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It isn't particularly twitchy. Combat is a fairly mellow rhythm based game.

I'd been looking at the game for a while. Kind of tired of strategy RPGs. The genre seems to be bigger than actual RPGs at this point, though not as popular. Anyway, I had a moment of weakness... $4.50? How can it go wrong? The open ended DLCs are kinda fantasy Total War, I guess. The original campaign is a linear game with some C&C built around paganism vs Christianity, and TW style battles. It suffers from some gameplay imbalance but it's quite unique and awesome. Its morality chart: http://www.tacticularcancer.com/gallery.ph...ralityChart.jpg Edit: You might not enjoy it if you don't appreciate the idea of crushing medieval armies with magical lightning and mythical beast like dragons. In that case, I'm very sorry for you.

I wonder if anyone will ever pick up the open ended RPG banner one day. Daggerfall's basic design was a great basic structure to build upon.

Got the extra downloadable bits for King Arthur.

I got the DLC from this sale. Hooray!

So good gameplay is worth less than having a New Game+ mode? laff

I bought the New Vegas DLC.

America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, so it might be more of an Italian thing. wasn't Amerigo Vespucci actually a portuguese? He was an Italian working for the Portuguese.

America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, so it might be more of an Italian thing. Naming a land after a person isn't the same thing as naming a guy his own nationality.

You don't like Jimbob?

Is there an Hungarian fellow named Magyarorsz?g Kocsis, somewhere?

I've been finding empowered attacks fairly underwhelming. They negate my ability to turn on healing for a while, and they aren't really that more powerful than regular abilities.

System Shock 2 had linear progression, but each individual level was quite open.

Dungeon Siege 3....

I'd be shocked if Diablo III wasn't better than DS III in terms of gameplay. I find this surprising. Diablo's strength was never in the gameplay proper, which was designed to be as simple and mindless as possible. The point of Diablo was grinding and item hunting for the sake of character building. It didn't play itself to the point of the original Dungeon Siege, but the combat was still pretty lackluster. DS3, on the other hand, has sweet, responsive combat that really shines through the tight controls, and the emphasis on player skill. Conversely, it falls flat in the character building options, given that it only allows you 30 levels and the itemization is comparatively shallow. In some ways Dungeon Siege 3 is the exact opposite of Diablo 2. DS3 is just the sort of hack and slash CRPG I wanted to see on the PC, and I'm playing it avidly.

You could state what your problem is exactly. That might help.

This... is probably the best summary of the Codex I've ever seen. That said, I do love the place. I firmly believe that the internet is for mad people, and that that's the way it should be. Madness has its negative side, but if I want to talk to anything approaching normally functioning human beings, I'll leave the house. If I want mad, brilliant, maladjusted geniuses willing to wax lyrical about odd obsessions ranging from art direction in RPGs to racial purity to how golden retrievers are genetically modified mutants to how much they want trannies to poop on them, I go to the internet - and for all these things and many more, you can't beat the Codex. It takes a... special sort of person to survive there with sanity intact. I'm really, really not sure why everyone there is insane or why general discussion is a Nazi enclave, but there you go. For all their downsides, I don't believe there exists anywhere on the internet a collective of people who, as a whole, know quite as much about old-school RPGs as the Codex does. Work your way past the bile and the insane noise:signal ratio and you'll find that their hatred is motivated by the purest love. Love for a genre which has undeniably strayed far, far from its roots, with the original target market being told by the industry as a whole (not Obsidian; they've had their bad moments, but I really like them and think their hearts are in the right place at least) that nobody cares about them and they'll never be catered for again. From the endless well of tears left behind by this act, an act which echoed the way their dad left forever so long ago, the Codex came to be. And all the Codex wants is to look back on the good times, when dad would hold them close and make all the world's troubles go away. But now mum is coming home with another man, who's big and strong and handsome but just can't replace your dad, and every night he beats you and tells you that you're stupid and ungrateful for not calling him father, for not saying he's better than your old dad ever was, and everywhere you go, all the other kids are talking about how cool your new dad is and you know what I mean, right? Admiral Jimbob here is one of the better posters on the Codex. One of the few worth following there.

Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction

Those in Europe can get Shogun at UK retail for less than that.

Do you have two monitors?

Lightning could have an interrupt effect, for example. Poison could cause a reduction in stats. Fire could be just straight up damage; or it could cause your character to do the funky chicken, thus wresting away control of your character.

Don't elemental attacks have effects besides damage?

If you are in europe you can buy any game for less money by ordering from uk stores.

Right now Steam servers are taking a beating due to the Summer sale. That may be affecting their service.