Took my son and his friends to Route 66 Park at Overholser lake last weekend. They were finding stuff all over the place. Not very crowded either.

Hm, Overholser. I forgot about that place. May go over there as Hefner contains next to nothing.

Mitch Park was packed with pokemon hunters this past weekend. There were a dozen or so pokestops, multiple gyms, and tons of "wild" pokemon. Met quite a few folks.

Pokestops and Gyms are holdovers from the world of Ingress (Niantic's previous augmented reality game). Anywhere that has a bunch of portals in Ingress is sure to also have a bunch of stuff in PoGo. Good places off the top of my head: OU Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma History Museum, State Capitol Park... Basically look for any area that has a lot of landmarks like statues, fountains, historical markers, and the like. The higher traffic the area is, the higher the chance of finding wild pokemon, too.

I found it funny when I went to Penn Square on Thursday. The gyms there had people owning them with 600CP Pokemon. I took them over in no time.

Compared to here on OU Campus we have 2000+CP Pokemon owning gyms. Impossible to beat sometimes.

I work right next to Penn Square. That particular one is near impossible to hold since it is so active. So people take it, then throw on a weaker Pokémon, since it will just be taken in minutes anyway. Ive never seen it higher that about a level 4 gym. Whereas the old Samuel Gordon clock is currently level 8 and the law firm(I think that's what it is) just north of North Penn Plaza is currently level 9. They aren't as active, obviously.

Just finished the indie game Inside, from the same people who made Limbo. It was a breath of fresh air, def worth playing. The ending and theory's behind the story are pretty interested for a 2D platformer.

Just finished the indie game Inside, from the same people who made Limbo. It was a breath of fresh air, def worth playing. The ending and theory's behind the story are pretty interested for a 2D platformer.

I loved it. Fun mechanics.

I am playing We Happy Few today. The Alpha is fun. Different game than I thought

I loved it. Fun mechanics.

I am playing We Happy Few today. The Alpha is fun. Different game than I thought

I'm really debating on getting it, I started watching a let's play of it last night but stopped because the story seems really interesting and I kind of want to figure it out for myself. In the Alpha are all the story elements implemented? If not I may just wait till the full release.

I'm really debating on getting it, I started watching a let's play of it last night but stopped because the story seems really interesting and I kind of want to figure it out for myself. In the Alpha are all the story elements implemented? If not I may just wait till the full release.

I would wait until full release. Try not to get it spoiled if possible.

I enjoyed it and will be playing the full version later. I am not sure if it is cheaper now than at full release though, might check into that.

New e-sports arena opening here, could be pretty cool.

https://www.facebook.com/rtzesports/

New e-sports arena opening here, could be pretty cool.

https://www.facebook.com/rtzesports/

They need to have a Dota tournament. My 5k MMR stack will do so well.... There are literally dozens of Oklahoma Dota Players!

On another note check out OverCooked on Steam. Playing it with my wife and we are having a blast!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-RerthVB54

They need to have a Dota tournament. My 5k MMR stack will do so well.... There are literally dozens of Oklahoma Dota Players!

On another note check out OverCooked on Steam. Playing it with my wife and we are having a blast!

Yeah, I would love to get together a CS:GO team and enter into some tournaments. It could be pretty fun, if they did LoL three's tourneys I could probably get a couple guys for that.

I need to check out OverCooked, I've heard it's pretty fun.

Anybody playing WoW getting ready for the expansion at the end of the month?

Anybody playing WoW getting ready for the expansion at the end of the month?

I'll play when they bring back Vanilla. Nostalrius was fun

I'll be playing, most likely. The expansion sounds fun.

I've been playing the pre-patch and getting ready for the expansion. I'm really enjoying it so far. I didn't play vanilla, I started in Cataclysm so I know I'm pretty late to the game.

Ready to get back to some new content and raiding. Invasions are pretty fun for now, but they'll never live up to the zombie invasion. ;) I've been around since the end of Vanilla, so I'm old. :-P Granted I also remember playing the original RTS games.

Yeah, I played Warcraft 3 a lot but I was anti WoW when it first came out. I was one of those insufferable Guild Wars fan boys so I was NEVER gonna play WoW. Middle school me was an idiot though, haha. Me and my small group of friends have been trying to do Pandaria Heroic 25 mans with just 3/4 people, it's a good challenge to get us ready for the updated stuff.

I really loved Vanilla through WotLK. The game just feels so different now. Maybe I just outgrew it but I loved the old days. The game felt really difficult and the community was just so fun.

For me, Vanilla through WotLK was the golden age, Cata was iffy, Panda land was surprisingly fun, and Warlords was fun initially that went downhill over the course of the expansion.

The new features they have planned for Legion with world events and with building your artifact weapon over the expansion have a lot of potential. The former reminds me of the zone events in Rift, and that MMO was really interesting to play.

BC and Wrath were great xpacs, but also probably because they highlights a lot of the heroes from WC3. I echo that Warlords started off good, I really enjoyed the questing in that one. However, the lack of content for 14 months and Garrisons just killed it. The Legion pre-event has been pretty good so far. Demon Hunters are quite fun to play - first tried them out at Blizzcon last year. Hopefully things come back on track a bit this xpac, otherwise the uproar at Blizzcon in a few months should be pretty loud. :-P

Going back to Karazhan, this should be pretty fun. I never raided in BC but my friends who did are really excited about this being a 5 man.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fAtcpvJ6lc

PC gamers, what keyboards do you guys use? I'm looking to get a new one, I've had the same logitech g15 since I was in highshool (I'm 28 now). I'm looking for a Mechanical one under 100 bucks but that seems to be hard to find. Any suggestions would be nice.

PC gamers, what keyboards do you guys use? I'm looking to get a new one, I've had the same logitech g15 since I was in highshool (I'm 28 now). I'm looking for a Mechanical one under 100 bucks but that seems to be hard to find. Any suggestions would be nice.

First you want to figure out what switches you like! (http://i.imgur.com/GWfV3.gif)

Then from there you have quite a few choices.

For under $100 I like the CM Storm Quickfire TK, Logitech G710 (gotta get it on sale), or maybe the Rosewill RK-9000 (v2).

I personally use Coolermaster Keyboards just because I am used to them over the years. I have a logitech for my mouse and I would buy one of their keyboards in a heartbeat.

They're super cheap on amazon. Small question, do you need a number pad/10 key?

They're super cheap on amazon. Small question, do you need a number pad/10 key?

I dunno if I need one or not. It would be really weird to not have one but I think I could get used to it.

I tend to use the number pad when gaming, but a lot of times it's because I've mapped keys there. Especially MMO's like World of Warcraft.

If 10 key isn't needed,

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01H6P8ASU/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&psc=1&linkCode=sl1&tag=modathome-20&linkId=4ee928277d9a9a38941b87758bb0bd3f

Anybody here apart of the mythic race for WoW?

I haven't done any organized raiding since Wrath, just been fairly casually playing since then. LFR has been nice enough to give me what I want to see of the raid storyline, though I did dabble in the flex raiding mode at the end of MoP.

I have been super enjoying Legion, it really feels like a home run so far.

Yeah, I've really enjoyed it as well. I can't wait for 7.1 either, I never had the chance to raid Karazhan so being able to go back in with a smaller group should be fun. We have full cleared the raid on Normal twice now, and when I say we I mean the four guys in my guild and the pugs we picked up, lol.

Any interesting news about video games today?

Oh I think so. Just a little.

My body is ready for RDR2. I might wait for PC but I'm not sure I can.

Also the new Nintendo system looks interesting. I'll wait to see if it really has good 3rd party support. But I want the new Zelda game regardless.

Here is the initial list of third party partners they released this morning. I'm really excited by this list so far, I hope it continues to grow. I'm a Nintendo fan boy, and this will be a day one purchase for me. If the games they showed in the trailer are launch titles that is an awesome group of games. Zelda, A new 3D Mario game, a new Mario Kart, Skyrim remastered, NBA2k, and what looks like Splatoon 2? Yeah, I'm pretty excited for this.

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/2016/img_161020/partners.png

It is also said this is run on NVIDIA. Looks to be an X2 chip which is ARM based. We will see how devs respond to that since the PS4 and Xbox One are on the same architecture

If anybody watched the Switch presentation last Thursday what's everybody's thoughts on it? I got my pre-order Friday morning but I'm a self proclaimed Nintendo fan boy so I was always going to get one. I am however a little turned off by the launch lineup, I was hoping for something a little more robust when it came to choice of games. Zelda and Mario of course are going to be great and some of the JRPG's they showed off look really good IMO, after that I really couldn't care less about what was announced. I guess if we are honest here nobody buys Nintendo consoles for the third party games, we buy Nintendo for the Nintendo games. As far as the Switch itself is concerned I am really liking the tech side of it. I can't wait for the videos of people breaking it down and explaining how everything works.

I was all hyped for the Switch then they announced paid for online gaming... Wow a company that has never gotten online right is going to charge for it now? That was a big turn off. I might buy it a year later for 100 less dollars to play mario and zelda.

I feel like if this fails Nintendo just needs to sell their third party games on the other two consoles and PC. They could make a killing.

I am guessing the architecture of this deal won't be able to run any new AAA games that are graphic intensive. They showed Skyrim but that games is pretty old now.

Also if they announce a console Pokemon people might buy it up. We shall see how it sells in a year.

I was all hyped for the Switch then they announced paid for online gaming... Wow a company that has never gotten online right is going to charge for it now? That was a big turn off. I might buy it a year later for 100 less dollars to play mario and zelda.

I feel like if this fails Nintendo just needs to sell their third party games on the other two consoles and PC. They could make a killing.

I am guessing the architecture of this deal won't be able to run any new AAA games that are graphic intensive. They showed Skyrim but that games is pretty old now.

Also if they announce a console Pokemon people might buy it up. We shall see how it sells in a year.

Yeah, the paid online would bother me more if it wasn't industry standard. I'm guessing they are using the free online till the fall to iron out all the kinks and whatnot. Something that does bother me though is using your cell phone or "smart device" for the voice chat and inviting friends to games. I really want to know more about that whole situation.

If the quality of the net play increases, I'd gladly pay that cost.

Has anyone have any thoughts on the Friday the 13th game? I like the concept and it looks okay, I just wish there was some intricate single player mode as I enjoy those more than multiplayer.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecF59xvFZvQ

Yeah, the paid online would bother me more if it wasn't industry standard. I'm guessing they are using the free online till the fall to iron out all the kinks and whatnot. Something that does bother me though is using your cell phone or "smart device" for the voice chat and inviting friends to games. I really want to know more about that whole situation.

I forgot about that! Haha. They announced a smart phone app to have voice chat.... It's a phone. What.

Sorry, old guy warning :) :)

This may be considered a bit of a one-off on this thread, so if it's a "hijack" I'll be glad to start a separate one....but I'm trying to find some game titles for the XBox One that are more puzzle-solving oriented rather than FPS. I'm thinking along the lines of the old Portal series, where the story required the player to apply logic and solve puzzles of varying degrees of complexity to advance to the next phase. Anyone have any suggestions?

I've been watching my daughter play Final Fantasy and it's just not my cup of tea. I've never been any more than a casual gamer, but the old games I did play back in the day were of the (very) old Infocom ilk, like Starcross and Zork, where the key was puzzles and logic games and less on the shoot-em-up. Anything like that exist these days?

Portal and Portal 2 are about as good as it gets in regards to puzzle solving. But other than those two I can't really help you out. I've never played minecraft but that seems to be popular.

On another note since it has been a somewhat slow time of year I have been on an Indie kick. I've played Soma, Inside, Gone Home, and Virginia all over the last month or so. Each are pretty unique and have their own interesting angle. Even better is that they are all story oriented, with Inside and Virginia making you draw your own conclusions as there is no dialogue. I recommend all of them.

Sorry, old guy warning :) :)

This may be considered a bit of a one-off on this thread, so if it's a "hijack" I'll be glad to start a separate one....but I'm trying to find some game titles for the XBox One that are more puzzle-solving oriented rather than FPS. I'm thinking along the lines of the old Portal series, where the story required the player to apply logic and solve puzzles of varying degrees of complexity to advance to the next phase. Anyone have any suggestions?

I've been watching my daughter play Final Fantasy and it's just not my cup of tea. I've never been any more than a casual gamer, but the old games I did play back in the day were of the (very) old Infocom ilk, like Starcross and Zork, where the key was puzzles and logic games and less on the shoot-em-up. Anything like that exist these days?

This isn't going to help you for Xbox one but there are TONS of Nintendo titles in that realm. Especially Zelda titles, a lot of that RPG is puzzle, mazes, and problem solving. Even the battles are strategic. I bought a 3Ds XL a few years ago and have been thrilled to replay ocarina of time and majoras mask again on remastered graphics and bug fixes. There's scribblenauts and puzzle games galore.

But for the Xbox one you might try a live gold account and browse the downloadable games. If you want 150+ hours of solid gold home run fun just pick up GTA V. It will have you grinning no matter what style game you're into. It was my first gta since the birds eye car theft shareware games in the 90's and it was a blast. I didn't dare take it to the online stage when I finished the story. 6 years later people are still all over that community dropping real world $$ for in game cash.

This isn't going to help you for Xbox one but there are TONS of Nintendo titles in that realm. Especially Zelda titles, a lot of that RPG is puzzle, mazes, and problem solving. Even the battles are strategic. I bought a 3Ds XL a few years ago and have been thrilled to replay ocarina of time and majoras mask again on remastered graphics and bug fixes. There's scribblenauts and puzzle games galore.

But for the Xbox one you might try a live gold account and browse the downloadable games. If you want 150+ hours of solid gold home run fun just pick up GTA V. It will have you grinning no matter what style game you're into. It was my first gta since the birds eye car theft shareware games in the 90's and it was a blast. I didn't dare take it to the online stage when I finished the story. 6 years later people are still all over that community dropping real world $$ for in game cash.

Thanks.. I'm already on XBL from our previous XBox that had more or less been retired until my kids surprised me with an XB1 with a 4K BluRay player (which is what I really wanted) for Christmas. And I've spent the first month playing PacMan (which, as good as the version on the Xbox is, is nearly impossible to play with the full 360-degree joystick rather than the fixed, four-position joystick the original arcade game had) and Carcassonne (a thoroughly addictive tile and strategy game). I saw a couple of intriguing titles on the games list that I might explore further. I'll admit I'm probably jaded and completely spoiled by both the Portal games - I watched my kids play through those two and I absolutely loved them....I just never got to PLAY them LOL. (Ah, those of us who are kids at heart). Heck, I might even give GTA a try :)

This isn't going to help you for Xbox one but there are TONS of Nintendo titles in that realm. Especially Zelda titles, a lot of that RPG is puzzle, mazes, and problem solving. Even the battles are strategic. I bought a 3Ds XL a few years ago and have been thrilled to replay ocarina of time and majoras mask again on remastered graphics and bug fixes. There's scribblenauts and puzzle games galore.

But for the Xbox one you might try a live gold account and browse the downloadable games. If you want 150+ hours of solid gold home run fun just pick up GTA V. It will have you grinning no matter what style game you're into. It was my first gta since the birds eye car theft shareware games in the 90's and it was a blast. I didn't dare take it to the online stage when I finished the story. 6 years later people are still all over that community dropping real world $$ for in game cash.

it is a phenomenal game. so much so that it recently beat it on my PS3, and now I'm playing it again on my new PS4 Pro. the one thing I would add is that Rockstar seemingly hasn't optimized it for the PS4 Pro. I get the sense that it plays on the Pro much like it plays on the regular PS4, which is a bit of a disappointment given the extra horsepower available in the Pro. In any event, it's just an all-around fantastic game

GTAV came out on the PS4 two years prior to the release of the PS4 Pro.

My playthrough of GTA V on the XB1 was superb. I ran into a glitch or two. Which I think is to be expected with any game of that immense size and scope. Keep in mind while there are lots of shooting in that game, there's a plethora of aiming assists and difficulty levels to accommodate all skill levels and let the player immerse in the experience of playing the role of dirty gangster with the heart of gold or not depending on how you decide to play it. It's very open ended.

If you finish gta v and LOVE it you should at least try a Bethesda game. Or if none of that works I still push the Wii U (not as a console, it's a terrible console) for its exclusive content like Scribblenauts, which you would flip for if you're a portal fan, and the fact that they've ported just about every Zelda game since N64 to it in 1080p HD with bug fixes. And the Nintendo content can be had quite cheap.

Realistically, these days a console costs a little more than 4x $59.99 titles. So if having 2 (or) gives you access to the content you want it's not a crazy proposition.

really need to get back into gta v... got it in 2015 after building a new pc but put it down once fallout was released.

GTAV came out on the PS4 two years prior to the release of the PS4 Pro.

Yes, I'm aware. My point is that many of the studios have recently optimized older titles to take advantage of the Pro's more powerful specs, and I don't get the sense that Rockstar has released an update which optimizes the game for the Pro.

There was talk about it in November, but the most recent patch seems focused exclusively on GTA online.

Yes, I'm aware. My point is that many of the studios have recently optimized older titles to take advantage of the Pro's more powerful specs, and I don't get the sense that Rockstar has released an update which optimizes the game for the Pro.

There was talk about it in November, but the most recent patch seems focused exclusively on GTA online.

Ah, my bad. I wasn't aware that older games have been optimized. Makes sense.

With the Switch out in less than a week and Zelda getting the high praise in the previews that are currently out, is anybody else really excited for this thing to finally be out?

Not really. I'm kinda sitting back, not wanting to invest in yet another Nintendo system that is not up to date for the screens currently being sold (Wii hit market at 480res when most screens were 720, Wii U plays a lot of games at 720p native when most every screen sold was 1080p, now every screen is 4K and Sony + Microsoft have responded while Nintendo have just given us a Zelda game confirmed to play at 900pixels 30FPS on the switch) and quietly, sadly, against all my childhood joyous nostalgia, wishing Nintendo would just get out of the hardware market so I could play Breath of the Wild on my Xbox one with the controller that's going to feel comfortable and make me a better player because it's designed for gaming, and not whimsy.

I'll wait for the Switch to drop by 50 bucks and buy it. Probably a year and some games besides Zelda will be out I want to play.

Not really. I'm kinda sitting back, not wanting to invest in yet another Nintendo system that is not up to date for the screens currently being sold (Wii hit market at 480res when most screens were 720, Wii U plays a lot of games at 720p native when most every screen sold was 1080p, now every screen is 4K and Sony + Microsoft have responded while Nintendo have just given us a Zelda game confirmed to play at 900pixels 30FPS on the switch) and quietly, sadly, against all my childhood joyous nostalgia, wishing Nintendo would just get out of the hardware market so I could play Breath of the Wild on my Xbox one with the controller that's going to feel comfortable and make me a better player because it's designed for gaming, and not whimsy.

Really? That's interesting, to each their own I guess.

I'll wait for the Switch to drop by 50 bucks and buy it. Probably a year and some games besides Zelda will be out I want to play.

You might be waiting longer than a year for it to drop to $50.

You might be waiting longer than a year for it to drop to $50.

I said drop BY $50 bucks.