Drowsy Emperor

I do want to play it, I just don't want to pay for it.

FYI, ME3 uses Origin, which means you can't play a used copy. Well, my friends will just have to hate me more than usual. There's no way I'm funding Bioware and EA (any longer). If I don't get to play it, no great loss there - I could probably guess half the storyline if you woke me up in the middle of the night. After a concussion.

Well, its a three to four day game so no complaining.

I'll borrow Mass Effect 3 if I'm able, to wrap that up but I'm not buying it. I no longer have my save files, but I probably won't miss out on much there if the ME to ME2 transition is anything to go buy. Quite interested in the new Xcom, I have a lot of faith in Firaxis. Will watch the new Max Payne and new GTA from a distance. Max Payne was really a perfect stand alone game, the sequel was completely unnecessary so I'm not hot about this one either. New GTA will have to bring something fresh to the table or there's no point investing in that anymore. I loved IV because of its story and protagonist but overall the actual gameplay felt worn out, rehashed. I'll make up my mind up about South Park after the demo comes out. Beyond that, who knows. Here's hoping that PC gaming extracts itself from the quagmire its languishing in this year. I'm tired of badly ported, graphically poor, gameplay dumb console games.

I'm in the process of rediscovering my PS2 starting with Baldurs Gate Dark Alliance 2 co-op with my gf. It boggles the mind how many good games that console has.

Typing of the dead. Great fun and actually useful too.

The game will of course suck, about as much as Diablo 2. Not that that's going to stop hordes from playing it.

We could wait for it to come out to slam it, for the sake of appearances if nothing else.

There's nothing really social about playing online games, unless you're doing it in the same room with friends or family. Even then its not really a social activity because you're interacting primarily with the game, which requires the greatest part of your concentration and not with other people. Sad but true. In shooters especially, where players are no more than slightly more sophisticated bots.

I tried that with the Dark elves and has seen my team take several casualties. Conclusion, elves are better in run and passes than in contact play. Dark elves can play a more aggressive game, just not too aggressive. You still have to play the game, not "lets beat the other guys up" My Orks have no choice, with high elf agility I can't run and score reliably, so I bunch up in the center and crawl to the other end forcing them to come to me. And I can only score once or twice because with each scoring their KOed players might return to the game. But the absolute nightmare team to play contact against are the undead. The have good specialized players for everything and regeneration on every player. My only hope is targeting the ghouls which are the scorers 90% of the time.

Bloodbowl still. Hilarious match: come third quarter of the game the opposing elven team was as follows: 2 badly hurt, 1 broken jaw, 1 broken ribs, 1 smashed knee, 3 knocked out. 3 elven players left on the field, against 11 of my ork boyz, I have the ball near the touchline two turns before the end. The remaining three players far far away from the ball surrounded by black orks and blitzers. Wonderful. There simply is no substitute for beating elves into a pulp.

Still playing Blood Bowl. Leveling my Orks through the campaign. I love playing against elves. If they don't slam me two touchdowns in the first half, I maim half of their team come end of the game. My last game was hilarious, there were 5 badly hurt and 3 knocked out elves in the second half - so there were only three left in the field. And 10 of my boyz to guard those three, and a goblin to deliver a touchdown in the last turn. But there were still two turns left to the game, so I proceeded to stomp those three until the last possible moment. I'll conclude that any game that lets you beat elves into a pulp is a good game.

Action RPGs are the new RPGs. What do you mean, "more"? More as in after ME, JE, DA2, KOTOR, Gothic/Risen, Divinity, the upcoming Diablo rehash and every other button mashing action game with levelling you could name The concept has worn thinner than the sole of a miser's slippers.

Getting back on topic, I'm pretty sure this is going to be one of those try before you buy titles. Preferably, borrow and try all the way to the end then return and forget about it. On a related note: do we really need more action RPG's?

Lewis is right. Besides most of this stuff is ivory tower intellectual gibberish - most women, that being 90%+ still behave like women and expect to be treated as such A case could be made for the opposite stance - that the enforced equality (which turns into bias towards women in certain cases) has become pretty ridiculous and even damaging for society.

Another game I'm going to play... the remake of.

And you shall have it! Along with Minsc's boot in your bum.

For all those big names the game looks pretty generic. You could have convinced me I was looking at a Dragon Age conversion or something.

You need Mighty Boo the Ranger in the party to do some butt kicking for GOODNESS

Sweet cover. We need more humor in games. I'm tired of macho crap and teen angst.

What he said. Btw, I thought the huge weapon syndrome was a Japanese only disease. Somebody take McFarlane's anime away from him.

DoW 2 games are good, polished games. They just aren't going to have the legendary status Relic's regular RTS games have. I didn't like them all that much but you gotta give them credit for trying to do something different.

That always looked interesting to me, let me know if you figure it out. Badically its made for the fans of the game - there's no way around studying the 60 page rulebook. Menus are horribly organized, the game is full of various iconography that isn't explained anywhere etc... But the most problematic issue is that I've only seen the AI use a single tactic in 15+ games, regardless of which race they pick. This leads to some strange turns like the AI advancing a player deep near the touchline for a pass with teams that are completely incapable of passing and catching. I'm under the impression that regular BB players would steamroll the AI in ten minutes regardless of difficulty. After that, the most annoying thing are inexplicable load times for a game with very simplistic graphics (bad optimization). If you can get past all those hurdles its a decent game, probably best played in hot seat mode with friends/family. I don't know about DRM... I've had one crash so far.

So that's why Relic hasn't announced anything in 6 months. Well looking at their selection I can't say that PC gaming is at a great loss there, apart from the 40K MMO there wasn't much to look forward to. Maybe Relic will get to make Homeworld now. After all THQ was the one pushing for endless DoW and CoH sequels/expansions.