insanejedi

I keep hearing people hate Phil Fish. Why?

If you don't want spoilers then what are you doing here go play the game!

Wanna know what everyone's Kerrigan build was?

I went in order of levels:

Kinetic Blast

Chain Reaction

Automated Extractors (Switched from improved overloads)

Spawn Banelings (Friggin awesome with Split banelings + 100% extra damage boost)

Vespene Efficiency

Fury

Spawn Leviathan (Who would pick anything else?)

It's been around 50 total hours of gameplay. Which is your most Favorite scene in all of the Mass Effect franchise?

The Return of the Normandy has my vote. Still get chills whenever I watch it.

Remember Gamespotting? Cooking with Tim? Was trying to find the horrifically awesome video series where Tim Tracy would build amazing office dishes for the gamespot office like Spaghetti sandwiches, office Tiramisu, and this horrible casserole made out of firito's, canned chili, and KD mac and cheese.

Can't find it anywhere on Youtube, and Gamespot video services seemed to have blown it up. Someone needs to save this historical treasure!

New product returns

Returned product(s) must be in the original packaging and include any manuals, cabling and accessories in sellable condition. We reserve the right to limit returns to unopened or defective products. Defective product(s) will be replaced with a like item, upon return. Terms and conditions of manufacturer's warranty apply to defective video games systems and computer hardware after 30 days.

We do not accept returns of:

• Any product(s) returned more than 30 days from the date on the packing slip.
• Any product(s) that has been opened (taken out of its plastic wrap).
• Any product(s) not in its original condition.
• Any product(s) that is damaged, played, or is missing parts.
• Any product(s) that were sold as part of a bundle, unless the bundle is returned complete.

Right from Gamestop. what are you talking about?

Games come with Zero warranty, They come with zero guarantee that they will work. That is the agreement in all the EULAs. You are not entitled to a refund of anything when it comes to a game.

Is that something that should be fixed? Maybe, but that's not the arguement we're having right now. What everyone agreed to is to play a game that MIGHT not work.

Because gamers are spineless and will never, EVER hold to a "I'll never buy (insert company's) games again" claim. Zero consequences means nothing will ever really change. The guy you quoted making all the excuses is exactly the kind of customer the industry wants. "BUT YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND!!" Yeah, sure.

They already have the consequence, I didn't even buy Sim City, I just acknowledge the reality of hosting servers. I know for a fact MMO's aren't necessarily going to work day 1. I know that high demand games aren't necessarily going to work day 1. And the end result is that I don't BUY it day 1. If you don't like it, don't buy it, stop complaining all across the internet thinking there is "quick and easy solutions." If it was, and it was easy everyone would be doing it. It's not in EA's best interest or any company believe it or not to lose customers because THEY STOP PAYING FOR GAMES. At the same time it's not always economically viable to satisfy everyone 100% of the time, so sometimes they don't.

Translation: I don't understand server costs and a willfully ignorant gamer who will wah wah wah not understanding how the world works, gimmie my bottle!

You think that Blizzard didn't know how many people would go play diablo 3? Activision blizzard has 7738 employees and you think that they are all so dumb to not know that Diablo 3 is going to be some super popular game?

If you need to support more players you need to buy more boxes of servers for the more players you plan to support simultaneously. Does it make any sense for you to support the 3 million people out the gate when the game is launched, spend millions on these physical server boxes, setting them up, installing your linux distros and server programs only for that number of simultaneous users to go down to 300 000, two weeks later? Blizzard makes the same choices, Valve makes the same choices, and EA does as well. It simply doesn't make any economic sense to spend millions of dollars on server boxes just for 72 hours of a single games life that is only going to happen for 2 days out of something like 3 years.

You guys realize that Diablo 3 had the exact same problem for about 2 weeks right?

I'm listening to the podcast right now and I heard that the crew complaining that the research process is quite tedious and intimidating for people. "What's the best dishwasher?" and going all over the place trying to figure out whats the best.

The best place on the internet is ConsumerSearch.com

This is not a normal review site, what they do is not review the stuff but take other people's data from credible sources like PC mag, Laptop Mag, CNET, Consumer Reports, MotorTrend and attempt to find similarities between the sites for a judgement. This prevents you encountering a bad review from one site vs another who has a widely different opinion. This narrows down your results. What's best is ConsumerSearch will also write up a full report and suggestions on "what is the best" for varying price range of low medium high.

Coming from a background who's interest includes cars, laptops, phones, binoculars, multitools, and kitchen knives I can tell you that if you just go out and buy what they suggest it will be considered a very good choice.As an example I worked in a store that sells binoculars and a suggestion of the Bushnell Legend HD 10x42 as a mid range binocular as a very good choice. I personally prefer the Nikon Monarch ATB series, or the Vortex Fury's (discontinued) but the Legends are right next to those binoculars as far as performance and features and to be honest it's more personal preference.

This makes it so you don't have to spend 8 hours to a month learning all there is about binoculars. Chances are if you buy what ConsumerSearch suggests it will be a good choice for the given price range.

Hope this helps!

@Missacre said:

@Pinmonkey said:

@Missacre said:

This is good news indeed. I'm glad Sega got Company of Heroes. It's a perfect fit for them. I'm also REALLY happy that Activision, EA or Ubisoft didn't get Saints Row or Metro. Who knows how much they would've butchered them. I especially have my eye on you, EA.

Oh yeah, cause EA's WAAAAAAAY worse than Activison. Totally, for sure. The internet's insane EA witchunt is absurd.

Uh, YEAAAHHH. This "witchhunt" is justified, though, seeing as how EA is pretty evil. If you don't believe me, read some of the stories yourself.

Video games are serious business. EA has mass murdered people, killed babies, and drowned kittens.