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In all seriousness, I felt that the nameplates were kind of a big deal as well. You couldn't tell what was going on or who was who. I don't know if not having them is supposed to add to the fog of PvP war or what, but it was goddamn stupid they were not there. Of course, there are many other...

"You can improve your wit with education in literature and through reading and writing." There it is right there. Also don't forget to finish a roleplay scene before leaving. It's in the rules.

The only thing keeping Neverwinter from being a medium-decent game, as opposed to a barely mediocre one - is whoever the hell lets them release exploit-ridden content. Everything they've done, every single thing, has been filled with holes and exploits that get the shit abused out of them...

I thought JK was the best of the light side stories - his is like the 'canon' continuation of the overall story of KOTOR, as near as I can tell.

I would imagine the LOTRO forums have all of that info. Race/class differences are not that profound, the story merges at level 10, like 2 hours in. Low levels, you only have a fraction of your abilities so there isn't that much to figure out. It is well worth a playthrough just for the...

This just needs to be the same thing as the original with updated graphics/controls and shit, a la the X-Com remake. If I want to run slaves for mad profits, I had best be prepared to deal with those damn Viper police ships. And docking with the space stations, just leave that shit untouched...

Hmm, I had a very different thought on the draw distance. I had to tweak it down to minimum to get it to run half decently on my aging PC, and I thought it was still pretty generous, generous enough that I didn't really notice. Perhaps I am just accustomed to playing with shitty draw...

I am in the call dentists until you find a cheap one advice camp. Had this happen to me a few years ago, goddamn abcess. It looked like I had a baseball stuffed into my cheek. One dentist actually cut me like fucking Rocky to ease the swelling, until I could get the offending tooth yanked...

RAM is usually pretty simple and easy to replace, I have never screwed with SSDs before so not sure about them.

I hear you. When I got into this, I almost had a heart attack out of joy. But the goddamn quest grind, my lord. I just couldn't get it into it. I am finding screwing around with Neverwinter's new Hunter Ranger more enjoyable.

Great reading there. I quote from some disgruntled review: "Previous CEO was a disconnected salesman with big promises, Current CEO is stuck in the last decade, displays classic Napoleon complex behavior with an intense distrust of anyone outside his inner circle. Fired over 150 employees and...

Probably not worth bumping, but the Hunter Ranger went live today. Along with new paragon paths, a dungeon or two, new adventure area, bunch of other stuff. Good times if any of you want to check out what this looks like after the exploit festival of the launch. You too can be an angsty...

I think that is accurate - though the PvP is going to be with sharp wit and carefully placed gossip!!! Oh, man. Finally, we are going to see who has the biggest balls of them all.

I thought Rift had a million+ subscribers at launch (edit: was a million accounts, not necessarily subscribers or box sales)? It just became a ghost town shortly thereafter, and I don't remember anything else big launching that summer after Rift, only SWTOR in December. People here and...

Well, the people of that era never tired of balls and dinner parties...I don't think you will be able to say the same of 2013 MMO players, heh. I guess we will see!

I am thinking about going down to a 14 in screen from 17 inch but am concerned that I wouldn't be able to stand it, I've had a 17 in laptop for gaming for years now but it is showing its age and needs to get replaced. Have any of y'all done something similar and regret it?

I think you are hitting on what Utnayan talks about all the time, its really just the same group of developers moving from game to game with the same experiences and ideas, over and over. I am not sure about Wildstar's dev team specifically, but at least some of the 'McMMO' feel you describe...

You know, on further review, you almost have to be right about F2P. I mean, who the fuck is going to pay an Xbox Live sub fee, and then a ESO fee on top of that?? That is fucking madness of the highest sort, even if this game was as if Velious-era EQ and WoTLK-era WoW were having a lovechild.

I was basing my thoughts on this things success as being driven largely by console, like the rest of the Elder Scrolls series since Morrowind. I mean, you release this PC and Xbox at the same time, it is going to have have 2+ million sales on release day from Xbox alone. Release it on the PC...

If that is the case, this thing is fucked and someone is getting boned with a fucked up avatar, lol.

Well, Skyrim sold 7 mill units the first week of its release and 11 mill to date. Considering it is console as well, I don't think them hitting 4/5 million copies in the first week is an unrealistic expectation, even if it sucks ass. Console people are a strange lot; they will buy that shit...

And with the way they've streamlined the story quests, you don't have to worry about being cockblocked by a group quest at low levels where finding a group might be a pain in the ass. You can solo through all of those now with a mega-buff they give you for that purpose. Of course, you can also...

It feels like GW2 (and to a lesser extent, Rift) are trying to accomplish what you are talking about here. GW2 is kicking out new content fairly regularly, changing up old zones, and they way they uplevel/downlevel people keeps it still somewhat challenging. Rift has a fairly robust mentor...

I thought the character models were the one thing that wasn't all that bad. Of course, shit kind of goes downhill after character creation.

Well, it is different, I'll give it that. I guess I can't go into specifics but the guys comparing it to Vanguard, yes, I think those are painfully accurate representations of the experience. I feel obligated to do my beta duty and play as I can this weekend and report shit, all that jazz, but...

10 minutes of error connecting to server. Good times.

Touche. To be honest, I don't follow the Falcons much, I don't have any on my fantasy teams, and I just assumed Matty Ice melted down this year without checking the stats. Not having Julio and Roddy definitely hurts.

Does anyone even do this for any reasonable length of time anymore? The last significant open beta I can remember is WoW in 2004, was like 2 weeks maybe? My memories of that are hazy because I was in the closed beta for that for quite awhile. Rift had like a weeklong one that I remember. I...

Matt Schaub and Matt Ryan both started playing like Bubby Brister.

Then treat it like what happens when you like a great super bowl commercial. Its a great snippet of fun, but you aren't going to run out to the nearest wal-mart to buy what they were advertising immediately after the game is over. At least, that is the approach I am taking this time around.

I wonder if part of the problem is that there hasn't been another two guys quite like those two to get sucked up by an enterprising game company to help them guide their shit?

That is kind of fucked up, really. I mean shit, the Elder Scrolls games are some of the best PvE/RPG experiences you can have. Why then design a game totally different from what your main audience is expecting? As I understand it, this is supposed to be PvP centric all the way through as...

When I went through the beta account creation this morning, the NDA was still there.

I think it will come out that Martin is just mentally unbalanced. While the whole incident might provide a nice teachable moment about when hazing becomes too much hazing, nothing is going to change in the NFL. Richie Incognito isn't going to change; players on that team love him despite the...

Rerolled dinner parties are where the shit is going to go down in this game. The women will be lining up down the street to woo the fine gentlemen of Rerolled because you know they will have all the leet pensions.

I thought this was the thought process behind GW2 world vs world. While there certainly are different objectives you can do, disrupting supply and such, that can screw up your opponent's day, really what it comes down to is zerg vs zerg. People gravitate to the zerg no matter what, generally...

Speaking of guild names, I think this relatively new development of only putting guild initials in a player's displayed guild tag is dumb. FFXIV is like this, GW2 also I believe. Put the whole damn thing up there, jeez. It's like giving yourself a nickname, foolish, that shit gets given to...

I think tuning down the ADD button smashing would go a long way toward re-socializing MMOs. You don't have time to chat with folks when you have to be constantly mashing shit. To me, that is the huge difference between EQ and WoW/all that came after...in early EQ, you had time to chat because...

I've kind of bounced around the last few months. Spent all summer on SWTOR, then played on P99 a few weeks, original EQ a few weeks, and have landed in FF14, where I see myself staying till Christmas at least.

I miss the Ranger's Glade.