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I want to play some GW too.  I'd really like to get my GWAMM but I need to max 5 titles.

My friends and I have been playing 4th edition D&D for a few years now and it's getting old because the DM doesn't know when to end an encounter or move things along and there's no RPing.  We did a run through of a quest out of the starter box for 5th and it went super fast.  I don't care what edition I play just that the DM can be flexible.  Once we finish up this 4th ed. side campaign I'm not sure if we'll switch to our original campaign using 5th or go back to 2nd which we started it with or even stay with 4th!

Rather than diggin' out my NWN cds from storage, I bought the Diamond edition on GOG for $10.  Installed and it runs great on Windows 10.  There was a problem with setting the resolution that took only a little trouble shooting.  Doing a full play through and geesh, Desther is really tough.  I also installed X-Mouse that allows you to customize mouse controls for just about any software.  With this I switched the middle and right mouse buttons in the game.

Hi everybody,

Currently waiting for a job to start so I came back home to play some games.  I picked up on Steam/Origin ME 1-3 and Far Cry 1-3 discounted.  My friend and I have also started new characters in GW 1 but that's moving very slow they like to kill everything.  There's some Minecraft, creative mode and like always I play some Diablo1 and Doom 1-2 on the side.

ME 1 was off to a frustrating start. The poorly timed cut-scenes and ambushes were really frustrating and the depth of the consequences of your choices in dialogue was hard to tell and I was far into the game when I realized that if I took a hard line approach to most conversations, either paragon or rebel, I could then get those options (red/blue). I feel like I missed a lot of opportunities.  Plus having to figure out when I could talk to my squad and get further was hard to tell so I was constantly prompting them for more conversation but finding that I hadn't progressed enough in the story to get any where with them.  In the end the romance seemed like they just gave it to me cause I put in some effort.  Ashley is an asshole but I saved her.

And WTF is with all the elevators and doors and corridors?  Are they just trying to add to the game play time?  The voice acting for Shepard is flat.  The female actor is much better especially as a rebel.  I'm not into the side quests of collecting rocks...or alien artifacts even on the off chance this opens something cooler and more meaningful just seems like a grind.  What I call click questing.

It has opened me to more modern FPS with the ducking and jumping action.  I haven't played FPS's in such a long time because the controls are out of hand for me but here the dumbing down is appreciated.  The squad commands are squirrelly and unreliable a lot of the time.  They remind me of hero/henchies in GW.

I didn't care for the Prothean computer thing telling me that he had no idea why the Reapers were doing what they were doing.  Seemed like a lame line to say something to the effect of "No one knows even the writers"  so there was a big let down in the story there.

Starting ME 2 and it's more of the same.  Very disappointed that my ENTIRE squad is gone and the overall story beginning is just weak.  Glad they added details like bathrooms and cooks but why is the first nonmission quest getting f***ing ingredients for the kitchen?  Grocery shopping in a SciFi epic opera really?  Also, there's the no crouching thing....

Guns are cool and I love the upgrade system but there's no context for anything as far as stats etc. ME seems to do too much of everything to be great at anything.

I haven't started Far Cry yet but I'm looking for the exploration/sand box side rather than the story because the writing in these games is failing.

Anyone playing Rust?  Looks like the community is really divided on the direction of the game.  I'd play it but can't run it.  Vertiigo's videos are awesome!

I've been hiking just about every weekend in the Whites.  The weekend I didn't go because of the weather was the same weekend a hiker died on the northern Presidentials.

Sold out around here:

http://cinemassacre.com/2014/07/12/angry-video-game-nerd-the-movie-official-trailer-2-hd/

In high school I was best friends with Ritchie Valens nephew. Nice family, big house.

I want to marry the lead singer but whenever I ask her she calls the police

Alex Mauer puts out some great albums. Found him by way of Penny Arcade.  He even sent a signed copy 
http://alexmauer.bandcamp.com/

A little old but these guys were fighting outside my apartment behind the 7 Eleven on Main St. (they woke me) then they got held up in an apartment near a friend of mine.

http://www.wmur.com/news/manchester-police-on-scene-of-standoff/26301892#!bag3oh

Legends of Grimlock anyone? Anyone?  I've played for an hour or so.  It's clumsy and takes some getting used to and it's definitely a grind but is something of a nail bitter and page turner.

I recommend AT&T/DSL since we've been using it for nearly two decades without any problems.

I wanted to, I really did, but Fairpoint wanted a $100 bucks to run a phone line to the basement from the street then up to my floor. There's no phone jacks in my building.

Comcast is a piece of shit.

One rep hung up on me after I made condescending remarks when she mentioned at the very last moment my bill was going to double in 12 months.  Another rep tried to charge me 64/month after I had been quoted 30/month by two other reps.  The rep who setup my account failed to mention I'd need an account number to "verify" my modem.  And the dozens of times they tried to sell me their shitty TV subscription!
They bamboozled a friend of mine into thinking they need to use Comcast's modem to get a LAN and that they need a router.  They pay 90/month for internet, TV & phone.

Well I moved over the weekend so I'll be on hiatus until I get the internet in a couple of weeks.  I'll be back!

I really like the idea of the controller but I don't play console games to justify buying it.  Can I just try it out first?

Haven't had time lately to check out Saints Row but looking good for tomorrow.  Are any of you behind one game collectively?  Playing together?  I'd like to get into something online multiplayer for the winter.

Did you try "Wolfenstein"?

I bought the Id bundle on Steam and was pissed when it wasn't included!

ID Software's most recent FPS, "Rage"

I liked the look of this but I'm fussy. I want less combat options in my FPS.  Point and click will do, not all those gadgets and tripod guns.

check out "Saints Row: The Third"

Ok, will do.

Good to see you back here, stranger.

Thanks.  2012 was crazy. Feels like I'm a year behind

I'd like to finish Skyrim but when I go back in time to kill the dragon I can never knock him down to the ground with the shout and that's IF the dragon shows up at all for the cutscene which happens 80% of the time.  I'd rather not replay it as I've cleared everything

131 hours
35/50 on achievements
level 45ish