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  1. Humanoid
    Got Humble keys for both now, happy days.
  2. Humanoid
    And render your ice-cream maker forever unusable for anything other than garlic ice cream ever again.
  3. Humanoid
    The HB delay is due to HB, but GOG keys are in hand so it's just a matter of processing the new requests for them. Ninjaed comment from the last update:
  4. Humanoid
    Bit of a "told you so" situation I know, but Saints' Row 4 is the old game, now with bonus platforming! Screw platforming, it screws up everything. You now jump too high and run too fast to make using the abilities in combat more counterproductive than anything, and marginalises the KB+mouse control scheme more than ever (but it's still essentially required for aiming). Bleh. Needs a superhero mode toggle.
  5. Humanoid
    Why ban things when you can just ruin them commercially with an NC17 rating?
  6. Humanoid
    Sent my request for HB keys on Saturday but still waiting. Hopefully processed before the release because I'm loathe to have to install the Steam version then redownload the whole thing later.
  7. Humanoid
    I prefer loafers myself.
  8. Humanoid
    And now they play a bloody video on the main page when you load it up. Someone needs to shake some sense into these rogue web developers. >.<
  9. Humanoid
    The Ultima 7 one was genuinely useful, both for general use and for ....copy protection. But the same can't be said of those games lacking open world exploration. U8's was completely useless. The Baldur's Gate 2 one, in addition to being useless, had dodgy paint that came off onto the CD case when I stored them together, ruining both. I heard there was some controversy when Bethesda initially promised cloth maps with some Skyrim editions, only to change it late on. Now that's a game where a nice durable map would have been handy. At least useless cloth maps still have some reasonable value as collectibles. Useless paper maps - and I mean cheap crappy paper - like that which came with IWD2, are just plain baffling.
  10. Humanoid
    Don't they use P2P for the actual downloading these days? Guess authentication or whatever might still be down.
  11. Humanoid
    Poor saps probably won't even get our crying koala picture. What'd be appropriate for Europe? A crying wolf or reindeer? A vole?
  12. Humanoid
    It's tiered, for the new expansion you apparently need to get a silver medal to do heroic content for example, and only when using the group-finder tool. The hard restrictions have only been announced for then, so at the moment the system isn't doing anything except awarding achievements. I mean it's still useful, sort of, but only by manual checking: guilds can make it an entry requirement for example. Note that it's all second-hand info to me too, I quit a couple of years ago so it's just a combination of what I hear from ex-guildies and from this summary. And it wouldn't have been particularly relevant personally since I stopped doing pick-up content years prior to that.
  13. Humanoid
    It's cynical but there are a couple factors to soften the blow, one is that the level cap will soon be set to 100, and the second is that there's now a "proving grounds" exam system, where you're given a practical test on various skills relevant to your class and marked on how well you did. You need to do well enough on a given character to be eligible for the random matchmaking system.
  14. Humanoid
    $44.99USD. Looks like no specific arrangement for Australia so just the usual US price. EDIT: If you read the letter from the MD, the other two titles to get regional pricing will be Divinity: Original Sin and The Witcher 3. You'd think that with the latter they'd learned enough from the previous debacle not to sign up with a partner that demands regional pricing, so that's disappointing: it's one thing for a game you licence to have conditions attached, but for your in-house titles? That's just dumb.
  15. Humanoid
    Pretty much, yeah. But sneaking was so slow in those games I never really bothered trying to do it. Jagged Alliance 2 was the same in terms of idea if I remember right (just a lot less explicit on what constituted sneaking), but might have allowed sneaking in both modes. I think.
  16. Humanoid
    Fallout, sorta?
  17. Humanoid
    Good enough for me. Was going to do it together with that Darkest Dungeon game, but still waiting on news of alternate distributions with that one (saw a dev post saying news expected later this week). P.S. Since KS handles the payment system for Zaharia internally, and given the recent breach, remember to untick the "remember card details" on the checkout.
  18. Humanoid
    I have the Sandisk Extreme II which is more or less the equal best SSD with the 840 Pro as my system disk. The Steam drive is a 840 EVO, and the other games drive is a Crucial m4. All are 240-256GB models, as is the drive I'm considering installing, which would be the slowest of the lot, a Sandisk Ultra Plus (a budget drive). If I do it I guess I could boast about having a terabyte worth of SSD.... but for now I just shunted about 8GB of games I don't play onto another drive. Took less than a minute, so it'll do for now until the next round of games to install.
  19. Humanoid
    Giving Skyrim another, perhaps final go, with the Frostfall and Realistic Needs mods to turn it into a sort of equivalent to NV's Hardcore/Josh mode. Haven't decided on what the character direction will be though, am in town and haven't levelled yet so all avenues are open. Already did my archetypal thief in a previous game, so it'll have to be something different. - thought about going heavy weapons, 2H hammer only berserker, but am concerned about carry weight issues with the modded version, what with all the food, water and miscellaneous supplies. Half-tempted to buy Saints Row 4, which is ridiculous because I only slightly liked the previous game (quitting after act 1). But it's on the Humble Store sale, so I can get it guilt free. And while I'm typing this, it looks as if the download of the latest Wasteland 2 beta has failed because my Steam SSD is full. . I actually have a couple of new SSDs on my desk, but they were meant to be installed in new systems I'm building in a month or three's time, but hmm.....
  20. Humanoid
    Do let us know how it goes before the early bird tier runs out. (I backed Unrest too, probably to an unreasonable amount given the project scale, but a large part was sort of a personal favour to the writer)
  21. Humanoid
    Yeah, most brands carry a few IPS panel-equipped models, but often they're for the premium business/workstation oriented models towards the top of the range. The vast majority still carry awful 1366x768 TN panels, the lowest of the low. Perhaps ironically, the smaller displays are more likely to carry good quality screens with reasonable pixel density. With only a few exceptions, 15-17" laptops have the worst displays. A PS4 will save you money because there aren't any games to buy for it.
  22. Humanoid
    The short of it is that hardware manufacturers are filthy lying bastards. Rebranding is rampant, where previous generation cards are relabelled to appear to be current-gen, additional dead-weight memory is added for no purpose other than to look good on a spec sheet, and they use the same model numbers as desktop models while performing at a fraction of the speed. They even have fake generations just to look better (e.g. the nV GT300 and AMD HD8000 series, these exist solely to exploit the "number is higher, so must be better" class of customers). There's some advice about naming schemes above, but just bear in mind that fundamentally the names are based around desktop models. There's a lot more gotchas and deliberate obfuscation in the mobile area. In the event a mobile GPU shares a model number with a desktop one, halve the expected performance as a rough guide, at *best*.
  23. Humanoid
    If your usage pattern for a tablet is media-heavy then you'll likely want a tablet with a (micro-)SD card slot. The Nexus 7 is not one of those tablets.
  24. Humanoid
    Yeah, it's Steam plus a choice of either GOG or Humble Bundle, manual request by emailing them. The latter option was only added recently, and since I didn't request a GOG key last year, I ended up requesting a Humble key. I didn't originally bother requesting one because they hosted a DRM-free version on their own site, but have just announced that they'll stop doing that since the other places do it better.
  25. Humanoid
    GMG's "Australia tax" code brought the price down to the US RRP, but the thing is, GMG essentially always have a minimum 20% off code already, which can't be stacked. So the actual net price still wasn't terribly competitive. But yeah, I'm of the position that retailers should always be able to set their own price regardless of whether stuff is sold under the wholesale model or the agency model, which includes crap like how Miele appliances are priced in department stores.
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