Orv

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  1. Hawken, or: Fuck Me, Mech Games Are BACK!

    More specifically it's not a Big Stompy Robot game. It's very much a fast FPS with mech trappings, which I think makes it disingenuous to call it a mech game.
  2. Hawken, or: Fuck Me, Mech Games Are BACK!

    Just so we're clear, Hawken isn't a mech game. It's Quake that happens to take place in rather sizeable robots.
  3. Now you're just being racist. (Is joke!)
  4. Movie/TV recommendations

    They're making Red Dawn with Channing Tatum and without Russians, why not murder everything else great about cinema of the period?
  5. Mass Effect 2

    You need two surviving crewmembers to pull you onboard the escaping Normandy. If you have just one it's all tears in the rain.
  6. Mass Effect 2

    Hey, welcome to the hidden feature of the endgame of Mass Effect 2! Slight spoilers will follow, however if you don't want everyone you've come to love over the past 15-25 hours to die, listen up! *Bing Bong* Right, so. You need a total of 45K Palladium for no-one to die on the run-up to the final mission. You need to buy Multicore Shielding, Heavy Ship Armor and the Thanix Cannon. When you hit the mission itself, you have three breakpoints where you get to make several "Who gets to die today" choices at each point. Since you mentioned everyone is loyal I'll just give you who you can choose for each point. Choice 1; Infiltration Technician: Tali, Legion, Kasumi Fireteam Lead: Garrus, Jacob, Miranda Choice 2; The Long Walk Biotic Specialist: Samara (or Morinth, depending on your choices obv.) or Jack Fireteam Lead: Garrus, Jacob, Miranda Escort: Mordin (This is the only thing you should choose Mordin for.) Heeere's the kicker. For the final boss fight, you get to choose who holds the line. There's a behind the scenes tabulation of their total "Defensive Rating" from among who you pick to go with you and who stays. So you need to pick good fighters, not good biotics or good techs. Which means you have to cull your choices in stage one and two so no-one dies behind you, and you have a team who can fight the boss. I'd recommend this final choice lineup. (Depending on DLC availability) Tech: Tali/Kasumi Fireteam 1: Miranda Biotic: Jack Fireteam 2: Jacob Escort: Mordin Final Boss Team: Tali/Kasumi, Garrus/Samara
  7. Mass Effect 2

    While the side quests aren't necessary, a fuckton of planet scanning is if you want all your people to survive the endgame.
  8. First PC in 9 years; what should I play?

    It's still running on the core framework of Empire, which is dull as paint musketoon battles. Obviously TETI, but gah. I guess the campaign driven nature of Napoleon could to. As for specs for Rome 2/Shogun 2, I kind of doubt that there won't be a pretty major jump for Rome 2. If nothing else it'll take twelve hours to load the main menu.
  9. First PC in 9 years; what should I play?

    Even as much as I love the original Shogun, Rome is hands down the best game in the series and Rome 2 looks like it's going to be incredible. Like where did those last 18 hours go, incredible.
  10. First PC in 9 years; what should I play?

    While I'd normally agree, dollars to donuts his Book can't run Rome 2. Also an entire six months!
  11. First PC in 9 years; what should I play?

    Napoleon is a terrible recommendation to start the Total War series with. Rome is the right answer.
  12. Curiosity – What's Inside the Cube?

    The mustard was actually century old glue.
  13. Unnecessary Comical Picture Thread

    Not shopped.
  14. I feel it's not hyperbole when I say that you would share the same circle of hell as Pavlov if you did that to XCOM.
  15. First PC in 9 years; what should I play?

    On sale, at this very moment! 5.99 and your soul. http://www.gog.com/e...evils_playhouse
  16. Thirty Flights of Loving

    Hell is a combo art installation and science museum, good to know.
  17. I will give you money if you allow me to play with your bits. Deal or no deal.
  18. DOTA 2

    It varies. Usually if I'm civil and chipper people start using their mics if they have them, or typing back. On other occasions I get yelled at in monosyllabic not-quite-English. It's a crapshoot, but it's worth it for that one game where everyone is nice and relaxed, just chatting away win or lose.
  19. I do enjoy some Rachel Maddow. Less of a fan of the comments on that video.
  20. Unnecessary Comical Picture Thread

    That is pretty darn great.
  21. Unnecessary Comical Picture Thread

    What the everloving hell? (Your link last page is broke, BRKL.)
  22. Life

    That's way too many words for an angry woman none of us find particularly funny, or edifying. Sorry we don't get it.
  23. Curiosity – What's Inside the Cube?

    The only way this is successful (for me) is if the secret is taken to the winners grave. E: Alternate option; Skynet.
  24. They're both MadTV old guard, when it was at least humorous on occasion. Done a ton of stuff before that as well.
  25. I still can't decide if I like Key and Peele, but I'm pretty sure I love it.