Tale

I almost never add anyone if I don't know who they are. So if I get an invite, the first thing to check is if we have friends in common. I'd like to be more inclusive than that, but every now and then I'll add some stranger thinking to be nice and make new friends. I promptly get spammed as a result. I'm talking about the guy adding you me and some others as friend on these boards. I can't even decline a friend request. Oh, these boards. I thought you were talking about Steam. Nobody ever adds me on these boards.

I almost never add anyone if I don't know who they are. So if I get an invite, the first thing to check is if we have friends in common. I'd like to be more inclusive than that, but every now and then I'll add some stranger thinking to be nice and make new friends. I promptly get spammed as a result.

Had to give up orange juice, you know how much sugar is in that stuff?

Was that Monte? I got the PM too and just replied back with "who is this, what is this?"

Holy Smoke, that would have completely frustrated me. How many hours did you spend playing the game to the point of the crash? I don't know how many hours. But I do know that I decided to see if I could salvage something by playing around with it. I loaded up the save, told it to restart the level, hoping I could at least salvage the weapon upgrades. Instead I lost the save file too when it crashed again at the same point. Good news is that the game is designed for at least two playthroughs. So I'm doing Wyatt timeline and seeing what's different. Since the crash was reproducible, I've reinstalled it and the update. I can't recall there being any difference between the two timelines, other than the "special" skill each teaches you. Story-wise, I can't remember anything noticeable other than whatever cutscenes you have with that specific character. Health upgrades vs. armor upgrades. Lockpicking vs hotwiring (you mentioned) opens up a few different areas. Tekla vs J. Cosmetic for the most part, but still interesting to find new shortcuts every couple of levels.

Holy Smoke, that would have completely frustrated me. How many hours did you spend playing the game to the point of the crash? I don't know how many hours. But I do know that I decided to see if I could salvage something by playing around with it. I loaded up the save, told it to restart the level, hoping I could at least salvage the weapon upgrades. Instead I lost the save file too when it crashed again at the same point. Good news is that the game is designed for at least two playthroughs. So I'm doing Wyatt timeline and seeing what's different. Since the crash was reproducible, I've reinstalled it and the update.

I binged my way through Wolfenstein, collecting upgrades, enigma codes, unlocking every perk except most of the explosion ones. Then right at the final boss, the game crashes and messes up my profile file. I fight the final boss on the I AM DEATH INCARNATE difficulty with nothing. And there's no way to get it back other than starting over. I can't even use chapter select.

PSN can't decide if I have a good connection or crap connection and it's making me annoyed. Wolfenstein has a 5 gig update to download. It starts, it tells me 2 hours. That's far too long for my connection, but I figure whatever. I check an hour later, now it tells me 5 hours after downloading a gig. That's getting ridiculous. Two hours later it get a gig and a half and is telling me 6 hours! Turning it off and back on gets me some good data speed for a while, getting .3 gigs in a minute. But now it's slowing down again. HAlf an hour left, supposedly, but climbing.

X:Men Days of Future Past Third time I've watched it, still tear up at the ending.

Seriously, how am I supposed to work like this?

Wolfenstein: The New Order is waiting on my doorstop. So excited!

Now, speaking of trainwrecks... Episode 5 was good, I will fight you.

I don't see how you even could bridge the two. The opening cinematic did that. How do you make an entire game out of "you fled and got jumped."

Hmm, I could have sworn I saw a note on Steam not long ago, that the GFWL had been patched out of that one (finally). I might actually reinstall it and give it a second shot [/OFF TOPIC] I don't know if it's still going on, but they were saying they'd transfer achievements and progress to the new system.

I could complain more about The Walking Dead Season 2 if you like. Dark Souls 2 vs Dark Souls 1, maybe? It might be hard to generate a thread on Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright, but I'd give it the college try if I wasn't probably the only one here who played it. Complaining about them doesn't mean we necessarily see them as a trainwreck, though this community does seem to be split on that idea. And Bioware is not churning out non-stop masterpieces, that's true. The fact that they can occasionally touch that point is admirable. And it makes when they completely miss, in whole or in part, all the more baffling. I like to talk about what games can do better with rare exception. And right as I get ready to write up those exceptions, I start remembering where they need to improve as well.

Game of Thrones, the Telltale one. I've only just started, it seems great, but it looks awful. I mean that. It's very fuzzy and blurry for some reason, like I would have expected if I were playing the PS3 version, not the PS4. Also it tries to recreate the intro from the show. And that is the worst thing I've ever seen outside of a bleeding bargain bin movie tie-in. The writing and characters are sound. Mechanically it's a Telltale game, but they really should have done something original with that intro. Trying to copy a high budget HBO show in the Telltale Tool was such a bad idea. Edit: Apparently the awful look in the game is a paint filter. They're going for a painted effect. This work a bit better in lighted areas, but the game starts off dark and it just kind of smudges the graphics. However, it also causes everything to look artifacted when the camera moves. Finished episode 1: Bold move, Telltale. Good show.

This is all a serious tragedy and I'll understand if people are upset beyond the norm. But we won't be tolerating use of the thread to push hate. The rules are still in force. Edit: Nor will this thread be the go to place for a debate on what is or is not hate speech.

Terrible tragedy. I'd say I hope justice is swift and without mercy on those who perpetrated, but if I'm going to hope, it'll be for a time machine or that the whole thing is a joke. But I guess if I have to deal with reality, I'll stick with the original sentiment. My heart goes out to those the victims were forced to leave behind and the injured.

I like comparisons to ME1 because I view DAI in a similar vein. Very short main quest, lots of wandering and sidequests. I just happen to think DAI's sidequest material is more polished. Still, after digestion, I'm favoring DA:O over DA:I. I think DAO uses what it has better. Better density in content I enjoy, characters, and hand placed combat encounters. DAI has spectacular main quest missions, the best, but they're few and far between with all the side content. And their isolated nature, you can never visit those areas outside of the main quest missions, makes it feel like you're jumping between two games.

I'm being a warmer for a cat all day today. We have an office cat (in reality the boss' son's cat that he was too lazy to take care of, so it got foisted on me here at the office). She keeps trying to find places to sit on me today.

Did it have a type A-1 personality? I don't know whether that deserves a rimshot or a shepard's crook.

I have a few to offer. Cogs Deus Ex: Game of the Year Edition Cthulhu Saves the World & Breath of Death VII: The Beginning Darksiders The Ship x 2 Aww, to heck with it. Okay, I have several copies of Halo Wars for Xbox 360. They're still in plastic gathering dust. If you're interested, PM me your address. Finally managed to give something away. I've had that copy of Deus Ex since Human Revolution came out.

I just found out that I slipped into an alternate universe where Frank Oz didn't die shortly before Revenge of the Sith, forcing them to use a replacement. Apparently he's alive in well in this timeline, which we will call Universe D.

I live about 15 minutes from there. If you have any questions, ask away.

I can't agree. It wasn't abominable, but it needed some work. I love what happened to Roland and the cycle. But the rest of the team is just kind of meh.