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@Kidavenger: What local shops do you frequent? I unfortunately need to order most of my parts online seeing as how the local shops by me don't know crap about building PC's.

I just removed a somewhat funny story: When I ordered my full tower case the UPS guy tried to toss it over the fence (the case plus the packaging totaled about 45 pounds) and I caught him right as he was winding up just standing there and told him: 'You break it, you're paying for a new one.' Needless to say he didn't toss it. (We also have issues in my neighborhood and that specific driver was notorious for throwing everyone's packages)

@Sticky_Pennies said:

• Planescape: Torment
• Quake III Arena
• Dragon Age: Origins
• Half-Life 1 & 2
• Diablo 2
• Deus Ex
• System Shock 2
• Starcraft: Brood War & Starcraft II
• Warcraft III & Frozen Throne (screw that WoW noise.)
• Duke Nukem 3D
• Mechwarrior 2
• Pool of Radiance
• Day of the Tentacle

You need to know your roots.

Edit: Linkified.

^--This is a pretty good lineup of some deep PC gaming roots. Good mix too.

@Ravenlight: Do share! I have a morbid fascination with horror stories of bad experiences with companies. I've returned a few products with both newegg and tigerdirect and those were painless as you said. It seems to be the manufacturer ones where they get wonky. (Though Patriot is pretty good and responsive in my experience)

I only bring this up not to bash companies, but to hear other horror (or annoying) stories people have had to deal with. I ran into an annoying issue when dealing with Gigabyte and their RMA process that involved me sending a defective board, they turned out and returned it saying it was fine, I sent it back AGAIN because it was indeed broken only for them to try and say that after RMA'ing the same board twice my warranty with them now is expired. Call me a noob but after dealing with that, I won't be buying Gigabyte products anytime soon. While they did finally give me a working board, by the time they did I already bought another one (Ended up buying an Asus Sabertooth 990FX and it worked flawlessly) and am now just using this gigabyte board as a test module for new parts I get.

What's the worst/most annoying thing you had to deal with during an RMA?

I own an XFX 7970 and I've had only one hang up since buying it, my power supply almost couldn't support it. When I bought my current one (some 775W model, forgot the manufacturer at the moment), I didn't plan on getting a higher end video card that would need so much power. I lucked out and had the right connections but definitely make sure you have the proper connections before dropping the money for it (That one needs a 6-pin and an 8-pin to properly power it). Beside that hang up, I'm loving it. I've been able to play all my games and do video editing no issues at all. (Should also note I installed the beta AMD drivers just cause I wanted to try them with Far Cry 3 and it works beautifully)

New DBZ? I don't need this gas money anymore right? (Obligatory english dub fanaticism is necessary here)

Still weirds me out every time I hear his Japanese voice...

Exciting times people!

A box...that plays vidja games on your TEE-VEE?! What is this newfangled sorcery? [/sarcasm]

@familyphotoshoot: Now that you mention Oblivion's achievements, reminds me it did the exact same to me. I just breezed through the story and did all the faction quests for the easy 100%. Though playing it right after Skyrim probably didn't help either...

Skyrim and Saints Row: The Third are my two favorite S-Ranks. I loved those games to death and for once I felt like the achievements reflected that.