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If it happens, it's good for Bethsoft. It's probably good for Obsidian. I'm skeptical as to if it's good for me. They wouldn't be a mere publisher. They'd be the owner. Get to direct what games Obsidian works on. If they say Obsidian works on Fallout games, and only Fallout games, for the rest of its existence, that's what Obsidian would do. In my mind, that's a worst case scenario, but not too far detached from my fear. As it stands, I like that Obsidian has worked on (or is currently working on) an RPG of seemingly every genre and subgenre except MMO and turn-based. Party based, open world, dungeon crawler, shooter/cinematic. I would personally hate to see them delegated to work on only a franchise or only a particular type. As would be relatively inevitable as the owning company would like to play it safe.

Is the bottom the actual quote? That seems less rumor and more speculation.

Apparently I got 4 paychecks today. I don't know if that means I'm caught up or not. You kind of lose track after a while.

The last three were great. Edit: Not even counting 'And the Guardian of Light.

Red Dead Redemption Undead Nightmare has a unicorn.

None taken - I agree on that part, but my first point stands. It's an unnecessary invasion of privacy that serves to no practical purpose. It makes the lives of those who enjoy being groped a little better. Hells yeah. It's about time things went our way!

Right, but the whole "spends half the adventure just trying to get home" bit.

The first thing to come to your mind is Dungeon Siege? Really? And not the Odyssey?

I genuinely don't get the fuss over the TSA. FWhile I'm not exactly proud of my body, I don't mind showing it if I have to in order to stop it being blown into tiny tiny bits. Tiny tiny chunks are an even worse look for me than naked. The problem is that most people who are not in the business of selling those new machines and/or fearmongering for profit/re-election consider this latest step to be totally ineffective (as long as your anal cavity is not inspected, you can smuggle things on board). I'd rather die than lose my dignity, but it's probably too late for that. And I have a deathwish, anyway. Genuinely no offence, Nep. But your dignity begins and ends where you say it does. Unlike your spleen. And if he says his dignity ends with people taking pictures of his junk, I'm not sure I see a contest.

I'd be content with any of them. Even goat-herding if it's a The Hero's Journey type thing where I start off goat-herding, go fight a war, then spend the next half trying to get home to my goats.

Official forums are upgraded. I don't know what to make of it. This is the first day that its bothered actually remembering my login, so that's good.

The demo stops 5 seconds after you get a sword. It's literally "follow a path, whack a few birds and moths." That's not an exaggeration. Box art is usually more informative.

For those that like Risen, do you feel that it started slow? Could you give a detailed description? The demo shows bugger all. From it I gleaned the important information that the game has 1) a monastary B) a camp III) rat-porcupine crossbreeds. And a really freaky jump animation.

I would agree with you. I think it would make better PnP than computer game, though. Simply for the appeal of options that PnP would present.

Could you expand on that please? I'd hazard a guess that he's referring to the idea that RPGs nowadays are particularly ego stroking. I know we've had discussions on such before a few years back. Game world revolves around the player's character and such. As opposed to possibly more mundane fare.

My GOD is A Game of Thrones depressing. I'm definitely going to have to read a Discworld book after this.

I need to get back to my Dragon Age playthrough, but so many discounts recently.

Played another 3v3 of Dawn of War 2. The rectangular desert 6p map where the bases are opposite each other the long way. Kept most of my Eldar troops around the power and resource node at the middle. There's a Chaos Predator skirmishing anyone I have elsewhere. Took out one my Falcon's before I could do anything. Next Falcon I get goes and hangs out where I saw the Predator last, because I am deathly afraid of that thing. Suddenly the Predator and several Chaos troops teleport behind my guys in the middle. OH CRAP. GET THAT FALCON OVER THERE. I just know it'll kill all my guys. I end up sending two groups into retreat... but it never fires its main gun. So much panic over nothing.

The Risen demo was pathetic. Just checked it out. You finally get a sword when there's nothing left to fight. You never get to learn even a single magic spell. Thwack a few birds and rats, that's the demo.

In graphics maybe. The fundamentals are exactly the same. Not according to people I've seen post on this very forum. They've mentioned rather significant changes that cause a drastic difficulty drop. One thing I heard was that in the old game, particular spells and arrows couldn't be dodged. They can in DKS.

I found it kind of repetitive, focusing on magic. When I'm not dodging from side to side. Not particularly tactical or anything, just kind of spamming whatever I've got available and dodging. Might be different for meleers.

Gotta remember to cap those points. They did a good job of making them fluff marines though, takes a lot to put down the NPC marines even. I didn't notice many sync kills other than Thule's and the rather awesome way the FC takes down a Warboss. I do cap those points. I was playing 3v3's last night. There's no point uncapped.

I bought it fairly recently too. I can't be excited by it. Yeah, it has some humor to it, but it's mostly dungeon crawling and a bad guy who takes himself way too seriously.

For some reason, I'm getting hooked on Dawn of War 2. Because of the way the game is designed, I keep forgetting my units. Everytime I send someone to retreat, there's a good chance they won't be seen again for 5 minutes.

Slider systems suck. That's what is up with it.