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  1. DAMN was the beginning of the game slow as all hell, but thankfully learning everything as I went through levels was easy and fun, and the main quest story lines are pretty decent as well.

    One thing I HATE about FFXIV at the moment is the dungeons and the requirement to complete them to progress through the story. If you're familiar with dungeons, you need a tank, a healer, and 2 DPS classes to enter a dungeon (either by duty finder or self-made party).

    Unless you're a healer/tank, it's going to take a long time to find a party through duty finder depending on time of day. I've waited in queue for over half an hour as a lancer and I still haven't been able to progress through my story because of it.

    Other than that, game is fun.

  2. I beleive both XBO and PS4 use customized/more advanced versions of AMD "APUs" (Combined CPU/GPU), but PS4's is slightly more powerful (and GDDR5 is better for graphics Vs the DDR3 in XBO which is better for general tasks)

    APUs aren't very great for PCs, but for a console where you can squeeze out power from every corner of a chip they are a pretty good low cost solution, and lead both console manufacturers on a good upgrade path (Backwards Compatibility will probably come back next gen)

    Most people have compared the raw GPU power of PS4 to the Radeon HD 7850 and the XBO to the Radeon HD 7770. Keep in mind, PS3 was equivalent of a 7800GTX and the 360 is around Radeon X1900 and they've been powering most of today's games with these ancient GPUs (and 512MB/256MB of RAM) so while none of this sounds impressive to a PC user, these units are gigantic leaps in power for a console and since console games are (generally) fully optimized for the hardware, should run circles around a PC of the same spec. 7850 and even 7770 are no slouch in the first place

    There will probably not be a gigantic difference between XBO/PS4 honestly, especially for 3rd party titles. PS4/XBO are crazy similar to each other.

    If it's comparable to a Radeon HD 7850 (retail $160-$180) than now I'm starting to wonder how they'll manage to pull a profit from the consoles.

  3. I think Diablo 3 at launch was a very good game, but the lategame was lacking compared to what we expected from D2X. Like playing through the game once or twice initially was very fun, but then by Inferno there were a lot of problems that needed to be addressed. The subsequent patches have helped tremendously - it's almost like an expansion pack's worth of content in and of itself (new bosses, new legendaries, rebalanced skills, monster power, paragon levels, brawling system). So the xpack should be really good.

    I really should get back into D3 to see how they've addressed the stupidly huge discrepancy between Act 1 and Act 2 of Inferno Mode.

    I've spent many hours chain-farming Act 1 in hopes I would get actually decent gear but no matter what upgrades I got, I would always get decimated by the Act 2 mobs :puppyeyes:

    Although, this was roughly a year ago so I have faith the devs have done something about that small issue.

  4. It is a very pretty game. The artwork is gorgeous. Gameplay is pretty brutal. Regular enemies are brianless and dont pose much of a threat whereas Boss monsters beat the snot out of you, if you are at least a Sorceress.

    Sounds like every other beat-em-up kinda game I've played. As long as the bosses are hard and I have something to do for a good 20 hours I'm sold.

  5. It's fun going to a Gamestop. Usually nice employees who are comfortable to speak with, knowledgeable with their jobs and always handles things in a professional tone and manner.

    Can't stand the shit-head customers Gamestop seems to attract though.

  6. Yeah, this album is really close to done. It's basically just waiting on me, XPRTNovice, and Hat's finale. I'm gonna have to follow up with these people (including myself!) to find out when these songs can be completed. :-)

    You tease

    In all seriousness, this year is going to get bombarded with albums at this rate. Can't wait :D

  7. see the thing about fiora is that her entire kit is designed around outputting as much damage as possible as quickly as possible; building tank or bruiser items on her is a waste, because it lets her stay alive long enough to not CC anybody and do insignificant amounts of damage

    if you want to play as a bruiser or a tank, play as a bruiser or a tank; don't pick a fuckin' melee carry and waste everyone's time

    also I'm currently silver IV

    Fiora's kit is designed for her to explode into a puddle of mud as soon as she comes into contact with CC. Unless you can either mitigate incoming CC and damage(or dodge whatever flies at you) you're about as useless as a minion, especially given that Fiora has no CC skills to begin with.

    At the least if you are to play the bruiser role you'd be able to last long enough to focus an important target down if you can time your Burst of Speed CD and Blade Waltz correctly until you finally go down.

    Having pure damage items and playing the role of AD melee carry means that as soon as you go in, you're on your own because she has no means to escape (see Talon and his silence/slow/ultimate). If you get caught, you will explode unless you can outrun or flash out of the way.

    Just like any of the other champs, Fiora can be anything you feel like playing. Throwing any champ into any category is pointless.

  8. Don't think this has been brought up, but what happens if I want to lend a game to a friend? Is it the same deal where he/she has to pay an activation fee, and then in order for me to play it when I get it back, I have to pay the fee also? That's terrible.

    I believe so far...

    - You buy game, download it to your XBOX HDD and register it to your XBOX live account.

    - Friend borrows CD, has to pay full price (according to sources by Blue Magic in earlier posts) and than has to register through XBOX live and download to own HDD.

    So both you and your friend have a registered game under your accounts downloaded to your individual HDD's and that should be it. The CD is useless unless someone else also wants the full game to buy.

    According to Angry Joe's rant, you don't have to keep an internet connection onto your XBOX BUT they do have to keep check with the internet at least once every 24 hours to make sure the registered user is on their own account.

    Anybody correct me if I'm wrong, which i'm sure I am :-D

  9. Delays just happen.

    At least we have an update

    Of what's going on.

    I can't wait either,

    But I've learnt to deal with it,

    See it run the course.

    You should do the same.

    That pledge to the kickstarter

    Will be worth it, yes?

    Trust me when I say

    This album will blow your minds.

    Better be ready!

    (Sorry about that

    But this is appropriate.

    Haikus ftw.)

    Metal collab with Brandon with them haiku's? yes? :-)

    On topic: I never realized how much work goes into an OCremix album. Thank you Zirc and pals for your hard work :grin:

  10. Wrong. A lot of PC games these days have to be activated through Steam when you buy them retail.

    I've already said this.

    Once they're activated, you still have to download them. Look at Skyrim.

    By retail, you mean a physical copy out of a Gamestop? You still have to go through Steam to activate it?

  11. A brief explanation of the "game fees."

    Guys, do you remember when we used to buy a video game system and a video game, and when we got home, we hooked the system up, stuck the video game in the system, then the system played the goddamn game?

    As expected, full price. Maybe if the price shaved a few dollars it may help sell quite a few copy's to make up for a reduced mark-up.

    Would buying an XBOXUNO be worth it if one physical disk from a friend could be used as a cheaper way to get games? Maybe, but with a limited lineup of games set for the the console (for now), well that's up to you to decide.

    As a PC-chump I can't ever see myself buying an XBOXOne given the circumstances.

    EDIT: Make more music. Please? :D

  12. Yan-ffix.png

    Imagine seeing this little guy for the first time. Now imagine this cute little angry-faced sheep thing summon comets, spew viruses, and kick out party members from the battle. So adorably terrifying, I guarantee you'll be laughing your head off from your party getting devastated from a Yan.

    Than there's this guy.

    FF8_Jumbo_Cactuar.png

    EDIT: Any idea how to make pictures smaller? these guys are HUGE!

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