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I didn't realize that the xbl support forums were a youtube thing. I stumbled on it years ago during the heyday of the 360 era when I have my 3rd or 4th RROD that I had to send into Microsoft for the first time as my Best Buy warranty had run out (I'm currently at #8 360 lol). Once I found that gold mine of lulz, I would occasionally come back and catch up for a few years. I don't know if they're still around and didn't know that stuff had also made it onto youtube.

I'm surprised they were able to record that during the original Battlefront II days as support for that on xbox live (even backward compatible on 360) ended around a decade ago. That's some early youtubing with a capture card! Sounds like a real life Cartman (MOM! Moar hot pockets! pffftttt....). For anyone who gets that old reference.

 warboss wrote:
Once I found that gold mine of lulz, I would occasionally come back and catch up for a few years. I don't know if they're still around

Sounds like you went there for the same reason I go to Wikipedia' administration notice boards XD

I'm surprised they were able to record that during the original Battlefront II days as support for that on xbox live (even backward compatible on 360) ended around a decade ago.

I first saw it back on X-Play if you remember that. Back when G4 still existed and was actually about video games instead of constant reruns of TNG and cops. The original video I don't think was even captured gameplay. It was someone with a camera recording the TV with the sound all the way up (you could see the camera shake). It was on Youtube for a few years after that but now I can't find it anymore.

Back in the old days when the only people who seemed to be able to get in game voice to work were the the awful ones.

Sounds like a real life Cartman (MOM! Moar hot pockets! pffftttt....). For anyone who gets that old reference.

We're not that old... are we

I'm definitely feeling old and was a big fan of G4 watching many of their shows at the time. AOTS, Xplay, etc... You forgot the endless reruns of American Ninja Warrior that also later infested the channel.

I remember the Whip Set being a moment where I recognized something had died.

 LordofHats wrote:
Streamers have basically ruined Destiny 2

They also get in the way of good changes to Warframe. Paying attention to "elite" players instead of the common player is a very common problem in gaming.

 Melissia wrote:

 LordofHats wrote:
Streamers have basically ruined Destiny 2

They also get in the way of good changes to Warframe. Paying attention to "elite" players instead of the common player is a very common problem in gaming.

I don't feel like it's a common problem in gaming, but it is a common problem in the AAA industry as it bumbles around trying to figure out how this live service thing is supposed to work. Maybe if we're lucky the whole issue was really just Activision trying to force Bungie down a certain path. It's really fuzzy right now exactly how deep the rift between the two companies was and exactly how much it had already effected gameplay by the time Bungie decided to call it off. I'd like to think Bungie won't Bioware itself, but after all the Biowares that have managed to Bioware over the years I find myself skeptical.

And apparently I'm not using Bioware as an adjective and a verb. Huh.

I also think the permaban was a bit much. If you don't want people using exploits, why not just fix them instead of creating a bunch of ill-will?

Using Fortnite Save the World for an example, there's been lots of exploits that popped up in the past that made finishing even the toughest missions super easy, no one got banned over them, the devs just fixed it in the next weekly release and everyone moved on with their lives.

In these kinds of games, people will always find the path of least resistance. They shouldn't be punished for your buggy code.

That said, I'm still loving Anthem either way I managed to get my faction xp all the way up to level 10 last week.. it said Max Level, but I was still getting XP and made it to around 10.5... is there a level 11? Or does the amount just stop?

I'm honestly contemplating getting the game (after a price drop) just to see it, though by then it might not resemble the game everyone's playing right now XD

Unfortunately sating my curiosity isn't worth $60 on a game from a company I refuse to buy full price from (that's right EA< you screwed me on ME3 and I'm still holding a grudge!).

ME3 is the one you're salty about? At least complain about a game with real problems, like Andromeda's borderline unplayable PC release

 Melissia wrote:
ME3 is the one you're salty about? At least complain about a game with real problems, like Andromeda's borderline unplayable PC release

My issue is rather specific (I've mentioned it a few times). Sure the ending sucked but the online coop carried that game for me and I loved it. Until one day the game just stopped starting up. Origin would start "syncing to cloud" and whatever that process is never ended. Restarts. Full reinstalls. Even switching to a new computer entirely two years ago and looking just to see didn't fix it. I'd probably have let it go, but customer support hung up on me (twice) mid chat, and then blew me off on my third attempt to figure out why I couldn't start the game.

I haven't paid full price for an EA game since 2013 as a result.

feth um

My face is tired of Mass Effect!

Personally I think Anthem is worth the $60 considering (I think) all the new stuff they will be adding is supposed to be free.

It's the principal of the matter at this point, and pride that I've held out for... 6 years now?

Fair enough. I still don't pay full cash for multiplayer shooter games like call of duty, whenever I even bother to get them.

 Necros wrote:
My face is tired of Mass Effect!

Personally I think Anthem is worth the $60 considering (I think) all the new stuff they will be adding is supposed to be free.

I suspect that content deserves a big question mark. Yes, they've talked about their 10 year plan for the game but Mass Effect Andromeda also had plans for both multiplayer and single player DLC support (albeit not 10 years) until the day it was announced that they weren't coming beyond a few MP characters. That 10 year plan is just bluster (beyond what they've already shown off in streams months ago and cut out of the base game prior to launch) until the sales numbers are in and EA sees how close they are to their 5-6 million sales expectation at the end of March. I have little doubt that EA will cut their losses if the number of sales (and remaining players by that point) doesn't justify the expense of adding more content. I doubt they're shutter Bioware prime though...

So I'm glad I waited, apparently the game has caused some users to have their ps4's Bricked?

https://www.pcmag.com/news/366941/anthem-is-bricking-some-ps4-consoles

I hope this can be remedied quickly!

Highly questionable and largely debunked story based on updates made to the narratives over the course of the day. Crashes and power offs yes, bricks no.

Debunked isn't the right word. I heard about the bricking thing too but Iooked around and someone already found a fix for the issue (apparently unplugging the PS4 to do a full reset resolves it). It's similar in effect to the memory leak issue Skyrim had, also on Playstations, so I'd bet there's a memory leak in the game somewhere.

It'll probably get fixed fast whatever it is. That's not the kind of glitch that gets ignored.

Sterling191 wrote:
Highly questionable and largely debunked story based on updates made to the narratives over the course of the day. Crashes and power offs yes, bricks no.

Okay! Thank God.

I was going to say, bricking your system sucks, and I'd hate to see a game be the culprit for something like that.

I'm not one to nerd rage. I just generally don't care about whatever controversy is tearing the internet apart this week.

That said, when it comes to the end of ME3, I neither forgive nor forget.

I thoroughly enjoyed the end of ME3. But then again I'm also the kind of person that looked at the apparently massively popular story of CoD: Modern Warfare series and thought it wasn't impressive at all. And ths isn't an ME3 thread anyway.

As far as Anthem's story goes, I'm enjoying it. It's more about the journey than the end here, similar to most games of its kind, but I think they did good to set up character arcs and the personalities of various factions within the central town.

 Melissia wrote:
I thoroughly enjoyed the end of ME3. But then again I'm also the kind of person that looked at the apparently massively popular story of CoD: Modern Warfare series and thought it wasn't impressive at all.

I think it worked (the later that is) mostly because of how it played out. Especially among shooters at the time, here weren't many games that had the sort of cinematic flair both in and out of cut scenes like the early Call of Duty titles. It always felt like being in an action movie (helped that entire levels were built to imitate popular films). Shooters that aren't also RPGs just don't make campaigns like that anymore. Other than the Halo franchise they don't even try. EDIT: It was like a well made popcorn flick. The whole experience just streamed together so well and so fluidly you got to sit back and just play the game and then it was over and you were sad cause you were having fun XD

Oh, boy... I was into the weird mission where I had to get the old Javelin suit of some general. The mission crashed in the end and after I managed to get the game back in, the mission was over. I dunno what happened (storywise)... Apparently I didn't get the old suit and the boy that was running the matrix support for me is gone and I'm mad at him or something... sigh.

Anyway, the story continued from that point, so whatever. I don't need the suit anymore or something.

Bought a skull tat for my suit with the money I earned from the mission, so all is good?

Still liking on playing the Iron Patriot, though.

So Owen basically

guessing he'll be popping in and out of later parts of the story as they add new stuff. In the end he'll probably sacrifice himself in some spectacular fashion to save the whole universe or something.

 Necros wrote:


guessing he'll be popping in and out of later parts of the story as they add new stuff. In the end he'll probably sacrifice himself in some spectacular fashion to save the whole universe or something.

He's gonna have a role to play in the story for sure. The end of the Heart of Rage story tees up the ongoing world narrative, and I expect him to pop in for that.

I still want an option to punch him though. Cause feth that guy.

 Melissia wrote:
I thoroughly enjoyed the end of ME3. But then again I'm also the kind of person that looked at the apparently massively popular story of CoD: Modern Warfare series and thought it wasn't impressive at all. And ths isn't an ME3 thread anyway.

I thoroughly enjoyed absolutely everything about ME3, including the end right up to the Star Child. I don't even hate that it ends on a sacrifice, or with a massive deus ex machina button or the color coding or any of that. I hate that the story gives up on all of the themes of the franchise and gives you 3 ways to wipe out everything different from you. Apply those 3 choices to any of the obvious parallels in the real world; race, gender, etc. Destruction, Subjugation, Homogenization. They're all terrible solutions to the thematic problems that drive the core of the conflict.

Some people have found a bug where the level 1 gun that you get as the standard weapon for your javelin is more powerful than any of the masterworks.

Despite the gun showing less damage numbers per shot, it actually kills the enemies in less shots than masterwork gear, due to some glitch in the enemy scaling.

Here's the Reddit thread on the bug.

 LordofHats wrote:
It's the principal of the matter at this point, and pride that I've held out for... 6 years now?

EA ruined Ultima Online and I have refused to buy anything from them full price ever since.

Fight the power, feth EA!

I'm getting kinda tired of Zoe asking me where Gunther got his scar. I hope she doesn't start saying that she used to be a freelancer till she took an arrow to the knee.

Had something odd happen last night. Three missions in a row - that I initiated - all had only myself and one other random player. After the second mission with only two of us, I started a Quick mission and ended up in a full group of four. But after finishing that, I launched a final (non-quick) mission for the evening, and that mission once again only had myself and one other player.

Fortunately, none of the missions had particularly difficult opponents. But it was very strange.

I've had that happen as well. When I do Strongholds or Freeplay, I never am at a lack of players, though, which is good as Strongholds I can't solo in a fun way.