Behind Kriv, Jett stands and nods at what the Dragonborn says. This is the best move for them all to take and he knows it.

[PS3:]

I really should trim the consoles out of here that just don't get anything on a weekly basis...

PS3:
Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk
MLB 13: The Show
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3
Tomb Raider

PSP:

PSV:
MLB 13: The Show

360:
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 3
Tomb Raider

Wii:

WiiU:
The Amazing Spider-Man: Ultimate Edition

DS:

3DS:
Castlevania: Lords of Shadow - Mirror of Fate
Naruto Powerful Shippuden

PC:
SimCity
The Showdown Effect
The Sims 3 Plus University Life
Tomb Raider

What are you buying this week?

Next thing you know you'll have to like, pay a quarter every few minutes just to keep playing. Out of quarters? Can't play anymore, sucker.  I can't believe nobody has ever thought to do this.

Or in this case, spend $503 in order to get everything:

http://www.148apps.com/news/503-ios-racing-game-shocking-reality-iap-real-racing-3/

I can not stand when games have a mechanic limiting your ability to play. They no longer qualify as games. They are treadmills.

Agreed.

Also, I'm starting to completely and truly despise 'F2P' games because most games of that type are just complete and total money grabs. They try to get hordes of cash from your wallet in any way they can, and it becomes just pure greed so quickly.

Just sell your damn game for a reasonable price and I might buy it. F2P? I'll play it for a bit, realize just how badly they want to fuck you over, then say screw it and complain about it.

I generally love Eurogamer's reviews. There tends to be a very good reason why some title got a good (or really bad) score, and they hammer that part in. They're one of my go-to review sites right off the bat because of it. And they don't have the 'bribed' feeling of IGN/Gamespot sometimes.

Can't tell you how many times my DnD party of Dragon, Death Knight, Mage and Dragon Knight had to fight a rampaging Archer and Barbarian.

Close call, my friend. That archer is a BITCH to kill.

*reads, looks at poster on wall* *reads again, looks again*

...wow, that just totally works. The question is solved!

Im guessing they are going to have a hell of a time getting the rights to do it, quite honestly. 

Yeah, that's what I meant. Of course the Kickstarter succeeded (and fast!) - it's all about getting the rights to basically 'broadcast' the movie and then poke fun at it while doing it and such.

Also, yes, their live events are fantastic. New content over their usual riffs, plus you get to be all around people who will laugh at the silliness as well!

I saw this and I went all totally and threw money at them immediately.

I do hope they get to do this live. Twilight is one of their funniest riffs.

[PS3:]

PS3:
MUD - FIM Motocross World Championship

PSP:

PSV:
MUD - FIM Motocross World Championship
Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2 Plus
Super Brain Eat 3 (PSN)

360:
MUD - FIM Motocross World Championship
Top Hand Rodeo Tour
Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds (XBLA)

Wii:

WiiU:

DS:

3DS:
Etrian Odyssey IV: Legends of the Titan

PC:
BIT.TRIP Presents: Runner 2: Future Legend of Rhythm Alien
Brutal Legend
MUD - FIM Motocross World Championship

What are you going to buy this week?

Kriv is not keen on the idea of these plans...He would rather see the Legate be tried in a court, the fashion of old Osradin, for his war crimes.

Too bad we don't have such a thing.

And you know Jett's thought. But he won't say anything without deciding with the others first.

Frankly, social integration is likely going to be part of Microsoft's plan as well. If you think stuff like Facebook and Twitter, etc. are "flash in the pan" welcome to 2 years ago. The various channels have barely scratched the surface of what can be done in terms of targeted marketing, and believe me, THAT is what is driving this more than anything else.

Well, as far as social integration goes, it can all go to hell. I find it pointless, annoying, and a complete waste of time. I don't give a damn what anyone is doing in 140 characters or less, or what they ate for breakfast, or pretty much anything.

Scary random tidbit - I have Facebook trying to get me to sign up BY NAME (and the names of some people I know) because somebody somewhere put in my e-mail address (or Facebook yanked it from one of them or something). Yeah, that's not creepy at all.

Another problem for these consoles, if they continue to go up into the 400- 500 range, and with powerful desktops cheaper than ever, they have more than just each other to compete against. Why pay 500 for these consoles, when you can pay a little more for a desktop that blows their doors off?

Exactly! And PC games are going to get a huge step forward in how they look as well, simply because they won't just be 'higher resolution textures and AA and that's about it' when it comes to being a 'port' of the consoles. It can properly be the lead console and just ported over to the consoles (because the PS4 and no doubt the 720) will just 'be' PCs in their guts.

By the way, when did they reveal the boomerang controller? Who knows if the controller will still look this way when the actual console launches.

The controller as shown is the controller. They brought it out on stage, showed it off, etc. It is the final controller.

And the specs of the PS4 are out (very sorta):

http://www.scei.co.jp/corporate/release/pdf/130221a_e.pdf

Or an AMD 8 core processor (so a 4 core with 'hyper-threading or whatever AMD calls it, unknown speed)
An ATI Radeon graphic card that can do 1.84 TFLOPS (exact one unknown)
8GB of GDDR5 RAM (so the stuff normally in graphic cards)
HD (of unknown size)
6x Blu-Ray drive, 8x DVD drive (read only on both)

Nothing to do with Aliens:CM? BULLSHIT.

That said - part of it? Most definitely. All of it? I'm guessing there's something else going on.

I'm sure I've got some ps1 saves from the 90s that have been copied over to my ps3.

I know I do. Will I ever play them again? I doubt it. But it's there.

As far as the PC side of things go...I'd have to dig around. I might have even older.

...

I'll be honest - this guy has one hell of a possible 'way out' and such to make our future a positive one. It might not be as easy as he thinks, but if he thinks he can do it...

Jett feels that it's a move we need to take. There's no way we can survive another invasion. And the fact that we survived this one is nothing but pure luck. Which can and will not hold out.

Is it the best solution? Not entirely. But it's a very, very positive outcome.

No native PS3 support knocks it down a peg.  are they going to make you rebuy all your old games for the everything everywhere idea?

Personally what I think they're aiming for with their cloud support is this:

Take your PS1/PS2/PS3 disc and toss it into the PS4 (it should be able to read those no problem). Then it'll activate the 'cloud service' that Sony owns (whatever it's called), and it'll stream it to your PS4/Vita/tablet/whatever.

The PS4 can go into a low-power mode for background patching/downloading. And no doubt can activate to full power over wi-fi (again, like PCs can do). So that's how it'll be able to verify you own said disc from anywhere in the world, and stream it to whatever device you want.

Also, PS3 backwards compatibility was IMPOSSIBLE this gen. Period. WAY too much of a core console change. I don't expect it out of the 720 either, although it has a somewhat decent chance (as the 360 was more or less a PC, but not quite).

so... a look at the actual console?

Nope. None of that tonight and honestly I didn't expect it. Hopefully we'll get it at E3.

But what do we know? It'll have a PC processor, a PC graphic card, 8GB of RAM, a Hard Drive, and a suspend/hibernate mode. All like a PC.

So IMHO, the 720 is going the same way - it'll be a PC. Yeah, it'll drastically boost console gaming quality this generation (and make the PC look really, really good too), but our consoles aren't 'consoles' anymore. They're a lot of other things.

Oh, and the WiiU? The only games it'll get are Nintendo exclusives, console exclusives, and ports of PS3/360 titles. It's dead. And even more dead if the PS4/720 launch this year.

The crowd is not laughing at anything and barely clapping it seems to me.

It's not really a media presentation AFAIK. Yeah, the media are all there, but this isn't like E3. So CNN and other TV crews are all there too.

At least my guess.

And Destiny will work on the PS4 and the PS3? Why in the world would you limit yourself that badly? Just put it out on the PS4/Xbox 720.

Diablo 3...blows. What a waste.

[Spoiler]

I won this poster by being one of the first people to enter in on a contest for when Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven came out. Basically like 15 minutes in a code shows up and you mail it off:



(not my picture of it)

Now, take a good close look at it. Tell me exactly where everyone is in relation to each other. Depth included. Who is looking at what, where, why, and how?

Slightly better quality pic in here based off of the title screen (but smaller)

Spoiler for Hiden:

Still a cool poster. Still have mine up to this day. I just never think of the logistics of it as it gives me a headache.

I see them as both as well.

Capable of standing on two feet and use their hands to attack, and then they can drop down to all fours to run like the wolf they are (without shifting into a full on 'wolf' look).

The Skyrim werewolf shows that quite well.

We're on a game roll here, so:

Well, my first real experience (short of maybe as a young kid, as both of my parents worked at one point in the local Michigan police force) with guns is when I found out that my 95 year old Grandmother owned a at least 20 year old (by that point) Taurus .38 Cal Special short-barrel. 5 round double action revolver (so no firing pin to pull back before pulling the trigger if you'd like), extremely hard to pull said trigger, and absolutely terrible accuracy (seriously - the bullet spins out of control past about 10 feet, and that's with brand new ammo). Uncle found the gun hidden away in a drawer somewhere after she passed away, and I decided to take it.

Frankly I can't imagine my Grandparents owning such a weapon. And the thing is so absurdly difficult to actually use (not to mention a joke on accuracy), there was no chance either of them could actually fire the thing when they bought it.

Anyhow - I myself own a 9mm Springfield XDM 4.5 pistol. I've put a few hundred rounds through it at the local range over the years, like how it feels, and I'm a decent enough shot with it. And while it doesn't leave the house short of going to the range and back, I do keep it loaded and tucked away, ready for use.

I'm off only because I'm on vacation. Otherwise, no, not a holiday. Too many idiots out there who wait until they're completely out of their life-extending medication before they wander into my pharmacy to get more.

[PS3:]

Sorry for the delay. That's what happens when you take a week of vacation from work and completely forget what day it is.

PS3:
Crysis 3
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Capcom Arcade Cabinet (PSN)
Urban Trial Freestyle (PSN)

PSP:
Generation of Chaos: Pandora's Reflection
Hakuoki: Warriors of the Shinsengumi

PSV:
Urban Trial Freestyle (PSN)

360:
Crysis 3
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Capcom Arcade Cabinet (XBLA)
Serious Sam Double D XXL (XBLA)

Wii:

WiiU:
F-Zero (WiiUShop)

DS:

3DS:

PC:
A Valley Without Wind 2
Crysis 3
March of the Eagles
Renaissance Heroes
The Bridge

What are you buying this week?

Just give me Roadshow and I'll be a happy pinball player.

Co-op and multiplayer (multiplayer especially) are the best parts of the game. It's the single player campaign that everyone (except for that laughable EGM 'wrote the review from previews and trailers that other sites posted' ''''''review'''''') absolutely hates.

And the console versions are at best ports of the PC version. And very bad ones, too.

This game has my interest. The Foundry alone should give me hours and hours of entertainment (as a creator). I might fork out some money for one of the Founder's Packs to get beta access. Does that let me try the Foundry as well, or do I have to get the most expensive Founder Pack or reach level 15 during one beta weekend?

In the first beta (last weekend) Foundry access was disabled for creation. But you could still play a few adventures that the closed beta testers (those who have been testing before that weekend and are still testing now) made.

Do not pay Cryptic money strictly for beta access. Only give them money if you want the extra goodies it comes with. IMHO, NW will launch very soon after the third beta test that the pack offers (so early April).

So, why was the game such a piece of junk? If it can be believed, this Reddit might explain a few things:

http://www.reddit.com/r/LV426/comments/18ewf4/a_lot_of_you_are_rightfully_upset_at_the_final/

Make of it what you will. But if you trust the source, it makes a lot of sense.

I came away really impressed from the few hours I spent, aside from needing a few more classes, the game seemed pretty much ready for release.

Yeah, it really needs more classes (launching with just 5?) and races (no Dragonborn in a 4e game?), but beyond that NW is very solid and a lot of fun. And with the Foundry...oh boy. The players will go nuts with it.

Well maybe they'll actually sell a HD at a reasonable price (instead of 2 to 3 times laptop HD prices), or failing that, include a nice big one. So all games are just installed to a HD.

I do think I will NEED to play co-op at some point... haven't read up on it though.. is it drop-in/drop-out type? If I drop out am I replaced with AI?
Hopefully my wife like it... She played AVP a few times with me...

From my understanding from reading reviews, no, it is not drop-in/drop out. If you leave (or the connection fails), the mission just aborts. Also, you're not replacing an AI character (you're adding in another person), which makes things even easier. And also makes maps more crowded and such.

From reviews though...

"Game over, man! Game over!"

For some reason EGM gave it a 90 and called it "a big event for the genre" or something. Next highest review is in the 60s. Can you say payoff?

No kidding. That entire review reads like an Amazon.com product placing with no actual meat in it in the slightest. Go read the comments (before they all get removed) for a few good laughs.

Next highest score (at least for the moment) to that is a 65/100, which includes Ron's review. Which frankly seems like a much more accurate score if you were a fan of the Aliens series. Eurogamer's review (30/100, lowest score) is as usual extremely critical of things.

Talk about just a total failure of a game in the end.

Well, that also means that Microsoft can go say that it sold out everywhere. Which I thought I heard I did.

Hey, I haven't watched Aliens in like forever, okay?

Also blame Neverwinter. I was playing that up until nearly beta close yesterday. Lots of fun.

[PS3:]

It's all over, man! All over!

PS3:
Aliens: Colonial Marines

PSP:

PSV:

360:
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Omerta: City of Gangsters   

Wii:

WiiU:

DS:

3DS:
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed

PC:
Aliens: Colonial Marines
Impire
Omerta: City of Gangsters
Ys I & II Chronicles

What are you buying this week?

This is the very definition of nitpicking and I certainly won't stop playing Skyrim because of it, but I wish there was a mod or dlc that allowed you to start a character who isn't the dragonborn so I could just roam around and quest without all that overhead.

There is AFAIK. Also, you can do that yourself - just once you start the game, never visit the next quest giver. The world will wait, no dragons will invade, etc etc.

[Neverwinter]

Beta testing Neverwinter.

12 noon PST get here faster!

so, the Dragonborn DLC hits PC tomorrow and I'm torn.  I want to play right away, but I also imagine something this big will break many mods.  does Steam Workshop identify mods that aren't up to date and remove them until they are?

No.

And I know I won't get this at launch - my mods change way too many core aspects of gameplay. But I'll pick it up eventually.

Now to go back to my PC save where I (still) haven't actually finished the game (or gotten anywhere close). And I've only played for 175 hours. Maybe I'll go visit Dawnguard for a while...