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They will have to work very, VERY hard to erase the bad taste that the last ME game left in my mouth. ME-1, epic in every way. it's been a long slide downhill in my opinion. ME-2 was good, but wasn't as epic. ME-3 was blah. ME andromeda put me to sleep. The plots have been trending...

LOL! Old times, man what a blast. My house was the LAN party house, not because i had a lot of space (it was a small house), but because i had a pile of 10M ethernet hubs. Yes hubs. But i had fiber linking them together, and the fiber links were 100M. So yeah, a lot of memories of CS and UT...

I prefer GOG to pretty much everything, simply due to the fact that they release everything DRM free. At least they used to, i haven't purchased anything from them in a while. Not because i dislike them, the opposite is true. I just haven't purchased many games recently. And the ones i have...

Engineer is simply a title. PE actually means something. I am an engineer, but not a PE, and i would never claim to be a PE. I don't have the right, because i haven't done the work. But that does NOT mean i am not an engineer. That's the whole point of having PE's. If there was no reason...

Exactly. As in real life, it's how you use what you have, that matters. Hell, i played a fighter with an int of 18, and a strength of 13, because i was going to min/max a dual class. Ended up never happening, as the campaign never had an opportunity for me to switch classes without fucking...

Astroneer. Kinda like minecraft, but in space. It is strangely addictive. Plus, it's pre-alpha on steam, but it does not have any real major "deal breaking" bugs. And they are pretty active in releasing new versions. Been playing for months, and it's just fun.

I backed both Tides and Sins 2. So yes, i expect it to be a VERY good year. Andromeda i am not very excited about, as the first Mass Effect is the best IMHO, they continually went downhill as the series progressed. Wasteland 3 is also in development and is moving along quite briskly, as the...

I don't know what the plot will be, but i know what the title for the last movie in this new trilogy will be. Lets recap from the top: The force awakens. The last jedi. From his nap. :LOL:

Will probably buy. But IMHO, ME-1 was the best of the series. None of the follow ons managed to capture that epic feel of the 1st one.

Been gaming since there were computer games. That being said, great games are great games. There were amazing games made in the past, and there will be amazing games made in the future. There are games that are old as hell that i still play today, but that doesn't mean that new games aren't...

The problem is, if you own a trademark or copyright, you HAVE to defend it. If you do not, the courts can basically nullify your trademark or copyright. I have had to deal with this in the past, and while it sucks to have to squash some kids dream, who had no intent to harm, it's necessary...

Some things just need to be hand crafted. Not because machines can make a better product, but people making things has always been part of our creativity as human beings. No current machine has creativity, no machine can dream. This may happen someday, and it probably will, given that nature...

I miss the "star is a reasonably priced car" segment. That was awesome, and it showed a non-professional driver in a basic car, trying to go fast. That's what the average person is going to do, not every one can own an expensive sports car (never mind a supercar or hypercar). But we can own a...

I'd honestly like to see a completely NEW CPU, utilizing a better "infrastucture" than the x86. There are so many transistors "wasted" to get around the limitations of the x86 architecture it isn't even funny. If a company sat down and actually devised a new instruction set, with the idea of...

The real reason, is if they own the IP, they make boatloads of money. HBO doesn't make content because they want to, they make it because it makes them boatloads of money. Why pay for other peoples work, when you can make your own and profit greatly. To be honest, i LIKE a lot of what Netlfix...

Gotcha. Your original post had me thinking that you thought of the entire premise to me "overrated." Glad to see that you agree that the relevance of the topics explored in the film are important. At least i hope i am right in reading that into your post. GATTACCA is another film i think...

I strongly disagree. The themes and ideas explored in GITS is extremely relevant, as it asks questions not asked in any other medium, other than books. AI will be a reality, it's only a matter of time. We are also fairly close to mind machine interfaces. GITS explores what that might mean...

Not really that big a deal. In fact, IIRC, slight flexing of the break is actually a GOOD thing. In fact, some breaks are not even able to be put into a cast, and the bones heal just fine. I have broken my collar bones 4 times in my life, and you can't cast that. And trust me, those bones...

Haha! I've been thinking about a system like this ever since i saw some really small turbine engines (several years ago). Figures someone with the money to actually develop such a thing had the same idea! lol.

To each their own. I really liked Wasteland 2. Fallout 1 and 2 it wasn't, but it's the closest thing i have played in a long time. I have pledged on WL3 because i WANT more games based on this formula. I have always liked isometric turn based combat, it is almost always more tactical than...

It all depends on the game. Bioshock 1 was amazing the first time through, because it was telling a story, and i wanted to find out what happened. Plus i explored a LOT and found most of the additional audio logs and other stuff that wasn't necessary to finish the game, but made the world come...

This right here. I don't pre-order, never saw it as an advantage to me. But kickstarters are another kettle of fish entirely. That's not pre-ordering, it's financing the development of the title. In essence, the kickstarters are a collective publisher. I love the idea of kickstarter, and...

Not really news. Fact is back in the 90's, a study found that expert systems of the time (in conjunction with a human doctor), had a much higher ability to correctly diagnose patient issues. Fact is, no human doctor can hope to keep up with the changes and advances in medicine. Expert...

I think a lot of the people dissing TOS, didn't live through that era. It was groundbreaking in so many ways. The only way they got it green lit past the exec's was to call it "a wagon train, in space." Cashing in on the westerns of the era, and our first steps into space (which were...

All the floppy hate up in here. Back in the day, those of us stuck on tape based systems LUSTED after floppy drives, and would have killed for a 5MB "winchester." Winchester was what most hard drive systems were called. Usually the HDD system was bigger than the actual computer using it (for...

I also think this could be funny, as long as they play it correctly. If would have to be very self aware, otherwise it's creepy, like others have said. And as far as the lines being badly performed, these are fans, not professional actors. I'd expect the acting to be less than stellar.

Still have my JVC SVHS machine. As well as a laserdisk player, video switcher, stand alone DVD player, etc. Had quite the setup back in the day. I "inherited" a professional deck (one of those AG-1980's that was in the editing wall pics) from work, because they were going to throw it away...

Holy shit. I forgot about this as well. Wondering why the game ran like absolute ass at places. Just turned settings down till it was playable again. Just checked, and SLI was off. Why the hell NVidea thinks that is a good idea, i'll never know. If it's selected on before the upgrade...

Well, diablo isn't an RPG. It's basically an isometric shooter with character and equipment grinding. RTWP is probably the best compromise solution, but some games should just be turn based, and some should be real time. But there are people out there to whom turn based is simply a no go...

I never understood the hatred many people have for turn based combat. It allows you time to think, instead of being a click fest. If you want real time, go play a shooter, that's the best fit for real time combat. Some of us like to think about the best strategy to use, and would like the...

That article hit the nail on the head. No skills?!? No tags? Anybody wanting a more "old school fallout" feel, try Wasteland 2. It has everything that FO4 is missing.

I was thinking watch would be easier, but a ring would rock too. A thumbprint scanner is kinda obvious, whereas an RFID type system would be pretty easy to hide. Still, this is a fun use of technology. This dude may eventually develop some awesome device or technology. I like to see people...

You've heard of the concept of voting with your wallet? This is an extreme version of that. These kinds of games a niche games, they aren't AAA titles. Since i personally want MORE of these types of games, i support the developers by, yes, glorified pre-order. While i might object to the...

I don't even faceplace or mybook, and that's some funny shit right there. :D

While i don't see a need for this, your statement about "they could do x, it's easier and lasts longer" could be applied to a wide range of vehicle options that we take for granted today. One that pops into my head immediately is the automatic transmission. The initial ones were clunky, slow...

Doesn't matter. The apple fanboys and fangirls are always eager as hell to line up for more koolaid. They will buy anything with an apple logo on it and swear up and down that it's the best thing ever. I simply smile and let them continue spending like lemmings on devices that usually...

Fuck them and fuck their exclusives. Promoting that crap should be grounds for open season on the executives that do this shit. So freaking tired of "you must buy our shit to play this shit." If it's done because a certain platform has capabilities such that the game can't function on a...

This right here. Wires are better. Hell, even my wifi hotspot is usually plugged (tethered) into my laptop, as it works better. That and it doesn't kill the battery. We need to make things MORE efficient, not less. This only benefits people who are too lazy to plug something in. Stop...

I'd like to know where they are getting these numbers. I don't know anybody who ever played MOO that used auto resolve. Except maybe end game where the human player quite often so outclassed the computer that even auto resolve couldn't fuck it up. In any case, i still frequently play MOO to...

“For instance, in this recent missive, EFFer Mitch Stoltz uses the acronym SOPA seven times in the first four paragraphs, which might lead the reader to think that the subject of the article has something to do with SOPA. Of course, it has nothing to do with SOPA,” Newhoff writes. “They say...