LadyCrimson

Just starting out. It feels weird to be in an MMO again, eg. confusing. The older I get, the less I like having to "learn to play" every game. In another 10 years I'll be back to playing Minesweeper and Solitaire 24/7 instead.... Not to ruin the "dramatic moment" of this tutorial cutscene, but this made me LOL. Couldn't help it. It's not just in real life...even in a game, I don't like wearing pants. You can make a thin, small chested female, if you want. MMO's = "People everywhere, too many people..." I WANT ONE.

I made a character on the Mindflayer server earlier (didn't play, just made the chr and am standing by the beach campfire). Max high graphic settings makes my GPU run a bit warm. It's an argument for a liquid cooled GPU next time. Minor question: Is only two character slots a "beta" limit or is having more character slots one of the micro-transactions?

Ate some take-out, watched a bit of TV with the spouse, managed to force myself to nap about 2.5 hours, woke up, am wide awake again. At midnight. Sigh.

Yay! Initially it gave me the same "need cookies enabled" message. Then I mentioned it to hubby (asking about the network actually) and he said "Maybe it uses Internet Explorer, what are your settings there?" I normally never touch IE at all, not even once, so that didn't even occur to me to check it's cookie settings but I must have opened it at some point since last reformat because when I looked IE's privacy setting was on "High." Must have been to remove/block their addons or something I read about, once. I put it down to Medium and the launcher was suddenly happy. So...basically, it uses IE for the cookies, even if it's not set as your default browser. I'll try it later ... it's almost dinner time and I might need a nap first....

Yeah, exactly.

Bad timing then. Such is my life. I'll try again later. MMO's ... WoW sucked away my life for too long - it's that obsessive personality thing. I might actually be better off if I can't get it to work/don't like it. But you're all playing and I wanted to check out the game that has captured so many Obsidianites attention.

That 3rd screen has got to be an homage to Alien. The robot's head/mouth looks like a freaking Alien. And I tend to think the majority of FPS tend to look the same, too. Art style differs of course (people and object looks), but there's a general sense of graphical or design similarity about them when you look at screenies. What's different for me is that I'm not sure it was that different in the PC-gaming past. I mean, Doom came out, a lot of games looked like Doom for a while. It happens.

Ok I downloaded from one of the partner sites, which was much faster (3.5MB/sec, 12-15 minutes) but their launcher version is slightly older and so the launcher puts up a box saying it's trying to update itself .. and it can't connect/fails. I can't connect to the game forum either tho, so maybe it's just them. At any rate...maybe the next version.

Interesting read. The Foundry is intriguing. Sounds like a better/complex end game along the lines of PoE's (simpler) endgame is these days (ability to make map instances to play in using certain parameters or something). I'm not reformatting for a single game. I don't think it's an OS issue, anyway. The game may not be browser related, but I feel like the launcher is, so it's probably some weird browser issue. Or if it is OS, it's because of some Win7 feature I've disabled and have no desire to turn back on. Or whatever. I could try redownloading it to see if a file got corrupted or something, but I haven't bothered.

Has it been two weeks already? Dang it ... I swear I wake up on a day in June and the next morning it's a day in Nov. So thanks for the reminder, Forlorn Hope ... now I have something to look forward to later.

I now have one of each class in Path of Exile. Highest is lvl24, so it's not a big achievement. Just checking them all out. Shadow class still my fave ... I like hybrid classes. The Ranger is pretty awesome with the bow tho. The STR-based melee's are ok but 2H and maces are so slow. Plus early on, the run speed penalties for heavy armor/shields sucks....

I was so annoyed by the game not working for me that I forgot it had micro-transactions. Are they ones that affect actual gameplay/character ability (pay to win), or are they non-ability related, like Path of Exile's decorative and stash space options?

Yeah...I think they could've limited the sockets a bit more. There's the support gems, so having plenty of items with the right color linked sockets is important later on, but it does get a bit silly. And the way they do the tree now, they could only show you about half the tree per chr., since there's no way you're effectively going to use 120 points to get all around the thing w/out being a total gimp chr. Early on going the crazy off-beaten path was more doable, but not so much now.

Path of Exile ... it's what Diablo-3 should have been. Sorta. The only problem with the passive skill tree is it's so huge I can never remember what path I wanted to travel with a chr. You can't even see it all on one "page" in the game, have to scroll around. Passive tree is for boosting dmg and specializing (8% max life, 5% dmg with melee wepaons, extra minions allowed, etc), as well as adding to your STR/INT etc. stats (there's no "stat points" per level up). Skill gems (gear socketable/removable) are how they do the actual combat skills (skill gems level up separately from chr. lvls) (vs. Diablo's "skill trees" concept). Edit: P.S. - the game website has a passive planner where you can mouseover and see what all the dots are. http://www.pathofexile.com/passive-skill-tree Each class starts at a different spot in the tree. 2nd edit: fixed link I hope, darn it, not enough sleep...

Yeah, I know what you mean. aRPG's and story do not go together. If it was, that would be a very long story, tho!

Hm, where to go, what to do... (this chr. is clvl 17 out of a possible 100...) Ewwww..... Why are the brawlers in games always hulking, tattooed, loincloth wearing dudes who talk in monosyllables? So I made him wear a cloth cap, because nothing says macho like a fisherman's hat.

Insomnia again the past few days. Haven't been od'ing on caffeine or marathon gaming or anything like that. Sometimes the body says "sleep" but the mind says "no." So then you're awake but too mentally tired-wired to do anything productive ... or even make your breakfast without doing it wrong. It does make some of the spousal conversations pretty amusing, tho.

Hubs and I used to use this song (The Thrill is Gone) as our joke relationship theme. I'm going to be SO sad when he's gone from the world (Clapton too). At least the music is forever.

That song has been around and used a lot long before Watchmen ... it could be a reference to something else/I don't personally associate it with a movie. Altho with the narration vibe I'll take your word that it probably is (wouldn't surprise me, media loves to reference, heh). Oddly I never think of it as a Dylan song, even tho I know he wrote it/performs it ... Dylan to me = awesome songwriter of songs for other people to sing.

Only from the voice-over, a bit. The cutscene gives me more of an Asimov robots + Skynet future 'bots vibe, or something along those lines.

Finally played enough of the current version of Path of Exile where, despite the latency issues, I'm starting to "get into it" more. Tried all the classes but the barbarian-type, to check out how the passive tree works for each, and I'd have to say that while the Duelist is still fun, the Shadow is my new fave class (he didn't exist last time I played for any length of time) because of where he starts out on the passive tree - he's the best for speed-based melee + magic caster hybrid. Altho it probably helped that on the day I started him, I found 4 low-level unique/legendary items which helped him blow through to Act2. First time I've found any of those and that was an odd run of finding so many. I'm sure I'll never find another one now, haha. So good to play when I'm waiting for other games. One of the other pets I was interested in went on "sale" so I blew my remaining "points" on it...thinking of spending a little more real cash on the game for some more points, mostly for stash and chr. slots-per-account features.

That's some very yellow hair. And another ponytail.

Good luck, Calax! ...I'm sitting on the couch, alternating between watching TV and having staring contests with a certain black cat.

So I skimmed through the 1st 15-20 minutes on YouTube. Not really my style of game, as usual, but those cutscenes are hilarious. The game is really....purple. Heh. Also, Biehn tossing something past an animal and saying "Fetch" ...

What? Michael Biehn is a lead voice? **interest suddenly heightened**