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i still keep hoping that dawn of war will be made more like the tabletop game. a digital warhammer game would be so awesome, and they could make recurring money off it by charging for codex updates alongside the actual tabletop game. I still paint, but none of my friends are interested in the hobby anymore, and a digital version i could play online would be great fun

re elder scrolls online: is this going to be like a regular game you can play online (ie buy the game, play online for free) or is this going to be one of those monthly fee games? I'm not down for monthly fee's

is the sneaking mandatory? what happens if you just charge around swinging a sword?

i've just been reading a lot lately, and started kickboxing again this week so that will eat up some time. i'm bouncing around between civ games and brief forays into diablo 1. killing time until diablo 3 gets released. tonight i think i'll spend some time with the dragons dogma demo

I wish i were this drunk

i just hope it adds new ways to play the game as well as new areas to explore. i'd really like to see the addition of a couple new skill trees, or at least new branches within the trees (maybe a line of spells more focused on undead for conjuration, or a line of spells focused around poison for destruction?) eh, i guess i could just mod all that in.... ok fine, just add new areas to explore i'll figure the rest out (except spears and spear animations, please put those in for me)

sounds pretty interesting, i'll probably get around to watching the first few episodes to see if i can get into it

is babylon 5 worth watching now? i've never seen it, but recently started watching star trek the next generation, and am finding it to be enjoyable enough. i like some/most of JMS' comic book work, but have never seen any of bablyon 5 before

warhammer is like every fantasy trope ever, turned up to 11, and then set on fire and pushed off a cliff while playing power metal

borderlands and borderlands 2 have offline coop (thank god - its the absolute funnest way to play)

A two player offline mode would have been great though, oh well, I still need to try out the demo

diablo 3 feels more like a sequel to diablo 1 than diablo 2. instead of taking the ideas from diablo 2 and advancing them further, they created a new set of ideas, that are both better and worse at the same time.

i really liked guild wars 1 for a lot of reasons, but primarily for the way the necromancer played, hopefully that character class still feels similar but with more options in the new one

legend of zelda wind waker has lots of sailing, i found it to be very satisfying, would be nice to see that much emphasis on sailing in a pirate game

im kind of bummed out that there will be people running around everywhere, i really liked in guild wars 1 that the only time i had to see other players was in town

i never had a problem putting multiple skills from the same tree on at once. is that what elective mode does? i just turned on all the options from the start so i never tried playing with elective mode off

is there any way to play it without being in big groups of people? in part one you could go out into the world and it would make an instance just for you and your party

are we talking like, morrowind fun?

all the reviews im reading for risen 2 are making me not interested in it. i never played risen, but i played two worlds 2 and hated it, and risen 2 kinda sorta reminds me of that game from the pictures. can you tell me more about why risen 2 is good and not bad?

i started playing kingdoms of amalur this week, its not very good. its not exactly terrible, its just extremely mediocre. there is no sense of heft to anything in the world, it plays a little like a single player guild wars without the skill/deck build stuff or any of the interesting parts, and instead there is some button mashing. i'd give it a 6.5 so far. the only real redeeming quality is that its easy to play, and just barely fun enough to keep me from uninstalling after playing it for a few days. i definitely feel like i should be spending my time on something more worthwhile though - i just can't figure out what that is right now; im basically just killing time until diablo 3 is released. this year is a crazy year for grindy/long rpg/action rpg type games: diablo 3, torchlight 2, guild wars 2, borderlands 2...... these games are all going to take up a huge amount of my time

can you go into more detail about guild wars 2? i loved guild wars 1 and am eager to hear about guild wars 2, both the good and the bad. how does it compare to the first game? whats less fun about it?

i use metacritic to gauge the public's overall response to a game, but the metacritic user scores i find less than worthless. 99% of them are 10/10.... i think there are only 2-3 games in the history of gaming that i would consider giving a perfect score to.

i get my news from the big sites, kotaku, ign etc but i get my reviews from metacritic. i scan the buzzlines to see how excited the general press is, then i read the eurogamer review in it's entirety. i keep all that in mind, and then i come here, where i get (sometimes more insight into what exactly is fun about the game, or what doesn't work. then i make my decision based on how all the above stacks up with the asking price. if the price seems too high, i wait for steam sales or "goty" editions before buying of course, if its a game i've been following closely for years, i usually have preordered it and don't bother reading reviews until im either done with the game, or have run into some aspect of it that bothers me, and i come here to see if other people are annoyed at the same problem i am (also to find out if there is a workaround or mitigating option to address the issue)

sweeeeet i LOVED soul reaver when it came out and a "friend" "borrowed" my copy and never returned it.

Dishonered seems interesting to me, primarily because I've always wondered why we don't see more games trying to emulate deus ex. This one seems to be aiming for that, and set in a non-cyberpunk setting. I hope it ends up being great, but its obviously way too early to say.