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How do you play a RTS game on a console? It would be horrible. Starcraft 64 anyone?

Works fine with WINE. Yea I started that up but downloading slow as hell. Maybe cause everyone and there mothers must be trying to download it right now.

&^^%#$$% I can't view the trailer on Linux god damn Blizzard and there .exe download programs. In anycase I don't like the way the graphics look I think its more the art style looks too cartoonish and Warcraft 3. I will be getting the game mostly just for the story and to find out finally just who the hell is Duran. Have they announced a release date yet? If the game was in development since Frozen Throne thats 4 years now. This time around I expect them to have a lot more competition since Dawn of War 2 will be coming out eventually too.

Playing FEAR expansion right now, every bit as scary as the original. I am at the hospital now and the whole place is like one huge spook house. There hasn't been a fight yet but I can't play without all my muscles tensing up.

The Histories - Tacitus. I just wrapped up The Annals. Great stuff.

NWN 2, someone know if you can control the time in the game? It seems like its night too much of the time.

Artist, until I realized I had not a shred of artistic talent, then an astronaut, then a long period of nothing, and now I don't think that far anymore.

Getting back from college I am going through a huge backlog, currently working on wrapping up Oblivion, Knights of the Nine and then beating Shivering Isles, followed by Gothic 3, NWN 2, FEAR expansion back, Medieval 2, Rome expansion Barbarian Invasion, DOW: Dark Crusades, Episode 2 is going to be out later this summer I believe (yes?) and probally more stuff I don't recall off the top of my head.

The most realistic one I played was Ghost Recon. The original!!!!! Good times, good times, *sniff*.

Deus Ex, coming out the New York Subway after turning from UNATCO. Must have reloaded over ten times trying to kill Gunthar.

Dawn of War has basically superseded Starcraft for me.

Manly, manly tears were shed.

I would have thought the original Thief would supersede SS2, and although its unlikely Torment ought to be up there. Civilization 2 is almost a sure bet as well, maybe Red Alert.

The Annals. Tacitus.

Fantasy is a very ambigious term, traditional Lord of the Rings type fantasy is definitely old. Surreal fantasy like in Planescape or more realistic fedual fantasy like in Song of Ice and FIre can be very interesting.

Oblivion for all its beautiful graphics was no where near as good as Morrowind. I quit after playing about 20 hours. The Gothic series on the other hand I played endlessly. I am really looking forward to Gothic 3.

I am never going to be getting a console so if Bioware leaves the PC market that's it for me. And what is this about "if Dragon Age is still being worked on"?

Finally got CS:Source working again, lots of graphical features missing still but at least it runs.

Totally, simply try a new class and all of a sudden tons of new dialogue options start popping up.

Might as well play through it again, there is so much difference if you just make a different character.

Icewind Dale 2 on Wine, everything works fine except bloody cursor is messed up.

I could careless if the gameplay is good.

I lost endless sleepless nights to the original Victoria, personally I can't wait.

Blizzard games strong mechanics. They understand what makes a game addictive and worth playing. I can tell you prior to WoW coming out MMORPG was not mainstream, at least not in my community and amongst my friends, after it came out, everyone I knew was playing WoW, and these weren't gamers, they were people that up to then hadn't touched a computer game, or were "I played this funny game where you shoot people, I think its called Quake" kind of people. In otherwards Blizzard took people that largely were not gamers and hooked then onto WoW. They drew new people into the market. That's ultimately what made them successful I think, when they saw Diablo they knew it was something that would appeal to people and ended up buying Condor. Secondly Blizzard games has strong themes and storylines, this Blizzard owns a huge debt to Games Workshop, whom I am surprised never sued them for copyright enfringment. The green skinned orcs, Zergs, and Terrans all have origins in Warhammer Fantasy and 40k. But not only this they take time to develop storylines and populate their games with memorable characters and interesting plot lines. Blizzard pays an enormous amount of attention to detail. You can tell when the last half of almost all Blizzard manuals are just fluff, background setting, item descriptions, and story. And lastly Blizzard games attract a broad spectrum of people. They attract young people as young as 12-13, at the same time the gameplay and content is mature enough to appeal to teenagers and adults alike. Even hardcore gamers like me, feel that Diablo 2 has the occasional hack 'n slash appeal. Compare this to games like the CRPG classics, Baldur's Gate or Torment, as popular as Baldur's Gate 2 was it can't compare to the huge popularity of Diablo, and nothing needs to be said of Torment. Oh yea one more thing. Warhammer 40k is still 1000x cooler then Starcraft. Dawn of War was the first time I started skirmish games against the computers just to listen to to the CSM go "CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSs"

The expansion makes the game much harder, I would not recommend playing as Mage if you have the expanasion installed.