Full Circle. First Splinter Cell was inspired by MGS...now MGS has a distinctly Splinter Cell-like look.

So you prefer the consoles over PC because of issues...that were all on your end. Your firewall was not setup up properly, your anti-virus giving a false positive (either not setup properly or it's likely Norton), you forgot your own password and your internet connection isn't the greatest. That's....interesting I…

I'm sure this has been said already but with an i7 and a 690 you should have no issues. Something is definitely amiss in your rig. For comparison I'm running:

I expected to be horrified...but I found it funny...and then I was horrified at that instead.

Sometimes I wonder if myself and my circle of friends are the only ones with rigs not having any problems with this game. I'm seeing all kinds of posts about bugs, glitches, visual anomalies etc. But I have yet to run into one of these.

LOL Luke, that made my day.

If the shop has no issue with it then that's all there is to it. The ball is in their court. Their house, their rules. I find it a little odd to instantly label people "dickheads" because they have a laptop (or anything else) and got to a shop before you did and then making up your own rules for someone else's…

I hope that EA statement is true about this being pre-alpha and I hope that these animations are just placeholders. They are REALLY bad and make looking at this video a very jarring experience. If that isn't cleaned up in a major way this series has no shot of being even remotely competitive with NBA 2K11 (Yes, I said…

The top twelve in order are TF2, DOTA 2, Source Filmaker, Dungeon Defenders, Sonic Generations, Skyrim, Liberty City, Tribes Ascend, Future Soldier, Sniper Challenge, Portal 2, Last Remnant. Only Liberty City and Hitman have something lewd as the top image (more so Liberty City than Hitman). So the top image in 17% of…

Nope, it's not most people. Not even close. I've been looking through thousands of screenshots this weekend contributing to my part of the beta testing and "these" kinds of screenshots are considerably in the minority. In fact, of the current top twelve on my screen only one of those games has a questionable…

What are your system specs that running Steam and Origin simultaneously causes you enough problems to have to look into freeing up resources? Not being snarky, genuinely curious as I haven't had this issue on a number of configurations so I'm trying to see where this threshold is.

Guess I was in the first 50,000. Did not know that. Gonna have to test this stuff tonight.

Easily, I'm way over spec. Good to know.

Translation: They (the customers) will get used to it. I'm not going to get to deep into the whole discussion of certain players in the industry trying to move from games being a product to a "service" (which inherently limits what customers can do with their games and allows companies to control ownership of the game…

I can dig it.

Seems you haven't played many games this gen as the list of titles using UE3 (not UR3 as you laughably put it) is ridiculous and the number of top titles using that engine is immense as well. As to the color palette comment...yeah, you're just commenting from the nethers and haven't really been keeping at all. It's…

Precisely.

The majority of that post is true which is why you only commented on the one part that could be disputed (getting better trade-in deals elsewhere). All of the other benefits mentioned in that post are demonstrably true.

Every time a developer has decided to make a sweeping change to the controls of an established series and not include the old "legacy" controls there has been a large amount of backlash. Come on VC, don't do something that stupid just because you have no serious competition at present.

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