Guild Wars 2

Woah...I just got that link added. Somehow.

My dad got me with the argument "HEY IF YOU'RE GONNA MAJOR IN CS EVERYONE IS GOING TO BE USING WINDOWS 8 IN 2 YEARS EVEN THOUGH IT'S TERRIBLE JUST BECAUSE IT'S NEW SO YOU MIGHT AS WELL LEARN IT."

I was completely nonplussed as to what to say to that. Hopefully by then the HP Envys will have good graphics cards (oh yeah, did I mention I have to get an HP or a Dell? Student discount...well, I don't really have anything against HP, I mean, this 5 year old is still running pretty fine, but I know a lot of people do...).

Did I mention the computer I'm on is a Vista?

Edit: By the way does anyone reallllllllllllly want to become a Jr. Master? I mean I could really care less since I know all of you folks. I already promoted y'all to the second lowest rank. You can invite other people to the guild if you'd like.

That's silly. Plenty of people are still making the transition from XP to 7. Windows 8 is under widespread criticism and it's highly unlikely that you'll have a reason to switch to it right away. Unless you'll be developing Metro apps? I dunno.

Dell is awful but HP isn't bad. I'm using a 2 year old, fairly low-end HP laptop (base price was about $500 at the time, with upgrades to processor and graphics card it cost around $700). Just shell out that extra $50-$100 for a decent graphics card and you should be good to go for running most games on low settings. The min specs for Guild Wars 2 are pretty low considering how good it looks and I can run it on medium-lowish settings without dropping any frames.

Jump quests suck. I hate them in MS, and they're no exception here. Actually, they're even worse here because half the time a misjump is death, which kinda screws the whole "Make 100,000 EXP without dying" achievement for me.

Honestly, they're the worst part of the game.

I'd have to say that's just your opinion, because I rather enjoy them. They're usually a welcome break from the action. Some of them are pretty cleverly designed and it's fun to figure out how to get through them.

I liked some of the jump quests in MS, but too often they relied on abusing invincibility frames and unintuitive knockback mechanics, which made them incredibly frustrating. The ones in this game are more like natural climbs and less like obstacle courses of death.