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  1. Xalara

    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    We're two weeks from launch and It's kind of sad that I know more about the Switch through my friend at nVidia than what's been publicly released. I'll pass on it for now, the minor graphical upgrades for Breath of the Wild don't seem worth it.
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    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    I suspect that is what I am going to do as well. Nintendo is screwing this up badly.
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    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    Will the graphics for Zelda actually be noticeably better than the Wii U version?
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    Overwatch

    For all of you who play Pharah:
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    Overwatch

    I've noticed that as a season goes on, game quality in ranked gradually goes down the shitter due to people not caring about ranking up because the end of season rewards are based on your highest rank and many people know they won't get higher or back up to their rank.
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    Poll Who here hates raiding?

    Raiding is... Fine I suppose? I think it's one area of MMO's that can be revolutionized but when and how that happens I have no clue.
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    Overwatch

    Re: Pharah. A good Pharah will require multiple people to take down. Obviously you need a Soldier 76 or McCree but you will also want a Zenyatta or an Ana helping you. If you want to climb play Zenyatta. He's a DPS that shreds tanks and heals. This is my wife's first fps and she's at 3300 and...
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    The Final Fantasy Mega Thread - Now playing FFXV

    In 50 hours I've had one bug, which is that combat bug. It required me to run back and kill the buggers. Insofar as the story is concerned, at least the story they were trying to tell this time around was solid unlike FFXIII. I think I linked it earlier but this summarizes the entire plot with...
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    The Final Fantasy Mega Thread - Now playing FFXV

    Two things you need to know. The first is that there's a bunch of hidden stuff in combat, you don't need to know it to finish the game but look up a guide to learn some of the more intricate parts since it'll make combat more fun (namely, use control scheme B or C so you can better block and...
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    95% of the content is locked behind the main story, so do that before you do any other quests. The main story quests should be enough to get your first character to level 50 alone.. Tanks/Healers have better dungeon queues than damage dealers. The story sucks until you get to the expansion, but...
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    The Final Fantasy Mega Thread - Now playing FFXV

    Someone managed to take the info from FFXIII, the leaks from that one staff member, and the notes scattered around the game world to properly summarize the story: My Interpretation of the Final Fantasy XV Story (MASSIVE SPOILERS) • /r/FFXV So basically, the cuts really hurt the story. On the...
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    The Final Fantasy Mega Thread - Now playing FFXV

    OK I will correct myself now having gone to Altissa and pretty much finished the game: The story is a disjointed mess. The core seems good but a lot of it gets lost in the parts that were cut. In the space of an hour you go from: I stand by what I said earlier: The game is fun but flawed and...
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    The Final Fantasy Mega Thread - Now playing FFXV

    I think FFXV is a great foundation for them to build future Final Fantasy games on. I've enjoyed it in spite of its flaws. Insofar as the list of complaints go: I love that you can't see shit at night. It's like actual night time in real life. Too many games just put a blue tint over the world...
  14. Xalara

    Autonomous Systems

    I would put it closer to five years for freeway driving to go automated. City driving and deliveries is another story. Unfortunately freeway driving is what employs most truckers, so it isn't going to be pretty. It isn't tens of thousands of jobs, it's millions of truckers and the communities...
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    The Final Fantasy Mega Thread - Now playing FFXV

    I know Square Enix is a Japanese company, but I still can't believe they're releasing FFXV the Tuesday after Black Friday just to keep with the new moon thing.
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    The Final Fantasy Mega Thread - Now playing FFXV

    It's supposed to be comedy, though this time around he seemed to be particularly harsh. I suspect it's because the FFXV marketing team chose to showcase the wrong parts.
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    Is the Democratic party still a relevant political party?

    I never said that the factories aren't going to come back. I said that the jobs won't be returning.
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    Overwatch

    Got stuck with the same Genji DPS three games in a row who kept trying to flank and was terrible at it. I almost want to tank my MMR back to 2300-2400 since I had a lot of games there that were enjoyable. I'm currently bouncing around 2700-2800. That said I don't care about losing so much as I...
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    Mass Effect: Andromeda - Autism reaches outer space

    No, but it does get into one of the more interesting problems with interstellar travel: It's entirely feasible for a group of humans to set out on a journey that takes thousands of years, and arrive to find out that humans have been there for hundreds of years because of some technical advance...
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    The Final Fantasy Mega Thread - Now playing FFXV

    I've been playing the judgement demo on my PS4 Pro and it looks reaaally pretty with HDR and 4k. It seems that Sqiare-Enix has managed to fix a pot of the concerns I had with the level of detail on things like trees, too.
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    Is the Democratic party still a relevant political party?

    That's the problem, the jobs aren't coming back period. The factories might come back but they'll be full of automated robots. Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats have admitted to this. The closest a politician came to admitting this was Obama earlier this year. That said, something...
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    The Final Fantasy Mega Thread - Now playing FFXV

    Magic is exactly that, and from what I've seen and played is basically an "Oh shit" button.
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    Overwatch

    Yeah, it was commissioned by Blizzard. It's the same company that did the Final Fantasy XV at PAX West and Overwatch at PAX East: http://www.henchmenprops.com
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    Final Fantasy XV (PS4 / XB1 / PC)

    The first episode of brotherhood is meh but the others are better. It is O.K. Same with Kingsglaive, it's the best Final Fantasy movie they've done but it still has issues. At least Kingsglaive and Brotherhood give a solid reason for why Noctis and co. are on a road trip during the middle of a...
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    Final Fantasy XV (PS4 / XB1 / PC)

    If you've played the demo, there's a minor spoiler since it gives context to something that King Regis says to Noctis in the first hour of the game and that's pretty much it.
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    Civilization VI

    The advisor is actually pretty good at telling you what to do as you play the game for the most part.
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    Nintendo Switch (previously NX)

    My wife loves her 3DS, but she said she won't be buying the Switch. Why? Because it won't fit in her purse unlike a 3DS. Looking at the images I'm in agreement with her. The Switch seems like it's too big to truly be portable.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I think the WoD and crew being the same characters is a bit of an easter egg than anything else.
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    Final Fantasy XV (PS4 / XB1 / PC)

    My point is: Every game studio does location research for level design, so to get hung up on that is stupid. Now if you want to complain, bitch about the graphics since anything outside of the immediate area is fairly blurry/non-detailed. Granted Square-Enix created the best transition from low...
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    Final Fantasy XV (PS4 / XB1 / PC)

    You do realize that game devs do this all the time from Hideo Kojima, Naughty Dog, to Ubisoft. Anyway, I got to play the game at PAX West for an hour, they fixed all of the major issues I had with Episode Duscae and the combat system seems pretty good.
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    The Final Fantasy Mega Thread - Now playing FFXV

    I was able to play the first hour of the game at PAX today. My impressions: * The combat is fixed compared to Episode Duscae. There are still some issues but they are relatively minor. Plus the combo moves are pretty cool. * The road trip simulator runs deep. There was a side quest that...
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    Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (2016)

    I watched it in theaters. The movie was pretty good and the broad strokes of the story that Final Fantasy XV will be following are solid and give me hope for the game. The explanation for why Noctis is off on a road trip, completely unprotected except his three friends, is explained well. The...
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    The Final Fantasy Mega Thread - Now playing FFXV

    Is it bad that I am stoked for the feature where the game takes screen shots from Prompto's perspective during the day and he shares them with you at night?
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    Overwatch

    That was the plan when Overwatch was Project Titan. I don't think that's the plan now but who knows.
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    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    I don't think there is a point to melding any of the level V crafting materia into the Ironworks gear. I doubt the next level of crafting will need those extra few stats. Full disclaimer: I melded Control V, but I also have hundreds of millions of gil to waste.
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    Donation Status Enabled

    Like others have said before, if we set this up as a non-profit with a proper board, etc. then it's next to impossible to sell out and actually might make things more manageable if you get burnt out. (Also, sent)
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    Overwatch

    At the lower ranks when solo queuing up to the mid 50s I feel you have to play a strong offensive DPS to carry properly. The number of times you will run into issues where your team mates can't kill the other team far outweighs the situations where you honestly need another tank and/or healer...
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    Suicide Squad (2016)

    Here is a list of scenes that were cut from the movie. TLDR: Movie would have been very different: Rumor: List of Deleted Scenes From SUICIDE SQUAD Reveal A Much Darker Film
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    GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 announced available May 27th

    If you are waiting for winter, then just get the 1080 Ti due out this fall. That or the Vega chip that AMD is releasing, but that assumes AMD pulls off a minor miracle with it.
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    Overwatch

    Yeah I had issues like that last night too. It was KOTH and we had double tank, double support, and double DPS. The tanks and support were doing great but our DPS had no clue how to follow up on the plays we were making. I then switched off tank to Reaper to make up for our DPS sucking and...