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| News Comments > Borderlands Blowout |
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Re: Borderlands Blowout |
Jul 29, 2009, 02:23 |
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Cutter, you really shouldn't have stopped the medication. Go back on it - trust me on this.
Well, his name is cutter after all. He's more than likely an emo kid slicing up his arm and listening to Linkin Park while his mother goes out to pick up the pizza she ordered for him.
His type is the kind of gamer I hate. The one who expects every game to be just like the games he played as a kid.
I played Wasteland, Dragon Wars, and the old SSI Goldbox games in my teens. I thank the maker that I don't have to struggle through RPGs like that anymore. You can wish for more of them, but I'll take something a bit more palatable like borderlands or Fallout 3.
I believe you have an installation of DOSbox to play. Do modern RPG developers a favor and return to it. It'll make them happy. |
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| News Comments > Borderlands Trailer |
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Re: Borderlands Trailer |
Jul 24, 2009, 22:42 |
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This certainly doesn't look like any spiritual successor to the original Wasteland.
They never said that. The game hasn't even been compared to that. Gaming journalists have compared it to Fallout 3, but Fallout 3 and Wasteland are about as similar as The Osmonds and the Osbournes.
If Borderlands is a "spiritual successor" to any game, I'm going to say Rogue. It's a rogue-like at its core, and Gearbox has never hid this fact. |
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| News Comments > Banned PS3 Gamer Sues |
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Re: Banned PS3 Gamer Sues |
Jul 21, 2009, 23:12 |
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I'm all for punishing people but it should be reasonable. So it should be a temporary ban (say a month) and should be restricted to the game in question (at least on the first offence) - each subsequent ban should last longer but after a period without issue (say 6 months) it should be nullified.
You must be very naive...or play very few online console games.
These kids can't be "Reformed". Banning him in small increments that increase with each offense won't change things. He's better off banned, and the network is better off without him "stinking it up".
When you sign up for a PSN account (Or an XBL account) you'll have a code of conduct agreement to read. Very few people read it, but if you do you'll see that there is wording that says they can ban you for any actions that are deemed offensive or disruptive. Clearly, harassing other players verbally is offensive to most of the community...so they banned him. Plain and simple.
I applaud Sony for having the guts to do this.
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| News Comments > The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut |
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Re: The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut |
Jul 14, 2009, 23:03 |
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Do you by any chance own the original, non-enhanced version? I know I do and when I applied the Enhanced Edition patch it removed the disc check. So yeah, I've already been playing it without the disc for a while
Yes, I guess that explains it. I was an early adopter and was extra-intrigued about it since it's a European CRPG...which is usually a good thing.
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| News Comments > The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut |
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Re: The Witcher: Enhanced Edition Director's Cut |
Jul 14, 2009, 20:56 |
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They claim that this new patch (1.5, not this new Director's Cut) removes the DRM and lets you play without the disc. Thing is, I've been playing without the disc since patch 1.4. I thought 1.4 removed the Disc check, since I never downloaded a crack for it but run the game without the CD.
Huh, weird.
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Jul 13, 2009, 14:39 |
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I had to laugh at this article. For the last decade me and every other over 30 gaming grognard has been bemoaning the loss of "the great singleplayer epic" in gaming...and now you see this.
I can remember just a few years ago that there was a discussion about this here, and how everyone wanted another Baldur's Gate or Planescape. How we wanted another slow-paced, in-depth singleplayer only "epic".
With so many great Triple-A Singleplayer only titles out right now (Fallout 3, Bioshock 1, Infamous, Prototype, Fable 2 etc.) I can honestly say I feel fulfilled for the first time in a decade.
My theory is that multiplayer has become compartmentalized. You have console gamers sticking primarily with Gears of war, Halo, or CoD and the PC gamers saddling up with L4D or TF2. The rest are just career WoW junkies who aren't going to buy anything but WoW expansions anyway.
The rest of us would rather sit back and play a game at our leisure, without the pressure of competition. As gamers age, I think we all gravitate towards SP again. With a job, family obligations and the inability to go without sleep anymore, you tend to want games that work around your schedule. Games you can pick up and play for an hour then go and put on the shelf for three weeks while you tend to real-life matters.
You do that in an MMO your friends will level past you. Do it in an FPS and you'll miss out on the new maps and have to put up with everyone knowing them while you become bullet food.
This comment was edited on Jul 13, 2009, 14:40. |
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| News Comments > BioWare on Casual/Mature Games |
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Re: BioWare on Casual/Mature Games |
Jul 7, 2009, 01:06 |
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Caveman has said, in an earlier post, that he has an 8800GTX as his video card. Quite obviously, he is a poor white trash 20-something whose is either unemployed/under-employed and cannot afford a real PC with real up-to-date-hardware the way the rest of us can.
Therefore, he shows hostility towards PC Gamers (and PC Games) because he wishes he could play them and knows that his burger-flipper salary prevents it from ever happening.
For the record, I don't hate consoles (I own a Wii, 360, and a PS3), but as anyone with a modicum of intelligence knows, the PC versions of games are always better looking.
Can't say the same for Caveman's mother. She needs a shave. |
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| News Comments > etc. |
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Re: etc. |
May 31, 2009, 00:44 |
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I ended my EGM subscription around 1992, when Diehard Gamer hooked me with their far more timely and much juicier import previews and large screenshots.
Though I will give them credit for the Quartermann monthly article. That guy was the only link a teenage geek like myself had to the "underground gaming world" in the 80s. Back before the net, he was how you found out about new systems being made, new games being planned and general rumor mongering.
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| News Comments > Happy Birthday DDO |
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Re: Happy Birthday DDO |
Feb 27, 2009, 22:39 |
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Played it back when they had a free trial a couple of years ago. Maybe the free trial is still available so who knows...but I didn't enjoy it enough to go beyond two days of play.
You basically repeated the same exact 5 minute quests in some 3-5 room "dungeon area" for experience. After doing the same quest for 2 hours to go from level 3 to 4, I uninstalled it.
WoW is a grindfest, sure, but at least you have a ton of different areas to choose from. In DDO, you had, at best, two (though usually one) ideal tiny dungeon to constantly repeat for the best experience.
I'm shocked people play it. They probably cyber in it. |
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| News Comments > Geneforge 5 Ships; Demo |
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Re: Geneforge 5 Ships; Demo |
Feb 25, 2009, 21:32 |
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I used to ignore Vogel's games, but a friend recommended Avernum 5 to me last year and I fell in love with the game. Yes, the game's graphics were about the same as Ultima 6, but the gameplay was remarkably deep. Far deeper and challenging then Fallout 3 or Mass Effect.
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| News Comments > The Last Remnant Demo & Benchmark |
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Re: The Last Remnant Demo & Benchmark |
Feb 25, 2009, 19:49 |
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Velvet's right. A lot of the negativity was due to the 360's outdated hardware. It's a PC from 2005, basically. A tabletop piece of shit.
Plus, people need to stop reading reviews altogether and go back to sampling the game and thinking for themselves. Too many lazy ass gamers nowadays who just let others lead them around by the nose. |
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| News Comments > THE LAST REMNANT Steam Plans |
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Re: THE LAST REMNANT Steam Plans |
Feb 24, 2009, 13:59 |
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About the performance and stability concerns, I'm not worried. Maybe it's just my experience, but Japanese PC games have always been unusually stable and very well built whenever I played them. RE4, PSO, PSU, Ys1-2, Ys6, Ys-Felghana...these are just the ones I played over the past couple of years and they all worked fine in both XP and now on my vista machine with very little to no messing around. (Other than Admin rights)
My experience has been that these Japanese developers seem to take their game's condition a bit more seriously on the PC than they do the console versions.
That's just my experience though. |
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| News Comments > MS: Windows 7 to be "Great for Games" |
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Re: MS: Windows 7 to be "Great for Games" |
Feb 23, 2009, 11:50 |
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I've read a few performance comparison tests (which were linked here on blues news earlier this year) and the general consensus was that Vista was actually slightly faster then Windows 7 when it came to gaming. Specifically in hard drive access time for some odd reason. Some of it may be due to driver maturation of the Vista side, but a lot of it (Like the access times) seem embarrassing.
Either way, this bullshit about MS being a PC company at heart made me laugh my ass off. Nice one. Next you'll be telling me they are strong supporters of backwards compatibility. |
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| News Comments > New ATI Catalyst Reference Drivers |
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Re: New ATI Catalyst Reference Drivers |
Feb 20, 2009, 15:12 |
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I'm still running the 8.12's because 9.1 and now also 9.2 give me atiumdag.dll errors. Apparently, I'm not the only one since nearly every Vista x64 ultimate user with a 4870x2 is reporting the same thing.
Thankfully, the 8.12's run perfectly and I'm sticking with those until the problem is addressed. Several blogs, benchmarking sites and other forum goers have documented the problem and submitted it to ATI but they won't fix it.
Shame. I really think my next card will be an Nvidia again. Although Nvidia has a habit of breaking old games in driver updates, at least they do fix them a driver release later. ATI drivers seem to create huge, "general" problems instead. I'd rather have one game break then have my whole game library affected. |
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| News Comments > Intel Sues NVIDIA |
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Re: Intel Sues NVIDIA |
Feb 18, 2009, 14:08 |
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Wow, and I thought these two got along quite well. Hasn't it always been Intel CPU+Nvidia Card and AMD CPU+ATI Card?
For what it's worth, I love nforce boards. Always had problems with VIA and Asus, but the 3 nforce boards I had were flawless. Well, except for a northbridge fan going south that I had to replace. |
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| News Comments > Drakensang: The River Of Time |
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Re: Drakensang: The River Of Time |
Feb 17, 2009, 17:39 |
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@Creston:
I played the demo and loved it. Actually loved it enough to go through it twice. The graphics weren't anything to get excited about (Somewhere in between NWN1 and NWN2, graphically) but the combat was almost exactly like Baldur's Gate. It had the same feel that the early Bioware games did.
Lots of skills, stats, abilities and such. Looks very addicting and I can't wait for my official full retail copy to come in the mail this Thrusday. |
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| News Comments > NVIDIA Beta Drivers |
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Re: NVIDIA Beta Drivers |
Feb 11, 2009, 18:56 |
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I'm scared to update my drivers ever since Infinity engine games started working without artifacts again! (180.48/XP)
That's exactly why I left Nvidia last fall. I had been using them since the TNT, and after 10 years, I ditched them and got an ATI card. (4870x2)
I was so pissed after a necessary driver update (I needed it to play HL2:ep2) had broke all the Infinity Engine games. I thought it was only me, but saw all the forums light up with similar problems.
It's petty, I know, but I still play those games and will not put up with having them broken for me. For me, it wasn't just artifacts though, the game locked up whenever a spell was cast. Had to downgrade my drivers to fix it.
This comment was edited on Feb 11, 2009, 18:56. |
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Re: Op Ed |
Feb 9, 2009, 22:40 |
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To single out black character in games as being more stereotypical is simply inaccurate. While males have had a much more rough time and children have it the worst (the only child lead I can think of is Alma from FEAR). I wish people would stop making issues about race where there are none.
I'd be inclined to agree with you, if I wasn't a JRPG fan.
The Japanese have a very twisted view of black people. Barret is a perfect example.
Then again, all their women are typical damsel-in-distress or, on the other extreme, wacky tomboys. |
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