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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Misc. |
May 24, 2013, 20:00 |
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| Maybe the real problem is the IQ test and how it measures the existing intelligence less and less accurate, and not the people that are being measured.... just a thought. |
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| PC Gaming > CoJ - Gunslinger & Van Helsing |
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May 24, 2013, 19:06 |
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I posted my drivel about Helsing here in another comment -> Link
Anyhow, I agree, one class limitation and the way combat works turned me off majorly, which is a real shame, the game is not all terrible, story and dialog are great, but it's not worth it to suffer through imo. So much effort went into this, I wish it would rather have went into more in-depth class options, more diverse skills, and way more diverse loot ((And naturally, more random levels, all that's random here are the enemy positions (to an extent) and the loot....) and more fleshed out ghost companion (which is an interesting mechanic, but under-developed like nearly everything else except graphics)
Basically, nice looking but ultimately mediocre game. Not worth 13 unless you REALLY grave for a relatively dumbed down ARPG experience with 1 class and 0 replay-ability. Though there are side quests and such, but not enough to motivate you... |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
May 24, 2013, 17:19 |
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That Van Halen link makes me extremely thankful that I grew up with Rammstein.... not a big fan of the sound a guitar on overdrive makes
Also -> Human Intelligence Has Declined Since Victorian Era, Research Suggests
Is that really surprising given how population is distributed? |
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| News Comments > PC Destiny Talk |
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Re: PC Destiny Talk |
May 24, 2013, 15:52 |
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| If you want to see the singleplayer of a console shooter then that is where Let's play's are the best thing..... Heck, I watched Halo 3 ,p It was entertaining but I have no idea why it's such a huge hit. It is a mediocre shooter in every way, though the setting and story are neat. |
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| News Comments > Morning Consolidation |
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Re: Visual DRM |
May 24, 2013, 15:23 |
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| Defeated by a smart phone (or anything else that can play a video) taped in front of the kinect camera.. Just saying.... nobody made a DRM method yet that can't be defeated ;p |
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| News Comments > Terraria Content Update Plans |
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Re: Terraria Content Update Plans |
May 24, 2013, 15:19 |
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Rattlehead wrote on May 24, 2013, 15:03:
Creston wrote on May 24, 2013, 14:17:
Terraria in space?
Creston That's exactly what it is.
It's actually one better because they finally changed how walking works.. 1 "pixel" block height does no longer stop you (you auto climb it) this is the ONE primary issue why I didn't like Terraria and Minecraft, they have neat concepts, destroyed by stupid design decisions. |
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| News Comments > Evening Patches |
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So about Helsing... |
May 24, 2013, 11:10 |
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So I jumped at The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing and have some opinion now... (played on HARD)
As far as ARPG's go, this one is imo a stinker. It lures you in at first when you realize that your character is never going to be much different than at the beginning, you are either shooting or swinging swords. You will NOT switch styles when you reach level 20 or there about, i can assure you that. The combat has some issues too and these are the greatest of them all. First off, there is no way to quickly close distances or escape, there is no dodge, no teleport, no mobility skills at all. Sounds like no problem, until you realize that some enemies can SLOW you as long as they are alive. When this happens and they are in the 2nd row, behind some tank enemies, you are majorly screwed and can not escape the battle. Since ranged attacks work by line of sight, and any enemy between you and the target blocks your shots (this applies also for skills, which is a lot more annoying than you'd think)
Secondly, and worse still, with you and your ghost companion using the essentially same weapons you never will find something that adds some super special abilities to either, there is no weapon that makes anyone that you hit spawn a second head, or implode on death. There is little variety.
The humor is great. Lot's of inside jokes and funny dialog. The best part of the game. And the Story is decent as well. You will want to find out what goes on.
Bosses are mostly bullet sponges though. And the average combat looks like this "click to shoot, run away, click to shoot, run away" basically, your are training the mobs (to use mmo terminology).
I can see that they put a lot of effort into this game, but the core element of an ARPG is imo not here. You will find uniques and stuff, but like in Diablo 3 you rarely if ever find items that truly double your efficiency. That's because you only got so few item slot that you end up with 3 dozen useful stats spread over 5 items. Finding an item that can improve your build becomes even more aggravating than Diablo 3.
Lastly, the game has some really annoying FONT choice and the Interface does not scale to all resolutions properly. It's fun to play, but nothing in this will make you come back, so take that how you will.... |
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| News Comments > NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Launches |
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Re: Performance is a joke |
May 24, 2013, 10:35 |
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So are there plans for another GPU after Titan, one that is cheaper, a LOT cheaper and a LOT faster? Because I am not seeing how the 7** series is ever gonna be worthwhile for 670+ owners. Even the Titan is not pushing performance far enough for the price...
And yes, I know the 670/680 are by no means "slow" or "cheap" cards but I got mine (670 GTX 2GB for under 300 ....) so if they ask 600 for a card that is only SLIGHTLY faster then I gotta ask.. WTF? Is Titan really that inefficient? |
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| News Comments > Wargaming's Open Source Support |
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Re: Wargaming's Open Source Support |
May 24, 2013, 08:31 |
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This mirrors my experience of playing WoT. The match-making is rigged to funnel funds towards premium users and making free users barely able to sustain a working tank (repair costs suck suck suck suck, and f2p game with repair costs are always rigged.
Same for MWO by the way. And yeah, WoP is even worse than WoT... |
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| News Comments > SimCity Patched |
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Re: SimCity Patched |
May 24, 2013, 05:43 |
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Prez wrote on May 23, 2013, 20:28:
What, has it just been plopping crap down wherever you want without penalty or ramification?
Yes...
Although it got a bit of a challenge now that a pure Residential city doesn't work anymore, but not because of balancing demands, but because traffic is still largely broken. Firetrucks still BEELINE behind one of these garbage-trucks that stop and go.
In some ways these games convinced me that Agent based simulation is stupid and broken as hell. |
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| News Comments > NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Launches |
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Performance is a joke |
May 23, 2013, 16:54 |
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30% faster than a 670GTX But with 600 price point 300 more expensive.. haha  Not going to be a huge success I'd wager...
670GTX is still the card to own, no reason to upgrade it seems... |
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| News Comments > MS's PC Gaming Disregard to Continue |
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Re: MS's PC Gaming Disregard to Continue |
May 23, 2013, 13:00 |
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No and yes.. I guess? I want 1 Linux Distro that is the Main distro. No other should be supported (officially) by Steam or game developers. Sounds like a dick move, but that is what is needed to make Linux gaming mainstream. If you can tell someone "Just install Ubuntu 13 and press on default install when it asks you" and that then runs ALL Linux Games in existence, has a PERFECT GUI, has 100% installer support, has a simple way for game installs to register to a non-voodoo location, a simple way to interface with standard libraries for sound/network/graphics/peripherals. Then you have something that will become BIG. And not a 1% figure at the back end of the steam stats.
All this choice is good for specialized things and I love it even for my own uses (Custom NAS with embedded Unix) but for gaming there must be 1 distro to rule them All. Linux needs a Distro that is like Windows. Not in looks or functions necessarily, but in dominance of the platform.
So yes, I want a Linux Distro that is like Windows in a sense, but I don't want all linux distros to be like that. I only want 1 of them that dominates, that is the DEFAULT distro for gaming basically.
And for that, the Linux kernel development needs to be bitch slapped into a committee. No change in the Kernel is allowed to break compatibility with ANY game that runs on the "game distro". Only then is nix gaming going to be awesome. Because you can buy games in the knowledge that a random kernel update won't break it. (I have updated Windows from XP through to 7 and my games from XP times still work, and the nix distro for gaming needs to offer that much stability..)
I don't want to sound that negative by the way, I just don't see how there is ever going to be an linux based gaming OS without some major changes to how the Distro's and the kernel devs interact.
This comment was edited on May 23, 2013, 13:14. |
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| News Comments > MS's PC Gaming Disregard to Continue |
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Re: MS's PC Gaming Disregard to Continue |
May 23, 2013, 08:38 |
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It'll be the day Linux get's their act together and releases a standardized consumer OS where a developer can expect that when someone has Ubuntu 13 everything made for Ubuntu 13 will work within Ubuntu 13 14 15 16 17 and 18.
Basically, Linux needs to do what Windows does (Yes.. even with Windows 8).. you will never hear a Linux developer agree to this (for now) though. ^^
Also if you are developer, you should be able to say "Ubuntu 13 support" and if someone installed Ubuntu 13, he should not have ANY option on install or while running the OS to somehow change his install in such a way that it is Ubuntu 13 but missing some vital element. Basically, Ubuntu 13 needs the equivalent of standard api's , and games should use standardized api's. |
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| News Comments > Metro: Last Light DLC & Season Pass Plans |
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Re: Metro: Last Light DLC & Season Pass Plans |
May 23, 2013, 07:58 |
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[[ Yes on all 3 - he did not kill a single one of the main guys and saved the bear, and also the women and BOTH prisoners in that tunnel. Which is why I am a bit surprised you mentioning that the "last stand death" was NOT the good ending.
If what you say is true then maybe it really is that you have to sneak through instead of killing everyone (he really killed everyone at the beginning ,p) Since he explored and wanetd to find all the memo's. He knocked out dudes when he could, but it often turned into a fire-fight ;p ]]
Making it all secret since it's clearly a heavy spoiler discussion now  |
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| News Comments > Metro: Last Light DLC & Season Pass Plans |
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Re: Metro: Last Light DLC & Season Pass Plans |
May 23, 2013, 07:06 |
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The let's play had all that, he spared anyone he could, did not attack the dragon creature on the roof, did not shoot the dogs in the kreml, did save that women in the train and the other women in that "off the path" bunker complex where the bandits had hunkered down, did free the prisoners, did free various other captured civilians. Although he did shoot the enemies he did not sneak much. If that's not enough to get a good ending then I am flabberghasted. I thought the let's play was exceptionally "good", he even gave ammo to every beggar.
From what I saw (Also, I was talking about Metro 2033 in that post you remember not LL, I haven't played it!) the ending would not have come any differently if I had played. And I am gonna assume that that ending is canon.
I guess the Let's player got the bad ending for his gunning down everyone human when that dark one was with him.
This comment was edited on May 23, 2013, 07:12. |
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| News Comments > Metro: Last Light DLC & Season Pass Plans |
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Re: Metro: Last Light DLC & Season Pass Plans |
May 23, 2013, 05:42 |
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Quinn wrote on May 23, 2013, 05:12:
Acleacius wrote on May 22, 2013, 21:55:
Artyoms story may have been concluded in Metro: Last Light, but ... wtg deep silver, spoiler much.
I don't even get why they say that. In my ending, Artyom's story has not been concluded at all. He's very much alive. And since he's very special in a certain regard, I cba to play another character than him.
What? Are there 2 different endings? The one I saw (from a let's play) had him
[[[[ Positively dead, blown apart in the Last Stand Defense of the D6 Bunker, taking everyone else with him ]]]]
Few stories ever actually end with as much finality as this arc. |
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| News Comments > Ships Ahoy - Fallen Enchantress Legendary Heroes |
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Re: Ships Ahoy - Fallen Enchantress Legendary Heroes |
May 23, 2013, 05:29 |
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Is it finally a good game? or still has hacked together as Elemental War of Magic ?
I completely ignored whatever happened with this game, Elemental War of Magic sucked horribly, if I were to jump in now, would I see a drastically better/different game? |
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| News Comments > MS's PC Gaming Disregard to Continue |
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Re: MS's PC Gaming Disregard to Continue |
May 23, 2013, 04:35 |
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They are, but PC gamers are not going to go to the Ouya or Unix OS's They are going to Kickstarter and fund the games they want, for Windows PC, themselves. And the more people do that, the bigger the games will be that come out from that. And at some point a Diablo 3 or Mass Effect kind of behemoth will be funded and made via Kickstarter. And at that moment in time, traditional Publishers will be gone and replaced with.. something else.
You gotta realize, Microsoft is not earning money with Windows 7 when game developers use it as platform. But they do earn money when a game comes to Xbox 360 / 1 (wow, what a stupid name by the way).
I never understood why MS isn't the biggest PC game developer in the world though, it seems like in MS's best interest to advance the platform (PC) so that more windows copies are sold. |
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