I still play WoW, believe it or not.Originally Posted by RandBlade
I do recommend you try it. It's pretty good gaming experience and the social side of it can be great. If you ever give it a shot - let me know. You could join the server I'm on and I could lend you a hand should you need it!
Other than the fact that I have (well, had) to use wasd navigation because it bitched that some of my numpad keys were "reserved" and the UI thing? No, the controls for Skyrim are shit, utter shit.
Fucking Bethseda. "Pay us money for our product, and then some teenager with more skill than our entire dev team will fix some of our [more glaring and heinous] fuck-ups in a free, 3rd party, unsupported mod."
If turning up the mouse speed doesn't work, fiddling with the in-game mouse sensitivity settings. (Generally, more sensitivity translates to "slower" mouse movements.) Might have something to do with your cursor seemingly jumping around too.
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"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
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WASD is the only proper way to navigate anything anyways. Anything else is simply wrong. I'm glad Skyrim is supporting a proper education in this regard.
First thing I did when starting playing was changing the direction keys to the number pad.
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WASD is proper old-school gaming, doesn't bother me. Hoping to get it for PS3 or 360 for Christmas though.
Go back to your console, hippie.First thing I did when starting playing was changing the direction keys to the number pad.
Number pad? But why? WASD is old-school gaming?
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I could have been somebody. Instead of a bum
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I am too accustomed to using a keyboard and mouse (WASD) to be able to play any console games without getting totally frustrated with controller.
Yes I am a dinosaur.
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If you can afford $5.33 for the Humble Bundle, you get 12 indie games and some soundtracks, plus Steam keys. Two of the games are in the Steam Holiday achievement for today.
Not a bad deal.
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Finally post something useful in this thread. Aside from the occasional League of Legends, I recently bought skyrim (J/k) I bought Batman Arkham Asylum off steam for 5 bucks. It's the older one (not the newer one). Looks like a lot fun, still tryin' to install it, but I am excited for it. Apparently it combines alittle bit of detective work/puzzles into the storyline/fights. Came recommended by friends, and had like a 91/100 metagame score so sounds good. If it can pass through that many filters and be rated good, more than likely it'll pass my filter as well.
Arkham Asylum is great. Got Arkham City for Christmas looks great so far. Also got Skyrim but not starting that yet and amongst others a 3DS plus Super Mario 3D Land which seems great.
Skylanders.
Good for the boy, not a game I would play by myself, but GREAT to play with him.
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That the one with the collectible toys? Looks good fun for a kid.
Starting in on the new Star Wars mmo from Bioware. Playing for real rather than doing late-stage beta testing. Love all the dialog, hate the lack of inventory tools.
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Yep, it's Pokemon that you can actually hold in your hand...
The Boy's biggest issue is he keeps swapping out the mini's in mid play so they don't gain levels as fast. (though they do remember what xp they already earned)
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Not really, since I don't play it anymore, and that was one of the big reasons. I use *my* software on *my* hardware the way *I* want to do it, and anything that won't get on board with my way of doing things goes back to the manufacturer or gets "archived" in dev/null.
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
Been playing the Old Republic MMO.
I like it so far..like WoW a bit, but with a story.
Good start for a vanilla MMO launch.
Not really. They're having a huge unplanned downtime right now, in addition to the planned downtime. Which they can't tell people about properly, because at least the German version's status update ends in mid sentence in the launcher (Roughly quoted: "If you want to know more please" and that's it)Been playing the Old Republic MMO.
I like it so far..like WoW a bit, but with a story.
Good start for a vanilla MMO launch.
But if you make your way on your own to the official site, you're told that you have to queue. On. A. Website.... Queues. The mind boggles.
Not to mention that the planned downtimes also take down the official site.
I mean, it's sort of shaming for a company if they have to distribute their messages over a 3rd party service (i.e. Twitter).
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Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
It's still a good launch.
Extended maintenance isn't rare or unexpected, can't think of a single MMO I've played that hasn't had it.
Vanilla WoW wasn't nearly as smooth, (much as I love WoW, it's true.)
Been playing since release without so much as a DC so far, just the occasional salvage bug here and there.
Can't speak for your experience, but mine's been good.
And yeah, the website queue is weird..never seen that before.
EDIT: Servers are up.
Queueing is better than poor service.
Went back to playing Clash of Heroes. Surprisingly good game. And bug-free, unlike Heroes VI.
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Uh, instead of serving this "queue" webpage, they could've also served a static website which told the people coming there what was really going on.
Also, scaling of web servers is not exactly rocket science - plenty of big companies like Amazon and Microsoft manage just fine. I'd expect a software giant like EA to be better than that.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
Its EA, you get both. The queue commonly gets so long that it hammers the service enough to cause disconnects as soon as you get passed to a rep, or the rep completely ignores the question and disconnects after proving a completely unrelated answer (keeping personal chat time below a threshold?).
Origin support has always been a joke.
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Steam holiday sales got to me, too
But Solar 2 is a very fun game!
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The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
I've enjoyed the few minutes of it that I've played so far.
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Downloading now ...
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Reviews are looking sweet.
Seems most of the elements that made WoW the MMO benchmark are there.
Won't get to play today, but maybe tomorrow.
25GB download. Hm.
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Might do a small LAN party with some neighbours - we thought Civ V would be nice for multiplayer - but does anyone know how long a multiplayer game in there roughly takes? And how does setting it to the fastest mode change the gameplay? Because we probably don't want 12+ hour games..
Keep on keepin' the beat alive!
A game of four or five player-controlled civs on a small map is still probably going to take you a fair while. And the MP is not that great, even with the last two patches being primarily MP support. I recently stopped doing a series of cooperative games with one friend of mine on standard maps and most games took us probably about twelve to fifteen hours to complete.
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Just finished my first flashpoint The Esseles - pretty nicely done. Though a tad on the long side, for a starter instance. At this point, one does not actually need specialized roles, so it doesn't matter if you put 2 tanks or 1 dps and a healer into the group. With the suggested amount of players (2 in this case), the boss fights can be a bit hairy and you also need to look out for enemy groups you don't want.
The mechanic with the story telling is solved in an interesting way - during solo play you can choose the way the conversation progresses by choosing one of three options. It's the same inside a flashpoint, only that everyone who participates in a discussion (and you can choose not to participate actively) chooses his answer - and then a dice is thrown to see whose answer gets actually chosen.
What worries me a bit is the fact that I chose the tank specialization and I don't exactly see any tank related abilities crop up yet. Well, at least I got the cool double lightsaber.
When the stars threw down their spears
And watered heaven with their tears:
Did he smile his work to see?
Did he who made the lamb make thee?
You'll get your tank shielding at 14 along with the guard ability, and a taunt at 16.
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