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From NeoGAF on the console version: These were self found by the time the guy hit paragon 4, just to give some sense of the difference in item droprate, stat allocation and quality. But the AH didn't affect these decisions at all on the PC version.

They have their problems, but they are better than any other brick and mortar store in the Denver area. Though that's not saying much when their competition is basically Bestbuy.

That's stupid. I was looking at these MSI 670s, would have run about $180 with the 25% off. Still not a bad price at $240, but I'm not gonna get them for that.

So the DTC Microcenter is not applying the 25% off to just anything then?

Yep. First MMO since Lineage 2 that I failed to reach max level in. I mean, I can still go back without having to resubscribe, but I have no desire to.

An ArmA player complaining about the mechanics and feel of an engine. That's rich.

Neither am I, but I 100%ed Divinity's Reach, Lion's Arch and the first two human questing zones completely. There's some really cool shit hidden in this game that's not part of the 100% zone completion. One of the vistas in Lion's Arch, if you actually bother to watch the cinematic video it...

Indeed. A lot of the skills that are unappealing are because they are mechanically boring or frustrating to use, not because the damage numbers are too low. It's laughable how they talk about RoV being a signature ability of the DH and, in spite of playing about 50 hours on mine, I never used...

This comes as no surprise to the people who were running the 4700 FA builds or the original, ridiculously overpowered CM builds before they were both nerfed shortly after the game came out.

Yes. There are games where PhysX can add to the atmosphere and visual experience. Borderlands 2 is NOT one of them.

They seem harmless to me until aspects of the game's design start to clearly revolve around them. I suppose this could happen one day. I thought the Diablo 3 AH system would be harmless until I realized that every aspect of the core gameplay was built with it firmly in the front of the...

I hold MedianXL to be the greatest loot-driven aRPG ever made. Blizzard should have taken a page out of Valve's book and hired Brother Laz to lead Diablo 3 development.

I find it perplexing that $45 for a triple-A, big name game is considered a bit steep in a world where a CoD rehash is released every year for $60 to millions of buyers with months of overpriced shit DLC afterwards.

I suspect that there's a reason why it's locked to 30. Engine framerates can affect the way that the mechanics of a game work on a fundamental level that can be very difficult to fix. That's why you still jump further in Quake 3 at 125 FPS to this day. Might even still be present in the Call...

Interesting, I guess. But getting the Source engine to run faster is completely redundant at this point. I can pull upwards of 200 FPS in every Source game on a i7 930 @ 4.0GHz, 6GB of RAM and a 560Ti.

You're going to get flamed because you are, quite frankly, wrong. The game's art style is bland and drab, but from a technical standpoint they are quite fine.

I never actually brought myself to finish Crysis 2, but I thought Prophet died at the very beginning? Am I misremembering?

The only slightly creepy zone in the whole game for me were the Halls of Agony in act 1. They had some nice stuff in them to make them feel like a hellish torture chamber.

What the fuck did I just read? Did someone slip crystal meth into my drink this morning?

Yep. Nothing in this OP makes any sense at all if you try to twist the world to be more complex now. However, everything in this OP makes sense if you try to understand how people evolve as gamers. I've gone through the exact same thing. I don't play games without knowing exactly what I'm...

Have you been on the same gaming planet as everybody else for the last, like, decade? This happens with tons of franchises: they release incremental sequels that don't fit into the numbering scheme. Do you really think Resident Evil 6 is only the sixth RE game ever made? As far as gameplay...

Giantbomb Quicklook for The Secret World I always look to these to get a sense of the game better than any review can give.

XP's life as a gaming OS has been sustained ironically enough by this extremely long console generation. The fact that DirectX10/11 never took over mainstream gaming as the primary API due to the focus on console development is the only reason games today aren't exclusive to DX10 or above (and...

This strikes me as one of those MMOs that has some really good ideas for a traditional game, and is horribly let down by the nature of its MMO underpinnings. Like, the premise alone could really get me interested in it if it was a more traditional RPG, but as an MMO, I'm just not gonna touch it.

Yeah. I didn't play Conviction, but it kind of broke the shooting in Red Dead Redemption. It's not the same kind of game, but I remember being able to do it constantly in that game, which is good for me on a console because I'm horrible with joysticks, but it has no place in a PC shooter with...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=szOYjJeHVyw Full playthrough of a mission. Spoils the way you can play the mission, but also gives a good sense of the systems and mechanics in the game for those still on the fence.

There are games where the story is boring and presented in an inappropriately verbose and irritating way. Exhibit A is SWTOR. 90% of the story is fucking stupid boring shit and I skipped almost all the dialog. It was unnecessary time wasted on contextualization of things that were never going...

In Diablo 2, this was mostly true. But that's not a flaw with the entire notion of a stat allocation system, but rather Diablo 2's implementation. Diablo 2's stats didn't offer customization or diversity because they were poorly balanced. What Blizzard did with D3 was essentially cede that a...

The flying mod does not work. People appear to be flying because the parachute doesn't show on other clients and the latching of players onto vehicles for stunts is really visually buggy for other clients.

I think his point was less about the stats on the item and more a commentary on the mindset of a person who spends quadruple the base cost of the game on an item within the game.

I don't see this as a point in their favor. Either every game id has made in the last decade has been mediocre/bad (Rage), or they "technically" haven't developed a game since Doom 3.

The two best playing FPS game engines in the industry are the Source engine from 2004 and the heavily modified Quake 3 engine used for the CoD games. Whatever else your opinion of the CoD franchise, the shooting, movement and performance of those games are damn good from a technical...

I really don't see people making that kind of bank off of farming, even with an extremely efficient bot and good luck. The people making 100 million or more per day are the ones who craft exalted grand armors for people at a premium of about 100k per craft.

Why do they even bother ever scheduling it to come out on the same day as the PS3 and 360 versions? Every one of them has been delayed, so just stop Ubisoft. At least it's only 3 weeks like Revelations was and not 6 months like AC2 and Brotherhood.

How long did this run take you?

http://www.giantbomb.com/quick-look-resonance/17-6250/ Giantbomb quicklook. I don't usually care for adventure games, but this looked amazing.

I was apparently one of the few people who didn't have problems with BO on release. A bunch of my friends had severe framerate issues, but mine was perfectly good from release. We never really took issue with the hit detection either, which sadly sounds to me like one of those complaints made...

Triple-A shooters and cover based shooting with regenerating health need to go to hell and die. You basically gotta stick to either the strategy games or indie games to get anything unique.

I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this, but the crafting system is currently the most profitable way to play the game: http://www.twitch.tv/trumpsc http://www.twitch.tv/kingkongor Several streamers on there making upwards of 100 million gold per day by crafting 6 property gloves, chests...

You aren't really a Dota player if you lose interest because it doesn't have enough heroes yet. Beta is just a word at this point. The game is out in competition all over the world (mTw just took out Na'Vi at Dreamhack) and in a pretty steady state as far as Dota goes (in terms of metagame)...