LadyCrimson

I don't think they're "bosses," but they're rather big. And every 5 minutes, too. Rather crazy, but fun. My cleric isn't the dps dynamo but I think I'm at least helpful most of the time. If only I didn't have fumble-fingers these days (keyboard). Opened maybe 30 bags total so far, no stupid blue dog for "free," for me, yet. Also ... I wish they had night in the Enclave more often. I prefer the dark...

I had that same issue when I switched to the panther. After running around with the Cleric companion (who works fine at lower levels at least) without realizing exactly how much she was healing me, I was all "oh gee why am I taking so much more damage all of a sudden?" I've gotten used to it by now tho. I'm pretty curious what the current companions will have as their 3rd ability bonus, if/when they're able to be upgraded to purple rank. The only other companion, so far, that I'm curious about is that blue Ioun Stone or whatever ... but I don't know what stats it boosts. They need better in-game descriptions there. I'll have to look it up sometime. Been trying to level up the wizard, but while she kick butt one day, she's so annoying early on, even into the 20's. Plus I have zero clue how to spend her points. None of the skill descriptions feel intuitive. I'd rather level up another cleric or two (could have one for each paragon "path")...or maybe I think I'd rather let Leadership and praying level up all my alts. Should take a couple months.

What?! Sacrilege! Imma gonna have to picket this game's offices right now. ...I remember wondering if hubby might like this game as something he and I could play together, but I decided probably not. One of the things I liked about Borderlands is it works fine for two people ... don't need that group of 5+ people to do end game stuff etc.

Tried a few episodes once ... couldn't get into it for some reason. But these days I usually have to sit down and watch a whole first season during a weekend before I can figure out if I like something, and I just don't have the energy to do that too often.

Speaking of WoW, if there's one thing I miss from that game, it's my Hunter's pet leopard. He was a faithful pal and could take a lickin' (eg, he didn't suck in combat). I've yet to play a game since then that matched WoW's cat pet awesomeness. Not even my NWO panther.

Planet Explorers alpha .6 delayed a bit again...hopefully end of this week. Not that I mind too much ... when it's ready. Can't wait tho...something to play in-between changing profession tasks on NWO's Gateway. Maybe this next version I'll actually spend more time trying to build that uber fort+dungeon.

Hm, that could be. Or maybe if you have one of the higher level special purple companion enchants? I did notice that the lvl1 white dog has less initial hit points than the blue lvl1 dog. Must be a Tier multiplier difference. Wonder when they're going to have the Upgrade Companion tome to purchase...seems a bit odd it's not there already.

It looks better than WoW, overall (well, early WoW)...there's a lot of graphic settings that make it look a bit shiner - but that doesn't create smaller polygons/textures. Just more shine, if you get my meaning. I don't think it's that abnormally ugly, outside of not always liking the artistic decisions they made (different from the graphic tech aspect). But then, I don't really put that much importance on how spiffy things look. More than I did 15+ years ago, but doesn't bother me if it's not up to today's FPS graphic standards or something. Can't answer the tech question ... tho I know there's a few answers on that I've heard before. (edit - I still think Skyrim's vanilla graphics aren't all that "awesome" either, for a sp game, yet many think they are. *shrug* )

When I put some settings down to super low, the freeze-lag seemed to mostly go away. Don't like playing like that, but eh...only temporary.

Well I farmed those portals with everyone else until I could get a white skeleton dog, tried to get a blue dog, then said "I have better things to do than luck-grind forever" and just bought one from the AH, since people were selling them for like 140k (that 2 million founder AD has gone a long way...) .... was disappointed that they don't actually have a blue fire glow. May not use 'em. Maybe in a few months they'll be worth a lot 'cause non-bound ones will be rare. But that's enough defending the city. Talk about a grind. Reached 60 with one character ... she's mostly decked out in cheap purples. Now to get all those professions to lvl20.

... ... ...being someone who hates filth and especially smell - well, let's just say that I don't mind dirt, and not showering, like when backpacking in the woods, but that goes a bit beyond that.

For a while, my panther had better gear than I did. The Underdark...I liked it here... ....until I repeated it 30+ times (minus the General boss) to grind out the last clvl.... Farking finally.

Dark Skies - Amityville House with aliens instead of ghosts. Better than I expected, but that's not to say it's a good movie. I tend to find such films boring during the set-up but it picks up a bit later. Mostly I watched it because it has that lead actress from The Americans series.

Awesome pics, Hurlshot. I've gotta show hubby those and tell him we have to do the Narrows. Looks like just the thing to do on a hot summer day.

There's a "bones" merchant up one side of the main stairs that leads to the main praying spot. He has two dogs next to him...where one of the scrying stones usually is, maybe? The bones can be turned in for the enchants, scrolls, and the dog. 40 for the dog. I only have 25 so far, I was focusing on getting to lvl 60 first. At the end of every portal, does the screen totally freeze for you? It doesn't hurt me at all, but it's rather annoying. Combat is fine, just "portal's have closed!" and it's suddenly 1fps for 5 seconds. Only time the game has behaved like that. P.S. - dunno if the bones will be worth anything else later or not... P.P.S 2 - the vendor just has white dogs, not blue ones. Blue ones from the bag o' bones I gather.

That trailer makes it look potentially good. Could use a decent summer sci-fi flick. But will it have the ultra shaky camera work of District 9?

That's a great pic of Primm.

I don't know if you saw this already, but one of the things they're testing on the test-build server right now is bind on pickup on purple gear in dungeons, or something. Says they'll leave some rares as bind on equip, but I'd guess not a whole lot. Which would kinda suck for those of us who don't like to grind dungeons (won't see many on the AH anymore). Buy them while you can, har. Oh well, I'm used to that from other online games, heh. Oh and my panther at lvl30 rocks. His "pounce" attack now knocks enemies down, which can actually interrupt their spellcasting/attacks, and he does the pounce very often. Much more helpful than his still pitiful melee damage.

All I saw was "Red Velvet cake." Mmmm.

It's probably going to be a little while yet before I hit 60. Wouldn't take long if I put the pedal to the metal, but every time I gain a level or two, I feel like I have to take a break from combat for a couple days. I'm still not sure I'll be doing any dungeons/grouping. Really not my thing. I do occasionally like running randomly into others who need help where I might toss out some spells or heals as I pass by, but that's different.

I think people need to come up with a better nick for this console than XBone, which reads more as X-Bone than Xbox-One. @Chippy - while I'd agree I'm not fond of a lot of MS's seeming messages about gamers/gaming, I do have to idly wonder whether someone wanting their Xbox during submarine duty really equals a valid complaint in the first place. Seems more like a time for a Gameboy or something...course, maybe the Gameboy requires the internet these days too ... I wouldn't know.

Lately I've been of the opinion that there are no good movies being made anymore. Y'know, the ones that make you go "Oh yeah, I have to check that out!" ... I surf and surf 100's of titles, and always go "meh, maybe on a rainy day." More likely, my tastes have changed plus all the actors/actresses I grew up liking are mostly gone or semi-retired and I just can't quite get into the new crop. So I ate my Chinese food tonight watching the birds in the trees instead. We have a lot of small song birds, crows, bluebirds, robins, etc. Plus racoons, squirrels, neighbor cats, possums, butterflies .... it's not exactly looking out your window to see deer in the forest, but hey, for the cheaper suburbs, it's not bad.

Well...with the devolving to a bit too much potential racial, sexual preference and gender profiling remarks vs. actual arguments, I'm thinking this incarnation of man vs. woman in gaming has run it's course. I could edit and prune a bit but since it's only 100 or so posts away from post limit and I'm sure the topic will come up again in one form or another, I'm laying this one to rest.

Well, we let it run a while, but I think it's time to close this one for length. Love may never end, but forum threads eventually do.

Looks a bit like he's got his arm around the woman (ppl standing on top of each other at the Bank). Just thought it was kinda funny, for some reason...