Morgoth

Exactly. Plus, and I think the most important thing to me is, I can set the pace myself instead of just rushing through the story to get everything out of the initial investment. Sometimes I pause a game for 1-2 months, then I return and play some more. Luckily, TSW is one of those MMOs that has all kinds of different quests. Some that have a lot of depth and require more time, some on the middle scale, and some quickies. Allows someone to perfectly schedule the time flexibly.

How much is it? 15

I intent to buy a Lifetime sub because I don't like that naggin' feeling in my neck to always pay another monthly bill. Pay once, have peace forever (yeah, I'm that sort of guy). But if they turn it into F2P before, say 12 months, I'm gonna sue those buggers.

Because of the trailer, or because of the game? Elaborate please.

Played the closed beta and really liked it. I'm gonna wait a couple of weeks whether the rest of the game has a similar polish as Kingsmouth, if yes, I might strike.

That was like one of the worst trailers I've ever seen.

The State of AAA games

God Bless America. It made me smile.

Gravity 1:0 Cats

MS is not interested in buying a huge entity like Acti-Bliz. They already said that they don't want to be a huge first-party publisher either. Gaming is now only a part of their overall strategy, not *the* biggest part anymore.

You're shooting US soldiers. Not sure how often that has been done before in military themed FPS'.

Sony bought Gaikai

I have no clue what you're talking about. English please.

Uh...okay. Be my guest, I guess.

Finished Spec Ops. Wow, I'm now all soaked in sweat. The ending I got was quite powerful. No hurray ****, but actually something rather sad. Hope Yager doesn't go the doo-doo way since the game is already deemed a commercial failure. Wanna see more of them in the future.

"Oh yeah bitch let's take dem ****ers out with white phosphor. It's like playing a vidya game, that's why they also let me into the US Army huhuuu" Some time later... "Oops. We'll just write that off as collateral hehe"

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B008FPV88U/ Max Payne 3 Steam key $30 http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0085NTITS Spec Ops the Line Steam key $25

Failed heavyweight throwing behind the fences. IMHO, animals just make just as good comedians as humans do. Body language humor 1:0 verbal humor

Deadly Fish-attack from beneath. Fish 1:0 Cats

Deadly Ninja-dropkick from above. Cats 1:0 Robot dogs

LOL Rednecks.

As long as there are companies like Rockstar, Bethesda, id and Epic, hardcore gaming won't take a slump. Many other developers however will have to "diversify" their strategy and portfolio in the future to stay in business. That means overall less AAA Retail games, but with (hopefully) better quality. The medium sized devs (Obsidian) are eventually gonna do more F2P, digital etc. stuff. Aka following a trend that may or may not be succesful for many of them. Personally speaking, I think that's good. The game industry is already too big and crowded with "me too" nonsense as it is, and one of the very few branches were the free market still works as it's supposed to work. Once the market is saturated with too much crap, people are gonna lose interest/become more picky and thus the cleansening of "redundance" will be enforced by the free market.