What are you playing now?

    As a very generic generalisation I usually divide gamers into two main categories; you have the multiplayers and the singleplayers. Not saying that some people can enjoy both ofcourse

    Anyways, the multiplayers usually go pvp'ing or raiding in WoW, while the singleplayers usually love the questing and to some degree the raiding part of WoW. You can generally check which type you are by looking at your character screen. If you have multiple (2 or 3) level 85's by now you're most likely a singleplayer guy (you love exploring and the experience of a story), while if you have just one hardcore pimped level 85 then you're a multiplayer guy (you love to pwn nubs).

    The singleplayer people usually dont play WoW after they've leveled up a few character. They end up with two choices; either grind achievements in WoW or grind achievements on the Xbox (aka play other sp games)

    Section 8 on steam > GFWL > Update > Do not want > "You can not will save" > Restart > Update > Restart > Update > Restart > Updat..

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    > Kill process > Uninstall.

    2011 New Year Resolution : never buy a GFWL game.

    Whit Lost Planet I was patient, but today this is too much! I will never touch again this piece of shit. No matter if I deprive myself of games.

    GFWL is indeed SHIT. Best thing I saw was relic actually removing it from the next DoW because it caused so many issues for paying users.

    Bad company Vietnam is aaaawwwweeesome

    If you havent got it, get it. I think it improves on most things from bfbc2 except for helicopters being weak as piss.

    I think the storyline is great too, but unless I want to read up on wowhead I'm still going to miss loads of it. Two rival factions all following the same linear path through the zone just means you're going to be ganged. I can't tell if this is another ill-fated attempt at world PvP or them not really taking PvP servers into account. Or maybe PvP servers are supposed to man up, and go do the linear quest path in the other viable zone, where another 85 feral druid definitely will not kill you in one bleed this time.

    I’m really not seeing this grind everyone goes on about, though. All Blizzard have done since Classic is reduce the amount of time needed to get stuff done and, where grind is required, split it up with daily quests so logging on for excessive amounts of time is not possible. Levelling to 85 takes less time than hitting the level cap in any earlier versions, reputations hit revered through quests and exalted through dungeons and dailies, PvP points are now instantaneous... If anything, they are suffering from a lack of grind, quite quickly end-game content for norms is going to be 5 dungeons and Lol Barad (sp).

    The vast majority of World of Warcraft players prefer to play singleplayer, it's exactly the reason it's successful. This is why you have never once seen people in WoW grouped for something that didn't require a group. This would not be the case in a Korean MMO, where people play in an Internet Cafe with their friends and stay in a party forever - not just when it's required for big shiny.

    The grind has definitely gotten better, I would slap myself if the 2006-me could read this. I don't mind the non-leveling grind much, it's just that leveling creates a sense of being in purgatory when the activities I usually do (pvping) are separated from it. If the quest-lines were even more focused on quality over quantity (and it is heading that direction) rather than feeling like a time-sink, if the leveling stood on its own legs as an experience for me - I wouldn't mind it at all. I don't think it's the singleplayer in itself that made WoW successful, it's rather the accessibility which can be attributed partly to the singleplayer focus (maybe that's what you meant by it). Then there's timing, Blizzard's polishing and the hardware accessibility. but yeah, lol bad is pretty silly now with the wintrading. however, I did find the peninsula area to be pretty fun.

    as for the thread; I just installed planescape torment with a few UI modifications, time to see what the praise is all about.

    Looted an M14 sniper rifle off an alpha squad. It's basically the Lynx, except extra damage, far more expensive ammo, and a non-standard weapon, which makes it cooler.

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    The stock of ammo I've got in that image cost me 16,000ru. Totally worth it. I actually had to avoid buying all the upgrades for it, because if you get all the recoil mods it starts recoiling DOWN when you fire.

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    I actually had to avoid buying all the upgrades for it, because if you get all the recoil mods it starts recoiling DOWN when you fire.

    This. This is the best.

    I had a quest bug in the twilight zone (thanks, I'm here all week) and basically ended up running around the world with 4 elites at my beg and call. I did what everyone would've done, no not the Ring of Blood or fast farming, I went around griefing alliance. Wish I could say my reign of terror was ended by a large coalition, but I actually just ganked a shaman a level higher than me but exploded before the elites got spells off. Shame.

    Oh yeah, and I've been playing more Japanese shmups, and leaving a path of naked dismembered corpses in the mature Fallout 3.

    just finished the bad company 2 campaign ! id say its on par but doesn't surpass the most recent call of duty outings.

    +great gun feel especially the sounds !

    +destructible buildings \o/

    +vehicle sequences are not all completely prescripted and lame !

    +great humor

    +its not always on "11" like call of duty is ! those 11 moments have to be build up to and earned !

    -too many large fog sand /snow storm sprites in my face at all times !

    -plot breaks down in the end

    -ugly tree alpha dither artifacts seriously what is that shit ? the engine can definitely handle normal alpha masks why not use that everywhere ?!

    I assume that you've played the multiplayer as well, that's where it really shines (best online shooter around in my opinion). The singleplayer was decent, a step up from the campaign in the first one, but in no way the reason you play this game.

    Fuck alphas. I was investigating the crashed helicopter up on the plateau in southern Zaton, and the cutscene is interrupted by gunfire, and where there was previously 0 there is now TWENTY FUCKING TWO displayed on my radar stalker count. I managed to kill them all, hiding on the wing of the helicopter and sniping with my M14, and by the time I went through it all most corpses and items had vanished except for about six. My M14 is down to less than half repair.

    I get my loot, leaving behind a backpack of the extras, and move up to the drainage facility in the SE to seek out a personal stash in there, sniping the mercs standing on the balconies, and start moving in- DEAD. Sniped by an alpha squad standing on the outskirts of the pool there. Reload, start instead just moving back to Skadovsk. When I reach the lip of the hill that slopes down to Noah's Ark, there are seven alphas coming up to greet me, moving along with a fucking controller and horde of hamsters. Of all the fucking things, the HAMSTERS kill me.

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    Reload again, I flee around them and eventually reach skadovsk under CONSTANT fire from all sides. Save, stash stuff, finish quests, TURN OFF ALPHA SQUADS.

    I have one final thing to take care of in Zaton, and leave heading south. Make it to the cranes north of Noah... and get killed by another fucking alpha squad hiding in the reeds.

    They are seriously ruining this game. They're supposed to be elite squads sent to assassinate me! Not an entire fucking army washing over the entire fucking zone! I've got more Alpha member kills than every other group of NPCs in the entire game, INCLUDING ZOMBIES.

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    > Kill process > Uninstall.

    Hah. I had the same issue with DiRT 2 which I bought from the Steam sales. I tell you, I was fucking horrified to see GFWL included once I booted up the game.

    Also:

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    I assume that you've played the multiplayer as well, that's where it really shines (best online shooter around in my opinion). The singleplayer was decent, a step up from the campaign in the first one, but in no way the reason you play this game.

    I just retry the single player campaign after a break of two months at the 5th mission. I still find it fucking annoying and completely dispensable...

    Fortunately, the multi is awesome.

    Finally finished Black Ops single player. It kinda had its good moments but certainly not all the way through. There's way too much scripted events, the whole thing is pretty much an interactive movie. I want more freedom in these kind of FPS "Games", not movies. I still like Bad Company 2's campaign more because of this.

    Oh, and I totally hate that you have to follow your teammates instead of the other way around... More times than not I'm just waiting at a door until my mates show up... So annoying, the heck with this scripted mess. And shooting doesn't feel rewarding, totally ackward sounds and movement

    Half way through Joe's Adventures DLC for Mafia 2.

    Who ever gave the go ahead on the 'don't drive below 35mph for more than 3 seconds' mission'... fudge you... fudge you big time!

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