they haven't even announced the release date for sc2 yet, hopefully they will at blizzcon. Either way I'm sick of playing the old sc for so many years, and sick of warcraft and WoW.

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Yeeeaah... I hope so. I imagine that'd be the time and place to do it. Even though Blizzard is notorious for pushing back release dates, and history would logically leave me to believe that I won't be seeing this game any time soon I keep hoping that once, maybe just this once they'll be on time and it'll be this huge ordeal because they broke their delaying streak. Fat chance. Then there's the hopeful speculation that it'll be released Dec 3rd because of the coincidence where 5 major stores had that as its official release date but that dream seems pretty much crushed when you have these certain Blizzard people saying it won't be ready for Christmas, but some time in 2009. Its probably a very good thing it isn't out yet, as I'm really busy and it'd distract me but I don't care! I want it RIGHT FUCKING NOW.

I've got a couple of friends who where lucky enough to play it, one at some convention and the other got to participate in the alpha testing. They only had great things to say about it.

Blizzcon is actually being held only 15 minutes away from me, but its also 100 something dollars away from me, too. I actually work very close to one of the Blizzard HQs and its torture having to see it all the time.

I haven't played the ol' SC in probably a year, but I'm thinking of re-installing it just to hold me over. I never got into Warcraft or WoW, thankfully. Something about them never really held my attention.

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Damn, If I were you I'd spend that 100 bucks like I was going to get sex out of it.

Be prepared if you re-install starcraft, everyone on there is a pro and will kick your ass in 10 minutes. I guess thats another reason for sc2 to come out, everyone will be somewhat even again in terms of skill. I really can't wait for d3 though. used to spend hours hacking and slashing.

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Yeah, thats why I stopped a year ago.. everyone was too good. It makes sense though - 10 years to perfect their game!

Yeah, D2 was fucking great but the third has got to be at least 2 years away so I'm trying not to get excited for it.

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I re-installed Diablo 2/Expansion a few days ago and can't get off it (just in time for finals!). Anyone still play?

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I used to play a shit ton, had level 80's and shit on U.S west, then forgot about it and the chars where deleted
I still have an account with a level 8 paladin or something shitty like that.

edit: I just logged in and now that character is expired too

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Ahaha, sucks. Well, if you want to start a new character let me know and we can play. I've got a 26 Assassin.

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yeah it said it expired but then I joined a game with him so its a small miracle of some sort.

my name is Tit-man, maybe I can concentrate enough to pass act 1 again

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Alright, I need help.

I bought Fallout 3 the other day and installed it successfully. However, when I try and run the game I get an error saying that it can't find "xlive.dll". I googled around and found that I need to download the Windows Game Live program so I did, but when I try and install it it stops early in the installation process and tells me it can't complete.

PLEASE HELP

Why the fuck do I need a Windows Live thing to play a singleplayer game?

EDIT: Apparently I need to upgrade to Service Pack 2 for my XP to make this all work. However, for some fucking reason, my computer keeps losing connection about 20% into the download. Someone doesn't want me to play this game.

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darko sounds like you need a download manager mate. if you use firefox this is a good one:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/201

i use it & no probs, hope this helps to solve your problem.

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You can get it manually from another site. The Windows Download Manager doesn't even give you full justification of your connection.

The FF Download Manager is useless because it tells me that I have to use IE to update to Service Pack 2.

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So after hours of tinkering and searching, I was finally able to install the service pack (I had to end a certain task in Task Manager while it was downloading..). After that the game would freeze as soon as I would start it up (just a black screen with a 'Not Responding' error) and I discovered that I don't have enough CPU to run the game.

It says I need 2.4 and I only have 2.19. When I bought the game I thought I had 2.9 or something.. FUCK ME.

I guess I should upgrade my CPU.. is that even possible? If so, what is a good, inexpensive selection? Whats the normal price range?

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Go here, run the test of Fallout 3, see what fails and what they recommend. Most of the stuff they recommend can be found a bit cheaper on eBay.

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I'm looking at something like this: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...p?EdpNo=4089662

How can I find if that is compatible with my computer? I'm on a (hold the laughter, please) Dell Dimension 2400.

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Ouuuuu, Dells are a bitch concerning compatibilittililalaity.

Anyway, here an assuring thread about it.

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Yeah, fuck. I'm probably just going to invest in building a new computer. I'm pretty behind anyways and my computer can barely do most of the recording things I'm forcing it to.

Thanks for the help anyways, man.

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I've never played any of the Half-Life games, are they any good? I've heard nothing but awesomeness from Half-Life 2 reviews.

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Oh Christ, yes! You have no idea what you're missing dude! HL2 and the expansions are fucking epic. Go watch some of the gameplay videos and you'll know what I mean.

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I'm downloading it right now from Steam. It looks like it uses a lot of the same functions as Counter-Strike.

With some more investigation it looks like I may be able to upgrade my computer for very cheap for it to play Fallout 3. Fuck, I hope so.

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