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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:playing ME2 but not LotSB is a criminal act, fyi 
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Fifty Three posted:Is it that good? I haven't bought any DLC yet. I'm playing through both of them on PC and just finished 2 about a week and a half ago. Finished my FemShep run of 1 last night. Totally TWISTED posted:Ok fine. My next videogame purchase will be that thing. ARE YOU HAPPY NOW? also lol Mordin's voice actor got changed for ME3
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| # ? Feb 15, 2012 00:48 |
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Pitch posted:I haven't used Origin points, but what makes MS Points more legitimate aside from being around long enough that you no longer consider them unusual? Actually its Bioware points since you, as far as I am aware, can't buy the ME2 DLC via Origin but have to go via the Bioware store instead on the PC, and they're not available anywhere else. Unless they've changed this at some point.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2012 00:58 |
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Why the hell does ME3 have multiplayer anyway?Pitch posted:A long time ago, because they've been "around long enough that you no longer consider them unusual"
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| # ? Feb 15, 2012 01:30 |
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Insert name here posted:Why the hell does ME3 have multiplayer anyway? To flesh out the stupid readiness mini-game. It's why there is also a facebook game, same thing. WE'RE SO WEB 2.0 META HURRRRR  Hotwire has been playing MP in the demo and what he says sounds fun, I just don't see why it should tie into the single player.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2012 01:34 |
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Pitch posted:A long time ago, because they've been "around long enough that you no longer consider them unusual" Except for anything EA does.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2012 02:29 |
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I have no idea why it has multi, I've been avoiding the promo press, but it's pretty fun and that's good enough for me right now  Right now meaning the demo
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| # ? Feb 15, 2012 02:35 |
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BarkingSquirrel posted:And I remember a time when people were making GBS threads their pants in rage when Steam was first announced. Unusual and complained about at some point in time doesn't mean its a bad thing/idea. The big issue is that EA is doing it so loving terribly. Steam broke all the important ground a long time ago, and so far they're doing a mediocre job of cloning a service that's been around for the better part of a decade. If you're going to re-invent the wheel, at least make it a nicer wheel, not one that falls off or refuses to turn half the time. Also, individual platforms individual publishers, fracturing the market entirely, is a pretty crap situation for the consumer. I don't know about you, but I don't want to have a poo poo-ton of wrapper programs running on my computer for all the various games I play. That's one of the nice things about steam - it is a content delivery system that lets you get at pretty much anything you would want to play. Finally, gently caress any system which has me pay in online fun bucks rather than money. Yes, this includes MS's system, and is a big part of why I don't buy DLC for most MS games (what few I play to begin with). Yeah they've got a captive audience with the XBox and I guess you have to do that if you want to run that system, but as I'm a PC gamer I give zero fucks about the Xbox and the level of MS garbage people have accepted just because "it's the way it's done." This isn't even getting into the fact that a HUUUUUUUUGE part of building an online library with a content distributor is trusting them. I'm not saying that I love and worship Steam or Apple or think they're anything other than corporations running on a profit motive to maximize what their shareholders get at the end of the year, but they've been doing this poo poo a long time and, barring some kind of fairly crazy situation, aren't going anywhere any time soon. At the very least I feel confident that they're not going to either fold or just tell me to get hosed sometime in the future by doing something incredibly lovely. Mostly good track record up until now. EA? They have no track record with this poo poo. Maybe in 3 or 4 years I'll think about trusting them enough to buy stuff on Origin. Until then, they're not making anything that I NEED to play that badly. Despite how retarded it's looking I am disappointed that I'm going to miss out on ME3, if only because I won't see how it all ends, but it's not THAT huge a deal for me.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2012 03:22 |
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Pitch posted:A long time ago, because they've been "around long enough that you no longer consider them unusual" They're supposed to be gone by the end of the year, too.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2012 03:32 |
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Why the hell do I have to unlock female soldier in ME3 multiplayer screw you game.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2012 04:36 |
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Insert name here posted:Why the hell do I have to unlock female soldier in ME3 multiplayer screw you game. BioWare: no longer even a little bit interested in equal representation for player characters. It really says a lot that loving Saint's Row: The Third does a better job of it than ME3.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2012 04:38 |
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Insert name here posted:Why the hell do I have to unlock female soldier in ME3 multiplayer screw you game.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2012 04:41 |
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Did everyone cool leave or did someone just put replace their sugar with lead as the coffee sweetener of choice?
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| # ? Feb 15, 2012 06:15 |
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Alaan posted:Did everyone cool leave or did someone just put replace their sugar with lead as the coffee sweetener of choice?
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| # ? Feb 15, 2012 06:58 |
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Alaan posted:Did everyone cool leave or did someone just put replace their sugar with lead as the coffee sweetener of choice? I don't know what happened to them. Baldur's Gate 2 is still one of my favorite RPGs, and it was full of interesting dialogue and characters. It had it's flaws, especially the romances, but those were easily forgotten. Their other games could be predictable, and a bit bland, but they generally weren't outright disappointing or terrible. I really enjoyed playing through ME 1. Dragon Age 1 wasn't the most amazing thing ever, but it scratched all those nostalgia itches just so. Sometime after those games, something happened. When your lead writer starts saying things like 'Well, I think Twilight is far more effective with its romantic elements than most people give it credit for. Granted, it has little else going for it-- but the romance it does well.' and your response isn't immediately firing him, and putting his work to the torch, bad things happen. I was looking for clips on youtube to demonstrate this masterpiece of drama, and even the loving search engine seemed to know what was up.  gigglesquee I wish I could be paid thousands and thousands of dollars to hand in a half-assed first draft script.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2012 07:55 |
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Alaan posted:Did everyone cool leave or did someone just put replace their sugar with lead as the coffee sweetener of choice?
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| # ? Feb 15, 2012 08:03 |
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Capn Beeb posted:The problem is since the last Origin update, BF3 runs like poo poo for pretty much everyone regardless of components. I have an i5 2500k and loading the game attempts to max out all four cores and feels like my PC is just seconds from having a total hardlock. Then I get in game, and every so often get little freezes. Not lag, but actual hardware issues. Everyone I play with has had this happening lately, which is why we really haven't played as much. At least I haven't, anyway. Hahahahahaha, I have been having these intermittent hangs/freezes you describe, and it has been driving me insane. I thought my computer was going to die or something, initially. I play with Mike a lot and I'm always complaining about it to him.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2012 08:40 |
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Inspector_71 posted:Sounds about right, and he did go to Best Buy to get the video card. That's hilarious - this dude rules, whenever he came in we would chat for about a half hour about gaming and poo poo. Really nice guy. He even used to play Day of Defeat, so we reminisced about that for a while, too.
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SadWhaleFamily posted:BioWare: no longer even a little bit interested in equal representation for player characters. I mentioned this yesterday, half of the classes start off with just the human male unlocked, and the other half start off with just the human female unlocked. Is there some other definition of equal that I'm missing. Bioware's done plenty of terrible, terrible, horrible, disgusting things; we don't need to make up ones that don't exist. 
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| # ? Feb 15, 2012 20:12 |
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Bored As gently caress posted:That's hilarious - this dude rules, whenever he came in we would chat for about a half hour about gaming and poo poo. Really nice guy. He even used to play Day of Defeat, so we reminisced about that for a while, too. Day of Defeat has a really strong old-man player base. In Australia the most popular server is run by a guy in his 60s (who built and owned one of the first computers in Australia) and his old buddies. It owns so hard.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2012 20:12 |
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Internet Wizard posted:Is there some other definition of equal that I'm missing.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2012 20:14 |
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BarkingSquirrel posted:"Seperate but Equal" isn't "Equal". Equal would be both unlocked for all classes. That's a legitimate point.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2012 20:20 |
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Beat The Darkness II today after plinking away at it the last 24 hours or so. Probably 6 hours of actual gameplay in the story mode, plus Vendettas (challenge mode, MP and SP) and New Game+. It was an really honestly fun action game. Genuinely surprised me. I never played the first game, but I used to read the comics as a kid. I was not expecting the game to be as good as it was given the state of games these days. Pros
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All in all I was extremely surprised by this game, which I sort of picked up on a lark and was expecting very, very little from. Though the cons list outnumberss the pros, only one of them is actually a real detraction -- the bullet-sponge factor is kind of annoying. The rest is massively outweighed by the pros, which make for a really pretty comic book game with some variety to the violence and a lot of enjoyable action. I'm gonna play the first one, one of these days, I think. I enjoyed this game enough for one playthrough and maaaaaybe even a second depending how bored I am between now and Syndicate, which I have low expectations for.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2012 20:32 |
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So apparently MW3's multiplayer has a free weekend from Thursday to Sunday. Doesn't sound worth it.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2012 22:20 |
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It's worth it for Pitch and I in that we are about to farm so many loving level zero pubbies for xp.
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| # ? Feb 15, 2012 22:21 |
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Gtab posted:It's worth it for Pitch and I in that we are about to farm so many loving level zero pubbies for xp. But this means you're playing MW3, so it's still not worth it.
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| # ? Feb 16, 2012 00:01 |
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I am trying to get into Syndicate, any xbox crew want to play tonight?
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| # ? Feb 16, 2012 00:10 |
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bunnielab posted:I am trying to get into Syndicate, any xbox crew want to play tonight? Yes. Ill be on shortly.
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| # ? Feb 16, 2012 00:14 |
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Gray Stormy posted:Yes. Ill be on shortly. Yippy!
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| # ? Feb 16, 2012 00:22 |
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I'll play the Syndicate demo with you guys if you toss me an invite before my friends get online for ME3 demo tonight. Tag's TheBoginator, GS has me in his friendslist already.
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| # ? Feb 16, 2012 00:29 |
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I had a fun time tonight Mr. Lab  Syndicate hard mode does NOT gently caress around either. Running Normal with two guys is hard enough.
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| # ? Feb 16, 2012 02:17 |
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Psion posted:But this means you're playing MW3, so it's still not worth it. uh i'm sorty of  you loving peasant, maybe you havent heard????
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| # ? Feb 16, 2012 02:20 |
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Gtab posted:It's worth it for Pitch and I in that we are about to farm so many loving level zero pubbies for xp.
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| # ? Feb 16, 2012 02:29 |
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Fifty Three posted:I haven't played a Call of Duty on PC since 1, what am I getting into it is not a good game.
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| # ? Feb 16, 2012 02:35 |
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Gtab posted:it is not a good game. Slow your roll there pard, Black Ops is in the Guiness Book of World Records as Best Video Game Ending! (Yes, not only did they put an entirely subjective award into the book, but they then polled people for the answer and everybody picked the game with the worst ending out of the recent CoDs.)
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| # ? Feb 16, 2012 02:47 |
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Battlefield twitter posted:Bolt action rifles are a 1 shot head shot. We will be making adjustments to the way recon plays in the future to facilitate
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| # ? Feb 16, 2012 03:02 |
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:supposedly this will only apply to within 10m, but I hope you like being quickscoped! This is pretty stupid. Sniper rifles were already pretty powerful in the hands of a good player, and weren't too annoying in the hands of the legions of morons that usually use them.
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| # ? Feb 16, 2012 03:18 |
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Gray Stormy posted:I had a fun time tonight Mr. Lab I've done hard with 2 people but it's, well, hard. Really hard  add notpsion to your exciting friends list and I will play it (if I am online) in ME3 demo news: they have successfully managed to not do something Bungie did years ago. By which I mean, they did a piss-poor job of imitating something Bungie already showed everyone how to do years ago. Bungie is not really that hard of an act to follow ... you'd think? specifically, this demo: wow the Reapers sure take forever to glass or eat or whatever a planet with their REAPER LASERS and hm, this is poo poo. Covenant glassing a planet was far more HOLY poo poo and ODST did a better Future City. Halo 2 did a better Future City. The whole little kid gimmick was terrible and awful. The second half was marginally better and leads me to believe the only enjoyment of this game is gonna be the constant namedrops of all the characters from good Mass Effect games. Kirrahe, I want that gun. And Wrex: loving Wrex. I also want to feel the FOV is tighter on Shep but that may be my bitterness speaking. I sure didn't catch half the "look at these sweet scenes we put in the background" since the cueing was poor and the FOV was tight.
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Inspector_71 posted:(Yes, not only did they put an entirely subjective award into the book, but they then polled people for the answer and everybody picked the game with the worst ending out of the recent CoDs.) (In retrospect I can't even remember you who kill in MW2's ending since the main villain is still alive in MW3?)
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I'm reasonably sure you get shot in the end of MW2, since that happened at the end of every other level. e: maybe stabbed
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