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Mainly just settings. Typical westerns portrayed "The West" as hard desert country, with little oasis/mining towns where gun fighters fought. The ultimate examples of that were the Spaghetti Westerns which were made in the hot, sparse hills of Italy. The reality is, most of "The West" was...

If I had to guess? It means if their world control AI isn't fucking amazing, it's going to suck. UO tried to do this exact thing, and essentially have raids be built in response to events in the world. So chop down a forest? Green Dragon of nature gets pissed and starts raiding villages and...

Someone needs to let him know that it sets off bullshit detectors when you use catch words, like "immersive", for everything. Next he will be saying "your password? Entering that will be pretty immersive, it's part of the world itself!" lol. Seriously though, if mounts are like UO, where they...

To add to what Arative said. It's a western but more in the vein of deadwood/frontier show than a typical spaghetti western.

I think there are 3 or 4 episodes left, so done by next month. And yeah, it's great. I think if you like Justified, you should like this (Main character has the same feel). I really enjoy it. Plus it's great watching Irish mafia intimidate California movie stars.

If it's VR multiplayer Xwing vs Tie Fighter, I will be all over it....if it's a sandbox MMO with VR combat in the vein of Xwing/Tie fighter, it will be the most amazing gave, ever. (They used to have Dactal (Sp?) nightmare at the boardwalk in Jersey, I remember paying a 4$ a pop to play for just...

This episode was great. Thus far, this has been my favorite new series, it's right up there with the greats like Sopranos, Wire, BWE and the rest. lol, I think the Lesbian office chick is my favorite character though. She's pretty bad ass. Either her or Steven Bauer.

Rome, Deadwood, Sopranos, Justified, Game of Thrones--are all better on an individual episode basis, and superior on a series (Overall story) basis. Breaking Bad, The Wire, Boardwalk Empire, Man Men, Homeland (Possibly, they kind of went off the rails for the final 3 episodes of S2, we'll...

Just his arguments need to be articulated better, or, more importantly, his comprehension of the people he is quoting needs to become better. I think most people (And their poll seems to coincide with this) dislike extreme transmogs or shell items, or essentially a gear system where you can't...

Yeah, but that's my point. He dives into saying this, says it's absolutely true, but then harps on Chris for saying the game would need to be redesigned from it's current model (A model built around these kinds of things.). Seemed, illogical, to say Chris was wrong while agreeing with him. I...

lol, my level 12 spells wiped me out, back to 20pp.....been selling HQ bear asses for money. But on the bright side, fucking level 12 necro spells let me solo yellow cons easily again, even though I'm only in cloth gear, haha.

Yeah, but this is what we're talking about. If the dragon is that smart, then I (And my fellow front line foot soldiers) should be able to stick my/our huge spears(s) in his rib cage when he turns to breath my harrying (Behind the lines) people. Remember, the tank is just an abstraction of front...

His general concepts are cool and it is an exciting article, but his understanding of Chris' position (Metzen? Not sure) is terrible, check this out. Sorry, I have to agree with "Chris" here, it sounds like he understands WoW's limitations better. I mean, how does Dave expect the WoW "tank" as...

Last year, or so, I posted in the D3 thread about how D3 missed a huge opportunity in trying to combine an RPG (Gear Grind/Acquisition) game and a MOBA. Essentially I said the MOBA should make your items balanced/generic versions of themselves at the start of the match--but as you gain...

Prediction: Walt is going to kill Skylar for cashing in the lottery ticket, lol. Seriously though. I think Skylar's reaction was good this episode, given her character but I would have told Hank to fuck off. You'd figure the thought of Walt as family would have tempered him a little, made him...

Iksar have a huge racial penalty, I believe penalties were taken out after velious (Class based ones), right now though, on P99 class AND racial penalties stack (multiplicative).

Yep, on bards, don't forget though, the experience debts are in. Bards get 40% reduced experience--so with most races, bards level at 56% rate. They kill ridiculously fast, though. Shaman are OP, but they nerfed out the spell line dot stacking, so they aren't quite as OP as they were on live...

Necro or mage, probably, at least until 20. Enchanter and Druid are probably up there, too. Nec/Mage/enchanter have to contend with the pet experience thing (Need to do more than 50% of the damage or you get half experience). But with mages you can just do a reclaim/resummon before the mob dies...

Yep, but Skylar as a character was sacrificed to be, essentially, a one dimensional plot device for Walt's rise. She was used to exploit our investment in Walt for being the guy who broke down the system that essentially suffocated the "every man". Her role was the overbearing, unconscionably...

I'm not rooting against Walt. I see Walt as a natural byproduct if an unjust society. He's an evil man, yes, but his very existence is the product of a lot of other ills in society. You reap what you sew, and if people want to keep draconian drug laws, absurd inequality in spheres of public good...

Yeah, as Teekey says, who knows...But if I had to bet, it's going to be like LoL's system. Where the reason you can't kill something is not because your level dictates you can't hit it, or can't land a spell, but rather because your level indicates you don't hit for enough or you don't have...

Well, it's going to have vertical content. If you can grind experience and level up skills for a few of the tiers, it does, anyway. I imagine it's going to be a softer vertical system. Where "tiers" aren't checked for things like hit chance or resist, but rather solely augment the player...

She was really bad. She advocated a "fast forward" button for games, so you could skip the "game" parts and go right to the dialogue and cut scenes--and she compares this to skipping parts in books to get to the scenes she can savor. Seriously, who skips parts in books? Whodoesthat? Then she...

How is the leveling curve in the game? As in, quick to max, play from there? Or more grindy like FF11?

Magic.

In this open beta, will characters transfer over to live? or is that something else.

Gear and items will be bound to classes, and carried around in balls that shrink down and can fit in customized UI spaces (Like a key ring!) I have an early alpha screen shot to prove it. Ninja Piratemon, I choose you!

I'm begging as well, hah, any old caster or wisdom gear! I'll give you a solid IOU when I'm super high level and soloing everything, lol.

Yeah, heh, I did that before I left neriak, I typed in "why does mouslook suck on P1999" and it came up with the FPS thing, hah. Level 6 right now, wife is 7. My kingdom for a Sac Dagger, lol.

Assasin. Weapons: Garrote, Daggers.....Ability Slots: Utility, Utility, Movement, Offense. Ninja Weapons: Katana, Cross Bow.....Ability Slots: Offense, Offense, Utility, Movement Two different classes...even if they look the same. The main difference is going to be the couple of...

Yeah, but doesn't that speak to a weakness in Storybricks? I mean, from what I've seen, the program is supposed to be, literally, about bricks of predispositions you put into your AI. So changing a brick, changes all the other bricks also in the "AI Wall". Slipping in "Halas thwarted", "Halas is...

In saving private ryan, in the opening scene when the soldier was missing his arm and wandering around dazed, for some reason, I started laughing uncontrollably when he picked it up....I felt bad about it, but I don't know, it just struck me as hilarious. Like "oh, here it is...God, I REALLY...

What's really going to determine Sandbox vs Themepark is going to be crafting. From their weapons page, it seems like weapons have tons of sub-components. And if you need hundreds of pieces of armor to outfit all your different classes, it could create a pretty voracious economy. For example, if...

My wife and I have been playing this, lol, only level 5 right now--it's amazing how fun this is, despite bad controls, and some really obtuse mechanics. Something about it just clicks. I showed it to my little brother (10 years younger than me) who was brought up on WoW, and he loves it. Not...

Yep, me too. In fact, when I wrote about D3, I brought up how this was one of the defining differences between D3 and D2. I expected gear to alter abilities in the way runes did. In terms of EQ2 imagine if you got a "metal strip of Yakesha"--an "add on" that takes, say, 6 slots in a "plate"...

I'm betting you'll get to "tier up" abilities, like leveling them in LoL. And you'll get access to more gear types, and broader gear subsets (So your chest at Tier 1 might have 3 slots for "special" add ons, while at Tier 3 it might have 7). The increase in variable add on's from gear could make...

Yep, it's Pokemon, but in a more League of Legends format. You collect the Pokemon, then you "evolve" them by tiering them up and getting gear for them. In the end, people won't be known for a "class" so much as for a role or archetype. It will be more like League of Legends in that way--so...

Here's the thing about Tax evasion--the only way to get caught, is to spend money without paying taxes on it. If you just have the money sitting somewhere, unless someone actually finds the money, you're 100% fine. As far as auditing the Car Wash? It would come up clean, unless Skylar is a...

Asians are so subtle.