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LC
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I'm going to be buying a new hard drive to play Vanguard. Any recommendations?
Don't forget to also buy a bigger trash can for the 30+ cds it takes to hold the client. |
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Der Helm
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I'm going to be buying a new hard drive to play Vanguard. Any recommendations?
Don't forget to also buy a bigger trash can for the 30+ cds it takes to hold the client. Maybe you will be able to purchase the game online and download the client. |
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Endie
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Given what I saw of Vanguard at E3, they spent about half of the 22GB on polygons in hilariously disproportionate elf and catgirl boobies.
Perhaps I've been too hasty in dismissing Vanguard out of hand... |
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HaemishM
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I'm going to be buying a new hard drive to play Vanguard. Any recommendations?
I suggest heroin with an arsenic chaser. |
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stray
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If you happen to die from heroin, at least the arsenic will allow you to leave a pretty corpse.
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damijin
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I've considered all of your suggestions and decided that buying a new hard drive to do this would provide a deeper and more fulfilled sense of entertainment. Thanks anyway. |
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Falconeer
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22GB for a client is fucking obscene. There's no excuse, none, nada, zip, not even for a beta client. It screams bloatware.
Agreed. This is a freckling joke. I just think the client will definitely shrunk before release, but if that won't be the case, then they are as sicktards as everyone foretold. |
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Falconeer
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On another note, I heard they are working on a Very Collector Edition of VG with a bonus 40 gig external hard drive included in the bundle (30 day trial only though).
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Oban
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Ah, the old sand in the hard drive method of grinding.
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Hutch
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Ah, the old sand in the hard drive method of grinding.
Like sands in the hard drive, these are the days of our miserable, catassing lives. |
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Simond
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On another note, I heard they are working on a Very Collector Edition of VG with a bonus 40 gig external hard drive included in the bundle (30 day trial only though).
Actually, the Collector's Edition is supposed to have multiple account keys in it - you know, so you can bot a healer straight out the box. Edit: I've seen someone doing a FOAF  -breech elsewhere, and there's some...interesting reading/semi-confirmation about crafting (EQ2-at-launch but even more tedious), diplomacy (zonewide, group-orientated, temporary faction mods based on card games. Really), and player housing (worst parts of UO & Oblivion, with the added caveat that houses require tradeskill-made products. Also, player-cities may or may not be in at launch). No idea about how reliable any of this is, though. Oh, and apparently the 20 gig beta client is also only a WIP. Brad expects it to be closer to 30 gigs at launch. We need a :trainwreck: smiley. |
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« Last Edit: October 10, 2006, 05:05:55 PM by Simond »
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HaemishM
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Oh, and apparently the 20 gig beta client is also only a WIP. Brad expects it to be closer to 30 gigs at launch. I have no idea why that shocks me still, but really. Wow. Just... wow. |
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shiznitz
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Someone I know dinged level 2 his first night in and hasn;t longged on since. He wanted to try a different race/class but only half of each are implemented right now.
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I have never played WoW.
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Nebu
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Level 2 in a night? Wow... Brad must have gotten soft.
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Tale
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Apparently Butler was the 4th SWG Jedi and has 11 SWG accounts....
That's just it. Given who's making it, everyone presumes Vanguard is in the mould of EQ. But if you watch the E3 videos, Butler keeps saying "in SWG you had to do this, but we've improved it this way" and raves about mounts, player housing, resource gathering, etc. Maybe it's Vanguard: Galaxies? |
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Oban
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"In some measure, you'll find Vanguard to (be) a more challenging game than World of Warcraft," McQuaid told us.  |
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Tale
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OK so it's Vanguard: EverGalaxies?
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Soln
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It's Thursday. Where are we? Has this game been euthanized already?
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schild
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You can't euthanize something that's already dead.
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Sky
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Has this game been euthanized already?
It came back with death penalties applied. |
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SnakeCharmer
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You can't euthanize something that's already dead.
corpse run! |
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Sky
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You can't euthanize something that's already dead.
corpse run! That'd be the preorder. |
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Nebu
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You can't euthanize something that's already dead.
Or my new favorite... How do you kill that which has no life? |
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DataGod
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Ok, Im trying to read a bit more impartially about this game now, and I know it wont be taken well on this thread but they do have some decent features, and the SS are looking pretty hawt. I've decided to move my opinion back to impartial on this game. The forum trolls over at the VG forums though, yikes....
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Nija
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The screenshots only look good because they are screenshots.
What you need to look at, if they dare show it, is a VIDEO.
The game I'm playing looks the most like DAOC. I'm not sure what game they are playing in the screenshots.
Does it have any cool features? Who knows. I'm blinded by grind like every other reasonable video game enthusiast.
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DataGod
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yeah, sorry my current modus =
life/business > horrible game grinding
not that I cant get it on if its a game I like but eh...I got bigger fish to fry
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Simond
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Given what I saw of Vanguard at E3, they spent about half of the 22GB on polygons in hilariously disproportionate elf and catgirl boobies.
Perhaps I've been too hasty in dismissing Vanguard out of hand...  Not photoshopped in any way. |
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Tale
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Given what I saw of Vanguard at E3, they spent about half of the 22GB on polygons in hilariously disproportionate elf and catgirl boobies.
Perhaps I've been too hasty in dismissing Vanguard out of hand... Not photoshopped in any way. The September newsletter linked above (previous page) says "Character Customization min/max proportions are coming". |
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Mi_Tes
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Man, I cannot wait for Vanguard to launch. It can't possibly live up to either the "If God made an MMORPG, it'd be Vanguard" hype, of course -- but I'm not so sure it can live up to the negative hype either. Can it really be that bad?
YES, it can. When Horizons is more fun to play, there is a BIG problem. Good news is that Vanguard should be a fun release to watch! |
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Signe
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Speaking of Horizons, here's something kind of interesting. The new company, who had all those billing issues seems to have resolved some of them. You can now subscribe and pay with your credit card without any problem. Unfortunately, they found that people could bypass the credit card bit and make free accounts so they disabled character creation (it's been gone for almost three weeks). Evidently, there is still the issue of not being able to always cancel. Sooo... you can subscribe, pay, not make a character... or cancel. The only thing you can be absolutely certain of is they'll get at least one payment of $13.95 from you. This is all second hand information, but it's second hand from two different people so I've decided it's probably true. Mostly.
Also - Ophelia, who used to run their website or something, said (on the board that must not be named) that they're bouncing cheques. Even the emergency cheque they wrote to the server people bounced.
I give Horizons days, maybe hours, before it's final breath.
PS Hi to Mi Tes! You've been missing for ages!
Edited because I spelled someone's name wrong.
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« Last Edit: October 12, 2006, 09:25:24 PM by Signe »
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Fabnusen
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Given what I saw of Vanguard at E3, they spent about half of the 22GB on polygons in hilariously disproportionate elf and catgirl boobies.
Are you serious? 22 GB install? You have to be kidding. (I hope you are) |
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NiX
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My friend insists it'll be the greatest MMO ever to be made and that it's reinventing the genre. No matter what I show him, not just me saying stuff, he still goes on. I just want them to release this heap and get it over with so I can say "I told you so."
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Nija
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My friend insists it'll be the greatest MMO ever to be made and that it's reinventing the genre. No matter what I show him, not just me saying stuff, he still goes on. I just want them to release this heap and get it over with so I can say "I told you so."
Put money on it if you can. Savings accounts. The farm. |
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HaemishM
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Speaking of Horizons, here's something kind of interesting. The new company, who had all those billing issues seems to have resolved some of them. You can now subscribe and pay with your credit card without any problem. Unfortunately, they found that people could bypass the credit card bit and make free accounts so they disabled character creation (it's been gone for almost three weeks). Evidently, there is still the issue of not being able to always cancel. Sooo... you can subscribe, pay, not make a character... or cancel. The only thing you can be absolutely certain of is they'll get at least one payment of $13.95 from you. Wow. I mean... character and account creation... that's step fucking one. That's the thing that no matter what else you fuck up, you have to do right, followed by login, followed by chat. What kind of a colossal fuckup do you have to be to fuckup an existing billing system so badly that it gives away free accounts? |
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