Keyrock

They're in the 2nd round of the playoffs, so obviously not. The Cippers are one of the 4 or 5 best treams in the league this year. In other news, it was nice of Roy Hibbert to wake from his hibernation and show up for a game.

Good ol' Tex Murphy. Once I finish up Child of Light I'm thinking about jumping in, though part of me feels lik doing a Tex-o-thon and playing through Under a Killing Moon, The Pandora Directive, and Overseer first.

Yeah, that trailer tells next to nothing about the game. I'm mostly sad because they dropped the pirate motif in favor of a return to generic fantasy.

It costs a lot of mana? Couldn't he just spam mana potions afterward like in most video games?

Risen 3 Cinematic Trailer: So, if homeslice, presumably our nameless hero, could always just have made his hands glow blue, which in turn, I can only assume, would do some kind of magical damage, why was he so desperate to get his bloken sword blade back? Why not just blue hand the shadow dog?

From what I gather, it's some kind of group that focuses on causing chaos and grief to the gaming community, a troll group, I guess. I don't care enough to properly research it, so I could be way off.

Keyrock I'm knew someone would bring that up and I'm going to try to explain why its not same thing. I wish Alan was here, I'm sure he would explain it properly You can't have a men only guild because women have no choice but to join guilds dominated by men. Also lets be honest, we have men dominated forums, games, guilds, blogs and more. I know what you saying but you can't tell me you really have an issue because a group of women in a game want there own groups? Its not a big deal if you think about the big picture around gender representation? I don't have an issue with the group at all, I have an issue with the double standard. I don't have an issue with them making a women only group, yes, it's a public game, but it's a private group, they can include or exclude whoever they want based on whatever criteria they want. I would equally have no problem with a male only group, or a white only group, but I bet the professional outrage mongers would certainly have a problem with it. My problem is not with the women only group, more power to them. My problem is with the professional outrage mongers.

Nice, just the excuse I needed to jump back into New Vegas in the near future.

I'd just like to point out that if this was a male only group professional outrage mongers would be readying the pitchforks and torches.

More Child of Light. I got to the part where so I'm thinking I should be in the final third of the game, or so I guess. I've pretty much settled into my favorite team, Aurora, as the damage dealing spellcaster of the team, and Rubella, as the primary melee damage dealer and defensive spellcaster. I do still switch characters out for certain battles, but that's my go to team.

I hope they find an alternate way to fund this. I'm pretty interested in Unrest and was during the Kickstarter as well, not enough to back it, but I'm definitely looking forward to reading impressions/reviews of the finished product once it's released into the wild and may buy it in the future. I like how the game takes place in Ancient India. Pseudo Medieval Europe is such a tired and worn out setting. Also, I like that you get to control some ordinary people during the game rather than The Chosen One. Quest for Infamy should be right up my alley since I loved Quest for Glory so much, but I was less than impressed by what I've seen so far. They have a demo out, though, so I'll give that a spin n the near future and find out in a more hands on fashion.

Well played, sir. Well played, indeed.

Bound By Flame launch trailer: I'm happy to see they've continued the tradition of hilariously bad voice overs. I'll be interested to hear impressions of this game if anyone here winds up getting it.

The initial release will only be part of the continent, then they will add more later.

I do that a lot, it's a great way to keep from having to face many powerful foes at once. Another thing I did when I played my balanced group (couldn't do it with my all-might group), is in the few situations where I'd be attacked from multiple sides (I do my best to avoid those situations, but sometimes you can't avoid it), I'd poison one group with one of the poison spells then concentrate on the other group while the poison slowly killed that group off, or at least weakened them so much so that when I did get around to attacking them they were near death.

Wow, you got to The Crag at lev 14, props. I got there around lev 20 my first playthrough and lev 18 or 19 my second. There are about a half dozen or so mysterious crypts out there. Sections of the Elemental Forge have puzzles too.

More American Truck Simulator screenies: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/05/06/road-to-joy-american-truck-simulator-images/ I'm so getting this when it comes out.

Don't forget that the Xbone is also going to add all types of horsepower from The Cloud.

88 dollars for a game? are they nuts? It's even worse than that, they're Australian.

Piranha Bytes' world building skills are far superior to Bethesda's, they just have a far smaller budget to work with. In other news, I just realized that we're only 2 days away from Tesla Effect. Oh boy oh boy oh boy, my favorite perpertually down on his luck, wisecracking gumshoe is almost back! I'm going to see if I can finish up Child of Light by then, though part of me wants to play some Pandora Directive to get me in a Tex mood.

They should have gone with Unzoidberged.

Playing more Child of Light. Backtracking to previous areas for various purposes I'm continually amazed just how many hidden paths and areas I'd missed on my first run through the area, and I'm someone who usually takes care to explore every nook and cranny.

QTEs are fine when they're reserved for non essential mini-games or when they are used to enhance actions, rather than as a live or die mechanic. The Last Remnant, for example, uses QTEs about as well as any game I've ever seen use QTEs. Torture Porn Raider's use of QTEs falls into the category of adding nothing but frustration to the gaming experience. It's as if the devs thought to themselves "We have these cool, yet uncomfortable cinematics, how can we inject a healthy dose of frustration into this?"

The one true Hercules himself.