Tali'Thread vas Clan Zorah nar BSN 6.0

[SciFlyBoy]

Oh, I was thinking Holy Roman Empire. I studied Charlemagne long ago, but he takes place after that time, right? Vikings weren't real big until the 7th century, correct?

[Grand Admiral Cheesecake]

Oh, I was thinking Holy Roman Empire. I studied Charlemagne long ago, but he takes place after that time, right? Vikings weren't real big until the 7th century, correct?

8th and 9th for the Vikings.

Charlemagne's abomination of an Empire doesn't count. It was bad and it should feel bad. Charlemagne takes center stage from the last half of the 8th century till the first part of the 9th.

The first major recorded Viking raid took place at the close of the 8th century. By the first decade of the 9th they were raiding with impunity as far south as Aquitaine.

[SciFlyBoy]

I still can't believe that William the Conqueror (The Bastard) is 500 years after the period you brought up. That entire period was so long.

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHf7e67T54Y

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ezuTDZO1qM

[TTTX]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGNTDAOfeCQ&index=15&list=WL

[Alienmorph]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOSUWFgLWGU

Fuck you EA, FUUUUUCK YOOOOOU!!!

And watch out BW... if Anthem doesn't do well, you might be the next victim...

[Someone With Mass]

Fuck you EA, FUUUUUCK YOOOOOU!!!

And watch out BW... if Anthem doesn't do well, you might be the next victim...

Is anyone here surprised by this development? It's EA. When their assets ultimately fail because of their unbelievably bad management, they just slash and scrap the whole thing.

Also, fuck Patrick Söderlund with a rusty corkscrew. That fucking good-for-nothing weasel makes me ashamed to be Swedish.

[Alienmorph]

Surprised? No. Sad and angry nontheless? Abso-fucking-lutely.

[TTTX]

Fuck you EA, FUUUUUCK YOOOOOU!!!

And watch out BW... if Anthem doesn't do well, you might be the next victim...

Well #ShitEA.

[magnuskn]

Yeah, I posted the EA/Bioware doodle about three times since Andromeda launched. I think it's only a matter of time.

[Vol]

Reading this news after watching a few Crowbcat videos (The Bungie vs 343 one in particular) was interesting. There's never going to be another crash, like with Atari, because the industry is just too big. It'll be nice when the shambling horrors at the top shed enough meat to fertilize the ground, and new, smaller studios sprout, lean and passionate.

Bioware might not get the bullet to the head, depending on the next DA, and TOR is a cash cow at this point. Anthem, I have no idea how that'll play out.

[DarkStorm]

The are on the chopping block its just a matter if the axe will drop or if they will go home tomorrow.

[Vol]

I read just recently that an unusually high amount of Bioware's current staff has been there since the ME1 days, albeit the big names are mostly long gone. No idea if it's true, but I subscribe to great man theory, so losing the doctors could've been fatal for all we now.

[magnuskn]

And that was probably because of the Star Wars: The Old Republic disaster.

[Azint]

I picked up The Evil Within 2, and I am pleasantly surprised by it. I thought the first one was okay, it had a lot of interesting environments and creature designs, but it was unfocused thematically, it was a linear mess, that got tedious after some time. The sequel has much more polish, and I think the streamlining worked in its favor. Playing it feels like a more intense The Last of Us.

The main character is much better and human, since he is more than a blank slate generic, gruff PC. He starts the story an emotional and mental wreck because of the shit that befell him in the first game, and I appreciate that. The story plays heavily on his emotional vulnerability, it makes his fear and his concern over finding his daughter much more authentic. It reminds me of Silent Hill Homecoming, with not quite an open world, but open levels that evolve as the story progresses. Except TEW2 actually does it well.

The visual imagery in this game is better, because while I did like a lot of the designs in the first game, it seemed the art team's goal was shock factor and there was a lack of cohesion besides everything being wrapped in barbed wire and fire damage. The melting wax motif is neat, and the collapsing dream world brings to mind a much more demented and chaotic Inception.

Also, that Duran Duran cover they play is better than the original.

[Dragaros]

Fuck you EA, FUUUUUCK YOOOOOU!!!

And watch out BW... if Anthem doesn't do well, you might be the next victim...

The EA monster is as ravenous as ever. Not surprised, but still anger inducing.

I really enjoyed Dead Space 1 & 2. I should replay them sometime.

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-ouLX8Q9UM

GIANT ROBOT FIGHT

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHf79QZGceE

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9LLsqwBRpY

[Dragaros]

[Dragaros]

[Dragaros]

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[Grand Admiral Cheesecake]

I still can't believe that William the Conqueror (The Bastard) is 500 years after the period you brought up. That entire period was so long.

A little over 500 years ago you saw the final death of the Roman Empire, about 400 years before that the crusades, 400 years before that the rise of Kebab and the death of antiquity.

[Someone With Mass]

I still can't believe that William the Conqueror (The Bastard) is 500 years after the period you brought up. That entire period was so long.

A little over 500 years ago you saw the final death of the Roman Empire, about 400 years before that the crusades, 400 years before that the rise of Kebab and the death of antiquity.

Huh. In that case, I know of houses around my neighborhood that "survived" the Roman Empire. They're still being used too.

[Alienmorph]

We have a roman bridge here, a couple thousands years old... so solid it survived even WWII (still has bumps on one of the colums left by the nazi's cannons when they tried to take it down) and it's STILL used today.



Just sayin' =P

[Someone With Mass]

We have a roman bridge here, a couple thousands years old... so solid it survived even WWII (still has bumps on one of the colums left by the nazi's cannons when they tried to take it down) and it's STILL used today.

Just sayin' =P

Yeah, I don't have anything like that around here if you don't count the Viking burial sites. We do have a bridge that was built when the most popular way of transportation was horse and carriage, though. Had to tear it down a couple of times. Once to refit it for cars and another because the construction workers messed up and had to tear it down when they tried to move and expand it to support more than two lanes.

Speaking of which, wasn't it the Romans that made the spacing between their chariots' wheels a standard that's still being used to this day on train tracks?

[Grand Admiral Cheesecake]

We have a roman bridge here, a couple thousands years old... so solid it survived even WWII (still has bumps on one of the colums left by the nazi's cannons when they tried to take it down) and it's STILL used today.

Just sayin' =P

Yeah, I don't have anything like that around here if you don't count the Viking burial sites. We do have a bridge that was built when the most popular way of transportation was horse and carriage, though. Had to tear it down a couple of times. Once to refit it for cars and another because the construction workers messed up and had to tear it down when they tried to move and expand it to support more than two lanes.

Speaking of which, wasn't it the Romans that made the spacing between their chariots' wheels a standard that's still being used to this day on train tracks?

These were the people that were mining silver on an industrial scale in Iberia. That had concrete that could set underwater.

So probably.

That said the Phoenicians were the first ones to try standardization in building. Their ships to be specific. Allowed them to build a galley from start to finish in a few weeks at a normal pace and in A week if they had to rush it.

[Someone With Mass]

Reading this news after watching a few Crowbcat videos (The Bungie vs 343 one in particular) was interesting. There's never going to be another crash, like with Atari, because the industry is just too big. It'll be nice when the shambling horrors at the top shed enough meat to fertilize the ground, and new, smaller studios sprout, lean and passionate.

Bioware might not get the bullet to the head, depending on the next DA, and TOR is a cash cow at this point. Anthem, I have no idea how that'll play out.

I'd say that the best thing that could happen is that the notion that a game can do really well without a cancerous publisher like EA is spread out so it's thoroughly heard.

Let them have their half-assed rejects that are nothing but a game built around microtransactions. I'll stick with indie games. Now that Mass Effect is on ice (or straight up dead, but they won't say that, because it'll affect sales or whatever), I have no reason to buy anything from EA and I'll be honest...it feels good now that they're not holding that one thing I'm interested in hostage so I'm pretty much forced to hand money to those greedy wank-stains if I want to play something I crave for. It's sad that it ended like that, but it's not EA's first dance and it won't be their last.

Ever since Andromeda, I haven't bought a single game with microtransactions and I'm turning a blind eye to those that do have microtransactions and I don't think I'm missing out on anything big.

[SciFlyBoy]

We have a roman bridge here, a couple thousands years old... so solid it survived even WWII (still has bumps on one of the colums left by the nazi's cannons when they tried to take it down) and it's STILL used today.

Just sayin' =P

Ever since I was a kid I was told that living where I am has virtually no human history. Yes the Spanish set up trade centers where they enslaved the natives 500 years ago, yes the Russians came here to trade otter skins 100's of years ago, yes there were pirates off of the islands, yes there were thousands of years of Chumash civilization, but they were mostly fishermen and gatherers living in straw huts. Really the indigenous Californian tribes were a little more advanced than Neanderthals. They were so separated from the other natives because of the geography of California that their isolation prevented growth like other nations. But still, no wars, no major civilization except for some Spanish outposts until the mid 1800's when the mass migration of gold hunters came here. Everything where I live is maybe 50 years old? In some cities you'll see some buildings 100 years old or older, but it is really fascinating and I'm really in awe when I hear about something that is ancient. I mean built 1000's of years ago by an ancient civilization. It's a concept that is quite foreign to me.

[Someone With Mass]

I can just look down the street I live on and see the rebuilt version of a tavern which was built in 1677 and used as a thingstead until 1905. Funny enough, the inn right next to it earned its name Lasse-Maja (or Lars-Maja if you remove the Swedish nickname) because of a rather famous thief with the same nickname who managed to steal the silverware from the nearby church by dressing up as a woman after spearheading a theft spree throughout the capital for over a decade. He was caught and sentenced to lifetime in prison in 1813, but he was pardoned by king Karl XIV Johan about 26 years later. Some believe that he impressed the king with his cookery, but most believe that it's more likely because his autobiography was very popular at the time and the king could do whatever he wanted.

[Someone With Mass]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSpP3Ge-dq0

Some more proof that the industry needs a crash.

I really should upload that clip of Tim Curry dressing up as a Soviet Premier in Red Alert 3 and saying "Cut out the cancer" with gritted teeth.

[Alienmorph]

Dammit "AAA" gamedevs, give us a fucking break!

[Alienmorph]

Ever since I was a kid I was told that living where I am has virtually no human history. Yes the Spanish set up trade centers where they enslaved the natives 500 years ago, yes the Russians came here to trade otter skins 100's of years ago, yes there were pirates off of the islands, yes there were thousands of years of Chumash civilization, but they were mostly fishermen and gatherers living in straw huts. Really the indigenous Californian tribes were a little more advanced than Neanderthals. They were so separated from the other natives because of the geography of California that their isolation prevented growth like other nations. But still, no wars, no major civilization except for some Spanish outposts until the mid 1800's when the mass migration of gold hunters came here. Everything where I live is maybe 50 years old? In some cities you'll see some buildings 100 years old or older, but it is really fascinating and I'm really in awe when I hear about something that is ancient. I mean built 1000's of years ago by an ancient civilization. It's a concept that is quite foreign to me.

I live in small town, that is/was a medieval city built ontop of a roman one. The bridge is probably the oldest thing around, but we also have a monastery and a medieval castle nearby, the latter placed ontop of a small hill that is pretty much at the centre of the city:



I must say... there's alot of things in my city and its people that make me mad whenever I think about it, but having all this remnants of history laying around IS pretty cool. Also, we're the lucky ones... the city the nearest to us is the place where Mussolini started his career, and the city centre there still looks like something out of an Orwell book. That's a part of history I don't whish on anyone.

[SciFlyBoy]

I can just look down the street I live on and see the rebuilt version of a tavern which was built in 1677 and used as a thingstead until 1905. Funny enough, the inn right next to it earned its name Lasse-Maja (or Lars-Maja if you remove the Swedish nickname) because of a rather famous thief with the same nickname who managed to steal the silverware from the nearby church by dressing up as a woman after spearheading a theft spree throughout the capital for over a decade. He was caught and sentenced to lifetime in prison in 1813, but he was pardoned by king Karl XIV Johan about 26 years later. Some believe that he impressed the king with his cookery, but most believe that it's more likely because his autobiography was very popular at the time and the king could do whatever he wanted.

Crazy thing about the town I grew up in?

Reagan would drive by once in a while. Weird Al Yankovich filmed part of his "Living in an Amish Paradise" there. I remember seeing some sort of filming equipment driving by it one day when I was young.

[Dragaros]

Some more proof that the industry needs a crash.

Assholes.

God damn, these big studios are moronic. Blinded by their greed for short term profits, they push this shit front and center, which will alienate their consumer base until it reaches critical mass, and then their long term profits will fall off a cliff. And they'll have no one to blame but themselves. Harmful for the industry, harmful for the medium, harmful to the consumers, harmful to themselves. Stupidly abounds.

[Dragaros]

VEGETA! REMEMBER THE BUG PLANET, VEGETA?!

[Dragaros]

[Dragaros]

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp-bjnn_aOE

Called it.

Good fight. But I wish they had considered including the upgrades both WW and Thor are capable of using. Just for example Thor can get more powerful when using the Odin Force, Rune Magic, and wearing the Destroyer Armor.

[Vol]

I picked up The Evil Within 2, and I am pleasantly surprised by it. I thought the first one was okay, it had a lot of interesting environments and creature designs, but it was unfocused thematically, it was a linear mess, that got tedious after some time. The sequel has much more polish, and I think the streamlining worked in its favor. Playing it feels like a more intense The Last of Us.

The main character is much better and human, since he is more than a blank slate generic, gruff PC. He starts the story an emotional and mental wreck because of the shit that befell him in the first game, and I appreciate that. The story plays heavily on his emotional vulnerability, it makes his fear and his concern over finding his daughter much more authentic. It reminds me of Silent Hill Homecoming, with not quite an open world, but open levels that evolve as the story progresses. Except TEW2 actually does it well.

The visual imagery in this game is better, because while I did like a lot of the designs in the first game, it seemed the art team's goal was shock factor and there was a lack of cohesion besides everything being wrapped in barbed wire and fire damage. The melting wax motif is neat, and the collapsing dream world brings to mind a much more demented and chaotic Inception.

Also, that Duran Duran cover they play is better than the original.

I didn't buy the first one, since I saw an LP (Super Best Friends Play) and it didn't draw me in, but I wanted it to succeed, because I appreciated (my favorite word, as you'll recall) what they were going for. And the water monster bit was cool, the ending set pieces were cool, and so on. It was something new and interesting, so I wanted it to succeed to they'd make more.

Though I lost the plot as it went on, and I was watching _other_ people play it! I really dislike the "Oooh, is this really reality? Nope! Now is this reality? Nope! Now-" bit. It needs to be a focused tool, not a means of rapid transition and avoiding resolving plot.

Yes, the overuse of gore, especially at the start, was numbing. The Working Joes in Alien:Isolation did leagues more with a dead simple design. Whereas this game has carte blanche to get as abstract and fucked up as the mind can envision, like the ending sequence, and that was strong!

So I hope this game does very well, if it's a true improvement. On that note, RE:7 finally hit the $4,000,000 goal Capcom set for it, so kudos to them too.

[Someone With Mass]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNUTWw17rkM

See, if this had been made by ANYONE else but EA, then I'd check it out.

[Dragaros]

[Dragaros]

[Dragaros]

Apparently the story mode is going to be very meta/self-aware, with the characters being aware they are in a video game being controlled by a player. Very Deadpool like.

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewfLNBAZFDs

[Dragaros]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTBXTDkJPiA

[Alienmorph]

I was worried they'd just be reselling the factions of the first TW:Warhammer, but I guess that if it's a free DLC if you have the first game is fair...ish.

They still should have just make it ala StarCraft II and it being one big episodic game. But of course I know why they didn't.

[SciFlyBoy]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technolo ... ar-AAtIc76

Japan finds large cave on moon. May house future astronauts. Like 31 miles long, that's how large.

[Vol]

I was worried they'd just be reselling the factions of the first TW:Warhammer, but I guess that if it's a free DLC if you have the first game is fair...ish.

They still should have just make it ala StarCraft II and it being one big episodic game. But of course I know why they didn't.

It was announced back with the first game, all 3 titles would ultimately piece together into one giant map. That part's free, but you have to own all 3 for the full map, and any DLC races, you have to own to play. Plus the blood and gore DLC is free with Mortal Empires if you already own it from TW1.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/huge-cave-found-on-moon-could-house-astronauts-japan-scientists/ar-AAtIc76

Japan finds large cave on moon. May house future astronauts. Like 31 miles long, that's how large.

You know, now that you mention it, I never really considered building a space base underground. But logically, it makes way more sense...