1 hmm, I may have blown the margins

2 I'd like to blow her margins.

3 loves me some Triss Merigold cosplay.

4 Question from a non-gamer So I have seen ads for 'World of Tanks'. I can play for "free"", but they have a 4.8 GB client they want to plop on my machine. That's one hefty client for an online game. Does anyone know about this outfit? Wargamers.net

5 God bless the director's cut, eh

6 Question from a non-gamer

So I have seen ads for 'World of Tanks'. I can play for "free"", but they have a 4.8 GB client they want to plop on my machine. That's one hefty client for an online game.

Does anyone know about this outfit? Wargamers.net

Posted by: fluffy at October 13, 2013 03:41 PM (z9HTb)

one of the most popular games in the world. Game is fun but it's really grindy to get anywhere to after a certain point. As for the size of the client, that small for games nowadays

7 I have reserved copies of Pokemon X and Y that I need to pick up.  My son is nuts for them, but he won't be getting them until Christmas.  I also have a starter pack of the Disney Infinity hidden in the closet.  The boy child has Skylanders Giants.  He hasn't said anything about Swap Force yet.

8 Posted this yesterday on an open thread, but it got buried before I got any suggestions, so am reposting here. I need a break from politics, and I'm getting tired of having to chase from merchant to merchant in Skyrim every time I do a dungeon crawl. Does anyone know of a good slash and bash game, like a first person shooter but with swords and maces? I find the latter more satisfying than guns, in my present mood. (At least in games. I'd have no chance with them IRL.)

9 thankfully with Disney Infinity, there isn't that many figures to buy. I do like the Jack Skellington figure that comes out this week or the next at Gamestop

10 Japan.... another great society which has given up

11 Those are, like, extra-large hyperlinks, man.

12

Posted by: Empire1 at October 13, 2013 03:46 PM (QczV/)

nothing really for an FPS hack and slash but if you don't isometric view:

Diablo 2 with the expansion pack

Iesabel if you have an ipad

Tourchlight 2 (no story though)

Ultima 7 (on sale atm on GOG for $2.39 with a free copy of the first Witcher game)

13 yay for formatting




Those are, like, extra-large hyperlinks, man.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at October 13, 2013 03:49 PM (rnj9/)

eventually I'll figure out how to make it look good, maybe by year 3

14 The Dude: I don't know what isometric view is, but don't have an ipad of any sort -- I have a PC that runs Oblivion but not Skyrim, and an Xbox 360. Also don't know GOG. Have Witcher 2 for the Xbox; how's that? Oh, and found The Reckoning still unopened yesterday. I also have the single-player NeverWinter Nights, but from what I remember of D&D, that's a lot more "housekeeping" stuff than I'm looking for.

15 Oh, the first episode of Fables: A Wolf Among Us is pretty good, the writing is good outside of the swearing feeling like a crutch unlike the comic. It's a beautiful game that looks better in stills but fits with comic. It's about the length that you would expect from Telltale's episodes, about 2 hours.

It's $25 for the season pass which gets you all 5 episodes

16 Survivarum looks interesting..

17
Does anyone know of a good slash and bash game, like a first person shooter but with swords and maces? I find the latter more satisfying than guns, in my present mood.

(At least in games. I'd have no chance with them IRL.) Posted by: Empire1

A few ideas:

Witcher 2
Eurogank but it has arcade mode. Doesn't get any more hack n' slash than that.

Mount and Blade
Medieval setting not fantasy. More 'reality' based battlefield and kingdom type RPG.

18 The Dude:

I don't know what isometric view is, but don't have an ipad of any sort -- I have a PC that runs Oblivion but not Skyrim, and an Xbox 360.

Also don't know GOG. Have Witcher 2 for the Xbox; how's that? Oh, and found The Reckoning still unopened yesterday.

I also have the single-player NeverWinter Nights, but from what I remember of D&D, that's a lot more "housekeeping" stuff than I'm looking for.

Posted by: Empire1 at October 13, 2013 04:00 PM (QczV/)

Isometric view is pulled out and the world is rotated. GOG is CDProject's digital distribution store which sells old PC games (GOG means Good Old Games) DRM free.

Though if you want no fuss no muss hack and slash, Diablo 2 and Torchlight are your two best bets.

As for the Witcher games, I dig them but they're a love it or hate it type game. It's standard eastern euro RPGs but with a peculiar combat system.

19 Digging the valve controller.

With an xbox, 2 big kahuna PCs, a PS3, 4 laptops and a pad.... stuff gets painful after a while.

20 >>> As for the size of the client, that small for games nowadays I guess I will thank you gamers for driving innovations in video cards and be on my way :--)

21 >>> As for the size of the client, that small for games nowadays

I guess I will thank you gamers for driving innovations in video cards and be on my way :--)

Posted by: fluffy at October 13, 2013 04:10 PM (z9HTb)

give it a year or so and I would expect majority of games will be 30+ gigs with both consoles being blu-ray.

Hell, Battlefield 4 and WatchDogs are already going that far in size. And then Max Payne 3 was 36 gigs I believe

22 Weft-Cut Loop and The Dude: Witcher 2 it shall be, then, at least to start with, since I actually have that one. Thank both of you very much! I shall start it as soon as this thread and the vet's march one taper down -- I don't care to miss either one.

23 And blast it, Llewellyn, quit standing on the furniture. You asking to get fired or something?

24 weird, I have things to say on the gaming thread this week. the boy got the new Pokémon game last night at GameStop. He is liking it so far, thinks the graphics are good. He wasn't going to get another Pokémon game as he's been sort of done playing them, but the siren song of the Pokémon lured him back one more time.

25 Isometric view is pulled out and the world is rotated. GOG is CDProject's digital distribution store which sells old PC games (GOG means Good Old Games) DRM free.
Though if you want no fuss no muss hack and slash, Diablo 2 and Torchlight are your two best bets.

As for the Witcher games, I dig them but they're a love it or hate it type game. It's standard eastern euro RPGs but with a peculiar combat system.

Posted by: The Dude at October 13, 2013 04:08 PM (vJdyz)

Did you know you can't DL D2 from battlenet anymore, only the expansion?  yeah... I was unhappy.

Those CDs are buried someplace in a plastic bin in the garage along with Civilization I. 

26 yeah, I was already to pick up Pokemon X yesterday till the mail arrived

27 OK, isometric is where you're looking down at things from an angle? Drat, I should've thought of that from HS mechanical drawing. I guess it's okay, but prefer first-person view.

28 I don't think 4.8 GB is small for games, even now - just not big anymore. There are only a handful of people really trying to optimize that sort of thing - I think Kkrieger and Cube are getting kind of old but Kkrieger is a high-res FPS shooter (not the most modern) in 100 *kiloobytes*. Using the same kind of software tech they do demoscene videos in 64kb with. Some types of games, like strategy, usually don't take up as much space. Basically high-res 3D models and video and audio take up a lot of space. Torchlight was pretty small, for example. Part of the reason some games are so huge is speed - not only are the files uncompressed but there's a lot of duplication to maximize the speed of memory swaps and minimize the need for them.

29

Second thing to say, about Skylanders Swap Force. The boy (by the way for the gamers who don't know who I mean, I mean my 12 year old son) got Skylanders Giants for Christmas last year along with a good number of figurines because Target was having an amazing sale on them and Santa was feeling generous. The thing is, he played it for maybe 2 months and then completely lost interest. It was annoying to have to keep getting up and switching figurines and the game bored him after a while.

 

 

 

 

He is halfway interested in Disney Infinity and frankly so was I, but we decided that it would be too large a financial investment (once you buy all the figurines so the gameplay would at least be sort of interesting) for something we would be bored of fast.

30 Did you know you can't DL D2 from battlenet anymore, only the expansion? yeah... I was unhappy.

Those CDs are buried someplace in a plastic bin in the garage along with Civilization I.

Posted by: tangonine at October 13, 2013 04:19 PM (x3YFz)

huh? Haven't noticed that though it's been awhile since I've downloaded it from my account. Trying to get you to buy it from their store I guess

31 Have Witcher 2 for the Xbox; how's that? Oh, and found The Reckoning still unopened yesterday.

Posted by: Empire1

Oh, if  you have an Xbox have you tried Dark Souls?

It's uber-fantasy from Namco. Looks purdy but all I know is that the PC version is unplayable.

32 Really the Dude? You don't have to buy that many Disney Infinity figurines? Because everything I was reading seemed to imply that you would want more figurines or you would run out of gameplay fast. So I am interested in your take on it because I have Toysrus gift cards to use (and the kid is really getting too old for most stuff at Toysrus) so I may change my mind about Disney Infinity as a Christmas present.

33 Looks purdy but all I know is that the PC version is unplayable.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at October 13, 2013 04:22 PM (CPElo)

Dark Souls plays great on the PC with a controller and the 60FPS mod. Blight Town doesn't shit the bed now

34 PGIS, it looks like there are 21 Infinity figures available.  That's way less than the Skylanders.  Especially, when you add the Spyro and Giants collection together. 

35 I guess it's okay, but prefer first-person view. Posted by: Empire1 at October 13, 2013 04:20 PM (QczV/) One of the reasons I don't like consoles is I mod the *heck* out of games, I have like 100 mods in Skyrim at any given time. Really extends the game. That being said, IIRC there are more hack-n-slash third-person games on consoles. That's not exactly what you wanted. You could always play a melee character in Fallout 3 or New Vegas. There was a mount and blade mod for Oblivion you could look up that added some more gamey hack-and-slash action. I think there were two - Deadly Reflexes and Unnecessary Violence.

36
Dark Souls plays great on the PC with a controller and the 60FPS mod. Blight Town doesn't shit the bed now

Posted by: The Dude

/unnecessaryflaming

"PC with a controller " = Unplayable.

/unnecessaryflaming

37 Not really o/t: Can't get the embedded videos to play. Press the red play button, and the box goes black. Not just here, either. 1st gen iPad, haven't changed any settings (AFAIK), and vids play at the YouTube site itself. Seems to be just embedded. Can't even get the little button to play it in YouTube. Help/suggestions? TIA!

38 Dark Souls? I hadn't heard of it, but I'll take a look. Thanks! (Yep, almost 70, 'ette, and a gamer (though not a very good one). Talk about non-stereotypical, hmm?

39 Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith's Other Mobile at October 13, 2013 04:30 PM (qyfb5)

F3 and New Vegas are great.  Can pick them up used at gamestop for like $7.

Fantastic time sinks

40 So whats the Dif between X and Y?

41 40 So whats the Dif between X and Y?

Posted by: Zakn at October 13, 2013 04:34 PM (zyaZ1)

24 and 25?

42 Empire1

Ah, here's another one I've never tried:

Chivalry: Medieval Warfare (PC)

"first-person slasher with a focus on multi-player. Featuring competitive online combat that seeks to capture the experience of truly being on a medieval battlefield. Inspired from the intensity and epicness of swordfighting movies such as 300, Gladiator and Braveheart, Chivalry: Medieval Warfare aims to bring that experience to the hands of a gamer. "

Dude,

Here's something that the Morons might find interesting:

How to Survive (PC)
Oct. 23rd release.

"You're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?

Collect the pages of a Survival Guide and figure it out, of course! Find food, water, and shelter before you perish. Uh oh, is it getting dark? Figure out how to get through the night! While you’re at it, gather up some of this awesome stuff and piece together over 100 handmade weapons and tools—from shotguns to Molotov cocktails. Now you can defend yourself and your friends like a boss! "

43 Reinstalling EVE as we speak.  Damn game always pulls me back in!  /Pacino

44 See you in space tang

45

Thanks no good deed, I thought there were more than that.

 

 

 

 

Difference between X and Y is the Pokémon it comes with I think. I don't know for sure, Pokémon has always baffled me, ever since the 90s when my now grown nephew started collected the cards.

46 40 So whats the Dif between X and Y?

Posted by: Zakn at October 13, 2013 04:34 PM (zyaZ1)

 

Probably standard Pokemon differences.  Only certain pokemon in each game.  Some pokemon more rare than others in each game.  Like the original Pokemon Red and Blue to get all 250 in the game you would have to trade with someone that had the other version.

47 F3 and New Vegas are great. Can pick them up used at gamestop for like $7. Fantastic time sinks Posted by: tangonine at October 13, 2013 04:34 PM (x3YFz) They are pretty good games, with some annoying features - but why does every game have to be written by an emo hipster? Why why why? I'm *dying* for an open-world sci-fi game like a cross between Skyrim and Mass Effect, but with user-created content like Skyrim and Cryptic MMOs "Forge" system. You'd be crazy to sell a game like that, though, because "infinitely extendable." Which is why I still have a soft place in my heart (and head) for the Insane Bug Posse aka Bethesda.

48 Really the Dude? You don't have to buy that many Disney Infinity figurines? Because everything I was reading seemed to imply that you would want more figurines or you would run out of gameplay fast. So I am interested in your take on it because I have Toysrus gift cards to use (and the kid is really getting too old for most stuff at Toysrus) so I may change my mind about Disney Infinity as a Christmas present.

Posted by: ParanoidGirlInSeattle at October 13, 2013 04:24 PM (RZ8pf)

well, I was more aiming it in comparison of the Skylanders games.

49 Yea. Thats what I hate about Pokemon. Commit to one or you are gonna have to buy both.

50 Probably standard Pokemon differences. Only certain pokemon in each game. Some pokemon more rare than others in each game. Like the original Pokemon Red and Blue to get all 250 in the game you would have to trade with someone that had the other version.

Posted by: buzzion at October 13, 2013 04:45 PM (LI48c)

this and the starting Pokemon (which you can only get in one version and not both)

51 RE: running around Skyrim selling shit to multiple vendors - You know there's several mods that just give the merchants an extra 30k of gold for purchases, right? The one I use is "high vendor gold (Belethor)" on the Steam Skyrim workshop. All the normal vendors get sufficient gold - I never have to sell at more than 1 place usually and they reset their gold each day.

52 I went with Y

53 If I remember correctly, if you're smart and buy the playsets and the bundles, you only have to buy 5 or so separate Disney Infinity figures to collect the set. The power discs do fuck you though as they packed them stupidly and you can feel the limited ones (why they never used the simple concept that trading cards have been using for the last 15 years, I will never know)

54 I went with Y

Posted by: Zakn at October 13, 2013 04:50 PM (zyaZ1)

good, that means I can trade with you when ever I pick it a copy of X

55 I just bought Crysis and Crysis II on steam sale last night.  Never played 'em before.  So far, so good.

56 Hi gaming folk, Has anyone played "Two Souls" for PS3? What's your opinion? "Heavy Rain" was good and this is by the same people.

57 Sounds like a plan. I don't know if I have your friendcode yet. DM it

58 44 See you in space tang

Posted by: Zakn at October 13, 2013 04:43 PM (zyaZ1)

why does that frighten me?

59 I definitely *cheat* my inventory in Skyrim. I do not need to stop in the middle of every dungeon to go back to town. There are a few mods you can do on XB360 Skyrim, mainly savegame mods, I'm not sure inventory is one of them. Later in the game that becomes less relevant, however, as I don't need to Grab All The Stuff anymore. I am not really playing the game for the Inventory Management portion. I get *why* this adds Challenge, I just don't care. I also did not install the Starve and Freeze Your Ass Off mod.

60 Popular Mechanics carries water for global-climate-warming-change and "green power" Marxist can disguised as science. If the back XBO I sa go get the PS4.

61
why does that frighten me?

No idea. We are a Gentle bunch. Sat on a Titan for a few hours hoping russians would fuck up in a super.

62

55  excellent choices

remember that stealth mode is your friend

what rig are you using?  crysis is the ultimate resource hog, the line 'but will it play crysis' is legendary

63 In related news, Dark Horse replaces Marvel for number of tie-in comic titles whored for sales.

64 I tried Fallout 3 and hated it. I'm not too fond of post-apocalypse stuff anyway, so I probably shouldn't have bought it. Any Moron wanting it and the Prima game guide can have it for the cost of postage and enough time for me to find a box. Inspector Asshole -- I have Skyrim on the XBox. Aren't mods just for the PC? (Oh, and Belethor has disappeared in my current game. Also the Whiterun blacksmith and a few other vendors, which makes selling stuff even more difficult. At least I still have Enthir and his black soul gems!

65 And blast it, Llewellyn, quit standing on the furniture. You asking to get fired or something? I could forgive that, if the silly git would quit with "Age of Aggression" when I'm a Stormcloak...

66 hmmmm, think i'll run the new m17 through a quick mw2 solo, see how it handles maxed out

67 Politics. Politics. Politics. Politics. Politics. Politics. Politics. Politics. Politics. Politics.

68

oh, hey yip, when you play it, turn your touch pad off

any slight bump to the mouse will screw you up

69 Wow. I loved the hell out of Fallout 3. Didn't care for New Vegas as I didn't think it was nearly as immersive as FO3

70 Man, I'd kill for *actual* new songs for the bards in Skyrim. I may turn those off if I can't stand it anymore. There have been a few bard song mods but they're THE SAME SONGS! WTF people, W.T.F. They made it really hard to mod the songs on the radios in New Vegas, it was easy in F3. And the Nexus mods to add songs? You guessed it, more songs in the exact same genre. I shoot radios.

71 why does that frighten me? Ah, we space-Morons (Yeah, I know, hisec denizen, I barely count) are mostly harmless. And by "mostly harmless" I mean "won't pod you without cause". And by "without cause" I mean "unless the tears seem tasty". And by...oh hell, I dig this any deeper I'll be in a wormhole, and I swore those damn things off... Now if I could just get the game to quit telling me when folks I slapped a bounty on three months ago get blowed up...

72 61
why does that frighten me?

No idea. We are a Gentle bunch. Sat on a Titan for a few hours hoping russians would fuck up in a super.

Posted by: Zakn at October 13, 2013 04:57 PM (zyaZ1)

I've only got like 100 hours in-game over 7 years.  Life.  Deployments.  Jobs. Kids.  Wife.  Critters. 

I'm still trying to mine something in high security space lol.  There's an AoS group somplace for eve, yes?

73 Now if I could just get the game to quit telling me when folks I slapped a bounty on three months ago get blowed up...

Posted by: Brother Cavil and his Flying Toaster Circus at October 13, 2013 05:02 PM (m9V0o)

DAMN YOU ROBINSON JAX!!!

74 69 Wow. I loved the hell out of Fallout 3. Didn't care for New Vegas as I didn't think it was nearly as immersive as FO3

Posted by: Zakn at October 13, 2013 05:01 PM (zyaZ1)

 

Storyline, and well you're in a desert and the big city is all casino crap and reformed canibals.

75 Storyline, and well you're in a desert and the big city is all casino crap and reformed canibals.

Posted by: buzzion at October 13, 2013 05:04 PM (LI48c)

Once you get Luck to 7 and clean out the casinos.... /yawn.

76 New Vegas blew FO3 out of the water even with Obsidian level of jank

77 There's not so much a Moron place in Eve as a channel. it's AoSHQ

There's a few of us that live in Null, and some like Cavil are Highsecers.

78 Brother Cavil: ROFLMAO! As an Impie, I love "Age of Aggression".

79

Still haven't picked up Bioshock infinite horde.

Sorry, all the things have been busy lately.

80 DAMN YOU ROBINSON JAX!!! Top offender! I'm tempted to slap another bounty on him just for the hell of it

81 77 There's not so much a Moron place in Eve as a channel. it's AoSHQ

There's a few of us that live in Null, and some like Cavil are Highsecers.

Posted by: Zakn at October 13, 2013 05:06 PM (zyaZ1)

Good stuff.  irc?

82 Still haven't picked up Bioshock infinite horde.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) (No really.) at October 13, 2013 05:06 PM (GaqMa)

it was $10 a week or so ago, it will be the same price in the near future.

83 Good stuff. irc?

Posted by: tangonine at October 13, 2013 05:08 PM (x3YFz)

in game channel

84 Good stuff. irc? In-game. I usually chat more on another channel with some online friends I know from Elsewhere, but I keep an eye on it in case of amusement value...

85 I keep an eye on it in case of amusement value...

Posted by: Brother Cavil and his Flying Toaster Circus at October 13, 2013 05:09 PM (m9V0o)

I can go back to posting pop music or weird porn in there

86 62
55 excellent choices
remember that stealth mode is your friend
what rig are you using? crysis is the ultimate resource hog, the line 'but will it play crysis' is legendary Posted by: navycopjoe

Hey, NCJ, haven't had any issues with the PC.  If you really want to know I'll dig my specs up, but just a mid-level HP.  I did upgrade the graphics card though.  So far no crashes or issues with play ( about an hour and half through Crysis ). 

I remember all the talk back then now that you mention it of " will it play Crysis"?  heh

87 Both F3 and NV had just rotten, disorganized endings. They revised F3 but not NV. I just play NV for the mid-game, the endgame basically doesn't let me do anything I would actually choose to do. Endings are hard to write, but they're harder when you're dumb. I don't know *why* game writing tends to end so badly, but it is pretty consistent.

88 I really enjoy FA3 and have played it through a few times trying differing strategems or weapon limitations.  I like NV too, but it is not the same.  I hope they'll do another that more mirrors the open-ended-ness of the first.

To me the Fallout Series reinforces my libertarian/small Govt conservative world view.  I'm sure some lefties like it for opposite reasons.

89

86  sweet

when crysis came out it was an absolute monster against a video card

I discovered hi-end laptops because of it

in fact, my first sager was bought just so I could play crysis over 30fps

90 I can go back to posting pop music or weird porn in there

Posted by: The Dude at October 13, 2013 05:14 PM (vJdyz)

HIRED!

91 Politics. Politics. Politics.

When you "die at the Palace", you really die at the Palace.

92 re, Gabriel Knight remake: they gonna fix that bug where the Load Game option only worked if you didn't power down the computer between sessions? So you were basically screwed on a Windows box which you had to power down to avoid BSOD?

Because that shit was wack, yo.

93 For Fallout 3/NV types - check out the Nexus websites for free mods that expand the playability for both games. Though there are a lot of silly "God weapon" mods, some of the expanded quests are interesting..
Sorry if I sound like a marketer, but I've enjoyed using the stuff there.
http://fallout3.nexusmods.com/ for FO3, with a link to NV site.

94 Look how docile and orderly the fish swim together... The emperor was right the others will be the down fall of America

95 The Nexus has been up and down all weekend, BTW. Did manage to download an update or two but sometimes it just chokes with 502 Gateway errors.

96 Anyone else game with a lag of about three years? By then the PC hardware is cheaper to support the game and I get them for cheap.  Miss out on all the community chatter, but I save a lot this way.

97 I game with a lag of "long enough for bugfix patches and to find out whether the writers completely raped the game." Could be a month or six months, depending. Or just wait until the game is on steep discount. So far my 5-year-old system can handle new games, but I'm sure there's something out that will outrun me (like the new hair rendering tech for the new Tomb Raider game - pretty sure that's out of my league as it brings newer cards to their knees).

98 Yep... right there with ya Todd W.   Crazy how well delayed gratification has worked out.. heh

99 Yesterday, I bought my 13yo daughter Pokemon X at Game Stop. No lines, no nothin' - piece of cake! I guess that's an advantage of not living in an urban center.

100 Anyone else game with a lag of about three years? By then the PC hardware is cheaper to support the game and I get them for cheap. Miss out on all the community chatter, but I save a lot this way.

Posted by: Todd W

It's been my mode for the past few and the foreseeable future.

101 So Bones, is this thread dead then?

102 "10 Japan.... another great society which has given up Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at October 13, 2013 03:48 PM (Pr6hk)" What? That's ridiculous. Japan was never a great society. Just a bunch of stupid animals running around trying to climax and murder people for no rational reason whatsoever, because that's what stupid animals do. Getting the Japanese to calm down was one of the few good things the Democrat Party ever did. (Although the Democrats were mostly motivated by the fact that the Japanese were insufficiently White/Communist.) Later.

103 102 "10 Japan.... another great society which has given up

Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at October 13, 2013 03:48 PM (Pr6hk)"

What? That's ridiculous. Japan was never a great society. Just a bunch of stupid animals running around trying to climax and murder people for no rational reason whatsoever, because that's what stupid animals do. Getting the Japanese to calm down was one of the few good things the Democrat Party ever did. (Although the Democrats were mostly motivated by the fact that the Japanese were insufficiently White/Communist.)




Later.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at October 13, 2013 06:02 PM (P3dws)

Racist?  Much?  Dude.  What a narrow-assed view.

Emphasis on ass.

104 Yeah ToddW, I stopped at L4D2, and I got that on discount. I still manage to make happy with that and TF2. Sometimes it pays to have simple tastes.

105 Speaking of Fallout 3 and Skyrim, I think those two games have some of the best tone and atmosphere of any I've played, along with Dishonored and Metro 2033. I've never played any other games that gave me such a sense of place and history. Anyone else have that experience?

106 World of Tanks will be available on Xbox 360 next month.

107

Dude - It is quite easy to get all three starting Pokémon as soon as you find the day care, if you game the system a little bit. I've been doing it since Diamond.

When you first start the game, whichever starting Pokémon you pick has a very small chance (I think it's 1/ of being female. The trick is to keep restarting the beginning of the game until you get a female starter. I got my female Froakie after about 10 attempts.

When you breed Pokémon at the day care, the egg always hatches as the female's species. You need catch another Pokémon in your starter's egg group (check Bulbapedia), then breed it as soon as you get to the day care. When you breed it, you'll get level 1 starters which you can then trade on the GTS for the other two.

The other option is to just take the male and breed it with a Ditto (aka the KY jelly of the Pokémon world, since all it does is facilitate gettin' it on), but that usually can't be done until the game is mostly over. Doing it this way lets you use all three starters for a big chunk of the main quest.

108 OK, that is not what it looked like when I typed it. Sorry.

109

Let's try this again.

 

The Dude - It is quite easy to get all three starting Pokémon as soon as you find the day care, if you game the system a little bit. I've been doing it since Diamond.
When you first start the game, whichever starting Pokémon you pick has a very small chance (I think it's 1 in  of being female. The trick is to keep restarting the beginning of the game until you get a female starter. I got my female Froakie after about 10 attempts.
When you breed Pokémon at the day care, the egg always hatches as the female's species. You need to catch another Pokémon in your starter's egg group (check Bulbapedia), then breed it as soon as you get to the day care. When you breed it, you'll get level 1 starters which you can then trade on the GTS for the other two.
The other option is to just take the male and breed it with a Ditto (aka the KY jelly of the Pokémon world, since all it does is facilitate gettin' it on), but that usually can't be done until the game is mostly over. Doing it this way lets you use all three starters for a big chunk of the main quest.

110

I went to Best Buy once to pick up some computer stuff, and people were camping out waiting for the release of some new gaming console.  NEXT WEEK!

I noticed there were huge gouts of blood on the sidewalk. 

I pity those losers.