Was hoping his 3rd Alice game would happen.

Found my "main" for D4.

Also, Andarial at 3:29

That presentation was a bit cringe at many times.

So many technical issues with cameras and mics, how about Larian just focus on the details next time instead of the presentation (of said details)..
Swen frustratingly swearing several times during the issues, trying to keep that quiet from the mics but it getting picked up anyway, was a thing. You can tell he both controls absolutely every aspect of everything, while also is genuinely passionate and full blown fanboying what he's being able to make.

I felt stressed watching the stream, on behalf of everyone involved in the stream.

I'm genuinely interested in what Vicarious Visions has up their sleeves for Diablo 2. I've kinda burned myself out the last couple years on Path of Diablo (great D2 Mod with their own "battle.net") so unless they've got something amazing planned I may initially pass on this but I'm still looking forward to this reveal.

I'm also interested in Diablo Immortal news. Despite the (justified) shitshow surrounding the announcement of this game, the recent alpha and twitch streamed content looked interesting enough and I would definitely opt into a beta test.

One of my employees is a dedicated Overwatch player, I hope Blizzard gives him something to be happy or excited about...

Yikes, the cart is filling up here - especially with JRPGs.
Gonna pull the trigger on Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order too.

You know what a really really easy thing to do in life is?

Not sexually harass another human being, employee or otherwise.

I'm sure Diablo Immortal will be featured, and the announcement of the 4th' Diablo 4 class.
Phones!

Would like to see a decent new game in the Robin Hood universe, will at least keep an eye on this.

Not totally related, I really enjoyed was the Defenders of the Crown remake in 2001ish. Sadly the PC version is broke for modern system with no fixes; the mouse, camera movement and aiming are completely broken.

Theo wrote on Jan 24, 2021, 16:18:

bigspender wrote on Jan 23, 2021, 21:00:
For me though, I think I'd have a tough time enjoying & d2's one spell at a time. But then again I'd still give it try.

Sorry what do you mean? 1 spell at a time?

iirc - You have to manually change skills before you can use them at all, for example manually having to press F1-F8 to access whatever skills you have bound to those buttons, then you can use "right-click" that skill.
You have Fireball bound to F1, Teleport to F2. You have to press F1 to select Fireball, if not already selected, then you can use it (right click), to teleport you then have to press F2 to select teleport then you can use it (right click). By today's standards that god awful.

Where-as in other games, like PoE and Diablo 3, you can have however many active skills allowed bound to whatever mouse/keyboard button you want and only have to press that button to actually "use" the skill.

RedEye9 wrote on Jan 4, 2021, 17:22:

Cram wrote on Jan 4, 2021, 16:32:
New indeed, never heard of them.

On paper, that thing looks like a little weapon of mass destruction. What's the catch, at $1099.00?

Let's count the ways;
1. If it sounds too good to be true it is.

3. Paper launch.
4. Stock will be harder to find than frog hair.
5. New company, say no more.
7. Any other laptop with those features is priced over $1,400.
9. Loss leader, they'll only make an initial production run of 50, if that.
10, 11 and 12. Add your own.

Boom! Smack was layeth down

New indeed, never heard of them.

On paper, that thing looks like a little weapon of mass destruction. What's the catch, at $1099.00?

Decent. I recommend people review this mod list - if I were to pick just one on the list the Torchlight 2 Essentials mod will improve the experience substantially.

$129.99 for the Logitech G502 Lightspeed Wireless Mouse is a pretty great deal. Highly recommend the mouse.
I just picked one up off of amazon.ca last week on a $30 off Prime deal @ 169.99 and thought that was a decent enough price for the mouse. Replaced my wired G502 which the wire was an issue.

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Dec 16, 2020, 11:07:
*EDIT* reading their update, people will be furious upon release that Legendary affixes are random, rofl. That'll get rolled back to fixed legendary affixes pretty quickly, I'd think.

I believe that's what Uniques are for. I skimmed the update, maybe I missed something.

I agree with your thoughts that Blizzard will push something out the door that's probably pretty fun and engaging. I also believe the game will not hit its potential until 2-3 years after release, as it was for Diablo 2 and Diablo 3. Both previous entries needed their expansion and a lot of patchwork afterwards to get the game to a good, even great place. V1.10 didn't land till nearly 2.5 years after Lord of Destruction launched, for example.

Suspect there is more to this story and that there were issues between this guy and his mom before she decided to throw things out without, apparently, telling him. Apparently, a sh*t ton of things.

Owned.

MoreLuckThanSkill wrote on Nov 27, 2020, 14:32:
Soo... anybody on Bluesnews play Wolcen at all? I've heard pretty terrible things about the release and even current state of the game; shittier Diablo clone, basically, mostly abandoned by the developers?

SteamCharts kind of sums it all up

I played at release for a few weeks up until shortly after the big nerf to the Bleeding Edge meta. Problems o'plenty with the game, and still to this day.
I do think there is a pretty solid foundation for a good, maybe even great game there. Might be too little too late.

Enjoying this season theme a lot more than Season 21's theme.
That is not saying very much though, I would have found watching paint dry while being flogged more enjoyable than season 21's theme.

Good on AMD. Curious what RDNA3 will bring next year, they're on record saying again twice the performance gain vs previous generation (Big Navi /RDNA2)

I think I'm gonna sit tight till early'ish next year. Wait for 6900xt reviews & availability, or wait for 3080TI reviews & availability... Kinda works out, let AMD and motherboard partners iron out any issues with the 5xxx series CPUs in the meantime.

Cutter wrote on Nov 11, 2020, 12:59:
If I go with the B550 and get a Gen4 NVME 2TB and a Gen3 1TB can I partition them so Windows - and older games that don't really require speed - sits on the Gen3 drive and all the more demanding newer games I would put on the Gen4 drive. So Gen3 would be C: and Gen4 would be D:. Can one do that on those boards?

I do not have an definitive answer, but I imagine it *could* be as easy a Bios option, or even something you can do in Windows 10 with Disk Management or a third party tool. It appears Disk Management would allow me to change my C:\ into any letter I want, not gonna confirm the attempt though. I do not think assigning different letters to the drives should interfere with the interface (gen3/gen4) of those drives in any way.

Keep us posted on the processor. Exciting times these days.

jacobvandy wrote on Nov 1, 2020, 14:49:
It does not take that much work to put your game on Steam... Just be honest and say you think you'll make more money from sales of the new expansion without Valve's help.

Could very well be it. Alternatively I think Arenanet know the game is a bit of a sh*tshow and releasing in on Steam would require a lot of work on their part. I can't imagine coming into Guild Wars 2 today as a new player, the very least Arenanet would have to do, IMO, is include all current expacs AND Seasons 2, 3, 4 and Icebrood Saga as one price on Steam. They should do that right now anyway. I don't see them doing that, and if they don't I see that driving new players away from Steam. Guild Wars 1 success on steam was also not a success. Only 32 total user reviews for the entire Trilogy, fail. Too much work, if they want to do it right, for little gain as I see it. And yeah -30% less gain on top of it.