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News Comments > No Battlefield 3 VOIP Changes Today
5. Re: No Battlefield 3 VOIP Changes Today Dec 6, 2011, 10:48 LittleMe
 
I'm enjoying the game just fine without VOIP. Since the game doesn't encourage deep squad teamplay, I don't think expanding VOIP functionality is all too necessary. Talking with friends is a different story and Battlelog allows that. Check out this vid where voip with friends does enhance the gameplay wonderfully.

 
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News Comments > Morning Legal Briefs
1. Re: Morning Legal Briefs Dec 5, 2011, 11:10 LittleMe
 
Thank you Blue.  
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News Comments > Saturday Previews
3. Re: Saturday Previews Dec 4, 2011, 11:12 LittleMe
 
Jerykk wrote on Dec 4, 2011, 06:55:
What's wrong with Obsidian as the developer? They made Fallout: New Vegas, quite possibly the best RPG in the last ten years.

Yeah, and didn't Obsidian do a pretty good job patching it post-release? (each DLC came with a big patch)

 
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News Comments > BF3 Back to Karkand Release Dates
9. Re: BF3 Back to Karkand Release Dates Dec 2, 2011, 11:43 LittleMe
 
BF3 is so much damn fun. Enjoying it a whole lot, but it sorely needs a community mod like Project Reality. I'll play Karkand but I'm not too excited about it. Mods are what I want!

 
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News Comments > BRINK Free Weekend
15. Re: BRINK Free Weekend Dec 2, 2011, 06:22 LittleMe
 
Didn't you guys learn your lesson from the epic failure their last game - ET:Quake Wars? That game sucked so much. Wasn't it also locked at 30fps *in multiplayer*? It just... Wasn't fun at all, and the sounds were terrible.

 
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News Comments > New ATI Catalyst Performance Drivers
8. Re: New ATI Catalyst Performance Drivers Dec 1, 2011, 17:54 LittleMe
 
eunichron wrote on Dec 1, 2011, 17:46:
Then there seems to be a disconnect in GPU design and game coding then, because it is pretty ridiculous that new drivers are required for individual game releases. It calls into question why there are even standardized APIs if none of them work on the hardware that supposedly meets, and supports, those standards.

I completely agree. It's a very inconvenient thing to do. I'm not sure it's ATI's or nV's fault. It might be the DirectX driver/API model that is to blame. In other words, it could be Microsoft's fault due to poor design of DirectX.

When both ATI and nVidia are having these problems, I tend to think it's not entirely their fault for this situation. I'm sure there are hundreds of thousands of gamers who avoid PC gaming for this one issue.

I also think it's too easy to blame ATI for these problems. It looks to me like they are trying to keep people happy with new drivers. Hopefully one day we can ditch this constant driver updating.

 
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News Comments > Gatherings & Competitions
1. Inside DreamHack, the 12,000-computer LAN party. T Dec 1, 2011, 17:36 LittleMe
 
Wow.  
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News Comments > Out of the Blue
15. Re: Out of the Blue Dec 1, 2011, 17:19 LittleMe
 
I feel very bad for those with AIDS.

They've spent how many billions of our money to 'develop cures' for AIDS and we have little to show for it. They tell us HIV causes aids but there's what proof of it? We learn that AIDS is 'accidentally' in vaccines that are being spread around the world by corporations and NGO's that are associated with zero or negative population growth goals.

 
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News Comments > New ATI Catalyst Performance Drivers
5. Re: New ATI Catalyst Performance Drivers Dec 1, 2011, 17:11 LittleMe
 
Bludd wrote on Dec 1, 2011, 17:07:
I'd rather have higher quality drivers than many updates in a short amount of time.

The new game releases are forcing them to. The quality is fine.

 
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News Comments > Dragon Age Multiplayer Planned?
15. Re: Dragon Age Multiplayer Planned? Nov 30, 2011, 14:11 LittleMe
 
The new Lord of the Rings game is supposedly much better coop than it is alone. I don't see why MP can't enhance the experience, especially for those who like to game with friends. Oh yeah, this is Bioware, nevermind.

 
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News Comments > Morning Consolidation
1. Skyrim 1.2 patch breaks Resistances, makes dragons fly backwards. Nov 30, 2011, 12:31 LittleMe
 
It's like they hire some incompetent minimum-wage 16 year old kids to patch the game. When will Bethesda ever take the patch process seriously??
 
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News Comments > Battlefield 3 Sells 8M
29. Re: Battlefield 3 Sells 8M Nov 30, 2011, 08:34 LittleMe
 
venomhed wrote on Nov 30, 2011, 07:06:
"Here's what will likely happen... The PC online count will remain much more steady than the dwindling console numbers. All platforms will level off after several months, but PC will remain higher than both consoles combined, and then some."

Not sure if you are implying this is a good thing. The game companies want churn n' burn, because over the long haul the server maintenance and bandwidth eat into profits. If anything they want people to buy the game, play 3-6 months, shove out a DLC or two, play another 1-6 months then kill/destroy the game to make room for the next one (In this case Bad Company 3, BF4 etc).

I don't think it's so cut & dry as you put it. For example, a successful online game builds a reputation for the franchise and for subsequent sequels. Also, ongoing sales *do* make a difference. Okay, sure, some suits might be as narrow minded as you put it but I don't think that's often the case.

venomhed wrote on Nov 30, 2011, 07:06:
Wish I could say that game companies wanted and favored the PC because that pushes the industry while these 6 year old consoles keep holding out games back due to their legacy hardware. Sad times.

PC games are detaching from console games. Batman has DX11, BF3 has DX11, etc etc.. We will be getting higher production value games from multiplatform games. Not always, but as things move on and people buy PC games, we will be getting games that exploit new tech.

venomhed wrote on Nov 30, 2011, 07:06:
BF3 is a blast, even though there is zero ability for squad/team communication this severely hurting this games potential, whereas BF2 had this is spared (Waypoints, Commander etc).

Sigh....

Yeah the BF3 squad system is fail. BF2's was good/very good, especially in Project Reality where it was perfected.

 
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News Comments > Battlefield 3 Sells 8M
21. Re: Battlefield 3 Sells 8M Nov 30, 2011, 05:06 LittleMe
 
Online player counts give us a rough idea of sales. BF3stats.com shows online player numbers. PC is regularly above either console, but not always. This is for a very slow time of day, 5am EST right now:

PC online 26 036
PS3 online 13 762
360 online 20 78


Check it again during the daylight hours and the PC counts rise to about 80,000 (that's over nine thousand!). When the game first game out, the 360 had 250k online. But that quickly dropped, showing how fickle is that audience.

Here's what will likely happen... The PC online count will remain much more steady than the dwindling console numbers. All platforms will level off after several months, but PC will remain higher than both consoles combined, and then some.

 
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News Comments > Skyrim Patch Wednesday
31. Re: Skyrim Patch Wednesday Nov 29, 2011, 09:52 LittleMe
 
Fixing so many rare issues and not the critical issues PC players are experiencing. This isn't much of a patch.

 
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News Comments > Legend of Grimrock Beta, Delay
10. Re: Legend of Grimrock Beta, Delay Nov 29, 2011, 09:26 LittleMe
 
This game has me psyched and I'm happy to wait for it to be finished by Almost Human. I always thought many modern RPG's were a dumbed down and unchallenging click-fest. More importantly, we lost the immersive dungeons where mystery and fear was around every corner. This looks to being that back in spades!

I love how the walls look truly 3d, and are not just a bump mapped texture. I hope they sell enough to start work on DLC and then LoG 2!

 
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News Comments > AMD Catalyst 11.11b Performance Drivers
6. Re: AMD Catalyst 11.11b Performance Drivers Nov 26, 2011, 22:07 LittleMe
 
Jerykk wrote on Nov 26, 2011, 19:52:
Skyrim still runs like ass in cities but it's better than before.

Try turning your graphics settings down? Specifically the 'distant objects' setting uses a lot of resources in cities I think because it is rendering and computing AI for distant NPC's.

 
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News Comments > Thanksgiving Tech Bits
4. Re: Thanksgiving Tech Bits Nov 25, 2011, 07:14 LittleMe
 
Yeah that tweak guide is amateurish and incomplete in several ways. He didn't explore many other well known options. He couldn't get uGridsToLoad stable past 7 when it is very possible to do so (mine is at 10 and hasnt crashed in many hours). He didn't talk about the >2GB RAM mods. So much stuff he didn't talk about.

The one thing that the guide does offer above all the community guides is the performance impact graphs of the various setting changes.

 
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News Comments > Game Reviews
9. Re: Game Reviews Nov 23, 2011, 22:28 LittleMe
 
space captain wrote on Nov 23, 2011, 16:28:
As if todays "christians" actually knew anything about the origin of their tradition, what its practice entails, requires and so on..

Modern "christianity" is a spectator sport that thinks their home team automatically wins every game... and also a way for manipulative people with sufficient charisma to swindle large amounts of money with very little work.

It's an excuse to be superior, as if they are "chosen" by divine right to be the "true" authority. Divine meaning that which is supernatural, above and beyond the natural world which it created.

FWIW, I agree.. It's almost entirely ego.

 
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News Comments > Game Reviews
8. Re: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on Christ Centered Gamer. Nov 23, 2011, 22:26 LittleMe
 
Quboid wrote on Nov 23, 2011, 14:23:
What's unchristian about fiction? Ignoring (with difficulty) the urge to write a snippy comment about religion and fiction, I don't follow the logic here - ignoring (with difficulty) the urge to write a snippy comment about religion and logic. Practising witchcraft is considered unchristian, but this isn't practising witchcraft. This is playing a game, a fictional work of fantasy. Casting a spell in Skyrim isn't practising witchcraft, it's manipulating a bunch of 1's and 0's.

Fine question and reasonable to ask. It's not the fact that it's fiction. It's the many occult and satanic references in the game. The concern from a more scientific perspective is that the occult content effects the subconscious mind, even if you don't know or can't recognize them. Yes, Skyrim is a good game from a gamer's perspective.

Morrowind, Oblivion and Skyrim all have them. Just look at the Skyrim logo and it's diamond shape. That's an occult symbol, especially in context of the game. Neverwinter Nights also used the diamond logo for the same occult reason. But also Skyrim's severed goats heads spread liberally around the game are a reference to Baphomet, the horned goat god.

More specifically, the concern is that these things have a sort of hypnotic effect and serve as a programming tool for the subconscious mind. You won't know the effects on a conscious level. People use the occult symbology for both good and bad reasons but when it comes to the mass media, it's too often used for dark or at least secret purposes.

Go ahead play the game... I'm not stopping you. I will play it more when some more patches come out. Just know that the game has this occult symbology and the reasons *could* be nefarious.

 
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News Comments > Game Reviews
1. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim on Christ Centered Gamer. Nov 23, 2011, 11:43 LittleMe
 
Those that love role playing games will enjoy this game, but make sure the moral content doesn't bother you before parting with $60.

He doesn't outright mention or is ignorant about the game's profuse occult and Satanic references. Skyrim is no game for people who want to avoid these things.

 
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