HoonDing

Wait... is it possible to spontaneously kill NPCs? Not just by ticking them off by destroying holy urns or strangling their grandmother?

It makes sense to do it yourself though when you don't have a follower around. Sarah Lyons was supposed to lead the Brotherhood after her father, so she couldn't die.

It's dark fantasy. It's all about losing.

Combat & story is all meaningless for me if the game setting isn't interesting. Oblivion, generic as it is, at least takes place in a setting with unique & imaginative lore. There's tons of detailed lore-books dealing with geography, religion, racial phylogeny, history... pretty much everything. The same is true for the Dark Eye universe. I don't doubt BioWare can craft interesting stories/characters & write witty Eddings-like banter, I just hope DA:O doesn't disappoint lore-wise. But from snippets I've read so far on the wiki it doesn't sound very earth-shattering.

Bloom is for newbs. Just look at the HDR in Fallout 3... so lavishly frivolous..

My most anticipated 2010 game so far is Drakensang - the River of Time. It's set 23 years before Drakensang and is apparently returning to the North (as in Realms of Arkania). The developers have promised new archetypes & a game more focused on story/characters... and possibly even romances (lulz). Though I had wished that the game would continue from where Drakensang ended... the ending was a major event lore-wise and could change a hell of a lot in the game setting.

Risen/Drakensang/Shadows of Undrentide

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Spiritual successor to Blade of Darkness! *Every battle is epic *Mockingly useless ranged combat *Frakin' awesome melee combat *Grisly atmosphere *Bone-crunching difficulty Too bad it's lacking in the gore department. Once you get the hang of things and figured out enemies' tactics, BoD becomes easy too. Not to mention, twitchy noob players can get through the game easily with the Amazon.

Is this game a case of Nintendo Hard?

The game flow in Risen reminds me a lot of Divinity 2... excellent opening with quests that can be solved in multiple ways (even choosing between factions, although nothing as major), but then halfway the game sidequests start becoming rarer and the game turns into a pure dungeon delving hack/fireball grindfest. I just hope Risen's ending won't be as hideously atrocious as Divinity 2's.

Only to be turned into mush by the very first Ogre.

Oh great, so Raphael Sbarge is doing some voicework afterall.

The same company made King's Bounty and its sequel has been out in Russia for a while now.

Even with a 1 in Intelligence it is theoretically possible to max out all skills in FO3...

Yeah... but the problem is that's pretty much all I have done in the past 10+ hours or so... In fact, the dungeon delving for Ancient Powerful Items reminds me of Morrowind.

I'm having a similar experience to Gothic 3 with this game... it's a decent enough game, but it's starting to burn me out with all the grinding and I'm beginning to lose interest... I'm somewhere near the end of CHapter 3, I think.

He was the project lead of Morrowind & Redguard. You don't hear many people whining about those games, compared to Oblivion & Fallout 3. He contributed to every Bethesda title from the very beginning, even.

You mean cleric? Send them into a sea of enemies and cast Implosion = win. That said, if the only difference between easy and normal mode in DA is the lack of friendly fire, I expect it to be as challenging as NWN or NWN2 on normal mode.

Interplay's lawyer:

Fallout 3 sucks because of this, which is nearly as bad as this

I guess that one should NOT guard the backdoor into Mordor.

It seems the hero from Uncharted was modeled after David Boreanaz.