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Alternate Reality Game, which has turned into a super broad term that includes anything game-related that isn't the game itself. I.E. these codes, hidden websites, teasers, etc.

I found a Staff of Eternity or whatever it's called while leveling and cubed it as soon as I hit 70, got all 3 Hadrig's gifts in like an hour and am pretty well set. I'm doing T7 fine but I haven't found the defense belt or bracers or any ring/ammy set so I can't go any higher because I just get...

It's Harry Potter. There's no chance this movie doesn't make bank. If it's GOOD, the others will too, that's the trick. Also yes apparently Rowling is expanding.

I was gonna wait a few days to see if I could get an early PL, but decided to casually start while watching League semifinals yesterday. After that series I'm already level 50 or so, kinda surprised, seems faster than last time and I was trying last time :p

I rewatched the whole MCU (except the Hulks) leading up to CA3 and even the "bad" ones of Thors/IM2&3/AoU were really fine upon a second pass. I think I actually liked them MORE the second time around because I just paid attention to the snappy dialogue and characters and didn't give a shit...

Yea but a few teams have had success not running Lucio (albeit not much), and taking it from a "you should probably do this" to "you have no option but to do it this way" is ALWAYS a bad direction to take anything.

It's getting a lot of praise everywhere else. Enough that I'll probably pick it up on sale even before the second expansion :P It helps that most of the positive reviews are coming from longer playtimes than the negative reviews.

I would still argue taking away the speed entirely is just going to force both teams to use Lucio anytime there's an Ana. Ana is a solid character but in pro play, you're comparing support ult to support ult a lot of the time. If Ana's become too unreliable, it won't be worth using her OR if...

The Elder Scrolls one looks nice at first glance too, although I haven't personally played it. I'm biased because they took my idea for the coin and used it though (the "coin" is actually a 3-use thing, max 1 per turn) It might be a less weeby option for those of you that just can't even...

Zarya is definitely in the top tier of strength right now. Keep in mind she's not SUPPOSED to be at 80+ energy all the time - that's supposed to be really excellent play on Zarya that achieves that sometimes. 20% is pretty harsh but I wouldn't be shocked if they changed it to 10-15 instead...

The massive update talk got me into playing again after only having played a few hours total before. The updates (particularly to the skill system) look super appealing to me. A lot of people are saying it's "dumbing down" but it looks like modernizing to me, making choices clean and clear...

Yea that like 30 seconds of footage and dialogue had more laughs and good feelings in it than all the DC stuff to date. Fucking love Drax. And Rocket. And Groot. And Starlord. >.>

Maybe it is just an experiment, but it seems kind of obvious that arena and standard have different winrate expectations. The very top arena players average ~7 wins a run, or about a 70% winrate. No constructed deck in standard has ever had anything approaching a 70% winrate, much less the at...

I would say IK or Uliana's. All the other ones are not anywhere near T1 sets for the other classes as far as I know. I'm doing monk but I dunno how hard I'll go this season. I normally start from day 1 but think I'm gonna wait until PLing kicks into gear this time.

Because the cards for that to happen don't exist. Board clears have been and continue to be entirely underpowered, to the point where they don't actually counter aggro, they work better in control vs. control match ups because they're so slow. In a lot of cases, the RNG effect happens instantly...

I was talking about the upcoming rotation. I'm not directly comparing MTG rotations to HS rotations, I'm simply looking at number of cards rotated out vs. how many anybody actually cares about. ~10% of your design space being used is god awful investment of developers' time AND player time.

It took WotC a long time but they were also piloting the first really big CCG like, ever. HS is the first really really popular digital CCG and apparently that means that they just want to ignore all lessons learned over the past ~20 years and start from scratch. I think the fact that when a...

Doublelift has actually always been infamously bad at macro decisions (and even individual ones a lot of the time), he was mechanically on top of NA Marksmen though for the longest time. Meta changes, champ changes, and improvement across NA have kind of caught up to him. CLG and C9 largely...

Currently. It's on Steam greenlight I think? Not really sure.

Pros of Shadowverse so far: Way way less RNG RNG that is there appears to be self-limiting, i.e. discard random lowest-cost card Boobs Still a lot of deck archtypes Runs way the fuck better on mobile than HS ever did Their version of arena, take-two, guaranteed to always play 5 games (reward...

3000? That's a bit inflationary. Are there new loot boxes then? Edit: Looks like yep. Halloween Overwatch Patch Early Preview - New Skins, Event, Hollywood Update, and More!

I really appreciate the games that take advantage of the unique medium to convey story or information. Wolfenstein: TNO is a surprisingly decent example, as you get a very different feel for the world and the depth depending on whether you pick up all the lore objects and read them or not. If...

If you're talking about just MMOs, then no, it's almost universally bad and contrived to excuse the structure of the game. If you're talking about games as a whole though, some of them rival shows, movies, and even books nowadays, albeit are more interesting when presented in a unique way that...

Yea most of them were drones I believe, but there was a lot of vaguery about the whole thing. The sad part is this movie still had the most Star Trekkie bits out of the 3 but there was a lot of dumb pushed in for who-knows-what reason. I don't think Pegg had the script from the start so maybe...

I've talked about this before I'm sure, but I think that's because the Jedi/Sith are just cults of force users. Of course there's no grey, because then you wouldn't be a Jedi/Sith. But force isn't restricted to those two groups of goobers, but it just so happens they're the two powerhouses of...

The Souls games should all work pretty cleanly with the Steam Controller, yea. Technically ANY game on Steam works with the Steam controller if you're willing to configure it for that game (any "big" game will have a ton of user configurations you can use anyway). But there's a built-in config...

I'll probably come back to poke around some when those changes go up, see if I enjoy it a bit more. With changes that big it's hard to push just some of it out the door so I have to assume there's going to be a "main" patch sometime.

I imagine they'd go the route of "you can't see this mystical shit unless you're trained to" instead of them cloaking it all the time.

Whether something is technically in EA or not is irrelevant at this point. There are games that label themselves "Early Access" that are far more complete than games that get released. Just like buying any game, you have to evaluate it on a case-by-case basis. If you wouldn't play it in it's...

Thanks, but Twitch is blocked at work :P It's called Overwatch Open though? I can probably find VoDs on YouTube anyway.

Anyone got links to a YouTube stream/VoDs of whatever this tourny is?

The previous (and current system of "prefer") is already "weighted", it's not 100%. One person on a team having a player on avoid was less impactful than 4-5 players on the team having that person on avoid. What I'm getting at is that you're basically suggesting the same system that existed, but...

I get that nothing is simple but they literally had the system in place, they just removed it entirely instead of tweaking it, which in the grand scheme of things, is a lot simpler to do. It worked well enough for it to be an abusable problem. Just removing the weight from affecting the enemy...

Comedies are definitely divided into "new" and "old" in my head. Ones I grew up with (and still love, and quote constantly): Monty Python and the Holy Grail Airplane! Naked Gun Hot Shots Part Deux Blazing Saddles Newer ones that I actually like: Not Another Teen Movie Eurotrip Anchorman Hot Tub...

That's a lot of typing when there's a solution someone posted the day they said they were removing it: Avoid player makes it less likely for them to appear on your team. Since people were abusing it to avoid facing skilled opponents, that instantly removes the abuse but keeps the intent of the...

Whatever this Steam integration is, sadly Steam is blocked at work so I just see lots of empty space :P I don't think I've been burned on a Kickstarter or EA so far but I'm sure it'll happen sometime. Hyper Light Drifter, Empyrion, Prison Architect, Kerbal, just some of the solid ones off the...

Symmetra is mildly better in the current shield-heavy meta too, makes people have to dodge a lot more than one would expect behind Rein shields and whatnot.

This is amusing. Guy modded NMS into doom, to a degree, in 3 weeks or so. Said he'll have it up for sharing soon I think?

All of those sites are sketchy, data wise, and pointless to get into any argument based on them, just like the ranking sites for LoL are largely useless for comparing to actual MMR. You may as well make that argument for any of the pro players, but most of them (including Seagull) play enough...

I dunno if you actually watch his stream or not, but he's not the highest ranked player in a match any more often than anyone else. No hero is some golden-win in any comp but it's proof that Symmetra can be used effectively in the right SITUATION at even high level play. Frankly anything can...