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

[TPD]

so, i bought a ps3 a month or two ago...
and have been catching up on lost gaming time... and holy fuck there's a lot of great games out there.

mortal kombat has been owning my balls this month...
but tonight, tonight i'm totally in love with l.a. noire.

wow.
just. wow.
i miss l.a.
even if it's 1947 l.a. i still miss it.
so cool driving around thinking "omg i've been there."

so yeah. l.a. noire.
worth the hype.
gorgeous.


ps. add my psn name to your thingies, ps3 people.
rawr

[Aaron]

So Rift has a 7 day free trial thing now. Pretty sure r00 wanted this... EITHER way.

There is a link to the thing to try it out...

https://www.riftgame.com/en/products/mmo-free-trial/?affiliateId=googna10010&gclid=CIbsxuyo8agCFRJ1gwodw0KICA

[r00]

Thanks Freak!  Someone at work was telling me about this the other day because he wss bitching that the patch was 8gigs!  (He lives out in the boonies and can only get 1.5mbit speeds).

Have you tried it yet?  It is on my agenda for memorial day weekend.

[boofu]

Need to finish fo:new Vegas. Also need to finrish dragon age 2

[Aaron]

Thanks Freak!  Someone at work was telling me about this the other day because he wss bitching that the patch was 8gigs!  (He lives out in the boonies and can only get 1.5mbit speeds).

Have you tried it yet?  It is on my agenda for memorial day weekend.

Naw. I'm lvling alts right now in wow. And its seamed to have made the fun come back. (I have two 85's DK and Druid, both are boring...)

I have thought about it thought, but not knowing anyone that plays it would be kinda shitty. Since I'm playing with friends (meatspace and intarswebs or at lest wow friends.) The talent trees look crazy thought...

[r00]

yeah, I kinda like that about it... the fact that there are no 3 cookie cutter specs for each class.  There are tons of directions to go with your character specialization.

[Naylzie]

Aaron ~ What spec is your druid that it's boring?!  0.0  I never got feral, but OMFG BOOMY IS SO MUCH FUN RIGHT NOW.  I luffs my laser chicken.

r00, I totally miss the old WoW talent trees.  Yesh, they were still cookie-cutter-ish, but, especially leveling, you did have some options.  My second prot pally started life as ret, just deep enough to get Seal of Command (yeah, back when that was a TALENT and made your attacks HIT TWO THINGS before prot had anything of the sort available), then into prot, then respec around 50 or so to pick up Sanc and the Captain America shield and regain the necessary ret talents at the end.

WoW is getting dumb.  If I don't start playing with friends again, there's a good chance I'll just end up quitting.

[r00]

Maybe any here interested should all coordinate a week that we will activate a free Rift trial account and check it out together.  I propose staring friday, May 27th.  8)

[Aaron]

I lvled him as feral. Then when I hit 80 I got geared to do moonkin. Its not so much that its boring, just well... not new. Is really what it boils down to... I thought it was fun, (part of me wants to get him gear as a feral kitty. But I'm also having fun lvling my rouge... My main alt at the time.) Pretty much the same thing for my DK. SUPER fun at the start, then it became fun, then the same old same old... SO I'm lvling alts.  And right now, Rouge=HELLA fun.

[Naylzie]

Haha, my rogue's just short of 60 and I've been amusing myself by doing lockbox runs through LBRS to sell to Insane hunters.  It's not AMAZING gold, but one box is about 2/3 of what I'd get for doing a daily quest and MUCH more fun for me.

[r00]

I haven't played a rogue since beta.  They are one of those classes whose dps seems to continually go from OP to totally nerfed and back again every other major patch.  Everyone will have a rogue and then suddenly they are all gone for a bit.

Warlock has always been my main and I still love them.  The other classes I play the most are my DK (unholy/blood) and a pally (just holy).  I love healing as a pally and nothing gathers compliments like being a good healer.  8)

[sin]

You guys are fucking nerds :p

[Naylzie]

My first main was a lock.  Shelved her when 3.0 dropped in favor of the pally for a couple of reasons.  For one, I was still in the midst of transitioning her gear from shadow to fire damage so I could go from the shitty shadow-based noob destro to the well-geared high performance fire-based destro, but when the patch dropped, I was suddenly thrust into a rotation I hadn't had the time to learn on a freaking raid night.  I went from 3rd dps to second-to-last, but still above the tanks (thankfully).  The other thing that happened with 3.0 is that we lost two pallies at once; one who was ALWAYS prot, the other who fluctuated between all three as we needed.  The loss of the first was bad enough, but to lose both a main tank AND our switch put our raiding in jeopardy, so I volunteered to step up with my pally.

Some shitty stuff happened around that time, like losing my priority on the original Amani War Bear because I changed mains even though it was for the good of the guild, but overall, I really loved it.  With a few short-term exceptions, the pally has been my main since.  She started out prot/holy (yes, before dual spec, even) because I fucking HATED BC ret, but by the end of Wrath, I realised how much I HATED healing with her, so I gave ret another try.  Loving it now.  Still MS prot, but when I queue, I go farming so I can just sit back and maul things to bits with my big ol' hammer.

I've tried everything except warriors pretty extensively.  Rogues are fun for picking pockets, but the playstyle doesn't really appeal to me much (though I haven't pvp'ed much because I'm leveling it with the Beloved).  I probably won't ever gear it, but I do want to get it to 85 so I can pickpocket more valuable goodies.

Is there still anything even resembling the remains of a PI guild out there?  I have an 85 laser chicken and an 82 priest that are in a dead guild right now and I'd love to have somewhere to play Horde with friends.  I like my guild on Proudmoore most of the time, but sometimes it's a little too big and a little too cliche.

ETA - Sin, yeah, we are

[r00]

Yeah I hated what they did to locks too in 3.0 with the power nerf.  It wasn't soon after that I took a year off from that game.  I am back to affliction now and loving it.  As long as you have a decent dot timer mod and keep them up, you can compete with almost any dps (good Unholy DK's and Hunters will still destroy the meters though).

That is shitty about your war bear fiasco.  8(  Did you manage to finally get one?  I remember after we got them for our core raiders, we were selling runs for 10k gold a pop (and that's when 10k gold was probably like 30k or more now).  I couldn't believe people were willing to pay that much.  We would clear all the way to Lynx boss well ahead of the timer, bring the patron in and get them their bear.  Less than 45min of our time and 5k would go to the guild bank and 500 would go to each guildie that did the run.  Lucrative nerd business!  (now if only I could apply that to real life and actual money.  )

[Naylzie]

Never got it, no.   The Beloved was next in line, and I was after him, when we had three straight lockouts of server-side issues that kept us from getting our bears.  Server died on us one week, and we were all ported back to our hearths (or something similarly inconvenient) but already locked to the instance.  Another week, the main tank got feared through a wall and we couldn't do anything to get him out a) quickly enough or b) without sending him out of the dungeon.  I forget what went wrong on our very last chance, but there was badness that we couldn't control.  Neither one of us ever got our bear 

Also, I have been press-ganged into trying Rift, probably starting this weekend.  Apparently I made a really good impression on the friends of a friend when they raided with us for a while, and they REALLY want me to come play.  And since WoW is getting to be less and less enjoyable, I figure, eh, why not?  Free trial is free and Ascend a Friend means moving FAST and FREE, so overall, sounds win/win.