http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUYQAZEzyWg

even though it is HoN this is kinda the best.

good to know how highly your own character

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a0/Necrid01.png

This guy from Soul Calibur 2.

I was 14 and thought adding Dark to his name would make my alias edgy and badass.

It's not a sequel, it's a spiritual successor made by pretty much the same people using the Tides of Numera universe and the same design goals Torment stood by.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inxile/torment-tides-of-numenera

No, if you didn't like the beta a month ago, you won't like it now. TBH I don't even think it's that great, I just like the Foundry mostly.

My 2c:

The only thing similar is the combat sorta - in that it's more ARPG-ish, but tbh Neverwinter probably has the best feeling combat out of any MMO. Everything just feels meaty and like it's actually impacting people. Plus it's a lot more active than GW2 as far as using your skills goes, but it's less mobile (since attacking/using skills roots you like normal MMOs), plus there's slightly more aiming involved compared to GW2. So similar, but kinda different feels still.

Otherwise it's very much normal MMO as far as the structure goes - have to PvE to PvP, no World PvP, typical zone quest structure, no dynamic events or w/e just some timed special events. The Cash Shop is pretty awful and there's a lot of things in it that should not be in it (like ability point respecs), it's borderline pay to win almost or at least way too cash grabby.

However, it's not very grindy as far as levels goes, and the Foundry is a really neat idea from CoH + STO refined into a game where it just makes a ridiculous amount of sense. Being able to have players make their own stories/quests/dungeons/etc and have other players do them as leveling content is just awesome in a game based off of Dungeons & Dragons.

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Calm down.

lol wtf, really?

It really doesn't, I mean yeah sure, it helps of course but DotA was a much bigger thing than TF2 prior to Valve doing anything with it. DotA 2 would still thrive extremely hard if Valve abandoned it out of the blue once they released it to everyone, as the entire competitive scene existed without them completely for so many years in DotA 1.

You also got something like League of Legends, where the developer has simply done too much. The instant Riot Games backs out of that games competitive scene, it will die pretty much as everything revolves around them.

Not only is this an incredibly lame thing to post about, but you forgot to remove the girl's username in part of your post.

A clean SteamPipe TF2 installation with nothing saved over is slightly more than 6 GB, afaik.

Lawena is gonna need an update, AFAIK it flat out doesn't work with the SteamPipe converted TF2 yet.

I don't think the people who used Open Plugin are your average TF2 user though.

It'd probably work better if they uncapped it but also added those specific settings as choices in the Video options menu, probably with a warning if you set it higher than the current maximum that way they're more covered if anything happens on people's awful PCs.

- Added "Only allow map files" to the possible selections in the download filter option for clients *

This is honestly one of the best changes Valve has made in some time.

Servers can not serve VPK content to clients. The VPK structure only exists for Valve content.

Doubt it, mat_picmip used to be uncapped, Valve added the cap 3-4 years ago because the cvar (according to Valve) caused "significant performance and instability issues" and they were having to help support people using it who were having the game crash non-stop cause of it and what not.

Rise of the Triad probably won't be a great competitive e-sports title, because it was never a very serious game in the first place, but I think the thing here is is it's a PC only old school arena shooter with dedicated servers & full mod support and if the title does well that could send a message to other companies to make more titles like this which could be great competitive games.

If it's half as good as the original it should be an amazing fuck around game tho.

It's nothing like Call of Duty at all, ROTT is/was a game that blends psuedo-realistic environments with more parody/humor stuff stuff outside of the look. I mean, there's a power up that turns you into a dog and you kill people by biting their nuts off.

It's cool to note that the original Rise of the Triad was the first FPS to have the ability to aim up and down with your mouse.

I remember some people on PLDX kinda arguing if this other guy was a cheater or not: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXQdtA9yyog. Apparently this was the top Japanese TF2 team but everyone they are playing against seems so bad I could never really tell if he was cheating or not lol. Some of the movement he does is really crazy though. (also the Sniper spree at the end is kinda cool)

I think it's funny that even though they play customs like Gullywash and Snakewater, that Korean comp. TF2 still plays Well haha.