Since I’m waiting for video to upload to YouTube, I loaded Pub Games with XBLive disconnected (I don’t know if there’s a patch yet, but I don’t want to take the chance) and merged my new character with Poe, the one I used to gain over 100,000 gold in Pub Games. I was charged 500 gold for the merging and wasn’t told of any penalty. I then played Fortune’s Tower a bit and earned around 4-5 thousand gold using the exploit. Went back to the XBox dashboard, reconnected to Live, and loaded Fable II. Loaded my character and sure enough, the gold is there. Checked my alignment, and I’m still slightly good from my previous good deeds.
This covers the ‘childhood’ intro of the game. YouTube limits individual videos to 11 minutes, so it’s split up into 3 parts. Also loading screens were cut out to make it fit 30 minutes (source video was 34 minutes). Hit the jump to see all 3 videos. Read the rest of this entry »
I saw a news post on Kotaku the other day regarding Fable II and it reminded me that I needed to preorder it still. So I got on Newegg and ordered it and Guitar Hero World Tour as well. The next day, I received the “item has been shipped” email and thought “maybe the release date was earlier than I thought”. But then later I discovered I was wrong.
According to several members of various gaming message boards, Newegg had the item listed as “in stock” and was taking normal orders for it. Many say that their shipment is now being held and their estimated delivery time has been changed to the 21st (the game’s actual release date). The ones I’ve read so far used UPS, however, I am using FedEx. As you can see on the pic to the right, mine still says it should arrive tomorrow. It also says that it left the FedEx facility for delivery early this morning, which means it might arrive this afternoon.
If it does arrive today or tomorrow, I’ll be recording at least the first 30 minutes of my gameplay to upload to YouTube, including testing out what happens when I attempt to transfer my exploited gold earnings from Pub Games to Fable II. I’ll probably also take pictures of the box, disc, manual, etc since people seem to love that for some reason.
How about Dell laptops with other nVidia series cards?
My company bought 3 Inspiron 9400s, identical to one another. Each one has a GeForce Go 7900 GS.
One of those three shipped with the video card already defective. It started off with minor polygon/3d-model distortion in 3d applications (games mostly). Then the distortion got worse as time went on. Then eventually we started seeing other aspects of the video rending start to go corrupt, such as stretched/distored 2d graphics, bits of the screen missing. So we had Dell ship us a replacement video card. It’s been fine since then.
Then recently another laptop (mine) started showing the same symptoms as the first one. So we called Dell again and they sent us another replacement video card. Only this time the video corruption was still there and worse. So next, I tried swapping RAM with the last “no problems” laptop. Still didn’t work. We even tried swapping the CPUs. Still didn’t work. So we called Dell back and they send us a replacement motherboard. We installed it. Still no change.
So finally we swapped the video cards on my laptop and the “no problems” laptop. And it finally worked again.
So apparently the video card Dell sent us was defective out of the box. Which brings us to a total of 3 defective videos cards we’ve received from them (the first laptop, mine, then the replacement for mine).
We’ve called in again that we need another video card, and they basically told us that they don’t believe us and will be sending a technician to us to check it out him or herself, which has left me very angry with them as this means I’m without my laptop for even longer. It’s been about a month now since mine has become unusable. And to make matters worse, I live in a remote region that DHL doesn’t ship to, and Dell always insists on shipping through them even after we tell them we can’t receive DHL. And I’m sure it’ll take them another month to send a technician down from wherever just to look at it, tell us it needs a new video card, then leave us waiting for Dell to send another one, that could be defective out of the box.
There were a few requests on YouTube for the builds (formulas/recipes/whatever) of my custom characters. So here they are. Some of the characters were tweaked a bit after the video was made.
Sorry for the lousy quality of the screenshots, but my capture device only captures at 720×480 and 640×480.
Checked the stats and saw that no one has downloaded anything from my repo in the past few months, so I’m dropping it. The apps only worked on 1.1.1 and 1.1.2 anyway.
Here’s a rundown of my thoughts about the games shown at E3 08.
The list is long and still missing a lot of games that were featured. The ones I didn’t list are ones I just have absolutely no interest in or haven’t looked at.
Odd glitch in Mass Effect that sometimes equips you with a non-existant gun while on the Normandy. Can’t do much with it except run around aiming at stuff. Can’t shoot, can’t change to a real gun, and it goes away when you talk to someone.
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