http://www.wired.com/2014/12/microsoft-spartan-browser/


W10, you will now play as a Spartan on the internet, with your trusty personal assistant Cortana to help you browse dank memes.

Hail Microsoft

C'mon guys, post em

2.7 KDA spread (would be closer to 5 if i'd not started crap)
About 3-4 K/D ratio
SR7
Bronze rank 2 (Slayer)
39.7% accuracy
Fav weapon: Assault rifle

That's about all I can remember

Allahu Ackbar, Photoshop is an amazing thing isnt it?

And this is in gaming because Brute is only ever in gaming, and it involves his vids so...

Just finished FC4, and I must say that it's been one of the best gaming experiences i've had. It's everything great about FC3 but polished, amplified and made better. Vaas was a superb villain, but slightly cliche and predictable. Pagan Min is the finest antagonist i've seen, his actions were unpredictable, he has immense character depth for someone you only meet a handful of times, and to be honest I didn't want him to die-when it came to the end I so nearly let him go, only at the last second did I take down his chopper with my rifle because I just simply wanted him to have a good ending. Luckily there was epic slo-mo and good music to sway me towards not feeling so guilty afterwards.

As for everyone else, the leaders of the golden path, Pagan's generals and all the side characters like Hurk, Yogi and Reggie and Longinus were just as well built and interesting. It's a rare thing for the player to get a little upset every time they take out a simple assassination target such as Noore but genuinely I did. Every single side mission is enjoyable, especially the Shangri-La missions.

Everything in this game tells a story, usually there are many different stories and paths that are hidden below the surface and without a little exploration and and care may never be discovered and without some thinking definitely won't be appreciated.

In terms of how it plays it's nearly identical to FC3, with is fine, gameplay is still fantastic and satisfying no matter what weapon you are using or which enemy you are killing. The wingsuit is a major help and the grapple is a great way of letting you traverse the epic landscape-plus the fact it makes the mundane task of getting from A in the valley to B at the top of a fucking mountain rather authentic, and rappelling down into a cave and subsequently gunning down both man and beast is amazing. Oh, and the new buzzer (gyrocopter) is pretty neat, but not common enough to be overused and too flimsy for a fight-plus it has an altitude limiter.

In terms of graphics i'm sure you've all seen that it's absolutely stunning, but I feel that the sheer volume of trees is a shame because by nature trees in video games look sorta shitty. Fps leaves (pun intended) a bit to be desired, it's mostly solid but there were a handful of noticeable drops when I was walking around the deep forest with my bow equipped.

Overall i'd say it's a 9.5/10, i've not tested the MP element or co-op, i'd give it a 10 but I never found a reason to want to play Arena, the fps drops were a little annoying and feel that there were a few poor design choices when doing some of the mountainous sections

Questions?

Oh, and this is in gaming just so everyone can see it, mods can relocate it to News later if they want

Halo is what i'm focussed on but this goes for any sci-fi series involving humans I suppose. Typically colonisation inevitably leads to settlements named after old ones, such as New York, New England, etc... which made me think that if one came from New York (perfectly likely) and decided to name a settlement do you reckon this would lead to a New New York or another place called New York?

You guys are not quite on form are you? Every fucking thread is a circlejerk/unfunny-shitpost. Get it together you punt naggers

So, for some reason someone messaged me just recently on bnet (i've not been on for months now), and the contents are odd, especially for a desticle, open the spoiler and click the link at your own risk (NSFW)


Dafuq?

https://medium.com/matter/the-road-goes-ever-on-105f33453e55

Here's an interesting piece, for one it is good to see such a talented dev taking inspiration and realising that this is the way forward, but as fascinating as his opinions are it's this that's promising:

Goodbye linear, hello geometric! And that’s the new big thing that my colleagues and I have been working on at our yet-unnamed new studio

This is good, imagine Bioshock-level quality but with a genesis system (type thing) in place. Thoughts on this?

Americans then:

Americans now:

Cool yeah? So when people are looking for a new games forum we are one of the best promoted sites on tapatalk, and so therefore mobile platforms full-stop. Our little forum is sat right alongside such giants as ign and uh... Pakistan's gaming community.

So title says it all, and mine will certainly not be one shared by most. I don't like Bioshock Infinite, I found it boring and the gameplay was bad, in fact, I don't rate the series at all really. Perhaps it's because i'd been playing a ton of Portal 2 and Battlefield BC2 at the time so it's impact was dulled, but I still dislike it.

Shoot

http://youtu.be/CYsW8WID1kU
I actually watched this in full when it popped up, needless to say I was a little shellshocked when this came on in Youtube on my X1. But I must admit that it's pretty funny, thoughts?

They are the single greatest thing about Christmas, they are just soooooo nice and the fact that most of the mass is fruit is just amazing. So do you guys share the glory that are mince pies?

http://jalopnik.com/lets-take-a-deep-look-at-the-droid-in-the-new-star-wars-1664482684

This piece is a good analysation of it, and in terms of the actual canon the new design makes a lot of sense.

As the piece says the new ball design fixes the issue of manoeuvrability and speed for the  R series. But it doesn't touch on the use of a football/beachball in the design, I very much doubt it was manufactured using a ball, it must be junk re-used for the droid. So this may suggest that it's the top part that is important, and the ball can be any ball, the ability to use refuse just enhances it's durability and practicality, the R droid's main selling point.

Discus (is a sport)

Winter Wong
Founder
Winter founded Tapatalk with a vision of transforming online community experience on mobile devices. Winter holds a B.S. in Computer Science

The short piece about their founder onthe website. Dat name, dat BS in computer science