Malcador

So it's not an endless loot grind now ?

Seems to be, never got the love for either of them as their founding games seemed fun but nothing outstanding. But still lucky, they managed to avoid crappy management or publisher pressure. Different environment, I guess.

Ahh you use a Mac. Well that explains everything.

Lucky they can afford the time to, as well. But I guess even their older work was, uh, 'polished', at least for Blizzard.

Well excellent, I'll note those facts and file it away.

Pirates, fun little game. Dislike the minigames, but simplest way of implementing dancing and fencing, I suppose.

Woke up at 0555 or so (I have nice clock skew on the 4 clocks in my room), couldn't sleep so decided to get a start on laundry. Productive day so far!

Naturally, have you seen them ? Smelly little peasants the lot of them. Game does look pretty, although I'd have preferred something other than the poker dice.

I thought about picking it up bit decided to wait. Likely a mistake given that it's off sale and might not go on again for awhile, but I can always pick up a physical copy Combined Operations at a discount -a quick search shows that it has already been marked down by $20 at some stores- and have an almost DRM free copy that's not tied to Steam (they got rid of the disc-check but FADE is likely still active). Plus I picked up Dragon Rising when it was $3 and so I'll get through co-op mode with that before I move on to a similar, although possibly slightly better -I've seen arguments on both sides-, title. Well DR is a different genre than Arma, so no point comparing (DR does have tremendously sucky bits). I decided to just wait until Arrowhead is on sale and get it then.

Witcher 2, Deus Ex HR (who knows it may be fun or something)

Hmmm Arma 2 75% off.

Christmas is a pretty dull time, and being around all these happy people is making me really uneasy. Skimped on gifts this year, bought one gift pre-Christmas, and one is post-Christmas, so I'll look bad when they're exchanging gifts. Ah well

Guess we'll have to discount FONV, too, with the single-platform DLC n' all. Nope, just discount its DLC.

Oh cool, the Deep Roads are back.

Woo, meaningless accolades. Never heard of Demon's Souls though.

But they're just soulless corporate husks. Don't get why you should feel shame over games, closest I get is just regret over wasted money (like Starcraft II, Civ 5 CE).

Lucky dogs. Here in Initech I get the 27th and 28th off. So 27th is ruined as I watch Arsenal lose, hm..not much of a break.

You mean IO Interactive

It was, but so little has been told, might as well wile away the time with useless arguments.

Wonder about the comparison though, I've never faced entire platoons at once in DX as opposed to COD4.

Power is sexy.

A bomb.

I remember reading something about the psychological effects of battle on the different branches of the armed services. It brought up how the air force as a rule are distanced from anyone they kill, so they don't often have quite the same.. visceral response to having killed people that infantry will usually have. Something about seeing a plane blow up, or go down in a crash doesn't create the same emotional response as actually seeing a human body directly. Take that as you will. Yep, he mentioned that he saw it as plane on plane, rather than actually killing a guy. I just chuckled at his remorse after he jumped a helpless opponent, that and the triumphant way the narrator announces that kill made him an ace. That show is somewhat interesting, but too US-focused after a while (granted, easier to find US vets for them).

Pah, DoW III before Homeworld 3. Have they ever said they'd return to HW ? Right now playing AlternativA, seems a lot like Westwood's Blade Runner. I'm pleased with it so far, but apparently from reviews it's buggy crap.

DX "AI"wasn't that bad for the time it came out. I still want to meet these people that found Liberty Island too hard, so I may laugh at them