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They stated the day and age of long range sniping is gone now, they actually want us to be in medium to close range while we play (pretty much saying engage at the right distances, so no more 2000+ meter sniping thought I'm sure we'll still have those asshats that due it in 4 will still attempt it here). After watching that I feel I might actually be able to snipe in this one with the increased muzzle velocities but I get the feeling I'll be sticking more with the Medic and Assault (maybe Support if I see some better LMG play) as those are more my play style. I do like how they're making the Scout a more aggressive class now. I'm wondering what we're going to get for other gadgets as well considering that only seems to show the Flare Gun and I think the Anti-tank rounds (I get the feeling they probably won't give us dynamite for this class (that will most likely be support/assault)). They might get mines but I'm also assuming that's probably going to end up on the Assault class or even the Support (there were no claymore type weapons used during WWI (the S-Mine or better known as the Bouncing Betty hadn't been invented yet) but who knows, we may get something along those lines (or maybe a choice to rig something up that functions the same way (trip wire grenades anyone)).

Heh, I suck at flying as well but I might give it another go. Who knows if I still suck I'll just be your backseat gunner, I'm really good at doing those sort of things I actually had to agree with one of the people in chat which was to follow XFactor because he was pretty much the only one who stayed alive long enough to show anything interesting (besides Jack, Matimi0, and Stonemountain). Honestly I was getting sick of the aerial views, yes the map was beautiful but we don't need to continually see it. We wanted actual game play, not scenic views and people dying over and over again. Still mad that Neebs team lost though, was really rooting for them (he probably would of won had he not lost Level and those two others he mentioned in the interview after).

While it looks fun (that grappling hook is going to be a huge game changer for Titanfall) I have to question EA's retarded idea to release this 7 DAYS after BF1. They're practically shooting themselves in the foot here and I can't justify buying two games back to back like that (the last time I did it I ended up only playing one of them and letting the other collect dust). I might get it but it won't be until either Christmas or sometime after (and that's only if I get sick of BF1).

I'm overly happy with everything I saw during the live stream (though I wasn't impressed with their way of showing it, they were switching views to fast to really get a feel for anything). Gun play looks amazing and I like the idea of sniper scopes on the semi-auto's. Gives you a chance to actually play a bit of range while using them and still have the ability to hip fire them at close range effectively. Liking the SMG's as well but I'm a little iffy on the LMG's (Support is my favorite class in BF so I'm very particular about the guns they use). Yea I know we're limited on what guns we use but I'm still a little put off by them. I can also guarantee that I won't be sniping in this one. I'm horrendous at sniping in BF4 and with the scopes they had available during WWI I'm going to be even worse. I like the looks of the tank play as well. Having multiple people in a tank is going to be amazing though I wonder how well it's going to work on console with communication only being available in squads (going to be really hard to coordinate with the driver and other gunners if you're all in separate squads, hopefully they can implement a VOIP like PC users get for us console players). The airship is going to be a lot of fun, I can sense it. Plus the ability to control it and the knowledge that having it crash can drastically change the battlefield is awesome. Dynamic weather is going to be awesome as well because I like the idea of going into battle on a sunny day and then it all of a sudden changes into a thunderstorm or having fog roll in (which I totally see, like DX pointed out, that it's going to be the number one thing players complain about). I'm seriously hyped now. Can't wait to see more game play footage come out in the next few days from the youtubers at the event (I already watched Jack's video (right after the live stream actually) and was rather impressed by what I saw). I'll definitely be pre-ordering this once I get the money for it (or I can just con the money out of family since the game does come out three days after my birthday).

That was fucking amazing and I'm glad I watched it live. Chat was freaking hype during it.

I'm going to admit I got slightly interested when I saw the trailer, more so since they're actually putting some focus on the story. Sadly that's about all I got excited for. I watch Teawrex and KingGothalion play Destiny when no one else that I follow is on and honestly the game is just as boring and just as grindy as we remember it (even more so now with all the new shit they added in since The Taken King launched). Fuck they put a point scoring system on Prison of Elders now calling it the Challenge of Elders. If that's true about the preorder Gally Bungie is going to have a shit ton of pissed off gamers they're going to have to deal with. Honestly a year 2 version of the Gally probably wouldn't even be welcomed in the game as there are so many better exotic heavy weapons to choose from now (not to mention some pretty nice Special and Primary weapons). Most people would only grab it to say they have it. I do like the idea of it being a bounty though, so much easier to get instead of hoping for that godly drop or for Xur to sell it.

While the game mechanics remain mostly the same in every GTA they do bring in new things from time to time (Heists are completely original to 5 and was a very nice and very welcome change). I never really started getting into the story element until GTA4 (before that I had only played the first one and I honestly can't tell you what the plot, if there was one, was even about. I mostly spent hours running around town killing people, stealing cop cars, and enabling cheats for infinite ammo and the tank). I think the major draw of GTA is that, at the time, it was one of the few sandbox games released around that time and gave people their first taste of being able to do what you want, when you want, and how you want and not be confined to a linear play style or plot. Honestly GTA remains, imo, the best sandbox title we've ever gotten (I never really got into Saints Row and while Assassin's Creed is a sandbox title it's still an extremely linear title).

Sadly I couldn't watch it, my cable provider is completely fucking up lately and has been treating certain channels as premium channels and blocking our access and sadly one of those channels happens to be the History channel. I'm hoping the problem is resolved by Monday so I can catch the next one and hopefully the first ep.

While I like the new abilities and some of the new stuff our new guy can do I'm going to have to wait and see more on this game before I decide if I want to get it or not (I still haven't beaten the first one yet). I'd of preferred an actual sequel to the first one as well. With games like BF1 and Deus Ex releasing before it it'll have to do quite a bit to get me hyped for it.

And hence the reason why I'm glad, like DX, that I never got into this series (I couldn't get past the fact they were mising SE characters with Disney characters (hey I was young and opinionated when the first one came out). I heard it was a great game with a great story but I was too invested in other titles back then to take the plunge and buy it (or rent it, I did a lot of game renting back then)). A lot of my friends, who were fans of the KH series, actually ended up buying every system to play it. Emulation, while fun, requires a lot of set-up for anything past the SNES era (hell to play PS1 and PS2 games on you PC you actually need to get your hands on the bios for both systems, extremely illegal (even more so then pirating games) and they're hard to find without getting some virus downloading them (I only know this because I have emulated PS games before but stopped doing it as I can't play old school PS games without getting a serious headache)). Considering how SE has already done this with the FF series (the sequel to IV, Crisis Core, Tactics Advance and Tactics Advance 2) I can forsee them taking this path with FFXV (if the game ends up being a multi-game release, they'd be fucking stupid if they pulled this. XIII and it's two sequels did not do as well as some people think they did and ended up loosing SE a lot of pull with their fans as well as money (the only reason XIII sold so well was because it was a numbered title and it was the first numbered title to come out in 3 years at the time)). This is the reason why I'm only blowing money on FFXIV and the Star Ocean series, the only good FF around now-a-days and the only good series SE has been putting out in recent years (which reminds me I should really get around to beating II, III, and IV (Star Ocean that is)).

Heh, I completely forgot about it until Matimi0 mentioned it on his stream today. Man I can't wait until that comes out, that trailer has me even more intrigued (finally happy to have a release date attached as well).

It's a very good read and thankfully it saves me from having to read the book myself (I've got to much other shit to read and I honestly don't want to touch this new canon with a 10ft pole).

Heh, the only things I watch on Discovery are Deadliest Catch (I love this show, it's gotten a little too Reality TV for me in recent seasons but the show is still a good watch (I know it's not their fault but when Phil died was when the show started tanking hard)) and Alaskan Bush People (yea I know, it's actually quite entertaining for how ridiculous it is at times). I pretty much stay clear of Discovery other then that. I did forget to mention this but I do love Mountain Men on History. That's probably the only show I still watch on History besides the random documentaries they may have on and when I catch reruns of Vikings (I'm two seasons behind atm, lost interest in it when Ragnar became King). The only thing I used to watch on the Travel Channel was No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain. That show was and still is one of my favorite TV shows since not only did you see the different foods and drink the areas he visited had but it also gave you a look into the culture as well. I still watch random episodes from time to time on Netflix (I was pissed when they lost the rights to the entire show, now it's just a bunch of random episodes from different seasons being offered (and sadly none of the real good ones)). I'd give anything to get my hands on the Science Channel but sadly it's not offered in the cable package I have. I used to watch that shit all the time down in Arizona when I visited friends who had it (we didn't have cable in my apartment, roommate and I decided against it. We used Netflix and other means to watch the shows we wanted to watch).

I'll actually have to watch this, seems rather interesting (my favorite History subjects were always WWI, WWII, Feudal Japan, and Ancient Greece. Rome has never been a big part of my interests but this does look amazing). I wish History would go back to those days (it's pretty much what the Smithsonian channel has turned into, at least three times a week they have something about WWII on for a huge block of time) instead of all these other shit shows (Pawn Stars was good in the beginning but no it's just crap, Swamp People is interesting to watch but not really related to what the channel is about, etc). Much like DX I never got H2 so I didn't get to see a lot of the shows they had on (some of which seemed rather interesting and good, the one you mentioned included) so I'm happy they're going to release similar shows on the main channel.

It seems no worse then the animation problems with Sailor Moon Crystal (which lets be honest there were plenty during the TV run of the first two seasons). Just gotta give them time to work the animation kinks out as the series progresses. Plus that's a major problem with mixing CG animation with Traditional animation, you get those wonky ass inconsistencies (which are highly noticeable in mech related shows (there was some funky ass shit going on with the animation in Gundam 00 and even in Macross Frontier)).

Hmmm, I'm intrigued. I'll have to give this a shot being the Voltron fan that I am.

I know this they're going to have to re-balance the whole same hero picking system because PC players are starting to complain and I honestly see why. JackFrags and his group ran into a group that had 5 Mei's and a Lucio on the defending side. They still won the match but it's safe to say it took them almost 4 minutes to capture the first point due to every Mei rotating out their Ice Wall on the entrance points (they countered it with a 4 Pharah rush from above but this shouldn't be a necessary tactic just to play the game). Multiple of the same hero shouldn't be a thing and was my major complaint when I first started playing the beta (I honestly see no reason for repeat heroes on teams, though I will admit it's hilarious to see teams troll other teams with the tactic). I don't know how prevalent this is on console however because I mainly watch PC streamers. Mei does need to be reworked and that was evident in the beta. She's the best hero for crowd control if you play her right, her attacks are devastating (the ability to freeze other heroes and then one shot them with the icicle shot is a little to overpowered), her ultimate is the ultimate objective cleaner if your team works together, and she's extremely hard to kill with her ability to wrap herself in ice. While I admit she's a nice counter to certain heroes she shouldn't be the ultimate counter to every hero. Considering how popular she is (on PC at least) I don't really see any major nerfs coming down for her until either Blizzard finds a way to do it without pissing people off or they bring in a new hero to play (as of right now I've not seen an effective counter for her). Genji has a steep learning curve (he's extremely agile, the only hero that can double jump, wields both ranged and melee weapons, his Ult is hard to use effectively, and he's extremely squishy). While he's not that hard to play he's hard to master. I thought I did pretty well playing him in the beta but even I admit I'm no where near that good at playing him (his main two attacks are weird and extremely hard to land and his sword attack, while effective, is hard to properly wield). Battleborn, while I loved the game while I played the beta, suffers from not enough advertising (hell I never heard of it until the beta went live). It's no real surprise they dropped the price for it when Overwatch launched because they knew they were going to lose quite a bit of their player base once Overwatch fully launched (and like DX said they're player numbers are low). Gearbox should of put more into advertising the game and generating more hype for it (something Blizzard did extremely well for the game having multiple closed betas, plenty of press, and those amazing Animated Shorts).

After watching this I can honestly say I feel a little better about this movie considering one of them is a huge Warcraft fan and the other isn't but they both liked the film (plus I trust their reviews, they're generally more level headed then most other reviewers). Heh, I honestly didn't know most of those names I mentioned until I played WoW (I hardly remember playing the original Warcraft outside of Medivh's death and a few other points of interest, everything I know about it now was from reading up on it). WoW introduced me to the overarching plot that connected the first three games and got me extremely interested in what caused the events that lead to WoW's original starting point (4 years after the end of The Frozen Throne). I remembered the majority of WC2 from having played the hell out of it on my original Playstation (back when they used to port RTS games onto consoles, wasn't the greatest port but the game was still fun as hell) and WC3 was still fresh in my memory since I had only recently finished another play through a month or two before WoW's release. It's funny how a game that spent more time rewriting this established lore made me and many other players go seek out and read all the established lore (plus the game itself contains a lot of this lore if you know where to look).

My main thing for this movie is it a complete retelling of the first game or is it just a part of the overall story (I mean there really hasn't been any news on whether there will be more then one movie in this series, we can assume so but there hasn't been any concrete news on it and if there is will it be a rap up of the first war or will we move into the second war). I only want to know because I'm extremely interested in seeing their take of Medivh's death and how Garona kills King Llane. Which is another thing that bugs me. He claims to be a fan of the series yet doesn't know that Garona is half-orc half-dranei (which I realize was brought to our attention in WoW (since the Dranei weren't part of the lore at the time of the first games release) but it's still part of the lore now). It's a minor complaint but putting half-human in there just bugs me (even though I don't know how happy I was to find out she was half-dranei (seemed forced for story purposes but makes more sense then her being half-human as humans didn't exist on Draenor prior to the second war), should also be noted she has a kid with Medivh who took his place as Guardian of Tirisfal). I don't know if I should be saddened that I know this much about Warcraft or not.

The orcs speaking English shouldn't be such a disconnect for him or others in general, we get it in a lot of stuff these days it's not funny (take anime for instance, there's more then a few shows that all you hear is Japanese yet those characters are speaking Russian, English, Chinese, etc (yes I'm looking at Black Lagoon, you're in Thailand god damnit. Not everyone in Thailand speaks Japanese)). That can be easily over looked (I mean in the games they speak English as well, there is no disconnect in languages and there never really was until Warcraft III and even then it was mostly for the Night Elves) because there really wasn't an Orchish language developed for the orcs or any other language developed for the other races (this is Blizzard we're talking about, not Tolkien who spent years perfecting the Elven language). Warcraft, at least when it originally launched, had some pretty serious overtones in it. Yea there were bits a humor here and there but the story was always serious. The Orcs were invading Azeroth under the orders of Gul'Dan who, at the time, was serving the Burning Legion. Medivh, under Sargeras's control, allowed the orcs through with the construction of the Dark Portal. The entirety of the first game was the Alliance fighting for survival against a horde of unstoppable savages trying to kill and take their lands. Don't really know how that could of been more campy or humorous. Plus most of the humor from the RTS games came from clicking the units multiple times and getting their joke voice lines (I honestly don't remember there being an humor in the actual story lines presented). I think the movie's main failing is the Durotan story. While I think Durotan was mentioned in the lore at the time (I don't remember, been years since I played the first Warcraft game) he didn't have any significant role in the actual series until Warcraft III where he's used to give Thrall a backstory and a reason for bringing the horde back together in the old ways. Writing his story into the first games story seems to have added more to an already convoluted story. They should of focused on the major players of the first war instead of bringing him in (though I do want to see his story as it's never played out in the games and you only really get to learn about him in the novels). I still plan on watching this. The trailers have all been rather entertaining and honestly it's not like they can really ruin the games or lore for me. Blizzard already did that 6+ years ago by rewriting a lot of that lore themselves with WoW.

I was gonna give you shit for not having any trophies yet until I read the descriptions for them (I figured you'd have quite a few of them after you started playing). Heh, I was watching streams for it yesterday since I have nothing better to do and I'm kinda sick of playing games right now. Torbjorn is a powerhouse, I see him getting nerfed in the future after what I saw last night (both LevelCap and Matimi0 went on 30 kill streaks with him). You place that turret in the right place and it's unstoppable. Also saw a hell of a Genji player last night while watching Matimi0. The guy went on a tear and wiped their team three times before they finally killed him. Every minute or so he was using his Ult and it was spectacular. That player really showed just how powerful Genji is in the right hands. PC wise Reinhardt seems to still be the best tank. Matimi0 was going ham with him last night while the rest of his team went McCree with on Lucio (surprisingly enough it's an extremely effective team on Escort and Control). I've noticed that people are countering him with Bastion but it's honestly not much different from what we experienced in the beta for us (unless the people they were playing didn't do their homework). Mercy does seem to have a huge target on her back. I've seen more people running Lucio over her (or running Lucio with her in the team) and I've been seeing a lot of people use Symmetra for defensive teams (and I finally saw why, her turrets are devastating if used correctly and her ability to teleport people is extremely useful for defending teams) due to everyone automatically gunning for Mercy at the get go (though a good Mercy player can keep themselves up if they know what they're doing). They're either going to have to give her armor like Reinhardt and D.Va or give her some sort of ability to run from battle faster (like giving her the ability to fly like Pharah, I mean she has wings why not use them). I highly doubt they'll allow her to do more damage because she's the only dedicated healer in this game (though I do think her staff should be able to do damage instead of switching to that pathetic pistol she has). I'm more for the ability to fly away from danger based on my experience with her in the beta, while armor would be a nice offset to her being so weak I feel she's more suited for running due to her personality (she's about saving lives not taking them). Give her a system similar to Pharah just without fuel gauge (base her ability to fly off of energy or take away her healing ability while she's flying to balance it out). This ability could replace her ability to fly directly to an ally and allow her somewhat more survivabilty in situations where she's the only one left. I rarely used her ability to get to allies faster so I wouldn't miss it if I was playing the game. After everything I've seen (an extremely smooth launch I have to say. The kicking people out of the game was a minor problem if you ask me) since it launched yesterday I plan on picking this up as soon as I get a job. Blizzard outdid themselves with this game and they've actually impressed me for the first time in a long time (SC2: LoV is an exception, I haven't beaten it yet and it's Starcraft so I can't not love or be impressed by it).

It looks like it could be funny but I'm with you, something seems off about it. Plus casting Thor as the clueless secretary is just wrong (I get it, he's eye candy for the all the ladies but come on). The new weapons do look cool though. They fucked up with the marketing for that first trailer, the director himself has admitted it. I think they were trying to draw in the fans of the old series with it but completely dropped the ball with it. It makes it look like a sequel when it's obviously a reboot.

I'm sorry there is only one MacGyver and that's Richard Dean Anderson. I'll admit though this does look good, I might have to give it a shot.

Meh, I'll probably watch the first episode to see what it's like. Chances are high that I'll skip the rest of the series, I haven't really been liking where they've been taking Star Trek over the last few years (I am not a fan of the reboot). Plus I get all my Star Trek needs from STO.