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I personally love MvC3. As a newer player, I appreciate the Simple Mode a lot. The art style isn't as bad as SF4 (the cel-shaded, ultra-defined muscles look kinda works for comic books), and aside from the voices (is there any fighting game that uses more than half a dozen phrases for a character? My god that gets old really REALLY fast), the sounds and music are excellent (both Classic and Dynamic). The only gripe I have about the X-Factor would be that it should only be activated as a last resort / limit-break. Like if you're trailing behind by at least 50% health with one defeated character. It really sucks when you're playing and some douchebag who ALREADY BEATING YOU activates X-factor and totally overkills you for no good reason.

Wii U needs to have some serious software support (besides titles I can readily get on 360/PS3) or I won't buy one. I got suckered by Nintendo for the Wii and ended up with a $250 Smash Bros./Zelda Machine. Actually just a Zelda machine. I have Smash on my laptop now

All of the DLC scales to your current level if I'm not mistaken. You could technically play all of the DLC at level 1 and it wouldn't be brutally hard.

I agree that BL2 is fine on its own, but some of the biggest shockers and events are related to characters that BL1 spent a lot of time developing. Also, I nearly cried when Jack blew off Bloodwing's head. Never would have thought that would have happened. On the downside, it also makes Roland's death and Lilith's capture seem like a weak attempt to raise the stakes. Characters from the first game in peril? Yeah, I just watched my mutated pet bird from the first game get it's head exploded. Nothing is gonna wreck me like that did. Also, "CATCH A RRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIDDE!!!!" Best Scooter part ever

My Assassin is a melee killing machine. Put almost everything into the Bloodshed (right) tree and I have a pistol with +100% melee damage, a relic with +6% melee damage, and a class mod with +27% melee damage. Basically anything around the same level as me dies from one melee strike . Oh, and that pistol also has a wicked fire rate and decent accuracy at long range. It's basically a compact assault-sniper gunblade. I LOVE THIS GAME.

I haven't had so much as a hiccup in performance, but my partner (Alexis) and I both have very reliable, fast internet connections.

Played last night online witha friend. I'm playing as Zer0 and I'm loving it. I played as Roland in the first one, so almost every firefight, I was sitting in the back dropping turrets and unloading clip after clip into enemies. Now I do a little sniping and let my partner whittle them down, then Deception and BAM!, sword through the throat. Very satisfying and a very different experience from the previous game.

This is so wrong I don't even know where to begin. The reason video game systems are called consoles rather than computers is that they are an all-included package that works seamlessly with a television to play games. Computers require a special monitor to operate (even though HDMI has made it much easier for computers to hook into TVs, it is far from standard on all machines). Computers and computer games evolve over time, meaning many games require up-to-date software and hardware to accomodate them. Computers use a large percentage of their memory and processing power to run a multi-task operating system. (When I say multi-task, I'm referring to the fact that they can run several high-end programs at once). Consoles work seamlessly with technology that people already own. Consoles almost never change, so games are required to work with the same hardware no matter what. Consoles use single-task operating systems that allow more processing power and memory to be used to run software. (Don't let stuff like background downloads and an in-game music player fool you, game consoles use significantly less memory and processing power for their OS and are not designed to do multiple high-end tasks.) To say consoles are just cheap computers is to not understand what a console is at all. To further the point, my Xbox 360 from 2005 runs Skyrim, Portal 2, and Borderlands with no problem. My laptop from 2009 required a RAM upgrade and a new operating system to run those same games. This is why consoles are very different from computers.

I just fail to see the appeal of this system. If I want to play games from my PC on my TV, I just plug in my DVI-HDMI converter cable. Retro emulation, indie games, AAA games, I can do it all from my TV for.....$40. Why would I spend over $100 for a device that does the same things?

Graphics are always important, but we've reached a critical mass where development costs concerning graphics are the driving force behind rising game prices. If game companies didn't need five artists to make the rust spots on a corrugated tin roof, games wouldn't be pushing the $70 mark. It only takes a handful of people to program a game. It takes a few dozen to make it look good.

THIS. FF8 was an excellent game, mediocre story and somewhat convoluted battle system, but had a gorgeous and extremely interesting universe that it took place in. I would love to play another story in that setting.

My favorite games this generation have been Xbox Live Arcade games. They're not graphically intensive, they're not 80+ hour megaquestingOMG. They're just solid, fun games that the developers obviously spent more time developing the actual gameplay and level design than the hairs on the back of the main character's neck. Square-Enix has taken almost every franchise (except Dragon Quest) from both companies and either killed it or turned it into complete crap and the original IP's have been even worse. I'm not going to say graphics are not important because visual fidelity is always something that can improve a game, but when you are sacrificing the actual game content for a prettier cutscene, you're doing it wrong. Personally, a major blow to a game (ESPECIALLY a game demo) is to clog up the beginning with a bunch of opening cutscenes and exposition. I don't want to watch a movie, I want to play the damn game. Stop making movies, and make a fucking video game.

I have the same reaction to this as Epic's Unreal 3 Samaritan demo and Nintendo's Zelda Wii U demo: "Wow it's pretty. Where are the games?"

If Nintendo has any sense, they will have a working Wii U to demonstrate on stage. No one, casual or hardcore, will buy a system if they can't see how it works with their own eyes.

Honestly, Nintendo needs to do a lot more than flashy graphics and weirdo controllers to win back the hardcore audience. XBox Live Arcade has had most of my favorite games this generation. Not because they're digital downloads, or because they are HD graphics, but because they are solid games that rely on actual gameplay rather than gimmicks and one-off features. Nintendo keeps piling on more gimmicks and novelty mechanics instead of solid games.

The is pretty cool, but nothing beats I Am The Doctor. had an interesting theme song.Battlestar Galactica's use of All Along the Watchtower as the foundation for .

This is easily my favorite OCR album (though I do have significant bias, Mega Man X is my all-time favorite series). So many good songs and a few tracks that are unexpectedly awesome despite my dislike of some source tracks.

I have a first gen iPod Touch that I use at work and and my car, but I prefer my iPad because it has more storage (64GB vs the 16GB iPod), I love the wireless headphones I use with it, and I like to use it without headphones when I'm doing dishes and such. Actually, the default file format in Windows has been NTFS since Windows 2000. NTFS is read-only with Mac. FAT is the only widely used file system that works on both. My external drives are all formatted in FAT since I dual boot Windows and Mac OS X.

Honestly I love more music from the past decade than any other time. Just not much mainstream stuff. A lot of progressive and power metal bands of recent years are doing some awesome stuff, while mainstream metal has been choking on the same stale crap since the 90's. Never been a fan of mainstream hip-hop, but damn there is some sweet shit below the radar. Rock 'n roll as we know it has been completely fragmented and is unrecognizable, but that hasn't stopped some pretty cool bands from emerging. Music as we have experienced it in the past has changed, but the good stuff is still out there, always has been, always will be.

+ The X Hunters concert + Portal sing-along with Ellen McLain while her husband played on a banjo + Acoustic jam session which was promptly ended by hotel staff at 4 am + OCR hotel block was awesome + Weather was freakin amazing. Walking around in a T-shirt in January + Having enough money to actually buy some cool souvenirs + Extra Creditz panel + OCR Panel and the announcement of Unsung Heroes + OCAD was even more hilarious than usual + Earthbound Papas concert + Seeing the best people on the internet irl! - My body does not respond well to little sleep, little food, and lots of alcohol and caffeine - Forgot my copy of Portal 2 for Ellen McLain to sign - OCR hotel block was kind of scattered, wish we could have all been closer together - Missed Armcannon because Extra Creditz panel went an hour and a half longer than expected (but was totally awesome!) - Quite literally passed out from exhaustion after the Earthbound Papas concert

I decided I wanted to make some Star Wars themed cars:

THREAD RESURRECTION! Also, any one who grew up in the 80's or early 90's will (hopefully) appreciate this... GO GO GADGETMOBILE!!

Same here. I requested the OCR block as soon as they announced that.

As I mentioned earlier, Alexis and I have a room with two spaces still open. Anybody who needs a room, just post here or PM me or Alexis.

Well, you can't go wrong with any of the Zelda games, especially anything after OoT. Bethesda and Bioware each offer a plethora of games that masterfully blend literally hundreds of narratives into a single wholesome experience. Square-Enix and Atlus have traditional RPG's down to a science. Action, tactical, turn-based, you name it. The Metroid series has always been a decent narrative as well (except Other M. Stay far away from that garbage)