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Oh, and assorted sports and wrestling games. Smackdown this and that.

You just need to go on Ebay and look at used PS2 games, for example. It's horrible movie and cartoon licence games galore.

UKIE gathers all the multiplatform titles together, doesn't it?

I'm playing single player now and I'm saving my co-op time for my lady.

Still on Dungeon Siege 3. It's turning into my game of the year. Steam tells me i'm up to 28 hours.

Admittedly, I'd be more impressed if he played with a mouse and a keyboard. But still, it's awe inspiring.

And you know that's technically not possible because??? *sigh* You failed your reading comprehension roll.

New Vegas was the second best seller on Steam, last week, right behind Portal 2. A nice benefit from the Summer sale, although I don't know how much of this revenue is going back to Obsidian. http://www.bluesnews.com/s/123508/steam-top-10

No.

You might have enjoyed Oblivion but rock-solid it definitely wasn't. The bad performance, the bad UI, the broken game mechanics, the bugs, the crashes, the horrible VA, and the terrible animations are all things that made Oblivion a terribly unpolished game. Oops, totally spelled the wrong word. I actually meant to say "Obsidian is friggin' awesome". My bad. On that note, however, I loved Oblivion too. Obsidian had nothing to do with that, though. Not sure why I typed Oblivion. I wasn't even thinking about that game. Weird. What a waste of a perfectly good rant.

You might have enjoyed Oblivion but rock-solid it definitely wasn't. The bad performance, the bad UI, the broken game mechanics, the bugs, the crashes, the horrible VA, and the terrible animations are all things that made Oblivion a terribly unpolished game.

Yes, IMO one of the problems with the game is that the camera is too close to the ground. It should be higher up. Limiting the camera more than it already is is a bad idea, which is what the OTS people are requesting. As for enemies attacking from off screen, the only fight where that was a problem was the Warbeast. But that boss was poorly designed, in general.

An over the shoulder camera would make the game unplayable. The game's design is dependant on the player being able to see from where attacks are coming at any given time, and attacks come from any direction. Giving the player the option to not be able to see half the playing field during combat is silly and pointless. As far as gameplay is concerned DS3 is a 2D top down game.

That would be great but it's bogus, at least according to GAF.

I think the forum hasn't recognized some accents since the server was upgraded last week. I wasn't sure until now. I'll pass the info along.

I've heard good things of China Mieville. Bakker I don't know.

How about doing this on PC?

Seems a bit of an absurdly high standard. Yes, Fantasy may not reached the likes the greatest writers of history, but it is a genre not even 100 years old being compared against the entire breadth of history. You might as well be saying "I don't like reading unless it's the great classics." Which is cool. But it does seem to be a limited perspective. I read or have read with enjoyment Neil Gaiman, Sue Townsend, Terry Pratchett, or Isaac Asimov. I'm even kind of enjoying Game of Thrones right now. Thinking Hemingway is unsurpassed by almost any writer, doesn't preclude me from enjoying books that I consider to be lesser works. It's just that I'm an opinionated sort of person and part of my fun in consuming culture comes from discovering and analysing perceived positives and negatives in whatever I'm experiencing.

I don't believe simply describing Tolkien as a fine writer is lauding him, but rather just appreciating his qualities. I'm not of the opinion that he is a stylistically amazing writer, but I still think he's much better than the fantasy writers that have emerged from his wake. His interest was in creating a mythology, and it shows, as often times his writing was mostly functional. On the other hand some parts of Game of Thrones, for instance, struck me as less than functional, instead actively hindering my enjoyment.

I don't negate the possibility of something truly great coming out of a genre, in the same sense that I don't think it's impossible for a brilliant novel to appear in the Harlequin book lineup. Additionally, I don't purport to have read every fantasy book ever written, but I think if the fantasy equivalent of Proust had been published, the noise raised by it would reach my ears.

I think the Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit are fine books. I'd argue that's the only fantasy worth reading, with a marginal exception for Terry Pratchett. I haven't regretted buying R.R.Martin's books, but they are still fairly badly written. I can enjoy the characters I empathized with in the show, and I can appreciate the sense of amoral political intrigue the plot creates, but it's still clumsy, mechanical and poorly suited for prose, really. He's part of a type of writer that, as far as I know, first appeared in the US and who seem to be writing movie plots instead of books. Clancy, Grisham are famous examples, but this class of writer has spread across the world. There's a Portuguese news anchor who writes books in the same style, for example. To me, if you're going to compare his works to Eddings or Goodkind, in order to somehow elevate his standing, you might as well put his books side by side with slash fan fiction.

The freak out was because of the prequels, actually.

The Da Vinci Code. Around the time it came out I had female friends of mine who praised its themes.

Damn, that sounds horrible.