Halo 4 by far. LOVE the lore and cannot WAIT to see what the campaign reveals.

People crack me up with blatant ME 3 hate.

I will throw it out there that yes, I am a HUGE sci-fi fan and Mass Effect is in my top 3 sci-fi universes of all time. With that said, if you care at all about story driven content, start with Mass Effect 1 (it hasn't aged very well) and make your way to 2 then 3...you will not be disappointed with your overall experience. I will admit that the complaints about the ending have their points, but outright saying it is terrible even with the free extended DLC is just plain silly. Everyone complains that the videos you see at the end of ME 3 don't wrap up every little thing they did throughout the entire 120 hours of gameplay, but I'm hard-pressed to find any videos that have ever done that (maybe Sewer Shark?).

The truth of the matter is that a good chunk of the gameplay in ME 3 is the ending to the trilogy. You DO see what happens to everything that you have come across in the past (granted some events / lack thereof are disappointing) and the game does tie up a very large chunk of the hundreds of loose ends that develop over the course of the trilogy.

I was ABSOLUTELY in love with ME 3 (and 2 and 1) all the way through, and you should definitely give yourself a chance to experience them in the same way. Ignore the sheep...there's 99.9% of ME 3 that they don't tell you about when they complain about the ending.

Just my 2 cents :)

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Yeah, just happened again. At first I thought it was my internet, but I did a speed test, and I'm getting 9ms ping, 5.5 down and ~1 up, so it's not great, but more than enough, or should be more than enough to play online smoothly.

Lach0121

This in no way, shape, or form rules out intermitted sync.

Meaning that it could very well be your internet connection. If your connection drops completely, but only for about 10-20 seconds, then it will kick you. This would also not affect your speed very much except for when it is down, there would be no speed.

If you live in the States, Comcast was having major trouble this and last week, almost nation wide because of the storms (I am guessing)

We have been having intermitted sync for about a week, and a half now. Sometimes down for hours, sometimes down for 20-30 seconds.

THANK YOU!

I was hoping someone would come out and say this. Speedtest is in no way, shape, or form a troubleshooting method for connectivity issues. I'd make sure Windows firewall is turned completely off and that you have the latest router firmware before you go blaming Diablo servers...especially since you appear to be the only one with the issue.

I am currently in a bit of a time crunch as I will be heading up north in a few days, but I was wondering if there was any place I could go to pick up some type of cheap iPod dock that would allow output through conventional speakers using conventional speaker wires.

Any help is appreciated...I have one for my stereo receiver currently, but it has some strange type of proprietary shape to the cable and bringing my receiver up to sit in the sun for days on end doesn't sit well with me. Between my friends and I, we have a few old stereos laying around but none seem to have any sort of audio INPUT...again...any suggestions are appreciated.

Shalebridge Cradle from Thief Deadly Shadows. Just play it and you'll see what I mean.

turtlethetaffer

That...level...traumatized me. The movement of those inmates was just...something else. That whole game is kind of scary if you think about it...

Wow, I haven't written a post in a while but I had to vent while I sit here with it approaching 2 AM drinking a beer and listening to this...

Don't get me wrong, I LOVED Linkin Park back in the day...Hybrid Theory and Meteora are still some of my favorite albums, but WHAT. THE. HELL. is this "A Thousand Suns" album?

I know a lot of you will immediately jump to "Linkin Park sucks"...bottom line is they were hard as **** back in the day. I remember walking around junior year of high school blasting Hybrid Theory...literally any track of Hybrid Theory. It's so rare nowadays to find an album I can listen to all the way through, but to this day, their first two are high on my list.

I have just fiished my initial skim of each track and...there's two songs that are ok...and they're Shinoda rapping.

Just wanted to vent...I still have high hopes with every album but it's less and less rock each time...so sad...

I can speak from personal experience that it is DEFINITELY going to be your CPU holding you back.

I have an E8400 @ 3.4Ghz and went from a 9800 GTX to a 460 GTX. Ever since going to Windows 7 I have always had a System Monitoring widget open in the top right corner of my desktop. When gaming before the upgrade, I would close out and CPU usage would have been around 60% with big fluctuations if I looked back at the processor history.

Now, when I close out of almost any newer game (SC II included), I see 100% CPU usage for the entire recorded history of the CPU.

Do yourself a favor and OC...see what happens.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125280&nm_mc=OTC-pr1c3watch&cm_mmc=OTC-pr1c3watch-_-Video+Cards-_-GIGABYTE-_-14125280

I am concerned that this card is $100 lower than the next lowest priced card in the GTX 485 line-up. Is there any reason why I should not get this over a different make/model in the GTX 485 line-up? I am going from a 9800 GTX and really don't want to bust out another hundred dollars if I don't have to.

Any help is greatly appreciated.