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I'm still pissed I haven't managed to figure out how to start as anything other than a human in Tactics

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They're a little late to that gimmick. I remember when Bioshock toted that as a great innovation.

Just Cause 2 is where open world games are at.

Ugh, I heard it was the worst slapdash PC port this side of DS3.

Spoken like a true Canadian

I'd say that's a pretty clever marketing strategy, no?

If you pre-order it, you get to play the beta... Edit: Watch the gameplay videos, they explain all that.

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You're talking about two completely different market sections. MS can get the IE crowd with something like the OSX App Store(not to be confused with the iOS App Store), but the moment it starts dictating which applications run on it is the moment the "elite individuals" abandon W8(if they don't just stick with 7 to begin with) and go back to W7.

The art style for GSB sucks, but it's really fun to just try different ship designs for hours on end. There's also Flotilla and Space Pirates vs Zombies if we're drifting from the RTS a bit.

This blog is pretty good for keeping an eye on interesting stuff. As for SupCom, I'm not really that into the RTS scene these days(SupCom was awesome, though). Starting off with the large-scale RTS, I can think of Sins of a Solar Empire, then you might want to check out Gratuitous Space Battles, AI War, Darwania and Defcon. Maybe someone else has more suggestions. EDIT: Throw Harvest: Massive Encounter, Massive Assault and Star Ruler on that list and keep an eye on Achron, just the trailers blow my mind. EDIT2: I'm finding new stuff for myself as well now, APOX looks really cool.

That's one, but there are hundreds of gems out there, from super hard RTSs to awesome innovative stuff. That's why I always jump on the "back in my day..." kind of people. Perhaps I should resurrect the indie game thread...

As I said before, the market is so much wider than the front and center AAA stuff. Go and discover some games instead of being a crotchety old geezer.

Look forward to it with popcorn in hand and laughter in my heart.

Go the Space Siege route. Legion Siege? Jeyne Siege? Boob Siege?

Oh and good luck getting anyone who's invested some money into Steam to part with the service.

I don't really see Microsoft pushing their own PC game service, because frankly, they just don't care enough. It's competing with their much more successful 360 brand and GFWL is practically dead as it is.

What if I quoted your last thread? And while I appreciate the challenge, getting any mods here to do any work is just not worth the trouble

I'm talking about the general principle behind some of what is happening on this board. Whatever you think about DS1/2 is subjective, just as what you think about FO1/2. If people can be mad about an "unfaithful" sequel to one, they should also be allowed to be mad about an "unfaithful" sequel to the other. I do not support spamming that "in every thread", but that is hardly limited to this one issue at the moment.

Being down on people who dislike DS3 because it is "unfaithful" and being up in arms about FO3 would make one hypocritical.

I'm sure everyone would like their shooter to be a high profile shooter. I don't have any doubts that it will sell well.

I actually think the marketing for FEAR 3 is on the low side this time around, I only heard about it last week.

You are aware that opinions are, in fact, subjective, right?