TheMightyEthan

One of my friends once said he hates pandas because they won't even fuck to save their own species.

Yeah, I've never understood what people have against the Library. And I agree that the visuals are too busy, but overall they did a surprisingly good job of staying true to the style considering it's an entirely different group of people working on it.

I see this viewpoint brought up repeatedly when discussing cloning extinct animals, despite how retarded it is. When was the last time you heard of elephants escaping the zoo and starting a breeding population in the wild?

Me too.

And that's fine, no one's saying you can't like Call of Duty. But that doesn't mean it's flawless. I mean, I said above: The rest of the quote, so I'm not misquoting myself, though the above is the only part relevant to my point:

Hahaha! A similar thing happened to me when I accidentally fried my old processor by not getting a good thermal connection between it and the heatsink; I'd been wanting to upgrade, and that gave me the excuse I needed. I think I was less upset than most people would have been.

If it makes you feel any better though, those complaints are completely overshadowed by the awesomeness of the game. I'd forgotten all about them by the time I finished.

I constantly tell my wife she could stand to gain a few pounds, but she never believes me.

lol "Hello, Ubisoft customer service? ThursdayNext said you would give me a replacement code..."

I think someone needs a trip to the angry dome.

Ah, yeah. It makes a minor step forward in the story, but you could easily read about that online to catch up for AC3. @FLD: I said this before somewhere else, but I'm p sure I remember reading that AC3 has been being worked on by a separate team since the release of AC2, and that ACB and ACR were done by a side-team. If that's accurate (I can't for the life of me remember where that info came from) then it makes it seem likely that AC3 will be a bigger departure from the form of the previous games. *Edit* - Man, I went back to reread my previous post, and "and" sure seems to be my favorite word. I need to work on my sentence structure.

Yeah, it'd be one thing if you could only do that on the easiest setting, but that was the second hardest. Saying "yes, but on the very most hardest setting you actually have to do something" isn't really doing all that much to refute the criticism.

lol, now I feel like I'm coming across more critically than I meant to. I enjoyed AC:R a lot (but of course I'm an Assassin's Creed freak). I recommend it to anyone who likes Assassin's Creed and wants to play more of it. And the gameplay loop wasn't hurt by any of the added things, you can just ignore them if you want to and it plays just like the older ones. And they made the assassin training mission system deeper, and I spent a few hours just running around managing that, and could have spent much longer. And the upgrade-the-city mechanic is basically the same as in Brotherhood. Though I would say that if all the side quests are important to you then you might not like this one as much, because there are like 3 side quests in the whole game (not counting collectibles). Ultimately, I'd recommend it to anyone who likes Assassin's Creed, though if the side quests are important to you (or if you're not just absolutely in love the the series like I am) I'd wait for a price drop. But don't skip it altogether (unless you're just not interested in the series, in which case go ahead and skip it).

Yeah, Gamestop might refuse to sell Vita if they discounted the DD games, but I doubt Walmart or Best Buy would. I mean, retailers (even Gamestop) carry the Go, and that eliminates physical game purchases all together.

Yeah, the bombs were cool. I think the reason I didn't use them though was because the rest of the gameplay was unchanged from the previous two, so basically I fell into the old flow which just didn't include bombs. It's like they just glued bombs onto the side of the gameplay loop, rather than integrating them into it.

I disagree with calling it an "ungame", but I don't necessarily disagree with the underlying criticism of that. If you really look at Call of Duty it's basically a really high production value, very cinematic version of Duck Hunt. But Duck Hunt is clearly a game, and so is Call of Duty. But I also think a lot of people are misunderstanding the criticism. He wasn't criticizing it for being a corridor shooter, he was criticizing it for spending so much time not even being that; for making you sit around and look at pretty things, or wait at a door while your squad yammers on. Thank link Dean posted while I was writing illustrates it perfectly: you don't have to do anything in CoD, the game progresses with or without your involvement. (Granted, at this point I'm criticizing CoD in general, not MW3 specifically.) That's why RPS called it an ungame: because the game makes it feel as if the player is just watching the action, rather than a participant. It's a movie that allows you to control the viewing angle, and has an engaging, but entirely optional, shooting game built in. I still enjoy playing Call of Duty a lot, but I recognize that that's a very valid criticism.

It was Assassin's Creed. If you've played 2 or Brotherhood, then it's more of that. I enjoyed it. I will say there was a lot less side stuff to do in this one, like there wasn't a series of thieves' guild missions or anything. It made it seem like there wasn't really a whole lot to do besides just continue through the story. Though I will say I spent an inordinate amount of time recruiting assassins and sending them out on missions around the Mediterranean. There were only 5 of those lair/crypt things, 4 if you don't count my Gamestop bonus one, and that made me sad because I really enjoy those. And their added stuff just didn't need to be there. I only used bombs like 2 or 3 times after the bomb tutorial, and the only time I played the tower defense stuff was in the tutorial because it's so easy to prevent the Templars from ever attacking your dens in the first place. Basically it's fun, and it plays like you would expect Assassin's Creed to, but it definitely suffered from the yearly dev cycle.

As I told dean on twitter, it's not just EA. My new copy of AC:R said that its bonus code would expire in February (I think, could be wrong about the month).

Whenever I help someone build/upgrade their computer it always makes me want to upgrade mine.

22 hours and I did pretty much everything except collectibles (and even did a fair chunk of those).

No, the RAM link is in there twice. I thought he was getting 2 sets of 8GB too. *Edit* - Actually, double check on your mobo's manual. My old motherboard was 1 and 3, 2 and 4, but my current one is 1 and 2, 3 and 4. It's weird.

Yeah, most of what I know about verb tenses I actually learned in my French class (the technical stuff I mean, I already knew how to use them fine. )

All that looks good to me. Do you have a monitor already, or do you need one of those too? Also, don't forget mouse/keyboard. Another thing when looking at cases is to be sure and check if they have built in fans. First time I built a desktop I neglected to order fans and the case didn't have any built in; I was not happy when I was putting it together and realized my oversight.

If I understand right, at least most of the video editing will be ancillary to gaming (recording game videos, then editing them), so a card that's no good for gaming wouldn't be a good choice.