Recent content by Amarinth

It's the same problem in the UK. You're either screwed with a cap or you're screwed with traffic shaping and speed throttling - and traffic shaping isn't an option if you do online gaming since it fucks with your connection to the game servers. Also out in the country all internet packages come...

This game is great fun and it's very easy to just jump in for some quick matches even if you don't have a lot of time (battles last 15 mins tops, but are usually over quicker than that). Also you if you're dead you don't have to wait for the battle to end, you can just exit battle and hop in...

Funny he mentions Lord of the Rings Online as an example of a game that failed on subscriptions, it did fine on subscriptions for over 3 years. Sure it got nowhere near WoW, but it had a solid fanbase and wasn't anywhere near dying. The only reason Turbine changed it to a F2P-hybrid model (which...

I disagree that it's just about hand-holding - sure there will always be some people who aren't happy unless they're told exactly what to do every step of the way, but I believe there are also people who don't need to be handheld, but just don't like having no goal or finish line to work...

Not if you click the 50% off banner on the left: http://www.minecraft.net/prepurchase.jsp The website is like the game, it's back to basics (as in it could do with some restructuring).

I swear creepers are evil incarnate. They will always, without fail, ambush you when you least expect it. Usually while you are standing right next to the building you JUST finished constructing and before you have a chance to yell "Oh shit, not agai--", they blow the living daylights of you...

Poor choice of poll options, very poor choice. Some of the more well-known and widely anticipated upcoming MMO's (Guild Wars 2, Old Republic, TERA) are missing, so this will only give skewed results - unless ofcourse they were left out for a reason? But Lego Universe and BSG Online (a...

Observer [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/quizzes/result/91.66-Observer] "You lurk in the shadows, seeing all, commenting on little." Hmm not sure I'd consider myself a lurker. *looks at post number* Oh no wait, nvm..

Heh, yeah. I'm the same, when shit happens I just shrug and laugh it off. No point getting upset, it's just a game. As for the accidentally killing your team mates thing, don't worry, you're not alone. It's just so tempting when you're driving to the scene of the action at high speed to just...

So they're basically encouraging their customers to visit pages of companies whose sole purpose is to scam, spam and infect PC's with malware - but it's 'OK' because in exchange the customers get some free Turbine points... Yeah right. It's bad enough the internet is full of companies and...

I normally hate responses like this but... 'I see what you did there' And how exactly can a game ever be too big? The more you get for your money the better right? I certainly hate it when a 50 buck game takes me only 10 hours to finish, especially if it has little to no replay value. I love...

Most dishonorable moment? Hmm, I haven't really done much nasty stuff in online games. Except maybe in Guild Wars... Back in the early days of Guild Wars the game didn't have a reconnect feature yet, so if you DC-ed or crashed you 'lost' your place in the instance and the group, ergo you...

Yeah platformers are definitely in need of a comeback, even though I'm not a real fan of them myself. But there is a severe lack of them lately. Personally I'd really like to see the return of some good old-fashioned point-and-click adventures. Monkey Island, Sam & Max, Myst, The 7th Guest...

I'm going to have to chime in with most people here, I suck at RTS, even though I love strategy games of all kinds and have tried several times to get into the RTS genre. Unfortunately I always get zerged to hell by the computer while I'm still building up my base with pinpoint precision. On...

Trust me, most of us are sickened by it too. As for the OP's question, yes I get fed up with guys acting like douches online, but as I already pointed out I equally get fed up with girls acting like tarts online, so in short I just get fed up with people acting like idiots online. As for...