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He pulled off a similar trick in Ilium/Olympos.

Harvey Smith is a former Air Force guy that was stationed somewhere in Germany. I think he can beat up the average civilian (and game designer), provided he had some combat training.

Bah, I always exorcized her.

Supernatural powers? Murdered Empress? I wouldn't be surprised if Arkane again will put a chick inside the protagonist's head as some (incredibly annoying) talking quest compass.

I didn't realize this game had a 18th century setting. That does indeed quite raise my interest.

It's rather Eddings who writes the same story over and over again, with the same characters included. Feist at least managed to craft an interesting world in Riftwar (two, actually) with one being medieval low-magic (magic being very rare) and the other one more the typical high fantasy with fantastical creatures and what not. The clash between these two worlds in Riftwar (first series) was pretty interesting. He had the political intrigue down pretty good as well. Another thing Feist generally does really well is describing large scale battles, especially sieges. It's all downhill after Riftwar, though, where the series quickly devolves into parody territory. I managed to trudge through Serpentwar but stopped after that.

Eug?nie Grandet. An incredibly boring story combined with 19th century literary French = hell. EDIT: lulz, the forum doesn't recognize an "accent aigu"?

Both books feature verbose writing style, focus on in-depth characterisation and endless chapters delving into the mind of characters you wish would die in a fire?

A Song of Ice and Fire really is so popular because it's a soap-opera with swords. It's a dark & gritty version of the light-hearted Wheel of Time. Writers like Michael Moor**** & Glen Cook have been around for ages, trying to deconstruct common fantasy tropes, but nobody ever really gave a fudge about their books. Even Erikson is not all that popular, all things considered.

Is Last Remnant any good? It's up for 7.49?.

Probably a reference to the Saerileth mod 15-year old romanceable Paladin of Tyr, yeeeaaahhhh

Not sure if serious.

Zero Critical, their Star Trek games, WET and Hunted: the Demon's Forge aren't crap.

Anniversary is worth picking up, Legend & Underworld are painfully mediocre. Also, Audiosurf is great if you're planning on ruining your keyboard.

In that case, Stalker & CoD: Modern Warfare must be RPGs, and more complex ones at that.

Meh. I'm only interested in Arx Fatalis 2 or Dark Messiah 2 from Arkane.

Isn't Age of Decadence supposed to be released in November?

slightly improved

- Shepard will find an ancient Reaper Cannon shooting Dark Energy omega beams that one-shots Reapers. - The mysterious race that created the Reapers billions of years ago will show up and shut the Reapers down. - The Reapers will leave by their own volition after deciding organic life is unworthy to be harvested after all.

I still think the Reapers are going to be beaten by having a virus implanted from a Macintosh.

Why do you facepalm?

The point about Arkham Asylum combat is getting a high combo multiplier by varying moves, use batarang, etc. because otherwise it can be indeed very boring, right up to Assassin's Creed levels. You can win every fight against unarmed mobs by just standing around and countering by pressing a button. Enemies are courteous enough to attack one after the other. Similarly with stealth, it will become very boring if you rely solely on hiding on a gargoyle. In fact, one of the rarely interesting stealth sections is when the goons finally have the bright idea of putting explosives on the gargoyles near the end of the game.

funcroc is our very own forum Oracle

I don't get why Bethesda outlawed Morroblivion but allows this, which is basically just Morroblivion with a few bells & whistles.