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What do you pc gamers, use as a controller for your computer games? do you guys stick with the "WASD" keys or do you get a computer controller? me personally, im trying to mod a 360 controller, with the old mouse end, and changing it to usb, still in the process but it's decent. what about ps2 controllers? tell me your experiences/mods

OK, first off title shows I'm a PC Gaymore, done deal, never going to console. Now that that's taken care of... I get really sickened by all the people who are too afraid of playing games on PC because they think that 'games on PC Crash a lot' (I'm totally alright with the price issue 200 with 10year old with a mic or 300 where you choose your server... makes sense). Please, look at Skyrim, FO3, FNV, RAGE (yes, i will eventually deviate from Bethesda games), Oblivion (not quite yet), Ratchet and Clank games, Haze, Deus Ex: HR, Dragon Age, Call of Duty, Battlefield 3 (mainly, older ones are included), Brink, Borderlands before the first patch, Mass Effect etc. etc. all have had crashes noted and reported and (usually) properly fixed. However, it really REALLY bugs me when a developer of a multiplication title says "Oh there are WAY to many pc configurations to get it right", I honestly think it is just a lazy copout that devs use to force people to switch to consoles rather than PC. Games crash, fix the crashes, stop trying to fix the communities. Right now the PC Gamers are the vocal minority because most console gamers would rather just restart the console and try again whereas PC Gamers want to have bugs squashed, crashes fixed, and games actually tested (I'm looking at you RAGE) on dev forums and such. Maybe I'm just generalizing. Look at older games, ie the first Deus Ex, that game runs on almost ANY hardware and has more crash fixes, bug fixes, and community driven content than Unreal Engine 3 with unmoddable baked content game that is coming out today (more mod discussion later). I have the same issue with mac users (again, no wars plzZZZZzzz) macs crash and BSod (Kernal panic). Price and players makes sence, but using crashy as an excuse? Sad that anyone thinks this. Even the consoles crash, RROD and there is one on the PS3 aswell. Now let's talk mods... Modding has been an integral part of PC Gaming since the beginning, hell Doom 1 has a James Bond mod. Game companies such as ValVe (mainly) seem to keep a platform afloat for long periods of time. For instance, Counter Strike STARTED as a mod for the original Half Life (in fact, you can probably find the mod files for CS1.5 somewhere), Alien Swarm was by an internal team at ValVe born from mod teams, The Hidden, Sourceforts, Team Fortress, Fortress Forever, to name a few. The fact that modding is starting to become an impossible task is a little disappointing. Right now my big deal is that i was planning on modding Skyrim, but with today's patch (that adds DRM to the main .exe.. which causes crashes for a LOT of users, and the fact you can't mod ANY of the .exe to, say, for example, allow the game to use more than 2GB of RAM, the game will not run, without injecting the Large Adress Aware bit...). This REALLY pisses me off that they would limit their games possible playability, in fact, without allowing more RAM to be used, the game crashes for me, even without any texture packs or replacers. On top of that, the game doesn't have border-less windowed mode ( something of a necessity to get the Gamebryo engine to run properly... yes i said gamebryo... the engine is the same, I've done my research and will pwn anyone that says otherwise), it runs 32bit still (what is this, 2004?), ALT+TAB safety/ALT+F4 instaquit, and doesn't even use DirectX10 (again, date please? DX11 is out). About ALT+TAB and border-less windowed, DX9.0c has this functionality NATIVELY and has to be disabled by the developer at compile time (c++ also has this functionality). I'm not entirely sure why this is EVER disabled. Side Note: All PC Games should include the following; Borderless windowed mode, 64 bit executable, ALT+TAB, and ALT+F4, Ability to use more than 2 GB of RAM without elegant work-a-rounds. Side Side Note: A good example of an AWESOME Developer is Wolfire, creators of Lugaru and Overgrowth, they also are the hosts of the Humble Indie Bundles. Maybe this post belongs in /r/pccirclejerk, but I think it's honest videogame discussion that should be addressed by the gaming community as a whole. (also, please no flame wars or console wars, macvspc wars... kthxbye)

ok so my laptop cries whenever i play mass effect 1 or wow so im planning on trashing it for a new bad boy problem is though im on a slight budget and really its only marketed towards star wars the old republic so it doesnt have to be to cutting edge but something that will have good frame rate as well as be tough and durable since im a clutz some time hopefully price range between 0-1000 i doubt it though so throw me some great suggestions

So I installed skyrim on my computer yesterday, I'm not the admin, however, and I got said admin to log me into his account for the computer, played it, sweet, awesome, great, so much fun. Come back next day, try running it on a different local account and no dice, steam tells me that the "game is currently unavailable" and I went though the entire troubleshooting guide,uninstalled, reinstalled everything from the non-admin account with the assistance of the admin to input the password. I've gone through every thread on the steam forums with a fine toothed comb, trying everything that people have tried to offer, still no dice. So I got the admin to make my account an administrator account as well, maybe thats the problem right? I mean, I'm not even sure why im not one already, but then, nope. Still nothing. Still getting the same error message. Still longing to stab those dragons in their smarmy, scaly faces. I lodged a ticket with steam support about 6 or 7 hours ago and I'm not sure when I'll get a response. SO:

so i heard some good things about Mount and Blade Warband, so i picked it up in the steam sale and sweet lord it is the most fun ive had in a mmo in such a long time, i cried tears of joy (true story). I come from a history of mmos my favourite games are starcraft and league of legends but mount and blade is literally just straight up fun. It has a unique combat system (you choose where u want to swing ur sword and block, its not mindless button mashing). Playing this game i felt like i needed to tell you good sirs at reddit so u can discover the joy of this game.The only sad part is that its not very well advertised so i decided to help spread the word

OK, so here is it I pretty much suck at video games (like run away from anything and everything that shoots at me; die about a billion times, suck), but my boyfriend loves them he spends a good amount of time playing them. I want to get better at playing them so eventually I can play with him without frustrating him because I suck so much. We've been talking about it and we've decided that a good place for me to start is with an FPS, so i can get used to shooting things and having things shoot at me. So I was wondering what the wonderful people of /r/gaming thought might be a good starter FPS might be?? Or if you have any suggestions on other good starter games, that would be helpful too. :)

so im trying to download Tiberian Sun from the developers i either can find the correct file to run the game within the larger folder or it wont unzip to the prper place or even worse the rare occasion i can get it to unzip and find the correct file it says that the path is incorrect WTF

So, I've already beaten the main quest on F:NV and a ton of side quests, and now I'm on my second play through, taking my character seriously. I was expecting an email from amazon with my "Tribal Pack" redemption code, but I never got it. I didn't really care, I didn't order from their for the pack, it was for the free shipping, and Game credit rebate. Now in my second play through I just found the redemption code in the game case, and I don't really want it. I didn't miss it the first time through so I don't need it. So, I'm putting the code here, whomever uses it first gets it. This is for the PS3 version. Tribal pack includes: Tribal Raiding Armor Broad Machete Bleak Venom (5) Throwing Spear (10) Enter the code in the PS Store, "Redeem Codes" menu CODE: M2T5-7GBG-TNB8

So I'm planning on buying arma 3 here soon and I'm wondering if I need a Mic to actually enjoy the game or if I'll be fine line wolfing it or whatever,

NPR, ABC, and other news agencies have praised Mike Mika's efforts to hack Donkey Kong for his daughter. Like unlocking a cell phone or altering an operating system that action was illegal. We have had a right stolen from us, the right to alter what we buy. Mr. Mika never intended it but his actions are a wonderful glimpse into the possibilities available to the public when they control what they possess. The American copyright and patent system have lagged behind our technological and intellectual capabilities for too long. This issue reaches beyond the tech world; touching manufacturing, agriculture, even international law. It is time for our elected representatives to follow us as we stand with one voice and say "I want to be Pauline."

Yo everyone, My name is Ben as you an tell I guess and Im just posting this because kind of sick of random people online and since none of my friends actually have an interest in games I said I'd come online and seek out a few guys or gals who play games and enjoy a laugh and decent conversations if that's what you want to call it Well, Id be up for playing pretty much anything but if you want to know anything about me I will explain it here if not don't read this section then I guess, Im Irish, 18 years old, Really socialable person I honestly could talk to you about walls and make a good laugh out of it. Im hoping to study Law in college, I currently live with my mother and go to my girlfriends every 2nd weekend or so. Nobody where I live plays anything of my interest which is mainly on the pc but I do have an xbox one and Yeah, They all love fifa and call of duty, Basically all that jazz if you know what I am saying. As you can probably guess Im not writing this in a formal or formatted matter as im trying to sound some what like myself. A few more less important things about me is that I listen to all types of music and I just don't really care about negatives as in my opinion pessimistic people are just not worth my time and In the troll or annoying sense of pessimism but yeah anyway I love social interactions and from what I am told I help bring people out of anxiety patterns but this is speculation. I have no problem setting up get togethers, Teamspeak server and pretty much anything related to money as simply, I like paying for things and that's just how I like to do it. Now on to actual information or if you havent

Hi guys. Goign to be honest here, I need help. I have no idea what I am doing here. A family friend who is good with computers hooked this up for me. I can play some .ISO files, and had a virtual memory card on it. I , of course, was an idiot and did a thing. Now When I load up SSBM, it says there is no memory card. It won't show up for any other games (I think)

the way im thinking is every hour i post a picture on reddit or submit a post every hour. i am doing this for a children's hospital in my province(i live in Canada) so would taking pictures be fine? and I & the children's hospital would appreciate it if you donated

So I know I’m pretty damn late to the party, but I just purchased and beat Bastion on the PC through Chrome, and I thought I would write up a summary of my thoughts on the game. I've played through it twice on both modes, I've gotten every achievement from the shrine. I just can't seem to get the Strangers Dream for some reason? I guess I’ll start with the positive things. These may seem rather general, but I could go in for days in detail about each of these things. Pros The story is awesome, nuff said. The sound. Not just the music, but all the sounds in general. The sounds of the weapons and monsters was awesome. The Narrator. He was sick as fuck, and this game has set the standard for RPG narration. The Visuals. Every level was lush and vibrant. Some levels were no doubt forgettable, but others will stick in my mind whenever I think of Bastion. I enjoyed the way the blocks would fall out in front of me as I ran. The dynamic weapons/combat. The combat and weapons are thoroughly fun to use. It feels great frying up a bunch of birds with the flame thrower, or nuking one of those giant flower boss-things with the mortar. Better yet is strafing from side to side while injecting shots into your enemies with whatever ranged weapon you choose. The “Meta.” I enjoyed the Bastion, being on it, and the way the buildings interacted with each other and the game play. Now for the things that I either found annoying, or was frustrated with. I’ll go into a little more detail on these because I don’t wanna be overly general and get flamed to hell by fan-boys. Cons Clunky Save mode. It took me one and a half times through the story to figure out that in order to save all my gear, spirits, and quests the way that I want them, I have to go to a level, then fly back to the Bastion for it to save. Otherwise it would only save as soon as I came back to the bastion. This made me have to dick around in “town” every time I logged on. Maybe this only happened on Chrome? The “Boss” fights seemed lacking a lot of times. When I think back to the game, I only remember one, maybe two of the bosses. (Croc and big flower thing) Was there even a “final” boss? The bosses were just not memorable or “epic” seeming. The levels were more memorable visually than the bosses who most the time were just bigger versions of regular monsters. The dream levels were pretty cool in the “epic feeling" sense but they had an entirely different problem... ...Bad music placement? The music was always good at setting a mood, but sometimes I felt like it wasn’t a mood I wanted to necessarily be in as a gamer whos slashing through monsters. I felt this way in particular on the “dream” levels, where they all had very morbid under tones, but the action was intense and exciting! I wanted the music to match the action, at least for a 10-15 of the first TWENTY waves! A couple levels did this for me too, but sometimes the music just kicked ass as I was kicking ass so it was great then... I ended up turning off the music for the dream levels and turning on pandora , they were much more enjoyable that way. Anti-climactic ending. I felt the ending was pretty emotional and all, but it was rather anti climactic, and as I said earlier, it’s lacking a memorable boss fight. Carrying that dude past his people was really touching, but it all just came to such a depressing halt. Either ending you choose makes you feel like you may have chose the wrong one, which might be cool... but I like closure :P

My company is moving to a new location soon, and we're looking to improve our current game room for more video game enjoyment. I am trying to figure out exactly what we want to put in it. Currently we've got a double 40" flatscreen setup with pretty much every console. Wired through switches so you can play any system on either TV. The new office is going to have much more space, so I'm thinking of spreading things out a bit, and we want to get some extra stuff as well. Probably an additional PS3 and 360, but we're also considering things like arcade cabinets. I don't have room dimensions sadly, so I can't do a specific layout, for now I'm just trying to put together a wish list for what we want to put in the games room and I'll worry about layout later. Thanks in advance for your suggestions

I cant remember the name of this game for the life of me, but I remember that it was very inspiring when I had first played it and I'd love to go back and experience it again. Please note that everything I am going off of here is by memory, so I may be wrong about somethings, but I am just trying to brainstorm. First off, the game is primarily black and white. It lasts about 20-40 minutes and its kind of an adventure game. Its kind of a sidescroller but not in the traditional sense (the character kind of goes between the foreground and the background). I think the beginning part deals with you being stuck on a cliffside and your options are to go up and down a pulley system, or go in to a house.... but the pulley doesnt work, so you have to go in to the house to get a key. You take the key to the pulley and it lets you use the pulley to go to the next screen. You keep solving simple puzzles like this, eventually you hit some resemblance of a story that tells you that you have to solve a water crisis between two cities. You're managing some sort of leaking water system (it was either pipes, or a dam, or something involving water), and I remember that a lot of the puzzles after this involved going between multiple screens, changing one thing in one area and seeing how it affects something in another area. The artwork was actually quite appealing, though you can tell it was done by just one guy. It didn't look like bad 90's website, it was more clean line looking, grays, white and black with hints of color

It's boring, why? (embrace yourself, bad redaction is coming) The game didn't evolve nor adapt to the new style of gaming ... New style Customization of character (not the gear, I mean face, weight, height) Freedom in maps, run, jump, go and do whatever you want. Fighting system, not just click... run, jump, go around, hide behind stuffs, like a console game Maps where you can go wherever you want and not follow a path... camera angle interaction Diablo (what made it boring?) can't customize your character, only gender and equip (I understand that helmet covers face) you have to click to do everything, EVERYTHING... boring can't run with keyboard can't jump to kill something or a boss you have to click one thousand times, then to loot the same... always follow the path in the map, no freedom I understand they wanted to keep Diablo 3 more alike Diablo 1 and 2, but games evolved and also gamers. Why? because better computer/graphics/design software , the games used to be click everything and follow a path, because the computer didn't had the power to do more and handle many many monsters and big maps. For me, RPG games are more fun if you can interact with the environment like in the real world, of course in real life you don't wonder around killing stuff and climbing/running/jumping around, but you got my point. What I am/was hoping for Diablo 3 (Diablo 4 / blizzard)?, that it becomes a MMO in the 3rd/4th expansion. Diablo 3 meet WoW. Or make a new more realistic MMO, its a good chance/opportunity $$$ for blizzard to make Diablo 3 into a MMO, so they/we have a sucessor to WoW will . (I like the cartoonish graphic and easter eggs/geek culture in WoW) sidenote: maybe maps are "small" so they can spawn many many mobs

Hello everyone! I had a nostalgic kick to play all of the games that I played so much in my early years as a gamer. Most of these were on the RealArcade service, but sadly, most of the games on there did not transfer over to GameHouse when they accqured RealArcade from Real. Games like Fiznix (if that's how you spell it), Red Ace Squadron, Rebound, Gruntz, and Think Tanks are easy enough for me to find, as I remember the names, but there are many that are not so easy to remember the name of. So,

I've watched "Tableflip" on Polaris which I like, but I really need something to watch constantly, and I've watched every Tableflip episode. I've watched Tabletop from Geek and Sundry, but the host is so horrible, I really dislike him and his dumbass jokes. Shame because I love the guests, literally Superman was on the show, but I just can't put up with Will Wheaton

Heyho, We are looking for a game to play during christmas break. Its pretty hard to find a game that we could really enjoy, both of us love Strategy Games we played a lot of LoL and we are looking for a game thats not like that the right game just doesnt come to our mind and we ask Reddit for help! thx guys :)

Ok so, my wii was just sitting there collecting dust and crap. I have one game on it which is super mario bros and a couple of gamecube games. I never really played them altough I enjoyed all of the gamecube games in my childhood. I enjoyed my wii since it came out, but recently haven't played it at all. I lost interest in it because I have a ps3 i just upgraded with a 500 gb hard drive (prior to having a 120 gb). I wanted to get some games and stuff for my ps3 FAST ! Like right now fast. So I go to gamestop and trade my wii and super mario bros in. I was skeptical at first because I felt like I might want to play mario in the future, but I never play it now so, what? I trade it in the game the extra controllers and I get 75 bucks pretty good I guess. In return I got Max Payne 3, AC Brotherhood (to finish the series) and SSX which I am thinking about returning and I restarted my powerups reward card. I love Max Payne 3 so far AC was necessary and I can always return SSX or play it more see if I like it more. Did I make a good choice? I think I did

I saw multiple threads full of people talking about how stupid it was to pay 25 dollars for a In-Game mount. However, as a girl I played with My Little Ponies and this mount speaks to me a basic and childish level. It is sparkly blue with purple iridescent armor and shits stars. As an adult I know that its is my money and I can do what I want with it. I also know there is nothing anyone can say to change how much I enjoy it. However, there is a 8 year old inside that has to say "suck it bitches", you have your nostalgia pages but I play with mine. edit:

I'm curious about reddit's girl gamers and the stories they have to share, or stories guys have about gamer girls. As a girl myself I have experienced: Girls as young as 13 asking for relationship/sex advice (it makes me sad parents wont talk to them) Been propositioned by a gamer wife friend to join her husband for his b-day for a three way. I politely declined but I was flattered by her statement that I was the only woman attractive enough to her to consider it. He was very disappointed when he found out. A gamer galpal (who plays cs 1.6 in her 2 hours of spare time for herself) was called a bad mother by some 13 yr old kid in server and also said she loved black cock and that all moms are cunts. She sent the video of the demo to his mother on facebook. We never saw him again. My gamer name usually has vixeN in it, which is obviously female. Sometimes not enough, because I'll add people and be myself without using gender specifics, and they only discover I'm female when I use mic in a game infront of them for the first time. I can't count how many bricks were shat because of this. I usually ask if they havent seen porn because I'm pretty damn sure the term 'vixen' is commonly used in porn. I'm basing this on all the 12-13 year olds discovering this for the first time messaging me sheepishy "is this you? Is it ok if I fap to it?" I fell off my chair laughing the first time, and the 4th time I was wondering if vocabulary is even in the english curriculum anymore. I connected to a cs 1.6 server to see a mic spamming with a female looking name. At first people were wondering why this girl name was spamming, then a classic. Moans of sex start flooding the server, with a female voice "deeper baby, I love it when you interrupt my games." He proceeds to finish, almost dramatically for his audience, and the girl says "wtf was that babe, that was weir....OH WHAT THE FUCK BABE WHY DID YOU HAVE THE FUCKING MIC ON EVERYONE HEARD ME. YOU FUCKING FUCK IM GOING TO FUCKING KILL YOU" We hear laughing in the background and everyone in server is cheering "encore!!!" The best part is we heard "well, no one saw you" as she was screaming until she disconnected. Some kid named dark deathnote (call me deathy) would join communities and try to enforce a 'deathenote rule' that whenever he felt like it, he would want to knife in server and have anyone who shot him kicked. Tell owners to change server rules and whatnot, without donating or paying for admin, because no one wanted him as an admin. This guy would join servers, find out who was admin, and then proceed to boss them around. Needless to say, he would get permabanned pretty quickly. He would add people everyday since people on his friends list would add him for a day, realize how hated he was and why and then unadd. But not before he would send them into server, saying "he commanded the admins to unban him, not asking." He got banned from all the communities I was in for years, and after I didnt see him for a while, I heard from people that he had faked him online death 3 times since, and blamed 2 of them on me for "rejecting him/getting him banned." He's also the head of some 'sexy guys club' on steam and guess who wins almost every week. Either him or some guy he thinks is hot, 'no homo because I'm not gay.' After a while some communities adopted the 'death note game' where when he posted, people would change the discussion and pretend he didn't exist, almost like the cartman episode when he thinks he's dead because everyone is ignoring him. The most effective counter-trolling I have ever seen to date. he fucking hated it, because he didn't get the usual 'fuck off faggot' responses, or any attention at all. There was a 'girl' named taylor/cassandra/girlygrl/dreamergoddess/cherrypepsi/jessica/peaches, who I say is a 'girl' because 'she' had at least 3 different girls on 'her' steam profile, and once it was two girls, one white and one azn, and at first 'she' claimed to be the white one, then 6 months later the azn one. 'She' would always claim that 'her' mic was broken/taken by brother/gonna buy a new one, but never spoke. Which was fishy that 'she' would always buy admin packages for multiple servers which was well over 40$, but couldn't buy a 10$ mic to prove 'her' identity. The reason for my retelling about this 'girl' is because 'she' is a HUGE scammer. this person frequently poses as a female to get into the good graces of higher-ups and admins, and if they dont sniff out 'her' being suspicious, she buys admin on credit card thru paypal, and when 'she' has had her fill of admin or gets banned, would dispute the payment with the credit card company and claim fraudulent charges. So even if the community had a no refund policy, 'she' would get around it with that. This person came back to one community at least 3 times with different names posing as female trying this scam for free admin. A few times previous communites have sniffed out 'her' new identity and tried to warn the new communites 'she' was trying to scam, but to have her defended by the new community because 'shes a girl getting picked on by old enemies.' Fucking evil. Beware of phonies. I have a joke among friends to mess with girls who are new to our friends group, and I jokingly act like a dumbass guy with stupid pickup lines and then say "its not creepy cause I'm a girl too...... NOW SCISSOR WITH ME." Usually if there's an annoying girl who giggles everytime she dies, or using the server as a chatroom and not even playing and hogging a slot, it makes her leave pretty quickly. A few times my friend have baited me into 'traps' in which the girl doesn't have a negative reaction, and actually plays along to the extent where I ask myself "wait a minute..... she's serious D: "

I'm looking for a game, and for the life of me..I'm not even sure I've ever seen one like it. Basically I've really been into espionage lately, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, All 007 movies hell even Archer. And I'm looking for a good spy game for PS3, my friend suggested The Saboteur any and all help would be awsome

Long time metal gear solid fan, but there are some things that really bug me. Metal Gear Solid had always been the poster boy for pushing the boundary on both graphics and realism. It was MGS's attention to detail that captivated me the first time I played Sons Of Liberty and really made me a hard core fan. I remember being able to shoot out lights, do pull ups for stamina, the first time I held A soldier up by pointING at his nuts made me feel so immersed, there was no other experience like it on the market. And that's just scraping the many little details Kojima and MGS is known for! And yet... with all the praise going around for Phantom Pain(Which so far is amazing) I feel, disappointed in certain aspects. Now I'm not that far yet but these are just things I've noticed so far. Snakes reaction to the enviroment In almost all of the prior games, (Did not play MGS 4 thoroughly) you would always notice little things that snake could interact with, or even that would affect him. One major thing that bugs me is how snakes acts during a sandstorm even his horse. In a cutscene you see snaking wearing his scarf as a protective garment when the sandstorm hits yet in game there is no interaction, now I don't know how many of you have actually been in one but I'll tell you there is no Damm way a man can keep his EYE open with no protection or even breath in a sandstorm that bad, you see him adapt to it in the cutscene what happened to the translation to in game? The man walks through it like he's walking on sunshine but flinched when a helicopter is landing..wut? Snakes interaction with soldiers being held up I will always remember shooting certain body parts or the classic nut scare in Sons Of Liberty but what happened? How is it you had that detail in a PS2 game but a AAA release in this day and age doesn't even show the tranquilizer rounds. Mother base, oh boy motherboard and it's zombies. Now I haven't unlocked a lot remember but I can tell you that I feel so weird not being able to salute my soldiers, and I'll be damned if you can salute in a PSP game (portable ops plus) but not in this? Wtf kojima? I sound like a stickler but that had always been MGS bread and butter was attention to detail I feel like they put a lot of emphasis on soldiers and motherboard but it feels like I'm walking around a empty mall with a bunch of security guards. The open world feels bland at times and not very interactive. This is supposed to be Afghanistan during a crucial conflict between Russia and the local population I can understand no civilians which is a stretch in itself. But where is all the conflict? Where are the opposing factions? The random battles? Like I said I'm not far so correct me if I'm wrong. But even the environment feels out of touch. All this mountain terrain but I cant scale this 15 foot wall? Fucking D horse... it feels like I'm bike with a broken handle bar. Your horse is so glitchy moving around the terrain at times it's cost me being spotted a lot. The camouflage system How the fuck do we go from snake eaters in depth camo system to this? This system that doesn't even really tell you how much more each camp helps then the other I feel like I'm slapping on a skin in call of duty. It's a disgrace. Snake as a character The dude is a zombie point blank, solid snake was a lively character albeit a almost monotone voice he had a lot to say and he showed it. No amount of Fucking cassette tapes will make up for snake staring into the soul of someone in a conversation and just sitting there. In summary I feel like this game is overall amazing it definetly hit some high notes and it's a good game. But I seriously expected more and it feels rushed, MGS is the golden standard when it comes to the little things and breaking out of the norm. But I feel like the PP was more trying to appeal to new players and this simplistic style of gaming we see today and all the GTA fan boys. It feels like if not for kojima this game would be a disaster,

Hey /r/gaming ive been thinking of picking up a kinect off a friend for about 30 dollars..i have a headset so i wont be using the kinect for chat(thank god) anyone got any tips on what games are good for the kinect? the only real thing i will use the kinect(that i think of) would be voice command and possible secuirty voice commands(if someone is on my xbox and i want them off i can talk it off.)

So Dreamare did a giveaway on imgur which HereComesTheBeats commented on and won: HereComesTheBeats then posted a delivered reply on imgur: Which Dreamare commented on which I replied to and then won a game from him!:

The Halo ring got me thinking that what no man's sky really needs is the ability to coop build and PvP. You doing your own Robinson Crusoe thing is one thing. But finding the same planet as 10 other people, building a little planetary fort, and trying to conquer the galaxy? That's something else entirely. The beauty of it would be that you could have a ton of different servers (no PvP, etc.), so you could test to see which ones "took."

Today, the ending for Assassin's Creed III was spoiled for me. I wouldn't be as angered by this if it wasn't for the fact that I play on PC and haven't even SEEN the game. But that's not even the full reason why. I got so fed up that I said screw it and decided to get it for PS3. Since I cannot easily leave my house (recent surgery) I decided to download it from PSN, that's where I hit my first road block. I went to purchase it and "add funds" to my wallet, to where it told me funds could not be added. Ok fine, so I went online and purchased a $50 code and $20 dollar code. I received the $50 code; entered it and had the money in my wallet, now for the $20 dollar code. Not so fast, it says it's not valid or whatever. Go to my account on amazon, says I bought the code.. go to my bank statement and behold! I had been charged a dollar for EACH time I tried to add funds to my wallet ( a total of 20) and I had been charged for the $50 code as normal. BUT Charged twice for the $20 code that I CAN'T enter. So in total am down $110 because Sony is weird and amazon messed up. I'm pirating it because I don't like being screwed over after trying to actually pay. Edit: Seeing how I'm getting a little hate, I'll

This Question's Message(s) 1 Message by you on Sun, 12th Jan 2014 1:12 pm ```Me: hello i am having trouble buying from the market place because it says i havent bought any games in the last month. when i have bought 2 games within the last month. as someone who has put in a lot of money in to buying games on steam this should not be a problem that i have to deal with. is there anything you can do to help me 2 Message by you on Sun, 12th Jan 2014 1:46 pm ````Me: ok so i decided to make a purchase on steam so i can just use the market. i bought Fallout New Vegas DLC which i didnt want but needed to buy to use market place which i wasnt all that mad about. went to the market to make my purchases and it still wouldnt let me. so i thought since it was a DLC that it didnt count so i bought fortix (a actual game) which would leave me with just enough for 1 item on market that i really wanted and even after that i still cant make purchases on market. now im stuck with 2 purchases on steam that i never wanted and still not able to use the market. can i get a refund on fortix and the Fallout DLC because i only bought them to speed things up to get to the market which still didnt work. ive never had issues with steam before until now and i will forgive if you can give me a refund and give me access to market because now i have made 4 purchases within the last month and still no market purchases 3 Message by Support Tech Rudy on Wed, 15th Jan 2014 1:53 pm ````Rudy/Steam: Hello Mitch, Thank you for contacting Steam Support. We apologize for the delay. In order to use the Community Market you are required to have a purchase of wallet credit or made a Steam purchase that is between 30 days and a year old and you have had Steam Guard enabled on your account for at least 15 days with no Steam Support assisted password changes. Steam Support is unable to remove any restrictions on your account that prevent you from using the Community Market. For further information regarding Steam Guard please visit the following link: Title: Steam Guard Link: For further information about the Community Market please visit the following link here: Title: Community Market FAQ Link: 4 Message by you on Thu, 16th Jan 2014 12:54 am ````Me: yes i have purchased a wallet credit of $5 and i have been a steam member for 7 or 8 maybe 9 years. i have made a purchase on December 20th, 2013 and it was Call of Duty 4: modern warfare, and Theif: Gold. i have never disabled steam guard in my entire steam account history. clearly i should have been eligible for Community Market. i have fit all the requirements to do so previously before adding my wallet credit on 1/12/14. if you cannot give me a refund or compensation then i request a phone number of your manger please. thank you Rudy, although you didnt address my concern 5 Message by Support Tech Rudy on Fri, 17th Jan 2014 12:10 pm Hello Mitch, ````Rudy/Steam: You need to have made a Steam purchase that is between 30 days and a year old in order to use the Community Market. A purchase on 12/20/2013 does not meet this requirement. If you have any further questions, please let us know - we will be happy to assist you. 6 Message by you on Fri, 17th Jan 2014 9:21 pm ````Me: i did make a purchase between 30 days and my account is more than 7 years old prior to trying to make a market purchase. can you help me get in touch with someone on the phone cause im sick of waiting days to hear back from you Reply

First and foremost, this is a more serious topic, and I am asking for a discussion on the topic. Second, I am assuming video games can be defined as a modern phenomena of "art form" (whatever you may define that to be) for the sake of comparing other mediums of entertainment that are considered as part of the arts in the current day. Of course, what can be defined as "art form" itself is another deep topic (for example what transforms the "art of something" to an accepted "art form"), but let's try to leave that out if possible. Also, the answer of "all definition is relative" is a true answer, but I think it's interesting to categorize and generalize some of these definitions amongst a group of people. I am really interested in what video games entail, what makes video games video games and what separates it from other works such as books, cinemas etc. I am also talking more specifically about video games and not board games. So there are two things that first pop up in many people's heads in defining video games, and these two things seem to be ways of differentiating video games from other mediums of art. However, I will try to show that these two differences cannot be at least the only sources of differences by providing counter arguments/counter examples as I can. "Video" part of video games. This the easier point to understand. The most common medium in which video games are PRESENTED is some sort of "electronic" device, whether that be consoles, computers, mobile devices portable dictionaries (back in the older days) etc. This used to separate it from the likes of books, paintings, films etc, but this distinction has become more vague nowadays, with all of the mentioned mediums being presented on the internet and to your screen via an "electronic" device. So then, another point that could be made is the medium in which video games are CREATED, which is solely digital (or used to be). However, there are two problems with this latter points: first, video games are now using motion capture to code the movement of characters, especially in 3d environment based games, which takes it away from the "all digital" creation. Second, is the advent of animation and CG, which would allow one to create a "film" purely on the computer, which would make it on par with video games. So this brings me to the second point of: User Interactivity: For the most part, other art forms do not contain user interactivity. For example, most literature, paintings, sculptures, almost all films or videos and even the culinary arts do not have user interactivity. What I mean by this is that the finished form is presented in one way, and the user does not "interact" with the environment induced/created in these art forms. However, some may argue that the way one perceives it, interprets it, watches it, devours it may be a mode of "interaction". It is important to realize here: interaction is not as simply defined as it seems. For example, an interaction with a piece of literature is not merely the act of reading the literature/book itself. It is the act of imagining the characters and surroundings, "perceiving" the environment in one's head etc. And in say paintings, interacting with it is not merely "looking at it", but more of "perceiving it" and imagining oneself to be in the environment of the painting or the creator's mind. I realize there is a difference between these interactions and the interaction of moving a character in a video game, however the only way I can phrase this difference would be that one is imagined in the head of the user (books paintings etc), while the other has a direct visual impact (say on screen) that can be physically perceived. If there are other ways to phrase them please feel free to enlighten me. However, this brings up the physicality issue of our brain: consider this "thought experiment" set in the future: There is a device that can read your brain waves perfectly to the point of where it can produce a live "video" of what you are imagining in your head. This video can be projected onto a screen, or even directly into your brain as visual feedback. As one reads a book, this device is connected to the brain, and the user simultaneously reads the book and watches this "video". Is this not a form of interaction then since to your brain you are "physically perceiving" the interaction? Or for any anime watchers, consider SAO's nerve gear. This thought experiment is not that far fetched, considering the directions that "virtual reality video games" are seeming to go to. So then, the next logical thing to me in defining user interactivity with the art is choices (with varying impact) within the environment created by the art. In video games, there are choices that can be made, which affect the overall outcome experience of the game, even if a story line is set. For example, the way one controls character movement is a direct result of choice. The way one presses the buttons in a rhythm game is a choice. However, another example of choices is is Visual Novels, which is widely considered to be video games. For those who don't know what they are, they are roughly a story with text being read across the screen with slides of stationary/moving pictures in the background to match the text. A player does not control a "character" in terms of say movement per se, but control the game through pivotal choices of the storyline itself. However, this brings up a complication: consider the following physical book (paper base). These actually do exist: This book consists of skipping around throughout the book based on the choices a reader makes. For example, at the end of page 30, the user can choose to either kill a character or let him live. Based on the choice, users would go to different pages of the book and continue on the story from there. Now transfer this book to a digital copy on the Kindle. Is this a video game, or not? This is not only limited to books, but also videos and/or movies. I remember there being a series of youtube videos, where you could choose at the end what video to click on based on what choices you've made, and this would change the story/ending. Anime watchers, consider Sakurasou no Pet na Kanojo, and the game that was created using the audience's response/interaction. This ended up being more of me rambling on some points/counterpoints, so if you read all of it, kudos to you. But basically,

aight, so i decided on buying the TB DX11's. they were the cheapest ones that were wired, with 7.1 surround sound. I play black ops mostly (I've been skimping on the xbox games lately) and I don't know what settings are best to use with it. It has like, 5 different volumes settings on the headset alone, then theres the in-game sound i need to configure. So, can anyone lend me some advice? I really got the headset so I could hear footsteps, but I can only hear gun sounds and really loud grenades. I'm a noob at soundwhoring :[

This is my first post in gaming, so I'm sorry if this wasn't allowed, I Looked into the rules and didnt see asking a question like this as against it :> Been wanting a PS Vita for some time, and my girlfriend recently broke my psp... so she was thinking about getting me a vita for my birthday. I know I have to get all my psp games that I would want to play again on the vita as a download, so there is that. But as a member of PS Plus, and willing to get a big memory card to download other games, would anyone here who has played the vita say it is worth it? or would it be better to wait? I know one thing I loved about my PSP was plugging it into the tv, and I'm not sure if a newer model of the vita might be on the horizon P:

I've noticed a trend over the past few years when I play games. I usually buy games without reading reviews and play them without expecting anything. Most of the time, playing games I enjoy them and don't really find anything wrong with them. But a lot of times, I'll look on the internet after finish a game and see that people have such bad things to say about them bringing up issues that I didn't notice but become apparent after they've been mentioned. This isn't to say that I don't find flaws in games, there's a fair few games I've played and found things I don't like about them, but I feel that when reading what people think about a game, there's a lot of nitpicking going on about small things that could probably be overlooked. With this being said, I feel that maybe we're becoming prone to looking at the different elements of the game individually and all that without letting ourselves just play the game as a whole experience. Do people play games with the intent to find things to condemn them over? I'm not sure what to attribute this to. I know everyone's different, some have the eye of a critic and such. But this is just something I've noticed. If this post has made any sense to you and hasn't been garbage that made sense to me, feel free to comment and share your opinion Cheers

Dear Reddit, My friends and I are engaging in the most excellent bet of all time - see below for details.... THE MANLIEST OF CHALLENGES: SKYRIM MARATHON 2011 ™ Instructions written by, composed by, created by, awesomed by andybick Proverbs 28:1 The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. Objective: • Participant with the most logged hours in THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM between the hours of 12:00am on Friday, November 11 and 8:00am on Monday, November 14 is the victor Rules: • Any participant with less than 30 hours logged in THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM by 8:00am on Monday, November 14 is immediately disqualified and God will hemorrhage shame upon their family. • Participants must shut their respective consoles off when taking breaks from playing THE ELDER SCROLLS V: SKYRIM. The only exception to this rule is bathroom breaks, which shall not exceed 10 minutes. • Once the participant is done playing for the weekend, he/she must have photographic evidence of the amount of hours he/she has played during the allotted time, stats of his/her character, achievements awarded, and any other applicable appendices. • When participants review results, it will be determined if a participant was so ineffective during the allotted time, that they should be disqualified and heftily slapped for their insolence. THE MARATHON RULES MUST BE UPHELD, HONOR CODE IS A MUST Prize: • The victor of THE MANLIEST OF CHALLENGES: SKYRIM MARATHON 2011 ™ will receive a sum total of $xxx. And also the invaluable prize of respect as the most dedicated gamer among the participants involved. WHO IS MAN ENOUGH TO ACCEPT THE CHALLENGE

So, To set the scene, Little 13 year old boy, me about 5 years ago. 20 bucks, nothing to spend it on, so why not get a computer game for my less than good Gateway i got from a yard sale? So, looking around, i see a game called "counter-strike source value pack" I look at it, and it says: 4 games in one, counter strike, day of defeat, half life 2: death match, and half life 2: lost coast. so, i'm like "HELLZ YEAH BRO" and I buy it. As I am installing i get hyped as hell, thinking this is going to be a hell of a game. Then the moment iv'e been waiting for, play time. I click play, and i am immediately disgusted by the 2spf (seconds per frame) game i was playing, and threw my log in details + game in the garbage, not thinking twice. Then, about 2 years ago, I get my touchscreen, better than bad gateway (not too shitty) and I decide to try to get CS again. how ever, i don't remember my password, nor do i remember the username! I try for hours trying to get the correct combo, and at about 1 AM i quit. about 5 months ago, get a slightly used alienware laptop, and I decided to stop attempting to play games on this computer (really bad gaming :X ). So, I go download steam, and when I log into the launcher, I type bigdawgg_26 and my password, and to my surprise, i see counterstrike: 36 minutes played and the install button :) (note: my current username is bigdawgg26 so you can see where i got confused)

I am not going to lie, i play a lot of call of duty, however i got sick of it 2 iterations ago and just buy the newest one because i vaguely hope it will be better than the last. I played bf3 on xbox and never got into it. I also play arma 2 and the 3 beta what good fps would you recommend,

Not a cutscene, but like... on call of duty, say black ops 2 on Judgement day, the last part when david falls through the floor and onto a steel beam and picks up a gun. It's a non interactive, in game, non cutscene with no loading screen and it is completely fluid. and it shows his full body. another example is when he walks into the interegation room on odysseus, the player cannot control it, and it is full bodied, like a cutscene but in game, and first person. Another example is on duke nukem, the toilets, and the glory hole or even the water fountain

So I just recently got into gaming. I have an xbox 360 and have been mostly playing sports games like Madden and NBA 2k, but a friend recently started getting me into RPGs. I've played Dragon Age and Skyrim, but am looking for something with a more modern/futuristic setting. I recently started the old Army of Two game and found I really liked how I had to earn money through the story to upgrade a gun of my choosing instead of just finding guns with different attachments alla Call of Duty. Does anyone have any suggestions for an FPS RPG with upgrading weapons? Preferably old and findable in a Gamestop used section for <$10

proof]( So, I play quite a bit of competitive with a small group of friends. I was just surfing with those friends on a surf server running surf_mesa. Out of the blue, i just got vac banned from secure servers after doing absolutely nothing. (You can read more about my whole story in the imgur album above.) I woke up the next day to find that I was UN VAC BANNED! that's right, I was vac banned, then some time in 2 days, the ban was lifted. On the day of the vac ban, I was very sad. If you read the whole steam support thing in the imgur, you can see that I admitted to cheating in "Team Fortress 2" or a game more commonly known as "tf2". That was many years ago. That ban today is 758 days old. We all do stupid things and I can say first hand, It was not a good idea to use free cheats on an account I cared about. However, I didn't have any of these cool gadgets and nick nacks that you guys have today, in fact, the only hat I owned was the gibus. (the gibus is considered the worst hat in the game for those who don't play tf2) I also said I have two accounts. [account that was un-vac banned]( [other account with OW ban]( (accounts may be bugged, i couldn't see the second account in my browser for some reason)

I have gone through 2 of these headsets in the last 2 months (got one because i had bought the warrenty on the first and the cushion thing broke 2 days in). This headset is a huge downgrade from the v2, everything feels more flimsy, the head cushion thing is complete garbage and broke on my original and upon checking google alot of others also have this issue. Now the one i currently have which ive only had for about a month is having an issue where people can hear themselves speak even if i mute the actual headset. I google that aswell after having done a factory reset and other things on my xbox, and what do i find? Alot of others are also having the same exact issue. Seems like a common problem again with this headset is the sound in one of the ears will become lower then the other shortly after aswell. While the sound in one ear going out was a problem in the v2s, atleast ive never had a problem with the cushion or any other problems with the v2s until about a year or so after having them and it even had better volume control which was removed for the v3s but i see steelseries making it seem like they improved a bunch of stuff like sound quality etc. Then i decided to go to steelseries website to try and talk to someone about the issue and i cant find an online support chat, and they are apparently closed on weekends

So me and my friends want to play steam games together, but them I realized I didn't have enough money to buy a new game even though i already have 10+ games. I would be very appreciative if you donated some steam games to "|IF| Crash MaN" (not team fortress 2 - - or other f2p games) I would be very honored and add you to my donors list on Reddit. Thank you for reading

I would like to know what /r/gaming likes about borderlands. As I am having trouble finding anything I like about it; from the core gameplay to the story I really can not see what all the fuss is about. And I have tried very hard to like this game and honestly I am thinking of just not caring. *Ib4 -

The night before my birthday, I was sad about birthday plans getting canceled, so I texted my boyfriend "I think I'm just going to skip my birthday this year." And he was like whoa, like the world will just go straight from [today] to [two days from now]?! Well. First thing on the morning of my birthday, he texts: THE BIRTHDAY GAME!!! Press start to play! Needless to say, I text back "Start!" "Your birthday has, sadly, vanished from existence! It went straight from [date before] to [date after]. The world stands and waits in anticipation, wanting only to celebrate your birthday. Press A to continue." So I text back "A" and am given the option to save my birthday. I accept. A sloth appears and gives me quests, which I can view by pressing (texting the word) select. Throughout the day I complete various quests, unlocking new ones as I go, and leveling up. He fills the game with silly gamer jokes, like "You have gained 23590276037 xp. You're almost lvl 2!" and then the next time: "You have gained 1 xp. Level up!" Quests are random things like "find an object at work that literally everyone ignores and take a picture of it" as well as themed things like "call someone in another state to talk about your favorite birthday memory together. Type their response in 10 words or less." I also unlock items - a quest calls for me to check my email, where I find a voucher for yoga classes (he calls them health potions). And I unlock an ability, which is to get hints - I can press start to equip it. Eventually I unlock the final quest, which is to draw a final boss and make a short video of myself fighting it (I drew a giant evil cupcake and made a video of myself punching it). It takes me a while to do this, and he starts sending me "Take 2 damage!" for the time I'm taking. When I send the video, he tells me that the boss dropped a lamp when I defeated it. Mash A to rub the lamp. So I reply: AAAAAAAAAAAA And then there's a knock at my door, and BF is at my door with a dozen white roses, and says there's a genie in the lamp and a magic carpet waiting for me (and whispers "I'm the genie, but there's not really a magic carpet, it's just my car."). And then he drives me to REI to buy rock climbing gear, and my birthday is saved, and the game is over. Wanted to share not just to brag on my awesome BF but to spread the love. This was such a cool gift to receive and I hope someone else will read this and do it for somebody that they love too :)

I'm a long-time lurker here but all the complaints about EA, microtransactions, Valve, etc, made me write this post. There's one thing all these companies will listen to: not your complaints... but where your money is going. But, let's face it, [here's most peoples version of a boycott]( Unless you're serious, it won't happen. But here is a way to boycott that most people can follow: 1) preorder whatever next blockbuster game is going to be from whatever developer you like. Admit it, you're buying it anyway. 2) cancel the preorder a few days before the release. 3) write a letter to the CEO and mail it out (don't email - it's filtered, nobody cares, a letter has to be opened). Tell the CEO why you aren't buying their game (add preorder cancellation email - more stuff for them to take time reading) and state your reasons. Be mature about it - make your case, don't swear, give examples. Be short though, half a page at the most. Nobody reads essays. 4) when the game comes out, wait at least a week, then buy it (I'm assuming people aren't actually going to not buy the game). But wait that week, those 7 days, at least. Here is the effect: 1) large volume of preorders will make the company expect yet another blockbuster. Their stock will go up on expectations of this, lots of people will be cheering. 2) large volume of preorder cancellations will make them very nervous, including the CEO and investors. Stock will tank which will cause real money to be lost to the CEO and senior management. They'll be sweating. 3) an inlux of these letters will make them spend time and money opening all of them, reading them, and deciding which should go up the chain of command. Even 100,000 letters (out of millions of buyers) will make a point. It'll at least make them pay more attention than a reddit rant or an email through their website. 4) game release date is very important to them, making these record breaking numbers is critical, especially in the first 24 hours and first week. By delaying the purchase, you're making a point but you'd still not suffer since you'd eventually get the game anyway. Again, I strongly urge not to buy the game but if you have to, do the above or at least the preorder, cancel, buy a week later. It's not much to ask and it'll make them pay more attention, especially if the gamers are united in our requests. You do this a few times and they'll get it. At the very least, it'll make stockholders tell management to pay attention. /rant

Did a clear out of the cupboards at the in laws yesterday and found this little gem. It certainly brang back the child in me! Father in law is in waste disposal for businesses and residential etc... and can get bits and bobs from jobs. Came in a psx steering wheel box and i laughed at it. Then was told it has a megadrive in.... needless to say i started screaming

Hey /r/gaming! I broke my right wrist a few days ago. Now that the pain is reaching bearable levels, I'm at a loss for what to play while I recover. I have at least a month to go before I can use my mouse hand again, so I was wondering if you guys could think of any games that fit these parameters: Runs on modern PCs (don't want to risk slamming the desk in frustration with my bad hand) Mouse only or keyboard only If mouse only, not too fast paced because my left hand sucks at pointing If keyboard only, it'd be nice if keys can be easily reconfigured Even better if it's easy to get (like steam or gog) Finally, games that are good! I already got Banner Saga which seems to fit the bill after like 30 minutes of playing. I also managed to come up with a Diablo3 build that really only uses two skills, so creative uses of games are encouraged :-)

Hi everyone. I love to play computer-games and more or less always have. I would like your help to find something to play together with my girlfriend. She likes gaming a little but is not super into it, she does like the idea of finding something we can play together though. I mostly like RPG's and such, my favourite games are Fallout 2 and Planescape torment, I also like strategy games, ARPG's, some shooters (mostly the Campaigns), Dota-style games, Tower defense and so on. I know she played alot of Runescape when she was younger before we met (don't know how she played it and I have never played it myself). She loves Little big planet and Ratchet & Clank. When she played WoW she was the type that ran around and picked flowers and admired the view. She played a bit of Sims where she turned on some money cheat and started designing our dream house. I described Plants vs Zombies to her and she said it sounded fun sadly you can't coop in it, I showed her Path of Exile and she said it might be fun but I think it is a bit too complicated in the long run, she may like it a little while in the start but PoE gets pretty hard pretty fast unless you want to dig into it atleast a little. So the

Since an awesome awesome friend of mine gifted me the Portal 2 bundle and I already had Portal, I've got a spare copy of the first game to give away. I hate to do first-come first-serve, and a contest for a game most people have seems a little silly. So I'll have a sort of mini-contest. Nothing serious. Whoever makes the comment to this post that I like best in the next hour gets it. Doesn't matter what your comment says; be interesting, funny, whatever. And don't bother downvoting other comments. I don't care who gets the most votes, I'm just picking a favorite xD

This is what AMD Gaming Evolved says my computer can handle, however when i actually put these settings on, in every aspect of the game I have low FPS, when i put on my current settings I can do everything with a stable 40-50 fps which im happy with, but when i get into a 25 man raid, it drops to a horrible 8 FPS, and i have tried in a boss fight to make everything low, but i still get a shit 15 FPS, if my computer is meant to run ultra graphics, then why cant I raid. Help me. OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Version 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1 Build 7601 Other OS Description Not Available OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation System Name SAM-PC System Manufacturer ASUS System Model All Series System Type x64-based PC Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4670K CPU @ 3.40GHz, 3401 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s) BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 0502, 8/04/2013 SMBIOS Version 2.7 Windows Directory C:\Windows System Directory C:\Windows\system32 Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1 Locale Australia Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7601.17514" User Name SAM-PC\Sam Zammit Time Zone AUS Eastern Daylight Time Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 8.00 GB Total Physical Memory 7.91 GB Available Physical Memory 5.56 GB Total Virtual Memory 15.8 GB Available Virtual Memory 13.2 GB Page File Space 7.91 GB Page File C:\pagefile.sys Graphics Card :

Hello Gaming, I come to you looking for advice about my future in gaming. Unfortunately due to snow storms I have been experiencing rolling black and brown outs which successfully killed my xbox dead (before I get a bunch of links to surge protectors yes I was using one, every other electronic device hooked up to it carried on fine, but the box died). This leaves me wondering what to do to replace it though. Persistent rumours of the next gen being released in a years time, coupled with xbox live being a paid service, plus the general business model make me hesitant to buy ANOTHER xbox (this is my 4th death over 6 years, first one outside of warranty though). Right now thinking it through the only reason I would get another xbox is because of my existing game collection... it is definitely modest and recently I have been hooked on Dark Souls and the Assassins Creed series. The only console specific games I have are the Mass Effect Triology (No big push to play it through again really, the ending really killed the first two games for me) and the Halo series. While I bought the 360 for Halo 3, I just dont have the same need for Halo 4 or FPS in general. So I come to you guys to help me make a decision. Is it worth going with another xbox, is it worth getting a PS3 and trading in my game collection for the playstation equivelent, or should I join the glorious PC gaming master race (I have mixed feelings on this one, I used to love PC gaming, and still prefer the community on PC over consoles, but the consoles make it so damn easy to just pick up and play)

Picture: Two of our fellow redditors were nice enough to gift me games for the holidays. I love these two, always a good time when we play together. Just thought I would share the spread of Christmas Cheer. Cheers to Almost Pancake and OODintheRoom

So my brother and I we're visiting our aunt house. Boredom set in real fast. So we decided to play some card games but since the 2 of us were the only ones who wanted to play it quickly devolved into us figuring out what 2 person card game we could play. We eventually settled playing War. But my brother and I are competitive and we both agreed that War was a game of complete randomness where the winner was decided by who would end up with all the high value cards in the beginning and we hated that. So we came up with a few variations and rules that would change up the game. Here are the Rules Game plays like War with the person with the highest card value taking the other persons card. Each person receives half of the deck, 26 cards or whatever depending on the style of cards your using, number of players, etc... The winner's cards are placed in a separate stack of used and won cards. When a player runs out of cards in their deck they play the last 3 cards in their hand before shuffling the used and won cards, into a new deck. Instead of throwing out the card from the top of your stack you have a hand of 3 cards. Both select a card from your hand and lay it down at the same time. This allows for some strategy and also practicing your poker face. Draw cards once a round or war has been completed so you always have a pool of 3 cards to choose from. When a War occurs (both players lay down the same card) you take the top card from your deck and lay it face down on the table. This is your bet. Then you each select one of the 2 remaining cards from your hand and lay it down on the table and see who has the higher card. The winner takes all the cards including the face down ones but does not show what the bet card the loser lost. (This can lead to some future raging) Now for some fun. When the inevitable double War occurs you bet the top 2 cards of your deck(don't look at them). Then you each lay down your last card and see who wins. Winner collects all cards. If a triple War occurs, then you bet the top 3 cards of your deck. But wait... neither of you have cards to play. So you each flip over the top card of your deck and see who is the winner. Winner collects all cards. At this point it would be best for the loser to forfeit because of what little luck they have.... The winner is the person who has the most cards after a certain amount of time, rounds, shuffles, Wars, etc... (you could also create a point system) Ok this might sound complicated, but its not. It's war with a little bit of strategy mixed in. My brother and I found it to be a cool card game for only 2 players. Try playing it, or make up your own rules. But it's so much better than COD regular War

Quick thing: In my opinion, I think we've run out of ideas for movies. I'd just like to say, it's a little insulting how directors are remaking movies like Planet of the Apes, making movies about the board game Battleship, and making romance movies with a plot I've seen before many times, but nobody considers making a movie about Halo, Grand Theft Auto 4, Red Dead Redemption, Mass Effect, or Dead Space (which almost had a movie, but was canceled because of an argument about the rating.). There are a lot of gamers who would come to see those movies, but no one even considers it. And it's even more insulting how people have to make video games about a movie if it's action-y enough

These next few paragraphs are from the steam eula you agree to when creating a subscription (through purchase of a game or download of the software) All title, ownership rights and intellectual property rights in and to the Software and any and all copies thereof are owned by Valve and/or its licensors. VALVE DOES NOT GUARANTEE CONTINUOUS, ERROR-FREE, VIRUS-FREE OR SECURE OPERATION AND ACCESS TO STEAM, THE SOFTWARE, YOUR ACCOUNT AND/OR YOUR SUBSCRIPTIONS(S) In the case of a one-time purchase of a product license (e.g., purchase of a single game) from Valve, Valve may choose to terminate or cancel your Subscription in its entirety or may terminate or cancel only a portion of the Subscription (e.g., access to the software via Steam) and Valve may, but is not obligated to, provide access (for a limited period of time) to the download of a stand-alone version of the software and content associated with such one-time purchase. so basically valve's eula says all those games you own... well you dont own them valve does, can load up viruses, terminate your subscription, not have to provide a refund, not have to notify you of termination at any time and for any reason ea origin's "You agree that EA may collect, use, store and transmit technical and related information that identifies your computer (including the Internet Protocol Address), operating system, Application usage (including but not limited to successful installation and/or removal), software, software usage and peripheral hardware, that may be gathered periodically to facilitate the provision of software updates, dynamically served content, product support and other services to you, including online services." is pretty tame in comparison as many companies collect application data (including an... OH MY GOD... MY IP ADDRESS [the world is now going to end]!!!!!) to help solve conflicts and provide better support to keep the service working (while valve basically says, if it doesnt work fuck you); this data will not be your personal credit card numbers, browsing history, porn collection, and etc. either way letting ea have my porn collect seems a whole lot better than letting valve effectively steal my money and install viruses on my computer

So, as most of you should be aware of: If you live in Germany you're pretty much screwed - gaming wise. So as most of you should also be aware of: STEAMSALEZOMFG!!! So I was finally going to buy Bioshock, when I read those dreadful words again: "Low Violence: German low violence version only available with German language" RAGE! (btw: I am 24 O_o) I've read alot of thread on the web about this, and aparently the following tips do NOT work anymore: setting steam to english using proxy to buy games (and gift them to yourself) (actually this will get your gifts disabled, and your proxy account aswell) So the Steam sale will run out today, and I'm getting desperate. So desperate in fact, that I'm already considering buying the cut version of the game. But then it came to my mind: reddit! O_o So is anyone of you willing to exchange gifts? I will gift you a game for €4,99 (or whatever moneys you have in your country), if you live outside of Germany and gift me Bioshock. (Account Name is Miltown btw...)

Got Dirt 3 Promo code with my new radeon 6870, it didnt validate when i entered it and i lost the code. I'm broke as hell and wanting to game on a budget. Can anyone make suggestions for free games or very cheap games. Thanks

I've seen obviously fake pictures of like PS4 and Xbox 720 etc. and it actually made me wonder what the next step in gaming is console wise? PC even? What can they even upgrade? I'm not a very big gamer so i don't know that much about what's going on and was hoping you guys could update me? discussions are always fun too (Y)

Hey, So to celebrate a number of different things including the holidays my roommate and I purchased portal 2 from amazon with some gift cards we received. Neither of us has played the original portal all the way through but have played bits and parts. Is there anything we should know before it arrives tomorrow? Thanks for the help! its much appreciated [bold]

Raiding on Destiny the other night, my friend and I find ourselves playing with 4 strangers we found online. Things were going well until we met the final stage in Destiny's Crota's End. We had only finished this a few times, as the content was considerably new and people were still struggling finding appropriate tactics to use. One of the players was extremely bad, but not bad like you'd forgive due to lack of experience - as in, purposely bad it seemed. Countless wipes occurred due to this guy, he didn't say a word. After half an hour, we finally gave up and said something. The guy - about 20 i'd say - confesses he's drunk quite a few cans of Budweiser. i mean, like 9 or so. Suddenly, out of fuck knows where - The Budweiser Raider begins to sing Johnny Cash - Hurt as loud as he fucking could I could hear the passion in this guy's voice, as if he had been through heartbreak. It was like nothing I had ever heard before. Such desire, such longing, such commitment. It was also really shit. Probably the worst drunken recitation of a song I've ever heard. Singing continues - we're on the last few bullets needed to destroy the enemy. He sabotages. We were naive not to expect such a thing. Purposely dies - blinded with emotion..wipes raid literally seconds from completion. so done

So i bought Skyrim day one, now I'm reasonably poor and don't invest money into things i don't know to be good (I played oblivion and i knew Skyrim would be similar) So i got some Christmas money and i decided i would get the dlc... this is what i find:

I know a lot of people who are not getting Diablo 3 for a few reasons. One friend said that the game was to easy when he played the beta. Most said there wasn't really much innovation so he will pass but will be getting torchlight 2 WTF and the classic I played so much diablo 2 that I would rather play other games. Single player is also connected to the internet. I don't know why this pisses me off so much I just have a pet peeve when people give me stupid reasons why they are not getting the most anticipated game of the year. I can understand the beta being easy, I wasn't playing the beta to see if the game was hard I was playing it to see how the game felt and see how the mechanics played out. the beta was like 4% of the entire game not to mention HARDCORE What kind of innovation can diablo 3 have. It is a hack and slash title. I am sure the story will be mediocre at best but if your playing diablo for the story your going to have a bad time. There is a new world to explore tons more loot to collect, PVP arena will be patched in later on.You shouldn't be expecting a Mass effect branching storyline experience. the combat has been tweaked and everything feels so much smoother. people who complain about playing to much diablo did so 10 years ago. and they are still saying they are going to be sick of a new diablo experience. and the internet is everywhere I don't know why people complain about it always being connected. Whenever people complain about this. and someone please tell me why torchlight 2 looks better than diablo 3. I am sure they will both be fantastic titles considering torchlight is made by diablo 1 and 2 devs. I guess I have a bunch of eltist friends. or maybe its because I am a single father and when I play video games I just want to play a mindless hack and slash. my most played games consists of minecraft and SC2 so anyone who wants a mature gamer who wont complain about stupid shit and just enjoy Diablo 3 for what it is PM me and maybe we can get a party of 4 going and enjoy diablo tonight :) sorry for the long rant

And I've been thinking about moving away from it and into more of an MMORPG kind of game (I think that's what you call it... something like guildwars or something...) So pretty much I'm looking to play the kind of game you get 1 character and you level them up and get more spells/items etc. Preferably I'd like something that's free but a 1-time-payment game would also be completely fine for me! (Not like WoW) I also don't really have gaming friends and I'd love if someone would show me around/play with me in the game I decide as I think it's always more fun to play with people :)

Im done. I am so fucking done, do you know why /r/gaming? I'll give you a hint, it involves sniper rifles and call of duty. If you guessed quickscoping, then Congratz!! if not then oh well. moving on... Im sick and tired of playing a nice match of call of duty when a fucking kid decides to come in and show off his fancy pants quickscoping moves. its not cool anymore, everyone has seen the montages, the videos of those amazing kill feeds where all the kid does is aim his sniper in and out a bunch of times. i'll admit i tried getting into quickscoping back when it was still fun to try. now, its just annoying. getting into the meat of things, Infinity Ward has been pretty friendly to quickscopers, especially in modern warfare 2 and 3. I really REALLY hope that they view quickscoping, and sniping in general, as an issue and come up with a fix for it, cause im sick of it. make a quickscope only playlist for all i care, i just want to play one match of cod where i don't have to deal with 12 year olds fucking spamming the mic about how good they are at quickscoping. People always complain about cod staying the same, well here is infinity wards chance to change it up. this has been a rant by non other then me, kukuzunumu. thanks for listening

i am trying to download team fortress 2 from steam but when i downloaded it and reinstalled it all i got was "preparing to launch team fortress 2" i have already updated

I just got Mario Party Island Tour and decided to warn anyone who thinks it's a good idea.. It's not even skill based any more, you just press A a lot and stars aren't even a thing any more except one map and they don't work the same at all. Also dice rolling with the stylus makes it completely random and terrible

As simple as it looks, what reasons, abstract from the game itself caused you to leave your guild or have your guild fall apart? I am going to be taking over a great group and would like to learn form my mistakes and some of the errors we haven't run into yet. Feel free to rant a bit but

hi /r/gaming, lately i find myself not playing any new games, just because i never feel like doing it. i have laying here la noire, child of eden, batman AA, assassins creed 2, RDR and several other games and i really looked forward to them and i think they are pretty good games too. nevertheless i barely touched them, just because i never feel like "hey, AC2 would be awesome now! let's play it"... i think if there's no competition or no loot (hi terraria) in the game i dont feel like playing them

Deleted by the MTGSalvation staff from the CI forum in an attempt to cover their tracks: [quote=Iggey;9205077]I think it is time to provide some updates on the MTGS sale to Curse corporation, and to provide insight on the sordid, sordid, sordid tale which led to mass bannings in this site and the closure of an entire subforum. Originally Posted by straight from the mod lounge Okay guys. This has been in discussion with the Globals for about a week, and a small selection of you that would be directly affected have been contacted for opinions. This is now being opened up to the rest of you. About a week ago, the admins got in touch with our Curse liaison. This person will be directly above the admins when the deal goes through, so we're already establishing a working relationship. Fabien, our liaison, took a tour of the website with Lord Voldemort while discussing things with us. He got access to many areas, including the Speakeasy and the Gutter, and we asked him his opinion. The first is the biggest news. The Gutter cannot stay, even with the sanctions we've currently put in. Curse will not allow such a place on our website. The hazings, the slurs, basically many of the liberties the Gutter has, they have no place on the Curse network. Curse has told us that we have to get them in line in any way we so choose. Kill the sub or cauterize the bits that stick out of the box, they don't care. But here's the important thing: We may not say that Curse said so. For those of you who missed the implications of that, the Staff must pull a 180 here. We must, saying it was our idea, tell the Gutter that the past four months were all for naught and that we still have to change things entirely. I'll get to our options in a few moments. Slightly less of a problem is the subject of the Red Zone. The Speakeasy is safe, but each of the NSFW sections will probably have to go. No real big loss in most cases. NSFWCW will probably become a censor-off sub, but no more sexual content. NSFW Debate will probably become 'Hard Debate' or something similar so the more adult or controversial debates (the Unconscionable Position rule threads, for example) have someplace to go. For the Gutter, there isn't much we can do. Option 1.) Kill it. I'm saying this to get it out of the way. I would rather not do this, as it will sacrifice all credibility that the staff has. We go back on our word, and because we can't cite Curse as the reason, we're doing it for no reason. Option 2.) As I said before, cut off anything that doesn't fit in the box. Hazing, slurs, making fun of other members, all of that? Gone. The Gutter essentially becomes an invite-only clan in its own private sub that just so happens to have its censor off. All threads except TBGTE (and maybe even that one) get moved to a private read-only subforum that can only be accessed if you have the direct link, for archival purposes. If you guys come up with other options, let me know. But that's about all I can come up with. For Talore, GR, Teia, this isn't going to be fun. Sorry guys. Our hands are tied here, and I'm not going to enjoy this any more than I assume any of you will. As it has been explained by one of the banned members in another forum: Originally Posted by A now banned member here's the real down low: they were going to shut us down/postpone the pegging talks because they were waiting on confirmation from Curse on whether or not we'd be allowed to stay open (re: harping on the use of hate speech). the final word came in and it not only said we couldn't use hate speech but also we couldn't stay open the way we were -- to quote "some person": Some Curse executive browsed the whole Salvation alongside rianalnn and the veredict is that the Gutter is a no go. They will only accept a censorless "clubhouse" for an "overclan" or some ** . And the fun part... there is a fun part... Curse is wants to force the admins to make it look like it's their thing and not Curse's

I have a step cousin of mine who's two years older than I am and we've both been into videogames since we were kids. Generation Y kids, so NES and Gameboys are what got us started. We never got to see eachother much, but when we did, we would always talk about our favourite games and T.V. shows. We were essentially videogame buddies before family, so to speak. The first big game we played together extensively was Pokemon Red/Blue. I had Red, he had Blue. He owned his copy way before I did - he was still using the original Gameboy handheld, and I had the transparent purple one. Anyway, in the summer of 2000, my parents invited his family up to our cottage. It was a 4 hour trip so we brought our GB's along with Pokemon. We started new files before leaving. When we got to the safari zone, it was then I got to show my cousin the down+B trick, or wtv it was. I caught a Dratini, and he was super impressed, since thos fuckers were somewhat hard to catch. Like the true bro that I was, I caught one for him. Sometimes we would duel our teams against eachother to see how our teams fared, and it got kinda heated sometimes, but nothing out of control. He'd shrug off losses by blaming lucky Sleep awakening checks, or timely switches. Anyway, he got kind of tired of the grind and wanted to play my Mario Tennis game, but if memory serves, I told him I couldn't let him start a new file because they were all used up and were all being played with different builds. I remember him being really taken aback that I wouldn't let him play a new file while he would let me start new files in other games, but that was the problem, it was just THAT game I couldn't let him, and he didnt understand that and thought I was purposely being a jerk. Later that day, he was playing with DBZ action figures with his cousin(blood cousin), and when my other stepcousin invited me to play with them, my gaming stepcousin said he didnt want me to touch his toys since I wouldnt let him touch my Mario tennis. I took it really personally, and felt like crying because I didnt understand why he was being so mean. In that moment of frustration and sadness, I ran back to our cabin and traded back the Dratini I caught for him back to my game, and didn't tell him. Needless to say, he found out later on and got SUPER pissed. He has a sister and he HATES it when people touch his stuff without permission, and when he found out I pulled that kind of stunt, he demanded I gave the Dratini back. I said no, and then bam, for the first time in the 14 years we knew eachother, he punched me in the face. I repressed alot of what happened in the following minutes of the punch, but I clearly remember the lecture we got from our parents about videogames being an addiction and whatnot. From that point on, it was clear we took gaming seriously - it was our passion, and we loved it so much and ofr the same reasons it naturally felt to be competitive if we happened to be playing the same games. There have been other instances where things got too competitive: -Dynasty Warriors 3; I always seemed to be better at him in duels and after winning a bunch against him almost flawlessly, he stopped talking to me, but we still kept playing. I could sense he was infuriated, and it was pretty awkard for those 20 or so minutes we played. -World of Warcraft; sigh...I think it was because our schoolife suffered because of it, or our parents always tried to limit our time on the game, but we would level together and as I surpassed him, he would get really mad when I would run new dungeons and semi-troll him by linking my new blues, rofl. One day he just disappeared off my friends list and when I armoried him I realised he xferred servers to play with "other" friends, which he didnt. We stopped speaking to eachother for 3 months. -Heroes of Newerth; this is happening as I write this...he HATES LoL, I love it. PLayed it a few times, then ragequit and dismissed it as a casual Moba, you know, the thing every HoN player calls LoL. So I picked up HON too so we could play together...but ill let your imagination come up with what happens when you try kicking the person you queued up with from the game because he refuses to surrender, while you sit afk in the fountain and tell your entire team to do the same. Were playing our own ranked matches at the moment...I was ahead of him by about 80 PSR, and when I got into a huge losing streak, thats when we've been neck and neck, logging on every day to try and surpass the other,not even bother to say hi. It's a weird relationship we have...Maybe we need to grow up... edit:

I've now 100% both the multiplayer and the single player of assassins creed 4 black flag, i believe i am qualified to share my opinion on everything wrong with the game and things they could have done better 1) kenways fleet: kenways fleet should have been like the assassins from the earlyer games but they ruined it, the inability to call on the ships in battle is just poor game making, and the fact that sending a ship to kenways fleet only helps kenways fleet is really annoying there should be an upgrade and leveling system for the ships and crew just like ac:brotherhood. it makes kenways fleet seem useful and gives people a reason for using it 2) ships and warfare: ok so how are you going to have a game about pirates and ships not have multiplayer ship battles? also the fact that you're stuck with the first ship you get is very boring, i would have loved to jump from ship to ship like use a scooner for stealth but a man o' war for a huge battle. it would also be fun because you could use ships that you upgraded from kenways fleet. also the crew men on the ship seem to only get in the way, they seem all together useless, i would have liked to have been able to upgrade them like that assassins in ac brotherhood, having to pick armor or weapons for them to upgrade and also them getting specific ability as they level. this would have given the money much more use, i had over a million reals before i finished the campaign and i just didnt know what to do with them. i would have liked to spend them on my fleet and crew 3) just stuff to do: the game runs out of stuff to do in about 15 hours. whitch is annoying, the only thing that respawns is the warehouses, i would have liked the ability to go and do an activity from a list, like "oh kenway a fort is causing our ships some issues go deal with it" and things like that. i'm just bored with the game. it's too easy and too repetitive

I know alot of redditors have some misguided belief that EA is the worst thing to happen to gaming EVAR. If so, oh well, you are going to miss out on some great games. However, if you go around telling people that ALL games make by EA are POSs, like some have done with BF3, TOR, even Mass Effect 3, then seriously, go f8ck yourself. I KNOW Bf3 is a damn good game, TOR isn't revolutionary, but it isn't a POS, and freaking ME3 isn't even out yet. I am just SO SICK of EA hateposts becoming the norm on r/gaming and even r/games. I KNOW YOU HATE EA, I don;t need to be reminded every day. Vote with your wallet, but DO NOT SLANDER GOOD GAMES TO SPITE EA, or PIRATE games to spite EA. That backfires. I know this post will probably never see frontpage, but please, EA still make good games, Origin ISN'T evil, in fact it works well far more often than reddit would have you believe, and EA funds freaking BIOWARE AND DICE. Has EA messed up? Sure, there customer service could be quite a bit better, and the account bans are bad, but VALVE DOES THAT SAME DAMN THING!!!! Yes, shocking. Anyway, please, we know EA is easy to hate, but not everything that do is some evil plot to destroy videogames, Bullfrog and Origin Systems all SOLD THEMSELVES TO EA. EA didn't go "oh man, lets go gobble up some companies today, they bought them. LEGALLY. Anyway,

To summarize, /u/adkkid and I had the idea to make a podcast similar to LTT's WAN Show, focused on gaming and tech news. However, we were thinking it would be more opinion based, and we might talk more about what, for example, we think GOG Galaxy would need to make us switch to it from Steam, instead of being mostly objective. This would probably just be a project to share with our friends, and don't really expect anyone to listen to it, even within the PCMR or /r/gaming. What we're asking of /r/gaming is any advice you can give us. We don't have a clear idea of where we're going, but we want your opinions on stuff like whether we should make it a more objective podcast and try to keep our opinions out, or how we could structure it. If someone already does this, we'd like to know that. In fact, if you think this is a terrible idea and we should never speak of it again, do tell us. Because, honestly, it's probably going to be really terrible regardless. Any comments are really appreciated! Thanks guys! :)

Well i've just managed to break my keyboard of 10 years, so i think its time for an upgrade, i've heard good things about the Razer line of products after looking through their products i've decided i like the [Mamba]( as for the keyboard i'm kinda torn between the [keyboards]( offered, does anyone have/had these or has had Razer products in the past? are they worth the cost

So I'm in Timezone (an arcade chain for non-Australians) killing time while I wait for the "afternoon rest period" to finish so I can get back to my hospitalised girlfriend when I spot a plushy bunny in a claw machine. It's Buneary, the pokémon. I remember the GF liking this pokémon when she played the game and using it in her party despite it being mostly useless, so I decide to win it for her. So I claim my prize (claw machines are easy to figure out, although sometimes costly) and show up with the plushy and the girlfriend coos for a little while. Then she says (in her cute 'little-girl' voice): "You know, you shouldn't have brought him here. He could get sick! Then we would have a nasty case of [Buneary-ial Disease](

How much do you wanna bet that assassins creed victory (set in victorian london) features sherlock holmes as an assassin dodging cannon balls, ruffians and assorted chimney sweeps and grappling across the thames high fiving with mary poppins and watson clinging to his leg while he shouts "ELEMENTARY MY DEAR WATSON", performing a leap of faith into the big ben and duelling charles darwin challenging his theory of evolution then backflipping onto queen victorias lap and then drinking a spot of earl grey tea followed by meeting dr livingstone and saying "dr livingstone, i presume" followed by pushing scallywags and whores into the thames while trying to air assassinate the templar jack the ripper as he makes a dash for st pauls cathederal and turns out to be the templar grand master and takes an east india company trip on a holiday to the bahamas where content from black flag is reused like old socks on a homeless british war veteran abandoned on the victorian streets of london and as u air assassinate jack the ripper u see a union jack flash before yoir eyes and a golden bulldog with winston churchill's face glides across the smoggy skies of london quoting "We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." and flying off into the distance, quietly woofing and growling in the golden sunlit english haze

I got a little nostalgic and wanted to play some of the original but after digging through boxes and crates I can only find the box, manuals and CD's but no CD case ( that have the CD key). I purchased the game but I've lost the case. Blizzard's page states I must send in box or manuals, with $10 and wait 2-4 weeks to replace CD key (tl). I don't want to play on Battlenet, I just want to play through the campaign. Any suggestions or someone willing to share their CD key. Thanks

if blizzard ever wants to release a diablo mmorpg, all they have to do is skin WoW. the overall classes, and system makes it feel more like diablo then warcraft. ie the skill tree, classes, quest, and inventory system. 1) take wow, and darken the textures 2) change the story line 3) change npc 4) wait 5) profit

Hi guys. I hope you will take the time to read this. I've attempted to make it as fun and engaging as possible for such a large wall of text. Feel free to contribute to what I cover here in the comments. Gaming in our generation Lets get one thing out of the way first, SEX SELLS, we all know this, end of story. So with that said...BUCKLE UP THIS IS GOING TO BE ONE HELL OF A POST. I’m writing this as it comes out my brain so if it seems a tad disjointed in places its my brain moving from point to point. So where to begin? Ah yes. The current turmoil in gaming between Men and Women, well certain women that is. Not all have experienced sexism, not all have voiced their experience of sexism and perhaps not all seem all that phased or perhaps even remotely care but fact of the matter is, sexism exists, unfortunately it has done for a long time and really hasn’t dissipated. Why is this? Well I could go into writing about the history of women’s rights and ascension into their rightful equality amongst men but I’m here to talk about the problems in the CURRENT video game industry. Lets take a good example of internet bullying to begin with, a relatively famous example involving Anita Sarkeesian. ( learn more about her here) Anita is currently developing a web series based around the common tropes in the industry. I.E itemisation of women, male empowerment, lack of female protagonists, damsel in distress feature, etc. Although I do not agree 100% with her views for the simple reason being that her kickstarter campaign was bogus and un-necessary due to the fact that if she really cared about what she wanted to highlight the only thing she needs investment on is TIME not thousands of dollars off of gullible feminists. I digress. Anita was subject to internet bullying and abuse on a mass scale when she was discovered by a 4chan user who proceeded to post about her on the both famous and infamous site. Naturally a female ‘attacking’ the game genres, creators and series that the users of 4chan held so dear provoked an onslaught of sexist remarks on her videos (article here LUBEZ, WHEN ARE YOU GONNA TALK ABOUT VIDEO GAMES!? I’m getting there, don’t get your jimmies all rustled. So why did this happen and what were the implications of this? Well this was very much a sticks and stones scenario. The bullies and trolls were obviously not going to do anything to her in real life, so the next best thing in their mind was to try and intimidate her away from what she was trying to bring to light. This was a chance for Anita to bolster her evidence of the way women are treated online and in video games. She would have been stupid not to use what they did to her advantage and alas, Anita is far from stupid. This is where my opinion and insight creeps in. What this has inherently done is sparked a snowball effect hate from both opposing parties adding to this snowball gaining momentum and thus more media attention. OHH DRAAAAMAAAAA. What some people fail to realise is that when you are on-line, people with the same ideals, values, outlook on life and personalities group together, its how social groups are formed on-line. The people who are more alike will find each other. Saturating the diverse opinion pool that we get in real life social groups. Like how we group together in sub reddits like this, similar interests. People here are more likely to share our ideals. Hang on a tic Lubez, what’s this got to do with sexism and video games? Everything. You see. When that video was posted to 4chan the rally of hatred came from people with the same values, a concentrated group of people who shared the same opinion forced themselves upon Anita like animals to scare her off, the fact is, it is a well known site for people like that. Can we expect less? This is when the MINORITY seem like THE MAJORITY. The people who didn’t or don’t care/ agree with to some extent what Anita had to say didn’t bother leaving hate or simply quietly moved on, no need to get involved with the people who want to waste their time with posting hate. I know because I was interested with what she had to say, watched it, then quietly moved on. I know plenty others who would have done the same. We don't have a problem with her values we just have a problem with her. So then… where does the problem lie? Well, whilst Anita and other feminists who share her views tackle the video game industry by outlining the common tropes. I believe the problem lies within communities. And yes I mean that in general but I'll hit three here for you. The gaming community . Not much that those of you who have bothered reading this far don’t already know about different gaming communities but hell. Lets go for it eh? Different games, different communities. You will rarely find the same loud-mouth rude incompetent little kid who’s parents let him/her play CoD at the age of 12 be part of a Minecraft community server. Different goals different premise, different exposure. Needless to say we all love Minecraft for the ability to bring us all together in co-operation and imagination. Equality is strong here. I don’t think I need to go into XBL on-line chat in games such as CoD but ill outline something for you. Competitive games. People always strive for control, power and supremacy, ESPECIALLY MEN. This couldn’t be more true its the same in ALL aspects of life you could argue that Democracy works on this principle in respect to people chasing power and striving to succeed. ( THERE IS A HELL OF A LOT MORE TOO IT THAN THAT DON’T QUOTE ME ITS AN EXAMPLE ) Humans in general like to be in control of things. We don’t want our freedom impeded; ‘Hey Chris from across the road got that scooter I wanted, WELL FUCK HIM ILL GET THE NEXT MODEL UP’ Competition is in our blood and nature. Its in me, its in you, learn to accept that. We all fucking hate it when we lose to someone or feel that they are better than us. LUBEZ, GET BACK TO VIDEO GAMES!!! Shit, sorry. So this links into gaming, control. It is a lot easier to control a game and claim dominance over someone when you are a faceless voice over a microphone, why? ITS EMPOWERING! that’s why. Human nature ladies and gentlemen. I could go on about the gaming community and empowerment to explain it more but ill move onto… Local Communities Well then. The way you are brought up by your parents, your home, friends and surrounding all impact your personality and ultimately will influence the path you take in life. Where you live and who you know will form your opinion on everything. we grow from others this way. If you become a rude loud mouth raving lunatic here chances are you’ll stay that way and influence others around you in gaming communities. Or perhaps go on-line, find people like you, stay on that social group site and end up being the idiot who adds to the snowball effect I was talking about earlier. I digress, but you get the picture. Last and by very means least. THE MEDIA BOO, HISS! But no. Seriously the media is great, we owe a lot to them… after all… they influence our opinion on everything… but they are also to blame for the rise in this nasty ‘sexism in gaming’ business. Just today I read an article from the lovely Helen Lewis (Twitter here: Which was posted on the telegraphs website (Article here if you are interested: What is it that bothers me here. Well, the title being ‘ Are computer games being taken over by women ’ That title was carefully chosen, not by Helen herself, no, but by someone who gave the go ahead for it to be put up. According to Helen she titled it ‘The games women play’ which is a more apt and less provocative article title, no? What do you mean by provocative Lubez? Referring to what I said earlier about annoying the minority who will give an abrupt response to something they feel impedes on their ‘territory’ or ‘freedom’ The final editor is poking the wild bear with a stick to get a reaction. One that AGAIN further bolsters feminist views on gaming. I mean why wouldn’t they? more chance for a follow up article and more site traffic if some controversial shit goes down. In conclusion… Bottom line is that the gaming community is the root of a lot of the problems the games industry is getting stick for. Although some games don’t do themselves any favours with how they develop they aren’t the real problem, after all. Sex sells, they want to earn money from kick ass games that EMPOWER the player and they will continue to do so. Because the majority consumer are males. And its what most people want, they wouldn’t be doing their job if they didn’t deliver to the masses. Things haven’t really changed in that respect but I send my condolences and wish best of luck to women who have been abused within our gaming communities simply for laughs and or other prejudices. I don’t see things changing much any time soon. In the games industry in general and especially in on-line communities. Thanks for reading my insight and thoughts, if you’d like me to do a follow up post going into more detail about anything I have touched on here let me know here and ill actually plan it out and write it before hand next time. No

This weekend I met a guy who works for Microsoft Xbox Support. He is one of the people who responds to the official Xbox Twitter feed, and his life has been a living hell for the last week. Usually he has 20-30 support items in his queue but now it's in the hundreds, and the extra traffic is almost all trolls poking for bad answers about the Xbox One. Obviously this poor guy has nothing to do with the product, but he has to put a smile on his face and deal with all of the bullshit and his tweets have been posted in nationwide news (including Reddit) I guess my

Im mainly a pc gamer and i have a shitty computer rig, i made the mistake of buying Diablo 3 and not having a video card that can support it. Im interested in going back to the console and the ps4 sounds like a better fit for my style of gaming. When i heard that Diablo 3 was going to be on the ps4 i decided to MUST get the ps4 next year sometime. So what i'm wondering is basically is Blizzard is going to be make me pay for a new game or even be able to let the pc gamers who have gotten it, to download it onto the ps4 with all the cool thing added to it. *

I went on quite a shopping spree during the recent sales and have found myself unable to install all my games at one time on the current hard drive. I have two hard drives in my PC; one is the system drive with only 150GB, while the other is for various media and has 700GB. I want to just move all my games over to the bigger drive, because it has a good 400GB free, so

I would like to immediately apologize for using this subreddit like a blog. Considering the amount of self posts I make, I should probably just make a tumblr and link to that for karma. Regardless. Yesterday was the first day I haven't played Old Republic since I got it about two weeks ago. I paid for the game and three months game time, because it was cheap and I expected it to be good. But it wasn't. This got me thinking about games, and what 2011 has been like for them, and what the problem seems to be. Let's start simply. I'll say it here, but, after the Skyrim smoke cleared and everything settled down, I actually did end up deciding upon what the best game of 2011 was, and no, it wasn't Skyrim, at least not in my opinion (meager as it is.) It was Bastion. I'm sure the people who have played that will agree that its a good game, but let me sell you on why I think it was the best game out of a whole year. Because it was different. This is something really important that people don't seem to appreciate: Bastion was a new game. It felt original, the atmosphere was new, it had a different plot than what we're used to, a narrator that actually did react to our in game actions, and a large, if hidden, history behind everything you interacted with. And it was short. I got through the entire game in 5 hours. Up until now, the main competition for my adoration had been Skyrim. Both are very good games, but the problem with Skyrim is the same problem with most triple A games, and its really starting to wear on me. Skyrim, at the end of the day, is still an Elder Scrolls game. Like every Elder Scrolls game, its very good; the combat is fluid, the world is expansive, and the attention to detail is very well done. But the risks aren't there. It had the same overall problem with every shooter that came out this year. There wasn't a risk. Call of Duty was still Call of Duty, Battlefield was still Battlefield. Gears of War 3 was exactly what you expected. Big name games don't take risks, and they don't for reasons that are very good for business; the games will make money, even with no risk. My two favorite games in the history of gaming are Tropico 3 and Mass Effect, for two different reasons. Tropico 3 is funny, and has spawned more jokes with me and my friends than anything else. Mass Effect is right up there with it because Mass Effect was new. It had flaws to shit; the dialogue was awkward at times, the soundtrack in places made me want to die, the planets weren't all that interesting, the Mako sucked, but at the end of the day, it was new. New aliens, new lore, new space ships, a new game. It was a space game that wasn't Star Wars. Let's tie this back to Bastion, which yes, has some of its own flaws (balance is one of them.) I don't think I've played a game like Bastion. It was different, even if the gameplay was very simple. And most importantly, it took a huge risk. It was brand new; that game could have failed miserably, it could have been absolute shit. But instead of changing the story, the gameplay, the music, the narrator, they went with it. And I was impressed. I don't think I've gotten as much enjoyment out of 200 hours of Skyrim as I have of 5 of Bastion. How does this tie back to the Old Republic? Well, simple. That game is safe; there's no risks. Its World of Warcraft in space. Its a reskin, and I paid 90$ for it. And you know what? I'm bored of it. I won't be buying any more time. Its the last nail driven in to my wallet-coffin, something that started with Assassins Creed Brotherhood and ended with Old Republic. The problem with releasing games that are way to similar is that they don't warrant their own existence. Call of Duty: MW3 isn't different enough from MW2 to need its own game. There just isn't enough driving it. Same with Gears of War. Same with the Halo series. I think it brings to light this really big issue with modern games, where they treat them like cars: you find the formula for a good car, and tweak it. That's it. Tweaking an existing product to make it better is fine, and I don't expect games to be revolutionary on every release. But they need to include something different, not just small changes. Skyrim shouldn't be the towering height of 2011 for the majority of the world; that game is not perfect and by no means should we consider it as such. Skyrim should be the minimum, or at least a middle of the road. New games don't have to be so far off from their origins that they no longer have any recognizable connection, but something needs to be different. Every game has flaws, and every game can be improved upon in some way; if the "some way" isn't large enough, then maybe the game shouldn't be made. Its why I don't really want Bastion 2; it won't live up to the first game, no matter how good it is. Okay, I'll try to wrap this up, I'm well past the

Who said arcades were dead?]( The music game website Zenius-I-Vanisher has had an arcade locator for finding arcades with music games ever since its creation. Recently, due to the sheer power of the locator and expansive data already in it, the decision was made to expand the locator from music games only to all arcade games and all arcades. As a result, it has now become the only arcade locator of its kind on the internet; intuitive, efficient, powerful, and filled with information. However, due to the previous lack of information on music game-less arcades, the actual listings are now incomplete, though these missing and out-of-date listings are being added and revised as they are being found. There is also a lack of certain games in the database, though again, these are being entered as well, as time goes on. Many of the newest and most popular arcade titles are already in the database, including DanceDanceRevolution X2 , Pump It Up Fiesta EX , beatmaniaIIDX19 Lincle , DJMAX TECHNIKA 3 , Super Street Fighter IV , King of Fighters XIII , Tekken Tag Tournament 2 , H2Overdrive , Dead Heat , and many more. The locator is maintained almost completely by community support; as viewable from the updated locations log, several listings are updated every day. Many arcade listings are very detailed, providing details such as: What machines are at any given location Where they are in the arcade How much they cost What condition they are in Maps, hours, addresses for the arcade Pictures of the machines In closing (

edited for clarity) Bracing for downvotes, but hoping for genuine discussion... I recently started playing Deus Ex, one of the best-reviewed games ever, and seemingly widely considered to be an outright classic. But about 7 hours/5 missions in, I'm just not that into it. It's okay, but so far, it's not very challenging in terms of puzzles, stealth, strategy, etc. The RPG/FPS-hybrid-style combat is interesting with the variable accuracy/damage mechanic, which encourages a cautious and uncertain approach to violence (and maybe therefore a more realistic one). The inventory system is annoying, not in a stressful/panicky Resident-Evil-type way, but in a tedious, chorelike way. The graphics hold up quite well, but the visual design is really hokey, dated, and corny (the UN dresses like a goth/industrial band...). And so is much of the voice acting and dialog. The underlying story seems pretty good, but man is it sloowwww to develop. The gameplay is vari able , but not that vari ed , if that makes any sense-- I can solve the mission in any number of ways, but I can also basically solve all of them by simply killing all the bad guys with the same weapon(s), it seems. And the game design is clunky, plodding, and un-polished in many respects: I walk around exploring and think I'm finding little secret puzzles that I can't solve yet, and then later someone in the game basically tells me about the puzzle and how to solve it. In fact, it seems like the core game mechanic, aside from combat, is walking around and talking to people until one of them tells you exactly what to do ( "Go turn on the valve in the east corridor and then come back and I'll tell you where to find the secret door and what the code is to open it" ). Meanwhile, the leveling-up system is confusing, ambiguous, and chore-like, much like the inventory system. It's like, pick some random ability and spend your XP on it, without having any idea whether or where it will be useful, or what kinds of problems it might solve. It's not a bad game. In fact it's pretty good, if somewhat dated. But based on its reputation, I thought I was getting into a HL2, or a KOTOR, or MGS, or something like that. So I guess my

ACTA is a global anti-counterfeiting (and anti-piracy) agreement that threatens to destroy the internet as we know it. It would give federal officials the right to inspect your files without a warrant. It would make unauthorized possession of copyrighted material a federal crime. And there's nowhere in the developed world you'd be able to go to escape it, because they're all on board. US, Canada, EU, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, NZ, Australia. This lays the groundwork for the most totalitarian century the world has ever seen. I've posted it to /r/gaming because many, many people in this subreddit have reason to be personally concerned by the passage of this law. Government continues catering to corporations instead of to people; we're on our way to corporate fascism. We should try to stop it any way we can. Edit: Here are some useful links to information about ACTA. [The Electronic Frontier Foundation explaining what ACTA is and what you can do about it.]( [Wikipedia describing ACTA in detail, including participatory countries, controversy, and some potential effects.]( [The leaked ACTA agreement itself, hosted on TPB.]( Careful, going there could get you labeled a felon if this passes. Edit 2: Someone provided a link to [this very interesting review of ACTA from just a few weeks ago]( by the American University Washington College of Law. Experts on intellectual property from all over the world gathered in Washington DC to discuss ACTA, and this statement is their conclusion; it goes into detail about what's wrong with ACTA and why. The

I was recently playing shinning force again, a game series that I love with all of my heart. Many many years ago I had gametap before it was bought out by that other company and just became very very shitty. With that being said I was looking all over to try and find the old gametap launcher. I remember it how when you launched it up, there would be the logo and then a spiral selection of games, I remember shinning force, psychonauts, some other games I used to play but i can't remember their names :/ ... is there anyway to get that? or when they bought gametap they removed that cool launcher? Was looking for a gametap reddit.. but this is the closest thing to it. Edit: figured I should give an overview for the

Hey guys, so last week I finally picked up a copy of ESO for my Xb1 (My PC is a piece of shit that's only good for peggle) when it was on sale at best buy, and I already deleted my first character, and am on my second. My reason being; I like to use magic. from Morrowind, Oblivion to Skyrim my characters are always a magic using, fire-based Destruction Magika sword wielding do-gooders. But in ESO, I can't find out how to use Destruction magic? Or any magic for that matter. My Knight I deleted before I got out of soul shivren, and I recreated that guy as a Sorcerer. BUT HERE I FIND OUT THE ONLY MAGIC MY DUDE WILL USE IS "DARK MAGIC"! How do I unlock normal spells? Or do I have to recreate a character again ? And if I have to recreate my character, what class uses destruction magic? Or any magic at all beyond Dark Magic? I know this is kind of

As the title states I recently bought Pokémon silver for gameboy color and it couldn't save because of the internal battery (unless it is called something different) well I had been waiting for about a week for it and after playing it for a little bit i had to save to go eat dinner and when I came back to it it didn't save this made me quite angry so I did what any other nerd would do perform a postmortem on the sucker and then it hit me the silver disc in the case looks exactly like a c2025 battery upon further inspection it was so I switched them and taped it down put it back together and bam it's fixed

To be honest, I'm a long time halo fan (loved CE through Halo 3, read the books, etc), but I just thought the Halo 4 campaign was weak. It seems like everyone loves it and I really can't get a grasp as to why. Reasons why it sucked (mechanics): -If I remember correctly, you fight a variety of a maximum of six or seven enemies, but you fight so many of them that it feels like there's no enemy that is different enough to put a little variety in your play style -There are no boss battles...at all -There's really no climax in the gameplay (all the missions are "go to this objective" or "destroy this", that's it really) -The ending did the typical Call of Duty-esque "i'm gonna kill the main villain in a way that people will think is awesome" and it failed to me. Especially since you never actually fight him at all. -Master Chief talks too damn much (that's really my opinion, you don't have to comment on that) -I feel like they tried to hard to showcase Cortana fanservice Plot Related: I didnt really have that many issues with the plot, believe it or not. I just didn't find it interesting...at all, really. -The plot seemed fairly hollow and ill explained. I knew what was going on because of the books, but I feel like the average person is going through wondering "what the hell is any of this"? -No explanation within the game as to why the covenant subgroup is fighting alongside the promethians -The main antagonist is actually absent throughout most of the game

I was playing a normal game when there's this guy on the other team that is really good(probably smurf) we played and lost the round while teasing him and saying he's really good... At wallhacking. The next game he's on our team and our whole team starts saying "Austin's on our team we can't lose." Then it goes to calling him Mr. President and before we knew it we kept saying "do it for Austin" and lead us to victory Austin." The next game he leaves and we all keep saying "do it for Austin" and "we will remember austin" and "rip Austin." Then the next game after we win we start repeatedly saying "clutch or kick" and when a vote is started we immediately vote kick the person that couldn't clutch. By this time we were all very close but I ended up being the last person alive and I end up not being able to clutch. "I'm so sorry Michael, but you know the rules." I tragically had to be kicked for not clutching

Hello, a few days ago i posted a question because one of my walkthrough video of Mass effect 3 had be flagged for copyright claims from IDOL (regarding one of the music in the back ground). I e-mailed EA, bioware and tweeted @masseffect to have help but never got any answers. Today i got a mail from Pascal Bittard from IDOL : "Bonjour, Soyez rassuré, nous n'avons déposé aucun plainte. Je ne sais pas vraiment de quoi il s'agit. La seule chose que je peux imaginer dans votre cas, c'est que, comme nous sommes en contrat avec YouTube et que nous représentons entre autres toutes les musiques des jeux d'Ubisoft et une grande partie des musiques de jeux de Microsoft, YouTube vous ait averti que vous utilisiez certaines des musiques que nous représentions ... mais comme nous choisissons de manière générale dans ces cas-là de vous laisser faire et de monétiser (plutôt que de bloquer), je ne vois pas pourquoi vous auriez reçu une plainte ... Cdt, " so for thos who don't understand french he said that they have an agreement with youtube regarding the copyright but they do not complain about copyright and let people use the content and even monetize it freely. This regarding games from Ubisoft and Microsoft at leaste ! so

Okay, so it seems like whenever we see EA or another company coming with out DLC and people complain about it, we have a bunch of people siding with the corporations and calling everyone who does not agree with a certain business tactic "entitled", meaning they want something for free. My response to this is, so? Let me explain the free market system to you guys. Supply and demand works as a system of producers and customers. Price for products is decided by a form of mutual agreement. People offer a product for a certain price, and people accept it for the price. Equilibrium happens when the supply and demand curves intersect. Now, defenders of the producers constantly like to bring up the fact that sellers have a right to charge whatever they want for products. However, what they fail to understand is they we, the consumers, also have a right to throw our own weight around. If we do not like a business practice, we have a right to refuse to buy it, we have a right to complain about it, and we have a right to spread the word to others. This is where the pro corporate camp seems to completely miss the point. We have just as much of a right to complain and "demand something for nothing" as the corporations do for offering DLC under such scummy premises. If you call us entitled, I can call EA entitled for expecting an extra $50 out of me despite having already paid $60 for the game. So what I'm gonna invite the pro EA and pro corporate crowd to do is to do some soul searching, and above all, you're customers, not producers, freaking act like it. The reason EA and these other companies get away with this crap is because you, defenders of the corporations, accepters of their philosophies, buyers of their DLCs, allow it to be so. You're siding with THEM against your own financial interests. While yes, their goal is to make as much money as possible, ours is to get the most satisfaction for the money we give them. When we embrace these damaging corporate philosophies and start calling customers who don't like the status quo "entitled", you're working against your own interests and encouraging these companies to take more money from you. This is what we, the "entitled" crowd, are so against. Just like the corporations want to maximize their profits, we want to maximize the content we received for the money. They want to charge us more for the same amount of content, and we want more content for the money we pay. They're acting in their self interest, and we're acting in our own. No one is advocating for truly free stuff here, we're not asking to have EA just give us BF3 or Mass Effect, for example, with no strings attached. Any rational mind with any understanding of economics and the world around them would expect to pay something to get a product. The real question is how much we should get for our money. The answer? As much as we possibly can. Just like businesses want to give us less and pay more, we should strive to get more and pay less. We're not being entitled, we're doing our job as consumers. The problem right now is that too many people are acting against their own interests, accepting the corporate philosophy to the point of being sheep, and throwing their money at these guys "Fry, take my money" meme style without putting up any resistance. The result is that we, the consumer, end up paying more and being hurt in the long run. Where will it end? Could we have gotten it to end without it even getting as far as it did. If we, the community, said no to DLC back in 2006 with Oblivion Horse Armor and other early DLC practices, would EA and Activision even have the balls to try to push premium services on us, making us effectively pay twice for the same game? Maybe COD would even still have developers tools like the early games did instead of DLC packs? It takes two to tango. If only one of us exercises our might while the other party is submissive, which is exactly what I see with the gaming industry today, then things are going to become skewed in the direction of the party throwing their muscle around. If we, the consumer, fight back, refuse to buy products, encourage others not to buy products, complain and cause a racket, then we can shift the scales in our own favor, giving us more content for less money. In short (

First off, I'm not here to badmouth Diablo III as it is a fantastic game. However, the fact that Diablo III is such a fantastic game makes this whole ordeal so much worse. The game itself, great. The DRM? Not so much. We should be angry about Diablo III's Always Online DRM Let's not mince words, Diablo III uses Always Online DRM. Blizzard's explanation of "Protecting the Playerbase from hackers and dupers." is dubious at best. If they truly mean what they say, then that just means that the D3 team opted to make Duping and Hacking everyone's problem as opposed to theirs. Before we move on, I'd like you guys to take a listen to this video. It's Jim Sterling, and a lot of people don't seem to like him, however he hits the nail right on the head. [Link]( Let us Begin! Now let's move on to the alternative form of security to protect the economy of the game and its players from dupers and hackers. The basic idea is an evolution of Diablo II's decent, yet flawed system of Open VS Closed B.Net. Read on, fellow gamers! Understanding Diablo III's Item Generation Although Blizzard has not officially released or told us any information with regards to how items are generated, we can easily assume (I'd say it's 100% likely) that Diablo III's system is an evolution of Diablo II's item tables. It definitely incorporates ideas from World of Warcraft, right down to the naming scheme. While you're playing the game, items will drop. These items have their stats and names generated server side. Also note that at this point, it is highly unlikely that Blizzard would ever patch Diablo III to work offline. The game was built from the ground up to rely on Internet connectivity. The Alternative (The Basics) Much like Diablo II, the alternative involves two distinct components. The Online Component, and the Offline Component. The Offline game can have its own Item Table and generation system (It could even be indentical to the Online system, doesn't make a difference). The Online and Offline systems will have some differences that make it impossible to use the Offline system as a means of generating Dupes on Battle.Net. The key here is that the Online item generation system has some extra pieces of code added to them that generates unique Item IDs or hash tags to each item. These tags are regenerated each time the player logs onto his or her character. Once a tag is created, it is added to the Player Character's save file (again, on Blizzard's servers). If someone manages to Dupe an item, then there will be a duplicate Item Tag and it will therefore be deleted on the spot. When the player logs on again, the new tags are generated, and the previous ones are deleted from the save. Shitty MSPaint to visualize it. Details The tag algorithm is completely server side. When the player logs on, the Character is given a generated tag. When an item drops, the server creates a new tag for that item by using the character's current tag as a variable. These tags are added to the character's save file, stored on Battle.Net servers. When the player logs on, the server runs a check to verify save file integrity, then the Character Tags and Item Tags associated with that character are refreshed. The old ones are wiped from the save file. When an item is traded, then B.Net simply generates a new tag for these items using the new character's ID to generated it. Why does this work? The key here is to remember that the Offline item tables do not have any of the extra code needed to generate these tags. All of this is done exclusively through the B.Net servers. This makes it next to impossible for someone to dupe an item, as they do not have the ability to generate an item tag. If the B.Net servers are ever breached, and code gets leaked, then all Blizzard has to do is patch the tag generation to use a new algorithm. Conclusion Whether Blizzard made DIII Online Only for DRM purposes, or for Hack Security doesn't matter. The point is that at some point in DIII's development, Blizzard decided to make the game function only when the client's computer is connected to the Internet. That means that many legitimate customers are paying the price for the actions of pirates, or a minority of cheaters. There are a huge number of systems or alternatives that could provide for a secure, hacker/dupe free environment without punishing the paying customers, and that's why we should be angry about this. No

The jack on my x-box 360 is busted, and so I can't connect to the internet. Games that have patches or downloadable updates that ironed out kinks (or flat-out fixed them) I can only play in their right-out-of-the-box state. As a result, I play most games on ps3 or steam, but I am looking to play Condemned and Condemned 2 on 360. I am wondering if there is any online resource that lists games along with any updates that were released for them? If not, does any one know about Condemned and Condemned 2 specifically? Thanks for any help! (

Like so many others, the Steam sale saw me spending lots of money on games. Sadly my current laptop is 2 years old and falling apart a bit. My initial searches on Amazon, newegg, tigerdirect, etc haven't been too good so I though I would ask r/gaming. My current laptop is a Gateway Fx. 4GB RAM, 288GB hard drive, though I have a 1TB external. The other specs sadly I can't recall, I'm on my phone as I type. For the replacement I would want something that can run current games at hopefully high/highest settings. I think the most modern games I have are Crysis 2, Shotgun 2, and Fallout NV. Is also most likely be getting Skyrim but I.think that would really limit my choices if added to the equation... The reason I would prefer a laptop is college. I move around a lot and I have a desktop at my college apartment. I rarely use it because the laptop has been so much more convenient. And the

So I've been searching for a game or two to play with my friends recently when I happened to notice there seems to be a huge niche of games missing from the modern gaming era. Sure, there happens to be several big titles in every genre and eSports has never been as big as it is today-- which is fine. In fact, it's fantastic. I've played professionally in three different games and I just love competition. However, it seems like every game at the moment is trying so hard to present themselves as some extremely competitive "next generation" esport, or mmo or whatever; when really it isn't. Although this is a pretty flimsy example, if you search for games like the good ol' GunBound, or one of my personal favorites Tales Runner and the likes; you can't really find them. Free to play games, that's lighthearted and has enough depth to play with a competition driven mind. In no ways were these games 'next generation', or super competitive, but they were damn fun in their own way. They didn't need amazing graphics, stadium filling competition, or anything. They were just fun. Period. Now it seems like all these games and companies who once hosted said games are all gone. I could look to play games like GunBound or Tales Runner now, but you can't really expect me to enjoy myself in the same way. GunBound is long gone. All that's left is two barely populated servers full of hackers and nobody on the server can communicate with each other because we all speak different languages. Same thing with tales runner. Everyone's gone. As not-so-important of a factor being new is, being new grants said game a lively population in a lot of cases and that's what I think we're missing nowadays. Light hearted games with depth. I'm not talking about goddamn habbo hotel casual, I'm talking the good ol' mid line that a lot of us grew up with. Where is it? Since I'm bad at writing, I figured I'll just point out a few things that I couldn't fit into my paragraphs and sort of

I've played it but I really don't like it its just felt like the same thing I've played in everyother game the last couple years... do favors for friends or someone that isn't afraid of getting dead... What I don't get is Why people are holding it in such regards. Have you ever played uncharted- same exact plot run into a place you've never been based on a tip from a friend that ends up betraying you, run in to a seemingly unbeatable force then triumph. Tomb rader these have all been done. (There is no

I was sour on the franchise, and felt like Black Flag really nailed it. I couldn't see them making a better AC. This also came out when a ton of big stuff did, series that people weren't sour on. I think the biggest compliment I can give it is that it is very different from Black Flag. It isn't just AC in a new timeline. A lot of stuff in this game is quite more advanced than BF, and in some ways, is a deeper game IMHO. This feels very non-linear, and even though BF was a vast open world, the scenery sometimes felt repetitive. London is pretty fantastic, the attention to detail in this world really blows me away. Anyhow,

Hi all. I was watching a video the other day from a content producer called Thooorin. Yes I'm a fan. No I'm not sorry, the game i love would be unspeakably poorer without him. He produces a lot of content for CSGO, a shooter game i play on PC. He made a video on youtube about "why we watch" relating to esports [ He goes into the thrill of the top level of a game and story lines that are so good you couldn't make them up.. He provides a lot of good points as to why its compelling watching the top people compete but i feel an elephant in the room that I don't see addressed is why more people don't play the competitive versions of a game. Look at CSGO (CounterStrike: Global Offensive) for example. The number of people online might be ~235000.. less than 10% are in the competitive MM'ing section of this. You look at the numbers for the events and we're comfortably past 1million viewers. You can find similar numbers for league of legends where a large portion of the player base doesn't play the ranked version of the game. I can understand that you don't play a Saturday kick around as if it's a champions league final. But every now and then doesn't everyone want to compete? Even if you lose 5 games in a row if you go into game 6 and have an epic ace round* or clutch** that gives such a rush of adrenaline. Such a memorable moment of greatness. Its like people playing football right? It's cool to see Heskey score a goal.. i would argue it's even better if you're playing in whatever your local 5aside or league is and smash the winner into the top corner. That's what competitive gaming is. In that moment you are KennyS hitting that awp shot.. you are Get_Right playing out that clutch.. or Flusha popping heads in a 1v3 on Dust - Its not the top tier of the game, it may be the opponents misplayed or i played well but that doesnt matter.. what matters is when the moment came I won. Up til then i wasn't having the best game but when the moment came I took it and now its a happy memory of that time i started trying out the leagues available and even in a terrible game came up clutch towards the end to keep us in it. I would like people's input to see why it's such a small section of people that want to do this.. I'll never be a pro player? No i wont but you know what for that 10 seconds i can pretend. Every time you have a big play in that moment you are the god, the people in that server are witnessing your greatness and the more technical the game the better the moment because there are so many factors in play you absolutely had to be better than them in that moment. Is it just an ego thing? Is my compulsion to be better at least for a moment in some way than another a rare trait? Is it something psychological with me (something wrong?) Do you play ranked SC2/LoL/CSGO? if you play them but not the ranked mode maybe weigh in here, please dont be afraid to share different viewpoints The other thing I note is we have more and more people making a living on youtube with helper videos explaining how to do things better.. these like WarOwl are getting views into 6 figures.. why are people watching this in these kind of numbers and then there are only tens of thousands searching in these modes? Anyway so yeah I'm curious as to why we watch but not play. Curious to see what people come up with :)