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| News Comments > World of Warcraft Welcome Back |
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Re: My favorite part... |
Apr 14, 2012, 22:02 |
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WoW was the "Beatles" of the MMOs, it was a world phenomenon and gave something on a scale that had never been seen before. That's an incredibly hard achievement to repeat in what is now a diversifying and fragmenting genre. Only something genuinely revolutionary would rejoin the same player base and attain the same level of success that WoW had.
The MMOs on the horizon offer numerous technical improvements, higher production values, better technology... you name it. But can any single product deliver something so special that all MMO players will come across to it? They all offer an evolutionary step on top of what has come before but you can only experience that mind-blowing shattering of your innocence once! |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Global Economic Collapse |
Apr 6, 2012, 21:56 |
MisterBenn |
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Off topic a little: did you guys see that the Yogscast have launched a Kickstarter appeal? I just saw it on YT a second ago, I actually thought it was a late April Fool's joke but I think they might actually be serious. It's almost indistinguishable from Minecraft and they go as far as to say "Screw you Notch" in the clip!!!
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If this is in fact a joke, consider me successfully trolled... |
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| Playing: Path of Exile, Distant Worlds, Trials Gold. |
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| News Comments > etc. |
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Re: etc. |
Apr 5, 2012, 20:35 |
MisterBenn |
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| ... and nice to see the porn industry catching a break for once. Those guys have had it hard for a long time! |
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| Playing: Path of Exile, Distant Worlds, Trials Gold. |
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| News Comments > Into the Black |
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Re: Into the Black |
Mar 30, 2012, 21:15 |
MisterBenn |
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| I didn't know who she was, has she done much in the UK? I can confirm that that is a cleavage. Not a fan of that look where the shirt potatoes are pushed up hard and form a top edge though! |
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| Playing: Path of Exile, Distant Worlds, Trials Gold. |
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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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Re: Morning Tech Bits |
Mar 30, 2012, 15:42 |
MisterBenn |
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Krovven wrote on Mar 30, 2012, 13:14:
That doesnt stop Adobe Flash Player from crashing. It just doesnt crash Firefox with it, but it does lock up FF for about 30secs while the plugin crashes, which happens constantly.
This is my exact problem too, it drives me up the wall. I get it every day when using YouTube, particularly when my connection is lagging. Interesting to read that Chrome plays better and has AdBlock... I must give it a try. AdBlock and Sync are the only addons I really care about in my browser. |
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| Playing: Path of Exile, Distant Worlds, Trials Gold. |
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| News Comments > New AMD/ATI Reference Drivers |
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Re: New AMD/ATI Reference Drivers |
Mar 29, 2012, 00:20 |
MisterBenn |
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Thanks for replying LittleMe. Yep that's what I meant with the YouTube videos, by restart the vid I meant "seek to the start" 
You're right about havign patience, although it's been this way for about a year. Firefox, Flash Player and ATI drivers have all been been through multiple updates and I've stopped holding my breath when one of them is patching these days. What I haven't tried is another browser, I like Firefox, don't want IE and don't like the idea of putting more power in the hands of Google with Chrome... |
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| Playing: Path of Exile, Distant Worlds, Trials Gold. |
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| News Comments > Evening Consolidation |
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Re: Evening Consolidation |
Mar 28, 2012, 21:05 |
MisterBenn |
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| I just realised I don't have any interest in the next gen of consoles. I owned all the generations of playstation but my PS3 just gathers dust with the exception of family gaming on Rock Band 3. Consoles are also too restrictive and inflexible to operate as a media centre compared to PCs too, so overall I can't imagine I will buy one. I've been primarily a computer user since the Spectrum but I've always had a console too... feels a bit like the end of an era is coming! |
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| Playing: Path of Exile, Distant Worlds, Trials Gold. |
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| News Comments > New AMD/ATI Reference Drivers |
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Re: New AMD/ATI Reference Drivers |
Mar 28, 2012, 20:57 |
MisterBenn |
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Let's see how these drivers fare then. I'm not hugely impressed with ATIs drivers on Windows 7. I have two systems with ATI, my desktop has a 6950 and is 64 bit, my laptop has an X600 mobility(!) and is 32 bit and both run Windows 7. Both systems have the same issues with YouTube:
1) The video is corrupted and plays as though it started from a plain green key frame (i.e. wierd details move within a sea of bright green) when you start a video. This sometimes fixes itself within a few seconds otherwise you need to restart the clip to make it right.
2) If you scroll YouTube while the clip is playing, sometimes all text disappears and the video window goes plain black. After you stop scrolling, after a few seconds all returns to normal again.
3) I get quite frequent crashes if I jump between several videos in quick succession while looking for something. I get the firefox crash with the error report screen.
Numbers 2 and 3 occur much more at times of slow connection. I have had literally hundreds of occurrences of number 3 between the two systems!
Does anyone have experience of this? The laptop was fine before Windows 7 and both systems are quite regular. It happens so much that can't be the only one! I wonder if it's a compatability issue between Windows 7 / Firefox / Flash Player / ATI driver combination....
(Fuck, I should have started downloading these before writing all that!) |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Mar 24, 2012, 19:24 |
MisterBenn |
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Hey Batman have you tried the Skyrim Creatures Alive mod? It's my new favourite... it keeps the wilderness spawns themed by region but it unlevels them. The most powerful spawns are very low probability but potentially you can meet them anywhere! I can fully attest that it removes the lack of fear you normally have while wondering and my new character has had to run for his life on a few occasions!
(By the way I realise this is the worst kind of addiction support but it's really worth trying!!!) |
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| Playing: Path of Exile, Distant Worlds, Trials Gold. |
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| News Comments > More Diablo III Class Skills |
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Re: More Diablo III Class Skills |
Mar 14, 2012, 21:34 |
MisterBenn |
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If they can just hold on until June 28th then it will be exactly 4 years that the game has been reported as on its way! I looked up the Blue's Archives here for the announcement... my eye was drawn to a couple of posts by people who are still posting nowadays... check out these 2008 reactions!
Ant: "Diablo is going to make me addicted again. :/ Myth has a big competitor now."
Cutter: "Ahahaha, sup gaming bitches? I called it! Fucking knew this was in the works for a while now. Anyway, colour me in. I'm gonna' hit this shit like Ike hit Tina!"
nin: "Somewhere, right now, Bill Roper is crying, wishing he'd never left Blizz."
Wildone: "Meh. next"
xXBatmanXx: "Watched the vids - doesn't really appear to be "more of the same". New characters, monsters are way better, gameplay although clickfest demon fighting, looks a lot better."
Beamer: "I don't trust Diablo 3 entirely because the team that made Diablo Diablo is gone. This is a sequel in name only."
... those were the days! |
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| News Comments > Sunday Safety Dance |
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Re: Sunday Safety Dance |
Mar 11, 2012, 23:36 |
MisterBenn |
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| Imagine that terrible feeling of remorse, seeing that a stranger had blown your wad and left you completely dry. |
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| Playing: Path of Exile, Distant Worlds, Trials Gold. |
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| News Comments > Steam Top 10 |
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Re: Steam Top 10 |
Mar 11, 2012, 23:27 |
MisterBenn |
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Oh dear, reading this makes me want to make a shameful confession. My name is MisterBenn, and my yet to play list contains zero games!!! I play entirely too many games but I haven't got that kind of giant backlog like you lot. Is that all down to Steam sales? You guys certainly do seem to foam at the mouth when it's the season!
What I do have, however, is a list of "games that I played some of and then parked to go back to". Do those count? If so I have SpaceChem, Orcs Must Die and Kerbal Space Program waiting to be played to exhaustion.
Oh and Mashiki, FWIW I thought Civ 5 was a disappointment. It improved on Civ 4 in terms of accessibility, speed and aesthetics, but in the streamlining they threw out some of the richness and flavour of the prequels. Where previously the game mechanics were more organic and based on the real world, those in Civ 5 seemed more arbitrary and self-fulfilling, which gave the game more of a board game feel than a world simulator. It's a case of taste of course but the game has been controversial for this so even at a low price I would make sure I've done some research. By coincidence I admitted to myself that I won't go back to Civ 5 and I started a new game with Civ 4... |
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| Playing: Path of Exile, Distant Worlds, Trials Gold. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: This is rich... |
Mar 8, 2012, 20:15 |
MisterBenn |
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| I really liked that animated gif video, particularly the bit about Cinemagraphs, I didn't know they existed! Oh, and it's definitely pronounced "Gif", not "Jif"!! |
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| Playing: Path of Exile, Distant Worlds, Trials Gold. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Re: Out of the Blue |
Mar 7, 2012, 20:52 |
MisterBenn |
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| It was too wet to play golf in SE England! I don't mind wet golf but I draw the line at "hacking it down before you start"... |
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| Playing: Path of Exile, Distant Worlds, Trials Gold. |
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| News Comments > Into the Black |
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Re: Into the Black |
Mar 6, 2012, 21:09 |
MisterBenn |
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Definitely an argument starter, some of those are seminal, some of those were the first to popularise, and some pleased the most people for the most time.
Only one of my most loved games is represented:
Diablo 2
Morrowind
Total Annihilation
Master of Orion 2
Pro Evolution Soccer
Quake
(I could almost have swapped in Age of Empires 2 though, that was fantastic too). Oh, and too early to include Skyrim although that could easily be just a matter of time. |
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| Playing: Path of Exile, Distant Worlds, Trials Gold. |
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| News Comments > XCOM: Enemy Unknown Trailer |
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Re: XCOM: Enemy Unknown Trailer |
Mar 6, 2012, 19:50 |
MisterBenn |
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Yeah this looks pretty promising. The tactical section already looks like it's made good progress and seems to be a great combination of the old gameplay with modern UI and fluidity. The new time system might even end up being an improvement in some ways, it might be clearer to understand if your guy's got time to duck and shoot, or reload a rocket and shoot at a glance.
The ant farm I don't find so exciting, a nice touch perhaps you still design the base on a single plane like the original. Am I right in saying your base can no longer be invaded? I thought I read that a while back... a bit of a disappointment but not a deal breaker.
Anyhow it seems like I will be getting this from what I've seen, the good parts of the original seem to be represented and the prospect of a newly conceived alien threat is great! |
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| Playing: Path of Exile, Distant Worlds, Trials Gold. |
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| News Comments > Evening Screenshots |
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Re: Evening Screenshots |
Mar 2, 2012, 00:25 |
MisterBenn |
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| Turn based could be great fun so long as there is lots of detail in the game mechanics and you can design your mechs' components. The mention of community features is still very offputting but I'll override the shutdown sequence just for the moment... |
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