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Nier. Nexus kinda recommended it.

I've never really followed them. But then again I'm neither big into sports, or watching let's plays so I guess that would explain a fair bit. However if people wish to compete n watch these things then more power to them. It does seem to be a sport most gamers can really get behind. Won't be long before EA is cranking out E-sports 2017 with only minor differences from E-sports 2016.

*reads thread* :laugh:

63 brits died, there's a memorial for it outside the US embassy in London. And pretty much everyone refers to it as 9/11, despite the fact in our own dating systems that's 9th November. It's not as big a deal as it is in the US, but it's certainly not ignored. Also most of the people responding to this thread aren't American. I do doubt that you guys make much of 7/7 (we don't much either, even the day right after)

And that's why I try before I buy. Still a trailer should, up until that point, be a major point in telling me how the game is. I was kind of expecting from the trailers, though it was dimmed down by the various screenshots posted through my inbox (so it's not like I went into the game totally expecting this), something kind of Heavy Rain like. To actually have an emotional and deeper look at the breakdown of civilization in this small micro-thingy(economy?), and have a greater sense of depth to the characters n such. It's not like it's something that hasn't been done before. Maybe something along lines of the recent Torchwood: Miracle Day where they had a look at how the world kinda went upside down once people stopped dying (just not undying). Instead you beat the shit out of zombies with a paddle.

Yeah I wanted to use magic in Oblivion but it was a bit of a pain. Also Skyrim has splash damage, so even if your fireball misses it should still get them in the splash. (Oblivion had stupidly slow fireballs) So I made a mage, ended up battlemage. I am wanting them to show off the PC version at some point though. That menu system and constellations n such looks sexy as hell, but looks like it'll get to be a right paid with a mouse.

It was announced in 2006. And even though I've posted my thoughts before I'll sum up here, mainly for pirandello It does look kinda nice, and generally how you hit the zombies shows up on the body. The UI, on PC is terribad. The okay/cancel type options pop from one side of the screen to the next with each new screen. The mini-map is just squiggly lines to trace the route, no actual mini-map, or even landmarks vaguely scribbled out Weapons wear out way to quick. I thought Far Cry 2 sucked in this regard but Dead Island is a joke. In the short while I played I'd gone through a paddle, 2 mops and 2 metal pipes. The quests suck. One of the first (second) quests your given is to find two women. That's it. No descriptions, no starting point on where they may be. Be like me asking one of you lot to find me aunt, she's somewhere in England. Most are just fetch quests. The trailer lied. I would have cast a blind eye if the game was half decent, but it becomes a major sticking point now. I won't even mention the fact they published the 360 dev build to steam on launch (since that never affected me), oh and releasing not long after Deus Ex really didn't help.

As I said in steam chat yesterday it's all for naught given Origin has shown a distinct ability to make US-only sales. And their prices are all stupidly high compared to other outlets. So no it's not something to majorly look forward to unless EA majorly re-think Origin.

Yeah a big part of Experience Points is it's a game or series we have a fair bit of experience with. Though if anyone here with time spent on an MMO in the 3 or 4 digits wants to do anything like Cybers war n peace then they can feel free. On another note it's fun to have access to your own game site and see how people work. Of the 700 people who have currently read the article on TinyBuild uploading their game to TPB, only 4 people have clicked the source and only 2 have hit the "buy" link.

1. What platform. 2. I'm not necessarily complaining about bugs. At least I assume they're not bugs. I specifically held off on 'acquiring' it until the patched proper release came out instead of the dev build they put up.

This one had better soundtrack though. Only Todd Howard speaking over it and he stops early on. So you get some of that music.

First: http://pressxordie.c...e-to-piratebay/ Second: His point was that companies bottom lines shouldn't dictate civil freedoms. The entertainment industry is getting to dictate how you use the internet and that is wrong, no matter which way you slice it. Technology advances, his post on the ice salesmen n fridges was a good read regarding that: http://torrentfreak....tor-fee-110821/. Scribes didn't demand that printing companies start paying them a slice of profits to keep them afloat, they weren't given almost police like powers in being able to charge people with a crime on extremely flimsy evidence. As an example at the moment US ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is able to take down any site deemed to be distributing pirated and fake goods. PXOD falls under these powers as we're US hosted. The PROTECT IP Act, which is what the TF article is discussing, reinforces these powers. The DMCA already exists and is a horrible tool that massively favours the people who file a DMCA over those who are hit with it. TrjnRabbit had one of his Youtube videos taken down by a DMCA request from IGN. He had nothing from IGN on it, it was his own video, but it was automatically removed and it's upon him to prove the video is not IGN's property. DMCA is individual content, the PROTECT IP would be entire websites, taking it down from the net, DNS records, scrubbed from search indexes. It's a major censorship tool, let alone protecting the entertainment industries. At what point does making and selling music require that companies should be able to exercise such power over the internet? If your old business model is starting to fail that doesn't give a company the right to demand the ability to diminish the rights of the public. Change, adapt. This isn't the first time technology has changed how this stuff works. Look at Amazon, they've adapted exceedingly well from selling physical books to digital ones. And books being very small file size were some of the first pirated materials, years before the kindle was on anyones mind. edit: Asked Trjn for an update on the DMCA thing and he's still resolving it and several more recent videos have also been hit. We're wanting to start doing video content for PXOD. How the hell do we know that we're not going to be hit by DMCA take downs too. Trjn has been taking weeks to resolve. That'd be bullshit if it was to happen to anything we've ran for an article to be down that long.

http://www.bethblog.com/index.php/2011/09/12/20-minutes-of-skyrim-action/ Basically it's the video from the other week, but condensed and in HD. I'm beginning to think they're not playing it, but it's a pre-set track of what is going on cos they showed this after E3 on gamespot or something (one of hte US VG shows)

Mr Soak > your average milkman

I use "cheers" as a word of thanks too.

Well I mentioned that my sister started on Fire Red the other week after getting an emulator running on her PSP. Her first pokemon was a Squirtle

http://torrentfreak.com/i-dont-care-about-your-profits-and-it-enrages-me-that-you-think-i-should-110911/ It's maybe a bit extreme in comparing entertainment industry to blackwater but it does get it's point across.

I'm sure you're about the same age as me, making you 12 when it happened. I don't think anyone would expect a 12 year old to grasp the gravity of what was playing on their TV. As for myself my mum was on holiday at the time so I was with my dad n step-mum. Basically came in from school and ended up sitting n watching the news. iirc when we got in only one of the towers had collapsed at that point, or neither had actually. Kinda foggy there. I knew at the time it was something big, nearly every channel showing it was a big sign of that. But I didn't really understand it. My step-dad was recounting his memories of it last week. As I said they were on holiday, so he first heard of it while riding a camel. They came back to the hotel a bit later my mum went up to bed from headache and he went into the hotel's TV room n watched. He said at the time he was the only one in and he remembers getting a pint n watching. Next thing he knew, and many hours later, he turned around and there was dozens in the TV room with him and he had several glasses by his feet. He said it reminded him of Armageddon (Bruce Willis film, not the mythical end of days). If it wasn't the fact it was a news channel broadcasting it he'd have thought it was a film. He said it's kind of our generations moon landing, how everyone knows where they were when we landed on the moon, it's kinda the same with where you were on 9/11.

probably an advert, but still. You the claw or the palm? I'm the palm.

I could join the MW2 steam group. I don't own MW2. From my understanding there was a fair few people who joined expressly to fuck shit up.

You know there's next to nadda proof that anyone who said they would not be buying MW2 n SC2 actually bought the games btw. Just that people said they'd boycott, and high popular and heavily marketed games sold as much as expected.

Minecraft again. It's like learning it over again. I think I last played in 1.5 (there wasn't beds, n clocks n dogs n shit. Biomes and nether were only just new)

Driving in car with my step-dad this weekend and he was saying about how one of the community centres they deal with (he does like apprenticeship type programs) he picked one of the mouse up n noticed it had a ball on. He said he just assumed that no one used ball mice any more, was odd for him to see one again. He did mention one of the PC's was a 14 year old Fujitsu Siemens (though I think he may be a tad overestiamting the age)

Thor. It was okay, but I have a feeling it was aimed at 12 year old boys compared to stuff like First Class. There was a fair bit of over-acting n massive cliche n shit that made it way too predictable. I did get annoyed midway through when I realised that Thor didn't seemed upset at all about his father death and his permanent exile.