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Signed On Jul 17, 2000, 22:20
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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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News Comments > BlizzCon Hate-Speech Criticized
25. Re: BlizzCon Hate-Speech Criticized Oct 27, 2011, 11:56 PropheT
 
Muscular Beaver wrote on Oct 27, 2011, 10:45:
What?
He only quoted a few sentences from everyday Trade Chat business.

That was my first thought. He's only playing to the crowd, among whom that sort of thing is pretty standard conversational fare.
 
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News Comments > Ships Ahoy - Stronghold 3
9. Re: Ships Ahoy - Stronghold 3 Oct 25, 2011, 23:53 PropheT
 
JaguarUSF wrote on Oct 25, 2011, 20:34:
It is not good.

What's wrong with it?
 
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News Comments > Ships Ahoy - Battlefield 3
61. Re: Ships Ahoy - Battlefield 3 Oct 25, 2011, 16:15 PropheT
 
Does this one have bot matches like the older Battlefield games?  
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News Comments > Out of the Blue
29. Re: Out of the Blue Oct 24, 2011, 20:08 PropheT
 
Creston wrote on Oct 24, 2011, 15:49:
Baseball seems to be the only sport in the world that goes out of its way to make sure that fans CAN'T actually watch the product they're trying to sell. Well, I guess hockey does it too.

Well, hockey is only because Bettman gambled with their broadcasting contract and lost big time for fans everywhere. So it's not just single games that are a problem, it's pretty much every game...that's better, right :p . At least the suck is consistant.

On the bright side, FSN shows Wild games up here on a pretty regular basis and it's a channel that even the backwoods cable companies carry. Pens games (I'm a long-time Penguins fan, woo) aren't on unless NBC carries one on the weekend randomly, but at least you can listen for free on their web site and the radio announcer is better than anyone you'll get on TV anyway.

VS. has games, but nobody carries the channel.
 
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News Comments > Free Diablo III with World of Warcraft Annual Pass
1. Re: Free Diablo III with World of Warcraft Annual Pass Oct 21, 2011, 18:28 PropheT
 
Are they really having that much trouble retaining players?  
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News Comments > Morning Consolidation
8. Re: Morning Consolidation Oct 17, 2011, 17:54 PropheT
 
PHJF wrote on Oct 17, 2011, 17:02:
Demon's Souls was the exact same way. Heavy Armor is basically crap because dodging is the ONLY way to avoid all damage. Heavy Armor only worked in DS because of most shields' ability to block all physical damage... but that didn't help at all against bosses.

Heavy armor makes a huge difference in general survival, though, especially if you don't know the areas well enough to do your own type of speed run like the video. Keep your equipped weight under half your maximum and you can still move and roll very quickly, which is all that matters. There's no good reason to only wear light armor in the game when you can keep the same defensive benefits and still have armor that can withstand a hit.
 
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News Comments > RIFT Add-on Launches, Free Weekend Begins Tomorrow
6. Re: RIFT Add-on Launches, Free Weekend Begins Tomorrow Oct 12, 2011, 16:14 PropheT
 
MacLeod wrote on Oct 12, 2011, 15:31:
They pretty much were throwing the gauntlet down to WoW claiming to be better.

Because what they should have done in their advertising campaign is say, "WoW is better, but please play our game instead!"


Unless you're doing end-game progressing raiding, RIFT actually IS better, at least in my opinion. I like it enough to have never looked back at Warcraft, anyway.
 
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News Comments > Ships Ahoy - Dead Rising 2: Off the Record
7. Re: Ships Ahoy - Dead Rising 2: Off the Record Oct 11, 2011, 21:25 PropheT
 
I love this series and somehow missed completely that this was coming out today

 
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News Comments > etc.
3. Re: etc. Oct 11, 2011, 16:31 PropheT
 
I actually liked Privateer 2. I didn't think the game was as poorly received as the Clive Owen article says it was.  
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News Comments > Sunday Tech Bits
5. Re: Sunday Tech Bits Oct 10, 2011, 00:44 PropheT
 
^Drag0n^ wrote on Oct 9, 2011, 21:57:
Publicly.

There are plenty of stories out here in the Bay Area of people that Steve helped in moments of crisis or need, and he never felt the need to turn it into a PR fest. Case and point: his gardener's son.

I'm not sure if you're intentionally suggesting that Bill Gates is tooting his own horn with his charitable work, but...stories of helping out a few random people and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation don't really compare.
 
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News Comments > id On RAGE "Cluster!@#$" and Lead Platforms
5. Re: Sucks Oct 7, 2011, 21:46 PropheT
 
Quboid wrote on Oct 7, 2011, 21:40:
It's all about making money. I fear designing with consoles in mind is the way to do that best

I think most reasonable people understand that already, the issue comes with the difficulty in explaining why a game like Deus Ex can give a good PC experience with all the bells and whistles you'd expect but RAGE can't.

Leading with another platform doesn't, or shouldn't, mean that what you wind up with on the PC is just a straight port with no consideration for the platform. The effort put into the development for the PC version is exactly the problem in the first place, not which technology it runs on.
 
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News Comments > Morning Metaverse
5. Re: Morning Metaverse Oct 7, 2011, 12:38 PropheT
 
There's two major issues that aren't being addressed by this as well;

1. They subsidize the shit out of development in rural areas like where I live, and then the companies turn around and charge us out the ass for the absolute minimal service that they can provide to an area.

2. There's absolutely no competition in these areas after they do it. One provider runs a monopoly on broadband over an entire region, so there's no recourse for frequent outages, billing "errors", and everything else that becomes common practice.

And, in a brilliant stroke of irony, my internet connection died yet again just as I was about to post this...and mine is pretty good compared to most of the rural areas around here.
 
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News Comments > Unlock RAGE Hi-Rez Textures
23. Re: Unlock RAGE Hi-Rez Textures Oct 5, 2011, 16:26 PropheT
 
Lobster wrote on Oct 5, 2011, 15:39:
RAGE is already very pretty. Making it prettier isn't going to solve the problems people have with the game itself.

Yep. The game looks good, although the tweaks will be nice. In my opinion at least, it just isn't any fun.
 
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News Comments > Out of the Blue
9. Re: Out of the Blue Oct 5, 2011, 13:06 PropheT
 
nin wrote on Oct 5, 2011, 11:16:
That's ok, my first thought was a dinosaur, and I reread it several times, scratching my head...

I'm glad I'm not the only one who was thinking that as soon as I read it
 
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News Comments > RAGE Interview
9. Re: RAGE Interview Oct 4, 2011, 22:04 PropheT
 
Darks wrote on Oct 4, 2011, 21:52:
I’ve played all three of the games, and I never once said oh look, this looks just like Borderlands. In fact I never once got that impression.

Come on, really? I don't see how you can't look at the bandits in RAGE and see the same type of guys from Borderlands. They're so similar it's unavoidable to draw a comparison. They each have their own thing to them, but people aren't comparing them because of only the setting...most of the talk for the last two years has included all three names in every preview.

The Ars review is unfortunately spot on about the game, though. Maybe once the mod tools are released things will get better, but right now...if I were to write a review that's the one I would write.
 
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