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  1. Wombat

    2013 NFL Offseason and Draft

    Yeah, it's underappreciated, but schedule matters tremendously in a league with so few games per season. Sure, the strength of schedule balancing evens things out over thelong termof multiple years, but on aseasonalbasis, getting, say, the weak AFC division and the weak NFC division can lead to...
  2. Wombat

    2013 NFL Offseason and Draft

    Yeah, I couldn't believe it either, but looking at the list, only that 28-24 stunner against the Seattle Seahawks last season qualifies. (There are a good number of wins vs. 8-8 teams, and Drew Stanton was at the helm for their upsets at the end of 2010.) Personally, I put this into the...
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    Starting Malazan Series

    I went into it knowing that it was essentially an archeologist/anthropologist's extremely detailed D&D (specifically, Forgotten Realms) setting, which helped immensely. Seeing magical analogs to neanderthals, ice ages, etc. was neat, and I found it interesting that as the books progressed, he...
  4. Wombat

    Community

    And I'm pretty sure it was because NBC killed every single new comedy they tried this year (6 of them!), already had The Office and 30 Rock ending, and finally put Up All Night and Whitney out of their misery. (Just so we're clear, not counting Community, NBC only hadonecomedy - out ofeleven...
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    The Bridge-FX channel.

    Actually, sort of yes: both shows are adaptations of Danish TV shows, the American versions run by women who used to work on Cold Case. The Bridge is getting far better reviews than The Killing, however, and seems well worth your time to check out, especially given the slim TV pickings in the...
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    Community

    Wasn't one of the last things Harmon-ity did was move Troy into the air conditioner repair school? While the other guys didn't do anything with the concept (or even mention it?), Harmon could just write off Glover's availability as him off being AC Messiah again. Honestly, I feel bad for...
  7. Wombat

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    I'm not subscribed atm, but I wanted to see the 5.3 time-limited stuff before it poofed. 1) How long does the only-during 5.3 stuff (a one time quest line in orgrimmar and daily stuff in barrens I will do once, apparently) take? 2) Any rough estimate on when 5.4 is coming out (and thus...
  8. Wombat

    2013 NFL Offseason and Draft

    Well, football players do get endorsement deals, but less than other sports: 1) There's 22+ players on the field every game for football, vs. 5+ for basketball. (There are also 32 NFL teams vs 30 NBA/MLB, but that's a tiny difference.) There's just more players out there splitting the ad deals...
  9. Wombat

    2013 NFL Offseason and Draft

    Weren't the Bengals the team in just 2009, and there was no 2011 entry? Are there really only three teams now crazy/dumb enough to sign up for it? (Cue jokes about Mike Brown being desperate to come up with more money now that there's a much higher salary floor here.)
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I'm surprised people are surprised about X1 bans too. Haven't there been enough horror stories regarding the same situation with Origin?
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    What's to lol about? Given how recently Windows 8 came out, I certainly hope MS had dev kits out before then. Also, Direct X 11 is available on both OSes.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Eh, there's enough going on there with the muscles and the fur. But yeah, we are nearly at the point where art budget, not graphical power, is the limiting factor. I'm not sure how any new consoles fix that.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Again, just so everyone is clear: The 3DS was actually selling better than the DS did in the first ~18 months. However, it was around this point that DS sales exploded (the DS lite was introduced around now); in contrast, 3DS sales are already shrinking vs last year, though you can certainly...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    "Well" is a loaded statement. Are (most of) the games and the system doing as well as last gen? No. Are they selling enough for the company to survive? Absolutely. It's already the next-gen that interests me for them now. Like I said, even Gamecube level sales now seem to be out of their...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    That's exaggeration, but not much: Super Mario 3D World, which looks like Super Mario 3D Land, but with multiplayer. Sure it will be great, but not exciting. Mario Kart, which looks like Mario Kart. Retro's new game... is indeed Donkey Kong related. Too bad it's just another Donkey Kong...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    For first party, I believe the official list is Knack, Driveclub, and Killzone, with Infamous 3 in early 14.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Honestly, its too early to tell, as I don't know how many indies / small team games will be tied to which consoles (with no PC version). But until I know that, PC still wins, even if the PS4 seems like a solid value at $400.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Can't tell if troll or not. For argument's sake, just which features are those? Honest question. All I can come up with is that Kinect 2 is certainly better than the new Playstation Eye, and MS has a bigger checkbook to buy exclusives. (Also, nearly everyone prefers Halo to Killzone.) Edit...
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Lolz, just pouring more dirt on MS' corpse.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    This banter is killing my soul. Pretty sure its the worst this year.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Wow, now that is crowd noise.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    lolwut? At best, the B-team (the DS/3DS guys) went into full production on it when the 3DS game was finished a couple months ago. The A-team was stuck with Versus and then sidetracked with whichever FF was most on fire at the time. It might be out in 2015. Might.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Huh, Adam Boyes. Thought it might be Shane Bettenhausen doing the indies.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    I may already be dreading the new "all performance capture, all the time" era.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Hey, at least it has a different art style.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    What is with the two tone look this year?
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Bleh, does she really need to be a military assassin in Beyond? And can we just assume Jamal is the ghost?
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Looks like gamespot.com shit itself. And yeah, if you want anyone to care at all about Vita talk, you have to do it first before they start writing the PS4 articles in their heads.
  30. Wombat

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Sony is notorious for not starting on time. Not even another gen has fixed that.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Yeah, you could easily make the argument that this gen, RPGs went from a genre to a seasoning in other genres; next gen, online worlds do the same.
  32. Wombat

    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    That's my larger point. I was sitting here trying to come up with a Top Five of 2013 List that isn't "GTA V / Last of Us / Bioshock Infinite / Super Mario Universe / Fire Emblem (?)" and I'm not coming up with a whole lot of new candidates.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Honest question here: What, if anything, is coming out this year that we didn't already know about, across all the publishers?
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Also, in reality they are all running on PCs at this point; no one wants the publicity of "One/PS4 games look like shit compared to what we saw at E3".
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Predictable "I'd be after Aisha's booty!" jokes go here?
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Aisha Tyler was fine last year, the script sucked and the other guy (Tobuscus?) sucked total balls. I would guess she wrote/improv-ed her own script this time; she's including way too many buzz words though.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Ubi leaning into the punch with the girlwood.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    They've basically started from scratch twice, so this is the third game they've made in that time. A more strategic Mass Effect 2 isn't a terrible concept.
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    The Big Bad Console Thread - Sway your Station with an Xboner !

    Bleh, bad day to be busy at work, only catching up with conferences now. MS: That was the solid wall of games I was expecting. But to be honest, I was expecting more One only games, not One/PS4 or One/360. The market has changed, you just can't afford to make games on new consoles with no...