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  1. frothymug
    Your point about the high performance of the modern engines is very applicable to the reason missiles are more of a distraction. I also think that the numerous countermeasures available to each pilot further reduce their effectiveness. There's always flares or chaff or lasers or gunpods or... Well, you get my point.
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    Looks great!
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    This is a completely valid complaint and I can see this being a major detraction from the overall experience. It's a movie mostly made for the fans, with the hopes that it will also draw interest from new players and get old players to resub to WoW. They should have Star Wars'ed the story and started where it was good... during the WC3 story arc and then did prequels if there was some demand for it. I'll try to go and see it today.
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    THIS immediately came to mind as soon as that Draken drone blocked Messer's shot.
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    XCOM 2 is on sale on Steam this weekend. I've played the heck out XCOM: EU, but for those of you who are in the know, do I miss any story or content by skipping the EW expansion? I understand that it's just a retelling of the same story, but with new units and enemies, right? I think I will get XCOM 2 tomorrow, so I want to make sure I get all of the necessary know-how.
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    Nice! I got the first one (Enemy Unknown) a few months ago and played the hell out of it. Mulling over buying Enemy Within or just moving on to XCOM 2 sometime this summer.
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    My gf was watching Ajin over the weekend. Cool idea, but she quickly gave it up. The animation is kind of stiff; reminds me of Knights of Sidonia... probably the same company. I guess it was a little too dark for her.
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    +1!
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    Started watching Legend of the Galactic Heroes. I can tell this one is gonna be good, even without seeing the high ratings it's gotten.
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    They still keep finding wandering, uncultured Zentradi fleets. If an individual was from a fresh fleet, they would not have had the generations to wash out that genetic marker. JS
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    Yeah, I saw those at Gamestop at the mall the other day. Not exactly what I had in mind. I'd prefer them exactly as they show up in the game.
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    Loved that part. I kept wishing he'd fist-bump some of the others at random, but I understand the specialness of this one. They totally need to make some of those chibi Doomguy models. I'd love to have one sitting on my desk.
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    I thought this was coming out July 4th. How long as it had its current release date?
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    Riding the commuter bus to the university this morning and finally saw a Dreamlifter out on the runway at Paine Field in Everett, WA. I see one parked out near the Future of Flight Museum all the time, as I live right down the road from there. This is the first time I've seen it actually in operation. Sorry, I should have taken a picture...
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    I actually thought this was just some sort of analogy for the viewers to see that the Valks were becoming stealthed to the Voldor detection network, not physically changing the color of their fuselages. Do they really have the capability to change like that?
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    I have to reiterate that DOOM's soundtrack is soooo good. I found a cool video that was posted by the game's composer: https://youtu.be/ua-f0ypVbPA Here's "Rip and Tear" full track for anyone whose eyebrows were raised by that snippet in the first video: https://youtu.be/sUhCK1vleyY The music in the game is so contextual. When there's not much action going on, it's very environmental. When you step into a room and demons start to spawn, however, it starts to ramp up the pace of the music to a grand finale tempo. Every time you do a glory kill, it plays a little 1-second "suspenseful" music clip, for lack of a better word, over the current track. It's almost as if the track resets tempo when you get a glory kill.
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    Okay, I just spend the last couple of hours gauging everyone's reviews on Youtube and the such and it's pretty definitive: get DOOM. The SP campaign is well worth the buying price, although your mileage will vary. It completely destroys the CoD-inspired FPS games that have been contaminating current-gen systems and PCs with their lack of understanding of what makes a game really FUN. Doom returns to its old-skool roots, throwing hordes of demons at you and expecting you to somehow survive the onslaught. The gore is abundant and the game actually rewards you for your brutality by giving you small health boosts for each glory kill: Running low on health? You can't just hide behind cover and wait for it to regen. You get your wussy ass out there and tear that imp's head off to get your health back! Running low on ammo? Pull out your trusty chainsaw, Old Betsy, and disembowel that fat-assed mancubus and watch the ammuition pop out like a goddamn pinata! I played a bit of MP team deathmatch and not a lot has changed from the open beta. They just unlocked the rest of the demon types, hack modules, and weapons. Added more maps and gameplay and it still feels "off"... it's pretty average. One complaint I never hear about the downvoters is that you can't hear your opponent's double barreled shotgun if it was being shoved up your ass firing buck out of your mouth. I found myself yelling at the computer "who the f*** is shooting me??" only to die and find that he was right behind me the whole time. In UT4 alpha, you can hear someone getting murdered in the next room and know that it was a link gun or rocket launcher. Doom needs to seriously fix that because it's annoying as hell when you can't even find your attacker with omni-positional sound. The Snapmap feature is going to really keep this game alive for awhile until id and Bethesda develop some additional campaign material. I'm looking forward to seeing what the mod community can do with it. TL;DR: Buy this game if you love the old DOOM games and love unadulterated, unapologetic gore-fests like this game. Oh, and the music that plays during some of the "arena" combat areas in the levels will melt your face. Liberal use of the double-kick bass drum and shredding rhythm guitar will always get my head rocking while I punch a hole through an imp's chest with my mighty fist. GET IT NOW or I'll tear your arm off and beat you to death with it.
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    Finished the Doom campaign last night on ultra-violence difficulty. The boss fights were pretty challenging and fast-paced. Once you find their weakness, they get considerably easier, but that took several deaths each for me. The last boss was especially frustrating, but I got him down after about a dozen tries or so. Restarted on nightmare difficulty and it takes a lot of getting used to; it quickly becomes obvious which attacks and enemies to avoid fighting in a stand-up fight. Simply moving fast is not going to save you now. You have to use the environment. Definitely need to use the rune that makes glory kills go faster, because you need the health bonuses and you need to not stop moving. Overall, the game took me about 15 hours to finish the first time. That includes additional time looking for all of the secrets and powerups. But I quit trying so hard during the last few levels. I'm replaying the game so I can try to find everything this time around. I think 40-50 dollars would have been a bit more appropriate price, but I still wouldn't pass this game up at 60.
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    Played Doom for a couple of hours last night. It's pretty entertaining. I wasn't completely blown away, but I'm finding the game more enjoyable as I progress through the campaign. Picking up new weapons, getting weapon mods, and finding suit upgrades adds something new every time. Plus, I've only seen a small complement of enemy types. I'm sure that it gets more exhilarating as newer, bigger demons start showing up. Glory kills are so satisfying. It's non-stop gore and ultra-manliness when you get a berserk powerup, too! You can literally rip an imp in half with it... vertically... I'll play more when I get home tonight.
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    Bitchin'. VF-11 is my all-time fave Valk.
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    Seems to be the consensus on the YT comments page. In other news, Doom releases in about 24 hours. Can't wait to rip some demons in half.
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    I'll just leave this here...
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    Noice!
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    I played it for about 30 minutes and gave it up. I thought the characters were too unbalanced and the controls felt wonky and laggy. However, I am thoroughly enjoying the UT4 alpha. I guess that just indicates my tastes. Maybe I'll give Overwatch a try again if they have some kind of free trial period.
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    Better hide that one from David H. He might nosebleed to death.
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