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For the record, I was stalking JE Sawyer this weekend and he was playing FO3, so I totally knew this was going to be announced.

If Aliens is canned, does JE get to work on this? At least Fallout will now mean it would sell. I guess.

Don't really care about the story. Looking forward to the battle system. And yeah, from the looks of it, it'll be ATB + X-2 (though I never played X-2 to compare). Each character has a charge bar (in the demo, you only control one char, and the rest is done via AI - but you'll have full party control in the full game), which has different level. In the demo, the charge bar goes all the way up to 'lvl 3' (so, 3 charges). When it charges up to a specific 'level', you can either stock up and wait, or unleash commands immediately. Eg. as soon as it charges up to lvl 1, you can unleash a normal attack or low magic spell. Or you can wait until lvl 2 or 3 and link up various moves (3 actions; a mixture of attacks/juggling/magic). Some actions (like the area effect spell in the demo) will require '3' full charges, eg one big spell will use up the whole lvl 3 charge bar. Juggling is only made available when an enemy has been weakened enough, and attacking an enemy being launched does extra damage. You can also interrupt enemy moves (and vice-versa), depending on when you strike them. Thus, sometimes, it's best to use your characters even though their charge bar is still low, in order to interrupt an opponent, rather than wait for the max charge. I'm fine with the battle transition screen, since it seems to load very fast. It *can* get really annoying in some games when it takes ages to load a battle.

I am honored to bestow the 'Carth Onasi' award to Wrath of Dagon.

I think it's a tad hubristic to name yourself 'Monte Carlo'.

The main appeal for me re: Halo was co-op and the Legendary difficulty. I can't imagine going through the Library level in singleplayer (or ever again in any fashion, really). And it's true, every RPG Bioware ever made is a rip-off of KOTOR. They used their Bioware time machine to go back in time and design BG/BG2 to be exactly like KOTOR as well. Bioware is completely formulaic, news at Wrath of Dagon.

I bet it has tons of interesting, well-developed characters. They should put "From the creator of Carth Onasi" on the cover.

Which is fine, but not the same as blaming 'forced' grinding. You have extra unions to heal your deadlocked one, multiple times each turn if you have to. You can also easily respec your unions to simply put more units in one of them and significantly boost up its hp. I don't see what grinding even remotely has to do with defeating those battles. The game has *already* been made significantly easier in the PC version by removing the limit of how many leaders you can have in your active party.

TLR only has grinding if you make yourself grind, which is what it seems you did. The game requires absolutely no grind, as you can easily avoid all non-boss encounters. Given how the game hands out regular soldiers to you at Athlum, it's very easy to respec your unions in terms of which skillsets you need, and from then on it's a simple matter of figuring out what party setup suits what particular battle best. Going for higher hp unions to absorb boss attacks, vs allowing for more unions in order to provide more flanking opportunities, setting up reserves away from deadlocks in order to heal as needed, and so on. Grinding doesn't actually help - it might actually make the game harder depending on how you do it (stat gains relative to BR). You're just complaining the game is too hard for you. Boohoo. Bioshock might be right up your alley. Lost Odyssey doesn't have very good combat. It also has horrible pacing.

Hahaha, oh man FF7.

I quite enjoyed Portal. It was mainly the hype around it that was disgusting. It's probably the same with Braid. I probably would derive some enjoyment out of it if I got it. The difference, I guess, is that it seemed like pretentious garbage from the demo.

Last Remnant has a fantastic combat system. It mainly got bad reviews because people focused on minor technical issues for the 360 version, which were mostly made insignificant by installing the discs, and which are apparently all mostly fixed in the PC version.

Wii Fit alone outsells the PS3's LTD.

Great, another freaking spambot.

Buying another game with kiddy graphics and story is a great idea for good old manly Morgie.

Well, the PS2 dropped to 100 Hades in the US now. I guess if I really cared that much about PS2-BC, I'd just get one. I suppose I don't care that much about it. Sony still sucks for removing it.

Good job using the temporary quicksave.

Having a PS3 is actually pretty neat. There's a few exclusives on it that have made it worthwhile. LittleBigPlanet, Valkyria Chronicles, Disgaea3, and Resistance2 has an interesting little unique co-op mode. It's not a huge library, but it's ultimately not that huge an investment if you have expendable income. PSN is pretty horrible, though. Yeah, 360 isn't the more reliable hardware ever. It's provided me with a huge library suiting my needs, and that's what it really ultimately needs to do. Okay, so I've had to get it repaired once since 2006. But really, if that's your main deterrent, I'm not sure investing "870$" into a system for which one has a very vague idea of what games one would have interest in is the best idea ever, either.

just to name few http://www.dailytech.com/New+Xbox+360+Hard...rticle14662.htm http://www.dailytech.com/Retailers+Estimat...article7892.htm http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fabula/ff13/ http://www.square-enix.co.jp/fabula/versus13/ http://www.gran-turismo.com/en/ http://www.us.playstation.com/uncharted/ http://www.konami.jp/mgs4/jp/index.html Blu Ray player Built in Exchangeable HDD Built in WiFi Better designed controllers I could name few more but i just cant be bothered atm Also:

The funny thing is that all the PS3 titles Mr Fanboy is listing are for the 360 as well. Or maybe he's just undermining the importance of the 'etc etc' selection on the PS3, such as Nightshade's secret PS3 game.

Before you invest in a console, make a list of the games you'd actually really want to play.

I once got Nick killed by accident in a game. Wait, that happens in every game. I guess it's never really an accident, either.

I'm actually a huge fan of Lost Planet singleplayer on the higher difficulties. That's when T-Eng actually matters.

Just finished reading 'It Never Snows In September' by Kershaw, which covers the German side of Operation Market-Garden. Pretty interesting read and provides good insight on the German perspective of the battle. I found it works as a very good complement to 'A Bridge Too Far', which covers some of the basics that Kershaw doesn't really touch (I suppose he expects the reader to already know the basics of Market-Garden). Next up is 'Arhnem 1944' by Middlebrook, focusing specifically on the British airborne troops in Arnhem/Oosterbeek and providing more detail.

Good job stressing JE out, ramza. Now he needs a vacation.