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[Nabs]

Huey Lewis thread just went places

Thank you for your wonderful rendition of Power of Love.

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

Hey guys it's time for an auction.

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DRAGON AGE: ORIGINS (NOT PILLARS OF ETERNITY) -- MB-9AFE07091F2AFFFF - Taken by trailmix16
MASS EFFECT 2 (NOT PILLARS OF ETERNITY, GUYS) -- MB-DDE5F026DA1E5CC5 - Taken by LuuKyK
DEAD SPACE 2 (STILL NOT PILLARS OF ETERNITY) -- MB-19EB8CB9E04B22A1 - Taken by texhnolyze
SHATTERED PLANET (*sigh* COME ON, IT'S NOT PILLARS OF ETERNITY) -- MB-050A2BEEA5211CF8 - Taken by 73V3N
SKULLS OF THE SHOGUN (YEAH, YOU GUESSED IT, STILL NOT PILLARS OF ETERNITY) -- MB-050A2BEEA5211CF8 - Taken by 73V3N

MYSTERY GAME (OH SHIT) -- MB-EC5877310732A9EE - Taken by PurpleMoustache

 

[zkylon]

It's a good game with a fun portal mechanic. It's also pretty quick, so you could probably finish it in a sitting or two. It all depends on how much exploring you do.

I think more people should give it a shot. It's definitely worth playing.

thanks

bought it, has a charming art style at the very worst and hearing it's short is nice

 

[iosefe]

Thank you for your wonderful rendition of Power of Love.

Gracias. did you scroll down on the latest page?


Gee I wonder what the mystery game was.

Curse you mobile for being so damn slow

 

[Turfster]

Hey guys it's time for an auction.

So what was the mystery game?

 

[Annubis]

I'm assuming Bad Rats.
It's always Bad Rats.

 

[PurpleMoustache]

Hey guys it's time for an auction.

Thanks for Frozen Synapse Prime!

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

I'm assuming Bad Rats.
It's always Bad Rats.

It really should have been.

 

[iosefe]

It really should have been.

I got you covered for next time

 

[Nabs]

Gracias. did you scroll down on the latest page?

I really hate cliffhangers.

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

I got you covered for next time

That would have been the ultimate troll, though.

Think they are getting Pillars of Eternity.

Nope.

Bad Rats.

Thanks for Frozen Synapse Prime!

No problem.

 

[LuuKyK]

I actually went for the Mass Effect 2 giveaway because I have been wanting to replay it since I sold my PS3 last year. lol

I will be cool with whatever it is though! Thanks for the giveaway.

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

I actually went for the Mass Effect 2 giveaway because I have been wanting to replay it since forever! lol

I will be cool with whatever it is though! Thanks for the giveaway.

It's Mass Effect 2.

You're welcome.

 

[texhnolyze]

Holy cow.

Someone help me.

Spoiler

Thanks wuvcraft!

 

[LuuKyK]

It's Mass Effect 2.

You're welcome.

Oh wow. Thanks Wuv! I was honestly expecting Bad Rats. lol

Holy cow.

Someone help me.

Spoiler

Thanks wuvcraft!

Same happened to me, what the hell. x_x

 

[jshackles]

Man, the Elder Scrolls Online has an insane amount of content if you're one of those people that must do absolutely everything in the game:

I've played for 6 hours on Steam, and probably about 25 hours not-on-Steam (during the free weekend) So about 30 hours in, my character is level 15 and I've unlocked like.... 0.1% of the in-game achievements.

In reality I've cleared a few of the small starter levels and probably about 85% of the content that's in the Stonefalls which is kinda like the first "big" area. For reference, this is the area I'm talking about as compared to the rest of the in-game map that's available so far:

There are also a crazy number of skill trees for things like crafting, factions, weapon types, race, class, and more.

It felt really weird paying $60 for a game on Steam, but I think I'll get my money's worth out of this one.

 

[iosefe]

Those are all that's available to visit?

Color me sad now. I want to go to Vvardenfell.

I won't buy until its in-game

 

[texhnolyze]

Oh wow. Thanks Wuv! I was honestly expecting Bad Rats. lol

Same happened to me, what the hell. x_x

And modbot 2 just sent me another PM.
I got 4 in total lol.

Man, the Elder Scrolls Online has an insane amount of content if you're one of those people that must do absolutely everything in the game:


I've played for 6 hours on Steam, and probably about 25 hours not-on-Steam (during the free weekend) So about 30 hours in, my character is level 15 and I've unlocked like.... 0.1% of the in-game achievements.

In reality I've cleared a few of the small starter levels and probably about 85% of the content that's in the Stonefalls which is kinda like the first "big" area. For reference, this is the area I'm talking about as compared to the rest of the in-game map that's available so far:


There are also a crazy number of skill trees for things like crafting, factions, weapon types, race, class, and more.

It felt really weird paying $60 for a game on Steam, but I think I'll get my money's worth out of this one.

Oh, come on.. Please spare me.
Summer sale can't come soon enough. T_T

 

[WinterDemons]

Holy cow.

Someone help me.

Spoiler

Thanks wuvcraft!

Oh wow. Thanks Wuv! I was honestly expecting Bad Rats. lol



Same happened to me, what the hell. x_x

Probably because

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[jshackles]

Those are all that's available to visit?

Color me sad now. I want to go to Vvardenfell.

I won't buy until its in-game

I think that map may be slightly out of date (I think it's from the game's launch) as they've added new content since. Vvardenfell isn't playable yet sadly, but they seem to still be adding new content fairly often and they have larger "expansion packs" planned in the future that you'll be able to either buy outright or purchase from their micro-transaction shop.

EDIT: Also, I'm surprised nobody's read the fine print on my screenshot...

Spoiler

I happened to walk past an interesting exchange in-game

 

[LuuKyK]

Machines are rebelling against the human race. We better run.

 

[MUnited83]

That sucks.

btw
There's a Not Pillars of 'Ternity Giveaway coming up.

Pfffffff. What are you, an amateur?


Here, let me show how it's done!

Instructions for BernardoOne:
Press the quote button to the left of this PM, select the quoted text, copy, and paste in the thread. You can remove these lines from the version you paste. Your giveaway will be automatically reposted on your behalf.

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- This giveaway is a raffle. The winners will be selected by random draw 24 hours after the draw was created. Any games not claimed after that point will be given away first come first serve.

Pillars of Eternity -- MB-9E81FC7EC92F7620 - Taken by The Dear Leader. 63 entrants total.
Pillars of Eternity #5 -- MB-379387C5D3AF9823 - Taken by Khronico. 58 entrants total.
Pillars of Eternity #4 -- MB-D4C528F87BA2FE3D - Taken by Teppic. 65 entrants total.
Pillars of Eternity #7 -- MB-FBDDBC6C23CA38AA - Taken by fspm. 58 entrants total.
Pillars of Eternity #6 -- MB-B4CC7B8C6DDE92B8 - Taken by Backlogger. 64 entrants total.
Pillars of Eternity #3 -- MB-115A83AF23B50CF0 - Taken by Cyberquake. 61 entrants total.
Pillars of Eternity #2 -- MB-3FF8D5656F0B9E65 - Taken by ExoSoul. 62 entrants total.
Pillars of Eternity #8 -- MB-E72FF094652EF7C7 - Taken by trailmix16. 62 entrants total.

Disclaimer: Keys from the duplicate bug on Nuuvem. Might already be used or revoked by Paradox in the future, so play it as soon as possible.

 

[bobnowhere]

Man, the Elder Scrolls Online has an insane amount of content if you're one of those people that must do absolutely everything in the game:



I've played for 6 hours on Steam, and probably about 25 hours not-on-Steam (during the free weekend) So about 30 hours in, my character is level 15 and I've unlocked like.... 0.1% of the in-game achievements.

In reality I've cleared a few of the small starter levels and probably about 85% of the content that's in the Stonefalls which is kinda like the first "big" area. For reference, this is the area I'm talking about as compared to the rest of the in-game map that's available so far:



There are also a crazy number of skill trees for things like crafting, factions, weapon types, race, class, and more.

It felt really weird paying $60 for a game on Steam, but I think I'll get my money's worth out of this one.

Does the steam version download through steam completely or through the ESO launcher? I'm quota limited outside of steam and netflix on my ISP. I have an original boxed copy but even at launch it required another 30 GB download but I also have the steam version. Would rather just download the whole thing again though steam.

Anyways:

Instructions for participants:
I am giving away 2 Steam keys. To enter this giveaway, send a PM to ModBot with any subject line. In the body, copy and paste the entire line from the message below that corresponds to the game you want. (if you include more than one game, you will be blocked from entering). Confused? Watch this GIF tutorial or ask for help.

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Sinking Island -- MB-A060FBDB083B32D8 - Taken by PLASTICA-MAN
AR-K -- MB-03A23CD8C5860A25 - Taken by DmAc2k6

 

[Atraveller]

Holy shit!

 

[LuuKyK]

Pfffffff. What are you, an amateur?


Here, let me show how it's done!

Disclaimer: Keys from the duplicate bug on Nuuvem. Might already be used or revoked by Paradox in the future, so play it as soon as possible.

Wow.

Btw whats this duplicate bug?

 

[JaseC]

How did Joel get to the mad max universe

You know, Ellie, we really are Mad Max.

 

[texhnolyze]

Pfffffff. What are you, an amateur?

Here, let me show how it's done!

Disclaimer: Keys from the duplicate bug on Nuuvem. Might already be used or revoked by Paradox in the future, so play it as soon as possible.

Holy hell.

 

[MUnited83]

Wow.

Btw whats this duplicate bug?

People who bought Pillars of Eternity on Nuuvem got a second key by mistake.

 

[Vlad]

I think that map may be slightly out of date (I think it's from the game's launch) as they've added new content since. Vvardenfell isn't playable yet sadly, but they seem to still be adding new content fairly often and they have larger "expansion packs" planned in the future that you'll be able to either buy outright or purchase from their micro-transaction shop.

Man, I've never played any sort of MMO (or any of the Elder Scrolls games, for that matter), but it does sound interesting...

EDIT: Also, I'm surprised nobody's read the fine print on my screenshot...

Spoiler

I happened to walk past an interesting exchange in-game

Sadly, I think it's pretty much that that kind of in-game chat is more the rule than the exception, so nobody's overly surprised.

 

[jshackles]

Does the steam version download through steam completely or through the ESO launcher? I'm quota limited outside of steam and netflix on my ISP. I have an original boxed copy but even at launch it required another 30 GB download but I also have the steam version. Would rather just download the whole thing again though steam.

It appears that the Steam version is slightly modified from the non-Steam version, as I tried copying the non-Steam version to the correct disk location and it didn't work. Steam said the files had to be redownloaded and it redownloaded 43GB or so. Then after that was done, I launched the game and the launcher had to redownload another 3GB or so of updates.

It's just a huge game.

Fake Edit: After looking at the files, it appears that Steam downloads the French (6.4GB) and German (7.1GB) language files, whereas the non-Steam version only downloaded the English (6.3GB) files. So the Steam version is probably 13.5GB bigger than the non-Steam version, assuming you don't care about the other languages.

Man, I've never played any sort of MMO (or any of the Elder Scrolls games, for that matter), but it does sound interesting...

Right now I'd say you should pick up Skyrim to see if it's the type of game you're interested in. It's also pretty big (though not as big) content wise, but it's $20 or less and can easily provide 100+ hours of entertainment if you find that you like Elder Scrolls games and don't mind playing single-player.

Sadly, I think it's pretty much that that kind of in-game chat is more the rule than the exception, so nobody's overly surprised.

There are options to disable the different types of chat. I think it's time to disable them all lol

 

[The Dear Leader]

If I don't win a copy of Pillars of Eternity with this giveaway, it just wasn't meant to be, I can accept that fate.

 

[NingenJanai]

He doesn't stop either.

--

While I was looking for the webm for this post, I found that DS2:SotFS webm and figured "I'll throw this up there". However, the real post I meant to make:

I've been having trouble with Sacred 3 (shut up.) -- I start the game and before I do ANYTHING at all, the framerate starts crashing. On release it played fine, but now I've gone back to it and it just dies. I can't figure out what on my system could be causing this...

http://robotbrush.com/corrosivefrost/sacred3.framerate.webm

I've seen other low end games do this as well (for example, Spoiler Alert! had to be played on my netbook where it ran with 0 hiccups but wouldn't run higher than like 15fps on my gaming PC). I've gone through the motions with Deep Silver tech support, but they're useless, so I'm hoping maybe one of you guys might have an idea on why games do this so I can get the game working properly.

You are back frosty senpai!

Hope you can fix that Sacred 3 stuff, we need to coop it.

 

[chronomac]

ModBot giveaway of the year?

 

[WinterDemons]

Pfffffff. What are you, an amateur?


Here, let me show how it's done!

Disclaimer: Keys from the duplicate bug on Nuuvem. Might already be used or revoked by Paradox in the future, so play it as soon as possible.

Oh wow :O

 

[ExoSoul]

Pfffffff. What are you, an amateur?


Here, let me show how it's done!

Disclaimer: Keys from the duplicate bug on Nuuvem. Might already be used or revoked by Paradox in the future, so play it as soon as possible.

Aren't you supposed to make them look like something they're not? ;P

 

[Dsyndrome]

Here, let me show how it's done!

Holy shit dude, only thing missing is Denzel saying boom to go with Django. A kind and generous soul, you are.

 

[Servizio]

Prey #2 -- MB-74AC9A316A1EDDDE - Taken by Servizio. 32 entrants total.

gasp

I thought this game was cancelled and shelved by Bethesda's hubris, but now I'll finally get bounty hunt alien scum like I've always been meant to! Thanks and happy birthday Atraveler!

 

[MUnited83]

Aren't you supposed to make them look like something their not? ;P

I trolled enough with the anonymous not eternity giveaways. Time to do it for real and to do it right

Holy shit dude, only thing missing is Denzel saying boom to go with Django. A kind and generous soul, you are.

that's actually a great idea ahah,done

 

[Lain]

Why would you buy the Steam version?

Anything special about it? Seems like every other mmo?

The +1, obviously.

Secret World seems to have great atmosphere, but the game-play just didn't grab me when I tried to play it.

--


Welcome back Frost.

 

[Mobius and pet octopus]

I've little interest in a MMO elder scrolls. In the past 2 months I've sunk probably 100+ hours into skyrim + DLC. And while the main story line was trash (already knew that going in since I beat it before), there is still a lot of fun to be had and the game just clicks on a level for me personally that I really enjoy.

Now I've done pretty much all the main content, from the original game and the DLC... and I still want more elder scrolls. I want new elder scrolls (already played/beat the old games long ago).

I might just have to play some fallout new vegas - another open world game I love. Pillars of eternity is on my list... but I kinda feel like I should finished divinity original sin first. Quite a conundrum

 

[Turfster]

Lol apparently the AssChina embargo was lifted because the game went live for purchase early?

 

[Tizoc]

CORROSIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE

 

[lashman]

coming soon(ish)

 

[Catshade]

gasp

I thought this game was cancelled and shelved by Bethesda's hubris, but now I'll finally get bounty hunt alien scum like I've always been meant to! Thanks and happy birthday Atraveler!

Umm, I think you're in for disappointment...

 

[Mobius and pet octopus]

Umm, I think you're in for disappointment...

At first I thought it was Prey 2 as well. But then reality quickly made clear... copy 2 of the only prey that exists

 

[jshackles]

I've little interest in a MMO elder scrolls. In the past 2 months I've sunk probably 100+ hours into skyrim + DLC. And while the main story line was trash (already knew that going in since I beat it before), there is still a lot of fun to be had and the game just clicks on a level for me personally that I really enjoy.

Now I've done pretty much all the main content, from the original game and the DLC... and I still want more elder scrolls. I want new elder scrolls (already played/beat the old games long ago).

I might just have to play some fallout new vegas - another open world game I love. Pillars of eternity is on my list... but I kinda feel like I should finished divinity original sin first. Quite a conundrum

I was kind of in the same boat you were: I played probably 150 hours of Morrowind, 300 hours of Oblivion, and probably 250 hours total in Skryim. I was excited to get into the Elder Scrolls Online beta, but the beta was absolutely terrible and honestly removed any hype I previously had for the game.

Fast forward to now and the game has come a long way, all for the better. The voice acting is excellent and plentiful (very few things in the game are lacking voice acting, and it's all just stuff that wouldn't have it anyway like your character's musings about a dead guy). The old game was slow and boring. Now the world seems alive and it's great.

The biggest draw: quests are absolutely everywhere. It has a very "Elder Scrolls" feel in that you can be doing one quest, and get sidetracked by 4-5 other quests that present themselves and before you know it, it's 3AM and you still haven't finished that first quest you set out on.

MMO games have never really "clicked" for me, but this game feels more like a single-player Elder Scrolls game than an MMO because the other people are so easily ignored and are completely unnecessary.

If nothing else, it's worth picking up on sale if you're a fan of The Elder Scrolls. Don't let the fact that it's an MMO put you off.

 

[GaussTek]

So, I finally finished Final Fantasy VIII (lol).

Man, some aspects of the game are so weird/bizarre, but I REALLY liked it. However, I can understand why isn't as popular as some of the other FF games.

Also, I felt that it somewhat lacked in character development compared to other FF games, specially the main villain. Story also felt a bit rushed and/or not so deep (IMHO).

Anyway, still pretty good, and like I said, I enjoyed it. Better than FFXIII for sure heh.

 

[Tizoc]

FF8 needs a retranslation if not remake. I still think the game's plot was lost in translation as being based on some Japanese literature or some ish.

 

[baterism]

So, I finally finished Final Fantasy VIII (lol).

Man, some aspects of the game are so weird/bizarre, but I REALLY liked it. However, I can understand why isn't as popular as some of the other FF games.

Also, I felt that it somewhat lacked in character development compared to other FF games, specially the main villain. Story also felt a bit rushed and/or not so deep (IMHO).

Anyway, still pretty good, and like I said, I enjoyed it. Better than FFXIII for sure heh.

Yeah. I was bewildered when I realized how much people dislike it.
My first FF that I played though so that might say something.

Spoiler

I never click with FF7

 

[GaussTek]

FF8 needs a retranslation if not remake. I still think the game's plot was lost in translation as being based on some Japanese literature or some ish.

Hah yeah, I agree. Actually I had to read a FF wikia in order to better understand some stuff and characters background.