It’s fixed! The dreaded #134 Error is no more! And for the most part the Blizzard tech support people are completely worthless.. But I get ahead of myself.
Firstly, what it’s not;
The blizzard folks over at their forums, as well as those you get ahold of on the phone.. and via email will try to blame everything on you. The reason for this will come clear shortly, but in a way they are right and in a way wrong.
The World of Warcraft #134 error is so vague and broad in scope that it is the support equivalent to, “It broke!”… It could be any number of things, but the thing they just about always tell you it is, is memory. Read the forums and you’ll always see some asshat chiming in that it must be your memory.. The issue I had with that response is that I had run tests against my 4 gigs of memory both in linux, and in windows using multiple tools as well as testing each stick individually.. My memory was flawless every time.. even using the test blizzard suggested I use.
Once I proved that, they suddenly tried to blame some other facet of my hardware.. Long story short, everything they suggested WAS WRONG. Period..
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Not Malygos, but cool
So we have been playing a LOT of World of Warcraft of late. I must admit I’m very much enjoying it for the most part. But we have gotten to the point where we are farming the end game content because by and large, it’s way too easy.
All that is except Malygos. We have beaten Malygos before but for whatever reason our guild can’t seem to pull it’s collective head out 9 times out of 10. Things just go wrong.
That’s fine and acceptable except they all seem to think we are going to one shot him and move on. Over confidence is our down fall, but not our only one. The real issue isn’t our guild or our game play, but rather the fucking lag!
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- Mirrors Edge — Faith
Mirrors Edge for the PC is a first person action-adventure puzzle game with an extremely compelling story line and quite possibly the most frustrating game play known to man.
I want to preface my review by saying that I really, really want to like this game and it’s close to being actually good.. close, yet so far.
Over all the story line is very good. I very much enjoyed the game for the story aspect, and I do like the idea of a FPS game where the S is largely missing. The ability to interact with your environment is extremely enjoyable and is something that is almost entirely missing from any other game out there.
More over, the game has a lot of nice touches like the rats everywhere indicating the decay of society and the occasional airplane flying over at 30+ thousand feet.. but there were far more frustrating elements.
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Left 4 Dead
I have to admit that I’m not a huge fan of zombie thrillers, so I was hesitant about picking up the latest game from Valve; Left 4 Dead. I just don’t really get why people like zombies so much.. there seems to be a glut of zombie stories and games of late.. and let’s be honest, most stories, games, and movies that feature the oddly loved zombie all portray them in a similar light; mindless undead husks of their former selves all wandering around looking for “braiiiins”..
Not really sure why zombies want brains but by god they do! All zombies that is except those in left 4 dead. Thankfully Turtle Rock Studios, the original developers of L4D made a decision fairly early on that their zombies wouldn’t be wandering around aimlessly looking for that oh so delectiable grey matter but rather, they just want to kill you. Fair enough, considering you play through the game as one of four “survivors” who’s only mission is to cure the zombie plague, one bullet at a time. Turn abouts fair play I say.
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I’m a bit of a Sid Meier‘s fan — He will likely go down in history as the king of turn based strategy games with the introduction of the Civilization franchise in the early 1990′s.
Having said that, I must admit that I don’t enjoy the civilization franchise at all.. In fact, I really can’t stand that game. I have tried to like them but I just don’t enjoy any of the civilization games.. But his other games are great! To this day I still have very fond memories of F-15 Strike Eagle.. I played the hell out of that game..hehe
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