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General Discussion => General Non-RP EVE Discussion => Topic started by: Saede Riordan on 21 Jun 2011, 20:06
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So, I thought it might be a good idea to establish an evac point, for when eve crashes and burns, I rather enjoy this community and would like to not lose track of everyone.
What MMO could we all meet up in? I'm rather liking the sound of Defiance, its supposedly going to be tied to a TV show on Sci-Fi, so character actions will have consequences in the world and such, I'm yet to hear anything about gameplay yet, but...
Then then there's the new Star Wars game, which, to be honest, looks remarkably like WoW with voiceovers.
There's perpetuum, which is like eve with mechas, that might have potential.
I dunno, thoughts? strategies?
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I'd be willing to host a Minecraft server.
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Eve's not going to 'crash and burn' any time soon.
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Oh right, EVE permadeath, not DT.
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Infinity (http://www.infinity-universe.com/Infinity/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=33) (video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7eREddMjt4&feature=related)) or Black Prophecy (http://www.blackprophecy.com/) (video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y6bFJxdVZk))?
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i vote for black prophecy ;)
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Seconded.
But dear god how that demo video makes me wish Infinity was like to become something within the next ten years.
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I've heard good things about the re-released All Points Bulletin.
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APB Reloaded is good aside from the lag and needlessly high system requirements.
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I checked out Black Prophecy. Not sure if I still remember the user/pass combination, though.
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I'm rather fond of just staying in touch through FB. If I'd go where friends went I'd still be playing WoW. I'm also pretty skeptical about this, too often seen communities just splinter, cause that's how it will always be, unless you can unite everyone under one banner.
Personally, the KotoR MMO is next on my list of things to try. If EVE got pop in that time, may or may not be a next home. I'm not sure how good it will turn out. Maybe go amuse myself with Rift again, or go back to WoW for the RL friends who play it. Who knows.
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I've heard good things about the re-released All Points Bulletin.
It's reasonably good. I've been playing it off and on since the re-release of closed beta. If nothing else the new devs are rather good at keeping people updated on the plans for the game. Some areas have been improved nicely, while others got changed but honestly need some fine tuning to be worthwhile (witnessing). I like it, but I like shooters in general and APB has this 'personal' feeling to combat (due to group sizes) that makes it both fun and frustrating at the same time.
I looked at Black Prophecy but for whatever reason it didn't really draw me in.
Really if EVE either died or CCP did something I wouldn't tolerate I'd probably just stop playing MMOs entirely. Maybe put the time into playing FPS games like Brink or sucking less at SC2...or doing more blogging/writing.
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Really if EVE either died or CCP did something I wouldn't tolerate I'd probably just stop playing MMOs entirely.
/me laughs nervously...
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I really like the community here to. Thankfully, I don't see EVE perma-dying any time soon.
However, I will likely give KOTOR a shot, if I stick with MMOs. To be honest, EVE is the only MMO I've ever played and I'm not likely to try any others unless I have a good group of friends going into it with me.
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I plan to play SWTOR, but as a game, not a lifestyle. Much more like a coop KOTOR or even WoW than the rabid immersion that has characterized my involvement in EVE (and, previously, SWG).
If/when I leave EVE for good, that will probably mark the end of MMORPGs as a significant hobby for me.
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Right now it look like I'll be trying out the Old Republic regardless. Brink might be worth a shot as well and why not APB Reloaded too.
If Eve were to die I'd try some of those some more and then I'd come back to Eve. Though admittedly every time I quit and come back, my attachment dies just a little bit. One day it'll be gone and I'll miss the good old days. So, nothing much will have changed.
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If EVE were to die, how would you come back to it :?:
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If EVE were to die, how would you come back to it :?:
That's me being clever and saying it isn't dying. ;)
(I guess "dying" depends on your choice of definition, as well)
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I mean if it actually gets shut down... but no, I'm not saying "EVE is dying". I think we're discussing a hypothetical.
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Guess you can look at it as either CCP ending its hosting of EVE/DUST or as CCP breaking EVE/DUST so badly that most folks will want to move on.
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Well, I want to make my own MMO someday... if by some miracle that actually happens, y'all can be GMs.
Other than that I'd suggest Infinity (if it ever comes out, I'm going to start Mixed Metaphor over again), Minecraft, or perhaps a Dwarf Fortress succession fortress.
Hey, actually, talking of Dwarf Fortress succession fortresses, why should we wait until EVE dies to do one? Let's have a fucking Backstage Succession Fortress right now!
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Whatever happens - dont shut backstage down ;) Maybe change the domain name or something but the backstage community is overall my favourite place to spend time sitting and reading/talking.
I like Black Prophecy, its like Freelancer in MMO. - hence Win.
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Black Prophecy is a Freelancer-like MMOG? Even more than EVE? Mayhaps I should look into this.
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Black Prophecy is a Freelancer-like MMOG? Even more than EVE? Mayhaps I should look into this.
09.06.2011 Black Prophecy: U.S. open beta has stared (http://bit.ly/jXYSlj) ;)
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I didn't really find Black Prophecy that entertaining.
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IRC?
It's much like EVE, but without the bugs. :D
But seriously, I hear Modded Versions of Freelancer are making a resurgence.
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I will try SW TOR, pretty sure of it, though I do not like at all what I have seen of it so far.
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IRC?
It's much like EVE, but without the bugs. :D
But seriously, I hear Modded Versions of Freelancer are making a resurgence.
They are. However it's still Freelancer 1 - it's an old engine, old game and it's not getting any newer. I have heard rumors that FL2 is in the works or final planned stages or whatever but can't find any info regarding this. There is also Jump Gate Evolution but iirc it's still in development hell :cry:
EVE is a brilliant game, but what I've wanted for YEARS now is a new and fresh twitch shooter in space ala Freelancer. JGE has been my biggest option so far but alas...
Black Prophesy... I saw bits and pieces of news of this some time ago, watched a few movies etc. They seem to have been in deveopment for some time, mostly in obscurity, but are becoming more known in recent times. The game never impressed me much, tbh. BP and Infinity seem to have the same old problem - fixed weapons leading to missile-spam or endlessly looping dog-fights between human players. Boring. Freelancer was a breath of fresh air as you had movable turrets and alot more freedom in making hits on foes without having to align your entire ship to be lined up with the enemy and then fire. JGE seems to have this feature too - movable weapons.
IF ever EVE died for good (I consider this highly unlikely in any case but a disaster striking CCP) I'd go look over whatever MMO was around at the time. If EVE died tomorrow I'd be hard pressed to find another MMO - might simply shelve MMO's until a worthy one poped up.
As for keeping backstage around... good idea. But maintaining this place as simply a meeting-point for gamers around the world who likes to RP won't mean we will all agree on any good MMO to join or even what MMO is good or even any specific faction. But then, that's a good thing, right? I mean, if we all played JGE and everyone joined the Octavian Empire we would be a massive force, but who would we fight? I think we would run out of targets soon ;)
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When Eve dies I'll probably be way to old to be thinking about new games. :oops:
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They are. However it's still Freelancer 1 - it's an old engine, old game and it's not getting any newer. I have heard rumors that FL2 is in the works or final planned stages or whatever but can't find any info regarding this.
FL2 got axed *very* early on in it's development. I do a lot of work around the FL modding community. There's a group working on a Star-Wars TC mod that have pretty much reverse engineered the entire game, and have done some things I didn't think possible until I saw them.
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I didn't really find Black Prophecy that entertaining.
I agree
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I didn't really find Black Prophecy that entertaining.
I agree
Yup, same here.
I'm still dabbling in APB though, so if people ended up trying it out (since its free & in open beta right now) let me know. Right now I only have characters on the two EU servers (Crim/Obeya - Enforcer/Patriot), but got a free slot to make another thanks to the CB reward package -- so if people were playing on the US server I could roll one there. :) Either way I would say APB isn't the type of game that will ever be a "EVE replacement" but it is fun diversion and beats playing tanks (IMO). Just need a group of 2-3 people to play with (on voice) to make it a lot of fun. I think there is a small RP community there too. I'm playing it a bit regardless of what happens with my EVE plans.
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If anyone wants to come and check out Champions Online, I'd be happy to help you level. I've got a level 40 Darkness/Bestial tanky DPS hero who's useful in almost all situations.
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Perpetuum Online seems pretty cool. Unfortunately I lack irl iskies to afford to 10 dollar a month subscription. But if someone wanted to lend a hand with that...
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Going to look at the trial personally, no idea if it will be worth sticking with though.
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Going to look at the trial personally, no idea if it will be worth sticking with though.
I guess I'll give the trial a whirl
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Perpetuum Online seems pretty cool. Unfortunately I lack irl iskies to afford to 10 dollar a month subscription. But if someone wanted to lend a hand with that...
Tried it out for a while.
Game has potential, but it's basically EVE at launch: decent skeleton, no real content, lack of distinct balancing.
Very easy to abuse courier and industrial mission chains to make a shitload of money
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Perpetuum Online seems pretty cool. Unfortunately I lack irl iskies to afford to 10 dollar a month subscription. But if someone wanted to lend a hand with that...
Tried it out for a while.
Game has potential, but it's basically EVE at launch: decent skeleton, no real content, lack of distinct balancing.
Very easy to abuse courier and industrial mission chains to make a shitload of money
Eh, I want a place that's got some decent gameplay mechanics and the potential for good RP. If its Eve at launch, well, eve did get good.
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<Misan> "Thank you CCP for failscading, just saved our bacon" < Perpetuum devs
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Perpetuum Online seems pretty cool. Unfortunately I lack irl iskies to afford to 10 dollar a month subscription. But if someone wanted to lend a hand with that...
Tried it out for a while.
Game has potential, but it's basically EVE at launch: decent skeleton, no real content, lack of distinct balancing.
Very easy to abuse courier and industrial mission chains to make a shitload of money
Eh, I want a place that's got some decent gameplay mechanics and the potential for good RP. If its Eve at launch, well, eve did get good.
The 'eve online at launch' comparison is not particularly something in its favor.
The interface is clunky and inventory management is a tiresome affair. A healthy portion of its existing mechanics are also extrapolated straight out of EVE itself, except stuck on a linear planetary surface. I never explored deep enough into the wilderness to see if its open ended world (air quotes) had much going on for it, but as far as the trial took me I wasn't terribly impressed.
It's fun, but basically expect a learning curve similar to EVE's.
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Does it have mechanics that support things like ninjaing, ganking, and can flipping, or spiritually similar activities?
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Does it have mechanics that support things like ninjaing, ganking, and can flipping, or spiritually similar activities?
As far as I'm aware, no. There was a PvP consent flag for anything that involved direct combat.
Cans are privately protected, it is possible to grief miners by strip mining their mission locations (which never change in the game world), but I think that griefing behavior can be banned.
Edit: I do not think the game heavily works on factional loyalty, despite the fact the game has three factions opposing each other. Could be wrong. If they did, there may be open world pvp - again something I never saw.
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Griefing can lead to bannination? This is no EVE successor.
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Griefing can lead to bannination? This is no EVE successor.
Dug this out of a GM on their forums
Report to a DEV or GM direct or by in-game email. Give the DEV or GM the exploit details please. At that point the DEVs or GMs will determine if it is an exploit.
Still follow the above after reading below.
As for griefing... This is a sandbox and griefing is part of the game. Of course we know you are beta testing, but so is the griefer.
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This is no EVE successor.
There really is none. What we need is a complete failure cascade, new management at CCP, and a reboot of the cluster. Start from scratch, everyone get in a Rifter and make for nullsec. :yar:
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This is no EVE successor.
There really is none. What we need is a complete failure cascade, new management at CCP, and a reboot of the cluster. Start from scratch, everyone get in a Rifter and make for nullsec. :yar:
People will be mystified as to why the new ghost hunter is a woman.
Or maybe I'll build up something from scratch again.
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I'm guessing Vampire/World of darkness isn't an option?
:psyccp:
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I'm guessing Vampire/World of darkness isn't an option?
:psyccp:
You'll have to pay for fangs.
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FWIW, I don't plan on shutting down Backstage any time soon. I could see an expanded role for non-eve discussion sections (or even sections for other games, if it comes to that) in the future if there are a lot of people in the community who want to keep in touch after they leave the game/when they take a break until CCP manages to unfuck their shit.
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FWIW, I don't plan on shutting down Backstage any time soon. I could see an expanded role for non-eve discussion sections (or even sections for other games, if it comes to that) in the future if there are a lot of people in the community who want to keep in touch after they leave the game/when they take a break until CCP manages to unfuck their shit.
I wonder what kind of RP could be done in World of Tanks? :(
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Leaning back against our IS, drinking vodka and watching Nazis freeze to death in the ditches on the other side? Nothing wrong with a little Nazisicle RP.
TBH, I think Eve may have pretty much ruined me as far as most other MMOs go (Not the bad, recent stuff. The good stuff. Remember the good stuff?). Who knows, though?
I don't plan on cancelling my Eve account, either. I just don't know that I will log in for anything but channel RP much anymore. vov
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Honestly, if eve really crashes and burns, can we just move all our RP channels to IRC and resume as best we can there?
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Honestly, if eve really crashes and burns, can we just move all our RP channels to IRC and resume as best we can there?
PnP Eve? It's a thought. Of course, we'll have to pay a $99.00 "license fee". :P
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I've been hopping about some ftp games like APB and the silly animu aeria games. I'm really just waiting for Guild Wars 2 and hoping it's as awesome as the gameplay says it is.
You guys are allowed to play with Izzeh in these games. ._.
Edit: We need to make a lolrp minecraft server TBFH.
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if you check out perpetuum, join OOC, I figured it'd be good to get the RPers together early.
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I don't plan on cancelling my Eve account, either. I just don't know that I will log in for anything but channel RP much anymore. vov
Ummm, Is that a change?
(Sorry, couldn't resist)
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if you check out perpetuum, join OOC, I figured it'd be good to get the RPers together early.
I looked into it for a few minutes today. It is amazingly like EVE, and from what I can tell in desperate need of some RP. I did a quick google search for Perpetuum roleplay and found pretty much nothing. Still not planning on leaving EVE anytime soon or otherwise, but if I do I might go there.
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if you check out perpetuum, join OOC, I figured it'd be good to get the RPers together early.
I looked into it for a few minutes today. It is amazingly like EVE, and from what I can tell in desperate need of some RP. I did a quick google search for Perpetuum roleplay and found pretty much nothing. Still not planning on leaving EVE anytime soon or otherwise, but if I do I might go there.
I think the Perpetuum RP scene is me and Nikita right now.
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Someday, when I get a graphics card that doesn't suck, I'd like to see what people can do with APB or Perpetuum RP.
Sidenote: the avatars in Perpetuum make me cry. :/
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Someday, when I get a graphics card that doesn't suck, I'd like to see what people can do with APB or Perpetuum RP.
Sidenote: the avatars in Perpetuum make me cry. :/
Especially after Incarna epic graphics.
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Someday, when I get a graphics card that doesn't suck, I'd like to see what people can do with APB or Perpetuum RP.
Sidenote: the avatars in Perpetuum make me cry. :/
Especially after Incarna epic graphics.
I ain't gonna lie, NewSenn's portrait made me cry a little when I first saw it. But that was out of joy, not horror. >>
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I've been trying to find info on Perpetuum, no luck. Link?
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I've been trying to find info on Perpetuum, no luck. Link?
http://www.perpetuum-online.com/
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I've been trying to find info on Perpetuum, no luck. Link?
http://www.perpetuum-online.com/
Hmm. The whole "lone wolf" option is attractive.
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Someday, when I get a graphics card that doesn't suck, I'd like to see what people can do with APB or Perpetuum RP.
Sidenote: the avatars in Perpetuum make me cry. :/
Especially after Incarna epic graphics.
Even before then, the avatar creator made me thankful EVE's original one was not that bad
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I'd like to see what people can do with APB
"Sarpati Family" Criminals RP anyone?
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I dunno about that but I think Izzeh and a few others are with these guys? http://roamingpariahs.com/
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I'd like to see what people can do with APB
"Sarpati Family" Criminals RP anyone?
Well now I HAVE to.
Thanks Ken, now I have to go find a graphics card. >:/
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Returned to LotRO. (*Points at the handle in Grey Elven.*) Of course, it's entirely different as a game to EVE so comparing isn't really possible. Also the server is currently on a four-hour maintenance.
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I dunno about that but I think Izzeh and a few others are with these guys? http://roamingpariahs.com/
Is true. Most of the rp char's families were killed by battle cop fedos etc etc. Yew should join usssss. For revenges.
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I don't have a character on US East right now, but I suppose since I have a free slot I could. Not sure if I want to create yet another version of Misan or do something a bit different though. She already exists on Obeya afterall. >.>
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I dunno about that but I think Izzeh and a few others are with these guys? http://roamingpariahs.com/
Is true. Most of the rp char's families were killed by battle cop fedos etc etc. Yew should join usssss. For revenges.
Yay double post. Had to ask Delinquent what your name was in game Izzeh, but added now. All my name ideas were taken so I gave up and used Ninceur. Jumped straight to Silver 3 after my third/fourth match and was already called a hacker by the second one (only went 8-2...). 8)
For whoever was thinking about Brink earlier: it looks like the number of active and full servers is getting very very small right now. At least for the US there is 1/2 good ones if even. EU is a bit better, but Brink doesn't handle high pings well at all. Maybe the July free DLC will revive interest in it, but right now it's borderline dead. :cry:
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I dunno about that but I think Izzeh and a few others are with these guys? http://roamingpariahs.com/
Is true. Most of the rp char's families were killed by battle cop fedos etc etc. Yew should join usssss. For revenges.
Do we get spikes and chips in our heads? :U
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If you guys want to join the lolrp in APB just maek introduction rp poast on the forum thing there. Then we can all be silly and ride cars off high places. \o/
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Then we can all be silly and ride cars off high places. \o/
And get people yelling "NO!" when you volunteer to drive?
Not that I would know anything about this.
Really.
I was an excellent driver in APB.
Didn't get death threats or anything.
Much.
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Then we can all be silly and ride cars off high places. \o/
And get people yelling "NO!" when you volunteer to drive?
Not that I would know anything about this.
Really.
I was an excellent driver in APB.
Didn't get death threats or anything.
Much.
Driving around is probably the only thing I'm decent at in APB, I fail at the rest. /o\
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Anybody looking to pick up some good titles on the cheap should pay attention to Steam this weekend. Crazy deals on offer.
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Anybody looking to pick up some good titles on the cheap should pay attention to Steam this weekend. Crazy deals on offer.
This. Terraria's been my guilty pleasure as of late, personally.