I think part of the problem is that almost all games shown at E3 are shown in a barely-working way.  There is tons of smoke and mirrors, throw away work and duct tape holding things together in that crunch to get a demo ready for a trade show with a game that is still in production.  And no producer or media person is going to tell you that the feature they are touting hasn't even been started yet, or that the level they're showing off was specially made for that scripted demo, or the million other things that still need to be done before the game ships.

Differentiating that "normal" process from what Gearbox/Sega did is going to be problematic and potentially have a huge impact on the industry.

Yes!   

Also, I did try to even post a reply to this last night that I got the error making the post, but I kept getting the error when trying to go into the thread to reply as well.  

Still hating those main characters.  Kind of sad that the most relatable one is a psychopath.  

This game was the only reason I saw to buy a PS4 at launch. Didnt know it was coming out on every platform. Now I see no reason not to wait for a ps4.

Well, with this coming out November 19th, and I'm assuming the new consoles will hit around then as well if they want to get in on the Black Friday sales madness, you probably won't have to wait for a PS4 much, if at all.

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Probably Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon for the PC.

Thanks for the impressions, JZ.  I have considered buying both this game and WRC3 for the PC online, but keep resisting hoping they will come out on Steam or hit the consoles in the US. 

Good to hear that there is more to the career than just running rallies.  I really like rally games but I'm not particularly good at them sometimes.  

Are you just playing with the normal 360 controller?

Hmm, it sounds like the handling of this expansion has not exactly been smooth or bulletproof.  I haven't started playing yet and I wonder if I should just wait for a patch to clear up some of these issues.

The site seems to be very slow again today.  Clicking on a forum or thread can take from 10 to 30 seconds to resolve. 

Not seeing the same behavior on other sites so I'm assuming it is the GT backend and not my internet.

They have released several other videos that show plenty more gameplay as well.  Although, if you're playing an EDF game for the graphics you are doing it wrong. 

Yeah, this is being developed by Sandlot, so it should be much closer to EDF 2017 in style and content.  I'm definitely excited about this one.  

It looks like they are releasing in July for Japan but no date set for US/Europe.  Hopefully it hits before the new consoles.

I got Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen. 

Cool, nice to see it comes with all the extra little DLCs too.  I'll also be starting over as a new character I think for this one.  Should be fun!

I have to say I'm kind of disappointed in the lack of responses here.  Maybe that's because of the ambiguity as previously stated?  Who knows, but I guess I expected more people to at least show some interest in the site's future.

Yikes, I just read the GT review and I have to say I'm glad I didn't buy this already.  Only 2 hours long, and not even a great 2 hours?   The turn based stuff is even worse than usual?    That's a pass for sure, heh.

Personally, I don't whitelist any site for ads anymore, including GT, for security, performance and just plain general browsing enjoyment.  When the text auto-link stuff was done here I took GT off my list.  I only want to see and follow links that people put in purposefully, not some random direct link to an ad or sales page.  I know what Call of Duty is, I don't need a skeezy auto-link to purchase it from Dealzorz.

I also really dislike the obvious attempts from other sites to garner extra page views with sexy images, controversial headlines, making you click through multi-page galleries, etc and appreciate that GT doesn't really do that.  I make a conscious effort not to click on articles obviously created that way and try not to visit sites that do those things (though I do still frequent a few sites like Kotaku for up-to-the-minute news, as much as I despise their practices).

So having said that, I would much rather just support GamingTrend directly with a donation like we've done in the past.  That kind of money not only goes directly to the site (no sharing with shady ad agencies or advertisers) and doesn't encourage crappy article writing tactics, but it is also probably orders of magnitude larger than what my ad views would be worth. 

Not everybody can or will do that, but some certainly would.  The GT forums are generally populated by people who are well out of college and make a decent living, so for those that can afford it I don't see a problem with spending a few bucks a month for a "subscription" here. 

I don't know what the answer is for traffic that only visits the front page, though.  Clearly it seems like there is a very large amount of the audience that never sees the forums or engages with the site beyond reading an article, so I'm sure you'd have to keep some ads there. 

Although the holiday date varies from year to year, the battles that started the American Revolution were fought on April 19. Anti-government zealots have made that date a rallying point (see Waco, Oklahoma City). That, and the coincidence with tax day, is the main reason that my first hunch was right-wing domestic terrorism.

This also happens to be my birthday, so there tends to be a lot of "interesting" events around that date. 

I had never heard of the Patriots Day holiday, though.  I guess you east coasters just do whatever the hell you want. 

Its basically Men In Black, with Jeff Bridges as Tommy Lee Jones and Ryan Reynolds as Will Smith.  Swap aliens with undead and youre good to go. 

That seems like a very accurate description from that trailer.  And for as weird as those undead look they might as well be aliens.

That video is private. 

Quick Question; was it a public Holiday for you guys on Monday?

Nope.  Nothing special about it other than it was the normal deadline for turning in taxes.

The fact that they're choosing candidates based on 1-minute videos and it's also going to be a reality show also means they are totally going to get the most qualified scientist minds for the job.  

Patton Oswald doing an 8+ minute Star Wars filibuster on Parks and Recreation  

I tried that a couple days ago.  I’ve purchased lots of things from GMG and never had a problem but for some reason this time my bank put a hold on my account when I tried it. 

GMG is a European company, so if you have international charge blocking or similar it can do that.  Or maybe just automatic fraud detection.  I totally forgot I had that on my account until it got blocked from purchasing on GMG one time.  From then on I just used Paypal direct transfer.

Still seems silly to me, although no sillier than any currency system.

Is this just basically running a random number generator that randomly gets you a bitcoin?

No, it's more complex than that: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin_mining#Bitcoin_mining

Huh, for some reason I kept waiting for them to release the definitive expansion that would make me want to pick the game back up.  I guess now I'll have to play Dragonborn at least.

The recent Giant Bomb Quick look of Terraria was pretty terrible.  Brad clearly didn't know how to play it and wasn't even putting torches on any of the walls.

I'm not sure Escape Plan is any more generic than The Tomb.  I guess it at least sounds like an action movie.  I hear The Tomb and kind of assume it's some crappy horror flick.

I haven't pirated much of anything (TV, movie, game, software) for ~10 years.  Since college when I had no money, basically.  Even then I made an effort not to for most things besides music.

Ever since getting into the software industry I have made a pretty solid effort not to pirate anything.  In the past I had done a file server with friends to share music, but if there were ever albums that I tried and enjoyed I would just buy them to have legitimate copies and delete the ones I didn't care for.

I'm also finally at a point in my life where if I think I will enjoy something, I have the money to buy/rent it.  I don't subscribe to cable, so I pay $20-30 for downloading full seasons of a couple different shows.  I think that's reasonable for the amount of enjoyment I get out of them, and I feel like the money is better spent there than cable anyway (ie: more of it goes to the people/company making that content).

I don't pirate games and in fact often buy multiple copies of ones I really enjoy to do my part to support an industry I enjoy and participate in.

I agree that not making Game of Thrones available for download/streaming/purchase has been a terrible mistake by HBO.  You can't complain about being the most pirated show and not give people a legitimate way to pay you money for the same service.  However, I don't feel like buying the full seasons after the fact are too pricey.  When they were brand new I was able to get  both Blu-Ray sets for about $30 each, which is not a bad price at all.

Yeah, I have a tendency with open world games to spend a lot of time between missions just futzing around.  And there are so many secrets and things to find here that I did spend a lot of time doing that. 

How does this game not have grouping?  You know, people might want to play on the same team with their friends...

Well, the game is still in beta.    There is a party system in development that will be released before the game is considered non-beta.

I finished the story last week at just barely over 50%, and I guess I would say that the story lasted longer than I expected.  That may be because I saw how many chapters there were online while I was still in the middle and kept expecting it to be nearly over from then on.  Plus I spent a lot of time doing extra things during that first run through, when I could have probably done it much quicker ignoring all of that and only doing the secrets on a second run through.

I also spent another several hours getting somewhere close to 65% (my game locked up again the last time I played so I'm not sure).  There is definitely a ton of additional play time for those that want it, but I don't know that I'll be going back.

I can see why Kate Upton is ogled by many and considered gorgeous, and I hate to agree with ATB (), but she is also not my cup of tea.  C'est la vie.

Sorry to hear of all the troubles, Ron.  I sure hope your wife is feeling better soon and everything works out for the best in the long run! I'm sure it's super stressful right now, though!

Plus it's a Steam game anyway, so you still get it on their service. 

That's quite a different story from those that said the game is only 6 hours long.  Did you spend a lot of time backtracking already?

Finally an official reveal trailer too.

I was able to play for about an hour last night (on the Vita) and it's definitely fun.  I do wonder if I'm going to quickly get frustrated, though, not being able to do lots of crazy combos and stuff.  I'm pretty terrible at fighting games and things that require quick combos of multiple directions and buttons, and I can definitely see lots of that here even in the platforming. 

After having tried the Motocross Madness trial, nothing.

That bad?  Maybe we should start a thread discussing it. 

Yes, I'm definitely in!  I really enjoyed District 9 and this looks like more of the same sci-fi goodness.