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ChetReckless posted:In Fallout 3 and New Vegas both I found that I could get my save file as big as about 10 mb before the world basically just fell apart. Frame rate would drop to about 5 before it would freeze for about 5 minutes. This was my experience in Fallout 3 as well. I enjoyed the game right up until the middle where you find out what happens to Dad, then I just lost all enthusiasm to continue. I never finished Fallout 3, I thought Oblivion was sort of boring, and I very much enjoy Dark Souls. I enjoy the freedom an open world gives you but only if there's interesting things to see constantly, the game doesn't perpetually freeze and crash, and there's a cohesive story to keep you engaged - or at the very least, good NPCs that help to advance the plot while being unique and well-voiced. So far I haven't really enjoyed Bethesda games because I've found that those three things are generally lacking in their games. I'd like to give Skyrim a chance (probably in a few months when it's on sale), but I guess I didn't really enjoy the other Bethesda offerings very much. Is there any chance I'll find Skyrim much different, or is it really more of the same?
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DiminishedAngel posted:Random aside: I skipped MW3 because I find they don't change up the gameplay enough in each iteration, and battlefield 3 is providing a nice change of pace after ~3 years of CoD. However, all of my friends who still enjoy the gameplay say that MW3 is fantastic and is the best of the series yet. Considering the CoD series has featured the defining FPS gameplay of this generation, I would think being the best in that series warrants some praise?
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| # ? Nov 14, 2011 18:56 |
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Megasabin posted:I skipped MW3 because I find they don't change up the gameplay enough in each iteration, and battlefield 3 is providing a nice change of pace after ~3 years of CoD. However, all of my friends who still enjoy the gameplay say that MW3 is fantastic and is the best of the series yet. Considering the CoD series has featured the defining FPS gameplay of this generation, I would think being the best in that series warrants some praise? One of the podcasts I listen to summed it up nicely I thought: it's a game that's basically transcended the FPS genre to become its own thing. So if you like CoD, more than likely you'll love MW3. If you're completely bored with what they've done, you probably won't like it. I think it's similar to Assassin's Creed: the games don't dramatically change every year, but the end product is always quality and the people that want more of that game year to year (me, for example) love it. Revelations could possibly change all of that, but the one review I've read so far makes it seem like it's a good game. I have no idea what Kotaku is doing, though. I unsubscribed to their RSS ages ago and have been happy since. Same with most of the Gawker sites, actually, excepting io9 (and I'm probably gonna drop them soon).
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| # ? Nov 14, 2011 19:00 |
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I said come in! posted:For those who signed up for that free $5.99 credit, how long did it take for you to get your code? It's been over 3 days now and I haven't gotten it yet in my e-mail. I'm in the same boat as you. I still haven't gotten anything in my email about my code, either. I think I signed up for it on Friday night or Saturday morning.
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| # ? Nov 14, 2011 19:01 |
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I've been waiting about 5 days now.
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I said come in! posted:For those who signed up for that free $5.99 credit, how long did it take for you to get your code? It's been over 3 days now and I haven't gotten it yet in my e-mail. I got mine the next day (probably about 16 hours). Filled it out Saturday night, got it when I woke up Sunday morning.
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| # ? Nov 14, 2011 19:05 |
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Palleon posted:I got mine the next day (probably about 16 hours). Filled it out Saturday night, got it when I woke up Sunday morning. Same here, actually I want to say I might've had mine same day [register early at work, had it by the time I went home]
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| # ? Nov 14, 2011 19:23 |
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I said come in! posted:For those who signed up for that free $5.99 credit, how long did it take for you to get your code? It's been over 3 days now and I haven't gotten it yet in my e-mail.
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| # ? Nov 14, 2011 19:58 |
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Just so you know, according to The Drop, this week Red Dead Redemption is coming to PSN. This is also the last week where you can split a psn. Also, if anyone in my share group is reading this, please don't get it.
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| # ? Nov 14, 2011 20:24 |
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Hopefully that means more people play RDR, because drat does RDR own. Hadn't been on the store for a while, and I saw Black Ops is on there for $60. I... what? Come on, MW3 just launched. Mark that poo poo down to $50 or $40. [yeah, I know...]
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| # ? Nov 14, 2011 20:41 |
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Code Jockey posted:Hadn't been on the store for a while, and I saw Black Ops is on there for $60. I... what? Come on, MW3 just launched. Mark that poo poo down to $50 or $40. I wanted to go back to Black Ops as soon as I found out the sprinting dive-to-prone move was gone in MW3. How am I supposed to dive out of windows whilst firing off dual shotguns?
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| # ? Nov 14, 2011 21:41 |
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Code Jockey posted:Hopefully that means more people play RDR, because drat does RDR own. Activision. I decided I was never buying a COD/Activision game again after the prices they wanted to charge for each of their map packs for BO.
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| # ? Nov 14, 2011 21:43 |
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I said come in! posted:For those who signed up for that free $5.99 credit, how long did it take for you to get your code? It's been over 3 days now and I haven't gotten it yet in my e-mail. It took 24 hours for my main account. I signed up the next day on my 4 alt accounts and haven't gotten anything from them.
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| # ? Nov 14, 2011 21:45 |
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Code Jockey posted:Hopefully that means more people play RDR, because drat does RDR own. It was $50 on the week of release and like $40 if you were a PS+ subscriber, then the week after they shoved it back up to $60 because it was a "limited time offer". Seriously what the gently caress Activision.
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| # ? Nov 14, 2011 22:42 |
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Policenaut posted:It was $50 on the week of release and like $40 if you were a PS+ subscriber, then the week after they shoved it back up to $60 because it was a "limited time offer". Hahah okay then. loving Activision. If it had been like $25 or maybe $30 I would've considered buying it, so I could do LAN games with my two PS3s. Not that I have friends, mind you, but the idea is appealing. Maybe I could train one of my cats to use a DS3.
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| # ? Nov 14, 2011 23:08 |
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They already know how...
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| # ? Nov 14, 2011 23:20 |
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I said come in! posted:For those who signed up for that free $5.99 credit, how long did it take for you to get your code? It's been over 3 days now and I haven't gotten it yet in my e-mail. I signed up on thursday/friday (don't remember) and I just got my code. 
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 00:58 |
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Krad posted:I signed up on thursday/friday (don't remember) and I just got my code. Not entirely sure what I'll do with my $5.99, but that was a pretty sweet little deal. EDIT: VV I'm definitely still fatigued from Brotherhood, and haven't even beaten it yet. I loved ACII, and Brotherhood was certainly decent, but Revelations is a "eh, maybe it'll be on sale next summer" game for me. I'm already bumping Skyrim to January-ish in favour of Saints Row 3, and I'm not even an online FPS gamer (if I was... christ, this would be a hell of a Christmas). Shalinor fucked around with this message at Nov 15, 2011 around 03:13 |
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Is anyone really.. psyched or interested that a new Assassin's Creed game is coming out tomorrow? What with people still playing Arkham City, Skyrim, and Saints Row 3 tomorrow - it seems like it's going to be lost in the shuffle. Personally, I thought that Assassin's Creed II was a big step up from the original, but these incremental sequels (Brotherhood, Revelations) are just taking a step down in quality each time. I hear ACIII is already slotted in for next year. I think they need to stop with these one-year turnarounds before people really get fatigued.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 03:08 |
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I really really enjoyed AC2 and AC:B and would normally be picking up AC:R right away, but there are so many drat games to play right now I think I'm going to hold out and wait for it to come down in price a little bit.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 03:12 |
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I read that ACR is only an incremental improvement to Brotherhood, which is only an incremental improvement to 2, so I think I will wait.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 03:16 |
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I finally bought a headset today and it would be totally awesome if some other people wanted to play through Lost Planet 2 co-op sometime. Or if goons started playing MAG again (I don't think I've even seen the clan tag since I started playing).
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 03:19 |
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Harlock posted:Is anyone really.. psyched or interested that a new Assassin's Creed game is coming out tomorrow? What with people still playing Arkham City, Skyrim, and Saints Row 3 tomorrow - it seems like it's going to be lost in the shuffle. You're also forgetting Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 comes out tomorrow as well.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 03:20 |
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TaurusOxford posted:You're also forgetting Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 comes out tomorrow as well. I'm pretty glad Mass Effect 3 didn't come out before the end of the year. I would barely have any time for it. I wish I was better at MVC3 though. All I do is mash buttons and beat people marginally on my level 
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 03:22 |
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ACreed Revelations should be available for $25 by February. I used Amazon's $15 credit from pre-ordering Killzone 3 and got ACBros for $10.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 03:32 |
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Honestly this was an awful time for them to release Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom and a new Assassin's Creed not quite sequel. I personally would be all over MVC3 if it weren't for the fact that Mario came out on Sunday and on Tuesday is Saint's Row 3 and Rayman Origins, not to mention the fact I haven't even beaten Arkham Asylum, tried Uncharted 3's multiplayer or done a second run through of Dark Souls. It really would have helped it they had actually waited a year before releasing it, but they got impatient and now their coming out against much tougher competition. I feel really bad for King of Fighters, which I believe it coming out next week and no one is going to buy.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 03:38 |
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I'm preordering King of Fighters XIII. It's going to be the best game and you will all be jealous.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 03:41 |
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Armor-Piercing posted:I'm preordering King of Fighters XIII. It's going to be the best game and you will all be jealous. Well it certainly can't be worse than XII.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 03:43 |
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Code Jockey posted:Hahah okay then. loving Activision. That's not the hard part. The hard part is teaching it to scream Jew every time he dies. Strange, too, since its such an easy word.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 03:59 |
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jabro posted:That's not the hard part. The hard part is teaching it to scream Jew every time he dies. Strange, too, since its such an easy word. [999]xXxcatniplvr69xXx I felt like I was playing against dumb animals most of the time I played CoD4 on the 360, though actual animal noises would probably have been more pleasant than 13yr olds screaming racial obscenities with wild abandon, even if they amount to the same thing. 
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 04:04 |
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Wow, just started UC3 after ordering it from Amazon a week ago and I realized they didn't send me a multiplayer code. I hope Amazon is nice enough to either give me another or give a $10 credit so I can buy it from PSN.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 04:41 |
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It's on the back of the instruction manual. I think it even says so when they ask you to enter it.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 04:53 |
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Samurai Sanders posted:I read that ACR is only an incremental improvement to Brotherhood, which is only an incremental improvement to 2, so I think I will wait. That's 2 loving increments though!
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 05:00 |
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Feenix posted:That's 2 loving increments though!
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 05:03 |
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Samurai Sanders posted:Well, I played Brotherhood halfway through and it wasn't different enough from 2 to hold my interest. That's why I think Revelations would be the same story. If I was to play either of them, I would finish Brotherhood first though. But with Dark Souls, Skyrim and Saints Row 3 to play too... Brotherhood has the biggest cliffhanger of the whole series. You bet your rear end I'm excited for Revelations; I need to see how that batshit insane story actually ends.
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I don't know why, but I'm having a really hard time liking Uncharted 3. I'll preface this by saying Uncharted 1 was one of my favorite games for the entire first half of this console generation, and I'd consider Uncharted 2 possibly the best 3rd person shooter ever made. I'm not even referring to the combat, I'm actually talking about everything else about the game. This one just seems so... uninspired. Maybe I'm just tired of the characters? I feel like they haven't even put in a little bit of effort into changing up the formula. In the first one all of the surprises, plot twists, jokes, and small quips were novel. In the second they reused a lot of the same tricks, but they were amusing as throwbacks to the first game. This time it's still the exact gameplay tricks, story twists, and dialog, but I don't find any of it amusing anymore. It's no longer surprising when every other structure I'm climbing on collapses and I frantically grab the ledge narrowly avoiding death yet again. I can predict exactly when Nate is going to makes a quip about how his adversary literally has an army at their disposal, and instead of finding it endearing like I did with the last times, I just get irritated that I was able to predict the line. They've hardly changed anything except the background scenery, and all of the re-used lines, gameplay segments, jokes, and character stereotypes are really starting to grate on me. Not to mention the combat in this one sucks. They brought back the infinite waves of enemies from the first and added a horrible melee system that has you mashing the same buttons over and over to watch the same 3 canned animations on repeat. At some point tonight I just noticed I wasn't enjoying any part of the game. I was rushing through the fights to try and experience the other aspects of the game, only to realize I was bored by all the stuff I used to find so charming.
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What did people think of Rush'N Attack: Ex-Patriot? I played the demo last night and thought it was pretty good! Metroid Gear Solid, essentially. Seems like they took three signature things from the first Rush'N Attack (a knife, picking up limited ammo weapons, freeing POWs) and went in a more modern direction with it.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 10:17 |
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TaurusOxford posted:You're also forgetting Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 comes out tomorrow as well. I don't really have time for fighting games anymore though, if you want to be decent they take a lot of effort to learn.
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| # ? Nov 15, 2011 10:26 |
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axleblaze posted:Honestly this was an awful time for them to release Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom and a new Assassin's Creed not quite sequel. I personally would be all over MVC3 if it weren't for the fact that Mario came out on Sunday and on Tuesday is Saint's Row 3 and Rayman Origins, not to mention the fact I haven't even beaten Arkham Asylum, tried Uncharted 3's multiplayer or done a second run through of Dark Souls. It really would have helped it they had actually waited a year before releasing it, but they got impatient and now their coming out against much tougher competition. I feel really bad for King of Fighters, which I believe it coming out next week and no one is going to buy. Assassin's Creed is the big title there, though. For most people, it's those others who are releasing at a bad time, not AC.
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Megasabin posted:I'm not even referring to the combat, I'm actually talking about everything else about the game. This one just seems so... uninspired. Maybe I'm just tired of the characters? I feel like they haven't even put in a little bit of effort into changing up the formula. In the first one all of the surprises, plot twists, jokes, and small quips were novel. In the second they reused a lot of the same tricks, but they were amusing as throwbacks to the first game. This time it's still the exact gameplay tricks, story twists, and dialog, but I don't find any of it amusing anymore. It's no longer surprising when every other structure I'm climbing on collapses and I frantically grab the ledge narrowly avoiding death yet again. I can predict exactly when Nate is going to makes a quip about how his adversary literally has an army at their disposal, and instead of finding it endearing like I did with the last times, I just get irritated that I was able to predict the line. They've hardly changed anything except the background scenery, and all of the re-used lines, gameplay segments, jokes, and character stereotypes are really starting to grate on me. It took me until just a few days ago to finally play through 1 & 2, but I've felt about the same way throughout. The characters, banter, and storyline are pretty much the only things that kept me playing. Think back to how many times this conversation took place in the 2nd game: Person 1: "drat, this door won't open." Drake: " Hold on, I'll find another way around." I started played the Prince of Persia HD collection on Sunday, and the climbing segments in there are leagues ahead of Uncharted as far as complexity and variety.
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