Drowsy Emperor

No you don't, no one remembers the random dungeon generator with introductory scenario NWN anymore. GET OVER IT!

Ah, the proof that BGII is the best game ever made piles up ever higher, with each passing day. HEAR THAT VOLOURN???

Board games. Because PC gaming sucks now. The last thing I played was Orcs Must Die and that was forgettable filler (although fun). The only thing I played in 2011 that I can even recall was Gemini Rue.

What's happening with the new Relic game? An announcement was supposed to be made in August or something and there's still no word on the official website. It sounds like they were commanded to make another Warhammer game and committed collective suicide. Also, what's this about a South Park Obsidian game? Didn't think their recent games were so bad to deserve the purgatory of making a game of a tasteless, juvenile tv show. Why the indignity? Also: Bioware is making C&C Generals 2, because even ****ty games need a sequel!

Another universe of waist high walls and stock space marine characters.

You and everyone else. But you'll be unique among them, with that particular combination of chin depth and eyebrow distance that the character generator provides.

****ty brown out, gunmetal grey in.

Finished Deus Ex HR. Good game overall. Boss fights suck, the story is a bit naive and too convoluted for its own good, and the game is too easy overall even on the hardest difficulty because the enemies are blind as a bat and ignore just about everything as long as you're in cover (in which they should often be able to see you). On the plus side, the graphics are nice (even if they're plainly dated in many situations - ****ing consoles), the quests fun, the presentation is excellent in general.

Guess they saw that coming huh?

Whoops! They deserve to get sued for that.

Just read the Wiki version of this...sad. Were you born there? Do you have a Native American birth name? So did I, the demographics chapter is what the west would call a "humanitarian disaster". But you know, apparently that can only happen to Sudan and the like.

****ty brown and gunmetal gray as Yahtzee would put it. Its a license thing, good for fanboys - average for everyone else. I think its going to be a budget price buy title for me.

That is however, not a reason for the lack of mod support in general. The fact is, that if you look at the way Starcraft II maps are regulated and the omission of LAN, its quite apparent that Blizzard simply wants total control over every aspect of their product and to make sure that absolutely no one other than them can in any way profit from their product. They are of course fully within their rights to do so, but when its justified with the ridiculous: "its all for your own good" corporate PR lingo it just leaves a bad taste. Indeed. If it were Homeworld 3, and BG3 and was favorably received I'd probably do the same. But the industry did lose about a dozen purchases from me [not that they're gonna lose any sleep over it] over the last few years, because games in general fall into the: "I'd play it but I'm not dying to" category, and faced with these schemes, I just opt out.

Mmm yeeeah. Good thing the whole online only thing and the services it encompasses didn't slow down development. That's some Blizzard class sophistry there.

With so many similar mug shots next to each other they all tend to look the same, you could be forgiven for thinking that Bethesda has a very incestuous universe going there. They've also apparently substituted facial obesity for anorexia.

Yeah, thanks a lot Tale.

Had an amazing game of CS 1.6, dominated a server full of good players 25-5 in frags. Surprised at my own success really. Part of it is surely switching to low sensitivity style play and my Steelseries 9HD mat, one of the rare "gaming products" I've bought that actually improved my performance in game.

Without the details:

Yes, because there were so many massacres and so much ethnic cleansing in this conflict.

Happy birthday!

What are your specs? And on what settings are you running the game on? The tabletop is reflected in the character models [inspired by the minis], but the environments are not something Games Workshop bothers with [for obvious reasons], or has even developed farther than a few artsy pictures and some fortifications. They had plenty of space to go crazy but the world design looks really weak, blocky and lacks detail. It does look unfinished and what they dumped the money [supposedly up to 200 mil USD] on is a real mystery. I also don't think it helped that most of the source material are pseudo oil paintings and heavily detailed and ornamented characters. The first thing that crossed my mind when looking at the pictures in the art book is that: a) they're impossible to convey in game with current MMO tech b) they aren't suited to game design with its overtly detailed and cluttered aesthetic Example: Looks nice on paper, but you can see [below] that in game it melds in a ****ty brown mess unless you go crytek on it and draw every single thing - which you're not going to do in an mmo. Conan got it right. Simple clear lines, without too much detail.

They are a good idea, yes. Maybe, I dunno. The expansion looks absolutely gorgeous, with first class graphical design [in the screenshots]. The people at Funcom know what the word moderation means, and obviously cracked open a few history books for inspiration. <<< is kinda sick of the over the top designs of most fantasy games

Or if you weren't actively powerleveling and metagaming your character, which to some degree you almost had to do to stay alive at higher levels. Well I wasn't, since I was new to the system and not adept at abusing it. At higher levels gameplay became torture, particularly the oblivion gates with a lot of high level mobs. Dying was too easy and too common, and my weapons and martial skills seemed useless all the time.

I've been comparing screenshots of Age of Conan to Warhammer Online since they apparently came out the same year and I'm quite surprised how bad Warhammer looks. I wonder what they dumped the enormous budget on since it is, except for the characters, in every other respect - worse than WoW. As for a direct comparison to AoC, that would be an insult to the game.

It was the only game that actively punished you for leveling up, by making the monsters an absolute annoyance to deal with at higher levels, particularly if you were, like I was, playing a fully melee character.