I don't understand the devs love for quickscoping.

This has to be one of the broken street dates ever.

There seems to be a word missing...

Most!

This has to be one of the broken street dates ever.

You still looking for King of Dragon Pass?  I'm fairly sure I still have the CD and manual around. Let me know.

I cancelled my preorder. Just too many other games to play first. I'll pick it up during the summer sometime.

Post about it a lot so I can play vicariously through this thread.

Yeah, they keep insisting it's phishing and social engineering.  But they never say WHO is being phished and engineered.  Are people still conning the Microsoft help line?

Anyway, the problem seems to be with Microsoft NOT users.

Yeah, I don't get that.  Looks like they are making everyone download Karkland.  The Karkland unlock is only 108KB.

Neuroshima Hex, on the other hand, I've played for several dozen hours, since the hard AI can still give me a challenge and occasionally win.  It also seems to play fairly human-like, with clever combo moves and few "wtf is it thinking" moments.

AI in that game kicks my ass. I'm still working the puzzle spin-off, hoping I'll be a better player when I'm done with it.

Think of it as the Angry Birds of console shooters.  It's easily accessible, enough of a household name for the general population to feel comfortable buying it and talking about it, and although it's not the best at anything in its genre, it's good enough for people to not know any better.

I agree with this. It's the Madden of the FPS world. Except it has competition.

Sorry. The Madden metaphor fits CoD much better. Massive sales, yearly franchise with few changes year to year and never addressing the fundamental issues.

my copy is going back! I did not pay for MW3 only to play building models from previous games!!
http://www.gamepro.com/article/news/224774/is-modern-warfare-3-reusing-buildings-from-previous-call-of-duty-games/

why is this even news?  companies reuse art assets pretty much every time.

We paid $60+ for NEW assets, damn't!

No console reviews because there is a 200 MB day 1 patch.
EA requested reviewers hold off till the patch lands.

And I do need to avoid the aforementioned button mashing during combat.  I think there's a trick involved, but I'm not getting it yet.  It sounds like there are some combos that play off precise timing when pressing the attack buttons, so I don't think the devs intended it to be a complete button masher.

Get the combat upgrade called "Critical Hit", I think it is. It gives you X2 for the combo meter when you time your strikes correctly.  As a side effect, it gives you feedback on whether you are timing your strikes optimally.

Do the first 4 VR missions as soon as they appear. That item is essential.

After that they get harder, I don't know what the upgrades are if any.

I don't really understand what's going on here. If people are using your account to download DLC, how are they benefiting from this? Isn't it just your account that gets this stuff? Do they just play with your account until they get caught, and then get left with nothing? And if they transfer ownership of purchases to other accounts somehow, can't Microsoft just identify which accounts are receiving the stuff and lock them?

My understanding is that the DLC for FIFA 12 are like trading card packs with randomized players.  These can then be traded to other people.   Check ebay for FIFA 12 auctions.

I believe that we're seeing so many Live hacks now because FIFA 12 is essentially allowing MS points to be converted into cash.

FIFA may not be the source of the breach, but FIFA is what's making Live accounts with attached credit cards a monetizable resource for account hackers.

I look forward to crushing everyone's score on the challenge maps (allegedly) 

  Bastard.

Kato is the reason I didn't bother to play the challenge maps.

Eff Havel the Rock.  That is all I have to say.

Looks like someone tried to brute force my Windows Live password. No evidence that they got in though.

Just got the "you've tried to enter the wrong password too many times" message when I tried to log in just now.

<sigh>

Looks like mw3 it is..but I have a feeling this will be the year of the backlash..both with review scores and possibly sales...

BLOPS was my least favorite CoD but the best selling, so I don't know.  Apparently, I can't judge these things.

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Thanks for the tips guys. I will try again later this evening.

Question. Remember the guy who we saved in the Church before fighting the Gargoyle? Well i ran into him again just below the fireshrine (or whatever) and decided to kill him......  Did I mess up? There was a tip left just before him that said beware of prisoner.
I got a ring and something else.

Spoiler for Hiden:

if you don't kill him he does some nasty stuff and you have to go after him to fix it, but you get his armor as well after you catch him.  I haven't done that yet.  Stuck on f'n gargoyles last night.[/stuck]

I used a guide to find the merchant in the undead berg too.  I would have never thought to look underneath crates and boxes.

That guy needs to take a marketing and promotions class.

OK, this made me LOL:

The STD bomb just makes it burn when they pee.

I have to play Terraria (PC) with my son.  He's been begging all week. I don't know why he can't just play with his brother.  This is why we had multiple children! So you could play with each other!

Can the non-magic starting characters eventually learn magic?  Or should I start a mage/pyromancer if I want to sling some spells?

Don't fight the skeletons.  Go to the right of the guy who sits by the fire.

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Got about 40 minutes in last night after all.  I'm having trouble getting used to the controls as I played Demon Souls on the PS3.  I hope the 360 control scheme grows on me as right now I'm hitting all the wrong buttons.  

Initial impressions are that this is a new chapter in the Demon Souls franchise...and that's fine by me.  

The moment I knew this?

Spoiler for Hiden:

Manage to figure out I'm supposed to run from Asylum Demon and finally make my way through the side passages only to emerge onto a ledge overlooking said Demon.  While looking down and thinking to myself, "There must be a way to kill him while I'm safe up here." the Asylum Demon performs an NBA level jump shot to my ledge, killing me in the process.  

Same thing happened to me. You need to be fast.

Spoiler for Hiden:

Read online that if you DO manage to kill him with your broken ass sword the first time you meet him, you get his giant hammer.  Oh also, when you are on the ledge, if you look down, you can see the demon staring right back up at you.

Should I ignore all this graffiti telling me to jump?

I hit X to attack too, and can't explain why.  I roll, then drink when I'm trying to backstab.

Is anyone really surprised that you are a compulsive drinker?

Picked this up at lunch today. Never played Demon Souls.

It's funny that Imperials are better at looting than everyone else.  Hey, you missed some coins hidden in his socks.  No thanks are necessary, it's what I do...finding extra coins.  I also speak on behalf of the Emperor, and can notarize documents. 

Skyrim is racist? Cancelling preorder.

I'm sorry. Pushing buttons really raises my heartrate. Anyone else find moving thumbsticks an exhausting test of endurance?

Only after a masturbation marathon.

So you think the kid will be trash talking more people any time soon?

Sure he will.  Just not someone who knows him personally.

Cancelled preorder for now since many of the people I play with cancelled.

We'll see how it shapes up after release.

If it's worth $20 to someone, why wouldn't they just preorder from Amazon?  so odd.

All 3 that I sold (1 was Nonnahob's) were to people in Canada.

I enjoyed the campaign in DI far better than GOW3, and I'm only halfway through DI and finished GOW3.

Open world and doing quests if far more satisfying than an 'on-rails, click three things, then click two things, now kill boss then click two things' campaign for me.  They also failed to explain something that I was hoping would get explained.

Don't suppose that they explain Kerrigan.. I mean Myrrah.

I sold 3 of 'em on ebay for $20 each. (1 for me, 2 for coworkers.)

If I had realized anyone here was interested, I'd have held mine back for 'em. Sorry!

King of Dragon pass coming to iOS this month? You people have failed me. I should have known about this sooner.
http://toucharcade.com/2011/08/31/king-of-dragon-pass-has-dinosaur-mounts-oh-and-its-also-coming-to-ios/

Also this Samurai Bloodshow game looks sweet.
http://toucharcade.com/2011/09/01/samurai-bloodshow/#comments

It's video and voice work that take up so much space.

3 tree textures put on a million trees don't take up much space.  I also hear they have a snow texture.

I'll be getting all of those and playing none of 'em because I have to choose between sleeping and gaming and usually choose sleeping.

Majesty is out but costs $4.19 from some reason and looks more like Tower Defense than I remember Majesty being.

I think it'll be all blown up and blurry anyway.  It seems to be the emulated PS1 version.

Got FFT.  Haven't had a chance to play much yet.  I forgot how SLOW FFT goes waiting for NPCs' turns.  I think there's an option to increase the speed of combat in here somewhere.