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I like how almost none of the discussion relates to SWTOR but instead of some general arguing about SW. Nice thread.

Finished 3rd playthrough of Fallout: New Vegas. I own couple DLCs but did not bother to play them, the main story was enough. This time I found the 50 star caps without cheating, and I finished the game by being NCR pawn. My Icewind Dale 2 re-run has been put on hold due to lack of interest. It was fun for a while but damn that game gets repetetive fast. Now playing The Sims 3 again. Made my avatar a vampire and then ghosted him, now I'm enjoying my brand new ghost-vampire-evil mastermind (shame though he lost the vampires fast movement).

Pre-ordered the CE the day it was announced. I'm expecting alot from this game and can't wait to play it.

Canadian post nuclear winter where snow and ash fall down from the sky simultanously. The player is a scientist/engineer who comes from a vault that was used as a blueprint for the ones built in masses on US soil. It's vastly different, more focused on testing what engineering solutions works for vault and less about social experiment, but with inferior equipment since it's the first one ever built. The player can use his superior scientific resources to form a group similar to BoS or Enclave, and it's up the the player to decide wether he uses that power to enslave the other survivors or to empower them.

When the setting for Fallout ceases to be one of the great American landmarks then the game ceases to be Fallout, it's really that simple.

I'm with you on that boat. Also the support for Settlers is abysmal, it's still plagued with the same bug it had from the start which makes the game unplayable on some hardware (textures flickering blue which leads to either app crash or driver crash within 5 minutes of playing, happens with both NVIDIA and AMD hw).

From the UFO Legacy Defence: Xenonauts Preview:

So true, I managed 67 minutes (according to Steam) before I quit. I picked that one up from GoG a while back. It looks interesting; (though some of the monsters in it are pretty goofy lookin'). *There is a price difference too it seems. http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/fantasy_wars I think this game is the predecessor of Elven Legacy. I've not tried it, yet I liked Elven Legacy. Does any of you played both games and can compare ? Judging by the screenshots I found on Steam the Elven Legacy looks EXACTLY like Fantasy Wars, just with different units.

A friend of mine was playing Fantasy Wars on Steam and it seemed interesting so gave it a go. Only managed to play the first map last night (had to get that Gold level finish) but it seems like great turn based strategy game. http://store.steampowered.com/app/63900/

Re-playing Icewind Dale II with a mildly cheated solo character.

True but the difference between regular grinding and MMO grinding its that with regular the rewards are evenly planned. With MMOs is all about the gear it to win it or some other scam. There was nothing planned about DS3 rewards and that game was grindy as hell.

I like the part where you pretend to know what every console player thinks.

Finished Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Plains Walkers single player portion, and done some 100 or so multiplayer games. It's starting to lose it's appeal, and I suddenly remember why I quit playing MtG in the first place. I ****ing hate RNG. When you're mana dead for the 7th game in a row it kinda starts to get to you.

MtG: Duels of the Plains Walkers Bought the whole shebang from Steam sale, and it's been great fun thus far.

No. Just....no.

For consumables I'd prefer a crafting system that introduces unique recipes with low material requirements, instead of you duplicating the same few consumables you'd loot from dead enemies. For essential items I'd prefer a crafting system with unique recipes, low material requirement and maybe a sidequest(s) tied to it.

Those fonts make my eyes bleed. What kind of half blind moron "fixed" them by adding shading.

Umm, I think you just shot your self on the foot right there. You gave a reason to NOT have LAN. D3 won't have LAN so it can't be cracked for LAN. There might be a private D3 server at some point in the future but that takes WAAAAAY longer to achieve than simple DRM crack. By that time the impact to sales is completely negligible.

I have the "Details" view and managed to find the setting for icons, it was under the plus sign at top left.

It's not about if there is a demand or not. It's simply matter of risk vs reward, is there big enough reward for having LAN over the risk of screwing over your DRM scheme, and since they've made their decision we have our answer, no. You can't honestly believe that this hasn't been discussed at Blizzard HQ when they decided to not have it.

Bought 3 games from sale. Need for Speed: SHIFT Need for Speed: Undercover Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit I think I should get a wheel and some pedals, but driving with keyboard hasn't slowed down me yet. One odd thing I noticed today was the small icons on my Steam Library were gone after I reinstalled the client. Can't find any option to enable those either. Anyone know how you can turn them on ?

Now that's a bit far fetched, no? Ever thought about that Blizzard got tired of hunting down cheaters/hackers and shut down their accounts? Not to mention constantly issue patches because some funny hacker screwed up the whole online infrastructure because Blizz decided to make everything open? Why even bother with these people? That's like trying slapping a NDA on the Diablo 3 beta in an age of youtube, facebook, and "You are connected" age. Not even worth it. And LAN? Who even uses that today? LAN used to be cool, like 10 years ago when internet speed used to be a lot slow(er). This is scary, I actually agree with Morgoth on this issue. Enabling LAN would COMPLETELY negate the online DRM, and since it's going to be only DRM for D3 that would be bad. Pirates can play any game with LAN over the internet using software like Hamachi which emulates LAN over WAN.