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The codex isn't dead and the demo preview is here.

Don't think so. But the trailer looks fancy anyway. The sound is coolio.

I bet the real reason is that pressing a button to holster / draw weapon was way too complicated for players. #conspiracytheory

I don't really get why Bioware makes a ME3 demo if they cut out most of the stuff from it? Like, only two dialog options and stuff like that. Doesn't this tell me, as an uniformed guy who might not know that the demo is heavily cut, that the game will be true ****? I mean, it doesn't show how the game really is, huh?

I find it funny how the news title says "Wasteland Reboot in the Works" even though they quote Brian Fargo himself in the news that he just thought about the idea of Wasteland 2... Their news title makes it look like a new Wasteland game is being worked on already.

Just finished JA:BiA. Rushed through it towards the end, because it became too tedious for me. Deidrannas "castle" looked pretty cool, but the map was producing big frame issues on my machine, up to the point where it was nearly unplayable. I kind of cheated myself through the ending then with running past a lot enemies, hiding in spots where I could ninja-sniper Deidranna to death. Else it probably would still have kept me up at least half an hour or something. The ending was ok-ish. It even has some variation, unlike JA2. But still... as long as there won't be some big content patches which adjust stuff and add more additional content to the game, I won't touch it again for a long time. Personal rating is 6/10 right now. Not a bad game, but could be a lot better.

I see multiple paths as default situation for a real RPG. But this also makes the game much more complex, more bugs can get through, more work needs to be done, etc.

The game is extremely easy as long as you have rifles and no enemies in houses. As soon as more than one enemy is camping in a building, shizzle comes down. Though, by now I got used to throwing around with grenades until the ai is fleeing outside, where the rest of my team can put some bullets into the bodies. I am in Meduna right now, took the airfield and sam site. It's 24th ingame day and Steam tells me I played already 30 hours. I'll guess when I have finished the game, a lot time will pass till I might consider to play it again. It has just become way too much grinding and the militia is annoying me to death, running back to Drassen for supplies is so annoying, the item management is pissing me off, etc. etc. If all these little things would be better, the whole experience wouldn't be so tedious right now. Also they really should have made up their own story. Always when I see a (story) element from JA2, I automatically compare the two games with each other and BiA loses.

Would it be worth to play Delta Force nowadays? :> I always only played the demo as well and later totally forgot about the game.

Yea and when you play the game a second time, you can strike out the horror of that horror game. :> /Edit: Actually, in an iso / turn based game, Cthuvian-horror is something I could be friend with, but not this Fear or Doom(3)-kind of horror, which relies solely on shock moments.

I can't even imagine how a horror game with iso and turn-based could work at all. Spawning enemies around the character will hardly shock the player and changing the music depending on where in the map you are? That's nice, but it won't kick off the same feeling.

Loved the Ocean House Hotel, but yea, in the end, it's way too linear. Plus, I wouldn't want a horror rpg. :> First, because horror games can fail very easily, second, because I just don't want that. Now I am tensed to see what happens next.

I commented at least twice. Bet lots of people did too. :>

This.

What is in this video? GEMA doesn't allow me to watch it. /Edit: Just watched it with hidemyass.com and stuff look really good. Is that downloadable somewhere? I might actually touch Skyrim again, just to check out this stuff.

A game where you take over the role of some badass inquisitor in old europe!

I never played JA2 in english, so I can't say if it's the same actors. The text is *I think* mostly the same. I've taken over Cambria now, San Mona, one missle area, etc. and yea, they used all story elements from JA2, but it's made up different. As example, you don't find Miguel right at the start of the game, or San Mona-- King Pin wants you to free his town from the queens soldiers, Pater so-and-so in Drassen wants you to kill the rednecks near Cambria, etc. It's all a bit twisted and changed. Have to say, it's... dumbed down. All side-quests I had so far, are simple search&kill. Especially the rednecks annoyed me. In JA2 you could talk to them, even sell one of your female mercs to them... in JA:BiA you can only kill them, because they attack on sight. Also NPC dialog is even less than it was in JA2, heh. There you could chose between various moods, in JA:BiA you only have cancle or continue (well, it's written in real texts and stuff, but it's always only these two options). Gameplay-wise, I find it playable. Story-wise, it's a real JA2 rape. They should have made up their own stuff, imo. I also like how the locations are made up. They are pretty looking and stuff. Regarding sector zones, which don't exit anymore, I am fine with that. It doesn't feel much different gameplay-wise. Instead of 200 small sectors, there are less, but bigger ones now.

I don't mind if they make more money out of it, if the game is good. Let's call it additional reward for the devs, for making a fancy game. Plus, it makes their future brighter / more secure, which is good for everyone.

I'd pay for it.

Playing some Jagged Alliance - Back in Action. So far I find the game to be fun. It's better than the demo map (more tactical, really), but all negative points remain. The controls are bleh, the interface is bleh,... I try to see it as a game in it's own and not a Jagged Alliance game. Then it's fine... Also it's less buggy than 7.62 calibre and stuff was in the beginning, so it's a plus too. Right now, I'd say it's one of the better games in this genre (real time strategy whatever). They updated the laptop portraits, btw:

Yea, she looks very unnatural in that screen.

Until you got an arrow into your knee?

But there is nothing like that for HAWX 2, as far as I know (probably not enough interest from anyone). That's why I haven't played it a single time yet, since I bought it on Steam some month ago.

The length isn't much bothering me. I don't have that much time for playing anyway, so a 40 or 60 hours rpg is hardly something I would finish nowadays. But all this talk about choice&consequence... it's really starting to annoy me, because it's either not true or just minimal.

I was replaying ME2 at the end of last year (to get my character ME3-ready, because once I accidentallly deleted my saves) and I have to say that the game was pretty short. When I played it the very first time, I sat down approx 1 week. But on my replay, it was reduced to 2 days and I noticed how non-existant the choices ingame are (and what had been carried over from ME1). Really, all this "ME has so much choices and consequences!" is just bull**** and I have big doubts about ME3 doing it any different.