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Grim Dawn The Incredible Adventures of Van Helsing Those are the 2 I can thinbk of off the top of my head.

I was an AMD user back in the P4 days. I still remember my Opteron 165, man that thing was a beast. Overclocked from 1.8 to 2.9 GHz on stock cooling and ran like a champ for years laughing at whatever I threw at it. That few year period where the Althon64s were beating the pants off the P4s was a glorious time for Team Green. That seems like eons ago now.

In its current form, I agree it likely won't set the gaming world on fire. Still, much like with Kinect, I like what the tech could mean for the future, rather than what the product is currently. What needs to happen is for Occulus Rift, Kinect, and projectors to have a baby and become The Holodeck. That's what I'm waiting for. It likely won't be in my lifetime, though.

Agreed, the increment size of graphical fidelity for each new generation has been steadily decreasing since the PS1 generation. That is a trend that will continue. There's really not that much more room to grow in that department. Even between high end PC graphics and the last generation (PS3/360), the most noticeable difference is lighting effects. The next big step forward, in my opinion, is virtual reality (Occulus Rift, etc.).

Had my first death as my Commando tank build in Grim Dawn this morning. It was completely avoidable, but pride didn't allow me to quaff a potion. Taking on one cold one, even in a pack of a bunch of other beasties, is one thing, but taking on three of them at once? That's just really cruel for a melee character. There's almost no way to avoid getting stun locked in that situation. What's worse, I have a skill that lets me temporarily be immune to stuns, unfortunately their ability isn't technically a "stun" it's a freeze, though in practice it amounts to the same thing, except my skill is useless against it. Pretty good, though. Only 1 death in 15 levels so far.

Unity seems to be the big winner from the whole Kickstarter phenomenon. A huge number of projects chose the engine because cross-platform, and are likely to stick with it because, from what I've read, it's quite good.

I'm up to level 50 and I got my top tier paragon feat: destroyer. I now generate action points stupid fast and get buckwild and crazy when in unstoppable mode. I pretty much skipped The Chasm (did like 2 quests) and decided to skip ahead to Rothe Valley. It's slightly beyond my level (52+) but I find it easier and more fun because the groups aren't as tightly bunched and generally smaller. Plus, I'll catch up to the level soon enough.

Oooh! How do I redeem my free cat cape? Does it just appear in my inventory automagically?

Can I use a sock with a doorknob in it instead?

I'm strangely interested in hearing that... In a watching a car accident happen sort of way.

They should have gone binary from the start: XBOX0000 XBOX0001 XBOX0010 XBOX0011 XBOX0100 And so on.

I'm also trying to make sense of their numbering scheme... XBOX > XBOX360 > XBOX One What comes next? XBOX ThreeSixty? #WTF!?

LOL. That's almost as hilarious as a system that loses money on every unit sold for about 3 1/2 years. #NotMicrosoftFanboy #NotSonyFanboy That Kaz Hirai parody Twitter account is, well, a fake obviously, and takes potshots at the industry at large. He just recently tweeted about how the PS4 teaser wasn't meant to be blurry but just "a photo taken with the Vita camera". There are a few fake twitters out there that are absolutely hilarious. Anyway, I have no desire to purchase either next gen console, but I do hope the 720 and PS4 are good so they don't cripple PC ports too much.

LOL. That's almost as hilarious as a system that loses money on every unit sold for about 3 1/2 years. #NotMicrosoftFanboy #NotSonyFanboy

Wait until you get to Icespire. You haven't seen bunched up until you get to Icespire.

Watch Microsoft throw a curveball and wind up calling it Play System 4, that way there can be no confusion.

P.R.O.J.E.C.T. Shadows of Eternity?

I just bought a Loyalist Edition and am enjoying the alpha as well. My first time through, I'm playing a Soldier/Occultist I believe which is the witchblade. Mainly Cultist for the familiar so far, but I'm really enjoying the gameplay so far. Nice combat pacing and the environment feels good so far. Only one problem so far is a a "hitch" every now and then when the game freezes for a couple seconds and then just puts my character where they should've been a couple seconds later. hard to describe, but if I could compare it to something, it would be the rubber-banding in Titan Quest, without seeing your character actually move there, just sort of warp there. I'm hoping this is something that can be worked out, but other than that, really enjoying the game so far and look forward to playing out this character and other combinations as they become available. Yeah, I get that freeze occasionally too. It's a widely reported bug that the devs are looking at. It's the price of playing an alpha build. Still, occasional freeze and some minor micro stutters aside, the game has been fairly solid. I'm having fun playing my current Commando tank build. In a stark contrast to my Pyromancer build that was designed to kite and lure enemies into traps, my Commando just goes straight into the fray and dares enemy swarms to try to damage him. Occasionally I have to kite a little bit when a swarm gets super out of control, particularly if there's a Cold One or Fury, but most of the time I'm just laughing at the dozen chumps hacking away at me while I chop them to bits.

Well, Obsidian Entertainment need to do what they need to do to survive. This even further makes Project Eternity such an important game for the company. If it winds up being a hit, it not only confirms the viability of the crowdfunding business model, it also gives Obsidian an attractive IP that they own and control.

Yeah, Torchlight did do that well. I thought Titan Quest had good balance too. I occasionally would find an item in Greece and keep using it most of the way through the silk road because effects were so favorable or it was part of a really spiffy set. Also, trying to complete the set gave you a reason to farm champions and bosses. So far, I have yet to see a single set item drop in Neverwinter. I'm pretty sure they do exist, but they're probably all level 60, which again makes farming completely and utterly useless until hitting level cap.

Agreed, or at the very least rare items should be superior enough compared to standard drops to last you 10-15 levels. In my experience, in Neverwinter they last 5 levels at best. This is whay I won't bother farming until hitting level cap, there's just no point in it.

Warning: NSFW Edit: @Gorgon - Actually it's been the opposite of grind heavy, from my experience. I haven't had to grind a single area yet, and I'm lev 48. If I do some Foundry quests then I wind up outlevelling areas. In fact, I've skipped 2 entire areas because I was already too powerful for them by the time I got there. I haven't bothed farming for gear because it's going to become obsolete in a couple of levels anyway. I'll do some farming once I hit the level cap (lev 60).

That explains why I was back to lev 10 mailsmithing this morning. Oh well, I only lost maybe a half hour of actual gameplay and will be back to lev 11 mailsmithing when I get back from work (I have several time consuming jobs running right now).

Agreed. Overall, it's my favorite entry in the series.

That reminds me, I need to play Call of Pripyat again. For the time being, though, I'm doing another run through Grim Dawn, this time as a Commando (Soldier/Demolitionist) heavily skewed toward Soldier. There are definitely some enemies that are very unfriendly toward melee characters, namely Furies (they have a melee attack that heals them). On the other hand, when some of my abilities trigger, I become a veritable whirlwind of melee damage. I'm mostly staying away from abilities that stun, as bosses and heroes tend to be highly resistant, if not immune to them, and focusing on abilities that slow and lower defense.