Obsession

Hello everyone who still remembers me from years back. Had to come here to say hi and ask for simple question, do I still need to remember my old account names and everything to play this game on open network? I had two accounts on underworld closed hc, but those servers are gone for years ago so is there even any reason to remember what those names were? do they care or can I just create new one? Someone replied on my old ranged gladiator video on youtube and there I got spark to install the game again and try to get my wife to play it with me. Just got it running on this laptop and I hoped to install the other copy on our gaming pc and I hoping to play it online with her. Would be great if it still can be played via internet and not have to use local network cables like in old days. Any help?

It's better to get something cheap for first car as young drivers often get dings and scratches on theyr cars at least few times before they master driving and parking well enought. And as used cars are really cheap in Germany (atleast compared what you have to pay in here) it should be easy to find a decent one. That Caddy looks lot like what old people drives so I don't know how "cool" it would be drive it when you are 18 even it has that nice camping feature. I think WW golf/passat variant TDI would work better as it's better looking. Removing backseats when going on trip will clear enought space for a bed in the back. That is if she really wants a car where she is able to go to sleep.. most 18 year olds don't care much about that (or atleast I haven't met one). When thinking petrol vs diesel, I would say go for the diesel. That would mean no Toyota even it's reliable choice, but theyr diesel engines are not as good as VAG has. Consumption around 5-6L/100km while good old 1.9tdi has around 4-5L/100km. So I would say 2002-> ww golf variant (or hatchback if she likes it more) Tdi. Just looked from mobile.de for some good ones starting from 3000€.. less than 200k on the clock and full service history. Here that kind of car would cost starting from 8000€+ even if it had driven lot more (300k+). Younger people don't use same car that long so buying a new car would be total waste of money as value drops so fast and when you add some scratches and dings or even total wrecking of the car it drops even more. I wouldn't even worry about safety as ten year old cars are still "modern" and safe. Some people are afraid of repair costs on older cars.. sure there are parts that needs to be changed from time to time, but it's lot cheaper than what you loose in depreciation on a newer car. Just my 2 cents..

I think it's way too early to say anything about S3 as all I've seen is 5 pictures and lot's of rumors what is going to be. If the game doesn't have things that made sacred so great, but still has the feel of sacred, it could be fun game to play and good purchase. Just thinking as I remember when Bethesda released first info about fallout 3, most of the fallout series fans (including me) were really upset for going 3d and more action based gameplay. I really hated those first pictures about the game and had really no interest of buying it as I thouhgt they ruined everything good fallout series had earlier. But after it was released and more videos about the game came out, it started to look pretty good so I bought it.. and all the dlc's.. and new vegas... and al the dlc's to that game too. It was SO GOOD, even it is totally different than original fallout games. I must have played both games atleast 20+ times thru and all the dlc's atleast twice (they were not as good), so first impression isn't allways right. Same thing happened whit Diablo 3. D2 was a great game and first pictures and videos about d3 didn't impress me at all. It was different than original games. Still ended up buying the game after seeing it action. It was fun game (until 1.04 patch or something like that) and gave me 200+ hours of fun gaming and I think it's really good value for games nowdays. It had same problems as S3 has claimed to have. Loot system was totally broken as you really could not find anything good and when you did find something "good", it was still just crap atleast compared to the stuff you could buy from auction house for very little amount of gold. D3 doens't have any builds as you allways get all the skills at same time, so every character is the same. Gameplay couldn't be more linear. Still, it was fun game for a while.. This is just my thoughts about S3.. it could be a good game or a bad game, it's way too early to tell. Games were better in old days, but the world has changed a lot since. New players like consume games faster, whit small learning curve and really easy difficulty level. That is sad, but what can we do about it.

Good thing I don't need to worrie about the prices anymore, just beaten Diablo on Inferno. It was lot easier than I thought.

Yes, I have been greedy to look Strenght, vitality and all resist on every armor piece. It's so hard to balance vit and strenght when they are not on the same item and lowering my all resist is not an option. Still going to try that tip, will be lot of math work, but if can save few million there, would be great. On weapon side I haven't been so greedy anymore as realized I would never find a weapon of my dreams whit amount money I can collect. Here is something I'm looking for.. 1h weapon whit more than 900dps, +600 life on hit and more than 100 strenght and still the cheapest listed was 500k whit more than a day of AH time left so the price will go up. Next two weapons are 2m and 3,5m whit more than a day of AH time left. Not looking for anything uber gear, just something to survive on random elite packs. Or then I just have to run like a coward when I see them, like I cleared some parts of act2 when my gear wasn't good enought to handle them.

Anyone else thinking those asking prices are way too much on act3/act4 inferno gear? I understand that the best sets and legendarys are realle expensive, but even the average rares are way too expensive. Prices should go down on SC as the gear never leaves from the game like they sometimes do on HC, so there should be rapid decline on prices, but haven't seen one happen. Somehow it feels like the prices has gone up. On normal and nightmare you would get good gear for 5k buyout prices and 20-50k on hell. First weapon I got for inferno cost about 200k and all the other gear around the same. That's fine, because it's still possible to get 200k pretty fast in inferno. On act2 the prices went even over 300-400k. Only way to get the stuff I needed was buy the overprices stuff whit decent bids right on the last few minutes. Now playing close to end of act3 (allready in the craters) and starting to get beaten by normal guys again and my gear is allready pretty good, so I need even better upgrades. Too bad now items cost atleast 1-8m gold per item.. so where do you expect to me get that amount of money? Just yesterday tried to buy helm that would improve around 40 strenght and 5 all resistances to my current one (which I paid less than 100k)and 300k bid was too low right when I made it. Today the price of that helm was already 880k and had 14h to go. So to upgrade my gear up to act3/act4 worthy would cost atleast 50m or more.. That would take months of farming for me. I'm lucky to get hour a day playing time. Maybe it's time wait till the prices go down and 1.0.5 comes out, maybe that'll help out. Atleast if the loot is actually starting to be any good. Sorry for the rant, but inferno has been really hard, but same time really rewarding to play. I hope fun doesn't end just because there's no way to get upgrades..

Still playing solo on SC. Some time ago took every character thru normal after my monk got stuck in hell act 2, gettin killed all the time. I did find barb so much fun to play so kept on playing. Now currently at 60lvl (+2 paragon level) on inferno act 3. Still can't even get pass of the first monster packs, so back to AH improve something. Not going to do any grinding because I haven't needed to do so far and that's great. Let's see if barb can make it thru inferno. If it requires farming, not going to do it. I think it's good enought score to even get trhu act 1 and 2 on inferno. Then it's just AH time for monk to get it up to inferno, not going to even try inferno whit it. After that WD and DH thru nightmare and maybe hell, not sure yet.. after that it's time to wait for the expansion to come out.

I have seen this happen on some rare items and even how long you wait, it allways gives that error. Tried to put those items to auction house for 3 days and then sold them to merchant as everything else was going up for auction but not those rares.. no big deal when value would have been 2000-3000 gold.

This makes me feel really incompetent now haha, I'm having a tough time on normal in some places Heh, I think it depens what character type is playing and what gear you have found more than skill. Just finished the game on normal playing as monk 17h 48min and only 3 deaths. 2 of them was in 3act just because I was rushing too much and killing monsters in wrong order. Got surrounded by new type of monsters. Last death in 4act was something I couldn't do about much. Sun shining on a LCD screen and fighting in totally darkness. So I got stuck in a corner while fighting some mini-boss. Overall the game on normal isn't that hard as even diablo only took time and 2 health potions to kill.

huh, this was good tip, didn't even know it's possible to do..

Only legendary item found so far is this belt http://us.battle.net/d3/en/item/the-witching-hour which is worse than my random rare belt. Likely to give away to a friend that plays wizard as it's useless for my monk.

Hello to everyone, Haven't been on this forum for a long time and just thought maybe I could pop in and see what people think about D3. I think D3 is much better than expected. First few pictures and videos of the beta was awfull and I thought "not going to buy that game ever". Worst thing was the 3d view which I hated on Sacred 2 also and stopped playing after few hours. Good thing they fixed that and improved many things from those first looks. After playing it more than 12 hours I find it still really good game and better than I expected. Really addictive, time flies when you just try to play few minutes and realize after hour or two you are still playing it. Graphics and sounds are great and I really like all the special effects. Everything explodes or atleast does some colorfull show of lights. Really cool stuff and hard to get bored whit it. Even I find it well worth the price, it's not perfect. One of the worst features is if servers are down, you cannot play on singleplayer. Now that's madness and I fear they will change the game at some point so you need to play monthly fee for playing it.. and that's not for me. Also when you need to register the game in bnet, it's great for your security but how could you re-sale that game anymore if it's allready in your account? But those things are still something that aren't important at the moment. Mostly I fear few things that can ruin the game really fast. I hate that every character you create is same as any other same character type in the game. There is no real builds in this game and it's kinda sad as I have allways found it to be the best part of diablo 2 (and sacred). There isn't anyway to think outside of the box when skills and attributes are everytime the same. Why bother making more than one of each character type, when they are identical. Only thing you can do is put a different weapon type in it's hand. Other thing I find really good and bad at same time is auction house. I love it as finaly you can buy good gear for your toon and sell good drops for more gold. The bad part is it makes looting and giving stuff pretty pointless. I allready have found one legendary item and lot of rares, but even I find them usefull compared to the gear I'm using, I still know there is much better stuff on sale at the auction house for few thousand gold coins. Maybe that changes in higher difficulty levels and stuff starts to cost insanely much. These two things is the reason why I fear this addictive feeling wont last very long. But everything is still pretty new in the game, so lets see how long it will keep its claws on me before it's time to move on. So what's your opion? is it good as you expected? what is good about it and what's bad?

Has anyone allready died in nightmare, hell or inferno and seen what happens if you die? D2 on normal was the same as D3 is, you lose some money, big deal. On nightmare and hell you started to lose xp also.

Playing on softcore, as I did also in D2, even tho D3 seems really easy on normal. Just playing it first time thru "singleplayer" and then see if there's any point of playing it on hc. Level desing is really much like constant running on narrow paths and fighting, don't know if it would be even interesting at all whit more players than 2 or 3. But time will tell if the game gets better after many hours spent on it.

Just came from theather and must say 3d is lot more impressing than I've seen so far. Really improves the movie experience and makes it easier to get deep into the plot and characters. But still.. it's not fully 3d, so there's still much to improve, before it feels real. But the movie.. I must say I was shocked to see K13 (allowed kids over 13 years old) on it.. as it is not movie for children. Shooting people, slowmotion death scenes, blood and lot of violence. Made me sad to think that as I was watching it. But overall the movie is okey.. maybe 3/5 stars, not going to buy it when it comes on dvd/bluray, but worth seeing ones. I bet it would been lot more interesting if they would really focused more on the negotiation than killing each other. I really didn't like the action parts that much as went to see a animation for whole family, not war movie or action movies. If I wanna see better action whit same robots, similar aircrafts, I'll put matrix revolution on my dvd-player.

Only a level 56 Mogul, but leveling every day. Haven't seen a energy pack for a few weeks or so.. I have some strange feeling that my mafia members can't send me one, because I'm online so often. Been adding most of my level up points to Attack and Energy, some to Defence and only few to stamina.. but I have been thinking another style as jobs tend to use a lot of energy at my level allready, so planning to put lot more to stamina as it will re-generate faster than energy.. even if it gives less experience, but then I don't have to wait allday to get the jobs done. Any good advices to give?

I'm totally hooked to this game and I don't even know why. Checking it atleast 5-6 times per day. At morning before getting to work and first thing after work and last thing before going bed.. sound really sick allready Anyone else playing it? would be nice to get more mafia members and talk about the game

Does this still have that stupid health system which came back in cod 2 and has ruined the whole series after that, where you don't really have any health bar and you'll recower by stading down from the gun fire? I have to say original cod was and still is one of the best war games ever made but after that it's been hard to find good game in this genre, because they all have gone to auto health recover system.

Yeah, seems so. Too bad. I wonder how hard it really can be to create small portable internet radio player in time where I can surf where ever wirelessly whit this 1mb 3G mobile modem (or what ever it's called internationally) which is no bigger than standard usb-stick.. or is it just too expensive to create? This basic 3g modem costs around 120 euros. If we add cheap phillips mp3/radio player components (also size of basic usb stick) around 40 euros and some simple program where you can select from the net what stations you wanna put in to this devices memory and they would automaticly be found by name in the player. I would definetly buy it for 200-250e right away. And to Schot and Gogo, Sattelite radio is no option as here aren't any providers of that service. Never has been and I believe never will be.. Too bad, it sounds really interesting.

Lol, what a beautiful finn-english he is speaking on the sacred 1 video.. and how no-life you can be and how you can do it as boring as he does. Sad.. sad sad sad..

Hey.. I'veen listening now Finlands not so great radio station selection and come to conclusion that I need a portable internet radio device or I am going to get depressed or mad. Listening every day from 6am to 2pm radio, so I really need to hear something new.. all the stations just plays same songs over and over and over again.. Wouldn't mind if they were any good, but mostly it's po-po-po-poker face by lady gaga or new black eyed peas songs.. arghtt! So now, please show me small enought device that can play internet radio channels. Even better if it doesn't have any other functions or "big" lcd monitors and uses AA or AAA batteries. For the network use I've got 3G wireless connection, which uses either USB-stick, Sim card inside or even better would be device where you can install Sim card directly (like mini laptop's has nowdays) Laptop is too big, Mini laptop is too big.. Iphones and such are out of the question as they are too expensive (I would only use it for listening internet radios), too fragile and have weak batteries which cannot be charget at work and extra batteries are really expensive. In my dreams this device should be about size of basic portable USB-Stick, but I'm okey if it's size of a old portable cd-player (this is how desperate I am as those things were huge) Some sort of hand pc would be cool as it could be used to surf the net too, but haven't found any on the market.. watched some program long time a go where they had three times PSP size hand pc:s and allready then wanted one, but if I remember right it comes to market in 2010 - 2012.. How about PSP Go, anyone know what net connections it uses or is there keyboard coming out for it?

Yup, that's basic thing in racing games. That works on any other game I know, but in shift you just run out of track if you don't slow down to corners as cars steering is bit hard, but nothing too bad after few races. Still haven't figured out how slow you can turn and still keep up whit others as there isn't any grip levels.. Just thinking of posting a video to youtube, so I can get more of the you just don't know how to drive comments You can get a 4 wheel drift even if the speed is beyond the level how fast you can drive into a corner (the game itself gives racing line that turns yellow when driving bit too fast and red if going way too fast). Also you can get four wheel drift even in a straight line and some times I have lost lead because of that. Push one time turn and the whole car start to go from side to side and it takes time when you can get it on control again. Many times it starts to drift so badly it's out of your hands and you spin or slide out of the track. Overall the car handling is reminding me of Juiced 2 in drift mode, which is just a joke as a racing game as the cars are not even slightly realistic. But see for youself and let me know if you can figure out how to get them grip on a track.

I just wish if S3 ever comes out, I hope they will get most of the good stuff from the first one and some good ideas from second to create something beautiful and then adding more new stuff over it. Or then create something completely different which doesn't remind of any other boring this type of game. I hope they take a look at diablo 3 and think again would we really want a 3d enviroment.. not really. It doesn't matter how the game looks if it's just badly desinged in the first place like Sacred 2 is.

Hello everyone.. it's been while since I've been here, but had to come by and visit as I have a problem whit a game.. If anyone else has NFS Shift and is willing to give me advice how to tune the car so it doesn't feel like it's on ice all the time? This is first time ever in a racing game where lack of grip is the problem (doesn't matter if its fwd, rwd or awd) as you cannot turn normaly on any corner whitout having a small four wheel drift, so even in tier 2 I'm having huge problems keeping up whit the other cars as drifting slows down lap times several seconds. I've heard this game is supposed to be "simulator", but it's doesn't feel that. All the gran turismo series games grip levels are normal whit normal driving and it's really hard to even create "drifting car" in 1 - 4 parts and it's the best "real driving simulator" for my opinion. Found some sites where players are having this same problems, but also heard lot of these "you don't know how to drive" type of comments, but this isn't the case really.. anyone who has driven fast car in real life, knows how they should work. Also if I have been able to complete all gran turismo games, it's hard to see why driving skills would really be a problem in Shift. I have driven 300hp v3.5L 350z whit racing tires and racing clucth in real life and I can say it was nothing like the feeling in the game. It had huge grip even whit moist on the ground after the rain. Same thing whit Mustang I tested some time ago. So any ideas or tuning advices how to turn off that "car on a soap" effect. I'll bet those cars wouldn't act out like that even in winter time.. Only place where the car doesn't drift well is the drifting mode.. haha.. still learning how's that done in the game. Feels really technical after seeing how it works on older NFS games.

Sacred Plus is the best one if map design would be priority.. Don't know if everyone allready knew but the original sacred was not totally work of Ascaron, so there could been better map designers than ascaron has. Looking at Underworld parts you'll see the difference and it's more like in Sacred 2, which isn't that open as you wished for. Sacred 1 characters are better than ones in sacred 2.. if they would have switched daemon to inquisitor on S1, it would have had all the best characters in the game. As non of the new ones in Sacred 2 are so special like the old ones in S1.