ASeven wrote on Oct 17, 2012, 22:20:
The thought-police is coming.

Prez wrote on Oct 17, 2012, 17:30:
In fairness you really have no basis for that statement. The graphics, being subjective, may be far from "fine" for his tastes, and unless you somehow are privy to his system is set up and configuration you have no way of backing up the claim that it is only his system.

I was just pointing out that he isn't playing right is not an explanation for his stated issues with the game.

Prez wrote on Oct 17, 2012, 17:07:

translation: I lone wolf it and can't understand why I get my ass handed to me.

Eh? The graphics, framerate, and controls would be better/smoother if he stopped lone-wolfing?

I know I am probably starting to sound like a broken record, but dammit I wanted the game they showed in the teaser video. Not this online...thing.

Keith wrote on Oct 17, 2012, 12:43:
I don't think the game is solid or fun at this point. My take is that some are so invested in seeing a successful mech game that they are willing to dismiss obvious and glaring problems. That is just my opinion. The graphics, the 'mech set up, the maps, the teams, the weapons, everything I see needs major tweaking. There is some inherent fun in knowing you are blowing some nameless face on the other side of an internet connection up, but beyond that MO isn't even as smooth or playable as some of the most basic FPS shooters. I don't get the sense that I am in a 75+ ton machine of death, striding over the battlefield to kill and be killed. I want to feel like those missiles are going to blow some shit up, or my PPC is going to make you think twice about popping over that ridge.

Cutter wrote on Oct 17, 2012, 13:22:
Well said, Keith. Pretty much my sentiments on the matter. Plus that and the whole online thing. Sigh.

eRe4s3r wrote on Oct 17, 2012, 05:29:
It isn't just headed for Idiocracy, the lack of inherent education and "intelligence" you think people lack is actually something the government specifically wants. It doesn't want intelligent parents, citizens or otherwise. It want's trained workers that work for cheap wages (and intelligent ones don't do that), it wants stupid people that buy the stuff trained workers produce, in an ever growing effort of propagating a failed economic model.

In a sense, schools don't have the goal to produce smart people (if anything, this is a side-effect the hardcore liberal side of government would want to eradicate, to make people more dependant on government), they want to train customers that don't have the mental capacity to question the status quo, and workers that can work in factories and office jobs, but nothing else.

I think all that girl would have needed was a hug, and someone simply going to school with her, observing and then stepping in. That is what parents are supposed to do, confront the bullies directly with their parents and a school person present.

This whole thing with children being online without a strong supervision has blown mobbing up beyond the schoolyard. And this is where parents have to learn how to deal with it, not just tell your kids stuff, but show them. If you show that you are on the same level of abilities on the web as your children, you should have smooth sailing. All these issues come from parents who don't have a fucking clue, and I totally agree with Cutter on this particular -> reproduction should be a state sanctioned

There is no RIGHT to reproduction.

By the way, here is the video she posted http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=942_1350011523

And this tells a very different story than what was told in the news so far. The parents are 100% at fault here. And watching that, this is even more sad than I figured, and the guy Anonymous outed isn't the alone one to blame for this either, watch the video!

In fact, everyone who was being an ass on her facebook page should go to jail, just to set an example.

Verno wrote on Oct 16, 2012, 09:20:

RollinThundr wrote on Oct 16, 2012, 00:32:

LittleMe wrote on Oct 15, 2012, 14:56:
Yeah get them conditioned early for a slave life of being tracked & monitored. They forgot to call any students 'potential terrorists' for not wearing their RFID.

And the whole motivation for it is to get more money handouts to continue their liberal indoctrination process.

The word liberal is not an accusation or proof of anything. I have many liberal views but I also have many conservative views. It just dilutes any point you might have to make.

LittleMe wrote on Oct 15, 2012, 14:56:
Yeah get them conditioned early for a slave life of being tracked & monitored. They forgot to call any students 'potential terrorists' for not wearing their RFID.

Sepharo wrote on Oct 15, 2012, 23:22:

Agent.X7 wrote on Oct 15, 2012, 21:42:

Scheherazade wrote on Oct 15, 2012, 20:35:
You may want to read the article...

He was not suing for the right to sit at a computer and facebook all day.

He just didn't want his incoming personal paper mail turned back (censored) - simply on the grounds that it contained a print out from a social media page.

The issue is whether or not the prison system can deny him the ability to communicate - which is a 1st amendment issue.

The state government already makes too many exceptions on what you can or can't say - given that the constitution allows you to say everything and anything - and no law can legitimately trump the "highest" law of the nation.

In case you're wondering, here's the actual law :
"
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
"
It lists no exceptions.

If you take notice, there are other clauses in there that are commonly violated by the state government. Eg. You need no permit to peaceably assemble.

-scheherazade

He's a prisoner. He has no right to assemble, limited rights to free speech and religion, no right to bear arms, etc. Why? Because HE IS A PRISONER. The legal view is that he willingly accepted as a consequence of his actions that certain rights will be suspended and/ or revoked. It's also what happens if you denounce your citizenship.

The constitution provides clarification of the rights we are all naturally granted, but does not protect you from yourself. If you CHOOSE to give up your rights (such as you do by committing a crime that you know entails imprisonment) YOU gave up certain rights.

The restriction is on using the internet and or a computer. If somebody wants to send him the transcripts or screenshots of his Facebook page through the allowable mail system they should be able to. The article hints that the real problem in prison is the use of Facebook on smuggled cell phones. He's suing not because he had to give up his most of his rights but because one of the few he does have is being impinged.

Fantaz wrote on Oct 15, 2012, 22:20:
It could be this game's development are having similar issues as with Thief 4. The quality is not up to today's expectations. They might delay it, scrap it and redo for next-gen consoles like they're doing for Starcraft Ghost.

Dades wrote on Oct 15, 2012, 20:24:
I wonder if they will ever build the game up to parity with Diablo 2, let alone finally fulfill expectations. Did that PvP patch ever come out?

- DADES - This is a signature of my name, enjoy!

Axis wrote on Oct 13, 2012, 17:57:
This has been billed as "Quake with Mechs".

If you are looking for COD with mechs, MWO is there for you guys.

Jivaro wrote on Oct 12, 2012, 23:44:

RollinThundr wrote on Oct 12, 2012, 19:02:

Fantaz wrote on Oct 12, 2012, 17:51:
Hopefully this means better competition for EA Sports in the future.

Considering 2k/Taketwo already canned the rest of their sports line due to not putting the money and development improvement needed into the games to compete with EA, both NHL2k and MLB2k were essentially last gen port jobs that never progressed on this generation of consoles, I wouldn't hold your breath.

The only sports title Visual Concepts has put any effort into is NBA and that's only because NBA Live was so terrible for so long people wanted an alternative.

This will mark the second year in a row EA does not release a basketball game. I would be very surprised if Live/Elite doesn't come back for next year and give NBA2k a serious run for it.

They are probably just going to wait to release the next NBA Live/Elite until whenever the next gen consoles arrive. I kind of expected them to make one this year because the Wii U is releasing, but I guess they are gonna wait on Sony and MS.

Flatline wrote on Oct 12, 2012, 17:23:

deqer wrote on Oct 12, 2012, 16:49:

RollinThundr wrote on Oct 12, 2012, 16:08:
I will said one thing, I don't miss Krowen telling everyone how great D3 is going to be and how great blizzard is.

Yeah, people need to start accepting the fact that Blizzard just isn't the same as it used to be anymore. Now that they are all big and king kong with tons of shares and partners; they're getting ahead of themselves now with their big ego and it's taking a toll for the worst.

I don't even think it's that. To an extent, constraints on time and money on a project encourage creativity. Blizzard has neither in any project it develops. So you get 3+ years of downtime for expansion packs that used to take 10-12 months and dull games like Diablo 3 that took 5-6 years of development (10 years if you count Blizzard North's original Diablo 3).

Fantaz wrote on Oct 12, 2012, 17:51:
Hopefully this means better competition for EA Sports in the future.

Creston wrote on Oct 12, 2012, 11:42:

Verno wrote on Oct 12, 2012, 11:29:

Creston wrote on Oct 12, 2012, 11:13:
15 bucks? Yeah...

Game, season passes, DLC, booster packs, etc. The gaming industry is getting to be a "fun" place for my wallet.

Leviathan was an absolute rip-off. Probably one of the worst DLCs they've ever released, so if they expect me to fork over 15 bucks for yet another SP DLC, heh. It just makes me chuckle.

Creston

Jivaro wrote on Oct 12, 2012, 11:27:
They make a decent game, the competition waves the white flag before the battle even starts, and they marketed the hell out of it...I am not sure I find it to be exactly a shock that it is selling well.

Me personally, I don't know if I will be buying it anytime soon. I like to play sports games offline mostly. I don't have anything against online play, but I just don't use it nearly as much as offline play. With games like FIFA, Madden, or MLB The Show I can play offline without my game being affected by whether or not I am "connected" or "logged in". With NBA 2K12 as soon as 2K Sports decided it was time to start pushing people to get the new game, all of a sudden I started having incredible amounts of issues with it. If it can't log me in when I boot up, somehow it forgets everything I have done with regards to offline play. Fortunately I bought it on PC, so like pretty much everyone else I ended up having to use a hack and a 3rd party mod to get around it. Now that I am using such a mod there are plenty of people making unofficial roster updates, I can't say I see the need to purchase 2K13.

Funny enough, had they not dicked around with the offline play by making it dependent on your connection to 2K Sports online servers I would not have searched for a mod or a hack and I would have bought the new one...just like I do with FIFA, Madden, and The Show every year. The logic behind making my offline progress dependent on an online profile escapes me.

Oh well, buying the same sports game every year is a dirty habit anyway.

Mr. Tact wrote on Oct 11, 2012, 21:53:

Dev wrote on Oct 11, 2012, 20:16:

Mr. Tact wrote on Oct 11, 2012, 17:22:
Is this still true for a modern vehicle with a functioning exhaust system? I seem to remember reading a critic of a movie or tv show about someone doing this and how it wasn't valid any longer.

Even if ALL of the carbon monoxide is prevented (which its not) from a modern cat, you still have the issue of a combustion engine burning... oxygen. You can suffocate even if you don't get poisoned. My guess is it would be more painful and take longer. But I'm not going to test it.

Hmmm, you could be right. I don't know about your garage buy mine is nowhere close to air tight. I wouldn't be surprised either way -- it might depend on how air tight the garage is and if you are propped up in the car or laying on the floor of the garage.

Cutter wrote on Oct 11, 2012, 21:51:
Gee, big surprise. Of course their reviews are predicated on advertising dollars. All the big budget games have always got glowing reviews - regardless of what everyone else is saying - and all the smaller titles get ripped apart to appear to give them some sort of 'street cred' that they're legit. It's why since day one I always relied on - at the time - for smaller, more honest sites like the Adrenaline Vault for reviews, as well as sites like Blues, VE, etc. to find me more legitimate reviews. And of course, most importantly, my fellow gamers.

Trevellian wrote on Oct 11, 2012, 07:47:
I love the video that is currently on IGN personally. "Treyarch Confused by Black Ops 2 Engine Criticism"

Even their lead director is a moron. His philosophy apparently is "Well it runs at 60fps and that is what you guys want, we can still make the engine pretty"

The reality is they've only ever worked with someone elses engine and can't f'ing design their own. And even the COD fanboys are starting to notice nothing ever changes. Same textures, same death animations, rehashes of old maps, recycled sounds. It's no wonder they make so much profit on the damn games they barely change a damn thing.