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At this point, BioWare is pretty much required by law to include at least 4 romances: heterosexual male, heterosexual female, homosexual male, homosexual female.

The Daemon's snide remarks throughout the game were gold too. I've wanted to play Sacred 2, but the horror stories of horrendous breakage, particularly when the expansion came out, always steered me away from the game. I think they've take care of that now, either with official or community patches. Can people comment on the state of the game?

Sacred 1 had some hilarious exploits though. For example, they neglected to put in a crossbow firing animation for the Daemon when flying using Soaring Daemon so the game reverted to the unarmed attack animation. This made it look like you were magically firing bolts out of your hip. The side-effect, and exploit, is that unarmed attacks are MUCH faster than firing a crossbow, so while in flight you could fire crossbow bolts at insane rates of fire, almost a machine gun. The Daemon was never meant to be an archer, she was meant to be a melee/caster hybrid, but with this exploit the Daemon became arguably the best archer in the game because of the insane rate of fire. Somehow the quirks and exploits made Sacred 1 charming.

****! Protect Caravan is my go to jam for leadership tasks. It gives you 200 AD, only takes 2 hours, and burns no resources. Well, I better get as much of it in as I can before they nerf it. There has to be more, though. I mean just nerfing a couple of tasks can't possibly be 1 GB.

I need dragon eggs. If I had 2 dragon eggs then I could make a purple shirt and purple pants.

I notice a big (1GB) patchy patch downloading. Is this fixing the Gauntlgrym stuff or is this adding something else? Hmm.

I'm now 1 piece (helmet) short of completing the Titan Set.

I remember playing Quest For Glory 2: Trial By Fire on my Tandy 1000, having to switch floppies constantly because I didn't have a hard drive (it must have been 6 or 7 3.5" floppies). Holy ****, that game was so incredibly awesome! They REALLY need to follow through with this. Indies have been the driving force behind innovation for quite a while now, while big AAA titles have, for the most part, grown stagnant. If they don't allow indies to self-publish their indie library will be a barren wasteland.

Someday I'm going to create a wholly Orc-centric foundry quest or quest series. Like LadyC, I'm just too lazy to do it right now.

Having a really good time with Unepic. There's absolutely nothing remarkable about the game. It follows the standard metroidvania formula of explore > run into obstacle > explore > find item > backtrack > etc. The combat is very simplistic. The RPG system is certainly nothing special, though it's a bit meatier that what I expected from a budget hybrid game. The humor, while it occasionally has its moments, is mostly eye roll inducing. Yet it all works well together, for whatever reason. The game doesn't try to reinvent the wheel, but it delivers a solid, enjoyable metroidvania experience with added RPG elements. The game is already worth the 5 bills I plunked down for it, and I'm likely only 10-15% through it.

Scooped up Unepic from GOG. Pretty fun metroidvania so far.

Those were the days.

For all its faults, FC2 allows you to create some seriously glorious mass carnage.

I do enjoy the wacky moments that happen out of the blue, like the Pope becoming Cathar, which, as you can imagine, causes all types of unrest and craziness to spread across the land. The thing about a game that includes so much randomness, is that sometimes you're going to get dealt a really ****** hand. Other times things will fall right into your lap.

I don't mind online elements like social media and multi-palyer and such being added to single-player games, as long as they're optional. What I don't want is having social media and multi-player crammed down my throat in a single-player game.

That's good to hear.

I've heard lots off good things about Call of Juarez: Gunslinger, it's definitely on my list of games to get eventually. Seeing as it's made by Techland, I have to ask, how buggy is it?

So what you're saying is that the PS3 is overpriced? I agree.

It's mostly taxes. prices in Sweden 8and most of Europe) is usually cited including sales tax. Americans tend to say their prices excluding taxes. If you'd add the Swedish sales tax to the $550, it'd be $687, so roughly the same price. You sales tax is 25%!?

Man, the mark up in some countries is staggering. 'Murica **** yeah!

I'll say this for Back to the Future: It's not Michael J Fox voicing Marty McFly, but the guy doing it sounds really close. The puzzles so far are all really standard walk here, talk to this person, pick up this item, use item with this person, walk back to this place, and so on. Seeing a young Doc Brown and McFly and Tannen ancestors definitely puts a smile on my face.

That graphics card will have over 3.5 times the compute power of the entire Xbox1-80 on its own, very few people buy cards that expensive, and very few people would spend more than $450 on a console. If you look at previous generations, and the current competition, $500 is expensive, and in a territory that's only been successful with the PS3 which can be explained by the Blu-Ray player since you'd be paying more than a PS3 for a Blu-Ray player. For a lot of people, especially with the charge per month to play online (that's going to be $45-60 a year). $500 is above the range they're willing to pay, and there are two competitors that will be better priced, despite what Nintendo say, they will be dropping the price of the WiiU. I'm convinced we in South Africa are over charged for PC hardware, how much does a Geforce GTX680 SOC cost in your country. We pay $780 Generally these days around $450-500, though you could get one cheaper if you look hard enough.

While multimedia capabilities certainly don't hurt, I do agree with the sentiment that it's the games that sell the console. At the moment I have no plans to buy any "next gen" console, but just hearing Shin Megami Tensei X Fire Emblem gives me wood and makes me at least think about picking up a WiiU, despite the fact that it's easily the least technically impressive console of the 3. If they release a proper Metroid (it will certainly happen eventually) and a F-Zero (sadly, doubtful), there's a decent chance I'd buy the system just for those games.

I've played many foundry quests. There is, as expected, a wild variation in both quality and difficulty between the various foundry quests available.

So far Back to the Future is a decidedly average and plain and adventure game made enjoyable by the fact that it's Back to the Future. I love those movies so much.