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Now playing Fire Emblem: Awakening with permdeath on... I hate you guys. >:(

Monster Hunter 3U on 3DS... not sure what I'm doing half the time, but lots of fun! :D

*Ahem* Monster Hunter's out. :)

I think you just described Dead Space 3 OP.

Thanks for the tips guys, I got the 3DS XL today and was lucky enought to find Fire Emblem restocked. Played with it for bit, still need some getting used to. :)

I'm not really a Poekemon type of person, and that's the only reason the PS Vita never really peaked my interest... too pricey. So no 3DS fan/user here?

I reaching that point in life where I can't sit for long stretches of time and just play on my PC, but have tons of free time outside of the house. I'm thinking of picking up a 3DS... buuuuut, I'm not sure what games I'm going to get out of it. Of course there's Monster Hunter coming out next month, but what else? Help me choose a game to start with: Ocarina of Time- never played a Zelda game before. :P Fire Emblem- havent touched a JRPG in a decade lol. Looks interesting though. Harvest Moon-not sure what to expect here. Or just buy Civ5/Total War/Sim City and suck it up?

I heard somewhere that the teasers were more like proof of concept. They wan't to build an open world story driven RPG, something their devs have no experience in (open world). They want to hire more people with experience making these kind of games; programmers, modelers, world builders, artists, etc. Long story short, don't expect it to release soon. And here's the page. CDP RED Job Listing

Actually Warriors are a bit overpowered in the game... very high damage and health, high criticals and defense. It's kind of tough to explain how the game mechanics work, there is no Holy Trinity so a full on max defense/health tank warrior build is not advisable IMO. I'm not saying that's no good, but it will require a lot of skill/time (think Devil May Cry Dante fighting bosses). Same with glass cannons. Also you don't need a party to get the benefits from being in one, a lot of support skills are area of effect and some of them gives the player a boost in either damage, defense or healing, typical stuff I presume,but the if you apply it to other people (either in a party or strangers in the vicinity) the greater the effects. In this game players are rewarded for helping each other with buffs, experience, and gold. As for level 50 mobs killing max level players, it happens... a lot. The thing is the game down levels you depending on the map and area you are in, for example, your a lvl 80 Guardian entering a level 1 zone. You will be downleveled to 3 including your stats... BUT your level 80 exotic gear won't be dwnlvld, so you still get better stats than any player that's actually lvl 1 or lvl 3. Level 50-70 maps has a very thin population, except for maps with Dungeons in them. The biggest reasons are; people powerlevel inside said dungeons to 80, power level by crafting in Cities, and level 80's doing Fractals of the Mists to get their ascended pieces. The developers are trying redistribute better loot in non-dungeon areas and improve achievement rewards, etc. to repopulate this PvE mid level maps.

If you're interested in coming back, Fire and Ice: Prelude is up. It's a 1.1G update with a lot of changes to everything from PVE, PVP, classes and dungeons and they reduced the number of undead in Orr (yay!). I got lucky and got into Sea of Sorrows early, joined LEM 'Lumeria', a mostly US based guild and most of the members are nice and very helpful. Here's some tips to enjoying the game better: a) Don't power level- If it's you're 1st character, try to explore every inch of the map (like what you would do in ES or Fallout 3/NV) b) Try to find a group- like what Vin said, you can solo majority of the world. But there are areas and events better suited for parties of 2 or more. Also something I recently learned, in dynamic events where there's almost an infinite amount of mobs coming at you, in a party you will get insane amounts of loot compared to soloing in a zerg. c) Don't let the negative stuff get to you- or don't visit the official forums (very depressing to read complaints from a tiny but very loud part of the community). Sure you'll get 50/50 good and bad experience with groups, I've seen and heard profanities, racism and all around douchebaggery in chat and team speak ("This is why I don't like asians..." is not easy to absorb and ignore). And yes, I have been guilty of being an A-Hole in multiplayer games in the past. The trick is to learn from it and not let crap others do and say dictate how you should enjoy the game, but do it in a respective manner. d) rest- you will get burned out at one point so drop it, the game has no subscriptions. You can come back months later if you like.

holy crap youve already played GW3!!! lol jk unfortunately i cant be of any help to you. i only had my card for a day, and i dont play Skyrim. plus i was using 12.11 beta drivers. however, it sounds like a Skyrim issue as its less graphically insensive then both FarCry 3 and Metro 2033 (despite popular belief, Skyrim isnt all the graphically intensive compared to some other games) do you have any mods for Skyrim? it could be some sort of conflicting graphics mod? but im only speculating. like i said, i dont play the Game so idk. lol Ok, ok Guild Wars 2. Did some researching and I might have to rollback on the GPU driver. Weird that it only happens in Skyrim 3.

Quick question about AMD 7000 series... So i got a 7850, Skyrim is all flickery with 12.10 drivers, and it only happens in in that game (recently played Farcry3, Guild Wars 3 and Metro w/o flickering). What Driver version would you guys recommend?

How about these things? Turtle Beach Gaming Headphones

Lol 450 views and 17 replies. Anyway, I'm gonna pick up my choices soon and if any of the lurkers are interested it's in Manila, the store is PC Hub. They have a wider range of choices than PC Express and PC Gilmore... cheaper too.

Based on the tidbits I've read, there is very little performance difference right now with PCI-E 2 & 3. You can even use a GPU 3.0 on a 2.0 mobo (or some of 0.1 I've heard, personally never tried it).