Back in 2004 I had a dream. A dream that in 10 years this website would still be alive. It's 10 years and it is... Sort of (the fuck happened here?).
 
Here is an accurate picture of what my dream looked like.
http://i.imgur.com/vYb19JG.jpg
The website wasn't run by... Bart was his name? The Polish guy living in Canada. It was run by a bunch of hardcore 12 year olds.
 
There is surprisingly less fire than I was expecting. I'm kind of disappointed in you guys.

Get a bunch of gays, jews, black people, soldiers, mexicans and asians to make and offer them peanut butter and banana sandwiches.

Depends on the type of games you like.
The DS has tons of RPGs and those crappy casual games (imagine party babiez or my boyfriend! amazing games if i ever saw them). It has a few other decent games but on the whole, I wouldn't say it has a wide variety of games.

Anyway, this list is more or less all the worth while DS games.
http://vsrecommendedgames.wikia.com/wiki/Nintendo_DS

So this is basically lego, with artsy graphics?

Unless there is something more to it, I wouldn't consider this worth paying for, because you can get free alternatives that are probably just as good (minecraft for example).

there's also a feedback difference between input lag and game state lag. if you click and it takes 80ms to receive feedback that you actually did something, you get a pretty big control disconnect. they claim that 80ms is basically right at the edge of what is acceptable, personally i think it's over.

It is actually around 50ms for visual feedback. But could be higher or lower for other senses.

It is definitely noticeable, and will probably make every game feel like you're playing Killzone 2, which might work for slower paced FPS games like Killzone 2, but wont work for a lot of games, especially fast paced ones.

It actually already works for all you nay sayers. But if you check the link I posted in my last post, you will realize that all games will suffer from a noticeable input lag.
That and it will be unreliable at times (mostly due to internet lag), require an internet connection to always work and have a monthly fee on top of the price to buy a game.

All of these things combined mean in the long run, you'd be better off just buying yourself a decent computer.

In theory it seems like a good idea. But in practice it is no better than just using your own computer to play the game. (In short it boils down to pay an extra $200 now for a better computer to play the games, or pay $200 over the period of 1-2 years to play the  games)
Although, from a developer/publisher standpoint, it is probably a lot better option. Higher profits and less piracy.

At the end of the day though, I'd rather stick with using my own computer and my own hard copies of the games.

Although it looks good in theory, you have to see this http://img228.imageshack.us/i/mouselaggn6.swf/
Move the slider to full, that is simulating 80ms lag, the absolute "best" OnLive will get, and it is pretty bad!

Seems good in theory, but if that is the best then this is not going to work for any action games at all.

EDIT: Forgot to mention. Online multiplayer games will also probably not be very playable with it. You have the 80ms from Onlive, and then even more delay between OnLive and the game server.

The game is decent, but suffers from a lot of problems.

It is way too easy. Even on the hardest difficulty, it is still easy.
It is too short. It has extras to keep you entertained, but the game is still relatively short for a diablo clone.
No multiplayer. I have no idea why, but it lacks multiplayer entirely.
And there is a lot of really bad, or just poorly thought out design choices (an example is the equipment you start with is the best in the game, just keep enchanting it, enjoy having a set of equipment with +1 million to all stats).

All in all, it is a decent game and worth the price. But just don't expect it to be as good as other similar types of games.

i don't get why people keep saying the oblivion scenery is worse than morrowind's


i mean both have nicey looking cities

but if you consider the rest, oblivion has mostly forests and shit


morrowind has..


ash plains?

bland open grey areas

oh sweet

Morrowind actually had some fairly diverse areas.

There was the grey ash mountain areas in the middle of the map, with ash plains to the north.
South west of the island was heavily forested swamp areas.
North west was fairly standard green fields.
North east was endless green hills.

If you count the expansions, there was also a heavily forested and lush green area, snowy forests, glaciers and more.

Morrowind also had more than 3 types of dungeons. It had caves, daedra ruins, dwemer ruins, those abandoned forts and even the occasional mushroom.
It also had more diverse towns, from imperial buildings, to mushrooms, to tents.

Again, with expansion packs all this was greatly expanded on. Snowy caves, castles, sewers and more for dungeons. Viking towns too.

Oblivion had... An endless green map. It looked the same at more or less every point on the map. The only different areas were inside Oblivion gates, and they all looked exactly the same as well.
Dungeon wise it had caves, forts and those elven ruins (forget the name).
The towns had a decent variety though. A few were similar, but different enough to be distinguishable.

If you ask me, Oblivion was ruined by NO JUMP.

Ask anyone who has played Morrowind. They all jumped everywhere they went, constantly. Anyone who says they didn't is a liar. They also all made a jump 100 spell on self for 10s, and just use to rocket jump 100 feet into the air for hours at a time because it is awesome.
Oblivion is totally ruined because they removed jump.


But seriously. Oblivion was just really boring if you ask me. The scenery was bland, either endless green, or bright orange hell. NPCs, quests and locations were also all really dull and repetitive. I also disliked how much they dumbed down the game, and how everything had level scaling.
It did however have better gameplay than Morrowind, but that just didn't make up for how bland and boring the entire game was.

There is only one way to play Fallout 3. No weapons, no armor, no items, no companions, fists only. Mother fucking Fist of the North Star style.

I've played the game. It is pretty terrible just so you guys know. Definitely one of the worst Final Fantasy games I have ever played. Everything said in that list is entirely true unfortunately.

Except for kind of one thing. The game is linear, but halfway through the game it does open up slightly. But even then it is linear, but you have minor choices.
You can for example do side quests, but once you start one, you are teleported to another straight line map, go to the end, kill the boss, and then get teleported back. Those is literally the only "non-linear" parts of the game.

I didn't see it mentioned, but the game also has tons of cutscenes. It is not as bad as MGS4, but it is still really bad. Especially since all but one of the characters are annoying as fuck. (Lightning is literally a female hybrid of Cloud and Squall,  but she is not as emo as either of them, and because she is quieter than all the other characters, she is about the only one who is not annoying)

All in all, you are better off avoiding this game. Even if you are a big fan of RPGs, you're missing out on nothing.

There is no difficulty levels.
On the PC version there is a file with "GameDifficulty=+1.0", which I assume would be used to change the difficulty of the game.
However, I have tried various numbers, 1.5, 10.0, 100.0 and even 1000.0. I did not notice any real difference with any of those.

I am keeping it at 2.0 just incase it does actually effect difficulty though.

Playing the PC version right now.

First thing I will say is about the DRM that comes with the hard copy of the game (not Steam). It is apparently nasty enough that by default, windows Vista will not allow the game to run (Data Execution Prevention prevents the game from even running).
Make of that what you will. But it is probably not a good sign when even the operating system you are using does not want to execute the DRM.

As for the game.

It is fun, but has a fair few problems.

Firstly, the game is disgustingly easy. I am using Mordecai and going down the gunslinger skill path (which specializes mainly in pistols). Mordecai is probably the most fragile of all the 4 characters, but I am rarely taking any damage from anything, and rarely come close to being killed.
Also, I can use a sniper rifle to basically 1 hit kill anything (including bosses), from a very long distance. I have absolutely no specialization in sniper rifles either.

The UI in the game is horrible. It looks nice and all, but the controls for it are stupid.
You have to use the mouse, arrow keys, enter and escape. It is really annoying that you have to keep constantly changing the controls you're using just to navigate a menu.

As for the game it's self. Controls are fine, but you will probably want to change them before you start (they are spread out over the keyboard too much initially).
The game is fun, but lacks variety. The quests are all kill stuff, or collect items. The enemies all look or act similar with very few actually being different.
Gun in the game also do not have a lot of variety. I suspect the "17 million" guns or whatever they claimed the game had accounts for even the smallest of differences. I was at one point holding 4 of the exact same gun, or nearly the exact same. They has the same name, same stats, but the only differences were minor differences to their appearance. One has a little iron sight on the end of it's barrel, another had a slightly bulkier looking grip and so on.

Also, the game tries too hard to be funny, and fails at it.
Whenever you kill someone with a critical hit, or with your special ability (for Mordecai at least) your character says some crappy one liner.
Some of the weapons are obviously spoofs on internet memes as well. I have found a "weaksauce" gun (literally, it's name was something like "Weaksauce Repeater"), another was a "Rage" gun, and there is probably a lot more in the game like this too.
There is a lot of other, unfunny stuff in the game too :[

The game is also somewhat buggy. I have ran into three or so at the moment.
One was an issue with clipping and me being able to see/move through a part of a building.
Another was with enemies acting like retards. (I was shooting one, and none of them would do anything, other than spout out their one liners)
The other was some sort of issue with me handing in the same quests like three times.

Nothing major at the moment. But I did not particularly do anything difficult to run into them.


All in all. It is a decent and fun game. But I doubt is has a lot of replayability due to it's very easy difficulty and lack of variety with pretty much everything.

so what are these game breaking bugs and smaller bugs that are easy to run into that make the game suck

http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/forumdisplay.php?f=90

Look through there. Here is a short list.

Sound cutting out
Achievements not working
Losing all skills randomly
Items dissapearing
Co-op not working/not finding anyone to play with
Enemy AIs not activating
Save files/characters randomly becoming corrupt
Certain quests not working/activating (including storyline quests)

If you look you'll probably find a hell of a lot more issues. Those are just some of the more common issues.

Oh man. Everytime I hear something new about this game, it sounds worse and worse.

The console version (PS3 especially) is apparently buggy as fuck. There is a whole bunch of game breaking bugs and some smaller bugs, a lot of them very easy to run into.
The game is also stupidly easy, and not very long.  (I did say ages ago, the game was about 20 hours long, but nobody believed me)

But the PC version is probably the worst part.
It is according to reviews (and people who have the pirated version) a crappy console port. It has shitty controls that look like they were added at the last minute, and at parts even has icons from the Xbox 360 version.

But it gets even better. The crappy PC port and the delay were apparently done on purpose, to make people more likely to buy a console version.
There was a whole shit storm on the developers and publishers forums a few days ago, about them wanting the PC version earlier, because it was already being sold in tons of stores, but DRM made it impossible to play until the 26th.
Eventually, the publisher decided to not release the game early, and gave two shitty reasons.
First reason was they couldn't "ship it out" fast enough. Even though there were confirmed reports from all over the world stating that the PC shipped at exactly the same date as the console version and tons of people had the PC version already. (In short, the publisher was blatantly lying about this).
The second reason was piracy.

Which brings me onto the next issue.
The PC version has been cracked (and the PC version is not even released yet, which makes the excuse of piracy a load of crap as well). You can download it now and it has absolutely no protection at all. You can play it offline or online just like someone who has purchased the game.

In short. Both the developer, and publisher of this game are lying bastards.  The game is over hyped to fuck. It'll still be a decent game, but is definitely not going to live up to it's hype.

Oh yeah. If you are thinking of getting the PC version. Pirate it. Otherwise have the publisher of the game laugh at you as they fuck you in the ass because you never got the console version like they wanted you to.

Been watching someone play the game for most of today.
Looks really awesome, but there is a few problems I saw with it.

Firstly, there seems to be a lack of variety with a lot of stuff.
Sure the game might have 90 billion guns or whatever, but most of them look or act similar to all the others, and there is very few unique guns.
Enemies also lack variety. There is big bandits, medium bandits and midget bandits, flying monsters, dog monsters and spider monsters. That is literally all I saw in the game while watching for maybe 5-6 hours.
All the areas look fairly similar too.


The game also seems way too easy. Apparently, there is no difficulty slider, and the person I was watching play the game was easily able to run around and gun down any enemy without much difficulty. Despite playing as the weakest character (in terms of how much damage they can take and weapons they can specialize in) and would rarely bother upgrading weapons, or even spending skill points on new skills.
He only had difficulty with one quest, and he finished that by abusing the second wind system (when you die you have like 10s before you actually die, in those 10s you are invincible but cannot move and have decreased accuracy, if you manage to kill anything, even one grunt that can be killed in one hit, you auto revive with a good percentage of your health and shield back, you can pretty much do this until all enemies in an area are dead).


Also, the version I was watching being played xbox 360) had really long loading times. But areas were fairly big and you could easily spend an hour or longer in them.

Also, single player in the game does not seem to be as long as it should be. Including doing all side quests, he was probably 80-90% through the game at around 17 hours.


I would advise you all get the PC version of the game if possible. If only for the fact that possible mods could fix the issue of difficulty and maybe even add more stuff to the game.

Wait... Someone explain the "pro gamer competitive tourneyfag" logic that is being used behind The Dark Lady being buffed?

Her Dark Blades ability is clearly nerfed. You can't even argue about this.
And her ult is also nerfed. Sure it has a shorter cooldown time (by what, 30s?), and a slightly lower mana cost. And in exchange it only effects a small area of the map?

Unless there is more changes to her than what is in the patch notes... How can she possibly be better when she got nerfed???

Not played since just after Magmar or whatever his name was added.
Is the game still as horribly balanced as it use to be, or is it better now? Also does GW have any sort of clan, or place to meet up?

Game is decent enough, gameplay is fun (if lacking in variety), graphics aren't that bad, but not the best I have seen, not really noticed any music but most sound effects are decent, voice acting is kind of bad however.

Main problem with the game if you ask me is it is kind of short and easy, and the side missions are all really dumb and a waste of time (run from point A, to B to C in the shortest time possible!!!). Story line is not that great either.

Also, the AI for enemies in the game is really dumb, and relies on a lot of cheap tricks.
Enemies appear literally out of thin air, and if alerted will keep constantly respawning
Enemies also make way to much use of calling strike teams, and there is literally a type of enemy whose only purpose is to call strike teams (it also happens to move stupidly fast, is stupidly small and can fly around). As the game goes on, strike teams are called more and more often, and it is usually impossible to stop them from being called. Strike teams are overly persistent (can literally follow you across the entire map), and can even call other strike teams, and if you have one of these floating enemies following you (again stupidly persistant) it will call another strike team as soon as you destroy one.
Enemies are also stupidly reckless, especially strike teams. Plenty of times I have failed a mission because someone called a strike team, which spawned 2 helicopters, each of which proceeded to shoot out missiles like they were firing a machinegun, which killed a target I had to absorb. It is almost like these army guys don't care who they kill, or how much damage they do, they will rain missiles down on you like hell fire.
Although enemies are highly persistant, they are also really stupid for some reason. If they lose line of sight of you and you use a disguise, they lose you and retreat. Even if you are on top of a skyscraper and they saw you running up it and you are the only person on top of it, hell, if they wont even notice it is you even if you jump off the skyscraper and glide right past them.

Other than the short length of the game, and the dumb AI, it is a fairly decent game. I'd say rent it though, don't bother buying it.