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I haven't yet, but I'm tempted. Sorely tempted.

Harsh?

My friend at Blizzard says your friend at Blizzard *bleep*s goats. My friend at Blizzard could kick your friend at Blizzard's ass. Yeah, my friend at Blizzard told me the same thing.

Says the guy who never 'bothered' with Starcraft. Of course i played Dawn of War. When people refer to it as the 'true heir' of Starcraft (except for the single player, which was **** and one of the reason i rank it lower then the older game), i think it's implied there's some similarity between the two games, at least in spirit. Not to say it isn't a fine RTS (one of the very best actually), but i'm having an hard time understanding how you can like one without liking the other when they are so similar in nature... I'm with Tale, DoW plays very differently from Starcraft. You have unit pop caps, strategic points, the quantity of DoW's 7 races over the quality of Starcraft's 3 and many minor differences, units and gameplay factors. Also, DoW does not have any air units.

I really hope it's a new RTS and not an MMO. It would be a little strange to make another MMO when WoW is still in full stride, surely the player-base would be just about the same for both games.

Well, I bought it but it fails to run on my XP machine...it says now loading X-Com etc and then just doesn't do anything. A few people on the official boards have had the same problem. It's not Vista coimpatable either, apparently.

Ripoff.

Yes, you are a very violent. The concept sounds excellent to me and I look forward to playing it.

There's a new interview up at Gamespot, which has quite a lot of new info...including that there are 2 new base classes and a Red Wizard of Thay PC. http://www.gamespot.com/pc/rpg/neverwinter...%3B1&page=1

That would be all kinds of awesome. Actually, screw Starcraft 2...

I know they said nothing is announced yet, but I'll donate my kidneys to medical science if it isn't Starcraft 2. One of the bosses of Blizzard has already said that there'll be another one before the 10 year anniversary is up.

I saw this at Gamespot. Blizzard are about to announce a new game, and it's in Korea so the chances of it being S2 are pretty high.

Good call on Full Throttle, the most cinematic game I'd played when it was released. It still plays a lot like a good movie.

They are? *registers*

I'm interested but my playing times are very unreliable, especially at weekends. Plus I'm GMT.

You can kill Lord B in some of the later ones too. I think in Ultima 7 a cannon was the only tool for the job. In Ultima 9 you could poison Lord B's bread which he'd then eat.

I'm sure Richard Garriot stated a long time afterwards that the guy was not banned and that he enjoyed correspondence with him at one point. Still a great story, I bet nothing that funny will ever happen in WoW.

I love being called a nerd on an RPG game developers forum.

He's patched it already so some of the bugs are gone. Looks pretty promising so far, but I'm still in the (lengthy) exposition part of the module. Some of the VO is really bad though, it felt like I was playing Serpent Isle again. The autoupdater is working now, btw.

And in other NWN2 news Adam Miller's Dark Waters has been released, probably the most anticipated mod for NWN2 so far!

The FEAR demo ran fine on my AMD 3000+ with Ati 9800 Pro back when it was released. It seems odd that it won't run on yours.

Hehe I managed to get a couple of hours of enjoyment out of the demo for Grom, I think if I'd paid thirty quid for it my outlook would have changed considerably. I'm rally struggling to think of an answer to this topic...I just don't buy bad games. I'm going to have to go and look now because this is bugging me. *looks* OK, Stronghold 2 was a bit disappointing after liking the original so much...they just stuck too much stuff in it and made a pretty great castle building sim into an endlessly complicated medieval-athon. I didn't like AvP at all, but I got that free. That's about it. Note - I did buy Ultima IX but I was actually wowed by the atmosphere and the day-night cycle was the first I'd encountered which I thought was utterly cool so that was enough to get me through the game.

Does anyone have sales figures for NWN2? I know it didn't set the charts alight in the UK but it probably fared better over in the US.

Sounds like a great expansion. Not sure if I'm going to buy it though, I haven't touched Civ 4 for ages.

I haven't captured a single building yet.