This was one of the first arena matches me and my girlfriend did together!

Armory’s:
Phamouz
Seabeast

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Some extreme server lag, this latency is insane. And then…. *plop* it’s fixed!

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But if you’re into Star Wars and tech stuff I guarantee you will at least like this game, and most likely love it. The first 14 levels are a bit dull though. Why only the first 14 levels? At level 14 you get a “Sprint” abillity which increases running speed with 35% when not in combat. It works like a toggle, so you just pop it on and it stays on without you having to worry about it anymore. Combined with my Sith Assassin’s “Force speed” (Movement speed increased by 150% for 2 seconds. abillity it just gives the game that much more speed. I must add also, that the higher level I get the more fast-paced the game becomes. It’s nowhere near as twitchy as WoW yet but it feels good to rush into a fight with a 150% movement speed buff, while being stealthed, and just destroy someone’s face with a double-bladed lightsaber.

The graphics look amazing on a fast computer but they are very plain on a mediocre computer. All the elements are there and there are multiple worlds you can travel to, each one perfectly designed and a very distinctive style as you would expect when visiting a completely different planet. Creature and character design is very cool and well done. Especially when playing on a high-end system the glow from your lightsaber looks awesome on your character and the enviroment around you. It’s too bad that people with a slightly aged system do suffer from poor graphics, I really need to invest in a new PC. Oh well, at least the framerate is good even on a slower system.

A big plus in SWTOR are the “class quests”, each and every class has it’s own diverse and immense “Class quest”. This is a quest line which is made specifically for your class and it really gives your character a meaning. You start feeling more and more like a hero or old war veteran the more you advance your class quest. Because the class quest is so diverse and unique the side quests you can take don’t feel as generic. Sure you have to collect 15 Zabrak heads from time to time but so far the game hasn’t felt like a grind at all.

Another mentionable feature are the Mass Effect style dialogue options and the Dark/Light allingment. Every quest giver you talk to will initiate a cutscene in which you are given 3 answer option, sometimes a conversation option will give you Light or Dark allingment points. For example; an imperial ranger’ arm is stuck underneath a fallen tree. Do you use the force to lift the tree and free your fellow Empire warrior? Or maybe you think that weakness like this deserves to be punished and you lightning shock his ass to death? I think you can figure out which is Light and which is Dark. Both allignments have 5 tiers and every tier makes you look more Evil or more Good. I’m at Dark tier 1 and I must say the visual feedback isn’t that strong… I want to look like a Dark Sith Emperor!

On to my favorite part, the PvP! I am only level 17 as I type this and haven’t PvP’ed that much yet but it looks promising. You can queue up for a “Scenario” (in WoW language: Battleground) from anywhere in the world and within a few minutes you will be invited in. There are a few different game-modes like capture the flag (huttball) and king of the hill, I’m sure there a more but I haven’t seen any yet. The PvP feels good if you know your character a little, it’s not very fast-paced meaning people don’t die very fast. At least you don’t have to pick your fights and you can try to run to your team mates if you see that you are getting owned! I’m playing a Sith Assassin which I think is the class with the most Stuns ever, including a tanking talent tree and as an added bonus: stealth. So basically I’m playing a stun-horny, hard hitting, stealthed tank! When you enter a PvP Scenario you get a “Bolster” buff which increases your stats to that of a level 49 character (max level is 50) but your skills & talents remain your own level, just with a hefty damage boost.

I won’t go into the PvE part now, more about that later when I reach level 50 and have actually done some group stuff. All I can say now is that everyone has a Companion, which is kinda cool but it’s too bad that literally everyone has one. Which also means you will see a lot of döppelgangers walking around. Luckily there are some customization options for your companion so it isn’t all that bad.

All-in-all after having played through only 17 levels on 1 character my first impressions are quite positive. A bit of patience is required at first and you really need to give the a game a chance but when you do it will amaze you. There are still some minor issues but the upcoming 1.2 patch looks very promising and it shows that Bioware really knows their stuff! Thats it for now, if you want to meet up in-game you can add me! I’m playing as a Sith Assassin on the Legions of Lettow (PvP) server and my character name is Seabeast!

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Mass Effect 3 is the last game in a space opera series by Bioware. In each game you take the role of Commander Shepard, a customizable hero (or heroine) trying to save the galaxy from the Reapers, a race of gigantic robots who harvest organic civilizations every 50.000 years. What’s special about this series is that you import your savegame, meaning your choices in one game will have an effect on the sequels. This allows you to really make the journey your own. If you haven’t, I recommend playing the first two first before starting up ME3, it really makes a difference.

I’m explaining this because basically if you’ve played the first two and enjoyed them, you’re gonna get this one regardless of anything I’m saying. And Bioware is on record saying that you can enjoy part three without having played the first two. I imagine you could, it’s an enjoyable game if you’re into third person rpg shooters, but to get the full experience you should play the entire trilogy.

Now onto the actual review. Let’s start with graphics. The game looks great, even better then part two, which was already a great looking game. Apparently there are some framerate issues on the PS3 version, but having only played the PC version I can’t really comment on that. There are some small journeys into uncanny valley, especially present when Shepard tries to smile (the horror!) and in the case of Miranda, who was supposedly modeled after Yvonne Strahovski, but didn’t quite make it.

The soundtrack is, in my opinion, the best in the series. The slow sad music hits all the right notes, while the faster music accentuated the action rather well. The combat sounds are the standard bullets flying stuff, and it sounds suitably authentic. Having said this, I admit to never having cared for the direction part two went with the soundtrack.

As for actual gameplay, I’d say it’s largely an improvement. Gone are the two-three weapons you could find in ME2 without buying DLC. Without extra content, there are at least 6 weapons per type (Assault Rifle, Sniper Rifle, Shotgun, Submachine Gun and Handgun) and all can be customized with different kinds of mods. A notable missing element are the heavy weapons which made their debut in the preceding title. As I really enjoyed the heavy weapons I was sad that they took it out. I suppose with the new weight system it might have been the only weapon you could carry around. Like I said  they’ve added a weight system which governs how much weapons you can bring with you without gaining some kind of penalty to power cooldown speed.

Speaking of powers, they too have gotten an upgrade. There are more levels to each power, and you can customize them more. For every upgrade after the third one there are two directions a power can develop in, for example you might enlarge the radius of a power, or you might want to increase the damage.

While there are more armours in the game, I feel as though the customization there has stalled a bit, not exactly offering less, but when put against all of the other improvements it feels exactly the same.

What also feels the same is the combat. They’ve added melee attacks which changes (though not that much) depending on your class which you can charge to deal massive damage. While on the whole it feels streamlined, you can sometimes get stuck in cover when you didn’t want to be, and getting out can be an annoyance. Headshots now feel as though they deal a lot more damage, and there were even some beheadings after a successful hit.
What I do think is a bit misleading is in the naming of the missions. Story missions are marked as priority, while side quests are not. This despite the fact that the side missions can disappear and become uncompletable after certain events, the priority missions don’t go anywhere. If you’re going for a completionist walkthrough, do the sidequests first, before they disappear.

The game employs a Galactic Readiness meter which determines how well prepared you are for the final confrontation with the Reapers. You can increase this by doing missions, or getting a multiplier for it(which degrades over time) from doing multiplayer. Bioware has stated it’s possible to get the best ending without doing the multiplayer, but after doing all of the side-quests and a lot of planet scanning I still didn’t fill the meter and had to resort to multiplayer. It probably is possible, but the planet scanning gets so tedious are a while that I can’t imagine anyone actually doing that.
The planet scanning has changed as well from ME2. Gone is the scrounging for resources. Now the scanning is for War Assets and items for the side quests. Expect a lot of fetch quests, I guess they got a taste for it after making a MMO. First you scan your current solar system for planets with stuff on them. This scanning alerts the reapers and fills their awareness bar. When that bar is full, the reapers come and you have to hightail it out of that system. If you get caught it’s an instant game over. Also, for an indeterminate amount of time that meter stays filled for that system, meaning it’s now virtually off limits.

Storywise it’s damn near perfect. It feels like a proper send off for your Shepard. Everyone that lived makes an appearance and has their one last moment to shine. Some get redemption, some get revenge, all get closure. I’ve even shed some tears at certain points. While the characters may dip into cliché’s at certain points (I’ve heard people say “This is it” about a hundred times) the dialogue is good and the story told in the various story missions is good enough that you won’t want to stop playing.

New characters are also introduced with various amounts of success. Vega may seem like a runaway from MTV’s Jersey Shore, he’s an actual character with depth. Cerberus assassin Kai Leng might have benefitted from some extra exposure, but is handled pretty well. Diana Allers on the other hand is a blight upon the game. Based upon a journalist who got famous for licking a PSP, she’s in the game as some sort of blatant sex appeal thing. Also certain characters seem to have gotten plastic surgery.

Below are some things I rather disliked about the story. While I’m still keeping it rather vague, they still might be considered spoilers. So read at your own risk.

Spoilers
While the first 98% of the story is great, it all goes to hell in the last five minutes. The reapers are given a ridiculous back-story and reasoning, and every choice in both this game and the previous ones are made meaningless. There is a theory going around in the forums that everything after a certain point is a hallucination caused by indoctrination by the Reapers. Never have I been so hopeful that the writers might decide to take the whole “it was just a dream” cop-out.

My advice is simple, don’t let the shit ending ruin what is otherwise a fantastic game. Just don’t go there. After a certain conversation with an old friend you activate the plot device in a cutscene. After that, the floor turns into an elevator and takes you up. At that point, either alt-F4 or turn off your console. Trust me on this one. The game autosaves at that point, so if Bioware decides to fix things with ending DLC you can still do this and play that. Just turn off the game and imagine some great final battle in your head after which everyone lives happily ever after. Or not, depending on your tastes.

End Spoilers

As for the multiplayer, it’s basically horde mode with Mass Effect power schemes. It’s fun, but I doubt people will still be playing it after a year, or be willing to pay 15 dollars/euro’s for a map pack.

All in all, it was a great experience. The game looks good, feels good and gives you a great story to bookend the trilogy. Aside from the fetch quests each quest really adds something to the story and overarching plot. Every sidequest feels essential, which is a big feat considering the Reapers just lit the galaxy on fire. Throughout the story you revisit old familiar places like the citadel and Tuchanka, but you also see homeworlds of the other species. Throughout the game you see how your choices in previous games play out, and it’s satisfying every time.

It’s a great game, it still has faults but can (aside from what I said in the spoilers section) be mostly forgiven for them. I’d recommend getting it, even if only to finish Shepard’s story. It’s been one hell of a ride.

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Gamergirls! You can win this gorgeous ring. Everyone knows girls like shiny rocks embedded into shiny metals.

44% OF BRITISH MEN WOULD SAY ‘YES’ IF THEIR GIRLFRIEND PROPOSED

UK LEAP YEAR SURVEY ALSO REVEALS:

February 13, 2012
Our nation’s loved-up couples get two bites at the cherry this February, with Valentine’s Day on the 14th and Leap Year Day on the 29th.
Traditionally the one day every four years when women can turn the tables and propose to their men. PopCap Games did a little research for any plucky ladies thinking of popping the big question: their surprising new Leap Year survey reveals that almost half (44%) of men in the U.K. would say ‘Yes’ if their partners proposed marriage this Leap Year, and 36% of them would like to be asked. Interestingly, British women are not as confident of a positive outcome were they to propose, with less than one third (31%) believing their partner would say ‘Yes.’ Also, 9% of women thought their guys would try to wriggle out of the situation by attempting to change the question, and 18% of men said they’d probably throw-up on the spot!

The survey of more than 1,000 female and male U.K. residents currently in relationships was commissioned by PopCap Games, creators of the world’s #1 puzzle videogame franchise Bejeweled®. PopCap is further incentivising women to take destiny into their own hands and pop the question this Leap Year – with a one-of-a-kind diamond and sapphire Bejeweled-inspired ring worth £5,000 to be awarded to the most romantic woman in the UK and Ireland by the end of the month.

10% Know a Woman Planning to Propose This Leap Year
The survey revealed that the idea of women proposing marriage to men is not as rare as people might think. 20% of respondents claimed to know women who have proposed in the past, and 10% know women who are planning to take advantage of the Leap Year and propose to their partners this year.

Attitudes to the Traditional Way of Proposing
For the most part, women prefer to take the traditional route up the aisle – with the man proposing marriage. When asked would they consider proposing if they were in a relationship for more than 5 years with no sign of a marriage proposal, 66% said no.

According to the survey, 42% of men and women felt the traditional proposal was best, but a sizeable 36% of men would like their partner to propose to them. 27% of men felt the traditional marriage proposal is outdated, compared to only 13% of women. Interestingly, 39% of people aged 55 and over felt it was outdated, compared with only 9% of 18 to 24 year olds.

Engagement Ring, a Watch…or Sex?
So, if the better half of the couple proposes, who springs for the engagement ring?
49% of people surveyed believe the woman should give the man an engagement ring if she proposes, and 47% believe that the man shouldn’t be obliged to buy the woman an engagement ring. And just under 11% of men said they’d like their partner to propose so they wouldn’t have to buy her an engagement ring!

While rings were the most popular gifts for a woman to give a man if she proposes, the next most popular at 9% a piece, were a watch or sex. 16% of men felt sex was an appropriate engagement gift to receive, compare to just 5% of women. Incidentally, 7% of males would be happiest with a cash gift.

Don’t Tell My Mates!
The survey revealed that 29% of men would be embarrassed to tell their friends that it was their girlfriend who proposed.

How to Win the Bejeweled Ring
To celebrate the lunar-induced shift in matrimonial power, PopCap commissioned British jewellery designer Ben Day, who has fashioned collections for some of Hollywood’s elite, to create a bespoke ring inspired by Bejeweled. The result is a stunningly beautiful sapphire and diamond ring, featuring approx. 40 blue diamonds surrounding a spectacular blue sapphire set in 18ct white gold, which even Kate Middleton would envy.

Ladies, win a Bejeweled ring!
To be in with a chance to win, PopCap wants to hear womens’ stories on how they’ve gone the extra mile to secure the heart of their Mr Right. They especially want to hear about it if anyone has proposed or plans to propose on February 29th. One lucky loved up lady will be bestowed with the one-of-a-kind sapphire and diamond ring fit for a queen (or princess!).

The competition, which is open to U.K. and Irish residents over the age of 18, runs until midnight on Thursday, February 23rd and can be entered via Cosmopolitan.co.uk or Handbag.com. Entrants simply have to enter their own romantic story or plan in 50 words or less and answer a simple question on Bejeweled. The winner will be announced on the websites on Friday, February 24th. Five runners-up will receive a Bejeweled goodie bag, including a PC/Mac version of the game and lots of money-can’t-buy goodies including a hooded sweatshirt, limited edition picture frame, and more.

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Darkmoon Faire | Daily Quest Guides!

This article features all of the World of Warcraft Darkmoon Faire daily quests and how to complete them in a speedy manner. Follow the instructions in the videos for guaranteed succes! Happy questing!

Darkmoon Faire | He Shoots, He Scores!

Stand close to the booth, but not on it. Aim with the right mouse, shoot with the 1 key. Don’t worry too much about accurate aiming. There is no crosshair, but if you aim in roughly the right direction and shoot when the target lights up (has a pointer above it), you’ll hit. If you are quick, you can get two shots off at a target while it’s lit (this also grants an achievement called “Quick shot” which I already have when I filmed this).

Quest text:
Think you’re a good shot? Quick on the trigger?
It’ll cost you just a single game token to test your skills.
What do you say? How good are you?

Rewards:
You will receive:
Darkmoon Prize Ticket

Gains:
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
250 reputation with Darkmoon Faire.

Darkmoon Faire | Target: Turtle

After paying your Darkmoon Game Token to Jessica Rogers to start the game you are put into the mini-game interface for the ring toss.

You have ten purple bars above the interface showing how many tries you have left. By pressing 1 you bring up a target to where you want to throw your “unbalanced throwing ring.” You have to aim at Dubenko “The Darkmoon Turtle”, who will amble about randomly. You have to hit Dubenko three times to get credit for Ring Toss.

The trick is just to keep the green ground recticle right in the middle under the Turtle and spam “1″, really works and very easy!

Quest description:
Hey there! Step right up!

Why not show everyone how skilled you are? Just land three rings on the Darkmoon Turtle and you’ll get a prize.

For one game token you can buy a stack of rings and show the world why we call you the “Eagle Eyed.”

Completion:
You will receive:
Darkmoon Prize Ticket

Gains:
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
250 reputation with Darkmoon Faire

Darkmoon Faire | It’s Hammer Time

Whacking the bigger Hogger gnoll counts as 3 regular gnoll whacks. The trick is to keep running around and hitting the gnolls that pop up nearest to you.

Also, you do not have to stop at each troll, just press 1 and keep going. If you turn your view while hitting a gnoll you can run through very fast! And oh yeah, don’t hit the babies, you will get stunned!

Special thanks to Phamouz (Aggramar) http://eu.battle.net/wow/en/character/aggramar/Phamouz/simple for starring in this video!

PS: I know I was slow in the first half of the video, I was still figuring this mini-game out!

Quest description:
So you want to whack some gnolls? Well you’ve come to the right place.

Your goal is simple, score 30 points in a minute.

Use the mallet I give you and get ready to whack. Speak to me when you are ready to start.

Completion:
You will receive:
Darkmoon Prize Ticket

Gain:
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
250 reputation with Darkmoon Faire

Darkmoon Faire | The Humanoid Cannon

This daily is very easy! There is just 1 trick, press “1″ just after you fly over the dock! Really works!

Quest description:
For just one Darkmoon Game Token, you can ride the Blastenheimer 5000 Ultra Cannon. But the fun doesn’t end there! We’ve placed a target in the water near the boardwalk.

If you can score five points from your landing, you can win some prize tickets!

A bullseye gets you five points (and an achievement), a close shot three, and landing at least near it gets you one.

Happy landings!

Completion:
You will receive:
1x Darkmoon Prize Ticket

Gains:
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
250 reputation with Darkmoon Faire

Darkmoon Faire | Tonk Commander

You’ll hear a sort of ‘ping’ noise if you get targeted by another tonk – when that happens hit your speed boost and run around like a maniac, this should stop your tonk from being hit and ending the game. As with all the other games your score carries over, but it can get tedious being killed repeatedly during busy times.

Quest description:
Welcome to our humble little steam tank battle simulator!

For one token, you can demonstrate your tactical mastery by navigating the course and destroying the targets.

Completion:
You will receive:
1x Darkmoon Prize Ticket

Gains:
Upon completion of this quest you will gain:
250 reputation with Darkmoon Faire

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Die in a fire! Or not?

Deathwing paid a visit to the Barrens scorching a big line in the peacefull landscape… If you walk into this fire you will recieve the “Stood in the fire” fire achievement which indicates in its tooltip that you “Got killed by Deathwing” which isn’t necessarily true, if you walk in and out the fire briefly you don’t die and still get the achievement! Be sure to view the video in highest resolution possible (1080p HD)!

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