Verno wrote on Oct 1, 2012, 09:03:

xXBatmanXx wrote on Sep 30, 2012, 18:24:
Yea, unfortunately my reaction to stuff like this, since we have gone down the path so far, is to just throw up my arms and say....well...what do you expect....

Indeed. I'd argue the deeper problem is within our society itself. The pursuit of monetary goals over all others has created an everyone for himself atmosphere and that now permeates every facet of society - politics, religion, social, etc. Hell even the arts are now one giant industry.

It's easy to blame the politicians but they are just playing the same game as everyone else on a grander stage. The American Dream is not sustainable.

Verno wrote on Oct 1, 2012, 09:00:
You can just use Cheat Engine to give yourself 255 keys if you really want them that badly. I tested it out with an alt, the chest drops are good but nothing spectacular. The problem is that the drop rates in the game are dog shit so people keep turning to the chest trying to make up gear deficiencies. It is not uncommon for someone to be use a decent weapon for 10 levels because they never find anything comparable. Most of the decent guns come from slots or quest rewards.

It doesn't help that killing most of the bosses results in the loot flying forth as if you just burst the worlds biggest pinata. I've seen an orange go into unreachable lava LOL. They still have not patched loot being underneath the world texture either.

I don't know, I like BL2 but there is a lot of stuff that grates on me just like the first game. At least this time its not related to the port itself I guess.

RailWizard wrote on Sep 30, 2012, 12:23:

Beamer wrote on Sep 30, 2012, 11:58:

El Pit wrote on Sep 30, 2012, 02:38:

RailWizard wrote on Sep 29, 2012, 21:11:

spindoctor wrote on Sep 29, 2012, 13:00:

You can’t rent a dedicated server; they’re just free for your use.

This seems odd. Treyarch would rather pay for every single dedicated server in the world instead of just letting users rent them from GSPs? What could be the reason behind this?

So they can kill the servers when it's time for you to buy BO3.

My thoughts exactly. You want multiplayer after the release of the next CoD? Well, buy our new game because we're taking the servers for the old game offline.

Have we ever had a person here actively playing a game that got taken offline?
It's always several-years-old sports games and games no one purchased. If you take down what people do play they won't buy the next one, like a dog that's been kicked. For all of EAs crap, at least they do wait until no one plays a game.

Why the fuck are you always apologizing for every thing the game industry does? Do you fucking work for EA or something? Activision? WTF is your malfunction here fucknuts? You look around and like what you see? Are you really that fucking shallow and easy to please? If so, please DO fuck off and allow people with actual feelings to discuss this shit. FUCK OFF!

jdreyer wrote on Sep 27, 2012, 06:42:

Matshock wrote on Sep 26, 2012, 22:27:

jdreyer wrote on Sep 26, 2012, 20:58:

RollinThundr wrote on Sep 26, 2012, 13:31:

Obama has already said he likes high gas prices, helps push his green agenda and ideas for creating things like carbon taxes for the manufactored global warming schtick the libs have going for themselves.

I like high gas prices. Gasoline is a dead end. Higher prices drive new technologies to get us to where we need to go. The run up in oil prices in 2008 is driving the current crop of hybrids and electrics. If not for that, we'd be seeing much less development and adoption. Despite that, the USA already has some of the lowest gas prices in the world outside of Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, where gas is heavily subsidized. And being forced to buy oil from regimes that hate us threatens our national security. Whatever you think of global warming, getting off of gasoline is good for a multitude of other reasons.

Yea for command economies!

pot=bad

gas=bad

meat=bad

sterility=good

war=peace

poverty=plenty

etc. etc. etc.

Shorter Matshock: Why use the brakes?? We'll just stop anyway when we hit something!

jdreyer wrote on Sep 26, 2012, 20:58:

RollinThundr wrote on Sep 26, 2012, 13:31:

Obama has already said he likes high gas prices, helps push his green agenda and ideas for creating things like carbon taxes for the manufactored global warming schtick the libs have going for themselves.

I like high gas prices. Gasoline is a dead end. Higher prices drive new technologies to get us to where we need to go. The run up in oil prices in 2008 is driving the current crop of hybrids and electrics. If not for that, we'd be seeing much less development and adoption. Despite that, the USA already has some of the lowest gas prices in the world outside of Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, where gas is heavily subsidized. And being forced to buy oil from regimes that hate us threatens our national security. Whatever you think of global warming, getting off of gasoline is good for a multitude of other reasons.

jdwohlever wrote on Sep 27, 2012, 16:59:
@RollinThundr
Really? That's your contribution to the discussion?
I thought the sign said "No Smart-Ass Jocks Allowed"

Dev wrote on Sep 27, 2012, 14:36:

NewMaxx wrote on Sep 27, 2012, 13:26:
No, what he said was, he would let the company die before being sold to "some giant company that wants to cash us out and wait two or three years to have our employment agreements terminate." That is carefully worded to allow for many things, such as mergers on his terms. It's an important distinction to be made, although I still do an "lolwut" in reaction to this particular news tidbit.

And even in that quote you can tell his obsession with his employees health. Which is why it will never happen.

Cutter wrote on Sep 26, 2012, 17:57:
You're seriously blaming Clinton for that?

HorrorScope wrote on Sep 26, 2012, 16:36:
Coop?

Cutter wrote on Sep 25, 2012, 20:00:
$150 in the US vs. $38 in France. That's huge. But it's always been a scam. Friend of mine working in Saudi says his cell bill is $8US per month for unlimited everything. It never ceases to amaze me how the telcos and cable cos try so hard to make it sound like we get a good deal here, and things like paying for channels ala carte and real competition are somehow bad for us.

Creston wrote on Sep 26, 2012, 10:56:

Verno wrote on Sep 26, 2012, 10:24:
I don't care if it costs $10 per package, I need my bacon fix for weekend breakfast

Yeah, it's quite disturbing to see these reports of how the drought is going to make so many things so incredibly much more expensive...

Of course, Obama could just repeal the Ethanol mandate, but then gas goes up. (It should go up by about 35 cents, but I guarantee the oil companies will manage to turn that into a buck fifty price hike.)

The BETTER thing to do would be to invest the hundreds of billions of dollars required to create proper irrigation systems for the corn belt, but doing the better and long-term thing always seems to elude the US, for some reason. (Keep putting those power poles above the ground, fellas! It's not as if tornadoes and thunderstorms take them out at a rate of a few dozen a day!)

Creston

eRe4s3r wrote on Sep 25, 2012, 15:43:
You are forgetting that they want to sell stuff. It takes MS no effort to offer at least the BIG 3 at start but who'd buy a PC without a browser?

The EU pushes for linux adoption in governance..

I think you misunderstand what this EU lawsuit is for, they want to prevent MS from becoming too powerful, so your idea would be more than welcome I think....

Cutter wrote on Sep 24, 2012, 20:45:

RollinThundr wrote on Sep 24, 2012, 20:05:
These people that won't buy anything new at full price, especially titles that are worthy of paying full price for, I often wonder what kind of hardware they have in their machines since a good video card is far from cheap. Not only that but don't you people actually want to support devs that make games that you enjoy? No wonder publishers don't take chances and just pump out sequels and me too copy cat titles of whatever big title is currently the hot game.

Especially in the case of Xcom being only 50 when most titles are 60 out of the gate these days.

I buy plenty of stuff at full price - and overpriced to boot - generally just not games but most games aren't worth it IMO. I'm not cheap, I just expect good value relative to what I buy as does everyone else. I dropped $63 on a bottle of Pinot Noir from Oregon last week and didn't blink and eye doing it. And whilst it was overpriced it was entirely worth it. If I can save 8 bucks on a game and apply that to something else I'm damn sure going to and so will most other people.

Riker wrote on Sep 24, 2012, 19:33:

RollinThundr wrote on Sep 24, 2012, 19:31:
Yeah I know right? A small section of hell clearly froze over. Total face palm at anyone wanting coop in a turn based strategy game.

And why is that?

Cutter wrote on Sep 24, 2012, 17:30:

Will W wrote on Sep 24, 2012, 16:21:

Riker wrote on Sep 24, 2012, 14:17:
Neehaw! So excited!

I haven't pre-ordered yet, as I'm holding out for a decent sale price. Has anyone found any deals, aside from a 10% pre-order discount from Amazon and GMG?

[EDIT] The below may no longer be valid...just looked at the "free" game and it looks like it's $20 now ... Yup, blog says it ended at 11:00 UTC today. Sorry. Link to Blog About Deal Ending[/EDIT]

You can get the game for 44.99 + $8 off using the following link on Green Man. Good till Oct. 1st-ish...depending on time zone. Obviously no steam "goodies" if you go this route. I've been holding off for a demo....gonna try it out tonight and buy if I'm into it. Damn. Just got into GW2 as well. lol.

XCOM Deal Page

Yeah the deal appears to be over. Dammit! I thought it ran untill October 1st. Welp, I was going to buy it today after that great demo but now I'll wait and see if they do something similar again.

Slashman wrote on Sep 24, 2012, 19:08:

space captain wrote on Sep 24, 2012, 17:25:

Darks wrote on Sep 24, 2012, 16:18:

Riker wrote on Sep 24, 2012, 15:59:

EDIT: Also, this game badly needs a multiplayer co-op mode.

This is the one thing that’s keeping me from buying it right now. I’ve got so many other games right now to play that this one will get picked up at a much later date.

But Coop is defiantly needed.

so fucking clueless

Wow...I completely agree with space captain on something!

RailWizard wrote on Sep 23, 2012, 18:30:

RollinThundr wrote on Sep 23, 2012, 17:54:

RailWizard wrote on Sep 23, 2012, 17:29:

Quboid wrote on Sep 23, 2012, 12:26:
Is BL2 worth playing for the sole game alone? I never played BL1.

BL2 is good, I wouldn't say it's worth $60 though. Definitely NOT $90.

TL2 on the other hand is very much worth $20.

Eh? TL2 is decent for 20 bucks, BL2 is a AAA title and it shows in every facet of the game, easily worth 60, and this is coming from someone who's playing it solo even though every review and their mothers call it a "co op game"

Opinions....how do they work?

RailWizard wrote on Sep 23, 2012, 17:29:

Quboid wrote on Sep 23, 2012, 12:26:
Is BL2 worth playing for the sole game alone? I never played BL1.

BL2 is good, I wouldn't say it's worth $60 though. Definitely NOT $90.

TL2 on the other hand is very much worth $20.

xXBatmanXx wrote on Sep 22, 2012, 21:19:
hmmm...haven't played in a while, but after stepping back and thinking about it for about a month or so -- the auction house removes the reason to play the game....I don't see a reason to go back to it. Which is sad.

They need to patch in random levels.

Dades wrote on Sep 22, 2012, 08:49:

RollinThundr wrote on Sep 22, 2012, 01:07:
I think a major reason TLII reminds people so much of Diablo 2 aside from the obvious being the same genre type of game, is it's like the ripped half the music and sound effects right from Diablo 2. Seriously listen to the musical arrangement during act 1, It's like a rearranged Diablo 2 Act 1 with some of the melody actually identical in spots.

Same thing with alot of the spell sounds/contact sounds, pretty much identical to Diablo 2. It's like after these guys got the axe at Blizz north they took the source code for D2 with em to reuse later

It's the same sound designers who worked on Diablo 1 and Diablo 2. Many of the sound effects were actually stock sound footage and the music is just Matt Uleman's style. It's a budget priced game that competes with Diablo 3 on features and gameplay, I am pretty happy with it.

Cutter wrote on Sep 21, 2012, 21:40:
They're not even A titles, nevermind triple A. They bang them off each year with a few months work. Really they're generally nothing more than roster changes and some cosmetic tweaks here and there. And like I said, I worked for EA for 2 years so yeah I think I know from what I speak and yeah I have a right to bash them. And given the disdain with which they treat their staff and customers everyone else has the right to take shots at them too.