melkathi

Bought Child of Light in the UPlay summer sale. Enjoying it a lot.

Of course the age groups also matter. PoE had people of all ages playing, including a lot of 30+ I guess. For the big titles I saw large bands of teenagers who don't have IE nostalgia.

Also, me getting to play is proof of everything that is wrong with gaming: AssCreed etc 1.5 hours queues if people were lucky. Not that I'd try some of those games if there was no queue. I walked past Pillars of Eternity and there were only 4 people waiting to play. Got in line, had a nice chat with the guy in front of me and before you know it we were both sitting at a PC. And we got cool Pillar of Eternity flasks. But people were queuing for shooters and swarming Riot instead of grabbing cool flasks and relaxing with some BG...erm I mean Pillars

The character promptly died in her first encounter with monsters

Meh, taking a break: Tried the DLC for Van Helsing 2. Don't like it. Loved the game. Don't like the DLC. Walk onto bridge, aggro ranged mobs from offscreen, die trying to charge them. Rince repeat. Mobs spawncamp the portal into the zone. Tried doing some Van Helsing 2 scenarios to maybe become more powerfull. Shouldn't be necessary. If DLC is made for after finishing the campaign, thena character who breezes through the campaign should be able to do it without long farming of scenarios. Or at least they should note that it is only meant for the hardcore crowd. Loved the game. Seriously dislike the whole scenario thing. Bad enough, when you open the menu to select a scenario, you can't leave without finalizing the settings for the scenario. I just want to quit the game, not click stupid buttons... feth off. I hate bad UI design. Tried playing Echo Prime. Remembered that I have done everything and the last three echos I am missing are a minute random chance after killing thousands of enemies. Meh. Tried playing Dungeon of the Endless. Remembered that the update was seriously bugged. The hotfix only made the bugs it supposedly fixed worse. Meh Sunday I'm off out of town and may stay away for a month. Will only take my tiny notebook with me that has no games on it. Work all day, write all evening. And maybe monitor the steam sale just in case something I actually really want goes on sale.

Nothing on sale yet that I am remotely interested in. The whole Team thing seems pretty stupid. The winning team is rewarded with extra cards, making it easier to craft more badges, granting more tokens that gives bonus score... those who get tem change tokens will use it to go to the winning team. Seems like a recipe for making a no contest. Meh. Steam had one fun summer sale and that was a few years ago when you actually had to achieve stuff in-game. Since then the "stuff to do" was just meh.

Finished Faery - Legends of Avalon. Yes, I can understand the people who are furious about the abandoned plans for the rest of the trilogy. The game is great. I enjoyed it a lot. But just cutting the story off at the major decission and even prompting players to save their choices for the next game... argh. I spend 9 hours on it, though that includes getting lost...

(not a forum)Troll Flying around portside Goblin doing the Crane Kick

Played 6 hours of Faery and seem to be in the final bit of the game. So overal it will probably end up as 8 hours of gameplay, including me being unable to find some npcs and searching for them. Enjoyed it a lot so far, so it is a shame it isn't longer.

I'll let you know how annoyed I am at the cliffhanger once I get there

Damn steam releases messing with my sense of time

Whoa, where am I? Yeah, let's not make a goblin of myself... Because I really don't think this would be a good look for me: (awesome detail: as an attack animation the goblins take the fish out of their mouths and wack you with it) Companions have an affection system? Morrigan probably disapproves... And with some of the questions I ask, even my character facepalms...

Playing the new Spiders Studio rpg. Woot woot Faery - Legends of Avalon I haven't gotten far yet but so far I love it. The grim and gritty: Turn based combat, similar to jrpgs. You wait your turn and then act. There is a front and a back row. When you get your turn, you can act based on your action points (you start with one and quickly get a second one) - each normal attack costs one action point, more complicated or powerful ones can cost two or more. You can split your actions between targets and create combos, using for example a weakening spell as your first action to open the enemy up for your damaging follow up attack. My character at the moment has a spell that reduces the damage of the next attack, so she finishes off the enemy damaged by my companion with her first attack, then weakens the boss with her ssecond so the retaliation has less oomph. Or she could tag two enemies with her weakening spell. your character levels up and gains skill points. Skill points are spend on metamorphoses. So I got myself butterfly upper wings which give me a lightning spell. When I fly I leave behind an ice track (little snowflakes), giving me the aforementioned ice missile weakening spell. I now unlocked a wisp aura, giving me a party heal. If I got Ram Horns I think I could deal increased damage, while various facial markings would increase HP etc... Also you gather various equipment, like boots etc. completing a set obviously gives increased bonuses. Story: When mankind stopped believing in faeries and magic dwindled, the faeries retreated to remote locations of strong magic. You awaken from stasis, where you apparently retreated when magic started to weaken, to live inside your own dreams, to find the faery kingdoms nearly gone completly. Oberon sends you on a last hope quest to save them. I haven't gotten much further and wouldn't want to spoil. character creation: You select gender (male/female) and then go wild on sliders for noses, ears, chin, cheeks etc. You can play around with skin colour, hair colour, adjusting magenta, green, yellow, red etc saturation, brightness and contrast. Party: your first quest is to recruit two companions. I don't know how many you get in the game (I hope more). So far my companion really likes me as I selected the nice dialogue choices. Voice acting: This was something that people were rather unhappy about apparently with Mars War Logs. Don't fear, Faery does not have bad voice acting! It has no voice acting whatsoever Graphics: the main character is really nice. So are other character models (goblins at least are awesome). The environment in the starting area seems bland. Overall: loving it so far

That is a shame. With your game it actually motivates to look things up. Especially that specific battle against Rosbjerg's countryman.

There is one thing left to truly complete your playthrough: Do a They Live movie night.

Thanks for the review Raithe.

Topware has some bundle sales going. They are mostly older gamers, but there are some good ones among them that are well worth it. RPG Bundle (6,69 €) : Two Worlds, Two Worlds 2, Enclave, Knight Shift, Jagged Alliance 2, Gorky 17, Septerra Core RTS Bundle (5,18 €) : Earth 2140, Earth 2150, Earth 2160, WW2: Panzer Claws, WW3: Black Gold, Planets Under Attack I really loved the Eart 21** series. Wasn't a fan of Two Worlds 2 and regreted buying it.

This forum has rules about having rules.

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Lana. Lana! LANA!!! Danger Zone!

But does it have (alien) romance options?

If we are talking shows I'll just throw in my own personal experience and bugger off again: I am/was a huge BSG fan. Got the pilot/mini-series on DvD. Then bought Season 1, then Season 2. After Season 2, in preparation for Season 3, Scy-Fy did a series of free webisodes. These were regionlocked on their site to US IPs only. When they added them to the Season 3 DVD, they were only included in US DVD releases, not the EU ones. So I installed a torrent thingy and downloaded the free webisodes someone had put up. (I found the link to do so on the Scy-Fy website were someone had left a comment with the link for non-US fans ) Obviously I could have lived fine without those 10 minutes. But it is pretty ****ty from a company to tell a paying fanbase that "Meh, screw you, you are just extra cash for when we ar done with our primary target audience, so why should you get the same product (for more money)?" So all of a sudden I am a pirate for wanting to see what the free stuff is... edit: In the end I mostly agree with Hiro. Piracy is easy and bad enough as it is, without companies actively alienising their fanbase. It's the whole "gateway drug" aspect: get people to pirate out of "legitimate" reasons and you start breaking the barrier for non-legitimate downloads.

Malc you have to admit its always better playing an RPG where you can explore the various Romance arcs? Nope he doesn't. Planescape: Torment Arcanum of Steampunk and Magik Obscura Vampire: Bloodlines To name a few. An engaging story does not need active romantic pursuits for the protagonist to engage in. Romance does not make writing engaging or good just by being present. Good writing is what makes writing good. Ideally, if the romantic arcs were well written and did not take away resources from other aspects of the game, then, if they weren't forced down people's throats, one could make an argument that it is always better to have more options. But it is not better to play a game with crap on the side just for having crap on the side over one that doesn't have that. After all, most of us here enjoy a good steak, none of us though would ask for the cow to crap next to the plate. (yeah I know, terrible analogy. Just pretend it was said by Al Pacino or someone else who can get away with saying anything in a movie.)

Completly unable to beat this boss in Van Helsing 2. It is a huge spider that births tiny spiders. There are also half a dozen eggs that continuously birth tiny spiders. The rate these spawn is so high that they completly fill every inch of the ground, making it impossible to move and eventually taxing the system so much (as it tries to spawn basically an infinite number of spiders) that the game crawls to a slideshow of the player dying.

I have started a second playthrough of SR4 and am having a lot more fun than I feared I'd have. I am so not gathering all the clusters again though