Keyrock

This game is pretty rad

Still doing my second run through Might & Magic X and also started up Guacamelee. The game is worth it for the music alone, but it's also been pretty fun so far.

The game is basically entirely keyboard driven. I almost never touch my mouse, except when saving/loading games. It is completely turn-based, no need to pause ever. You can walk away from the game in the middle of combat, come back half an hour later, and it will be in the same exact state you left it. Can't give you a definitive answer on the text since I don't have the setup you described, or anything close to it (I'm playing on a laptop), but the text isn't tiny, so I doubt it would be a problem. I can't answer definitively whether this will run on Intel graphics (I'm presuming HD4600 or Iris Pro?) as I always run off my Nvidia 650M, but with lowered settings I think you should be okay. The game does experience slowdowns occasionally, even on high end cards, from what I've read, but, since it;s a turn-based game, it doesn't break gameplay. I sometimes play it in 30 minute sessions when that's all the time I have and can manage to get at least a little bit done.

It's crazy. He was just on Raw cutting a promo yesterday. He was one of my favorites when I was a kid. I still remember the Royal Rumble moment when it was just him and Hogan left in the ring and the crowd was going bananas. Good memories.

I would totally consider buying a RPG made by the samurai on Mt. Fuji.

I have that same tendency. The more I'm itching to play a game the longer I generally spend on character creation (assuming the creation tool is robust enough to allow me to spend a lengthy amount of time designing a character), which seems counterintuitive since the longer I spend in the character creator the longer I delay myself from playing the actual game. And, yes, Oblivion was the worst. I'd spend an hour making a character, go through the escape the dungeon sequence, then step outside only to find out my character's skin color was many shades different and the complexion looked completely different than what it looked like in the creation tool. The Oblivion character creator is (fittingly enough) the Horse Armor DLC of character creators.

I'm level 26 and all my characters are promoted, plus I have all the blessings except dark. I'm at the point now where I'm not the least bit afraid to go absolutely anywhere in the game as I'm just steamrolling a lot of enemies. I'll hit up that Temple of Meow place and then I think it's time to try out some of the DLC content, as that's supposed to be meant for end game characters, and I'm pretty much there, power level wise.

While I share your dislike of FF X-2 (that game, for me, marks the moment where the Final Fantasy series fell off a cliff, quality wise), what exactly makes western RPGs any more "legitimate" than Japanese RPGs?

Yes, that mobo does indeed have PCI-E 2.0 which will work just fine for the 750Ti. I highly doubt the max transfer rate of PCI-E 2.0 will limit the 750Ti in any significant way, if at all.

Agreed. While most character creators let you change a decent range of features, they're basically mostly centered around you creating a sexy lingerie model or a super duper hunk. While you can certainly make a sex bomb in SR, you can also make all sorts of hilarious, ugly, bizarre, or just downright grotesque characters. Then they throw in outrageous outfits on top of that.

First bike ride of the year. Nothing particularly taxing, I was out there maybe 35 minutes. It'll take me a few weeks to get into halfway decent riding shape, then I can see about tackling Avon Mountain, which is a hellacious climb regardless of which side you approach it from.

Not for you, sure. Not everyone is wired the same way. I take great pleasure in fiddling with the fine details of my character. Heck, I spent a good hour and a half making my last Saints Row 4 character, and had a great time doing it. As long as they include a bunch of presets for people that just want to breeze through character creating to get to boring MMO that much quicker, I see no harm in including a ridiculous amount of sliders for people like myself to tinker with.

The character creator to end all character creators? It's a Korean MMO, so the game itself will almost certainly not be anywhere near as good as the character creation tool, but, holy sweet mother of butter pecan ice cream what a character creation tool it is! I might never play the actual game, but I could definitely see myself playing with the character creation tool for many hours.

The Huskies are now unquestionably the best team of this generation: National Champions 1999, 2004, 2011, 2014. That's one helluva 15 year span.

THE HUSKIES WIN! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! NATIONAL CHAMPS BAYBAYYYYYYY!

I was wondering when they would launch a Kickstarter for this. Outcast was definitely ahead of its time. It was a pretty amazing game back in 1999.

The 750Ti will indeed run circles around yor 275, provided you CPU won't be a bottleneck. It is a major upgrade. The 750Ti won't max out Battlefield 4 or anything like that, but it will run pretty much anything at 1080p on lowered settings and max out many less intensive/older games, again, assuming your CPU won't be a bottleneck.

I got both the Shield Guard and the Warmonger promotion quests done. I did the Shield Guard quest first once I realized I could steamroll cyclopses (cyclopi?). As the last time I played, Davros, the "boss" cyclops was much easier than the regular cyclopses, not that any of them were hard. The extre few levels served me well in the Pao Kai Nest as I had no trouble with the goblins and orcs in there, even the one time I made a tactical mistake and allowed myself to get flanked. The Pao Kai itself was a pushover. Next up the Blademaster promotion quest.

Winter has finally released its icy grip on Connecticut, so here are some pictures from around Bushnell Park in downtown Hartford. The Capitol Building Stunning picture quality courtesy of my cheap ass phone's 8 MP camera and the ****ty Android camera app. Godrays courtesy of God.

It's a weird case now of two relatively low seeded teams meeting in the championship that arrived at those seedings in completely different ways. Kentucky is a team loaded with raw talent that thoroughly underachieved all season long, to the point that there was a question a few weeks before the tourney of whether they would even get in. Based on perceived talent they were seeded much too low, based on their performance during the season, they were seeded too high. UCONN, on the other hand, is a team that was perceived to be fairly devoid of talent beyond Shabazz Napier, but it's a team that performed pretty well during the season. Based on perceived talent they were seeded about right, based on their performance during the season they were seeded much too low. Of course, all that seeding business doesn't mean anything anymore. Might as well be two #1 seeds playing, after all they're still here while everybody else is watching at home.

Man, that Kentucky/Wisconsin game was exciting. Not the result I would have preferred, but it was a really fun game to watch.

At lev 19 the cyclops in the dangerous cave was a pushover, I obliterated him, then killed the nearby shadow dragon, who was even easier. I didn't think I'd be ready for the Pao Kai Nest, but I figured I'd at least clear a path to it and made my way there. Once there I figured, what the heck, at went inside. I cleared a good chunk of the first level then headed back outside. I could have proceeded, but the fights were quite tough and required me chugging a bunch of potions to survive. I figure I'd head back via a different path (through the jungle), then head to Karthal and do the infiltration through the sewers. That should get me up at least one more level (I'm lev 20 now) and I can also hit up some of the trainers there, namely bow master, then head back to the Pao Kai Nest at level 21 or 22. I should at least be able to clear the first level without too much trouble at that point.

The Huskies win! The Huskies win! BAH GAWD the Huskies win! UCONN was down 16-4 at the start of the game, from that point forward UCONN straight up dominated Florida. Their defense was magnificent. Florida had 3 assists... as a team... for the entire game. 3 assists. Total. How is that even possible? Now for the late game. Let's go Badgers!

Huskies looking good against the Gators so far. UCONN's defense is playing at an incredibly high level. Long way to go still, though.

I'm thinking somebody's measurements and/or math is off or not that entire area will actually be traverseable. I know CDPR is shooting for The RPG To End All RPGs and all, but that's still pretty silly. Still, the idea of a city that's actually the size of a real life city (or at least a good sized town), rather than the standard video game city that's the size of a real life village is appealing, provided it's actually filled with stuff to do, rather than just streets to wander aimlessly. Anyway, we'll find out for sure in February, I guess.