Posts by Furyo

  • Looking for a good international web host

    Hey everyone,

    I've been using 1and1 for over 5 years now, but I keep hitting a wall each time I move out of a country. 1and1 requires to be paid using a card issued in the same country as the country the account originates from (they have a different company as part of a holding in each country they operate in)

    So every single time, I have to cancel my existing account and register a new one in the country I move to. Huge pain in the ass.

    This time around, my account in Germany needs to be renewed in the coming days, but of course I cancelled my card there. So it will be cancelled. But instead of signing up in France only to have to redo everything once more when I move to Boston later this year; I'd very much like to get a new web host that is good AND will allow for bills to be paid in multiple countries.

    Anyone using such a web host?

  • Ichi

    This is a fun game, and the menu is really slick too. Stopped at level 9 as it was becoming too cumbersome once you had to draw lines. I'd have opted for designs where you could draw lines to save time, or limit bounces (challenge mode) but didn't have to to complete them

  • RAGE

    Just saw the episode before reading this thread, and I thought that was a great move by Zenimax to be able to show, for the first time I can think of, a game BEFORE it goes live. Congrats to them.

  • Deus Ex 3

    Except most hidden achievements in this game have nothing to do with the story. They're all side missions related, and some are totally random and never needed to be hidden (

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    scoring on the basketball court for instance

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    Zyndrome, the one you are referring to can be had

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    by entering the code 0000 on a specific side quest in your second visit to Detroit, when helping your former SWAT mate with a lunatic in the sewers. Disarm his bombs with that code and you'll get it

  • Deus Ex 3

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    the 9mm ammo is extremely rare in the second part of the game, making it impossible to finish the game with only that gun (particularly with bosses being the bitchy ones they are)

    I think you're just not exploring enough . By the end of the game, since I explored and hacked everything, I had so much ammo for everything (and money, and XP!), non-lethal and lethal weapons, my inventory was always full! For the stun gun and PEPS gun (such a satisfying non-lethal weapon btw ), I must have had 30-40 rounds for each at any time towards the end. Same for the 9mm Furyo, always had between 100-200 rounds in bank all throughout the game. Exploring every nook and cranny really has its benefits heh.

    Edit: If you keep on using the 9mm and only that gun for the entire game, you will run out of ammo and this specific type of ammo becomes very difficult to obtain since enemies no longer simply have 9mm, and typically require more bullets to kill than they can give you back (armored)

  • Deus Ex 3

    Quote from arhurt

    One thing I'm disliking is the imbalance between non-lethal ammo types. I have a truckload of stun-darts for the stun rifle, a couple charges for the pep-gun and my prized handful of the rarest kind of stun-gun charges. It's not much of an issue since I tend to use the sneaky takedowns most of the time, but the rare availability of stun gun ammo made me definitely adapt my tactics.Not sure if the real weapons are this bad since I always seem to find plenty of ammunition around.

    the 9mm ammo is extremely rare in the second part of the game, making it impossible to finish the game with only that gun (particularly with bosses being the bitchy ones they are)

  • Deus Ex 3

    So I started another playthrough and decided to play differently a bit. I found out about the punch through walls aug, and wow. It makes the early part of the game so much easier. There are tons of crap you can get in the sewers, only by punching through walls, and that's a great way to build up your character fast.

  • Deus Ex 3

    Finished the game today for the first time, 21.6 hours. 30 achievements. Missed out a couple side quests but other than that that was a very thorough play through.

    And I'm about to start again, which frankly hasn't happened for me since my Sands of Time speed runs in 2004. This game is polished, elegantly designed every step of the way, never feels like a chore and inviting to test its limits while seldom finding them.

    Game of the year, and most exciting game to play for me since Left 4 Dead in 2008

  • The new X-COM game

    They never said it would be XCOM (for one thing they even tried to rename it X-COM), but a shooter based in a loose interpretation of the XCOM universe.

    Problem with fanboys is that's the kind of message that falls on deaf ears since "they're touching on our beloved franchise and ruining it". Thing is, if you're 2K and you're sitting on this license, you'll try and make a new game that somehow uses the franchise even loosely, since you can at least have some free marketing in the process.

    2K doesn't know how to make an XCOM game, that's not their business. So they don't even try. And that's a good thing. We'll see whether they can make something appealing enough to those with no prior knowledge of XCOM to outweigh the few fanboys that cry wolf

  • Deus Ex 3

    I'm absolutely loving it. Played through the first mission, and exploring a bit further now. This may very well be the most elegantly designed RPG I've ever played. And the cover system is one of the best I've seen in any third person game.

  • Steve Jobs Resigns

    I remember how weird we all felt at Apple in 2004 when the internal email ran telling all employees about his pancreatic cancer, and the follow up email he wrote the company after having had his surgery...

    Apple has a backlog of innovations for the next 5 years, so Apple will be doing fine without him for a time. The true changes will come after then.

    Next in line, I'm dying to see what computer integrated TV they can make, something that would revolutionize the games industry again (and of course, not just that)

  • Deus Ex 3

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    Ahah, awesome. This won't mean anything to anyone who hasn't worked in Montreal, but the tshirt he's wearing is one for the local punk band Vandamn, which is partly made of one of the artists on Deus Ex (now back at Ubisoft) and my former LD tech director on prince of persia.