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The biggest problem with American Football, and this might be true of Rugby, is you can't play it when you are 80 years old. Hockey is a sport you can play forever.

How so? For example, there are loads of politicians in the US who I do not identify with. Do you back Mayor Ford in Toronto?

Hockey does struggle to get exposure in the US, so insecure is probably a good label. That doesn't keep it from being the best sport in the world, mind you.

Oby, do you consider Vitaly Milonov a good representative of Russia?

I struggled to get into Deus Ex myself, I think I started Liberty Island 3 times before I finally got through it. But once I made it past that first part, the game turned awesome and I couldn't put it down.

International hockey also tends to be pretty light on contact. You won't see much in the way of hard checking among the men either.

Well, NDA is still up, so can't really say much. But gotta agree with the RPS article. Maybe it picks up after, at least Bester seems to like it. If I get another invite I might force myself past the early bit and maybe my opinion will change. Like every ES game ever, there is some good and some bad. That quote sounds ridiculous when taken out of the context of the overarching plot. I played through something similar on one of the early islands, and the setup for the confrontation with the big bad guy was pretty well done. That's the same article where the guy complains about John Cleese portraying a mad bard. He lost all credibility at that point with me.

While not quite what you are talking about, I do use the sniper scanner regularly in battle.

That's crazy. I use movies regularly in my history classes.

Geez Woldan, get better soon.

Life's too short to waste it being ill all the time.

Was he doing it during the beta? I did it a couple days beforehand and it downloaded in a couple hours with no problems.

Except it is nowhere near that simple.

I'm curious if this is some anti-smoking aid bot trying to drive up sales? I am still aghast at the idea that most of the products designed to quit smoking are sold by the same companies that sell the cigarettes.

My favorite 30/30 was the Bo Jackson. That guy basically exists on a different plane.

That's pretty much every MMO out there. BF4 was 20 gigs too!

I only bothered with the $60 preorder. The $80 version only seemed to have the Imperial race, which I don't really care about. Redguard for life, yo.

My wife loves those. I'd never admit it to her, but they are pretty good.

Smoking seems to be pretty far up there in terms of stupid things to do to your body. I would assume everyone knows that by now. Honestly it doesn't even seem to be worth the risk. I get why people do drugs, they change reality, make pain go away, etc. The high from smoking doesn't seem to outweigh the myriad of negative effects. Couple that with their tremendously addictive nature and you have really no reason to ever start smoking.

So it sounds like a few folks here are planning on playing ESO, so I thought we should get a thread going. I'd really like us to put an Obsidian Order Guild together. The nice part is you can join a few different guilds, so you won't be limited to one. Does anyone know if guild members have to be in the same faction? I hope not, but I haven't investigated much.

Does it feel worth a subscription? That is super hard to say. It feels like I will get a good 40-60 hours of it, like I get out of every Elder Scrolls game. But I always peter out on the single player games after a month. So I think it is worth the box price and I will enjoy the first month, and I will see where I am at after that. Apparently more than $200 to play that game for the first year ... whew, much cost, very money, wow A lot of money compared to what? If you are getting a lot of entertainment out of it, then it a very reasonable rate. Whenever I subscribe to an MMO, I prefer to think about it as choosing that over buying another game. I buy a couple games a month, but if a subscription to an MMO means I go without one, that probably saved me money. It's the same thing when you pay for a movie service like Netflix. Sure, you can think of it as paying $80 a year to use the service, but I tend to think of all the money I save by not buying or renting as many movies.

Yeah, taks is one of the posters I wonder about the most, since we had kids at about the same time.

I absolutely loved the return to the Redguard areas that I am getting in TESO. Redguard is still my favorite out of the Elder Scrolls games, even though it was more of an action-adventure game than an RPG. I'm sure I'll enjoy the lands from Morrowind as well, but I'm not looking forward to exploring any of the Imperial areas.

Does it feel worth a subscription? That is super hard to say. It feels like I will get a good 40-60 hours of it, like I get out of every Elder Scrolls game. But I always peter out on the single player games after a month. So I think it is worth the box price and I will enjoy the first month, and I will see where I am at after that.

I had a good time with the Elder Scrolls Online beta this weekend. It was better than I expected, the videos and trailers didn't do much for me originally. I really only played through one of the starter areas fully, but it was a nice mix of quests. The use of disguises was neat, and lockpicking is a fun addition to the MMO model. I even got a little boost from reading a book in the game. They really did put in a lot of the staples of the single player experience.