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Nov. 7, 2009
  • It's like they are using the WC3 engine. Looks the same.
    8 hours, 47 minutes ago
  • My expectations are pretty much, it has to be the best game ever (since I think ME3 is top 3 best games of all time and this is supposed to improve on that). Which is very hard to live up to. I hope they deliver. I just hope they don't go too far into the action-shooter area and neglect the awesome RPG that was the foundation that held ME1 together. If they ...
    19 hours, 27 minutes ago
  • I hope they don't go too far from what made ME1 so great.
    19 hours, 57 minutes ago
Nov. 6, 2009
  • It's pretty amazing how much the quality of video games have advanced when people call this a bad game. It used to be that bad games were pretty much unplayable. This seems passable at least if you don't have anything else, but then no one should be in a position where they have nothing else than this to play. This just seems to be a game for an era before ...
    1 day, 18 hours ago
  • Not played Tekken since Devil Kazuya was the boss and he was easy. I vote for the boss in Dead or Alive 4. Extremely fast, almost unblockable combos that do 3/4 of your health and every little punch takes huge amount of damage. Killed me in less than 2 seconds once. Took me at least 100 fights before I even could get to a decent win ratio against it and ...
    1 day, 20 hours ago
Nov. 4, 2009
  • Last Naughty Dog game I played was Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped. The last and best Crash game they made before giving up the license.
    3 days, 9 hours ago
  • I would rather fight the Dominion War, but I guess they wanted to make something new. Either way there have not been many good Star Trek games and even fewer great ones so I'm not expecting much.
    3 days, 22 hours ago
Nov. 3, 2009
  • dagas unlocked 2 achievements in Forza Motorsport 3
    4 days, 5 hours ago
  • I rather see him in a Baldur's Gate Endurance Run or something, but sure he can visit the bombcast every now and then.
    4 days, 10 hours ago
  • I live in Sweden and I've got Dragon Age pre-ordered from play.com. Does this mean I won't get my game? Guess I could pay €7 more and get it in Sweden, and without the pre-order bonus...however I would get it faster since it takes a week to ship from the UK.
    4 days, 16 hours ago
  • dagas replied to the topic PC or 360: Which to buy? in the Dragon Age: Origins board.
    There are a lot of PC-fanatics here I guess since most people exited about DA are long time PC gamers who played BG and the like. However I bet it will be great on console as well. I'm buying it on 360 since I have a Radeon 4350 which is more of a HTPC video card than a gaming video card.  I bet you will be pleased either way. Depends on ...
    4 days, 19 hours ago
  • dagas commented on snide's editorial review Dragon Age: Origins
    Sounds good. I can't believe that ME2 is coming out soon as well. It will be several months of Bioware-mania between these two great games. Especially since I'm not going to stop playing until I have all points in both games. I'm going to have to play them through so many times it will be summer before I'm done ^^ Long live the WRPG, long live Bioware! Who knows, maybe ...
    4 days, 19 hours ago
  • Trouble with Tribbles! You are going to have to call for Kirk and Spock to deal with those tribbles you found in the box.
    4 days, 21 hours ago
  • I don't have a choice between the PC and 360 versions =/ My Radeon 4870 broke so now I'm using a 4350 which can barely play 4 years old games like HL2. I bet it just takes some time to get used to the radial menu on the 360 anyway. I don't think I'll be using more than a handful of spells most of the time anyway and you can ...
    4 days, 21 hours ago
Nov. 1, 2009
Oct. 28, 2009
Added by dagas on Oct. 21, 2009

As always I could not be content with what I had. So I bought a used Powercolor 4870 to upgrade from my 8800GTS. BAD IDEA! The card broke and it seems it's a common problem with the voltage regulators. 
 
I'm sick and tired of always doing this. It's certainly not the first video card that has broken at my mere presence in it's vicinity. 
 
So no more PC gaming for me. I'm going to stick to my consoles and netbook because I cannot mess with them. It's not like many games are released on PC these days anyway. I was looking forward to Dragon Age, but I'll get the 360 version. Only game that is unlikely to be released on consoles that I want to play is Star Wars: The Old Republic, but I'll survive without it. 
 
I can understand Jeff now when he said he didn't want to mess around with building PC's anymore. I've been building PC's for over 6 years and while they have worked most of the time there have never been a long period without some problem. Problem with video, with sound, with hard drives etc. 
 
Even if I can get it working I have decided I'm not going to spend another day troubleshooting a PC. I used to like it, but these days I just want it to work, like a console, push a button and it works. So many games I've bought on PC that crashes or doesn't work because some piece of hardware that it is in conflict with. 
 
PC gaming is not worth the trouble. I'll stick to using it for internet and video. 90 % of my PC problems have come from playing games on it directly or indirectly. 


Added by dagas on Oct. 5, 2009

I'm sure everyone at some point get that feeling that you want to go back and replay a game. You dust off your SNES or Saturn and hook it up to the TV. You start the game and the memories come flooding back. You play for 5 minutes and realize it's not as fun as it used to be, or perhaps it never was fun and the nostalgia filter is the only thing convincing you that there once was a time when the game was like an escape to paradise. 
 
With MMORPG's you don't have that luxury. Like on old girl friend you'll never see again there is no way to play the game and feed the demon inside you that is nostalgia. I feel that way about Tabula Rasa. I know if I could go back and play it that I would get tired after a few minutes, but because I cannot actually go back and do that, the feeling is left inside. I cannot play it and get that "Yup, that's the game alright. Yup, that's what I liked about it and yup that's why I stopped playing it." that you can from single player games. I stopped playing TR not because it was shut down, but because I didn't like it anymore. Like a girl friend you part with because you know you are not meant for each other and staying together is just prolonging the inevitable, you cannot help but wonder "What if things had turn out differently? Maybe we could start over again?" It's not enough that you know that it wouldn't work, you feel like you have to know it wouldn't work. 
 
Just like with old girl friends you only remember the good and conveniently forget the bad, even when you are fully aware of the bad, part of your mind simply refuse to accept it. The nostalgia tells you that your life used to be much better. There was a time of absolute happiness, even when no such happiness existed at all. I want to start up the game, log in, find my character who looked like a woman straight out of the US Air Force, gum chewing, spitting, bad-ass lady with shades straight out of the Top Gun movie. I want to hear the background music and jump into the game and start attacking some command post controlled by the Bane (I think that was the name of the aliens). 
 
The part of my mind that handles reasoning and logic know that going back to the game is futile and that I already know exactly what would happen, but the nostalgia demon whispers to me that true bliss can be found only on the world of Tabula Rasa. If only there was a way to play MMO games in single player, even without any people it would be enough to get that fix the nostalgia demon demands every so often. MMO's are like a forgotten period in history where we have no documents or buildings that have survived to tell us what life used to be like. We can only remember them and like history passed on by oral tradition, the memories change over time and move further and further from the truth. In our mind it becomes like the blissful state of nature many 18th century philosophers* were obsessed about. The time before the world become corrupted and everyone was pure. Or in the case of video games, before game developers become corrupted by large publishers such as Activision or EA and the games were pure and innocent, made for fun rather than profit. I doubt there is anyone who never have thought "games used to be so much better" even if they realize it's not true as soon as they have the thought.
 
What we need is an MMO museum, where servers are stored and people can get the true facts. Experience the game as it was and not as how they remember it. Perhaps in the future the worlds in MMORPG's will be on the Lost Worlds show on Discovery. People will study these virtual worlds and wonder how people live and future hackers will be like archeologists of today, trying to find the remains of the once great civilizations. 
 
* Jean-Jacques Rousseau for example


Added by dagas on June 17, 2009

I've had a 360 since 2006 and loved it. Never bought so many games for a console before. I listen to Major Nelson and his podcast, needless to say I was a MS defender.

Then I decided that I wanted to play some games online so I upgraded my silver sccount to gold for one month. BIG MISTAKE! I've done it before using pre paid cards, but this time it was through XBOX Live and now there is no way to cancel short of calling them (only during business hours) and wait in line for 30min to cancel it and I've read stories from some people that they canceled the entire account instead of reverting to silver aking you loose all your points and stuff.

Some might say that it's common practise, but I've been subscribing to gamespot and other online websites over the years and all of them had an easy way to cancel online. I mean even porn sites are easy to unsubscribe to compared to this.

I know this is old news for most of you and many will probably defend M$, but I can't anymore. They are supposed to be about choices right? That's what they say on press conferences. Well then Mr. Microsoft TEAR DOWN THIS WALL...um I mean LET ME CANCEL MY SUBSCRIPTION!

I suggest to anyone who is only planning on using gold every now and then to buy pre-paid cards instead. If you don't want them to take $10 every month (yes that's what it costs where I live i.e not in the US)


Added by dagas on April 22, 2009

Do you feel like you are wasting time in school or at work when you could be home grinding your World in Warcraft character? If so, check out the new wireless grinder released today by MadDogz. The grinder is easily synched with your character and then as long as you are connected to a wireless internet spot you can grind from anywhere! The grinding is extremely easy and addictive. The thing looks and works like a coffee bean grinder except instead of making coffee it gives you experience. The experience can be seen on a small LCD display. The grinder has several settings, for example easy mode will make the grinding very easy but you also gain less XP while insane mode will give you a 10x bonus to XP gain however make the grinding so heavy you need to be superman to grind.

MadDogz believs the product will be a huge succes and already have several new grinders on the way. The first is called "guild edition" where up to 40 people can grind at the same time, the other which many believe will be the most popular version is an auto-grinder, simply push a button and the grinder grinds for you at a slow pace. Critics say the auto-grinder is cheating, but others claim that some games already have that feuture like ADAM Online the MMO space game made by ZZP is the most obvious example.

(This is not meant to be taken seriously, just a stupid attempt at humour)



Added by dagas on April 22, 2009

CN Soft announced a new MMORPG today called Boobs Online, a free to play micro transaction game. Unlike most MMORPG's people will start out as lvl 99 characters with a huge set of epic gear. As the player spends more time playing the game, and money at the shop, their characters will start to loose their gear and levels thus making them wear less and less until finally they are lvl 1, naked and completely helpless.

The game uses a new take on combat and insetad of killing hordes of monsters, the goal is to get attacked by a varity of different fiends. Giant tentacle monsters have been confirmed as well as various forms of banana like creatures.

The game is unlikely to ever be released outside Asia but TinyBomb will have a quick look of the game as soon as the beta starts.

(This is not meant to be taken seriously, just a stupid attempt at humour)




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