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But are the new looks worth putting up with the quoting of poetry?

Looks better than the Geralt plaster head.

So, I may be giving up on Space Pirates and Zombies. There's a mission where you have to defend your mothership. It is ridiculously hard. You have a large ship and two smalls, versus a gigantic, 3 smalls, and a couple of mediums that come from a different direction. Also, the mothership will die in two shots from the gigantic.

I have no clue. The guy's been making these games for something like 20 years now and selling them at 25-26 dollars each. Enough so to support his family, at least currently. So they've got to be good to someone. He has demos available.

So, I guess I bought 5 games from Steam this week. SPAZ, my current GOTIOAICSPI (Game Of The I'm Obsessed And I Can't Stop Playing It, it's a real acronym, look it up) Bastion, Prototype, Arx Fatalis, and now Avadon ($9.99? Seriously? Spiderweb used to charge something like $25). This is a bad week to be my wallet.

This is what always comes to mind. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/05/11/215...Become-Lobbyist

Who's saying that ME2 wasn't a good shooter? The complaints I see are always about it not having enough inventory.

Have we seen any images of the Prothean companion, yet?

The only games I've enjoyed watching are Mortal Kombat and Starcraft 2. And I'm not sure why they manage it. Being boring to watch is kind of the standard.

Speculation from the uninformed and uneducated here (talking about me, not you). The problem with the greymarket is that, despite what it looks like to those of us who spend too much time on the internet, lots of the world isn't both centralized and global. They still have staff at local offices, local marketing budgets, local lots of of stuff. And they decide how much these local operations get paid and funded based off local sales. If German sales fall and UK sales rise, the thing they see is that the UK operation is doing swimmingly, but the German operation is doing poorly. Germany gets less funding for things like localization and commercials. Then, that causes UK sales to fall as well and they're like "fudge!" Now, I think Steam could go a way towards resolving that problem. But they may not be quite up to allocating resources based on stats that aren't money just yet.

Funny thing, stats seem to indicate balance more than anything. All I see is Terran! It's interesting how they're regularly higher. But it's not a giant gap.

This is something I need to hear more about. My current line of thinking has been that games tend to inflate stats too much, causing problems such as encounters becoming too trivial, and maybe responsible for the problems with leveled encounters, such that if you tone down stat advancement you may not need the leveled encounters at all. I want to know where I'm going wrong in that line of thinking. I think you're confusing the granularity of RPG character progression with its scope. Josh is talking (I think) about how big each step is in the progression of stat/skill/ability increases. I think you're talking about how large the difference is between beginning characters and advanced characters. They're related concepts, but not exactly the same. You can get from "basic bumpkin-with-a-sword" to "awe-inspiring colossus of power" in few large steps, or in lots of barely-perceivable steps. (Alternately, you can progress from "competent hero" to "somewhat more competent hero" over the course of a game in a similar manner.) Ehh, it's not really worth sidetracking the thread. I could easily be reading the one line wrong. "big enough to make the player perceive" doesn't mean big. And I'd agree on the point that the player does need to be able to recognize a change has occured in his character. I just want smaller increments than we typically see, for reasons I'm pretty attached to.

This is something I need to hear more about. My current line of thinking has been that games tend to inflate stats too much, causing problems such as encounters becoming too trivial, and maybe responsible for the problems with leveled encounters, such that if you tone down stat advancement you may not need the leveled encounters at all. I want to know where I'm going wrong in that line of thinking.

New Reckoning trailer I'm posting this for one reason and one reason alone. Is that narrator Claudia Black? That trailer is really interesting. If it wasn't an MMO, I'd be excited.

Tetris inventory at 2:37 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_Ee95UW0Qg

I don't think they quite nailed the PC controls for Bastion. WASD operates as you'd expect, W is up, D is right. The problem is that the maps are angled and not quite 45 degrees. So you can't follow a path without juggling W and D. Maybe it's the best they could do, but I had to switch to a gamepad. Otherwise it's fun.

Wait, there are people born after 1990? No bueno. Anyway, my car has been in the shop for what seems like a month now. The problem? A frickin' taillight won't shut off. It kills my battery. A TAIL LIGHT has put my car out of commission for this long.

The corruption of the government inevitably leans towards the corporate corruption. The government favors the corporate. But at least, in the meantime, the government will do things like creating roads. Cut out the government and directly bow to the corporate, and the only thing you've done is lost roads.

Interns need something to do, too.

Where are you located?

So it's Warhammer again. Apparently everyone thinks I ask rhetorical questions. I was wondering if it was an original IP. Or, alternatively, what IP the new MMO was going to be. Didn't think they'd do a second Warhammer so soon.

Might want to double check your link.

Original IP?

I wouldn't be surprised if the UK lock is to protect the UK collector's edition exclusivity. Blasted brits and their cool toys.

There are three regions. UK, Russia, and rest of the world. If you buy UK or Russia, you must be in those regions to activate. I saw a post that the lock is limited to activation, as well, so you can move out of those countries after the activation and still have access.