Tehol wrote on Jan 4, 2012, 01:29:
aren't they making new tomb raider games?

Dades wrote on Dec 27, 2011, 23:55:

Drezden wrote on Dec 27, 2011, 23:32:
Yeah, they must suck since they're one of the highest rated headsets out there. I am so ashamed for owning them since they sound amazing with every game I play. I should return them. I'll take advice from the guy who has posted here 8 times.

He's right, he's just very snooty about it. Most headsets are extremely overpriced and offer very poor performance, the G930 is no different. Most people are happy to pay that price though because of the perception that more money automatically means better or because they fall for marketing buzzwords/features. Surround headsets are a good example and most gamer peripherals are poorly constructed, offer mediocre performance versus actual high end gear. Don't take my word for it either, ask some real audio professionals who rate these things or just crack open your own headset for a minute to see the parts inside.

A good set of cans (check out Audio Technica, Beyer or Sennheiser) and a mic taped to the side are going to be a pretty mind blowing improvement even for a non-audiophile. Of course many people will be happy with a gamer headset and there's nothing wrong with that, you can't miss what you haven't experienced after all.

Vach wrote on Dec 27, 2011, 23:20:

Drezden wrote on Dec 27, 2011, 20:42:
I have a high quality headset for my gaming (G930)

LOL @ the high end comment.

You my friend have no idea what high end headset is all about

Hatyara wrote on Dec 27, 2011, 19:21:
My character is level 33 so I have gone to Nar Shadda - it was not that great, I am up to Taris at the moment. I don't know much about Star Wars lore so I would not know what is good or bad, I just feel that the world environments while looking great graphically are not as well put together as they could be. When your standing there you just don't get the full immersion, maybe some work on the sound department would fix that.

I would rather queue up for a group and do things in the world, like archeology or daily quests or tradeskills etc then sit there sitting spamming in general that I need a healer or DPS to finish a heroic quest or a flashpoint.

Also, disclaimer, I have not played any Bioware game before. This is the first bioware title I have played.

Hatyara wrote on Dec 27, 2011, 18:33:
You nailed it here, flying around Azeroth in between dungeon/raidfinder queues and doing archaeology you really do get to appreciate the work that went into building the game world. I don't get this feeling in SWTOR.

DangerDog wrote on Dec 21, 2011, 21:26:

Drezden wrote on Dec 21, 2011, 21:02:

DangerDog wrote on Dec 21, 2011, 21:00:
I had fun with the Planetside beta, they didn't have any population caps in areas and you could cloak and hack the enemy mobile spawn vehicle.

I loved hacking things from under the enemy's nose but they nerfed the cloaking/hacking right before release so I never even bothered with playing it at retail.

I really don't see how they nerfed cloaking and hacking. I spent half my Planetside career hacking enemy tanks/Reavers and driving off with them.

I just vaguely remember people getting all upset about not being able to see cloaked hackers, thought they did something to make them visible even while cloaked - maybe. It's been too long.

DangerDog wrote on Dec 21, 2011, 21:00:
I had fun with the Planetside beta, they didn't have any population caps in areas and you could cloak and hack the enemy mobile spawn vehicle.

I loved hacking things from under the enemy's nose but they nerfed the cloaking/hacking right before release so I never even bothered with playing it at retail.

Beamer wrote on Dec 21, 2011, 12:36:

Drezden wrote on Dec 21, 2011, 11:11:
So they charged people 50 dollars for this piece of shit service. But are still going to give Xbox the Map Packs before PS3 or PC? I'd be pissed I think.

But they didn't charge PC people. How is it that no one gets this? Which means they will charge for DLC.

Traditionally I've given up on the MW games as soon as the first $15 map pack hits. I don't expect this game to be any different. I'm having a blast online still, really enjoying playing around with weapons, attachments and proficiencies to make the most effective setup, but when the community becomes fractured into those that pay for overpriced maps and those that don't I'll move to Skyrim, which I'll like more, anyway.

Beamer wrote on Dec 5, 2011, 14:41:

Bhruic wrote on Dec 5, 2011, 14:14:

FWIW, if the scale is the 11 integers between 0 and 10, I'd say about 1 out 11 should get a 10.

Well, it's not, as most review sites use real numbers (ie, 9.5, etc).

The problem with giving a game a 10/10 is that there's no room for improvement. You can't give a game a 10.5/10. So once you've given a 10, you've basically said that the game is as good as a game is ever going to get. And that is highly unlikely.

For the same reason you'll almost never see a game get 0/10, almost no game should get a 10/10.

Disagreed. You aren't saying as good as its ever going to get. Reviews are a snapshot in time, and they're relative. Saying a game is as good as its ever going to get is absolutely stupid, but saying it's head and shoulders above its peers is not.

Take virtually any great game and advance it 5 years and its terrible. Take Doom. Doom was amazing at launch, and I would have had no problem giving it a 10 out of 10 then. But if released now it would be lucky to get a 2 out of 10. Autoaim? Please, thanks consolization! What's with the blocky graphics? Why do I have to keep criss-crossing the level, where they too lazy to create more content so they keep reusing this? Why can't I look up and down? Where's the plot, the story, or the characters? Monsters in closets, really? Sure, just keep spawning stuff behind me, that's not cheap. Why is the AI so dumb that it just stands there and shoots? What kind of idiotic space marine agency builds these terrible bases, was the architect on acid? What do these rooms even get used for? Why is this base built of so many separate buildings, all with lakes of acid? Where do the space marines eat or even poop? 2 out of 10!

Doom was a perfect game for its time. Doom II proved it could have gotten better. Quake proved it could still get better.

descender wrote on Dec 3, 2011, 12:08:
Anyone know what they are referring to? I remember way back when... like 8 years ago when I played EQ there was a ShowEQ thing that would give you a map of the entire zone you were in with all of the mobs populated on it. Has it gotten worse than that?