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I would recommend the Wadjet Eye games like the Blackwell games, Gemini Rue, and Resonance if old school style p&c mystery adventure is what you're looking for. Gray Matter, while not Jane Jensen's best game, is a good mystery p&c too.

I'm getting slightly burned out on RPGs and action games so I'm going to do some clicking and some pointing and play some Back to the Future for a bit.

Bill's Tavern and the secret agent one (Agent 37 or something like that) are my go to foundry runs. They're both easy and quick. I can usually do Bill's Tavern in about 12 minutes and the secret agent one in about 14 or 15.

Yeah, lev 20. My optimal method of leveling up pets is doing Bill's Tavern runs during foundry events (150% experience). The nice side effect is getting rough astral diamonds for daily foundry from Rhix.

It glows, it glooooows!

Good call. CK2 is a good introduction into what Paradox strategy games are like. Once you know what you're in for, CK 1 and other title are there for you r purchasing enjoyment.

Achievement: Shaved down the sides, ready for lovin' down the middle: Eat your heart out, Drudanae.

Either or. CK2 has a slightly less brutal learning curve, if that does anything for you. Okay thanks, I have only ever played one RTS before and that was HOMM 6, I kept getting defeated in the second chapter. I got frustrated and gave up so I'm clearly not very good at RTS But I want to get into the genre as most of you guys seem to really enjoy them and I feel I'm missing out in someway? This game is VERY different from a traditional RTS, partly why I like it (I suck at traditional RTS too). CK2 is about macro managing. It's about selecting the right people to fill you council positions and letting them do their job. It's about arranging marriages so that your children, and ultimately your family, wind up in the best position possible. It's about appeasing those more powerful than you while taking advantage of those less powerful than you. It's about being diplomatic when it suits the situation and conniving when you see an opportunity.

Either or. CK2 has a slightly less brutal learning curve, if that does anything for you. Both games are self contained so it really doesn't matter.

Yeah, when the PS3 launched it was simply far too expensive. There is a threshold for a console that if you cross it, no matter how impressive the machine, it will not sell. This was first shown by the failure of the Neo Geo, which was a revolutionary machine for its time, but the price was just way too high. Sony did not learn from this blunder and repeated it with the PS3. The XBOX180 is dangerously close to that threshold, plus as enterix wrote, they have egg on their face because of DRM Gate 2013. Note: This applies to handhelds too. The 3DS launched above the threshold, it stumbled out of the gate. Big N acted quickly and lowered the price and now it's consistently the best selling console (home or handheld) week to week. The Vita launched above the threshold, it stumbled out of the gate. Sony did not drop the price until very recently and the Vita has been dying a slow death.

You start in the year 1066 or a date of your choosing thereafter (you can start earlier with The Old Gods DLC). At the moment you start the game is, for the most part, historically accurate. Once you start all bets are off and you make your own alternate timeline. There is no "campaign". You start as a king or duke or duchess or count or whatever somewhere. The game lasts for some 400 years (or less if you die and have no legitimate heir). You play as a family, a dynasty. The goal is to amass as much power as possible and hold on to it within your family.

While it's one of Paradox's "most accessible" titles, it's still not for the faint of heart. The game seems to go in spurts. You'll be cruising along having a quiet, relatively boring game. Everything is peaceful, you're gaining wealth, researching, etc. Then all of a sudden someone plots murder against you, a neighboring country declares war on you, your spymaster turns on you, an epidemic hits, and the pope threatens to excommunicate you and you're scrambling just to hold on to any power you can.

CK2 is a lot more about macro managing than micro managing.

DLCs too? Everything except the last one with them pagans Curses! I'll likely scoop up Sword of Islam and the Byzantine Empire (don't remember the name off the top of my head) DLCs though.

DLCs too?

Other things that seemed like cool ideas at the time:

IMDB says yes to that, but I wouldn't take credits there as confirmed until well after the game has been out. I watched an interview were Gat was mentioned and they seemed a bit coy on the point. Awesome. I hope it's just regular Johnny Gat back from the dead. It's not like Saint's Row has ever worried about breaking down the fourth wall.

So far Female Voice 1 is the only confirmed returning female player voice I've found. There seems to be conflicting information on who is voicing Shaundi too. Well, from what has been shown, there's going to be an occasion when there are two Shaundi's.. One as she is in SR3, and the one from SR2. From that video clip, it certainly sounded like the SR2 style of Shaundi was a certain returning voice artist who didn't do Shaundi's voice in SR3.. I kinda liked hippie Shaundi, so I'm happy about this. Will there be Johnny Gat? At least Mutant Monster Johnny Gat or Zombie Johnny Gat or something?

I don't expect any Kickstarter project I've backed to be released on the release date given on the Kickstarter page, not a single one.

So far Female Voice 1 is the only confirmed returning female player voice I've found. There seems to be conflicting information on who is voicing Shaundi too. It they're taking away my female Russian accent, they better at least give me a female voice with a really over the top southern drawl.

After reading this, I searched to see who was coming back voice acting wise (I personally favor Rebecca Sanabria's Female 3 (Main Character Hispanic Female in SR2)) and while the idea of a Russian accented woman hasn't been dismissed the voice actor for Female 2, Tara Platt has confirmed she won't be back. https://twitter.com/taraplatt/status/343605756240752640 Since you're supposed to be able to import your character from SRtheThird, I wonder then if they're planning on getting someone with an authentic accent to do this voice? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s

I suppose there's always a chance that Deep Silver decides to bet their company and sink ridiculous amount of resources into a tablet peripheral with a pressure sensitive stylus?

Another great part in SR3 is the protagonist doing hilariously bad acting during the alien invasion movie. Also, rolling around town in a GARGANTUAN ball of yarn was a blast.

There is no way, nor will there ever be, to explain Daikatana.

The RPG Open Worlds Bundle with Avadon, all the Avernum and Geneforge games, and Eschalon Book 1 & 2 is a great deal for anyone thay likes old school turn-based isometric RPGs. I'm thinking about scooping up Back to the Future. While I heard it wasn't Telltale's greatest work, I love me some Back to the Future.