Recent content by Skyy High

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    Escapist News Now: Sony Can Monitor All PSN Activity

    This is what I thought. I can't believe this is a controversy, I thought it would be obvious that if you're doing anything over the PSN that they're recording it.
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    Why Exactly Do We Care About Star Wars?

    Counterpoint: The Avengers. Disney knows it's sitting on a goldmine here.
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    Zero Punctuation: Guild Wars 2

    It is absolutely still true. You don't need mass communication in order to do standard PvE content, but then again, in other MMOs you didn't need communication to do that stuff either, AND you were incentivized by the game's mechanics to not even bother trying to group. GW2 at least gives...
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    Sony Announces Redesigned PlayStation 3

    Mine just died. =( Not sure if it's worth repairing or if I should "upgrade", but I'm going to miss the backwards compatibility (which I doubt it'd keep if I sent it in to Sony).
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    The Old Republic Begins "High Population Server" Testing

    That's....that's what this is, right? Server merges, with a nice coat of PR on top?
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    Art of Cooking in Guild Wars 2

    Jewelery is a spectacularly easy craft to level. Do not grind out recipes; every piece of jewelery you make should be unique, because discovery XP is so much better than just crafting XP. It's also a spectacularly rewarding craft to level, because accessory drops are exceedingly rare, and the...
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    The Escapist Presents: Guild Wars 2 Video Head Start

    Also, generally speaking, if the escortee dies you have a window of time where you can res them.
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    The Escapist Presents: Guild Wars 2 Video Head Start

    While you can't play a "pure" support build capable of keeping another player alive indefinitely on your own (like a healer in most other MMOs), you can build your character to overwhelmingly be about support. Engineers, guardians, and elementalists are probably the most support-oriented...
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    Court Declares Oslo "Game Addict" Killer Breivik Sane

    "Sane" is not the same as "logical, rational, and justifiable". Saying that he was "sane" just means that the court doesn't think that there he has a *medical* condition that caused his actions. In other words: he's crazy in the colloquial sense, not in the medical sense, and as such he's fully...
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    Nostalgia

    I don't understand why people think it's soooooo hard. Stop moving while you're shooting, stop holding the trigger down, stop running around the map like Rambo. The guns "shoot silly string"? C'mon, you know that's not true, because whenever you go up against someone who knows how to aim you die...
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    Poll: So, Guild Wars 2 will soon be upon us.

    You need to explore more. You absolutely should not be stuck repeating any event, at any level. I certainly never had to.
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    Lollipop Chainsaw Review

    Was almost positive that I was going to pass on this one, then I heard the little "You speak Japanese!" dialog at the end of the video. Hi-larious. Sounds rent-worthy at least. No f-ing way that's worth $60 though.
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    Judge Recommends Banning Xbox Imports to the US

    Because Motorola was TOTALLY going to make a game console, right? Technology IPs are almost universally stupid. Check out the web of patent disputes surrounding smartphones right now: http://virulentwordofmouse.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/smartphonepatentticket.jpg If anyone followed patent...
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    Blizzard Says Diablo 3 Hacking Isn't Unusual - UPDATED

    You know how you avoid this? By not making a single player game into a forced always-on multiplayer game. People who have no intention of ever playing D3 online are now vulnerable to account hackings. My Oblivion saves were never in danger of being hacked... No, it wouldn't "solve the issue"...
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    Guild Wars 2 Preview

    There was a stress test going on yesterday for everyone who pre-purchased the game. It's over now though. As for it being the same or better than GW1, it really depends on what you liked (or disliked) about the original, and what you expect going into the sequel. @Xiado: yes, those are guns...