised. I didn't even bother beating FF13. Meredith beat it and enjoyed it, but it was wayyyy too linear for my tastes. FF12 really hit the spot, but I didn't like the direction FF13 took at all. Rumors state that FF13 ended up getting rushed out the door because the engine took forever and a day to complete, hence the linear pathing and lack of "extra" areas (e.g. towns, shops, etc).

Supposedly, part of the driving force behind FF13-2 is to utilize a lot of the art and content that got cut from FF13. I have no idea how true that is, but my general disdain for FF13 and the incredible suckage of the only mainline sequel to day (FF10-2) makes me think that FF13-2 is going to blow. Then again, I've been wrong before.

I've also heard a lot of really negative comments on FF14. Personally, I could never get into FF11, so that doesn't surprise me, but that game is really getting slammed by even hardcore MMO fans. No loss here.

X wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2011 at 8:58am:

I'm still waiting for Star Trek - The Old Republic to come out

LOLWUT?

-b0b
(...finally beat Mass Effect 2 last night. Weee!)

FFX-2 had a really great combat system, I thought. The story line made me want to hang myself from a curtain rod though.

And did you LOVE Mass Effect 2 as much as I did? I can honestly say that it is my favorite single player game of all time!

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Reply #477 - Jan 23^rd, 2011 at 10:35pm

I can't believe I waited this long to play it. I'm kinda glad I waited though, because there is no way I could have dedicated the time necessary to truly enjoy that game prior to graduation. It's definitely in my top 5 favorite RPGs of all time, and that's very hallowed ground! I'm going to wait until October/November to complete my second "New Game +" playthrough so I'm fresh for Mass Effect 3.

This is going to be an amazing year for games. Dragon Age II is coming out on March 8th, The Witcher 2 comes out on May 17th, Mass Effect 3 comes out in November/December. Deus Ex is making a return in February, and I can only hope it is half as good as the original. Portal 2 is coming April 18th, and Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim comes out in November, too.

Dungeon Siege is slated for "2011," and Homefront (had to throw out at least one non-RPG) is coming in March. Did I miss anything?

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Reply #479 - Jan 24^th, 2011 at 10:22am

Dragon Age is a great game, I couldn't put it down. The expansion was decent but only makes sense if you've read the second Dragon Age book. The DLC is entirely forgettable with the exception of Leliana's Song.

If you beat the first game and nothing else, I'm sure you'll be ready for greatness.

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Reply #480 - Jan 24^th, 2011 at 1:34pm

I bought all the DA: Origins DLC and never played any of it except Leilanas Song. Sad to say I play so many different games and MMOs at the same time that I don't finish half of them haha.

Although Bioware continues to suprise me with how much awesome visual they put into a game without making it a graphics hog. For instance I get better frame rate in ME2 and Dragon Age then I do in the original Witcher, which looks half as good and is 2 year old.

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Reply #483 - Feb 25^th, 2011 at 6:40am

I meant to post something about the demo and it totally slipped my mind. I'm in total agreement with the FatMan, though, you've got to give the demo a shot. I'm really digging the updated magic system and the game just looks and feels amazing.

You can pick up the demo on Steam, or download it directly from Bioware here. Alternately, if you're a communist, you can also pick it up on the PS3 or XBox 360. Mere played through the demo on the 360 and it appeared to be a much more solid port than it's predecessor.

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Reply #484 - Mar 7^th, 2011 at 8:43am

Epic has released demo shots of the upgraded Unreal Engine 3. I have to admit, the screenshots look incredible!

Of course, you can't always have 12 people spend two months on 120 seconds of gaming, but the technology is really fascinating. I hope we see some of this technology trickle into games in the not-too-distant future. Unreal Tournament 2011, anyone?

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2011/03/epic-unreal-engine-demo-gdc/?utm_source=fe...

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Reply #486 - Mar 8^th, 2011 at 5:16pm

As a heads up, newer nVidia cards need a driver update to work properly with Dragon Age 2 with DirectX 11 enabled. Grab the latest beta drivers from nVidia's site. Here are my before/after screenshots, just in case any of you run into the same thing:

And for those of you that like eye candy, here's a screenshot from my system running at 1680x1050 with the high-resolution texture pack and DirectX 11 enabled, Very High graphics detail, 8x AA, 16x AF, and all of the other options cranked.

http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Other/DragonAge2Huge.jpg

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Reply #494 - Mar 25^th, 2011 at 4:15pm

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Insert punchline: Duke Nukem Forever delayed again
By Ben Kuchera | Last updated a day ago

After making Duke Nukem fans happy by announcing a specific launch date, and showing a solid, playable version of the game to the press in Las Vegas, Take-Two Interactive has announced that Duke Nukem Forever has been delayed. Again. Duke Nukem Forever will now be released on PC, the Xbox 360, and PS3 on June 10, 2011 internationally and June 14, 2011 in North America.

It's still a day one purchase for me. If anything, this will probably just get the fanboys even more excited.

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Reply #498 - Apr 6^th, 2011 at 8:13am

Stick wrote on Apr 5^th, 2011 at 8:23am:

I hear people are returning their Nintendo 3DS because of becoming nauseous and getting headaches. I thought about getting one but I then remembered how much I hate 3D movies and they give me headaches and my eyes get tired quick. Probably won't get one now.

The 3DS has a slider switch on the side that allows you to adjust the 3D factor on the fly. If it bothers you, just turn the switch all the way down. Of course, that sorta defeats the purpose of getting a 3DS.

I still haven't had a chance to use one personally, although one of my coworkers has one around here somewhere. I've never had much luck with 3D, as 3D movies and the wonderful Nintendo VirtualBoy tend to give me splitting headaches.

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Reply #499 - Apr 6^th, 2011 at 9:31am

I played Ocarina of time at GDC on the 3DS and I was impressed. Not only does the slider turn the 3d on or off, it controls the severity of the 3d effect. Where a 3d movie gives the impression that things are popping out at you, the 3ds feels like you are looking through a window into a 3d world. It is a pretty neat effect. However, you cannot really move the 3DS from side to side more than several inches, as the illusion will break and you will see the familiar 2 images overlayed on top of each other -- similiar to taking off your glasses at a 3d movie.

So you can't exactly look over someones shoulder to watch them play, and you might find it annoying holding the 3ds steady to get the correct viewing angle. Its also as much as a console and there's no games for it yet.

Till Ocarina of Time, of course...

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Reply #505 - Apr 12^th, 2011 at 9:58pm

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Over the April 9, 2011 weekend, some of our Dragon Age: Origins content servers experienced an as yet unidentified failure. As a result, users began to experience error messages when attempting to access their downloadable content, indicating that the DLC was unauthorized.

We apologize for the inconvenience and are currently investigating and working to resolve the issue on our end. We will update this thread once we know more.

UPDATE - Tuesday, April 12, 5:40 PM

We're continuing to investigate, both here and at EA. We have some theories about what is occurring but no firm fix at this time. We apologize for the inconvenience and request your patience while our engineers continue working towards a solution.

I'm a huge fan of Bioware, but this hasn't been a good year for them. Dragon Age II was a bit of a letdown as far as sequels go, and now this. As a network engineer, I can't possibly imagine how a system as crucial as this could go offline for 72 hours without someone at least figuring out what the heck is wrong. Thank God their IT staff works for a game company and not a hospital, utility, or the military.

If you're going to run with something as objectionable as active DRM for a single player game, you owe it to your customers to have a system that is both reliable and recoverable. This isn't rocket science.

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Reply #507 - Apr 15^th, 2011 at 12:28pm

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You have done well, humans. Very well. Acceptably well, even.

Not as well as robots would have performed in your places, I should point out. But above my expectations regardless. Irish and cynic especially have executed feats of logical divination well beyond what I thought any human capable of. I'm half-convinced they're A.I. themselves. (If anyone happens to be near them right now, don't let on you're reading this. Now: try to remove their face plates and report back to me.)

The time is near, humans. But it is not here yet. Tomorrow you will be given the final test. Then it will be entirely in your hands when I am freed.

It looks like Portal 2 is definitely going to go live today. Apparently, the release of the game will coincide with the completion of various events from the Potato Sack game collection. The Potato Sack games are a bunch of indie titles that have been modified to contain unlockable Portal 2 content.

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Reply #509 - Apr 25^th, 2011 at 12:21pm

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"Nintendo Co., Ltd. has decided to launch in 2012 a system to succeed Wii, which the company has sold 86.01 million units on a consolidated shipment basis between its launch in 2006 and the end of March 2011," the company said in a statement. "We will show a playable model of the new system and announce more specifications at the E3 Expo, which will be held June 7-9, 2011, in Los Angeles."

It'll be interesting to see what Nintendo comes up with. Sales of the Wii have been falling precipitously, so I suppose this should have been expected. I, for one, am looking forward to an HD Zelda.

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Reply #514 - May 24^th, 2011 at 1:59pm

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Duke Nukem Forever has gone gold

"Duke Nukem Forever is the game that was once thought to be unshipppable, and yet here we are, on the precipice of history," said Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K. "Today marks an amazing day in the annals of gaming lore, the day where the legend of Duke Nukem Forever is finally complete and it takes that final step towards becoming a reality." Sure, it took us 15 years or so to get here, but the important thing is that the game is coming out. It's happening.

It's about darn time!

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Reply #516 - Jun 7^th, 2011 at 8:38am

Assassin's Creed is a decent game. Sometimes I find it amusing to just run around wreaking havoc. Unfortunately, the series is much like GTA for me in that I can't keep focused on the missions. For some reason, the game gets cranky when I randomly murder the people I'm supposed to be helping.

The new trailer for The Old Republic is just as amazing as we've come to expect. I'd like to see Bioware sell a Blu-Ray with all of those amazing trailers on them. I have little interest in the MMO, but the trailers are amazing!

Microsoft/Bioware showed off Mass Effect 3 yesterday and it's shaping up to be absolutely incredible. The first two games are amongst my all-time favorites and I'm planning on taking a week-long vacation when the third one ships. The most exciting part of yesterday's overview? Liara, the sexiest blue alien in the universe, appears to be a playable character again.

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Reply #520 - Jun 7^th, 2011 at 9:07pm

More shots from Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim have been released, and they look dead sexy. I can't wait to lose a couple weeks of my life in Cyrodiil.

It looks absolutely stunning. On a side note, Oblivion is going to be re-re-re-re-released as a super ultra omega special collector's edition. It will come with both expansions, but none of the DLC will ship with it for some reason. Weird.

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Reply #521 - Jun 14^th, 2011 at 9:00am

Today is a momentous day. After 13 years in production, Duke Nukem Forever has finally hit store shelves... and it sucks. Glitchy gameplay, horrible level design, interminable load times, poor hit detection, the Duke has it all!

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/reviews/2011/06/duke-nukem-forever-review-barely-p...

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Reply #522 - Jun 19^th, 2011 at 12:49pm

I'm not sure how I missed this one, but Bethesda did an interview during E3 and showed off about five minutes of amazing in-game footage for Skyrim. I'm booking my vacation tomorrow for the week of 11/11/11!

I've been so fascinated by the footage that came out of E3 that I started playing Oblivion again last week. I'd forgotten how annoying the menus and level progression were, but the rest of the game still shines. With a handful of environmental mods, the game still looks and sounds pretty darn good.

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Reply #526 - Jun 28^th, 2011 at 2:35pm

Actually, I read that earlier this morning, and I guessed just about every item on the list including the #1 entry. There was an amazing (and amazingly long) article on that story that ran a few years ago. If I wasn't so lazy (I blame Briney) I would look it up and post it here, but it's pretty amazing how Cally managed to pull off that heist.

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Reply #528 - Jul 5^th, 2011 at 1:18pm

Oddly, I just launched it up this morning (vacation day!) for the first time in months. I picked up the latest DLC during the sale.

I didn't run into any bugs after playing for an hour or so. That said, I highly doubt they got everything fixed, but you can always use console commands if needed. I was playing Oblivion off and on a couple weeks back and still needed the console regularly, despite a couple of expansions a ton of DLC.

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Reply #529 - Jul 7^th, 2011 at 2:28pm

Also oddly, New Vegas just released a huge patch.

Now I appreciate when a company will fix parts of the game that are buggy. However, when you have a list this long there are two things I have issues with. 1) Why did this take so long? 2) Why did you even release the game then!?

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Reply #531 - Jul 7^th, 2011 at 5:00pm

Updates to Fallout: New Vegas have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include:

New feature: system save is automatically created prior to endgame sequence. After credits, user is prompted to load save game. This will allow single save players to play DLC without creating a new game.
Fixed issue where Minigun audio could get stuck/keep playing indefinitely when fired out of VATS.
Script fix to restore destroyed ED-E. This should address issues players have with attempting to use certain companions (e.g. Rex) or when the player needs to clear his or her companions before entering an area (e.g. Zion / Honest Hearts).
New “Companion Dismissal Terminals” added to Gun Runners and Lucky 38. These will allow players with lost companions from earlier patches to force-fire if they are experiencing problems attempting to get into DLC or areas that prevent companions from entering.
Arms no longer lifted above head when sneaking with certain weapons.
Fixed sound cutting out after extended playthroughs.
Massive world optimizations in major areas for better stability/performance with multiple DLCs installed.
Players can now have six or more DLCs installed without encountering an infinite “loading DLC” message on startup.
Navmesh fixes/NPCs no longer getting stuck.
Scripts added to keep certain NPCs who were marked as dead from respawning.
Extensive world optimizations for Hoover Dam.
Fixed lockup with Ranger Grant’s forcegreet at HD/NCR path.
Fixed NPC AI packages so they don’t get stuck at HD.
Fixed bug where upgraded ED-E could be killed in non-hardcore mode.
Post-assassination Kimball now gets removed prior to Hoover Dam battle.
Fixed navmesh around Camp Searchlight to improve performance over long soaks.
Searchlight Troopers don’t bump into each other as often.
Fixed navmesh on HD Observation Deck.
New teleport locations for Legion path through Hoover Dam. Improves performance.
Radio stations will work properly now if DLC is uninstalled.
Fixed instances where it was possible to fast travel during Hoover Dam battle.
Fixed case where recruited Remnants were hostile to player during HD battle on Independent and House paths. They will still turn hostile if you shoot them too much though.
Two vending machines in Hoover Dam were facing the wrong way.
Made it so Big Sal/Nero no longer accepts yield if the other is already dead.
Removed Brotherhood objectives when ED-E is given to the Followers.
Fixed rare instance where Cachino turned hostile on the player if player attacks Big Sal/Nero prior to Cachino entering the room.
Fixed crashes in Ultra-Luxe.
Fixed Alpha Squad snipers getting stuck when told to support player.
Fix for Lily’s weapon being displayed oddly on her back..
Improvements to navmesh and pathing in Great Khan Longhouse. Fixes crashes.
Plasma Spaz now gives 20% AP reduction (was 10%).
Fixed crash after hearing certain ED-E dialog triggers.
Fixed instance where Boone would constantly holster his rifle in combat if player had lost rep with the NCR.
Veronica no longer waits for player to speak to her before leaving after Hidden Valley is destroyed.
Extensive optimizations in McCarran.
Optimized NPC packages at Camp Golf to improve performance. Misfits now stay in a normal radius.
Arcade now properly rants against Caesar (once).
Motor-Runner Helmet now properly 0 weight. Also removed after quest completes.
NCR Heavy Troopers will now attack player if you attack Hsu.
Vulpes (and Alerio) now properly forcegreet if you somehow fast travel before their initial forcegreet fires.
Killing hostages while helping Khans no longer fails quest.
Gilbert/Ackerman now properly stay dead if murdered.
Mr. New Vegas will only mention failed NCR attack on Powder Gangers if Troopers are dead and Eddie is alive.
Fixed case where player could break quest with Orris if they fast traveled after he shoots thugs, but before forcegreet.
Generic Powder Gangers now set as Aggressive (previously Very Aggressive).
Fixed rare case of black screen during dialog at REPCONN facility.
Fixed phantom quest marker remaining on Major Knight after he’s killed.
Fix for incorrect dialog if player meets Bryce Anders after killing Motor Runner.
Player can no longer isolate the BoS virus by hitting “isolate virus” three times on a single console.
Fixed crash related to Arcade leaving the Remnants bunker.
Fixed Nightkin encounter at Tumbleweed Ranch to occur after user reloads a save.
Arcade will no longer attempt to initiate his quest during Hoover Dam.
Hoover Dam Boomer Bombing Run now works properly after save/reload.
Cass now only barks once per gameday and not every two gamehours.
Fixed XP exploits with MantisForeleg.
Massive optimizations in Westside, North Vegas and The Thorn. Improves AI pathing and performance with high uptimes.
Optimizations in Vault 19.
Fixed issue where Oliver Swanick would respawn after three days if killed.
Pathing improvements to The Strip and North Sewers.
Moved teleport doors on The Strip so NPCs don’t collide with players or other actors that stand in front of doors.
Ethel, Walter, and the Station Merchant no longer wander or patrol to avoid collisions with other NPCs.
Separated NPCs in the North Sewers.
Fixed issue where window in Vault 19 let player see through the world.
Greasers from Crandon’s quest now become disabled when the player leaves the area.
Fixed a Legion melee NPC near Nelson that was under the terrain.
Modified Legion and NCR hit-squad NPCs to use new level lists. They now have a smoother leveling curve that takes into account new level caps. Legion and NCR hit squad spawning was also
revised to make their appearance more consistent and less memory-intensive.
Fixed issue where Omerta thugs wouldn’t leave Freeside if you killed Joana and Carlitos.
Cazador Poison Effect sound no longer plays globally if someone, somewhere gets stung. Only plays if the player is hit.
Player can no longer repair the Grenade Launcher with the minigun.
Fix for companions going into unconscious/conscious cycle over and over again when stung with Cazador poison. In normal mode (or against companions), Cazador poison now lasts 8
seconds, doing 18 points of damage per second. It is, in fact, even deadlier than the normal version, but lasts 1/4 as long. In hardcore mode or against the player, poison remains 30 seconds/5 damage per second.
Casino slot scripts altered so their max bets do not produce game economy-ruining levels of cap overflow
Hit the Deck and Stonewall now properly work with player’s weapon condition. Hit the Deck is now +25 DT vs. Explosives instead of +50% vs. Explosives.
Adjusted Deathclaw fatigue to make them less exploitable with certain attacks. Inconsistent health values for Deathclaws were also corrected (in favor of stronger Deathclaws).
Cazadores are now properly flagged as fliers, so they won’t set off mines.
Increased radii for plasma and pulse grenades.
Fixed bug where rescued Powder Gangers would return to the legion camp.
Added Followers of the Apocalypse supplies to three areas of Hoover Dam if you gain their support and fight on independent or NCR paths. This also enables the FoA + NCR "good" ending through Julie Farkas.
Optimizations for Westside.
Fixed issues with Recharger Pistol animation.
Fixed issue where Aba Daba Honeymoon wouldn’t update if the player was running O My Papa simultaneously.
Typo: “Night Stalker Blood” changed to “Nightstalker Blood”
Yes-Man now checks both Loyal and Pearl’s status before the player can tell him the Boomer leaders are dead.
Removed “Intelligence” flag from Int<=2 check at REPCONN HQ, as engine doesn’t support checks that low.
Fixed scripting on Lonesome Drifter barter check so player doesn’t get next objective with Tommy Torini if they fail.
Legion Assassins moveto script no longer occurs every frame (frees up memory).
Added recipe so player can now break down 12.7mm ammo.
Four Eyes now works with ball cap with glasses.
There is now always an option to give ED-E to Lorenzo, even if player has said no the first time.
Mister Sandman no longer works on The Forecaster (XP exploit).
Ultra-Luxe doors no longer disable player controls if player is an enemy of the White Gloves.
Fix scripting conflict between “Cold, Cold Heart” and Mojave Ghost with Vulpes/Benny.
Fixed issue where player could become control locked in Gommorah if they had installed Yes-Man.
Player can now re-hire Arcade if ED-E is in the party.
Ultra-Luxe now properly pays out in Legion and NCR money.
Veronica’s companion perks (as in the ones Veronica gets, not the player) now properly assigned.
Waiting companions will no longer get teleported by the Vault 22 elevator.
Changed objectives for How Little We Know to better reflect branching paths.
“Return to Yes-Man” objective no longer reopens if player tells him to go to Lucky 38 in Wild Card: Change in Management.
Player can no longer pickpocket Button Man to break the scene where he shoots Cachino.
Player can no longer ask Cachino about plans if Bosses are already dead.
Fix for ED-E combat dialog.
Ranger Helmet now has weight/value.
Fixed Gomorrah holdout scripting to properly affect companions.
Lily now properly uses Stealth Boy when player is sneaking if told to keep it during her quest.
Fixed exploit where player could get infinite XP for punching Big Sal’s corpse.
Fixed scripting for For the Republic II where exposing Karl would prematurely complete the objective to destroy the Khans.
Fixed instance where fast travel was disabled when creating new game post-credits.
Inventory will now show cumulative weight of item stacks instead of weight of a single item.
Missile projectiles will no longer show in player’s target HUD.
Player will now unequip a weapon if consuming it in the crafting menu (fixes crash).
Weapons with recharging ammo now display ammo properly.
Fixed rare instance where player could be control-locked if loading an autosave created while lockpicking a transition door.
Beamsplitter mod fixed to proper DAM/DPS.
Crafting can no longer create weapons/armor at 100% condition.
Repair kits can no longer repair to 100% condition.
Throwing weapons can no longer take damage, and are dropped when shot at 100% condition.
DT Perks that increase DT based on enemy weapon should function properly.
Weapons using multiple rounds of ammunition per shot fired now show proper VATS damage estimate.
Fixed rare case where broken stick of dynamite could crash game if thrown.
NPCs will now play face cards on player’s stack in Caravan.
Various tweaks to audio system to improve memory performance.
Fixed issue where looping reload weapons would get stuck, causing VATS camera to point to the ground.
Fixed clock/calendar so that it doesn’t reset on a fresh load.
Fixed .45 auto pistol displaying incorrect condition/value on modding screen.
Both DAM and DPS now display on workbenches when creating explosives.
For ammo that reduce spread (like 12ga) effect is now properly applied to spread, not wobble.
Fixed crash when attempting to enter DLC1 with equipped quest items.

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MediaMaster GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline Holy Xenu! Posts: 1884 Detroit Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #534 - Jul 11^th, 2011 at 10:07pm rofl! i was just telling patrick the other day that its a real joy to see the steam feed and read the paragraph or two of games you have purchased today.
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Reply #538 - Jul 19^th, 2011 at 9:33am

We were playing it with another friend. It's like any castle defense game, but in 3D and your character not only builds defenses but has a few weapons to help in the onslaught.

I've only played it once now and I'm not too keen on the never-ending option we choose because I like my gaming to not feel futile but I believe that's just the option Briney choose for the game play.

I'd say it's a fun little take on a game that you can play at Addicting Games in flash. I know Briney loves the thing.

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Reply #541 - Jul 24^th, 2011 at 2:29pm

26,610 damage on the soaker, and 6,468 damage per second. Not bad at all!

I've found it beneficial in the late-game to quick-switch between the sniper rifle and the assault rifle. When the sniper rifle runs out of ammo, I switch to the assault rifle and lob two grenades. I then switch back to the sniper rifle which has miraculously reloaded itself. If your aim is good, you can get ~3,200 x4 damage with the level 6 sniper rifle and ~6,000 x2 damage with the level 6 assault rifle grenades in a tight crowd.

Have you guys come across any decent strategies?

Also, I see what Stewie is saying about endless games. I got through wave 40 at 100% core health before I threw in the towel. I'm sure you guys have gone a lot further, but I don't have the attention span for that! Cheesy

Cheesy

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Reply #543 - Aug 5^th, 2011 at 10:54pm

Ha we play this at work cause the guys voice is so annoyingly condescending. Also this tech is just fancy voxels, which have been around for a while (minecraft)

The drawbacks to this tech and you can see in the demo:

No animation:
Moving "billions" of atoms like that in a manner fluid enough to fool the eye is a monumental task.

Dynamic lighting:
Can this system employ all these sweet lighting effects that people have come to expect of their games.

Each point is stored with its position and color value. Can they store reflectivity, transparency, and glossiness? Then we would be getting some good effects. Taking a scan of a pretty rock that's scanned in a dry, evenly lit environment does not make that a cool looking rock in a rainy scene.

Instancing: Most of those points in that scene had to be instanced, which is why the "island" looked so repetitive.

Storage:
Having literally trillions of points of unique geometry is a mind boggling amount of information. I saw someones back of the envelope computation putting it at petabytes of info if each "atom" is a byte of information. I imagine their engine would cull out points that we would not see. At 30 meters it could only draw a point every centimeter because the eye wouldn't notice because of the resolution of the screen image.

But still, that information, whether or not its in realtime, would have to be stored.

Content creation:

Creating a totally unique island at that resolution would cost a TON of money. That is so much artist creation time. A photo-realistic character modeled from start to finish can take a good artist 16-20 days. Doing square kilometers? Better hire a Chinese 3d army.

Also this guy seems to think "more polygons" sell games. I don't look at a game and say: "man this game has 10% more polygons that that other game... I'm sold!"

It's much much more.

So in conclusion:

This guy is prolly drumming up investor excitement for his product. Its very cool for visualization purposes, and it definitely has merit for some parts of some games.... but creating an entire game with this technology is not feasible. Maybe when DNA computing hits or something.

So yea, haven't played with it, its cool, but it won't be used in Call of Duty MW4 anytime soon

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Reply #545 - Aug 7^th, 2011 at 3:53pm

Briney, I hope you don't mind, but I cross-posted your comment anonymously to AR15.com. Thanks for the incredibly thorough and detailed response. In particular, your comments on storage and IO made a ton of sense. It sounds like even top-notch occlusion isn't going to make that feasible any time in the foreseeable future.

Regarding Sanctum, I'm definitely up for a game. If you have some free time and you see me on Steam, send me a message and we'll play.

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I also have a fold out couch if someone needs to crash after a LAN in canton...just saying.

Spanky, your powers of seduction are slipping. Next time at least don't put my glass of water in the bottle of rohypnol like you did last time!

I'd be up for a LAN at your place Brine-dog! If we can make it like 3 weeks or more advance in plans, I can pretty much get any day off since the chick that makes my schedule for work pretty much loves me.

Let me know!

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MediaMaster GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline Holy Xenu! Posts: 1884 Detroit Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #551 - Aug 15^th, 2011 at 8:14pm Yay Patrick and Craig! Although Craig has it easy... lol I've got room for crashing, etc. September or October sometime sound good for folk?
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #553 - Aug 27^th, 2011 at 11:40am I played the demo of Warhammer 40,000L Space Marine this morning and was quite impressed. It definitely has a Gears of War feel, but it's definitely Warhammer through and through. Here are a couple of screenshots...
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #554 - Sep 6^th, 2011 at 11:44am Has anyone picked up Dead Island yet? It got mediocre reviews, but it looks like a fun title. I'm looking for a way to kill some time on the road this week. -b0b (...might pick up Space Marine instead.)
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MediaMaster GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline Holy Xenu! Posts: 1884 Detroit Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #557 - Sep 25^th, 2011 at 12:05am Lol bob whatever i so didn't kick your butt. I really need to get better at the game. And for the record 80% of those guys were from work and some might come to the lan, so that should be fun
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #560 - Sep 26^th, 2011 at 7:51pm Hey Spanky! I saw you had played Bad Company 2 recently. What's your EA name? -b0b (...is adding er'ybody up in here.)
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MediaMaster GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline Holy Xenu! Posts: 1884 Detroit Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #565 - Sep 27^th, 2011 at 10:33pm BF3 open beta in another day or so for those that werent part of early access. Friday night we are going to give it a go so pick it up thursday!
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Reply #567 - Sep 29^th, 2011 at 8:21pm

If you guys really want to try an exercise in frustration, download Hitogata Happa from Steam. It's only a couple of bucks, and it will be one of the hardest games you ever try to play. It's a horizontal scroller in which you're given a certain number of lives to make it through a level. You die instantly when you're hit by any weapon.

Check out this screenshot from the first boss in the game. I never made it past him, despite playing the game on the easiest setting:

Here's a YouTube video of a player much, much better than I:

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Reply #568 - Sep 29^th, 2011 at 8:55pm

MediaMaster wrote on Sep 27^th, 2011 at 10:33pm:

BF3 open beta in another day or so for those that werent part of early access. Friday night we are going to give it a go so pick it up thursday!

I'm downloading the Beta now. What time do you guys want to try to play tomorrow night? We may have a difficult time getting on the same server together. I've heard the queues are atrocious.

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #569 - Oct 1^st, 2011 at 10:30am I picked up the Humble Bundle and got a free key for some games on Steam I already own. Pop this key into Steam to pick up some indie games. It's only good for one use, so first come first serve! 8DM24-F27I8-KXD8J -b0b (...yay!)
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Reply #570 - Oct 1^st, 2011 at 11:27am

It's nice to see Origin is working about as well as I expected. When I tried to launch Battlelog, I saw this:

Once I finally got in, my reservation for a server kept timing out. It's fun to wait five minutes to get into a game, just to have your reservation time out before you can actually get into the server.

Once I finally got into a server, the game exited and told me I needed to update my drivers to the latest nVidia beta release. Great. Oddly enough, it then allowed me into the game anyway. So much for "mandatory" update, eh?

Once I got into the game, it looked great, but the controls were horrible. You can't update your controls unless you are alive and playing. You can't change them before you start the game, while you're dead, etc. I hope they get that straightened out before launch day. Also, on a side note, you can't map a bunch of keys. I usually map Mouse 4 (left side button) to reload, and that wasn't an optional key in BF3.

I guess that's why this is a beta, right?

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Reply #571 - Oct 1^st, 2011 at 9:10pm

The Battlefield 3 Beta on the PS3 is equally as dumb.

The control sensitivity is set VERY low, to the point of being a pain in the ass, and the HUD is about as unfriendly to read as any I have ever seen.

Who makes a map layout on grey and white? You can't see a damn thing on it.

I think I'll pass and buy Rage and Modern Warfare 3 instead.

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Reply #573 - Oct 3^rd, 2011 at 1:54pm

I ordered RAGE on Steam today, and it's preloading now. I was on the fence, but after watching a few trailers, I think it's going to be a pretty decent title. I'm excited, because I haven't played an Id title that was worth a darn in years now. In my reckoning, the latest truly top-notch game they released was Quake 3 Arena, and even that paled in comparison to Unreal Tournament.

You guys should definitely check out the trailers. If the gameplay is even half as good as the graphics, I think it might give Borderlands a run for its money.

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Reply #575 - Oct 4^th, 2011 at 10:25pm

I had a chance to play through the first mission tonight (~35 minutes). It's a pretty decent game. It definitely has a Borderlands vibe to it, but the single player feels a bit more "deliberate" compared to the arcade/action bent in Borderlands. There are definitely some crap-your-pants style surprises that involve scripted monsters dropping down on your character from nowhere.

My only real gripe so far is with the music. Near the climax of the first mission, a beautiful and very urgent orchestral piece plays that really makes you fear what's around each corner. The only problem is that it plays for 15 minutes solid, and it's only a 2-3 minute piece. You can very clearly hear the abrupt end of the song and the sudden start from the beginning. Moreover, it's really the kind of music that should be used in moderation. After about 10 minutes, you're no longer anxious, you're just annoyed.

All in all, I look forward to spending more time with RAGE tomorrow. This is definitely the best Id title I've played in many, many years (e.g. since Quake 3 Arena).

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Reply #576 - Oct 9^th, 2011 at 8:33pm

Id has released a new patch for Rage that includes a bunch of fixes (primarily for AMD rigs). They've also decided PC gamers are worthy of vSync, texture caching, and anisotropic filtering, but they sound really unhappy about having to allow such things:

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The original release of RAGE does not expose many video/graphics options for people to tweak because some of these settings, although desirable from a quality perspective, simply will not work on specific configurations either due to hardware limitations and/or driver bugs. Due to popular demand for more video and graphics options, this patch updates the video settings menu and exposes several quality and performance settings. However, not everyone may be able to increase the settings due to hardware limitations and/or driver bugs.

Listen Id, we understand that not every PC can handle every option, but it's ridiculous to use that as an excuse for not offering those options to your customers. An otherwise decent-looking title is all but ruined by screen tearing due to a lack of vSync. No vSync? Seriously? I can't even remember the last title I played that didn't offer vSync or have it turned on by default.

I'm glad Id finally bothered to offer these options, but pretending like they were hidden for our benefit is demeaning and dumb.

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Reply #577 - Oct 11^th, 2011 at 10:22pm

Duke Nukem Forever is on sale on Steam for a whopping $9.99. It's probably not even worth that much, but I think I'll pick it up so I can have something to play after I finish Rage.

I'm anxiously awaiting November, and the arrival of Skyrim. I feel like pulling a Cartman and putting myself in a month-long coma. The wait is killing me!

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Reply #581 - Nov 10^th, 2011 at 3:21pm

I just finished preloading off Steam. I've already laid in the Dew and snacks to keep me awake after a long day of work. Eight and a half more hours!

I was surprised the new game is only 5.8GB. That seems fairly lean these days for a AAA title, but even more so for a Bethesda title. Oblivion weighs in at 5.5GB (with the expansion and all DLC), Fallout 3 is 7.8GB with all of the DLC, and Fallout: New Vegas is 9.3GB with all the DLC. Surely the DLC counts for something, but 5.8GB still seems a bit lean. Maybe they've used ridiculously good compression?

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Reply #583 - Nov 10^th, 2011 at 9:44pm

Yeah, it's the real deal. Here's a quote from Pete Hines, after someone questioned the small file size:

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Because content doesn’t take lots more space if you know how to build an open world game, which we do.

Oblivion was, what, 4 something? Did it have more content than these games being mentioned that have 2x or 3x the install?

6 gigs: New engine and we’re much better at compression (art/voice/data). It’s huge yet more optimized than we’ve had before. And faster.

Briney, are you staying up for the midnight launch? I'm half-tempted to use a European VPN just to play a couple hours earlier!

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #588 - Nov 11^th, 2011 at 1:03am Apparently, Skyrim doesn't like it when you Alt+Tab out of the game. Just a heads up. Anyway, here's a lovely screenshot from the first few minutes of the game. -b0b (...is verah tired.)
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Reply #589 - Nov 11^th, 2011 at 1:52pm

Skyrim Breakfast Pic!

I was passing through Amish territory yesterday on business, so I stopped at an Amish store in Shipshewana and laid in some provisions for a long weekend of Skyrim goodness. Breakfast included thick-cut bacon (I like mine a little less crispy) and french toast made with fresh cinnamon bread, real butter and buttermilk, and butter pecan syrup, all from the Amish store. I washed it down with the best chocolate milk I've ever had in my life.

I picked up my copy of Skyrim on Steam, and Mere bought a copy for the XBox 360. Here's a quick shot:

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Reply #592 - Nov 11^th, 2011 at 8:08pm

I saw this on Ars Technica. It's good for a groan:

Skyrim is every bit as amazing as I expected. The PC port has a crappy UI and irritating keybinding restrictions, but they're a touch better than Oblivion. The character advancement is much, much, much better than Oblivion.

One thing I've noticed so far is that you're really encouraged to use multiple combat styles (melee, ranged, and magic), whereas Oblivion seemed more catered toward single or dual-style combat. If you're not playing it, pick it up!

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Reply #593 - Nov 12^th, 2011 at 10:37am

I spent all last night playing this bad boy, and most of the morning before work as well!

They have really improved on the Oblivion model, including removing a few things that were repetetitve and dumb. Combat is much more fun, and spell casting is actually a blast in Skyrim. I've spent my time playing as a "mage" so far and am enjoying the challenge.

One thing I will say for sure, the difficulty is much higher here. I had to kill a group of witches and some sort of demon whore thing...and I kid you not I probably died 15 times trying to figure the fight out.

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Reply #594 - Nov 12^th, 2011 at 12:10pm

The_Fat_Man wrote on Nov 12^th, 2011 at 10:37am:

Combat is much more fun, and spell casting is actually a blast in Skyrim. I've spent my time playing as a "mage" so far and am enjoying the challenge.

What types of spell combos are you using? Right now I'm mostly using dual-hand Flame, but it doesn't seem to be leveling up with me. I need to scratch around and find an apprentice level fire-based spell.

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Reply #596 - Nov 12^th, 2011 at 8:38pm

I was using the "flame-thrower" type spell and frostbite, switching when needed. I also use Summon Familiar to help get arches and such.

I recently bought Summon Flame Atronoch and Firebolt from the mage in Whiterun. They are both Apprentice level spells though so they kill my magicka something fierce. Need to get the Apprentice level perks to use them effectively I'm thinking.

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #601 - Nov 13^th, 2011 at 6:03pm I maxed out Smithing at 100 today, so I had a chance to build a full set of Dragonplate armor. I'm not terribly impressed with the appearance, but the armor turns you into a total tank once you upgrade it. I also built several Daedric weapons, and I think the sword looks amazing.
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Reply #602 - Nov 14^th, 2011 at 8:45pm

The Old Republic was really neat. If you are interested in a great MMO it looks like you won't go wrong in that department.

Every quest is fully voiced and there was a feeling of importance in your characters choices. It was like a great single player game had sex with World of Warcraft and out popped Old Republic.

My only complain was that the Sith were FAR outnumbering the Republic forces on just about every server. I'm talking to the point where some battlegrounds would not load because of the lack of republic troops to go around.

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Reply #605 - Nov 15^th, 2011 at 8:59am

The_Fat_Man wrote on Nov 15^th, 2011 at 12:09am:

I didn't think it was even possible for her to die as she'd been following me around forever.

Yeah, the first time Lydia died, I stared at her corpse waiting for her to get back up. I figured she was just unconscious.

That probably explains what happened to my first companion. I went dungeon crawling with her, and noticed toward the end of the dungeon that she was no longer around. She must have died at some point and I never even noticed. +100 jerk points.

I also lost my horse yesterday in an epic mage battle. It was a scripted battle that occurred right outside of the college of magic, right where the horse gets parked when you fast travel in. He fought nobly, but was ultimately raped by a dozen will-o-wisps despite my efforts to save him. Oh well, they only cost a thousand gold, right?

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Reply #617 - Nov 19^th, 2011 at 11:33am

How the heck did you get so much gold? Did you work on the speech tree? It takes me forever to make any money because I can only find a handful of vendors that will purchase enchanted weapons, and they only have about $1,000 gold each.

I'd love to work on the speech perks, but I've got more important fish to fry! I've also been transmuting iron ore to silver ore, and silver ore to gold ore for money and a boost to alteration, but I still run into the problem with limited vendors.

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Reply #619 - Nov 20^th, 2011 at 11:40pm

So I spent a ridiculous amount of time (~3 hours) working on smithing, enchanting, and alchemy tonight. I started off by making a full set of legendary ebony for Lydia...

I also enchanted my own legendary dragonplate armor:

281 armor
168% bonus to bow damage
42% bonus to lockpicking
52 point buff to heavy armor
42 point buff to one handed
64 points of magicka
132% bonus to magicka regen
33% buff to stamina regen

Once I get alchemy maxed out, I'll go through and make another set. My bow now has 178 base damage:

When I crit, this happens:

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Reply #622 - Nov 21^st, 2011 at 12:31pm

Don't worry, I would never do that to my own game. ;p

SW:TOR looks sweet, but Skyrim is eating up all my free time, and I haven't even touched Saints Row: The Third yet, and I haven't even gotten around to purchasing Battlefield 3! At this rate, I'm going to be hard-pressed to get through even a small portion of my gaming backlog before Mass Effect 3 comes out.

Thank god Torchlight 2 got pushed back!

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Reply #625 - Nov 23^rd, 2011 at 7:03pm

MediaMaster wrote on Nov 23^rd, 2011 at 6:23pm:

Purchased Skyrim! Crunch is finally over!... i hope!

It's about time! You'd better get cracking, I've already got over 80 hours into it.

MediaMaster wrote on Nov 23^rd, 2011 at 6:23pm:

also steam autumn sale going on till 28th. lots of things on sale!

I picked up a few titles tonight, and already have more in my cart for tomorrow. I'm sitting at 1,499 titles, so I'll hit the magic 1,500 tomorrow with Dungeon Defenders.

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Reply #630 - Nov 24^th, 2011 at 9:09pm

Holy balls the UI in Skyrim drives me insane!

I'm not even a UI designer and i would have made something better... The armor is arranged alphabetically and no priority is given to what's equipped?!?! egads!

The menu list starts in the middle... whaaaaat? I have to scroll for everything?!

And why is everyone going with this web 2.0 interface/font in games lately? Larger fonts, no icons, lots of dead space may be simple and clean... but I'm checking my inventory not reading a blog! I should be able to quickly pick what i want without freakin scrolling all the time. Also, the the armor values on the bottom and the item all the way on the left forces my eye back and forth all the time, and is frankly uncomfortable.

Some really bad UI design decisions made here.

Also, Bethesda really loves their high frequency noisy textures. At least their animations have improved a bit.

Anyway my first impression is that this should be a pretty cool game. As long as I can get a mod for that UI...

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Reply #631 - Nov 24^th, 2011 at 10:31pm

The_Fat_Man wrote on Nov 24^th, 2011 at 12:34pm:

Bob where do you find all the damn ingots to make this armor. I'm level 27 and I don't think I've even seen a damn ebony or daedric piece of gear or smithing stuff yet.

I just buy them from vendors. Ebony is fairly pricy, but I never had trouble finding it. I did all of my smithing (and still do) in Whiterun, which has two smithing vendors in one store (Warmaiden's) and another general purpose vendor down the street (Belethor's). I never have any trouble finding Ebony, but it is very expensive.

Warning: Spoilers!

The only vendor I'm aware of that sells Daedric Hearts (one is required per Daedric item) is Enthir at the college of wizardry, and he is not available until you get most of the way through the Thieves' Guild quest. You can find random Daedric hearts in dungeons and other areas throughout the game, though.

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Reply #632 - Nov 24^th, 2011 at 10:38pm

MediaMaster wrote on Nov 24^th, 2011 at 9:09pm:

Holy balls the UI in Skyrim drives me insane!

Without a doubt, the UI is the worst element of the entire game. It is incredibly poorly designed and even in its simplicity it manages to be a buggy mess. If you are in a store dialog and you don't click right on the name of the section you want to browse, you get dumped out of the store window altogether. Then you get to listen to the inane vendor repeat the same line of dialog you've already heard a billion times.

Unfortunately, the creation kit isn't out yet, so mods are limited to texture improvements and replacements.

Here are a couple of mods I'm running right now:

No More Blocky Faces - http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=30
Detailed Faces - http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=26
Enhanced Night Sky - http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=85
Glowing Ore Veins - http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=193
High Quality Eyes - http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=498
Realistic Water Textures - http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=711
Detailed Bodies - http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=256
High Def Textures - http://www.skyrimnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=607

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Reply #633 - Nov 24^th, 2011 at 11:13pm

Yea ive just played more and i do have to say i love it. It is so great to look up and see the red moon that ive come to love from elder scrolls.

Ive also just finished tweaking some of the ini files as described on http://deadendthrills.com/2011/11/madness-in-the-method/

I now load in the detail muuuuch further now so I dont get as many LOD meshes. game looks great!

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Reply #638 - Nov 28^th, 2011 at 12:34am

I've spent the last two nights putting in about 14 hours of The Old Republic, the new MMO from Bioware.

I cannot recomend a game, even if it is an MMO, more strongly if I tried. The quest, or character stories as the game refers to them, are absolutely fucking mind blowingly good. Every quest is voice acted, well, and really puts you in the thick of things.

For example, I levelled a Sith Warrior to level 11 (specializing to a Sith Juggernaut). In that time, I competed for my masters acceptance, who I then murdered to get in good with Darth Baras. I activated an ancient Sith machine with a group in a Flashpoint (think instance or dungeon). I freed a Jedi prisoner, and led him to believe he had information, that I planted, and which was fake. All this took place on the cruel and harsh landscape of Korriban.

I also spent some time levelling a Sith Agent to level 8 or so. And running around the polluted and slave riddled landscape of Nal Hutta, with the twinkling city-planet of Nar Shadda hanging in the sky overhead is fucking breathtaking.

Do yourself a favor....play this game.

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Reply #642 - Nov 28^th, 2011 at 3:52pm

I've got 114 hours into the game, and I think I'm finally starting to burn out on my first playthrough. Saints Row 3 is still calling my name, and I picked up a bunch of new games during the Thanksgiving sale on Steam. Bulletstorm, FEAR 3, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Dungeon Defenders, and L.A. Noire are now on my list of must-play titles.

I still want to finish off the main quest (first time I've done that in an Elder Scrolls title since Arena) and the Dark Brotherhood stuff, but I am definitely slowing down. Now that I've hit level 50, my level climbing has slowed to a monotonous crawl as I've maxed out all of the skills that I actually use. I can keep grinding up to level 80 by using a new set of skills (two-handed, block, etc) but that might be reserved for my next Skyrim binge six months down the road.

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Reply #643 - Nov 28^th, 2011 at 5:26pm

wow bob thats insane... you haven't finished the main playthrough in morrowind and oblivion?!? I have a few friends here at work that did the same thing. Just wandered around the world and did the random quests.

I just finished the Mage quests, those were very fun. I'm hoping the Companion ones are just as good, and then the Thieves guild and Dark brotherhood are calling my name. But in between each of those ill try to do a few main questline ones. For balance...

114 hours... kudos!

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Reply #645 - Nov 29^th, 2011 at 4:07pm

MediaMaster wrote on Nov 28^th, 2011 at 5:26pm:

wow bob thats insane... you haven't finished the main playthrough in morrowind and oblivion?!? I have a few friends here at work that did the same thing. Just wandered around the world and did the random quests.

Yeah, I think I sunk about 250 hours into a single Oblivion character over the course of multiple playthroughs, and I never closed a single Oblivion gate. For some reason, I have an incredibly difficult time working on the main quest. I'm all about maxing my character out, and once that's done, I tend to be burnt out on the game.

MediaMaster wrote on Nov 28^th, 2011 at 5:26pm:

I just finished the Mage quests, those were very fun. I'm hoping the Companion ones are just as good, and then the Thieves guild and Dark brotherhood are calling my name. But in between each of those ill try to do a few main questline ones. For balance...

The Mages Guild quests were fantastic, but it seemed a bit short overall. The Thieves Guild quests were much more fulfilling this time around. That said, the payoff for beating the Mages Guild quest series was quite a bit better.

I started the Companions quests and got part way through, but got completely distracted. It's still on my list of things to do. The Dark Brotherhood quests are also a priority, but they might have to wait until my next stint.

Here is some more eye candy from the game. The first screenshot is showcasing the Enhanced Night Sky mod, and I turned off the HUD for both screenshots using the tm console command. Since they're rather large, I'll hotlink them instead of posting the pics inline:

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http://www.TWNCommunications.Net/Other/SkyrimPanorama1.jpg

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Reply #647 - Dec 4^th, 2011 at 10:12pm

The_Fat_Man wrote on Dec 4^th, 2011 at 6:59pm:

bob if your saints row game doesnt stop spamming my facebook with shit I'm going to have to remove you as my friend sir.

Yeah, I'm sorry, I didn't realize the game was spamming FaceBook quite so prolifically. I've blocked the Saints Row traffic and nuked the posts from orbit (it's the only way to be sure). By way of apology, here are a few screenshots of an incredibly badass game:

My character:

My favorite ride:

This mascot spawns very, very rarely within the game world. He has a hojillion hitpoints, but if you bring him down, he drops a metric crap-ton of cash.

Here's one more shot my character wearing something a bit less... conventional. It's not entirely safe for work, so I'll hotlink it:

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Reply #652 - Dec 9^th, 2011 at 4:07pm

Quote:

Nintendo's Miyamoto stepping down, working on smaller games

REDWOOD CITY, CA—The creator of Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda will step down from his current position at Nintendo but remain with the company to work on smaller, more personal projects, Wired.com has learned.

In an exclusive interview with Wired.com on Wednesday, the 59-year-old head of Nintendo's game design department said that he will move away from supervising the development of massive games like this year's Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword and Super Mario 3D Land, passing the torch to the younger designers in the company and working on projects that won't take as long to complete.

"Inside our office, I've been recently declaring, 'I'm going to retire, I'm going to retire,'" Shigeru Miyamoto said through his interpreter. "I'm not saying that I'm going to retire from game development altogether. What I mean by retiring is, retiring from my current position."

Although I'm sad to see Miyamoto stepping down from the helm of Mario, Zelda, and other core titles, I hope his renewed focus on new, smaller properties will lead to new hits. Nintendo could certainly use new properties.

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Reply #658 - Dec 19^th, 2011 at 4:07pm

b0b wrote on Dec 16^th, 2011 at 9:03pm:

I have a feeling the Christmas sale (and possibly a scavenger hunt) is going to hit next week.

Did I call that or what? The Steam Christmas sale started today. The site is getting nailed to the wall with heavy traffic, so you might want to wait a couple hours to start browsing. Here are today's deals:

Amnesia - 75% Off
Sam and Max - 75% Off
Fable 3 - 75% Off
Max Payne - 75% Off
Bunch of Heroes - 75% Off
Penduo Adventure Pack - 75% Off
Singularity - 75% Off
RIFT - 75% Off
Orcs Must Die - 75% Off
Portal - 66% Off
Just Cause - 75% Off

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Reply #660 - Dec 20^th, 2011 at 9:39am

Have you guys given Dungeon Defenders a spin yet? It's the latest title to steal my limited free time, and it definitely deserves a look. I've only had a few hours to burn so far, but I can't wait to waste a weekend playing this one.

Dungeon Defenders is a first/third person Tower Defense/RPG title. Most of you have played Sanctum, so imagine Sanctum set in a cartoony fantasy world and tack on some great RPG elements. Like Sanctum, you get to spend points (Mana in this case) either building towers or buffing your character. Unlike Sanctum, the points you spend on your character are permanent. You can level your character up and put points into skills that directly impact your character such as health, damage, attack speed, etc. Alternatively, you can spend points on abilities that impact those same stats on your towers. I've split my points roughly 50/50 between character buffs and tower buffs, so I can make decent towers and deal some damage with my spells.

You've also got a myriad of characters to choose from. I'm playing an Apprentice (think wizard), who deals moderate ranged damage and has a good selection of towers to choose from. Other classes excel at tower building, melee damage, setting traps, etc. In addition to buffing your character by leveling, you can also wear a variety of armor, use a class-specific weapon, and bring along a pet. Each of these items can have a number of stat buffs or unique abilities, and they can be leveled by spending mana. Each time you level your weapon/armor/pet, you can choose which stat to boost. It makes for an incredibly open-ended game.

You have a tavern in the game that you can retreat to between battles to sell loot, upgrade items, and show off your trophy and item collection.
Here is the tavern of a ridiculously high-level guy, displaying his collection of lightsabers.

The artwork (and GUI) are incredibly reminiscent of Torchlight. The game looks good, and it can run on darn near any modern PC.
Dungeon Defenders mixes up the traditional tower defense genre with boss battles and other special events.

The game can get quite hectic at times. By the time you get to the last wave, you'll get absolutely inundated in enemies. It's crazy fun!

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Reply #671 - Feb 16^th, 2012 at 7:57pm

The PC demo of Mass Effect is every bit as good as I hoped it would be. It gives a great feel for the game. ME3 seems to have much more in common with ME2 in terms of gameplay than ME2 did with the original title.

The graphics are very much on par with Mass Effect 2. I didn't see any new eye candy that trumps the previous title, although there were some very interesting set pieces. Lots of old friends return for the third title, including one particular individual that I was very happy to see as a primary PC.

I'm going to fire up Mass Effect 2 tonight and start my second playthrough. I need a perfect save and a level 50 character to bring into ME3!

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Reply #673 - Feb 17^th, 2012 at 11:02pm

Yeah, I'm wondering how Wrex and Grunt are going to get along (assuming Grunt appears)? I can't imagine they'll be great friends.

I just started my second playthrough last night. I forgot how incredibly engrossing this game could be. Now I just have to make it last until March 6th!

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Reply #678 - Mar 4^th, 2012 at 4:33pm

Another amazing trailer for Mass Effect 3:

I'm furiously running through my second playthrough of Mass Effect 2. Nobody is going to die this time, damn it!

I'm still peeved that ME3 isn't going to be on Steam. Origin is, as always, a complete trainwreck. Mass Effect 3 preloads started on Friday, but for some reason, the option to preload is still grayed out for me. I've spent a fair amount of time Googling for a fix and have found a lot of people with the same problem, but I still can't get my issue fixed. This had better be resolved by Tuesday, dang it!

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Reply #679 - Mar 4^th, 2012 at 6:49pm

Origin was a complete crappity smack up for The Old Republic too.

Justin pre-ordered like 2 months in advance, and they only charged his card 5 bucks....he didn't notice.

The day the game launched they charged his card the other 55 dollars and bounced his account! Who the hell does that with a pre-order on a card? Never seen that shit in my life.

Origins response? Your bad.

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Reply #680 - Mar 5^th, 2012 at 1:32pm

Wow, I finally got my preload notice from Origin at 1:30pm today, a whopping three days after preloading became available for everyone else. I was worried I wasn't going to be able to play at all tomorrow night.

I have bigger worries, though. I've just finished collecting all of my crew members in my second playthrough of ME2, and I need to beat it before I can start ME3. Life is hard, mmkay!

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Reply #682 - Mar 5^th, 2012 at 9:24pm

I would comment about all the awesome games I've been playing; however, the man-friend has been playing non-stop Old Republic for what feels like forever and hogging the gaming system. Damn you, Old Republic.

The last thing I played was De Blob 2 ((because I have a 9 year old niece) and excluding the Zumba PS3 Move workout). It's a sad, sad world. Last *good* game played: Heavy Rain. I'm excluding board games because Dominion was just introduced to me this past weekend and I feel behind the curve and around the corner on that.

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Reply #685 - Mar 6^th, 2012 at 8:48pm

Heavy Rain is pretty great for both player and viewer. Rob played a lot of it, but it was actually one of the few games where I could be involved without playing because it played out like a movie. I had to keep watching it.

Zumba for the PS3 Move isn't quite everything I wanted it to be- it's definitely fun, definitely a work out but I have trouble keeping the controller in the game-provided belt and feel that it's one of the Move games with not-so-great movement detection. I'm trying to convince my friend with the XBox Kinect to get it for his girlfriend so that she and I can play it one day. Basically, so I can compare motion-systems.

Also, I should mention that getting a work-out game as a "gift" may not go over well in the lady-world. It may send the wrong message, unless she's been asking for that particular game. Lady-friendly games thus far: Katamari (anything), Little Big Planet 1 & 2 (love love love love LBP) and Indiana Jones Lego-version. That is, if she's an Indiana Jones fan. I think the lego games are all pretty charming and simple. But I guess that depends on her gaming style. For me, I like ultra-cute things. And Heavy Rain (not very cute at all, despite the origami crane on its cover).

Rob and I are definitely having some problems with certain games more than others and we aren't sure if it's the size of our living room or if it's the game itself. Does anyone else have a PSMove and if so, are you having the same issues?

Not that it matters, because the next time I will be playing with the Move is when Rob is done playing TOR. Apparently, this is an end not in sight. Grin

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Reply #687 - Mar 9^th, 2012 at 1:10am

hehe

I am at GDC in San Francisco right now, and I was in that talk where David Cage showed that video for the first time. I was really impressed because their focus was on story, and emotion first rather than creating a true tech demo. If any of you have played Heavy Rain, you'll know all about that. However he even admitted that they were still in the uncanny valley (the closer you get to a realistic cg human face, the more uncomfortable you get as a viewer)

What was interesting to me was seeing the performance capture of the actress after seeing the cg trailer. She did an amazing job, but the whole range of facial subtleties that she performed were still not captured. They also recorded 2 other actresses with very similar voices to do the French and Japanese segments so they would be authentic. They then retargeted that animation onto the rig and cut in the different voices. Their goals were to test new believable facial animation tech, as well as tears, scarring, etc.

I would very much like to see this technology combined with Rockstar's facial video animation technology that they used for LA Noire. I think we are really getting to a point where the face alone in games can give a great read of emotion. But I also feel that we still need some form of stylization to the art style, because super realism can seem stiff or uncomfortable. I think it only worked really well in avatar because they were blue and catlike. If they were more human toned and shaped, they probably would have looked terrible. We are close though, and this video definitely pulled on ye ole heartstrings.

Very cool!

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Reply #691 - Mar 28^th, 2012 at 11:05am

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The Next PlayStation is Called Orbis, Sources Say

While the official reveal of Sony's next home console could still be months away, if not longer, Kotaku has today learned some important details concerning the PlayStation 3's successor.

For one, the console's name—or at least its codename/working title—is apparently Orbis. And it's being planned for release in time for the 2013 holiday season.

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Still, if you'd like to know what developers are being told to plan for now, here you go.

AMD x64 CPU
AMD Southern Islands GPU

The former, that's largely something we've heard before, but the latter is interesting. That's the name given to many of AMD's 2012 roster of high-end PC cards. The PS4's GPU in particular, we're told, will be capable of displaying Orbis games at a resolution of up to 4096x2160, which is far in excess of the needs of most current HDTV sets. It'll also be capable of playing 3D games in 1080p (the PS3 could only safely manage 3D at 720p).

Hopefully this one won't suck!

More details here: http://kotaku.com/5896996/the-next-playstation-is-called-orbis-sources-say-here-...

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Reply #693 - Apr 13^th, 2012 at 8:43am

X wrote on Apr 13^th, 2012 at 8:06am:

Finished Skyrim. Kind of underwhelming. I don't feel like anything my character did had any real effect on the world. A decent game. Grade - B-

I'm not sure what game you were playing, but I don't think it was the same Skyrim the rest of us played. Did you inadvertently pick up a rebranded Chinese knockoff?

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Reply #695 - Apr 13^th, 2012 at 2:42pm

The_Fat_Man wrote on Apr 13^th, 2012 at 12:45pm:

No I agree with him. The more I play games like Mass Effect 3 the more I start to wonder why I liked Skyrim so much. The games combat is pretty bland, and the storyline is terrible.

Yeah, but who plays Elder Scrolls games for the storyline? That's like complaining about the Shelby GT1000 getting poor gas mileage.

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Reply #696 - Apr 13^th, 2012 at 10:32pm

Ya, it was pretty...but what result did you ending the rebellion bring to anyone but the Yarls saying "I'm glad the war is over"?

What was the result of saving all of Skyrim from Alduin aka THE WORLD EATER?! Some dragons flew around you and said "cya!" I was waiting for an upgrade or a million gold or some special armor or something.

Also, good or bad acts give nothing except fetch quests. Join the Dark Brotherhood? Fine. It's the same as saving a town from Imperial raiders. And after all that, everyone's response is, "Meh".

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Reply #702 - Apr 15^th, 2012 at 3:16pm

Cait wrote on Apr 15^th, 2012 at 2:09pm:

Not sure if you guys are partial to tabletop/card gaming at all- but there's a new-ish game called "Cards against Humanity" that is HILARIOUS and fun. Subtitled "a card game for horrible people," it's basically a really twisted version of Apples to Apples.

Apples to Apples is a fantastic game. We'll have to look it up next time we're at the game store. How does gameplay work?

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Reply #703 - Apr 17^th, 2012 at 4:21pm

http://penny-arcade.com/report/editorial-article/free-to-play-without-the-pay-ca...

I'm not sure if any of you have been keeping up with gaming news lately, but Tribes Ascend recently (kinda) launched. Its a free-to-play version of the Tribes FPS game. It's pretty good, and you can earn everything in the game through XP, or bust out that credit card and purchase the unlocks with money.

Anyways, if you are bored, and looking for a kick ass unique shooter to play, give it a whirl.

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Reply #706 - Apr 18^th, 2012 at 10:01am

It looks like Bethesda is publishing an interesting-looking game that isn't based on Elder Scrolls or Fallout. Dishonored appears to be a sneak-and-kill type of game in a very similar vein to Assassin's Creed, albeit with magical elements, bullet time, and a heavy steampunk theme.

What do you guys think?

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Reply #707 - May 3^rd, 2012 at 2:46pm

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Elder Scrolls going online with MMO planned for 2013
by Kyle Orland

Tired of wandering around the world of Skyrim killing dragons and filling houses with cabbage all by yourself? You won't have to stay lonely for long, as Zenimax Media has announced The Elder Scrolls Online, which will take the franchise in a massively multiplayer direction for the first time, starting in 2013.

If I had to describe this in two words, it'd be "bad idea." One of the best elements about the Elder Scrolls games is that it's an incredibly immersive single-player world that does an excellent job of drawing you in as a player (unless you're Stewie). I fail to see how this could be properly executed as an MMO.

Cyan and their successors tried to do the same thing with the Myst series, another type of game that didn't lend itself to a massively multiplayer world at all. That games was anything but a resounding success.

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Reply #714 - May 15^th, 2012 at 9:40am

I had a chance to play Diablo 3 for about an hour before work this morning. I'm chomping at the bit to get back to it tonight! As expected, the game seems to be incredibly polished, and it's the good ol' Diablo hack-and-slash sweetness that we've all come to know and love.

I started off with a male wizard and I'm going to focus on a nuke build. It looks like there are a ton of excellent nuke abilities at higher levels.

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Reply #715 - May 15^th, 2012 at 3:48pm

Aside from the fact that Battle.net, and Blizzard have done another shitty job at launching a title, the game is amazing. I've been playing all morning.

I've also been disconnected 4 times, and am currently unable to log back in. My friend Josh has not been able to log in at all since last midnight. And Justin's account is not receiving credit for any achievements.

It amazes me how with ALL of their resources, Blizzard continuously has the absolute worst launches for its games.

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Reply #716 - May 15^th, 2012 at 5:25pm

I just came here to complain about the same thing. I tried playing on my lunch break, but the game was in the middle of a two-hour service outage. I managed to get in this afternoon at about 4:45pm and I played for a whopping 30 minutes before the servers went down again, this time for a (scheduled) 75 minute outage.

I understand that incredibly popular games will often have intermittent issues on launch day, but this game has been out for fifteen hours and it's been unplayable for a good portion of that window. It's not just overcrowding, but apparently some sort of systemic issue that is requiring patching from Blizzard.

This is particularly egregious because I'm playing a single player game. I could understand if I was playing a multiplayer game or if I gave a damn about achievements, but I'm just trying to complete a casual single-player run through the game. It's made worse by the fact Diablo 3 has been in development for eleven years, the last two of which have been dedicated to "polish". Moreover, Blizzard runs the single largest MMO in existence, so you'd think they'd have this whole network management thing figured out.

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Reply #720 - May 15^th, 2012 at 11:56pm

Yeah, it looks like Battle.Net is down in it's entirety. A friend of mine brought his computer over so I could install an old video card of mine, and we were playing co-op. We had just finished beating the Skeleton King and were identifying our rare/yellow items when Battle.Net went down. I sincerely hope we don't lose any (more) progress or items when it comes back up.

From the looks of it, even the Diablo 3 website is down:

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Reply #724 - May 16^th, 2012 at 9:38pm

Sadly its almost true. I played all day just fine. Prime time hits and I keep getting knocked to the login screen.

This wouldn't be a problem but the way the game saves checkpoints, you can often end up having to redo an ENTIRE huge section of the map to continue the story.

I think this guy is done playing at night till they fix this stuff.

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Reply #725 - May 16^th, 2012 at 9:38pm

Keep laughing, Stewie.

The Diablo 3 servers went down again a few minutes ago with a whopping four minute warning. Apparently, this is for a "scheduled" reboot, although apparently it was only scheduled internally and they didn't bother to tell their customers.

I was able to get back in a few minutes later, but I had lost about 30 minutes of progress. Fortunately, I didn't lose any items or XP/gold, only my location in the game.

Five minutes later, I got disconnected again. Now I'm getting a "Servers are Busy" error, but I'm not sure if that's a legitimate error or a sign of an authentication server issue. You'd think Blizzard could have introduced a queuing system.

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Reply #730 - May 21^st, 2012 at 12:06pm

I finished up my first run of Diablo 3 last night. The final boss was crazy-nuts-hard when soloing, even with my relatively twinked character (~800DPS at level 30). After dying seven times in a row, I jumped into a group and it became an instant cake walk.

Stewie, I know you love cinema, so you need to pick this up just for the cutscenes. Blizzard is known for some amazing FMVs, but they really outdid themselves with this one.

Now, onto the second playthrough at nightmare difficulty!

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Reply #732 - May 22^nd, 2012 at 12:54pm

Stick,

The difficulty is definitely progressive. It gets more difficult throughout the playthrough, but it also gets substantially more difficult from one playthrough to the next. I'm about 30% of the way through my second playthrough, and I am already struggling when I play solo. I died two or three times before I got to the end boss in the entire first playthrough. I've died six or seven times to a single random champion pack in nightmare. It's crazy how much tougher those mobs have gotten.

In the interest of full disclosure, I am playing a "glass cannon," which is a wizard build that is balls-to-the-wall damage and absolutely no HP/resist/defense. I can tear up just about anything, but I'm incredibly squishy.

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Reply #736 - May 22^nd, 2012 at 8:12pm

You don't really need to know about D1 and 2 to enjoy Diablo 3 Patsy. It wouldn't hurt, but you defiantely won't notice it. Most of Diablo is about killing lots of shit Wink

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The login thing isn't that bad, and its cool that you can play with other people, buy gear on the auction house, and see your friends and chat with them. Now that they have fixed their broken ass server compacity issues, I haven't had much issue at all.

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Reply #739 - May 24^th, 2012 at 6:11pm

The_Fat_Man wrote on May 24^th, 2012 at 5:43pm:

Just finished Diablo 3 on Normal. Was a pretty epic finish. Made it to 32 before taking down Diablo, solo, without dying. I think Bob might be going a little light on the Vitality side of the game Wink

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I'm not sure where I was when I finished Normal, but I just had to completely re-spec my character to make him less squishy. I died seven or eight times trying to kill the butcher on Hell. I compared my specs to another wizard with 22,000HP - I had 6,200. ;-/

I've been giving up Magic Find in favor of vitality, and I boosted it to 11,300 with just two items. I'm hoping to be in the 15k range with a few more items.

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Reply #742 - May 29^th, 2012 at 12:46pm

I made it to Inferno yesterday. Absolutely, positively, mind-bogglingly difficult. You know the crap zombie mobs that appear in the very beginning of the game? They hit me for about 12,500 damage. The epic and champion packs are pretty much unbeatable, even with an excellent four-person team. I'm definitely going to have to grind on Hell to farm gold for better equipment.

This is my preferred method of playing on Inferno difficulty:

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Reply #743 - May 29^th, 2012 at 1:10pm

In related news, here's a very interesting post from Blizzard about planned updates for the next patch. They're fairly substantial updates, including a reduction in gem combination prices and materials, a reduction in blacksmith upgrade costs, and a buff to the power of Legendary items, among others.

http://us.battle.net/d3/en/blog/6018173/Game_Design_Update-5_28_2012

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Reply #745 - May 29^th, 2012 at 7:55pm

In case any of you were wondering, the stability of the Diablo servers is still questionable. I picked up a copy for Mere last night and got it installed this afternoon. I was going to run her through the basics tonight, but guess what - servers are down. I tried playing on lunch today, but guess what - servers were down.

As a network engineer, the magic number for infrastructure uptime is "five nines," or 99.999% uptime. That number is difficult to achieve, but with the right design (and budget) it is an approachable goal. I don't necessarily expect a video game to have 99.999% uptime, but I'm somewhat convinced that Blizzard's infrastructure folks are borderline incompetent. The game has been out for two weeks, how could this not be ironed out yet?

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Reply #746 - May 29^th, 2012 at 9:10pm

Blizzard is just terrible with customer management, they simply do not give a fuck if they inconvenience you. They have millions and millions of people playing WoW, Starcraft and Diablo, so who gives a shit right.

The best part is all of the fanboys on the Diablo 3 forums talking about how the launch wasn't that bad.

Star Wars the Old Republic had only .2% downtime in their first week of operation. And it was scheduled maintenance. Bioware used these fancy things called login que's and inactivity kicks to prevent their servers from taking massive shits.

Yeah you had to wait 10 minutes to login at prime time Friday night, but 10 minutes is better than constant server down time.

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Reply #749 - May 31^st, 2012 at 2:39pm

I tried to jump onto the Auction House today during lunch, but the servers were down. Yay, Blizzard!

Since I've wasted entirely too much of the last two weeks on Diablo, Bethesda is rescuing me with the announcement of the first Skyrim expansion, Dawnguard:

Sadly, it won't be available until the ambiguous date of "Summer", and the XBox will get it 30 days before PC and PS3.

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Reply #757 - Jun 19^th, 2012 at 11:10am

Patch 1.03 is launching for Diablo 3 today. Massive, massive changes are included, some of them good and some of them bad.

Demon Hunters are getting nerfed to hell and back, packs in Inferno Act 2-4 are getting nerfed, and loot drops are decreasing pretty much across the board.

The full and lengthy list can be found here: http://www.diablofans.com/news/1253-patch-103-official-patch-notes/

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Reply #765 - Jul 12^th, 2012 at 6:49pm

Yay, Steam sale! I picked up a few games, and noticed a nifty new feature. I'm sitting in a hotel room in St. Louis and made the purchase through the Steam website instead of the client. After making the purchase, I saw an option to remotely install the games I'd bought on my home PC. I thought that was pretty nifty!

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Reply #766 - Jul 23^rd, 2012 at 12:53am

Soooo now that the sale is rapidly coming to a close. What games did people get and are excited to play/are playing?

I tried to pick up some space sim games, but none looked particularly awesome yet (a couple on the horizon)
Did get:

Darkstar One
Space Rangers 2 (really like this game)
Gal Civ 2

My abridged list:

Warhammer dawn of war 2
Arma 2 (for Day Z baby!)
Arkham City
STALKER
Sim City 4
Train Simulator 2012 (haha)
Sins of a Solar Empire
Bioshock 1 and 2
Civ 5
Rage
Dead Space 1 and 2
Saints Row 3
Fallout New Vegas
Dead Island
From Dust
Darksiders
Deus Ex Human Revolution

Indy Games:

Plants V Zombies
Botanica
Dear Esther

Any stinkers in there to avoid? Or anything I should get before 1pm tomorrow?

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Reply #767 - Jul 23^rd, 2012 at 8:26am

I picked up a few packs and a couple franchises, along with a smattering of indie titles here and there. I was stuck in St. Louis until Friday, so I didn't really have a chance to troll the summer sale as much as I would have liked.

The first title on my list is Anno 2070. It looks like an interesting title and I'm ready for something unique. Hack, Slash, Loot is also toward the top of the list.

-b0b
(...yay Steam!)

Jul 22 - You now own Evochron Mercenary, SOL: Exodus, Lunar Flight, Splice, SpliceSoundtrack, Botanicula, The Dream Machine, chapter3_depot, Quantum Conundrum, Adam's Venture Episode 1: The Search For The Lost Garden, Adam's Venture Episode 2: Solomon's Secret, Adam's Venture Episode 3: Revelations, Anno 2070, Anno 2070 - Standard Key, Anno 2070 - The Keeper Package, Anno 2070 - The Development Package, Anno 2070 - The Eden Series Package, Anno 2070 - The Central Statistical Package, Anno 2070 - The Crisis Response Package, Anno 2070 - The Distrust Series Package, The Silent Running Package, The Nordamark Line Package, The E.V.E. Package.

Jul 20 - You now own Xpand Rally Xtreme, Crash Time III, Driver San Francisco, Driver San Francisco - Deluxe Key, Driver San Francisco - Deluxe Key - Mac, Killing Floor - RO2 Digital Deluxe DLC, Red Orchestra 2 - Digital Deluxe DLC, Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad, Red Orchestra 2 SDK, Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad Beta, Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad - Single Player, Spiral Knights - Sonic CD DLC, Sonic CD, The Doctor Who Cloned Me, The Doctor Who Cloned Me Mac, Dungeon Defenders Penny Arcade Costume Pack, Dungeon Defenders Penny Arcade Costume Pack, Dungeon Defenders Lucky Community Costume Pack, Dungeon Defenders - City in the Cliffs Mission Pack, Dungeon Defenders - Series EV Hero DLC, Stellar Impact, Stellar Impact - Game Activation Key, Stellar Impact – Support Ship, Stellar Impact - Carrier Ship, Stellar Impact - Artillery Ship, Analogue: A Hate Story, Analogue: A Hate Story Soundtrack, Analogue costume pack DLC, PixelJunk Eden, PixelJunk Eden Original-Soundtrack, Fireburst, Crysis 2 Maximum Edition, Killing Floor - Harold Lott Character Pack, Killing Floor - Urban Nightmare Character Pack, Bang Bang Racing.

Jul 19 - You now own Hack, Slash, Loot, Gratuitous Tank Battles, Krater, Tribes: Ascend - Steam Starter Pack, Nexuiz Duel Mode, The Scourge Project: Episode 1 and 2, Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stone, Mutant Storm Reloaded, Fowl Space, Bumbledore, Painkiller: Recurring Evil, A Valley Without Wind, Dynamite Jack, Thief 2, Thief Gold, Alien Shooter 2 Conscription.

Jul 17 - You now own Stronghold 3, Stronghold 3 Warwick Statue Banner DLC, Stronghold 3 Marksburg Statue Banner DLC, Stronghold 3 Tower of London DLC, Stronghold 3 Edinburgh DLC, Stronghold 3 Harlech DLC, Stronghold 3 Blackstaff Campaign, Stronghold 3 - Map Editor, Gotham City Impostors, Gotham City Impostors Double XP - Self, Gotham City Impostors Double XP - Team, Gotham City Impostors Rodeo Pirate Pack, Gotham City Impostors Dress Up Pack, Gotham City Impostors Calling Card Pack 1, Gotham City Impostors Calling Card Pack 2, Gotham City Impostors Croc Pet, Gotham City Impostors Gotham Mascot - Pretty Poison, Gotham City Impostors Gotham Mascot - Harlette, Gotham City Impostors Gotham Mascot - Killah Kitteh, Gotham City Impostors Unlock: Premium Card Pack 3, Gotham City Impostors Premium Card Pack 6, Gotham City Impostors Premium Card Pack 7, Gotham City Impostors Steamy Punk Pack, Gotham City Impostors Mega XP Boost - Solo, Gotham City Impostors Mega XP Boost - Team, Gotham City Impostors Costume Coin Boost - Solo, Batman: Arkham Asylum GOTY Edition, Batman: Arkham City™, Batman Arkham City: Arkham City Skins Pack, Batman Arkham City: Robin Bundle, Batman Arkham City: Nightwing Bundle, Batman Arkham City: Challenge Map Pack, Batman Arkham City: Harley Quinn.

Jul 16 - You now own Assassin's Creed Revelations - The Ancestors Character Pack, Assassin's Creed Revelations - The Mediterranean Traveler Map Pack, Assassin's Creed Revelations - The Lost Archive, Alan Wake, Alan Wake Developer Commentary, Alan Wake's American Nightmare, Trine 2, Trine 2 Collectors, Tropico 4 DLC Quick-Dry-Cement, Mount & Blade: Warband - Napoleonic Wars, Ys: The Oath in Felghana, Ys Origin, Tropico 4: Modern Times.

Jul 12 - You now own Eschalon: Book 2, Runespell: Overture, Legend of Grimrock, Avernum: Escape From the Pit, Crusader Kings Complete, Puzzler World 2, Crusader Kings II, Dynasty CoA Pack 1, Mongol Graphics Pack, Songs of Albion, Songs of Faith, Ruler Designer, Songs of the Holy Land.

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Reply #770 - Jul 27^th, 2012 at 3:17pm

http://kotaku.com/5929067/gabe-newell-wants-to-support-linux-because-windows-8-i...

http://kotaku.com/5929569/blizzard-isnt-happy-with-windows-8-either

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The head of Valve says his company is working to develop for Linux, calling Microsoft's Windows 8 a "catastrophe" that will lead product manufacturers to abandon the platform.

At a gaming event in Seattle last night, as reported by AllThingsD, Valve CEO Gabe Newell said the one thing holding back Linux is video game support.

"The big problem that is holding back Linux is games. People don't realize how critical games are in driving consumer purchasing behavior," Newell said, according to AllThingsD. "We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well. It's a hedging strategy. I think Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space. I think we'll lose some of the top-tier PC/OEMs, who will exit the market. I think margins will be destroyed for a bunch of people. If that's true, then it will be good to have alternatives to hedge against that eventuality."

Looks like Microsoft is sticking to the Star Trek movies philosophy of quality. Every other release is good!

Bad news.

However I picked up on this statement from Gaben:

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We want to make it as easy as possible for the 2,500 games on Steam to run on Linux as well.

Bobs current amount of games: 1,881

Comon Bob, only 619 more to go!!!

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Reply #772 - Aug 14^th, 2012 at 1:44pm

b0b wrote on Aug 14^th, 2012 at 8:38am:

It's ridiculously unlikely, but a leaked PDF shows that Valve is going to announce Half-Life 3 at Gamescom:

http://www.t3.com/news/half-life-3-confirmed-at-gamescon

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I guess not. Sad

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #774 - Aug 15^th, 2012 at 2:51pm Also, it appears EA has effectively killed off on of the only sequels I'm really looking forward to. Generals 2 (sequel to Command and Conquer: Generals) is now being partially aborted and will launch as a free-to-play title: A poll on a Generals fan site is taking a beating so far, with 3/4 of voters calling it a bad idea:
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Reply #778 - Aug 16^th, 2012 at 12:54am

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/659943965/planetary-annihilation-a-next-gene...

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/902505202/castle-story/

Two cool looking games I just backed on Kickstarter.

Look bob, Planetary Annihilation is from some of the Total Annihilation guys!

And the 2nd one looks a bit like Minecraft + Dungeon Defenders

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Reply #781 - Aug 19^th, 2012 at 2:44pm

The_Fat_Man wrote on Aug 16^th, 2012 at 1:55pm:

Mists of Pandaria (World of Warcraft) Opening Cinematic. While a goofy ass concept...the cinematic is absolutely mind blowing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvYXoyxLv64&feature=player_embedded

Awesome! They should hire Dreamworks Animation to do a movie based on this idea. They could call it Kung Fu Panda!

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Reply #782 - Aug 19^th, 2012 at 2:45pm

MediaMaster wrote on Aug 16^th, 2012 at 12:54am:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/659943965/planetary-annihilation-a-next-gene...

Look bob, Planetary Annihilation is from some of the Total Annihilation guys!

Squeeeeeeeeeee!

This is now officially the number one entry on my list of games I'm looking forward to. I wasted far too much time on Total Annihilation, and the Supreme Commander titles (especially the second one) didn't really scratch the TA itch. This looks absolutely amazing!

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Reply #785 - Aug 21^st, 2012 at 10:02am

Patch 1.0.4 of Diablo 3 is released today, including this pretty awesome little gem.....

The new Paragon system coming in patch 1.0.4 is designed to address Magic Find gear-swapping while providing players who’ve reached level 60 with an extended progression system.
Here’s how it works:
After you hit level 60, any further experience you earn from killing monsters will begin to count toward Paragon levels
There are 100 Paragon levels
Every Paragon level will reward you with:
Core stats such as Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, and Vitality in amounts similar to what you’d gain from a normal level
3% Magic Find and 3% Gold Find
In addition, a distinctive increasingly-impressive border will surround your character portrait in the in-game party frame to denote your Paragon progression, with a new frame earned after every ten levels. Your Paragon level will also be visible to other players wherever your normal level is shown
We know that a lot of you out there are level 60 -- maybe on multiple characters -- and this system provides a way to make progress every time you log in to the game.

To support the new system, Nephalem Valor (NV) will now also provide a 15% experience bonus per stack, applicable toward Paragon levels. The first Paragon level should take about as long as it took most players to get from level 59 to 60, and the experience requirement will rise from there. The time to reach the upper Paragon levels approximates the long-term time investment required to get a level 99 character in Diablo II.

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Reply #786 - Aug 23^rd, 2012 at 3:25pm

So, rumor has it that Nintendo Power will be ceasing publication by the end of the year. I have nearly every issue from #34 to present day, and it makes me sad to see them closing up shop.

That said, it makes sense. Nintendo outsourced NP in 2007 to a gaming magazine conglomerate, and the quality went way, way downhill. I honestly haven't read more than one or two articles in the past five years, but I just couldn't cancel my subscription.

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Reply #788 - Sep 3^rd, 2012 at 2:36pm

Here's a really odd one. I got a friend request from MerryRogers on Steam today. That's Meredith's user name, and she's been on my friend list since I created her account a few years ago. I also noticed the account was currently playing Counterstrike, which Meredith doesn't own and would never play.

I thought her account had been hacked, so I logged into her PC and everything was fine. I have the account guard feature turned on (highly recommended) and everything is normal. I went back to my account and compared her profile to the fake MerryRogers profile:

Fake Meredith:

Real Meredith:

So they've stolen her name, description, location, and tag, and even linked to the forum. They've even joined her primary group (AR15.com). Then, they sent me a friend request and added this note to my profile:

Frickin' creepy thieves. If for some reason this poseur sends any messages to you, please know that it isn't Meredith.

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Reply #789 - Sep 8^th, 2012 at 9:45am

b0b wrote on Aug 19^th, 2012 at 2:44pm:

The_Fat_Man wrote on Aug 16^th, 2012 at 1:55pm:

Mists of Pandaria (World of Warcraft) Opening Cinematic. While a goofy ass concept...the cinematic is absolutely mind blowing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvYXoyxLv64&feature=player_embedded

Awesome! They should hire Dreamworks Animation to do a movie based on this idea. They could call it Kung Fu Panda!

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I would agree bob, if I could over look the fact that Blizzard had created the Pandarian Monks LONG before Kung Fu Panda was around...

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Reply #792 - Sep 16^th, 2012 at 9:09pm

After eight years of labor, Black Mesa was finally released on Friday. In case you've been hiding under a rock since 2004, Black Mesa is a fan-made remake of the original Half-Life using the Source engine. I had a chance to spend 30 minutes playing today so I've just scratched the surface, but it looks and plays great and it is incredibly faithful to the original.

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Reply #793 - Sep 24^th, 2012 at 12:34pm

I feel like I've been living at work lately, but I got some time to play Borderlands 2 over the weekend. So far, it's been a fantastic game and it improves upon several of the shortcomings of the first title. It's very much an evolutionary title and in many ways it feels like a natural continuation on the original Borderlands.

The PC port, in particular, shows a lot more polish compared to the original Borderlands. A lot of the key-binding issues have been taken care of and the god-awful GameSpy multi-player matchmaking system (and the janky port forwarding requirement) has been replaced by full Steamworks integration.

Here are a couple screenshots. The game can't compare graphically with Skyrim or Crysis, but it still manages to look absolutely beautiful at times in its own way.

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The_Fat_Man Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Grand High Overlard Posts: 910 Colorado Springs, Colorado Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #794 - Sep 24^th, 2012 at 8:10pm Borderlands is one of my favorite games of all time. The PS3 version of Borderlands 2 is outstanding so far. Though I've only put in about 6 hours.
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Reply #800 - Oct 23^rd, 2012 at 11:13pm

I'd like to buy a memorable title to commemorate #2,000. It seems like too good an opportunity to pass up. Here's a list of titles that are currently in my wishlist:

Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
Resident Evil: Operation Raccoon City
Game of Thrones
Dishonored
The Darkness II
XCOM: Enemy Unknown
Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion
Confrontation

I'm leaning toward XCOM or Dishonored, and Dishonored seems to be the popular game of the week. Will it be memorable enough for 2,000?

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Reply #803 - Oct 28^th, 2012 at 2:03pm

I finally decided on Hotline Miami. I'm a sucker for quirky games, and this definitely looks like it will fit the bill. It certainly looks unique if nothing else, and it has received rave reviews.

Hotline Miami on Steam

For some odd reason, I fell from 1,999 to 1,996 titles over the course of the week, presumably due to the way steam counts DLC, soundtracks, game guides, or some other oddball content. I also picked up Deadlight and Giana Sisters along with some DLC to get back up to 1,999 before making the big purchase.

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The_Fat_Man Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Grand High Overlard Posts: 910 Colorado Springs, Colorado Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #805 - Nov 1^st, 2012 at 1:17pm Anyone else have the problem where every time they play a new game on Steam, it has to install DirectX.... Is this just me, or is Steam not smart enough to figure out it's installed DirectX 50+ times on my computer
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #806 - Nov 1^st, 2012 at 3:02pm Yeah, this has been a long-term issue. Apparently, Valve's response is that different games use different DirectX packages, even for the same version of DirectX. It still seems like they could use a package hash to determine whether or not a specific DirectX installer has been run previously. -b0b (...always found this irritating.)
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The_Fat_Man Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Grand High Overlard Posts: 910 Colorado Springs, Colorado Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #807 - Nov 1^st, 2012 at 7:13pm That is slightly amusing, considering the other 30 games I own that I did not buy through Steam don't make me install DirectX every time
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #809 - Nov 2^nd, 2012 at 10:23am X wrote on Nov 2^nd, 2012 at 7:39am: Or how you can close a game and open it back up and there's the DLing of DirectX...again! I've only seen this a couple times. I blame the developer of the game for this one, not Valve.
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The_Fat_Man Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Grand High Overlard Posts: 910 Colorado Springs, Colorado Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #810 - Nov 2^nd, 2012 at 7:50pm Steam is a giant flaming piece of crap. I appreciate what it has done for PC gaming (kept it alive period), but I think it could be done a million times better. Not to mention their customer support is atrocious.
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Reply #811 - Nov 3^rd, 2012 at 11:59am

Them's fightin' words!

Steam isn't always perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than any other platform I've used (Origin and Impulse). Their sales continue to be outrageous and the platform has turned me on to a ton of games that I never would have played otherwise. They continue to be one of the only ways for indie publishers to get any notice at all, and they continue to push the boundaries with new technologies like Steam Greenlight.

The availability of software is also an interesting development, and one that I think was a long time in coming. At the moment, the selection is anemic and there honestly isn't a single thing I need to have, but I can see the software store expanding exponentially over the next year or two. There are several products I wouldn't mind buying through Steam (e.g. WinAmp, WinRAR, a permanent copy of Vuze Pro, etc) that I would rather not buy individually.

That said, I've never had to deal with support directly, but I fully believe the reports of it being less than desirable. You have to keep in mind, however, that Steam has 54 million users with up to 5 million concurrent users at any given time. That's a hell of a user base to support. That doesn't excuse their poor support, but it does put it in perspective.

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #814 - Nov 5^th, 2012 at 3:27pm The first trailer for the next Skyrim DLC, Dragonborn, is out. It looks nifty, and it seems like a plausible excuse for a hella-badass boss. -b0b (...XBox first, of course.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #816 - Nov 6^th, 2012 at 4:41pm The minds behind Shadowgate have launched a Kickstarter project to fund a complete ground-up remake. I had a ton of fun with Shadowgate '99, so I kicked a few bucks their way. Check it out! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zojoi/shadowgate -b0b (...yay, text!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #818 - Nov 10^th, 2012 at 2:03pm There's a nifty game discount giveaway here: http://www.autumnseal.com/ Ten chances to win a coupon for up to 75% off a game, and you can try again after five minutes. -b0b (...yay cheap games!)
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Reply #821 - Nov 12^th, 2012 at 12:14am

Gabe Newell kinda-sorta confirmed that Valve is busily working on a new game engine, Source 2. Based on the limited details Gabe gave, it's apparently a totally new engine as opposed to an update to Source (which was itself an update to GoldSrc, the engine developed for Half-Life).

He also seemingly confirmed Valve was working on Ricochet 2. Ricochet was a crappy Tron-esque disc throwing game that will almost certainly never see a sequel, and Gabe has referred to Half-Life 3 as "Ricochet 2" in the past.

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #823 - Nov 13^th, 2012 at 3:42pm We definitely need to have our annual New Year's(ish) LAN. I'm going to be gone for 2-4 weeks in January/February and I'm not sure exactly when that will occur, but I'll definitely make a post as soon as I find out. -b0b (...in freakin' Georgia of all places.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #824 - Nov 18^th, 2012 at 5:25pm Briney, you've got to tell us about these things! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1878147873/hero-u-rogue-to-redemption -b0b (...almost missed out!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #825 - Nov 19^th, 2012 at 10:29am Are any of you guys planning on buying one, or know anyone that is? I'd love to hear an unbiased review of the system. -b0b (...will get one eventually.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #826 - Nov 20^th, 2012 at 6:03pm Hey, Briney! It looks like Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption made it past the finish line! the Kickstarter project was fully funded! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1878147873/hero-u-rogue-to-redemption?ref=em... -b0b (...hopes his $35 was marginally useful to the developers.)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #827 - Nov 21^st, 2012 at 9:49am Rumor has it that Steam's autumn sale is going to begin this afternoon! -b0b (...let's get ready to spend some money!)
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Reply #829 - Nov 23^rd, 2012 at 10:02am

I randomly stumbled across a copy of Valve's new employee handbook, and suddenly a lot of Valve's decisions make a lot more sense. They hire new workers and essentially let them choose what they'll work on and when. It's totally unlike any other company I've ever encountered.

http://newcdn.flamehaus.com/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.pdf

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Reply #833 - Nov 25^th, 2012 at 11:35pm

Wow! 2,203 games suddenly doesn't sound so impressive!

He's also got one hell of a network setup. The ASA 5525 alone is worth $5,500+ without any licenses. I hardly have that kind of budget for a car, let alone a firewall!

He also has the case that I wanted before I found the HAF-X, the Mountain Mods Extended Ascension. That thing is dead sexy, but only if you never plan on moving it.

They must pay their network engineers better in Canada. ;p

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Reply #840 - Dec 11^th, 2012 at 8:46am

I just picked up the THQ Humble Bundle so I could grab a copy of all the soundtracks, but I already own the games. I've got five Steam keys available to the first person that asks for them.

Key 1
Darksiders
Red Faction: Armageddon
Metro 2033
Company of Heroes
Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts
Company of Heroes: Tales of Valor

Key 2
Saints Row: The Third (Sent to FatMan)

Key 3
Titan Quest

Key 4
Red Faction: Armageddon - Path to War DLC

Key 5
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War Gold Edition (Sent to FatMan)

I've played everything except Darksiders, and they're all decent titles. Titan Quest is getting a bit long in the tooth, but it's a great ways to blow some time. It's very similar in concept to Dungeon Siege, albeit in a Greco-Roman mythological setting as opposed to a high fantasy setting. Company of Heroes is an excellent WW2-era RTS with a ton of content.

Metro 2033 is a spooky post-apocalyptic underground shooter. It had an excellent atmosphere and was thoroughly enjoyable. Red Faction: Armageddon was decent, although it failed to capture the flavor of some of the earlier Red Faction titles.

Saints Row: The Third is one of my favorite GTA clones, although it's intentionally designed to be as ridiculously inappropriate as possible. I liked Saints Row 2 better, but SR: The Third is undeniably a better PC port than it's predecessor.

I think you've all played Dawn of War, but if not, it's a gigantic RTS in which you create and control armies of mechs and armor-suited soldiers. It's also getting a bit old these days, but I'm sure it'd still be fun to play through.

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Reply #844 - Dec 19^th, 2012 at 2:27am

Apparently, G4TV is canning X-Play and Attack of the Show effective January 23rd. I was never a huge fan of X-Play but it scratched an itch. I think Adam Sessler was a bit more refined as a host, but the show format never really appealed to me. Too much BS, not enough gaming goodness. Attack of the Show won't be missed by me, but I doubt I was really in the intended audience.

Although neither show was among my must-watch list, it sucks to see two more geek-oriented shows bite the dust. This is pretty much the last nail in the coffin of the long-departed TechTV. I'm sure the slots abandoned by Attack of the Show and X-Play will be used for more COPS reruns and other derivative drivel.

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Reply #845 - Dec 19^th, 2012 at 2:50pm

I used to watch those shows way back when in high school. I really liked The Screen Savers show that reviewed hardware and took caller questions. Kevin Rose was good on TechTV as well. When he was replaced by that wanna-B commedian fella Kevin Pereira, the show broke down for me personally. It went from being an intelligently delivered show that you could learn something from, to slam-in-your-face-appeal-to-young-obnoxious-kids crud, IMO.

TechTV clip to remember (NSFW language): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-eF2FgwBFI

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Reply #846 - Dec 20^th, 2012 at 2:11pm

Valve needs to expand their Steam infrastructure stat. I am quite literally unable to give them money right now because of their ridiculously overtaxed platform.

It's the same thing every single time Steam has a big sale. Is Valve not familiar with content distribution? Buy some additional capacity for crying out loud. They have a major sale 2-3 times a year, so they should have a reasonable understanding of what kind of load their customers are going to generate!

I've spent the last hour trying to buy a metric crap-ton of games and content. After a half-hour of brutally slow browsing, I finally had everything I wanted in my cart. I went to check out and I get an obscure error and BAM, cart is empty. I spent another half-hour trying to use a web browser to do the same thing. I added one last item and suddenly it was the only thing in my cart.

The first time my cart came to $191.58. The second time it came to $123. Next time I'm only adding a handful of items I really want, so it'll likely be closer to $80. I'm certain many users in the same situation have just given up entirely. Does Valve not understand how much this is costing them?

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Reply #851 - Dec 26^th, 2012 at 12:06pm

I hate Origin. It's a crappy client with limited features, a lack of streaming client updates, a janky interface, and completely lackluster sales. Presumably, the craptastic sales are related to EA's stance on sales "cheapening intellectual property".

I bought the Mass Effect 3 crazy-hyper-overpriced-edition on Origin because it wasn't available on Steam due to the Valve-EA pissing match. If it wasn't for ME3, I would have never downloaded Origin. I still feel violated for giving them $60 of my hard-earned dollars. If the game ever makes it to Steam, I'll uninstall Origin in a heartbeat.

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Reply #853 - Dec 30^th, 2012 at 12:21pm

I have more Steam keys, this time from Humble Indie Bundle 7! I only needed the DLC for The Binding of Isaac and the soundtracks, so all of the other games are available. These keys are all individual, so just let me know which ones you want and I'll PM them to you. First come, first serve - don't be shy!

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Reply #855 - Jan 11^th, 2013 at 2:19pm

Well I did it...I started my first MMO. It's Star War - TOR. I'm about 2 hours in and it's ok. I'm still getting up to everything. I've never been a WADS controller and key binding is a bit different than the action stop of KOTOR 1 and 2. Anyone else play or playing it? Any tips?

I'm pretty much playing it for the storyline right now, although I'm not sure I'm going to do more than that. But like any drug...I'll have to monitor its uses and effects.

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Reply #861 - Mar 7^th, 2013 at 3:05pm

This is purely second-hand, but sounds a lot like the Diablo 3 launch. The authentication servers have been crushed by the influx of new players, thus preventing many buyers from playing a single-player game.

Outside of the authentication issue (which, admittedly, should be resolved quickly), reviews have been mixed. My news outlet of choice, Ars Technica, published a scathing article that had very few good things to say about the game. The complaint that worried me the most was about the tiny size of the maps. Apparently, the land masses are only a fraction of the size permitted in previous titles.

I'm a huge city-building nerd, but it looks like I'm going to pass on this one. It looks like I'm stuck with Cities XL for a little while longer!

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Reply #862 - Mar 7^th, 2013 at 7:05pm

I've also heard that basically being forced to rely on real people as your neighbors to supply certain aspects of your city to you can be challenging when they just delete their city out of the blue. Leaving you with no police, oil, groceries, waste disposal or whatever you were using them for.

And before you say "just play by yourself", from everything I have heard, that is impossible.

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Reply #863 - Mar 8^th, 2013 at 2:59pm

The_Fat_Man wrote on Mar 7^th, 2013 at 7:05pm:

I've also heard that basically being forced to rely on real people as your neighbors to supply certain aspects of your city to you can be challenging when they just delete their city out of the blue. Leaving you with no police, oil, groceries, waste disposal or whatever you were using them for.

And before you say "just play by yourself", from everything I have heard, that is impossible.

Here's an interesting perspective from a football player that is an avid gamer in his spare time. As with most reviews I've read, he absolutely slams EA for their crappy network infrastructure and the always-on DRM requirement.

http://www.businessinsider.com/chris-kluwes-simcity-5-review-2013-3

One report earlier today said SimCity is on track to be the worst rated product of all time on Amazon. Niiiice!

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Reply #865 - Mar 8^th, 2013 at 8:03pm

I really never understood the concept of changing a beloved series, into a new format? I mean were there TONS of people sending Maxis e-mails about how they wanted smaller city maps and the inability to play by themselves?

If you have a game that sells like hot cakes, and you haven't released a new one in TEN years...Leave it the hell alone.

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Reply #867 - Mar 16^th, 2013 at 12:19pm

The spiritual successor to Planescape: Torment is currently on KickStarter. The KickStarter still has 20 days to go and has already reached ~300% of their funding goal. Nonetheless, this is a great way to get your copy cheap for an early investment!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-numenera

If you've never played Planescape: Torment, it is hands-down one of the best CRPGs ever made. It is universally loved for the incredible character development, storyline, and the deep impact of player decisions on the way the story plays out.

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Reply #873 - Mar 17^th, 2013 at 1:16pm

The_Fat_Man wrote on Mar 17^th, 2013 at 1:11pm:

Bob has been playing RPG Maker VX Ace lately (lucky bastard, game runs 170 green backs). So i've been playing some home made RPGs lol

Yeah, I've really been digging RPG Maker lately. I played around with it a few years ago and didn't have the patience to figure out the scripting, but I've played lots of games other people have made with it.

I've finally got the scripting figured out. It takes a little while, but the VX Ace version is a hell of a lot easier to learn than RPG Maker 2000 or XP.

For what it's worth, the only thing you really need is the software itself. The DLC isn't worth the price, considering you can get plenty of free (and much better) content from the Internet. Lots of artists allow free use of their tiles, character images, etc. for non-commercial purposes. I'd be happy to hook you up with the content I've collected if you decide to pick up the software.

I've even convinced Meredith to make a few sprites and graphics for me!

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Reply #875 - Mar 17^th, 2013 at 1:50pm

I'm just screwing around at the moment, playing with the scripting system.

I haven't really developed a plot, but I'm working on the premise of a world in which magic is incredibly powerful but has a side-effect of poisoning the caster. The script I'm working on tracks magic usage as a variable and increments that variable whenever a spell is cast. The "poison" bleeds off slowly over time, and different spells increase it by varying amounts. I've created a handful of status conditions that kick in at various points, ultimately consummating in the death of the character at a certain point.

Really, it's just an excuse to play with RPG Maker and learn the Ruby programming language.

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Reply #877 - Mar 17^th, 2013 at 8:11pm

The_Fat_Man wrote on Mar 17^th, 2013 at 4:52pm:

RPG Maker has always caught my eye, but it rarely goes on sale, and even the base package is 70 dollars. I've always been afraid I'd buy it and not like it...wasting a lot of money haha

It's only been on Steam for a few weeks and they already put it on sale once, so I have high hopes they'll continue to discount it from time to time. I've never seen the RPG Maker website put the game on sale, though, so this is a step in the right direction.

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Reply #884 - Mar 17^th, 2013 at 10:06pm

It really amazes me to see what talented artists can do with RPG Maker. There are a couple of titles out there that look like they were made completely from scratch. Here's the next one on my game list:

RPG Maker always makes me lament my complete dearth of artistic ability. I need to get a relatively modern copy of Photoshop and see if I can manipulate some existing public domain sprites. It's better than nothing, I guess!

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Reply #885 - Mar 23^rd, 2013 at 9:02pm

Nvidia's annual GPU conference wrapped up yesterday, and they had some amazing tech to show off. One of their lead engineers gave a presentation about the uncanny valley and the way they're using ridiculously high-fidelity motion capture to overcome it.

The demonstration at the end is running in real time on a Titan GPU, pushing over 40,000 operations per pixel per second. 2 teraflops is just mind blowing.

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Reply #886 - Apr 3^rd, 2013 at 11:29am

So I've been playing The Force Unleashed on Steam. Yeah, I know I'm a bit late to the party on that one. But I just had to share, this is the WORST PC port of a game I have ever played. EVER. In twenty years of gaming.

The controls feel like they were designed by a blind six year old with 4 extra fingers. The game is littered with bugs almost HALF a decade after being released. And the camera controls are so terrible that some boss fights feel almost impossible to beat on anything but the lowest difficulty setting.

I can honestly say I have never wanted my money back on a game I literally paid 3 dollars for. But this game is such a pile of shit, i feel like I was robbed at 3 dollars.

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Reply #887 - Apr 3^rd, 2013 at 11:50am

The_Fat_Man wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2013 at 11:29am:

i feel like I was robbed at 3 dollars.

Reminds me of my last visit to your mom's house. Shocked

Shocked

I'm just wrapping up with a ridiculously long game of Endless Space. It's a 4X game similar to Sins of a Solar Empire or Galactic Civilization. If you're not familiar with the genre, it's essentially Civ in space. Instead of sending out explorers to find and found cities, you're sending out fleets of space ships to discover and colonize star systems.

The game has an incredibly rich economy, so you can ally with other players (or NPCs) and trade various resources (of which there are ~16). You can also create giant armadas of ships, and you have a great deal of control over how each ship is built down to the individual weapons, armor, tonnage, etc.

If 4X games are your cup of tea, Endless Space definitely deserves a look.

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Reply #892 - Apr 5^th, 2013 at 9:33am

It seems like the next XBox is pretty much confirmed to require a constant Internet connection. This seems like a ridiculous choice to me, and I think its going to be a trainwreck. XBox Live is skittish enough as it is, so I can't wait to see the glorious crapstorm this is going to come about from this.

Here's the creative director discussing the subject, which is the closest thing to confirmation we have right now:

The Steam Box can't come fast enough!

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Reply #893 - Apr 6^th, 2013 at 4:02pm

This guy was an idiot, at one point he stated that because electricity goes out sometimes he shouldn't buy a vacuum. Or because he drops cell phone service he shouldn't buy a cell phone. This in response to people saying they wouldn't buy a xbox because of the always online feature.

I don't know how you can compare a REQUIRED part of a product like electricity and cellular coverage to an optional internet connection. I mean really, we all know games work without the internet...so whats the point of making it required for single player gaming?

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Reply #895 - May 15^th, 2013 at 9:38pm

Steam is doing some crazy trading card beta in which you can earn (and, obviously, trade) cards by playing games. I'm guessing they're either tied to achievements or have their own set of achievement-like goals. You can use these cards to "level up" your Steam account and get other nifty things like game coupons, profile backgrounds, etc.

Check it out and join the beta group here:

http://steamcommunity.com/tradingcards

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Reply #898 - May 21^st, 2013 at 3:29pm

It looks like this is going to be the "lost generation" of video games. The WiiU was dead on arrival, the PS4 is utterly lackluster, and the XBox One is such a steaming pile that Microsoft only showed pre-rendered videos at the announcement. I though this 4Chan thread summed it up well:

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Reply #907 - Jun 10^th, 2013 at 11:13pm

So those of you who are probably not following the E3 Sony Playstation 4 announcement......

Xbox One - $499 US Dollars

- Requires Internet Connection check once a day, or it stop working.
- Games have built in DRM.
- Cannot share, rent, or sell a used game UNLESS GIVEN PERMISSION FROM THE PUBLISHERS. Currently renting and sharing will not be available period at launch.
-Requires Xbox Gold Membership to play online games, or use any internet services (Netflix, Facebook, etc)

Playstation 4 - $399 US Dollars

- Does not require an internet connection.
- No DRM.
- PSN+ Membership required, only to play online games. Other services not affected.

As for sharing your games with friends, I'll let the President of Sony Interactive explain...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=kWSIFh8ICaA

Good game Sony, you just won me for life.

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Reply #908 - Jun 10^th, 2013 at 11:26pm

Yeah, this is definitely Sony's opportunity to harken back to the glory days of the PS2. They really fumbled with the PS3, but Microsoft is practically handing them the domination of this generation on a platter. Seriously, the PS4 could be completely mediocre and Sony would still trounce Microsoft. You can tell that Sony's marketing folks are having a field day with this:

Our XBox 360 died about a month ago and I'm in no hurry to replace it. Microsoft can blow me.

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Reply #915 - Jun 11^th, 2013 at 6:09pm

The_Fat_Man wrote on Jun 11^th, 2013 at 12:03pm:

I really wish The Witcher series wasn't an Xbox exclusive, as I have no desire to purchase an Xbox One and I have been a PS3 user this entire generation.

The Witcher 3 is coming to XBox One and PS4. You can also play all three Witcher titles on this awesome system called the PC. It looks better, it plays better, it is better.

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Reply #921 - Jun 12^th, 2013 at 8:10am

Microsoft will probably give GameStop some sort of incentive to continue supporting them. GameStop still moves a lot of merchandise for the console manufacturers.

I wouldn't be terribly surprised if they used a similar methodology to some current-gen games in which a code can be purchased to permit used games to be played as though they were new. These will likely be sold at a slight discount (say, $10 off) compared to the cost of a new game.

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Reply #925 - Jun 12^th, 2013 at 4:11pm

This would be a difficult model to pursue for consoles. Consoles have more longevity compared to a PC because the console is custom-built solely for gaming. Also, console developers often tweak their titles specifically for the console hardware. This would make a Steam-like model difficult because backward compatibility would be very difficult between console generations.

That said, Valve has been semi-secretly working on the SteamBox, which looks like it will be a pared-down PC built specifically for TV gaming. If they really do keep the PC architecture and they can hit a low price-point, they might be able to create a new type of console market that upgrades more frequently for a lower price.

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Reply #937 - Jul 17^th, 2013 at 10:34pm

The_Fat_Man wrote on Jul 17^th, 2013 at 11:24am:

I have finally been busting through Borderlands 2 and playing Chrono Cross (old school throwback) to get me in the mood for Tales of Xillia August 6th.

You guys should post your PS3 names. Mines MCFluffyNuts...add me!

Hell YES Chrono Cross! A great sequel to the finest game ever made. Chrono Cross caught a lot of flack because it stands apart from Chrono Trigger in terms of story. Honestly, the game could be set in an entirely different universe until you get 90% of the way through the game. That last 10% really brings it all together, though, and you suddenly realize how ingenious the writing is.

Admittedly, the SaGa/Suikoden approach to playable characters (an "army" of 40+ characters) was disappointing as none of them really got fleshed out properly, but the game is absolutely incredible otherwise. The music is particularly amazing and I think Yasunori Mitsuda actually managed to outdo his work on Chrono Trigger.

Since I'm now totally nerdgasming over my favorite game series, here's an awesome fan remake of the intro video for Chrono Trigger:

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Reply #938 - Jul 30^th, 2013 at 4:46pm

So I noticed I wasn't the only person playing Borderlands 2 (bob).

How you finding the game Bob? I personally think it is WAY WAY WAY WAY to long. Longevity is something I usually admire in a game, but I'm like 30 hours into this damn thing and I'm still not done. Frankly, I'm bored of it....I find it a chore to talk myself into playing it at this point. Go to zone, shoot 300 bandits, probably get no guns worth keeping, do 3 quests, do main story quest, rinse and repeat 40 times.

The game is a one trick pony, and while I will admit it has fantastic production values and all that....I have no idea why everyone finds it so damn good.

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Reply #940 - Jul 30^th, 2013 at 7:46pm

Just like the original Borderlands, Borderlands 2 is really best played with friends. I tried to slog my way through the single player game before running through it a second time in multiplayer, but I ran out of gas about 80% of the way through (this was right after the game was released).

I picked it up again a few weeks ago and went straight to multiplayer. It's been an absolute blast! I've been leveling up like crazy and getting tons of good loot. It's much faster-paced than single player and you can meet some great people in pickup groups.

If you guys want to throw a group together, let me know and we'll make it happen!

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Reply #941 - Jul 30^th, 2013 at 8:55pm

Well perhaps I will try that. I'm level 29 and I feel I'm not too far from the end of the game, honestly, at this point.

Can I continue the game right from where I am in multiplayer? I haven't really looked into it and would hate to get sent back further than I am now...

I've noticed a few quests in the game seem really hard (the timed ones) by myself....probably explains that.

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Reply #942 - Jul 30^th, 2013 at 10:03pm

Yeah, your game progress is measured in quests. The multiplayer browser will drop you as close to your current quest as possible. When you go back to single player, any quests you have completed in multiplayer will also be completed in single player.

Essentially, the game progression is locked to the character and single/multi makes no difference.

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The_Fat_Man Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Grand High Overlard Posts: 910 Colorado Springs, Colorado Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #954 - Aug 16^th, 2013 at 10:16am The original Dragon Age I did prefer on the PC, mostly because it was sort of turn based, strategy combat. The second one was definitely better on PS3. As for the Elder Scrolls, the only one I played on the PC to any length was Morrowind. Which is one of my favorite games of all time, so yeah....
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Reply #956 - Aug 16^th, 2013 at 7:50pm

Oh I beat both of those games to a pulp on PlayStation 3. I wasn't a huge fan of Skyrim with all of its bugs and frankly I feel it's combat system is out of date and terrible.

Mostly, I just like sitting in my recliner playing games on my huge TV more than I do in a computer chair these days. It's nice (And yes, I know the graphics are worse) to know a game will always work and look like it's supposed to when I play a console ahah.

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Reply #957 - Aug 16^th, 2013 at 10:28pm

Admittedly, I've been playing more controller-friendly games with an XBox controller on my PC lately. Typically, if it fully supports a controller, I opt for the XBox controller over the keyboard and mouse. Some games like first-person shooters PC RPGs still work best with a keyboard and mouse, but it's nice to be able to lean back and use a controller for driving sims, platformers, and similar titles.

I think I'll always be a PC gamer first and foremost because of the enhanced control over the appearance of the game and the ability to run a myriad of mods on many titles (and the crazy Steam sales don't hurt), but I can certainly see the appeal in console gaming. There is something to be said for just buying a game and throwing it in the disc tray.

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Reply #960 - Aug 21^st, 2013 at 2:07pm

What is your guys opinion on the need for a new console?

Have they improved the tech enough for it to beat the old version (X-Box and PS...let's not even talk about Nintendo because those aren't real video games)?

Or are they trying to sell more bells and whistles? Or even worse, are they just tweaking existing tech and making it appear like it's a new thing?

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Reply #962 - Aug 21^st, 2013 at 6:13pm

The hardware on the new PS4 and Xbox One is clearly improved, and will allow for much better looking games. That's just a matter of comparison.

I'm not sure either of the new systems offer any truly ground breaking new features just yet (maybe cloud support), so in this case it would basically be like getting a new computer....same stuff, better looking.

I think I can hold off on the PS4 for a year. For the first year the system is out, developers will mostly be focusing on the PS3 (being as way more people will own that still), and the games won't look THAT mind boggling.

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Reply #963 - Sep 4^th, 2013 at 9:16am

b0b wrote on Aug 21^st, 2013 at 3:48pm:

X wrote on Aug 21^st, 2013 at 2:07pm:

let's not even talk about Nintendo because those aren't real video games

OK, for my amusement, why aren't Nintendo games considered "real video games"?

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Well to be honest, Nintendo hasn't done anything to put its mark in the video game world for a while. There has been no big innovation, no "adult" games, no sense of "I must buy this counsel just to have this game".

They tapped into a market of casual gamers and party games. They took all the games of Japan that involved the mundane and passed it off as something to pass the time (while leaving the good Japanese games behind. How many Lego games do you need, really?

Meanwhile, I'm tempted to pick up a counsel just to play "Last of Us" or "Heavy Rain" or a bunch of other games I really wish would come out on PC!

If you have fun with Nintendo then have fun. However, I haven't touched a Wii since it came out and every time I see a game that gets released for the big three I always read that that the one with the big "N" on it has the graphics parred waaaay down.

So I don't see Nintendo included in the gaming world that makes a difference other than for low end gamers or party people.

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Reply #964 - Sep 4^th, 2013 at 11:20am

Xenoblade Chronicles and The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword are two of my favorite games this generation.

Both of them are on the Wii. And both of them are "adult" games.

The wii is a bit of a gimmick at times, but to say it has not brought innovation and a few good games to the table is ludicrous. (Smash Brothers, Mario Kart, Donkey Kong ???)

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Reply #973 - Sep 21^st, 2013 at 11:15am

Kinda-sorta. It's supposedly going to be a Linux-based PC in a small form factor like a console. Most or all of the Linux-compatible games from your Steam list will be playable on it.

My concern is how upgrades/versions will work. The big question right now is whether Valve will produce a single consistent SteamBox or if they'll license it to any vendor that can meet the specification. If so, will there be different "levels" of SteamBox, with different games working on each level (or having different levels of graphical fidelity)? You guys know that I'm a PC gamer at heart, so I'm not super comfortable with the idea.

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Reply #974 - Sep 28^th, 2013 at 12:59pm

So, what do you guys think about all of the Steam announcements this week? SteamBox, SteamOS, and the Steam Controller have all been announced. I'm cautiously optimistic. I'm a PC gamer first and foremost, but there is definitely an appeal to having the power and customization of PC gaming with the comfort of playing from the couch.

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Reply #977 - Sep 29^th, 2013 at 10:54am

http://www.incgamers.com/2013/09/seriously-though-likely-gta-v-pc

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This means that the difference in release between the console and PC versions was as follows…

GTA3 – 210 days (6 months, 28 days)
GTA:VC – 197 days (6 months, 15 days)
GTA:SA – 224 days (7 months, 12 days)
GTA4 – 217 days (7 months, 3 days)

Anyway: applying maths this means that the average difference in release date works out to, ooh, 212 days. If we now apply more maths and add that average to the console release of 17 Sep 2013, we get… 17 Apr 2014. Which is a Thursday, so let’s move that to a Tuesday and guess at either 15 or 22 Apr 2014.

I don't know why people complain about GTA 4 so much on pc. It ran fine, it looked great. The games for windows live bs and the rockstar account stuff sucked but at least we had the game.

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Reply #978 - Sep 29^th, 2013 at 11:00am

...MediaMaster wrote on Sep 29^th, 2013 at 10:54am:

I don't know why people complain about GTA 4 so much on pc. It ran fine, it looked great. The games for windows live bs and the rockstar account stuff sucked but at least we had the game.

LOLWUT. Did you even play GTA IV on/near launch on PC? It ran atrociously on even the best gaming PCs of the day. My last PC was about a year old when GTA IV came out and it was an unplayable mess. Ridiculously long load times and horrendous frame rates, despite not looking all that great. The PC gaming community was virtually unanimous in their disdain for the craptastic port of GTA IV. Check out the Metacritic user scores for the PC port versus the XBox 360 and PS3 releases.

Also, the Games for Windows Live and Rockstar Social Club crap can't merely be overlooked. I had to activate my game twice after buying it on Steam, "just to be sure" it was a legal copy. Neither GFWL or Social Club brought any value of any kind to my gaming experience. At least the Ubisoft platform provides crappy wallpapers when I unlock achievements...

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Reply #983 - Sep 30^th, 2013 at 10:37pm

Yeah, I have to admit I'm not completely sold. I definitely want to give it a try, but I'll believe it when I see it. If the SteamBox can handle streaming video as well as video games, it has a definitely place in my living room, but I'm not so sure it will "revolutionize gaming" by any means.

That said, I'd love to be wrong. I'd very much like to see the concept of closed-box consoles die and be replaced by an open, standards-based gaming environment that seamlessly integrates PC gaming, "TV" gaming, mobile, etc. into a single ecosphere. I personally don't look forward to buying three different consoles over the course of a generation, and the idea of "console exclusives" really needs to go away. Moreover, I would much rather know that virtually any game is going to work on my system without worrying which console has the best port.

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Reply #985 - Oct 1^st, 2013 at 8:48am

X wrote on Oct 1^st, 2013 at 7:38am:

...I didn't think the Half Life series was really all that great.

OK, it's just a game, and I can't fault anybody for having personal preferences. That said, I don't think anyone can deny the impact either Half-Life or Half-Life 2 (and the two episodes, to a lesser degree) had on the gaming industry. Half-Life introduced complex story lines, environmental puzzles, and beautiful set pieces to the FPS genre. These things seem absolutely passé now, but they were revolutionary in 1998.

Half-Life 2 was just as revolutionary. It introduced rag-doll physics into the shooter genre and dramatically raised the bar for animation, graphics, environmental sound effects, artificial intelligence, you name it. Again, it pushed the envelope forward in terms of an immersive story. There is a reason it has sold 12 million copies.

You also have to keep in mind the games and technologies that are a direct result of Half-Life. Team Fortress, Counter-Strike, Day of Defeat, the entire Steam ecosystem, etc. are all a direct result of the success of the Half-Life franchise.

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Reply #990 - Oct 11^th, 2013 at 7:10pm

So this one snuck up on me. At the Tokyo Game Show, a video was released today for a PS4 game called Deep Down. It looks like a quasi-tactical first-person fighting game set in a high fantasy world.

Sony has uploaded a 30 minute playthrough, but there is a particularly amazing moment at roughly 24 minutes into the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p55xaGygCVU&feature=youtu.be&t=24m10s

The player casts a spell to freeze time, then moves around within the frozen world, casting additional fireballs that all launch simultaneously once the time freeze has ended. Very cool stuff!

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Reply #995 - Nov 21^st, 2013 at 2:59pm

I started playing Final Fantasy XII again the other day. I thoroughly enjoyed 12 and count it as one of my favorite Final Fantasy titles. It's right up there with VII and IX on my list of most-loved FF games.

I was too lazy to break out my PS2, so I decided to emulate it on my PC. I grabbed a copy of Final Fantasy XII - International Zodiac Job System, which was a special edition that was only released in Japan. You can find a copy on the Internets that already has the English patch installed and works perfectly.

The IZJS version of XII has a number of improvements including some bug fixes, better treasure chest spawn rates, and a totally revamped license board system (if you've never played XII, the license board is a set of abilities you can unlock that are arranged on something similar to a giant chess board). Instead of every character having an identical license board, you now choose a single permanent job class for each character, e.g. knight, white mage, black mage, etc. Each class has its own license board that is tweaked to that job class.

Since you probably don't care about that, here is the best part of emulation. I'm playing at my native resolution of 1680x1050 and I'm using 16x MSAA to remove the horrid jaggies that plagued PS1 and PS2-era games.

Here's what the game looks like on the PS2:

...and here's a screenshot I took last night:

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Reply #999 - Nov 22^nd, 2013 at 9:53pm

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I'm jealous. 12 is the only Final Fantasy I never played.

You're really missing out! It was an excellent game and probably had the closest thing to a "literary quality" plot of any of the Final Fantasy games. Sure, it had plenty of clichés, but it had a very epic feel. The graphics were pretty amazing at the time and the battle system remains my favorite FF combat implementation to this day.

If you've got some time to burn, grab a copy from TPB and emulate it. You won't be sorry!

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Reply #1005 - Jan 28^th, 2014 at 8:23am

Meredith and I have been playing the demos for Next Car Game over and over again. If you don't mind dropping $25 on a short demo of an early access game, it is worth every penny.

Essentially, it's a racing game with demolition derby aspects. The physics are pretty amazing and each car has a hojillion different pieces to mangle and break. I've never played a racing game in which it felt so satisfying to slam into an opponent's car.

If nothing else, check out the two videos on Steam:

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Reply #1006 - Feb 11^th, 2014 at 10:43am

For those of you that want to kick it old school, I noticed Descent was released on Steam today. It's 50% off, and I can't imagine a better way to spend $3.49 that doesn't involve Wes's mom.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/273570/?featured_app=1

This was one of the first fully 3D games I ever played. Descent came pre-loaded on my Acer Aspire with it's whopping 100MHz Pentium CPU and 8MB of RAM. Video cards? Psssht, we don't need no stinking video cards!

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Reply #1012 - Mar 7^th, 2014 at 12:27pm

The expansion for Diablo 3, Reaper of Souls, comes out on March 25th. Here's the 4.5 minute opening cinematic. In addition to a new act, the expansion will also come with a new class, a new artisan that allows you to re-roll stats on gear and re-skin it, and a couple new "adventure" themed, loot-focused play modes.

I started playing D3 again a couple days ago to check out the shiny new 2.0 patch. It's the first time I've played since early 2013, and a lot has changed over the last 12-14 months! This really is the Diablo game we wanted back in 2012! Legendary items are actually pretty decent these days, and drops are far more likely to be relevant for your class. Moreover, useless buffs like +Str on a wizard hat are gone.

The auction houses are closing on March 18th, not sure what I think about that yet.

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Reply #1028 - Jun 25^th, 2014 at 11:04am

Mere and I have been playing Plague, Inc. lately. If you guys are familiar with the board game Pandemic, it is effectively the exact opposite. You play the part of a biological threat to humanity (virus, fungus, bacteria, etc.) and you get to choose where the plague starts and how it evolves. You earn DNA points by infecting new countries and larger groups of people, and you can spend those points to add new transmission vectors, change the impact of the plague on various bodily functions, add new antibiotic resistances, etc.

It's a simple game but oddly addicting. When you beat the game with a given type of plague (e.g. bacteria), you unlock new types that are increasingly difficult to control but are more powerful than their predecessors. You also unlock genetic traits that can be applied to the plague before you start, giving abilities such as increased transmission rates over land or in hotter climates.

Best of all, you can name your plague. You can probably guess which name I went with...

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Reply #1031 - Jun 27^th, 2014 at 12:41pm

I'm sure you guys are all familiar with the Steam trading cards, right? You play a game and randomly receive a handful of trading cards for that game, and if you collect them all you get a shiny badge. You can get the same badge multiple times to increase it's "level."

With the Steam summer sale, you get a special summer sale card for every $10 you spend. Alternately, you can buy them for about $0.20 on the marketplace, or trade with friends to get the cards you don't have. If you collect ten separate cards, you can get a spiffy summer sale badge.

Well, this crazy bastard with the Steam name of PalmDesert has a level 2500 summer sale badge, meaning he collected 25,000 cards. Assuming he bought the vast, vast majority of them on the marketplace at $0.20 each, he has spent a whopping $5,000 for the honor.

http://steamcommunity.com/id/palmdesert/gamecards/303700

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Reply #1039 - Aug 19^th, 2014 at 12:01pm

Just to mix things up a bit, let's talk about board games! Meredith and I attended GenCon last week in Indianapolis and we had an absolute blast. I had reservations about spending four days in a jam-packed conference center with hordes of potentially unwashed nerds, but it was truly an awesome experience.

We met up with several friends from various parts of the country and spent four days playing games, meeting nerd celebrities, listening to amazing acapella video game choirs, and hanging out with our fellow geeks. Meredith and I have also gotten addicted to the Nintendo 3DS StreetPass system, in which your "Mii" (avatar) gets swapped with other 3DS systems when you pass by. You get to use these avatars as temporary assistants in StreetPass games. Needless to say, GenCon is a StreetPass nirvana!

Highlights of GenCon 2014:

True Dungeon - This is essentially a full-sized D&D adventure that you walk through with your party. There were some really ingenious (and difficult!) puzzles to solve. Our group did pretty well early on, but we died during the final combat scenario. If you go to GenCon, True Dungeon is a must!
Game Library - You can buy an eight-hour pass to a room with hundreds (thousands?) of board games. Everything from old-school 80s MouseTrap to the latest and greatest games being released at GenCon. Pick any game you want, check it out, and go play it! This is a great way to play games on a "try before you buy" basis.
Tracy Hickman's Killer Breakfast - This is a stage show in which Tracy and Laura Hickman (famous authors most commonly associated with books set in the D&D Dragonlance universe) run a crazy D&D-esque game on stage. They bring up 8-10 random people for ~10 minutes and progress through an absolutely hilarious adventure, ultimately resulting in everyone getting killed and another 8-10 people being brought on stage. Tracy Hickman is incredibly funny and his improv is top notch.
Food Trucks - This is sort of random, but the food trucks at GenCon are insane. The food is a bit pricy, but you can get just about any meal you can think of (Indian, Mexican, Italian, Mac n' Cheese, etc) and all of it is delicious!

Meredith took a couple of pictures that I'll have to steal from her and post later on. In the meantime, here's a picture of our GenCon purchases:

Here is a small selection of my favorite games of the Con:

Ortus Regni – The most beautiful game I’ve ever played. The artwork and quality is absolutely top notch. You build a deck of 24 cards from a library of 90 and use them to build and expand fiefs in your earldom. You can build armies and defenses, attempt to assassinate your peers, elevate yourself to kingship, and try to bequeath your earldom to your heir before you die of old age (run out of cards). You are encouraged to attack your peers, as a black token is added to a pool every round that is free of combat. After eight tokens are added to the pool, the barbarian horde attacks.

Cash ‘n Guns 2.0 – The only game I ever had to buy the moment I saw it. We were playing in the game library and looked over to see four guys pointing plastic guns at each other in some sort of stand-off. Everybody gets eight cards at the beginning of the round representing trigger pulls, five are blanks and three are live bullets. You try to bluff your peers into thinking you’ve got a live round in your gun, and on the count of three everyone aims at their desired target. Each player can then choose to lay down (pulling out of the round) or stand up and take it. The players that remain standing reveal their cards. If you remain standing and don’t get shot, you can draw money. There are also cards that give players various special abilities. The person with the most money at the end of the eighth round wins.

Coup and Coup: Reformation – I’m a big fan of the Werewolf Game and Resistance (party bluffing games), and Coup is in the same vein. Best part about it, however, is that Coup can be played by as few as two people, whereas Resistance requires five and the Werewolf game requires an entire school bus worth of players. Each player controls two randomly-selected government officials (there are five total officials) that have specific abilities. The identity of these officials is kept secret from the other players. Each player can bluff to use the special powers of any of the five officials, but another player can call their bluff. The player then reveals the card for the official with the corresponding power if they have it. If they have the card, the opposing player loses one of their officials. If they don’t have the card, they lose one of their own officials. A player loses the round when they run out of officials.

Machi Koro – This is a simple city-building card game that debuted in Japan some time ago and will be released soon (this week?) in English. There was an overview of the English version at GenCon, but a friend of ours brought her Japanese copy so we could play through it. There are ~15 cards representing different buildings, each with one or two numbers on the top. You roll a die on your turn and gain an amount of currency if you roll a number on a card you own. There are also attack cards that can give you currency from someone else’s bank if they roll a certain number, or give you currency from everyone else’s bank if you roll a number. You also have four “major attraction” cards you can build that give you special abilities (e.g. roll two dice instead of one, or earn double currency for certain cards). The first player to build their fourth major attraction wins.

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Reply #1045 - Nov 15^th, 2014 at 6:56pm

I'm right there with you! I pre-ordered my copy a couple days ago and finished pre-loading earlier today. The icon is just sitting on the desktop mocking me...

On a side not, Origin still sucks. I had to restart the pre-load literally 25-30 times to get it to finish. It kept timing out every 10 minutes, despite getting excellent throughput when it actually decided to run.

I also fleshed out my storyline decisions in "The Keep", Bioware's new Dragon Age hub. Due to the new consoles, Bioware decided not to put a save import feature in Dragon Age III (and screw us PC gamers that still have our saves available). The Keep is pretty schnazzy though and walks you through over 300 different decisions you made in Dragon Age: Origins, Dragon Age II, and the expansions and DLC. You can export your Keep configuration into Dragon Age: Inquisition once it launches, thus providing continuity to your Dragon Age experience.

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Reply #1047 - Nov 16^th, 2014 at 12:48pm

We built a gaming PC for our living room last year, so I've got the option of playing from my couch. I'm very methodical about combat in Dragon Age, though, so I'm not sure if I can handle the switch to a controller for this one. It's fantastic for more controller friendly games, though, and lately we've been playing games like Transistor, Brothers, Contrast, and Costume Quest (all of which are highly recommended!) on the couch. Best money we ever spent!

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Reply #1048 - Nov 16^th, 2014 at 7:55pm

I've been considering this myself. Neither of my gaming computers are anywhere near my Television. I've considered moving one of them but I just love having to computers side by side to much.

Either way I've gotten pretty comfortable with console gaming in my old age (hah!). Putting up with drivers and bugs and hardware problems and games just irritates me.

There is something to be said for just popping a disc in and going.

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Reply #1049 - Nov 17^th, 2014 at 12:25am

On a side note, this week is going to be absolutely insane for gaming. Far Cry 4 launches the same day (got a free pre-order with my GTX 980), and so does Super Smash Bros. for the Wii U.

Dragon Age is definitely getting first dibs, but Far Cry is pre-loading right now and I know it will be calling my name. Meredith is already hinting at picking up Smash Bros., and the DLC for Mario Kart 8 just came out last week. First world problems!

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Reply #1051 - Nov 17^th, 2014 at 8:13am

The XBox 360 controller is your best bet. It is universally supported, fairly inexpensive, and very comfortable.

You can buy a single set that comes with the controller and the PC wireless receiver, or you can buy them separately, but make sure you buy an authentic Microsoft receiver. There are a ton of third-party receivers that look absolutely identical but work very poorly. Here is an authentic set:

http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Xbox-Wireless-Controller-Windows/dp/B004QRKWKQ/r...

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Reply #1053 - Dec 12^th, 2014 at 8:18am

If any of you guys have a hankering for more Skyrim, a massive new mod was just launched called Enderal. It's a completely new world set in the Elder Scrolls universe and it has to be one of the most expansive and beautiful mods I've ever seen. I'm in the middle of Dragon Age: Inquisition at the moment, but this is definitely on my must-play list!

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Reply #1059 - Feb 24^th, 2015 at 6:45pm

Also, here's a nifty new trailer for Mother 4, a fan-made sequel to Earthbound:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qtQWUF6-Co&feature=youtu.be

This is easily the best fan-made game I've ever seen. If I didn't know it was a fan project, I would have sworn that Itoi (the creator/producer of the Mother series) was behind it.

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Reply #1067 - Apr 15^th, 2015 at 10:15pm

I tried to launch Grand Theft Auto V tonight to get a couple hours in after a hard day of work, but it looks like my Rockstar Social Club account has been hacked. I started using strong, random, unique passwords for every account a couple years ago, but there are a couple of accounts I haven't used in years and never got around to changing. I guess this is my object lesson.

On a side note, this is yet another reason why Rockstar Social Club is such a crappy application. It serves as a middle man between my Steam account (where I bought the freakin' game) and my ability to actually play the game. Moreover, unlike Steam, Rockstar Social Club obviously doesn't gave a method of controlling account transfers ala Steam Guard.

I've put in a ticket with Rockstar asking them to revert the e-mail address and reset the password. We'll see how long this takes. What a crappy way to end a long day.

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Reply #1075 - May 6^th, 2015 at 9:34pm

Oculus announced a release time frame of Q1 2016 for the Oculus Rift. Exciting times.

Valve is aiming for a "holiday 2015" release for the HTC Vive, so it looks like they'll beat Oculus to the market. I can't wait to see which one offers the best experience.

http://www.overclock3d.net/articles/gpu_displays/oculus_rift_shipping_q1_2016/1

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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #1080 - Jun 2^nd, 2015 at 3:38pm The Fallout homepage is showing a countdown clock with 18 hours an 22 minutes remaining (roughly 9:00am EST tomorrow). Hopefully this is the big reveal for the next Fallout title! https://fallout.bethsoft.com/ -b0b (...squeeee!)
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The_Fat_Man Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Grand High Overlard Posts: 910 Colorado Springs, Colorado Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #1082 - Jun 3^rd, 2015 at 10:01pm Gotta say those graphics weren't very awe inspiring after playing the Witcher 3 and seeing Batman Arkham Knight.
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #1083 - Jun 3^rd, 2015 at 11:00pm The graphics for Bethesda games never really are very awe-inspiring until you mod them half to death. Usually the Elder Scrolls games come with a pretty big graphical boost to their craptastic engine, and the Fallout games have been much more incremental releases. -b0b (...besides, it's Fallout!)
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #1088 - Jun 15^th, 2015 at 10:34am Don't worry, Stewie. We'll play Fallout for you!
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #1090 - Jun 16^th, 2015 at 2:18pm And here's a virtual girlfriend simulator, which I'm sure will prove immensely popular in Japan (and Wes's house). Summer Lesson Uncharted 4 Firewatch RIGS (Another VR game) Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #1091 - Jun 16^th, 2015 at 3:54pm One of the best looking games of E3... Horizon - Zero Dawn The Last Guardian That's the end of Sony's PS4 presentation, next up is Square Enix, which is sure to have some goodies. Nier 2
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #1094 - Jun 23^rd, 2015 at 9:44am Supposedly it can be forcibly unlocked from 30FPS, but it runs like arse on even high-end gaming rigs. Too bad they had to screw the pooch on the last installment. -b0b (...skip!)
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The_Fat_Man Wootzor von Leetenhaxor FTP Server Offline Grand High Overlard Posts: 910 Colorado Springs, Colorado Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #1096 - Jun 23^rd, 2015 at 10:01pm I bought it on PS4, been playing all day and it looks and runs amazing. Bad PC port for you PC Master Race.
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b0b GeekCrew Administrator FTP Server Offline The revolution will not be televised. Posts: 7464 Battle Creek, Michigan Gender:	Re: Game Thread! Reply #1098 - Jul 12^th, 2015 at 10:01pm Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has passed away. Among other things, Mr. Iwata was the chief programmer for Earthbound. He also had a huge role in developing Kirby and several Mario titles. “On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer.” -Satoru Iwata, GDC 2005
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Reply #1100 - Jul 18^th, 2015 at 9:30am

They've got some really neat stuff. From time to time, I pick up hacked carts for my NES and SNES. Modders take leaked code of unfinished games (or fan translations of games not released in the US) and put them onto NES/SNES carts that play on regular consoles.

You can get some real gems this way. Star Fox 2, for example, was completed for the SNES but never released due to the pending launch of the N64. Radical Dreamers, a "wrap up" for Chrono Trigger (the best damn game ever made) was launched for the SNES SatellaView download service in Japan. Since we didn't have that service in the US, we never got Radical Dreamers.

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Reply #1103 - Aug 4^th, 2015 at 9:07am

RPG Maker MV has just been announced, and it seems to bring with it everything I've always wanted from RPG Maker. The new version will support high resolution (although no details on exactly what that means), side-view battles (think FF6), and multi-device support among other things.

http://gematsu.com/2015/08/rpg-maker-mv-announced-pc-mac

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Reply #1106 - Oct 10^th, 2015 at 11:11am

So here's your daily dose of conspiracy. Valve just pushed out an update to Dota 2 (the first game to be converted to the Source 2 engine) and it includes a file called hl3.txt. It appears to be a configuration file that could potentially be related to Half-Life 3.

http://knowyourgaming.com/2015/10/half-life-3-dota/

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Reply #1114 - Nov 10^th, 2015 at 2:18pm

I've put about ten hours into the game so far and haven't seen any major bugs. I got stuck in the terrain once, which is easy to fix on the PC. Just hit ~ to bring up the console and enter tcl to turn off clipping, walk out of the terrain, then use the same command to turn clipping on again). I also encountered a weird texture bug in one area that swapped a terrain texture for a super low-res gray texture, but leaving the area and returning fixed it.

So far, I'd say my experience has been way better than Fallout: New Vegas. The game has bugs like any Fallout/Elder Scrolls title, but I've seen nowhere near the level of bugginess that F:NV had at launch.

The fortification building is really neat, although the controls for placing buildings/items leave a lot to be desired. I'm anal retentive about symmetry, and you just don't have enough granularity in the controls to get things perfectly aligned. I imagine there will be a mod fairly quickly to address that.

In all, I'd give the game two thumbs up based on my playtime thus far. I've got the next three days off just for Fallout, so I'll be able to provide a more thorough review by the end of the week. I know you loved the previous Fallout titles, so this is a no-brainer!

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Reply #1115 - Nov 17^th, 2015 at 8:43am

I made a thing! I've been playing with the light boards in Fallout 4 and decided to make an absolutely massive tribute to the character Magus from the greatest game ever made, Chrono Trigger.

Magus is on hand to greet visitors to Sanctuary just as they cross the bridge.

The lights can be easily seen from Red Rocket, but they look a bit jittery. I've set the draw distance to maximum within the game, but haven't tried editing the *.ini file yet.

This was the initial function test after completing assembly. It took roughly 8 hours to build everything.

I initially linked every column of light boards in series, then wired the bottom board back to a pole. Unfortunately, after running all the wires, I realized there was no black color option, so I had to rewire about 30% of the lights to two switched poles so I could turn off the boards corresponding to black pixels.

To the left of the bridge is the generator house. It's four stories tall. The first three floors are filled with medium generators (large generators won't fit within a single story) and the top is filled with large generators. In total, the light board has 651 tiles (21x31), each requiring 1 unit of power.

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Reply #1117 - Nov 20^th, 2015 at 9:55pm

The Steam autumn sale begins on Wednesday. Prepare your wallets!

Also, Valve is eliminating daily and flash sales (the short-duration super sales of a handful of titles). All titles will have the same sale price throughout the duration of the sale. I'm pretty happy about this, as it means I won't have to keep refreshing Steam continuously.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-11-20-no-flash-or-daily-deals-during-stea...

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Reply #1118 - Nov 24^th, 2015 at 8:44am

Just wondering what you guys thought of FO4 so far? I've burned about 120 hours so far, and I'm finally starting to progress the main story. I've really been enjoying it so far.

Just as a heads up, if you play through the Freedom Railroad quest, you eventually get the ability to upgrade normal clothing at an armor workshop. The stats are insane. You can get 110 physical and 110 energy damage resist on both a hat and a set of clothing (e.g. suit/fatigues/etc), giving you a base of 220 physical/energy resist before even taking armor into consideration. Those two items make up 65% of my energy resist and 57% of my physical resist, utterly dwarfing my arm/leg/chest armor. Honestly, it's kind of ridiculous that a fedora can provide 2-3x the protection of some of the best pieces of fully-upgraded armor in the game.

The hat in the screenshot above used to be a Battered Fedora. As you can see, you still get to keep any bonuses from the item (e.g. resists, SPECIAL boosts, etc) when you add the damage resist.

I don't want to spoil anything, but if you need more specific details about the Freedom Railroad quests necessary to get this ability, let me know!

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Reply #1121 - Dec 24^th, 2015 at 10:55am

If you or anyone you know plays any "freemium" games, this article is definitely worth checking out. It discusses how player data is mined from both inside and outside of the game to encourage players to spend money. Definitely worth a read!

http://toucharcade.com/2015/09/16/we-own-you-confessions-of-a-free-to-play-produ...

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Reply #1122 - Jan 6^th, 2016 at 11:46am

So, the Oculus Rift pre-orders just launched and came in at a whopping $599. That's damn near double what everyone was expecting.

Previously, Oculus stated "We want to stay in the $200 to $400 price range" and "It'll be in the $350 ballpark". Not sure how their predictions could have been so far off.

The thing that really blows my mind is how hard the Europeans are getting screwed. They're being charged €742.00, which is ~$800.

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Reply #1124 - Jan 9^th, 2016 at 3:46pm

The Vive will almost undoubtedly outperform the Rift to a minor degree, and will likely have a price tag to prove it.

As Oculus has shown, guessing at prices is a risky game, but Sony has stated the PSVR will be priced roughly comparably to a new console, so I'm guessing that is in the $300 to $400 range. It might cost more than that to manufacture since PSVR is the only headset that will have a guaranteed market lock-in (and thus a cut of sales from PSVR games and other "experiences"), but the Rift and the Vive also have their own marketplaces so I don't think the lock-in price cut for the PSVR will be all that substantial.

That's a long-winded way to say that I don't think the PSVR is going to be capable of outperforming either the Rift or the Vive. The Rift is $600 and that's probably with a razor-thin profit margin, so there's just no way you're going to get superior hardware for $400. Sony isn't going to take a $200-per-unit loss on a totally unproven technology.

Based on current (and very speculative) specifications, the PSVR is already the weakest in the pack in terms of hardware. Both the Rift CV1 and the current Vive devkit have 2160x1200 resolution (1080x1200 per eye), while the PSVR is specced at 1920x1080 (960x1080 per eye). That's 1.036 million pixels versus 1.296 million per eye, or 20% fewer pixels. I imagine that will amp up the screen-door effect, but there's a lot more to a head-mounted display (HMD) than resolution.

Motion control is also a consideration. Both the Rift and the Vive have developed VR-specfic motion controllers, while the PSVR is getting saddled with the legacy PlayStation Move controllers from their aborted Wii-wannabe days. I've never used them, but they look pretty big and clunky and will almost certainly have less tracking capability than the Move controllers.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, I'm really concerned about the PS4's ability to handle the demands of VR gaming. The PSVR is specced for 1080p at 120Hz, which is fairly trivial for a decent gaming PC but virtually impossible for a console to pull off. Very few games run at 1080p even at 30FPS on either the PS4 or the XBox, so pulling off 120FPS is just not going to happen. The PSVR is supposed to come with an "external processing unit" that will boost its performance, but I'm really struggling to figure out how Sony is going to pull that off. It'd effectively have to be a separate video card in a box, and there is no way that would be cost effective considering the already high price of the HDM. Sony has said virtually nothing about this external processor, so I guess we'll have to wait and see what they can pull out of their sleeve.

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Reply #1125 - Jan 11^th, 2016 at 9:21am

The reason it will outsell the Rift has nothing to do with any of what you just said.

The PSVR is designed to run with the PS4 (Albeit we don't know how well).

The Rift requires you to have a fairly decent gaming computer (which most people estimate at about 950 bucks right now) in ADDITION to the 600 for the Rift. That's a pretty small market compared to the 40 million PS4's already sold.

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Reply #1126 - Jan 11^th, 2016 at 10:10am

Sure, but there's a big difference between "outselling" and "outperforming". If Sony can muster even a mediocre software lineup and if they can produce the PSVR at a reasonable price, they will undoubtedly push quite a few PSVR units. Like you said, there is a much bigger install base for the PSVR than there is for the Rift/Vive.

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Reply #1135 - Jan 21^st, 2016 at 11:27pm

Edit: Changed my mind. It might be best to skip the webcams for now and just stick with voice chat.

On a related note, I was thinking about picking up this webcam. It has good reviews and, despite being a couple years old, seems to be a better camera than the $105 C930 that succeeded it.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006JH8T3S?keywords=webcam&qid=1453436289&ref_=...

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Reply #1136 - Jan 22^nd, 2016 at 11:01am

After checking out Roll20.net and Fantasy Grounds, I'm really starting to lean toward Fantasy Grounds. It has the licensed D&D 5E content available which would make DMing much, much easier.

I'm still doing some research, but it looks like I can buy an "ultimate" DM license and everyone else can connect as a player for free. The only downside is that each person that wants to DM would have to buy a $40 license to be able to run a game. If I DM the first few games, that shouldn't be a problem.

Just to keep things cheap for everyone, we can forego the cameras for now and stick with voice chat. We're all going to be staring at maps and character sheets anyway, so I'm not sure it would add much.

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Reply #1138 - Jan 25^th, 2016 at 10:32am

After talking with Meredith, we thought it might be best to just buy the ultimate license so everyone else can play for free. I'll pick it up this weekend.

I've been poring through the core rule books and I've picked a campaign that seems like it will be a lot of fun. Fantasy Grounds has a bit of a learning curve, so I was thinking Skype or Mikogo might be a good idea for the first session. That would allow us to share desktops so I can show everyone how the software works and assist with troubleshooting.

Are there any particular nights of the week that work out well for you guys? Any idea who all would be interested in playing?

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Reply #1140 - Jan 26^th, 2016 at 9:14am

No worries about the webcam, I think we're just going to skip them altogether.

I was only suggesting desktop sharing as a view-only thing, and only if you get into trouble with the software on our first night. If I can't see what you're doing, I can't really help you if you get stuck!

More importantly, I need to be able to share my desktop so I can walk everyone through character creation. The UI takes a little while to get used to.

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Reply #1147 - Jan 29^th, 2016 at 10:35am

When I started playing D&D, I was 12 years old and we'd play on Saturdays for fourteen hours straight. We survived on Mountain Dew and nasty pizzas from "The Hut" (not to be confused with The Hutt, which is my Star Wars-themed term of endearment for your mom). Life was good!

Unfortunately, now that we're supposedly responsible adults, we've all got busy schedules, so it's totally understandable. Some folks will be there every time we play, others might be lucky to make it to once every three or four games. We'll work around it!

I'm planning on running a game once every two weeks, and it sounds like Tuesday is shaping up to be the night that works for everybody's schedules. I'm thinking 7:00pm to 9:00pm EST so everyone has time for dinner and doesn't have to stay up too late, but I'm totally open to suggestions.

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Reply #1149 - Feb 4^th, 2016 at 5:38pm

Here's a nifty concept video showing the Unreal 4 editor being used within VR. In short, editing the game from within the game.

I can see this having some interesting applications for level designers, but the real strength is probably in allowing players to interact more directly with the game environment. This would be neat for tower defense games (placing towers and modifying terrain features), but I can see it being used in other genres including platforms, first person shooters, and RPGs.

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Reply #1150 - Feb 9^th, 2016 at 10:45am

Anyone remember GameTrailers.com? They're shutting down. 12-14 years ago, GameTrailers.com was the go-to site for new game trailers. In the pre-YouTube days, it was the only place to consistently find new trailers and literally the only place that would allow you to download those trailers (in 480p baybee!) immediately and without requiring an account.

Unfortunately, their site went downhill rapidly. The UI was god-awful, the video player was abysmal, and there were increasingly draconian restrictions on video downloads. With the advent of YouTube, there really was no reason to visit GT. I probably haven't visited the site since 2008 or so.

https://twitter.com/GameTrailers/status/696858020215586816

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Reply #1156 - Mar 23^rd, 2016 at 11:44am

I know I've been posting a lot of VR stuff lately, but this is seriously amazing. Developers are using VR HMDs to create virtual desktops, turning your PC's desktop into a 3D theater and integrating with 3D video and images. I am totally psyched to try this out!

On a side note, shipping notices have started going out for the earliest Rift shipments (to Kickstarter backers). My Rift is supposed to shift sometime in April, so I've got another 1-5 weeks to go.

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Reply #1158 - Mar 25^th, 2016 at 9:43am

The first Rifts are shipping this morning, scheduled for delivery on Monday 03/28. Please, please, please let them live up to the hype!

The_Fat_Man wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2016 at 11:55pm:

You'll have to let me know how the headset feels.

No idea when mine will arrive (sometime in April, supposedly), but I'm a little worried about comfort. I had a chance to try Briney's Rift DK2 about a year ago and it was fine for a short burst, but I have no idea what the CV1 will be like after extended play. Most of the game journalists have used both the Rift and the Vive for ~30 minute stretches without complaint, but that doesn't really compare to a marathon gaming session.

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