shadowdrone

I'm waiting for Torchlight 2, Bioshock infinite, Watch_dogs, and Half-Life Episode 3/Half-Life 3.

Thing about this is, you are in many cases trading the health of your PC hardware for more performance. If you stress your hardware by overclocking it you are driving up the risk that your stuff will fail outright. If this happens, it's essentially tantamount to burning money for that performance increase. I sat in my class last semester and listen to a guy talk about buying Core i7s, and frying them by overclocking, and going and buying more Core i7s and frying them. Processors are expensive, yo. I mean, it is your money, you do what you want, but I never thought risking the life of my computer hardware a good enough reason to mete out some minor performance increases.

There's no reason for me to run Windows except for the latest / AAA game releases. If those establish a presence on Linux thanks to Steam, then I won't have to dual-boot anything anymore. :)

@Bell_End said:

@Animasta said:

just imagine the worst video game discussion board you know and times that by 2. It's really rather terrible

worse than system wars on gamespot?

It still exists. WHY DOES IT STILL EXIST??

I really Like Leinenkugel Summer Shandy. I'll have that whenever I'm just buying or at a restaurant. At the bar I may get something like Bud light cause they'll give me more for cheap.

I've been waiting for this.Onward to Linux, aboard the Steam engine!

I would be satisfied with a game of some sort based on Uprising. My dream would be an epic open-world style game, with fun combat and a good story, like Arkham City or something like that, but I would be happy with anything as long as it was produced well and was in the spirit of TRON. I also want to reiterate the OP's praise for TRON: Uprising. Seriously that show is really impressing me, and I hope they keep up the high quality.

@ajamafalous said:

@dudeglove said:

@Murdouken said:

The way loot in these types of games needs to move is in the direction of Binding of Isaac/Spelunky/Brogue where an item will directly affect the mechanics of the game rather than just making your numbers go higher.

This couldn't be more true about D2. Read up on any character build FAQs and you'll see that the most sought-after gear always includes some item that grants a certain ability (usually teleport or some aura of sorts) the class doesn't have, while a +20 SOJ is merely secondary.

Basically, follow this advice. D2's itemization is miles ahead of D3's because of items that actually provide unique mechanics, like an Enigma (teleport) or a Wolfhowl (Barb can use Druid's werewolf shapeshift). D3's itemization is literally a simplified version of WoW's ("Oh boy, this upgrade has 30 more Strength and 20 more Vitality. Glad I spent 20 hours grinding for that."), and that's where it fails as a purely loot-driven game.

This. Also I think the large number of set and unique items that had specific stats is not to be ignored. Each of them were designed with a certain strength in mind, and so, they were always "good" for some particular thing you may want as a player. Different items for different uses. Even normal uniques had uses; Frostburns for instance gave you %40 more mana, that was on top of whatever mana you had. That made the item useful even to high-level characters. The Sigon set had alot of pieces that were strong for leveling characters. Lot's of set's and uniques that certain classes looked out for because they were designed FOR them, and in interesting ways. They were more common than a godly rare, yeah, but they were still rare enough that finding one that you were actually looking for was a joy. None of this homogenized look-for-an-item-that-has-more-of-my-stat BS.

What is this even doing here?

@kmg90 said:

@shadowdrone said:

Mine is not named anything special (Refuge) Although it doesn't matter all that much except for me and my GF as I keep the SSID hidden from view.

Hiding your SSID is worthless

Gee, I wish someone would have told me this before.