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Signed On Jul 17, 2000, 22:20
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News Comments > Skyrim Arrives
68. Re: Skyrim Arrives Nov 11, 2011, 14:34 PropheT
 
venomhed wrote on Nov 11, 2011, 12:56:
Same problem where everyone wants to kill you outdoors. Hate that. The wolves always attack, the bandits always attack. Be nice i they would sometimes size you up and say "Ya, you better get moving". I have seen this a tad with your proximity where a bandit warned me to get out and I stayed a bit too long. He just chased me for a short distance so that was cool. The giants too face you and stomp their feet, so they aren't ouright evil, but would be neat if they had varying degrees of hostility or passiveness.

This is in the game, you've already seen some of it... You'll find bandits that don't attack you immediately; I've already found a few places where they draw their weapons and tell you to back off, but don't outright attack. Most animals won't attack immediately, either.

I can't be positive since my gear isn't great yet, but things seem to notice how you're equipped, too, and you sometimes get different reactions from people as a result.
 
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News Comments > Evening Consolidation
1. Re: Evening Consolidation Nov 10, 2011, 21:05 PropheT
 
Nice, that makes the cost of CoD Elite comparable to other similar services. For a month, at least.  
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News Comments > More A Game of Throne Games Planned
6. Re: More A Game of Throne Games Planned Nov 9, 2011, 22:10 PropheT
 
I can just see the status updates on Facebook now.

"Ken just got caught having sex with his sister! Oh No!"
Comment - Like - Help Ken Push Child Out Of Tower
 
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News Comments > Skyrim Now on Sale in the Netherlands?
23. Re: Skyrim Now on Sale in the Netherlands? Nov 8, 2011, 20:34 PropheT
 
Eldaron Imotholin wrote on Nov 8, 2011, 17:57:
You mean the Day-Month-Year part? I'm 95% sure you're just kidding but since 95% of you guys are Christians I'll just play along and not use my reasoning, counter argument being that Day-Month-Year seems way more logical than Month-Day-Year .

Argh shite I used logic again! xD

The game comes out 11-11-11.

If you look at that in month-day-year instead, it comes out 11-11-11. If you look at it in day-month-year, it's 11-11-11.

...that's the joke.
 
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News Comments > Is WoW Jumping the Panda?
21. Re: Is WoW Jumping the Panda? Nov 8, 2011, 16:18 PropheT
 
Beamer wrote on Nov 8, 2011, 15:25:
Actually it has 11.1 million right now, down from the peak of 12 million.

8% is almost half, right?

The numbers they're talking about are only the NA numbers, which are just a fraction of the 12 million they've touted worldwide and are the subscriptions where people actually pay a monthly subscription fee. There's a lot more detailed discussions about this where people's hearts are actually into explaining it, but the number you're talking about is basically marketing BS.

beigemore wrote on Nov 8, 2011, 14:58:
I understand why people don't care for the pandas, but saying they got the idea from Kung Fu Panda is pretty ridiculous. The Pandaren have been around since Warcraft 3.

As an April Fool's joke.

 
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News Comments > Skyrim Now on Sale in the Netherlands?
8. Re: Skyrim Now on Sale in the Netherlands? Nov 8, 2011, 16:08 PropheT
 
McSterls wrote on Nov 8, 2011, 16:01:
Probably a result of that backwards date thing the Europeans do. Sometimes they let their produce spoil because they get so confused over which number is the day and which is the month. Oh, those wacky Europeans.

I lol'd
 
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News Comments > New BioWare Franchise Reveal Next Month
17. Re: scott@lampert.org Nov 8, 2011, 03:20 PropheT
 
Jerykk wrote on Nov 8, 2011, 02:28:
That's a bit of an exaggeration. Mass Effect was never much of an RPG to begin with. You couldn't sneak or talk your way through the game and the game as a whole was pretty linear.

If that's your criteria as to what games are RPG's or not there wouldn't be enough games in the genre to cover the fingers of one hand.
 
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News Comments > Skyrim Day One Patch Plans; Another Bonus Race Revealed
53. Re: Skyrim Day One Patch Plans; Another Bonus Race Revealed Nov 7, 2011, 18:41 PropheT
 
Beamer wrote on Nov 7, 2011, 17:14:
Didn't the awkward melee combat get absolutely bashed in all the reviews of that game?
Did it get fixed, or were the reviews wrong? Because most of them seemed to say melee sucked and controlled like guns, in that if you weren't pointing perfectly your baseball bat would oddly whiff.

If that's what reviews said, they were wrong. The melee was basically an improved version of what TES games have been doing for years, with damage modeling and reactive effects upon impact.

It's the best implementation of FPS melee combat I've ever seen in a game, anyway.
 
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News Comments > Gone Gold - Skyrim
25. Re: Gone Gold - Skyrim Nov 4, 2011, 17:28 PropheT
 
Sempai wrote on Nov 4, 2011, 16:20:
If the graphics are shit then gameplay is ALL you have, and we all know how amazing Beth is at game design..cough.

I don't think the series has been around this long and has been as popular as it is by having bad gameplay.

I love the mods as much as the next guy, but if the TES core games were shitty people wouldn't bother.

 
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News Comments > Battlefield 3 Improvements
2. Re: Battlefield 3 Improvements Nov 3, 2011, 21:00 PropheT
 
My quickmatch completely stopped working yesterday, I hope that wasn't the improvement they implemented.  
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News Comments > More on Deus Ex: Human Revolution Boss Woes
31. Re: More on Deus Ex: Human Revolution Boss Woes Nov 2, 2011, 21:05 PropheT
 
Jdrez wrote on Nov 2, 2011, 20:01:
They never should have been there in the first place. Boss fights are a stupid, archaic throwback to the days when they needed a cheap excuse to keep you pumping in quarters.

They're unrealistic and serve no purpose in a game like DX HR.

I like boss fights. To each his own, I guess, but they made perfect sense in DX and I thought they were fun.

The fight against the 3rd guy when my optics were all messed up was epic. I still can't believe there's as big of a deal being made about the boss fights in the game as there has been.

 
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News Comments > Op Ed
16. Re: Op Ed Nov 2, 2011, 16:24 PropheT
 
Prez wrote on Nov 2, 2011, 15:39:
Same here. There was a pretty scathing article on RAGE (I think it was by Ars Technica) that pointed out negatives that I didn't consider to be major negatives, and the reviewer detailed things that he didn't like that could be said about other games that I like. In short, the scathing review actually made me want the game!

The Ars Technica review of RAGE was so spot on for me that it's made me wonder why I bother with reviews most other places. The entire reason that review stood out so much and still gets talked about is because you don't see that anywhere anymore; most places don't really talk about the game as much as they talk about the hype the game had before it released and score based on that (lookin' at you, IGN).

Reviews are useless for the most part because they're just an extension of pre-release hype and marketing. Kotaku had an article recently about how games are opinions and should always be treated as such, but how many people read reviews because they value that person's opinion rather than because they want to know if the game is worth their $60 or so? I don't want to have to research every review score for Lord of the Rings only to find out later it got a low score not for being a bad game, but because the reviewer's father was a dirty hobbit who left his mother when he was 8.

 
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News Comments > More Origin Spyware Accusations
7. Re: More Origin Spyware Accusations Nov 1, 2011, 22:15 PropheT
 
Yosemite Sam wrote on Nov 1, 2011, 21:16:
"We do not have access to information such as pictures, documents or personal data ..."

"EA takes the privacy of its users very seriously. We have taken every precaution to protect the personal and anonymous user data collected ."

So you do not collect personal data but protect the personal data collected?

They have personal data from your credit card and registration information that you provided, they don't have access to personal data on your PC that you didn't provide just because you installed Origin.
 
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News Comments > MechWarrior Online Art & Details
30. Re: MechWarrior Online Art & Details Nov 1, 2011, 20:01 PropheT
 
Prez wrote on Nov 1, 2011, 19:47:
You're absolutely right. But let's be honest; which type of game did you think the majority of us Computer Game Players were hoping for and (based on the awesome trailer released a while back) expecting?

I guess I don't care, honestly, because I don't think it matters. Just because there were Mechwarrior games ten years ago doesn't mean that anything they make now has to be an exact new continuation of that series to be worthwhile. Just because I liked those games (a lot) doesn't mean I can't like this one.

Games have come a long way since then and let's face it, if it shipped with only the features of the old titles most people would just bitch about how it was dated instead.

 
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News Comments > MechWarrior Online Art & Details
28. Re: MechWarrior Online Art & Details Nov 1, 2011, 19:06 PropheT
 
Spaced wrote on Nov 1, 2011, 17:31:
Mechwarrior is about a deeper simulation approach, tactical decision making, dropship location selection (who to fight and where), earned selective upgrading and configuring, and as you know, much more. A kiddie power-up leveling MMO approach it should never be. It would be a severely wasted direction for the series to go.

Mechwarrior the computer games were, Mechwarrior the PnP RPG wasn't and what they're doing here sounds like it'd fit into that just fine. Battletech was the mech simulation, Mechwarrior was more about the pilots and had more than just the tactical strategy game tied into it.
 
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News Comments > MechWarrior Online Art & Details
17. Re: MechWarrior Online Art & Details Nov 1, 2011, 16:28 PropheT
 
Rossafur wrote on Nov 1, 2011, 14:30:
On the website's FAQ page there's a question about the Clans and the answer is just: ";)".
Sure as hell better get to play as the Clans at some point. Clans rule, Inner Sphere drools!

I always hated the clan stuff. Battletech was just better when it was the inner sphere and original ruleset.
 
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News Comments > NVIDIA Investigating TDR Issues
24. Re: NVIDIA Investigating TDR Issues Oct 31, 2011, 14:18 PropheT
 
Prez wrote on Oct 31, 2011, 14:11:
Send them your videocard??? I have never heard such a thing. What, they don't have any Nvidia Geforce videocards laying around there at Nvidia?

They'll have reference boards, it's possible the problem is with modifications other manufacturers have added to the cards later and that's what they want to see.
 
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News Comments > NVIDIA Investigating TDR Issues
19. Re: NVIDIA Investigating TDR Issues Oct 31, 2011, 12:32 PropheT
 
I don't get them with Battlefield 3, but I get them every time I start Rift right now after installing the newest driver.

I've also got the same power save problem as Beamer, and have had it since I installed the GTX570. I'm happy with the performance in games, but all these side issues are crap I never had when I had ATI cards...I doubt I'll buy another Nvidia card again after this one.
 
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News Comments > MineCon 2011 Sold Out
2. Re: MineCon 2011 Sold Out Oct 28, 2011, 22:51 PropheT
 
In keeping with the game's motif, every booth will just be stacked cardboard boxes.  
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News Comments > Origin Adds Publishers
13. Re: Origin Adds Publishers Oct 28, 2011, 01:21 PropheT
 
Creston wrote on Oct 28, 2011, 00:12:
Alright, now at least it's becoming legitimate competition for Steam, and there's an actual POINT to Origin.

I guess...there's still three or four places that are better to buy games online than Origin with lower prices or a better selection or both. With the added publishers it's like Impulse only crappier.

 
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