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I liked that one, it looks like some sort of Loreal product placement ad in game :pQuote:
Originally Posted by eldargal
I had the opposite problem, my Jackdaw sank to the bottom of the harbour and everybody carried on as normal...Quote:
Originally Posted by Tyrendian
they are straight out of a horror filmQuote:
Originally Posted by Erik Setzer
woohoo, finished Dragon Age 2, so I have completed both of them in two weeks. that means I have the weekend to play the new Mario Kart dlc, and play some Bayonetta 2, before Farcry 4 on Tuesday, and Dragon Age Inquisition on Friday.
You want pooter game? Go try warlords of Quenor! Wows latest expansion is an epic tale of crashing,server shrinking and fail!
What's new about that, WoW often has terrible queues and server issues after expansions, it's one reason why I wait for a while for things to settle down before buying and playing them.
so, This War of Mine dropped yesterday... anyone else got it?
basically, you play a couple of people during a war - but not the elite soldiers of say a CoD, nor even rank-and-file dudes: you play as a group of civilians trying to survive in a city torn apart by civil war, scavenging for supplies at night (daytime is Sniper time, and thus going out is a baaad idea) and using said supplies to try and make a living during the day. There's choices to be made - do we risk helping our neighbour who needs us to protect her and her teen daughter from looters, or is our own life more important? Do we intervene when we find a soldier assaulting a girl during one of our nighttime excursions? Do we take in another survivor who will need to be fed, but might have useful skills? Works kinda rogue-like, so no save-s******* those decisions - if and when something goes wrong, you'll have to deal with the consequences, be they desperately trying to find bandages for your wounded comrade, seeing your people fall ever deeper into depression because you robbed an elderly couple of their possessions, or dealing with the loss of a valued friend who got shot by a sniper that happened to have night-vision goggles...
Does a pretty great job of transporting the horrors a war brings to the populace... really great setting and atmosphere, and gameplay isn't half bad either! Much recommended!
There was a nice site showing web attacks live (or as live as they got the reports), and it was amazing to see how much of a concerted effort there was to just wreck Blizzard's servers. Yeah, Blizzard had a few things to clean up still (hey, we beta testers can only spot so many issues), but most of the problem was due to a combination of a lot of people returning and a massive concerted effort to shut them down. They did what they could, kept guys in late, and finally blew a load of money on upgrading hardware to help, and when they brought things back up, even though you could still see some attacks heading at them, things were a LOT smoother.Quote:
Originally Posted by White Tiger88
High Pop servers still have queues at times, but you get that with a lot of games. Hey, you want the high pop, you get to deal with it.
Since the hardware upgrade on their end, I've been able to play a lot, and spent pretty much all day yesterday playing, without trouble. No lag, no crashes, none of the madness from Thursday and Friday. So yeah, it was rough at first, but they took the time and spent the money to fix it, they didn't just sit on their hands. Only fair to give them kudos for that.
Now, that out of the way, I'll take this moment to give my impressions of it.
I am loving the expansion so far. End game will be a real test, see if the stuff there can hold my interest, but I'm only at level 99. The stories for the zones are interesting enough that I wanted to make sure to complete them even if I'd hit the level for the next zone. And the main reason I was getting much into the level "past" what a zone was is that there's a lot to do. It tends to slow you down at times if you're just wanting to quest, but it's fun. Trying to figure out how to navigate the terrain to get to a "treasure," tracking down special mobs to fill, doing bonus objectives around the map, working with the garrison, etc.
The garrison was better than I thought, and I'll already tempered my expectations so I was happy with what I expected. But it's really nice to come back to it to set up more work orders or send more followers on missions, and as you walk around the garrison you'll see NPCs that you helped out around the world while questing, sticking around your garrison to help you. There was a large tree I helped to fulfill his duty in Gorgrond, he now walks around and acts as a vendor for natural foods (which provide some buffs). There was a ghostly Gnome bartender in an area I helped (can't say where or how, that'd be a spoiler), he now walks around my garrison selling his drinks still (I should probably try them, I think they have special effects). And you can log out anywhere in the base and gain rest XP, so I walked around it, found an NPC I'd helped out in the world, and clicked on a seat to sit at a table and imagine my character talking to them as I logged out.
There's plenty of fun toys and stuff, too. And as an Alchemist, I can make plenty of useful potions again, so I'm happy. But one that's really fun is called something like "Transmorphic Tincture," which changes your gender for five minutes.
It's not all rainbows and sunshine... I've enjoyed the dungeons I've done so far, but I've only gotten one piece of gear thanks to the personal loot rolls, while watching everyone around me getting useful pieces. Ironically, that one piece was quickly replaced by a piece I got while questing (but then, you also have a chance for quest gear or drops from special mobs to be better quality, and this one ended up being top-quality). That's just leveling, though. We'll see how the top-level dungeons go, and the raids (likely will do some LFR runs while waiting for the guild to reform a raid team).
Oh, and the music is absolutely great, at least in my opinion (others might not prefer the style).
I'm glad it's holding my interest, because I don't think I'll have DA:I for a while, as much as I absolutely love the Dragon Age games. It's $60, and I already am trying to figure out how I can work a $75 book and a $66 (likely) book into my budget from GW, with it looking like I'll get the $66 book, wait for a cheaper version of the $75 book, and wait to get DA:I until after the holiday season. If not for needing to buy gifts for people, I'd be good to go, but, well... Christmas beckons.
Is is true it only takes about ten hours to get ot 100? That's one major criticism I've seen in reviews a few times, but other people have been disputing it so...
I've played casually for around 5 hours and I'm only just 93, but I've been messing about with missions and Garrisons, hunting out the Rare Elites, which are plentiful and often drop cool loot (I killed a giant Ancient that drops a toy that turns you into a grumpy immobile little treant) and reading all the quest logs and generally enjoying myself, I think if you power through quests, skip the ones you don't need to do and do a lot of random dungeons you can level quickly, but taking my time and really loving it so far, even little things like more "swarms" of enemies, 3 or 4 weaker Mobs that attack as one, meaning you have to switch things up, and more Mobs are like those in Timeless Isle where you have to move about a lot.Quote:
Originally Posted by eldargal
It's likely possible, if you have higher end raiding gear that's fully upgraded (+16 item levels) from MoP, and you skip quest text, and you just blaze through.Quote:
Originally Posted by eldargal
For those of us who are going around messing with the fun stuff and all? Nope.
I just turned 99 last night. On Thursday I was able to play an hour or so, maybe longer, in between all the mess. About 3-4 hours Friday night, I think (it's hard to tell with all the mess with the queue and all). Saturday night, played a couple hours after getting home from the game store. And then yesterday I played for about 12-13 hours, with some breaks here and there. (Hey, it was really fun, and I didn't have an NFL game to watch as it's my team's bye week.)
So yeah, you can speed rush to the top level with good enough gear. But then you'll miss the story, and have to skip a lot of stuff, to do so. If that's what someone enjoys, okay.
One way to compete in a [URL="http://tallymarx.tumblr.com/post/102928934347/challengerapproaching-they-call-themselves"]tournament[/URL].
OMG yes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6vqWxTku8I
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A masked vigilante showed up at a smash bros meetup with a ski mask and sunglasses. He didn't say a word for 9 entire hours, beat everyone there and won the bracket, gave a thumbs up and left without saying a word. When asked what to enter him as in the tournament he got a pen and wrote "Falcomaster3000"
How to ensure he became internet famous :D
Farcry 4 is amazing, like one of the best games ever amazing... it is very much the same as Farcry 3 in a lot of ways, you climb towers to uncover areas, you hunt and skin animals, unlock free weapons, craft pouch upgrades... but the Himalayan scenery is incredible, very vertical, the bad guy, Pagan Min is absolutely genius, there are more weapons, more upgrades, and you can ride an elephant and fight enemies with it...
are you sure you aren't describing assassins creed?
that's what I was thinking...
Some first look videos (spoilers obv):
Never Alone (even if you watch only the first five minutes or so I really recommend you do):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cB50exiuXME
Far Cry 4:
http://youtu.be/W30guDFdA0I
Dragon Age Inquisition:
http://youtu.be/nTwZAqTaLd0
it is a squillion times better than assassin's creed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychosplodge
That's not hard though really....Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirsten
Then whys it sound just like it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirsten
because it doesn't
ohQuote:
Originally Posted by Kirsten
yeah and you use modern weaponry just like, oh, which Assassin's Creed had those? and the mountainous terrain is just like... and the quad bikes, the first person perspective, the characters, the plot, the gameplay, the missions... hang on a minute...
So what you're telling me is its your description at fault? ;)
But anyway new pokemon soon. Which version you having?
[URL="http://agameofme.tumblr.com/post/103002856657/a-quick-note-about-politics-video-game-reviews-and"]via[/URL]Quote:
Hi. I’m Carolyn Petit. You may remember me from [URL="http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/grand-theft-auto-v-review/1900-6414475/"]GameSpot’s original review[/URL] of Grand Theft Auto V. It caused a bit of a kerfuffle. I criticized the game for being misogynistic, and for this, users who objected to my critique flooded the comments with lots of hateful, sexist, transphobic garbage and a petition was created to get me fired for what they saw as the transgression of bringing my personal politics into the review. (Though my review was hardly “about feminism,” the reaction to it was nonetheless a great illustration of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Lewis_%28journalist%29#Lewis.27s_law"]Lewis’s Law[/URL].) The conversation blew up a little bit, which I think was a good thing. For instance, Alyssa Rosenberg wrote about the reactions to my review in this post, “No, Analyzing the Gender Politics of Grand Theft Auto V—or Anything Else—Isn’t ‘Unprofessional.’”
Now, because Grand Theft Auto V has been released on new platforms, there are new reviews being posted for it, and [URL="http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/grand-theft-auto-5-ps4-review/1900-6415959/"]GameSpot has one[/URL]. I think it is a good, well-written review that I don’t doubt honestly reflects the writer’s experience with and opinion of the game.
There are at least a few comments on the review that praise it, in direct contrast to my review, for what those commenters perceive as its pleasant, appropriate lack of a political agenda.
https://31.media.tumblr.com/840e4450...2o81qcqpir.jpg
But there is no such thing as a lack of a political viewpoint when reviewing a game as deeply political as Grand Theft Auto V.
And what really frustrates me about the whole ongoing debate about “SJWs” and critiquing the meanings and values of games along with their gameplay and graphics and sound is not so much the politics of those who rail against “SJWs” and their “agendas” but rather is the fact that many of these people honestly believe that their position is neutral, apolitical, that it is not, itself, a deeply political agenda in support of the status quo and against anything that seeks to call the status quo into question.
This is a huge problem. I think the first step a person needs to take before they can have any chance of reasonably participating in this discussion is simply to recognize that their position is just as political as any other. Of course, if you are a member of the dominant culture, it’s easy to see games, by and large, as apolitical, when the worldviews present in so many mainstream games (not to mention films and television programs) mesh seamlessly with your own. The politics present in these media can be invisible to you. So you can end up feeling like Grand Theft Auto is apolitical, but that Gone Home is deeply political, when of course the truth is that these two games are just differently political.
It became apparent to me that gaming culture is a deeply political space from the moment I started working for a major, mainstream gaming site. I was immediately faced with tons of comments making it clear that, to many, the mere fact that I was a woman and that I was transgender made me a transgressor in that space. If you’re a straight white man in that space, the politics of it may be invisible to you, but they could never be invisible to me.
And it quickly became clear to me that there was a correlation between the politics of gaming culture and the politics of most mainstream games themselves. Straight white men were dominant in the online spaces and in the narratives of the games themselves. Women, people of color, and queer folks were marginalized in the online spaces, and in the narratives of the games themselves. Those who are attacking women in gaming spaces, attacking “social justice warriors” and the idea of video game criticism that analyzes the sociopolitical values of games, see people who engage in such criticism (people like me) as trying to bring about an imbalance to something that was already perfectly balanced and neutral. If they had the capability to put themselves in the shoes of people different from themselves more often, if media asked that of them or if their own ability to empathize and see things from the perspective of others was simply well-developed enough, they might better be able to understand that things are already deeply imbalanced and that we are trying to bring a little more balance to these spaces.
Grand Theft Auto V is a game about men and masculinity and violence and crime and culture and has things to say—unfortunate things—about how women and [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egPpXoK9684"]trans folks[/URL] fit into this world. It is incredibly political. You cannot engage with or review the game apolitically. Despite what the commenters above may think, the new GameSpot review is not apolitical. It is just differently political from my review. Here’s an example. The writer says, “GTA V is sometimes heavy-handed with its satire, but there are few games that dare go as far as GTA does with its nihilistic commentary, and fewer still that do it with such conviction.”
That is a political statement, because satire must have some sort of political value. My political perspective on this issue is different. I don’t think the so-called satire in GTA is daring at all. I don’t think it “goes far” at all. I don’t think it takes guts at all to reinforce traditional notions of masculinity, to mock women and trans folks, to reinforce the status quo. I don’t think there is a single moment in GTA V when the average straight male player will find his worldview challenged, his notions about masculinity seriously called into question, when he will feel in any way threatened or caught off-guard by anything the game is saying about our culture.
It doesn’t take nerve to side with the powerful and to punch down.
To call for an absence of “political agendas” in video game criticism is itself a deeply political agenda, one in defense of a very imbalanced status quo that many perceive as perfectly balanced. It is also to hope for the impossible, since most games are inherently political and therefore any review of such a game, whether by choosing to discuss the politics of the game or choosing not to, is assuming a political position of some kind. When people say “get politics out of my games and game reviews,” what they really mean is “Keep making games that reinforce my worldview, stop making games that challenge my worldview, and stop questioning the political values of the games that reinforce my worldview.”
I don’t know how we do it, but I think getting people to understand that there is no politically neutral position here may be the essential first step if this conversation is ever going to move forward in any meaningful way.
hot damn this is awesome, Shadow of Mordor gets free DLC allowing you to play as a female warrior commander
[url]http://www.themarysue.com/shadow-of-mordor-lady-warrior-dlc/[/url]
Might just get me to get the game, sometime next year after I'm worn out with Dragon Age Inquisition which lets yo be a woman from the start rather relegating it to DLC...
Edit: Oh it's just a skin, not even voiced or given cutscenes, **** that lol.
it is a fantastic game, and a player skin is much more than most games give you
Had a [URL="https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Reindoonicorn"]Reindoonicorn[/URL] drop in TF2 Saturday. Must be nearly xmas.
And went back to RomeTW2. Everything was going well till loads of buildings finished at the same time and put me into very negative food. I almost lost my two oldest armies that have existed from the start, but luckily a concerted building effort put me upto 80 surplus before that happened, though most of my veterans had deserted so it did cost me heavily there. This was the turn after three factions had declared war on me in the eastern side of what is now Turkey. Luckily agent actions held them at bay till my armies recovered. They're now subdued.
The AI still isn't fixed, its still really easy to beat 3 and 4 to one odds.
One month to go!Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychosplodge
Shh I'm ignoring it and it might go away :D
[URL="http://bgr.com/2014/11/26/nintendo-pokemon-game-sales/"]I bought an overpriced shiney and bright tablet when I should have bought a 3DS [/URL]
Age of Wonders free on gog.com
http://youtu.be/PqToiIwh7Fc
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Down in Hell, surrounded by all those poor unfortunate souls, Jezebel dreams that someday her prince (or princess) will come. She wants a whole new world where she can just let it go. She just wants to be part of our world and feel the love tonight.
http://media.tumblr.com/440e62415f2f...qqb1qkmfut.jpg
It's beautiful.
Square Enix trolls the world...
[url]http://kotaku.com/the-internet-reacts-to-final-fantasy-vii-on-ps4-1668134367?utm_campaign=Socialflow_Kotaku_Facebook &utm_source=Kotaku_Facebook&utm_medium=Socialfl ow[/url]
more like more kotaku clickbait?
[url]https://www.origin.com/en-gb/store/buy/simcity-catalog/pc-download/base-game/special-edition#media[/url]
SimCity 2000 free on origin
not really, nobody is happy with Square Enix, the looks on the faces of the audience at the event are hilarious, loads of places reporting it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Psychosplodge
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never played any Sim City games, not really my thing, worth trying for free? hmmm
But its hardly a surprise as they're releasing old games in the online shop like Nintendo did with the wii.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirsten
But yeah I know how much they want a current gen ffvii remake, i've been hearing about from the SO and her friends for years.
(why do you think I've seen distant worlds twice :D)
It's not a bad game. played it on snes and PC. Definitely works better with the mouse.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kirsten
I didn't know the Sniper could do that
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