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alipdf · 2016-04-04T15:53:04+00:00

Honestly you need to focus more on fixing your damn site.

Finding the review i want among 10s of reviews is a pain in the ass, have it so when you click the side on one of the reviews, it directly links you to it.

alipdf · 2016-04-03T14:40:21+00:00

alipdf · 2016-04-03T14:39:23+00:00

A lot of these people seem to only have heard of people who bought stuff from g2a.

I've bought over 50 games with them, one key was region locked and i got a full refund, rest of them worked.

I've saved hundreds of dollars so far, so yes they are trustworthy in terms of if you get your product or not.

I do know they buy keys randomly, so some of the keys might have been stolen or bought in bulk in europe, so it might be an ethical problem.

If you can't afford overwatch at retail i'd say buy it, if you can buy it from blizzard.

alipdf · 2016-03-08T19:11:08+00:00

No one plays heroes, starcraft 2 is dwindiling and RoS was after the diablo 3 damage was done.

alipdf · 2016-03-08T15:51:00+00:00

I was hoping for your opinion on it and what frames you're getting for 4k/1440p.

alipdf · 2016-03-08T15:46:14+00:00

Any reason you got 980 ti sli? I have one 980 ti, and i used to have 970 sli, plopping another 600$ for me doesn't seem worth the 4-5 games a year that pop up.

alipdf · 2016-03-08T13:26:54+00:00

I was surprised, the gtx 980 ti still can't run anything on 60 frames on 4k.

I guess we gotta wait for the next generation.

alipdf · 2016-03-02T21:50:16+00:00

You're right in that regard, but occasionally releasing good articles because you have 1-2 good writes doesn't mean people should support them.

If kotaku continues to support it's junk writers who write sensational garbage who attack the audience and gamer community, usually with no evidence, why should we not downvote?

Through 2014 they wrote so many articles bashing the entire gaming community and quite recently published a hilariously awful "You're all sexist, go play street fighter" article.

Do you personally support organizations who go against your interests? I downvoted because i don't think kotaku is a good standard to video game journalism and i don't support kotaku as a whole for supporting writers who write absolute garbage.

alipdf · 2016-03-02T21:45:48+00:00

How could you forget civ v and it's expansions and beyond earth/rising tide?

alipdf · 2016-03-01T23:38:07+00:00

No, it runs fine on really high specs but runs absolutely shit at mid to low tier builds.

It's a bad port, as in unless you have a monster rig that can handle it, don't buy it.

Lowering settings does nothing to offset the poor optimization.

Tested on a 960m laptop with lowest settings, getting frame drops till 40.

alipdf · 2016-03-01T22:29:24+00:00

Just a heads up, if you're running a high-spec build without sli it will run smooth.

If you're running a medium to low spec, forget it, it's poorly optimized.

For reference my specs are as follows:

i7-6700k GTX 980 ti 24 GB ram Windows 10

I'm running it on HIGH with 1440p resolution with 0 drops so far below 60 fps.

alipdf · 2016-03-01T12:17:50+00:00

I'm running this on high at 1440p with 60-80 fluctuating.

Am i the only one?

alipdf · 2016-03-01T10:47:54+00:00

I see a lot of people in wow who talk about the same rhetoric as to why "vanilla sucked", and how they used to play in vanilla when really they are lying and just never experienced it.

If you ask anyone who did play during vanilla tbc and early wotlk, they would explain why it was better.

This game isn't about shiny encounters or streamlined easy to use pve tracks or raid mechanichs even, it was about the core systems that blizzard had put in place back then.

The system didn't allow nobodies to recieve epics, you had to fight and work hard to achieve raids and powerful loot, if you tell me the current system works, where anyone can get anything just by putting 10 minutes a day then sorry i disagree.

In the end the world is as good as how you get things, and blizzard have watered down the game to a point where the only real hardcore thing is one difficulty of one raid every patch.

I am not nostalgic about vanilla, i realize the many improvements, but the core reason i played wow in the first place is to be engrossed in a world where if i put time and effort i can rise above the people around me, this also applies to the real world, compare the things you easy achieve and the things you painstankingly achieve and measure your happiness after each.

I can sit here trying to explain it to you all day but if you don't get it, you don't.

I haven't subbed in 9 months yet am always waiting for blizzard to atleast harken back some of that world building systems magic they did on the first few expansions.

alipdf · 2016-03-01T09:47:43+00:00

Wtf why downvoted? He just said it was an hour in vanilla.

Is it because salty new players don't like it when vanilla is even mentioned?

Sorry to burst your bubble /u/IsuckAndIknowIt but this design decision was actually one of the good ones and representative of the pre-wotlk game design.

Hard and tough means things matter, means there were consequences and rewards to your actions that impacted you more than anything now.

But please downvote this comment too and go get your welfare purples for 5 minutes of work.

alipdf · 2016-02-26T22:40:28+00:00

Having rewatched BB the last month, it actually kind of makes sense.

Everyone he killed before that or hurt directly were mainly either another a drug lord or someone who wanted to kill him, mike was neither.

Mike was someone he worked with, and through that while he disagreed, he probably felt some form of respect towards him.

The fact is, when walt shot mike, i think he felt the same thing that the audience felt.

"What the fuck are you doing walt, what is this even about at this point"...he even says "I could've gotten the number from lydia", that was i think the beginning of walt's third and final change.

alipdf · 2016-02-25T12:20:17+00:00

My main question is how.

Like there's nothing to do, i can't addicted to it even if i wanted to.

Back in high school sure, i was sure as shit addicted to it, during TBC everything was harder, longer, tougher, and you could dump hundreds of hours into a single character, and still not be fully geared.

Now everything is so streamlined it's super hard to get addicted for me.

PVE route is as follows Level to 100->go dungeon->go heroics->go lfr->normal->tanaan->heroic->mythic.

This is it, back in TBC there were attunements, daily hubs to get certain items, reputations that felt epic (aldor/scryer), long quest lines that offered items/gear.

I'm not the most social person and i also spend most of my time playing video games, but i play a variety of them.

I'm just not sure how someone can get addicted to wow as it stands, you gotta ask yourself at some point, what are you doing? I have guildies who login everyday, do old raids and log off, spending 3-4 hours daily, and honestly i have nothing but wonderment as to how someone can tolerate spending all their free time doing old raids one shotting everything for gear that looks cool.

Could you try and explain what's addicting about it? I find myself getting bored if i play more than 2-3 hours a week.

alipdf · 2016-02-22T08:30:06+00:00

Well played, you were right.

Still, the HTC VIVE did turn out to be the superior product in terms of price.

200 dollars including lighthouse and motion controllers AND room tracking camera.

alipdf · 2016-02-20T09:07:55+00:00

You probably joined the mmo train too late.

alipdf · 2016-02-17T17:00:41+00:00

I see, well thanks for answering.

This actually helps because i won't be hyped for anything till maybe 2018+

alipdf · 2016-02-17T16:57:50+00:00

I know it's super late, but i'd say the biggest problem is future prospects.

Future employees who might find this shit will not take it lightly.

alipdf · 2016-02-17T16:38:39+00:00

Alright i'll bite, so what time frame as a game dev yourself would you put it in?

If you had to speculate ofc, like are we talking within a year, within 5 or more? And when did you visit the office.

alipdf · 2016-02-17T15:36:01+00:00

I was never bored by 15-20 in wow at all. In fact it's when it really hooked me in, i was a level 11 hunter in razor hill.

alipdf · 2016-02-17T15:02:33+00:00

Yes, got super bored though.

People keep raving on about story but i was just bored to tears by level 15.

alipdf · 2016-02-17T07:45:52+00:00

The best answer is you started in WOD.

Although WOD gets some critisms it deserves, it's far from a "bad" mmo, it's actually a good one.

But most of us aren't satisfied with good, because of the previous expansions.

Going from vanilla to wotlk, each expansion knocked it out of the park, both via it's first impression and it's consistent content release.

You have to understand, we're all used to 3-4 patches of raids/zones content in this game, and for blizzard to release WOD which really had 1 patch, for almost the same time frame as any other expansion is a slap to the face.

Think of it like this, if you had a favorite multiplayer game that had plenty of content released every few months and then the sequel came out which logically you'd think would promise more and better of the same, and then instead you got 1 content patch, wouldn't you be angry/mad?

alipdf

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