Stop blaming gw2 already!

Let's not forget the great Mel Blanc. Biddybiddybiddy.

... Excellent point. I'll be in my bunk.

Blood Widow Ricki * Tide Shifter * T-34 * Opposite Reaction * Shaolin Midnight * ChernobylCheerleader

Entropy Legion * Hyperion Force * Hero Heights

Huh. I haven't had many problems with this. Were these the early zombies that were pretty weak or the really tough zombies later on? My shotgun/blades Templar can two-shot most packs of zombies in town - and I mean the entire pack with two shots, not two shots per zombie - but a lot of the backwoods stuff is a lot tougher.

Makes sense.

As I said on the CO forum, if this game gives you the same trouble TSW did, you can use an XBox 360 wired controller (made for PCs/Windows) with it to make it a lot more actiony.

Chocolate or raspberry?

Oh my god. I'm not worthy.

I saw one of those in Technomarket. I started asking the sales person about the thing, what systems it works with and we got right up until he told me how much it costs. After that, I was no longer interested. I did end up buying a much cheaper no-brand gamepad that only works for PCs, but I have yet to use it as I really don't like gamepads. They're one of the primary reasons I don't own a video game console.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

... and that's what I thought it was. Great googly moogly.

I feel I must ante up, and so I will.

Blood Widow Ricki * Tide Shifter * T-34 * Opposite Reaction * Shaolin Midnight * ChernobylCheerleader

Entropy Legion * Hyperion Force * Hero Heights

Trying to find a game for Sam is like trying to find a game for Stephen Hawking: he's smart, knows what he wants, can't always communicate it clearly, and has a really specific set of non-negotiable gameplay requirements.

PvP is central to PvPers. I know that sounds trite, but hear me out.

I played LOTRO for over 3 years. Got a lifetime account. I spent a LOT of time PvEing - got a bunch of characters to the various level caps, RP'd, crafted, etc. I also spent quite a bit of time PvPing. I had one weekly raiding night, and 2 weekly PvP nights. LOTRO had ONE PvP zone, where you went specifically just to PvP. I played on the monster side, because I didn't want to PvP with any of my elf-toons (just because, not because it didn't work for RP, I just didn't want to - it bothered me to see them dying repeatedly, whereas it did not bother me to see my giant spider squished 60 times a night.)

As time went on and the game became slanted more and more to f2p and the repetitive, annoying content therein, I played PvP more and more. My RP guild fell apart and I spent all my time with my PvP creep guild.

I spent probably the last year I played doing all PvP all the time. I only logged into the game to PvP. The only people I played with were PvPers. I made videos, and they were all PvP videos.

Anyone watching my videos might conclude that PvP was an important or vital part of LOTRO. But it really really wasn't, it was the red-headed stepchild of the game, that people did when the mind-numbing PvE in the game got stale and you didn't feel like banging against the lack of top-end content anymore. But for some of us, it was the whole game.

My understanding is that GW1 and GW2 are built with highly functional and important PvP aspects (as opposed to LOTRO's "go to this zone so we can ignore you" PvP) but, like everything else in the game, it is not necessary and one only does it if one wants.

Well, to be fair, getting into console gaming NOW isn't as cheap as most people think. Until a few months ago, all I had was an old tube TV set because I barely watch TV. That doesn't work for current-generation gaming consoles. I have a better, 1920x1080 TV set now, but its sound sucks *** because, apparently, I'm expected to have a sound system and the speakers on it are garbage. I DO have a sound system - a Logitech 5.1 doulby surround system... That only works on my PC, not on my TV. So if I want to enjoy my console games, I'd need a sound system that's at least as expensive. Then I'd need to find a place to put it, and right now the TV set is so big it fills up the entirety of the niche I can spare for it. Doing anything more would mean buying a new bookcase, which basically guts my entire living room.

And that doesn't include buying the console itself, which is expensive, buying all the peripherals, and then buying games which are, on average, more expensive than what I pay for PC games as I buy most of mine over Steam discount sales.

And then I'd still have to use a game pad which I don't like. People touted that "Well, you can just hook up a keyboard and mouse to your Xbox." OK, let's imagine for a moment that Xbox games can actually play with a keyboard and mouse - I have no place to put them. For my PC, I have a rather large desk, which faces away from the TV. In front of my TV, I have a bed that's incredibly awkward to sit on. It has a wood board in the front which hurts my legs and its back is on a wall with blinders on it that I can't rest my back on without damaging them. And my TV set is VERY far away from the bed because I tend to not watch it too often and mostly watch it lying down prone. Using a keyboard and mouse hooked up to the TV is not an options.

Which just sucks all the more since a lot of the current generations better games are console-exclusive, and even the ones that aren't are ported badly. Darksiders 2 has that HORRIBLE snapping camera that wants to always turn in the direction I'm moving and pan up and down with terrain tilt. And that's a GOOD port since it at least lets me remap my keys.

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Which is especially funny since all it would take to un-suck comabt in The Secret World would be to let me bind my autoattack to my left mouse button.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

That's pretty close to my issue, too.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Softcapping an Invuln is fantastic. Softcapping a Willpower is amazing. Softcapping SR is kissing your sister.

That depends. Do you think getting Akiva Goldsman to write, and Michael Bay to direct, the Pixar-produced sequel to Megashark vs Giant Octopus for the Cinemax network would be too much to ask?

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So... $30 for each expansion pack?

Have you considered finding financial backers to make Zombieland Online?

Glad to hear it. A little clarification of character is good, now and then.

I got mine for $19.99 but I've seen them as high as $39.99 (USD, of course) - neither price point seems particularly high for a game controller. I preferred Saitek controllers for my PC, but they got absorbed by... MadCatz I think and no longer produce the gamepads I liked.

Of course, I'm the opposite of you when it comes to preferred game controls - I detest using a keyboard and mouse for most games, and have been setting up gamepads to work with games that don't inherently support them for years. I played CoH with a gamepad right from the start. Indeed, I've played numerous MMOGs and I think I managed to get every one of them to work with a gamepad. It just feels more natural to me, and I was using mouse and keyboard before I ever touched a gamepad.

It's worth it, though. I don't know how much it is where you live, but I bought one for $50 USD last year (during a brief time where I was working on an XNA project) and I've used it to play a bunch of games on Steam since then. Much more comfortable and sturdy that a generic gamepad.

The one I was offered - and that was the ONLY Xbox controller in the whole store - was ~$150. Fat chance I'll buy that. The one I did end up buying was ~$15, but I have yet to hook it up.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

This, starting around 1:04, is just one of several examples (such as roughly every cutscene in the game). I'm not going to dig them all up for you, or delete a character just so I can reroll and look for more examples. It's perfectly fine that it hasn't bothered you to the point of you even noticing, but just because it doesn't bother you doesn't mean it's not there. And for someone who is bothered about it, it stands out.

On an unrelated note, I really like that water colour art style.

To be fair, 7 out of 10 "character creation" steps involve you picking what that video says. I'm not saying it's not railroading, since it is. "I got drunk in a bar and did _____ in my stupor" isn't exactly open to interpretation. But to me, the most restrictive aspect of Guild Wars 2 is the races. Having those hard-coded as pretty much the fundamental decision you make about your character does not sit well with me.

Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.

And again, you needn't do them.

I take all character cutscenes with a grain of salt. I HATE having words put in my characters' mouth, as an RPer, so anytime there's words I don't like... I ignore them. My character never said them. I spent 8 years RPing whether or not my character was actually choosing to do the instances in COH IC or not (really? Rescue that guy AGAIN?) and it's not hard to do.

Some of them lead to interesting changes for my characters (wait, I chose my sire was a gladium and now I have to go ARREST him for BECOMING a gladium? Oh snap!) and some of them not so much (my character wagered a family heirloom on a DICE GAME? Um, no.) Just because the game says it, doesn't mean I have to feel those feels, any more than I did in COH when my character was a cop and not a superhero. You just mentally adjust those things.

And if you feel like you shouldn't have to do that... well, that's MMOs for you.

Wow, that's more than the price of the core XBOX 360 console... which *comes* with a controller. Normally, only fancy joysticks and things like the original Steel Battalion mech control panel controller cost that much. Remind me to avoid any place called "Technomarket" should I go abroad.

Because no one would even consider that NCSoft would allocate Paragon Studios budget towards those titles.


Secret project was never announced. As far as we know, it was intended to be F2P from day one. What is more likely is that it was not yet another fantasy mmo, therefore too big of a gamble. May do better by moving that budget towards the latest fantasy mmo maintenance.