GAMING THREAD aka holy fuck, l.a. noire = ^_^

[Static]

My Roommate got into the D3 Beta. And I didn't. I fucking hate my roommate.

Unlucky!

Playing wow. However, with the new expansion coming... I find it looks less enjoyable then ever... The new talent tree is a joke. I almost don't think they care any more... The lack of any real end game content makes me lol. Also, I dislike Pandas... (Just saying)

You know, I have a question, and this is for all the WoW players.  The game has been getting on for a long long time now, I know expansions are being released, but is it still interesting to you guys who have played since the beginning or a number of years?  One of the reasons I gave up on FFXI wasn't because of grinding, but because the game ceased to be interesting and became a collect the item game - I quit as the last expansions was out, but before Abyssea was open and pretty much had every good item in the game from HNMs etc.   So, is it still fun, interesting? 

[r00]

It's still fun, but is a lot more pick-up-and-play friendly than it used to be.  For people who play more casually, this is good.  For people who want more depth and challenge over long periods of time, this is bad.  So it is basically doing what most MMO's seem to do at some point after their first few years...  make it more easy-mode.

I honestly NEVER have to farm materials or craft anymore.  Gold is so easily and readily available in mass quantities within the game now that I buy anything I need in the AH for instant gratification.  Usually anymore you are only crafting to get that 1 items at the top that is bind-on-pickup or helpful for raid-groups.

I enjoy gearing up my characters and completing the latest raids, but after that the boredom definitely starts setting in until the next content release.

[Aaron]

I have played for a year and a half. Give or take.  But ya as r00 said, its really easy to pick up and play instead of making it something to do for weeks/months at a time. (One of the people in the guild I'm in got his fresh level 85 toon with quest gear to kill Deathwing in less then a day.) My roomate has been playing since it started, and he hates that it has been nerfed down sooooo much. 

I have always been more of a "solo" player then anything. I did a little end game content with Cata. But I fucking hated it... I also dislike the 5 man groups (Not even talking ZA/ZG) as they seam to take a lot longer then in WoLK. ZA/ZG are fucking nightmares when I puged (taking random people do to a dungeon), I'm sure they are better now, but I'm not doing them.  Truth be told, I really prefer to do stuff solo, lvling with friends is fun. With my two 85's I had more fun farming rep then anything else. (Farming stuff is also relaxing to me, so I do do that some times...) I have also been leveling alts... But I get bored of that as well... I go in spurts I do 10-20 levels then I don't play them for awhile...   

All in all, I'm kinda bored of it, but I bought 6 months of time (I tried to do the buy a year of wow and get D3 free, but I fucked that all sorts of up.) And I don't think I will be playing when D3 comes out. So I'm pretty much done with Wow... Once D3 comes out, I won't be playing any more...

Some of the other people in the guild have been playing since it came out, and the guy that killed Deathwing in a day since Beta. Hell one guy in the guild was jobless and did nothing but play for 2 years. (He says he had lots of savings, but some of it was mooching off his folks.)


All in all it does get boring and old in spurts... Once I can get it running again, I will be cool with it. But till then, bored as hell.

[MrMonster]

have been pretty restrained this Steam Sale (aka I have like 140 games already), spent less than $5

[r00]

I received Battlefield 3 for christmas.  Hopefully this weekend I will get it installed and check it out.

[Aaron]

have been pretty restrained this Steam Sale (aka I have like 140 games already), spent less than $5

I bought two. Homefront and Darksiders. I have been playing Darksiders a bit. I like it. Some parts are really easy, well really most of it is... Its like D2 in that you just go kill shit. But kinda FPS in a third person view, and its a huge sword instead of a gun. All in all, its a good time killer.

I haven't played Homefront yet. But I really like the story idea...

[Goose]

The only thing I picked up out of the Steam sales is Portal 2.  Finished the single-player campaign.  I didn't find it as compelling as the first game, but it was still a hell of a lot of fun.  Damn near every Cave Johnson line had me laughing my ass off.

Now I need to find someone to do the co-op stuff with.  Preferably someone who hasn't done it a billion times, I'd like to actually get the exploration aspect of that part in.

[Aaron]

Steam had AoE3 for 20 bucks for game and all the extra xpacs. SO I bought it... Its owning my soul right now. I fucking love this game...

Darksiders is going good. I just beat the first real boss of the game, and it took me a few tries, but I got it. Fun game. Really simple.

[Static]

Steam?  I'm still addicted to Battlefield 3...

[sin]

"Chronotrigger" is now on iPhone.  This is probably going to be a blast/problem during my 11 hour overnight shifts.

[individualzero]

The Macho Man lives on. Hell of a reincarnation, too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bifmj1O3D24

[individualzero]

Holy shit, much? I can only hope this guy is misinformed or legit trollin':
http://kotaku.com/5876253/thq-wipes-out-games-planned-for-2014-to-ready-itself-for-sale-says-insider
If not, buh-bye Saints Row 4, WH40K: Dark Millennium Online, and some other hot titles...

[r00]

Looks like I got into the closed Diablo III beta test.   

[Goose]

To save everyone some angst, I just updated the site's news heading appropriately.  Congrats, you bastard.

[r00]

lulz. 

The good news is it looks like the NDA is lifted and I can post screenshots, videos, etc.

and so it begins...