HoonDing

judging by the intro and the first two areas, it's crap. I think it's a very poor story, for a first chapter, that is. maybe it gets better. the game itself is beautiful, though. a very good engine. the only problem is character animation. the hero look like a cripple when running You haven't played the first game, have you? The beginning makes a lot more sense if you did. The entire prologue is great and beats pretty much every other action RPG out there.

Aveline looks a lot like the female pirate archetype from Drakensang.

Hitler was a socialist, alright.

Has anyone tried dragging Hanlon's corpse out of the room? Or mutilating the corpse while the rangers are watching?

With the GECK you can normally change faces of NPCs. I'm thinking of replacing Cass' face with Sunny Smiles', who's pretty much the only good-looking female in the game apart from a custom-made courier.

Does it work on the super mutants from Jacobstown? I thought everybody there was a bit too glum.

I wonder why... oh wait

Ranger Sequoia isn't unique. Veteran Rangers carry it as well.

It's a bearded man. It might be Chief Hanlon.

Can any Fallout nut here tell me whose face is on the $50 NCR bill? Tandi's on the $100 and Aradesh on the $20, but I don't recognize the other one.

Painkiller & Doom 2 are literally post-apocalyptic.

- Take Far Cry 2. - Apply orange-brown filter. - Mission accomplished.

Is that the same Umpa animation mod from FO3?

Uh-huh. Their supposed destiny was to fly out and bomb the ignorant savages. After hearing that, I just pulled out my gun and started shooting.

I must be missing something, but the melee in two worlds 2 is... errr... nothing spectacular. at least it haven't been so far. the character isn't very responsive to comands, most of the time I just keep clicking the left mouse button because there's no way to apply tactics while attacking, I get surrounded all the time. I hope it gets better as you level up and find new skill books. and then there's Dragon Age-style slo-mo kills gotta give credit to the developers, though. at least they tried to make it complex and interesting. but mob placement ruined it (unless they had a jack-of-all-trades character in mind when designing dungeons) There's that whirlwind attack for melee. What I like is that sometimes mobs are positioned in such a way that sneak kills are actually possible, unlike in the first game.

I was a bit surprised that I didn't receive good karma for wiping out the Boomers. Those people are maniacs.

It's a good game, much better than the first, but I put it on hold for a FO:NV replay. I'm about 8 hours in. If TES V introduces a similar melee system, it will be heaven.

In Arcania you're a shepherd that saves the world.

DKS.

Jade Empire is an original setting (albeit it smells a lot of Kara-Tur), has no ancient evil and no Save The World! plot (you can also "lose" in the end). It even has a personal storyline. Combat is Dynasty Warriors like and pretty fun. Hence, I cannot call it bad.

Shivering Isles was a satisfying conclusion to the Oblivion franchise. It was a nice way of getting the Champion of Cyrodiil out of the picture by making him/her a Daedric Lord. Not to mention being able to change the weather by just the wave of a hand was pretty neat. It certainly beats the whole "I heard the Nerevarine went to Akavir" crap.

Bloodmoon part deux. Mead halls, ice, snow, frost giants, Ricklings, wolves, bears, pine trees and naked berserkers.

I finished Gray Matter. Best story-driven adventure game since Syberia 2... but it really should've come out at least four years ago. Hopefully there will be sequels.