Didn't Fable do the gay thing like 5 years ago? I'm really not sure what the big deal is.
Didn't Fable do the gay thing like 5 years ago? I'm really not sure what the big deal is.
Diablo 3 beta downloading... the ginger's gonna freak and conquer the computer when she finds out
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Downloaded the beta a few months ago. Didn't play much of it cause I didn't want to spoil it. No way am I going to try and log into anything battle.net related this weekend. best of luck to you.
Last edited by Ominous Gamer; 04-21-2012 at 02:50 PM.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Diablo III Open Beta here too. I...I sank way too much of my late Friday night and Saturday really early morning into it. I told myself I'd only play an hour. Instead I did 5.
My only complaint, since I can't tell how reflective of the final game the difficulty level in beta is (it was pretty easy), is that I can't hotkey as many skills as I could in Diablo II, and that the only way I can customize my stats are via items. Also no skill points. I liked being able to do this in Diablo II, as I'd create weird min-maxed builds. I guess the benefit in this method is that you can try out different skills without being locked into them (the spider jar skill for the Witch Doctor sucks in beta).
. . .
In Diablo II they now give you 3 resets of your skills and stats.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
I once killed a low level PvP griefer from town in Diablo II with the blast damage from summoning a Fire Golem next to them repeatedly on one of my min-maxed builds (mana + casting rate focused). With the new skill system I don't think I'll be able to experience weirdness like this again.Originally Posted by Ominous Gamer
Also in Diablo III you just get skills as you level up. And you can respec at any time, so long as the skill you want to swap out isn't on cooldown. There are no skill points to invest. The only skill customization you get is via Runes which alter the skill.
. . .
Ugh dislike that you can only play on-line. I live out in the middle of nowhere so connection can be spotty sometimes.
Did make me want to play D2 again though.
It's a little ridiculous that you can, in theory, be barred from playing the single-player game due to connection problems or server issues. I'm hoping Blizzard will at least make sure to have enough working servers at launch
Me I'm anxiously waiting for the guild wars beta event which I expect will take place this weekend. Been playing both Prophecies (with the missus, final boundary crossed
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Thats the nightfall you meant
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Not sure what the EA/Gay big deal is? Hasn't The Sims had gay relationships as an option from the start? Over a decade ago?
And since sex (sorry "woohoo") was introduced in Sims 2, I'm guessing that gay sex was an option there?
It's really pleasant! A better solo experience than Prophecies and I love having the heroes, esp. MOXThats the nightfall you meantWhile the co-op nature of guild wars is awesome, the need to party up and communicate etc. doesn't appeal to me atm. I'm a casual player, and I spend more time bumming around on secondary quests and unlocking than on progressing through the story. Factions didn't really appeal to me, but GW:EN looks really nice and is supposedly the ideal bridge between GW1 and GW2. Can't wait so close close
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Anyone who tried out Star Trek Online or Champions Online may want to beef up their passwords. Maybe even their Atari accounts if you ever had the 2 accounts tied together at one point. I got an email warning that Cryptic Studios suffered a breach and my information was exposed. Didn't include any info on time frame, and since Cryptic and Atari are 2 seperate groups now, no telling if this involved anything relating to or at one point tied to Atari. Atari sold Cryptic to some online Chinese gaming giant a few months back.
Last edited by Ominous Gamer; 04-27-2012 at 01:01 AM.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
So guessing none of those f***tards from Cryptic who decided they were the bees knees and we were irrelevant are still there now that? What a surprise.
GW2 beta in an hour?
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Took a look at Binary Domain on the PC.
Sega obviously took the minimum required effort to port it.
You can't disable mouse acceleration.
In order to see the required keyboard hints, you first have to go into the config menu and set it to "Show keyboard hints" instead of "Show XB360 controller hints". Nevermind that control scheme was set to "Keyboard & Mouse"...
ESC and Enter don't do anything. Had to use Alt+F4 to escape the game because they hid the game menu away somewhere.
Any and all menu entries not selectable by mouse.
Not to mention that the tutorial is annoying: "Hey, super warrior! You're the best of the best and I'ma let you finish in a second ... but first, let me show you how to fire your guns!" Gah!
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Endless Space seems to shape out to become a nice 4X game. They also found their own, unique solution to the combat - it's divided into three sequential parts (long, medium and short range) where you give a general order for each part (defend, all-out-attack, repair...), some of which countermand the enemy's orders (or vice-versa).
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Activated my store bought copy of The Witcher 2 with GOG.com today, and this is what they gave me as a gift
(NSFW)
http://imgur.com/a/JNZge#0
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
That was probably meant for the kids.
Hope is the denial of reality
Well yeah, but have you seen the shipping rates on a real naked redhead chick? Pictures are probably the best they can do without blowing all their profits on shipping.Activated my store bought copy of The Witcher 2 with GOG.com today, and this is what they gave me as a gift
(NSFW)
http://imgur.com/a/JNZge#0
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
Amusingly diverting. At least until Diablo 3 comes out on monday. Is in a similar dungeon-crawling vein.
Torchlight 2 comes out this summer.
http://deadendthrills.com/
This guy does some amazing game wallpapers. Found it buried in my favorites, so it may have been mentioned before.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
So... this small time game called Diablo III comes out tomorrow. You might have seen an advertisement or something for it by now.
Turns out GAME isn't/wasn't completely dead after they made the news for screwing over the Mass Effect fans, as they were able to last long enough to take Diablo III preorders from the Aussie's, but now warn that they likely won't have a game to sell them, and that they won't be refunding their preorder money.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
GAME's not dead, they've been bought out and are back out of administration and trading normally again.
Guess its different in each county. GAME Australia is in adminstration, and the Swedes got the same warning; not enough copies, first come first served.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Pre-purchased yesterday, installed this morning.
So far, so pretty. Looks damn nice, flows smoothly, nicely moody, music atmospheric.
Tried early stages of the monk, the demon hunter, and the barbarian so far. Can't decide which I prefer, so will probably do the barbarian through first.
Cash is shared between heroes you create, and items can be stashed so any hero can use.
Back to the dungeon ...
Still got 13 minutes before it releases here. A bunch of my dev team took off work for tomorrow. They didn't say why, but I can guess.
So. Why on earth did Blizzard do a stress test when they obviously failed to learn anything from the experience?
I mean, honestly, they know exactly how many people preordered, how many people used the WoW annual pass offering and might also possibly have an inkling as to how many copies were sold in retail.
Oh well, at least they got the attention of the mainstream media. However, I'm not sure that going with "bad press is still good advertisement" is still such a good idea.
Not to mention that by creating this single point of failure, they also managed to impair service at Starcraft2 and WoW...
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Seeing all the bitching about release day troubles... Not regretting at all the ability to save $20+ by ordering through Target and having my copy delivered Thursday instead of getting it today.
Last edited by Ominous Gamer; 05-15-2012 at 05:46 PM.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
I tried at midnight, and couldn't get in, but had no problems when I played for a while this morning.
Anyways, nobody is ever prepared for games that are run on company servers for major releases. It's pretty much a rule that everyone trying to log in at once is going to hammer them into oblivion. I can't bring myself to be too hard on Blizzard for their troubles.
Lastly, are other games really being affected? Last night when I couldn't get into Diablo due to the server load, I played some Starcraft instead and had no issues.
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