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I had a hard time watching the episode last night. It was so slow I literally walked away and did dishes while Lady fell asleep on the couch. lol.

With only 1 episode left for the season (or midseason) I'm getting the feeling that History is loosing focus on what made this show so good. All the scenes in Wessex seem rather pointless now that they're not going to cross path with the vikings any time soon. I bet the little kid on the christian pilgrimage will be someone important in a time skip which is why they keep showing him, but overall the show it about the vikings and all this wessex stuff could literally be referenced as events that have happened next time the vikings are in that area. In the last season the wessex scenes were important because of Athelstan and his connection to Ragnar. Now they are filler scenes as opposed to showing more of the Vikings. Also, History channel has already changed the actual fate of Ragnar in this series and turning him into a drug addict is a bit lame. I want to see him being the tactician he was in the first 2 season.. not some guy with power freaking out over drugs and choices he's made in his life.

I played the beta yesterday for almost 2 hours. I didn't try the multiplayer and went straight for the missions since that's what I'd prefer for this game anyway. Aside from the clipping issues on some ledges it was a fun experience. I played as Orendi and tore thru the first handful of mobs with ease but the first mission definitely got progressively harder and more enjoyable. The drone purchases are a nice twist. I'd always buy a combat drone, but in the last half of missions, those drones would get destroyed so easily, they seemed worthless. The genome upgrades were interesting but it'd be nice to have a reset option for it since once you make a selection its set and felt a bit too restrictive. It makes sense to have that kind of system in StarCraft since it gives you some replay value but for a FPS it felt like I was setting up my character to play a specific role and when I realized it wasn't working good for me I had no option to try something new. While in starcraft, whatever options you choose for upgrades are completely viable and not necessarily OP over other choices, except maybe 1 or 2. I did get screwed at the final battle against Isic on the first mission. I could have sworn I had 20 mins left on my server time in the pause menu when I started that fight but by the time I got to the final phase of the fight and he was a floating head, I got a count down timer. I don't know if it was the server time on the beta running out or if it was a "hard enrage timer" for the boss. If it was a hard enrage timer then I have no interest in this game. It was beyond annoying to play thru the entire mission while exploring the environment and taking my time to get to the final boss, see it has about 10 hp left and then 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.. mission failed. And no option to restart the boss fight. I'm going to assume it was my server time expiring. Other than that it was a fun experience. I tried the second mission with Thorn and I sucked bad with her. lol. After going from Orendi with an endless spam attack to basically a sniper class, it threw me completely off. shes an interesting character, but in mission modes I often felt like I was getting swarmed with enemies faster than I could shoot arrows and had to spam my aoe and melee. Orendi felt much easier to play, but was quite squishy. Overall it was fun, but I don't think it sold me on the game. It felt like a gearbox game with borderlands style humor and I love that. But if I still have borderlands 1 and 2 to play so I might stick with those for now. The campaign mission seemed a bit generic in regards to the characters. Since you can play any character in the campaign there were no points where the player character would interact vocally with the events going on so it didn't feel immersive to me. Much like a battlefield campaign, the player character is just some generic mute character. I never like that in a campaign. With this many characters, they could have made a campaign that is locked to a specific character in a "story mode" and each mission could have been tailored to that character to give you insight on their background and their personality. And then after you unlock more characters, you could replay the mission in an "mission" mode like what we got in the beta. btw, how does Orendi's ultimate work? I swear it never hit anything in the missions. I'd hit the button see her do this great animation with symbols.. and nothing. I thought I was using it wrong, so I literally stood in front of enemies and did it, only to take damage during the animation and not see it do anything.

Thank you for pointing this out. I've been getting email bombed too. Imagine how bad it would be if we had 100 active members. I changed the notification options. It boggles my mind why some of these were disabled or set to email only as default. Even tho I updated the settings it won't affect all current user's settings. Please check your notification options again and you'll see new toggle settings to change everything from email to the regular pop up notifications. http://www.ancientclan.com/notifications/options/

http://kotaku.com/game-industry-veteran-writes-horrifying-article-in-defe-1771434170 This is a good read because its a prime example of the mentality of some of the higher ups in the game industry. Asses.

I look forward to reading more about your adventures.

I added some images to the gallery for this movie.

I'll watch this once I can find it dubbed since I love Godzilla movies, but Godzilla itself doesn't look all that great to me. Its not the molten burned look its got going on, but the unmoving arms in the trailer that looks so bad. Its being directed by Neon Genesis’ Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi. Official site: http://shin-godzilla.jp/ And I saw this link on kotaku. The comments really stand out to me. You can see some eva scenes in the trailer. http://kotaku.com/japans-new-godzilla-movie-looks-awesome-1770853409

Is the movie thats coming out supposed to tie-in to the game? Like the movie itself is a DLC? http://www.ratchetandclankthemovie.com/ This looks great.

That shortbow doesn't even look like a shortbow. x_x It must have some amazing effects to be a legendary tho. Just when I was about to shelve this game for a while I see that legendary back piece / glider.. I must have it. I'm already have 50% of it done but to finally be able to finish it.. I might have to go OCD on that. Reference pics are in the tenton article: http://www.tentonhammer.com/news/guild-wars-2-teases-spring-update-with-new-video

There is a fix for the background image bug for IPB4. I'll get that patched sometime this week and upload some new backgrounds so we can get rid of the "rock with waves" ocean view image. Expect a Overwatch, Division, Star Wars and some other image I'll pick at some point. I'll swap these images out about once a month or so.

You make a really good point. I forgot the reason I have all those games is because I bought that same bundle. The only game in this bundle that I bought that wasn't in the old one was Walking Dead season 2. And I bought that for PS4 during a PSN sale.

Looks like Marvel got a little inspiration from "Inception". I like what I'm seeing tho.

If I didn't already own 80% of the games in this bundle I'd definitely buy it. These humble (major company) bundles keep getting better and better. Its getting to the point that I'm not going to buy any more games that have been out for 6 months to a year since most of the games I actively buy (and sits in my game queue) ends up in one of these humble bundles now. https://www.humblebundle.com/telltale-bundle

Hows your experience in Dark Souls so far? Does it get frustrating at times? Ever had a "Sad Affleck" moment? https://amp.twimg.com/v/d636218c-b67b-41d3-a269-3ccb9388af26

http://gizmodo.com/a-russian-billionaire-and-stephen-hawking-want-to-build-1770467186 Click the link for the rest of the article. My first thought after reading the headline was that they wanted to make a star trek style enterprise ship. But instead its a fleet of nanoships. This sounds amazing and plausible.

I hate sequels and prequels that are exclusive to other game consoles or handheld systems than what the original game was released. SE did that with FF Crisis Core and all those endless Kingdom Hearts games that made me lose complete interest in the property. At least Kingdom Hearts is supposed to come to an end. Maybe with that property being put down SE will finally dedicate more time to new titles.

If they had mechs like in Virtual-On I'd buy the hell out of Titanfall 2. I loved this game back on the dreamcast. Of course they'd have to upgrade those graphics, I don't want to be playing a SAB version of titanfall on any current gen consoles.

I have a feeling the game will sell really well. Depending on what they might change with the plot we might have to consider it an alternate universe FF7. Even if this isn't a complete remake I'd be happy with that. In fact I'd like to see some changes and be surprised with some plot twists to keep me engaged in the new experience. Instead of SE remaking other FF titles I'd rather see them make more FF7 sequels that takes place after the events of the original game and advent children.