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I would suggest to not get this game for it's storytelling. It was never the series strong suit and has received way too much screen-time in this installment.

Pretty much, i hope that France gets the balls for a total annihalation of those barbarians. Or rather capture each one of them and force them to slave labour and restore every single artifact while being forced to listen to Slayer - "Reign in Blood" in every waking hour. **** them and **** every piece of **** that support them. Luckily enough, i am not the one calling the shots here. Destroying cultural heritage really rubs me the wrong way. You know - us westerners are not really it position to call others Barbarians over such practices. There has been plenty of destroying cultural heritage throughout our history. I disagree that we can't get upset by there vandalism and call them barbarians, how do you think the Muslim community would have felt if the Americans had desecrated and destroyed Islamic mosques or religious sites in Iraq or Afghanistan? Except it wouldn't be done by believers of the same religion. In the end those sites are muslim and if muslims feel that they are blasphemous it's their call to make.

Pretty much, i hope that France gets the balls for a total annihalation of those barbarians. Or rather capture each one of them and force them to slave labour and restore every single artifact while being forced to listen to Slayer - "Reign in Blood" in every waking hour. **** them and **** every piece of **** that support them. Luckily enough, i am not the one calling the shots here. Destroying cultural heritage really rubs me the wrong way. You know - us westerners are not really it position to call others Barbarians over such practices. There has been plenty of destroying cultural heritage throughout our history.

That's hardly an issue with BioWare fanbase. Project Eternity forum quickly became about nothing but romances/gender issues/sexuality. Those are the expectation of modern RPG gamers.

I wouldn't worry about the western world. As fall of empires go it's still seems relatively healthy. It will stick around for the next 200-300 years until humanity is obsolete. Or at least until we blow everything up.

Just don't believe the 2040 or solving energy problems nonsense. Fusion is sadly nowhere near that.

Since I somehow managed to fry half of my CPU cores it's now Sim city 4. Brings back pleasant memories but the constant need to rotate view and readjust funding can easily get on ones nerves.

Having something worthy of a storyboard would actually help a lot. The teaser could be summarized in 3 pictures and is as non-informative as it can get.

Very little noteworthy imo. Sounds like more name milkage for kickstarter. Only 'overturning RPG tropes' could be interesting but it will most likely involve minor details.

THQ to be carved up. Now the only question is who will not find a new home.

In Fallout 60% hit chance in ranged combat meant 90% hit-chance to the head point-blank plus a decent chance to score a critical. And that's assuming you could not kite the monster. Arcanum was far worse than that - largely thanks to it's critical miss system that would get you regularly killed.

Dafuq? I've only played the game through once but i never ever used melee or magic. Just guns, especially the sniper/scoped rifle and the elephant? gun. Those are available later in game. Trying to play technologist with firearms from the get-go is a complete nightmare.

Yeah I don't really understand what Pachter is talking about (not the first time he's made me shake my head at clearly talking out of his ass either). If only new copies of the game can be sold, Sony would probably come out ahead. He likely meant that it would lose them customers and they wouldn't profit much in the end. Whether Microsoft would really play the 'good guy' is the more interesting question. Plenty of publisher/developers want to kill used sales and shipping your console without an option to do so may be a risk. I guess customers will end up screwed either way.

Blizzard was in unique position with Diablo 3 and Starcraft 2 as they were follow-ups to very popular games. There is no guarantee that their sequels could push DRM to the extend those 2 titles have.

You mean that it is disabled or that you don't put your saves there? I had savegame issues purely from not disabling it in steam settings.

Try turning off cloud storage on steam. Has similar issues with some other game.

Got bored of hotkeying in Old Republic so went back to Vindictus to see the new content. It looked great at the beginning but then you realize that already small population has now been stretched paper-thin.

I'd recommend that you review the National Academy of Science's meta-analysis, linked below. They address this issue specifically. Among other things, once you take into account international studies, firearm ownership and suicide are uncorrelated. That's very interesting but the firearms effect on violence report posted some pages back said that outside US correlation is strong. That's the problem with scientific research - anyone with money can have one done to say anything they desire.

A bit of a warning tho - from what I've seen previously of the man the author is badly biased.

Didn't d&d online try something like that? I don't think it was a smashing success. Personally I don't get the appeal of MMO-like storyline as it quickly devolved into finding new NPC to shoot in the face but as long as my friends want to play and player population is decent I don't mind seeing PvE content once.

If they are willing to charge for keybindings and actionbars I don't think just 'successful' will be happening. It will either become so profitable that a new f2p model will be set for all MMOs or it will turn out to be a complete disaster.

It's interesting that no one questioned media coverage of mass shootings. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=l8rMYyegT5Y Just food for thought.

Never understood the point of gun control debate in the US. By now there are so many firearms in circulation it would take decades if not a century to make obtaining one seriously problematic. Sadly the only easy answer for the time being is more security. And not of the armed-citizen type.

It was probably a mistake to not have a more powerful CPU, and again Nintendo focus on gimmicky peripherals for core gameplay, pressuring developers to support them. With that install base, with that amount of pain in porting to the Wii U, this isn't surprising. Hardware is not the issue, the CPU has been proven capable by the Wii hacker dude. You only need to look at Pikmin 3's gameplay videos and its pretty obvious that anything that works on XB and PS3 should easily work on WiiU. The issue is the install base which needs time to grow so that the cost of development and the risks undertaken are deemed worthwhile by dev studios. The numbers are looking good so far, but we'll be well into 2013 when they're as good as they need to be for major publishers. That's basically what Reggie Fils-Aime said himself. The install-base may not be an issue for WiiU but the game sales are. Wii might have had an enormous install base but the games sales were never really impressive (except for casual titles like Wii fit).

Heh, I could write a small book of things I though were done wrong with the game, but not even I would expect the classes to be unique on both sides. The forums were (are?) flooded enough with "unbalanced! nerf this buff that!" topics as it were. The forums are always full of such posts so that doesn't concern me. What dose is that with only 4 classes to try and 3 basic roles to fill I don't fell any need to experiment with character builds. Since I'm not too keen on concept of some classes or their storylines this leaves me with little reason to see the other side of the conflict. I'd agree with you if TOR was single player only, or wouldn't have PVP at all. PVP seems to be "the" reason for many to play the game and there class balance is very important. There was (and probably is) some issues with that, and with unique classes I'd expect there to be much more issues. The stories I heard about balance issues in WoW were just unbelievable. Actually I'd argue that class mirroring makes even PvP boring as it usually results in symmetric maps and thus same tactics. Not that it matters for TOR as the war-zone f2p limit scared me and friends away from PvP.