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So , I wanna get on some SC : BLACKLISTT action , yet Uplay keep trying to redownload 2 gb worth of patching each and every play session . I almost feel privileged to have ubi-launcher installed on my machine, thanks ubisoft ! Also, the game wont let me use resolution higher then 1080p and even that after a long cutscene and introduction level playing on a small screen before giving me any chance to even check game setting . I love me some splinter cell, but this is just too much bullshit to deal with .
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Which Splinter Cell would be good/representative/enjoyable for someone who's never played the series?
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Oct 9, 2014 22:08
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Pierzak posted:Which Splinter Cell would be good/representative/enjoyable for someone who's never played the series? chaos theory
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Oct 9, 2014 22:09
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Pierzak posted:Which Splinter Cell would be good/representative/enjoyable for someone who's never played the series? Chaos Theory if you want to see where it came from and play a good, challenging stealth game. If you want sweet modern graphics and a more dynamic game, Blacklist. Never play Double Agent unless you can get the original Xbox version which is mechanically a sequel to Chaos Theory.
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Oct 9, 2014 22:12
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Acquire Currency! posted:Can't believe that joke got made twice. You mean made Once?
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Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:What should the name of the new Windows be? It wouldn't be right to call it Windows 9. Windows One? But unfortunately, Windows 1 has been done. That new Windows is Windows 10. …where they never actually explained why 9 wouldn't be right..  At least OS X made some sense since it took over after the (mercifully) short-lived System 9.
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Re: FFXIII http://pastebin.com/cvadiWCq
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Windows 1: Zero is a prequel to the hit OS, Windows 1.
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Unifying the topics of conversation: Don't some of the FF games after X have a female lead? Like X-2 and one other?
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Oct 9, 2014 22:20
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Darkrenown posted:Unifying the topics of conversation: Don't some of the FF games after X have a female lead? Like X-2 and one other? Final Fantasy 6 has a female lead too.
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Oct 9, 2014 22:26
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I guess in German, Windows 9 would be 'Windows, No!' Budgie's Oni had a female character. Can't remember if it was sexist in any way. She looks like a Westerner doing a sexualised Anime girl, so...probably. Urban Chaos had a black female protagonist. Again, can't remember anything other than that.
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Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:That new Windows is Windows 10. A windows for the common man, a windows that you could be proud to call home. A windows that stand beside you in the storm, beating back a tide of other, less superior operating systems. A windows YOU deserve. Darkrenown posted:Unifying the topics of conversation: Don't some of the FF games after X have a female lead? Like X-2 and one other? X-2 technically had dance battles to gain new outfits, and might not be the angle that they're looking for. Lightning, a lady of the female persuasion, is the protagonist and moody bird of XIII and XIII-2. Hav fucked around with this message at 22:32 on Oct 9, 2014 |
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Darkrenown posted:Unifying the topics of conversation: Don't some of the FF games after X have a female lead? Like X-2 and one other? FFXIII, XIII-2, and Lightning Returns all star female leads. I personally thought Lightning was a bit of a boring protagonist, but there you go. Also most of the main city leaders in FFXIV are women, and one of them is a former pirate who wields a pair of muskets called Death Penalty and Annihilator.
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Oct 9, 2014 22:30
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Drunk Tomato posted:Final Fantasy 6 has a female lead too.
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Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:What should the name of the new Windows be? It wouldn't be right to call it Windows 9. Windows One? But unfortunately, Windows 1 has been done. That new Windows is Windows 10. Windows 2015. If anyone's still writing code that keys to Windows 20* because of Windows 2000 sever their Visual Studio licenses. It ain't gonna make the Store any better but you can pretty much just say that's why and placebo your way to looking slightly less garbage in the wasteland that is app stores today.
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Lethemonster posted:I'm trying to find ~10 or so games that have female main characters that don't aren't sexist. Best I've got so far are Tomb Raider (2013) and Mirror's Edge but I'm trying to find some with more writing in than Mirror's Edge. Maybe the new Alien: Isolation by the sounds of it. Dragon Age 2's femHawke is a total badass and I'm pretty sure Tezzeract fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Oct 9, 2014 |
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Oct 9, 2014 22:32
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Lethemonster posted:I had completely forgotten about Portal 1 + 2. GlaDOS was amazing. No can do on metroid - I need games with more talky and her most plot/scripted game was awful. I'm doing some spec pieces for game stories featuring female leads so looking for ones with active characterization in rather than just 'avatar is female'. Basically doing research on currently exists across the medium right now. Definitely Trails in the Sky. Beyond Good and Evil probably also qualifies. Have The Longest Journey or Dreamfall been mentioned?
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Tippis posted:…where they never actually explained why 9 wouldn't be right.. I can only assume it's because of Windows 95. It would be too similar of a title. Sure, It may seem stupid but I bet they ran into something like this in focus groups.
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A Pre-Alpha fix for FFXIII's resolution issues has been released.Eruonen posted:Re: FFXIII This is just stretching the 720p image. The new fix actually changes the rendering resolution.
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Oct 9, 2014 23:05
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Baish posted:I can only assume it's because of Windows 95. It would be too similar of a title. Sure, It may seem stupid but I bet they ran into something like this in focus groups. Probably. I rather like the “Windows? NEIN!!” explanation above, but as an answer to why it “wouldn't be right”, it has to be something like that. Of course, it's actually Windows NT 6.4, if I recall correctly, but I'm guessing that “Vista Mk IV” is right out from a marketing perspective. 
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Lethemonster posted:I'm trying to find ~10 or so games that have female main characters that don't aren't sexist. Best I've got so far are Tomb Raider (2013) and Mirror's Edge but I'm trying to find some with more writing in than Mirror's Edge. Maybe the new Alien: Isolation by the sounds of it. Hey, if you're still looking I don't think anyones mentioned The Cat Lady yet. Also the Alice games, I've only played Alice: Madness Returns but maybe because she's a literary character first she's not as useful for your research.
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I'd say KotOR2 has the best female lead, female support, and female villain in gaming by far. Just don't talk about what Bioware did when they got their hands on the character.
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I AM BRAWW posted:Dota 2 Dota 2 actually has some pretty cool female characters in it. Legion Commander is my favorite hero.
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Rookersh posted:I'd say KotOR2 has the best female lead, female support, and female villain in gaming by far. Just don't talk about what Bioware did when they got their hands on the character. Female support? Mira? Or you mean Handmaiden? Kreia was fantastic, but the protagonist doesn't really have a personality. It's like saying Gordon Freeman is the best videogame character because he has an iconic crowbar.
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Cool. I have a good enough collection to work through now folks. More suggestions are always good but I'm always worried that after asking anything about decent female characters in media, even just for suggestions, at some point a weird, violent argument sparks off. Gonna sit and play as hundreds of pixel ladies then see if I can get some better writing out there. Thank you, hive mind.
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:Definitely Trails in the Sky. Beyond Good and Evil probably also qualifies. Have The Longest Journey or Dreamfall been mentioned? I mentioned all of those :p
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Junkenstein posted:I guess in German, Windows 9 would be 'Windows, No!' http://lparchive.org/Urban-Chaos/
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Tezzeract posted:Female support? Mira? Or you mean Handmaiden? The Exile has a ton of personality and backstory, developed through interactions with crewmembers, as well as learning about her past. She left the Jedi Order to join the Republic Military before Revan gave his speeches, proved herself again and again to become a General in the Republic Army over the course of 10 full years worth of war ( Unlike Revan and Malak who just left the Order and were suddenly Generals because -Bioware- ), and finally gave the order to detonate a nuclear device in the middle of her own fleet to destroy the advance Mandalorian fleet, a planet full of Mandalorians, and most of her friends/subordinates. Kreia, Bao Dur and Mical knew her before hand, and they help paint what her previous personality was as well. Also what was originally asked was female main characters that aren't sexist. The Exile's personality in game may be dictated by players, but she sure as hell isn't presented as weak/negative female stereotypes until SWTOR, which was mainly Bioware killing her for LucasArts ( they basically confirmed as much on an AMA. ). She did more in her past/over the course of KotOR2 then most female characters have a chance of doing, and has been confirmed canon female multiple times, including prerelease. As for support/villain, I'm thinking the same character for both.
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Rookersh posted:
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Lethemonster posted:More suggestions are always good but I'm always worried that after asking anything about decent female characters in media, even just for suggestions, at some point a weird, violent argument sparks off. LOL Lethemonster posted:I'm doing some spec pieces for game stories featuring female leads so looking for ones with active characterization in rather than just 'avatar is female'. LOL
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iuvian posted:LOL iuvian posted:LOL Are you having a stroke?
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He's easily amused.
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Zombie Samurai posted:Are you having a stroke? Irony being, your post made me 
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Semper Fudge posted:Wait, what? The Exile dies in an assault vs the Sith Emperor after getting betrayed (by Lucasarts who wanted the player character in SWTOR to defeat the Sith Emperor instead.) She then becomes a Jedi ghost and kept Revan sane while the Emperor was torturing him for 300 years. And notifies the Republic of the space prison that Revan is in.
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gently caress, turned on Steam today and all prices are in CDN...now besides having to pay tax all the games are bumped up in price as well...first time seeing a price difference between US and CAN, even buying games at stores throughout the last 10 years prices were never more expensive here. EDIT: Hmm, turns out only some games are re-priced while others remain the same. Still lovely. Haeleus fucked around with this message at 00:19 on Oct 10, 2014 |
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Haeleus posted:gently caress, turned on Steam today and all prices are in CDN...now besides having to pay tax all the games are bumped up in price as well...first time seeing a price difference between US and CAN, even buying games at stores throughout the last 10 years prices were never more expensive here. According to people earlier in this thread only a couple of games (albeit big titles) are more expensive. Some are even cheaper!
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Haeleus posted:gently caress, turned on Steam today and all prices are in CDN...now besides having to pay tax all the games are bumped up in price as well...first time seeing a price difference between US and CAN, even buying games at stores throughout the last 10 years prices were never more expensive here. Tax might be a regional thing if you're seeing it? On checkout at least I'm still seeing no tax being charged for me in British Columbia.
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Tezzeract posted:Dragon Age 2's femHawke is a total badass and I'm pretty sure You and I remember Dragon Age 2 very differently.
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Semper Fudge posted:Wait, what?
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Lethemonster posted:I'm trying to find ~10 or so games that have female main characters that don't aren't sexist. Best I've got so far are Tomb Raider (2013) and Mirror's Edge but I'm trying to find some with more writing in than Mirror's Edge. Maybe the new Alien: Isolation by the sounds of it. I know it's already been suggested, but I'll throw in another recommendation for Trails in the Sky, since the main character of that is probably one of my favourite main characters in any game. Also, all this Alien chat is getting me pretty tempted. Might buy it come the winter sale, price permitting.
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