Morgoth

Playing through the tiresome NWN2 OC just to transfer the same character to MotB is a total waste of time. Better start MotB from scratch and level him/her up!

I know many things, you know?

Whatever. The game was banal, higher difficulty won't change that.

High difficulty does not necessarily mean it's intense. Could be annoying, but not intense by my meaning.

I totally forgot about the Piranha Bytes RPG.... that should come out prior Gothic 4 (which is slated for early 2010!!!). Isn't the Aliens FPS from Gearbox slated for 2008 as well?

I never got into these War Shooters, and CoD4 is no exception there either. After playing the demo, I just wondered what exactly is supposed to make it so intense? The constantly lame barks, or the ultra-stupid enemies? I felt nothing while playing it. The only War-themed Shooter I actually ever enjoyed was Operation Flashpoint. PC-only, and damn hard. I wonder if Armed Assault is recommendable?

Oh, there are so many. But I think I'd settle down with System Shock 2, preferably on the ISS, for maximum mood .

There's no point playing such a game on a laptop. Crysis, while the landscapes, open scale battles, nano suit and tank fights were very well done, it just didn't do anything creatively, or particularly new. The story was dull, as were the characters. I never felt any affinity to the characters, or looked forward to the "What's next?" scene like I did in Episode2, for example. In the end, I just played through it because I like finishing my games. It was "just" a good game, but forgettable nonetheless.

Not surprising at all. UT franchise lost it's edge since the original UT, and Crysis....I don't know. Crowded Holiday season, a lil' too demanding hardware hunger... That's what you get when you focus too much on tech and less on game...

If you refer to the old LA game, then I won't argue, since I never played that. Compared to Season 1 however, I didn't notice any sarcasm drop.

Well, improvements...(?) I find it excellent as it is. I'm not that meticulous about some lil' hiccups here and there.

I just finished Sam & Max Santa Claus the other day. TOTALLY HILARIOUS!

I agree, Far Cry was better paced and more enjoyable. Crysis was pretty good until you engaged in the tank fights, from there everything felt a bit rushed and enforced.

2008 is going to be a good year... Project Origin Condemned 2 Dragon Age (hopefully) Starcraft 2 (probably) Obsidian's Project Georgia (I think so) And a few more I forgot /will pop up

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Crysis looks better, but HL2 is still the better game. I see myself still playing some Ep2 occasionally and feel some excitement when Alyxx blinks with her eyes at me, while I already totally forgot anything about Crysis. Valve is a world-class developer, while Crytek is "just" another AAA developer.

After playing some super-serious stuff like MOTB, Crysis, Ep2, Witcher etc. I'm actually looking forward to some smaller, more fun and creative games again. Like Sam &Max Season 2, Insecticide and a Vampyr Story.

My wishlist would be the Walking toggle, the third big daddy, and Monkeys!

Opposing Force. This 8 year old Add-on still kicks ass.

Thanks god I always know which game (and why) I exactly want to get in advance. I'm usually trusting my favorite companies on this... no need for our "professional" game journalism.

Switch EAX off. It never made any difference anyway to me.

Well, "should" is hard to say. Both Serbia and Austria-Hungary had different viewpoints of the future of Bosnia-Herzegowina. AH wanted to create an European Islam, so huge sums for education and industrialization have been spend to show the Bosnians that not nationalism, but socio-eco progress was the way to go while retaining their (mostly) Moslem religious identity. Serbia on the other hand graved for nationality. Much to the disgrace of the ethnic German and Hungarian citizens, Archduke Ferdinand was known as a huge reformer (which would take effect once Franz Joseph would cease), reforms that would favor the Slavic parts of the Dual-monarchy (thus Bosnia as well). Obviously, this scared Serbian nationalists. Being Slavic Pro made Ferdinand a dangerous man for the Serbs, preventing the possibility for a pan-slavic Balkan state even more. This led to the assassination of Ferdinand and his wife, eventually.

Indeed. But a GITS ripoff is still better than an Invisible War 2. I mean it only can get up after IW.... About the OST: Jesper Kyd could fit the role as well.

Yeah, console games cost around 70

I can't help but always relate everything "Montreal" with Ubisoft Montreal, which only makes mediocre games at best. Let's just hope the new Eidos studio will stand out of this monstrously lame game machinery, and make DX3 a worthy, creative successor to the original classic.