Anyone else have that MOST HATED AGGRAVATING enemy in Mass Effect multiplayer? For us it’s the damn Combat Engineers. Always setting up F$*^ing turrets during a hack, or dropping a magical “self-setting-up” turret even if you kill them! Well in this comic, we show our “appreciation” towards them.
-Ian
So this is actually somewhat of a true story. Me and Justin were kickin’ it playing some Mass Effect 3 multiplayer when all of the sudden nature called. I did step away, and I did take a dump, but I swear that I totally flushed! But when Justin went to take a leak, he found a wonderful present awaiting him! He came back only to state, “Man that’s some true commitment!” in reference to my haste to get back to help our team! Enjoy!
-Ian
So as you all may have heard, and may have had your own say, Mass Effect 3′s endings (or supposed lack there of) have more than a few fans up in arms – even signing petitions. It’s gone so far now that Bioware co-founder, Dr. Ray Muzyka, posted on his blog that they will be addressing fan concerns in a game development initiative. Essentially and potentially re-writing the endings of Mass Effect 3 to please the upset fans. Have your say, if you haven’t already, in the comments below. We’re in the camp that Bioware’s artist choice on ending(s) was perfectly fine and withing their rights to end as they saw fit. The ending definitely did what Casey Hudson imagined, in that it is something people did and are talking about now after the fact. Regardless of your side, hopefully you can find some humor in Mass Effect 3: Alt Ending.
-Ian
Yesterday I recieved an awesome email that I had been selected to join the Battlefield 3 Alpha on PC. I only play Battlefield on Xbox 360, but hey I’m not gonna throw away my chance to test out my most anticipated multiplayer game of 2011! Sooooo I gave it a shot, it was a fairly quick download via Origin (EA’s answer to Steam) but my desktop PC is running Windows Vista (I know, UGGGHH!) so when I tried to install BF3Aplha I was running into all sorts of errors. Mainly because of Vista’s horrible “Are you sure you want to allow this?” which constantly caused the install to crash, and after about 10 – 15 attempts, it finally installed correctly. But now it was installed and I was excited to start it up. All I had to do was click the “Play Game” button. My excitement was suddenly shattered… launching the game opened up my brower to BF3′s Battlelog Site - the Battlfield Facebook. This page is basically your main game hub. It’s where you find your friends, check your stats, and launch/join a game. It also requires an add-in, another download, that you need before you can click the “Launch/Join Game” button. It took some effort to get that installed right, I accidentally cancelled the download, and then I couldn’t access the download link anymore so I had to clear my broswer history, cookies, and cache. But finally I got THAT installed.  So now I was able to click the button “Launch/Join Game” Below is a dramatization of what happened next:
 Wooo, ok here we go, awesome, yes!Â
*Click*
*Loud Windows Error Sound* accompanied by “Your video drivers are out of date you need version 2.75″
Whaaaaaat?! I just updated my friggin’ drivers a week ago!
*proceeds to check the Nvidia drivers page – which informs that drivers are up to date, version 2.33″
Son of a! My video card sucks balls! It’s most updated driver is still below the requirement! ARG! Well, that was a fun 2.5 hours of my life. Gone.
So the only thing I can offer you is my thoughts on the Origin service. It’s annoying. I don’t like that I launch the game and then need to… LAUNCH THE GAME. No, I have to log into a website that launches the game. I’m sure it’s to battle piracy, which is fine, but there has to be a cleaner, faster, smoother way of doing it. The majority of the time I spent trying to get this game to run last night was waiting for my PC stop freezing. I’ll admit that I don’t have the fastest PC, but honestly, if a web page is causing my PC to hang, that’s just ridiculous. Logging into a website shouldn’t demand 80% of my system’s resources! To be fair, I haven’t played a PC game since Star Wars Galaxies so I’ve been away from the pains and struggles of PC Gaming for awhile. And as much as I would LOVE to upgrade my system, I just don’t think it’s going to happen. At least not until Star Wars: The Old Republic. I’m sure Amber will be happy when our PC is upgraded because then SIMs 3 will stop crashing on her. That has to be annoying, and I always feel bad for her when she puts in a good amount of time building something and then POOF! Gone. To me Origin feels like EA was looking at Steam and saying “We need one of those” and throwing together what they can. I have no prior experience with Origin, nor do I know how long it’s been around, but I’m not a fan so far. Get it together EA.
Joe invited us back to the New Gamer Nation podast and as usual it was a lot of fun. We chat about games, of course, but what we’re playing, ads in video games, steam, Windows 8, MMOs, “Oh my!” Lots of good conversations so check it out! Episode 8 – MMO Mania.
-Ian
So Duke Nukem Forever got a lot of bad press. Lots of people expecting it to be the best thing since Sliced Bread 2: Revenge of the Jelly, when it totally wasn’t. A game that’s been in development for 12 years?! Really? You were really expecting some masterpiece? Duke Nukem 3D was never like that, the thing that was so awesome about DN3D was that you could interact with pretty much everything. Strippers that showed you their… tassles, pissin’ in the urinal, kickn’ ass and chewing bubble gum were just some of the things that made DN3D great, not the amazing story, gameplay, or technical triumph. And I would have to say that Duke Nukem Forever does the same exact thing. It’s an entertaining game. A lot of reviews I read seemed to be very highbrow, as if Duke’s humor was below them. Get over it! I’m not trying to say that it was such an amazing gaming experience, nope, just saying that if you took it for what it was, it was pretty entertaining. Maybe that nostalgia has worn off, if so, I’m sorry you grew up. But me, I’ll take that immature humor anytime!
-Ian
